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RptE·. good ...... ,.. ,0 , NBC·TV'. the big ""5t ",ill Include F.....:Iric March P~pari"'M for ito< role on th" Sunday ..ight ~mhfo, 13. ",·~t NBC·TV. Moon. in order to mm thil ..ri .... on 'ele"osiOll -und~r Ihe lith Af~ W;f~ Texcite"",nt over plan. for Itl IJjg .. s"t'OOj[e. Baoil Rathbone as M .• rley·. bcl'ore Chri.otmu. th<- N"... York Phil· ""ilh an ~Il-'\.ar .,...1. wh,eh. incidentally. "'IlI $hoI In color . I ...... , Cy Howard. ,,·ho ere~ted. wrv\.c> Cnli!ltmu day ntl'll'·.g..... "P<>tft" Ghoot. Christopher Cook u Tiny Tim. hannonic Syn,phony h .. p""llra",,,,<'lc Wiloon 01 the 'lai" p'oouct;o".... h,en ...'" "A""'hl and the Night Vi'itOl"." by During th~ Intennl.. lon 11_. Jan," ·A ....nlc "nd Old Lace.' .\arnng al,.'O ..hnIlIO h .. fa .... It'. high lime. He will be Irma "lIain. but th.. rol~ of her tn...,., noul'S. Accordlnl( tn pr~S<'nt pia"., Gian·Carlo Menotti. will be p""'""nled F,,_U will nnrr8tc "A CMrOI 10 Born." Helen HayeA. Billie Burke and Bori "nd Wamu Bmlh"", ha~~ .<'1 • d",,1 husband hal nol be<.·n ..... t a. y~t ··Pclc." wHl most Iokely hfo televised on NBC·TV, lor the fifth con ...",uti"e Kadoff, The February p .....,ntallon on I~r him ~o .t~r in a ""r;CI 01 pl~lurcs. the $tory of Ih~ cornpoohl"n. "SII~nt '1',1, 'n' ·n •• , , lrom the thealc...... It I. pl~yin". ye~r. OIl Sunday, I:!eeember 19. Also Nighl." He will alao play I .... I"I~ thi' once_a·month .ho,,· Inay be "The lIos Ii"", One .. och<'(!ult.J to go inlO because of the many tnvolved m<"Chan_ dOi!lM a ...peat. on CBS Hadlo. Decem. Madame ErnCltinc Schumann.llcink·. f\,tl'ifi,-d .For""t," wilh Humphrey Bo· production in a Ie,,"' month. Llhforac~ Th.. ~tork paid a vi..it. on October 24. ICII 01 the play. ber 19. will hfo Am"" 'n' Andy. with original recording of the ..1""llon, made II"rt mak'n~ hi. TV dramado debut. h ....id ~ dIK" not wanl 10 do a film to nomthy Colli,," and Ra)'mond Scot CBS·TV·, bll( Yuletide olferill.ll 10 their now·famous version 01 the Lord'. many yea .. 81(0. David W8)"ne'~ .. tualion·com....!)' balil'd on tlile. bul would p~ler to and p~nted them with a daughter Dicke... · "Christma, Carol." whl~h wHl Pray~r. And Gcn~ Autry. who will teU "The Women"'_ by Clare Booth.. .!ww Norby ... all or! to KO: January ~ porlray. r.on hk~ hn"M'lf 'n hll whi~h "",8". Dorolhy will be r"IUmi"~ be .....n Thursday, o..c.-mhfor 23, Max· the .Ior)' of the Na'ivny. "" he did 1&51 Luce-"'hleh w". hit Broodway ohow ;._ lhe date uf d,.. fi .... t one. on NBC·TV. n,tl.l m('" . In that way h. fHIo he 10 y"", Hi. PA .... d .. In the "...r luture well Anderson h .. done • rnUIIlcal ~l'8r. will hfo heard on CBS Radio the ~nd alao a hil movie. will be ~,fom'<'

fohn Conrad makes jumbo-sized merriment with ELmer Elephant, whose floppy ears and twinkling eyes del'ght Chicago youngsters Fans rebelled when John tried to replace Elmer.

HEN John COnJ'ad talks to his elephant, there W are no raised eyebrows. Instead there are shrieks of glee from John's young WNBQ fans as Elmer The Elephant not only talks back hut gencl'ally outsmarts his friend, trainer and butt of the pranks Elmer plays every weekday afternoon at five .... Actually, Elmer is not completely there; he's only a life-sized, papier-mache puppet head of a pachyderm who speaks by means of printed cards or props. During a "conversation," a game 01' a lesson, John may suggest that they make a deal, whereupon Elmer will produce a deck of cards. For Elmer has lots of things in his floppy-eared head, namely wires and pulleys plus a real live actor to manipulate them. . Some months ago, Elmer began to show signs of wear and John tried to replace him with another puppet. But wonicd fans protested, asking "What's Toy elephonts are an easy clue as to what's the wrong with Elmer?" and so J ohn took his new favorite TV program for Pamela. Penelope ond young puppet, added curling eyelashes and a frill­ John when Elmer's creator isn't reodiflg to them or trimmed howdah and introduced Elmira, the helping lovely wife Lydia with the dinner dishes. beloved Elmer's girl friend. A while later, John tried again, but once more the youngsters howled, "That's NOT Elmer!" The third puppet may soon grow a gray beard and appear as Elmer's father.. John's original uniform at NBC-Chicago was that of a page boy when, sixteen years ago, he attended classes at the stlltion's announcers' school. Too shy to appear at auditions, John sent recordings of his voice to various stations and eventually landed his own commercial show at a sma!l Chicago station. Finishing his education and gaining experience in EJ Paso, Texas, John was emceeing a dance remote when the station manager asked if he'd like to meet one of the local belles. John pOinted to Lydia Chapman- who later turned out to be the manager's sish.'l~and they were married just before John enlisted in the Navy. Today he gets many of his program ideas from his three offspring-Pamela, 9, John, 8, and Penelope, 4. , John's carpentry hobby helped him to build the original puppet, and his penchant lor magic is • the source of many of the tricks and whimsies that have made Elmer as real and loved as Santa Claus 01" the Easter Bunny. 6 WHAT'S NEW (Continued from page 5) The "Inside" Story of recently celebrated its seventh birthday. Since its debut in Chicago as a local chi!­ dl'{!n', show. Burr Tilstrom's cast of popu­ lar little characters have become adull fn­ Fabulous Playtex Girdles! vorites as well. During its seven years on , the program has received fifty­ foul' nnlianai and regional awards. Also celebrating an (lnnivcrs."Iry- a ~ *" *" News from Playtcx . ",odd's largest-selling girdles * * .. twenty-fivc-year one-is The Children', HOIlT. which began as a local broadcast in Philadelphia and is now simulcast over Slatjons WRCA and WRCA-TV. The Cllil­ "' "kiddie" stars such as Eileen Barton, Eara ,,, Stone, Kilty Kallen, Arnold Stang, among is."' many olhers. •• ". Albert Mitchell, the original "Answer " Man" on radio, passed away a few weeks " ago at his home in Paris, France. Mitchell started his program in New York in 1937 Hnd was heard regularly until 1950, when he went to Paris to work for a Marshall Plan agency. Gcorge Burns and Gracie Alll'n have ar­ rangoo to have life insurance policies writ­ tl'n for all employ('eS of their McCadden Productions, without cost to the employ('('s. Gcorge said the move was in line with a long-range plan to build up a permanent staff and crew for their telefilms, and, "This is our way of showing how much we value their talents." Lots of romantic news this month. , long consideroo one of the most eligible single men in broadcasting-and also one of the most popular~finally took himself a bride. She's pretty Melanie K'.lhane, one of New York's famous decora­ tors. They were wed in Manhattan and then sailed for a whirlwind four-week honeymoon in Europe. Joan Davis' daughter, Beverly Wi\ls­ who married Lt. Alan Grossman- is now living in Ft. Lewis, Washington. Beverly decided to give up her car('('r in favor of being a housewife, so now Mama Davis has to find a new gi rl to play her sister on 1 Married Joan. Because the show is filmed far in advance, Beverly will still be seen N a few more times. It looks like we're losing our crooners to matrimony, too. Vic Damone and actress Pi..,r Angeli will probably be married by the time you read this. Though their' The one and only Girdle with courtship was a whirlwind one. they have known each other for over two years. The young couple plan to live in Beverly Hills figure-molding latex outside. and have renlMd a hou$(' there with an op­ 11 tion to buy it. Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds have _ kitten-soft fabric inside ... and not a told friends that they will probably post­ pone their wedding until both of them can get away from their respective jobs long single stitch, seam or bone anywhere! enough to take a honeymoon trip. One of the happiest marrioo couples in Hollywood-Eve Arden and Brooks West­ No other girdles whittle away so manr recently welcomed their first baby, who inches, yet feel so comfortable! Only Plar1ex'· weighed in at nine pounds and answel's to the nnme of Douglas Brooks. The Wests al­ has the sli mming power of Jatex o utside ready have three adopted children. plus the comfort of kitten-sofl fabric inside. Ralph Edwards was very grieved by the sudden death of his producer, Al Paschall, \Vasiles in seconds and you can practically at the age of thirty-seven. following an op­ walch it dry_ Freedom.gi, ing Playtex eration. Paschall and Edwards had been close friends and partners since the early 1'.5. You'llo~e the new Girdles control those ··Calorie-Cun 'es.... , "LAYTE~ Lh·jllg BAA! It', days of Edwards' fantastic career. give you that ~ Iimm er- trilllmer look, Sad, too, was the passing of Lee Bennett, "ru~tom..:ontoured·· of no mafler whal your size! an NBC announcer in Chicago. and well­ eJulie and nylon to flatter, known in broadcasting circles there. Many 11$ PLA YTH fabric lined Girdless" Briefs ... from will remember Lee from his musical career leel and fil iJ f(IJhioned S..J.95 , when he was a popular singer wi th Jan Jar )'011 alolle! Only 13,95 Known evcrywhere 8S the gi rdle in the SLIM tuhe­ , Garber's orchestra in the Thirties, and late.· • u.s .... .,'" V"""'p> '·01 ...... '"'''''''' at department 610res and beller ~pecialty Qhop<. whcn he fronloo his own band. • Howdy Doody had a mammoth party a C'9U Corporolion ... PlAYlEX PARK ... Do~er Del few weeks ago, (Continued OIl page 9) In Conodo, Ploy l e~ lid ...• PlAYTEX PARK ..• ",np,;o" Onl. 7 F.·om you ngstel's to

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PUOTOGRAPH of a young man wearing a battered top A hat, an ear-ta-ear bow tie- and a grin to match­ was all the address that appeared on a letter received "ecently at a Detroit post office. But the photo was enough for anybody who's been keeping even one eye on television, and the letter was delivered post-haste to Soupy Sales, Station WXYZ-TV's lean, lovable man of mirth. The big polka-dotted cravat is Soupy's trade­ mark fOr 12 O'Clock ComicS, his weekday lunch clate with the "Birdbaths," as he affectionately calls his junior fans. As Soupy and Detroit youngsters meet across the TV set for lunch, there are cartoons, comedies and tricks, as well as chats with such unusual friends of Soupy's as White Fang, Black Tooth, W illie the Worm and h is girl friend Too-Too, FOl' fans who al'e older in years but still young at heart, Soupy dons a more subdued four-in­ hand to present Soupy's On, every weekday evening at eleven. The tie is the only thing that's subdued, however, as Soupy showers his viewers with a riotous quarter­ hour of music, dancing, joking, and guest celebrities. Soupy was born Milton Hines in 1926, and grew up in Huntington, West Virginia, whel'e he debuted on a local high school radio show. He was aiming to be a journalist when a new radio station opened up in town and Soupy hired himself out with them for a recompense of experience only, Later, he went on to spin his own deejay program, to conduct a teen-age show in that won the PTA award for the best of its type, and to garner additional experience in Cleveland with a comedy-plus-music show. Soupy met his wife Bal'bara back in Huntington, and today they have two "birdbaths" of their own- Tony, 3, and Hunt, 7 months-and rent a three-bedroom house where Soupy spends off-hours on jazz music, writing, reading and renewing old friendships. The genial comic was so named because a WXYZ-TV , executive thought the name Hines might conflict with , Guests such as Marilyn Maxwell are typical of food sponsors on a potential show. After hours of the stars that join in Soupy's evening frolic. thumbing through two telephone books, they came up • with the name "Sales." But by any name, Soupy would still be one of Detroit's favorite funsters, 8 WHAT'S NEW (CO'lti'lued from poye 7 ) W hat good is a pretty hat. ..

tossed by the Colgate-Palmolive Company, in celebration of their fifth year as a spon­ sor of this popular television show. More than fifteen hundred New York youngste rs participated in the wingding, which was held at the Century Theater. Bob Smith, thc ''Buffalo Bob" of the show, is still i'1!­ cupcrating from his recent heart attack, but he may be able to return to Howdy in a month or so. Meanwhile, Ted Brown, as Bison Bill, is pinch-hitting for Bob. J effrey Clay- Ihc sint er with thc Sammy Kaye outfit on their So You Weill! To Lead A Band show- and his wife, dancer Gloria Sicking, arc the proud p,lI'Imts of David Sanford, their first baby. Mulling 1'1 ... ill,,;) ; Mrs. C.C., Palestine, Texas: Halelokc, of thc Arthur Godfrey shows, is 1101 married. Miss ES .. Watertown, New York: As I recall, the character of Anne Malone was written out of the story of YOHng Dr. Ma­ lone some time !x-fore BarbH!'a Weeks, who played Anne, passed awny in real life, . .. Mrs. J .D., Baltimore, Maryland: The Fon­ tane Sisters left the P erry Como show be­ cau:;c the producers dc.:.:ided to usc the Ray Charles Singers this season. The girls have been playing night-club engagements in and around the New York area. since de­ parting from the program. . Mrs. M.B., Philadelp h ia. Pennsylvania: For a picture of Dorothy Collins, I suggest you write her c/ o Your Hit Parade, NBC, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. . Miss L.C., Xenia, Illinois: CBS has no plans to re­ sume Beulah on the radio schedule-at least not this season .... Mrs. A.A .. Austin, Minnesota: Yes, Loretta Young was mar­ r ied briefly. many years ago, to actor Grant Withers, hut the marriage was annulled. Loretta. in private life, is Mrs. Tom Lewis. !/YOlt don't have pretty hair ? . So many letters about Christine a nd Phyllis McGuire, so to a ll of you who wrote with questions about their husbands, etc.: Phyllis'married n ame is Mrs. Neil Van Ells. Everyone knows lanolin brings to dull, drab hair and her husband is an advertising man with a TV station in Cincinnati, Ohio. They have tile glow of youth, , _ alld Helelle Curtis brillgs you no children. Christine is Mrs. John Tee ter, and John is with the Damon Runyon Can_ up to 10 times more absorbable lanolin! cer Fund in New York City. The Teeters are the proud parents of two children, both boys. age seven and twelve. Hope this Now it's as easy to have gorgeous hair as it is to buy a hat. straightens everyone out. . Mrs. H.E., . ('(>banon, Pennsylvania: Blair Davies is the For Helene Curlis has discovered what olhers have t ried new actor playing the part of Reverend Richard Dennis on TIL e Brighter Day. As and failed .. . a way to give you 100% absorbable lanolin. far as I know. he ia permanently set for the It's LANOL IN DISCOVERY, a hair condit ioner and beautifier role.... Mr. J.McG., St. Louis, Missouri: Yes, Phil Silvers is very definitely under that's more effective (up lo 10 times more effective!) contract to CBS. His new television show, because it contains up to 10 times more absorbable lanolin. which will be filmed before a live audience, is set to go on in a few weeks. Incidentally, ~And there arc no "filler" oils to grease your hair or make the advance reports on this situat ion-com_ edy are just great.. . To all of you who you lose your wave. Just s pray. Brush. Then watch. wrote asking about (Colltinned on poge 11) A hefore-and-after picture happe ns in your mirror! , And we'll bet you get more compliments ~~ If you 11(llIe a questiOIl about Olle of on your hair than you do on your hats. --- your favorite people or pr(lgram,J, or wonder ll1hat has h(lllpelled to someone *"B~ 0'1 radio or lelevisioll, drop me a line: .f'! Miss J ill Warrell. TV RADIO MIRROR , . 205 EMt 42ud SI.,.ee!. New York 17. Ne~ York, Ilnd I"JI try my best to ji'ld Ollt for Reglt/or 5iu $1.25 New lar(lt tco,wmy Jilt $1.89 .. dlanolin . ~ ~ I you Illld put lite injOT!II(1lion in the ...... J>i ... ,u \ill Iscovery column. UlljortwlIllely. we don't have space to answer all questiOlls, so 1 try , to cover tho.ve personalities alld shows ++~ B.w-Ianolin diSCOVerv:t;::-·~ .~; about whom we receive the most ill­ • quiries. Sorry. 110 IJ(!rsonal answers. lite /)It'((11t '1/ (!Ii.; jill' I!lNc\~~ /OO/.-III!J I/ml'/ .. ';f '1'Jf ~~ ? ~J I.~. • - .i. -',. Y~.':" ....': ,..~ ~W~\~- 9 STEVE ALLEN'S TURNTABLE

ELLO, once more! It's about that time arc scenes from "Tonight at 8:30," "Private "Mexican Hat Trick" and "Sleepy Sere­ H of the year-holiday time, that is, so Lives," and "Conversation Piece," and such nade," both Instrumentals. happy jingle bells, and all that sort well-remembered songs as ''I'll ~ You Talking of hits, Kitty Kallen has been of thing. I suppooe you"re all busy as any~ Again," "Zigeuner," "Mad Dogs and Eng­ etching one after another this past year. thing, buzzing about with your Christmas lishmen," "I'll Follow My Secret Heart," Now she has recorded a Yuletide song, shopping list. And while you're looking and the humorous "Don't Put Your Daugh­ "The Spirit of Christmas," which has been for

\Vh:ol E"c r lIul.pcllcd To • • • Lucy Monroe, the soprano, who is known as the "Star Spangled Banner" lady'! Lucy hasn't been on the air n:'e(!ntly because she was ill and underwent surgery in New York City. Following her disch,u'ge from the hospital and il recuperation p<'riod, she returned to the usa Camp Show circuit. She is hoping to make a trip to Korea around Christmas lime to sing for the Armed Forces. J une Hutton, the blonde songstress who appeared on Eddie F isher's show, among others, on television? June was :lbsent from the scene for a while because of the im_ pending arrival of the stork. She and her husband, conductor Axel Stordahl, h:lve jusl welcomed the first addition 10 their family- a six- pound girl named Susan. June hopes to resume singing shortly. The Stroud Twins, Claude and Clarence, who were :l popular comedy tearn in radio several seasons back? Claude now owns a restaurant in Westchester, California. called The Golden Drumstick and recently re­ turned to show business part-time on Paul Gilbert's TV show, The D1Ike. He plans to work from time to time in Hollywood tele­ vision, but will not make it a full-time career. Brother Clarence livC$ in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and is in the automo­ hi1 .. h""in..... q t.h"I"" H ...... r:."innAlly APPf'"n:; in little-theater plays there. The Andrews Sistcrs, who at one time were the country's number onc vocal trio? Since the girls battled and broke up their act, Patty has gone out on her own, while I...a.Vcrne and Maxene have been looking for a new s inger to take Patty's place and to t., .t..... -:'~":-- ­ form another trio. So far it hasn't worked CA<4J -"'" out. Patty, however, has been doing fabu­ ..;,u, lously with hel' night- club and hotel sup­ A'4-+ t per-room bookings, working with her hus­ balld-acco!llpanist Wa lter Weschlc l" , and -fr- f"~ ttl:! there's a good chance she !llay appear regu­ larly on one of the top variety TV shows Ii £.iMfi< &otJu ,lW after the tirst of thc ycar. ~ W--'tAf Wtt! "Custom contoured" to flatter, feel and fit as if fashioned for you alone!

