Radio mirror (May-Oct 1934)

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He found it wasn't necessary to limit himself to strange things in the world of sports ; people were interested in odd curiosities of every kind. A few years ago he wrote a BelieveIt-Or-Not article for Collier's. John B. Kennedy asked him to speak on Collier's hour. Believe it or not, he was scared stiff. "I groped my way into the studio," he told me. "At first 1 couldn't even find the microphone. I hunted for it desperately. Then I began my spiel. At the beginning it didn't go off so well. I was nervous and panicky. But gradually things went better. Toward the end of the broadcast I thought of something I had figured out. It was the story of the marching Chinese. If all the Chinese in the world were to march four abreast past a given point, they would never finish passing though they marched forever and forever. I proved 'how that was true according to army regulations. That clinched the broadcast. "As a result, I got a year's contract to appear over the air. I have appeared on various programs since, but it was only recently that I hit upon the device of dramatizing the incredible things I have discovered." When They Face the Crowds (Continued from page 53) girls off the streets and heart specialists in funds. But the above trouble followed him out of the wings and shook his hands so that for several minutes he couldn't read a telegram. Thus the great Ash ! Many odd things happen to stage folk that don't happen to radio folk. Radio folk find this out when they become stage folk. Stage folk who have been radio folk for a long time find it out all over again when they return to become stage folk again. Bert Lahr, one of the latter, verbally fencing with Harry Richman forgets his lines and "gong gongs" until Harry whispers a cue. Johnny Green won't step on a stage until a carnation is firmly affixed to the Green buttonhole. Lack of a "flower once held up a show until one could be borrowed from a man cleaning out the furnace. Rudy Vallee has little fear of the stage and really for peculiarities. Waiting in the wings he reads. Generally it's something like Pitkin's "Psychology of Achievement." Quite an abrupt change, that from Pitkin to "Goopy Gear" on stage. The four Mills brothers came to the stage as kids and left as men. But even as kids they showed no fear. They weren't egotists but they were natural born entertainers and they became so absorbed in their work that they forgot audience, fright and everything but giving the world the songs that had been through the Mills. The Pickens Sisters, of whom Paul says, "Their absolute intonation is one of the most remarkable things I've ever heard," had none of their present savoir faire, two years ago. Trailing onto the stage that first show they excited laughter from the front rows. Afterwards they realized that it was their clothes and the evening performance brought nothing but the applause which they deserved. Today they're the Pickens Sisters and some pickin's I'll say! Lou Holtz felt that the audience would miss a lot of his gags. That they did, has nothing to do with his recently-started Blue Goose campaign. James Melton, freed from the inexorable stop watch of radio, celebrates by changing songs several times during the week. Buddy Rogers would do everything but fall down a set of folding stairs. He was afraid it would injure his voice. George Olsen considers a chance to lead the pit band as the next best thing to a kiss from Wife Ethel Shutta. Dick Himber and Nat Brusiloff were getting some place as fiddlers ia> the Paramount pit band until they gc^ fired for wisecracking. Now look at them. " Jesse Crawford spent a week directing the band in a so-called "phantom concert." The band, playing radium-dipped instruments on a darkened stage, were led by Crawford waving a three foot baton. The change from the comfortable seat of the Wurlitzer left M. Crawford a physical wreck. His doctor of all things suggested a radium treatment! MTRED ALLEN didn't expect his audience to get his gags at all as they are of a very subtle order. When they got them and loved them he became so flustered that he forgot his next lines and rattled ofi" several impromptu ones while Milton Berle sat in the audience. George Price just gets rattled once in a while for no special reason at all. He forgot to imitate Cantor and Jessel while in the midst of one of these spells a while ago and when Price forgets his imitations you may be sure that it has something to do with the Price of cheese in Denmark. Emery Deutsch planned on wearing a white pongee suit when he first came to the Paramount. When he donned the suit it was transparent and as he laid his claim to fame on his musical ability he wore silk pajamas under it. Sounds like an easy "tombed"! So the transition from studio to stage. Thus its people. Human, nervous and nuts. Ah, such is life . . . indeed life is a sorry affair at best. Let us pray for these poor people, all slaving their lives away ... at |500 per! 62