Radio stars (Oct 1937-Sept 1938)

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I didn't do too badly with my class work hecause I inanaged to stay at the university. <lespite the lack of attention I gave to ni\ studies. "In l'^31, I joined the sta(¥ of II CAE in Pittsburgh, where Betty first appeared (i\er the radio. As I said before, when Betty pro\ed to be a success our comedy team was dissolved, and with Betty I became known as the Tom and Betty pro That Betty was real to her listeners in Pittsburgh was soon proved. The program came on at a late hour and ciiildren refused to go to bed until they heard her, and consequently were tired and late for school the next day. Parents and teachers scolded but could not get them away from Tommy and Betty. The story of Tommy Riggs' courtship and marriage is an interesting one. While he was attending Ohio State, a new family moved next door and one of the members of that family was an attractive blonde daughter. Tommy made the father's ac(|uaintance, but was unsuccessful in meeting the daughter. One day he knocked on the door of the neighbor's home and the father answered. "Hell", Mr. Mclntyre," said Tommy. "I'd like to meet that blonde daughter of It was just like that ! The meeting was arranged and a romance was the result. In ten months they were married. After several \ears at W'CAE, Tommy Riggs joined the staff of KDKA in the same cit\-, where his program was im n Murray and "Oswald." mecKately headlined. It was at this statiofi that he held the record for the larges'j fan-mail response for any program. "I had an amusing experience there,'! Tommy explained. "I went on the air a'l eleven o'clock at night and one night th( Child Labor group called on me and demanded that I send Betty home to bed where she belonged at that hour. It tool' me quite a while to conxince them thai Betty was only m\' idea child, but at last they beliexed me and left." When his lengthy sta\' at KDKA was completed. Tommy found himself in New York, where he did an early morning program over the Columbia network. "I was at Columbia but a short time wdien I received a fine ofTer to do a commercial fifteen -minute, five-a-week series at WTAM in Cleveland and I accepted,"' said Tommy. Thus, his first experience in New York' was a short one and he left it for what he. considered a better chance. Once again Tommy and Betty were in a new locale. The Cleveland audience was as responsive as the listeners had been in Pittsburgh and letters and gifts came for the little Betty at a steady rate. A woman listener, intrigued by Betty. and her performance, offered to adopt her. After an exchange of notes. Tommy finallyi convinced her that Betty was only a product of his imagination. After a year in Cleveland, Tommy Riggs moved to WLIV , in Cincinnati. It was at this station, where Jane Froman and many others began their careers, that exciting things really started for Tommy. He arrived in Cincinnati at the same time as the great flood, and his first program was an all-night benefit for the flood-stricken inhal)itants. Betty's appeal was instant and her service to a city in peril deserved commendation. Several months later, when Tommy offered his photograph to his radio audience, .32,000 reipiests came like an avalanche. One night Siugin' Sam. whose hotne is not far from the city of Cincinnati, heard the pi ng ram and recommended it to a friend oi his. who headed a radio producti<in agency in New York. The executi\e traveled from New York to see a stage show in Dayton, Ohio, where Tomm\ I Riggs was serving as the master of cere [ monies and imited him to New York for an audition. The result was a series of transcriptions as a guest star for the Clievrolet iinigrani. "Things were happening fast then," said Tommy. "The agency was enthusiastic and (lic\ kept -ic hopping. I auditioned programs and saw so many people that every •iil; was m a whirl. On a Tuesday I was iiiurmed tliat 1 would he on the X'allee show for the following Thursday. Two days ! "I was so wcar\ that when I knew that I was to he on the X'allee hour, I asked: 'Will Rudy N'allee be there too?" "Sounds foolish, doesn't it, and it struck everyone as being very funny, hut I was so eager and so pleased that I didn't realize what I had said !''