Radio mirror (May-Oct 1934)

Ji. ^L ivi I ■«. I lO R €> R^ VOL .2 NO . 3 JULY . 1934 JULIA SHAWELL • EDITOR BELLE LANDESMAN • ASSISTANT EDITOR I NEXT MONTH— He broadcasts a lie a minute and makes the whole country laugh. (The Baron Munchausen has become a national air character, and now Jack Pearl puts down on paper some of the fabulous_ _ ly exaggerated facts which the baron ,\ ^t ^J^^ has never broadcast. In the language jttl^^^^^j^^^ of the imaginative Munchausen, Jack i^^B^t i^HB Pearl writes his own story for RADIO MIRROR next month. Don't miss it. It's a riot! Sometimes they, themselves, don't know what they're talking about, but that never stops Stoopnagle and Budd. Herb Cruikshank tears away all the side-splitting defence of their crazy microphone caperings and tells you about the nutty duo, Stoopnagle and Budd, who grow sillier and more popular with each broadcast. Just when it seemed as though the Movie sun had set for the glamorous cinema star, Irene Rich, radio discovered her. The Irene Rich behind the voice comes to you next month in an entertaining recounting of what you don't know about this actress. Would you like to be a confidential secretary to Rudy Vallee, Sing Crosby, Ben Bernie, Eddie Duchin or any other of your radio favorites? Next month Rudy's brother. Bill Vallee, tells you all about these RADIO OFFICE WIVES, what they look like, where they go after office hours, and WHAT THEY ACTUALLY THINK OF THEIR BOSSES. He was born in the lap of luxury. He could have found a life of pleasant leisure, but Albert Spalding was an artist, and money meant nothing to him. HIS MUSIC WAS EVERYTHING. Rose Heylbut tells you all about this charming genius who overcame the early handicap of too much money in the family. Did you know there's a woman behind Nino Martini's rise? A blonde? A brunette? ^^^^^ Read the August RADIO MIRROR ^^^^^Kj^^k and learn all about this feminine in^^^^^^^^f^ spirotion who mode the handsome ^^^^^T^Kj^i singing star what he is today. ^^H^ ^^Vw Mike Porter gives you the inside ^B * ^ of this vogue for microphone stooges, ^ those OLE-MAN RIBBERS who have saved more than one famous comedian from flopping on the air waves. Then there ore a dozen other interesting personality stories, all the news of the West Coast and Chicago studios, a gorgeous gallery of stars, the HOMEMAKING DEPARTMENT. Gord's caricatures, and many more features, packed into what we consider the best RADIO MIRROR we've given you yet. V DON'T MISS T+f€ AUGUST flAOlO WmRCHl! WALLACE HAMILTON CAMPBELL • ART DIRECTOR features Editorial 5 Making Radio Stars For The Toboggan What Did Radio Do To Jolson's Family Life? — By Herb Cruikshank 6 A Trouper Finds a Fireside Seat Hot and Airy By Mercury 8 Mercury's Hot News and New Gossip I'm Married To Fred Allen By Portland Hoffa 10 Portland HofFa Tells on her Fred The Beautiful Stooge By Peter Dixon 1 2 Part One of a THRILLING RADIO SERIAL Ponselle Broadcasts To Plain Folks • . ■ By Rose Heylbut 14 The Human Side of the Great Opera Diva When They Cross Their Fingers By Mike Porter 16 Air Stars and Their Superstitions Meet The Wife By Ethel Carey 18 The Little Women Behind Radio Careers The Famous Are Fans, Too.... By Mary Margaret McBride 20 What Celebrities Think of Programs Do You Know The Real Rubinoff? By Dmitri OrlofF 22 THE REAL Russian Without His Fiddle I Speak For Myself By Kate Smith 24 Part 3 of the Songbird's Own Life Story You Ask Her Another 26 Getting personal with Loretta Lee Radio Mirror's Gallery of Stars 27 Gard's Chosen People By Gard 30 As a Caricaturist Sees the Famous Lanny's Mother Raised Him To Sing. . . .-. .By R. H. Rowan 34 Lanny's Career Was No Accident Ten Million Jurors For True Story Court. .By Howard Swain 36 Wherein The Public Judges The Cases Connie Gates In a Cotton Parade. 38 Summer Fashions As a Star Wears Them On The Pacific Airwaves By Dr. Ralph L. Power 40 News and Gossip from the West Coast in Gladys Swarthout's Home 44 Camera Close-ups of the New Favorite Chicago Breezes By Chase Giles 46 What's Happening in the MiddleWest Radio Mirror Homemaking Department . . By Sylvia Covney In The Stars' Kitchens Our Fourth Of July Party Get That Summer Tan "Our Public" Broadcasting We Have With Us You'll Find Them All Here What Do You Want To Know? By The Oracle You Ask, We Tell the Answers Dialing The Short Waves fiy Globe Twister 48 50 51 52 54 56 58 RADIO MIRROR (Copyright 1934) is fully protected by copyright, and the contents of this magazine may not be reprinted either wholly or in part without permission. Published monthly by Syndicate Magazine Corporation, Washington and Sooth Avenues, Dunellen, New Jersey. Executive and editorial office, 1926 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Haydock Miller, President; Wesley F. Pape, Secretary; Irene T. Kennedy, Treasurer: Engel-van Wiseman, Sales Representatives; Carroll Rheinstrom, Advertising Director. Entered as second-class matter September 14, 1933, at the Post Office at Dunellen, New Jersey, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Price in United States $1.20 a year; 10c a copy. In U. S. Possessions, Canada, Newfoundland, Cuba, Mexicoand Panama $1.50 a year; all other countries $2.00 a year. 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