Radio stars (Oct 1934-Sept 1935)

RADIO STARS west. Donald McGibney, Chicago NBC commentator, is doing the romancing for the pit. • To Frederic W. Wile, CBS political analyst and newspaper correspondent, goes an honor of long time radio service. He has been on the air now for twelve consecutive years. • Tony Wons, who holds forth in The House by the Side of the Road on NBC every Sunday afternoon, has taken a house by the side of the lake in Evanston. The move to the north shore was made partly because Tony's Chicago garage was four feet too short for his new sixteen cylinder floating Pullman. • Here's a story Muriel Wilson (Mary Lou) told when she came back after visiting Lanny Ross in Hollywood. To appreciate it, you should know that Muriel is a slender, sparkling eyed brunette. Still garbed in her Show Boat costume, she left the walls — they're awfully bare. Which reminds me that Michael Angelo and my brother have a lot in common. I hear it took Michael Angelo twenty years to paint the walls of the Sistine Chapel because he was lying down while he was working. My brother always lies down when he works too, but it seems a pity that a great artist like Michael Angelo had to lie down. If he had stood up I bet he'd done the work in half the time and it would have been prettier too ! Well, anyway I saw the Yellow Tiber, George saw pink elephants and they both went very well with my little blue hat. |"MD I tell you about Mussolini? He's a very proud father. He's always putting his hand up to show how tall his little boy is. The other blackshirts put their hands up too and George said maybe they'd put up more telephone poles so they'd have something to lean against, which I think is a very good idea. Of course if my brother had been along they'd have had to put both hands up practically all the time, so it's a good thing he wasn't. We went to Pisa, but I didn't care for that so much because they have a tower there that's so odd, it bends. So we decided to go to Venice. Everyone told me Venice was very romantic, but I couldn't see anything romantic about it, because when we got there they had a flood. So we went out in a boat and I looked around for Noah, but I couldn't find him either. But we had a good time in the boat which they call a gondola. You see George sat in front with the gondolier and I sat in the back and sang and pushed the boat and it was the first time I really enjoyed myself in Italy. But honestly they're awfully behind the times. They use oars when they could just as well put up a sail and the breeze from the singing and the garlic would make it go better — don't you think so? I must tell you about the spaghetti. We had kind of a time eating it at first. But I finally thought up the grandest idea. 98 the studio one evening and took a cab to a theatre where she was appearing in the same regalia. The gown was cut somewhat low. Puffy sleeve effects made it rather difficult to slip into a wrap so Muriel just didn't bother. The whole effect must have been just a shade more revealing than the cab driver was accustomed to, for as her escort was paying the fare he inquired in a low voice, "Isn't that Mae West?" • Captain Tim Healy, director of the Ivory Stamp Club of the Air heard over NBC, tells us that it was once a scandal in England to lick a postage stamp. The British objected to the stamps of 1840 because "the purchaser had to lick the back of the stamp." This was considered an insult to Queen Victoria whose head was on the stamp. "No self-respecting queen should have the back of her head licked, especially by her subjects !" Our Trip Abroad • Rudy Vallee admitted in Chicago re ccntly that he is a radio fan. His favorifo show is Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight He insists Hal Kemp has the slickes dance orchestra in America; says it's th< only orchestra with a style so unique thai it can't be copied. And he enjoys Show Boat and Paul Whiteman's Music Hall. • CBS now has two theatres fitted uj for broadcast purposes. The old Avoi Theatre, now renamed "Columbia Radi' Playhouse No. 2," is the newest addition • Harriet Cruise, the Nebraska Skylark is back at Columbia in Chicago after ai absence of a year singing in Denver. • Jeannie Lang and Mrs. Joe Penner, th« former Eleanor Vogt, who are both St Louis girls, used to appear together witl fourteen other girls on the stage. • Rumors that Ozzie Nelson and hi vocalist, Harriet Hilliard, are married ar still going around. But said pair deny them (Continued from pacjc 47) We put numbers all around the plate with No. 1 in the middle. We'd wind our forks around one and then go to two and so on, but of course if you bet on six and seven won, you'd just have to eat the spaghetti. Which gave me an idea for my little nephoo who's always getting lost. When we send him out in the morning we're going to put him in the middle of a lot of spaghetti and then if he gets lost, he can eat his way home. Well to go back to our trip, I expected to see the bullfights next and we would have seen them but for one little thing. I said to George "Let's go to Spain" and he said "No !" so I got off his lap and we went to Buda-Pest. Do you know Buda-Pest is divided into two parts — Buda and Pest? We lived in Pest because Buda reminded me too much of my missing buda. Of course Pest did too, but we've sort of got used to his being a pest so it wasn't so bad. And then they had the nicest romantic waltzes played by the Gypsies. As soon as I saw the Gypsies 1 ran out to find an A. & P. but I couldn't find that either so we went on to Warsaw. AND who do you suppose we found ** there? George's tailor. I thought it was nice to see someone from home, but the tailor owed George a bill so George thought he'd hide and surprise him. But the tailor finally found George so we paid the hotel bill with the tailor and left for Moscow. I heard a lot about Moscow-vites but all I could find were mosquito-vites. Russia is a nice country, but do you know I think they've got a lot of Communists there ! Of course it may be just my imagination. Everyone told me "You'll like caviar" so I stayed in my hotel-room for three days. Finally George asked me why I was always fooling with the radio. I told him I was trying to get Caviar. "Grade," he said, "don't be silly ! Caviar isn't on the radio, caviar is an egg." "You shouldn't talk that way George," I told him. "We all can't be good." Pi Inted ii Well after I calmed him down, w< picked up the tailor and went to Vienna All along I'd been hearing how Vienn; rolls but I found it very nice and quietit didn't roll a bit. I looked for ifo Merry Widow but I couldn't find her either but we had a marvelous time dancing George didn't dance but the tailor did am I really enjoyed myself. But George needed some garters so w had to go to Paris. The restaurants aren' making any money there, I can tell, be cause the people are all sitting in th street, but I'm not so sure they wanted t make money because when we wanted t go into a restaurant they put us out oi the street too. But everyone is ve~ clever there. Even little children just a big as my nephoo can speak French. Paris is known for its wonderful clothe so we bought the tailor a whole outfit am he got married. We made a very merr foursome because the tailor's wife didm dance either and she and George had wonderful time. We all went to the Eyef Tower but I was the only sensible one o us all. While the others went to the to; and looked down, I stood at the bottor and looked up. I told them that was th only way to get an eyeful but th . wouldn't listen to me. The four of us wound up in Lond It's funny but in London, the Leanin Tower of Pisa is known as the Tower o London except that it doesn't look lik the Eyeful Tower. London is known for its clothes to< and the tailor's wife got some nice bit* stockings. We were out shopping one day whei we suddenly realized we'd be late for th> boat home, so we asked a policeman hov to get to the pier. "Take two trams," h said. I asked the tailor's wife which tra~ she wanted so she took George and I too the tailor. We really had a lovely time. If y don't believe me, you can ask the tail He's in the next room waiting for Geo to finish his pants ! the U. S. A. by Art Color Printing Company. Dunellen. X. •