Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24
McNAMEE's QUESTION
BOX

q. Who is the Virginia Gardner
spoken Of in your Question Box In the
middle Of July?-P. T. Atkinson, North
Haven, Me.
4. Miss Gardiner is the actress who
played the leading feminine roles in the
Empire Builders programs last Winter,
and who has been appearing as the
Moxie Hostess. Every now and then
you hear her In other programs, too
She started out to be concert singer,
but when she applied for q radio audi
tion actresses were needed. She passed
and she has been acting for the air
ever since. Sometimes she sings, when
the role calls for 1t. Her voice IS So
prano.
9. Where Is Nut Coleman Why
doesn't he sing on the atr?--Vtvtan 8.
Milor, Rockville, Md.
A. Coleman has been spending sew
eral weeks at Long Beach, on Long Is
land, where he has been taking vaca-
ton. He visited the studios recently,
but he does not plan to return to the
air until Fall. at the earliest.
Q. should like TO know II the Utica
Jubilee Singers are ever on the air, and,
If so, where Mrs. T. A. Sawyer,
Chesnee, s. G.
A. The Singers are on tour, and no
date has been set for their return.
When they get back they win probably
go on the air.
q. Who is Cheerio? Is he the toast
master Of the Arco Birthday Party?--
mez Gray, Charlotte, ". c.; Mrs q. 9.
Winckler and o. G. Wheatley, Rich
mond, Va; Mrs. e. A. Muller, Washing.
ton, D. c.; Lula A. Hawkins, Peters,
burg, Va, and L. H. Harley, Wharton.
Tex.
A. Guess I'll have to make this q
standing answer. As I've said before,
name and anything about his per.
sonality would be to destroy the illusion
which listeners build in their minds.
His isn't a name that would be recog-
n1Zed outside Of o few SmHll circles
He says he's just like you think he is.
He Is also the POSTMASTER on the Arco
Birthday Party.
q. In reading over your questions
and answers I think you misinformed
George Furbush of Butte, Mont. about
Wendell Hall. He is ON the radio and
sings and speaks IN 1.-THE Sign Of the
Shell. Ethel j. Pidgeon, Washington,
.. @.
A. That's right, and I offer my most
| sincere apologies. But when I wrote
that, Wendell wasn't on the air, and
wasn't planning On doing any intensive
broadcasting. Seems like old times to
have him back.
Q. Where was Sam Herman, the.
xylophone player, bmu?--Myra McNa-
A. In the Bronx, New York City. I'm
1908. He has been married since last
December.
@. Who are the members Of "The
"REMINISCENCES La Baude, Roches-
| ter, N. Y.
A. GitIa Erstinn ana Lsura Combs.
sopranos; Ruth Ann Watson, coutralto;
Henry Shope and Richard Maxwell,
tenors, and Earl Waldo, baritone.
q. Is Rosalie wolfe German?-F. J.
p, Montreal, Quebec.
| A. Her parents were Of German
descent, but shs was born In New York
City.
O. When q regular program Is put
| or for a special broadcast, why isn't It
put on later in the evening? - Ralph
| Reeder, Scranton, Pa.
+, A. 1t is not only simpler, but much
more satisfactory to Most listeners, to
| put the program on at its next sched-
| uled time. If it were to be moved
most listeners would probably miss the
announcement of the time temporarily
| assigned it. Besides, it would be neces-
sary to shift ether programs, perhaps
equally popular, in order to 1T the dis
placed one into the same evenings
schedule.
q. Organ music Is supposed to 60
especially well over the radio. Why
isn't there as much of it as there used
to be?-R. NJ, Herkimer, N Y.
A. Broadcasting'S early disabilities,
which didn't seem to bother organ
music, have largely disappeared, so the
organ no longer enjoys the especial adj
vantage it once had It Is used good
deal in programs, but IL is no longer
featured above any other instrument.
(Copyright, 1930l