See iI-you'll wanl il! Wear il- )ou'll/oue il! The PJaytex Livi ng Bra uses clastic and n) Ion in a Ilew II II} . to g·i-I'·e Ili th ) our eler}' mO lion ..• 10 J-i,,'·e as lOU live. Exclu~i\e cri·s-cro"s dc"igll lift" lour lovclilless. contours lour eUfI'CS, rounds and rai«cs liS Ill) bra Cl-er hcfore. For the first lime in bra hislory, lOU can enjoy IIJHIIOS/llfJIiJ/ in II/most cOIllJort. 10u'JI see the beautiful difference ..... Jeel the comforlable differcnce! r$:--') Luu /; fur I'la~' I ""x~ fir: in Iho: hell,~nly blur package at department ~lorc~ Dud ~ pl~iulty ~h01'~ e>"t'rywhere. tn Ideaming WH tTE. wonderfully washable-­ l1'." I~t e r~ a ti a n a ll a t e . Corpo ra tion .. . PlAYTEX PARK . .. Oa~"f 0 .. 1 fi ft h onniversary with RCA Victor. In Ca~ad a , Pl a yt • • Ltd ...• Pl AYT f X PARK . . . Arnpr,or, Onto Ii •

WLW: Cradle of Stars

The world's most powerful station has the Jinest list of graduates and undelgradllates to be found anywhere

IKE A GREAT UNIVERSITY, Station WLW in Cincin­ plus several other countries. both day and night, L nati has graduated hundreds of skilled per­ WOI'king conditions at WLW in the early days formers and technicians into the stellar realms of wel'e a far cry from the professional atmosphere radio and television. T oday, evclY impOI"tant net­ found there today. Those wel'e "the vers..1tile wOl'k in the country has artists and expel"ls who days," when announcer!> were called on to dir'ect got their start or spent SOme time at "The Nation's and/ or produce shows, to handle enginecl'ing du­ Station"-which got its stal'! in March, 1922. ties. A few even served as musicians on various After one year of opel'alion with a power of 2Q progl'ams 01" filled in, in adminiSIl'ative positions, watts, Station 8CR- thcn owned and operated by One of the earliest favorites a t "The C radle of Powel Crosley JI",-changed its call letters to Sta r's" was Singin' Sam, one of whose co- workers WLW. FOUl' years latel', the station's power was a lovciy young music student named Jane jumped .to 5,000 watts and the long procession of Froman, A little later came the Mills Brothers­ great-names-to-be began. One mOl'C year and J ohn, H an'y, Herbert and Donald~whose only WLW went to 50,000 watts, making it one of the pl'cvious experience had been singing fOI" their most powel'fu) in the nation. High point of WLW's father's bal'ber-shop customers in Belldontaine, growth came in 1934 with the authorization to Ohio. The all-time great, "Fats" Waller, the Ink build a 500,OOO-watt superpower transmittel"-un­ Spots, Billy Williams, the Charioteers. and the equalled anywhere in the wodd~which sends late, lovable Smilin' Ed McConnell also thrilled WLW's ailwaves into Canada and South America, listeners w ith their music and songs. Still-famous

This was Curt Mossey-who now Well, look here! It's those Clooney Dick Ho gemon, known and loved as has his awn network shaw, featuring Sisters, Rosemary and Betty, when they Mr. TV of the Midwest and recently Martha Tiltan--during his under­ were I bond t) and had just started fi rst-rote WL W announcer, is now graduafe days as ¥ocalist at WlW. their coreers warbling on Moo'l River, boosting his career network-style,

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12 recalls her singing days at her radio alma mater with present­ day WLW stars, Brenda Hollis and zany comic Waite" Phillips, who was recently voted Ohio's "Personolity Most Worthy of Networ~ Recognition." and still-loved Moon RiveT was the radio bh-th­ place for DurwanJ Kirby, Doris Day, J anette Davis_ In the late Thirties, comedy and SPOI-ts were handled by two Reds-Skelton and Barbel-_ Tommy Riggs and "Betty Lou" reached network fame through WLW. And those two lovable vet­ crans, Virginia Payne and Charles Egelston-alias Ma Perkins and Shuffie Shober-originated their roles, in the first of the daytime serials, 21 years ago at WLW_ But tbo: li::.l vC gn,.. b; i::. endless and runs from Albert (Eddie) to Zerbe (Lawson)_ Today, WLW -through radio and television-continues to main­ tain its spectacular tradition by producing biggel­ and better stars and shows of the present and Queen of WL W today, Ruth Lyons is ~nown future. TV RADIO MIlIROR joins millions of listeners to her tremendous audience as The $1 ,000.- and viewers in paying sincere tribute to Station WLW: May it continue to be admired and saluted 000 Dynomo. Tickets to her doily show, 50- as "The Nation's Station." 50 Club, are already sold aut through 1956.

Ed Byron, once WLW's program director and origi­ nator of Mooll River; Harry Holcombe, now a CBS executive producer; and Joy Jostyn, of Mr. Dis/riel AlfonlCY fame, 'airing the show "in the old days."

Interviewing the noted "Veep," Alben Barkley, is fun for wonderful "Willie" Thall, who also enjoys himself-ond the fan moil he gets from a ll ports • of the land-os emcee of II'fidwestcrn Hayride, •

13 AnneS • ~ErCHEO information booth

'Tel lin e h) do a ,eriOIlS role:- Ro-coe \ Mail For Miner • _il!h~. "hul I'm definite!) tHled a. the /J(,(lf Editor: lil!hl.comic IHIt· ... Hi" own faHlritc film If herp CUll , Itf;11' /0 hili lIiul'r. KIIQ roles include "\' ight After \li/!hl." .. It stars OJI Hilltop I - Iou~c (lIId I'Plll'ars on I-I3ppcn('d One \iglu.'· and "Tweutieth olll('( radiQ (/ud TV .!hOlt's? Cenlllry:' 1[1.' ~ Ippeared on Broadway in r. /1.. N"w rorl., N. Y. "School for Brlde<' and on the We_t Coast in "Front Page." when he al"o ~llent You can write 10 Jau \liner c / o \'rolf a lot of time with delecti,'c!;' and grew R.adio & TV Pro(llIClion ~, 120 .\Iadisoll familiar with their 011- and off·duly li,e~. Ih e .. ;'\ew ) ork. 1\. 'I .. A ~ Ho'-Coe'" real·life son. Tod Karns recognize .. that the family ha_ "aclin!!, in Father And Son its 1.I100d:· but he once seriou~ly con-id· cred giving up ~how business for an art D('ur Editor: career. lie hll~ recei,ed tOIl prices for hi ~ 1 IfoaM like fa know IIbo/l1 lire S/(lfS 0/ paintings. but he e\entually settled on act· Rocky Kin~. Deteethe-Roscoe Karns, ing lind the role of Det('(;lhe Hart in ,dlo plays Rocky, (lilt! 1'0(1 Karns. who Rocky Killj[, the parI of Stillwell. the plays his (lSSiSI(lIII, IJI'/<'ftir',· Har'. Are helmsman. in the movie of "The Caine Ihey related? I•• I>" Crete, Neb. Mutiny:' a nlllnber of appearauces in the Andy HurdI' ~erie8 and a role in Frank The two bloodhounds 01 Hocky Killg, Callra's "Flame·Out."' Tod. who hail done Delee/h'e are hlood rdations---namely, painting., for Frank Sinatra lind Garry fuher and son. While other ~Ie uth shows Moore. i~ lIl~o a golfer of ability and often hal'C ~een many relJlaCenLt"nl~. Roscoe plays with Bing Cro~b}" and Grollcho Karn ~ is the ori~inal and onl) Rocky Marx. King. lie's a pl!linclOlhe~ man now. btU Ro-coe gOI hi~ ~tart in the theater when Her Father's Daughter hi~ military ~chool uniform "011 him an .. ~her·s job over other mufti-clad candi. Dear Edilor: dates. I-Ie's been in show bu .!' iness ever I U; O/l!d like 10 bow a lillIe about Eliz­ ~ince and has allpeared in more than 200 abelh ilIOlllllomcry, IIhom I hove leC" 011 films, generally cast in light.comedy roles. Robert MOJltgomery Present5 olld Kraft

, • Tod and Roscoe Karlls 14 j -- Elizabeth MOl1.t}!.omer.y William Bishop

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Pretty, popular Carol Duvall provides

(I dou.b1e kind 0/ pleasure and ell tert" ill lll ent jar Michigal/. house/rives

Ca rol exchanges hamemo~ing hints with Lois Ann Bo~er,

LTHOUGH Michigan televiewers have unanimously lost tion from hel' father-who, she says, '"thinks every­ A their heal1s to pert. warm-hearted housewife and thing his daughter docs is wonderful:' The halfway mathet' Carol Duvall, the lady in question repCl'ts that opinion is held by Carol's accountant-husband Carl Du­ her two video pl'ogl'ams meet with a morc mixed response vall Jr, "Carl is just the ideal husband;' Cal'o! says, ';He at home. Carol's own opinion of her shows is modest: thinks my cooking is the best he e\'er ate, that I am a "There must be 10,000 women in Michigan who could do good mother. And whether r am on TV or not, it's all just as well on television as t," she says. What this really the same to him," means is that Carol is a "natural" and that she plays Cal'ol and Cad met while they were both attending herself whether she's al home on Richards Drive in Grand Ottawa Hills High School in Grand Rapids. Although Rapids or befOl'c the cameras at Station WOOD-TV. Of Carol studied speech at Michigan State, she had no ambi­ her' Chic Chat show, seen weekday afternoons at four. tions fOl' a career and was happy and busy at home. But, Carol explains, "I just talk about things I am interested about three yeal'S ago, a gl'OUp sponsoring childl'(m's plays in myself" cooking, sewing and other jobs I must do was looking for someone to entel'tain the youngsters be­ in my own home," And for Jiffy Carnival, a 12: 15 week­ tween acts. Carol undertook the job "just to help out for day treat for youngsters, Carol simply keeps thinking of a while," and this led directly to her TV work. what would be wholesome fun fOl' her own two sons, What with housework, family picnics OJ" just playing The Duvall youngsters-Jack, 5, and Mich\l.el, 3-"think with her children, Carol finds she seldom has time to of Mother as 'good, old reliable Mom,''' Carol laughs, watch television. Nevertheless. hundl'eds of thousands of "They think I am a wonderful playmate at home, But WOOD -TV viewers are keeping close tabs on Carol and they just can't imagine Mom as entertainment on tele­ tell her so by filling her daily mailbag with letters of vision," But Care!, who is 28 years old, takes consola- gl'ateful praise fOI' the daily TV holidaying she pl"Ovides.

Around the home clod with Carol: Breakfast with husb~nd Carl; cookies for Jack and Michael; prayer time with baby Michael.

, • HERE THEY ARE!

T he lucky winners of Beat Clock's exciting big contest for month of October are .

1st Prize. Syivanin Chnirside Thcnter:

Mrs. Mi ladi A. Loeffler Box 914, Route 2 largo, Florida

Four l'unnCl'S-UP, Sylv;mia l'<\d io clock: Mrs. Barclay Hamilton 229 James Drive Havertown, Pennsylvania Mrs. Helen M. Saint 1719 Sout h Rendon Street Ne w Orleans, Louisiana Mrs. Mary Cashman RFD I Amherst. Massachusetts Louise C. Butz 145 Burd Street Nyack, New York

Next month: f ive morc winners will be announced from Beat The Clock's November contest. K eep an eye on these pages- you mny find printed h C L'C BS n wilmet'!

Ue. M 'I'll.! C/od .-. ",,, ,·,,,·,1 loy 11",1 C.ollycr. i ~ seen Oil n ~S· T V . S"t.. i:30 P.M. EST, as ~ I 'o " " o l 'e d l, y ..'i), J,''''';'' Elcl" lr;,· 1 ·, · "tl"<"1 ~ I"c .

• Winners were chosen on the basis of accuracy in rearranging pictures of three radio-TV stan and originality of lost lines for a limerick. Stars in October's picture puzzle were: Art Linkletter, Bill Cullen, Herb Shriner.

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,\ '1 Ilrrh I.lnkl~ I I, · . .<'1 .. 1" .. 17 WOMEN EVERYWHERE lov(; Cam:.y wilh cold u(;alll­ extra IU(l"T OIl no o.:xtr:1 cost! And Cam:.y is tho.: only leading beauty soap that eont,lin$ this pn:dous ingredio.:nt.

I.o-'dy 0...,\3)' Bricl .. , ." .... Cl'ad", T . .I ac ~ ..",. Jr., ",WI, ,. \ (" han~ ",1 t<. Cam.... · wi.h cold Cl'<"an, TRY IT YOURSELF! Whether your skin is dry or oily, .he rni",,, .. I .... ard awn i,. Camay with cold cream will leave it feeling Now, af,,,. ",in... i, for month$ arid "",,,,h •. 1 c.,,, J:lf i,', tlo" rOO

NOW MORE THAN EVER . • • THE SOAP OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN "Christmas is for kids," says Arthur, lending a hand at a party sponsored by Westchester Parkway Police, ~ta~on' ~ ~rttting~ . from. ~obfrtp

By MARTIN COHEN

HRISTMAS EVE comes to Manhattan with church It was in this hectic holiday season, one moming. bens, maybe a handful of snow, and a sud­ that Arthur Godfrey caught a cab to the studio. C den, climactic silence. The weeks preceding He was a little late, but it was only a short, sixty­ Christmas aTe murder. Manhattan, normally over­ cent ride. He got out of the cab hastily, with a loaded and high-pressured, goes screamingly fran­ dollar bill Aapping from one hand. Usually, the tic. There isn't enough time or space for everyone bill would have been snatched up before he got to shop and talk and breathe. In elevators and his shoulders through the door but, this time, there subways and busses, the good people suffer the was Arthur on the sidewalk, trying to hurry, and wedged existence of bottled olives. still holding out his fare.

See IV ext Page ~ 19 ii>eason's @reetings from @obfrep

To A rth"r, CI. riM/l/ fI$ is " Ou' m ost beautiful rluy 0/ fIll." ill .fl,ir;t (/lid ' rutl.

Th. Hfy tittl ••t one. or. tho ,to" ot "Lilli. Godltoy" Yuletide pottieo-with Arthur I.imwlf d,•• ~"p o. Sonlo'

""l"he rid". on "'•• " the dri~"r pid. "A Ch,lttrnao doll from Arthur----. Chrlslll'lQ preoenl from Mr. 0 present." "Chrlslll'lQ Is lor kids." he IIQ''' "I ..,member when "No, no," Arthur aid. ·'1"hanluo. but I ~ ..n·1 ..,­ 1 wu .. kid how dlffe..,nl il w .... We'd pi ",10,"", ""pI iL" paper and ""I ;1 Into slrlp" .... d m8ke paptr' chalnl "It', my Ch.... 1.mU pra<>nl to you:' the dd,'u ..... to hang on the tree. No one doeoo WI 8I\Y ",0"'. ~ .... 1l>ey we.., the happiest d-r.. and nol one 01 UI hMI Arthur God/rey hal devSoped IOn eye for Jud,tnl over. dollior spenl on hlm." 11J"1ln/I" ..... H" has had 10. H" hal t.ad nuu above He lived In Hasbroucl< Helahla. New Je ....y. a expl<> thousoond. He wu one of five beggars make flying lackle. ., hb kneft. Arthur children and, with his pa"""la. attended the Dutch lookod carefully, then ....,Iked thaI the ub drl~. Reformed Churcll. Hio ""..,..,11 we.., .... ell-educated. wu no phony, .od he wU louchN by the

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~~. Mary Jane podis. with Camille's help . . . checks on the family food supplies Guy Sorel while she's a wey .

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She warns Lettio to behove ... Guy speeds her to the airport. She 's off for Ho ll ywood-and When A Girl Marries.

vvhen a Star .narries

By FRA NC ES KTSH

ERHAPS it is true, as some say, that if you think with heartache, as the rosiest dreams become reality. about a thing long enough, and hard enough, it This is the sort of situation in which Mary Jane Pwill happen. Perhaps it is also true that, when Higby, star of ABC's daytime drama When A Girl it does happen, you may not be quite so sure it is Marries, found herself last fall when it became neces­ what you really wanted. It may involve some changes sary to change the locale of the program from New you did not expect. some sacrifices you had not York to Hollywood. Hollywood is practically hf'r counted on. Heart's d t' ~iJ ' e may be tinged just a bit home town, and she loves it. (Continued on. page 74)

Mary Ja"~ igJoan J)uI'is in U7/,,'" A Girl ,Ifarrie.,. ABC Radio. i\I·F, 10 :45 A.~1. EST. for Cuoution E"allOrated )1ilk nnd FriskiesDog Food.

22 Mary Jan. Higby wo"ld make any sacrifice to keep on playing the woman she loves- and, at the same time, keep the malt she loves

Arriving, she greets the California sun . . but her head's in wintry Now Yorl:, where $h e and Guy will celebrate!

23 • #;,;/0 STRIKE IT RICH In 1955

Warren Bull knows the deep wellspringa or humanity, which nourish the 8pirit or all who seek a more rewarding life

By LILLA ANDE RSON

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w•• t Coo,! cond,do: War ... n quelling 0f0 Ma« edfl Bot •• CGli/q,.. ;" £jvi"" OV'IIt KNXT . . . ,,;,;10"9 littl. Yvonne Sade, who', leorni"9 to .... 011: ogoin 01 Los ""98le, 0.,1<;1.",,', Hospital ... c nd ,...... rsin9 with hi, host on Ih. 80b C.oJb, S~".. .

AJUtD< HULL, the man whoa underltandln, of people Thanks to .~erlng qUHtio.,. eol'TflC'tly, a mother, and their needs ha.o .rown thl'O\llh hurin, th aided by her little son and daughter, had lIIe money to Wproblem;. ho~., lears end .mbIU...... which 8~ .-emodel lIIel. house and give eRch child R room; a Irlo brought to Slrik, II Rkh, was t.oJdn, a moment to reb-x of singing, dancing sisttN had lIIe clUh .nd new clolll.,. bela .... ["eving the studio In mid-town M.nhr.t~n. The .... hlch would make lIIe winter casler for. large family; show was over, the audience had /Hewn /uld wMl ... har>dsomely .. a nyone could have hoped. eommunlty had added to the fund. (Contin"td OR ""gc 70)

W inne, o...dley G. "_ndolo and hi, family at. very qlad tho! Wo",n', pro<)rom vi,jt.d to, Angel.s1 Jean Mowry enjoys being Susan in

The Secret Storm • . • but she

fills her own life with a dream

By GREGG MARTIN

HAT'S cooking? That's a very appropriate query where J ean Mowry is concerned! Jean is five­ Wfeet-liix, blonde, bluc-eyed and pretty. She con­ stantly receives fine critical acclaim for both her acting and her cookery. since she's so domestically scientific that she can tum out ten delicious cakes between breakfast and lunch. She's cooking with gas and burning with honest ambition, but she's young and so demure, so earnest and yet so bright. She has sim­ mered qu:etly for ten months in the world's loudest city. "The ten loneliest months of my life," Jean says. "but what can I do about it--except get married ... and after all ...." . O n the show, the Ames children {played by Jean, Trouble is that Jean Mowry-who came East to play Jado, and Warren Berlinger) show their worm Susan Ames in The Secret Storm, over CBS-TV- has appreciation for Jane Edwards {Virginia Dwyer). always been several years ahead of herself, by virtue

26 The Secret Storm cast and staff help create a home· like life for Jean. Above, stor Peter Hobbs, director Gloria Monty, Jean, a ctress Haile Stoddard and producer Richard Dunn. At left, Haile tostes the cooking wh ich is Jean's pride and joy. Below, Jean ploys the piano at Liederkrenz Hall for Jodo Rowland (her kid sister Amy. in the serial drome).

of skipping grades and possessing other tendencies toward female genius which resulted in her. getting through college when she should have been getting out of high school. J ean was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and never got more than a few miles away from the city until she was graduated from the University of Wisconsin. "I am a natural, guaranteed product of Wisconsin," Jean says. " I look butter-and-eggs. I cook butte\"­ and- eggs. I can raise chickens, and I know how to milk a cow and churn the milk into butter." Jean's "dairy-maid period'· was incidental to her ambition to act. Actually, she was raised in a house in town, a pleasant home with just enough ground for a vegetable garden and gladioli and roses and pansies. No chickens. No cows. Jean is Su~an Ames in Th e Secret Storm, CBS·TV, M.r, 4:15 J ean's mother had been a (Continued on page 79 ) P.M. EST. for Whitehall Pharmacal Co. and Boyle-Mid ... ay, Inc.

27 Geraldyne and I make sure that I have plenty of time these days to spend with Johnny, our twelve-year-old (shown training the family beogle). Kenny, Jr, is now a college mon, a nd helping him with his is sometimes 0 bit beyond me !

We're Really LIVING!

We've fourul the things that mean so much more than bright lights and applause . . . our own fireside, love, understanding-artd faith

By KENNY BAKER

OU'VE HEARD the saying. "He's really living~ " But have you ever asked yourself what really living Ymeans? Well, I did, one day about six years ago. I was standing under a flashing red neon sign which was blinking out the message, "KENNY B AKER- APPEARING NIGHTLY!" I asked myself. then and there: "Kenny, boy, you call this living?" My answer was: "Hardly- hardly living at aiL" Sure, I was making thousands a week. My name was up in letters two feet taU. (Continued on page 77) Whatever's cooking at our house, you can be sure the wh ole family will manage to get in on it together.

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The second generation may not "follow "father's footsteps" into a musical career, but we all love to sing hymns together. Left to right, Kenny. Jr.; my wife Geroldyne; myself; Johnny; and our daughter Susie, who's quite 0 young lady at sixteen.

Johnny studies the accordion and Susie ploys the piano Best of a ll , in a fother-and-son relationship, is that sense very well. but they hove their own ideas for the future. of sharing enjoyable activities-whether work or ploy .

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THE YOUNGEST PIONEER

N THIS YEAR of the color spectacular, the extravaganza and assorted other super-duper TV innovations, Dennis J ames I put a fresh polish on an old technique, added two new shows to his roster and started his sixteenth year of regularly Success in early TV called scheduled telecasting. He's quite nonchalant about a record which few, if any, performers in this most frantic facet of show business have f or f aith and stamina. the air hours to equal-or the stamina to survive. Looking healthy, happy, handsome and prosperous, Dennis stretched out in a relaxation chair before the picture window (which Dennis James had plenty turns Long Island Sound into a backdrop for his living room) and confided the secret of both his success and his endurance. "Nothing to it," he said. "When I visit someone's home via of both- and then Mickey's TV, I have just as good a time as my viewers. It's fun." His pretty wife, Mickey, nodded in agreement. "He's love to keep him there! adjusted to it. Dennis thrives on a pace which would put anyone else flat on his back." Her statement was no mere figure of speech. A moment earlier they had been speaking of their neighbor, Bob Smith­ By HELEN BOLSTAD Howdy Doody', pal- who had suffered a heart attack and

Conti nued

On Your Account helps Dennis celebrate sixteen years in television ! Midey's by his side as he cuts the coke; next, producer Bcb Quigley; then assistant-producer Keith Q uigley (Bob's wife) and the director, Charles Fisher. 31

-. . TV ..r • • t!i~9 "",d. ° ltor of o.nnio-Ihough h, Ilorted lno.. j~g Ie .. oboul jt lnon "Holpin Mory" (congrOluloti,'9 him. oboY.).

