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On the airways out of the Windy City. Gossipy Tidbits about the radio personalities and current events around all the big broadcast studios
BEHIND every name you see in a magazine or newspaper or hear on the air is a real person. Sometimes we forget that and sometimes it's brought to our attention suddenly and unexpectedly. We first heard of Harry Jost when he was a runner up in the radio-stage talent quest conducted last year by NBC, RKO and The Chicago Daily News. The youngster had a fine voice. NBC auditioned him again later on and listed his name among the future vocal possibilities. But he didn't get a paying job. Just to keep in trim he did some work free on one of the Chicago stations. About a year later he finally got his break ... he went on NBC with an orchestra and started a commercial series of his own. Much the same sort of facts could be written about almost any one of the big timers in radio . . . they all had small beginnings. Who knows, perhaps Harry Jost will someday be a Bing Crosby or a Rudy Vallee? Behind those few facts listed above lay a real story. It came to us in a letter from a reader. . . .
1 was married about three years ago and a year later the Youngest and Blondest member of my husband's family ran off and married a nice youngster named Harry Jost.
Harry and Y. and B. Member of the family were just seventeen years old apiece and they hadn't a dime in the world. But they had the courage that moves mountains and they were in love. Love is the willingness to face trials with someone else just to be with that someone else. And they were very happy. The Youngest worked in a department store and Harry practiced and worked when he could find work . . . which wasn't very often. They lived in Downers Grove, 111., with his family. They were very poor and they had a fine time. Then, suddenly they were going to have a baby. It was a very trying time for us all. WHAT would they DO? We worried and stewed and were dreadfully upset. But not those two . . . tomorrow was that new day they keep talking about.
"Harry would get his break sometime soon. And the baby ... it would be a boy, of course, blond just like Harry. His name would be Peter ... he would be a lovely child. Well, what can you do with children who WILL be a people? Maybe it was that perfect faith but whatever it was Harry DID get a job. Smallish, about thirteen dollars a week. But it was a Beginning. They were jubilant.
Wade Booth ond Dorothy Day who are heard on "The Singing Stranger" program over the NBC chain from KYW