Radio stars (May 1933)

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(Above) Al Cameron and Pete Bontsima whom you've heard over the NBC network. (Above, right) D. W. Griffith, NBC, Sunday and Wednesday P. M.'s. (Left) Jeannie Lang — Pontiac and Musical Grocery Store. The story of the watermelon . . . The troubles with the word "Woof" . . . Singin' Sam's personal appearance causes trouble . . . And other tit-bits During a recent Sherlock Holmes broadcast, the script called for the sound of distant bagpipes. So the cell was trundled in and Piper Ross Gorman was put into it. At the appointed time, a sound man knocked on the wall. Gorman promptly piped, and through the thick padding came the sound of a distant bagpipe. Gee, this radio business is wonderful. | HIS just shows how radio men meet emergencies. Last winter, when engineers of the Columbia Broadcasting System undertook to put the colorful and picturesque Beaux Arts Costume Ball on the air, they were stymied at the door of *he Waldorf-Astoria when told that no one could enter the ballroom unless he wore a masquerade costume. The engineers returned to the CBS offices, donned two gold and gray uniforms that they borrowed from page boys and one that they took off a porter. At the Waldorf again, they were passed in without a question. SlNGIN' SAM made the mistake of his life during his recent vaudeville tour. In a weak moment, he consented to appear at a downtown drugstore in Baltimore to autograph one hundred of his pictures. So many fans jammed 15