Radio stars (Oct 1937-Sept 1938)

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FuUy G^uaran Free coun« In ty»ing included. ^ Monro* St International Typewriter Exch., pent. 1261 chioigo BANISH DANCER of LOOSE WIRES with the table and talk hcart-to-hcart onc£ anaiiif My hiisbatid returned at one o'clock last nh/ht, after a three-day drunk, takiiiii this »/' after fifteen years' abstinence. ..." From the South: "/ am oiclosing a poem I li'rote alu^iil Diy father, zcho passed (.ri'dA' three years aiio i)i December. I feel yon will uudcrslaud . belter than an\<one in the ivorld. just '.chat he meant to me." Others ask advice in the selection of careers, suggest topics for her scripts, and offer their personal troubles for her sympathy. Some send pictures of their homes, inviting Miss Cravens to visit. One elderly woman regularly mails ten cents a week, plus a religious poem inspired by the last three broadcasts. Heirloom china, flowers, perfume, are frequent gifts. Catholic priests, Protestant ministers, school teachers and parental clubs, also J. Edgar Hoover, write, applauding her constructive crime prevention talks. They ask for mimeograph copies. The National Girl Scout headquarters thanked her for the radio tribute to their organization. The Governor of Texas, James V. .-Mired, appreciating her few lines of reference to their native state, named her "Official Embajadora E.vtraordinaria" of the Texas Exposition and sent her favorite orchids direct from the jungles of Mexico. "Now that I've accomplished what I started out to do — made a success of this program — I've been setting new goals for myself. Five broadcasts a week, instead of three. And, there has never been a woman announcer for news reels and movie shorts Why couldn't I do that, too?" I wondered where she could find the time and energy. "That doesn't worry me. Even now I am working on something beside these broadcasts. On a book. ' The volume is to be entitled Through a Woman's Eyes, and is to narrate hitherto undisclosed adventures encountered duriiig her wanderings in search of script material. Unknowns and well-knowns are involved. "Sometimes I almost believe in palmistry and astrology. All this good luck was forecast several years ago. I worked hard for it and still do. My day begins at five in the morning. But I never once expected to fail. There really is something to the line : 'Concentrate on any goal within reason and you can reach it.' If you don't hurt anyone else, of course. You lose things — good times, friendships, because you haven't the time to keep up with them — and other things. But you get there." . She paused, looking about the expensive apartment. "None of this seems real, yet. I have the breathless, excited feeling you have at Christmas holidays, sort of floating above the everyday world. And, although it sounds trite, I do feel humble that so many people want my help." DO CHILDREN LIKE YOU? {Conli]:ucd from page 39) lie is .uoin.n to say or do. "I'lit it's gratifying and exciting to make sucii children really like you. It's fun to lireak down their reserve, and see them crawl out of the shells they've built around themselves, and really win their friendship. "Some people think the best way of winning children is to shower them with presents. They like the presents, of course, but it doesn't mean that they're going to hkc yon any better for them. ".\fter all, children are human beings and want to be treated that way. If you're the type that's always talking down to and telling them they don't underthis and that and treating them genas if they were still in their cribs, they wouldn't like you if you were Santa Clans himself ! "Give them the same respect and attenion you give their parents and see what lappens. I don't mean, of course, that you should try to discuss the Einstein theory with them or ask their opinion of world affairs or even of your new hat or tie. If talk intelligently of the things you are s(u^>i]i,i,', with them and see the new -|icct and alTection they give you. ".Ml children like being read to or told ories. The other day I took my son and nigliter to the beach and Nancy, my little iimugbt over a new playmate. She \\;is one cif thiisc quiet children, charming but rather cold and distant, whose conversation always seems limited to polite monosyllables. I treated her casually — you'll find shy children love you for that — and asked if she'd like to listen to the story 1 «as reading to Charlie and Nancy. "Tiiere was a little silence after I'd finished, and then she said impulsively: "I lo\-c stories I" She began talking, then, as quickly and cauerly as Nancy herself, and now, whenever we're at the beach, she comes running o\-er to join us. "It's a challenge I never can resist, this making friends with cliildren who come to you definitely unfriendly. At the Chicago Fair, when 1 was there, I met so many of the children who listen to me on the radio. Most of them made me happy by their desire to meet me, but I could see that some of them were there simply because their mothers wanted them to be. "These were the children I wanted to win as rc:Ll friends. Some of them were distant because the) were shy and ill at ease but others had jjrobably been dragged away from sninc-thing they would much ratlier liavc done, from a party, maybe, or a game, and I could see that interesting them wasn't goinu to he an easy matter. "With some of them it was comparatively simple, thougii. It's easy enough to gain a child's confidence in you, if you really are sincere in wanting it. And asking a child (|uestions is one of the surest ways of making tiiem resgpnd — and, by the way, that's true of grown up strangers, too. -After all, it's a compliment to ask jicoplc their opinion of things, and you m.iy lie sure children enjoy it as much as their parents do. Everybody likes to feel a sense of his own importance. I know I do. 84