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10 ESTJUNE, 1950 Vol. 3, No.3

COM.ING .~ ATTRACTIONS PEOPLE AND PROGRA~IS On Radio (.... it For Radio Best Tess Sheehan...... 5 Meet Disc Jockey Bea Kalmus ...... ; ...... 6 The Subject Is Animal...... by Fred Vanderventer 13 * * * * * * * * * * My Husband, Gene Autry ...... by Ina Mae Autry 14 "Aunt Jenny"-Story in Pictures ...... 18 Jimmy Durante In New York ...... by Judith Cortada 22 She Makes 'Em Herself-Hobbies of the Stars...... 25 Commentator Bob Montgomery ...... by Harriet Evans 30 A Day with Margaret Whiting...... 33 Meet the Family ...... ' ...... , ...... 36 I'm the Guinea Pig for "County Jo'air" ...... by Vivian Kennedy 44

On Television It's All "I. Magination" ...... by Jan Forsythe 46 Television Across the Nation-In Pictures...... 49 Four~ Cameras and A Wrestler--"Suspense' ...... 50 TV Hi,;hIi,;hts •...... 57

RADIO NOVELETTE When A Girl Marries ...... by Dena Reed 26

FE.~TURES Things You Never Knew Till Now ...... 10 John J. Anthony Says and Dear Mr. Anthony...... 38 To the Queen's Taste ...... Recipes by Dione Lucas 40 George, Melissa Ann and Dinah Radio .l)etective Quiz ...... '. .. 59 make an appealing threesome. Bet You Can't Guess It!-"Twenty Questions',' Conlest...... 60 Micro-Fun ...... : ...... ! ...... 63 High on the list of the many entertain­ What's On Your Mind?-Readers' Radio and ing features scheduled for the next issue TV Clinic ...... '...... by Ben Grauer 68 of RADIO BEST is the story of Dinah Shore and George Montgomery, the songstress and the cowboy actor who are one of the DEPARTIUENTS most happily-married young couples in Letters to the Editor...... 6 the entertainment world. Dinah and Hollywood Off the Air...... 7 George, along with their daughter, two­ Silver Mike Award to "Aunt Jenny" ...... II year-old Melissa Ann, will be on the Seat At the Dial ...... by Saul Carson 12 cover. Listeners' Panel Chooses the Top )'en...... 42 Say It In Poetry ...... by Shelley Keats 52 • • • What's On the Air-Radio Program Lo,;...... 54 You're sure to chuckle when you see the pictl,lres of "The Easy Aces," on tele­ vision now after 19 years of radio, and read our hilarious report on a visit to EDWARD BOBLEY, Editor their Park Avenue apartment. Look for JUDITH CORTADA. A3.ociate Editor JEROME ROTH, Art Director the' exciting feature about Ralph Bellamy MAX LEVIN. A ..ociate Editor HARRY EDWARDS. A.3ociate Editor and how New York detectives trained Harry Link. Muaic Editor James Lozito, A aaociate Muaic Editor him to act the perfect sleuth on television Gertrude Greer, P£cturc Editor Lloyd Boward, Prqmotio'fl. Ma'tlager and the Broadway stage, and we promise Dessie McGlynn, Readers SertJice Helen McNamara, Proflram R esea rch a new kind of treat in a story in which "Ma Perkins" herself will give you her HAROLD L. CROSSMAN, Publi3her version of an absorbing experience in her life. There will be a "Big Sister" novel­ ette and a picture story from "Martin Kane, Private Eye." RADIO AN»' TJo: L)t; V[S10N B}; ST is pubUshed bi-mon thly b.y Radio. Best. Inc. , New York 19, Among our regular features. you won't N. Y. Executh'e, Afh'cr tising and Editorial Omces. 9 West 57th S treet, New York 19. N.Y. Reentered as s(>('ond cla s.~ matt(> r li'ehrual')' 9. 1950 at the po ~'t office at New York. N.Y. under want to miss John J. Anthony's column the act of Mar'cll 3, 1879 . •-\dditl onal entry at Mount Morris. Ill. Price 25e per copy. Subscrip­ and his personal answer to a letter from tion rate ; L2 issues $:{ .OO in U.S.A .• Canada. $a.50. (,hanges in addr(>:Ss should reach us fiv e W~ ki in a.dva.nce of th(> next issue date. Gh'e both the old and new addresses. The co\'er and one of Our readers, and the "Hobbies of enUre contents or RADIO AND TELEVISION nEST are (ully protected by copyrights in the U nit ~d Slates and in roreign countries and mu... t not be reproduced in any manner without the Stars" story about Bob Poole and his Dt' rmbsion. UnsoliCited JD&Du s<.' rlpts, cartoons. pictures, etc. accompanied by return pOStage and afh1re~,*, s will be gl\ren prompt conshleration. but we cannot a.ssumt> responsibillt·li in the recipe collection. . e'fent or their IOs,'i. Printffi in U .S.A. Copyright 1950. by Radio Best. Inc.

4 Chautauqua Player Settles Down lilt happened just as , tUlled ~eJ4g~ ;11 ",,,, lIew mystery FOgramlll

ESS SHEEHAN has become accustomed T to it but' when she first turned to radio, she was very much intrigued by the idea of acting in an air-conditioned studio every day. Tess, who plays Aunt Dorrie' in CBS's "Wendy Warren and the News," and Nora in NBC's "When A Girl Marries," has played to audiences in ex-' tremes of heat and cold, in freight sheds and tents, and under American, Canadian and European skies. Dramatic training, at the time that Tess studied to become an actress, consisted of a complete course in elocution. A De­ troit girl-her father worked his way through the University of Michigan by running a dancing academy-Tess began her career in Canada as a reader. During her 20 years as a headliner on the Chau­ tauqua circuit, she appeared in almost • every county' seat in the 48 states and SIGN OF DEPENDABLE every province in Canada. ''Those were the days," she recalls, IIJ RADIO SERVICE "when it was all in a day's work to start out in horses and sleds at seven in the If your television becomes a terrible vision, call the expe,rt morning, with the temperature at 30 degrees below zero, and drive until six who displays the Sylvania service sign. He knows these at night to put on an evening's enter­ tainment." complex sets inside out ... has the "savvy" to make the , One evenini her company played in a delicate adjustments and repairs they sometimes need. He freight shed where the "heating system" was an oil stove on the platform and the relies on super-keen Sylvania testing devices to detect and audience sat bundled in furs and blankets diagnose troubles accurately ... Sylvania radio tubes, the because of the intense cold. During the summer months, the com­ . proper television picture tubes and other custom parts to pany often played in a tent in heat so restore perfect sight and sound. Stop at the shop showing the intense that the grease ,paint melted as the actors daubed it on their faces. Some­ Sylvania sign for top television and radio repa!rs. times, when violent thunderstorms bent the supporting poles of the tent and heavy rains made the stage a mud slide, Tess dispelled the audience's fears with a reading of "How Frogs Go To Sleep," a humorous monologue which she has often rendered on the radio. During the war , Tess joined the- USO SYLVANIA and toured the, European theatre with ' Raymond Massey in "Our Town," and followed this up with a tour of the Pa­ RADIO AND TUBES cific bases in "The Ghost Train." Curios TELEVISION PICTURE 1 from all over the world line the book shelves of her' New York apartment.' PRODUCTS OF SYLVANIA ELECTRIC PRODUCTS INC.

5 this month's disc jockey letters to the editor

On The Cover--Next Issue All! Publisher To The Editor: Doris Day's automobile ac­ To The Editor: I saw your picture in your cident has been played up in all the maga­ magazine showing you making the Silver zines, until, no doubt,.my dog knows about Mike Award to the sponsors of Theatre it. But did you know that Dinah Shore Guild On the Air. My, my, aren't you the tihel Bea Kalmus overcame polio? Not many people do and to good looking one, though. look in Radio Best you would think Dinah MILDRED DAY didn't exist, instead of being the truly great Toledo, Ohio EA KALMUS, the fair-haired song­ singer she is. All is·forgiven though, if you stress of night club, stage and feature a nice big write-up on her real Un ~ihkable Al Bradio, was the first of her sex to step soon. How about it? To The Editor: I am writing in reply to into the role of nocturnal disc jockey. ELINOR PREBLE "Jolson's Voice." In my opinion, for a man She originated the "Bea Kalmus Denver, Colo. who is more than 63 years of age, Jolson's Radio's Best Comi ~s? singing is wonderful. That he sings with Show" back in 1947 when the talented one lung is really something. I think, as songstress played her selected re­ To The Editor: My nom­ Jolson ages, his voice improves, which is cordings and interviewed stars of the inations for the best five most unusual for a singer. I'm a vocal im­ theatrical world direct from the comedians on the air to­ personator and I get many many requests glamorous Riviera at Fort Lee, New day are: 1. Herb Shriner, to impersonate Al Jolson. Another good 2. Groucho Marx, 3. Mil­ Jersey. After a successful season at thing about Jplson is that he's more of a ton BerIe, 4. Henry Mor­ natural singei' and showman than any of the famed night spot, Bea moved her gan, 5 Robert Q. Lewis. show to New York's Harem night the singers today. Do you agree? RICHARD MELARI club and finally to Hutton's where HERBERT SLOW Cleveland, Ohio she is now playing to one of the Flint, Mich. Majority Rules largest nighttime audiences in the Toasts Sullivan To The Editor: Must you listen to just a few New York metropolitan area over To The Editor: Your fea­ station WMGM. ture story, entitled, "Tol­ disgruntled readers who have objected to The success of the Bea Kalmus erance Toasts the Town," the publicity you have been giving to Dick Contino? I haven't seen a pic11lre ·of Dick show is a tribute to the star's ingra­ was a worthy tribute to in Radio Best for the past few months. The tiating personality and ability to sing Ed Sullivan who, in my opinion, is a great Ameri­ majority of your readers want to read about with the records she spins. A fam­ Dick Contino and the m ajority opinion iliar and beloved personality in show can. It was so nice to see him pictured with his should rule. business, stars of radio, television, happy little family. He's REANNA GoLDSMITH stage and screen flock to her micro­ our favorite master of ceremonies and our Seattle, Wash. phone for nightly interviews. Her family find his smooth and unadulterated Pinza Fan program is currently sponsored by introductions very refreshing. To The Editor: The article you ran on Ripley Clothes, a nationally famous MRS. MAURICE FEINBERG Bronx, New York sing.er Ezio Pinza was interesting-at least, men's clothing chai,r.. he 1S. I am not so strong for this idea of Take a Bow, Saul poking into all actor's private lives. The To The editor: Many kudos to you for your pictures tell all the story needed. and so I'd department, "Seat at the DiaL" I think Mr. say-more photo-stories, particularly more Carson's astute reviews of the radio and on Pinza, who has the top voice on the air television shows make him the number one today, as well as being the top Broadway critic. actor at present. FRANCIS J. McGoEY BOB JAMES Pittsburgh, Pa. Chicago, Ill. Tribute to Buddy Clark New Nose, Same Vic To The Editor: I enjoy To The Eaitor: Your story your magazine very much. abollt Vic Damone was However, I was disap­ very humiliating and dis­ pointed that you did not couraging. You haVE hurt print anything about Bud­ my feelings as well as the dyClark since his untime­ rest of h i.;> fans. Vic Da­ ly death. It seems to me mone was just as popular that when a popular radio before as he is now. and recording star like MISS LAURETTE PERCIAVALLE Buddy Clark dies, a magazine such as yours New York City should print a story about him. His singing brought so much pleasure to countless list­ eners everywhere that he will be missed by Address letteTs and pictures to Editor many, I think it would mean a lot to his of RADIO BEST, 9 West 57th Street, New York 19. Only signed comments fans if you would carry such a tri.bute. will be considered for publication. AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY GLORIA CULLATI --- - .. Natick, Mass. 6 by Viola Moore ollyvvood off the air

a rt Linkletter's guest of honor on Pillsbury House Party really brought-down the house, tqe other noon. Such shriekings and hand-c'lap­ ping you never heard! The occasion was the sing­ ing of Vic Damone, new bobby-soxers' idol on the coast, as he gave his own interpretation of "You're Breaking My H~art." During the show a housewife, Mrs. Virginia Fogg was chosen from the audience to sing a chorus with Vic, and though she admitted to a little choir singing, the stately brunette got her first chance to sing coast-to-coast, with curly­ haired Vic as he put his arm around her and led her to the microphone to duet in "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby." * * * * * Fibber McGee told me that the nicest compli­ ment he and Molly have had in i"ecent months came from Keystone Heights, Florida. Seems that the members of the board of the Chamber

Sinatra Junior gets a lesson in on Art Linkletter's "House Party."

Loretta Young wipes a spot off Van Johnson's coat before their Lux Theatre broadcast of "Mother Was A Freshman." 7 Producer Bill Spier of "Suspense" ~d his pretty wife, Bob Crosby left tbe mike to Earl Wilson when tbe colum· June Havoc, at breakfast in their lov~ly Malibu home. nist and singer Kitty Kallen guested on "Night Shift."

of Commerce voted unanimously to hold their weekly meeting an hour earlier each evening, so that they could rush home and get Fibber and Molly on their radios. Someone on the Board wrote to the McGees to tell them of this decision and in answer, Fibber wrote the laborious verse printed below: • In Appreciation Because you changed your meeting time To catch our Tuesday monkeyshine We send this token of our love To Keystone Heights, the council of Fibber McGee and Molly. The Chamber of Commerce immedi­ ately decided to frame the poem for its wall! • • • • When good Danes get together a merry time is had by all. When Carl Brisson, the pre-Pinza "mature" lover, took to the Cocoanut Grove recently to present his individual style of singing, the be-dia­ monded dowagers were swooning right along with the teen-agers, and on hand to clap his approval of his fellow coun­ tryman's vocal efforls, was Jean Hersholt. "Dr. Christian," a first-nighter at the Grove, then invited Carl to attend his radio broadcast the following night, when Carl took over the contro1 booth and ap­ plauded Jean's efforts in return. • • • • Palm Springs in mid-winter is an ideal spot for speedy tennis matches. At Char­ lie Farrell's Racquet Club, "Gorgeous Gussie" Moran and her partner, movie agent Pat de Cicco, were pitted against strong and glamorous competition in the person of (Continued on page 10)

8 Robert Walker tells all to Louella Parsons. all the gos­ sip lady gets set for her Sunday broadcast on ABC.

At left, emcee Steve Allen interviews Dinah Shore and George Montgomery on the CBS-TV "Ed Wynn Show."

Hollywood off the air

Sinatra sends 'em; a young admirer at the Methodist Or­ Virginia Mayo and Jo Stafford, on one of their visits to phanage, Richmond, Va., is overcome by confusion and joy. Birmingham Hospital, give their autographs to a veteran. , things you never knew till now

. J • . Carrol Naish, star of "Life with Luigi," owns through inheritance a 200- year-old ancestral castle in County Lim­ erick, Ireland. • • • Orchestra leader, Horace Heidt, start­ ed the grand-daddy of the giveaway shows in the mid 1930's with "Pot 0" Gold." • t *.. • Alan Dale, radio and television singing star, became a professional vocalist ·as a result of a "dare." • • • Opera Star Robert Merrill at one time wanted to be a crooner-a la Bing Crosby. turn into a permanent institution. • • • off the air Previewing a Durante show is always Hollywood an occasion, but the small audience that Jack Owens, the cruising crooner, 'is got a glimpse of Jimmy's New York stint also the composer of the "Hut-Sut Song" the lovely Ginger Rogers and darkly handsome attorney Gregg Bautzer. To at the Copacabana felt doubly privileged. -a hit tune of a few seasQ.l1s ago. You see, the day before Jimmy left Hol­ * • • everyone's surprise, Ginger and Greg downed their rivals in the finals, to win lywood, he put on his entire Copa routine At the age of 17, conductor-composer the mixed doubles championship and to in studio "B" at NBC. Eddie Jackson David Rose was engaged as pianist for get the solid silver cup known as the and Durante's radio show writers per­ the Ted Fio Rita orchestra. Pimm's Cup. Ginger in white sweater formed as ·Copa chorus girls. The audi­ ence was composed of one building main': * * * and shorts looked all of sixteen on the tenance man, one sound effec~ man two Jo Stafford's musical career began as a courts, but dining later in a stunning · black lace gown, she was every inch the stenographers and Teddy Lukoff,' the member of a trio composed of her two newsboy who delivers papers to the NBC sisters and herself. sophisticated glitter queen with her hand­ some escort - you guessed it, Bautzer offices. It was quite a show-and for free! • * * again. Bets are on that this twosome will (Continued on page 58) Jean Hersholt, star of "Dr. Christian" show, owns the world's largest collection of Hans Christian Andersen stories. * * * John Reed King, genial emcee of "Give and Take," has given away more than a million dollars in prizes in the last nine years. • * * "Her Nibs, Georgia Gibbs" was known as Fredda Gibson back in her home town of w: Ql"cester, Massachusetts. * • • Gabriel Heatter, noted MBS news com­ mentator, started his radio career on WMCA, a local New York radio station. * • * Instead of collecting stamps, match covers or other ordinary objects, Bob Casey, the "Henry" of NBC-TV's "The Aldrich Family," collects guns used in the American Revolution. * * * When Chet Lauck and Norris Goff, CBS' "Lum 'n' Abner," teamed up, Lauck was managing an auto finance company "You can't back down now"; three contestants on Ralph Edwards' and Goff was a grocery wholesaler. · "Truth or Consequences" play a trick on the startled emcee.

10 This is the final Silver Mike Award by RADIO BEST. There will be a eomplete explanation in the next issue.

URING the 13 years that "Aunt Jenny" D has been on the air under the. sponsor­ ship'of Lever Bros. Company, the kindly, mid­ dle-aged lady who enacts the title role has told hundreds of stories to a growing body of listeners. Aware of the needs of public serv­ ice agencies and of the human drama that lies behind their work, she has often converted to Le'l?er Bros. cold facts into dramas of intense human inter­ est that have consistently resulted in increased public support. RADIO BEST presents the April Silver Mike George B. Smith receiving the Silver Mike A ward to Lever Bros., not only because of the {\w~rd in behalf of Lever Bros. Company assistance rendered to a vari~y of worthy from Edward Bobley, editor of RADIO causes by ·"Aunt Jenny," but also because the BEST, while Edith Spencer, star of the program itself has contributed to the im­ "Aunt Jenny" program, looks on. Mr. Smith provement of a certain type ·of radio drama, is advertising manager of Spry and several the documentary broadcast. other products of Lever Bros. Company. "Aunt Jenny" was designed by Ruthrauff & Ryan, Inc., the Lever Bros. advertising agency, to pr.omote the sale of Spry. (Since the pro­ gram was launched, on January 18,1937, there has been no change in sponsor, agency, the actress who plays the title role, Edith Spencer; or the announcer, Dan Seymour.) Convinced that what is "good for" the pub­ lic, or the agencies that serve it, is by its very nature "good for" a product, Lever Bros. has spared no expense in employing the very best skills available to dramatize the story of a public service project. Instead of "giving a plug," or a few kind words, to a ~ood cause, the program has presented the agency's story in dramatic form, thus appealing to listeners through their natural interest in the welfare of other human beings. To incorporate a plea for public support in a drama that will hold the attention of an audience requires consid­ erable. skilL This. has. been the. responsibility of the team of workers at Ruthrauff & Ryan. An excellent illustration of the type of story dramatized and the results accomplished is "The Problem Drinker," a series of ten broadcasts covering the work of Alcoholics Anonymous, presented in picture story form on page 18 in this issue. In little more than a month after the series was broadcast, AA headquarters received over 300 letters, asking . for help, from people all over the couIltry. For the American Cancer Society, this diffi­ cult subject was treated in a proadcast that was commended by listeners, the press and the clergy, and won a plaque' for public service from the Society. Plaques and certificates of commendation were awarded to "Aunt Jenny" during the war for her persuasive messages in behalf of the Red Cross, the SPARS and the WAVES. More recently, scripts dealing with the Girl Scouts and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis have been presented. RADIO BEST is proud to add its Silver Mike Award to the many honors which "Aunt Jenny" has received.

