Sounds of the Air: present by Alice Allen & Harold Allen

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Sounds of the Air
Presented by

ALICE ALLEN · HAROLD ALLEN
Radio and Screen Artists

ALICE ALLEN, radio personality and musician, and HAROLD ALLEN, famed imitator from Hollywood and radioland, demonstrate the mysteries and wonders of the screen and microphone.

See how sound effects are created in the leading radio studios, as well as in the motion pictures and animated cartoons in Hollywood.


MUSIC
LIGHTS
EXCITING
ACTION
SURPRISING
LAUGHS
THRILLING
DRAMA




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ALICE ALLEN, Pianist and Accordionist
One of radio's most interesting personalities, has been a featured radio artist from coast to coast.  As a child, she showed unusual musical talent and ability and was a student at the Minneapolis Conservatory of Music, where, at the surprising age of fourteen, she became an associate instructor.  Later, Alice Allen taught music at a Conservatory of Music in Seattle, as well as writing, directing and staging musical productions and radio programs.  Her study of voice production, speech, and pipe organ, ably equipped her for a successful career in radio.



SOUNDS OF THE AIR
Go Behind the Scenes in Movie Land!
Learn the Secrets, Discover the Magic of Radio and Movies!

See and hear how these SOUND EFFECTS are made:

GALLOPING —
HI-YO SILVER!
THUNDERSTORM!
FIRE! WIND! RAIN!
HUMMING BEES!
SINGING BIRDS!
MOOING COWS!
TRAIN!
MOTOR BOAT!
AUTOMOBILE!
BOMBER!


IMITATIONS FROM ANIMATED CARTOONS AND MANY OTHER SOUNDS.




HAROLD ALLEN
Harold Allen has doubled for many famous motion picture stars such as Melvyn Douglas, Fredric March, Nino Martini and Frank Morgan, providing whistling sequences, as well as imitating sounds of birds, animals and insects for animated cartoons.  At an early age, Mr.  Allen showed a natural talent for whistling and imitating, mastering several styles and numerous bird calls.  Later, after finishing college at the University of Southern California, he entered the radio field on the Pacific Coast.  With the advent of sound pictures, he became a leading Hollywood imitator, sound-effects man and double for many leading stars in featured pictures.


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SOUNDS OF THE AIR
Alice Allen and Harold Allen of California, present an original and copyrighted program, Sounds of the Air, based on their own experiences in Hollywood.

These artists combine their talents in a cleverly planned program consisting of dramatized dialogue, bird mimicry, musical artistry, sound effects and humor.


THE PROGRAM
Alice Allen and Harold Allen, wizards of music and mimiery, present a complete, fast moving program, everything from the overture to exit music.  The stage is set to represent a radio broadcasting studio with talent and equipment for a well balanced program of variable lenght.

Featured are the very realistic radio sound effects of running horses, motor boats, thunderstorms, dive bombers, and many mysteries of the radio, as well as imitations, whistling, piano and accordion novelties and a radio play.

The program is unique, delightfully new, modern, and interesting from start to finish with comedy, action, lights and music all eleverly combined and artistically presented by these two talented artists.





A few Coast to Coast Testimonials

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SOUNDS OF THE AIR
Chicago Lawn Woman's Club, Chicago, Ill.:

Unique and delightful program.

Lions' Club, Whiting, Indiana:

The men of the club were delighted with program.

University of Kansas Lecture Bureau:

Your program has been one of our most successful.

Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel, Atlantic City, N. J.:

Our guests were highly entertained.

American Legion, Yankee Post No. 490, Chicago, Ill.:

Everyone enjoyed it.

Cheviot Women's Club, Los Angeles, Calif.:

One of the most popular programs of the year.

University of Minnesota Concert and Lecture Bureau:

One of the top-ranking attractions of the season.

Yosemite National Park, California:

Our 1500 guests were pleased with your clever program.

Western Defense Command and Fourth Army:

Excellent professional entertainment.

Y. M. C. A., New York City:

You took us behind the scenes in a thrilling way.

Chicago, Ill., Dist. Supt., Leo G. Herdig:

A real educational entertainment from which the youngsters get a great deal of enjoyment.

Los Angeles High School Principals Association:

Superior rating.

Burlington H. S., Burlington, N. J. — E. A. Ditsell:

Proved themselves to be real artists.  Students and teachers praised them highly.

Chicago, Ill., S., D. F. O'Hearn:

The artists used interesting and intelligent methods of presenting their very fine program.

Los Angeles, Calif., Polytechnic H. S., A. Humphrey:

The program was excellent.

Des Moines, Iowa, East H. S., O. G. Prichard:

Highly entertaining, educational and exceptionally fine.

Chicago, Ill., John Hay School, E. E. Keener:

One of the best features I have ever witnessed.

Club Programs: Kiwanis, Rotary, Lions, American Legion, Parent-Teacher Associations, Women's Clubs, National Parks and hotels from coast to coast.

Motion Pictures: 20th Century Fox, Columbia, Paramount, R. K. O., Universal, Screen Gems.

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