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MADELEINE CARROLL
Radio's Engrossing Story of OUR GAL SUNDAY'S ROMANCE a Bride Without a Groom
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FEBRUARY, 1940 VOL. 13 No. 4
MiRROR ERNEST V. HEYN BELLE LANDESMAN, FRED R. SAMMIS Executive Editor ASSISTANT EDITOR Editor
What the "Other Woman" Taught Me 10 The strange admission of a radio star's beautiful wife Our Gal Sunday's Romance 12 Beginning radio's thrilling drama of a bride without a groom The Woman of Tomorrow Eleanor Roosevelt 16 The First Lady draws an inspiring picture of your future
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FEBRUARY, 1940 Dennis Day (right), Jell- O's new tenor, confers with his music coach, Charles Henderson, the author of "How to Sing for Money."
many times have you been listening re- and I would enjoy tuning in, could easily bridge HOWlaxed after a day's work, to some pleasant the gap between a promising amateur and a suc- music on your radio, only to have your ears cessful professional. assaulted by a voice which grated on your nerves, There has never been such a bridge that I know singing badly the melody of a simple tune that you of, to cross that gap. Which is why I am so inter- felt you could hum better yourself? ested in the new book recently published by That has always seemed to me to be one of George Palmer Putnam. It is called "How To Sing radio's most irritating and perplexing faults. Why for Money" and was written by Charles Hender- should any orchestra have difficulty finding a son and Charles Palmer. singer who won't aggravate the listener? Yet, let's Charles Henderson is a music coach, probably be honest. I can't tune in my radio for more than the most successful one in radio. He is now in half an hour before some singer's nasal qualities Hollywood and works with stars like Deanna or inability to stay on key has brought my listen- Durbin, Frances Langford, and Dennis Day, the ing pleasure to an abrupt end. Because dance new singer on Jack Benny's program. It is his bands prefer girl vocalists to add a dash of good job to see that these stars make the most of their looks the singer is usually feminine. talents, that their voices are pleasing to us when Why should it be so difficult to find singers who we tune them in. He doesn't give two whoops for possess a pleasant voice? One bandleader a few art in singing. Either the voice pleases us, the weeks ago told me that he had been searching two listeners, or it's no good for radio. All that he months for a girl whose only qualifications were has learned in years of being associated with basic good looks and a singing voice that came singers in vaudeville, night clubs, musical come-
quietly and decently over the air. In those two dies and radio ' he has put down in this new months he had auditioned perhaps a hundred girls, book. given two or three a week's tryout with the band "How to Sing for Money" is written in behalf of and was still without a permanent singer. He those thousands of young people whose rose-edged was leaving the week after he talked to me for a dreams can be turned into wonderful reality. With long tour around the country. He was hoping the right instruction and training, they can start somewhat pessimistically that perhaps somewhere, out on the high road to success. somehow by then he would find the voice he That is why I am publishing in Radio Mirror wanted. a series of articles taken directly from this book. Yet certainly there are thousands of young You will find the first chapter on page 24 of this people who hope some day to sing for a living, issue. If the publication of this series brings just young people who have pleasing voices right now one new voice to the air that will add to your and only need professional polishing to make good listening pleasure, I will count it a success. And on the air. Given the proper training, the greater perhaps that voice is yours? percentage of them could become singers that you —FRED R. SAMMIS
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Two of his discoveries meet—Rudy Vol lee in- troducing Alice Faye to his new prodigy, Sylvia.
reports that Connie Boswell is had stolen it, darling of his heart THEable to walk were a little prema- that it was. There was a tense mo- ture, but the truth is good news ment before everything was ex- enough. After being confined to her plained, but now the two men are Connie friends again, each happy to be WONDER Tampax is trav- wheel-chair since childhood, good NO hat. eling fast and Tampax users can now swim and ride horseback, owning and wearing his own * * * growing. In addition to the new and is so delighted about this that converts to Tampax, many part- she doesn't really mind not yet being When Edgar Bergen made Charlie time users have now become whole- able to stand and walk by herself. As McCarthy's voice come out of Morti- time users, in view of the new Super she remarks, she's making a good mer Snerd's mouth on a recent Chase Tampax size, 50% more absorbent than Regu- living for herself and the people she and Sanborn broadcast, he got the lar Tampax. loves, and that's more than many a biggest laugh of the evening. But if Perfected by a physician, Tampax is worn person who has the use of his legs you think the fluff was planned, you internally for monthly sanitary protection. The can say. should have seen his face. * * * wearer is not conscious of it, but can keep up her * * * regular activities without fear of any chafing, One of radio's most happily mar- If it hadn't been for the good wrinkling ried couples, the Del Sharbutts, will or showing of a "line." No odor sportsmanship and energy of Robert can form; have another in about four no disposal problems. baby Benchley and Fred Allen, the Screen is is former Tampax made of pure surgical cotton, months. Mrs. Sharbutt the Actors Guild program would have hygienically sealed in individual containers, Meri Bell, who used to be in radio found itself in serious trouble a few so neat and ingenious your hands herself until she began being a wife never touch Sundays ago. They were two of the the Tampax at all! Comfortable, efficient, and mother, and Dell announces for guest stars on one of the broadcasts compact to carry in your purse. the Ask-It-Basket, Guy Lombardo, which emanated from New York; Three sizes: Regular, Super and programs. They Junior. At and Hobby Lobby Tallulah Bankhead was the other. drug stores and notion counters: Introductory already have one child, an eleven- Miss Bankhead, though, didn't ap- size ; but large econ- month-old daughter. 