Radio stars (Oct 1934-Sept 1935)

RADIO STARS (Continued fr hadn't gone to the theatre the day she caught cold ... if I had been home to watch her ... I almost went mad." W hen the curtain went down on the last scene, Lois Bennett collapsed. When they took her home. Joan, her adorable, dimpled baby lay cold and still and blue. She didn*t move. All you heard in that house was the awful choking, gasping ireath of the feverish child. At the child's oedside, praying for a sign of life, the jrief -stricken mother kept her vigil. And God was kind. Toward morning, Joan's ?yelids flickered. f "She'll live." the nurse said shortly, f In the next few weeks, Lois Bennett lost .wenty pounds. And though every fibre .vithin her cried out to be permitted to emain home, to help the white, weak baby (struggle back to health, she never once kipped a performance. W here would the money come from for !he doctor's bills, for special day and night mrses, for medicines and high-priced specialists, if she stayed home? • Bitterly she told herself, "A career and notherhood do not mix." God willing. ier daughter would never have to attempt Jo reconcile the two ! Still believing that a career and motherood do not mix. she went out and grabbed erself a place in radio. At least in radio he knew she could stay put. could make ome sort of home for her child. Into adio she walked, quaking inwardly, but uite determined. Before long she walked ut, the contract for the original Quaker [ fairl, one of the air's outstanding programs of a few years ago, in her hands. Five years ago she married her sponsor, .ouis J. Chatten, and two years later they ad a daughter, Jane. Lois thought then lat she would never have to combine lotherhood and a career again. oin page 95) But last year found her back on the air for awhile as Mary Lou of Show Boat, remember? Old Man Depression was responsible for that. And today she is the singing star of the Gibson Family and Club Romance. Faultlessly gowned, her blue eyes radiant from excitement, she leans over the mike, and her fresh young voice sings its way into millions of homes and hearts, and we never think of babies and diapers and heartaches when we think of her. Yet the only thing you can get her to talk about, aside from her radio work, which she loves, is her children. That her first-born, Joan, sings beautifully. That John, her husband's ten year old son by a former marriage, is going to be a great surgeon. And that little Jane can count up to twenty. She still insists that babies and careers don't mix. Yet I don't know of anyone who is doing a better job of combining them than Lois Bennett. * * * Lois Bennett is on the following stations each Saturdav at 9:30 p. m. EST: W'EAF W'TIC W'TAG W'EEI W'JAR W'CSH KYW' W'FBR WRC W'GY WBEX W'CAE W'TAM W W' I \YL\V W'MAQ KSD WOW WDAF WTMJ WTBA WEBC WD AY KFYR KOA KDYL KPO KFI KGW KOMO KHO KSTP and on these. Sundavs at 8 p. m. EST : WABC WOKO WCAO WXAC WGR WBBM WKRC WHK CKLW WOWO WDRC WFBM KMBC WHAS WCAU WJAS WEAX KMOX WFBL WSPD WJSY KERX KM I KHI KOIX KFBK KGB KFRC KDB KOL KFPY KWG KYI WGST WBRC WBT KRLD KLZ KTRH KFAB KLRA WREC WTCCO WDSU KOMA KSL KTSA KWKH KTUL. Don't let an UNSIGHTLY SKIN He Tried Everything Once (Continued from page 54) ; "I haven't the faintest idea what either of js can do to earn money but I know what re can do to take our minds off our troules. I know a fellow named George Barr aker. He's editor of Everybody's Magane. He's got a dandy studio downtown, let's go and see him and play his iano." Baker drew from the reluctant Daly, his lerished dreams of becoming a journalist, e listened to him play . . . Would Bill <e to go to a dinner party at the home his publisher in the fashionable Gramcy Park neighborhood? If he would ay for the guests, and they were pleased, ere was a bare possibility that the pub-her might offer him some kind of work. Bill hesitated. The thought of confusing lives and forks, strange dishes, unknown nes. beautiful, supercilious ladies with mners sparkling and cold as diamonds, ■palled him. "I — I can't," he mumbled. "I haven't y dinner clothes." "1*11 dig up a suit for you," Baker said. Among the guests in the publishers' luxious drawing-room, Daly felt himself a rure out of a nightmare. The Tuxedo George had dug up for him had been made for a man much better fed and with much shorter arms. Everything he had dreaded had come to pass. The bewildering dinner . . . The brilliant conversation that bubbled about him as about a snag sticking up in a crystal brook . . . And now he was asked to play the piano for the guests. He seated himself on the stool. Leaned forward to place his hands on the keys, then stiffened. Someone must be shooting w hite hot darts into his neck ! Then he knew. Each time he leaned forward, the stiff collar cut into the boils starvation had induced. His fingers groped for the keys as he sat in that strained position. Pain darting through his muscles, he began tc play. Tears of angry despair blurred the politely smiling faces of the guests into leering gargoyles as he stumbled through his offering. All he wanted was to get through and get out. Suddenly it was over. The applause seemed harsh, mocking. Xo chance of a job, of course. But he'd had a good meal. That might keep him on his feet a couple of days. (Continued on page 99) rob you of ROMANCE, HAPPINESS DO MEN LOOK your wiy-or do they look away? An attractive complexion, naturally fresh, unmarred by sallowness and ugly blotches unlocks the door to the romance every woman wants. 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