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Show i Radio's oldest daytime script show, I "Judy and Jane," was started by two of today's top air stars. Bess Johnson, John-son, star of "Hilltop House," and Ireene Wicker, the "Singing Lady," wrote the first script, auditioned it and Introduced it on the air. I Pretty Betty Wragee. above, youthful youth-ful star heard over NBC on "Pepper Young's Family," is a veteran radio performer at the age of twenty Betty is celebrating her tenth year on the air and her fifth on "Pepper Young's Family." Each Sunday Dave Elman, conductor conduc-tor of "Hobby Lobby," broadcasts to the nation from a sumptuously appointed ap-pointed studio in Radio City. Two blocks away at a down-at-the-heels vaudeville theatre Dave was once told ty an unsympathetic manager that his career as a showman was hopeless. Contrary to the custom oi most radio performers to go into "hiding" directly before broadcasting. Dr. William L. Stidger, above, may be seen chatting amiably with anyone who happens to pass him In thei Radio City corridors directly before taking on "Getting the Most Out of Life," Mondays through Fridays over the NBC-Blue network. The Foursome, octarina quartet subbing for Bing Crosby on the Thursday Music Hall broadcasts, have a simple, business arrangement. arrange-ment. They just take a vote on accepting contracts and majority l rules. T - -y i , -ijjvrA, r::-vpliliiw m p ; liilJiBlli Back to vaiifemia where he is currently heard on CBS Sundays on John Nesbitt's "Passing Parade," Al Garr. pictured above, finds his greatest enjoyment sailing his 38-foot 38-foot boat. When in the East on the Phil Baker show last winter. Al sold his boat but bought it back when he returned to the West Coast. Marek Weber, musical director of the NBC "Contented Hour," claims that Oscar Straus has a colossal nerve, but he doesn't mean it in a derogatory sense. The reference is , to Straus' waltzes, which possess tre mendous nervous energy. Though better known for his verse, Edgar Guest, star of the "It Can Be Done" programs, has written five books in prose, in addition to twelve volumes of poems. Back again on the program on which she achieved such popularity is Elizabeth Lennox, above, famed contralto soloist. After an absence of several months. Miss Lennox has reioined the NBC Sunday night show, "American Album of Familiar Music" I Aunt Jenny Says: The reason ' some people never hear opportunity knocking is because they're too busy at it themselves." |