The Washington times., 1931-04-15
NEWS-GOSSIP
OF RADIO
WORLD
BY BROADCASTER

IOn1gnC Marie OTeSSIeT, VIII 10
making more money right now
than she ever believed was in
the world, will be interviewed by
Louella Parsons.
Marie is the godchild of the
talking pictures. She was just
making a hand-me-down living
in the silent film days when the
screen suddenly found voice.
Now she rates $500 a week for
40 weeks in the year.
Miss DreSSler is an actress
who was had myriad ups and
downs. In the dim past she was
a star in "TillieS Punctured Ro-
nance" Then came hard luck.
Later she made THE Galatians
and the Murpi1ys," with Polly
Moran and the Irish societies
raised such a yell that the Dress
ler-Moran team was permanently
banished from the Metro-Gold-
wyn studio. It appeared they
were washed up in Hollywood un-
til the new technique brought a
new popularity, surprising any.
thing she ever achieved.
Listen in on Marie DreSsler.
She is one movie star who gets
down to brass tacks, talks COM
mon sense rather than the usual
Hollywood palaver. The time is
$50.
Charles Francis Coe, the author
and newest of the NB.C. racon-
teurS, paid off the $4,000 mort
gage on the homestead in Depew,
N. Y, of a friend not long ago.
The friend was the man who had
loaned Coe the 5000 which
changed the course of Goes life
years ago. If it hadn't been for
that 5000 and a case of asthma,
Coe might still be timekeeper in
O. foundry in Depew. He wanted
the money so that he could come
to New York and see a doctor. Ano
that trip brought Coe career and
fame.
He was the Washington guest of
Frank M. Russell of WRC over the
weekend and recounted the story
among other things.
eff you sit properly you can
sing properly"
And with that verdict from the
lips of Leopold Stokowski, during
a recent rehearsal of "Oedipus
Rex" members of the chorus and
soloists sat and sang through the
intricate long drawn passages of
the Stravinsky operate vehicle.
1t happened in Philadelphia.
Dress rehearsals we're in progress
for the NB.C.-WJz network broad
cast of the opera. Sunday after
noon, April 10, from the stage of
the New York Metropolitan Opera
House. Efforts to successfully
negotiate certain musical phases
Of the work were fruitless for the
singers. They pleaded with Sto-
koWski for permission to sing
standing. The first sentence of
this little story tells the verdict.
The people of North and South
America we're able to tune in yes
terday on President Hoover's Pan
American Day address through ar
rangements made by the National
Broadcasting Company.
In the United States, So asso-
ciated stations of the NBC.
broadcast the Chief Executives
voice. Inasmuch as many of
these stations are near the North
and South border lines, people of
both Canada and Mexico were
able to dial the program.
Special arrangements were
made to have the Presidents ad-
dress rebroadcast in South Amer
lea. Special land wires carried
the Presidents voice from Wash
ington to Pittsburgh and Schenec-
tady, Station W8XK, of the West
inghouse Electric and Manufac-
turing Company in Pittsburgh,
and Station W2XAD, of the Gen,
eral Electric Company in Schnec-
tady, sent the Presidents voice
py SnOrC wave to South America
for rebroadcasting in that coun-
try.
Not only was the voice of the
President sent throughout the
two continents but also the ad-
dresses of Secretary of State
Stimson, Manuel C. Tellez, the
Mexican Ambassador; Senor Don
Orestes Ferrara, the Cuban Am
bassador, and DR.. Leo S. Rowe,
director general of the Pan
American Union.
Kate Smith, who has her own
N.B.C. program now, and who
is a Washington society girl,
flashes us the observation that
marriage is a fifty-fifty affair."
about fifty days and fifty nights.
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