Behond the scenes in radio

              Behind the Scenes in Radio

INSIDE THE STUDIOS WITH 
HOWARD R. HOFFMAN




Radio's Leading Character Actor Creator of Chandu, the Magician



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CHANDU
 IN CHANDU—THE MAGICIAN




A committee's responsibility is to offer programs that both entertain and instruct.  The Hoffman lecture assures them beforehand of a thoroughly successful occasion.  Meeting face-to-face a popular radio personality is an exciting moment for any audience.  In all radio's roster of dramatic artists there is none more capable of delivering a solid and satisfying program of intimate revelations and gripping dramatic portrayals.  ¶ Whatever one's attitude toward radio may be there is no denying its vastness, its definite influence on contemporary life and thought.  It is well, therefore, to be intelligently informed on this subject which Howard Hoffman knows so thoroughly.  Known from coast to coast for the famous roles he has created in scores of broadcasts, the freshness and vigor he brings to his presentations spell certain success for the program director.




MEET THE MAN WHO KNOWS … HOW TO TELL ABOUT

BEHIND THE SCENES IN RADIO





HOWARD R. HOFFMAN
 
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 BEHIND THE SCENES IN RADIO



What Is the Future of Radio?


Is Radio Acting Great Art?


What of Radio as a Career?


Will Radio Replace the Stage?


What Are the Discouragements and Obstructions of Radio?




In taking you behind the scenes in radio as he answers the above questions and many others, Howard Hoffman draws on a rich experience to make every word and gesture graphic and revealing.




Through him you sense the tension, the strain, the exhausting toil and sometimes ludicrous mishaps which go into the creation of the very radio programs to which you may be listening from day to day.




With Howard Hoffman you are in the studio, experiencing radio from the inside, brought closer to it and to the understanding of the often temperamental, but nevertheless sincerely artistic folk you now know only as voices.  Nothing could be more fascinating than this experience of witnessing the giving of substance to those vocal shadows of the air waves.  How well you may expect it to be done may be judged from the facts of Mr. Hoffman's career—his wealth of legitimate theatrical experience with Charles Coburn, Klaw and Erlanger and the Shuberts, out of which came the early recognition he found in radio and the opportunity to create, it has been said, more roles than any other actor in radio, some of which he brings to reality before your very eyes.




Behind The Scenes In Radio
 is a unique, exhilarating form of entertainment, its effectiveness attested by hundreds of engagements the country over.  Beyond what Mr. Hoffman offers as an entertainer, Directors of Speech and Drama Departments find his voice work, characterizations and technical knowledge of inestimable value to their students.





ALWAYS A HIT —



Your programs a veritable inspiration.  We would do well to use you for a third time in the light of the way you were received on the two preceding years programs.




— 
Lions International, Chicago, Illinois
 
G. A. Edgar, Assistant Secretary




Hoffman, of 'Chandu' Fame Registers Hit.  (head Lines.)  —


Elgin (Illinois) Courier News




One of the finest voices and the most able interpreter of Drama and Poetry we have ever presented.




— 
Poetry Circle of New York City
 
Mrs. N. L. Green-Leach




One of the best we have ever staged—unhesitatingly recommend him.




— 
Chicago Association of Commerce
 
Paul Kunning




Especially popular with both faculty and students.  Your work makes for a greater interest in the finest work of the immortals.




— 
Benedictine Academy, Elizabeth, N. J.
 
Mother Monica, OSB., Prioress




Personal Appearances for the Season Now Being Considered


HOWARD R. HOFFMAN
 4630 Kenmore Avenue CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

MR. HOFFMAN BROADCASTING


CELEBRATED PROGRAMS UPON WHICH

HOWARD HOFFMAN

HAS APPEARED OVER NBC - CBS - MBS

Chandu, the Magician


The First Nighter


Story of Mary Marlin


The Northerners


At the Music Counter


Grand Hotel


Eyes of Youth


Romance of Helen Trent


Curtain Time


Men of Destiny


Backstage Wife


Ma Perkins


The Guiding Light


Don Winslow of the Navy


Court of Missing Heirs


Betty and Bob


Orphan Annie


History in the Making


Painted Dreams


Myrt and Marge


Lightnin' Jim Whipple


Jack Armstrong


Win Your Lady


Princess Pat


Tale of Today


Welcome Valley


Zenith Foundation


Girl Alone


Lem and Martha


Obligato


The Inside Story


Avalon Time



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