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reTIIV&RvADIO LOGS-/ifJMA FR.28-EAPR.3 i rv eAr 1 Our 13th Birthday Issue 1 cents Presenting SY ;Dam of TV and Radio Stars â Featuring TV-Radio Life's /0a 7efetetaai Distinguished Achievement Awards in TV and Radio et/Sic Continuous YOU Musical Entertainment featuring melodies you love to hear ALL LONG Five minutes of latest news hourly at 25 minutes past the hour plus frequent news bulletins. KBIQ Dia174 The Catalina Station If you're one to whom Music Brings Memories Hear Memorable Music Every Day on KFVD • The Melody Isle in the Center of your Dial e 1020 KILOCYCLES "There's a cute novelty for your show," says Clyde Cadwell helping Violet Schram select music for her daily "Shopping Hilites" program. Mary Ford may have heard the story before, but KFVD staff members Earl McDaniel, Carl Brewster and George Sanders find Les Paul highly entertaining even without a guitar! "Something wonderful happens .. " To judge from the expressions on the faces of George Sanders and the movies' Marie Windsor, the interview taped very well! Obviously pleased with their scoop on the Lcs Angeles arrival of Mambo King Perez Prado are Pete and Eddie Rodriguez who made with the fiesta at 6 a.m. "Buenos Dias"! vie ret,,e 4Vestern Ste Feature evaucbonxi, Swingshift Theatre Western Varieties Newsreel S POncs p Wild Eill. H. Broadway Playhouse arede 'ekok -fe,eie ()41e ht Movies eç..eei rele\lesVeles day lig of• iolir Sate +?"' Lawrence Welk's Champagne Music Tricks and Treats c'.'-`e Uagazirie of the Week Wrestling ir....._ le sho eseuvtaecteatietee Frosty Frolics liandyn. el'h TV-RADIO LIFE //es oet The G YPSY ON YOUR Cowboy Thrills Avin M0 13TH ANNIVERSARY If Ves eeîest From Your Town icias 1st Go Fly Bo KTLA tastsiae Cit)7 at in y }Wet a Rey HuttoinAn Giant Movie Matinee Sbel Man's Best Friend `-eni Show Coco‘e 'tie\e‘ Playcrafter's Club Police Calls Charlie Ch005m7ieed.çheetre.11/44 Bandstand R evilS4:4 4'Eri ase C ‘fe) oetig At e ase The Movies /1011y-wood pl? EildF3ighting West F CONGRATULATIONS ROBERTA [INN from LAWRENCE WELK and all the - CHAMPAGNE MUSIC MAKERS "7e fteiti ff Thanks to KTLA for making all this possible KTLA ARAGON LICK PIER KTLA • OCEAN PARK • Fridays Tuesday Nights 7:30 BALLROOM Wednesdays thru Sundays 8 to 9 P.M. DOYE O'DELL Congratulations Howdy, folks: to Congratulations to you and Tr-RADIO LIFE DICK all our TV-Radio Life DOROTHY KEN friends. 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MONDAY THRU FRIDAY l'FluDeoLeeev Announces and Presents Its 10th Annual "THE CELANESE THEATRE" In January of this year. when TV- Radio Life Magazine's Tenth Annual Distinguished Achievement Awards were presented at a gala Hollywood Ad Club luncheon, the affair marked more than passing out of beautiful scrolls to a group of actors, actresses. show producers and station man- agers. It marked the end of a period of sorting, deciding, discarding, dis- suading and occasional dispute among the members of our staff. Webster has "award" as "to give by sentence or judicial determination." March 27, 1953 JACK WEBB EVE ARDEN DINAH SHORE That entails a good bit of listen- ing and watching, especially since the magazine's policy is to stimulate achievement by not allowing one TELEVISION AWARDS show or personality to win the same award twice in the same category. It NATIONAL meant recognition of "outstanding achievement" in the year just passed. MUSICAL Dinah Shore Show Television Awards COMEDY Ozzie and Harriet The Dinah Shore Show emerged DRAMATICS "Celanese Theater" as our award winner in the musical MYSTERY-DETECTIVE "Dragnet" category; not for the music alone DOCUMENTARY "Victory at Sea'• nor for Missy Shore's effervescent personality, but for general excel- NEWS "Camel News Caravan" lence of presentation and production CONVERSION, RADIO TO TV "Our Miss Brooks" and great originality. Production - NEW SHOW "Omnibus" writing-directing reins lie in the hands of one of Hollywood's most NEW CHARACTERIZATION "Mr. Peepers" capable, Alan Handley, to whom NEW PERSONALITY (Feminine) Martha Raye Dinah herself was first to give credit (Masculine) Donald O'Connor for her "distinguished achievement." Comedy. Drama, and **Dragnet" LOCAL ABC-TV's "Adventures of Ozzie and Harrier' received our award as the SPORTS KHJ-TV comedy show whose achievement was outstanding. Freshness of script EDUCATIONAL -Halls of Science" and character were enhanced im- PANEL "Juke Box Jury" measurably by the show's refusal to SPECIAL EVENT KNBH (Find Chadwick Swim) present married folks as bickering NEW PERSONALITY (Feminine) Roberta Linn enemies motivated by suspicion. The (Masculine) Liberace Nelsons are supported in this weekly half hour by their sons, Ricky and SPECIAL AWARD Klaus Landsberg David Nelson, both giiod juvenile ac- ("A" Bomb Telecast) tors with the same grasp of timing that marks their parents' comedic work. RADIO AWARDS ABC-TV's "Celanese Theater" was the fine dramatic show you used to NATIONAL see "live" out of New York on alter- nate Wednesdays. Maxwell Ander- SUPPORTING PLAYER (Feminine ) lrene Tedrow son, Philip Barry and other famous playwrights superintended the pro- (Masculine) Howard McNear duction of their own works for WRITER-ADAPTER Frank Galen "Celanese," and at least once an PRODUCER-DIRECTOR Elliott Lewis actress was flown in from England DOCUMENTARY "The People Act" when Pamela Brown starred in "Sky- lark" at the author's insistence and DRAMATIC "Best Plays" Celanese Corporation's expense. This NEW SHOW Bob and Ray series was indeed distinguished. NEW PERSONALITY Spring Byington Production heads used to be dis- tressed about Jack Webb's expensive insistence on authenticity, especial- LOCAL ly when certain metals and woods NEWS COVERAGE KECA were !patched for "Dragnet." But Jack's insistence, complete directori- NEWS PROGRAM "KFI Calling" al supervision, and starring of him- self in this series based on actual case records from the files of the Los March 27, ; 953 Page Fifteen CHET HUNTLEY, HANK WEAVER, SPRING BYINGTON BOB ELLIOTT AND RAY GOULDING BOB GARRED Angeles Police resulted in NBC-TV's CBS-TV's "Our Miss Brooks" is a Peepers," is outstanding, inimitable. excellent "Dragnet" dragging down rollicking, well-done comedy with completely lovable, and registers our 1952 mystery-detective award. solid characterization and story. TV - achievement in his portrayal of TV's best and newest. The Documentary Radio Life considered the Eve Arden starrer a most successful conversion Martha Raye has been around for Probably no documentary of our from radio to TV, with no violations a long time. The girl whose rubber TV time can touch NBC-TV's "Victory en route of miscasting or writing. face, pathos, great voice and fabu- at Sea." No other has been made in lous legs made her a picture and conjunction with the United States "Omnibus," "Peepers" and stage favorite actually bowed on TV Navy, from resources that spread Our Personalities in 1951. But 1952 was the year that over the writing of Henry Solomon. CBS-TV, with some $2,000,000 of saw Martha bend her talents toward famed naval historian; musical scor- Ford Foundation's money, debuted becoming an outstanding feminine ing by Richard Rodgers for the epi- "Omnibus," with something for every- uersonality on television, and for her sodes; and some 60,000,000 feet of one, in 1952. Culture with a capital ;TV coming of age, TV-Radio Life film from all countries, much of it C, but also with a divergence of fare saluteçl her.