11 The stars them­ selves hail Radio Best as the leadiqg magazine of its ' kind in the nation. "City At Midnight" goes out "on location" to televise a drama in its natural setting; here the background is a bar on New York's East Side. seat WALTER WINCHELL says ... "finest magazine of its kind I've ever seen." a~the

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• SUBSCRIBE NOW. to America's by Saul Carson fastest CJrowinCJ family maCJazlne! . . HARD one thing, it could get into the wrong NBC Theatre • ON hands. It did under Hitler, if you will NBC bother to remember. However, right now Sundays, 2-3 p.m. ~ ------we could not go wrong- short of such ~ D $1 .50 for b issues Did you ever wish that radio programs approval stamp--if a program opened D $3.00 for 12 . issues (or those on television) could carry a with the line: "This is a genuine AFRA "stamp of approval"? Under such a sys­ program." That, at least, would assure te~ ~ the first words you would listen for, you of really good, thor ughly competent, Name ...... ___ ... __ ...... ______.. _...... __._ . ___. .. _._ when a program went on the air, would acting-by actors trained to use the plea s e print be the approval notice. The show would microphone. open with words something like this: The initials AFRA stand for American Address ...... "This program is approved by the X-Y -Z." Federation of Radio Artists. Other kinds Those initials would sta~d for whatever of actors-those who specialize in' work academy or award organizatj on meant for the Broadway stage, or in wwk for City ...... Zone ...... Sta t e ...... most to the listeners. And the listeners, the movies- also belong to AFJ}A, or join when they heard that approval notice, it, when they go on the air. But for pub­ would know immediately that there lic purposes, they are not genuine AFRA­ D Please I enclose $...... bill me would be nothing phony about the pro­ ites; they're sort of fellow travelers. gram. They would glue their ears to the When a program on the air is done by Mail this coupon to RADIO BEST, 9 West loudspeaker and stick with the show. these interlogers from the other media­ 57 Street, N ew York 19, N .Y. RH· [ There are arguments for and against it may turn out good, and it may' not. 1------such a system of program approval. For When it is done by genuine AFRA peo- 12 pie, it is sure to be good at least on the Fred Vanderventer checks a fact in the den of his home in Princeton, N. J. acting side. Because it is tile real AFRA I boys and girls who really know how to do the best acting before the cold but so-sensitive mike. These remarks are born of the fact that NBC has a program which earns the accoiade: "A Genuine AFRA Article." The show is "NBC Theatre," which takes an entire hour Sunday afternoons, from two to three. And a more enjoyable, as well as more profitable, hour there isn't on the radio kilocycles. This is the program on which great works of literature are translated into dramatic terms for the radio listeners. Here, this season, have been heard novels of note like Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie," and Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls." The acting is not done by Hollywood glamorpusses, but by genuine AFRA-ites who know how. The adaptations are by top scripters. There are intermission commentaries by some very prominent and extremely competent writers and, critics. The hour is sixty minutes' worth 'of .college education made easy and tasty. There is a good reason why this is education; actually, this hour is part of NBC's University of the Air. But if you distrust anything sounding so awfully highbrow, forget that detail. Just· listen. You'll enjoy the hour. If you learn something in addition-well, that's subject is animal your own fault. City at Midnight with ink in its veins II p.m, to midnight Here is a program that goes out "on by Fred Vanderventer location" to dramatize its stories in their (RepJar panelist on RONSON'S "Twenty QuestloD8") natural settings. If the story calls for a Mutual Broadcasdns System night club, the setting is a real night club -not an imitation created for a studio. If it's the Brooklyn water front that's desired, the cameras are taken to the INCE my wife, Florence Rinard, wrote about our waterfront-instead of to a phony dock­ side built between some broadcasting S family in last month's "Radio Best," there isn't much statton's four walls. else I can tell you about our home life . . . she's said it Br using the camera's mobility, the all! As for myself, I wa~ born in Tipton, Indiana, and (Continued on pagr 72) am a graduate of Butler University in Indianapolis. Actually, I've been more more of a newspaper man than anything else. I've worked with the Associated Inge Adams resists Richard Frazer dur­ Press, International News Services and most of the Ing a hair-raisTng scene in "Lights out." Hearst publications. I broke into radio back in 1942 when I went to work for W JR in Detroit as a news commentator. From there I came to WOR in New York in the same capacity and I've been there ever since. Off the record, I've always been proud of the fact that I'm one of the few commentators who writes his own copy. Although I love radio dearly and am quite anxiously awaiting the televising of ''Twenty Questions," I guess I'll always have ink in my veins. At long last I'm realizing a life-long ambition-to own and .edit my own newspaper. Although I still have a long way to go, plans are afoot and I ex- (Continued on page 60)

If you like hunting. turn to page 60 where 20 clues submitted by Fred Vanderventer will help you to track down the subject of ·the Twenty question_Radio Best (A,ntest Winners of the contest will receive valuable prizes. Names of winners of the Herb Polesie and F10rence Rinard contests will pe lInnounced in"the next issue. by Ina Mae Alltry

the man who came to breakfast

stayed

LIKE most girls, if I had been given a chance to select the ideal time for meeting my prospective husband, I would have chosen the evening when the silver glow of the moonlight flat­ ters a girl's features and the cares of the day ha.ve obligingly folded their tents for a while. I thought that only old married couples, who can't avoid it, should have to look at each other in the morning over the breakfast table in the bright glare of the sun- shine. . But I was given no choice in the matter and Gene Autry ·saW me the first thing in the morning the first time we met. I was studying at a teacher's college in Springfield, Mis­ souri, where my uncle, Jimmy Long, and his wife lived, and they had iIi­ vited me to live with them. Uncle Jimmy had recorded se~eral hit tunes with Gene and he never tired of talk­ ing about him. By the time my uncle told me that he was coming to town­ he was on a vaudev~ne .tour at the

15 any length of time-on the radio pro­ gram, "National Barn Dance," on which he became really famous-we were married. That was in 1932. I wouldn't say that Gene's an "ideal husband" because I don't think I'd want to live with an absolutely flaw­ less specimen of the human male. But if an easy-going, tolerant nature, an time-I had the feeling that I knew inquiring, observant mind, and a sense him very well. His train was to arrive of humor don't add up to the nicest in the early morning and he was to bunch of characteristics you'd want in have breakfast with us. a husband-well, if that's not true Of course, I dressed a little more then Greer Garson has three heads carefully than usual that morning and and Stalin is a member of the Repub­ I was as wide-awake and alert as any­ lican Party. It's as basic as that. one can be in the morning just before One of the qualities that makes Gene breakfast when my uncle brought so eminently easy to live with is his Gene home from the station. We were tolerant· attitude toward other people's introduced and then we sat down to foibles-particularly mine. Gene likes breakfast. Evidently he enjoyed the to drive fast, for example, and it experience-as. much as I did-be­ makes me nervous to go whizzing cause we've been having breakfast down the road like a streak of light­ Against a background of sky or living room wall, Gene often togetb.er almost ever since. . ning that never hits anything only sings for the exc:lusive pleasure of his severest critic; here he gets After that first meeting, Gene's by sheer good luck. When Gene real­ Ina's opinion on his songs from "Mule Train," his latest picture. scheduled appearances frequently ized that I was a back-seat driver brought him into, or near, Springfield. because I was frightened, he began I never did get to teach. As soon as to slow down and now he never goes he was offered a position that per­ over forty miles an hour when he's mitted him to stay in one place for with me. . He didn't argue about it and tell me (Left) The cowboy star is a busy man but that he was watching the road care­ he often takes the time to enjoy a cup fully. In fact, Gene won't argue aoout of tea with Ina in their living room. anything (Continued on page 68)

"Ge ne Autry's Melody Raneh," Iponsored by Wrisley chewing pm, Is heard on CBS, Saturday, 8 p.m., EST.

Ina is as fond of horses as ' any cowgirl; here she and Gene ad­ Gene enjoys a good game of golf and he The cowboy packs a mighty wallop when mire one of the prize steeds trained at his San Fernando ranch. sometimes practices when he's at ' home. an outlaw makes him mad in "Mule Train."

16 HEN the "Aunt Jenny" program dramatized the work of W Alcoholics Anonymous in ten documentary broadcasts entitled "The Problem Drinker," the series aroused tremendous interest because of its unusual nature, and resulted in what AA 1. A member of Alco­ termed a "remarkable response" from listeners. The series is holics Anonymous (her presented here in the form of a picture story, in which the features blacked out) names of all characters are fictitious. Portraying the same roles tells Aunt Jenny and in the pictures as they did on the air are : announcer Dan Sey­ mour how AA helped a Edith Spencer ...... Aunt Jenny "Aunt Je nny" i. heard on CBS, Mon­ BUI Smith ...... George Grant day through Friday, at 12 : 15 p.m., man with a problem Grace Coppin ...... Ruth Grant EST, sponsored by Le ver Bros. Co. that brought him and Ed Cullcn ...... Dinner Guest Donald Rose ...... DUly Grant his family to the brink S antos Ortega ...... Mr. Rogers of disaster. Scott TennY8on ...... Jack Cole Helen Shield •..•••...... Mr •• Cole AI Morgan ...... Bartender Janet Fehm ...... Secretary Ethel Everett ...... Mr.. Banks

2. George Grant loved his wile and son; he had a good job and many friends. But he couldn't overcome his craving for liquor. Friends have been invited to dinner one ~t. when he comes home, drunk, and a «nest has to help Ruth get him into the house while Billy, who has often seen his father in a drunken stupor, looks on contemptuously.

3. Ii was a humiliating experience and George swore he would never drink again. A few days later, however, Mr. Rogers, a company official, who has been suspicious because of George's frequent absences, finds him drinking in his office and fires him.

Alcoholics Anonymous helps a "problem drinker" to stave off disaster • 18 4. Although he has lost his job, George con­ 5. Ruth hates to go to strangers but George has become an all-day 8. Talking with George, Jack suggests that he turn for aid to 9. After talking with other AA members, George tinues to drink; deaf to Ruth's plea, he drinker. When Jack Cole, an AA member, and his wife call on her, the Power, greater than himself, which George says he believes is encouraged and begins to look for a job. But searches for liquor in the closet where she they tell her that George, like other alcoholics, is sick, emotionally in; the other AA's will help him. They plan to go to a meeting every .secretary tells him "the boss is out"; he's has hidden it. In desperation-their home and spiritually as well as physically, and that scolding will not help the next evening but during the day, George succumbs to his known as a drunkard. He loses his courage and .isn't paid for, there is little money in the him. Jack had lost more than one job because of his constant drink­ craving. Jack, who has told Ruth to call him in such an emer­ heads for a bar but again Jack finds him and per­ bank-Rut.h goes to her doctor who advises ing but had not touched liquor since joining up with Alcoholics gency, arrives just as the bartender is pouring the drink and suades him to visit another alcoholic who needs her to go to Alcoholics Anonymous for help. Anonymous. George, much relieved, says, "Thanks a lot, pal. Stick with me." help more than George does; he forgets his thirst.

6. Heartened by her talk with people who un­ derstand her problem, Ruth decides to follow their advice. One night George is picked up by the police and spends the night in jail. Instead of nagging the next morning, she shows him the AA leaflet but he insists he is not an alcoholic.

7. But Ruth knows that George has suffered a 10. In a letter to his former boss, George reveals how very de­ II. From that last binge, George learned that blow to his pride, that he is frightened now linquent he was while with the company. Amazed and im­ there is no cure for alcoholism, that he can't drink because he knOUIa he cannot control his thirst, pressed by his honesty, which George explains he has learned for pleasure. Two years later, having slipped only and she leaves the boOk on his desk. In spite of from AA, Mr. Rogers gives him his old job. While waiting for once since he joined AA, he and Ruth are sent to himself, George becomes interested and without Ruth to join him at a celebration dinner, George drifts into a help Mrs. Banks, whose husband is drinking just enthusiasm tells Ruth he will see Jack Cole. bar and Jack finally finds him and takes him home, very drunk. as George was when Jack Cole first called on him.

21 no other voice could vibrate with such happy discord on the eardrums ... no other nose could cast such a shadow--

by Judith Cortada

'W AS walking down a corridor of I the Hotel Astor, looking for Room 472, when I heard a hoarse voice com­ ing from around the corner. It sounded familiar. "I lived in this room once for ten years, and every time I come back to New York I gotta get the same room. I love it, lookin' down on Broadway with all the lights and all the noises. Like when a strange' taxi gets in line, y'know, and two of the other drivers get his taxi in between them and squeeze him 'up like an accordion. It's wonderful!" Turning the corner, I saw a long shadow, cast on the opposite wall by the bald-headed figure coming toward me. No other voice could vibrate with such happy discord on the ear drums, no other nose could cast such a shadow. Jimmy was in New York for a night club engagement and I was supposed to interview him, but I had caught him on his way to a guest appearance on a radio program. With him were piano player Julie Buffano and drummer Jack Roth, his constant companions; Jack Barnett, who writes Jimmy's songs with him, and another friend. "e'mon, honey," Jimmy said, grasp­ The bellboys know that the fellow in Rootn 472 is a "celebrity" but they ing my hand. "You come with us and think he's just a swell guy with a big nose and a great sense of humor. we can talk on the way." "Did you ever try living in the coun­

try?" I asked, while we waited for the The "'Jimmy Durante Sh~w," sponsored by Camel elevator. cigarettes, is heard on NBC, Friday, 9 :30 p .nt., EST.

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"Yeah, for one night."Jimmy laughed. "When my' wife and I went to live in California, she found a little house in Westwood and I put a two-thousand-dollar deposit on it. We seen it in the daytime and it was beautiful. I noticed there wasn't many neighbors but I didn't say nothin' until I went to bed and started thinkin' if there might be burglars. There was nobody for. miles around, nobody to yell to. The next day I stopped the check and we found a house next to a gas station. Lotsa noise, lotsa people--won­ derful!" We created a sensation when Jimmy yelled across the 10bQY, "Hiya, honey!" to a girl in the hotel cashier's booth, and he was about to get So many People, so much noise!" into an earnest conversation with one of the bell- boys when I dragged him away. • "I need a story, Jimmy," I said. "What was the biggest thrill of your life?" His face sobered up immediately and when he spoke, the harshness of the famous voice was tempered by a note of. reverence and affection. "Well, I was the very last entertainer that Presi­ dent Roosevelt ever saw-the very last one. Two weeks later he went to Warm Springs." As we went through the revolving doors in the street, his face broke into a grin. "And then I had a big thrill at the Newspaper Photographers Ball in Washington. They told us that President Truman was com in' in to see us and all of us entertainers lined up. Then the President comes in and this fella was sayin', 'This is Mr. So-and -So'-I forget all the names-and then he said, 'And this is Mr. Jimmy Durante.' And the President steps back and he ups and says, 'In poisson!' " Jimmy shook his head in pleasure and amazement. "I could've fell through the floor." Once on BrO"adway, we made slow progress. Everybody who recognized Jimmy's face--and who wouldn't?-had to stop him for a little chat. Jimmy never steps out of character. Walking down Broadway, he pulls everybody into his act, greets everyone of his friends-and who isn't?­ with the same exuberance, the same gleeful dis­ regard of the consequences he exhibits at the microphone. On Jimmy's first day in town, Jack Barnett was a guest on George Putnam's television pro­ gram. He was on the air when Jimmy walked into his room at the Astor and Jimmy immedi­ ately tuned in to the program. A few minutes later, he picked up the telephone, called Putnam and asked him to "put Barnett on the phone." "For cryin' out loud!" he said to Jack. "You're disgracin' me! Why don'tcha shave? You're woikin' for a high-class guy!" "I did shave," Jack replied, while the television audience watched and listened. "This guy is wearing.make-up. Do you want me to be a sissy?" Jimmy thought about it for a minute. "No, just stand further away," he said finally. "The bum is makin' us both look bad." While Jimmy was exchanging greetings with a taxi driver, Jack, who (Continued on page 66) Julie Conway is her own best dressmaker

First I drape th.. muslin on the dummy ••.

HE feminine half of the juvenile commercial: a squeal of delight fol­ then I cut and pin it to my own design. T population had not yet dis­ lowed by "That Oxydol sparkle!" in covered the cowboy when Julie a voice expressing complete' amaze­ Conway was a little girl in Granite ment. Before coming to New York, City, -illinois, and she and her sister Julie was the vocalist with K ay spent much of their time making Kyser's orchestra, playing more than clothes for their dolls. Today, hav­ 1,000 service camp shows with the ing outgrown dolls, Julie spends band dUling the war, and also had what spare time she has- after giv­ the feminine l.ead - in the Dwight ing due attention to her husband, Wiman musical, "They Can't Get daughter, home and career- in mak­ You Down." ing clothes for herself. In New York, she has starred in . Milli.ons have heard Julie's unique her own show, "Yours Truly, Julie," commercials on scores of shows.- She and co-starred with Johnny Des­ became known as the "sparkle girl" mond in the CBS "Musicomedy" with her delivery of the Oxydol series. (Continued on page 67) - ----~-:-:

"How do you think it's gonna look?"

25 • F;", Phi' S osemary p U w. • K • ..., C - · .~"." "_M On NBC Mond • "_.,,, F~ P romisesm'.ri=)'n ~. ron (R••• ,., ( . rice) ay at 5 keep th . "When A G MIC~haeJ p.n•. , EST sponsored b • elr secret.

y General F oods t7'I young girl's love is put to the test In her struggle with all the forces that can wreck a marriage

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A UTUMN is a time of wonder, thought Kathy, as she "Do you really think your friends liked me, Phil?" fl sat beside · Phil, their shoulders touching in his Kathy asked anxiously. "I'm still so-unsure in your sleek little convertible. He was driving her back to world." school and they had gotten an early start so that they "Unsure! Kathy, you're more sure every day. All might go steadily over the ribboned r oads before the your sweet gaucheries are giving way to the self-confi­ press of traffic slowed them down. She breathed deeply dence of a beautiful \woman." of the crisp, clear air of early morning and caught back Kathy shook her head. "I've a long way to go yet!" some curls which had been blown free of the bright "You've come a long way," he reminded her. "Kathy, kerchief which held them. I'm proud of what you've made of yourself." Autumn is the best time of all, she thought. Summer So she was proud too, because she wanted to please was fine, but lazy. It made you want to lie in the sun him. At first she had tho~ght it was because she was so like a kitten and purr with happiness. But Autumn's grateful but now after these last two weeks, she knew happiness was a cup, running over. Its rich golden it 'was more than that. How strange life was. Only a browns and reds went to your head like the wine she few short years ago, she had been little KaJ;hy Cameron, had sipped at Phil's country club. It sent your blood who knew no world beyond her capable mother's farm. racing and brought the color to your burning cheeks. She might still be that fann girl had not Joan and Harry It made you come alive, eager to meet Davis, her mother's friends, moved to the promise of fulfillment the harvest Beechwood after their marriage to brings. make a new life together. Harry had Yet, she might be mistaken. A girl been poor and Joan rich so they had of nineteen, so full of her own emo­ started anew away from her family tions, might easily mistake kindness, and friends. But some, like Phil, fol­ generosity and friendship for love, she lowed because Joan, being Joan, would told herself. Without moving her always gather real people around her shoulder from Pnil's, she stole a glance whether they were rich or poor. . at him, She knew that she loved Next to her mother, Kathy loved everything about this man-his fine Joan best. She had a way of getting mind, his quiet, capable ways, his to the heart of things; she could sift sense of humor, his strengths and his . values and find the right ones. She weaknesses. Their eyes met and they knew what friendship meant. So did smiled at each other. Phil. That was why .he had offered "Was it a good vacation, Kathy?" them a helping hand in reclaiming he asked. their farm, wanti~g no return but the "Marvelous! I'll never forget it. And pleasure of helping. That was why, these last two weeks at you'r mother's too, he had asked to send Kathy, the home! Iwas like Cinderella at the ball. daughter of Joan's good friends, to a I've never had such lovely clothes or Mary Jane Higby - good private school. so much fun." as Joan Davi8 At first her mother had had misgiv­ "Mother can be charming when she ings. If a girl as-poor and as pretty as wants to be," he agreed. Kathy should be brought up with rich "I suppose you had nothing to d

27 "You don't like this parting any 'more than I do. Kathy, I know this is sudden but I want you to marry me, now, today. We could go to New York for our honeymoon over the weekend. It isn't at all the way I planned it but it's because I love you so." "Oh, Phil!" . Passing motorists blew their horns at the young couple, entwined in each other's arms. But Kathy didn't know or care. All she knew was that Phil loved her and glad she had justified Joan's faith in her. 'wanted to marry her right away. Oh, she loved him so She blushed when she remembered the long weekly much! letters she had written Phil during that first year. They She let her tears spill over now because they had be­ were full of gratitude and gossip but he had chosen to come tears of happiness and she was in his arms. rhen find them full of life and youth. He had never laughed she took the kerchief from his top pocket and wiped them at her girlish enthusiasms. And always he had unob-. away. "But what about your mother-and mine?" she trusively augmented the knowledge which she had asked practically. acquired at school so that, almost without her realizing He frowned. "I know, darling. I know. But what can it, each day she had learned more about the standards we do! Mother would be sure to kick up a fuss-she'd of the young women of his own set. Phil, of course, do that no matter whom I married. She's getting on and claimed that she came by them naturally. wants to keep me by her side." "Kathy, you're wonderful," he had told her a thousand "She's no different from most mothers, I guess. Mine times. "I'm so proud of you!" would want preparations." She was glad but she told herself, "Careful, Kathy, "That's it. We just haven't time for them. I know he's thirty!.fi'O'e ; you're nineteen. And you're in differ­ what they mean to a girl and I'll try to make it up to ent worlds." you, darling, all my life. But Kathy, let's seize this mo­ But her heart wouldn't let her be cautious. And she ment. We'll keep our marriage a secret until .I come took courage from the success of Joan and Harry's mar­ back and can take you home with me as my wife. This riage. Love made everything right. If only Phil lo ~ ed way, we'll have something to work and plan for." her. For she knew she loved him. She knew it when he If Kathy had any other argument against their elope­ held her close as they were dancing; she knew it at ment she couldn't remember what it was for it was lost every touch of his hand and press of his shoulder against in their next kiss .. . hers. But she knew it too, when there was no physical Was every bride as happy as she, Kathy wonde~ed , as contact-when they just laughed into each other's eyes she looked down from her window high in the Towers or looked at each other across the room. Hotel. Below, New York City was like a fairyland with And now they were going to separate, she to go back its myriad of lights. But here, with Phil, was her own to school, he to go to Europe on business. Every instant heaven. Now she knew why her heart had pounded the car was speeding their separation. The knowledge last week in the car. Now she knew the fulfillment of of it made her heart heavy and her eyes sting with un­ the harvest. shed tears. They had grown silent. Was he, too, think­ Unable to tear himself away, Phil had cancelled his ing of the moment of their parting? sailing and stayed over two days longer than he should­ Suddenly, he brought the car to a halt on the side of which meant that Kathy was late for registration at the highway and putl his hand over both of hers. school. She wondered idly what would be said to her "Kathy, darling, what's the matter?" but it didn't seem to matter. "Nothing, really." This was their last night. Tomorrow Phil would be tak-

.. Marion Barney John Raby Jeannette Dowling as Mother Davis as Harry Davis as Irma Cameron

28' ing a boat and she a Your mother told us you had left seve~ al days ago In train in opposite di­ the company of a friend of the family. I assume you can . rections. But pow they account for your tardiness?" would be apart for "Naturally. 1-" Kathy stopped short, r emembering only a little while. He . her promise to Phil. She could feel herself flushing. would come back to "I'm sorry. I'm not at liberty to tell you 'where I was." tell the world she wa" "In that case, Miss Cameron, I'm afraid we must expel his ' wife. Mean~hile you." she would keep their "Expel me!" secret and . wait as "You understand that a school such as ours must patiently as she could. maintain only the very highest standards. We can't be Phil had ordered too circumspect w ith regard to our young ladies. Now it dinner by candlelight appears that two days have dropped from your life­ in their sitting-room. days which you cannot or do not choose to account for ." Kathy slipped on the "I'm sorry." • pale blue hostess gown "Then we have no alternative but to expel you. We which he had bought will notify your mother for mally, but I suggest that you for her at the hotel call her at once and put her mind at r est about your shop and was putting a safety." Miss K ing hesitated. "We all had great hopes pink rose in her hair for you, Miss Cameron. Perhaps if you tell your mother Anne Burr because he thought it who chaper oned you each night-" as Anne Dunn set off her gold hair "No," said Kathy wearily. "I'll go home." and blue eyes,. when If only Phil hadn't had to r ush off and leave her face Phil came in, as

1 • frightened by his new role as radio. newscaster

by Harriet Evans

Whatever Montgomery is up to, in this scene from :'Once More My Dar­ ling" with Ann Blyth, he is definitely not analyzing the latest news.

