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Show MAGNA TIMES. MAGNA, UTAH HEAVENLY DAYS FQR THE JORDANS DVENTURERS EADLINES club Marion and Jim-Fi- bber McGee land Molly! to Yoii-- Hit the in Radio After Years of Labor, Love and op Laughter. from the lives y pE0 PIE LIKE YOURSELFI wait etory. apoil ut us back to the boom year of 1929, when everybody ytrn takes At that time Frank was a student at the Univer-- . fcrtwml parties. had organized a dance band composed of boys he and Bknois, football game was played at The Army-Hllnothe university. and a prominent citizen of the town had issued ln- moaifn that year to a Seek of his friends to attend a ball which was to be held in Come after the game. to furnish the music for the party. Dinner was Frank was engaged and a reception followed that, so the dancing the game, after It until around half past ten. A stagelike platform had get started for the orchestra In the big ballroom on the third floor and i set up for about half an hour. boys played ts First They Thought It Was a Joke. gad then, ail of a auddea, there came eennds of shooting the lower floors! line crackle of gunfire In the(midst of a party was strange enough, , (ranger still, few of the guests paid any attention to it The host i man known for a certain flair for doing the unexpected to lend to his parties. It this were just another stunt to give the assembled folks a thrill The orchestra played, and do one wanted to be fooled by went on. It went on for two or three minute. suddenly, four masked men carrying pistols and shotguns the ballroom Put em upi This is a holdup! the thugs shouted, was a momentary confusion In the room. The orchestra Still no one seemed to be able to decide whether this , it id not or That settled it. For there was hothlng Marlon Driscoll would rather have done for the rest of her life than live out of a suitcase with her Jim. It was a good thing for you and me, too. If this swell romance hadn't blossomed into happy and lasting marriage, we would have had to do without two of the most d and welcome visitors who "call at our homes Fibber McGee and Molly. Marion and Jim Jordan "lived out of a suitcase and worked like the dickens for a good many years before. as Fibber and Molly, they became one of the five or six radio teams. In the rural areas and small communities they rank first "Weve got a bigger audience than even Jack Benny has, is the way Jim puts it Fibber Bora an Farm. No wonder, either. Theyvs been small town folks," even though they've lived in CMcago for a long time. Like Fibber and Molly, the Jordans themselves are as genuine as the eggs in a home-mad- e cake. One indication is sufficient: During the leaner years when they sometimes worked for $35 a week, the Jordans and .their two cMldren seven'teeh7andJim; Jr., thirteen lived in an unpreten- - tious residential district on Chicagos northwest side, where they had a lot of friendly neighbors, themplain, ordinary folks-li- ke selves. When they suddenly found themselves in the "big money class at last, did they buy a fine mansion on the Gold Coast, with more servants than closets? They did not They built a little seven-roohouse right in their old neighborhood; it was HOME to them, and that was important. Fibber (or Jim, if you prefer) was born on a farm near Peoria, 111., and worked on it until he was twelve; he had seven brothers and sifters Just aa Nero fiddled when Rome burned. .aged to "ditch it behind one of the wings that flanked the platform, in, the confusion of the moment over, Frank led his band into a of that would take about fifteen minutes And the Band Just Played On. dance tunes, to play. while Borne burned, Frank led a whole or of lively music, while all around him the guests his employer were being robbed. But he didnt do it nonchantly aa L to did. As a matter of fact, Frank was feeling anything but But it gave him and his boys something to do besides sit nd and feel helpless, and on top of that Frank had an idea. The idea was that a holdup of that sort couldnt go unnoticed long, newhere in the big house, with many telephones, and swarming with loots, some one must have put a call through to the police. And Frank ured that if his band played those crooka might lose track of the time I be delayed a bit. So on the band played. Meanwhile the boys la the orchestra were Just as nervous as he was. Those crooks might not like the music and take a aotion start shooting. Frank looked at the piano player, noticed that he was playing with 'l we hand, and asked him why. "Cant use the other one, the ino player shot back. Its parelyzed. But the thugs didn't seem to mind music, and his boys were get watch