20tf pear on the program, and here's the omy package saves up * * * reason why. Several days before the to 25%. This is the saga of a hat, the most broadcast the script was submitted to Accepted for Advertising by her. rejected it and asked for a the Journal of the American expensive one ever bought by Frank- She Medical Association. lin P. Adams of the NBC Information new one, saying she didn't like the Please program. He paid thirty dol- material. The new one was written, lars for it—at least five times as and though she still wasn't quite much as he'd ever paid before—and satisfied she consented to appear on brought it with him to the program. the show. But Sunday afternoon's re- While he was on the air, he laid it hearsal came, and the temperamental down alongside a few dozen other Tallulah didn't show up at all. At the hats, and when he went to retrieve it, last minute, Benchley and Allen had found it missing. The only hat left to sit down and whip up a comedy was a battered brown felt, pretty old script to go into the time that was to and a size and a half too small be- have been occupied by Tallulah. sides. The furious Mr. Adams made What made it all the more difficult the best of a bad bargain, picking up was that it was almost time for the the old hat and wearing it. A few sponsor to renew the program's con- days later he broadcast might haye TAMPAX INCORPORATED MWG-20 met an acquaintance of tract, and a bad Brunswick. his on the street—a man also con- resulted in no renewal—and hence in New N. J. Please send me in plain wrapper the new trial package nected with the Information Please no more money for the Screen Actors unpsx, I enclose lOtf (stamps or silver) to cover cost show—who at sight of Adams began Guild charity fund. . . . Winchell has jl mailing. Size is checked below: to scream, "Thief! Robber!" and a word for Miss Bankhead's lack of ( ) RH.C.'IAK ( ) SUPER < JUNIOR ) ended up by snatching the shabby consideration. Name old head-piece from F. P. A.'s head * * * and clutching it lovingly to his Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf of Addreti bosom. Of course it belonged to him, Gang Busters is extending his sym- City -State. and he was convinced that Adams pathies to the latest of his four name- RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR a — "
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sakes, Norman Kent Schwarzkopf of Bison, Kansas. The new baby, he says, can look forward to losing about ten per cent of his mail due to a mis- spelling of his name, having that name mispronounced by forty per cent of the people he meets, and spending fully 234,000 minutes of his lifetime spelling out S-c-h-w-a-r-z- k-o-p-f over the telephone. * * * Babs, of the Smoothies vocal trio, wants to get married, but she's post- poning her wedding and staying with the trio until Charlie and Little Ryan find somebody to take her place not an easy task. When the wedding happens, Delmar Sandburg, Cincin- nati radio executive, will be the lucky man. * * * The champion gate-crasher of the Toscanini concerts on NBC was none other than Lou Gehrig, the former Doing the Hollywood night spots in a big way these days, are baseball star. He never had tickets, Mary Livingstone, Bob Preston, Dorothy Lamour and Jack Benny. but he managed to get into every one of the maestro's eight concerts in the first series, and will probably repeat since the studio's a big place, there white lights when they're going up when Toscanini returns in March. was always at least one unoccupied and red ones going down, but nowa- seat in the auditorium. Here's how he did it—the manager of days the Radio City elevators use * * * NBC's Guest Relations department is blue lights for up-bound cars. Get an old Gehrig fan and always Somebody in Radio City thought up the idea?—NBC's Blue and Red net- sneaked him into the studio if there a cute idea and managed to get it put works! was an extra seat to be found. And into operation. Most elevators flash (Turn to next page)
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SLIMMER Lili Valenti, who plays Rose on the to get them on the air, but on the CBS serial, Joyce Jordan, Girl In- other hand he frequently has to work . , . at once! terne, has also played minor parts in days arranging a single fifteen-min- WOULD you like to SLENDERIZE your the same story from time to time, and ute interview with some person who SILHOUETTE . . . and wear dresses in them has "died" three times—all is shy of a microphone and the listen- sizes smaller? That is just what the Thynmold on the same program. The last time ing public. Perforated Rubber Girdle will do for you! But you she "died" she walked out of the Herb's two stations have all sorts won't believe it possible unless you actually try it yourself. That is why we will send you a beautiful studio after the broadcast, slipped, of equipment for going into the high- THYNMOLD Girdle and Brassiere to test for 10 and sprained her ankle. Lili says she's ways and byways for news and en- days at our expense. If you cannot wear a dress not superstitious, but she doesn't tertainment. Besides maintaining smaller than you normally wear, it costs you nothing. want to be in another death-bed transmission lines to railroad stations, BULGES smoothed Out INSTANTLY! scene, for fear something worse might airports, and all the leading hotels Make the simple silhouette test! Stand before a happen. and night clubs, they have three mo- mirror in your ordinary foundation. Notice the * * * bile units and two pack transmitters. bumps of fat . . . the thickness . . . of waist the width That of the mobile units are housed in of hips. Now slip into your Alan Reed, announcer on Col- Two THYNMOLD and see the amaz- onel Stoopnagle's Quixie Doodle large automobiles and the third in a QaicW ing difference! Your new outline show over MBS, is none other than midget car, while the pack transmit- is not only smaller, but all bulges c1 your old friend, Teddy Berg- ters weigh thirty pounds each and co*»* have been smoothed out instantly! comedy man. Teddy decided to change his can be strapped to an announcer's Test THYNMOLD for 10 days name as a matter of business. The shoulders while he threads his way at our expense! old one limited him to jobs through crowds at football games, Make the silhouette test comedy the minute you receive your on the air, but the new one, with its parades or other large gatherings. THYNMOLD. Then wear it 10 added dignity, gives him a chance to The worst thing that ever happened days and make the mirror test be an announcer and an actor as to a reporter carrying a pack trans- again. You will be amazed. If you are not delighted ... if well. Already he's playing the role mitter, Herb says, occurred during THYNMOLD does not correct of Rocky Marshall on the NBC serial, the judging of a livestock show at your figure faults and do One of the Finest, besides announcing the Ohio State Fair in Columbus. everything you expect, it will cost you nothing. the Stoopnagle program. Inciden- "Our announcer, John Conrad, was Made of the Famous tally, he and Stoop claim to be the carrying the pack, when one of the PERFOLASTIC RUBBER heaviest . announcer-comedian team bulls decided he didn't care for radio THYNMOLD is the modern on the air. Together they weigh 439 or radio announcers. He broke loose solution to the bulging waistline pounds, of or Teddy, if from his owner and took after John. and broad hips. 