Connie, Martha and Vet to Speak For About Five Minutes at Southern Station, 6:55 P.M.
The Boswell sisters, Connie, Martha and Vet, famous radio artists, will pass through Charlotte this evening at 6:55 o'clock on the Southern's Crescent Limited. They are going back to New York to resume their broadcast work after spending two weeks at their home in New Orleans.
WBT, Charlotte radio station, has arranged to string a special wire to the rear end of the train in order that the girls may broadcast a program of about five minutes in length.
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Three lovely songbirds of the deep, magnolia-scented south, the Boswell sisters, halted their northward flight in Charlotte last night long enough to burst into a brief bit of harmony and to receive the acclaim of more than 2,000 admirers. Returning from two weeks spent in the pleasant atmosphere of New Orleans, their home city, Connie, Martha and Vet, dark of eye and hair and with languorous beauty that one reads about but seldom sees, greeted a packed throng from the observation end of the Crescent Limited and crooned the theme song that has made their names famous over the ether.
The three sisters were openly surprised at the enthusiastic greeting given them, but responded with smiles, hand-shakes, autographs and a song or two. When the train pulled out of the yards for New York at 6:50 the audience was still congregating. There were almost as many to see the singers as there were to greet Democratic Nominee Roosevelt a few weeks ago.
READY FOR MORE SINGING.
By dint of hard work the Observer reporter squirmed his way up to the platform and talked for a few minutes with Vet, the tallest of the three. While she signed papers and books handed to her she looked from one eager face to another. "I've never seen anything like it," she laughed. "They woke us up somewhere early this morning to take our picture but there wasn't a crowd like this.—Yes, we enjoy singing together. We had a lovely time at home and are ready for more singing."
Vet said that they had not seen the new picture, "The Big Broadcast," in which they appear. "I wish I could stay over and see it here," she said.
Connie, who puts the low, husky tones on the famous melody, received more attention and calls than the other two, but the three got enough attention to last a Ziegfeld chorus.
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