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Things your loudspeaker won't tell you about some radio favorites
IT IS not so long since many of us who had kept our eyes f ocussed on the movie arena, (or do I mean merry-goround?), were so artless and opinionated as to think that show business could conjure nothing more excitingly colorful, more fantastically volcanic, than we had witnessed time and time again.
Well, we've seen radio arrive — and learned how wrong we were !
Now it is the pleasant privilege of this erstwhile member of that guileless group, to roam the corridors of the air castles and report such fragments of the dramatic spectacle taking place behind the microphones, as you, and you, and you may command summoned to your doorstep.
So let's be about this exciting chore, and see who we meet and what we may overhear in our travels around the haunts of the radio people.
Radio's First Lady, pursued for more than two years by film producers proffering their gold for her signature to a contract, finally has succumbed to the allurements
Jessica Dragonette, Radio's First Lady, finally has signed to appear in pictures. Why? She tells you here.
George /esse/, in the spotlight again, pours personality into the microphone as star of a. new series.
By
Tom Kennedy
of the pictures. The event has been hailed with shouts of glee by the Jessica Dragonette fans — whose numbers are counted in figures which seemed fabulous before the radio statisticians put more columns in denominators than you could count on four Southern colonial mansions laid end to end.
And well may the fans cheer ! It's their triumph — as I learned from the lips of the singer whose voice has scattered melodious delights to the far corners of the land.
"The fans wanted me to!" Five words — banal in print, but — as delivered in the even, softly modulated conversational tones of the prima donna of the microphones — informed with a sincerity and authority that admitted of no cavil.
Five words, and your correspondent had the answer to not one, but several questions that sent him scampering to that aerie where, loftily remote from the din of a bustling city, the diminutive Jessica lives graciously but without 'ostentation. {Continued on page 89)