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Herb Flaig, special events man a coast-to-coast broadcast of an Easter pageant from Marion, Indiana, Send for free illustrated folder of Cincinnati's two Crosley stations, WLW and WSAI, knows that his was lost to the nation simply because work, like woman's, is never done. a technician in the telephone com- This is particularly true on stations pany's control room left a repeater like WLW and WSAI. because they open. Or the time when a sudden DIRECT pay special attention to putting news- storm came up just before a remote- PRODUCTS CO., INC. control Dept. 182, 358 Filth Ave., New York, N. Y. worthy happenings on the air. broadcast and tore down the Send me illustrated iolder describing Thynmold Herb, who is a dark-haired youth lines it would have traveled on. Rubber Girdle and Brassiere, sample of perforated with handsome, regular features, All these material and full details of your 10-day Trial Offer. alarms and excursions pursues and sometimes is pursued by have given Herb Flaig a hardened Name celebrities of all sorts—chorus girls, calm that nothing much can shake. A ddrtss movie and opera stars, aviators, poli- He has to have it, to go through some ticians. Sometimes it's easy enough of the catastrophes he's seen, among
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them the horrors of a mine explosion her voice, but he never and the great met her until flood of 1937. one day they were He's been with and introduced by a WLW WSAI music publisher. At that time Bob two years, during the last of which was Hal Kemp's arranger, and it was he's been married. In spite of the through his influence that Hal heard demands of his work, you can some- her and hired her times find him away from Jan at home, where his Garber. favorite form of relaxation is to don Five years an apron and cook a batch of spa- ago, Bob became am- bitious for of his ghetti, with meat balls to match. a band own, and when he left Kemp and organized his * * * own group Olga went with him. The SOPHISTICATED LADY ups and downs of the band business Five feet, five inches of scintillating left them stranded, at last; the band personality—a voice with soft, mel- broke up and Olga went on the mu- low depths and a soothing quality sical comedy stage on Broadway red hair (though she insists it's au- while Bob returned to arranging. He burn) — a creamy complexion. In didn't give up his dream of having a short, an eye-full. That's Olga Ver- band of his own, though, and even- non, the Sophisticated Lady of Song tually tried it again—this time profit- who appears with Bob Sylvester and ing by the mistakes he'd made before. his orchestra on a hand-picked net- Attractive-looking Olga Ver- Once more Olga gave up her job work of Southern stations. non sings with Bob Sylvester's which then was singing on a network You can hear her every Tuesday sustaining program in New York—to orchestra over station WBT. night at 10:00, E.S.T., over WJSV, go with him. Washington; WRAV, Richmond; WBT, The Cavalier Beach Club at Vir- Charlotte; WGST, Atlanta; and came a number of appearances on ginia Beach was the new band's first WAPI, Birmingham, in a program various Chicago radio programs, in stop, and since then it has climbed sponsored by the Lance Company and which she built up a reputation which steadily. originating in the WBT studios in reached the ears of Jan Garber. Jan Olga has a soft, deep alto voice that Charlotte. lost no time in signing her up as his blends aptly with the original and Olga studied voice at the American radio songstress. distinctive style of the Sylvester ar- Conservatory of Music in Chicago, Now Olga's present boss, Bob Syl- rangements. It's a combination that and got her professional start singing vester, enters the story- He'd heard should prove a best bet on anybody's with Charlie Agnew's orchestra. Then her singing with Agnew, and liked dial. (Continued on page 51)
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ALL my life I've been beautiful. tell the truth, I thought him lucky anything else to do, I tuned it in. /\ I've grown used to hearing too. Roger and the leading lady were * » conversation falter when I And yet, a few days ago, I woke playing a love scene. entered a room full of people, and abruptly to the knowledge that I "Oh, darling," the girl's voice then begin again on a changed note; had lost him. said, "I've missed you every minute to having men's eyes follow me on I was listening to him on the air of every hour ... I'd wake up in the street. I've known and accepted when the realization came. Roger the mornings, and even before I admiration since I was a child, until is a radio actor, and although I'm opened my eyes I'd think, 'Maybe I came to think of it as my right. usually too busy, I occasionally this is the day he'll come back to " And when I married Roger I knew listen to his programs. This particu- me.' that he and all his friends consid- lar one was a daily serial, and since "All those precious moments ered him a lucky man. If I must I was home alone and didn't have when we might have been together —all of them wasted," my husband
whispered. "Dearest, dearest . . . It hasn't been living, without you." I smiled. It always amused me to listen to one of Roger's love scenes on the air. He didn't really do them at all well—at least, I didn't think so, although everyone else did. But then, I had had the opportunity of listening to him in real life love scenes—the autumn afternoon he asked me to marry him, the moonlit nights in Bermuda on our honeymoon, the day I told him that the baby was coming. Then, his voice had had a vibrancy that he could never counterfeit something intangible and beautiful whose only name must be sincerity. It came from his heart, not his brain. Roger was a good actor, but he wasn't good enough to put this glorious quality into his voice in a play-acting part. That went beyond good acting Unconsciously, as I listened, I stopped smiling. "Your sweet lips," he was saying now, "the way you smile, with your head tilted back a little and your mouth turned up at the corners and the way your hair frames your
face—such a funny little face . . . I think I must love that funny little face more than anything in the world." It was really beautiful—that deep, masculine voice, with its undertone of romance, awakening in me emo- The love-note was there, in his tions and passions I'd forgotten I voice—now! My first reaction ever knew. For a split second an was one of fear; then came anger. unbearable thrill of delight ran
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Why did his voice, as it came over the air, carry that thrilling note of passion she remembered from long- ago honeymoon nights?
