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MORNING STAR
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i ood morning mother, dad, sister and brother . . . it's your old friend Phil Cook" is the tee-off for Phil Cook's entertaining batch-of-capers heard over WCBS daily except Sunday at 8: 15 A. M.
Now, in his twenty-eighth year of radio, Phil is a one-man show. He reports the latest news in song, accompanying himself on the ukulele, and he tells "what's cookin' " in local events of the day. He also plays request numbers and pulls gags which he admits are "corny, but fun to dig up" and he carries on animated conversations with puppet characters he has created himself — among them, Sleepy, the slow-motion taximan, and Mr. Peck, the hen-pecked postman.
As a composer, Phil wrote three successful Broadway musicals, the first of which "Molly Darling," starred the famous actordancer Jack Donohue and ran for three years.
Phil admits he more or less "stumbled into radio." He says, "My real love is painting. When I was a child my fondest ambition was to paint magazine covers and it still is." Last year, when he stopped at the subway arcade art shop at Forty-Second Street and Sixth Avenue to order a frame for a painting of his, the proprietor was so impressed that he asked Phil for more of his oils to display in the window. Shortly after, the same pictures were exhibited at Colbee's Restaurant, offair headquarters for CBS personnel.
Prior to radio, Phil was an art director at an advertising agency where he had started as an office boy. His first venture in commercial art came easy — he took twelve of his paintings to Collier's and ten were selected for the magazine's cover.
"Which," says Phil, "provided a second honeymoon for my wife and me in Paris." (The Cooks have two daughters, Sally, sixteen, and Philis, twenty.) The family is extremely proud of their Far Hills, New Jersey, home — a rambling affair with a lively brook running right through the middle, separating it into two parts which are connected by a bridge. Thoughtfully, Phil built a conservatory from which his guests can fish for trout. Other animal life includes chickens, hogs, cows and a French poodle, "Colonel."
A few years ago, Phil considered retiring from radio to devote his time to illustrating but fans' clamor gave him a case of radioitis, so-o . . . he's back at WCBS.
Listeners donated some 100,000 books to Phil's "Books for Cook" drive. His cheerful breakfast show is broadcast Mon.-Sat. at 8:15 on New York's WCBS.
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