THE YOUNGEST PIONEER (Con,!,,,,pd)

With 011 hi ••f>ow., o.nni. Jomet jUl t ha. to ~e,p in .hopel

n.. No.... ' . 11.. So .... pon,fi,t A mold Stong b.om. ot gUett .10' hrnondo Lomoo--ond host Den";

w.. ,till hOOlpitllUzed In n.u.... b)' Nnw Rochelle. move packing cuts around to dear enough apace to fia;h\ bad' <:OIlStanlly to keep them from melhng the Through the yean. they had teen min), or thel. pili on a show, And then there were the Ulhil " thouehil nahl Ollt or your h~ad" friends flll.l victim to televWon'. J)OI~. The Ilghll of those do.yo ",... re oomethlRl no televl_ To meet that incand~nl ordeaL [lenni. had the "It can eet )'O u ,~ o..nnb Icknowles<:ope cameras. "YOII never .ull), gOI atudy medicine. Exposllre to a microphone RI "Imall them what I've found out." llsed (0 the lights," Dcnni. r""alled, "You had 10 radio .taUon changed that aim. COmmuli"l! to Man­ The "ever .i n ~" date. back to 193.8, when, II 011 hattan, he worhd .. a radio actor and an announ"". Mont', experlmentlll ataUon on the roof of ~ 1 5 On 1' ... ,j«.",,,. CBS-TV. \I.F, 4,3(1 P.\I" ...._....J hj' While many labelled televi5ion u "the com,,,, Madiw n Avenue, in New York. h, Pllt Th . Dt'fI"", 1',,,,... & C,.mhl. lor Tid •. O«"<~ 01 ,j 1iI«;",., 1l" "on' thl",-:' Dennl. regar<1ed it IIA h~T_ven thoup;h Ih~~ Jame. Spot"ta PflT(ld. on the aJr, ''The whole pl .~ TV, Fti .. 10 1',,1...... ~ ,lIern".I, by Old Gold CI.""" ... were few ... t., few hours 01 telecasting b), Ih~ otatlon. Unll.. ,k r«lu"><<- n • .10.,,', n. ',,, .. t. ABC-H, \Ion .. wasn't .. blj" ... your Ilvl...- room," ,,,,!d o..nnll, _and lrew 110 f.. dnated by itth.! he soon considered 1,30 1'.) 1., ."...... ~ by R,I.,on Punn. (·0, T." F", n. ht. breadwinner, .... dlo. U a lideline, He worked "Cameras. ""nlrola and t"rumJUer wt"b Jammed In 1.1.....,-, n, .. (;B~·H · OM ( BS R,di" So,., 9 1'.11. " .""". together Of ~ n I had to help Dr. AIle,n 011 Mont • .-.1 by I'. I",ill"d I.. Old r.old (:;~,," .... '~II .:~TI without I>IY 0. for ,mall (CO'IIt;lItKd 0'11 P"lIe !!Z) I ha-ve two very small daughters of my own, w ith no room for jealousy in their hearts

Mama

My "problems" on TV- mothering Millie (E lena Verd ugo) and our fami shed fr iend Alfred (Mo rvi n Kaplan)-seemed oale by comparison, when my husband George a nd I faced the task of preparing our fi rst-born, Georg ie, for the a rrival of her boby sister, "Beony" !

By FLORENCE HALOP

OU'D THINK that Millie's Mama, who knows everything on _TV, would know Yhow to prepare a four-year-old for the arrival of a baby sister. But, as Mrs. George G ruskin in real life, I found it's not so simple. When, around the seventh month, the questions stalied coming fast and furious from Georgie (Georgianna, our four- year- old daughter), I told myself: "Florence, you'd better star t thinking up some answers!" To my way of thinking, the explanation can be very simple. When you hear the first "Mommy's getting fat," that's the time to introduce them to their new baby brother or sister. You can simply say, "Mommy's making a (Continued on page 72)

Flore llce Halo p is Mama on Meet Millie, CBS-TV. T u ~ ., 9 P.M. EST, as sponso red alternately bl' Carter Products, Inc. (fo r Arrid) and O'Ced9 T Corp. 34

THERE'S ONLY ONE

By ROSEMARY CLOONEY

Q VERY ONCE in a while it hits me-right ] CJ between the eyes-the fact that I, personally, know Bing Crosby. Like the day when we were finishing the movie, "White Christmas," and looking forward to the party planned by Bob Alton, the dance director. As I shot out of my dressing room in the aftemoon, I almost collided with Bing. (He had the dressing room next door to mine. Imagine being paid for living next door to Crosby!) " You going to Bob's party Saturday night?" I asked him. "Sure. You're picking me up." "Great," said 1, whose husband was slaving away in New York. ''Then we've got a date." "Not so fast," said Bing. "I'm bringing a damsel." "Will you stop (Continued on page 84)

Singing with Sing in " White Christmas" was a great experienc~$ RO&emary i, heard on her own ROJemaTY Cloonq a lways. Somehow, it's not like working with any other singer 1 know. S how. over CBS R. dio. ThurM.y. 9 P.M. EST.

love those Crosby mcords-ond so does my h~sbond , Jose Ferrer (center), who swears he married me just because I had the distinction of kn owinog Sing fi rst! Below, right-on the Paramount set with Bing and that delightful director, Michoel Curtiz .

. :~ , -,.,'.: ... '" '\ I \ . . .. _. - .' ...... --- ... ; , ", . ~...... - "',, ." .. ~- "...'_ -."..L,.,' ..'.. ,. ~ 1'1'., I I '' \1 1...... ~. ..;;L _ _ ..L. _- _ .::It.I ~ ~~ , Like everybody else, I'm so crazy about Crosby that it's hard to forget he's my idol-and iust remember he's my friend 37 a Pretty Wonderful Guy

That's how Grant, Sullivan's wife describes him- and here's how they found their "golden windows"

Grant a nd Mary toke great delight in decorating their New. York oportment-ond looking at house pions, California-style.

By GREGORY MERWIN

RANT SULLIVAN'S wife Mary puts in a hard day's "It takes two cups of coffee and-l hate to say it-lots work in the first haH-hour of every moming. It of nagging, nagging, nagging," Mary tells you, in mock G takes that long to awaken Grant. This requires dismay. "And during the first thirty minutes Grant is sheer physical strength, for Grant is a husky six-foot­ as grumpy as storm clouds, then suddenly the sun breaks two and gets a rather muscular grip on the blankets. It through." also requires a clever mind, for during the night Grant On NBC-TV's The Golden Windows, Grant is cur­ somehow manages to convince himself there's nothing rently cast as John Brandon, a clean-cut, good-hearted worth getting up for. young man. And he isn't mis- (Contin.ued on page 59)

Grant Sullivan is 101m Brandon in The Golde/!. WindoWJ, on NBC·TV, !'II·F, 3:15 P.M. EST. as sponso red by Procter & Gamble for Cheer.

38 Alios John Brandon: Grant's. a romantic man, both in The Golden Wi11dows and at home, wh ere he and Mary often eat by candlelight--even at b~aHast, before going over scripts and fon mail. - .., , \ , ~ \ ...., i' 5>- \ C I> )

39 Two and two make Heaven

Ted and I and our daughters believe in sharing the work, the love- and the h appiness

Ted and I wonted the form so Sally and Sue could grow up in the country. They've enjoyed it a s much as we hoped. ond are proud of their prize coif. Ted 's proved to be a reol "working former," t oo, with true tolen( for management. Going to Sunday School is port of the gi rls' country Our Pennsylvania farmhouse has survived for centuries, life. Slim, quiet Sue is twelve ; bouncy, bustling Solly, eleven. but I al most brought it down with my wall-chipping ideas!

By MRS. TED STEELE

HEN I was still Doris Brooks, working for the New about the home as completely as he has come to respect York advertising agency representing a show on mine about the two Ted Steele shows-on Mutual Radio Wwhich there was a handsome young musician and and WOR-TV-both of which I produce. This is how it arranger named Ted Steele, I had no idea that he would has turned out for us, and neither would want it any other one day ask me to become his manager and business way. Ted and I work together, plan together, and are agent. Or that, after a ",hile, I would take on the job for equally interested in everything affecting our home and life-by marrying him. our profession-and especially everything that affects our I didn't realize, either, that some of the ideas I had two young daughters, Sally and Suzy. We believe it is a about its being a wife's job to run the house would be wonderful way of life. completely upset by my husband's ideas. And I certainly In the beginning, I must admit it was difficult for me. didn't dream that I would come to respect his decisions Ted had come from a typical (Continued on page 67)

TIl t Ttd Stttle ShoM/.' are heHd on MutOl al at I :.'JO P.M. EST and seen on WOR·TV (New York ) aI3:00 P.M. EST: bolh Monday Ihru ."riday.

Ted wades into farming with all the enthusi asm he puts One thing he can't answer bock is the a.larm clock which into his shows, and always has on answer for everything. a wakens him bright and early to another busy, va ried day.

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LORENZO ~ONES

. 1. left: Phoebe La rkins (who claims fa be Lorenzo's wife) 2. In a visit to Basil Dunbar's office, Belle finds new and Gail Maddox (who hopes to marry him) plot to prevent reoson to despair as Roger Codon points out Lorenzo as Lorenzo from recoiling his marriage to the devote.d Belle. the mon he kne ..... to be Phoebe's husband in Konsos C ity,

ilE RE Mf:MUIlAN('"£ of things past- the disappointments around him, causing.a never-ending emotional upheaval. and failures, as well as the happy times-roots us in Yet- as hc talked to Belle and listened to her quiet Tthe present and prepares us with a history of hopes voice-it had seemed that a light was about to break and dreams for tomorrow. But, for Lorenzo Jones, this through the somber curtain, Some hint that had been docs not hold true . . because amnesia has drawn a teasing his brain was about to reveal itself, But then black curtain across his m ind. Rootle~s and unable to Gail Maddox appeared to interrupt Belle and Lorenzo distinguish truth hom falsity, where his own past is . , , and the glimmer of recognition had faded. Lorenzo concerned, Lorenzo finds that each day takes on an again found himself unable to tell Belle that he had any unrcal, nightmarish quality. Like a sleepwalker with memory of a time when she had been his wife, his OJ'ms outstretched to find his way, Lorenzo puwes Bravely, Belle has tried to take courage in the thought to find the answer to the question: " Who am I ?" Mean­ of how near she had come 10 making Lorenzo realize while, a tangled mesh of claims and countel'-claims fonns she is truly his wife, But she must constantly fight

" LORENZO JONES (COfIth."fd,

Mspooir as she Ii""," ~rselllhw.r1ed In her ew'¥ d'fort and had become engaged \0 he •. ~ \wo women-whom had aeo>ompanled her on • visit to Sui! Dunbar-hlo to find proof of th~lr mama,,, or 10 t'fftIU til.,.., on.,._ he cannot rcmember-both claIm \0 be hll wife, Lo~u> employer at the Queen Charlotte Mi....-for the purpose .... ppy daY>' to 1.0'1'''''0. She 1$ heal1:!lck when .he Ihln4 t. unCf:r1..O.in and unhappy. Call Maddox II the only of ukln, help In convincing Bell.. to return to New York of the .. ver-inc ...... inll evidence Phoe~ Larkl ... h .. woman with w!wm he can remember bel",ln love. ~ Belle Itrouled hopelessly 10 convince Lo~nzo presenl~ to .upport her own claim of havlnl been mar_ G.il h"....,lf has preferred to believe Ih8\ Phoebe II that Phoebe Larkin. Wal not his wife. Phoebe .truck ri"; to Lo,..,n1O 8\ a lime when he ulled himself Jerry Lo",nz"s real wife. She is hopelul that one day Ihe can .UlI another blow. Roger Caxton appeared on the ace ...e Lore"z' The evidence whleh haunl>! Lorenzo mOOI_nd ,"""vince Phoebe 10 divorce Lo~n"", the~by makin, with a letter of introduction to Bali! Dunbar. Roger "'hkh Selle has found no way 10 dlocn!dlt-II the five_ hi'" frce 10 marry her. With thi. In mind, C.lI hal preRnted hirnKl/ aI being interested In .tudying the ye.r_old child, Cloria. who Phoebe 1.... 111>1 II Ihe daulh_ oppmed Belle, d""larlng that Belle h.u brou"'t only min...... Upon m""ling Phoebe and Lorenzo. Roger t<'r of her marriage to Lorenzo. unhappin.,.. to all of them. Site urg...:l Belle to return .howelf in love with Call. Lo.... "1» Lorenz-had been married to Phoebe. See ," e xt "0.- 45 LORENZO JONES (Continued) A1though Belle realizes that patience is needed to help Belle's intuition of danger has been even more ac­ Lorenzo regain his memory, she is hatTied by the evil curate than she herself realized. Clever and unscrupu­ purposes she senses behind Phoebe's claims and the lous, Roger could have been lying when he claimed to appearance of Roger Caxton. But Belle is alone in her have known Lorenzo, but it is cer tainly true that he and suspicions and can find no proof to support them. Even Phoebe are old friends. Roge r has masterminded a plan Basil Dunbar, who had befriended and employed L~ to work together with Phoebe to steal the gold from renzo, is willing to accept Roge r. Of all those involved, the Queen Charlotte Mines, then to place the blame on Basil alone has no personal interest in the conflicting Lorenzo. To prepare the way for proving Lorenzo's claims and seeks only the truth in the matter. Yet he guilt, Phoebe has consta ntly tried to show that he has can find no reason to doubt e ither Phoebe or Roger. frequent lapses of memory. She has even planted sugges-

6. Though Be ll e can fi nd no proof to su pport her suspicions. they ore increased when. she hears Roger Codon trying to get information from Gail and Lorenzo---both of whom work as scientists in the mines. Belle is heartsick as she remembe~ the suggestion s wh ich have been planted concerning Lorenzo's frequent la pses of memory ond his "possibly criminal" mind. 1. In a moment when he believes Belle to be in donger, 8. Preferring to beli eve that Phoebe Larkins is reaUy lorenlO seems about to remember her as his true .... ife. Lorenzo's wife, Gail Maddo~ tries to make a deal with Then he s!ips bock again into the confusion of amnesia. Phoebe to divorce lorenzo so she herse lf can marry him .

tions that Lorenzo has a criminal mind! With this estab­ lillhed, Roger and Phoebe feel certain they can easily place the guilt for the robbery on Lorenzo while they themselves escape with a fortune in gold. With Roger's and Phoebe's nefarious scheme nearing fruition, Belle, distraught with worry over Lorenzo, senses that some great disaster is impending- and that only she herself is wholeheartedly interested in pro­ tecting Lorenzo and gUUI"ding against any traps which may have been set for him. However, even Belle doesn't realize that she is racing against time-for Roger and Phoebe may put their scheme into operation at any moment. Will she be able to finfl the proof to back up her suspicions before Lorenzo finds himself ac­ cused as a thief and the betrayer of his good friend, Basil Dunbar? Once, in a past that for Belle seems dim and far away . n the midst of her present unhappiness and trouble--and that for Lorenzo is concealed by the darkness and confusion of his loss of memory-Belle and Lorenzo Jones were married and lived happily together. Will Belle-even bringing all hel" love and patience to bear-find a way to restol"e this past and save Lorenzo from possible ignominy and ruin?

Pictured here, 35 he!!r.! on Ihe air. are:

I .orcn~o Jone! ...... John Raby Belle Jone, ...... Lucille Wa ll Basil Dunbar...... AUred Shirley Phoebe 1.arkilu ...... Julie Steven ~ Ro~e r C,,:oolon ...... Honce B",ham Gai l Maddox ...... f nn Carlon Lorc,,:o / o"es is heard on NBC Rad io, M·F'. 5:15 P.M. ESr. as 9. As three women make conflicting claims for hi s love , ~poMored b)" Fah. l'a!lnoli\"e Soap, and Colgate Dental Cream. Lorenzo Jones is more deeply confused. He searches hi s darkened memory for a clue to the question "Who am 17"' Every girl a fashion QUEEN

'rhe right clothes lor you ("(III chllllge YO llr life-flot

fo r j llSI U clay-bul for (I lI'hole, sU lu/yill,. /ufllre!

By JEANNE CAGNEY

A LL PWIU have lOm"tlllng .bo,,! them WI fi t. beal,ltiful, oomemlnl! that b ~!r own, For example, whenever I alt a' the dining_room tabl" wHh my husboond'. and my gue.u, I am .truck with lilt. rlchntu of '''tu.... , I he•• a volee which Is • lOvely Imagin"tion help. ochi_ your mUII".1 melody, or ~. pal. of eyes willeh dream., But being practicol alway. smHe, or a .peelal and PI'CJM!' help., too, Be s~re to chod.. you. charm of ,,~.bl .. n ... and und .....ndm,. Whetever I look. I Ie" , ..., n.tu .... h., ...o,dl'Qb<>-presont and planned laid for ....,h the f"",nd.UolU of &1\ lnne. -be/a", you dort ony shopping, beautY'-but I aJoo feel II'. IlP to \he individual 10 develop, to build On h. Our vl~n and the ladi" In OUr audlenee know me a. the faahlon .,...,rdlnaloron Jack &il,,)". Qu_ F',," A DGI/. BecaUM! of thlL they f~u .. nlly (CORrlft_1I .... ,...~. IS)

li ~ . all i~c;li"id"ol •. Polien" and' Charli. are anlill&d to thei, ""'" ideol. I try to help .. only when ol~.o-v.n about tlothe. or coo!: .. ry . Ri { 9htJ Timel.epe. R'n., ond ,me.. P,t.r moy Inow the onsw,/'$, but Ihe show', willy ponel"l1 hove to 'lUlU Ihe idlntily of the my,tery 9ue,ts. (Below) Hi, mynah bird tol~1 "humon" very "'el!-but P,t" .peck. b;,d Ion9uo91 lVen batted

ODDEn nRSH IlIIR CHRSE

Masquerade Party

. ond 0 prize ~.dObn ofl>ttlJn.ts ond honorary bodges which he tov.. to olio", to fellow ··fir. b..JRl-'

Mr. DOllald ilas met l}fXlple the world o\·er-

8u(1 ht" ("all imi tate them all, without benefit of disguise

By ELEANOR POLLOCK

na DO>fAl.Il coUecu people the w~ other folk coll~ t ""rlos Or ltemps. PIn f..,t, p«>ple .... not onl), ht. hobby but his business. Peler, who modent"" M"'querode P"'Il/, OV~r ABC.TV, t. a mUler mimic and diaiectld.l.n .• Mod 'nyo~ he me

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ARMSTRONG CIRCLE THEATER

Stars and scenes from one of

TV's pioneer dramatic programs

FULFILLING its aim to provide adult audiences with excitingly different productions, Af'T».strong Circle TheateT has combined the talents of outstand­ ing writers and technicians, plus leading stage, screen, radio and TV performers to present each week a half-hour of televiewing at its dramatic best.

Arm s lrOn~ Circle Th ell/er is ft ~n o"er Nne·TV, TU e!! doy at 9:30 P.i'II. EST, and is sponsored by the Armstrong Cork Co. for Linoleum, Resilient Tile!!. QU8k er Hugs and Floor Coveri nll s.

AMILIAR to viewers of My. Peeper's as Harvey FWeskit, Tony Randall has come an exciting and varied way since he was born, February 26, 1924, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After graduation from Northwestern University­ where he met and married an attractive fellow student, 'Florence Gibbs- Tony and his bride came to New York. The re Tony studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse School and, in 1941, made his professional debut in the Chinese claSSic, ''The Circle of Chalk." Next came the difficult role of Marchbanks in Shaw's "Candida," which starred the late J ane Cowl, followed by his appearance with Ethel Barrymore in "The Corn Is G reen." After signing for a role in "The Skin of Our Teeth," Tony had to forego appearing in the Tallulah Bankhead- Fredric March hit to fulfill a four-year command performance with the Army Signal Corps. Upon his discharge in 1946, Tony became staff director of the Olney Summer Theate,r in Maryland, then joined Katharine Cornell in a national tour of "The Barretts of Wimpole Street." In 1948, he joined Miss CorneU again to open on Broadway in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra." Still in Cleopatra's wake, he appeared with Lilli Palmer and Sir Cedric Hardwicke in Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra." Tony During the past ten years, Tony has also scored many radio and TV credits, including Randall The Henry Morgan Show, I Love A Myster y, One Man's Family and Television Playhouse. With his wife Florence, Tony enjoys 1" "The Beautiful Wi/e,H .cith colleding modern paintings and classical records, J anel Blair, To",. find! life lIu­ He also plays a good game of paddle ball IIIorousl,. confusing .d,en his with his friend and colleague, Wally Cox. '

A. Ital' 0/ "The J ud~ed ." Walter ha$ a pre-!holC chat wilh Barbara O'I\'eil and the ROTC (;fldeu ...· ho aPlleared in the play about mililllTY schnoi Ii/e.

