Radio mirror (May-Oct 1934)

jU^', '^, N. ■<v,n:>^ -t*. ;<C > \^V>o h^, \' \ \ ^< BY MERCURY •„ But before we can think of an answer it goes onS IT BECAUSE HIS LIFE WAS THREATENED Tv AN IRATE HUBAND OR DOES HE FEAR STICKHP MEN WHEN HE GOES HOME LATE AT NIGHT TO lACKSON HEIGHTS AS HE TOLD THE POLICE? Vi/ell Mr. Teletype Operator, your guess is as good as Mercury's and we'll now forget the tantalizing ticker tape and go on to other things. ^ ^ Moisture gathered in the eyes of Groucho Marx as he read an appealing note from a Bronx mother; "Please, Mr. Marx " she begged, "won't you come up to my house and say funny things to my boy? He's awfully sick but the doctor says your visit would help him. He just worships Q .^y^., 'Sw^°:, <^ X ft'' y^ ^^< %. ^ ^' 'Y 4f^, '<« >^ k % /^ < V ■^i^ -<> -v^ '•v, M N* Bronxw^ H .L *°"i'!'''' f^™"=hos .mpul.se was to go fwo rhTlHr ''°"[, "'"^y «"' he didn't dar^his own two children were ,11 with the whooping cough and he might carry contagion to this already sick little boy. So he did h^nMH . ''u"''"« "' '""'™"d Eddie Garr, the mimic, Handed him his trick mustache and sent him up to that t I "°"^«-. J^^" spent two hours impersonating Groucho at the bedside of the youngster who never suspected his hero wasn t there in person. * * » Since Joe Penner, capitalizing his radio popularity, displayed sensational drawing power at theatre box offices, no vaudeville or movie house program is complete without one or more ether entertainers on the bill. The way things are going is demonstrated by the record made one week recently by one circuit when thirty air favorites were distributed on the stages of Loew's. Among the artists were: John Fogarty, Richard Himber and orchestra, James Wallington, the Pickens Sisters, Borrah Minnevitch and his Harmonica Rascals, Do Re Mi Trio, Sisters of the Skillett, Tony Wons, Phil Cook, Charles Carlile, Jimmy Durante, Harry Rose, Eddie Peabody, George Hall and orchestra, Gypsy Nina and Tito Guizar. * * * STUDIO SIDELIGHTS Shirley Howard says she is interested in sports — but not enough to marry one. . . . Freddie Rich, the band man, and Jack Pearl, the Baron, are cousins. . . . Jessica Dragonette is saving something for a rainy day — and it isn't a raincoat, either. She lives on 10 per cent of her salary and banks the balance. . . . (Continued on page 64) ""W^' "^a # Cecil Lean ond Cleo Moyfield, old stage favorites who hove found a new niche in Word's Family Theatre JB.T'S the good old summer time in the studios, all right. Sponsors usually heard moaning the hot weather blues are singing another song these days and are as keen to exploit their wares on the wireless as in mid-season. Result is the air castles are ahum with activity and everybody is buzzing about like flies around a molasses barrel. Even the sustaining artists are getting their share of sugar for they escaped the customary seasonal clip in salaries. Clackety-clack-clack goes the teletype machine. We must see what the grapevine gossip is. WHAT ENTERTAINER, WHOSE NAME IS A HOUSEHOLD WORD HAS GONE IN FOR NUDISM IN A BIG WAY?, it asks in caps. Well. Mercury could guess and wouldn't guess O^ ■ejr o 4.. Eddie Cantor either, even though he did appear before a studio audience last winter in nothing but a loin cloth. The machinery whirls again. A CERTAIN SONGBIRD IS SPORTING A 110,000. BRACELET, THE GIFT OF AN ADORING ADVERTISING AGENCY EXECUTIVE, it says. Humph, the teletype is falling behind with the news. Mercury knows for a fact he also gave her an imported car with an imported French Chauffeur to run it. Of course, he may only have placed them at her disposal but, any way, she's using them and that amounts to the same thing. There goes the teletype again. WHY DID THAT HANUSOME ANNOUNCER GET A PISTOL PERMIT. " ^y^^y U) 9 The Three Scamps broadcast their u'nique vocal and instrumental arrangements seven times weekly over the NBC News when it's hot, while it's M gossip new, as ercury tells it