What's on the air (Nov 1929-Feb 1931)

WHAT'S ON THE AIR Page 21 "IBobbe Deane NBC PACIFIC COAST CHAIN FAVORITES Bobbe Deane was a noted stock actress before she joined NBC. Now she is happy in her Opportunity to portray numerous characterizations convincingly before the microphoneShe was playing the part of an Irish maid on the witness-stand in "The Trial of Vivienne Ware" when this picture was taken. In addition to her work as continuity editor, Mad on n a Todd conducts "Meeting the folks" — intimate interviews with radio stars over the NBC Pacific Coast chain each morning. Madonna 7odd andjodie A TENACITY of purpose has marked the career of Marion McAfee, lyric soprano, who joined the artists' staff of the Columbia Broadcasting System after several years of concert and opera work here and abroad. Although born in Quincy, III., Miss McAfee looks upon Chicago as her home town, having lived there most of her life. At school and Northwestern University she studied singing under Mrs. Florence Magnus. She left college in her Sophomore year, rinding it necessary to be self-supporting. For four years Miss McAfee devoted herself to business during the day and music at night, but, once launched on a musical career, she dropped everything else. During her first season she toured the Midwest, filling sixty engagements. Early in 1926 she went to Paris, European cachet came with her appearance as a soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique in Paris. Miss McAfee next went to London for a series of concerts with Cyril Scott. She was engaged for six performances with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. ALTERNATING programs of classical or semi-classical music with standard one-act plays, in which outstanding figures of the stage are heard, the 1931 RCAVictor programs, inaugurated early in January, are receiving the acclaim of those whose taste runs to the higher forms of music and drama. The musical and dramatic programs are presented on alternate weeks, with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the concert orchestra in the musical programs, and C. L. Menser directing the dramatic shows. The new series was inaugurated Sunday night, January 4, with a musical program that ran the gamut of music forms from comic operetta numbers to grand opera selections. Lewis James, tenor of the Revelers, appeared as guest soloist. Since the inaugural, a number of vocalists of note have faced the microphone. A week after the inaugural broadcast, Otis Skinner and Elsie Ferguson led the parade of RCA-Victor stars to open the dramatic series. The famed stage personalities appeared in "The Camberley Triangle," by A. A. Milne. The RCA-Victor broadcast is presented from the New York studios of NBC through a wide network of stations associated with that organization, each Sunday night at 7:3 0, E. S. T. Hans Hanke, concert pianist whose offerings are a feature of "Paramount on Parade," a CBS noonday broadcast, can play over 350 classical selections without aid of printed music. K Morton Downey, who sings over WABC from the Club Delmonico, is remembered as the young man who sang with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra some ten years ago. s& Phil Cook is appearing occasionally on other NBC programs as a guest artist since lie ceased being the Quaker Man mornings. The entertainer now has to write and play all the parts in only one broadcast each week-day. Percy Hemus, known for his roles in The Jameses,' is preparing two new manuscripts since that program went off the air. K "The true value of horse says the Louisville Times, "is shown by the fact that the horse was afraid ot the automobile during the p in which the pedestrian laughed at ftfv (£>