Radio stars (Oct 1935-Sept 1936)

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Mrs. Allie Lowe Miles, above, originated this increasingly popular radio program, heard every Wednesday evening on the Mutual network. In her various careers as writer, actress, personal executive and wife and mother, Mrs. Miles has dealt with many of the problems of wives. Left, a broadcast of Husbands and Wives. is crowded and often people wait weeks for their chance at the air, but it's something worth waiting for. How else, unless you bind and gag your spouse, can you go to town on your favorite grudge without interference? Seriously, you'll learn a lot besides. You'll learn things that may send you home with a fresh and valuable slant on marriage and life. For invisible at all these programs sit courage, despair, humor, tragedy, love, defeat, joy, cruelty and fun. You see them when you scan the faces of the people around you. It's like looking at husbands and wives the world over — some have the eager breath i lessness of a bride and groom, some have faces pathetically twisted with misery and heartbreak, some have the kindly wrinkles of experience and mellowed understanding that I come from years of inner growth. It's a real experience to attend a Husbands and Wives broadcast. • The program was originated by Allie Lowe Miles, an attractive, sympathetic woman who for years, in her various careers as writer, actress, personnel executive, mother and wife, has dealt with the problems of wives. Her business partner, Sedley Brown, handles the masculine quota of the broadcast. Mr. Brown has been a successful musician, composer, producer and actor ; his experience in the latter career comes in particularly well because actors must cultivate the ability to put themselves in other people's shoes and often they're able to cause a laugh where tears might have been shed. The other night before the program began I sat in the studio talking to these two interesting persons. "How did you happen to think of a program like this ?" I asked Mrs. Miles. "Well, it was an outcome of my other programs, the Allie Lowe Miles Club and the {Continued on page 91) tell your troubles to the world without any comeback 43