Radio stars (Oct 1937-Sept 1938)

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In Hollywood it s alley-oop teo Corrillo, caughr "flipping Oops" between scenes of his loiesi screen role in Republic's super-musicol, Monhoitan Merry-Go Round. This new game hos Hollywood completely go-go— ond it's sweeping the country by storm. See it -fry if — buy if at oil Department Stores, 5 and lO s, toy shops, etc , $1.00, 50c and 25c. RADIO STARS ino.stly horseback riding. Then I played maid in a society drama, and other important roles of that kind." Miss Cravens smiled at the memory. "But it was the directors who frightened me out of Hollywood. Tliey were nnicli too sophisticated for the niini.ster's little .sister." .-\t the parsonage, once more, she returned to school and the awed admiration of her classmates. But again the world changed, for her oldest brother had come home from the war. "A handsome, intelligent box he was, when he started for France," Miss Cravens described him. "The pride of the whole family was centered in him. We knew he would go a long way. Strangers used to feel it, too." But now his nerves were shredded from shell shock. Month after month the brothers and sisters contributed to the pooled fund which was to restore him to nonnal. They died a thousand deaths as each specialist repeated the verdict of his predecessor : "Hopeless ! He will be better off in an army hospital." He e.xists in one now. Miss Cravens' fans ask most often for mimeographed copies of her broadcasts on war — and the aftermath of war. She knows ! 'I'll rough a z^'nuian's eyes! Rut, "though life takes away with one hand, it gives with the other." Shortly afterward Miss Cravens' good fortune commenced. As a brother, the minister decided his sister should have her opportunity. -\s a pastor . . . well, he generously forgot his vocation for the moment. He offered to finance a course in a St. Louis dramatic school, and sent her on with his blessing. -A^fter graduation, Kathryn planned to canvass every theatrical possibility in St. Louis, until someone offered her an engagement. The first on her list was the O. B. Woodward Stock Company. At 11 a m. she knocked at the manager's door. At 1 p. m. she was being instructed in the professional use of cosmetics by the leading lady. Leona Powers. The play was Treat 'Em Rouijh. She would not have cared if it had been Little Red Ridiiici Hood! To avoid embarrassing her l)ri)ther, she adopted the stage name of 'Kitty O'Dare." Her roles rose in importance. After a time she played on the same stage with the matinee idol of her eleventh year, Guy Bates Post. "Kitty O'Dare" told him of her childhood adoration. Later she played with Richard Bennett and Leo Carrillo. The stock company's schedule included Lomhardy. Ltd., The Greeks Had a Word for It, Daddy Long Legs and other New York successes. .Sometimes she was a "sh<jw girl," sometimes her parts were long. In the St. Louis Little Theatre she acted in The Cherry Orchard. Her reputation was growing. Touring the West and Mid-West, still she was unsatisfied. Perhaps, if she reached the East, she thought, restlessness would leave iicr. But when she was offered a Broadway contract, she succumbed to an irrational imiiulsc and declined it. The decisKiii a^tdiiislied her, even more than the others (il the bewildered cast. In a vague way slic doubted that she wanted to be an actress after all. During an uneasy summer, devoted to visiting relatives and teaching dramatic art, she wondered if the radio might not be her g<jal. The large St. Louis broadcasting coir pany she selected displayed little emhu>i asm. To that field she was an amateui \"igorously .she pursued the officials, vol unteering to work payless for si.x week: She knew she could learn rapidly. I the end they agreed to try her talents o a sustaining pinoram. -Xnioiiij her tii-t assignments was th imitation oi amd countrymen at a villag store. She resurrected childhood itiimic ries. .\t the conclusion of the probatio: the company hired her at fifteen dollar a week — the lowest salary on their book: Together with a young man in the sam humble position, she prepared scripts fo original plays, against the time when the; could be used. Neither she nor her con frere was acquainted with the difficultie of playwriting. They soon met them There followed much studying, writing discarding, and fresh attempts. In the meantime her financial conditioi improved. "I played as many as fifteei roles in one day. Sometimes I was luck; enough to earn extras. Once they pai< me five dollars for fifteen minutes of in termittent crying ! A baby, about threi months old. Like this." Miss Craven; raised a handkerchief to mask nose an( mouth, and proceeded to demonstrate. Thi resultant wail, most life-like, seemed t( emerge eerily from the grand piano acros: the room. Startled, I laughed. .■\fter a moment she lowered her ham and resumed : "When they asked me tc imitate Texas cotton pickers — colorec people — I took a trip back to Burkett ant picked cotton all one long, burning day with the field hands. It was helpful ii refreshing both their accent and their colloquialisms. ".\fter a while the company let us tr\ our original scripts on the air. Sometimes I worked thirteen hours straight, preparing them. Frankly they were terrible, I see now. But then we thought them pretty nice." In time she became The Voice of St. Louis, reading entire programs, announcing advertising, reciting poetry to music and "any odd job left over." From this she progressed to such heavy drainas as Caiiiiite. and on to a serial called Let's Compare Notes. This last enterprise started her fan mail. Women all over the country wanted to compare notes with her on every conceivable subject. "Where." I asked, "did your idea for .Vcii'.f Through a Woman's Eyes come from ?" "Soiiictiiiics. at the studio, I used to listen to luKvin C. Hill and Boake Carter. They seemed to be having so much fun, doing exactly what they pleased. Doesn't everyone in the world wish, at some time, slie could be a free-lance reporter? If <<iil\ I knew something about rcportin.L;. I used to think. But then, even that wonUin't help. There were no women commentators on the air." Miss Craxeiis >mootlied the coil at the back of her neck and replaced a liairpin. "AW of a sudden, one <lay, the idea came— news thnui.gh a -iCoinun's eyes. No man, of course, could do it. And as for reporting. I'd taught myself plenty of other things, why not one more?" "As easy as that?" "Not quite! The powers that be didn't see eye to eye with me on the subject, 82