Radio mirror (May-Oct 1934)

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I CROWDS re their brows wrinkle dl thoroughly disconcerting one. She trembles and in general exhibits the teeth chattering symptoms that most people do. But just to prove that Doctor Paul is right she admits that her performance benefits from the ■ sweating that she undergoes. Another of the nervous type is Roy AtfveU: Atwell, the twister-up-of-words, is (by ■ vote) the most nervous man to ever tremble on the Paramount boards. Does it affect his singing? No one knows nor cares, because Atwell relies only on his ability to turn words inside out. But it did do one thing to him — he got half of his words right! He afterwards confessed that he felt a jjerfect flop, but applause from the front indicated something else. tAmos and Andy are no exceptions to the rule of stage fright. When they hit the stage they demanded and got a protective scrim. "Scrim" in the language of the stage has nothing to do with a five letter word meaning "exit quickly," but is a sort of cheese cloth that softens the stage but prevents the players from seeing the audience. This was exactly what A. & A. wanted. They were terribly afraid. Funny isn't it how two such familiars to the American home the breadth aiid width of the land become so frightened of the small cross-section sitting IK out in front? • Guy Lombardo is used fo crowds, buf he's hod mony a worried moment -Mis W" # Jane Froman's so pretfy she has no reason to fear the spotlights or large audiences Not because she's really dumb. She's not, this Gracie Allen. She too is one of the sufferers of the above mentioned complaint. When she gets the jitters from the sight of 3000 supposedly unarmed people, she forgets lines right and left. Husband George Burns writes their stuff anyway so it's only a question of stalling with several new ones until Gracie regains her poisQ (or is it pose?) Paul Ash is no newcomer to the stage. His arrival in New York had been preceded by noisy months of fan-fares of trumpets. Chicago was literally at his feet in humble supplication. Paul Ash Clubs kept little {Continued an page 62) 53