Radio mirror (May-Oct 1934)

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And when he wants to make a present to some good friend he usually gives him a pipe. But one day he made the mistake of giving away the wrong pipe. It was one he cherished. Now he can't remember who he gave it to. Will recipient please return and take any other pipe he likes from the King collection? ONE OF THE BEST One of Chicago's best musicians is little Eddie South who is called "The dark angel of the violin." Don't know why Eddie hasn't gotten any farther . . . probably because, no matter what's inside, his outside is black. He plays the violin beautifully with the touch of a real artist ... as you may know if you've heard him recently on WBBM along about dinner time. In Europe Eddie won great acclaim in music centers of the old world. But in Chicago, his home town, he's just another fiddler and a colored one at that . . . just one of life's little ironies. PAGE GALE Gale Page who sings at the Palmer House and is on that hotel's radio series over NBC with Ray Perkins, Harold Stokes' orchestra and various big name guest stars, pulled a wise crack in the studio the other night. As you probably know the program starts out with the hotel telephone switchboard girls and then the page boys yelling "Page Mr. Perkins." Just before the show Gale went over to Ray Perkins, who, by the way, is an officer in the reserve intelligence force. "Say, Ray, did you know 1 am really the star of this program?" said Gale. "You are?" wondered Ray. "Why, I thought I was." "O, yeah? I get top billing don't I? Don't they call MY name before yours?" "Aw, now you're kidding." "I do too. Look. This is the way the program opens 'Page Mr. Perkins'. See? Page comes before Perkins!" CHARACTERS JUST CHARACTERS Have you ever noticed that even when Amos 'n' Andy are on tour and broadcast from some other city than Chicago no announcement to that effect is made on their program? For all we listeners know the boys may really be in New York or Chicago or Memphis or New Orleans or Detroit. But there's a real reason for that. The actual identities of Charles Correll, the deep voiced boy, and Freeman Gosden, the high voiced one, have long been submerged. Really, there aren't any such people as Correll and Gosden as far as the radio audience is concerned. They died long ago and became reborn as Amos 'n' Andy. The show is so built as to submerge their real identities behind their radio personalities . . . which really is smart programming. You have never never heard anything Amos 'n' Andy. It is simply Amos 'n' Andy." It isn't Correll and Gosden as Amos -'n' Andy. It is simply Amos 'n' Andy. There aren't any players doing some fictitious parts. The radio characters are the REAL thing. Of course there's the other way of doing that job. Take for instance the way Captain Henry's Show Boat capitalized on the fact Lanny Ross was in Hollywood for so many months. But there the problem was difl'erent. And because Lanny was separated from his Show Boat lady love, Mary Lou (which is only part of the sketch and isn't a real life love at all), they managed to have the two pining for each other and singing and talking to each other of the happy days when they would again be together in the NBC New York studios. Radio fans rarely see Amos 'n' Andy around Chicago. The boys have retiring natures. They live just north of Lincoln Park in the Belmont district on Sheridan Road. Their offices, which ^re really much nicer than most of our homes, are high up in the clouds in the upper reaches of the towering Palmolive Building. They broadcast from the NBC studios in the Merchandise Mart . . . when they are in Chicago. But you won't be able to find them. Neither their home nor their office telephone numbers are shown in the telephone directories. Nor is either address shown in the city directory. And you can't see them broadcast. For they use that little Studio F on the twentieth floor, the one fitted out just like a grand living room, from which they exclude even the NBC people. ■ NEVER have felt they were trying to high hat people. The main reason they don't let any one see them broadcast is that they are actually embarrassed, afraid they might get fussed and miss a line. And when you realize that the two boys alone take ALL those different parts you can easily see what a mixup might occur if one of them lost the place! In their office they are busy writing up the comin'g broadcasts. In their homes and away from the business of entertaining millions they want the chance of acting and living like normal human beings. And you know as well as I do that if they were to be seen by the admiring millions right along they'd have as much privacy as a gold fish in a glass bowl. Some may say they are high hat and aloof. But I can't get mad at anybody for being busy and when not busy for wanting the chance to act like normal, regular honest-to-goodness human beings ! * * * Virginia Clark plays the part of Helen Trent in the radio show of that name. She also reads the (ximmercials on the National Tea programs — the commercials describing nice foods. You can imagine how she felt the morning after the night when ptomaine laid her low and she had to get up to the microphone and talk about delicious foods!