through me, a sensation of pure ex- altation. It was entirely instinctive; the next moment, as I realized what it meant, I was weak and shaking. The love-note was there, in Roger's voice—now! He was play- ing a love scene in a radio studio, with a girl I'd never even met but he was not pretending! This was the real thing. I, who knew every intonation of his voice, could not escape the shattering knowledge that Roger was in love with another woman. I stood up and with shaking hands turned off the radio. I thought I would scream if I heard once more that long-forgotten timbre in my husband's voice. My first reaction was one of fear. Then came a deep, burning anger. What I had thought was an ideal marriage wasn't ideal at all. It was no more than a shell, pleasing to the eye but hollow inside. When Roger came home at night and If I had seen Roger and Judith kissed me, his thoughts were with Moore, repeating with their eyes another woman. I felt insulted, hu- what their lips had just said . . . miliated. Because I knew I wasn't mis- taken. For ten years, ever since our marriage, I had listened to Roger on the air. I had heard him play Roger was probably proud of his had to play the strumpet to do so! innumerable love scenes — and conquest. It's easy now to see how wrong never once had I caught the unmis- I remembered things that had I was, how false my reactions. Per- takable ring of passion that had happened in the last few months, haps, if I could have been present been there today. It was as certain things I hadn't paid any attention in the studio that afternoon, and a betrayal of his feelings as a love- to at the time. Perhaps it was partly could have seen Roger and Judith letter in his handwriting. my fault, I admitted. I'd thought Moore after the broadcast, their Who was the girl? Desperately our marriage had settled down to scripts forgotten, silently repeating I tried to think back to what Roger a quiet, friendly affair, with sex and with their eyes everything they had had told me about the program. A love relegated to their proper place. just said with their lips . . . perhaps, month or two earlier they had But Roger, after all, was a man, like then, I would have understood a brought in a new actress to take other men, and probably I'd been little better. But I don't know. the leading lady's part. That much foolish to forget that. Probably not. I was so vain, so I remembered. Her name was Well! I was back to my senses used to thinking of my own loveli- Judith something—Judith—Judith at last. I had beauty, too, the same ness as the most precious thing in Moore. A newcomer, a girl they'd beauty that had made Roger fall the world, and therefore the most brought on from Chicago especially madly in love with me in the first powerful, that I don't think there for this role. place. Neither marriage nor the was room in my mind for anything Some cheap, obviously pretty lit- arrival of Bruce, our little boy, had else. tle thing, of course, I thought. Her blurred that beauty. With it I could It was the last straw when, a few voice had been sensuous and slight- hold Roger, win him back to me minutes later, the telephone rang ly husky over the air. And poor and I would—I must! Even if I (Continued on page 77)
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OUR GAL
Presenting for the first time in thrilling story form, radio's engross- ing drama of Our Gal Sunday, an orphan girl who thought she had found love and riches and instead became a bride without a groom
This is a fictionization of the CBS serial, Our Gal Sunday,
DON'T like his looks," said "What's the matter with Bill Jen- "Don't need to know him. I know Jackey firmly. "Sunday, you kins?" her elderly guardian grum- his kind, all right. And I don't want I keep—away from that galoot." bled now, chewing bitterly at the him fussin' around you. Told him "But " Sunday began, and then ragged fringe of his sandy mustache. so, too, yesterday when I caught stopped—because Arthur Brinth- "Fine a young feller as any you'd him comin' up the trail." And with rope had warned her not to tell find in the state o' Colorado." this parting shot, Jackey marched Jackey or Lively that he was going "Oh—Bill!" Sunday sighed. out of the cabin. back to his home in England, and "Bill's all right, but—but— So that, Sunday thought, was the wanted her to go with him. "But you've known him all your reason Arthur had waited for her A tiny frown of worry appeared life, and he lives right here in Silver down in the pine grove by the river, between her violet eyes. Of course, Creek," Jackey finished for her. instead of coming up to the cabin she was only eighteen, and Jackey "Yep—grass is always greener in and the reason, too, why he had and Lively were so much older, and the other feller's back yard. Well asked her to meet him there at sun- they were always right—had been, now, I tell you, Sunday— set today. She was conscious of a ever since she could remember "But Jackey darling, you don't brief pang of regret—a shadow on but they couldn't be expected to un- even know Arthur!" Sunday expos- her mind, nothing more—that he derstand how she felt about Arthur. tulated. hadn't defied Jackey and come to
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the cabin anyway. But of course it they were, they'd been father and through the sweet-smelling woods was only because he wanted to mother to her since long before she to the grove by the river; and, as spare her any unpleasantness. could remember. she had known he would be, Arthur Did she really want to marry him The sun was out of sight already, was there waiting for her. At sight and go to England to live? It was behind the tall pines that sur- of him she felt a tingle of excite- so hard to decide! England would rounded the cabin. In a few min- ment. He was always so clean, so be lovely, of course—the great utes it would be touching the peak well-barbered—not at all like the Brinthrope manor Arthur had told of Old Baldy, and Arthur would be Silver Creek men, who shaved only her about, and the gay times they at the river, waiting for her answer for special occasions. Not Bill, of had there, and Arthur himself al- —an answer she didn't have. If only course—but Bill would be as bad as ways at her side, handsome, pol- she didn't have to tell him right the others, given another five years ished, devoted. But it would mean away! If only she could talk it over, in Silver Creek. leaving Jackey and Lively—and sensibly, with Jackey and Lively, Arthur Brinthrope heard her light worse than leaving them: running without running into their stubborn step and jumped down from the away from them. It would be just conviction that Arthur was a "no- rock where he had been perched. like leaving your father and mother, good, smooth-talkin' galoot!" "Sunday darling," he said ten- because, hard-bitten old miners that Still undecided, she went down derly, "I was afraid you weren't
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Presenting for the first time in thrilling st^ form, radio's engross. ing drama of Our Gal Sunday, an orphan gj r | who thought she had found love and riches and instead became a bride without a groom
