Radio mirror (Nov 1934-Apr 1935)

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Cissy Fullness D E Nausea D If yon lit v. to check one or more of these symptoms, you may be I victim of Gastro HyperAcidity. ihitil'i may came stomach trouble, any doctor will tell you that most of the above painful symptoms are dui B perAcidity. i acidity. t: stimulate the flow of alkallm i trie mucus. i I 01 lininR. check putrefaction in the intestinal canal, oul, p can doall four i ' ■ '■ n, m al drink ealth n w Unloved her four years there. She has sung major roles without any rehearsal. She has stepped into new parts at two days' notice. She is known as the best impersonator of boys' parts the opera has ever had. Indeed, she's had to sing so many boy parts, in Mignon, Tales of Hoffmann, Romeo and Juliet, and Boris Godunov, that she looks with longing on a role where she can be her feminine self. She's won the reputation of being the best-groomed woman in the opera. And, incidentally, she has worked her way up from beginner to star. In 1932, with the fields of church, concert, and opera work conquered, she turned her attention to the microphones. She auditioned for a single guest performance, and drew a big contract without audition. She has a number of interesting views on the subject of radio. For one thing, she tells you that radio is more difficult than opera or concert. Because the singer is absolutely the whole show on the air . . . there is no costume to dazzle the crowd, no chance of airs or mannerisms, no hope of making up a bad number by a "cute" encore. The singer has to make good before that limitless audience just through the voice alone. ST means much more to a singer to score a radio success," Miss Swarthout tells you, "because the only thing in the world that can put you across is your own singing and your own sincerity. The audience feels that . . . and knows what is good! Can radio be improved? Decidedly! Not by more mechanical perfections or more "novel" programs, but by realizing that the listeners themselves are intelligent human beings, who know what they want and are capable of distinguishing between good and bad. You can't make me believe that the radio audience wants a diet of cheap programs. And by cheap 1 mean . . . cheap. Not popular. I believe that the field of good popular music is just beginning to be explored. What sort of popular music? Ballads, folk songs, regional songs, musical comedy hits, and even some of the products of Tin Pan Alley. One of the reasons why these last are frowned upon is that most serious singers seem to be afraid of them. Some of the loveliest melodies we have, come to us by way of Tin Pan Alley and the musical shows, and they would gain greatly in dignity, if dignified musicians would perform them. I, for one, respect and use them. And I'm not the only one. Don't you remember the record that Fritz Kreisler made, some years ago, of a popular hit called "Beautiful Ohio Waltz?' That was as lovely as any of the Strauss Waltzes, and 1 admire Mr. Kreisler all the more for recognizing its beauties, in spite of its being 'just a popular hit'? That is whal I try to do . . . to seek oul all the truly beautiful melodies I can find, regardless of where they originate, and to sing them in the dignified manner the} d< ici \ e, We are turning out quanl ities of beautiful SOngS here in America, and they meril the best son of musical attention." Another item thai Miss Swarthoul writes on the credit side of the radio ledger is the fact that through radio, people can have as much good music in summer as in winter, regardless of the "official season." As to her own radio work, she is tremendously enthusiastic about the idea of reaching more people in one broadcast than she used to reach in an entire season of touring. She works hard. One hour's broadcast requires as much as thirty-five hours of solid rehearsal. She likes to visualize her hearers, not as an audience, but as family groups, in their own homes. She confesses to singing especially to three people . . . her mother, her sister, and her father-in-law, Dr. Frank M. Chapman, the head of the Museum of Natural History, in New York. Yes, she has a father-in-law. Romance found her in Italy, some three years ago. Although she has never studied anywhere but in America, she has vacationed abroad, and there it was that she met Frank Chapman, the baritone who sings love songs so convincingly with her over the air. He was singing in opera in Florence, she was at the performance, and they were introduced. The next winter, they met again in New York, and attended each others' debuts. The next year they gave a joint song recital. The next year they were married. Gladys Swarthout is one of those fortunate people for whom marriage and a career fit together perfectly. She and her husband are interested in the same things, they work and play together, and help each other. Her secret for continued romance is mutual interests and mutual help . . . and diet! Too much food and the wrong kind of food, she tells you, form the basic cause of most marital smash-ups! . . . Heavy eating and injudicious mixtures flood the system with acids, and make one irritable. She never eats really heartily . . . and neither does her husband. Mostly she has salads and vegetables, with a chop or a steak on the days she works hard. Her best midnight supper is cereal and milk. She avoids heavy sweets and starches entirely . . . less for the sake of her trim figure, than for the sake of this philosophy of hers. People who eat the proper foods and keep their systems healthy and clean never give way to those outbursts of temper and sulks that have to be patched in a Reno divorce court. And if ever she should indulge in a chocolate sundae on the quiet. Frank sends her straight to the rowing machine, to work the acid off that way. It sounds like a good system. B§V this time you've realized that Gladys Swarthoul is a girl after your own heart. The secret of her charm, I think, lies in her absolute sincerity. Although she's earned laurels on the stage, there isn't an atom of affectation or "show" in her make-up. She was Horn on Christmas day and is still in her twenties. She is five feel three and a half inches tall, and weigh, I2i pounds. She is a decided brunette, with deep velvety brown eyes I ler greatesl extravagance is cjotn ■ j_