NE OF the most popular leading ladies in televiSion, O gentle, soft-spoken Carmen Mathews made her professional debut in England after graduation from thE' Royal Academy of Ora_maUc Arts. Her Amcrican debut was with the Maurice Evans company of "Henry IV." In subsequent years, Carmen ran the gamut of plays from "Hamlet" to "Beaux' 5trategem" (hel' favorite) and "Coul'tin' Time," ..... ith Joe E. Brown. TV -wise, Carmen's n umerous cr edits include starring roles on Omnibus, Danger, Knife Theater and U. S. Steel H our_ In addition to her Man.hattan apartment, Carmen has a Connecticut cottage where she lives in the summer and enjoys sailing and swimming, Her apartment sports a fine collection of modern paintings, plus a dachshund-An::her-given to her by the Brian Ahcrncs. And, says Carmen, "Olli e of the things dearest to me that I do is record books at the Foundation for the Blind:'

Carmen Mathews

On the &law road 10 recovery in "Breakdown," Cnrmen lind! some !olaee in pl(lying with little Ei· leen " al/ack mId Kevin Coughlin. ROBERT Q . LEWIS set sail for the Old World and found some new friends 'and adventures, both grave and gay

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With the ~elpollOe,. t o'Y Nonl;)' Robin,on Godfr.y n.... : Bob with McGuir. Si,t." Soilin", ti... " M". John Ald.n Tolbot Bon .eya",o: Bob g;ve< 0 li~",orin", Robert O. deo ... Ih, d""h for a vo~ot; ,r. _wh.n h• ...-0$ ",ubditIJling" for Arthur. h.lr» Bob try 011 0 1;le iod.1 10' ,;,.. goodbye ~; .. to hi' p'OIJd po'"n",

Robert O. at ho ... e: Mombe" 01 hi, own ."o~ ",olh .. ot Bob', oportment la, 0 porty. Sooted, I.ft 10 'i9hl, Don liberIa, Joy. p, MO'90n, lois Hunt. Standing, Morio'ie Nudhom, lynn EYonl, Bab. Earl W,ig"hon, Jonet E,tel, Corol Bu,hmon,

KATmak~ 1 RoberlQ. Low ~ tiek ~ WTadI\}', thanlu to hi. TV and radio ahows ow. CBS, everr 1;,,1<' ...... kn_.. Sob'. droD wit and vole.., evel")' vi~w.,r k,ow. tfle, qu,nlceJ anU., and h.. ·lnklinl.l ...... Mr. LewLa has ...rlvoed. B~I how did he 1"1 the~~ Ask Robert Q. u..1 q",,"lion. back In 19S3-...·hen he ....at Just tetUnlll • finn artp on u.., ladder-end h~ aM,,·... would ha"e ~n "'0.1. quick and 10 the point; H.rd _I.: Ask him that II" ...liOtl, In mld­ ]9S(-..when fame and forlw.e ,,-ere almady well in ht. I~nd Bob m~ht ",",'" kad no ,,,,,,,,,.,r It 0011. {C""tiftMN 011 1>011" 7111

T~ /CoM" Q. ,,,.. is ,,~_ ..., CII<;'T\.' 1[- f .2 1'_11. FSr. ["" \10)", I..t.boo ••• ( ...k .... 01 Alk • .s.I.... rl. U.hIo C.n';' I~, .. , , .... "nd lAnolin [);"'ov.. ,), 1lo11) C"",kr, ( ~ k. \Ii< .... nl~I. 1 s.-... 1I.lIma"". 11.,'''.0;.,., \"""", John_< 111 ••• ·'~ .n""" f, ..... 1'0"it'J' U.... ki .. r, ..,_, .",1. ",h,o,... 1 A, /1"1,;,,, Q. I.,"';, ."~"' On U'S A.,l,o. 0;., .. II \-"- [ <;T. ror LAUGHTER 1f,1,,,. C~,,;. (~.,. ,nJ ~h.",,,,,,,, 1'1" ~:nl, 110,.1 C.... n f "I., \on c,'"" Tun •• across the SEAS l'in...... 1. (;,1, III .., h, .hrl Nh" "'001"". CBS listeners and viewers wha have always admired Jack Sterling can now proudly call him a STERLING FISHERMAN

5:15 P.M. Stflriin,) OOOn prove. him ..lf to be on ••perl f,,10· dOfY t.II., D$ lit t.U. Newh"",e of the bi') one thot gol oway.

12:25 P.M. 8oo,d;nq M.! lomb', [eente,) chorte,ecI plan-.Jod: N$Whou .... 111(11 Sloli"t 511010 produce,. wo;Is to follow Steoriin,).

~RLY ....Sf "'.NTU. Jack Stcrlln,added a new f... _ lest his angling .billti... off MOnULUk Point_which 10 E Iu ... 10 ni. populo., morning Jocl< S, ••l;ng ShOt

For Bill Williams and Barbara Hale, By BETTY MLLLS marriage is one continued love story ARRIAGE is like a long book." says Barbara M Hale Williams, wife of Bill Williams, TV's Kit ClIrBOn. "Some of the chapters are the greatest: others you think you'll never get through. And when you have children- the plot grows!" The story of Bal'bam's and Bill's life together began at RKO, where they were both under contract in 1945. They knew one another well enough to exchange friendly hellos, though at the time Barb3ra was going steady with another actor. O !1 C day, aft er a spat with her beau, Barbara mel Bill in the reception room of thc drama coach's office, where they were both waiting for an appointmcnt . "Hi," said Bill. "Good mOl·ning," said Barb. Bill asked, ''How's your man 7" '; We're not going together any more," said Barbara. (Continued on page 75)

Bill Will illllS SII rs in The Ad .. en/UreJ Of Kit Carson, ...· hic h is pre8t:nled on TV by Ih e Coca·CollI BoU];n!! Complln)· in your IIru. Co nSJ h lncll ne ..· sp ••>ers for rorr.,.t tim .. and station.

Names hove b~en the only real problem in the Williams' life together. At latest check-up, their boy is Bill, J1"!. their older girl, Jody-ond the baby, "Do 'by" (for short).

Jody one her little brother toke fo Western ways like true children of Kit Cotson-ond Daddy's right there to teach them the ropes.

58 A Pretty Wonderful Guy Whelher You Brush Your Teelh (Continued from JXlge 38) cast despite that early moming grumbling _for it makes sense to cast Grant as a l Jusl Once, Twice, or Times a Day. .. well-intentioned young man. The last time 3 he was a video villain, he got so much fan mail that they had to convert him into a good guy! "That was on a kid's show, and it got to be embarrassing that the kids liked a heel," he says. "So I repented- just before they wrote me out of the script.~ Colgate Dental Grant has acted on the Kroft and Philco theaters, The Web and Su.rpe:Me, Love Of Life and other adult dr amas, in addition to Tom Corbett, Space Cudet lind Captoin Video. But the adult shows are somewhat anemic when compared with the adventure ill shows for youngsters. When, for Gives Surest example, he was being mean to Captain Video, he was cas! as Spartak from the Black Planet. As an operations officer for Tom Corbett, he was stationed on the moon. "Something exciting was always happen­ ing," he recalls. "Once, Tom and I were ALLDAY G! stuck fifty million miles out in space with a broken rudder. We were trying to re­ pair the ship while £iery meteors rained about us. And then the director signalled us we were running two :lIinules short and we had to ad-lib the rest of our lines! Brother, that's dangerous livmg." He grins and sighs, "You know, after that kind of experience, a man appreciates a warm place by a twentieth-century hearth." It would be wrong to imply that Grant is an "aging," put-anothcr-log-on-the-fire type. He's young enough not to have to think hard to remember the hot-rod he built as a teenager in California. But, on the other hand, in his thirty years he has been "living it up"~as an 3uto racer. tele­ phone linesman, clerk, meteorologist, the­ ater usher, and a few other things. Grant could be accurately descriOOl as a mature and responsible man. "He's a complex character," says Mary. "He can be as stubborn as a mule about ideas, and yet he is as sweet lind playful as a puppy. He's a rugged individualist and yet II sloppy sentimentll iist, too." Grant has no respect for men's fashions. Summer or winter, al home or in the 8~ Only New Colgate Dental Cream studio, he dresses for comfort. He has no resped for a necktie but, on the other -Of All Leading Toothpastes-Contains GARDOL' hand, is meticulous when it comes to ob­ serving all the rules aboul roses on anni_ . To Stop Bad Breath Instantly .. Guard Against Tooth Decay Longer! versaries and a kiss before he leaves home in Ihe morning. Your dentist will tell you how often you "With Grant, there's never a dull mo­ should brush your teeth. But whether ment- but never II dreadful one, either," that's once, twice, or three times a day, be says Mary. " He~ a pretty wonderful guy and, when I think of how lucky we were sure you use New Colgate Dental Cream to meet, I kind of get the chills." with Gardol ! Colgate's stops bad breath They were born about three thousand instantly.in 7 out or 10 cases that originate miles apart. Mary Samuel, whose father in the mouth! Fights tooth decay 12 hours was a minister, lived in the East. Grant grew up in California. or more! 1n fact, clinical tests showed the "I loved it there and I miss it now," he greatest reduction in tooth decay in tooth­ says. "I was a typical beach ral as II kid." paste history! He was the oldest of three brothers, all Gardol, Colgate's wonderful new of whom spent whole days on the beach decay-tighter, forms an invisible swimming, water skiing, learning about shield around your teeth. You boats. A way from the surf, he was al­ can't feel it, taste it, or see ilr­ ways building mechanical things-soap_ but Gardol's protection won't box scootel'S, model planes and even a hOL­ rinse off or wear off all d ay. m". That's why Colgate'a-the only "Mother always encouraged us in our leading tQothpaste to contain hobbies," he says. "When we were ex_ Gardol-gives t he surest pro­ cited about racing, she took us to the auto races." tection ever offered by any Grant's parents separated when he was toothpast6.! about thirteen and, from then on he and , his brothers were raised by his'mother. , '·It was quite a load for her, but she Every Time You Use It... New Colgate Dental Cream nevel' s howed it ," he says. "She's always • been a y oung, sweet kind of person and (ColLtiflued on pagE 63) CLEANS YOUR BREATH tV,//" GUARDS YOUR TEETH! 59 doy Ihrough Friday - - •• •• "'" I." __... _

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Here we don't com­ cast at the Playhouse to be her guests on dollars. plain about the electric bills, just the can­ opening night al the Empire Room. She "We decided to blow the entire check die bills." thought she had invited everyone, but on our anniversary," Mary recalls. "To They don't pretend that it's usual to Grant had been overlooked and he felt us our marriage was worth it." light candles for breakfast. but agree that slighted. They dolled up. Mary got into one of it cheers up the morning for them. "So what does she do," Gmll! says. "bul her $300 "Maxine CV" evening gowns and "If you need an eccentricity," says invite me to be hcr guest a few nights they made a beautiful couple. They took Grant. "that's a pretty harmless one." later, lind I accepted. It turned out to be a cab to the Waldorf·Astoria and went up Lots of mornings, Mary admits. she: nicer that way." to the fancy Starlight Roof. wishes she were lighting a dynamite fusc In between hcr singing chores, thcy "We decided to spend every cent of our instead of a candle. danced. When the Empire Room closed, cash," she says, "and pay the cab driver '" For getting Grant out of bed!" she says Grant asked Mary if she wouldn't like to on our return with a single dollar bill I'd " 1 fecI like an engineer taking on a major walk a bit. There was a small blizzard had tucked away in a drawer." job-like moving a mountain." raging in the city and it was after two in They calculated carefully but forgot Once at the breakfast table, however. the morning, but Mary went up 10 her about entertainment tax. Grant is fully awake and alert. room'Jut on slacks and bools and got "So we had to give our waiter an I.O.U.:' " I have to be--to keep {rom getting bundl up, and they walked the streets Grant recalls. burned by the candles." and talked and talked. They didn't starve, for Mary's credit After breakfast, Grant reads his l ine~ "We covered everything from sex to re· with the grocer was good and within a for the day's show, checks them with Mar}' ligion," Mary says. "We didn't mind the couple of weeks Grant began his lengthy and then, although they live in Manhattan, snow, but I think our tongues were frost· interplanetary lour with Captain Video. a halI·block from Riverside Drive, hc bitten." Of course, by that time their apartment leaves for the studio with an hour more After that first date, they were prr.c· Wall furnished. It was all over too soon than he needs for the trip. tically inscpnrable. for Mary, however, because designing and "You sec, Grant wasn't being romantic "We talked a lot about marriage, other decorating a room or a house has always or cute when he took me for a wintry people's marriages." Grant says. "Neither been a particular pleasure for hcr. hike on our first date," Mary explains. one of us had the sense to propose." "No one has to a$k me," she says. " If "Grant like, to walk. It's one of his fa­ It was on New Year's Eve that Grant I overhear someone on a bus say they'd vori te sports." realized how much he was in love. Mary Iikc a home in New Jersey for their fam­ Grant's schedule doesn't permit much was singing in the Empire Room at mid· ilr.' I mentally create a family and start walking now, with his current assignment night, against her better judgment. The panning a hou:>e." as the American suitor in '"Portrait of a crowd was noisy and gay, but the band· She has decorated several apartments Lady," the Broadway play starring Jeni­ leader iruisted they would quiet down if and studios for friends. fer Joncs. But he likes to walk to work she sang "The Lord's Prayer." The Sullivans' own apartment takes ad­ whenever possible, and particularly en· Grant watched the expe.rimenl from a vantage of the high ceiling and immensity joys strolling with Mary along the Hudson table and began to writhe as she sang of a brownstone apartment. The one wall River. ''The Lord's Prayer" into the un(''easing is still charcoal, without drapes, but the "Thc river is beautiful from the New din. He turned to a friend and said, shutters are now solid charcoal, too. The York side," Grant explains, "becau~e "That's the last time she's ever going to other walls arc light, and the comer where you're facing California." sing for a New Year's Eve crowd." they dine has a wall patterned with yel­ Because of his walking habits, Grant has Then he did a double· take, rcalized what low triangles. on occasion given some of his more ardent he had said and knew he would ask Mary "People think I painted each triangle teen-aged fans a hard time. Some of the to marl'Y him. Six months later-June with a brush and that it took days," Mary teen·aged girls will follow their idols a ll 13. 1951- the ceremony was performed in confides, "but, actually. I cut one of those over Manhattan, so a besieged actor or New York. The date had been decided by dishwashing sponges into a triangular singer oftcn dives into a cab and leaves his the arrival of a check. shape and just pressed the paint on." fans in a cloud of fumes. Grant Sullivan "I got two hundred dollars for some The noor is covered with a huge white does no such thing. He walks them to televillion work. That paid the first Australian string carpet. The television death. Only two ever survived one of his month's rent on an apartment, bought set is in a corner and the cabinet tha t hikes. They got the address of his apart. food, and a gallon of paint for the walls, holds it has an interesting design which mellt, traced his unlisted phone number. and we were in business," Grant says. "It Mary made with twenty.five cents' worth "We changed the number ," Grant says, may sound impulsive but, of course, it of wood matches and glue. Above the "but think of the healthy workout they wasn't. We both knew show business receiver is a painting. got." and knew there would be plenty of times "1.I:'s my first and only painting," Mary Grant is no screwball about fans. He when we'd be broke, so it was just as tells you. "I call it 'Dust Storm over El loves to have them but, when a lot of his logical to marry when we had nothing." Paso.' It was inspired by left-over wall admirers wanted to organize a fan club. They sat on boxes. They couldn't af· paint." Grant and Mary wrote to each of them ford drapes so they painted the wall on And it's not bad for left-over wall suggesting that, instead, they give a hand the window side ch~ rcoal, opened up the paint. to CARE. old-fashioned shutters and painstakingly There are a couple of iron s ling chairs, '"We seem to get more serious by the painted the slats alternately yellow and a built-in corner desk that stands chest day," Grant says. ''You know, 1 can al. white. high, with a C?uple or high stools finished most trace our complete change in atti­ tudes in the few years we've been mar­ ried." "For the better," Mary says. "Wc're positive now." "I know how we are now," Grant adds. "If Mary and I are upset with someone. we sit around and talk about it-not an· grily, but asking ourselves what was thc reason {or it and how would we behave in G o rry Moore and the winsome the situation. We try to understand bad Poster Girl for 1955- behavior and then do something positive about it." Mary Kosloski of Collierville, Grant tells you, contrary to movie plots, Tenn.-team up to remind that you don't get along in the acting busi. everyone that now is the time ness by cutting throats and turning bitter if someone beats you out at an audition. to join the March of Dimes. "When you're in a tough business, it , isn't enough to try hard. You've got to be able to take il with a smile." • "You've got 10 be generous," Mary says. • "It's the Golden Rule." "It sure helps," Grant concludes, on u very positive note. 1'"1 I ~ II- I ~ == m - 0---0 '-- DAy·rIME DIARY

