Radio mirror (May-Oct 1934)

lO IVE ■ R. R. O ■<. VOL .2 NO . 4 AUGUST . 1934 JULIA SHAWELL -EDITOR BELLE LANOESMAN • ASSISTANT EDITOR WALLACE HAMILTON CAMPBELL • ART DIRECTOR f e e «P!*I NEXT MONTH— The perennial troubadour, Harry Richman, man of a dozen careers and a hundred romances comes to you next month ■ ~wj ji through the inimitable pen of Herb jmt^S^^^ Cruikshonk. Radio made the curly^^^B^JJj^B haired singer, stage and movies took ^^^^BPj^Hk him up and now he's back at the I^^^HV^H^^H microphone. Where he came from, BHHBmIP^R what he thinks, where he goes will be Ic'd in a revealing, thrilling personality story in next month's RADIO MIRROR. Born in India, Jessica Dragonette traveled all over the world before she was old enough to pick a career. But she sang since she first leorned to talk. Pretty, tolented, a good business woman, Miss Dragonette's history is the material -from which novels are built. Read her real story first in the SEPTEMBER RADIO MIRROR. There are so many musical Lom bardo brothers they get in your hair when they're all assembled. But the ^^^^^^ prize offspring around whom the j^' ,^ j^^^^H others congregate is Guy, handsome W 'y ■HHHl and successful. New notes dangle from his fingers, rhythm sways his body and ambition fills his mind. He'll tell you all about it next month. You haven't heard anything until you tune in on Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland, the irrepressible hilarity team of cinema fame who come to you for the month of August on the NBC chain from Hollywood. You'll laugh when you hear them but you'll be amazed when you read about them next month in your favorite RADIO MIRROR. Blue Singers you when you and "What Made tht Blue" may surprise read some of the love stories job-struggles qf the girls who sing torch songs into the microphone. Are you all excited about the adventures of Toby Malone, his redheaded stooge and his inspired, inebriated professor through their thrilling experiences in a new radio world? Next month, Peter Dixon takes you through more interesting romantic adventures of the trio as they find fame, love and trouble in the broadcast studios. Don't miss this thrilling serial story continuing in the September Radio Mirror. That's only the beginning of what the next issue of RADIO MIRROR offers you, dozens of gorgeous new pictures, a score of entertaining features, new guides to culinary success n the Homemaking Department, a oicturesque gallery of beautiful portraits, Sard's caricatures and more that you can read in your SEPTEMBER RADIO MIRROR. s 3 By R. H. Rowan By Rose Heylbut 8 20 Editorial The Blue-Pencilling Wise Men The Baron's Such a Liar By Jock Pearl 4 Mr. Pearl Says So Himself Hot and Airy By Mercury 6 Gossip and News of the Air World They're Office Wives to Radio Idols By Bill Vallee 8 Pretty Secretaries Tell on the Boss A Woman Made Martini By Mary Jacobs 10 Fennlnine Influence Behind a Career Two Giggles In a Carload of Gags By Herb Cruikshonk 12 Those Incorrlgibles, Stoopnagle and Budd The Beautiful Stooge By Peter Dixon 14 Port Two of Thrilling Serial Loafing With Rosaline 17 Miss Greene Poses on Her Vacation What Did "Mike" Give the Rich Lady? Irene Rich's Radio Career Was Spalding's Wealth a Handicap? . . Born to Wealth, He Made a Career The Ole-Man Ribbers By Mike Porter 22 Unnnasking the Air Stooges Real Tears Gave Her Blue Notes By Doris Ashe The Life Story of Edith Murray You Ask Her Another 26" Getting Personal With Frances Longford Radio Mirror's Gallery of Stars 27 Sylvia Froos Shows Her Beach Clothes 34 The Latest in Summer Togs On the Singin' Sams' Honeynoon 36 On the Pacific Airwaves By Dr. Ralph L. Power 38 What's Happening on the West Coast Gard's Chosen People .... By Gard 42 A Caricaturist Catches the Famous Dialing the Short Waves By Globe Twister 43 We Have With Us 44 All Your Programs Are Here Radio Mirror Homemaking Department. . By Sylvia Covney In the Stars' Kitchens 46 Glistening Hair for Summer Moons 48 Let's Have a Picnic 49 Chicago Breezes By Chase Giles 50 Around the Mid-West Mikes What Do You Want To Know? By the Oracle 52 Question and Answer Department The Radio Personalities' Contest 54 "Our Public" Broadcasting 56 t f. of this magazine may not be reprinted either wholly or in part " " " "" Executive and l-van Wise R.ADIO MIRROR (Copyright 1934) is fully protected bv copyright, and the contents -„ t^ ,r xt t c without permission. Published monthly by Syndicate Magazine Corporation, Washington and South Avenues, Dunellen, New Jersey. c-xec editorial office, 1926 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Havdock Miller, President; Wesley F. Pape, Secretary; Irene T. Kennedy, Treasurer: tngelman, Sales Representatives; Carroll Rheinstmm, Advertising Director. Ente-ed as second-class matter September 14, 1933, at the Post Uttice at Uunelien, 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, ^CuDa, Mexico and Panama $1.50 a year; all other countries $2.00 a year. 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