"N0' I don't have to worry about make-up, or the a military plane piloted by a Bolivian flyer. That after­ . position of the cameras, or memorizing my lines noon, the flyer, in critical condition in a hospital, learned when I sit behind the ABC microphone on Thursday from an incautious visitor that the crash had resulted in nights-but that doesn't mean I don't worry." 55 deaths. This development prompt~ Montgomery to After 25 years in a profession where frequent re­ call a friend in Washirtgton, D.C., who told him that the hearsals are an established convention, where an actor flyer was a hero in his native country wh.ere he had knows his lines long before he steps in front of a camera, once rescued numerous children from imminent peril Robert Montgomery sometimes finds his new job as a at the risk of his own life. news commentator a rather hair-raising experienc·e. This was a new angle and Montgomery, knowing that An event in a distant city might render a carefully­ the flyer had suffered a relapse after hearing of the prepared script completely useless an hour before he is tragedy, decided at eight o'clock to rewrite the script to go on the air, and at broad'cast time, which cannot be for his 9: 45 broadcast. Again, during the time ·he was postponed to a more convenient hour, an audience whose broadcasting from England (he launched the series size he can only guess at will be waiting to hear him. while at work on a movie in London), the unexpected Montgomery wrote one broadcast around an aspect of news of the devaluation of the pound necessitated a the disastrous crash between a commercial transport and complete change in script. (Continu.ed on page 53)

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margaret whiting's gay spontane- ous personality is reflected in the informal atmosphere of her new home on Cashmere Street in West Los Angeles. Decorated by Maggie herself, the Califoritia cottage looks as if it were specifically designed to accom­ modate a popular young radio and re­ cording star whose ffiends and family are always dropping in to see her. Of the seven rooms-living room, dining room, - kitchen and breakfast room combined, den, two bedrooms and two baths, not to speak of the large dormered room now used for Maggie's day begins about 10:30 with breakfast (fruit juice, egg, toast, storage purposes and the two-car jam, coffee), served by Wille Mae, her maid and old family friend, in garage with maid's room and bath her bedroom, decorated in shell pink and gray-blue, with white curtains. attached-the favorite gathering place for guests is the den. The couch, on 33 a day with Margaret Whiting

Wille Mae is straightening up the house now so Maggie fries eggs and bacon, puts it on a tray and lunches on the terrace. t •

which Maggie is stretched out in the picture, is covered with chintz and the Modern Provincial coffee tables, desk Her mother drops in to see her and they chat over a cup of tea in and other furniture are of walnut to Wille Mae is most famous 'for her lemon pies and in match the panelled walls, The rug is the living r~om; Mrs. Whiting lives about a mile away with Mag­ the kitchen, panelled in knotty pine, Maggie tries gie's aunt and her sister, Barbara, and they are often together. to talk her into making one for her dinner guests. of brown floss, Incidentally, the stuffed doUs that can be seen in the pictures of the den and bedroom are souvenirs of personal appearances, Maggie collects them whenever she goes on tour arid at the If she has time, she dons shorts, picks up the watering can and end of the year presents them to a heads for the yard where she babies the ailing plants the gar­ children's home. dener wants to replace; it's a nice way of getting a sun bath. (Continued on pa.ge 64)

Maggie relaxes in the den, where she keeps her television, radio-phonograph and 3,000 records and usually entertains her

At the dressing table in the small dressing room adjoining A beautifully-appointed dinner table, with lace cloth, glit­ the bedroom, Maggie applies perfume; if you're curious, t!te tering glass and shining silver, receives the final touches little crank under the center drawer opens windows above. from a lovely hostess just before she welcomes her guests.

35 Walter, the O'Keefes' chief cook ing while his wife, with Anthony and boule washer, does the tast- and Mike, prepare a meal for him.

Kathi Norris, star of "The Television Shopper," and .. husband Wilbur Stark, well-known television program .producer, celebrate daughter Pamela's third birthday.

The Harris family enjoys that famous California sun­ shine after a dip in the pool outside their Hollywood home; Phil ahd Alice Faye with Alice Jr. and Phyllis.

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and none of his friends is free to go with him because they have families. He would be happier to have a wife who would leave the dishes in the sink at a word from him, fling on coat and hat, grab an overnight bag and rush off with him at a moment's notice. He has never said he is fond of children, but I notice he often looks at them as we walk along the street to­ gether. If I suggest that he'd make a swell dad, he . pooh-poohs the idea and repeats the old line about being If there is freedom free and untrammeled. But he isn't free. He deceives in loneliness, this bachelor is "free himself. Deep within himself there are natural, normal as a bird." needs that he denies every day of his lif~ He is always hunting for ways to satisfy his energy and his gregarious NE of my-bachelor friends always gives me the same tendencies. He plays golf, he rents a saddle-horse from answer when I ask why he never Ularried. He likes a riding school and gallops around in the park, and now Obeing free, he says. Doesn't want responsibility. and then he plays tennis on the court of some friend Wants to live his own life in his own way. Wants to who has a real home. choose his own friends. Wants---oh, well, he goes on He seems set in his idea that solitude spells freedom and on, building up his alibi, but never convincing m~ and spends most of his time thinking up things he can that he couldn't have more freedom in the right kind of do alone, "without having to bother about someone else marriage thal\ he has now. all the time and having to consider what they want." For one thing, whethel~ he admits it or not, I know he Unconsciously he longs for a full life, yet he crams his is lonely. He goes out with the boys and drinks too time with superficial occupations and has never in his much because he is lonely-lonely in heal·t, I mean, for thirty-eight years of existence had any roots. Someone who takes him as 'he really is, not as he seems Roots are necessary to every (Continued on page 65) to be, who takes the bad and good in him, understands his weakness and even likes them. Someone who is -always there to help when he needs help, and willing to leave him alone when he wants solitude. A loyal someone who is ready to fly blin

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a round this time of year, when the into cornets. Put a truffle or a ripe olive flowers, the trees and the grass are on top 'of each and cover with aspic. preparing to deck themselves in the Aspic: Put strong stock, cold and free bright colors they put away for the win­ from fat, in a pan; add gelatine, tomato ter, when the urge for a new dress, a new paste, vinegar wine aI1li egg whites. Beat ~ hat-anything new-takes possession of over a slow fire until the mixture comes the feminine mind, the hostess usually to a boil; draw aside and let stand for 10 rr begins to feel a strong distaste for the minutes. Pour through a cold, damp dishes that have b~en so acceptable all ~ cloth, stir over ice until on the point of winter. They seem as dull and uninter­ setting and put some in the refrigerator esting as her winter hat and she is sud­ to chop later; cover cornets with the rest. denly imbued with the desire to place Serve on a bed of rice salad. something new and different before her Rice Salad: Boil rice for 131h minutes guests. in salted water, drain and wash well in With this particular type of spring cold water. Add diced vegetables, cool fever in mind, I suggest, as a menu for a and mix with French dressing, fill into bridge luncheon (for four), cold cornets round cake tin and press down gently; of ham with rice salad (cornets de jambon turn out on a serving dish. Unmold the lucullus)-to be served with a green cornets and arrange in a crown on top of salad-and maple cake. The cornets of the rice; garnish with' chopped aspic and ham is a colorful and decorative dish, and serve. the cake, with its layers of frothy icing, is extremely ornamental; they comple­ Ham eornets ,dtb rice salad, and ment any table decoration suggestive of JI1aple cake are both tasty and un­ the season. usually decorative luncheon dishes. Ih cup butter 1 stiffly beaten egg 1 cup granulated white sugar 21h cups maple 4 eggs syrup thin slices of cooked 1 tablespoon tomato IIh cups cake flour %. cup egg whites ham paste Ih cup.milk few chopped pecan %. pound liver 1 tablespoon tar­ 2 teaspoons baking nuts sausage ragon vinegar powder 3 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons red salt and pepper wine Cream the butter, add the sugar and cayenne pepper 3 stiffly beaten egg beat until white; beat in the egg yolks. truffles or ripe olives whites Sift the flour and add with the milk. Add 3 cups strong stock IIh cups rice the baking powder and 1 stiffly beaten 4 tablewoons 2 cups diced, cooked gelatine green beans and carrots

Take as many cornet molds (or make cornets of double wax paper) as there are people to serve. Line inside with a thin slice of cooked ham. Fill the center with liver paste or liver sausage rubbed through a strainer and mixed with egg white. Butter 2 shallow layer-cake creamed butter, seasoned with salt, tins. Line the bottoms with waxed paper pepper and cayenne pepper. Fill into a and grease again. Divide the cake batter pastry bag with a round tube and pipe in the two tins and bake in a .350 degree F. oven for 15 minutes, until the cakes are a golden brown on top. Turn out on waxed . paper; cool slightly. Put the maple syrup in a pan and cook it to a light' thread. Pour onto the stiffly beaten egg whites and continue beating until quit€! thick. Spread between the layers and cover the cake generously and decorate the cake with the chopped nuts.

41 REPORT FROM THE RADIO BEST NATIONAL LISTENERS PANEL -~~-

WALTER WINCHELL CLUB 15 Walter Winchell left school at 13 At 13, Bob Crosby appeared on to join the Imperial Trio, singing an amateur show just long enough ushers in a New York movie to flee in terror after the orchestra house who didn't create much of a had played five introductions to stir at the time. (Other members his solo. He was not at all dis­ of the trio were Eddie Cantor and couraged and when the walkathon Program Network Ratlag George Jessel.) In vaudeville, he craze hit his home town of Spo­ earned $100 a week as a hoofer kane, Washington, he was often but left the stage to write a gossip heard on the radio broadcasts column for the New York Vaude­ from these centers. In 1935, two Favorite News Commentator ville News at $25 a week. The New years after joining Anson Weeks, York Graphic offered him $100 a he becaml! the leader of "The Walter WinchelL ...... ABC 29.2 week, which became $500 four Bobcats" which hit the big time Lowell Thomas ...... CBS 18.0 years later and when the Graphic in records, movies and network Gabriel Heatter ...... MBS 14.8 editors objected to his writing for radio. During the war, Bob spent magazines, he moved to the New 18 months in service and in the Edward R. Murrow ...... CBS 6.6 York Mirror. He made his first fall of 1945, organized a new Bob­ Drew Pearson ...... ABC 4.8 broadcast in May, 1930. cats group. ~ . Favorite Comedy Program JACK BENNY THE TELEPHONE HOUR Jack Benny ...... CBS 26.6 Herb Blondie ...... NBC 19.3 Benny K . Benny, the violinist, The "Telephone Hour," launched My Friend Irma ...... CBS 13.4 had been on tour for some years more than ten years ago on NBC, 6.8 when World War I broke out and has featured concerts by the Fibber McGee & Molly . . . .. NBC the Navy put him in a revue to greatest names of the music world Red Skelton ...... CBS 6.7 aid recruiting. The crowd roared and has introduced many young with laughter one night when he artists to the public. Ezio Pinza is paused to make a few wisecracks. one of the famous performers who Favorite Dramatic Program Shriner Thereafter he used his fiddle only appear regularly and among as a prop in a highly successful others are Jascha Heifetz, Lily Lux Radio Theatre ...... CBS 33.4 vaudeville career. He had already Pons, John Charles Thomas and Theatre Guild ...... NBC 11.4 made his movie debut when, in Marion Anderson. It was on this Screen Guild Players: ..... NBC 11.0 voted 1932, columnist Ed Sullivan asked program that Fritz Kreisler made him to guest on his radio program. his radio debut, and Ferrucio Tag­ Hollywood Star Theatre .. . . NBC 6.5 Benny, dubious about the new liavini his American debut. Such , Dr. Christian ...... CBS 5.4 medium, agreed to appear gratis; personalities as Bing Crosby, Ben­ m'ost popular the same year he had a sponsor ny Goodman and Mary Martin and an NBC n etwork show which have appeared in departures from Favorite Daily Musical Program was a trail-blazer in radio comedy. the regular concert format. Club 15 ...... • · .CBS 13.3 Light Up Time ...... : . . . , .. NBC 13.3 new radio Supper Club ...... NBC 6.7 BURNS AND ALLEN Jack Smith ...... CBS 6.6 Daughter of a San Francisco Breakfast Club ...... ABC 5.9 personality song-and-dance man, Gracie Al­ len quit the Allen Sisters' song­ and-dance act after a disagree­ Favorite ment with the company manager and enrolled in a New York sec­ Light Classical retarial school. At the time, George Burns, born on New Telephone Hour ...... NBC 25.8 York's East Side, was doing a A'rbum of Familiar Music . . NBC , 25.0 comedy act and Gracie met him RCA . Victor Show ...... NBC 19.2 in 1922 when she called on a friend Voice of Firestone ...... NBC 9.6 who was appearing on the same OR every issue, Radio Best .Magazine bill. They joined hands in a Fred .Waring ...... NBC 9.5 tabulates opinion . poll ballots sent in by vaudeville act and married in 1925. F In 1932, the year after Gracie Listeners Panel members from across the na­ guested on Eddie Cantor's radio Favorite H""sband tion. This month Walter Winchell was again program, they launched their own and Wile Programs air show- voted the most popular commentator on the Burns & Allen ...... CBS 20.9 air an honor accorded him in five -consecutive Ozzie & Harriet ...... ABC 20.8 HERB SHRINER Fibber McGee & Molly . . . .. NBC 10.9 tabulations. Gabriel Heat!er, Lowell Thomas Jack Benny & Mary . and Edward R. Murrow maintained their Herb Shriner made his bow in Van H e Rin tells a good one to Lana Turner and Peter Lawford show business at 17 as "Harmon­ Livingston ...... CBS 10.8 popularity. In other categories, Ed Wynn and daring a lull in • "LUll. R. dJo Theatre" rehe arsal. . ica Herb" with a band of four Phil Harris & Alice Faye . . . NBC 10.0 Arthur Godfrey lead as television favorites. other boys in h is home town of LUX RADIO THEATRE Fort Wayne, Ind. He went from Herb Shriner, in spite of the fact that his radio radio stations to vaudeville houses Favorite New contract was cancelled, was selected as the During its more than 15 years on the air, "Lux Radio The­ to travelling shows, his harmonica Radio ~ersonality atre" has presented approximately 500 of Hollywood's leading becoming a secondary part of his most popular new radio personality. Follow­ players in virtually all of the screen successes of the period. act as he discovered that audi­ Herb Shriner ...... · CBS 12.8 Its inaugural broadcast in 1934, the adaptation of a screen hit, ences liked the humorous chatter, ing are the complete results of the poll: "Seventh Heaven," for an hour-long radio program, was con­ cracker barrel style, that he de­ Martin & Lewis ...... NBC 11.8 sidered a risky experiment, but the show soon became a top livered when his mouth began to Arthur Godfrey ...... CBS 10.0 radio attraction and has been a consistent winner of awards. It get chafed. Mter a season with Luigi ...... CBS 8.6 made radio history when, in 1936, it shifted its base of operations the Philip Morris show in 1946, he Abe Burrows ...... CBS 5.8 to Hollywood to be near the source of its talent and material. bought a landcruiser, a bus-size Heading the list for the most performances on the show by vehicle complete with living quar­ Hollywood stars are Loretta Young and Don Ameche, with a ters, and covered 7,000 miles play­ score of 2l.each. ing dates around the country.

43 42 F "COUNTY FAIR" eve~ goes television-and Below, it may be fun for Vivian but the con­ I I hope it will-you won't be able to avoid testant isn't a bit happy about the cold bath. seeing me. I'm the one who tells the contestants where to stand and when to move. If. they're frightened, I tell them "just listen to the emcee and nothing will happen." It's rather difficult sometimes because they're so interested in what's going to happen to them that they don't listen to me, and I'm responsible for getting them to the right place on the platform at the right time. I'm the "production assistant" on the show, but if you should ever go to a broadcast and want to speak to me, just ask for Susy Satchelstern. It was a gag at first but it's been used so much that everybody's forgotten my real name. You may wonder, if you've ever seen the show, just how and why somebody gets to do a job like mine. Well, I took it because I want to be an actress and I got it by going around in circles. It all started when I was in high school, in Mount St. Ursula Academy in the Bronx, New York. I'm quite tall and it always seemed to me that I towered over everybody else. As a result, I was shy and self-con- (Continued on page 64)

"C01Ult,. Fair," .pon­ ...... by the Bordea Co., is h.eard on CBS., Saturday, Z p.m., EST. *RADIO

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Cliff Tatum, young stage and TV star who wished to live the life of Christopher Columbus, watches as Mr. I. accepts the jewels of ~ing Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, played by Mrs. Tripp and Ted Tiller, to finance the great explorer's voyages.

HEN the villain in "Mr. 1. W Magination" draws a dagger, nobody in the television audience catches his breath or grips the arm of the chair. He's such a clown, winking broadly to show that he's discovered the hero's hideaway and twirling his obviously false moustaches, that he hasn't frightened a soul and every­ body knows darned well he's not going to use that dagger. And anyway, the hero would · stand behind something At his own request, child actor more substantial than a rubber plant Donnie Harris played Jack if he were really afraid of being killed. the Giant Killer, with Ruth This sense of the ridiculous per­ ,.Tripp as the giant's wife and meates the whole of "Mr. 1." and, . Paul Tripp in his usual role. judging from the show's success, cap- _ tivates its audience. Mr. I. Magination not only whisks his hero through time and space to become whatever leg­ endary, fictional or historical char­ acter he might choose to be, thereby Mr. I uses a little train in­ fulfilling the dreams of many a young­ stead of a magic wand to take ster, but he does it in such engaging his audience to Imagination fashion, breaking out into song in Town where young and old musical-comedy fashion whenever he play the game of make-believe. pleases and generally showing a great disrespect for the formalities, that he tickles the sense of humor of the adult who has known the stOry for many UMr. I. Maginalionn is heard years. Little Lee Graham wished for Christmas in the middle of the summer on CBS .. TV, Sunday, 6:30 Certainly, Hercules cleans the Au- and in no time at all, with the help of Mr. I., she found Saint Nicholas p.m., EST. himself, complete with white beard and red suit, in Imagination Town. gean stables in Mr. I.'s version of his life, but he does it with a vacuum cleaner and when his twelve great labors ar e done with and he seeks new tasks, he turns boxer and, appropriately enough, becomes the heavy­ weight champion of the world. Ridiculous, isn't it? That's exactly what it's meant to be. Primary aim of Paul Tripp, a tall, slim, young man with a smile as wide as his favorite character's, is enter­ tainment and in this regard, he draws no line between young and old. Although "Mr. I." is usually r eferred to as a "children's program," Paul, who conceived the show, pr oduces it and plays the central character, does Paul Tripp and Jack Diamond, who wanted to be a "root­ not "play to children" and there is plenty of evidence in', tootin' forty-niner," read the story of the California that adults are liberally sprinkled throughout his audi­ gold rush before playing it on "Mr. I. Magination." ence. He has received many letters' from parents who say, in effect, "Our kids love it. P .S. We do, too." Paul's explanation is that while grownups hesitate to admit it, they share with children a love of fantasy. "Alice in Wonderland" and "Gulliver's Travels" are •. supposed to be for the little ones, he points out, but the big boys and girls are enthusiastic readers. The basic idea of "Mr. I." is, as Paul puts it, that "anything is possible if you imagine it hard enough" or, as Mr. I. himself often says, "Right you are if you think you are." So you want to be Christopher Columbus, Robin Hood or the Count of Monte Cristo? It's easy. Just hop on the little train with "Mr. I. Magination, the man with the magic reputation" and in a minute's time, you'll be living your dreams. Such a show, of course, will never die for lack of material; "wishes come by the bushels." Setting the "let's make believe" tone of the entire production is Mr. I. Magination's personality. Paul's broad grin and gay good humor suggest J rom the very start that "you know as well as I do that this is just for fun, not for real." Paul makes no attempt to be realistic. The central character of each show, who says "I wish I were . . ; . ," is always played by a child actor, thus allowing the children in the audie-nce to identify themselves with the hero and contributing to the show's hilarious quality. The child actor also takes the "horror" out of any story that might otherwise excite a sensitive child. A one-~ eyed king can be a menacing character but not if he's a little boy with a patch over one eye. When the little boy wanted to be an actor and Mr. I. suggested that he play the leading role in Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," the idea of a child (Paul chose the smallest actor he could find) subduing the waspish Katherine was funny in itself. As_the curtain was gQing up on the "stage," the t~evision camera pulled away to show that a piece of silk, the size of a handkerchief, was being rolled up on a pencil. In Mr. I.'s version of the adventures of Christopher Columbus, the audience saw three boats bobbing around on a mighty ocean. . For this scene, Paul used motion picture technique but he went one step further. In an instant, the camera revealed that the boats were tiny models and the ocean, a galvanized tub filled with water. Paul was probably the only. television producer who was not concerned when the scenic designers went on strike. . Mr. I. doesn't need snow-covered wastes to show his audience that a story takes place in Dawson City, Alaska. All he does is (Continued onpage 69) 'across the nation

Opera comes to life on NBC-TV (left); Tomiko Kanazawa as Cio Cio San, Dennis Magid as the Baby in "Madam Butterfly." "' * RADIO BEST TELEVISION

Producer-director Bob Stevens briefs the largest cast ever as­ sembled for a TV producti~n.

Left, a Manhattan slum section of the 1890's, complete with pushcarts and a gas street lamp, was re-created for the main set; the wrestler who played a Mafia killer is show.n above (in cap and shirt sleeves).

"The Grey Helmet" was one of the most ambiti01.LS tele­ vision productions ever staged on the CBS "Suspense" series. Four cameras were used, instead of the customary three and the unusually large number of 39 actors were employed for the climax scene. The sets portrayed a Manhattan slum section, complete with pushcarts and tenements and at times the camera shifted to a tenement roof~op . ' A wide variety of talents were employed in "The Grey Helmet." The part of the Mafia killer was played by Joseph Norocki, a professional wrestler, because the role called for a big man of brutal appearance and no actor who looked the part could be found. Norocki's cauliflower ears were a valu­ able asset. Stunl men were hired to hurl knives into walls and ta.ble. tops, and an organ grinder and his monkey, who was ternfied throughout the entire proceedings, played small roles.

