Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-30
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ing them a smoke screen to cover bad
artistry.
Krishnamurti Cool.
An even cooler customer before the
microphone is Krishnamurti, the the
oSophiSt who faced an American micro
phone for the first time recently. He
had broadcast to small audiences in
India, but. according to John B. Ken
nedy, who introduced him, he took his
address to an audience of millions as
matter of course. His manner is rather
aloof, but his radio voice is excellent, as
many of you can testify Addressing an
audience is a matter of indifference TO
him. with the message the only thing
counting. Mysticism and the mechanics
of a broadcaSting studio are not IN
corigruous to him-the mechanism, 70
him, hardly exists, so there can be no
incongruity. But as one watches MN
there is no mistaking the fact that ne
has a practiced microphone technique.
Have you heard the latest ABOUT
Amos n Andy?" is becoming favorite
opening for conversation in New YORK,
and that in circles that have nothing
to do with radio. I hadn't intended TO
say anything more about them Tor
weeks, but I find that 1 can't ignore
them. At the studios no one pays
much attention any more If a listener
sends in a dog for the pair, and 1t
didn't create much of stir when q
packing case full of taxicab parts ar
rived the other day. Several listeners
have proved that If you address letter
merely by using some of the STOCK
phrases from their program 1t will
reach them safely. 1t is no news to
hear that traffic in the washington
telephone exchanges drops off heavily
while Amos m Andy are on the air, but
I have seen several interesting things
in the mail addressed to them at the
studios.
One letter said that when the writer
had asked a Baltimore minister 70
marry him at Z o'clock on certain
evening the minister asked him to SET
the wedding half an hour later, as he
did not wish to miss Amos n Andy.
also have seen letter from the
superintendent of nurses at hospital
in Paterson, N. j., in which she told OF
young man, with no chance to live,
who asked to hear Amos n Andy once
again before he died. They let him
hear the program by means OF ear
phones, and a few minutes after the
program was over he died, thoroughly
content
A carpenter in a small town adver-
tised that he would not answer his
at all other times of the day or night
1T would be glad to consider your prop
clifton" Some of the Harlem telephone
numbers they used on the air proved to
be real ones and the subscribers got so
many calls that they protested to the
| telephone company. Four numbers on
the Harlem exchange have been set
aside for use only in these programs
and persons calling them now will re-
ceive no answer And when get to the
Office in the morning bet I'll hear
two or three more.
Who is CheeriO?
Several times on my travels about the
| country have been asked if knew
| Cheerio, and what he looked like, and
whether he was young or old. and
whether he was some we'll known per-
son who wished to be anonymous. Some
even went so far as to hazard a guess
as to his identity. My reply to these
questions has always been about the
same. know him, but I respect his
wish to keep his own personality en-
| tirely in the background can say nc
more about him than that he is a very
| fine man, who presents these programs
six times a week without a cent OF
compensation, and whose sole interest
| is in providing what might be called
| spiritual and mental setting-up exer-
| ciSes. Cheerio was conceived as pro-
gram for the benefit Of shut-ins, and
Cheerio himself was rather surprised
when he discovered after a few broad
casts that 80 per cent of his letters were
coming not from the disabled and the
sick, but from men and women in good