Radio stars (Oct 1934-Sept 1935)

RADIO STARS (Continued "When such a bond exists it is beyond eason, beyond understanding. It needn't lave anything to do with love. It comes 0 two men sometimes. To two women ometimes. And sometimes to a man and girl. But certainly this is true, only hose who have experienced such a bond an grasp the depth of understanding and ympathy you seek to label thus. It's not surprising that Dorothy waited or Frank that day. I doubt if anything ess than dynamite could have removed er from her post behind the receptionist's esk. For he's a man to intrigue a girl. When he turns serious, as he must have ^hen he returned to urge Dorothy to .•ait, he brings the smiling corners of his ,ide mouth down into a firm line. But it •nly makes him more attractive. ;RANK, you see has not always led a secure and sheltered existence. In the pwer East Side home in which he spent ;is childhood, living may not have been a truggle but it was a problem. And if on undays Frank wore the skirts and laces if a choir-boy, intoning musical Latin hrascs of supplication and praise and elping the priest celebrate mass, he wasn't Ivvays docile. No, indeed! He used to lesert the fellows on his own block and I'alk a considerable distance, besides riskUg a sound whipping, to join a rowdy gang ho turned the afternoon hours after j:hool into a series of hazardous adven| ires. Frank finds life exciting. And that lakes him exciting. He finds it amusing, >o. Which makes him a gay companion, 'rom his Italian mother he inherits a larm sensitivity. From his English father n attractive reserve which serves him ell. That day in Chicago he didn't keep Dorothy Martin waiting one minute longer lan was absolutely necessary. Immedi, ely the rehearsal was over he rushed out stand before her desk again. That summer the sky all over Chicago 1 as mistily gold from the brilliance of ,ie lights at the Fair. And in the Fair ■ounds there was music in the air. The usic of a dozen bands and twice as many •chestras. Harlequins danced along the sreets. Bits of one foreign land, created .ernight of laths and shingles and plaster Paris, nudged bits of another land. In I eir native state, jogging along in rickMaws pulled by college-boy coolies, prosjjrous Illinois farmers and their wives lagined themselves in Japan. ; Everywhere there was the magic of wentieth Century progress. However, if pu found a secluded little table, in the elgian Village, say, where the lights idn't penetrate and the waiter wasn't liquitous, you found another kind of agic, a magic as old as the world and modern as a new year. Especially if tween you there was a bond. The way ere was between Frank and Dorothy. Their hands met across the table. And eir eyes meeting, although their minds hind them willed them for once to be lm, clung and clung and clung. And en happiness skyrocketing from full arts filled them with stars. Heretofore Frank had done well enough i the air. But now letters began to pour • By the hundreds. Bv the thousands. from page 99) All of which proves again, plainly enough, that there is no voice which won't be richer and warmer and more provocative for a little more heart. TDK following winter found both Dorothy and Frank in New York. Frankbroadcasted from the studios in Radio City. Dorothy was with her family. The nights Frank was free they went places together. To dinner. Or to the movies. Or the theatre. Sometimes they danced. And sometimes they went up to the Armory where Frank played polo. It was Frank's interest in horses which brought him to polo and the string of Argentine ponies which are his extravagance. When he was with the National Guard he was a driver in the Field Artillery. One of the horses he drove was blind, the other old and no prize as far as horseflesh goes. But through these horses Frank grew to admire and love other horses. "They're so intelligent,'' he says enthusiastically, "so keen. In polo they take brutal punishment without flinching. They couldn't do it if they didn't have spirit, if they didn't have heart. And lots of it. During a game they sense what has to be done and it is their one aim to accomplish this at any price." At the Armory, every night Frank plays, you'll see Dorothy sitting on the sidelines. Holding her breath at the things he does, at the way he rides, at the mad recklessness with which he plunges into the thick of it. And why not? Doesn't her life as well as his hang in the balance? However, when the game is ended and he comes striding over to her, his helmet pushed back on his fine, dark head, his eyes flashing with pride and excitement, she doesn't scold or caution him. She simply sits there, quiet and smiling, and gives him both her small, soft hands. She is wiser than many women who try to temper the adventuresome men they love. To lose them one way or another. Not that Dorothy Martin always holds her tongue. Frank will tell you that she gives him plenty of advice and that he finds all of it invaluable. "She's lucky for me," he says, grinning, looking about eighteen years old. "Besides, better than I, she seems able to see where my interests lie. I wouldn't move. I wouldn't sign anything until I had talked it over with her first." He frowned a little. "People say we're married," he complained. "That is not | true. They don't understand, the people who say that. They don't know how it is between us. They've never known the same kind of a bond." That bond he talks about ... It can exist between two men. Or between two women. It doesn't necessarily have to do with love. I grant you that. But when it comes to a man and a girl, and whet-, the man thinks that girl is lucky for him and beams when she offers advice, then — I leave it to you — it must be tovel * * * Frank Parker can be heard on Sunday evenings at 7:00 p. m. and 11:30 p. m. 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