Alois Havrilla

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Yes, I realise the article has to do with Tiny Ruffner, but there's reference to Havrilla in it as well. It's rare finding references to announcers prior to 1930. I found one from 1931 where he was listed as "Baritone"

ANNOUNCER HAS VARIED CAREER
Giant Artist of Firestone Radio Has Romantic Background
Edmund Ruffner, who will look down into the microphone again tonight from his height of six and a half feet, paints the scenes for the songs and symphonies of The Voice of Firestone" with word pictures drawn from, memories of strange lands.
The giant of the studio, affectionately known as "Tiny" Ruffner, did not gain fame by chance. He followed his music teacher throughout the country and worked at 20 occupations to defray the cost of 12 years' musical study. He has worked in the lumber camps, to Alaska fisheries,
in industrial plants, and department stores. He drove a bread wagon in New York, and now he proudly admits he "never missed a sunrise in five years."
Although he is now in program planning profession, his weekly return to the studio as special announcer brings to the "Voice of Firestone" an added atmosphere and appeal.
Ruffner was bom In Crawfordsville, Ind., and moved to the northwest, where, after finishing his school, he entered the University of Washington to study music. The World war came along, and he joined the army, afterwards resuming his study, earning money in various ways for his tuition. He is an all-around athlete and "letter man" in football, baseball, track and tennis.
Ruffner and Alois Havrilla are close friends, the two having become associated after the war in the great musical religious drama, ''The Wayfarer," produced in New York. A few years later they were together in "The Princess Flavia." After the war Havrilla joined the National Broadcasting country's staff and in 1927 persuaded Tiny to do likewise.
While Ruffner was on his vacation the listeners of the "Voice of the
Firestone" enjoyed hearing his buddy pinch-hit for him when Havrilla acted as guest announcer.
[rest of article deals with the coming week's songs on "The Voice of Firestone".]
-Brownsville Herald, Sept. 1, 1929

There's also the following story, which doesn't have anything to do with Havrilla per se, but is interesting as it mentions the "Judson Radio Program Corporation." It became CBS.
Much of what you read below is obsolete terminology, though I worked at a place in 1975 where the patch board (designed in the 1940s) had a couple of plug-ins labelled "Nemo."

FIELD OF RADIO DEVELOPS VOCABULARY ALL ITS OWN
by United Press
NEW YORK - Every business has its own particular jargon which is quite unintelligible to the layman. Broadcasting Is not unlike the theatre or baseball in developing its own language.
For instance, around the offices and studios of the Judson Radio Program Corporation, one is liable at any time to run into noted announcers like "Tiny" Ruffner or Alois Havrilla or Lewis Reid, mumbling "Nemo," "piping out," "socking the needle" or "hop."
This doesn't mean that the announcer is well on his way to that state which the pugilist calls "cutting out paper dolls." Far from it. When he" says "Nemo," he is not referring to the comic supplement character but to the studio designation for a broadcast which goes through the studio to
the transmitter. Likewise, when he talks about socking the needle, he refers not to hypodermics but to a broadcaster whose delivery is too harsh or powerful for good results.
Someone who is "mikewise" is one who knows his or her broadcasting technique and thoroughly acquainted with the requirements "Riding the gain" means regulation of power by the control operator.
Staying too close to the microphone while broadcasting is called "hugging the mike." something which is quite apt to result is garbled tone, or "muddy mike."
"Piping out" a program is the simple process of sending it over wire to a remote point. Some uninitiated broadcasters make the volume indicator register heavily too suddenly. The resultant "kick" may "blast" the microphone.
- Aug. 1, 1929