Film actress Hope Hampton starred in several silent movies. With the dawn of the sound era, she retired from the cinema and turned to opera, singing with the Philadelphia Opera. She returned to the screen in 1938, in The Road to Reno. She died in 1982 at the age of 84.

And in the 1920’s, she had an interest in radio. In the top photo, she is shown using one of the piano wires as an antenna. And the lower photo shows her confidently handling a soldering iron as she solders the tuning coil of her set. The pictures above appeared in the July 15, 1922, issue of Radio Digest.

Here, she appears with Lon Chaney in The Light of Faith (1922):

Hope Hapmpton, undated photo. (Wikipedia)

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