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Jfd Gime Filadw. Elan. Established 1975 g fie (!Jfd gime filadw. elan. Established 1975 Number 257 February 1998 BURGESS MEREDITH and ORSON WELLES at work reading scripts. Orson Welles is all things to any manuscript. He may re-write, act, direct, stage or just scare Hell out of the nation with it. (Photo courtesy of Albert Tonik) Publication of the Old Time Radio Club Membership Information Club Officers and Librarians New member processing, $5 plus club membership President of $15 per year from January 1 to December 31. Jerry Collins (716) 683-6199 Members receive a tape library listing, reference 56 Christen Ct. library listing, and a monthly newsletter. Member­ Lancaster, NY 14086 ships are as follows: If you join January-March, $15; April-June, $12; July-September, $8; October­ Vice President & Canadian Branch December; $5. All renewals should be sent in as Richard Simpson soon as possible to avoid missing issues. Please be 960 16 Road R.R. 3 sure to notify us if you have a change of address. Fenwick, Ontario The Old Time Radio Club meets the first Monday Canada, LOS 1CO of every month at 7:30 PM during the months of September to June at 393 George Urban Blvd., Treasurer, Back Issues, Video & Records Cheektowaga, NY 14225. The club meets informally Dominic Parisi (716) 884-2004 during the months of July and August at the same 38 Ardmore PI. address. Anyone interested in the Golden Age of Buffalo, NY 14213 Radio is welcome. The Old Time Radio Club is af­ filiated with The Old Time Radio Network. Membership Renewals, Change of Address Peter Bellanca (716) 773-2485 Club Mailing Address 1620 Ferry Road Old Time Radio Club ...Grand Island, NY 14072 . P.O. Box 426 Membership Inquires and OrR Lancaster, NY 14086 Network Related Items Richard Olday (716) 684-1604 Back issues of The Illustrated Press are $1.50 post­ paid. Publications out of print may be borrowed 100 Harvey Dr. Lancaster, NY 14086 from our Reference Library. Tape Libraries Deadline for The Illustrated Press is the Cassettes 1st of each month prior to publication. Don Friedrich (716) 626-9164 21 Southcrest The Illustrated Press is a monthly newsletter of The Cheektowaga, NY 14225 Old Time Radio Club, headquartered in Western New York State. Contents except where noted, are Reel-to-Reel and Reference Library copyright 1996 by the OTRC. Ed Wanat Sr. (716) 895-9690 393 George Urban Blvd. Cheektowaga, NY 14225 Send all articles, letters, exchange newsletters, Tape Library Rates: All reels and video cassettes etc. to: The Illustrated Press are $1.85 per month; audio cassettes and records c/o Ken Krug, Editor (716) 684-5290 are $0.85 per month. Rates include postage and 49 Regal Street handling. Canadian rates are the same as above, Depew, New York 14043 but in Canadian funds. fJeD:uuvuj 1998 Publication of the Old Time Radio Club One of the dominant actresses in radio soap opera played the heroine on When a Girl Marries during most of its run. Mary Jane Higby, recalled by students of the SAME TIME, genre for her insightful 1966 book Tune in Tomorrow, or How I Found the Right to Happiness with Our Gal SAME STATiON Sunday, Stella Dallas, John's Other Wife and Other by Jim Cox Sudsy Radio Serials, appeared in all of the serials named, and more. Six months after Marries began on CBS May 29, 1939 WHEN A GIRL MARRIES she was tapped to succeed Noel Mills in the lead role. Higby played it until the series was permanently can­ celed by ABC Aug. 30, 1957. It had been canceled three Producers Frank and Anne Hummert favored a fair times previously, always finding its way back on the air number of their serials with the hypothesis of taking a before. In its heyday, 1941-51, the drama aired on NBC young woman from the sticks and marrying her to a at 5 p.m. sponsored by General Foods (for Swans Down, man of prosperity, culture, education, influence and Sure-Jell, Maxwell House, Baker's, Calumet and other social status. But soap opera creator Elaine Sterne brands). Carrington decided to reverse the trend. In When a Girl Marries the male of the duo came from the wrong side The part of Harry Davis, Joan's opposite number, was of the tracks. played by actors Whitfield Connor, Robert Haag, John Raby and Lyle Sudrow. Child impersonator Dolores For years young Harry Davis - fresh out of law school Gillen was the Davises' son Sammy, while Marion but lacking in prestige and refinement characterizing Barney appeared as Mother Davis and Frances Joan Field's prominently successful attorney-father ­ Woodbury as Mother Field. harbored a feeling of lagging his spouse's aristocratic caste, even after he became moderately