Foreign News: Best Known Man

M. Radiolo, one-time railway accountant, " best known man in France," has risen to fame because he has a voice more resonant than that of either Caruso or Jean de Reszke at the height of their careers. He gets $63 a week—quite a large salary for Paris. His job is to amuse radio fans by talking to them through the transmitter of a wireless broadcasting apparatus. His mellifluent voice, heard by women listening in on the 50,000 receiving sets in France, has brought Radiolo many pressing matrimonial proposals. Recently he attended a theatre....

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