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Why did the "greatest historians of our day" fail to mention the Drought conference between President Roosevelt and Governor Landon over the "March of Time"? . . .
MICHAEL F. SHANNON JR. Los Angeles, Calif.
The "March of Time" has complied with a White House request not to simulate the voice of Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he speaks as U. S. President.—ED.
Voice of TIME
Sirs:
As a regular subscriber I wish to ask you . . . to give a brief account of the ''Voice of TIME," the man whose intelligent, thrilling, descriptive announcing of current events and history has given us all so much pleasure I ... I think there are thousands who agree with me, when I say that there is nothing so absolutely thrilling as his magnificent "TIME MARCHES ON!"
FLORENCE A. WESTLAKE W. Somerville, Mass.
The Voice of TIME, both on the air and in the cinema, is that of Cornelius Westbrook Van Voorhis, 35, tall (6 ft. 1 in.), brown-haired New Yorker who has also broadcast as Hugh Conrad. In his six years with radio he has worked for some 50 programs using at least five names (some chosen by the sponsors). Bored by the U. S. Naval Academy, he spent his $150,000 patrimony on a leisurely trip around the world. Unsuccessful on the stage, he got a job at $18 a week introducing Jimmy Durante and Cab Galloway at the now defunct Silver Slipper night club, shortly stepped up into radio. He is one of very few public announcers whose voice can be used both in the U. S. and in England. Of his voice said the London Sunday Referee: "It has neither an American nor an English accent, but it grips the attention as few screen voices do." Voice Van Voorhis spends holidays tinkering his boat, sailing with his wife, his young daughter Nancy, 2.—ED.
Photostamp
Sirs:
Cameraddicts and philatelists among TIMErs ,will be interested to know that the portraits on the new Edward VIII stamps of which TIME [Sept. 14] says "the new stamps have simple, modernistic and almost photographic profile views of Edward VIII which really look like him" have actually been reproduced from a recent photograph of the Sovereign by Hugh Cecil Portraits, Ltd. of London, England.
For the first time in history the stamp portrait of a Sovereign has been reproduced from a photograph.
GEORG RUTHENBERG
Ruthenberg Color Photography Co. Hollywood, Calif.
England's popular new stamp does not clearly establish precedent. In February 1935 the Dominican Republic issued a photostamp of her Dictator-President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina at the same time that she changed the name of her capital city from Santo Domingo to Trujillo.—ED.
Sirs:
Some time ago I read that the Rumanian Government had to issue new postage stamps because of an international ruling requiring all nations to print the name of their country on their stamps.
Why then can England issue stamps without any name, as shown in your last magazine?
J. J. NlMS Orwell, Ohio
Since England's first postage stamp (1840) was also the world's first, it needed no national identification, bore none. Proud that their Monarch's face is known to earth's end, Britons continue their tradition.