I more confident. The saxophone player slipped off his wrist d dropped it into his instrument, where it was concealed so thoroughly st had to pay $2.50 the next day to have the aax taken apart They played through the whole number and the thugs, far from his ,ecting, seemed to like It When they atopped one of them pointed st the platform And Frank and uttered one word. "The nose of that shotgun looked like the muzzle of a ure you that we played. The bandits, lulled by the music, were going about their work in entirely fashion. They seemed to be in a good mood, and no one was ft during the affair. finished their work and started to leave. So, Just as Nero fiddled istrs into a flock g Geniuses Ten ef Lave Genius in love: "The air I breathe in a room empty of you is un- healthy," wrote Keats to hit sweetheart Burns, In tha account of hia first lovo says: "I dont know myself why the tones of her voice made my heartstrings thrill like an Aeolian harp, and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious rattan when I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle and thistles. to help him out. Marion was Peoria girl, the youngest save one of a family of 13. Now there hardly lives a gal who doesn't like to look into a mirror once in a while, and Marion was no exception. At sixteen she was a very pretty girl and had a voice good enough to land her in the church choir. It was at choir practice one day that she caught herself sneaking a peek into the glass above the piano. And when she for the one hundred twenty-secon- d engineers, but sickness prevented his seeing service, and he was in a hospital when the Armistice waa signed. Meanwhile, was Marion, back home in Peoria, merely twiddling her thumbs, awaiting his return? Heavenly days! says she. "I was that busy teaching piano to 50 pupils, some good and some bad, 1 didnt have a moment to myself! They decided to get out of the show business when Jim came back, but It was no go. Jim wasnt very successful finding steady Work and, with his brothers-in-la- con stantly taunting, "When are you going to get a Job?" he soon found himself behind the footlights again. He and Marlon had real success with their concert company, and no one complained that ht was shiftless any more.--' An Agent Gets Fired. Billed as a ensemble, the company was literally that a 15 piece affair but there were only six people in it; tome of them played several instruments. This led to complications. An advance man preceded them on tour and arranged for their When they arrived they billing. usually met a stage crowded with 15 chairs and a manager stirred with indignation at finding only six musicians. At this point Jim would become highly incensed at the au dacity of his agent in permitting so gross a misrepresentation. Loudly and righteously, in the sight of all concerned, he would discharge the agent. Marion and Jim estimate that this hardy soul was fired" in such a manner twice a week for four years. There followed more success, this time as a harmony team in vaudeville. Then the night which was to open up new and miraculous vistas to them. They were playing cards with friends in Chicago m 1924. An old non-Un- C1 They Then Came the Police, Shooting. they were going down the stairs they met s single policeman lmBf up. The cop, like the guests, first thought it was a staged Joke. e And d, "All right, boys, the shows over. Let's have your gun." eJrt bandit, murmur. dumfounded, handed over his revolver without a B" at that moment a whole squad cl police burst in the front A second bandit whipped up a shotgun and fired, wounding Mptain in the thumb. At almost the aame moment the cap- go with a .45, and the bandit tumbled dawn the stair. landed at the bottom at the feet of 'some guests who had Just 1. smile on and there he lay in a pool of his own blood, a cynical was hurt he hlie how the see . badly to over looked him cops , the next at in Urban. day hospital Mercy Two of few days later. the thugs escaped, but they were caught a the CPS d gone that night after the holdup, the host s mother 10 FrankWas heroic of Mm - handed him $20 and told him it Y An band under uch harrowing circumstance. rant i.t I known it blushed when I took only have could If ahe look down the barrel of r btnP'aycd aU it after taking one h t, bland n(1 itnud(.ini,n .u f Guam Guam, largest of between frouP. 13 minutes mil,utes north 144 degree 37 min- .it, 58 minutes degreei W It i. kut 1,500 mile east of ti ph,n til UniuTr- Guam belongs to i'eded frying been hv e.Slate,, inj Agrees 39 Weight of Air tested The weight of air has been by by compressing it in receptacles the the air pump, thua showing that inof these receptacles is weight excreased, and conversely, by of air and vessels the hausting lessened. 