Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14

IA other-but mostly the Amer.
1 wv ica's Cup Races-Septembel
| this year is busy time or
the networks but next
month, of course, will be the real sports
| spree
Besides foot ball, there will be the
world series, and for around two weeks
those of us who cover sports will be
kept on the run. Last week I men,
| toned that I'd have my first crack al
a foot ball game on October IL, but ]
find that Ted Husing is going to be
| at 1t even sooner.
| Ted starts out as many of you prob
ably already know, with the Army
Boston u. game on the 9th of this
month, follows it up with the Notre
Dame Southern Methodist affair on
the 4th, and then breaks for a week to
| take on the series. And, of course, ]
! suppose the breaks might make 1t pos
| sible for him to get in foot ball game
| on the 18th, too.
Probably none of you who have never
! faced a microphone, with a lot of
! action going on out on q field in front
OF you, realize what tough schedule
that Is. I won't pretend that there
isn't great kick to it-Ted will agree
with me, I'm sure-but it's somewhat
! eXhauSting. No man in state of re-
| Taxed ease ever put across a microphone
story. You've got to be on your toes
every minute, or, you just aren't there.
Ted has schedule this Fall that GER
tainly will keep him hopping.
Husing, by the way, wears the
smoothiest sports clothes going. And
he has lot of fun adding Just that
! extra little touch you can't miss. When
he Is in his most exuberant moods he's
likely to show it in his neckties. Bril-
iS M fNV
his everyday personality exactly When
he's on the mike it's different matter.
Most of the time when he is broad
casting he puts on a poker face. The
faster the action before him the more
inscrutable he becomes.
Ted, by the way, almost became a
salesman before the mike got him. He
Still gets offers of sales jobs, too.
\ 4
MAYBE he'll have it all fixed I'D by
the time this appears in print.
but Ray Perkins, the "Old Topper" is
In jam. He's seriously embarrassed.
and 1t wouldn't take much more to
make him go hide his head in a corner.
A little while ago Ray was featured
on program sponsored by the manu-
facturer of soft drink. Along came
the manufacturer of a nationally known
gasoline and asked him for a testi-
monial and permission to print his
picture.
Ray had used the gasoline with coed
results and had no objection whatso-
ever to the idea. In fact, he thought it
was grand.
However, no sooner had the soft
drink program ended than Ray signed
up to take part in program sponsored
by another oil company. They sell good
n
going to 1ndorse any body;s product, It
ought to be this one.
In the meantime, the first oil COM
pany still has his testimonial and pho
tograph. with Rays name signed on
the dotted inc. It has, he sup
poses, every intention of using them.
But how would it locke" he asks.
The last I knew Ray was turning
New York upside down trying to stop
the publication of that testimonial. In
the midst of this Ak he wanders about
the studious humming, of all things,
that old ballad, Would God I Were
a Tender Apple Blossom
Speaking of Perkins, 1t has always
been a puzzle to me why the pianologue,
once so popular in vaudeville, hasn't
been used more on the air. Perkins
uses variety of it, with great success.
but no one else regularly on the net
works Is doing very much with it at
present. Cleverly done, it's a natural"
Tor a one-man act The closest ap-
proach to 1t is Phir Cook and his uku-
iele. The instrument doesn't make
much difference; it's the manner in
which comment, songs, events of the
Gay and the musical accompaniment
are all jun1bled casually together.
X
THERE are more close shaves In
broadcasting than the listening
public ever knows. A big storm in Chi
cago last Winter just missed keeping
Amos and Andy off the air, and it
would have If they hadn't been husky
enough to pillow through drifts like full
backs going through the line. Some of
you VIII remember the humoriSt who
arrived in little but a raincoat when
his watch turned out to be SLOW And
then there was the time jolly Bill
Steinke slept clean through his early
morning broadcast, leaving little Jane
to carry on by herself
But 1t was a long pair of legs that
saved George Hicks once. George was
at the studios, at Fifth avenue and
Fifty-flfth street, New York, and at
eight minutes to ] in the afternoon
this happened some months ago, but
George is just admitting 1.-THE realized
that he had to announce B. A. Rolfe's
orchestra from the Palais dor, at
Seventh avenue and Forth-eighth street,
at / o'clock.
George jumped into an elevator
which, by miracle, arrived immediate
ly, and sprinted through Fifty-fifth
street toward Sixth avenue. Along came
a cab and George jumped on the run
ming board. Shouting to the driver to
keep on going, he fished in his pocket
for change.
Down the avenue they dashed, dodg-
ing traffic and IL" pillars. At Forty
trafhc, George dropped off the running
board and sprinted for Seventh avenue
He reached it just as the luncheon
crowds were thickest, only to realize
that he had miScalculated and let him
self be carried a block too far down.
town.
The crowds on the sidewalk were too
thick for sprinting, SO George took to
the gutter and headed for Forty-eighth
street. There was a crack behind him,
but he didn't stop to find out whether
1t was a tire blowout or a shot from a
policemans pistol
With something less than a minute
to go, George arrived in the crowded
restaurant, where Rolfe, all set to be-
gin, was in other of anxiety.
This puff" said Hicks at the
mike. "is B. A. &. puff puff =.
Rolfes Palais puff .. dor Orches-
tra," and after that Rolfe played 20
minutes straight without an announce
ment.
This Summer a good many listeners