I Thli i, a fictionlzatlon of the CBS •erlal, Our Gal by American Home Produeti. Sunday. heard Monday through Friday, sponsored DON'T like his looks," said woods "What's the matter with Bill father and through the sweet-smelling Jackey firmly. Jen- "Don't need to him. I know the cabin it they were, they'd been "Sunday, you kins?" know anyway. But of course river; and, as I her elderly guardian long before she to the grove by the keep away from grum- his kind, all right. I don't want was only to mother to her since that galoot." bled now, And because he wanted known he would be, Arthur "But—" chewing bitterly at the remember. she had Sunday began, and then him fussin' around you. Told him spare her any unpleasantness. could sight ragged fringe of his was there waiting for her. At stopped—because sandy mustache so, sun was out of sight already, Arthur Brinth- too, yesterday when I caught Did she really want to marry him The of excite- "Fine a young feller sur- of him she felt a tingle rope had warned as any you'd him comin' with and behind the tall pines that her not to tell find up the trail." And go to England to live? It was always so clean, so in the state o' " a few min- ment. He was Jackey or Lively Colorado this marched so rounded the cabin. In that he was going parting shot, Jackey hard to decide! England would not at all like the back "Oh-Bill!" Sunday be touching the peak well-barbered— to his home in England, sighed. out of the cabin. be lovely, of course the great utes it would only and Bill s — Silver Creek men, who shaved wanted her all right, but—but— Baldy, and Arthur would be to go with him. So that, Sunday thought, was the Brinthrope manor Arthur had told of Old Not Bill, of "But you've for her answer for special occasions. A tiny frown known him all her at the river, waiting of worry appeared your reason Arthur had waited for her about, and the gay times they Bill would be as bad as Me, and he lives didn't have. If only course—but between her violet right here in Silver had —an answer she eyes. Of course down in the pine grove by the river, there, and Arthur himself al- others, given another five years Creek,' Jackey to tell him right the she was only eighteen, finished for her ways she didn't have and Jackey instead of coming up to the cabin at her side, handsome, pol- Silver Creek. and eP graSS S alwa only she could talk it over, in Lively were ' ys greener ished, away! If so much older, and „: ^ in and the reason, too, why he had devoted. But it would mean Arthur Brinthrope heard her light they the other feller's back with Jackey and Lively, were yard ' sensibly, always right—had been Well asked her to meet him there at sun- leaving Jackey and Lively—and and jumped down from the ever now, I tell you, running into their stubborn step since she could Sunday—" of a worse than running without been perched. remember- "But set today. She was conscious leaving them: was a "no- rock where he had but they couldn't Jackey darling, you away conviction that Arthur ten- be expected to un- don't brief pang of regret a shadow on from them. It would be just "Sunday darling," he said e 1 n0W — galoot!" derstand how she ArthUr '" SUnday " like «ood, smooth-talkin' weren't felt about Arthur expos her mind, more that he leaving your father and mother, derly, "I was afraid you t ulated nothing — ° undecided, she went down to because, that Still 12 hadn't defied Jackey and come hard-bitten old miners 13 TOlRUARY, 1940 RADIO AND TELEVISION MB«»" "
coming! I'm so happy you came." Sunday said affectionately, "Bill, It was good, but somehow a little I wish I loved you the way you want frightening, to feel the hard young me to. Maybe I do and don't know it." muscles of his arms around her, and the firm touch of his lips on hers. "You've got my answer for me, Sunday? You're going to come with me to England?" "I—I—" Gently she freed herself and sat down on the rock, hands braced at her sides, her long hair, the color of the gold-tinted clouds in the west, falling down straight behind her. "I don't know, Arthur. Couldn't we be married here, first, and then go?" "No, that wouldn't work out," he assured her quickly. "Darling, I don't think you quite understand. ." We can't be married, you know. . . "We can't be—married? But what—" She stared at him uncom- prehendingly. "No—you see, I come from a very old family—I may be the Earl of Brinthrope some day—and I couldn't—well, it wouldn't be right for me to marry you, Sunday. But I love you, darling, and we could have such wonderful times to- gether!" Eagerly, he tried to take her once more in his arms. "No, no!" she cried. "Don't, Ar- thur! Please! I couldn't— "Brinthrope!" It was Jackey's voice. He stood just behind them. And Sunday screamed when she saw what he held in his hands. The scream mingled with the sharp whine of a bullet, and Arthur fell to the ground. "Come back to the house, Sun- day," Jackey said in a tense voice. "Jackey!" she whispered. "You've killed him!" Jackey's expression did not change. The shaggy brows were still drawn down over the old eagle eyes; deep lines were still carved between nose and mouth. "Figured to," he said. "No man can say what he said to any gal of mine and get away with a whole skin. Come on back to the house." She began to edge around the rock, keeping as far as possible from the still figure on the ground, But events moved so swiftly that "Not much chance," Jackey an- whimpering with fright. there was no time for Jackey to do swered gloomily. "Be pretty hard "Oh, Jackey—what are you going what he called "figurin'." for a feller with a bullet in him to to do now?" That night, when he returned to get very far away—even if there "Ain't quite figured that out. You the pine grove, Arthur Brinthrope's wasn't them wolf tracks around. leave him be, now. I'll come down body had disappeared, and in the And there ain't nobody down in after dark and get rid of the body, morning, when he inspected the Silver Creek seen him since yester- somehow." spot more closely, he found wolf- day."
"They'll find out though, Jackey tracks. . . . Lively hadn't been told of the —somebody will find out!" "Maybe he's not dead!" Sunday shooting, and he pottered uneasily "Maybe I'll give myself up, gal," cried at first, grasping at the straw about the cabin, fretting at the se- Jackey told her. "We got to figure of hope offered by his disappear- cret he knew Sunday and Jackey all that out later." ance. were sharing. But Jackey, for the
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ure climbing the steep trail with a sense of panic. And yet there was no use in running away. Her only hope was to meet him, answer his questions directly and apparently with honesty, and do her best to keep him from interrogating Jackey. Bill Jenkins had already told her Lord Henry was in town. She'd known this moment was inevitable. Drawing a deep breath, she went to answer his knock. He wasn't at all like Arthur, she saw when she opened the door. He was taller and a year or so older, and there was a strong line to his chin that Arthur hadn't had. Most striking difference of all, though, was in his eyes. They were direct, honest, friendly, and they told her at once what Jackey had meant when he said he didn't like the look of Arthur. Jackey would like the look of Arthur's brother. "I'm Henry Brinthrope," he said. "And you must be—well, you must be Sunday. I'm sorry, but down in the village I can't remember that anyone ever mentioned your last name." "It's Smithson," she said blush- ing. "But everyone calls me Sun- day." "No wonder—it suits you per- fectly." He had an English accent too, like Arthur's. "It's probably impertinent—but how did you get it?" "I was an orphan, and I was left on Jackey's and Lively's doorstep on a Sunday. So—they just called me that." "Logical enough," he smiled. "They said in the village that you know my brother, and I thought perhaps he might have told you where he was going." "No," she said quickly. "No he didn't. Did he know you were coming?"
