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...radio stars have been unable to resist the appeal of movie contracts, and Kate Smith, biggest of them all, has proved no exception. In appearing in "The Big Broadcast" and now in "Hello Everybody," she has proved the superiority of the other ever the celluloid as a medium of communication between a two hundred pound woman and the great American public...
Last Sunday evening President Roosevelt sat comfortably down before a microphone in his upstairs study at the White House, ground out a cigaret stub and proceeded to broadcast to the nation a neighborly 15-minute talk on banks & banking. On the morrow the country's sound banks were to start reopening. During the sensational week they had all been closed by his decree, the President had done some extraordinary things. Now in A. B. C. fashion he wanted to explain his actions to his countrymen and persuade them, by simple word and confident voice, not to repeat their...
...Sara Delano Roosevelt, the President's mother, returned to Hyde Park. Anna Roosevelt Dall. his daughter, went back to Manhattan to prepare her first commercial broadcast for Best & Co., Fifth Avenue women's and children's store. Son-in-law Curtis Dall applied for membership on the Chicago Board of Trade. Groton School again saw Sons Franklin and John with many a tall tale to tell of the Inaugural. Son Elliott chucked his New York advertising job because too many clients counted on his "Washington pull." At his first press conference the President kissed Elliott good...
...Angeles outlet of C. B. S. felt the first tremor while the "MARCH of TIME" was being broadcast. The staff hastily improvised after the broadcast, began reporting the catastrophe as soon as the program was finished...
...doors, he demurred at waving his hand for the cameras again because he was "afraid of developing a permanent wave." When his wrinkled Secretary Louis Howe bought a new suit, the President issued a playful "special bulletin" to the Press. Last week, when Radio Commentator Edwin C. Hill broadcast over C. B. S. an approving report of the President's first actions, the President had Secretary Steve Early telephone Reporter Hill, thank him, ask for a copy of his speech. With all admiration, slangy newshawks describe their new White House character as "a smoothie...