"Be a Star"

In one studio was discovered a phot graph forged with the signature: "I owe everything to you.--Frank Crumit."

In another, a 15-year-old New Yorker paid $50 for the privilege of broadcasting. The microphone carried her voice only to the next room.

In a third, a pretty Polish girl was asked so many sexy questions that she hired a chaperon to accompany her to "radio college." When her course was completed she had no job.

Last week, to fight such fake concerns, a committee was organized at the Lambs Club, Manhattan. Members were such big radio-earners as Frank Crumit, Jazzmen Johnny Green and Mark Warnow, Dr. Marion Sayle Taylor ("The Voice of Experience"). At first meeting they reviewed many an instance where innocents had been hoaxed by promising advertisements ("Be a Star in Six Weeks," "A Radio Job for Life"). Many had paid fancy fees on the assurance that a high-priced engagement automatically went with a diploma. The new committee proceeded to chronicle such cases, to warn the public that no authorized "radio college" exists, that the "radio teacher" who claims connections with important radio bookers is as likely as not to be a complete fraud.

No "radio college" could claim Irene Beasley who at the National Electrical & Radio Exposition in Manhattan last week was crowned Queen of Radio for 1934. As a child in Whitehaven. Tenn., she used to play the bass while her 85-year-old grandmother played the treble. When she grew to a gangling 5 ft., 10 in., she started vocal lessons, hoped only to cultivate poise. But singing obsessed her even when she started school-teaching. Her radio debut was over Memphis Station WMC. For two years she sang free in Chicago. Then Columbia Broadcasting System gave her a contract which led to a better one with National Broadcasting Co. and a place with Phil Baker on the Armour hour. Last week's award resulted from a nation-wide balloting in which she won 23,432 votes out of 290,000. Besides her crown she received a one-and-one-half foot silver loving cup.

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