Bill said: "It isn't that I'm jeal- He shook his head. "I wanted to ous, but if you'd only let surprise him." No need to tell this lovely child just why he had wanted to surprise Arthur: that funds were strangely missing from the Brin- thrope Mines, and it was more than likely Arthur could, if sufficiently frightened, explain their disappear- first time in their long friendship, the body had been found. ance. "Well," he said lightly, "it couldn't confide in Lively. This was And that was the situation when doesn't really matter. Arthur's al- a secret that spelled danger for Lord Henry Brinthrope, Arthur's ways making up his mind to leave everyone who knew it. brother, arrived unexpectedly in a place overnight. He'll turn up, I "Just promise me," Sunday begged Silver Creek—to find that Arthur, suppose." Jackey, "that you won't—won't with whom he had intended to dis- But when he had gone back down do anything until we know for sure cuss the local Brinthrope mine hold- to Silver Creek, he wired a firm of whether Arthur is dead or alive." ings, had disappeared without leav- private detectives in Denver, asking For Jackey now wanted to go ing a trace behind. them to send one of their best men to the Silver Creek sheriff and make It was only a day after his arrival to see him. a clean breast of the whole affair. that his inquiries led him up the It was a Saturday afternoon, and Reluctantly, he promised Sunday at trail to Sunday's cabin. Bill Jenkins was paying his weekly last that he'd wait at least until She watched his long-legged fig- call on Sunday. (Confd on page 66)
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ure climbing the steep said affectionately. "Bill, trail with a coming! I'm so happy you came." Sunday sense of you the way you want panic. And yet there was little wish I loved It was good, but somehow a I no t know .t. use in running away. Her I do and don only frightening, to feel the hard young me to. Maybe hope was to meet him, answer his muscles of his arms around her, and questions directly and apparently the firm touch of his lips on hers. with honesty, and do her best to "You've got my answer for me, keep him from interrogating Jackey. Sunday? You're going to come with Bill Jenkins had already told her me to England?" Lord Henry was in town. She'd "I I—" Gently she freed herself — known this moment was inevitable. and sat down on the rock, hands Drawing a deep breath, she went long hair, braced at her sides, her to answer his knock. the color of the gold-tinted clouds He wasn't at all like Arthur, she in the west, falling down straight saw when she opened the door. He behind her. "I don't know, Arthur. was taller and a year or so older, Couldn't we be married here, first, and there was a strong line to his and then go?" chin that Arthur hadn't had. Most "No, that wouldn't work out," he striking difference of all, though, assured her quickly. "Darling, I was in his eyes. They were direct, don't think you quite understand. honest, friendly, and they told her ." know. . . We can't be married, you at once what Jackey had meant But "We can't be—married? when he said he didn't like the look — uncom- what " She stared at him of Arthur. Jackey would like the prehendingly. look of Arthur's brother. very "No—you see, I come from a "I'm Henry Brinthrope," he said. old family—I may be the Earl of "And you must be—well, you must Brinthrope some day—and I be Sunday. I'm sorry, but down in couldn't—well, it wouldn't be right the village I can't remember that for me to marry you, Sunday. But anyone ever mentioned your last I love you, darling, and we could name." have such wonderful times to- "It's Smithson," she said blush- gether!" ing. "But everyone calls me Sun- Eagerly, he tried to take her once day." more in his arms. "No wonder—it suits you per- "No, no!" she cried. "Don't,— Ar- fectly." He had an English accent thur! Please! I couldn't too, like Arthur's. "It's probably "Brinthrope!" impertinent—but how did you get It was Jackey's voice. He stood it?"
just behind them. And Sunday "I was an orphan, and I was left screamed when she saw what he on Jackey's and Lively's doorstep on held in his hands. The scream a Sunday. So—they just called me mingled with the sharp whine of a that." bullet, and Arthur fell to the "Logical enough," he smiled. ground. "They said in the village that you "Come back to the house, Sun- know my brother, and I thought day," Jackey said in a tense voice. perhaps he might have told you "Jackey!" she whispered. "You've where he was going." killed him!" "No," she said quickly. "No Jackey's expression did not he didn't. Did he know you were change. The shaggy brows were coming?" still drawn down over the old eagle He shook his head. "I wanted to Bill $aid: "It isn't that I'm jeal- eyes; deep lines were still carved surprise him." No need to tell this ous, but if you'd only let between nose and mouth. "Figured lovely child just why he had wanted to," he said. "No man can say what to surprise Arthur: that funds were he said to any gal of mine and get strangely missing from the Brin- away with a whole skin. Come on thrope Mines, and it was more than back to the house." likely Arthur could, if sufficiently She began to edge around the frightened, explain their disappear- rock, keeping "Well," he said lightly, "it as far as possible from found. ance. first body had been the still time in their long friendship, the really matter. Arthur's al- figure on the ground, situation when doesn't But events moved so Jackey an- couldn't And that was the whimpering with fright. swiftly that "Not much chance," confide in Lively. This was ways making up his mind to leave there hart Brinthrope, Arthur's was no time for Jackey to do "Be pretty a secret that spelled danger for Lord Henry He'll turn up, I "Oh, Jackey—what are you going swered gloomily. unexpectedly in a place overnight. what he called "figurin'." in him to everyone brother, arrived to do now?" for a feller with a bullet who knew it. Arthur, suppose." That night, the Creek—to find that when he returned to even if "Just promise me," Sunday begged Silver gone back down "Ain't quite figured that get very far away— to dis- But when he had out. You the pine grove, arouno- Jackey, with whom he had intended leave Arthur Brinthrope's wasn't them wolf tracks "that you won't—won't Silver Creek, he wired a firm of him be, now. I'll come Brinthrope mine hold- to down body had disappeared, i do anything cuss the local asking after and in the And there ain't nobody down until we know for sure private detectives in Denver, dark and get rid of the - without leav- body, morning, when yeste whether ings, had disappeared best men somehow." he inspected the Silver Creek seen him since Arthur is dead or alive." them to send one of their spot more For a trace behind. closely, he found Jackey now wanted to go ing to see him. "They'll wolf- day." , arrival find out though, Jackey he to only a day after his tracks. . . . oi the Silver make It was afternoon, and Lively hadn't been told \ Creek sheriff and the It was a Saturday —somebody will find out!" a inquiries led him up "Maybe he's not ea*7 clean breast affair. that his paying his weekly "Maybe " dead!" Sunday shooting, and he pottered of the whole Bill Jenkins was I'll give myself up, gal Sunday's cabin. cried at first, grasping at^the Reluctantly, he promised Sunday at trail to Sunday. (Cont'd on page 66) Jackey told her. at the straw about the cabin, fretting long-legged fig- call on "We got to figure Ias t watched his of hope offered by Jac that he'd at least until She all that out later." his disappear- cret he knew Sunday and wait 15 ance. r Jackey, i° *n*DA*Y, 14 were sharing. But 1940 MB** RADIO AND TELEVISION w
