Radio mirror (Nov 1934-Apr 1935)

II R W AV E S By EDWARD CHURCHILL What is behind the best-known voice on the Pacific Coast? rW,HIS is the Richfield Reporter speak M ing " Sam Hayes is behind that voice — blueeyed, brown-haired Samuel Stewart Hayes, standing six feet and two inches before the microphone, clad in Scotch tweeds — poised for a staccato delivery of world events. Sam Hayes, nimble-tongued, thirty-year-old son of a Presbyterian minister, who has come up from poverty to possess the best-known radio voice west of the Rocky Mountains. He has been on the job at 10 p. m. for the past three years over six Pacific Coast stations — KFI at Los Angeles, KPO at San Francisco, KOMO, Seattle, KFSD, San Diego, KHQ, Spokane and KGW, Portland— the Pacific Coast network of the National Broadcasting system. He makes speeches before clubs, handles his own fan mail, appears in and lends his voice to approximately 15 motion pictures a year, broadcasts football games — he holds the championship for the number of games covered in a single season, twentyeight — and finds time for horseback riding and an occasional game of golf. Sam Hayes, direct descendant of Rutherford B. Hayes, one-time President of the United States, was born in Cookesville, 111., on Nov. 4, 1904, the son of Wilbur Lafayette Hayes, Presbyterian preacher. Sam attended school at Birmingham, Mich., sandwiching his education with jobs. Clergyman Hayes died when Sam was nine. Mrs. Hayes, becoming Mrs. Roy . by a second marriage, left Sam and brother Dudley in Birmingham when she went to California. Sam, veteran of newspaper corners, nursed a paralytic banker for a year, then joined his mother and stepfather. When Sam first came to California his parents had money. He attended Manual Arts High School. The money ran out and Sam returned to toil to which, by this time, he had become inured. For two years he sold window shades, bonds and anything else handy. He returned to school, entering Hollywood High School, when the family fortunes were slightly recouped. He became interested in the stage, appeared in amateur theatricals, won a scholarship to Stanford University by winning the state declamation contest and the state debating championship in 1924. He won the declamation honors by delivering a sermon written by his late father and delivered in Carlinville, 111., on May 3, 1887. The problem of making a living as well as studying faced Sam. He played freshman polo, appeared in college plays and studied — but he found time to become commercial. He developed an orange juice corporation which at first supplied all fountains at Palo Alto with orange juice. Realizing the possibilities of expansion and being a super-salesman, he was soon supplying all fraternity houses with liquid vitamins and producing punches for social affairs. His gross profits grew to $1500 a month and often he made $450 net, during a like period. [E eventually decided that college was not for him — that he'd get more out of life by attacking it without further preparation. His first job was with "Appearances," a play written by Garland Anderson, former Negro bellhop of Los Angeles. He was definitely launched as an actor. He appeared at the Little Theatre in San Francisco, then read the longest part in history — that of Peer Gynt in "Peer Gynt" for the Mountain Play Association, and got critical approval from all sides. He had 175 pages of speeches to learn — and did. This was his last stage work. 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