N the 1890's, the dreaded Mafia Society was in virtual I control of certain sections of New York City. Thou­ Above, the hero (Jack Lemmon) dons his trousers sands of honest Italian immigrants lived in terror of the in the locker room of an East Harlem police sta­ Black Hand, trademark of the Society which enforced tion; below, he and his girl (Roberta Haines) ad­ its blackmail demands by ' beating and murdering its mire the helmet he has recovered from the Mafia. victims. Even the sturdy members of the New York -police force stood in awe of the Mafia. When a rookie cop, Sean Michael O'Drohin, is assigned to Little Sicily "the bloody, bleedin' center of the Black Hand itself" he begins his first day on the new beat with the knowiedge . that four of the five men who preceded him have been killed-by knives thrown from darkened doorways or open windows. Pretending a bravery he does not feel, Sean Michael strolls through the main street (Continued on page 74) 4 cameras and a wrestler 50 Commentator Bob Montgomery (Continued from page 31)

"For a man who's always insisted on was one of the first Hollywood stars to having a script before he starts produc­ go to war, serving first as an ambulance OST fond grandmothers limit them· EVERYBODY is a poet at heart, judging by the, way the I)oets are responding to our selves to stories about their grand· tion," says the actor, "that kind of thing driver in France in 1939, and in 1941, little poetry department from all parts of the country. Send them in • • • but please M can be pretty hard on the nerves." entering active duty in the Navy from keep them short! The shorter they are the better old Shelley loves them! And children's exceptional intelligence or quick remember this • • • we expect to gel thousands of poems because everyone is a poet at wit. Their friends listen patiently, in some Montgomery; who has- been a top box­ which he was honorably discharged as a heart . • • so keel) a copy of your poem and don't expect us to acknowledge it I:, cases only because they themselves want office attraction for many years, admits Commander three and a half years later any other way than by publishing here if it passes musler. Good luck, poets, and let s hear front you. "Say it in Poetry!" a chance to talk about their children's that, while it fascinates him, he is "scared after having served in actions ranging children. Mrs. Annie Waugh may talk to death" of the work which takes him from Guadalcanal to Normandy. just as much as any grandmother about into the ranks of H. V. Kaltenborn. Among other qualifications for his new her grandson, but she was also inspired T'S fun to be wild and free, to sail on Having appeared on scores of radio pro­ job are his intimate knowledge, acquired T'S nol"often that a girl will come right to write a poem. grams, he is not afflicted with "mike while traveling, of local problems in I out and say that what she lacks and I clouds of fancy, but after a time you wants, specifically, is a husband. It's miss the feel of the "good earth" beneath fright" but the thought that he may be many parts of the world, his personal THE LOVE OF A CHILD even more unusual when, instead of shed­ your feet. And very often there's someone i.rrrLE influen~ing an untold number of people acquaintances in almost every city in the ding tears about it. she writes with a who's more important to you than all the Some talk of how they wentt riches, gives him a feeling of "tremendous re­ world, and "an abnormal curiosity about whimsical sense of humor. beauty to be found on the "highest hill." Some silver. and others want 'lold: sponsibility." people and events." NEW DIRECTIONS Others lon'l for nice clothes and lewels "I have to be honest and do all I can At the same time, he does not pretend While others bi'l lands wish to hold. to make my point of view clear, because to be an expert in the field of national HOUSEBUILDER Remember when you burned our treasure somewhere, somebody, listening to me on and international afiairs-:-"a $60 type­ My house of wood and stone is built map. I have all the riches I could ask for. one of 267 stations, may misinterpret or writer doesn't make you an expert"-and ~d furnished all complete. And tore our scribbled pact across the And ii's love-s6 te'nder and mild. hear only part of what I say." thinks that he will have accomplished his From 'layly-painted kitchen shelves .: middle? True love. BO freely qiven. While his good looks and the engaging aim if he can stimulate discussion on the To front·room window seat. You swore you would not walk into my The love of a little child. manner with which he can sweep a young questions that are in the mind of the trap. lady off her feet are of little help to him average man. Li'lht shimmers on the polished floors. Nor would I catch you playin'l second Yes. I'm rich in love and happiness. in his new role, Montgomery appreciates "I don't speak for any party, committee " The pi~ture window 'lleams. fiddle In somethin'l that's undefiled: that he is not a stranger to the thousands or cult," he says, "but I present my point And all about are books and flowers To autumn. But I lau'lhed as I unpinned The precious trust and 'loociness who have seen him on the screen and of view, without censorship, and whether And soft. deep chairs for dreams. My hair and climbed the hi'lhest hill: And love of a li!,le child. that many will listen more readily be­ or not it's in line with what people are knew cause he has so long been a familiar thinking, it will help to bring the sub­ Yet somethin'l's mlssin'l. there's a lack. That I belon'l~_ to time and space So I have somethin'l much dearer thtzil figure. This does not mean that he de­ ject out into the light where people can I cannot rest at ease. wind: signs his program for the feminine half of examine it more closely." We need-my house and I-a man. That I was too alive for earthly you. 'lold. Somethin'l from such thinqs apart: the population' and he was, in fact, very Feminine admirers will be relieved to A husband. if you please. But all the 'lold and scarlet of the Most precious of all of earth·s treasures. pleased to find evidence that some of his know that while Montgomery occasionally --Grace Jacobs. And all its maqic could not compensate The love of a child In my heart. listeners are more interested in his opin­ pauses, as he walks down the street, to Newton.la. The loss of you. for you were will -Annie Wau'lh. ions than his profile. examine the typewriters in a shop win­ York Villa'le. Me. . At a press conference for editors of dow, his interest is not limited to the high school and college newspapers, his tools of his trade, and that even in real wei'lht. questioners veered away from political life, he is at times the gay and impulsive Am I forqiven? May I share your and social topics only to dally briefly with fellow who has captivated them in so HE writer of "Deduction," has ex· That I mi'lht find the cross· roads of pressed in ';'erse what many women UDDING trees and blooming flowers a comparison of British and American many romantic comedies. He tells the T heart? have figured out before. are an age·old inspiration to poets. movies. When, after an hour and' a half story on himself, of his walk down a -Cosette Middleton, B of steady talking, he was asked by his London street and the five china dogs Be\lendorf. la. DEDUCTION_ NATURE manager if he wished to call a halt, used as decoration in the window of a Montgomery arose and said, "I'm having men's ~lothing shop. They were very That Woman Is Incarnate Mystery I see the kiss of nature In every plant and a good time. Does anyone want to go unusual, in various postures and at­ Is leqend known. as Ancient HIstory: flower. home?" Nobody did, and the conference titudes, and together made a charming But time and You have made me realize In every Utile sprlq I ..e the imprint 01 continued for another 40 minutes. display. The reason for that veiled look in her HE writer of "Basic Training" God's powe,. T that the woman who wants His fan. mail,. whim he reads carefully. "Just what Betty (his wife} would eyes Ladl twi'l that's warmed by heaven's sun ranges from flat denunciation-"Why like," said Montgomery to himself, this: the task, in vain. to understand must not take her dreams too ~AlnO\"Sl'V . 1 I~ ShOWB clearly that' God's will be done. don't you get off the air?"-to undiluted marched into the shop and asked the The paradox that masquerades as Man! And every tree in every land BASIC TRAINING praise-"Thank God you're here!" In salesman to "wrap up the five dogs" for -Mary L. Wantner. Disclosea God's almi'lhty lumd! Hollywood, where many of the popula­ him. Philadelphia. Pa. Every woman's love life ' -G.V.K. tion are fearful of expressing a forth­ "I beg your pardon, sir?" said the Is divisible by three. Los An'leles. Cal. right opinion on any subject for fear of salesman, as if he had not heard correctly. For one she_yearned. antagonizing some portion of the public, "The five china dogs in the window," And one she spumed. the general reaction to his new departure Montgomery repeated. "I want to buy And then. preliminaries learned, is, "You ought to have your head ex­ them." She married happily! amined!" His new association with NBC, The s.desman hesi~ted for a moment, -Mrs. Carl Anderson. producing, directing and acting in tele­ disappeared and came out again with one Chica'lo. Ill. vision programs, is more in line with his of the dogs in his hand. "This is a very previous Hollywood experience. nice one," he said. But Montgomery never did learn to Montgomery was getililg impatient. keep his mouth shut and has opened it to "Yes, but I want all five of them." voice forceful opinions on many subjects The salesman, his expression im'passive, of an explosive nature. As a former did not move but·looked at the china dog president of the Screen Actor's Guild, he on the counter. "The price of this one," • is remembered for his fight against he said slowly, "is 135 pounds." (At the racketeers in the motion picture industry, . present 'rate, 135 pounds is equal to about and when, after supporting President $452.) Roosevelt for two terms, he turned to the As Montgomery concludes the story, "I Republican Party, he was active in the s~ply evaporated~isappeared in a campaigns for Dewey and Willkie. He cloud!" THE END

53 JAMES MELTON ELEANOR STEBER MARGAllET WHITING VICKI VOLA BILL STERN FANNIE BRICE BRlAN DONLEVY JIMMIE FIDDLER Beard every Monda, CLAIRE NIESEN Noted sportscaster ean StUI the troublesome Tenor Melton b 8ins'" Stara a. Steve Mitchell, Feminine slopaS atar Reports Hollywood Portrays Mr. D.A.'. uVolce of Fire­ Portray. MarT Noble, be heard on "Sports Bab" Snoou every lD8 at..... nd. emcee of of Oxydol Show heard. news and Boulp OD eharmlns aecretary on serial drama, "Idler of fortDne, in Toe"." nlte on NBC NBC'. Harvest of Star. etone" on CBS ABC Sanda., Mia. MUier Newsreel" on Frida,.. "Backstage Wife." NBC'. "Dan.eroaB A... en,..., at 8:30• .how • 1pment." t!.fvenlns at 10 :30

MONDAY TUESDAY . WEDNESDAY SUNDAY MBS ABC CBS ABC CBS A.M . NBC MBS ABC CBS A.M. NBC CBS A.M . NBC MBS NBC MBS ABC A.M . 1:30 Do You Remember 8:30 Do You Remember Carofina Callinl 8:30 Do You Remember Local Prolrams Gells f.r Thtuehl Local PrtlTam, ' :45 Lew Webb Gems For Thoulht Local PrtlTams 1:30 Strinl Quartet 8'45 Lew Webb Gems For ThoUlhl 1:45 Eddie Albert Show Robert Hurleilh Breakfast Club This is N. Y. Happines, Hour Sunday Morninl New, Breakfasl Club This is N. Y. 9:00 Eddie Albert Show Robert Hurleilh Breakfast Club This is N. Y. 9:00 !:OO World New, E. Power Bins 9:00 Eddie Alberl Show Robert Hurleilh Barnyard Femes Barnyard Folhs 9:15 Tell Your Neilhbor - Story 10 Order Concert Hall Tell Your Neilhbor ! :15 Tell Your Neilhbors . ' :15 Voice of Prophecy 9:15 Clevelandaires Tennessee Jamboree 9:30 Clevelandaires Tennessee Jamboree UO Cameos of Music Dixie Quartel 9:30 Clevela.daires Tennessee Jamboree 9:30 ! :45 . T linty Choir of Mrs. Goes A·Shoppinl ! :45 ' :45 o &. H Miners Retilious Proaum Sl Paul's .Chapel 9:45 Music For You . t My True Story Music For You 10:00 Wele • .,e Travelers John Bosman My True Stlry Music For You 10:00 Wekome Travelers Jlhn Bosman My True Story ~ 10:00 Welcome Travelers John Bosman Faith 10 Our TIllie Arthur Gldlrl, Bible Class Messale of Israel Church of Ihe Air Faith in Our Time Arthur Godlrey 10:15 Faith in Our TIme Arthur Godlrey 10:15 10:00 HiChlilhls of Bible 10:15 Say 11 Wilh Music letty Cracker Mal' 10:30 Marriale For Two Say 11 With Music Belly Crocker Mae· 10 :15 10:30 Marriale For Two Say 11 With Music Belly Cr ocker Mal' 18:30 Marriate for Two Voice of Prophecy Soulhernaire. Church of Ihe Air azine 01 the Air azine of the Air azine of the Air 10:30 Children's Hour Victor Lindlahr 10:45 Derothy Dil victorlindlahr 10:45 10:45 Dorothy Oil Victor Lindlahr 10:45 Dorothy Oil • Foreiln Reporler Allan Jackson NeWH" Modern Romances 11:00 We Love and Lean Behind The 51ery Modern Rlmances 11:00 We bYe and lIarn Betrind the Story Modern Romances 11 :00 Back 10 God The New. Makers 11 :00 We Love and Learn Behind The Story 11 :15 Frank &. Ernest 11:15 Dave Garroway Bob Poole 11 :15 Dave Garroway Bob Poole 11 :15 Dave Garroway Bob Poole Reviewinl Sland Hour of Faith Salt Lake Tabernacle Alainst the Storm Quick as a Flash Grand SlIIm 11:30 Jack Berch Quick as a Flash Grand Slam 11 :30 Jack Berch News Quick As A Flash Gra.d Slam 11 :30 News Hiahlilhts 11:30 Jack Berch Rosemary Rosemary 11 :45 Sofitaire Time 11 :45 David Harum Sidney Walton 11 :45 David Harum 11 :45 David HalUm Rosemary

Afternoon Listening Afternoon Listening ----~--~~~~~~~~--Kate Smilh Speaks Lldies be Seated Wendy Warren 12:00 Kate Smith Speaks Chucklewalon Wendy Warren 12:00 Kate Smith Speaks Ladies be Seated Weldy Wuren Invitation to Learninl 12 :00 Aunt Jenny Aunt Jenny 2:00 American Forum Choir Series Gene Hamilton 12:15 Lanny Ross 12:15 Echoes Frail the Trlpics lanRY Rlss 12:15 LanDY RI .. AUlt Je ••y Chucklewalon Waller Kiernan Helen Trent 12:30 Ladies be Seated Helen Trent 12:30 The Homelowners Chucklewalon Helen Trent 2:15 01 the Air People's Platform 12:30 Hometowners Our Gal Sunday Our Gal Sunday 2:30 Eternal Lilh! Lulheran Hour Piano Playhouse 12 :45 Heaner's Mailbal 12:45 Huller's Mailbal 12:45 Healler's Mailbal Our G11 Sunda, 2:45 Bil Sisler - Luncheon With Llpez N.ws Baukhale Talkinl 1:00 Music News Baukhace Talkinl 1:00 Bil Sisler 1:00 luncheon With Lopez News Baukule Talkin, Bil Sisler Sidney Walton Fine Arts Quartel News Harvey Harding Nancy Crail Ma Perkins 1:15 HanlY Halllill Naocy Craie Ma Perkins 1:15 Harrey Hardin, Nancy Crail Ma Plrkins 1:00 America Uniled Elmo Roper 1:15 Younl Dr. Malone Mlsic 1:15 1:30 Georle Hicks Music 1:30 Geerl. Hicks Ylunl Dr. Malen. 1:30 Georie Hicks Music Younl Dr. Malone National Vespers Get More Out 01 Life The Guidine Lilht Easy Listeni.' Cbeckerbtar~ Jambore. ArlBaker hsy Listenin' 1:30 Chicaeo Round table Radio Warblers 1:45 Easy Listenin' Checkerboard Jamboree Art Baker 1:45 The Guidint Lilht 1:45 Misc. PrOllams Art Baker • The Guidinl Lilht 1:45 Ladies Fair Welttme To Hollywood Second Mrs. Burton 2:00 Double Dr Nothint Ladies Fair Welcome 10 Hollywood Second Mrs. Burton 2:00 Double or Nolhinl Ladies' Fair Welcome 10 Hollywood Second Mrs. Burlon This Week Around Choraiers 2:00· Dluble or Nothinl Perry Mason Perry Mason 2:00 NBC University Chamber Music 2:15 2:15 2:15 Perry Mason The World Queen For A Day Hannibal Cobb This Is Nora Drake 2:30 Today's Children Queen Fir A Day Hannibal Cobb This is Nora Drake 2:30 Teday', Children Queen For A Day Hannibal Cobb This Is Nora Drake 2:15 Thealer You Are There 2:30 Today's Children Brilhter Day 2:30 Bill Cunnlnlham Mr. Presidenl 2:45 Lilht of the World 2:45 Lilhl of the World Brilhter Day 2:45 Lilht of the Wlrld Brilhler DIY Veteran's Information 2:45 Brideaod Groom David Harum 3:00 Life Ca. Be Beautil.1 alb p"1e Bridl aid Gr"m Darid Haram 3:00 Life Can Be leautiful Bob p.. le Bride and Groom David Harum N. Y. Philharmonic 3:00 Life Caa Be Beautiful Bob Pooll Hilltop House One Man's Family Treasury Varielie. This ~hanline World Road of Life 3:15 Road If Lift Hilltop House 3:15 Road 01 Life Hillto, House 3:00 Symphony 3:15 Pick A Date Garry Moore 3:30 Pepper Younl Club TIme Garry Mllre 3:30 Pepper Younl Pick A Dale Garry Moore 3:15 Baptist Hour 3:30 Pepper Younl Rilhlto Happiness Pick a Date 3:30 Quiz Kids Juvenile Jury 3:45 Rigbt to Happiness 3:45 3:45 Rilhtt. Ha,piless 3:45 Misc. Proll'ams Carler Family 4:00 Backstate Wife Misc. PrtlTalls Carter Fanrily 4:00 Backstale Wife Misc. Prolrams Carter Family 4:00 Backstale Wile Tune TIme 4:00 Edwin C. Hill Hopalone Cassidy Voices That Live 4:15 Slella Dallas Misc. Prolrams Music 4:15 Stella Dallas Misc. PrOllalls 4:15 Stella Dallas Tun. Tille Georlla Jamboree Melody Promenade 4:30 Lorlnzl Jones Hoe Dow. Party Melody Prlmenadl 4:30 Lorenzo Jones Georlia Jamboree Melody Promenade 4:15 Milton Cross Opera Sunday althe Chase 4:30 Lorenzo Jones Treasury Bandstand Treasury Bandstand 4:30 Hilh Adventure Wm. Garlan 4:45 Yount Widder Brown 4:45 Younl Widder Brown Two Ton Baker 4:45 Ylunl Widder BriwA Treasury Bandstand 4:45 Album When A Girl Marries Mark Trail Challenle of Yukon Galen Drake 5:00 When A Girl Marries Strailbt Arrlw lbe Grell H.rnet Treasury aandslald 5:00 When A Girl Marries M.rkTrail Challenle 0' Ihe Yukon Galen Drake ThiAk Fast Music lor You 5:00 5:15 Portia Faces Life Galen Drak. 5:15 p"tia Facts Life -5:00 ~ichard Diamond The Shadow 5:15 Portia Faces Life . Tom Mil Jack Armstronl Martha TIllon 5:30 Just Plain lilt B·Bar·B Riders Sky kinl 5:30 Just Plaia Bill Tom Mil Jack Arm,tronl 5:15 Private Oetective Greatest Story Ever Symphonelle 5:30 Just Plain Bill Martha Tillon 5:30 James Melton True Detective 5:45 Front Pale Farrell 5:45 Fronl Pale Farrell 5:45 Front Pale Farrell Martha Tilton 5:45 Told Evening Listening

6:00 Bob Warren Eric Sevareid 6:00 Bob Warren Eric Sevareid Family Hour 01 Stars 6:00 The Cathofic Hour Ro y ROlers Drew Pearson 6:15 Cltm McCart.y "Y.u anII-" 6:15 Clem McCarthy . "You anII-" 6:00 News 8:15 6:30 Local PrDll'ams Music 6:30 Local Proll'ams Herb Shriner 6:1!i Our Miss Brooks 6:30 6:30 Hollywood Calfinr Nick Carter Music 6:45 6:45 Sunoco News News lew.1I Thuaw 6:45 SUI ... News Lowell Thomas 6:45 1'00 Frank Sinatra Fullon Lewis, Jr. Headlifte Edition Beulah 1:00 Frank Sinatra Fulton Lewis Jr. Headin. Edition Beulah The Jack Benny Show 1:00 Christopher London Ad~ . of the Falcon Wbere There's Music 1:15 News ., tbe W.rld DiAner Date Elmer Davis Jack Smilh Sh .. 1:15 News 01 the World Dinner Dale Elmer Davis Jack Smith Show 1:00 1:15 1:30 Music Gabriel Huller C.uoter S.,. Club 15 1:30 Music Gabriel Healler Lone Ranier Club 15 1:15 Amos 'n' Andy 1:30 1:30 Atice Faye and Phil The Saint Mr. Malone 1:45 1:45 Richard Harkness I Love. Mystery Edward R. Murrow 1:45 H. V. Kaltenbora I Love a Mystery Edward R. Murrow 1:45 Harris 1:00 1:00 Calwatcade .1 Alllerica Ceont 01 Mont. Cristo Carnelie Hall . Mystery Thtalre 1:00 This Is Your Life Can You Top Ttrisl Dr. I. Q. Mr. Chameleon A. l. Alexander Stop the Music Edlar ~erlen 1:15 1:15 --1:00 Sam Spade 1:15 1:30 Baby Snooks Onicial Detective GnUemen of the Press Mr. and Mrs. North 8:30 Great Gildersleeve latera'i Airport Sherlock Holmes Dr. ChristiaR 8:15 Red Skellon 8:30 1:30 Theatre Guild Sylvan Levin 1:45 1:55 Bill Henry 1:45 1:45 1:55 !:OO Bob Hope Show John Steele, Adventurer Ameriru Tow. Meetinl Life With Luili 9:00 Break The Bank Mr. Feathers Gralory Hood Groucho Man Walter Winchell CorMss Archer !:15 9:15 ' :00 Louella Parsons !:30 Fibber McGee ao' Mysterious Tranler Erllil D. Catu.. ESP,e ' :30 Mr. DislrictAIltrHY Fanrily Theater 1m Adlall Bint Crtsily ' :15 Rebullal Horace Heidt !:l0 American Album Sheilah Graham Chance of a Liletime ! :45 Molly We Care ' :45 Twin Views 01 News !:45 ID :OO Bil Tow. News TIme For Delens. Hit The Jackpot 10:00 The Bil Slory News Music Burns &. Allen Contented Hour 10:00 Take II Dr Leave II This is Europe Jimmie Fiddler 10:15 10:15 10:15 Ted Malone lD:30 People Are Funny Mutual Newsreel A. F. II L. Pursuit 10:30 Curtain Time Mutual Newsreel On Trial Capilol Cloak Room 10:30 Bob Crosby Show Music Jackie Robinson Music 55

