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'Voice From Void' Makes Less Money Today Than When He Was 6 Years Old Tuei., May 31, 194 The News-Review, Raieburg, Ore. 3 By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (P) How would you like to be 34 years old and realize you weren't making as much money as you did at 6? Wendell Holmes is In this po sition. He is one of the better known voices Irom the void that come out of your radio box. And his career is a good ex ample ol the hardships in radio acting, a field to which many feel themselves called but few hear themselves chosen. For to many golden voices radio offers a pewter reward. "There are about 5,000 radio actors here," said Holmes. "And last year they averaged $16 a week salary. Only about 500 man age to earn a truckdriver's liv ing." Holmes, an ex-child Chautau qua star, is now among the top 150 radio actors whose incomes reaches several hundred dollars a week. But it took him 15 years to get there. And many were hungry years. "When I started In 1934 I got $20 a week for working on 30 shows," he said wryly. Since then Holmes has been the Voice of Winston Churchill on a number of radio programs and March of Time films. He is currently in three daytime soap opera serials. He also plays Dr. Watson on the MBS Sherlock Holmes program and also enacted the title role in another MBS production, Scattergood Baines. "So far I haven't been intro duced on the air as Scatterbrains Good," he said with r mild shud der. But its a tongue-slip some one's bound to make eventu ally. Holmes was named after poet Oliver Wendell Holmes by his schoolteacher parents. At the age of six he won an oratorical con test in Middleport, O., and a Chautauqua scout signed him up. "For the next four years I got $500 a week or more," he recalled. "That about ruined me, as I've never been able to equal it since." For two seasons he toured with William Jennings Bryan. The boy gave matinee monologues. Bryan -held the natives spell bound with a four-hour ten ora tion in the evening. "I never heard a more tre mendous voice," said Holmes. "Bryan could make 10,000 people hear him, and he didn't use a microphone. "One day our car became stuck in ' a West Virginia dirt road. Bryan got out in the rain, rolled up his sleeves and helped pry us out of the mud. He said some language to the mud stronger than he ever used on the plat form." When he was 10, Holmes re alized he was growing up and Chautauqua was growing down. He went back to school and grad uated from Ohio State University at 18. His parents wanted him to be come a history teacher. But Holmes chose radio. His first pro gram on a Columbus, O., station a 15-minute monologue which he wrote himself paid $5 a week. Then he came to Manhattan. "It is hard to get known here, he said. "It isn't so much what you can do that's important. It's whether you can convince enough directors and producers that they can rely on you. That takes a long time." In radio people have an Ori ental sense of politeness. After each program the actors usually assure each other what a swell job they did. Then they get on me phone and call tneir wives "How was I, honey?" they ask anxiously. "But you can't always trust even your wife to tell you the trutii, grinned Holmes, sne wants to let you down easy, too. Many countries hold national elections on Sunday because on tnat dav business will De least interfered with and the most voters are free to come to the poles. PIANOS Baldwin, Wurlltrar Gulbranien Ott'i Piano Dept. Corntr of Can and Jiekson Phone 1119J I Men's Good Clothes . Harth't Toggery 128 N. Jackson 1 1 J Ml V . ivioiH.neai HEATING OILS Diesel and Stove Oils Quality Oils For Every Purpose PROMPT METERED DELIVERIES E. A. 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