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Wade Booth (above) the "Singing Stranger," calls himself a soldier of fortune. He's on the Blue-Jay program over NBC.
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Wade Booth ran away from home because he didn't want to go to Quaker meetings
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WHEN you were a kid and had to beat rugs when you wanted to play, or cut the lawn when your favorite movie hero was playing at the corner theatre, did you dream of running away to romantic lands to seek adventure and live the lives in the story books ?
Well, that's just the dream Wade Booth, the "Singing Stranger" of XBC, had when he was a tiny tot. To make matters worse, Wade did just that — packed up his duds and went to sea. He had visions of treasure hunts, of moonlight reflections on the water, of strange ports. It wasn't that he wanted to get away from work at home, but that he didn't like the idea of his parents making him go to church so often.
"The captain told me I would make a good sailor but a better singer," said Booth, "so I wrote my mother saying I would come back home if I didn't have to go to
Quaker meetings and sing church sones when company called."
Once home. Wade tried awfully hard to be contented. But he couldn't get rid of his restlessness. It was summer, the schools in his home town of Philadelphia had closed and there was nothing to do but practice music, and Wade was too active for only that.
So one night after he had seen for the fourth time, a light musical comedy given by a small stock company, he walked up to the manager and asked for a job.
"What can you do? Shift scenery?" the manager asked.
Yes, Booth could shift scenery "But I'd rather sing," he confessed
"Sing? You sing? Well, let's hear you!"
Booth sang "Home Sweet Home,' got a job and left home "ever more to roam."
Since that time Wade Booth has
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