With idealism, but with realism too, the First Lady of
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I T'S hard to say what the role of the spirit of Christ. We have hoped think and plan a just peace. So a woman in the world of tomorrow that everywhere there would be my woman of tomorrow (in this will be, but we can at least say enough people in every nation who country, I hope, and in many other what we hope her role can be. long for peace so that we could countries) will school herself to re- Today, because we live in a very solve our difficulties without resort- member that men perhaps would serious world, a very terrible world ing to force. We know, however, find it even more difficult than she to many of us, we have to think that in a world where there are does to think of conservation, to very seriously of the position of people who are predominantly bent think of preserving the values in women. I think I will try to draw on using power and force, the rest the world and in everyday exis- for you a portrait of what I hope of the world, no matter what their tence. It does require unselfishness! the woman of tomorrow may be ideals may be, probably will have It does require vision! It does re- because of the seriousness of her to use force too for a time. quire that we shall think of all responsibility. I think the woman If that is so, very well. Then people as our brothers. of tomorrow, in this democracy at we must be very careful, we who least, must be a responsible citizen: want peace. We must watch our- PERHAPS the responsibility is one who takes a keen interest in selves and never allow that force greatest on us because of all the her own environment, in all the which we must have to take com- nations today we have suffered people of her community and of her plete possession of us. least. We are strong. We have a country, who studies conditions as So far our people have had so chance still to think and grow and they really are and tries, so far as much that they never felt the com- to be at peace. I hope that in this she is able, to formulate plans pelling desire to go out and take world of tomorrow all the women which will better whatever she finds something from somebody else. That of this country and of South Amer- not good in her community. is something that we have to re- ica and of other countries as well, I hope that this woman of tomor- member and watch in a world will be able to join together to make row can have a gay side, too. The where force is still supreme. As peace their great crusade! I can world is so serious that we must women, we must go about our whole think of nothing eLe which will keep a certain gaiety and a sense problem without any bitterness, save civilization. of humor always, no matter how with the feeling that human beings I realize that if we are going to sad our surroundings may be. But everywhere are deserving of respect do this we must be practical. We I hope that she is going to feel pri- and are to be pitied when life is must realize that people have to marily one great responsibility. For hard, with the realization that we live. You cannot drag them down if we do not find a way to preserve can only hope to be of use if we and expect them not to try to get peace, then I think we might as can keep a kindly spirit to deal the things which make life worth well make up our minds that civi- fairly and realistically with situa- living. lization is slowly going to disappear. tions as they arise. We've done that over and over We've talked a great deal about My portrait of the woman of to- again. We've taken away from what we should do to bring peace morrow would not be complete un- people the things that really made into the world. We've hoped that less I added that I am setting up it worthwhile to stay at peace. And individuals would change, that they for her an extremely difficult role. then we expected that they would would will peace. We have hoped It will be almost impossible for adjust themselves to that. Instead, that there might come to the world people who are actually at war to they would suffer and fight. I think
The Woman of Tomorrow if a talk delivered by Mn. Rootevelt over CBS for the Women'* National Radio Committee
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we women in America have got to have to come. Perhaps we are fac- build up again. We don't seem to be more realistic in the future. I ing a more co-operative woman- have learned a great deal from think we have got to realize that hood! But no matter what we are the destruction which we've been here at home We begin our job. We facing, we have got to make it our through before. But it will come must begin by proving that we can first duty to acknowledge what is to us in time. For what you de- solve our domestic problems in a before us—when we do not know stroy, you have to build again. democracy. So that when peace the answer to say so—to say that And if we are fortunate enough does come, we can at least show that we will make it our business to try to be at peace, it will be our job free people can govern themselves until we find the answer! to give; to give of ourselves, give and can face their problems and That is the only way we can pre- of what we have. And I believe meet them and solve them, no mat- serve our freedom. That is the only that it's the woman of tomorrow ter how difficult they are and no way that we can be worthy of be- who has the responsibility of mak- matter what changes they require ing at peace. And this will take ing herself the kind of person who in our usually accepted form of life. great sacrifice, for you cannot de- can help her nation and her people Changes are hard, but changes stroy without eventually having to to make a better future.
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Radio's loveliest guest star had to learn to be beautiful. Once she caused scarcely a ripple in Hollywood, but now
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SHE is feminine perfection, as think when you see her, that there's her at all) that her beauty was exquisite and symmetrical as a no wonder it is also rare—a gift of nothing to bowl you over. bit of Sevres porcelain, as vi- the gods bestowed only on the How she changed—what she did brant as the plucked string of a favored few. and continues to do for her beauty violin. Her allure is that of irre- Yet Madeleine Carroll had to —is an exciting story, exciting be- sistible beauty—a beauty which learn to be beautiful! There was a cause it is a revelation of what you strangely combines the freedom and time, short years ago, when she or any woman may do to benefit naturalness of a wind-swept Eng- appeared in films and made not a herself. lish moor with the sophistication ripple on the surface of the public's So often it is just the opposite and smartness of Monte Carlo. attention. If you saw a few of those the world's incontestably beautiful Loveliness like Madeleine Car- early motion pictures of hers you women refuse to share their secrets. roll's is such a precious thing, you must remember (if you remember But the same charm and generosity
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By MITZI CUMMINGS
With the freedom of natural-
ness and the sophistication of
smartness, Madeleine Carroll has
the allure of irresistible beauty.
