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RADIO STARS
LET'S GOSSIP ABOUT YOUR FAVORITES
OUT in Barnesville, Ohio, six months ago, Johnny Ruffell was a grocer, Paul Cordner was a hay and grain expert. Bill Kearns was a malted milk slinger. One sultry afternoon, with nothing better to do, they began to sing. And discovered that they were good. Somebody told them that station WHK in Cleveland gave auditions. They drove down the pike in their flivver and got one. Station WHK did not want them. But fate or something did. Charlie Bayhe, an NBC booker, had married a Barnesville girl and was in town. One night he heard them singing to the moon. The upshot of it all was an invitation to New York. Rudy Vallee gave them their first break. After they had bowed in on the Fleischmann hour, another broadcaster signed them up. And now the citizens in Barnesville are burning red fire because the hometown boys have made good.
GREELEY se"t them West, but California Melodies sends them East. California Melodies is one of the big West Coast programs. From it have come such stars as John P. Medbury, Bing Crosby and the Boswell Sisters. Just now, Raymond Paige is directing the show, and underground predictions say that he will be on a coast-tocoast network ere long. Maybe there really is something to this California sunshine.
| T is hard to get ahead of those two trouble-dodging comics, Amos 'n' Andy. Since they went on the air they have done sixty-five different characters. But their high water mark was reached during Madame Queen's breach of promise suit against Andy when they simulated thirteen different persons in a single broadcast. And here is a unique item. In all their radio history, Gosden and Correll have permitted no other person to participate.
I F you don't believe that radio is a crazy quilt business, listen to this. Louis Katzman, famous orchestra leader, has in his band three of the world's most famous saxophonists. They are Andy Sanella, Arnold Brillhart and Laddy Ladd. Taken together, no other trio in the world can out-play them. But not one of them plays a saxophone during Katzman's broadcast. He keeps them busyhandling clarinets, flutes, oboes and piccolos.
"f*HE next time President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcasts, we need not fear for his life. A present recently given him by the Columbia Broadcasting System was a bullet-proof speaker's desk. Equipped with four microphones, and lined with sheet steel, no assassin's bullet can possibly penetrate it.