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" Youll find no was Matting away, maker was Adam Ramage, aw a slim youth of seventeen look- - battery radio set jokes on the Fibber McGee and press beat! overlier heart her buslness in Philadel- shoulder Conversational tog ramr Taintfuiniy, or might notTHOUTProg in 1790. like a studio gong; she decided right sible as phia MoUy said, and that was a harmony team atrug- - McGee! there that Jim Jordan (for thats have been with the notes in the upper that. And youll never hear anyfor her. gled man was the who it was) Cardinal Founded Academy thing on the program that you mirranges. The French academy, famous It must have been a want your children to wouldn't Jim Wins a Bet. ror, for Jim Jordan decided the hear; Marion and Jim have children honorary society of letters, was same thing. of their own. Don Quinn, who has founded by Cardinal Richelieu in stood it as long as he could. Jim written the Jordan scripts for seven 1935. Jim sang with a quartet which Then: has taken a lesson from the was rehearsing with the choir. years, cried. "We can "Dad rat it! he on New romance that They had their first date that! Hi host than better do Year's eve. Marion can't suppress was a doubting Thomas with a bit has followed the pair throughout their married life. You will never a little giggle whenever she thinks of sporting blood and bet Jim they hear serious arguments beof it couldnt So the next day found tween any Fibber and Molly; its very n audition at the They Still Tease. an them seeking apparent that they love each other, to which they had been listening"His mother went along with us, and you love them for it. she "the afterward! of the top WIBO, home him -old took and Seldom has any troupe in the after Even in 'years dial, Chicago. laughs. unshow business coined so many catch this charge still makes him hot and clicked immediately, They der the collar. "Oh, here now," he soon made their debut to a com- phrases that have become the nation. Among all out! Then, that "Cut objects. mercial program on the ether throughout with a grin- t- "Anyway, didnt you waves as the O'Henry twin at $10 classes of people today you may almost any time Moalways bring your big brother along a broadcast! They collected the $10 hear repeated llys Heavenly days, McGee! and too. on our date after that? bad bet they beTaint funny, McGee!; Fibbers For three year they courted 19 Those were the day before anyOUAm-- 2S rat it!; the little girls I Dad for and married, were fore they got fat eating on a radio tar body Skip-pand betcha! Grandmas "Hi, ram ns Marion and Jim for eight years since. Before their marriage, with a salary. vaudeville in toured two hour a broadcasted rim With months They're riding on top of the world musical act called. "A Night Chaufor $35 a week. They were A BUNS day the on He now, the Jordans. But would sang of right Poets." dozens different under the known or rrtAioHt and Uter itarted'a names, and it i tribute to their they quit if they could? "Just give tauqua circuits, the Boy, I'd WHttKIIg concert company that touredwhich amazing versatility that they did me a chance, saya Jim, to go right back where I startnot run out of things to do. They like tank towns, an experiencesome of the like to live on a little farm ed. Id developed out little have acted skits, may which sang songs, nnoor monolflgs, and Marion by a lake and take life easy. and "tank town tourist flavor dialogs t and Molly V Marion. celeste. the characterizes the MtGee says "Heavenly days! played Jim replies. "You still offered more bet, vaudeville But their marriage Jim A Western Newspaper Union. France as a replacement money, and reluctantly they left the for left two-wa- 5853 be at familiar feeding place, and to be near their mates and their The first United States printing (jUs! $ a Catch Phrase. "mother-in-law- i Pattern Pot RANCHES FARMS HOME Any Place, Six or Pdoe tMMM-werlndettni- D. RAY M INC.. r.lOSS Salt take MWeet let teoW CM. Dtafe W 32-- . WNU 37 ata-tio- d C WNU Service. T1 microphone for another year in the theaters. Then when WENR went on the air they returned, never to leave. Tha character of Fibber McGee may be traced by veteran listeners to that of an old man named Luke in one of their early broadcasts. Molly is much the same character as Mrs. Smith in their old skit, The Smith Family." They had another program called the "Smackouts, which they intend to bring back to radio tome day. AU this time it might be supposed that the national networks were overlooking them; in fact It has often