Radio stars (Oct 1934-Sept 1935)

RADIO STARS ! they would have to sing "Varsity Drag," they started to leave. There were but fif I teen minutes before the audition was to ! go on and they didn't know the song. But Scrappy Lambert, the singer, stopped there. "Come on in this studio here," he commanded. "I'll teach you the song." Despite the fact that Scrappy was competing with them on the audition, he generously went to work with them. They finished seconds before they were to go on. The audition over, they waited long, awful minutes. Finally an NBC official approached them. "Well boys," he said slowly, "you might as well go home now. You passed the audition." Those fortunate ones who have been listening since the fall of 1928 know the rest of the story pretty well. You remember the enormous success of their "On the 8:15," the morning program which ran 5 for two years. Since that first audition, there have been but three setbacks. These setbacks consist of three marriages. Howard White was the first. When he married Madelyn Corrigan, a girl he had known in Kingston, Pennsylvania, he had to pay his $500 to the three Landts. Dan Landt went next, marrying Lois Benson, a girl he had met while on vaudeville tour. He paid Jack and Carl. The third $500 is being paid by Jack, the youngest of the Landts, to Carl, for as this is being written, he is about to marry Marion Bergeron, Miss America of 1933. Carl, counting the $500 he has not yet had to i pay is still $1,466.66 to the good— or bad, whichever way you want to look at it. But of course those aren't really setbacks. Anyone who can afford to hand out $500 just like that for the privilege of getting married, must have had some degree of success. And it remains as proof to the Landt Trio and White what they contended from the beginning : "If you want to get anywhere, you have . to leave home." Strange Tales of Strange Gifts (Coutiiiucd from page 59) these children," he said. "They'll trail us through their cries." They held a council. 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