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DOROTHY KIRSTEN GORDON MACRAE VIRGINIA GREGG ED GARDNER JOHN B. KENNEDY GROUCHO MARX MINNIE PEARL F ...... le half of NBC'. MR. &: MRS. RONALD CLAIRE NIESEN Com.ed,. .tar of "Grand Singing star of NBC'. Leading lady of Ma­ "A.rehte," the Manapr R .. po.... sidelights &: M ••ier of the ad-lib "Light Up Timo" COLMAN TV networks aaoedotee of earrent Portray. Mary Noble, emcee'. "You Be. Yoar Ole Opry'" on NBC ''The Railroad Hour" t ..1'. '~lfornt. b baek at Dally'. happeDln._ OD MBS Po...... ,. College Pro­ on aerial dr'&IIIa, LUen ever,. Wedne... Cara"ltan" T ••ern fe.. or and hfa wife In "s.ekstage Wife" da,. their first r.dl~ net- work aerie. SUNDAY PAUL WHITEMAN GOODYEAR RE­ THURSDAY FRIDAY VUE-ABC- 7 :00 p.m., Musical revue show headed by " Pops" Whiteman. A.M. NBC MBS ABC CBS A.M. NBC MIS ABC CIS TOAST OF THE TOWN- CBS---l! :()O ':30 Do You Remember 1:30 -Do You Remember p.m. Ed Sullivan presides o ver hour . :45 Gems For ThoUlhl local Prolfams ' :45 Gems lor Thoulhl loc.1 Prolums lon g va rie t y s how featuring stars of sta ge, s ports, etc. 1:00 Eddie Alberl Show Rober I Hurleilh Breaklasl Club This is N. Y. 9:00 Eddie Alber I Show Robert Hurleilh Bnaklast Club This is N. Y. S'ATURDAY 1:15 Tell Your Neilhbor 9:15 Tell Your Neilhbor PHILCO TELEVISION PLAY­ 1:30 Clnelandaires Tennessee Jamboree 1:30 Clerelandaires feftlessee Jamberee HOUSE- NBC- 9 :00. H our lon g dra­ A-~ . NIC matic show. 1:45 9:45 MBS ABC CBS I , , Mvsit For Y'fu !:OII Mind Ylu' MlRurs ,f:GO Welwme"fruelers ~'lnr'Imnn iMy'Trae-Story ~~c~.r'ln 1&:110 w.te.me~ IMy TmrStery Kelvin Keech This is H. Y. 10:15 Failh in Our Time Arlhur Godlrey 10:15 =~~nTime Arthur Godlrey ! :15 MONDAY Belly Crocker Mal' U8 clrr .. in Washinlt.n Nlws I 10:30 Marriale For Two Say It Wilh Music Belly Crocker Mal' 10:30 Marriale For Twl Say It With Music 1:45 ConYersation With Mrs. Goes A Sho,,;nl ui .. 01 the Air ui.e 01 tbe Air Mise. Prllums Casey HOWDY DOODY- NBC-5 :30 p.m. KEN MURRAY 10:45 Dorothy Oil Viclor lindlahr 10:45 Dorothy Oil Victor lindlahr EST.-Mo n.-Fri. Half hour puppet 1':88 Fred Warinl Me'. variety e xtraya_ 10:15 Music Galea Duke sho w Btar r ing H owdy Doody and Clara­ 11 :00 We loye and learn Behind the Siory Moder n Romances • tl :00 We loye and learn Behind the Story Modern Romances belle. with youngsters in the P eanut ganza presented bi­ 10:10 Mary lee Tayllr leste Nichols • 11 :15 One Garroway Bob Poole 11 :15 One Garroway Bob Poole 10:45 Junior Junction Joe DiMa'lio Gallery. weekly on CBS-TV 11:30 Jack Berch Quick As A Flash Grand Slam 11:30 Jack Berch News Quick As A Flash Grand Slam Helen Hall Rosemary THE. GOLD~ERGS-C BS-9 :30 p.m. 11 :45 David Harum . Rosemary 11 :45 David Harum 11:00 lassie Coast Guard Navy Ho.r let's Pretend FamIly sItuation comedy starring Ger­ 11 :15 t rude Berg and Philip Loeb. 11 :30 Saulin' Ed McConn.1I Man on the Farm ROler Dana 11 :45 Junior Miss LIGHTS OUT- NBC-9 :00 p.m. Mys­ tery s how of the superna tura1. Nar­ Afternoon Listening r a ted by J ack LaRue. ------~~~~~~~-Wend y Warren LUCKY STRIKE THEATRE-NBC- 12:00 Kale Smilh Speaks ladies Be Sealed Wendy Warren 12:00 Kate Smith Speaks ladies be Seated Afternoon Listening 9 :30 p.m . Dramatic show produced lonny Ross Aunl Jenny 12:15 lanny Ross Aunt Jenny 12:15 Helen Trent 12:00 Arthur Barriault and directed by movie star. Rober t 12:30 Music Kate Smith Sinls Helen Trent 12:30 U. S. Marine Band Chucklewalon 11:15 Ranch lays Tbeatre .1 TI~ay Montgomery. 12:45 Huller's Mailbal Our Gal Sunday 12:45 Hutter's Mailbal Our Gal Sunday Pubic Affair 12:30 lvacheon Wilh lopez Music 12:45 American Farmer Grand Cent~1 Station ---1:00 luncheon Wilh lopez News Baukhate Talkin, Bil Sisler 1:00 luncheon with lopez News Baukhale Talkinl BI, Sisler Nancy Crail lIIJa Perkins TUESDAY 1:15 Haney Hardinl Nancy Crail Ma Perkins 1:15 Harvey Hardinl 1:00 Nat'l Farm Home 1:30 Georre Hicks Music Younl Dr. Malone 1:30 Georle Hicks Music Younl Dr. Malone Joseph McCallre, American Jazz Star.s Over Hollywood ArtBaker 1:15 Jerry & Sk, MIL:TON BERLE-NBC- 8:00 p.m . 1:45 Easy lislenin' Checkerboard Jamboree ArtBaker The Guidinl Ulhl 1:45 Easy listenin' Checkerboard Jamboree 1:30 Vlic.s Dow. the Wi ad Music MUlic GiYe aad Take Variety-comedy show emceed by Mil­ Welcome to Hollywood Second Mrs. Burian 1:45 ton Berle a nd fea turing stars of stage GERTRUDE BERG 2:00 Double or Nolhinl ladies Fair Welcome 10 Hollywood Second Mrs. Burian 2:00 Double or Nothin, ladies' Fair screen and r adio. • 2:15 Perry Mason 2:15 Perry Mason Ltvable Mullv on " The 2:00 Veices and Events Music 2:30 Today's Children Queen For A Day Hannibal Cobb This Is Nora Drake 2:30 Today 's Children Queen For A Day Hannibal Cobb This Is Nora Drake Met. Opera County Fair G oldbe rgs" ~ n eve ry What Makes You Tickl 2:15 ST ~GE I?OOR- CBS- 9:00 p.m. Dra­ 2:45 Ulhl ollhe World Brilhter Day 2:45 U,ht ollhe World 2:10 Musica .. matic serial co-sta r r in g Louise Albrit ­ Monday at 9 :3 0 p .ln. 2:45 ton and Scott McKay. 3:00 Ule Can Be Beaulilul Bob Poole Bride and Groom David Harum 3:00 lile Can Be Beaulilul Bob Poole Bride and Groom David Harum 1:15 Road ollile Hililop House 3:15 Road 01 lile Hilltop House 3:00 Pioaeerlol Music SUSPENSE- -CBS--9 :30 p.m . M·yster y 3:30 Pepper Younl Pick A Dale Garry Moore 3:30 Pepper Yount Pick A Date Garry Moore 3:t5 Report From DYerseas drama featur ing H ollywood star . 3:45 Rilht to Happiness 3:45 Rilht to Happiness AdYentures in Science 3:30 STO~ T~E MUSIC-ABC- 8 :00 p.m. 3:45 Cross Section U.S.A. 4:00 Backstare Wile Misc. Prorums Carter Family 4:00 Backsla,e Wife Misc. Prorums Carter Family MUSIC QUIZ s how emceed by Be-rt P a rks. 4:15 Stella Dallas Tune Time 4:15 Stella Dallas Tune Time 4:011 Utiol-1950 ) 4:30 lorenzo Jones Georlia Jamboree Melody Promenade 4:30 lorenzo Jones Gurlia Jamboree Melody Promenade Treasury Band 4:15 4:45 Younl Widder Brawn Two Ton Baker Treasury Bandsland 4:45 Younl Widder Brown 4:30 WEDNESDAY 4:45 5:00 When A Girl Marries • Strailht Arrow The Green Hornet Galen Drake 5:00 When A Girl Marries Mark Trail Challenle 01 the Yukon Galen Drake Doubleday & Co. 5:15 Portia Faces lile 5:15 Portia Faces lile 5:00 True or False THURSDAY 5:30 Just Plain Bill B·Bar·B Ranch Sky Kinl 5:30 Jusl Plain Bill Tom Mil J~ck Armstronl The Chicaloans 5:15 Tea and Crumpets Philadelphia Orchestra 5:45 Front Pale Farrell Marlha Tilloh 5:45 Fr9nt Pare Farrell Herb Shriner Time 5:30 Air Force Bands lor Bonds AUTHOR MEETS THE CRITICS­ 5:45 Cleseu,s - ABC-9 :30 p.m. Discussion pro­ gra~ of current book with aut hor meeting panel o f c ritics.

EDWARD EVERETT HORTON EDWARD EVERETr Evening Listening Evening Listening SH.oW--:A B C·-9 :30 p.m. Comedy­ HORTON 6:00 lob Warren Music ~:... .:~ty WIth mythica l hotel as its 10- 6:00 Uonel Ricau Eric Sevareid 6:00 lionel Ricau Eric Snareid 6:15 Scoutinl The Stars News From Washinrton Sta r s In new T V show 6:15 Clem McCarthy "You and-" 6:15 Clem McCarthy local Prolfams local Pralrams "You and-" Rolli .. in the Hews Bible Messales 6:30 HIC Symphony Mel Allen Memo From lake Success ove r the ABC n etw o rk. 6:30 local Pralnms local Pro,ums Herb Shriner 6:30 Herb Shriner TIme 6:45 Harry Wismer Red Barb.r 6:45 Sunoco Hews lowell Thomas 6:45 Sunoco News lowell Thomas Music Larr, lesu.ur FRIDAY • 7:011 Hawaii Calls Remember 7:00 Frank Sinatra Fullon leWis, Jr. Headfine Edition Beulah 7:00 Frank Sinatra Fullon lewis, Jr. Headtine Edition Beulah 7:15 Johnn, Dillar MAMA-GBS--8 :00 p .m. Progtnm 7:15 News 01 the World Dinner Date Elmer Davis Jack Smilh Show 7:15 News 01 Ihe World Dinner Date Elmer Davis Jack Smith Show BerlAndrews 7:30 Archie Andrews Comedy 01 Errors revolves around activities of a N or­ 7:30 Musi ~ Gabriel Hutter Counler Spy Club 15 7:30 U. N. is My Beat Gabriel Heatter lone RanIer Club 15 1:45 Chandu, The Mallcian Camel Carayan with wegian-Ame rican f amily of the early 7:45 Richard Harkness I Love a Mystery Edward R. Murrow 7:45 H. V. Kallenborn I love a Myslery Vaulhn Monroe 20th Cen t ury. Edward R. Murrow 1:55 J. I. Kenned, ACTORS STUDlO-CBS- 9 :00 p .m. . :00 Aldrich Family Cailornia Caravan Blondie The F.B.I, 1ft Pe.c. ' :00 Halls 01 Ivy Bandstand U. S. A- The Fat Man ' :00 Hollywood Star Theatre ' :15 and War ' :15 Tweaty Questions Superman Gtae Autry Show H our long dramatic show by r adio & .:30 Father Knows Besl Sports For All Date With Judy Mr. Keen 1:30 We The People Music This Is Your FBI My Faverite Husband ' :15 TV actors. Heard every' other week. . :30 Trltb Ir ClftS"oencoS Takea Number Hollywood By· line ' :45 8:45 ' :45 The Glldberrs 1:00 Screen Actors Guild Comedy Playhou" Amateur Hour Suspense 1:00 Screen Directors Strailht Arrow OzziHnd Harriet Jean Oatis SATURDAY ' :00 Your Hit Parade Meet Yonr Malch 5:15 1:15 Playhouse 5:15 Cllsby's Nilht Shill Ganl lusters 5:30 Duffy's T.. ern Crime PhotOrrapher 1:30 Jimmy Duranle Meet the Press The Sheriff Younllne 1:10 AMERICAN FORUM OF THE AIR 5:45 Rober I Mentlomery 9:45 Denlis Day Guy lombardl Breadway's My Beal - NBC-7 :00 p.m. Discussion prog ram ' :45 from ' Was hington. Theodore Granik 10:00 Sa"er Club H.... Author Meets the Critic Hallmark Playhouse 10:00 lile 01 Riley News BOIinlloats moderator. • 10:00 Judy Caftoya Theatn 01 the Air 10:15 10 :15 10:15 Introduclion t. Music Sinllt Alain BERT PARKS 10:30 Dralnet Mutual Newsreel let's Go To The Met Hollywood Theatre 10 :30 Sport Mutual Newsreel Capitol Cloakroom Ininl Fitlds KEN MURRAY BLACKOUTS- CBS 10:30 Grand Ole Dpry - 8 :00 p.m. H our long star-studded Jubn ...t P ark s o ve r ­ variety show emceed by Ken Murray. sees TV verijlon of 56 " Stop the Mulde" 57 hollywood off the aIr (Continued from page 10) .

They say in Hoillwood that the current down to the business of furnishing a new Vaughn Monroe is beginning to think styles in both hair and dress indicate that house. Lana Turner and Bob Topping that making movies is a hazardous pro­ we are in for a lightning-swift return to have just about completed their re-deco­ fession. On his first day's shooting of the styles of the early twenties. Shingled rating, with the arrival of some old mas­ "Singing Guns" at Republic, Vaughn cut necklines abound on the West coast, ac­ ters from Europe. Lana's new home is a a wrist on a razor- sharp axe, missing an companied by long, dripping earrings, spacious Spanish mansion reputed to have artery by a hair's breadth. It happened and lowered waistlines. Lana Turner's cost in the neighborhood of $100,000. As when he slid his hand across his saddle hair is short and a shade of silver- gold. soon as she has put the finishing touches bag, while 'dismounting from his horse. To top off our prediction we hear that the to her dream house, Lana goes into a new Strapped to the bag was a double-edged revival of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," movie at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in axe which served as a prop in the scene. by Anita Loos, the daring writer of the which she will play an Airline steward­ "Who'd expect to find an axe on horse­ twenties, is playing to packed ho~ses on ess with two boy friends (what, only back?" cracked Monroe. "If this is the Broadway. Now how about getting out two? ) . . . . Dick Powell and his J unie kind of deal you get in Westerns, I'm go­ those raccoon coats, fellows, and boning head for the Hawaiian Islands and a little ing to have to toughen up." up on your Charleston 'routines? of that tropical tan. And Esther Williams • • • • gets to Hawaii by proxy-background for • • • • Girls are going to appear in rainbow­ her new film. Milton Berle's smash hit movie, "Al­ colored hair this season, says Stephanie ways Leave ,Them Laughing," has given • • • • Garland, Republic pi&tures hair stylist. That Lucille Ball! How she does get producer Jerry Wald some fancy ideas for "You are going to see a 'lot of hair tint around. First we hear that she is going a repeat performance. Out at Warner's, used from now on. Various shades to on a brush-selling chore for Columbia youthful, dynamic Jerry is scribbling por­ heighten personalities' will be used. pictures, as "The Fuller Brush Girl." traits of a rabbit on his desk pad as he Greens, blues, orange, even pinks will be She's going 01\ a campaign to three dif­ mulls over the teaming of Miltie and in vogue. I know a secretary to a movie ferent cities on a door-to-door selling Bugs Bunny for a possible picture in the chief, who tints her hair slightly green deal to find out just how it's done, and to near future. Milton will have to work every time she wears a green dress." pick up some ideas for her part as a brush hard to steal scenes from his lop-eared Miss Garland is busy touching up the saleswoman. But not only is the dynamic friend with the ferocious front teeth. locks of Allene Roberts, in "Bomba on carrot-top packing brushes in 'her suit­ Panther Island," because, she says, Al­ • • • • case, she's also off to visit several college Things we are looking forward to see­ lene's personality undergoes distinct campuses. Seems Lucille is the choice of ing: Maureen O'Hara wearing male attire changes in th,e course of the film, co-eds as their "Favorite Comedienne." in "Sons of the Musketeers." She'll star So-she will be off to thank the gals and • • • • with Cornel Wilde in the RKO version of to tell them about her Paramount picture Roy Rogers has set up a board of five a Dumas tale-and in technicolor, natch! "Fancy Pants," which she filmed with trained assistants to help him answer the .. . Kinuyo Tanaka, billed as the "Bet te Bob Hope. pleas from parents for "influence" letters Davis of Japan," has come to Hollywood • • • • to their children. These letters make up to study film make-up with Max Factor. a good proportion of the 50,000 pieces of She's been a star for 25 years in her own Where will Crosby and Hope go on their next "Road" picture? That is the ques­ mail that Roy gets every month. Most of country and is set to invade Hollywood. the pleas request that Roy influence their This we must see. tion that has them beating their brains in indecision. Script writers are burning offspring to eat their suppers, pick up • • * • the midnight oil over atlases and maps of their clothes, and not to throw tantrums When Greer Garson chatted with Queen the world as they come up with one idea before bedtime. ' Elizabeth at the Royal Film show in Eng­ after another. At' present writing, it * * • • land, the Queen told her how much she looks as though "The Road to Paris" is and the King were looking forward to Romance department.. . Janet Leigh next for the boys, and will join the pro­ seeing the sequel to "Mrs. Miniver" which seems to be in a dither whether to con­ cession of zany streets that these top Greer is now.making in London. In an centrate on Arthur Loew or to go into a comedians have paved with gold in the Little Theatre production, between pic­ excited note to her mother, Greer told of past. the highlights of the evening when "That tures. Arthur is very charming, y'k.now, Forsyte Woman" was shown to the Royal Family. With thirty other Hollywood players including Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Rosalind Russell, George Mur­ phy and Ann Sothern, Greer was ' pre- , . - sented to their Majesties. She wore a gown of ivory satin with a twenty-yard gathered skirt encrusted with jewels. With her bridegroom, Buddy Fogelson, Greer has been shuttling back and forth between Scotland and England on her few days off from picture-making, as she picks out some sturdy Highland cattle to enrich their stock in New Mexico. They'll be home shortly, as Greer'"Writes that she' is terribly homesick, not for Hollywood, but for' Santa Fe, where she is mistress of "Forked Lightning Ranch." • • • • Other romantic couples in the news, "I see what you mean"; Ronald Colman, starring in NBC's . . Linda and Tyrone Power are getting "The Halls of Ivy," listens as writer Don Quinn whispers.

58 .. . Lew Ayres is back with Jane Wyman, News and Notes from here and there . . .. at least for a couple of: cosy dinners on Those Screen Publicists know a good the Sunset strip. Arlene Dahl, who had thing when they see it. To add to the radio detective his devoted attention while Jane was- in gaiety of their annual "Panhandl~' din­ London, is now playing the field once ner, the scribes decided to have a luscious QUIZ more.... Anne Sheridan and Steve Han­ lady to m.C. the proceedings. Some voted nagan continue to date. for Jane Russell, others wanted Marie Below are the pictures and names • • • • Wilson. Result-they got them both. The of some well-known radio actors. Motorists in the San Fernando Valley girls of the plunging neckline have fa­ Guess the names of the micro­ could hardly believe their eyes when they natic devotees. Both being exponents of phone sleuths they regularly por­ saw a patch of tobacco sprouting in the feminine form divine, it's just a mat­ tray and check your answers at somebody's backyard. They could hardly ter of whether the gentlemen prefer the bottom of the page. believe thei~ ears when they learned the blondes or brunettes. tobacco belonged to auctioneer "Speed" Ladies attending the 36th annual can­ Riggs, of the well-known radio voice. vas goods manufacturers' convention in Speed is just growing the weed for fun. St. Louis have voted CBS' Arthur God­ 1. frey "The Man We Would Like Most To Says it reminds him of his childhood in Staats the deep South. Says the tobacco, grown Be in a Tent With." They say they are Cotsworth sending him a tent .. . . Fashion note from in California's clay-filled soil, is no good He can be for smoking-just looks purty, to him. Betty Hutton. She designed herself a black astrakan sweater with a ribbed found at the • • • • waistband and a boat neckline. She wears Blue Note She was eighty-nine years old, and she it with colorful ~kirts, and certainly was Cafe. had never been kissed. Such was the the high spot of interest at the Brown plight of Johanna Oleson of Beverly Hills Derby as fashion-conscious females took as she stood ~efore Art Linkletter on the note of her striking outfit . ... Tiny Mona "Pillsbury House Party." Art fixed that Freeman is bravely facing a tonsillectomy, for her with a loud smack on her cheek to take place as soon as she fini~hes 2. that resounded round the auditorium. "Shoplifter." .. . Linda Darnell wants a Stacy Johanna blushed, and smiled. She had try at the stage. She feels she isn't ready Harris won the contest conducted to find the old­ for Broadway yet, but will try her wings est living old maio in the U. S. J. Edgar in summer stock this coming season, So Hoover ap­ "I may not have been kissed," said she, far Linda has been one of the few top­ "but I did have dates, about seventy years proves his ranking stars to stick exclusively to the methods. ago. Nobody asked me to get married, movies and to radio. ... Shy Jimmy Stew­ though." art and his equally self-effacing bride • • • • joined a party of preview-goers the other Esther Williams is back in the swim eve and wound up for a late supper at again, and she has her four-months-olc\ La Rue. Bill Dozier escorted Margaret son for company. Starting young Ben­ Sullavan, and the Van Johnsons were 3. jamin Gage out on his first splashing les­ other members of the party . .. . Claud­ Vincent sons in a plastic wading pool, Esther plans ette Colbert is waxing up her skis for an Price to graduate him to the family pool in anticipated jaunt to Squaw Valley, near Lake Tahoe . ... George Burns tells us in JIe always another month. Tiny babies can be taught leaves his to swim almost from their first few weeks all earnestness that he is working out a calli~g card. of life, Esther believes, and with the reunion of honorary Kentucky Colonels. James Mason's baby swimming across the George got his title in 1933 from Governor pool at the age of eight months, young Ruby Laffoon. Other members are Mae Ben Gage has a goal to aim at. We bet West and Bing Crosby. he makes it at six months! • • • • • Out to Warner Brothers studio we went 4. • • • last week to chat with former radio writ­ Larry Parks just can't get away from Gerald Al Jolson. Though he was determined er Ronald MacDougall who is considered one of the top screen writers in the in­ Mohr that he had pla,yed his last imitation of dustry. Over our roast duck in The AI, Larry isn't so sure at the moment. He gets Green Room, he told us that he is plan­ The Warner Brothers have been dangling slugged very ning a series of stories for television pro­ a fine fat contract over his nose that Larry often. duction wRich he will do between his can't resist. Seems likely he'll do "The screen chores. Handsome young Mr. J azz Singer," one of AI's early "talkie" MacDougall was slapped on the back at hits. And who'll do the singing? Why least a dozen times as fellow writers ~r . Jolson, of course. dropped in for lunch and paused to con­ • • • • gratulate him on his wonderful screen­ 5. Something new in movie gossip com­ play of "The Hasty Heart." Jack mentators is presented over ABC with Radio fans will remember Ronald Mac­ Smart the movietown scribe William Tusher Dougall's excellent series, "The Man Be­ He usually taking to the air in a completely unre­ hind the Gun," while Bette Davis and weighs in at hearsed fifteen minutes with a Hollywood . Joan Crawford remember him with grat­ the drug star. Bill Tusher says his commentary is itude for their screen vehicles, "June store. "strictly outspoken, free from gossip, but Bride" and "Mildred Pierce." with plenty of legitimate criticism." • • • • Tusher is a veteran newspaperman and 1£ only somebody would invent cowboy was an Army correspondent during the sleeping suits to get enraged tots out of ,;uew l'e~ ;nu... war. He was awarded the Army Certifi­ their Hopalong Cassidy outfits at bed­ ·s !"aMol'I'eW dmttd JO sa.InlUaA cate of Merit for his GI newswork, and time! Herb Stein of the Hollywood Re­ -PV" 'f>' !"lU!'eS aq,L" 'f: !"Ia:~ .InoX received a commendation for his coverage porter suggests that a Roy Rogers Pyjama Sl s!t{,L" '.IOlh'e,L W!f 'Z !".Iaqdu8ol of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's war­ Suit might do the trick. -oqd awp;)" 'haS'e;) 'r :ui1msuv time tour of Caribbean bases. THE END

