Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
McNarnee
Speaking

her box and asked If she might have
the caricature. Bill, amid much ap-
plause, passed it over. He has been
wondering ever since what became of it.
Bill makes use of his skill in drawing
in his daily programs. There is black
board in each studio. ordinarily used
for scheduling musical numbers, but
Bill hastily sketches, just before the
program begins, pictures and charts Of
the mornings adventures. In this way,
he says. he finds it much easier to point
out to little Jane just what is going to
happen and why. And both of them
think it's lot of fun.
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While all of us in radio do a good bit
of flying, most of it in the way of busi-
ness, the only man on the air I know
who has a plane is Andy Sannella.
Andy has been an ardent sportsman
pilot for long time, and what he
wants is speed. He gets 1t, by the way.
He won't have anything to do with
aerial ice wagons.
The chief engineer at our studios
had plane, and is first rate pilot,
but he had so little time for flying that
he finally decided to sell it. I'd like
one, but my wife, who doesn't seem to
have much confidence in my abilities
along that line, says she doesn't think
widows weeds would be becoming.
Some of the other folks on the air
spend their extra tilne-and pennies
on the water. Sam Herman, one of the
crack xylophonists (he's so good that
they give him program all his OWN,
has a speedboat and takes it out no
matter what the weather. He's been
unusually lucky, or perhaps he's an ex-
ceptionally good pilot, for he never
seems to have any trouble, even when
high winds have driven almost every
body else to shelter.
Gus HaenSchen, who conducts the
Palmolive Hour, likes boats, too, but
he's little more conservative. He has
big cabin cruiser, and during the hot
weather he practically lives aboard 1t
while it is anchored off Larchmont.
Jimmy Melton, top tenor of the
Revelers, has, I fear, just bought a
cruiser, too. haven't seen 1t, but those
who have tell me that 1t Is the last
word in maritime luxury.
Floyd Gibbons recently set speed
record around Manhattan Island in
fast motor boat, but Floyd desn't own
it. He can afford one well enough,
but Floyd is the kind of man who
doesn't like to acquire possessions. He
has travelled around the world so much
he is footlooSe, and he likes to feel able
to cut and run to somewhere else at a
moments notice. AS matter of fact,
he boasts that he can start on two
years trip within an hour, without
leaving anything behind him. 1t prob
ably isn't much of an exaggeration, at
that.
This radio business is catching" 1t
affects people who aren't in it, even
children. Rosalie Wolfe, the soprano,
has an instance of it in her own home.
Although Miss Wolfe really specializes
i'll German Lieder, and has been heard
on the air a great deal in so widely
different field as comic opera, she
really likes to sing Bach for her own
amusement.
Miss Wolfe happens to be married to
physician, and they have two little
sons, and years old. Their mother
doesn't want them to be singers or mu-
Sicians when they grow up, but she
suspects she may not have anything to
say about it.
incidentally, Miss Wolfe's listeners
Although she was born in the United
States, listeners who have come from
different parts of Germany often write
to tell her they are sure, from her ac-
cent, that she must have come from
the same district. The letters, she says.
have come in a steady stream during
all the years she has sung these songs
on the air.