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'"r',"T .J,.;;''tUIl'' When a ~:olid, reputable -and despite her long engagement to an admj,·er. as her husband Kerry angrily Littleton cilium, devoted to his wife, his John, Julie had never been in love before believes. Unwilling to interfere in so per­ family and his way of life, abruptly de­ she met Tom Anderson. It was clear sonal a matter, Bill finds himself forced serted them all, town gossips were quick enough that she couldn't marry John after to make peace in the Donovan family. But to come up with the usual reasons. But that. But what is less and less clear is what are Nancy's true feelings toward they were all wrong, as A unl Jenny N.'­ just what the future holds-if anything­ Peter? NBC Radio. vealed when, in one of her recent stories for her and Tom, all the peculiar cireum­ about life in Liuleton, she told the whole stances from which he tried to escape en­ """,.;,\"1." .,,,.'\'I';S Belle's long heart­ truth about the startling, unexpei:ted crisis tangle him once more and also threaten breaking Eight to help Lorenzo regain his that almost wrecked one of her home J ulie. NBC-TV. memory is on the brink of success as lown's happiest marriages. CBS Radio. Phoebe Larkins overplays her hand and T il,.; , ;",.;,tT";ST ' ;"'·T By telling the arouses Lorenzo's suspicions about her IIAi'Ii:."TA G,.; n '''''''; As the wife of fa­ truth as she knows it about a recent near~ own claim to having married him. Will mous acior Larry Noble, M:ary Noble has fatal accident, Dr. Eve Allen finds herself gratitude toward Belle finally lead Loren_ frequently had to defend her marriage unwillingly drawn into town polities and zo to realization that she is his real wife, against thc onslaughts of irresponsible a tangled emotional situation which could and to the recollection of their happy years women attracted by Larry's fame and certainly wreck her medical career before together? Or will Gail Maddox find some charm. But actress Elise Shephard, per­ it gets started. How will she handle the way to prevent this? NBC Radio. sistent and vicious. has almost su~edcd disturbed father of the young accident vic­ where so many others had failed. ~s· tim. balancing his desire for retribution ",n·,.; ",.. ,.,,..,.; Can a bride ever for­ perate and heartsick, Mary falls eallY prey against her own loyalty? NBC-TV. give her husband for allowing business to Victor Stratton. Will she learn his true to break ur, their honeymoon? Vanessa plan in time to save herself? NBC Radio. TilE t;,j UII,'\'6 ..";IIT Bertha Bauer's might be ab e to if she did not suspect that campaign to revive the marriage 01 Kathy Paul's sudden return to his home lOwn had Til" HItU;IIT";1t II.. t' · When Sandra and Dr. Dick Grant acquires several assist­ something to do with his first wife. What Talbot came to New HoJX:, she did not ants-her own husband and Dick's father will she do when she discovers what ellpeet to fall really in love with Grayling among them. Dick's friend, Dr. Jim Kelly. Judith really intends 10 do-and how much Dennis. Surprised by her own unellpecled once felt the same war' but how would power she can put behind the effort? Will sincerity, and frightened by the pursuit he feel now if Kathy, 0 whom he has be­ the vicious Judith get unexpected help of Bert Rulston, whom ShE: knows to be come so fond, showed new interest in her from Van's sister Meg? CBS-TV. dangerous. Sandra feels she must forsake ex-husband? Is Dick too involved in con­ Grayling and the new life that had once ' flict with Dr. Thomson to wonder about ",A, '·,.;"'H.'\·... Did Ma ever really like ~eemed possible. Will Grayling's worried his personal life? CBS~ TV and CBS Radio. and trust young Laura, the girl who mar­ family be forced to stand by helplessly all ried Billy Pierce? If she did. it was one of this becomes his ellCuse to !ltarl drinking? II ,U""",\'S ,.·. ... '.' AOij A busy small- town the very few mistakes Ma ever made in CBS_TV and CBS Radio. doctor has enough on his hands without reading human nature. and she made it becoming involved in polities, but Dr. be<:ause she was so anxious to see hap­ f·II.'\"'''''.'\·',,\·,; .'''SS .lI ..tI" .II","; Floyd Corey finds that in taking on an piness ahead for the son of her dear old Charming. successful actres.'! Maggie Mar­ a lert, active wife like Lona he has also friends. the Pierces. Will Laura pull off lowe is experienced enough to know when taken on,.a new interest in every phase of her sordid. rmhless plan to get BilIy's a man is interested in hel', and in Jim life in Hawkins Falls. Is Mitch the right money and ruin his life as well? CBS Gavin's case she finds the interest very candidate for mayor merely because he Radio. pleasant. She is also ellperienced enough happens to be the Coreys' friend~ Or has to realb:e thl~t young Kit Christy, aspiring he all the other qualifications that Speck fI,'\' ''; M.".'\··."" "·A.nll.' · How strongly actress, is not altogether the artless in­ Bassett lacks? NBC-TV. can a father lay down the law to his chil_ genue she appeal's. Is she about to make dren in this day and age? The Barbour the mistake of underestimating Kit because ''''.',T,,,· ",,, r,~,.; The curious person­ children have complained for years that she believes she understands her? NBC-TV. ality of Carl Burnett, her husband 5 part­ their f:lther had old_fashioned notions ner, is partially explained for Julie when about being head of the family. If they "·"'."T '.,n·I'; It's easy enough to be she realizes he despises his wile and re­ had followed his dictates, Claudia and happy with a man everyone likes and fuses to believe little Tony is his son. Will Hazel might have been spared their recent underst.'lnds-a man who i.'I easy to get Carl's unhappiness have a lasting effect on romantic mistakes. But if they had been along with. Laurie did not choose such a the lives of Julie and Reed- an effect not less strictly brought uP. wouldn't expe­ man when she fell in love with Zach. He even Julie suspects? What is Mildred Bur­ rience have kept them equally safe? is difficult and strong-minded and treads nett's real goal, and can Julie keep Tony NBC-TV. on many toes, and his potential for achieve_ from being hurt by it? CBS Radio. ment is as great as his ability lO get him­ flfin '-;,lI• .", ',,\',,.. ,, ' Eve Barrett's plans self misunderstood. Laurie ""iII need more .II ·.~ T , ...... , .'\. "". .. The mu r der of were careful and intricate, but in the end T than the average aUotmen t of love and Thelma Nelson flings BilI's beloved daugh­ she didn't completely deceive Lord Henry. , faith. Will she have it? NBC-TV. ter Nancy into the greatest crisis of her Her eflort to ruin his marriage to Sundar. I life. Suspected of killing Thelma, she finds might have come 10 nothing if Eve hadn t ,.,11.'''';''\' ft '"",,,,ft'S L o ve always a defender in the fascinating lawyer Peter gotten herself murdered. As Sunday seems ter ribly simple to t b e very young Dyke Hampton- a defender and perhaps stands in dark fiuspicion, will Eve accom- 65 plish in death what she could not do in SKUI(·,. . ·Olt TO.\lOIUlOW The ,I T U" ; Til ' ,n ' F. Reporter Kathy By­ life-the wreckage of the once-happy death of Hazel Tate, which should have ron goes out after Paul Cheney for more Brinthl'Ope marriage? Or will Henry real­ projected Joanne Barron into the happy than a story. when Miles Dow is bounced ize the truth? CBS Radio. future she and Arthur Tate prayed for. from the police force for following a instead threatens her very life, 8S she framed lead which Kathy, victimized by """",:" ) .• " .., .• ; .... " .... ,UII_) · Gray­ fights to defend herself against the charge Cheney, innoccntly gave him. Is Cheney son's carefully-laid plan 10 pl'otecl his of murdering Hazel. What will this crisis too well_organized and ingenious for fraud explodes in dreadful t!'agedy that mean to Joanne. to the Bergm8ns, and Kathy. or will she brcak him down? And brings destruction and death-and may most of all to little Patti Barron, who may meanwhile. how does Miles stand in her bring further horror upon CadeT Trent, once again fall victim to the selfish love of private life. now thai Chick Buchanan's husband of Pepper's sister Peggy. Already her scheming grandmother? CBS-TV. place as good neighbor is so subtly chang­ suffering from nervous strain. Carter is ing? NBC_TV. tricked into believing himself responsible TilE .IitEr"."" MilS. ''' ·IlT " ., ' Happy for the oil well fire and its tragic after­ as Man:ia is in her marriage 10 Lew V,U .' .I ,, ·T ' .. 11'" Emotional problems math. Will this be the last straw for his Archer. there are one 01' two points on beset the recently widowed Helen Emer_ overburdened mind? NBC Radio. which they do not see eye to eye, and these son 8S she tries to convince her son Mickey generally involve Marcia's family. How that he C8nnot waste his life searching (or ,-,.; ,,,,,.. U .. I ." O .' · As Perry Mason and will she feel when she leams that it was 8 girl who may not be as right for him as his associates work indefatigably to un­ Lew's money th8t pulled her brother Stan's he belicves. She is also worried about her covel' the vital clue that will lead to the paper out of the red? Lew and -Stan headstrong d8ughter, Diane, who may­ real murderer of Gordy Webber and thus understand each other perfectly. but with o,' may not-patch up her marriage to save Kate Beekman, Kate realizes she is Marcia, Stan's mothe,·. and politics to in­ Hal Soomes. Is this the time for Helcn undergoing the greatest crisis of her life in terfere, there could be some ~eri o us trou_ herself to have to decide what pilot Chris more ways than one. Can a girl who ble. CBS Radio. Kendall re81ly means to her? CBS-TV. stands in the shadow of the electric chair find time to fall ill love? Has she the right Til,.; S "; "",.; T S T"'!''' T ragedy " ·~."'n · "',,.U,,;." ,I."" T il'; .,";" '.01 -and can she believe in it? CBS Radio. brought Peter Amell And Jane Andrews Wendy's absorbing newsp8per career together when, after the recent death of takes seeond place in her thoughts 8S her '-.IIfT,., , ',U ''';S •• , . '" Loyalty to the his wife, she beeame housekeeper to Peter husband's turbulent emotional upset shakes Bakers has forced Portia and Walter Man­ 8nd his three children. And tragedy of the very found8tions of their life together. ning to a crucial decisjon as their marriage another kind may part them again 8S Jane Will M8rk's dependence on Magnus turn falters under the strain imposed by Por­ becomes convinced that because of her out to hnve becn the decisive tr8gedy of tia's legal success. Will Walter's shaken past there can be no future for her and his long struggle for 8djustment and un. male ego ...mdermine their family security? Peter, though they h8ve f81len in love. Is derstanding? Or will it lead to the pence Will Porti8's son. neVer completely sure Jane rightly suspicious of the sudden Mark was on~ so certain he saw ahcad of his stepfather's strength despite their friendship of Peter's sister. in _law? CBS­ on the path Magnus promised to show affection for one another. be the unwitting TV. him? CBS Radio. tool of his power-hungry grandmother? CBS-TV. T"~ .'!i ,;,.;rt: • .I\ ' G II",IIIT Dr. Robin " 'II':," ,t .;IIU. M.. t,uu"S Joan Davis McKay is drawn more deeply th8n she finds hel'self tested in a new way as shc Til,.; ""; IIT TO S The likes into the increasingly complicated plot comes to grips with the unexpected change many months of difficultII.U·'·' maneuve,'·".... ring surrounding young Lorna and her money. in her life that has becn forced upon her and Sl'U-(.'ontrol Ihat Carolyn had to Will Law~on W8re and his sister Cynthia by circumstances. Will Dr. Davon be able eJlercise while her husband, Miles Nelson. manage to discredit Robin in their effort to guide her past the worst dangers she was governor are behind her now, but the 10 get control of Lorna's estate? Will they will encounter, or wiJI her association with future promises little relief as Miles finds accomplish what Robin fears even more­ him lead her into a situation where she himself unexpectedly uneasy in his return the wrecking of Dr. John Adams' career? must m8ke a dccicion she never expected to private p r acti~. Does he really belong Or will R()bin find a way to use wily Orrin to have to make-a decision th8t will affect in prominent public life? Will his efforts Vail in 8 way he never intended? CBS-TV. her future? ABC Radio. to re-establish himself ruin his marriage? NBC R8dio. .'> Tf<;' .I.,1 " ,II.f.,·' S Her daughter Lau­ Til" "'0.".'," .....' .tn· 110"1'0" As a rel's happiness is the most important thing family grows. the elders grow in wisdom Til'; ""111' " •. ,., •.,. ; Sybil Overton in life to Stella DallaS. Now Stella fights - but the problems also multiply. James throws her misdirected vitality and twisted despcrately to preserve it against two and Jessie Carter have learned that merely resourcefulness so eomplctely into her W8r sl.rong adversarics. Aristocr8tic Mrs. Gros­ raising Iheir ehildrcn from babyhood to against Jim Brent's happiness that Jim venor. Laurel's mothcr-in·law, would like adulthood docsn't give them the right to and Jocelyn a,'e a lmost caught off guard hcr son Dick to divorce 8 girl she never sit baek 8nd I·elax. A parent's job is never by the force of the 8ttack. Can thcy count considered good enough for him. And in. done-not even when the oldest child is for any help on he,· brother Hugh. torn sane Ada DeJlter wants Laurel for her as old as her son Jeff. as Jessie learns to between secret kl1bwledge of Sybil's un­ own son. How can Stella defeat their her surprise. Will Jeff, self-sufficient as he balanced mind and the family loyalty he combined strength? NBC Radio. is, accept help? NBC Radio. cannot quite give up? CBS Radio. TII,S 'S ,'HIIU "'UK" Wyn Robin­ ) ' 0 ...", ; ''',. "'.U.O,'·" Young Jill Ma­ Til'; ""ltf,I.'·"" 0,' ""I. ~ ,,\' T'U;., ·T son has done a good job of pulling the lone looks on billerly and resentfully as Helen's assistant. Loretta Cole. nmy have wool over Fred Molina s eyes, so that al­ her father. Dr. Jcrry Malone, plans to been 8n apprentice gown designer, but though he knows he is endangered by the marry Tracy Adams. Determined that no shc needed no instruction in female str". Syndicate he docs not re8lize that Wyn, other woman will eve.. take her dead tcgy. Her persistence has gained precisely whom he believes to be his fricnd, is the mothcl"s place. Jill refuses to soften toward the goal she aimed for-she has attracted bait in the Syndicate's trap. And although Tracy. who is oversensitive and uncertain Brett Chapman'~ serious interest. thus Nom has reason to know the depth of enough to be shaken by the rejection de­ taking from Helen the attention of the Fred's loy!! for her. she cannot help won­ spite hcr love for Jerry. Is happiness to be only man who might have taken Gil Whit. dering about Wyn's place in his life. Will snatched from Jerry Malone once more? ney's place in Helen's affections. Can Gil she find 01.:1 too late? CBS Radio. CBS Radio. come back into Helen's life? CBS Radio T il''':'' .~ T'; '· S T O II" ,n ' , ;." Cap­ ) ' 0 " ,"'; " .,,,,,,; ,, """"'." Ellen 'H'S ' :," .II'" Young Lonnie. completely tured and caged. and on the edge of death, Brown finds herself the victim of a death_ under thc sinister influence of Monica. is vicious Vince Bannister nevertheless bed promise made by her fiance, Michael increasingly distressed at his treachery struck a shattering blow against Mary Forsythe, to his mother. as Michael's toward Rosemary and Bill Roberts, but Clare and Bill Motg8n, who had been brother Gerald comes to Simpsonville and cannot throw off the spell of Monica's instrumental in putting him behind bars. proceeds to behave in a way that can only attraction. Not even Rosemary suspects Thc dreadful explosion that wrecked bring new unhappiness to Ellen. Why did T the double life Lonnie h8s becn leading River Lane has brought tragedy to the Michael make his mother the promise y until the runaway elimax of Monica's Morgans and their friends. Will they ever that prevcnts him from doing anything R plan brings Lonnie to his sen~es--but too uncover the sinister network by which now to protect Ellen? Will he break his late to draw back from the inevitable Vince managed his hideous rcvenge? word to save her- or will he find 8nothcr tral!cdy. CBS Radio. NBC-TV. way? NBC Radio. 66 Ted Steele (Continued jTom page 41) New England background, in a suburban community near Boston. H i3 mother is one of those perfect homemakers, dedicated to home and family. Everything revolved around Ted's fathel', the breadwinner and the family head. As long as he lived, he made all the decisions. The boys, Ted and his brother, were satisfied w ith this until they got out on their own. My background was quite different. Down in Montgomery, Alabama, where I corne from, I got the idea that women al­ ways ran the home and made all the plans concerning it- probably because my mother was widowed when I was three and my sister only six months. Mother had beeu the "man" of our family as far back as r could remember. In our house, il the sink got stopped up, she fixed it. If the electric iron wouldn't work, she repaired it, She knew exactly what was in the fam­ ily budget and how it could be spent. She ran the house, supervised our studies, our movie-going, our companions and all our activities, She inspected our fingernails and ears and told us what we could do and what we must not do, It was something of a shock, therefore, to realize after our marriage that- while Ted was already deferring flatteringly to my bUJiness judgment (largely because of my a6ency background of good, solid cxperi­ I was afraid of my shadow ,m~e and the managerial ability he seemed to have faith in from the outset)- he ex­ pected to make the home decisions, cer­ ... now I am the most popular woman in town tainly the major ones and even what I considered minor ones, It seemed like a Are you shy. timid afraid to brings yOI.l a thorough social education, complete switch from the usual husband­ mcct and talk with people? If so, here's that will enable you to live a richer, and-wife a rrangement, although I have good news fo r you! For Elsa Maxwell, happicr life. since met many men like Ted who are the famous hostess to world celebrities, Here in clear, straightforward lan­ literally the head of the house-and many has written a book packed solid w ith guage are the answers to all yOl.lr every­ wives like myself who are satisfied to have ways to develop poise and se lI -confi~ day etiquette problems. Hcre you find it that way, dcnce. important suggestions on good manners Wh ile our girls are each as much indi­ This wonderful book entitled, Elsa in restaurants-in church- in thc the­ viduals in their own r ight as their daddy Maxwell's EtiqRette Book contains the atre-on the street-and when you and myself, they adore their father and a nswers to all your everyday social travel. have the greatest respect for him, Because p roblems. By following the suggestions In this book Elsa Maxwell covers every he has always wanted the best fo r the given in this book you know exactly how phase of cngagements and weddings. Here children- wh ich in his opinion includes to conduct yourself on every occasion. is everyth ing you need to know about country living- and because we also love Once you are completely familiar with invitations, gifts, the wedding dress, the the country, in the summer of 1947 we the rules of good manners you immedi­ attendants, thc reception, etc. The bride bought a farm near the little town of New ately lose your shyness-and you be­ who follows the suggestions contained in Hope, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, come your true, radiant self. this up-to-date book need have no wed­ Buying that farm is something I am proud ding fears. She will be radiant in the of having strongly influenc«i, even though Win New Respect knowledge that hel" wedding is correct it was Ted, of course, who made the final in every detail. decision, We had been staying nearby with Win new esteem and respect from your some friends, tempora rily, and Ted, as al­ friends-men and women alike. Take Only $1.00 ways, was haunting the cattle auctions. He less than five minutes a day. Read one couldn't resist Q.uying a few calves and chapter in this helpful etiquette book in The price of this heifers, even though he had to board them your spare time. In a very short period book that puts out, and he was trying to rent the barn on you will find your-self with more self­ you at ease no our fann when the caretaker suggested he confidence than you ever dreamed you matter where you take over the whole place. would have. You wil! experience the a re - and opens Ted laughed ofT the idea, not feeling at wonderfur feeling of bcing looked up to the door to " .... hi"v"rnf'nt. ann all ready financially to assum~ th e pur­ 8ml ",Jnd,·W. GOlle will be all your chase of such a property, bl.lt he made the doubts and fears. You will be living in success-costs on­ mistake of mentioning it to me jokingly, a new, wonderful wor ld. ¥ou wil! never ly $1.00. And we and we drove over just to look. Or so we fear your own shadow again! pay the postage! thought! I got out of the car and walked T ake advantagc toward the door of the fine old Pennsyl­ of this truly re­ Go Ploces_With Good Manne rs markable bargain. vania Dutch farmhouse and knew, before Good manners are one of the greatest I went in, that this was for thc Stecles. Mail coupon be_ personal asscts you can possess. Good low for your book '" might have known it," Ted said later. jobs, new friends, romancc, and the "I might have known you're a girl who al­ - TODAY. chance to influence people can be won .,. , , , ' . ways believes you Clcept Suty, vinced, but I carried him along on my en­ shows. we always had to ask the powers­ and Sally sets us a good example.) thusiasm-knowing perfectly well I was in that-be at a station or the agency whether Sue is our reader, and she loves to sew, for it, if I made any m istake. ( What man we could do certain things on the programs. but she. too. is active in such projects as would ever let a wife hear the end of a Bul, a littll' more than a year ago, I finally the Girl Scouts. The greatest contrast be­ thing like that!) prevailed upon my husband to become his tween the girls is in the way they keep The result, however, was beautiful. J got own boss in these things, and that's the their room and their personal possessions. out just enough of the crumbly old mortar way his contract is now framed. It was part Sue isn't interested in detail and is care­ and the smaller stones to make a sort of of Ted's faith in my judgment that he saw less about putting things away. Sally Is im­ picture-window effect-about eight feet by the light and came home one day and said maculate and meticulous about everything. fiVe, backed by the old wall- and it now so. "Now," he said to me, "it's up to you to Since they share a bedroom and usc the frames an arrangement of plants, because go out and sell the package!" same dressing table and the same bath, you we decided the birds belonged outside. As soon as word got around that Ted would think Sue would get more neat or During the holiday season we fill the niche was leaving his fonner station. our tele­ Sally leu 50, but it hasn't worked out that with evergreens and holly and mistletoe. phone began to ring like crazy. One call way- yet! came from WOR-TV, on a Saturday, and I Their daddy is 60 fastidious and neat The Christmas holidays are very special drove out to where Ted was working in that it has taken him quite a while to un­ at our house, anyhow. For the first time the field and told him we should talk it dentand that a house can't be kept perfect since the girls have ~n old enough to over and caJl them back. He got off the if you have children and pets-and you appreciate it, Christmas is a day at home tractor long enough to listen and then want everyone to be happy and comfort­ for us this year. When it doesn't fall on a hopped back on, saying he would discuss able. He now admits, with some resigna­ Saturday or Sunday, Ted and I always it at lunch. being very much Farmer tion, that there will always be pets running have to work, so in previous years we hav(' Steele instead of Performer Steele. I went around the place and that children can', celebrated on the Sunday preceding back to the house and typed up the list of always remember to straighten up a room Christmas and had an extra celebration on things J knew we both wanted in any con­ after they have been playing in it. We have the day itself, during whatever free lime tract and. when WOR met our terms. we two dogs and about thirty cats, only two we could manage. Usually, on the Sunday both felt his programs had found a fine of whom are allowed in the house-one we before, we have opened our family pres­ home. He has a five-year contract which call Mama and one the children named ents only, had our big leisurely breakfast, we hope will be renewed many times. Studebaker. One of the dogs is George, a with everybody dropping in and the coffee female cocker spaniel inappropriately pot bubbling constantly and the orders of You have probably noticed that Ted al­ named by Ted. (George was a gift to him ham and eggs and bacon and pancakes and ways closes his radio and television shows on a television show. We were giving a dog toast and jam coming along constantly. with a hymn, something we have always away 10 a viewer every week and, when Later in the day we have had our big wanted to do. We ourselves love hymns this puppy was brought in, sh e made a turkey dinner with all the t rimmings, just and feel sure there are many other people great fu sa over my husband, chewing the as other people do on Christmas day. On who find comfort and inspiration in them, carnation in his lapel, licking his ear and the 25th-when we had to go to work as as much on weekdays as on Sundays. We his hair. Ted fell for it, of course, said. usual- we have all been up early to open get great satisfaction also in taking only "Here George, you're the one I want for the rest of the presents, from relatives and the spon60rs whose products we believe in myself." The donors of the dogs were de­ friends. to have breakfast logether, and and are proud to be advertising. lighted to have the puppy choose Ted. then. be off to the studio. Rather than con­ People often tell Ted how lucky he is, since they had been planning to offel' him sidering all this a drawback, our girls have but I know he has made most of his own one. And the name stuck.) Ching, my always felt especially privileged to have good luck by working enormously hard, Pekingese. was shown on the animal seg­ two Christmases, instead of the usual one. by fighting discouragement whenever II ment of our present television show- a Yet it's nice for the family to be at home hWl got in his way. and by never being segmenl in which I atlpear-and, this time, and together on Christmas and New Year's afraid to forge ahead and take some I fell in love with the cute little thing. The Day this year. Ted's mother comes for chances. He gives me credit for always be­ children misunderslood his name and call Christmas, but my mother has a plant ing willing to take chances along with him. him Sing. but both dogs answer to any call nursery in Alabama and that's her busy I have always felt that a wife who is worth -especially if they think food is involved. time, 60 she has to visit later in the year. her salt should put her husband's joy in We have a big tree, and the children also his work and his peace of mind ahead of I have an outdoor aviary with about 200 adore the small one set up for the dogs. any so-called "security" that may turn oul parakeets. There have been other birds­ If you have gathered that we have a to be an unhappy situation for them both. a dwarf parrot whose chattering kept Ted happy household, a ll the Steeles would When Ted has been really discontented in from ever getting a nap after he C1Une in certainly agree with you. Ted and I have any job, I have told him to give it up and from working on the farm, and some love our differences, as most couples do. But Iry something else. birds. also too noisy, so T had to give them neither of us likes an argument which gets His old friends, in particular, stress his up. I musl say that Ted has been a very out of bounds, and one of us always gives luck. They mention the farm, the success­ good sport about my birds. especially when in before any quarrel gets 10 the point ful shows and the fine contract. the healthy, I let a few of them fly around the house. where things are said that will hurt and go happy children and a wife who is inter­ U he still winces at times at the confusion. on hurti.1g. P erhaps this is the result of ested in helping. Ted agrees with them, of he does a good job of hiding it. having known, always. that we inlended course, admitting that he has been fortu­ He certainly did wince-visibly and to stick together. no matter what might nate in many ways. I think of the effort he audibly- when I started to chip away part happen, and therefore trying to understand has put into the talent side of his shows, of our dining room wall, with the idea then the other's point of view. into the farm. into the home, and the effort of making an indoor aviary. That room is We are really in.ter_dependent. and it's I have put into the business management part of the original farmhouse, which dates my belief that this is wonderful for any and all the rest of it, alongside of him. It , back to the late seventeeth century. though marriage. It is unthinkable to either of us all seems very worthwhile, however, when v other wings have been added at twenly- that one could get along as well without my husband turns to me after one of th~ • five- or thirty-five-year intervals and the the other, at home or at the studio. The comments from a friend, and adds his own. one housing Ted's study is quite modern, man who runs a grocery (or any business) "Yep." he says, smiling at me w ith affec­ built only a few years before we bought and whose wife stacks the merchandise on tion and understanding. "The harder we 68 the place. the shelves and helps wait on customers work the luckier we get!" P eter Donald (Continued from page 50) otherwise see or hcar themselves in one •Wh ob' b81i8V8 I wa£" eV8r of his after~dinncr or TV performances. Actually the sandy-haired Scotch-Irish­ 8mbaNa£"58d by PIMPL£$ / " man would never dream of doing an un­ kind or cruel characterization. His respect for people is too great. Peter's fondness for the human race stems from the fact that he has met so many different types New! Medication and nationalities. From the age of ten Clearasil months, he tJ"avel1cd aU over the world with his parents, who were music hall performers. "I had a Zulu warrior for a nursemaid in South Africa," he recalls, "lived through a tidal wave in the Indian Ocean, survived 'STARVES' a plague of locusts in Australia, and tried to learn the Indian rope trick in Calcutta. I find people very much the same every­ where. Pretty wonderful. in fact. But you have to learn to understand them. Never make the mistake of trying to make them PIMPLES conform to your ideas." Like a great many humorists and come_ SKIN ·COLORED dians, Peter Donald is basically a serious and thoughtful person. There's not a bit HIDES PI MPLES WHILE IT WORK S of the "laugh, clown, laugh" pose about him and life and people arc not to be D oc"etheoils that pimples " feed" 0lI. And CLE ARAS IL'S allti· know the people. He learns what their septic actioll SlOpS . he grow th of bacteria Ihal interests are, what theil' prejudices may can cause a nd spread pi mples. Skin·colo red <0 be. "In this way," he declares seriously, h ide pimples and end embarrassmen t. G rease· "1 avoid stepping on toes or probing sore less, slainless . . . p leasant to le-""e On day and spots. It makes no difference whether I'm nighl for uninterrupted medication. talk ing to a group of twenty or 8,000. They Ame rico's Jorges l-selling specific pimple are people-not numbers-and it's my med ication ... because CLEA I AS II. has hdped so business to please them, to make them man)' boys, girls and adu lts. GUAR ANTEED 10 laugh. If I succeed," he contin ues, "that work for you as it did in doctors' ' l"ltsor mo ney makes me happy." b a c k.59~and 98~.A[ all druggisls.G e t C L EARAS I L Peter Donald takes to th e stage like a today. (Available in Canada, slighdy more. ) duck to a pond. It's in his blood, his heri­ tage from his parents. His Cather was born in the same Scottish village as the late steel magnate Andrew Car negie-who fi­ 'I 0 :::I;:9W~ ::::;: ' ;:~.;~:; g M ne y ;" f"mo';oo TV R.d!. MI,. nanced his trip to America-and was "dis­ covered" aboard ship by George Primrose, a e ror, 205 E. 42 5t.. N. Y. whose minstrel show was famous in its M k B as 17, N. Y. day as any name band or top TV or movie star today. Peter's father was a tenor and sang his way around the world. He was with the famous Weber and F ields Com­ pany at the turn of the centu ry and had supper with Lillian Russell. He also played with the Lew Dockstader Minstrels, the last of the large "blackface" groups to tour the big time. Peter's mother played the piano and sang a !!lit, so it was inevita­ ble that some of the greasepaint should rub off on the youngster. " \Vhen I was ten," Peter recalls, "I was living an almost normal life going to the Professional Children's School. But, one day, Noel Coward-who was casting for his famous operetta, 'BiUer Sweet'--eame by the school and picked me to play a busboy in one of the scenes. That was twenty-six years ago, and I have never been far off stage since." It was impossible that his gift for dialect should I'emain un­ money you want discoverl.>d fOI" long and, while he was still fe w s pa r e hours. in his teens, he got into radio playing such b e aut i ful Fa s hion parts as Ethel Barrymore's husband 01' Frocks, low o s $2.98 Helen Hayes' f"ther. e ach. W e furnish o v e r "What those distinguished ladies of the 100 styles, colors, fabrics. theater thought when they wel'e con­ You risk nothing_ No ex­ fronted with a beardless boy, whose only talent was the ability to imitate any voice 1'1' n perie nce n e e ded. Your I "I 11 he heard. I cannot imagine," he laughs. own dresses supplied as "But anyway, they were very kind and II",~ I ''''' a bonus. Try it - write probably put it down to just another ec­ ... 1.. ",,,",,,,11 for free samples • centricity of r adio-that upstart of the · ··iFI'~; '; 'r;,i~;i ...... theatrical profession. However, I went fASHION fROCKS, INC. • right along imitating the voiees of states­ Add...,,, . Dept. 5·1053 men and other celebrities on The Murch Cincinnllti 25, Ohio. 0/ Time, and found time to do a radio room, done up in a flowing garment and a more." He has a dog-not any particular show called Light Up A nd Li$ten.-which I long beard, when Peter rushed in fo r breed-just a dog. And there's a talking wrote and emCffd for the magnificent sum something. He fo rgot for a moment who mynah bird brought him fmm Singapore of twenty·five bucks a week. But:' he was going on the show, and just stared. by explorer Carveth Wells. In evidence roars, "that's not the half of it. On that Sylvia Lyons looked up through tangled are also a fire helmet and ax. For a show­ show we had Dinah Shore, Dennis Day eyebrows and bf!ard and said, "Oh, Peter! man and somcone who has lived and and, hold your breath-Hildegarde-for I didn't recognize you for a minute." breathed the thcater for years. Peter shows eighteen dollars a week!" "That's what I like," he says, "somebody small enthusiasm for show people. "I hate In spite of the fact that Peter always who can think fast." talking shop," he explains, "so I spend loved a joke and has an enormous sense of Peter himself is no slow wit. His interest most of my lime with business pcople. I humor, he never thought of himself as a in everything is enormous. He buys and hope to be in busin('ss someday myselI. Of funny man until, in 1940, he became emcee reads five papers a day, al1 the major course, it will have to be allied with ahow of the Senator Ford-Harry Hcrshfield n ldiQ magazines, and ev('n finds time for a novel business, but it lVill b