S9 subject is animal Bet you (Continued from page 13 )

pect to open my own printing and pub­ lishing plant in Princeton, New Jersey, can't guess it! where we are now living. My newspaper training has been in­ valuable on the "Ty,;enty Questions" But you can try-and it's fun to compete show. Having a general k!lowledge of all news, I've been able to contribute many straight logical questions which have in the .IITwenty Questions" quiz contest helped us to identify a subject. Actually, the only thing I try to do on the show, aside from guessing the answers, is to keep the panel on an even keel. Herb Polesie is the humorist, Florence is the musical expert, and Johnny McPhee, the genius, so I just plug along in my own Twenty clues, submitted by Fred Vanderventer way. In addition to participating in "Twenty SUBJECT IS ANIMAL 11. Is she in the govern- Questions," I handle the business affairs. ment? ...... No I'm quite eager to see the show on tele­ 1. Is it a whole animal? . No vision because.' I . think it is the nearest 12. Is she in the enter­ thing to a perfect TV show. The format 2. Is it part of a human tainment world? . : .. Yes being? ...... Yes will not be changed at all; our settings 13. Is she a comedienne? No probably will be. But our chief aim will 3. Is the human being be, as always, to provide the public with living? .. ' ~ " ...... Yes 14. Is she an actress? ... No entertainment. Is While I'm talking about the show, an 4. Is it a man? ...... No 15. she a singer? .... Y es amusing incident comes to my mind. One 5. Is the woman famous 16. Is her husband in the night, completely unaware that the sub­ in her own right? .... Pa1·tlll government? ...... (Laugh) No ject we were trying to guess was "an expectant father," I couldn't understand 6. Is the part located 17. Does she have a hus- above the shoulders? Yes why the audience roared every time 'I band? ...... No asked a question such as, "Can this per­ 7. Is it some woman's 18. Is her father in the son be identified because of something he hair? ...... : . . No government? ...... Yes has done?" and "Can he be identified be­ 8. Is it part of her head? . Well, no cause the thing that he did was done with 19". Is the part of her, someone else?" I found out later that we 9. Is the part of her, which is the subject, almost were cut off the air! which is the subject, in her throat? ...... Yes ordinarily visible? . . No THE END 20. Does she use them itt 10. Is this woman an the entertainment American? ...... l'll say world? ...... Y es

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"I know that, Joan. And thanks. a steady voice, "Kathy, darling, you've that 0I1e. He's leaving on tonight's plane Thanks a million. You've been a won­ had an accident. Your car nearly hit a and he'll be in Beechwood tomorrow. derful friend-to all of us." tree but the doctor says you're just That reminds me. Your mother asked me Phil's letters were her only source of shaken up." to give you this cablegram. Do you think comfort. They were forwarded from "It's a miracle, young lady. I don't it's from him?" school but no longer could she hand them need to tell you how lucky you are." With trembling fingers, Kathy tried to over to her mother as she used to. Now Lucky? Memory flooded back. She tear it open. Then without a word, she she would read them aloud herself, thought of the baby. She thought of Phil handed it over to· Joan who opened it omitting mlmy passages but trying to and began to cry. and gave it back to her. Kathy didn't make it seem that she didn't. H her "Here, here, we can't have any of mind now that Joan was watching her mother was aware, she said nothing. But that," the doctor said. "You have some­ face as she read. "Yes. Oh, yes. He'll be these days there were shadows under her one else to think of now." home tomorrow." She lay back on the eyes and an extra wrinkle on her brow. pillows weakly and her lips formed a Add then terror seized Kathy-terror silent prayer. "Thank you, God, thank mingled with joy-for she recognized So they knew! Poor mother, Kathy you for bringing him back to us." what might be symptoms of pregnancey. thought. She couldn't control her sobs. They shook her like a strong wind. The Once more, Kathy was wearing the It would have been so wonderful if blue hostess' gown. She had insisted on Phil were there to tell, or if only she doctor made her drink a sedative and mercifully, she slept. being up when Phil arrived and there could have run to her mother and said, he was, her husband, smiling into her When she awoke the sun was high. "G.lless what! I'm the happiest .girl in eyes and near enough to touch. It was Her mother was sitting by the bed. Joan the world-and you ~ re going to be a a miracle--a greater miracle, almost than brought in some broth and went out. grandmother." their marriage. Her mother made her drink it and Of course, she couldn't be sure. She The she heard him say it-just as she didn't dare consult a doctor. In a small then she sa4l, "Darling, you're not to had heard it so often in her mind, "Irma, worry. You're my first-born. No matter town like Beechwood, it would spread Joan, we have something to tell you. like wildfire that Kathy Cameron was what you've done, I'll stand by. If you Kathy and I were married before I went going to have a baby and she wasn't want to tell me--" abroad. Please forgive us for eloping, married. A rumor like that would "I can't! I can't! Please don't ask me, Irma, but there just wasn't time for a devastate her mother. No, she had to if you love me." wedding with trimmings." keep her own counsel and wait, even "All right, darling. I won't ever ask "Married! Kathy, you're married!" Her though the waiting had become torture. you." Irma's voice broke suddenly and mother wept with relief and joy. Every­ Somehow the days went by, and then she fled from the room. one kissed everyone else and Joan pre­ it was time for Phil to come home. So Have I the right to do this to her, Kathy tended to have known it all along. eager was he to get back, he was going asked herself. She thinks I've been a bad "As if I didn't guess!" she said. "Phil, to catch a plane and would be home in girl. I ought to tell her. But she had I could wring your neck-making her tw~mty-four hours. It would all be ended promised Phil she would keep their secret keep it a secret. Kathy, I could spank now-the agony of keeping her secret until he came back. And now he was you." But she hugged Utem both. "Imag­ to herself, the doubts, the fears, the hopes. never coming back. She turned her face In their place would be the reality and ine, two of the nicest people I know! I'm to the wall and tried to smother her sobs so happy for you both." peace of Phil's love. in the pillow. Phil grew grave. "If I had any idea of The radio broke into her reverie. Joan came in and shut the door quietly "Plane crashes-. Passengers and crew what Kathy has to go through, getting behind her. Then she sat on the bed and expelled and all-" missing.:' Kathy didn't wait to hear the took Kathy's hand. "Darling, you've got details. It was Phil's plane. to stop crying. J(athy, dear, listen to me. "It's the 'all' that I'm concerned with. "What's the matter darling, are you Your mother is my best friend. I feel Come on, Irma, we have the fatted calf ill?" Irma was asking. almost as if you were my own daughter. to prepare for the prodigal, while Kathy briefs her husband." She mustn't, she wouldn't faint. "No, You can't keep this to yourself-it will just need a breath of air. Maybe I'll kill you. We want to help you. You must When they had gone. Kathy went to drive over to Joan's." It was her voice think of the baby. You'll need help-all Phil's arms again and from their depths but she couldn't re'member speaking. you can get. If you can't talk to your she said, "We're going to have a baby, What was this nightmare? Phil-Phil mother, maybe you can talk to me. It Phil. I suppose you want a boy?" darling. You'll never see the baby now. doesn't matter who the man is-" "Kathy!" Then he held her away and How can I go on living? It's more than "Oh, Joan! You and mother make it looked at her as if he had just now I can bear. sound so awful and it's not, it's not. Please realized what she had suffered for his _ Kathy started the car. She had to talk don't ask me to talk about it. Please, not sake. "Darling, I'm so glad-so happy. to someone. Perhaps Joan would find the now." But you never said a word to them. You words to make her want to go on living. "Very well, Kathy. There'll be time let them think-heav~n only knows what It would be so easy to follow Pfiil. So enough to make plans when you get on they thought!" • easy, away from grief, away from her your feet. Meanwhile, know that every­ "But it was our secret, Phil," Kathy ullshed tears. Yet the baby-. one loves you just as much as ever." protested. "You asked me to keep it until Shaking off her trance, Kathy threw "That's what hurts so." you returned and I did." the emergency brake. The car skidded "We ~on ' t talk about it any more. Did "I know, darling, but I never dreamt-. and threw her forward. . . . your mother tell you the good news Will your mother ever forgive me?" She opened her eyes in a room of about Phil?" "Of course. She's forgiven you already, Joan's home. Dr. Ralph was taking her Kathy sat bolt upright in bed. "What darling." - pulse. good news?" "And my mother-I can't vouch for "She's coming around," he said. Joan eyed her speculatively but her how she'll take our news but I'm anxious "Thank God!" her mother answered. voice was even. "We learned from his to take you to her, Kathy. So get well Kathy saw that she had been crying. mother he had planned to take a plane-­ fast so we can go home." Joan had an arm around her shoulder, the one that crashed. But by some mir­ Home! What a lovely ,word it was. It comforting her. It was Joan who said in acle, he was detained-he didn't take meant Phil, Kathy and the baby. Life would be different now, she was sure. "I see that, in spite of these months stop worrying about it and think of your The heartbreak of the last few months of living under my roof, you know me own health." would be forgotten. Phil was alive. Phil very little. He'll have only you to blame. But Kathy knew Mrs. Stanley meant was back. She was safe in his arms where You tricked him into marriage with your it this time. Anne Dunn, the nurse, told she belonged. Nothing could hurt her pretty face and your baby." her that the lawyer was coming the next any more, as long as Phil was there. "How dare you talk to me like that!" day. Anne, Kathy knew, was more than . Kathy cried. "I promised Phil I'd be a little interested in Phil. patient with you and I've done my best. "Mrs. Stanley, I'm embarrassed in tell­ kathy sat sewing in her sitting room I've tried to make allowances because ing you this," she said to Kathy. "But in the Stanley mansion at Stanwood. This of your age and infirmities. I've let you she claims she's going to make me her was what Phil meant when he had say horrible things to me and I've kept heir." painted so glowing a picture of home. my temper and not told Phil half of them "Instead of her son?" She looked out the window at the distant because I kept hoping that we might "Yes, she says that now I'm the only horizon and with a pang she thought of find some basis to live together in one who cares about her. She seems very her mother's kitchen in Beechwood. Why peace." determined·. Perhaps if you want to save should she be unhappy when she had "Soft talk doesn't get me the way it got Mr. Stanley's interest, you will want to the best husband in the world and a baby my son." consent to a divorce." would soon make their life complete? "Then I'm done with soft talk. This "Never,"'Kathy told her. "Never, unless Kathy shook her head and was impa- is too much!" Kathy's head went up . he asks. for one himself." . tient with herself. In another part of the "You can threaten all you want. I don't "I don't like to upset you, but I ought house she could hear the nurse, Anne care about your money and Phil won't to tell you that that's not unlikely. I Dunn, as she attended to Mrs. Stanley. either. He love$ me and he'll take care hear old Mrs. Stanley has always had She was a broken old lady, tired, sick, of me. But why you should take out him under her thumb. You can see losing her hold on those nearest to her your hate on your son is more than I that." but in spite of this or because of it, she can understand." "Perhaps before," Kathy conceded. seemed to take , pl~asure in destroying "He deserves it for letting you make a "But not now. And I don't think it 'Wise Kathy's happiness day by day, ever since fool of him. Now with a divorce naturally for you to gossip with the -servants, Miss Phil had brought her home. I'd make some settlement." Dunn." For it had been one thing for her to Kathy lowered l1er voice and repeated "Naturally, if they talk, I can't help receive Kathy as a poor but pretty Cin­ as to a . child, "Mrs. Stanley, I'm Phil's hear. As I told you, it's difficult for me derella the previous summer. It was all around. But I though it only right to quite another to be forced to receive tell you how things stood; you might her as Phil's wife, the woman who was want to alter your decision." to be the mother of his child. And old "Thank you," Kathy eyed her coldly. Mrs. Stanley had made no secret of ~er "But I won't change my mind. And feelings. "This marriage is a mistake, neither will my husband change his. We Philip," she had said. "You and Kathy took each other for better or worse, are of different worlds. It is madness to richer or poorer." think you can ignore this. If you hadn't But these days, Kathy was heartsick been hypnotized by a pretty face-" and very tired. Could there be any truth "Mother, there's no sense in going on in what Anne Dunn said? Could Phil be like this," Phil had told her. "Kathy is swayed? Could he want his mother's my wife. We love each other. Naturally, money and be too gallant to ask her for you're upset by the suddeness of it, just a divorce because of the baby'? With love, as Kathy's mother was. But we must all she could make any sacrifice. But he had make a new beginning. I want the two been rich and pampered all his life. Was Mrs. Stanleys to love each other." the sacrifice too great for him? Poor Phil! How like him to suppose Kathy didn't know. But as the q.ays that words would change his mother so went by, she longed more and more for that she would come to see Kathy the peace of her mother's farm. She through his eyes. ' needed that peace for the strength of her Kathv knew now that this would never soul and the strength of her body. She be. Mr;. Stanley hated her-though each had to know, too, where she stood with day Kathy tried by kindness and by the Phil. Just how much did she and the soft answer to win !l.er over. Every after­ baby mean to him when his mother's noon, after the house was spotless and fortune was in the balance? dinner prepared, she visited her mother­ in-law. She wrote letters for her, ran So without telling Phil where she was impossible errands up and down the going, she went home to Beechwood. The stairs, though they were becoming in­ Anne Dunn listens as Mrs. Stan­ note she left for him was non-committal: creasingly difficult, read aloud and did ley (Irene Hubbard) tells her "Darling: I want to get away to think son his marriage was a mistake. any. '6f a dozen chores that might con­ and perhaps it would be best if you did vince the invalid she bore her no ill­ some thinking too. I never meant to will. But at every turn, just when Kathy wife. Money didn't make me that and complicate your life 1I0r to come between thought she was softening, Mrs. Stanley money won't buy me off! We love each you and your mother. My future is in turned to granite again and plotted some other." your hands but I hope I'm strong enough new unpleasantness for her. That night Phil got home to find his to meet it, whatever you decide it is to Today, when Kathy came in, her wife sick and' in tears. "Darling what is be. Love, as always, mother-in-law told her, "I'm glad you're it? Mother again? I've told you, pay no Your Kathy." here. I want you to know I sent for the attention." Just as she had expected, the farm was family lawyer." "It's gotten beyond that, Phil. She's a source of strength to Kathy. If Irma saw HOh?U going to disinherit you unless I give you that anything was ;i;niss, she said nothing. "I've decided to change my will. Unless a divorce. She acts as if she hated you. "I had to have a look at you, Mums," you take this last chance and divorce I can't bear to come between you like Kathy explained lightly. And Irma an­ Philip, I'm going to cut him off without this." swered in the same tone, "I'm glad. I love a penny." "Nonsense, darling. She's just trying having you, Kathy, but don't make me "Disinherit your own son! You can't . to bully us. She wouldn't dream of cut­ one of those mothers you can't live mean that." ting me off. So Kathy darling, please without. With the baby coming any day,

62 shouldn't you be staying pu.t? Won't and now it was taking its toll of her. Phil worry?" Maybe she'd die without seeing Phil "No. I'm in good hands." again. "No! No!" she sc reamed. The nurse But when a few days went by without gave her a needle and some pills which any word from him, panic seized Kathy. she fought for she wanted to be con­ Could his mother and Anne Dunn be scious if Phil should come. The doctor JI/cRofun right? What if he had decided that she told her they were trying to help her and the baby weren't worth his mother's and she was making things difficult for fortune! Perhaps he had grown tired of the child, so she promised to do as she •••••••••••••••••••••••• her already, as Mrs. Stanley always pre­ was told. dicted he would. No, it was unthinkable­ While she slept, she called out Phil's Pops: Tom Hinkle's hardworking, Phil wasn't like that. But could he stand name. Once she became conscious and honest and reliable. When a girl has on his own feet and take care of a wife heard the doctor telling her mother, "I a date with Tom she isn't ashamed and child-he who had had everything can't promise anything. She's a very to bring him home to her ' parents, so easy, all his life? sick girl." She grew frightened again, is she? thinking she might die before Phil got Joan: Not if she can leave him there. Tossing and turning, she slept there and go out with somebody I twas Joan who laid these ghosts. She fitfully and always awoke with his name else. drove over the next morning and said, on her lips. Once Joan was there, hold­ -CBS, "Leave It To Joan" "Shouldn't you be with Phil now? I ing her hand and saying, "Kathy, do you heard from my neighbor that Mrs. Stan­ hear me? I'm going to find Phil. Do you • • • • ley died suddenly this morning." understand, darling?" Sergeant (to recruit): You cer­ "No! I can't believe it. Oh, I must call "Phill" she cried, "Phil!" tainly were celebrating last night. him right away." She took the receiver The baby didn't seem to want to enter I hear you were drunk and pushing off the hook and jiggled the phone im­ the world without his father being there. a wheelbarrow do_ the company patiently while .her mother asked, "Was Kathy was in a bottomless pit of pain­ street! Where was I at the time! Recruit: In the wheelbarrow. it another stroke?" for how many hours, she did not know. -MBS, "Can You Top This" "Yes. 'Kathy, why don't you let me Once she dreamt that Phil was dead and drive you home?" the baby was dead and Mrs. Stanley • • • • "Thanks, Joan, but--<>perator, please stood laughing' over them. Kathy woke get me Stanwood 420. It's an emergency up screaming again. Backus: On my mother's side, so can you rush it? Thank you." Then Phil seemed to be there. "Kathy­ they were all Swedes. to her mother and Joan she explained, Kathy, do you hear me? It's Phil. I'm Bergen: What about your father's "There's been so much talk about her here, darling. It's all over." side? disinheriting Phil-I've got to let him Kathy struggled to open her eyes. Phil Backus: We never knew. He al­ know that if she did, it doesn't matter." was there-but perhaps she was still in ways kept a mustard plaster on it. "Then it's true," exclaimed Joan. a nightmare. She closed her eyes but -CBS, "Edgar Bergen Show." "Rumor has it she's left her money to his voice was there, strong, urgent, the nurse. But darling, don't worry, you "Darling Kathy, I need you. The baby • 41 • • and Phil have the best fortune in the needs you. Please-please try to make NBC's Henry Morgan is thinking world with your love and the baby." the grade for us." of putting out a new magazine called "I know. That's what I want to tell "Unpopular Mechanics." It's for "The baby died." people who like to break things. him. I'm not sure I can get home. The "No, darling. He's a fine boy. He looks • baby hasn't been letting me forget him." just like me. I'm so proud." • • • • "Pains?" asked Irma anxiously. "Phil," she whispered. "Phil! If I die-" "Well, not exactly, but--<>h." She "You're going to be well, darling, be­ Marx: So you're 35. How old do stopped, gripped the chair and gritted cause you're going to win this fight-for you· think I am? her teeth. "I guess maybe it is a pain," us. I need you so, Kathy. I'm no good Contestant: I'd say you were she finished lamely. without you. Nothing matters to me but going on 50. , "Darling, you get to bed at once," her you and the baby. We'll stand on our Marx: I'm going on pemcillin. mother ordered. "I'll telephone Dr. Ralph. own feet, won't we, darling!" And I make my own. I scrape it off You can't possibly get home now." "Yes, oh yes, Phil. That's what I moldy old jokes. "But Phil-I want to reach him- " wanted to hear." -CBS, "You Bet Your Life." The phone rang and since the pain "Go to sleep now, darling, and get had passed, Katlly took a deep breath, strong." She closed her eyes and fell • • • • then seized the receiver. "Hello? Yes, asleep with a prayer on her lips. "God, Hy Gardner, on MBS' "Twin View operator. ... He's not? ... Do they know please let me live for Phil and the of the News," says, "There's talk around that we've. perfected a space where to reach him? ... Oh," she said, baby." plane that will fiy 10,000 miles per tonelessly. "Never mind." She replaced The sun streaming in her window woke hour. That's so fast the pilot can the re.ceiver and told them dejectedly, her as it had on so many mornings of take off from LaGuardia Field, "Phil's been away. Only Anne Dunn is her girlhood. Only this morning was sneeze and land in Berlin before his there. Maybe he doesn't even know what different. She tried to remember how. co-pilot can say 'Gesundheit'." happened." Phil dozing in the chair by the bed, • • • • "Never mind, darling," Joan said, "I'm stirred and woke too. "Kathy?" he asked. sure he'll come over just as soon as he "Kathy, are you all right?" Harry Hershfield tells the story can. Why maybe that's where ha is, on "Oh yes, darling! I'm all right-now." about the aged, walrus-mustached his way over." Her mother and Joan put their heads Englishman who ambled into his "How can he be? I didn't tell him in the door, but the nurse asked them favorite pub and asked for a beer. where I was going." to wait for she was going to bring in Downing it in one gulp, he walked "Don't be silly, darling," her mother the baby. up the wall, strolled across the ceil­ comforted her. "Where would a girl go Kathy held her son for the first time. ing and floated out of the door. when she's going to have a baby? To This is what I've lived for, she thought, "That's odd," commented one of her mother; naturally Phil will be here. Phil Stanley, Jr. This is worth it all! the customers. Be a good girl now and go to bed." Phil, Sr., put it into words: "Kathy, "Yes," replied the barmaid, "he Toward nightfall the doctor came and darling-you and the baby-you're all generally orders ale." immediately sent for a nurse. But Kathy the world I'll ever want. I'll spend the -MBS, "Can You Top This." knew she was very ill. She had been rest of my life making you happy." under a terrible strain these last months THE END

