Radio mirror (May-Oct 1934)

RADIO M IRROR MEETING A CRISIS Most radio programs are so thoroughly stopvvatched and produced, that even the changing of a single word or the missing of a phrase throws the whole thing out of line. That's the main trouble with radio now, that mechanical perfection. But Dr. Herman N. Bundesen didn't let stop watches or prepared continuity bother him the other day. The Bundesen Magazine of the .Air was on WLS as it always is every weekday morning. The telephone rang and a frantic mother called. Her child had swallowed a button and she wanted Dr. Bundesen to tell her what to do. She was almost hysterical. The telephone operator told the doctor in the studio and he told her to have the woman tune in his program if she hadn't already done it. Then he went to the mike, waved away the violinist who was playing a solo and told the woman just what to do for the child. That shows just what a human sort of chap our health commissioner in Chicago is. -And at the time those quintuplets were born up in Canada he went and got a supply of breast milk together and sent it along together with his books on the care and feeding of babies. Dr. Bundesen surprised the WLS studio staff one morning. On his program he wanted to broadcast the actual sound of a living human heart. If \ou'd gone to WLS that morning you'd have been surprised to see near the mike a husky young man, stripped to the waist, jumping up and down and then rushing up to the mike to hold it against his heart. The jumping was simply done to attain a more pronounced heartbeat for listeners to hear. . . . * * * ANTIQUE OR OLD GOLD? Irene Beasley, the long tall gal from Dixie is now singing with Phil Baker on the Friday night Armour shows over NBC. Also on the same network she is singing for the Fitch programs while Wendell Hall takes a vacation. Recently Irene took a vacation to her family home in the southland. While there she sent a prized antique watch to a jeweler's. The watch was supposed to have been repaired. But something went wrong. Irene wondered why they didn't send it back. Then she found out: Dear Miss Beasley: Enclosed please find check for |4.85, the amount due you on the gold contained in the watch you sent us. Please keep it in mind in the event you have any more old gold for sale and we will be most pleased to do business." * * * A member of Jan Garber's band got married. Garber and all his boys attended the wedding and then, in more or less hilarious spirits, all went to a celebrity night in a Chicago cafe. Garber was called on to play his fiddle. As Jan went up to the band stand, all the Garber bandsmen solemnly picked up their chairs, moved from their tables out into the dance floor directly in front of Jan, sat down . . . and one of them solemnly started tossing pennies at him! A Cleveland radio listener sent Gene and Glenn a pair of homing pigeons named after the radio boys. They were to release the pigeons at a certain time on a certain night and then they could tell how long it took them to fly home from New York. Gene and Glenn released the pigeons in Central Park . . . but the birds refused to fly home, in fact refused to fly. They LIKED Central Park. So Gene and Glenn recrated the birds and shipped them home with a note: "If these birds are homers, any place they light must be home to them!" * * * AI Rice, now tenor of the Maple City Four, once was the orchestra leader chosen by the Prince of Wales to play for the Prince's parties when the prince visited Vancouver. They fixed up a set of signals. If the Prince liked the partner he was dancing with he would signal Al and the number would go on forever. But if the prince didn't like his dancing partner another signal and Al would stop the music right away. Salty Homes and Gene Autry of WLS so amused the convalescent Eddie Quail of Champaign, 111., with their broadcast antics that Eddie literally split his side laughing. Eddie was just getting over an appendectomy when he laughed so hard he reopened the incision and had to go back to the hospital. * * * In Clyde Lucas' band at Terrace Garden is a real Cuban who is proud of the English he's slowly learning. The other night, to prove his mastery of the King's English, he pointed into the heavens at the stars making up the big dipper. "See, 1 know. That's the big diaper!" * * * Lynn Lucas, Clyde's brother, received a letter congratulating him on his perfect Joosh in the Hebrew version of "Write a Letter to Mother." the writer, a Jew himself, said only a Jew could sing it that well. Now, whoever heard of a Lynn Lucas being Jewish? * * * Have you ever noticed how some auto radio sets fade as you pass a big building or a street car line? Romo Vincent, the portly M. 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