EDDIE CANTOR

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 52, 5 July 1935, Page 58

EDDIE CANTOR

How a Famous Actor ~ Keeps ‘Busy °.

DDIE CANTOR, who went to England and did a turn on the air for the B.B.C: from their. St. George’s Hatl vaudeville studio, gave away a little more evidence. He was on the stage eighteen years before he began‘ brvadcasting; three years ago he was brouadcasting to three and a half million listeners, now he has thirty miillion in the U.S.A. and Canada, for an hour on Sunday nights, twenty-six weeks °2 . year. He writes ‘his own shows and neither the: broadcasters nor the advertisers whd sponsor his’ programme interfere in any way.’ ‘He wili have 2o jokes that are "doubtful" or about deformity or that’ will, hurt’ people’s feel-. ings. Every three weeks he’ has 4a. trial, and passes judgment on cases brought before him: ‘One’ was an ‘at-tempted-suicide case, and Cantor gave a long disquisition’ to the;prisoner on "why, he ought: to want. to stay alive." Thousands of listeners’ wrote and told Cantor he had given them courage to carry one He gets‘a big kick -out of that’ sort of thing, because he believes ‘that ‘radio is a great power for good." He ended-his English broadcast with 3° plea. to motorists to drive earefully. He has ‘started many new performers on the way to stardom; « he began "Burns and Allen"’;: and ‘he can get many excellent performers:to come and work for :him because he’ can "write them better: material -than they .can wiite for themselves. ._He said that ‘when he’ began broadcasting in America again in February, he was: going -to give a "preview" of his hour on’ Sunday afternoon, "playing through the complete hour’s programme before fifteen hundred people, watching their reactions and reworking the show before it went on in’ the evening’s pro‘gramme. . So Se —