63 . I'm the guinea pig for "County Fair" (Continued from page 45) scious. But I joined the dramatic club­ grade as a model. They were sure I was ular danger because of men in general is more because I didn't care for sports than meant to be a secretary-except for my quite foolish. The photographers are for any other reason-and as the nuns mother who stood up for me during the usually too busy to realize that they're worked with me, I began to get really tough time when I wasn't ' making any working with a girl, not a bunch of interested. When, in my senior year, I money. I had to do pictures on specula­ flowers. Pretty girls swarm into the was chosen out of 100 girls to play Juliet tion; that means that I posed for a picture studios by the hundreds and I'm just an­ in a scene from Shakespeare's play and and if the photographer couldn't sell it other one-something to fit into a pictUre one of the nuns ~aid that "nobody had to an advertiser, I didn't get paid. It layout. ever done it better" and the monsignor, took time but eventually, the assignments As for my family, they take me seri­ who rarely expressed an opinion, said began to come through'. ously now when I talk about a career. that I shouldn't have any trouble on the After modeling clothes for manufac­ Even the neighbors pointed me out when stage-well, i decided then and there on turers for a time, I wound up doing they saw me in the streets after I came a career in the theatre. bathing suits, anything that requires a home from that trip to Texas. Nobody I can't say I got any encouragement good figure. I'm a photographer's model in the family has ever done anything from my family. I'm the fourth of six -pictures for advertisements-and I also quite like it, you see. children, four girls and two boys. Dick, model at fashion shows. I like it very My father used to tease me a lot. When the oldest, is married, and I can assure much and although it's free-lance work I ·was chosen as May Day Queen, he said you he wouldn't. have married any girl and it isn't steady, I get $15 an hour and that they wanted somepody who looked with ideas about a career; my two older ,I have sometimes made as much as $350 like a tugboat, and when I got the job on sisters are married and quite happy with a week, more than the whole family "County Fair," he said that "something their husbands and babies. My father is . makes. must have happened to Elsie, the Cow." a special policeman (Dick is a cop, too) Then-and this is where I completed So I got the thrill of my life the other and he's a very realistic, down-to-earth the circle-I met somebody from Kenyon day when my mother told me, as a big man. & Eckhardt who asked me to pose for secret, that my father has a photograph My family had heard of careers for some publicity pictures and that's how I of me-a composite that shows me in women, of course, but they seemed to got the job on "County Fair." (The pro­ different pose~in his office. I think think of it more as if it were 3' fpr eign gram is sponsored by the Borden Com­ maybe he's a little proud of me. custom, like the veils that women in the pany, a K&E client.) I grabbed it l:>e­ THE END Far East wear in public-something not cause I thought it meant a chance to act. for Kennedy women. When I got out of It doesn't. high school, my father said that if I Actually, I'm the fall girl-and I love it. didn't want to go to college, I had to go to In addition to lining up the contestants, a day with Margaret Whiting business school-no fooling around with I'm the guinea pig for all their stunts. the stage, you see-so I learned how to Once they' had me ride a kiddie car down (Continued from page 35) type and take dictation. . a slide into a water tank. If I could do My family's attitude didn't make me it without breaking a leg, you see, it was ' Knowing that Maggie is. likely to bring change my mind. Through the year in safe to try it on a contestant. They also ten or twelve people home for a meal business school, I was thinking al:fout try their quiz questions on me, and if I after her radio broadcast, "The Jack getting a chance as a radio actress and can answer three-quarters of them, Smith, Dinah Shore and Margaret Whit­ with that in mind, I took a job as a clerk they're all right for the contestants. ing Show" on CBS, or one of her many in Kenyon and Eckhardt, an advertising Usually it wprks out fine, but once they recording sessions, her maid, Wille Mae, agency whose clients do a lot of radio asked me, "Where would you find an keeps the refrigerator and the freezer advertising. When I became secretary to Indian-in New York, Pennsylvania or well-stocked with food. Happily, Wille a radio time buyer six months later, I wa~ Texas?" Of course, I answered "Texas," thrilled. I was sure that now I would but when they asked it on the show, the Mae likes company as much as her mis­ get my chance. But I never saw the kid who was the contestant said, "New tress does. radio directors -and all I did was make York," and it was the right answer. Maggie describes herself as a "reason­ schedules for commercials. . They weren't thinking, and neither was I, ably good cook," specializing in barbecues One day a man from the Richard Hud­ that the rodeo would be in New York at and barbecue sauces, and Italian spa­ nut company (a client) came up to my the time of the broadcast. ghetti. She believes that the kitchen is a desk and asked me if I wanted to model Of course, I haven't given up my idea very important room in any home and for the pictures in the booklet of in­ of being an actress. I'd like a part in a hers is the only room in the house that structions they give with their home daytime serial, with the idea of using it she completely "did over" when she . permanent kit. I laughed because I as a stepping-stone to the stage. But bought it.' She took out the wall between thought he was joking. Me-)l model! the work on "County Fair" is good train­ the kitchen and the breakfast room to But he was quite serious so I took the job: ing for the stage and modeling is too, make one room which-is, she feels, "more I got only $25 for all those pictures and because it requires some acting ability to homey." I had to have my long hair cut but it led get the right expression without saying Hominess is one of the predominant to something important. anything. Since the program keeps me qualities in the atmosphere of the Whiting While we were working on the pictures, busy o~ly one day a week, I continue home. The house looks lived in, the chairs the photographer remarked that I could working 'as a model. look sat in and the -hostess is always hold a pose steadily and he suggested I'm too busy to think much about charmin'. that I would make a good model. He marriage but I'd consider it only if I THE END didn't have to say it twice. I knew that didn't have to give up my work. Once I could earn more as a model than as a I became engaged to a fellow who said secretary and I figured that I could save he wouldn't mind if I continued working, Mr. Les Merman is on vacation. money and later take dramatic training. but when I got a modeling job that re­ In no time at all, I had left my job and quired me, to go to Texas for six weeks, His eolumn. "Music on 8 Platter;' he told me to "quit or else." I took the was learning to be a model at the Bar­ w ill be resumed in the next issue. bizon School. "or else." We're still very good friends. My family never thought I'd make the The idea that models are in any partic-

64 John J. Anthony says- Dear Mr. Anthony (Continued from page 38 ) (Continued from page 39)

\ normal person. Without them everything No use going into further details of our Dear Mrs. O. V., is transitory. A man without roots lives talk. I knew this girl's juvenile type, What a paradox life is! Doesn't it al­ from day to day. A man rooted in the her lack of love and loyalty, her frivolous ways seem that those who are so unde­ deep companionship of wife, home and conception of her engagement to a man serving always get the best that life has family Jives in the future as well as the like Ben. - It was easy to foresee what to offer? Your daughter-in-law was for­ present. The mor~ substantial interests would happen if they married, and what tunate in securing not only a good hus­ he has, the freer he is. Everyone should a tragic farce it would be on his part to band, but also good and intelligent in­ look to the future and plan for old age. try to make a go of it. A full portion of laws. The world .is cluttered with elderly per­ misery for two would be the outcome. The wise thing for you to do at this sons who have failed to do this. Are they So I began to point out reasons why a moment, so long as your son does know free? No; they are pitiably dependent, bad promise is better broken than kept. the truth, is to give him whatever infor­ often with no one to be dependent upon. 1 think 1 sketched a clearer picture of mation you have, should he request it. The sweetest sight in the world to me is herself than she had ever seen before. 1 Trying to keep from hurting your son by an elderly pair walking together, talking hope I defined the meaning of engage­ revealing the truth to him was noble, but together, enjoying simple pleasures to­ ment and marriage in a way to help this you know that the truth always has a gether-and looking happy. They are the girl eventually make a good life for her­ way of coming to the surface. ones who, though tied with the strongest self. At all events I saw relief in the I don't think that you can help matters bond in the world, are free. faces of her parents when 1 won a prom­ by requesting her to leave your home, for ise from their child to end the engage­ should you do this, shoe will mistake her ~ Bad P"omise ment. new-found freedom for license. Certainly Fay, a pretty girl with gay, blonde hair Next to marriage itself, a betrothal is your daughter-in-Iaw's actions at this and eager eyes, came to me with her ce~inly the most serious relationship time must be more restrained than they worried parents. She was smartly-rather between man aild woman. It is a pledge would be away from you. too smartly-dressed, and self-confident of lasting fidelity and the intention of There is, however, hope in the situa­ to the point of defiance. She was 22 and making life a complete partnership in all tion, in view of the fact that your daugh­ apparently as immature as a child of 13. ter-in-Iaw will do nothing to break this She was spoiled, selfish, utterly vain, and marriage until your son returns. By then she may realize how utterly ridiculous obviously expected the world~specially No Annie Oakleys At the Opera the world of men-to kneel at the altar of her actions have been. It may even make her charm. To "have a good time" was Milton CTOSS, who has been a better wife of her. the object of her existence. the ABC music commentator There is further hope in the recogni­ on the Saturday afternoon tion of the fact that your daughter-in-law She was engaged, and to a serious, broadcasts from the Metro- good-looking, hard-worIqng young man knows you are good people. This cannot _ politan Opera since Christ­ fail to leave a lasting impression and a who adored her and excused her per­ mas, 1931, has to buy a ticket versity with the moth-eaten defense of if he wants to attend a per­ lasting effect upon her. "Oh, she doesn't mean it; she's kinq at formance at the Met on any Your duty as parents now becomes a heart and once we're married, she'll settle other day. very difficult one, and in my opinion you doWn." Her mother and father were must not give advice or counsel to eitper somewhat doubtful. your son or daughter-in-law, unless they Said her mother to me privately: "I the experiences it brings. It is a time to specifically request it. If you desire to want my daughter to be happy, but I prepare for responsibilities and is not to help this marriage remain intact, you don't feel she _realizes what marriage be thought of as a mere tribute to one's must be doubly patient and tolerant, means or even what an engagement calls charm, as Fay had regarded it. A man's sometimes perhaps even to the point of for. In short, Mr. Anthony, I am sorry "I love you, will you marry me?" doesn't despair. for this young man Fay is engaged to. stand for just a trophy of the chase, an­ There is, however, one bit of advice I He is trying to deceive himself about her. other scalp to hang at the belt. It stands should like to give your son. It seems, But she is not ready for marriage; she for the dedication of one's life to a cause from the tone of your letter, that during the three years he actually lived with his wants every bo~ she meets to 'fall' for -one that reaches far into the future and her. She wants gaiety and excitement into many lives. wife, he forgot that he and she were both and hasn't the slightest wish to think Yes, an engagement to marry is the very young. The fact that your son does about what Ben calls 'settling down'." announcement to each other and to so­ not drink or smoke, that he provided a I wanted to talk to little Miss Fay ciety that two persons who truly love are good home, does not mean that the mar­ riage was a happy one. There must be alone: going to merge their individual selves "Ben is a fine chap, I'm told. You into the most important partnership there more than that. There must be some fun, some pleasure, and a spiritual mating must be very fond of him." is, and that they are ready to adapt what­ "Oh, of course," came her light reply, ever selfish desires-sacrifice them, if which seems to be lacking in this mar­ riage. "he's a darling. But he's too damn need be-for the common good. jealous. He practically collapses if an­ Nowadays it is -all too common to read This-marriage can be saved, if both your son and daughter-in-law want to make a other man so much as speaks to me, and of men and women who publicly an­ genuine effort to save it. The wisest thing dies if I dance with anyone but him. All nounce their "engagement" to So-and-So, to do at the moment is- not to interfere; he thinks of is work and saving money; while their divorce from Who's-This is wait until your son returns and have him he doesn't know how to have fun." still pending. Often the same person face his problem in a thorouihly mature "Does he take you out a lot?" does this several times. Off with the old, fashion. _ John J . Anthony "Oh, sure. But I like going with dif­ on with the new-an attitude which ferent fellows, too. Ben always wants to seems to destroy every fine aspiration a THE END leave around eleven o'clock. Why, a real plighting of the troth symbolizes. -To party or a dance just gets going at mid­ keep one's plan of life right, one must " Martin Kane, Private Eye" night! Other fellows have to go to work, first have a sound basis for marriage that will search for a. mlSStng too, but they can stay out till two or three will last and not be merely an adventure RADIO BEST reporter a.nd in the morning and get by at the office, along the way. find a murderer in the picture too." THE END story in our next' issue.

65 It's Jimmy Durante (Continued from page 24)

has been working with him for about for any word, as written, will lead him to many of the human family as possible three yearS';' told me that he once pre­ pronounce it correctly. was not wholly subdued. When' the taxi pared a script for Jimmy and, not know­ All this I learned from Jack during the stopped for a red light and another car ing the name of the announcer, wrote half hour or so it took us to walk about drew up next to us, he stuck his head "ANN" to indicate the announcer's two blocks, what with Jimmy's having out of the window. lines. to shake hands with anybody and every­ "Hey, you!" he called. "Why don'teba "Hey, Jack!" cried Jimmy, when he body on Broadway. His extreme friend­ look where yer goin'?" saw the script. "Who's this dame, Ann, liness, Jack reminded me, has an several The driver turned, a scowl on his face you got woikin' with me?" occasions resulted in severe headaches and on his lips some impolit,e words that All Durante script writers have to be for himself and his partners, once while were never uttered because when he careful to take into account Jimmy's he was- operatin g- hiS" own- cafe in New caugnt sight of the famous nose, he genius for mispronouncing words. Any York during prohibition days. The head couldn't suppress a happy smile. "Hiya, slightly difficult word must be written in waite r, more discerning or less warm­ Jimmy!" he cried. . simplified fashion. For example: "alien" hearted than Jimmy, was using the brush­ But when Durante r elaxes, he likes to is written "ALE-lEN" and "alienation" off technique on two strange men when talk about his favor ite city, his home would be written "ALE-lEN-A-SHUN." Jimmy came on the scene. town, Nl:! w York. Jimmy ~rew up on Jimmy once fluffed a' line in which the "C'mon in," he cried, cordially slapping Manhattan's East Side where his father words were written out in ' this way and them on the back and leading them to a had a barber shop and Jimmy helped out his ad-lib was pure Durante. table. "Give 'em anything they want," after school by lathering the customers­ "I'da pronounced it right," he said he said to a waiter. among them, Al Smith-before his father plaintively, "but they gotta write it out "The next day the joint was padlocked," shaved them. and syballize it for me." as Jimmy puts it. "How was I to know "It was a one-man barber shop," he But the writer who wants him to de­ they were government men? After that says, "but we had five chairs-just to im­ liberately mispronounce a word-such as I couldn't say hello to my own brother." press the customers." "souffle" or "misapprehension"-dares not Even in the taxi we finally decided to About the only subject which Jimmy write it out as i'shuffle" or " mispreappre ~ · take because time was growing short, ever studied seriously was his piano­ Jimmy's desire to make contact with as hension" for fear that Durante's contempt playing. He took lessons for about five years, and really worked at it. "The teacher gave me classical things, like the 'Poet and Peasant,' y'know, but I practiced becatise I wanted to loin to play ragtime." Once out of school, he began his long career in show business by playing at the local athletic and social clubs. • "When I got two dollars for a Saturday night, I was very happy." Some' years later, he had progressed to a steady job in a cafe and was earning what he considered at the time a very good salary-$100 or so weekly-when some one suggested that he open his own cafe. Shortly after, the team of Clayton, Jackson and Durante went into the cafe business. One of the cafes they operated was called the Am­ bassador. "We couldn't spell it so we changed it to Rendezvous and that was woise. But we had to have ~ high-class n ame and we had a -lotta trouble until we got a rubber stamp so we wouldn't have to write it out." The taxi let us out on Sixth Avenue, opposite Radio City and as we crossed the street, Jimmy came face to face with two women . Their faces lighted up when they saw him and one of them grasped his hand. "Hello, Jimmy!" she gasped with delight. • Surely old friends, I thought, as Jimmy stopped to shake hands with them while the lights changed and traffic began to whizz by us on both sides. "Well, I gotta go to a broadcast," he said finally. "So long. Nice to've seen you." "Know them well?" I asked. "Not very," Jimmy said. "They musta Eddie Jackson and Lou Clayton have heen Jimmy's pals and hoid me on the r adio." partner s ever s ince the three opened the Club Durante in 1923. J immy's appointment was with Tex

66 . / McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg who had asked him to appear as a guest on their daily broadcast on Station WNBC, New she makes 'em herself York outlet of NBC. While even veteran (Continued from page 25) radio performers show some signs of strain .or tension while at a microphone, Jimmy laughed and chatted with Tex and Jinx, about his life in New Yor k and his experiences in show business, as easily and naturally as if he were a guest in their living room. Once, after mentioning his mother, his voice dropped to a whisper and the radio audience may not have heard his words as he said, "God have moicy on her soul." Jimmy is a very religious man and he seldom refers to his father and mother, or to his wife, who has been dead about ten years, without asking God's blessing. Jimmy laughed when Jinx asked him about his moviemaking experiences with the Danish-born Lauritz Melchior, the Spanish-born Jose Iturbi and the Mex­ ican-born Xavier Cugat. "Every time I improved my English, they put me in' a pitchur with one of those guys'. They speak woise than me. They're a bad influence on me." "Influence?" Jinx repeated. Jimmy didn't get it. "Sure," he said. "They're not good for me." While he was talking about his latest picture, "The Great Rupert," he had some difficulty in finding the word to describe the scenes in which Rupert, a squirrel, appears. Julie Conway and her daughter, Miss Michael, smile prettily "What do they call it?" he asked, think­ . for the photographer-who is husband and father Bob Sherry. ing out loud. "Amitated .. .." "You mean 'animated'?" Tex prompted him. Right now she is the Quaker Girl on when she describes Bob as a "dream hus­ "Yeah, that's it," Jimmy said. "Ani­ CBS' "Theatre of Today" and she also band." He is not only appreciative of her mated." delivers the singing commercials on "This dress-making efforts but is most critical, "What did you call it, Jimmy?" Jinx Is Nora Drake" and numerous other in a constructive way, of her costumes as asked. shows. a whole. But Jimmy was not to be caught; he Julie not only makes but designs her "That purse doesn't match," he will say grinned at her. "I said 'animated' in the clothes, using a dummy (named Suzy) as they're about to leave the house. · 'You f,oist place !" he exclaimed triumphantly. made to the measurements of her own have time to change it." Or it might be, The broadcast over, Jimmy and I shook figure. Spurning the standard patterns "I don't like those shoes. Why don't you hands and said goodbye outside the NBC because she likes really distinctive styles, wear the brown ones?" studios. "So long, honey," he said. "Hope she drapes muslin on the dummy, pins, The Sherrys make a working team, Bob y'got your story." cuts and marks it to her own satisfaction, being a radio announcer, on "Theatre of I didn't realize until later that we had and then cuts her material accordingly. Today" among other 'shows, but Julie kissed each other, like we was old friends, The finished product is a dress, superior ascribes his eye for detail to his hobby, while shaking hands. It seemed the nat­ in every way, which she could not afford photography. (He took the pictures of ural thing to. do. After all, if Jimmy's to buy ready-made. Julie illustrating this story.) She regrets everybody's friend, he's a friend of mine "I can make a pure silk, tailored shirt that she can be of little help to him as a too, ain't he? Y'know that old song he with long sleeves for $10," Julie points photographer because he specializes in useta sing, "I Can Do Without Broadway out, "and I couldn't buy it for less than bridges and dotes on pictures of them But Can Broadway Do Without Me?" $20 or $25." from all angles. His best efforts are Well, I wanna be one of the foist to say The fact that Julie's mother always framed and hanging along the stairway that the whole darn United States can't made her clothes accounts for her insist­ in their home in Harrison, N.Y. do without him. He's the sweetest guy, ence on the very best in fabric, workman­ "Of course, I'm always handy," she -the swellest poisonality from Broadway ship and design, and she herself feels that adds, "if he wants. somebody on the all the way to Hollywood, and I ain't hoid she "always had a knack" for making bridge." , or seen nothin' like him. And I seen a them. She learned how to handle fabrics Bob and Julie have a four-year-old lot 0 ' guys; in and outa show business. when she made the dresses for her dolls, daugh ter, Miss MiChael. Julie's explana­ There just ain't nobody like him! and acquired some knowledge of design­ tion of the unusual name is that they had THE END ing by watching a friend, a designer with decided to call the baby MiChael "what­ a shop in California, at work. ever it was." When "it" turned out to Editor's Note: The writer of the above On an evening when Julie goes to work be a girl, they compromised on Miss article on Jimmy Durante has been re­ on a new dress, her husband, Bob Sherry, Michael. lieved of her responsibilities ' until such curls up in a nearby chair with a book Miss Michael is in the cowboy stage­ time as she may loiTlr--'JXlrdon me-learn and an apple, and occasionally they' chat her father calls her Rodeo Joe-and not to speak and write English again. In the and listen to music as she works. Any at all interested in clothes, either her future, she wilt be restricted to inter­ woman who has paraded a new dress be­ mother's or her own. view s of less "contagious" personalities. fore her husband in a vain effort to elicit "I can't get her out of her levis," says There is a certain limit to the enthusiasm a compliment--or even a comment-from Julie, "and I'm lucky if I can keep but­ which a writer should feel for his subject. him will understand what Julie means tons on them." . THE END

