One hundred years ago this month, the May 1923 issue of Radio Topics magazine’s cover featured twenty-year-old actress Billie Dove, who was evidently a radio enthusiast. She had begun her career a few years earlier as part of the Zigfield Follies, and had moved to silent, and then talking, motion pictures.

She was later engaged to radio amateur Howard Hughes, W5CY, but it was she who broke off the relationship.  She died in 1997.