Evening star., 1933-12-31
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

RODUCERS of the March of
l. Time presentations on Columbia
have at last, after repeated re-
Il quests, come forward with a
rather brief biographical sketch
of one of its outstanding stars-William
Perry Adams-whose Job is to portray
the role of President Roosevelt in the
popular current events sketches.
Bill Adams, we learn, doesn't look a
bit like the President. Nor is his
demeanor before the microphone any,
thing like the earnest, calm, persusave
manner of the Chief Executive. But
his voice so nearly Stimulates the presl-
Dental voice on the air that some
d radio listeners actually believe the
President took part in the radio dramas.
According to the March of Time
producers, Bill Adams is slender chap
lust a half inch under 6 feet, whose
hair is grayng, R!oSe eyes are blue
and who weighs Just about l48 pounds.
there the IS MAY HIsN 8. 1857. the iii SON ' Of ohio!s
Democratic leader of the 80S He went
to college at Heidelberg Of Ohio, where
he was a star base ball pitcher. Fer
a while he played in the minor leagues,
but lost his status when he was black
listed for jumping contract There
upon he returned to school. this time
TO the Cincinnati Conservatory of
Music.
Soon afterward Adams began playing
In stock in Cincinnati, and in 1913
Joined the Sothern and Marlowe
ShakeSpearean troupe. with whom he
played for three years In 1916 he
went to England with Sothern 10 play
IN British Red Cross productions. Then
he enlisted in the Army Air Corps.
doing service with a balloon Getach-
ment
Ever since the war Adams has been
In dramaticS. In 1921 and 1922 he
coached dramatiCS at Yale. afterward
joining John Barrymore IL the London
production of Hamlet; then playing
on Broadway until six years ago, when
he turned to radio as Uncle Henry
in the Collier hour. He has been with
March OF Time since Its inception. and
plays various roles, but the one he does
best is President Roosevelt.
The amazing silnllitude 10 the origi-
mails Of some voices of the other March
of Time actors also have excited con-
siderable comment. Most Of them are
veteran actors, Ted di Corsica does
Hoover and Charles Slattery does
Alfred E. Smith. two of the other best
known and frequently heard voices.
Sometimes it is impossible to get
follow the originals so far as is posi-
ible to do so from studying them
directly on the radio and on record
tngs.
THAT frying sound in the radio set,
i it is reported, is nothing more or
less than electrical star dust bonn
harding the earth from the outer space.
Some call it static, but its substance
is said to be stellar rays emanating
from a companion star of Sirius in
the constellation of Orion that literally
lombard the earth'S surface at ir-
regular and more or less unpredicable
intervals.
DR.. willis E. Everette. octogenarian
lawyer, scientist and radio enthusiast,
who has laboratory atop Radio Sum-
nit at San Rafael. Calf, presents
this as his version Of the mystery OF
radio disturbances in recent inter-
view with the San Francisco Chronicle
DR.. Everette is something more than
an amateur scientist, though his pro-
fession has been the law and he has
practiced before the United States
Supreme Court. He is a. member of
the Radio Society of Great Britain,
the American Seismological Society
the American Association for the
Advancement Of Science, among other
affiliations.
He has concluded that matter 40
700 times denser than water, and
travelling at a speed that staggers the
imagination, is bombarding the earth,
one cubic inch Of this matter before
disintegration in space weighing two
tons. He has % radio receivers, rang