How to Strike It Rich in 1955 (Continued from page 25) of the people who c.:ome to our program lovely in her new surroundings. She plays War ren's thoughts ranged ahead to the seek to help someone else-and, do you with othe r children and attends sehool. changes these Ihings would make in Ihe know, it makes a difTerence in the way Mrs. Scanlon said she set out merely to li ves of the contestants. He said, "None they answer the questions? Time after time, get a bathtub for Candy and, to her sur­ of them has yet had time to realize it, but I've seen such people overcome their ner­ prise, foulld a new lease on life." they're going to find that the money vousness and come up with the answers.~ Aside from Strike It Rich-which can they've won is less important than the He recalled with appreciation a few of take only n thousand contestants a year­ fresh outlook 'st riking it rich' has given the persons who had done this. "There where can people find a means to help them. For each, it means a new start. was the man who wanted to 'strike it rich' others and find those who need such help? "I think it is possible for people to 'st rike for.a church where he had found a lasting Wnrren had an answer for that, too. it rich' even though they never set foot in religious experience. A nurse in Los An­ "The first place to look is right in your the studio nor answer a call from the geles turned up asking for a TV set for own back yard," he advised. "You know, Heart Line To America. DralVing on what the patients in the ward she served. A we human beings are wonderfully versa­ we've learned here on the program, I baseball scout wanted money to help a tile and woefully incomplete. all at the bf!lieve we've dis~v e red some things promising youngster who, if he had some same time. We need to cooperate, and we which can help anyone-who wants to­ correetive surgery, had a good chance to need cooperation. Your friends may not lead a fuller, richer life." achieve the big leagues." be in the dcsperate straits of some of There was conviction in his tone as he What happens after such contestants do the people you see on our program, but warmed to his subject. " I say this because "strike it r icW'? Warren had a story for there's always something you can do to I truly believe Ihat the greatest need in that, too. make their lives more pleasant. Maybe you America today is to strike it rich spirit­ "You'd be surprised at some of the can bake, and a friend would appreciate ually. So many people dose themselves in, things which result. At the time of our a plate of home-made cookies. Maybe you concerned only with their own immediate, seventh anniversary last summer, we can show an interest in a youngster who's material needs and dull themselves to what hcard again from Mrs. Kathlcen Scanlon on the brink of delinquency. You get the is happening around them. In losing a of Paterson, New Jersey. Originally in reward of having your talents appreciated. sense of responsibility to others, we·ve also 1952, she had come to us asking for a None of us was meant to exist alone. II's dimmed our concept of the dignity of man. chance to win the money to buy a bathtub. fun to give each other a helping hand." We foriet that such indifference, such re­ Her five-year-old daughter, Candy, had That should be the beginning but not the fusal to stand up for the r ight, on the part had polio and needed whirlpool treat­ end of one's reaching out, he indicated. of people in Germany. let Hitler rise to ments. She won three hundred and "There isn't a church or a synagogue in power. The same thing can happen here." twenty-five dollars and there were nu­ the c.:ountry which couldn't use a few extra He returned to the Strike II Rich J'ro­ merous Heart Line calls." membf!rs who arc willing to put their re­ gram to illustrate his point. " You' be What happened next was enough to thrill ligion to work," he said. ''That's the easi­ surprised how many times our contestants any giver who had a part in it. Warren est way to strike it rich spiritually. Your are l.'Ompletely overcome by Ihe Heart said, " Last summer, Mrs. Scanlon told us own worship and the church's organiza­ Line calls. They'll sa)" 'This is the first that new doors seemed to open every_ tions con lead into a whole realm of new, T time we knew anyone cared what hap­ where. In thanking the people who con­ enriching experiences. Church organiza_ y pened to us.' tributed Heart Line gifts, Ihe family made tions, because they can operate informally, • "1 think that the best way to strike it many new fr iends. Today they have a new on the basis of need rather than red tape, rich spir it ually is to try to strike it rich for home with a big back yard for Candy to have a lways been a community's first line someone else. Fully twenty-five per cent pIny in. The ch ild has grown tall a nd of defense against the kind of sudd en .-li ~ _ 70 aster which ca n strike any family. There's many a person who got a fresh start be­ cause of some Ladies' Aid," Another phase occurred to him. "If you want 10 look at Ihe financial aspect for a minute, have you ever handed your minister a fe w dollars and told him to usc it wherever he thought it would do the most good? Ministers of all faiths are a l­ ways being called on to sive some personal help which wasn't foreseen when Ihc church budget was made up. Ministers of len make such appeals to us, on behalf of someone they can', lake carc of- and, believe me. they gct careful consideration." The satisfaction of being able to give personal ge"vice is one of the fu!les! re­ wards which work for a church can ofTe r, Warren pointed out. "Have you ever real­ i~ed that a church can usc almost any mien! you have? If you can sew, there are church fairs and charities which need your help. If you can keep books, there arc t reasurers' jobs which need filling. IT you know about footba ll or baseball, there are youth groups which need counselors." He recalled a personal incident wh ere a church had made him feel that he him­ TONIGHT- If you need a laxative, IN THE MORNING- You'll enjoy self had "struck it rich ." " L,l st yea r, the ta ke chocola t ed Ex-LAX , Ame rica's the closest t hing to natural action. Roxborough Methodist Church in P hila_ best-tasting laxat ive. 'fake it a t bed­ N o d isco mfo rt o r u pset. Yo u'll soon delphin put on a series of meetings w h ich time- it wo n't disturb your sleep. fe e ! like yourself again! they called Television Evenings, and in­ vited me to speak. As it turned ou t, my NEXT DAY - E x-LAX continues t o help you toward your norma l sons Paul. who is in the Air Force, and reSu/ari f y. Yo u ha rd ly e ver have to take Ex-LAX again the ne xt night! Georgc. who is in college, were able to go with me. I talked and played the t rumpet, and we all sang. The audience loved it, Buy The New 6S¢ Si;r.e­ bu t I can tell you I got an even biggcr thrill from being able 10 stand up and Save As Much A5 37 ¢ sing w ith two of my boys." EX-LAX Alro IJvlJillJble in 30~ IJnd 120 size" THE CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE S ince striking it rich in any fash ion im­ plies suddenly enjoying a bounty which you did not previously have, it obviously MORE PEOPLE USE EX-LAX THAN ANY OTHER LAXATIVE requires a "something extra" to ach ieve it. Here, too, Warren had some practical sug­ --~=C7CC=CO-=COCCCC----~COO~C:'"" " gestions. " Every human being possesses the same EXTRA CASH ~!rp in~ u:Ot~~Se !~: asset which is always dramatically shown ders for magmdnc by our conlestants-the ability to change subscriptions. Earn as much as Sl.5O an hour. and grow, to strive for a new h orizon." For FREE informatioll, write to: TV l ad,o .. Irrar S~b$Crlptiu ... ~ ... , 205 E. 42 St" He ... He had a practical suggestion to stimu_ York 17, H. Y. late such growth. "To get things started. you might try asking yourself the same questions we ask our contestants. First. MAGNETIC you dete rm ine how you want to strike it rich. Set a goal you can ach ieve, Make it POT HOLDERS definite and nOI too d ifficu lt. Once you've And reached it, it will open up new goals and Y(NI cun save cuh on TV Radio Mirror you'll find you will have gained t he strength to tackle something tougher, I\l:o gazille, if you art ~ t once. Although

"Next, ask yourself what talents you the reg ular price i ~ 2~ t a r op)·. and 53 Ii possess which will help you attain your goal. Don't be afrai\i to utilize those abil­ yea r, you Ca n Kel a 1,,11 year of T V Radio ities which normally you keep half-hid den . Mirror. plu ~ fi ve momh. more for onl y They may be the very things which turn the balance for you or give you the great­ $3. Simply cl ip and lII (lil Ihe coupon he· est pleasure. low today, You "'ill rC"civll 11 Ihrilling "Finally. look ,wound to discove r how you can best employ your ability to hell> i:u u e~ for 51.25 undrr r e~ ul a r pr i.:ee. someone else. Your minister can tell you Tholl;m nds pay &1.25 lor thi. 3\ the new!­ what jobs need doing in your church. HOSI>itals need a great variety of volun­ lIa nd •. So a,'\ \od:.y O il Ihi· {'a5h ~a ,' in g teers. And don't forget that your own Olliloriunil,.. friends often can use II little assistance. You can fill a need. You can make some­ ...... ,Mail This Coupon Today, .. _., one else happier, You can enrich another's • life," : TV Rod;o Mirror. Dept. TV 2·55 Will such a personal Strike It Riell pro­ 1205 Ea , t 42 5t .. New York 17. N. Y. ject be worth the effort? Yes! En!e, my ba ' Rlln lubscroptlon at once Send Warren HuH th inks so. "The most frus­ me 11 mont~s 01 TV Rl(lio Mlrtor for onl, $3, sav· trating thing which can happen to any Inl me $1.25 unde, ,elula, p,ices. I enCID'S! $J r------, human being is to feel that no one wallts as !)I1me"! 'n lull. I Wortd Wid. I or values his talents. Your own life ex­ : 63 C... "a! ,,~ . .. 0"''''''9, N.Y. : pands as you find more ways 10 use your t ' .""'0'. 5 ___• ••___ " rw;n K;rt_n," t abilities, more po..>opie to enjoy t hem. In_ t '01 Hald.". t stead of repeating that old saying, 'Give 1 Nome : till it hurts.' recognize what you're going Add'e ...... I Suu' ,t to gain, Revise it to: 'Give until ~' ou feel I Cily Za.... S'ole t • I S.nd ca , lI Of man.y ",d.,. , good.' When you've done that, you 'lI know City. Zone ... . Slate .. L ______J that spiritually you've sl1'uck it t'ich." 71 Millie's Mama

(Continued from page 34) Georgie, going on five, the "big girl" now. mother kept reminding me of that Cact, so new baby sister or brother in her tummy." It's become a big thing whenever Beany I finally quit acting to give the law a crack. With that ~port, they begin to feel ~hat cries. "Ugh!" says Georgie. "Beany's crying, I stayed in law school two and a half their discovery is somehow responsible 1 never cried when 1 was a baby!" years. But, when Billy went into service, for the new baby-and it immediately be­ "Oh, yes, you did," I reply. "Daddy I wanted to do my share. I started enter­ comes as much theirs as yours. cried, I cried, we all cried when we were taining at camp shows, with Kate Smith, But, one day arter our explanations, two babies." Kay Kyser, find others-and soon found dozen new diapers came in from the de­ "Oh, no," she insists. "1 never cried. myself back in show business. partment store. I sh owed them to Georgie, By having Georgie report Beany's cries. Then I met George, who was an execu­ proudly thinking that our pr eparing her we've made it into a first step in teaching tive with the William Morris Agency. He this way was a good idea. Then I asked her responsibility. However, since Beany asked me for a date over the phone, dur­ her, " Georgie, what would you rath~r have cries every time she's hungry, Georgie's ing a rehearsal with a director who hated -a baby sister or a baby brother? attitude has almost become: "If it weren't interruptions. She thought a moment-paying no at­ for me, that baby would never eat!" George s."1id, "Uh . uh uh " tention to thc diapers-then said: "I'd like My husband George and I have found for so long it sounded like a busy signal. a baby crocodile!" that children take younger brothers and But he finally got it out: "Miss Halop, I'll admit I was thrown; I didn't know sisters one of two ways: They either re­ would you care to go to the beach?~ A year how we wcrc going to get past this! vert back to their childhood, getting down later, I married the man. (Do you think Of course, we carefully preparcd Georgie on all fours and demanding a bottle, or husbands a re sentimental? I later received for the first day that little Benita Lee they take it as Georgie does-so grown~up. a gold locket inscribed with what I con­ ( Beany) and I came home from the hos­ In fact, Georgie's such a big girl now sider ten cherished words: "Miss Haiop, pitaL We didn't want Georgie to think that that she said to me, a few days ago, " May would you care to go to the beach?") Bcany was displacing her in our affections. I have your furs and your jewels when Georgie-Georgianna Duffy Gruskin­ At the same time, wc wanted Georgie to I go out OJ n my dates?" was born February 6, 1950. Ed " Archie" feel that Beany, though she was unable to "Where are you going?" I asked. Gardner is her godfather and Joan Davis is show much affection, loved her older sister "Oh," she said, "I'm going with J immy her godmother, so she's got to be a com­ very much. We made sure Georgie under­ (our neighbor's son) to Romanoff's and edienne. Seriously, we don't have any plans stood that Beany was glad 10 see her: then to a movie. You don't have to come for her. I don't believe in that. If she When we brought in Beany, we also along to chaperon, you know, because wants a s how~business career, it's up to brought in a shiny new bike-from Beany Jimmy's mother will drive us." her. But I do want Georgie-and Beany. to Georgie. You know, as pa~nts, we sometimes too-to grow up normally and have fun as Was there rivalry between the two chil­ forget how we felt at that age. I remember child~n. So often, youngsters are forced dren? or- course. Every new baby takes that my older brother Billy was always into theatrical careers and thcy don't up time. The attention Beany now re­ kind to his younger sister (me). In fact, really likc it_it makes old folks of them ceives had in the past gone to Georgie­ he was n"sponsible for getting me my first. before their time, and there's nothing she had been the queen bee for some time. job. Billy had a wonderful singing voice, sadder than a child who's missed his child~ We tried to get around this by not break­ so friends suggested that our mother take hood. Billy and I were never forced into ing into Georgie's schedule. Today we h im to a radio station in New York. She acting. We were never forced into any­ still do the same things together that we did and, before long, Billy had a spot on thing. But we wanted to perform- we were had done before Beany was born, and at Nila Mack's show, Let's Pl'etend. Since no­ both hams from the word go! the same time of day. body was left to "mind" me, Mom used to In fact, I loved acting so much that I In trying to make it as easy on Georgie drag me along, too. worked right up to the day before Georgie as possible, we followed her old routine. By practicing on my dad's law books, I was born. At thai time I was doing " Miss Every morning she comes up to my room learned to read at a very early age. One Duffy" on DuO,/s Tavern and also playing and says, "Hi," before going down to day at EilIy's show, a young girl failed a character called "Hot Breath Hallihan"­ breakfast. Then, after breakfast, I make to show up. Billy said, "My sister is here­ a real wild gal-

(Colltillued from page 48) taught us to plan. One exercise we used 15k me: "Miss Cagney. you"'e the fashion illustrated how we could make five cos­ New Way ~xpert-tell me, how can 1 make myself tumes from one basic dress (this is es­ >eautiful? How do I know what fashions pecially good practice for the career girl). Ire for me?" The basic dress then took the girl to the to My answer always sounds like Ihree- office in the morning to work, to lunch at 13ft harmony; First know yourself; second, the Ambassador, to tea in the afternoon mow what you'd like to be; and third, take with her boss, to dinner at the Moulin ;teps toward that goal. Rouge and, finally, to the theater. Wash Face But the first step is the most important; There's no magic to it-all the changes "{now yourself. Who are you? What are can be carried in a hat box: Collar and IMPROVES SKIN AMAZINGLY rou? What an~ you capable of? What is cuffs for the morning at work- a sweater /Our penionalily like-cooperative. agree­ at lunch-take off the sweater, add a ,ble, understanding, introspective. active. jacket, carry a muff! "eminine? What are your beautiful points? It's a chollenge to make the entire en~ For to be in fashion is to be yourself! scmble portable-an essential challcnge, I didn't always know this. I didn't al- for a career girL But a housewife can Nays know what was best for me. The benefit from the planning, too. Try making :cason was because I hadn't looked deeply your grocery shopping. downtown depart~ mou~h into fashion. I didn't know the ment-store trip, luncheon, bridge party ;ignificance of line. of coJor. or the mean- and tea, all in one basic dress- with hat­ •ngs attached to l·ibOOns. [rills. and bows. box changes. My difficulty was not confusion, it was You'll also be su rprised how much )ver-purpose{ulness. I was, by gosh. going money you can save by planning your ~ o be an oc tress! As an actress, I was in­ fllln1lfll wardrobe. Edith Head made the .erested in costumes, but for on-stage pur­ following suggestion: Make a little "match lOses only. When [ was in Hunter College stick" sketch of every dress in your ward­ i igh School and Hunler College. I did robe and make every possible costume )lays all the time; I was busy and I thought change with it. Then plan your purchases : didn't have time to worry about fashion! a round some basic color and combination Costumes. on the other hand. were an­ of outfits that will give you a maximum other matter completely! When I was on number of changes. Broadway doing plays, there were always .... onderful designers creating the costumes Y ou may not w ish to go to the trouble (Robert Edmond Jones. incidenlally. did of making L'iJe stick drawings (believe me, he ones for "The Icc Man Cometh"). it's not hard, I've had no artistic training WEEP NO MORE over \nd. when r was an ingenue in pictures either), But, if you have a basic gray out­ ugty blackheads. exter­ It Paramount. Edith Head was supervisor fit, for instance, here's another idea that natly caused piln ples, Jf costumes. may save you time and money: Do some dryness. oily shine. My goal was to be a dramatic actress, window shopping. P ick out the "hot" Most skin t roubl es, md I was busy pursuing th is goal: I colors for the season, then get a scarf in doctors say. are due to llayed leads on Broadway; did stock every this outstanding fashion color, a bolero, improper clean.'1ing,

