Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
McNAMEE'S QUESTION
BOX

@. Can you tell me what has be-
come of Norman Sweetser? Was he
with the Fuller Brush program when
it started-M. H. Myers, Pittsburgh, Pa.
A. Sweetser is now boss of all pro-
grams broadcast from the N. B. C.'s
Times Square studio. Yes. He was
with the Fuller program.
@. Do Rudy Vallee and his Connect
cut Yankees play over the Columbia
Broadcasting system, and when?-A.
A. No. Only for the National Broad
casting Co. You are probably confus-
ing him with Will Osborne; their styles
are similar.
@. What is the name of the harpist
who plays in I'm the Time of Roses"
and the Studebaker hour?-E. B. Drake,
Washington, D. C.
A. Joseph Pizzo, very well known in
New York musical circles, is the harpist
in "In the Time OF Roses" but the
Studebaker program, featuring Jean
Goldkette's Orchestra, comes from chi
cago. have been unable TO learn the
name of Goldkette'S harpist.
@. Can you tell me where Jesse CraW-
ford was born?-R. N. N, Baltimore,
Md
A. His birthplace does not seem to be
on record, but he was brought up IN an
orphanage at Woodland, Calf, ana II
was there that he learned to play the
piano. When he left the orphanage,
in his teens, he spent three years rs
a piano player in movie houses ana
then threw up his job to study the
organ. He made his name as theater
organist in Chicago before going to New
York. The present Mrs. Crawford was
orpanist in a rival theater when he met
her. They have daughter years
old.
@. Is Leslie Prick, the contralto, a
blonde or a brunette?-M. T., Fort
Worth, Tex.
A. She is a blonde. Incidentally,
since she has been studying in Paris
this Summer, she declares that she has
had her voice lifted" I take 1t she
is now a mezzo-soprano.
@. Is Kathleen Stewart, the pianist,
married?-Mrs. G. o. Harvey, Chester,
Pa.
O. why are the chimes necessary in
network rograms?-Jerry Bell, Lake
Charles, La.
A, They are the only foolproof cue
yet discovered for advising announcers
of network stations that there will be
break in the network program to
allow them to give their station call
letters. Verbal cues leave too much
chance for misinterpretation and sim
gle musical note might not be heard
@. Who plays the Swede in the Tasty
Yeast Jesters?-Art Dorrance. Cairo, Ill.
A. Wamp Carleton. It's his first net
work program.
really from the mountains? They
sound too aSSiirad IN ha real Marion n
Utica, N, Y.
A. They really come from the Ken
lucky mountains, but they have spent
several years in vaudeville. That's
enough to knock off the rough spots,
but they still give authentic interpre-
tations.
@. Can you tell me the address of
Rudy Vallee miss l.. S., Omaha, Nebr.
A. Letters addressed to the station
through which you hear him will reach
him.
@. Who was the Silver Masked Tenor
and was he Irish?-The Judd family,
Oshawa, Ontario.
A. His name is Joe White and is of
Irish descent. He has been on the net
works fairly often lately and am sur
prised you haven't run across him. He
specialized in ballad numbers.
@. Who was the Love-Story Girl in
Golfers last season?-P. c., Port Crane,
N. Y.
A. Lucille Wall. I understand she is
to have the same part again this year,
although haven't definite confirmation
yet
@. Who pays the cost of broadcasting
sports events?-H. G., Ansonia, Conn.
A. Ordinarily the cost is assumed by
the broadcasting companies, although
the indianapolis Speedway races and
some prize fights have been sponsored.
Sponsorship of these events is becoming
less frequent.
@. Does Floyd Gibbons always talk
as fast as he does on the air?-Herbert
Sanford, Phoenix, Md
A. Not quite I think 1t was nervous
ness that caused him to speak so rapidly
when he first began to broadcast and
now 1 don't think he could slow up If
he tried. Ted Husing is another verbal
speedster.
Copyright, 1930)