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Better Hal-: Hi Jinx Firestone Hour Baby Snooks Maggi's Private Wire Who Dunrit Disk Jockies True Detective Myster es Patt Barnes Martha Deane Jean Colbert Jay Stewcrt Florence Pritchett Frances Scully County Fair Meet the Missus Famous Players Bride and Groom Girls Behind

Leave it to the Girls Those Websters People are Funny Bob Smith Amos 'n' Andy Books on Trial Grand Slam Adrienne Ames Daily Dilemmas Truth or Consequences Author Meets Critic Ono Munson Stella DnIlas Tom Breneman

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Edmund B. "Tiny Rufner; has participoted radio broadcasting for the past twenty-five yeais.

Known as "Tiny" because of his great height, Ruffner wos born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and was raised in the Pacific Northwest. He did his first broadcasting in Seattle, Washington, in 1920 and has been in radio ever since. He come to New York radio in 1927 as o studio announcer for NBC. Since then his duties hove been many and various. "Tiny" has been associated with some of the top programs in rodio; among them the Maxwell House Show Boat, Palmolive Beauty Box Theater and Fred Allen s "Town Hall Tonight." Emceeing WOR's hilarious q'uiz, "The Better Half Matinee" as well as other shows, keeps "Tiny" on his toes. During the war, his spare time was spent in emcee- ing shows for servicemen in camps and hospitals in the New York area.

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Jack Byrne, producer and originator of "The Better Holf," claims the only way to end all arguments about which spouse is the better half of. a marriage partnership is to prove it by actual test. Hosbonds and wives answer questions acid perform stunts which test theii in- genuity, capability and resourcefulness-and most important of all- their sense of humor.

Toward the conclusion of the broadcast, Tiny Ruffner goes down in to the audience for ;he "grab bag" question of the day. Six persons are asked questions at the conclusion of which they are asked to choose a number from one to six. The corresponding numbers are exhibited on stage and the lucky person gets the "grub bog" prize hidden behind his chosen number.

"Grab bag" prizes, valuable and/or humorous, include cigarette lighters, cameras, garbage pails, step ladders, one-year supply of razor blades, pound of frankfurters, round trip to the coast-or ten cents for a visit to Coney Island, 25 feet of garden hose or o pair of tickets to a Broadway ploy.

Carlton Warren onnounces "The Better Half Matinee," which is heard over WOR Mondays through Fridays from 1 to 1:30 p.m.

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before thct they talked into the microphone :04, yam' as "Sam 'n' Henry," and "Jim and Charley."

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-.3":,t time signals and enjoys himself-to the enjoyment of listeners throughout the Imetro- 77.7...0, ll,: metro- politan area. .... ?../.:t Bob's father, who was a building contractor in Staunton, Ill., directed the village .d:),...'

band and played every instrument-and it was from him that Bob inherited his love r -,, .1.. - d of music. Bob was born Nov. 27, 1917, in Buffalo, N. Y. . . . attended Masten Park 'WA

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Florence Pritchett, born in South Orange, N. J. in 1920, became

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tip her the head of styling at Powers school instructing females of all oges

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"Star Gazer" KECA, 3:45 P.M., Daily Frances (the Star Gazer) Scully is o galabout-Hollywood who really knows

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s. During her light, chatty and very entertaining KECA show, "Star t Gazing" with Frances Scully, heard Monday thru Friday at 3:45 p.m.,

Frances gives fans intimate glimpses of the lives of the stars, gathered from her long association with them, os well as the latest in news happenings about the town. Truly feminine in her point of view, Miss Scully keeps her fans posted on the latest fashion and beauty tips

i, from the stars. >. t In her news gatheringtor "Star Gazin s} g," Frances covers all the .'`;s ' important movie premieres, openings of musical events and stage pro- ' ductions, os well as all the fashion shows held in this area. She reviews

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on which she was co -emcee with Bob Lotting of ABC. Born in Pocatello, '`;y, Idaho, Frances moved to Portland, Oregon, with her parents, who later

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LET THE CHIPS FALL by

LEW LAURIA

The shocking, piquantly personal story of an actress' rise to fame, daringly disclosed in that swift stimulating tern po that belongs only to Radio ... the FIRST TRUE PICTURE of that fascinating industry.

