Golden Age of Radio

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...

Say Hello To- WALTER GROSS—the very busy conductor of a CBS band which provides the music for many of the network’s sustaining features. The piano is Walter’s own instrument, and on it he can perform the classics, popular dance music, hot jazz and boogie-woogie with uniform ease. He first joined CBS eight years ago, playing in a band which included Raymond Scott, Benny Goodman , Artie Shaw, Will Bradley, Bunny Berigan, and Jerry Colonna (who played trombone). That was an all-star group, although no one knew it at the time, and Walter thinks the same is probably true of his present band. When his radio schedule permits it, Walter likes to spend weekends with his wife at their new country home.