When a Star Marries

(C'mti"ued ITon~ page 22) neither should ever interfere with the New York while he traveled the country. New York is her adopted city, and she other's professional life, and tltat each "Because Ethel and King arc Olle of the loves it, too-but for quite a while there should make independent decisions. "Talk­ happiest couples I have ever known," Mary had been this feeling of being tied to one ing to Guy h el,r:d me to see the pros and Jane recalls, "J decided then that this was place, and to a routine which was certainly cons. however, she points out. the way it would be with Guy and me. pleasant but which she longed to change "We discussed the opportunity the com­ "There are some things about my de­ ;lIllt a little. muting would give me to stop off occasion­ cision that all women will understand, Then. quite suddenly, she found herself ally at Flagtaff, Arizona, to visit my mother whether or not they have careers of their a regular commuter by air across the and sister who live there, and how much own which might sometimes conftict with 3,000 miles between the two cities-just as that would mean to me---how I CQuld also a husband's job, or even if they have no in _ if that were lhe most usual and ordinary continue to have visits with his mother terests at a ll outside the home. Many home thing \0 do. Spending one week out of during the si.x months she spends ill New women who read this may have had to every three on the West Coast; the other York each year. He reminded me of all the make similar decisions which involved two in the East. Traveling constantly be­ hours he and 1 would always have together. change and sacrifice-decisions to move 10 tween the seasonable cold and snows and The frequent short separations sccmed another city because of better schooling storms of the Eastern seaboard to the less and less fonnidable as Guy reassured or better opportunities for the children, contrasting summer temperatures and sun· me that the house would be well taken or because the husband was transferred shine which prevail in Southern Cali­ care of, and so would he." to different work, or some such thing. fornia. Also having a bit of a heartache Actually, that part of the problem had These women will agree that any personal each lime at leaving her husband, Guy not loomed so large in Mary Jane's mind. sacrifice we make in order to go on doing Sorel, and exchanging their cozy home because of Camille Martin. Camille came something that is close to our hcarts­ for a loncly hotel room. And sacrificing to this country from Paris with Guy's whether it's playing a beloved I'ole, as in several other good running parts on radio family when Guy was only four months my case, or making a change for the family because of the new commuting schedule. .ld. and she has taken care of him and good-can never upset us too much, if " It was a difficult decision," she says cooked for him all his life. "There is no only it does not bring hardship to anyone now, looking back on it. " It liCCmed un­ one quite like her for either of us now," we love. thinkable to me that J should give up Mary Jane says. "She is part of our fam­ "Once J had settled that in my own mind, playing Joan, beillg Joan, after all these ily, a superb cook, a devoted worker. Be­ there were only such practical considera­ years. And yet, '\here is this philosophy sides, my husband is efficient around a tions as the kind of wardrobe I would need we share as women- the conviction that house, more so than I am, and a much bet­ for my shuttling back and forth all season when you have a happy marriage you ter cook himself than I have ever been. from winter to summer climates and baek should cherish it. putting it first always, But not much of a dishwasher-manlike, again." She smiles and adds. "I did worry above everything else. J oan Davis has he leaves that part \0 me!" a little about who would shush Lettie, my a lways done this. So have 1. So has my Mary J ane got some wise advice, too, Cairn terrier, when she got to barking husband, for that matter. Several times in from Ethel Wilson, who p lays her mother noisily while Guy was trying to concen­ our married life. Guy has turned down in When A Girl MaTTie$. Ethel was one trate on a script. But he assured me he wonderful opportunities in his work as an of the fi rst in whom Mary Jane conrlded would quiet her down and take her for actor on the stage, in films and 011 radio back in 1945, when she and Guy were plan­ the daily walks which are usually my spe­ and television, because they might have ning to be married. Ethel had said to her cial job. separated us for too long a time. then. "There is one thing you will have to " I settled the clothes problem by decid_ "Now I was the one who was being remember. In our business, you will be ing to get some thin suits, warm enough tempted to disrupt our lives together. I called upon to make decisions which many to combine with a sweater and sturdy top­ began to wish 1 did some other kind of other women never have to make, women coat for boarding a plane in the coldest work-like being a writer, lor instance, who are not actresses married to men in New York weather, and comfortable so it wouldn't matter whether I was in New their same profession. Decisions that King enough to arrive in Hollywood on a warm, York or Hollywood or any other place, as (her husband, King Calder) and I have sunlit day. And some comfortable light­ long as I carried my typewriter alonl!:. J had to make many times." weight dresses fo r the days when even a began to think, wistfully, how an author Ethel had told Mary Jane about their thin suit is too much. As it is, I carry only had more fre«lom than actors." (Author's rule never to be separated for too long one bag back and forth and it's still a note: How little you know about us, Mary a time, no matter how good the profes­ struggle to decide what \0 take and what Jane. We have to stay on the job, too. We sional opportunity was that presented it­ to leave of my two-season wardrobe! , get tied to one place and just work, work, self. How each at times had taken m inor "\Vho am I, however, to make a fuS/! I work. And we often get to envying 1I01'!) roles, in order to be near the other. How about such small inconveniences? I am Mary Jane and Guy had talked the whole she had left some excellent radio programs really hCared now high school, had started in radio. It was that the moment had arrived. r came into because of radio that I had gone to New the studio and sat quictly in one of those York in the first place, with my family's metal folding chairs, unbuttoning my jacket blessing, ambitious to do just what I finully because the room was warm. Outwardly .~chievcd - to play the star role in a daily calm, 1 WilS alert for my cue. and I got dramatic serial. ready to stand up at the microphone to "1 remind myself frequently of the bless­ speak my first line-when I realiz.OO that ings this commuting has brought me-the the buckle of my jacket was caught finn­ joy of renewing these cherished friend_ ly in the metal frame o[ the chair! • ships, of seeing the Western mountains "Everyone in the control room stood up and desert I love, while still enjoying the and looked apprehensive as I sat there, .. thrill of the changing seasons of the East, rooted to the spot. Fortunately, someone the new green and pastel flowering trees on the set saw my dilemma and was quick­ and shrubs in the springtime, the glorious thinking enough to pull me out of my coat foliage of the falL I remind myself that I - instead of waiting to pry the buckle loose still have my boal, always waiting in Long - and to help me to my feel. In the excite- Island Sound, a 32-foot cruiser which mcnt I dropped my script, and retrieved sleeps four people and is really ouI' 'sum­ it just as I had to speak my first word. mer homc.' Guy ar.d I tirst met, you know, Did I say it was luck? I 11m sure it was Seltzer when a mutual friend brought him to visit more than thilt- it WIIS my guardian angel on the boat, and I sometimes marvel that, watching out for me!" Follow this not caring too much for being on the water, Perhaps. You get the impression, how­ Cold Comfort Treatment he was willing to marry me-boat and all­ ever, that Mary Jane Higby is a girl who and try to work up some of my enthusiasm can meet any situation with courage and A ALKII,SI!.LT'<\"-"l\fofaches, for a sea_faring life! resourcefulness and that, somehow or pain. , feverish feeling. '"Therc have already been times when, other, she would have pulled herself loose alone in Hollywood, I have been home­ from the unfortunate buckle and faced that B Becareful. Avoiddrafta. sick [or my husband, and I have come microphone at the right moment, no mat~ gel more!'ellt. away from talking to him on the phone tel' what. You get the impression that. like and wanted to catch the first plane back. Joan Davis, the girl she portrays, she is e Comfortirrital.edthroat There will be other times like that, 1 know. warmheart«l and understanding enough -gargle with ALKA­ Then I remind myself how lucky 1 really to meet any unexpected change in her SII-LT' ran celebrate. " loved and loving wifo.

Kit Carson Finds His Mate (Continued from Jl(lge 58) turned home from Rockford, he was wait­ '·I've heard that song before," said Bill. ing for her on the station platform. "I'll bet you II dinner you're back together "Oh, Bill!"' she cried, I3l1ing happily into in three weeks!" his arms. With this, the first chaptcr of Bal·bara. started into the coach's office, their life, "Courtship," was under way. saying over her shoulder, "I'll take that bet, The second chapter b11" p"ttem booklel XI. from city to city, that s ign had become my ities toward structural engineering in endose SOc, ambulntillg epitaph. which Kenney . Jr. had won his success So thnt night, about six years ago, I Sure, he plays the acoordion and he 6!Udies NAME ...... decided to make it read: "K enny Baker, it, too. But this is more of a joyful escape STREET ...... Appearing Nightly Where He Belongs­ for him, something he likes to do once in in hi. own living room witl~ hia wife and a while. It's not the thing he wants lor a CiTy ...... thTee wowing kim." vocation, and we are not foolish enough to And, if someone were to ask me today push him in that direction. ZO!'iE . . ST ... TE ...... what living really is, I think I eould tell We learn from experienc:e, and both them: It's a trailer vacation in the great Geraldyne and I learned from Kenny, Jr. North Woods; it's being a father to your that children can't be pushed. This has sons-yes, and even bcinlo: a boy again h elped us with Susie nnd Johnny_ As a with them; it's evenings with a living room result, Johnny is a happy twelve-year_old full of family; afternoons encouraging both -actually, a happy yClltng 11lall. It's a sons and daughter with their problems; pleasure to watch h im grow, to develop. and it's a morning hymn around the break_ He has his studies, and they are at such fast table. That's rC(llIy livillg. a level that 1 can help him with them. We sing duels together; we go to ball But all wasn't sweetness and light when games; we fish and travel in the trailer. I gave up the roadshow foollights for my In short, we have a close lather-son re­ family. When I came home to play the hltionship-agnin, this is really living! role of father to my children, J received And Susie, at sixteen, is quite a young a shock: Since they were my children, I lady now. She enjoys music, too, plays the thought I could give them all k inds of piano well, but she has no wish to become advice and direction and, just by putting an entertaine r. Her main ambition is to in the time, everything would turn out be a successful mother and housewife. okay . She's learning to cook and keep house. Unfortunately, I ~ as wrong. When my She and Geraldyne are like two sisters son, Kenny, Jr., was in high school, I tried with the chores a round this place, and to point him in a certain direction. He Susie is doing a good job learning the was taking language courses, for example, household skills. such as Latin and French, and I thought So this is 'the family I came home to, he was capable of getting better grades six years ago, In tha t time I've watched than hc showed. the boys grow into young manhood. and Poor Kenny, Jr. was as unhappy as we my daughter become a young woman. Shrinks Hemorrhoids were. He wasn't interested in Latin or Every summer of those s ix years we spent French , and hence didn't put any time in traveling together in our trailer to the New Way Without Surgery on them. But, when it c:ame to automobile national parks on our West Coast. Believe Science Find. Heali" . Sub.lance That meehanic:s, working on his car, or playing me, the time we've spent in Sequoia or Relie"tf Pain-Shrink. Hemorrhoid. on the football field or in the swimming the Big Sur, surrounded by the giant red­ For the firat time lICienee haa found a pool, thllt was something e lse again. wood trees, listening to the peaceful songs n e ~. healing s~bstanee with the astonishing So what did we do with Kenny, Jr.'s of the forest, have been moments when we ab,hty to shrmk hemorrhoids and to atop problem? We did the only thing we knew knew we were near our God. And when bleeding- without 6ur.ery. how: We waited and we prayed- no pres ­ a family shares this experience, 1 call that In case after caae, pain wa. r elieved promrtly. And, while gently relicvinlt' pain, lure, nothing. We simply rec:ognized that realty living. actua reduction (.hrinhge) took place. Kenny was a capable boy, that we weren't But some may ask the question: Did 1 Molt amazing of all - ruults wer e 10 .mything 6Uperior in the way of parents retire from the entertainment world when thorough that aulfe", ... made utonishing md that, if we gave our problem over to I came back to Hollywood and my family? atatement. like "Pilei have ceased to be a .he Power from which all intelligence Of course not. I had worked in and around p roblem!" ltems, the answer would be forthcoming. Hollywood for years before taking to the The l enet b a new healing substance , (Bio·Dyne~ ) - dillCove~y of a world- fllm ous And the answer did come: Somehow, road-in fact, the first several years of my research institute. , 'romeone suggested that Kenny take a professional career were spent making Now this new healing 6ubstance is offered ,>eries of aptitude and interest tests. I'd auditiOlI. in the Los Angeles area, In ointment form under tbe name of never heard of them but, in our experi_ 1 was born in California; so was my wife, PT8paratioli H.- Ask for it at all drug . torc. ence, they have proven themselves both Geraldyne. We went to Long Beach Junior - money back guarantee. 'Trade )f•• k 77 College together; she sat .. cross the aisle record an album of sacred music-hymns expressing their appreciation fOI" having from mil in class. r went on a blind date that people loved. So, when I came back Kenny Baker 3S their church soloist, in one night with a pal of mine, and Ger­ to Ho!iywood, this was the first thing I cases where groups could not afford to have aldyne, the pretty girl I'd been watching turned to. a soloist as pH rt of their church services.) for weeks, showed up as my date! The results of these recordings were My experience with the sacred records I remember that fi rst date; My pal and I beyond aU expectations: I he3rd from peo­ had a sobering influence on my thinking were in a school minstrel show, and our ple all over the world-5audi Arabia, New -especially in regard to the field of enter­ girls were to come along to help us put Guinea, Africa and Iceland. One woman tainment. You know, with as much prac­ on make-up. Geraldyne spent the early sent some of the records to a deaf friend tice as I've had, it was easy to go out on part of the evening putting black cork on of hers in Indonesia. Later, that woman a stage, to put on a show that would make my face, so I could go out and sing, "Look came to this country and visited us here at people laugh. And this is definitely one down, look down, that 100teSome 'road " home. She hadn't heard a sound in years, important aspect of entertainment. But the which, 1 might add, we've gonc down to­ but she went into the den, put her hands records have helped show me that there gether now for twenty-one yean;- not all on the record machine, and nodding her is something mOTe than mere entertain_ of them "lonesome"! head she said, "Beautiful-most beautiful ment. It's from this idea that our Mutual Those audition years were finally topped music I've ever heard." radio program, The Kenny Baker Show, with my first big break around .1 932. I That was one of the most satisfying ex­ arose. Besides the songs, thc wit, wisdom, won a contest spon»orcd by Texaco which periences I've ever had. and helpful hints, we've hoped that there gave me a guest spot with Eddie Duchin (Editor's note: It is only fair to mention would also be something to enconrage at the Cocoanut Grove. This led to the that eight albums of sacred songs have and inspire you, our listeners. That's the Jack Benny Je!lo show ( I still have 3 box been made under Kenny Baker's Ken-Art "little more" we'd like to leave with you. with the signatures of all the cast on it) , label. Most of the mnterial has been turned Having left the roadshow footlights, I'd then the TC.ra<:o Sta,. Theate'r and more over to the Christian Science Publishing like to think now I've been a succcs.~ful rfldio shows, then motion pictures-" The Society for distribution. It was most rc_ fathcr in those six years. I know I've been Mikado," " Hit Parade," "The Harvey Girls" warding to Kenny to hear that Army gen­ a much happier man. I'd also like to think -and, finally, the Broadway production of e,.a1s, chaplains throughout thc Armed I've becn successful in this final stage of "One Touch of Venus," with Mary Martin Services, and hospitals all over, have re­ my career. So, if you find you enjoy our and John Boles. quested records of his sacred songs. And program whenever you hear it, we hope For some time, while doing the road it is gratifying, too, for him to hear- as you'll let us know. Your reply will cer­ shows, I had ~en harboring the desire to he does daily- from these organizations tainly assure us that we are really living!

Laughter across the Seas

(Continued from page 54) It was an unhcard-of action for Bob. of and that comment, in a flash, did it! Ask him that question today, and the an­ al! people. But, for the first time in his The newspapers had a field-day with that swer is a story in itself. career, he nrranged for someone-Jack one. By the next morning, all Rome knew They say that, behind every ach ieve­ Paar-to replace him for a month. He who Robert Q. Lewis was. To his astonish ­ ment, there lies a dream. And, no matter called a steamship agency. Next day, he ment, not only people he already knew­ how great the achievement, the dream is sailed fol' France. such as Groucho Marx and Dorothy Kil­ even greater-rlceper and more meaningful The crossing was uneventful. though galien and her husband, Dick Kollmar­ -for, behind the dream, is the ma'L restful. Bob sat for hours in his deck chair looked him up, but such people as Ingrid Robert Q. Lewis paused outside CBS­ and contemplated the vast reaches of the Bergman, Anthony Quinn and Sir Cedric TV's Studio Sixty in uptown Manhatlrm, Atlantic. But he found no answer there. Hardwicke-whom he'd never met before­ signed autographs and kidded with the Or in his own mind, either. And Paris was greeted him as "Bob." WHiting crowd. A car drew up, m::ml1cd by as gay as he'd remembered it-but too "It always startled me," he admits. "I was his valet-chauffeur, Jack. Bob's briefcase light-hearted to promise any solution of his shy with them because they were famous and extra clothes were tossed in, helter­ personal puzzle. He went to Rome. names and I figured they wouldn't know skelter. Jack hopped in beside them. Bob Here he suddenly discovered-once he me from Adam. And then they explained slid behind the wheel. and the crowd had registered at the Excelsior and investi­ that they felt they knew me from TV. surged forward, calling their goodbyes. gated a cafe or two-that, apparenUy, half Boy, what that did for my morale!" One moment, everything was chaos. Sixty the people he'd ever met or known were in But the topper came a few days later, seconds later, Bob was gliding through the the city. They were making pictUres, or when he decided to make a little jaunt to comparative calm of New York traffic. He they were negotiating contracts, or they Cannes. He was just registering at the smiled, remembering the smiling faces he were awaiting an audience at the Vatican, Carlton Hotel when he felt a hand on his had just left behind. Entering or leaving or they were merely thcre because Rome shoulder and turned to discover the match­ the studios was always something of a was now the Place-to-Be. less grin of Cary Grant, another of the stars marflthon. But, as Bob remarked. half to And here, in the old yet ever-new Eter­ he'd never had an opportunity to meet. himself, "If they ever stop doing that, it'll nal"City, Bob Lewis began to find the an­ That was the beginning of a wonderful scare me sick!" swer that he sought. It all happened so nat­ week. Grant was in Cannes for the filming The smile and the thought were still urally that he hardly had time to realize his of Alfred Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief," with him, as he entered the combination discovery. There he was, surrounded by with Grace Kelly as his co-star. When office and rumpus rQQm on the second floor people-first, the colorful crowds of com­ Cary Grant likes a person, he's one of the of his apartment. Years of hard work had plcte sh'angers, then old friends unexpect­ easiest people in the world to know. And, gone into this moment. . ycars in which edly met and new friends made on the spur before Bob realized what had happened, he substituted for Arthu r Godfrey, filled of the moment. He began to relax and, at he was dining with Cary and Miss Kelly in wherever there was a likely spot on the same time, find new energy for greater and Mr. Hitchcock. broadcasting schedules, hoped and dreamed activity. By coffee-time they were all good about a show of his own. Then, when the In the beginning, of course, there were friends, and Hitchcock had a suggestion. big chance came ... the months of plan­ the phone calls from people he hoped to "Since you've never been in pictur es, how ning, the long hours of auditioning a sup­ know- and people who hoped to know him. about a new expel'ience? Come along with porting cast, the excitement of rehearsals, There wcre notes and invitations-specifi_ us tomorrow and do a walk-on. You won't actual showtime and the eagerly awaited cally, one asking him to appear on a TV have to learn any lines, or anything." audience reactions. They had all paid off. show which was what might be called the It seemed like a breezy idea to Bob and, He was if~. Italian equivalent of our Welcome Trav­ even though he had to get up at six A.M. It was time to relax, to enjoy the rewards eleJ'8 program. Bob made t he most of it, after only two hours' sleep, he was still of the long. steady struggle. Instead, a great truly "having a wonderful time." rarin' to go. The entire company proc~ded restlessness came upon Robert Q. Lewis. "If )Iou think there is confusion on the to the flower market in Nice. set up their He pacoo from rumpus room to bedroom, American TV screen," he says, "you should equipment, and spent fiv.e hours shooting went downstairs, paced from living room see what happens on an ItaLian one! The a sequence which will not run more than to terrace, and back again. As he paced, Latin temperament doesn't lend itself to a few minutes on the screen-and which, the puzzle grew, became wearying. relaxed, routine procedures. And the young Bob is convinced, will be cut out. Robert Q. Lewis was sitting on top of the guy in charge of this show, named Mike "Hitchcock gave me a real job to do," world. But what had he really been seeing Bongiorno, does as many shows in Italy as Bob remembers. "As Grace Kelly is leaving T of that world recently, with his own work_ Godfrey does here." a flower stall, I am walking down the v ing world bounded by Madison Avenue, the Bob entered the melee with all his new_ street, and I sort of give her the eye when R studios and offices? Where was the full, found confidence and spirit. When Bon­ she walks past me. That's the extent of my deeper meaning of the dream which had giorno asked him what he thought of work in the picture, and I never got such started it all? Who, indeed, was Robert Q. Italian women, Bob said: " Italian women a kick out of doing anything in my life ...." 78 Lewis, the man behind t hat dream? make Jane Russell look like a boy" He was back in Rome a few days later, living it up and having a ter rific time. the people w ith everything he's got .... AUTHENTIC - AUTOGRAPHED when he ran into a TV acquaintance just Robert Q. Lewis not only plunged back over from New York. "I caught your sh '.)w," into the excitcmcnt of show business with MINIATURE the man said, "or, rather, PaaT's show. Is added zest and enthusiasm. He 'd always that boy good! You really got yourscH a wished he had the time for greater parti_ replacement, kid." cipation in worthy causes-time which had "That's great," Bob beamed. "Couldn't been hard to find, while he had been work­ happen to a nicer guy!" But an imoish ing his way up. Now he discovered that he gleam sparked through the famous glasses, could make the time, particularly for those as he recalled how often he'd outdone him­ causes nearest to his heart. self on the Godfrey show to prove his fit­ As !l boy, Bob had suffered severely from ness for a program of his own. "You say asthma, but long, patient treatment with he's good?" he asked. "How good?" the best of doctor.! had virtually cleared up "That good," said his New York friend. the trouble. Later, while serving in the Air "Hmm," murmured Bob. ''Yes. G lad to Force, he had contracted double pneu­ have seen you-see you a round_It monia- which b rought on the asthmatic "He re?" condition again. Now he was eager to help "On Madison Avenue, you dope," Bob other youngsters in their own fight for nor­ grinned. and sprinted for the nearest phone mal, painless breathing, to get them to the to call his manager. specialists who could make them strong for He was astonished, when he came home, happy, active lives. He found the perfect to find that he'd lost eighteen pounds. He answer in the non-sedarian Jewish Na­ stretched out on the upstairs terrace, in the tiona.! Home tor Asthmatic Children, lo­ filtered sun of East End Avenue, and re-. cated in Denver, Colorado. fleeted on the far more important knowl­ Today, as the East Coast region's hon_ edge he had gained. He was rested and re­ orary chairman of this fine organization, laxed, truly content. Looking baek, he Bob has made and carried out many plans couldn't honestly point to any one moment for aiding in its development, and never when the answer had first come to him. misses an opportunity to appeal for con­ But somehow, in his latest travels, he'd tributions to carryon the work whose im­ gone back to the dream. portance he knows so well. At the same He knew now what made Robert Q. time, he has served as Greater New York , Lewis tick, why he had struggled so long chainnan of the National Foundation for to achieve the shows which would offer the Muscular Dystrophy, and b rought all his W o r ld Wid . 63 Centrol ,he., O .. inin~, N.Y. kind of entertainment he himself believed tremendous energy and talents to hear on I e~

