Golden Age of Radio

Ben Cooper Young as he is, Ben Cooper, who plays Brad on the second Mrs. Burton show (CBS, Monday through Friday, 2 PM, EST), longer surprised when Ben turns up for a rehearsal dressed in a colorful and complete cowboy outfit. He’s merely getting the feel of the costume, because his idea of The Thing To Be when he’s grown up is a ranch owner and he wants to be ready to step right into the part when it comes along. He goes the whole way in preparation too. He’s up on what the average rancher eats and is learning how to cook scrambled eggs and flapjacks. Nor is he entirely impractical about his dream. He already has his own horse, named Gypsy. He rides very well and he hopes that someday soon he’ll meet the owner of Republic Pictures and get a chance to work in western movies. That’s a two-edged plan. Get the idea? Ben will be practicing more, while earning the money with which to buy his dream ranch. Ben was born in Harford, Connecticut, in 1933. No one in his family was co...

SAY HELLO TO . . .  FRANK DANE – one of those versatile actors whom you’ll probably hear a couple of times today without knowing it. On Arnold Grimm’s Daughter he plays Jim Kent, and on The Story of Mary Marlin he’s “Never-fail” Hendricks. Frank is Danish, but came to America as a child. He says that his biggest handicap as an actor had been learning English and getting rid of his Danish accent. He began his career on the stage, and still is enough of a stage actor to have one important mannerism in front of mike—he always needs enough room to swing his arms. He made his network debut in 1928 and has benn on the air ever since.

ON THE AIR TONIGHT: Elmer Davis and the Ne ws, on CBS at 8:55 P.M., E.D.S.T., tonight and every night in the week. Through all the exciting and frequently horrifying events of the last year, CBS listener have learned to appreciate the quiet, logical news analyses of Elmer Davis. This quiet, middle-aged man never gets hysterical, never lets the horror of the day’s happenings betray him into illogical conclusions. In a world gone crazing, he usually makes sense, and that’s something to be thankful for. Davis’ broadcast comes to you tonight from a small studio just off the busy CBS news from in New York . He has an office there, with a large colored map of Europe on the wall, where he spends most of his time, keeping a watchful eye on all the news that comes in over INS and UP wires. News despatches that he thinks are important, he puts aside, and makes notes from them for his broadcast. He almost never uses a script, and occasionally doesn’t even have time to jot down rough not...

Dorothy Day AS FAMOUS for her fashion comments as for the top-drawer “names” she interviews, lovely Dorothy Day, the WINS-WLW glamor-gal commentator, is easily one of the top personalities in her field. In between writing and conducting two programs a day, five days a week, over WINS (one of her programs is also piped directly to Cincinnati’s WLW), dynamic Dorothy does fashion commentaries for the country’s leading designers. Recognition of her topflight position in the field was further evidenced by her selection for the somewhat demanding task of conducting a fashion show before 22,000 people at last year’s Israel Orphan Asylum benefit at Madison Square Garden. Dorothy attends all business luncheons and women’s expositions gathering material for her radio programs, all of which she herself writes. Her daily program over WINS from 10:00 to 10:30 A.M., A Woman’s View of What’s New, is a well-balanced combination of fashion, budget menus, home-decorating and music, plus stim...

LOUIS DEAN . . . is from down in Alabama. Valley Head is the town. He’s 32 years old, five feet eleven, weighs 160 pounds. Eyes are blue and hair is dark brown. Yes, he’s single. Likes double-breasted suits and is awfully neat. Likes, too, to dance and golf and read good books. He’s the fellow who announced Col. Stoopnagle and Bud. 

PETER DONALD—has spent most of his life in show business. Born in Bristol, England, he played his first part at three; attended the Professional Children’s School in New York; modeled for thousands of ads; and has appeared in several Broadway productions. He made his radio debut in 1928 and at thirteen was the youngest emcee in radio. He is now on Talk Your Way Out Of It, heard on ABC.