Radio stars (Oct 1934-Sept 1935)

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RADIO STARS WITH HIS MASK OFF FOR two years he called me "the kid." Just "Kid." if he was speaking to me. For most of the first year I called him Mr. Jones," and when I spoke to him, which wasn't too often, I said, "Yes, Sir." This is the story of how the man I work for, who happens to he top-hole with me, got to be "Ish" to me and to the rest of the hand he got together about five years ago. They say the first five years are the hardest. I can only hope that the next five of my life, and the five after that, will be as full of interest and fun — yes, and work too — as those I've spent on the first job I landed after T left college. Some people finish school, or school finishes them. I hardly know how to describe my own exit, except that to have your school band booked into St. Louis for a twenty-seven weeks' run looks a lot more exciting to a fellow of nineteen than staying on the campus to finish 50 (Above, left) Eddie Stone the author of this story and soloist with Jones' band. (Right) The director-composer himself, Isham Jones, unmasked.