Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-02

VI that an attemr' vas made to
A ritz her when slg paid call
at the studios the other day.
1t was only social call on one of
the executives. She wasn't looking for
| another booking before the microphone,
and she didn't want to inspect the stu
dos. Shed already seen them several
times.
Guarding the portals of the depart
ment in which the executive has his
Office Is q most efficient hostess. She
Is musician herself, and she knows
the name Of nearly every concert artist
in the country. She seems to know
most Of them by sight, too. You
couldn't find better person for the job.
Miss Carroll walked up to the hostess
desk, and said, simply, please tell Mr..
Smith I'd like to see him"
"Yes?" Countered the hostess, What
Is your name, pleaSe?"
I'm Nancy Carroll'-this with look
of faint surprise.
IT see: have you an appointment"
mo, I'm afraid you didn't under
stand: I'm Nancy Carroll"
"Oh?" said the hostess, utterly I'M
impressed, IF you'll tell me the nature
of your business I'll see If I can arrange
an appointment. Did you want an au-
dition?"
Now, person as we'll known as Nancy
Carroll had every right to suspect that
she was being taken for a ride, and by
this time, so the bystanders say, she
looked nothing less than grim.
viii you announce me to Mr.. Smith,
or-?"
There must have been something In
Miss Carroll'S eye which persuaded the
hostess that possibly she had made a
mistake, and that this was no ordinary
job hunter. The hostess took up tele-
phone. In a moment Mr. Smith was
outside smoothing the situation.
But the hostess, 1t turned out, honest
ly never had heard of Nancy Carroll
She has been to only one talkie, and
she doesn't know the names of half
dozen movie actors. There isn't one
she knows by sight.
NOW that the world series is we'll
over, it is somewhat easier to look
back and pick out the high spots than
it was Just after the last game. AS
usual, there were just as many inter-
esting things going on behind the scenes
as there were on the diamond, but I
can't remember anything quite so funny
as the scene when we broadcast from
the dressing room at the end of the
last game.
microphone in the room which housed
the control apparatus for the public
address system, and when the boys
came in We put them before the mike
to give the audience those little per-
sonal touches.
This year our engineers got the
necessary apparatus all set up in the
same place. But with only a few in
nings of the last game in Philadelphia
% - a "a.
was going to be distinctly disadvan-
tageous. We asked Mr.. Shibe if he
wouldn't let us extend our lines into
the dressing room SO there wouldn't be
any interference from the throng of
congratulatorS, and the players could
speak much more conveniently.
At first he wasn't wi~ng, but when
we promised to keep the dressing room
absolutely clear until the very end of
the game he gave us permission to go
ahead.
1t didn't take the engineers long to
run their lines, but the last-minute
change made 1t impossible to- get the
word of the changed plans to the
players. They didn't see us where they
expected to as they came in of the
field, and several of them took 1t for
granted there wasn't to be any more
broadcasting and headed for the
showers.
However, we button holed them, one
by one, and the mike carried their
greetings and anecdotes throughout the
country.
But we didn't button hole Cy Per-
kins and Hoe Boley quite soon enough.
Cy and Hoe shed their uniforms and
reached for the soap. When 1t came
their time to speak, however, there
wasn't any chance to do any stalling,
and we presented them to the radio
audience, all soapy and dripping. 1t
was probably the first time listeners
were ever addressed by speakers who
appeared before the mike in the alto
gether. Another out for television.
X
I WONDER how many Of my readers
remember the extremely clever clari-
net and saxophone bits in the playing
Of Paul Whitemans Orchestra back in
the days when Whiteman was making
the Rhapsody in Blue" famous?
Ross Groman could torture a clari
net into doing things everybody said
were impossible. A good many said
that the Rhapsody never would have
been a hit If it handn't been for the
work Of German and Harry Perrella
Whiteman's pianist at that time.
Be that as it may, Ross is still at
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