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Latest news and newest happenings behind the microphones and
OW about starting the western journey this month by dropping into San Francisco, then up into the northwest and finally to the southwest? Only, of course, while around the Golden Gate we mustn't mention the earthquake, fog or call it 'Frisco. Course you know it really was a fire, the fog is only a light mist and to call it 'Frisco would be to call down on all of us the wrath of the Native Sons of the Golden West and all the other like groups.
• Betty Jane Rhodes, thirteen-year-old high-school student has been given a two-year contract as a singer with station KFWB
Now that the Monday night KFRC jamboree gets on the CBS chain for part of the program, we might as well drop around and see some of the performers. The studios are a bit dingy, but what it lacks in that respect, is made up by the spontaneity of the folks there.
Harrison Holliway skippers the craft. He was the oneman technical force years ago. Now he runs the whole works. There's Edna O'Keefe, whose middle name is Patricia . . . born back in '12, the daughter of an Irish father and an Italian mother. The popular songster, with the wistful eyes, is a native daughter . . . got an audition when she finished school and has been radio-minded ever since. In private life she is the wife of Ronald Graham, a KFRC baritone. Ronald Graham was born in Edinburgh, the son of a retired English army officer . . . travelled a good deal before settling in the bay region, graduating from Tamalpais High school and then to radio. Some twenty-five years old, he plays tennis, does pen and ink drawings rather well ... six feet tall, about 160 pounds, blue eyes and brownish hair.
Then there is Earl Towner, whose specialty is directing vocal ensembles, but just now devotes his jamboree work to a male quartet. A graduate of Boston's famed music conservatory, he lives in Berkeley with his wife and three children, and his hobby is carpentering. Bespectacled, about 5 feet six in height, he has hazel eyes and a ready smile. Now for Arnold Maguire, a native San Franciscan in his early thirties, who is "President of Hodge Podge Lodge," KFRC fun maker program, and heard also on the jamboree in character work, la rapid succession he has been an artist, photographer, salesman, reporter, stage actor and then to radio years ago. He has reddish brown hair, dark eyes and is married.
Harrison Holliway, master of the jamboree, was born in San Francisco 35 years ago, graduating from Lowell High and studying law at Stanford for awhile. He is an amateur yachtsman . . . (his father was a sea captain) . . . has a couple of youngsters . . . and never yearns to go back to the sea where he was once a commercial wireless operator before going into broadcast activities. We'll meet some more of the gang at another time. * * *
Now that KJBS, San Francisco, and KQW, San Jose, have come under one ownership, with studios for both in San Francisco, Lena May Leland is heard more often, though she plays from the San Jose studios.
She has been staff pianist and music head of
BY DR. RALPH