67 my husband, the question & answer clinic Gene Autry c onducted by (Continued from page 17) Ben Grauer and he absolutely refuses to allow anyone to get him really mad. I remember the time he was to appear at a benefit per­ formance and the rather suave and pompous individual who was in charge what's on your mind~ reminded him, unnecessarily, to wear his costume. "All that paraphernalia you usually wear," he added condescendingly. "You know, the bright shirt and the boots." . Q. Why hasn't Walter Winchell, the "Sure I'll wear my boots," Gene most popular man on the air, received drawled, "because I never take 'em off except in bed." the RADIO BEST Silver Mike A ward? Harold Burke, Mass. Of course, I seldom insist on anything,­ either, and the few times I have suc­ A . I myself made the Silver Mike pres­ ceeded in persuading him to do some­ entation to Walter Winchell back in Jan­ uary, 1949. And here's the picture to thing he didn't want to do, I've always prove it. regretted it. Gene usually r efuses to be coaxed into seeing a Broadway play­ most of them, he says, are "too highbrow" -but everybody was talking about the musical, "Oklahoma," and I wanted to see it so much that he finally consented to go. Q. Is Lucille Ball of "My Favorite Hus­ We paid premium prices for the seats. band" still married to Desi Arnaz? It was a wonderful show and I so thor­ Hilda Mergenthaler, Wis. oughly enjoyed one scene that. I turned to Gene to share a laugh with him. He A . Lovely Lucille and bandleader Arnaz had fallen fast asleep, sitting upright in celebrated their ninth wedding anniver­ sary in December, 1949. Yes, they're still his very expensive seat. He was almost happily married. (See photo above.) as embarrassed as I was but he just Q. Who plays the role couldn't keep his eyes open. I had to of Mother Dawson in keep nudging him throughout the whole performance. You can be sure I won't " R 0 s e mar y" and Q. How long have George Burns and ask him to go to the theatre again. would you pie a s e Gracie Allen been married? There's no sense in arguing that the publish her picture? J . L., Arkansas. T. R., Vermont. theatre has provided enterta'inment for A . According to my records, 24 years. millions of people since the time of the A . Actress Marion Barney,pictured here, ancient Greeks. I think his mind is too plays Mother Dawson . active to allow him to sit and watch a Q. I understand a recent issue of RADIO performance of any kind without taking BEST printed a family picture of the Ed part in it. Gene's idea of a good time, Sullivans. Would you print it in your outside of his work, is a game of golf­ Q. Who is Jack Eigen in New York column? Selma Carpenter, Ga. he often plays at the Lakeside Country radio? Harold Spier, Oregon. A. Glad to obligf . The photo shows Mr. Club with Bing Crosby or Bob Hope-or A. He's an all-night disc jockey whose & Mrs. Ed Sullivan, pretty daughter an informal conversation with friends. show originates from the lounge of the Betty and her dog, Bojangles. Newspaper reading is another of his famous Copacabana night club. pastimes and, unlike most people, he reads the local paper in every city he Q. Wh y does Arthur Godfrey refer to visits. He takes a lively interest in every the Mariners Quartet as "Three Pops aspect of his surroundings, whether he's and a Poop"? G. H ., New Jersey. at home in Hollywood or in some strange A . The answer is simple. All four of the town he never saw before and never Mariners are married and have children, expects to visit again. except Jim Lewis, the biggest of the In one such town, where he was to give group. a performance, Gene made a speech, at a Q. Is there a general ban, this year, on luncheon given for t1ie press, in which he televising professional baseball? complimented the municipal government Fan, Conn. on the improvements made during its A. No. administration. Since he had arrived only the n~ght before, a . curious guest Q. What is the name of the star who asked him how he had acquired so much plays "Luigi" in Life with Luigi? It information. . isn't Carol Nash, is it? "That was easy," Gene said. "All I had Mrs. Harriet Walton, New York. to do was read the little booklet on the A . It's he all right, but he prefers to table in my hotel room." spell his name, J. Carroll Naish. Maybe this story was in my mind the night that Gene and I had an appoint­ ·AII answers are confi ned to this column. Do not send s tamped envelopes. Send all questions to Ben Grauer, Radio BeBt Magazine, ment in Brooklyn during one of our visits 9 West 57th Street, Ne .... York 19, N. Y. to New York. We decided that the sub­ way would be faster than a taxi and we

68 didn't bother about getting directions a singer-{)f a single song. His second are decorated with a carven rope design through the underground route because venture, a serial, was so successful that and in one wall is a large shadow-box it was the supper hour and we were sure he was starred in the third: a full-length in which carved and painted wooden that there would be plenty of people to feature. figurines of cowboys, horses, a corral with direct us. I was happy, for more than one reason, stables and fences, are set against an oil­ Our train, however, was almost deserted when Gene clicked in Hollywood. It painted backdrop of snow-covered moun­ and the few people in it were not very meant that, for the first time since we tains. helpful. They included a young couple were married, We could have a perma­ In the center of Gene's dressing room, whom we couldn't question because they nent home and we soon established our­ which is decorated in blue, his favorite were too obviously in love, an old lady selves in one in North Hollywood. color, is a round pillar with four doors, who was deaf and another woman who In 1941, Gene was appearing at a rodeo opening on a steam cabinet, a chest of couldn't speak English. When we finally in Boston. One night, he was seated on drawers and two closets. A bin, specially found a fellow who could hear and Champ, ready to ride into the arena, designed for the purpose, holds his 32 understand us, he didn't know if we were when someone came up to him and said, white hats. Western fans in general might going the right way. You can believe "Your home is on fire." be interested to know that Western hats me that if Gene were a New Yorker, he "Anybody hurt?" Gene asked. are crushed in a certain way so that the would know how to get to Brooklyn, or "No, but it's burning to the ground." dent has a special meaning, some dents, any other place in the city. "Well, I can't put it out from here," like the Arizona crush, indicating the It's rather amusing, come to think of it, Gene said, and rode through the gates to wearer's home state. The dent in Gene's that Gene should fall asleep during a begin his act. hats is the foreman's crush. performance of "Oklahoma." You might Gene never reveals any great emotion Gene himself designs his hand-painted think he would take some interest if only but I know how much he regretted the neckties. because he was brought up in a small loss of the many mementoes he had col­ The house has fourteen rooms, mclud­ town in that state. (It's my home state, lected, like the expressions of admiration ing quarters for a Ifook, laundress, two too.) His father had a small ranch and from children. He saves them all, in­ maids and gardeners. We both enjoy Gene _practIcally .grew up on horseback. .cluding the paintings on which the first­ company and there's always someone At the time, the railroad was the center graders write, "We love Gene" and "We there from out of town. of activity and Gene got a job in the local love Champ," and sign their names. Except for the fact that Gene is away office in Ravia and eventually became the Until last year we lived at Melody about six months of the year-at rodeos telegrapher. Ranch, in San Fernando Valley, which in New York and Boston and on personal It was a typical small-town railroad was originally built as a weekend home appearance tours-a cowboy star, even' a office and, between wires, Gene used to and where Gene now keeps all his horses, famous one, is not very much different play on his guitar and sing with the peo­ including Champ, Champ, Jr., and Little from any other husband. He does not ple who dropped in to see him. He had Champ. clap me on the back and say, "Hiya, been singing since he was a boy at local During the war, Gene was a co-pilot pardner," and when he's not on tour, he parties and church socials-his grand­ in the Air Transport Command, flying goes off to work every morning. Only father was a minister. One day a tall, cargo into North Africa and Asia and his cowboy hat and boots, which he al­ lean fellow came in to send a wire. While while he was on recruiting duty, I ac­ ways wears, distinguish him from other he was waiting, he evidently noticed the companied him to the various bases of business men, and in his . Hollywood guitar because he said, "How about a operations, so we had no need for a home office he makes arrangements for his pic­ song?" for some time. We bought the land in tures, records, tours and his CBS radio Gene was glad to oblige and when he Laurel Canyon in 1948 and moved into program, "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch." finished the song, the stranger asked, our new home in the spring of last year. It's almost nineteen ye ars since I met "Why don't you try singing for the radio It's a big, sprawling two-story house in the "Oklahoma Singing Cowboy" on a arid records?" Early California style, very much like sunny morning in Springfield. You can't "Never thought of- it," Gene said. "But, the ranch, with a red tile roof and many blame me for thinking that the morning, if you don't mind, who are you?" windows. There are Western touches before breakfast,. is the most beautiful "I'm Will Rogers," said the affable throughout the whole house, but chiefly time of the day. stranger. in Gene's den. The built-in bookcases THE END It was a tip from the horse's mouth and soon after, Gene decided to try his luck in the big city. He went to New York, on a railroad pass, and learned that radio and record co!;ppany executives can be most indifferent to new and unpublicized it's all "I. Magination" talent. Furthermore, it was' a depression (CcnLtinued from page 48 ) year and he was advised to return home and get some professional experience on local Oklahoma stations. On his second visit to New York, in put up a sign, "Dawson City, Alaska." of Buffalo Bill, was in imminent danger 1928, he was really broke but he finally The trick, Paul says, is "not to be scared of being scalped by the Indians when m et Art Satherley, whom he credits with of using things." The average television Mr. I broke into a sang. To the CBS his discovery. Satherley was and still is show would probably need time out to producer's protest that "you can't sing a head of the country music division of recover if a stagehand should walk in song at a tense moment like this," Paul Columbia Records, and for him, Gene front of the camera by mistake, but Paul replied that "everybody knows she's go­ recorded "That Silver-Haired Daddy of would merely introduce him to his audi­ ing to be rescued anyway." Mine." In 1948, Columbia gave him a ence as "the fellow who moves the scen­ Paul's actress wife, The former Ruth gold record of the same song in recogni­ ery around back here." Enders, Ted Tiller and Joe Silver make tion of his twenty years of successful When a youngster wrote to Paul and up the permanent cast of "Mr. !." and each recording. asked him to stand still for a minute on one, with Paul, plays several roles in each The record was a great success and the next show so that he could take Mr. show with little attempt at disguise. With­ Gene, who was billed as the "Oklahoma I's picture with his new flash-bulb cam­ in 28 minutes, Mrs. Tripp once portrayed Singing Cowboy," began his vaudeville era, Paul obligingly posed for the picture such varied characters as Queen Victoria, tours. After we were married, in 1932, and told the television audience why he Tom Thumb's mother, Jenny Lind, a tat­ and he had achieved some fame on the was doing so. tooed lady and a trapeze artist. radio, we went to Hollywood. Western The a~ting and the format of the show It added immensely to the fun in "The pictures had no box-office appeal then as a whole are no more conventional than Count of Monte Cristo" to see that the and his first appearance in a film was as the scenery. Annie Oakley, in the story doctor who pronounced Edmond Dantes

69 dead (so that he could get him out of property man who brings a ladder out to be free to continue his' career in the prison) was obviously Mr. I. with a false onto the stage when the hero is supposed theatre. But "Mr. I. Magination" in­ beard and a black coat over the overalls to climb a mountain. trigued him. he always wears as the engineer of the A protege of Mrs. Richard Mansfield, Then began a ten-month round of little train. After Edmond was suppos­ the young actor later appeared with Wal­ agencies and networks. Paul did some edly dead, he coughed loudly and the ter Hampden in "Cyrano de Bergerac" 35 live auditions, because the quality of "doctor" explained to the prison guard and in other Broadway productions. He the show could not be set down on paper. that this was merely a "last gasp." also wrote, directed, produced and acted Everybody thought it was "too simple to Although his stories may point a moral for the Federal Theatre, for Civilian De­ succeed." But the more Paul played it, or be of educational value, Paul does not fense in Cleveland and for the Army. the more enthusiastic he became. He emphasize the moral or the learning, first, But children have always been involved was offered about ten jobs but rejected because he aims above all to entertain, somehow in Paul's most successful ven­ them, having decided to gamble every­ and secondly, because he believes that tures. While on Army leave, he wrote thing on "Mr. I." Mrs. Tripp brought in any "lesson" should be implicit in the ''Tubby, the Tuba," which is now a rec­ a small income by doing monologues at characters and stories he presents. ord-album classic and which led to other colleges and little theatres. As the "When I did the life of Abraham Lin­ children's stories, including "Peewee the months went on, the Tripps began to coln," Paul says, "someone asked me if I Piccolo." The same imagination which pawn their belongings and borrow from couldn't 'get God in somehow' in connec­ saw human beings in musical instruments their friends. tion with the Gettysburg Address. But can be seen at work in his television By Christmas of 1948, their resources the spiritual quality of a man like Lincoln show. were exhausted; they had nothing more suggests the presence of God; his story is Working for the experimental theatre to pawn and they were in debt for about an education in itsp.lf. There's no need in New York, at a salary of five dollars $2,200, a very serious state of affairs for to hit it hard." for three months, he directed "Seeds in a man with a three-year-old daughter. It Mr. I. Magination's formula for making the Wind," a play with a cast of 16 chil­ was a real "cliff-hanger," with Paul dreams come true has not proved entirely dren and one adult which eventually ap­ watching himself, as the hero, and won­ satisfactory for Paul himself. As a child, peared on Broadway. dering if he would be resc;.ued before that growing up in New York City, his first "Even in my first Broadway produc­ thin thread broke. The rescue came in great ambition was to be an opera singer. tion," he says with a grin, "I had to have the form of a call from CBS-when Paul He wished very hard and his singing was children in the cast." was in bed with a cold and ready to give generally applauded but when he grew It was a valuable experience, if only up-and the Tripps managed to hang on up, he discovered that his voice was too because he learned how to handle "stage to the cliff until April when the show light for the operatic stage. Now, of mothers"-there were 16 of them-a prob­ went on the air. course, he sings h is own songs, but, he lem for any producer. He sums it all up Paul might be described now as "tele­ confesses, he still can't read a note of by saying that the first step in casting a vision-struck." Braving the wrath of music. child actor is a quick appraisal of the theatre-lovers, he declares that "the thea­ "After all these years," he says. "I find mother . If the mother is a "nice woman" tre is dying but television is alive and myself singing my own songs--and I can't who allows the child to work out his own vibrant." read a note of music." problems, the child might be a good actor. "It's new and it combines a wealth of Always stage-struck, Paul turned to The child who is constantly being pushed talents in a single production. It's the the theatre and, after graduating from the by his mother is likely to be too pre­ biggest challenge to an actor because it's City College of New York, took a job as cocious. so personal; the actor must play to the actor, writer and director of plays at the When the success of Paul's children's individual. And there are no retakes, as Christadora Settlement House. It was stories - he has written ten - prompted in the movies." here that Mr. I. Magimltion first saw the Norman and Irving Pincus to suggest that Like every actor accustomed to the ligh t of day. Lacking a good assortment he create a television program, he went legitimate stage, Paul founJ it difficult to of theatrical props, Paul conceived the searching for ideas and found Mr. I., talk into the camera. He invented names idea of a man who could make anything sound asleep in his old files. Paul wasn't for it, sometimes gave it his wife's name, come true and imagination supplied the very interested in television-he hadn't as a means of breaking down his resist­ most sumptuous scenery. Actually, Mr. I. even seen anything on the TV screen ance. He had to learn, too, not to blink is an American version of the Chinese except a baseball game-and he wanted when the lens was close to his eyes and other tricks peculiar to television acting. But with the television camera, he points out, anyone can be a magician be­ cause "the camera shows only what you want it to." While the camera is giving a close-up of his face, a stagehand slips something into his hand and "Voilal"-a feat of magic is performed. Even his daughter thinks he can "do magic." Although Paul is very pleased with Mr. I., the latter does get him into trouble on occasion with his theory that "any­ thing is possible if you wish it hard enough." For his little girl, Paul has a split personality: fle is Mr. I. and then, he is "just my daddy." But there was another little gir l who asked, "Can you turn me into a ballet dancer?" Paul thought hard for a moment and then told her that if she worked at itl he would try to help her. And then there was the little boy who said, "I wish I had a gun," "I wish I had a gun," "I wish I had a gun," time after time for hours in suc­ cession. "He was' furious with his mother and "Mr. I." cornea out of his disguise aa a dancing girl to fight me when he didn't get it," says Paul. two renegades in a story devoted to the Klondike Gold Rush. THE END

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ON producers of "City at Midnight" have The Play'. The Thing [ ll"BS be seen now-not merely heard. Further, been able to bring to the screen at home I it is quite worth seeing, for those who an amount of realism that has not been Tuesdays, 9 p.ln. want to forget themselves through this seen as yet over the air, except for sports "The Play's ' The Thing" was on the , type of show which sometimes tries to or parades or other "special" events. ABC-TV network last season, and copped' scare the daylights out of them and some­ The only trouble with this show is that all kinds of credit. It rated with the very times tries just to intrigue them with it hasn't developed some of its oilier best of the dramatic offerings on tele­ neat story-telling, perhaps involving techniques. The acting is only fair. And vision. So ABC dropped it this season! scary doings and/or crime. the dramas that have been used are-as And quicker than you could say "tro­ Sometimes you 'will find that the nar­ a whole-second-rate or worse. Often, pospheric interference," CBS picked up rator of the show, who opens with an also, the sound is bad-sometimes, even the program for its own video operations. Elerie kind of laughter, doesn't really non-existent. But the central, basic idea It was a smart, fast move. For "The Play's contribute to the mood he wants to estab­ of the program is excellent. The Thing" is still one of the finest dra­ lish. Always you will find on this pro­ It is possible that by the time this matic half-hours on the air, visual or gram that, once the mood is established, review gets into print, the producers will aural. it stays that way- there are no middle have found some more original scripts Very often, you will find on this show commercials to break up the atmosphere. and will have tightened up on some of dramatizations of some short stories from Anyway, it would be a good idea to make their other sectors to make this the ex­ the pens of the ablest writers we have. sure that Junior is tucked into bed and cellent program {hal it could be: This The adaptations are always solid and that his bedroom door is .closed before reviewer hopes so, sincerely. For "City sensible. The acting is all that the stories "Lights Out" goes on. It's for grown­ at Midnight" has in it the possibility. of call for. The direction is tight and ups only. being a top contribution to enjoyable, smooth. There may be humor or pathos realistic television. or tragedy in the story; but whatever its mood, the television version reproduces Paul Whiteman Revue that mood faithfully. You can't do bet­ Sundays, 7 p.m. ter in the drama department anywhere. Romance ~~ When you get Paul "Pops" Whiteman Thursdays, 8:30 ~ himself at his best-that's plenty good. IT you like syrup and pap, take a look And that is exactly what you do get on at CBS-TV's "Romance" program. Here this Sunday evening program on the it is splashed on in full measure. Of ABC-TV network. course, the title tells you what to expect. ABC has rather fouled up its schedules . But it is surprising to note how the writ­ of late. First, it became frightened of ing, productiop and direction hew to that Milton Berle's opposition on NBC and romantic formula. It is all sweetness and decided that, on Tuesday nights, it would light or roses and honeysuckle or tears not even start programming until Eerie's and heartbreak. You may like that kind antics were over. Then it ' cut out all of stuff. So here it is-in full measure. programming on Monday ahd Tuesday nights except the Roller Derby. Finally, it killed the Derby's Monday appearance, and just called it a pair of black, vacant Suspense ~~ nights-doing notlling at all either Mon­ Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m. day or Tuesday nights. ~ Well, it has made up in a way by giving This program-from its long life on the us the Whiteman show on Sunday night. radio-is too well known to need long "Pops" has known for a long time how discussion here. You know what to expect to put over a number. And he does it from a "Suspense''''show on the air. The here, before the cameras, in such a way only question relevant here is: "Does it as to make for showmanship. Further­ go over on TV?" The answer is a big­ more, he has guests who really mean boldface- type YES! something-these have included Eddie Watch, particularly, for the camera Albert, Allyn McLerie, Charles Laugh­ work on this show. It is, in this reviewer's ton, Mady Christians, and Hoagy Car­ opinion, superb. Here you see how much "The Play's The Thing" presents micheal. This department recommends can - be done with this wonderful new Arthur O'Connell and Kim Hunter. the Whiteman show most heartily. instrument. Anyway, watch "Suspense" This department- as all its conductor's on TV. You can't go wrong. enemies contend-is all-ou t for a straight Lights Out deal-which is what' the Whiteman show gives you. And to prove how straight­ Mondays, 9 p .m. forward this department is, it is going to At one tiqte, "Lights Out" was a radio sneak in a review or two under the program on which the famous Arch Whiteman heading-although their rela­ Lilli P almer Oboler produced all kinds of hair-raising tionship to "Pops" ranges from the re­ in a scene effects with pure sound. Oboler once got mote to the non-existent. from "The tired of a series of whodunits he was Somewhere or 'other, this department Comic Strip doing, and so he devised a way of ending simply must mention two programs that Murder" on the run. On the program (this was still "Suspense." television has done and which-':"by the in the old-fashioned days of radio) he very nature of things-you cannot see, had the writer killed. That was that, as for the simple reason that they cannot far as Oboler was concerned. But "Lights be repeated. 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4 cameras and a wrestler (Continued from page 51) of Little Sicily, lined with· pushcarts and with a knife but Sean Michael is too he sees a column of-policemen, their guns crowded with people. Suddenly he quick for him. He sidesteps, gives the drawn, advancing down the street. A catches sight of Fabio Stuigi, chief courier Bear a terrific uppercut and the killer real battle breaks out but gradually the for the Black Hand's extortion attempts, falls backward, hitting his head on the police, with Sean Michael in the thick of in the act of putting a note under a door. cobblestones. He is obviously dead. the fighting, take over and the gang is After reading the note, which is a demand The next morning when Sean Michael, lined up against a wall. Only Fabio is for money, he follows Fabio to the roof after telling the captain that "when you missing. where they fight and Fabio escapes with see me next, I'll have me helmet," re­ While Theresa bandages the rookie's the rookie's helmet. (Members of the turns to Little Sicily he finds a rope wounded wrist, he learns that she had Mafia regularly steal poiicemen's helmets stretched across the street and on it a gone to the police that morning and as a gesture of contempt for the law.) sign, "Any cop that crosses this line gets pressed charges against the Mafia. The The mob, which has been watching the killed" with a rudely-painteq black hand. police had never been able to take action rooftop fight from the street, jeers and While he is standing there, trying to get against them because no one had had the Fabio struts cockily into the pool parlor up enough courage to cross the line, The­ courage to report them, but now the gang from which the Mafia operates. resa passes and does her best to warn can be put in Sing Sing. When Sean ' When Sean Michael knocks on the door him, in a low whisper, not to lift the rope. Michael leaves, unaware that Fabio has where Fabio had left the note, the girl She has seen Fabio and a few other mem­ been listening, Fabio pounces on the girl. who opens it tells him that her ' father bers of the Mafia, all armed with knives They struggle and he begins to reach for has _"gone away." Her eyes wide with or guns, peering from the rooftop. In the his knife as he gets her by the throat. fea'r, Theresa will give him no further pool room, the "uncles," leaders of the But Sean Michael returns to tell The­ information because "they'll think I'm in­ gang, are watching. • resa to go to headquarteJ's in the morn­ forming." Trying not to look like the Twice the rookie swings his leg across ing and Fabio flees to the roof. In the shorn lamb he feels, without his helmet, the rope, twice he ' retreats. While the course of a fierce battle, Fabio falls over Sean Michael walks through the crowd, "uncles" smile at his cowardice, he walks the edge to the lower roof. ':Beside his silent now, to the police call box. He back to the rope for a third time and lifeless body is the grey helmet. calls the Captain to report the incident suddenly charges over it, firing his re­ As Sean Michael strolls through the but he has not been talking very long volver as he heads for the pool room. street again, casually swinging his night before a great paw comes down over the The "uncles" flee and Sean Michael stick as if this were the safest beat in the mouthpiece and he recognizes the Bear, crouches behind a pool table to wait for world, the shops are beginning to open up a ferocious brute who is the Mafia's chief the gang. and the women and children come back killer. In the street, Fabio and his men, from on the streets. He tips his helmet in As the crowd, anticipating another · behind a barricade of pushcarts and bar­ courteous response to the people's admir­ fight, forms a circle around the two men, rels, fire into the pool room and throw ing smiles. They seem relieved. The the Bear breaks the telephone cord and knives through the broken window. The honest Italians can live without fear be­ the young cop drives his fist between the firing becomes intense and Fabio is about cause Little Sicily is no longer under the killer's eyes. In a rage, the Bear lunges to give the signal to storm the shop when rule of the evil few. THE END

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