Teresa (Tree) Drake. fired by an incentive foreign to most actresses. fights her way up the long hard pull to radio fame, denying herself her most fervently desired objective in life.' After four years of New York P.adio in which she attained acclaim as one of its top actresses. Tree goes to Hollywood on a strict gamble, and is faced with the problem of starting anew. Dick Randall, a hand. some, serious director. comes into her life and wonderful thirgs begin to hantsen. Radio directors toss jobs into HER lap while she fights her way out of THEIRS.

(, Then comes a screen contract followed by tragedy . . not cne, but many bean- ' breaking events, and bereft of the inspiration that has been her motivating force?

Tree skyrockets to the top in a blazing triumph of complete emptiness. Her victory is indeed a hollow one, until . but, why spoil the story for you?

Lew Lauria has written a scintillating first novel based on actual lives of living characters in the radio industry. His story is resplendently revealing. stimulating, gripping . in the language and tempo that is Radio's own. You'll live with Tree Drake. dangerously, daringly and enjoy her phenomenal rise to the pinnacle of glory. You'll be taken into studios for a glimpse behind the mikes. to live thru auditions and rehearsals and hear the racy repartee so characteristic of radio actors.

Tho real names of celebrities are used. those of the chief characters are fictitious for obvious reasons. The satire is certain, and indisputably just. Seventy percent in delightful dialogue. LET THE CHIPS FALL will cheer you as it chills you, bring laughs thru tears . its intricate plot will keep you in painful suspense and at its denouement you will be left with the comfortable feeling that despite the glamour, despite the nerve-racking, ulcer producing activity of their profession. ACTORS ARE PEOPLE.

"It doesn't fake the curtain off rodio . . . it burns if off!"

NICK KENNY .. r N. Y. Daily Mirror

_ "It's o honey! . . . Sparkling dialogue crommed with humor ... it's radio!"

TINY RUFFNER . . . M.C. of rodo's "Better Half" and "Leave It To The Girls"

"It's graphic .s.. it's frank, and it's written in .0 fast-moving style . . . it's o must for rodio Ions!"

FRANCES SCULLY . . . Hollywood Star Gazer Program

"An absorbing story brimming with pathos and studded with scintillating humor . . .

A major HOLLYWOOD Film Co.

About the Author Lew Laurja, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, was theatrically attrocted

at the tender age of seven. Slated to sing of the Poli Theatre amateur night, he opened his mouth and nothing came forth. In prizes, he came fifth, but eleven years later, on that some stage, he redeemed himself in his first professional appearance with the Manhattan Players. In the summer of '23, Lew become a water clown with a carnival thru the Middle West. His duties included comedy dives from o high board and the "walk - off' from the top of the towering ladders into a tonk of water.

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Then to Hollywood to double for thi late Lloyd Hamilton . . . more jos"h' stage . . . more radio . . . pictures . . . adio writing', and in 1939 he become active in the Hollywood Local of AFRA, the American Federation of Radio Artists, editing and publishing the first Official Bulletin. In Sep- tember of the same year, he conceived and founded the Notional Rodio Artists Directory and the Rodio A - Telephone Exchange (RATE) as a cooperative service for directors and actors, and in 1944 inaugurated the nation's leading radio fan magazine, RADIO ROW.

Reputed to know personally more actors than anyone else in the industry, he numbers over four thousand of them among his acquaintances. He is married to Maybelle Prindaville, one of radio's leading actresses.

s7zecial la RADIO ROW safri,,i444. For each subscription to RADIO ROW accompanied by a check or money order for $2.75, you will receive by return mail, a personally autographed copy of the first edition of LET THE CHIPS FALL.

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