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SCREENLAND
HOT off the
ETHER
ScREENLAND'S gOSSip about
popular Radio personalities
By Evelyn Ballarine
Her Songs Satisfy
HAIL the "Queen of the Radio" — she's Ruth Etting ! She's charming, she's hlonde, she's slim — and oh, yes, she sings ! Grab your hat and gloves and let's dash over to the Columbia Broadcasting Studios and see La Etting "in the flesh" as she serves "Music That Satisfies."
Tonight she's wearing a blue print crepe dress — very simple, but very smart ; a red hat and a red bag are the only bright splashes of color in her otherwise subdued ensemble.
Ruth dislikes rehearsals — she'd much rather go on the air "cold." Ruth looks sad and wistful herself when she sings songs like that. Immediately after Miss Etting is off the air there are a series of telephone calls from her Broadway friends who never fail to listen in.
Remember Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson when they were in the movies? Well, now you can hear them clow ningover the air every week. The boys "dress up" in character even though television is still "around the corner."
O.K., W. W.!
And now over to the National Broadcasting Station to see and hear Mrs. Winchell's little boy, Walter. Okay ! Walter Winchell ! Go ahead and give us an earful. Every Thursday night is Winchell gossip night. Instead of sitting around the fire and swapping gossip, as of old, it's smart to gather 'round the radio and let Winchell spill some of his swellegant stuff about the great and the near great.
Walter is prematurely gray. He used to be a vaudeville actor. And he doesn't care who knows that he was kicked out of school in the sixth grade !
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Have you been listening to those two clowns, Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson? They're on the air every Thursday night with Rudy Vallee. And "durned" if they aren't making a comedian out of Rudy. They're positively contagious !
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Let's have a look at "Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle and Budd," "The Gloom Chasers" of the air. The plump lad with the rosy cheeks is the "Colonel," and the rather serious chap standing next to him is "Budd." Budd usually acts as stooge for (Continued on page 94)
Here's Walter Winchell, the one and only "W. W.," ace Broadway columnist, and the inspiration for all those pictures we've been seeing lately about the newspaper column writers.
Ruth Etting, " Queen of the Air," is as lovely as her voice. And, Mr. Ripley, Ruth never took a singing lesson in her life.' You see, hear, and like Ruth in screen shorts.