Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1942)

wags adjusted the studio clocks. They had all been set ahead five minutes, and the band wasn't on the air. Himber has been playing professionally since he was thirteen. His father, at the time doing very well as a real estate broker, decided to move his family from Newark to Chester, Pa. His violin-crazy son objected strenuously. "Gee, pop," Dick argued, "instead of getting me nearer Broadway you're moving me farther away." The elder Himber extracted a fifty dollar bill from his wallet and said, "All right, son, take this, try your luck and if you don't find a job come home." Dick's father expected the boy to come back the next week a sadder and wiser youngster. He didn't come back at all. He headed straight for Broadway, rented a room for $3 a week, and, violin under his arm, sought out the king of jazz, Paul Whiteman. Dick, who looked much older than thirteen years, got past the doorman and hat check girl at the night club where P. W. was playing. "Listen, sonny," Whiteman said, "you're too young. Come back when you get your long pants." The lad finally got a job in a Coney Island beer garden, singing and playing for $15 a week and all the hot dogs he could eat. Dick believes that experience is responsible for his extra weight. This led to better jobs until he landed in the pit orchestra of the Paramount theater. But when Rudy Vallee's unit replaced the pit band, Dick was unemployed. Instead of bearing a grudge against Vallee, he went backstage to compliment the rising young Connecticut Yankee. Vallee liked the brash youngster and hired him to develop a number of second-string bands Vallee was sponsoring at the time. Then Rudy gave Himber $2,500 to start his own band. It had fair-to-middling success until a sponsor surprised him by offering the band a network show. This opportunity was not overlooked and the band eventually became a standard radio attraction, emphasizing the use of a string section in a dance band. Himber is a bachelor and prefers to josh about his private life. "Everytime I fall in love I find the girl hasn't any money," he says. Young Skip Nelson is the new singer with Glenn Miller, now Ray Eberle's gone to Gene Krupa. I bring you Four Aids to Beauty in One Single Jar! My one 4-Purpose Face Cream, by itself, helps end all these 6 Skin Troubles Imagine a face cream— one remarkable, scientific face cream — that does all these important things for your skin! As though by the touch of a magic wand, it seems to cream away the cobwebs of tiny, tired lines around your eyes and mouth — little lines due to dryness. And it seems to help end the very condition that causes big pores— blackheads — oily skin — dry, flaky skin. WHICH OF THESE 6 SKIN TROUBLES IS YOURS? 1. Dry Skin 4. Oily Skin 2. Tiny Lines 5. Blackheads 3. Big Pores 6. Flaky Skin And here's the reason Lady Esther 4-Purpose Face Cream can do all this! It works with nature and helps nature. This one cream, by itself, takes care of four essential needs of your skin ! Every time you use Lady Esther 4-Purpose Face Cream, it thoroughly but gently cleanses your skin — it softens your skin and relieves dryness — it helps nature refine the pores— it leaves a perfect base for powder and make-up, smooth but never sticky. Send for Generous Tube Mail the coupon below for a generous tube of my face cream ! See for yourself why more and more busy, lovely women every day are changing to Lady Esther 4-Purpose Face Cream. Be sure to mail the coupon now, before you forget! <0#b0Z/ 4-PURPOSE FACE CREAM Lady Esther, (81) 7134 West G5th Street, Chicago, 111. Send me by return mail a generous tube of 4-Purpose Face Cream; also 7 new shades of powder. I enclose I0t for packing anil mailing. "I (Government regulations do not permit this offer in Canada) NOVEMBER, 1942