Radio stars (Oct 1937-Sept 1938)

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RADIO STARS I --t. Rut 1 remenil)ere(l old loson : iH'gged them to try me at any price — r nothing. Finally they gave me a Iiance." She smiled with satisfaction. My fan mail settled the matter without in\ more discussion. I-"ive yr;n> ajjo that \a-. I've been at it ever >iiice. Withmit " a vacation, because the\ can't tind a ;iiute for me." ^t autumn a motor car company inher to its Xew Yorlc headi|uarU-rs, uiij a substantial inipr. nenient uimii current contract. .Vfter a few weeks iiicials decided to learn exactly how persons listened to lu-r alternomi hlcasts. In order to >ecnre a response li 111 each, the company proffered a iree, ;;e<lically treated dust cloth (for b. • and car) to any who cared to ask ■ l)\ mail. In expectation of a few ,11(1 rc(HK-t-, tliat number of cloths ;l prepare<l. In five days 228.000 topic wrote! The company spent sevral feverish weeks locating the other • ter million dust cloths I Since then imsolicited raises in salary have come iiss Cravens. She has been given blaiichr to hop into an airplane at time and continue her trailing of the tliough a pilot herself, she swore never ard a plane again, after the crash of aviator who taught her to lly. Her -e vanished with his death. Yet her "U necessitates swift gathering of linings before they stale in the pub1 mind. Consequently Miss Cravens ■ ii^lit down her panic until it has passed \\a\ entirely. I'm give versatilit\ to her broadcasts, ;ie has interxiewed a variety of folk, fai"U^ and infamous — Cat-eye Annie in her ri-iin cell, the Roosevelts on election night iiw hours before the impatien.t newspar reporters were invited from their neighriiig hotel to Hyde Park), Frank Buck 1 his private menagerie, Katharine Corell in her dressing-room. Warden Lawes 1 Sing Sing, Fannie Murst in Mayor La iiiardia's car as both came ironi a baniiLt in iiis honor, Strangler Lewis, Emily ' -t and many others. If her tans Ions' news of Beale Street, she dies to Teiito collect full measure oi local 1. She perched on Plymouth Rock. ' (letter to feel the Thanksgiving spirit, r a broadcast on that hiilida.w At his • I'i she wrote of the L'nknown Soldier. summer she spent three weeks in wood, interviewing motion picture chosen by popular vote — and Mickey jriisc for the crippled boy who correpoiids regularly with her. "\ l(}ng road she has journexed from a 1 1 town in Texas ti.i a metropolitan six secretaries and the cnormou> I fan letters. Dipping into the steel ' i> at ranrlom. I saw these lines from nan in L >w a : leoiidcr if you iin; rr, program docs ns ^untry? IVitliDiil i<. behind the times. < ricnd and eyes." aher from Missouri : ' '.' )'oii stimiihite nil y.Kir soolhiuii leords rise to heii/hts. iht tears." -m the South-West : "This Sunday '!"oii may ter truly clasp hands across Tli:.c lust zchat ic.-incii here in ' u.'uld he ter' sides, you arc '1 think xoii're : IF hen Fm (jive me courYour last talk 3 ways to mouth health — with this new chewing gum ! mi l.ORALGENE is a firmer, "chewier" gum. It gives your mouth, teeth and gums needed exer 2. ORALGENE contains milk of magnesia (dehydrated.) It helps to mouth freshness. O* ORALGEiNE helps keep teeth clean — and freshlooking throughout the day. Chew it after every meal. Irene Rich, stage, film and radio star, and Freeman Gosden {Amos oi Amos 'n Andy.) 83