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Radio stars (Oct 1934-Sept 1935)

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Cinderella Finds a New Way— The Story of a Girl Whose 111 Fortune Became her Good Fortune and Made her Dreams Come True Wide World Haai HELEI1 BY ADELE WHITELY FLETCHE Radio's first feminine contribution to Metropolitan Opera greets her father, as he arrives in New York City from Cleveland for her Grand Opera debut. SHE SAT alone in the third row of the concert at torium at Chautauqua, New York. Her long hais lay quiet in her lap. With his haton the conduct called upon the hrasses. They filled the hall with tf part of the symphony. But for Helen Jepson that concert had not yet begu Now the conductor indicated that one by one the bras drop out. With his baton he called upon the w< winds. They came in, the piccolo, the oboe . . . Helen raised her eyes expectantly. N-ozv, now the fl* Hauntingly sweet it reached her heart. The way it ways did. While her brown eyes, smudged in her f! face, softened and faltered. With one exception the men in that orchestra were I impersonal to Helen Jepson as the instruments tl' played. She knew only that to the right of the platfcB sat a man older than she by about a dozen years, a nl with brown hair that had the appearance of being scttl tured on his head, a small moustache, kind eyes, « If fingers quick and gentle on his flute stops. She had noticed this man when she had been in Ch-M tauqua the previous summer and never had forgotB him. With few exceptions every time that orchestra Ity played she had been there in the same seat, waiti -k watching, dreaming. She had inquired his name — learned that he was Geo ■ Possell. She had learned where he lived — to walk arotfl