been reported that they never had a chance at the networks unUl Fibber and MoUy came to life. Nothing could be further from the truth, Jim Insists. .They simply made so much money off local broadcast "plug-the- ater appearances that they avoided the networks. When NBC bought WENB they went to WMAQ, where they could remain a local team, but when TfBCTbought WMAQ. as well, Jim had to hit the national hookup as "Mr. Twister. Marion Has Many Tongue. The first Fibber McGee and Molly broadcast was in March, 1935. The show" was a "natural" from the start. That it has remained so, in fact has never ceased to add to its popularity, testifies to Jim Jordans The sponsor wanted showmanship. to base the show on Fibber's "fish stories and outlandish lies, but Jim saw that the listeners would toon tire of them and refused. Instead we hear this quaint Irish couple, genuine, witty, and at all times sympathetic, surrounded by some of the funniest characters radio ever has known. Fans have learned to love and laugh at the little girl whose tiny voice can ask the most embarrassing questions on earth; Geraldine, the tittering bride; Grandma, the old lady with the chorus girl philosophy; Mrs. Weary-bottowho always seems as if she wiU surely run down like an e phonograph before she finishes a sentence, but never does, quite; nd Molly, herself, an able foil for the cocky McGee. All of these and more are played by Marion herself! Horatio K. Boomer, the small time big shot; the raspy Russian, wso says "Hallo, Petrushka! Hallo, Tovarichl; the Scotchman, and other dialect characters, are played by young Bill Thompson, whom Jim discovered. Silly Watson, th politely uproarious blackface comedian, is Hugh Studebaker, who never 'acted at all until he got Into radio he was a pipe organist. Studebaker also has a show of his own, Bachelors Children. Harpo, the announcer who loves to "spoil Fibber's jokes by sneaking to" a commercial announcement, is Harlow Wilcox, who is Harold Isbell in real life. Fibber, of course, is Jim Jordan. old-tim- "Mu-u-u-usl- c! Ai Embroidery Adds That Smart Touch n good-humore- aa the bandits began poshing the geests around, lining a wall. It became apparent that this was a Joke, M grim reality, of the gangsters with their guns, Up oo the platform, in full view t tgan to get that uneasy feeling He felt like sjclay pigeon just He had $400 in hi pocket and he sDpped lt out andKatherine, out of the trap. ,, against es it well-bein- By WILLIAM C. UTLEY ffTXT'HY dont you forget n Play, Fiddle, Play v about that guy Jor dan? a suitor asked Marion By FLOYD GIBBONS Driscoll about 18 years ago. Fimu Hesdlias Banter Strike the band, here comes a Hell never amount to anyft if) everybody: Zell of up thing. If you marry him, Chicago. bandsman-Fr- ank fiddled while Borne wa burning hut youll be living out of a suitNero hst fl7 they You know, ' Zell went him one better. Frank kept a whole doggone orchestra case all your life. the a minute. Let'e not Crtik-b- I 1 The Lev af LJvlatf There is no translation for gemut-IlchkePerhaps it la because the English speaking nations have never known such a thing. Aa closely as one can get to it in EngEmbroidered flowers that promlish, according to a writer in tho ise to be tha life of your frock Detroit News, gemutlichkeit means re these that youll want for imtho love of living. It means enjoymediate atitchery. Theyre fun I ment of tha simple pleasures of Theyre easy to dot Theyre enlife. It means It means tirely in lazy-dats- y and tingle -or atitch; tha pretty floral border ia taking the time in to sit in a coffee grand finisher for neckline, house and chat with ones friends or read tho papers or watch tho world go by. It means singing and laughter and music and wlno under the open sky In tho cool of evening. Gemutlichkeit meant all of those things, and a lot of others. P' - one-four- yl - Blood Ildp Them Cleanse the f Harmful Body Waste Year kidseye sis eonetaatly St tarter waete nutter frea the blood atrtaia. But work da Ililueje eumetiuee leg In theird- fail te ek act ae Nature Intendeimpwrfttee that, V retained, au HhM the eretea pad upeet the whale pody hlimy Bymptome may be santn fcaeksch header ha, attack, uI diaalnaaa, ant patent eweUiug, pufflnam retting Bp Bight Bader the ajree a lealing el Barrens etrangth. aaxMy end loss of pep aruad bladder du-erdOther eigne o kidney may be burniug, areal at toe Ireoueut BrieeUoa. There should be ae doebt that prompt treatment is wiser than Begteet. Uae Deea'a Mia. Dean's have base wtaaing saw friends tar mere thee lorty yearn. lupauttoa. They have a nutlua-wld- e Are reeohe mended by grateful people UU pan r aeigMarl country ever, n iti |