Little Girl Lonely (Continued from. page 27) award for outstanding speech and the grade-school teacher and her father was Speech Department gave her an award for a businessman who traveled most of the outstanding acting. Jean had been the fi rst time. Jean remembers her early years as to be considered worthy of the award in quiet: She liked to swim, she emoted in several years. But she was studious, toa, back porch theatricals. Then she was and was graduated with honors. And she eleven and had quite an exciting year. never neglected the piano. In addition, She began to study piano and developed she managed to earn part of her tuit ion. a deep love for music. She played in a "I 'worked in the laboratory," she re­ school production of "The Owl and the calls, "where we had to innoculate rats Pussycat," and she starred as the bird. and frogs. It wasn', so bad until it was my And she baked her first brownies. turn to hold the rats-then J got a transfer "1 insisted on doin&. everything myself, to the registrar's office." so my mother had to sit there and watch The University maintained its own dairy me mess up the kitchen for a couple of and chicken farm, so Jean earned part of hours and only offer advice to avoid catas­ her keep cleaning up coops and making trophes," Jean says. Then she adds, "It and selling butler. By the time she was seems to me that this has always been my graduated, she had saved s:;oo out of her el.., Coolh.. eo. Qukk, "U', and eeonCIfDicel. j ult nib removed by mother's chore-to put up the patience for own earnings. OIl.j..... 35;, 50!!. At your my big ambitions." "I was dying to go to New York and be­ dnd had impressed him. Effe cts and Treatm e nt learned of her desire to be an actress. Her He suggested that she come to Chicago and ~ leachers were encouraging and so, without audition for radio, but when she arrived leaving home, she enrolled in the Univer_ he had gone to the Coast. i (IlUIlI1t , Avoid sity of Wisconsin-in the Speeeh Depart­ "I was all enthusiasm," Jcan says. "You ~ Dangers ment. which was the S;lme thing as study­ get an exagge1"!lted idea of yourself in ~SO\lI!l~ of Delay in~ dramntics. school and think you're just about the hot­ . o. ~d~\rnel'\ts ') lived and breathed theater," she says. test thing to CClme along since Cleopatra." "Even in the summer, when I was sup­ Jean discovered it took a long time­ Learn about Colon troubles, Stomach posed to be on vacation, I'd go over to the three weeks-to get her first job. That conditions, Piles and other rectal con­ • University and hang around the theater was or. a CBS network show and she ditions. Causes, effects and treatment. so much that they had to use me." played the part of a Polish ! irl. It was

• Season 's Gr eetings from Godfrey

(C01ItilllU!~d Irom poge 21) when he was five or so that Ihere was no hash and racked pool balls. His father had so they'd think Sallia Claus brought it." Santa Claus. But Jhere was this December gone complete ly broke when Arthur was He reminisces in h is office, which, al­ when he was past ten-maybe eleven or just ten. They had struggled to keep the though handsomely furnished, is toned twelve-aad his mother took him aside. family together. Arthur, too young to be a down for quiet comfort. The re are many " Arthur, I want to talk to you privately," Boy $cout, anyway, was out delivering gro­ pictUres and mementos on the walls and she said. ceries and getting up before dawn to work on the tables and the desk. The Ilictures The way she said it made him squirm. fo r a milkman. But there wasn't enough represent many periods in h is life; There He thought she was going to tell him about money for rent. Different neighbors took in is an aerial shot of the destroyer h e shipped the birds and bees. Arthur knew about the kids. So Christmas had no special on in his teens, a transcription 01 his last that, too. meaning in those years. Arthur was fully early-morning broadcast after a fi!teen­ "1 was looking every which way, and occupied with the problem of survivaL year stint. There arc photographs of many getting redder and redder," he rccalls, "and "I remember Christmas my first year in important men of our age, 5OSition on a table. It's not quarters of the ship's company on deek tiny, but on the other hand, not so large. with me. They had all been sitting there. Folded in its case, it might fit into the side too, none of them saying a word." pocket of a man's jacket. It is a full-length Arthur got a pass to go ashore in J affa. oil painting 0:' Mrs. Godfrey. "Think of He and some of his shipmates hired an what this entailed. She had to pick out a Arabian cab. an old touring car, to take dress and accessories. She had to go into the them thirty miles inland to J erusalem. artist's studio Mid put on these clothes and "Our fir"t "top waS at the CI,u ....:" of the maybe stop at a hairdresser every time. Holy Scpuleher. You might say we did the How m

(Continued from page 33) who went along as entertainers with the hold on the mat which matched the picture pay, just to get before a camera. RCA jeep unit-the television demonstra­ in the book, 1 named it." "I got plenty of advice about it, too," tion outfit- which my brother, Lou Sposa, But his own skill in other athletics made he remembered wryly. "All the big~name who is a director, took out on tour. The him reali7.e how amateurish such com­ guys used to say. 'TV? Who sees it? apartment was a fifth-tloor walk_up, fifty ment must sound to the real fan. He You're wasting your time. You're nuts, dollars rent a month, at 35 West Fifty­ found a device to sugar-coat his ignorance. metsing around with that stuff.''' second Street." "I figured the only ones who knew less Their comment was echoed by the Fifty_second was then Swing Street, than I did about wrestling were the athletes he sought to interview on his blaring with signs and blaring with the women viewers. So I talked to them. I'd sports show and by the entertainers he jazz, jive and bop of the hot combos. As say, 'How did you like that, Mother'! Did invited to appear on his variety program, Dennis recd dining t<:r race with a ..brn things seem II the party were strangers. Many of them wrought-iron table and chairs. to go wrong, it'. were from up north, and I just couldn't Hl:art of the house, for Dennis find only hurnan to Mickl:y Jaml:s-a couple with varied in_ feel tense and keY<: , . n,o"""ol, n... ".o'm.... '. f,,,,,, 'Y"'Pl""', of hoy Dennis took up the thread of the story. there ..... as a lot going on, it was gctting f.v... . o.,h.. o, ,in.... heodod••• , p'.""'". In f.... h.od. Ifickey and I had the darlledest things late, and like everyone else, I ran out of ...... in .)'0" dI ..... b""••• ,op of h.oot, bo"" of lppen. The newspapers published pic­ cigarettes. This fellow offered me one, and _d ond d_n nod., ...... '0 .... " by ..... 01 '''''V., ...... automatically, . took it. You'd have w"'. to< 7 0"''' fifE TRI ... I, '05T'410..... ,o.' ... Ires when we were married, but no one 1 ob~go"_ ,,, h. I, ""P"" I, oO, ..d ..- ..... mod" )thered us at thl: plush hotl:l to which we thought I tripped the burglar alarm of the 100<1<. po.'pold .,. ...d "f " 101 po"O, G .. I" C.. lil. )id you h;lve a good time?' Well, Mickey and this guy laughing like a hyena. He 011.,_ lushed a nd I all but socked him. My really figured he had put one over on me." isposition was not improved by the fact Another t.mfavorite is the man who says 13t we hadn't slept a wink. Right bl:neut.h accusingly, "You don't rl:member me, do ur windows, eve ry restaurant and h011:1 you?" I Ihl: block was loading its garbage. The '·1 pinned one of those fellows down, latter of caliS and the grinding of trucks once," said Dennis with satisfaction. "He went on a ll night long." claimed he had sat at thl: table nl:xt to Ill"!,. _", fo r u mple Inso .. a.. d .. "roe·, bookie,. Equally inauspicious was their introduc­ mine during luncheon at the Waldorf two •• no obU,a.ion. Ju .. nuil coupon. tion to thl:i r Nl:w Rochelle home. Dennis, years earlier. Wl:ll. I lInd him. 1 had ~ever you,oetf h...... y I, i. 10 ,e, lIS raY . .. having spotted it while sailing, had been eaten lunch at the Waldorf." " in ....,ial pr ••d ,e and Iin'l\(lal ind.",nd.nc. a. overjoyed when he learned it was for But s trictly within her rights, in Dennis' • I'On IinOUTE ~OS'IU~ 1<1lned 'UCTfUl HURn. sal.e. During their inspection tour, as I:stimation, was the woman waiting in line Leo rn a< hofnt ,,·hil. y.. u urn. Don·, delay. Mickey investigated the kitdlen. he ex­ to enter a studio. As Dl:nnis passed she Send coupon HOWl plored the garagl:. Being thorough. he said. "Good gracious, :you've gottl:n' fat." ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• , tested the overhead door. It fell down. hit "And she was right: Dennis conceded. • I'OIT UUU. T( 1I0U' ltU S(HOO~ 0' MUIII"' • him on the hl:ad and knocked him cold. "1 "Since people have to look at an enter­ : tc:U ..... 11 ..1_ 114t. W.o•• J, III. : • fixed that," he reported with satisfaction. tainl:r, they have a right to expect him • NAME • • "Now both door and gatl:s operate elec­ not to get sloppy. r went home. started a : ADDRESS : tronically by remote control from the car." diet and took off twenty-five pounds." ! ~I!y. STATE . There's Only One Bing!

(Continued jTfJfn page 36) face was sagging, as in a jet take-off. In spent half the night discussing jan. Bing with the chaperones?" I said. And then short, I reacted like II knobhead. They couldn't have been too surprised at Fer_ I mounted my bicycle and pedalled off told me afterward that Bing had made a rer's fund of knowledge on the subjcct­ toward the set. stab at conversation (one of us had to). I'd already told him. how much Joe ad­ I no more than got around the comer He said something about a radio show we mired him and that he was a jazz fan, before I was awash with the sinking were to do together, and asked if I knew among three thousand other things. This sensation that comes over me occasionally when it would take place. And I, with all kind of proxy introduction could have after speaking with Bing. That fast ex­ the savoir-faire of the Missing Link, had served to break the ice between them, but change of patter in front of our dressing mumbled "Some time in the 20's." with Joe and Bing there wasn't any ice rooms was typical of our friendship, yet When I thought, afterward, of how this to be broken. Joe has Crosby records in I couldn't help feeling I was a pretty must have embarrassed Bing. 1 wanted to his collection that Bing has long forgotten. brash character to be even talking to him, put my head under a pile-driver. I had and the talks they had on board ship have much less kidding with him. Who was I, been so ridiculous. 1 was so ashamed of developed into a fast friendship. They cor· the upstart from Maysville, to stand face myself. I had been impressed, and nothing respond all the time and write each other to £3(,"(' with Bing Crosby? makes Bing so uncomfortable as people about bands and singers J never heard of­ Maybe it would be a good idea if I tried who are impressed. Afier getting off to bands and singers that maybe never got to explain this worship that other singers such a stumbling start, I had plenty of out of their home town-but, if they are have for Bing. He's idolb:ed by millions chances to make it up to him, for after good, Bing and Joe know about them. of people who can't even carry a tunc, I that we did a lot of shows together. I I stumped Bing on one, though, Joe had know-but to somebody who earns a liv­ apologized to him, and to myself I said, given me an old recording of his own band ing by singing in show business. he is the "Watch yom'sell, mother. Don't let him at Princeton doing "Sweet Georgia Brown." absolute end. Show people can talk all know ever again that your knees have It was a rare and restless rendition which night about singers, Perry and Frank anft turned to water. Do this by the simple came near to melting the wax off the rec­ the whole lot-and then there is BilLg. process of not letting your knees tum to ord-and, to top it off, Joe had sung the The man is an institution all by himself, water." lyrics in the style of Crosby, who was then and he has a way of spinning out a melody It was a greal little sermon and, except only getting started. 1 played the record that no other singer can touch. He stands for infrequent lapses, J've stuck to my for Bing one day at the studio and danod alone, and 1 know 1 speak for all of us guns. It's been easier since I've come to him to guess the identity of the vocalist. whose pipes earn our bread and butter, know Bing better, and I think I've had this He sat and listened quietly, and when when I say that we, individually and as a opportunity mainly because of myoid Ferrer began to croon a slow grin spread group, bow low to Mr. Crosby. And are man, known formally as Jose Ferrer. Joe over Bing's face. When it was finished, I happy to do it. says it's the other way around. He says turned off the phonograph and faced him. Now that you know why J can't help he married me because I had the distinc­ "Well?" getting down on my knees and then step­ tion of knowing Bing first. "Don't know:' he said. "But I think I ping on myself whenever I see him, let's II you think I'm a Crosby fan. you recognize the technique." go back to the scene where I'm on my should know Joe. That man's Crosby His sense of humor is so identical to bike, chastising myself for being so sassy crazy. After he'd finished "Moulin Rouge" Joe's that it's small wonder they get along with the master. When I'm about halfway and boarded the lie de France at Le Havre so well. When Joe went to New York to through w ith this routine, another wave of to come back to the States, he called me do a series of plays at the City Center, remorse dashes over me. This one's be­ in Hollywood from the boat. "Guess Billg sent him a wire from Hollywood on what!" he said. " I hear Bing's going to get cause I know that Bing likes me to be Rip openin ~ night. "00 THE I,IEST YOU CAN. TH£ with him- that way. he knows I'm at ease. on the ship tonight when we stop off at F AMIL" S AI.I. ON THF. WJ~'lT rOAIlT." Which is the way it should be, because Southampton." "Wonderful." 1 said, "Tell him hello for In the last two months. what with all Bing is my friend, not Svengali. this camaraderie between my husband and It took me a while to learn this. When me." "You know him. I don't." I really think Bing, I've come to the point where I can I first met him, I'd been with Paramount hold a reasonable facsimile of a conversa­ only a few short weeks and was still get­ Joe was afraid to speak to him. It was as if the King of Sweden were going to tion with him. The fact that I can is some­ ting my bearings. 1 wasn't even prepared what of a milestone, because Bing as a for having a dressing room with a rug on board the ship-except that Joe wouldn't be half as uneasy with a king as he would rule talks easier with men than he does the noor (or a Hoorl-Iet alone meeting with women. For some reason, he thinks Bing Crosby-and then, suddenly, there with Bing Crosby. The following day, Joe called and reported he'd watched Bing I'm funny and this helps, for once I've got he was in front of me and somebody was an audience, I'm on. introducing us. I must have turned gray. come on the ship, and the next day he I wouldn't know. But I do remember was as happy on the phone as a kid who's Bing teases me without mercy about my there was a strange sensation just in back had Santa Claus over for dinner. It seems appetite, a trait with which I was born of my eyes that felt as though my whole th{!y'd finally found each other and had and haven't shed to any noticeable degree. If there's a pretzel or a sandwich around, I eat it. and Bing calls me the Buffet Ban­ dit of Bourbon County. I swear he has spies on the set. I can notice a ';prop" lunch stuck in a dark corner for a future scene and I can sneak into that same dark comer to grab a bite-they might be props, but they're food-and Bing will find out about it. Every time. That famous relaxation of his might be a fact, but it doesn't mean he's unaware of what goes on around him, or uninter­ ested. He's much more sensitive than people give him credit for. particularly to other people's discomfort. When I first sang with him. I took his unworried. un­ hurried attitude to mean "Clooney's doing all right." This was probably as far from the truth as Maine is from Manchuria. but the sum lotal of it was that I did feel more comfortable. And to get me in that state took some doing. The fact was that I had been close to being petrified with frighl Sing with Bing, that's no ordinary order. U's like telling a hack writer to collaborate w ith Somerset Maugham on a novel. The mere thought can harden your arteries. My own were well on the way by the time I stood next to Bing with the music in my • hand, but it was his nonchalance which helped me get back to normal. And, singing with him, 1 found a new experience. This is "shop talk" and per· haps difficult to put over, but I'm going to goes through a room without his being try. I've recorded with almost every other conscious of it. Shortly before Joe and I singer in the business, but I never get the were married, r appearOO as a guest on feeling r have when I sing with Bing. It's Bing's radio show and, although there had a strange sort of a communion. With other bL'('n no announcement of the forthcoming singers. you wonder how they're going to wedding, it was a foregone cone\usion phr(lS(' the next line, have to watch their among friends that someday I would be­ faces fo r some expression that will let you come Mrs. Fcrrer. One of the writers on know. With Bing, I stand across from him, the show had madf' some reference to this in front of the mike, and I don '( even have in a gag-something about tin cans on to look at the music. I know how he'll the back of my cal'. I never saw the orig­ handle the next bit of the lyrics and I sail inal script, but I learned later that Bing right in with him. I don '( know how I had deleted the whole bit, knowing in­ find relief and know. r just know. stinctively that was the way Joe and I comfort with MOTHER'S "Rosie works !.he same way I do," he would have wantOO it. FRIEND The famous, told somebody once. And, as if that wasn't Bing is a thoughtful man. and a kind mild, 5kin lubricant tho! enough to put me into a s ize-26 hat, he one. In "White Christmas" there must soothe. tight. dry .kin and have been twenty 01' thi,·ty children. kids has told others that he likes the way I ea.e. numbing, t ingling sing. He's never told me so to my face­ who had dancing or singing parts. After Bing doesn't do things that way-but hear­ they'd once been introduced to Bing, he mu.cle. in bock and legs. ing the compliment via others has meant never forgot their names, and you could Enjoy this slc:in more to me. It's made working with him see the kids' faces light up with pleasure conditioner. pure pleasure, and fun. Once we were to when he addressOO them by name. sing "It Takes Two to Tango" on a show, He has a way with kids. which is evi­ and he "threw" me during rehearsals with dent when you meet his own. Lindsay's the lines, "You can laugh like a goon by the only one I know so far. but if he is yourself, You can be a Rosie Cloon by any example of the other three, Bing is yourself." the best father a boy could have. L inny Luckily, I married a clever fellow, so was about fourteen. I guess, when I first JOf' supplied me with the lines to follow: met him on one of Bing's radio shows, "Be like Bing, learn to sing and to groan, and later, when the show was taped at There are lots of things that you can do Pebblf' Beach while Bing was there for alone," the golf tOUl'llament, the whole gang stayed up there. can yours for help. When I came out with that, Bing hit m 0 n e Y inI!' us take orders for me over the head with the script. II was then I got to know L. Crosby, magazine subscriptions. "White Christmas" was a wonderful pic­ and the kid stole my h eart. He's polite Write for FREE Information, TV RADIO MIR · ture to make, in company with people like but not inhibited. He's fun to be with. ROR. 20S Eo.t 42 St .. N. Y. 11. N. Y. Bing and Vera-Ellen and Danny Kaye­ like his dad. and has the same manner­ and director Mike Curtiz, who called Bing isms, the same sharp wit. the same way of dropping the funniest remark out of LEG SUFFERERS "Binki" and made the set merry with his Why oo"Unue to .uflo... It!\Ou~ at!~mpt- Curtiz-isms. (Such as the day he walked the blue. You don't see Bing ladling out 10,. to dooometblng'!' Write today to<' :-;00. any discipline but you can tell it's there, Doo ~ le \.-··TIU; I.l BE'l': M ET I 100S YOIl 'round and 'round Crosby, inspecting him 1I 0~ !E USE." II tello .. I>oUt VartOOM carefully. " Binki," he said, "before this for Linny adores his father. Uleenand Open u,,, __ LICI)e Moth"'" scene you shou ld have a haircut. It's ..-! KoIo;);,)'<'K _1k.:.Ion: than 00 yea .. 01 struggling in the back.") I d on't suppose it's easy to be Bing 8uCO . ... »ral •• d a"d en• • Crosby. Wherever he goes, he's the center dol1ll" • we were making the picture, and Bing taut. I've never seen him moody, never took us to a football game. The local Rams Seen him lose hiS temper. nor show any were p laying the Detroit Lions and. inas­ sign of strain. I've never heard him say much as Betty lives in Detroit, her senti­ an unkind thing about anybody. He seems Happy Is The Day ments wera in direct opposition to ours. to float along without effort despite the She screamOO her head off and Bing teased pressure. her, and for a moment I had the crashing I'd say that Bing Crosby is a happy When Backache brainstorm that maybe I could marry her man. simply because he is kind and good up and we'd have Bing in the family. But to other people. AU he asks is privacy, the nearest we ever got to that was Betty's and friends in whom he call place his con_ Goes Away •••• fidence. I like to think I'm one of those Nagging backaehe. Iou or pel) and ene' iY. h .... d. heart-to-heart talk with Bing about the aoh ... and dinine&S may be due toslowdown of kidney horses she's bought to raiw in K entucky. friends. although I seem to insisl on "goof­ function. Doeto,." oay;ODd kIdney funotion i. very ing" in minor matters. I knnw, for in­ imfK)rtant to I!'ood health. When lome e veryd... y eon· After their conversation left the stable, I di. ion. ouch u .t, .... and . t rain. cau",," this im_ n()dded brightly at Bing. stance.'that Bing does a hilarious take-off on a soprano and-haVing been doubled fK)rtant fUnction to . Iow down. many folk" suffer "Nice girl. huh?" I said. nogging baekaohe-f.,.,l m .....ablo. Minor bladder into hysterics a few times by listening to irritation. due to cold 0' wronr diet may cau.. "Nice girl," he said, and grinned. "Too this bit- I suggested one day that he do it I!'etting up nirhto Or fre

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