Radio stars (Oct 1937-Sept 1938)

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U/ithAiitDicL2eta25cboxof NRsfromany flllllUUinidlldruggist. Use for one week; if you are not more than pleased, return the box and we will refund the purchase price. m .— , NR Tonijht'' (r^^^f^ Tomorrow Alright. HAIR KILLED FOREVER YOD can loam practical tmrsinc at home In spare time, ('oursc entinrsecl by physi, Thousands of gradualcs. :!81hyr. One graduate has charge of 10-bcil hospital. Another saved $4 00 wlillc Icarn1ns. Eauipmcnt included. Men and women 18 to 60. High School not reiiulrcd. Kasy tuition payments. Write now. CHICAGO SCHOOL OF NURSING Dept. 2312. 100 East Ohio Street, Chicago. III. riease tend tree booklet and 32 sample lesson pages. HE THRIVES ON ADVENTURE Cilj Slate Age paric 3?) SuiiK-linics he tore uut inti. the wodcIs in the ram. an;] scalin'.i iiiiii^clf under a free, he wmuUI write piielr\ about the L^ue.sthdok Nature (ui which people then checked u. t into kIixhuv uhlivion. He .kride.I tn l.eo.me a preacher. He felt that the world was in a had way, that soniehdily imi-l >a.vc it. and that it was his respiinsil)ili,\' t<j It was not an easy n^i m himI lilitw hi'.l still it was his lut\ transferred to hed granimar hn ano 1)1 tiic sciiooi, he was CMiisidcr. ' jircttx smart by his teachers h,r;ms,. 1,^. had skipped several grades. bur h.is \iical ahility he was awarded a high school .scholarship. Now Les entered upon his Grimly Practical .\ge. He was thirteen years old when he registered at Lake View High School for a hair-shirt business course of shorthand, typing and bookkeeping. The time for dreaming was past. "Face the facts, Les," he told himself. "Prepare yourself to earn a living. Writing, stage designing and school plays are fine hobbies, but they won't buy cars to take your mother riding on Sunday afternoons." After school he worked as a barker at Riverview Park, waited on tables, delivered newspapers, and earned fifty cents every Saturday as a butcher boy. Returning at two o'clock in the morning from his "harking" at the amusement park, he did his homework on the street-car. At the beginning of his sophomore year the family finances no longer met at both ends. Les was forced to leave school, in spite of the fact that he had won a scholarship. The fourteen-year-old composed his face into grave, experienced lines and applied for the job of secretary in a doctor's office. The doctor hired him because he believed the boy was eighteen. Les worked for the doctor for a year and a half, during which time he nurtured a moustache and a secret ambition to become a surgeon. The doctor moved, the Depression began, and Les was out of a job. Like a homing pigeon, he winged for the Little Theatre and worked at everything from stage manager to call boy, without pay. .Somewhere in Chicago there are a numhcr of housewives who banged the door on a vacuum cleaner salesman before the future radio star could say : "Pardon me, lady, I'm working my way through the Little Theatre." During this time, too, he worked as district manager for a publishing company. It was his duty to hire boys to sell magazines, collect the money, keep them supplied with magazines, and fire them with pep talks. His dammed up theatrical energies swept into these pep talks and he harangued his motley crew for sales, as ^^arc ,\ntony swayed the populace for revenue of Caesar's death. J-or love and not money, he worked miiiuii Surr I'annilJ. It Taft that leltc theatres, played in jtioiis, religious pageants, rl.ined stone (juarry near 11, and played the two I.orado Taft's Gates oj through the late Loradu cquired an interest in sculpture, which is a growing hobby with him t.Kiay. One day he received a letter from ;< movie studio in Chicago. The castirif; director asked him to coach his talent school. Success at last? Talent recognized and Lasy Street around the corner? Le; wasn't ill the movie school two weeks before he knew the answers. Tlie school wa^ a racket : the owners collected tuition fee^ from would-be stars and gave them rosy promises and Les Tremayne's coaching for their money. But there was no money for Tremayne. He stuck with the school for several weeks more, hoping to collect Still no money, so — he quit. Then he went to work in a chocolate factory, where he piled hundred-pound crates of hot chocolate syrup in ten higl columns and learned about women froir, the chocolate dippers. The crates strained his appendix and the chocolate dippers frayed his ideab about girls. (Today, whenever Les lose his perspective on his work or life general, he drives past this chocolati factory, takes a good long look, and re-j turns to his senses!) Leaving the sweets to the tough, he go himself a bicycle and a job as a bellhoj and busboy in a country club. "That's where I learned what it feeli like to be a servant to a bunch of people most of whom should have been waitiijj on the help," said Les. "And that's when I learned to humble myself. The las lesson was a hard one to unlearn." He arose at four every morning am cycled twenty-six miles a day to and fron work, his long hair blowing behind bin in the wind. He let his hair grow foi the part of Si'riu/ali — played at a privati party for charity. This gesture of ton sorial independence enraged the bell captaii at the club. One of Tremayne's former movie schoo pupils was a serious-minded, bright-eyet lad who worked nights in a bakery. Om e\-ciiini;. nearly a year after Les quit tb mo\ ie racket school, the boy phoned hinr "Say, Tremayne," he said, "you're good I'm doing some broadcasting on WCFl. Wily don't you come down there with nn for a tryout?" Les accompanied his former pupil ti U'Cl-L and was accepted without an audi tion. He made his first appearance on hi nineteenth birthday, on the Might Com program. For the first eight months he receive< no pay for his radio work. Evenings tha he did not appear on the radio, he studiei shorthand and commercial art at nigh| school. .Ahout this time he met Jack Doty, ai actor almost twice his age, who became hi best friend. I