Radio News Magazine July 1926
Alone at Last! reads the caption
of the classic magazine cover from July, 1926. Perhaps
Heartbreak Honeymoon would have been a better title.
A young bride sits weeping on a hotel-room bed while
her groom eagerly listens to a portable radio, oblivious
to her distress.
Plastered with Just Married signs, their luggage sits
unpacked as the eager groom twists the dials. In fact, he has
set up the radio on top of their trunk, preventing his bride
from unpacking and possibly changing into an ensemble that might
draw his attention elsewhere. Perhaps there's
a lesson here for all of us married radio fans . . . my wife
certainly thinks so!
Can anybody identify the radio shown in this illustration?
I flipped through the book The Portable Radio
in Modern Life but didn't see anything that seemed to match.
Perhaps this is a fictitious example, but if there is a real set
that looks like this, I'd like to know.
Many thanks to Scott Balderston for providing a color copy of this
magazine cover from his collection.
For a variation on this theme, check out the
March 1935
issue of Short Wave Craft magazine, in which
an impatient wife delivers some choice words to her
husband as he blissfully DXs in bed.
Yet another pair appears on the cover of July 1935
Short Wave Craft. Let's hope that young man doesn't get too wrapped up in
his radio, or the night may not end so happily!
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