successful. To the tune of Drigo's "Serenade" the serial arrived each day played on the studio organ by Richard Leibert, Rosa When the young lovers married, Harry's humble origins Rio and John Winters. Announcers included some of plagued him. But an attractive secretary, Betty radio's most formidable names: George Ansbro, Frank MacDonald, diverted his attention (and affections). For Gallop, Don Gardiner, Hugh James, Dennis King, years after the births of Sammy and Hope, Joan and Wendell Niles, Dick Stark and Charles Stark. Harry's children, Joan lived in numbed depression with her children at her parents' home in Stanwood. Betty, While the series was created by Elaine Carrington, meanwhile, dropped Harry and went after Steve author of Pepper Young's Family, Rosemary and several Skidmore, a new love interest of Irma Cameron, Joan's other serials, in the 1940s she relinquished the writing good friend. She took Steve from Irma and married duties on this one to LeRoy Bailey. He had earlier him. To her final credit, however, Betty performed at penned Thanks for Tomorrow, a washboard weeper that least one good deed, sacrificing her own life to save also starred Mary Jane Higby. young Sammy Davises when a truck went out of con­ trol. For a dozen years the tale of Joan and Harry Davis, the "tender, human story of young married life, dedicated to Harry was tried and convicted of murdering Betty's everyone who has ever been in love," was one of the look-a-like cousin a short time later. But Joan came to most popular on the air. At times it drew more listeners his rescue, unraveling the mystery and sending the real than any other daytime radio feature. During the era it culprit behind bars. Later, Harry suffered a severe case was broadcast while America's homemakers prepared of amnesia, walking the streets of New York in search the evening meal, the drama became a near ritual for of his identity. He, too, like his radio peer Lorenzo millions who swooned over the perils faced by a couple Jones, almost made it down the aisle with another they had followed for many, many years. woman while still married. A few years later, Joan became temporarily paralyzed in an accident, pushing Harry into serious financial hardship. And all of it tran­ spired in what was purportedly claimed to be a love story. :Je!Puuvut 1998 Publication ofthe Old Time Radio Club Scotland Yard skit. After a few weeks of nonpaying bit Clint Buehlman, 85, parts, he was hired as an announcer. Having the least seniority, he was assigned to sign on the station at 6 epitome ofmorning a.m, and do the morning show. radio to generations of A WGR sales representative introduced him to a "musi­ cal clock" format he heard about at a conference in listeners in WNY, Chicago and Buehlman, who disliked the formal announcing style of the era, adopted it and became an is dead immense success. In addition to giving time and the weather, he cracked jokes and played records, singing along with them and sometimes breaking them on the By DALE ANDERSON air. Clint Buehlman, the morning radio personality who He developed warm relationships with the sponsors, helped Buffalonians rise and shine for 46 years, died who bought quarter-hour segments of his show. He Tuesday (Dec. 2, 1997) in his home in Snyder. He was would visit their stores and offices, get to know their 85. He had been in poor health since suffering a near­ employees and their products and give a personal touch fatal heart attack in 1988. to his endorsements. Some of his sponsors stayed with him for more than 40 years. "Yours truly, Buehly," who was the host of shows on WGR early in his career and on WBEN from 1943 until WBEN hired him away from WGR in 1943, bringing his retirement in 1977, reigned for almost all of those him in to replace Jack Parr, who left to serve in the years as the city's most popular broadcaster. His spon­ Army. At WBEN, as "your A.M. M.C., C.B." Buehlman taneity and his mixture of music and information revo­ refined the public service features of his program, par­ lutionized the strait-laced formatting that prevailed in ticularlyduring winter storms, when he would drive to radio in the early 1930s. the studio over snow-clogged streets in a jeep equipped with a plow. In his later years, before the advent of computerized winter storm data, he was the area's ultimate authority He would also admonish drivers to be careful, sitting on highway conditions and school closings. down at the piano to play and sing this little ditty: "Leave for work a little early, Son of a Swiss immigrant, Clinton Darn Buehlman was For you'll find the streets are slick.
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