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...copies. One volume, however, called Tony's Scrap Book had sold 225,000 copies, was still going fairly strong last month when Publishers Reilly & Lee issued Tony's Scrap Book No. 2. These, along with another published last November with the title 'R' You Listenin'?, are the product of Anthony ("Tony") Wons, a radio performer who has broken all records of Columbia Broadcasting System for sustained fan mail (2,000 letters a week). Self-styled a "peptomist," Wons is regarded by a shuddering minority as the most offensive broadcaster on the air. To his enormous...
...Frank Crane, Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Many, of unknown origin, are favorites of listeners who send them in. Here and there are a few lines from Shelley, Browning, Whitman, A. E. Housman. Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous, insinuatingly folksy, with an ingratiating "Are yuh listenin'?" or "Isn't that pretty?" 'R' You Listenin'? is a book of extracts from "Tony's Own Philosophy," sermonets which he sometimes broadcasts. Typical excerpt...
...Both San Francisco and Los Angeles (also Portland, Ore.) are full-page advertisers in your periodical, and I believe I am correct in assuming that you also have countless readers and subscribers out on this Pacific slope; and yet it seems that we are not deemed worthy of a listenin on your advertised broadcast. I for one would be willing to forego Amos & Andy or any other popular radio entertainment, to listen to "The March of Time" in event of the programs clashing...
...Martinisms: "We often wonder if anybuddy ever bought new shoe strings before th' ole ones busted? . . . Wouldn't this be a dandy world if we could all stand discouragement like a reformer? . . 'I heard a shot and a scream in the hall but wuz jest listenin' in on Amos & Andy and thought no more of it,' testified Mrs. Tilford Moots' brother, questioned in regard to the murder of his wife." Born into a newspaper family (his brother and sister, Horace K. and Ada A. Hubbard, publish the Examiner, Bellefontaine, Ohio), Kin Hubbard spent...
...Church of Hingland. On the right you vill hobserve his 'oss, a tied to a tree-box, a pawin' of the ground and a vishin' for his hoats; and on the extreme left the bishops from the races, a sittin' in the vaggon, vith their gownds on, a listenin', and a lookin' werry black at some raggid boys and girls a sayin', "Vat do ye think of that kind of preachin', you old coveies? Beat that if you can, you bloated haristocrats...