Radio stars (Oct 1933-Sept 1934)

Radio Row had snickered at him before. Xow it was laughing openly. Employees were besieging the disillusioned comedian for unpaid salarie-. Some of the final pay checks had been . dishonored by the bank. He was faced with the threat of litigation on other counts for years to come. Men dis( couraged. desolate, humiliated, have committed suicide for less. What does a man like Wynn do under such circumI stances? He was asked why. when he was a successful radio comedian at $5,000 a I week, when he was to return to the air . at $7,500. he should have attempted to ; become a broadcast baron. He shook his head in a slow, sad. II puzzled manner. "I never dreamed it would be like I this." He thought bitterly of the $180,000 ■ he'd spent in seventeen years to build himself as "The Perfect Fool." He i pondered on the fact that he'd been on I the air but two weeks and everyone f knew him only as "The Fire Chief." Gentlemen," he said with a wry smile to the reporters gathered around him. "you may once more characterize me as "The Perfect Fool.' " But let's return to talk with him | after this, his second broadcast following his great misfortune. Like a true : trouper, his first thought is. not of his I own troubles, but of how well he'd done on the program. "All night I've been in pain." he says. "I could never say such a thing on the air. but I'm sure my audience must have ' suspected it. My performance was bad. very bad. The Texas Company didn't want me to go on tonight, but I had to in spite of everything." We attempt to reassure him. "No," he answers with a sigh. "I know when I'm good and when I'm not. All this trouble I've had — oh, well, I brought it all on myself. I have no one but myself to blame." Would he make another attempt at organizing a network ? Lines of determination drive awav the creases of pain on his face for a moment. "Never again." he declares vehemently. "My business is to make people laugh, not to make myself feel like crying." The same day. Wynn was being shown through the enormous studios in Radio City. The tour consumed considerable time. "Now, boys," said Wynn when two hours had passed, "if you'll just give me one second, I'll take you over and show you Amalgamated's studios." In spite of everything, Ed Wynn can still laugh. That's right. Laugh, clown, laugh. And a world that is full of friends will laugh with you. ARE YOU TALENTED? If you are, a certain story in next month's RADIO STARS may change your whole life! RADIO STARS • "Got my foot on the first rung of the ladder, all right! Grandpa says it's kind of a hardclimb.Butnot for athletic fellers like me! I'll get there!" # "Oooh — going up! 'Course this stunt might bother some kids — but it's a cinch for me! No matter hoiv hard I exercise, I never get chafed and uncomfortable, 'cause I use plenty of the best kind of baby powder — Johnson's !" • " Wheee — right next to the man-in-the-moon! And I wasn't hardly half trying! My trainer certainly keeps me in championship condition with those Johnson Baby Powder rubs. And that reminds me — I've got a tip for all you Mothers . . ." "Try different baby powders between your thumb and finger, just like this. Some of 'em feel gritty — but Johnson's is soft as silk! And our doctor told my mother, 'There's no zinc-stearale in Johnson's — and no orris-root.' " • • « Send 10c in coin for samples of Johnson's Baby Powder, Baby Soap and Baby Cream. Dept. 131, Johnson & Johnson, New >4Ra, Brunswick, U^JJut^ .New Jersey. Q «»• 0 «■• >••»» JOHNSON'S POWDER 67