The secret of how she gained such
perfection now can be yours too!
which, caught by the microphone, make Madeleine radio's favorite Hollywood guest star, make her a really gracious person as well willing to talk frankly about sub- jects that must vitally interest every woman. There was no hedging, then, when Madeleine and I sat down in a booth at the Beverly Brown Derby and began to talk about that most fascinating of all feminine topics—how, in a word, to be beautiful. "Do you want to know what men consider beauty?" she asked seri- ously. "Three things—three musts. Madeleine's rules for beauty Simplicity. Naturalness. Femi- will please you with their ninity." common sense and surprise you I asked her to explain. with their delightful results. "First, the basis of all beauty is good health. Add another com- mandment to the original ten: 'Be particularly if you keep in mind turns out that I dress to please men." good to thyself.' Take care of your that they prefer a relaxed woman. A bit subtle, but I got the point. body. Give it rest. Give it circula- And if you wear a pleasant expres- "How about a few fundamental tion. And never let up on either. sion, they consider you charming! rules to go by?"
The results? Vitality. Poise. Tol- "Keep yourself simple in dress. "Well . . . black dresses for sim- erance. Good nature. The impor- That's another must. Above all, plicity and smartness. Large, but tance of these cannot be under- don't fuss! If a curl is out of place, simple, hats for femininity. No ex- estimated. For the more visible or your collar doesn't sit right, pay cess jewelry. Wear pieces that, if assets: good health gives lustre to no attention. First of all, don't they aren't real, don't pretend to your hair, a glow to your skin, present yourself unless you are per- be. Wear simple, well-made shoes makes your nails and teeth strong, fectly groomed and immaculately that keep their shape. And men, and your eyes sparkle. No man clean. A man notices only the gen- don't forget, abhor too-red finger- alive can resist these points of eral effect, not details, so why call nails and plucked, exaggerated natural beauty, whether the woman attention to a stray curl?" eyebrows." has lovely features or not. "Do you think women dress to By this time, of course, I'd taken "Naturalness, however, goes be- please men?" a good eyeful of Madeleine herself. yond these things. No affectations. "Meaning me?" Her dress was black, with touches No obvious ego. Forget yourself. "Meaning you." of radiant blue (her favorite color, If you have good health, you are She smiled. "I dress to please with the exception of black). Her able to relax in the presence of men, other women. In so doing, it also hat, crownless, and showing
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gleaming gold hair, also filled the Madeleine's preaehments. For the that she put her lipstick on, in the prescription. Her quiet hands were former—to acquire a golden glow beginning, with a maximum of care. tipped with rose-pink nails, and her on your skin, take her advice and Edges were meticulously gone over eyebrows were long, sweeping ones, use plenty of oil. Lave in it, and for outline. When her lips were unplucked, medium heavy. when you're through with the sun, completely rouged, she waited a I wanted to know something take a nice, warm bath with pure moment for her mouth to "set," then about what she thought of per- castile soap, and a hardy rub with blotted the surplus on a tissue. Then fumes, and she thought enough to a heavy towel. she went over it again. This kept make an interesting little commen- Her teeth are perfectly beautiful. her lips perfect until eating dis- tary to hand over to you. She brushes them frequently, when turbed them. "They are more effective on the she isn't using paste or powder, With nothing but her lipstick to skin than on your clothing. Touch with a mixture of salt and bicar- remove at bedtime, and a face that your scent lightly where the heart bonate of soda which gives you has been washed several times dur- pulse is nearest the surface, like the more cleanliness, more lustre, and ing the day, she doesn't need to in- temples, behind the ears, the inside eliminates acid. She keeps the mix- dulge in any complicated routine of of your wrists, and in the palm of ture always ready on her bathroom make-up removal. Soap and water your right hand." shelf, and once in a while uses milk and a little cold cream do the trick. of magnesia instead, which serves At night, her make-up includes SHE knows what to do, but she the same purpose. The dentist face powder and a little mascara. doesn't often do it! Out of her cleans her teeth twice yearly, but This very slight gilding of the lily array of perfume bottles, squat ones, no more, because she thinks so is a far cry from the days when she slender ones, modern ones, quaint strenuous a cleaning, if done more first arrived in Hollywood. Then ones, she uses only a soupcon of fra- often, would harm the enamel. She she believed that she must emulate grance, something light, something has her teeth examined, however, someone great if she wanted to be floral, something feminine. But she every other month. a success. She picked out her has mixed herself something special, She drinks coffee, which she "someone great" in the person of something she wears on important loves, but she takes it without her screen heroine, Marlene Diet- occasions, which she won't tell cream. She also eats practically rich. She did her face like a snowy about. It is a combination of several anything she wants, with judgment, mask, tricked up her eyes to look perfumes, and is so completely hers of course, because proper food is enigmatic, kept the eager, vital, in- that the fragrance in the air says necessary to good health. Every so terested lights out of her face—and "Madeleine Carroll has been here." often she goes on a diet. One of the became expressionless. For her bath (she likes showers main items of this diet is avoidance but rarely) she occasionally goes of liquids. Liquids, you know, are BUT as time marched on, Made- lushly luxurious. A milk bath, not fine to put on weight, so don't feel leine was neither too happy nor from a cow but from a formula, or virtuous when you take a glass of too successful in Hollywood. She re- crystals, or scented oils. Afterwards, orange juice, or a cup of coffee be- turned to England and to herself. a sparkling cologne to tingle and to tween meals. You're defeating your She made "The 39 Steps" with Rob- scent. Yet lots of times, none of own purpose. ert Donat, and "I Was a Spy," and these at all! And lots of times she If you want to keep your figger was splendid in both. Then she was turns out the bathroom lights and the Madeleine Carroll way, include recalled to Hollywood. She made sinks into a restful doze right in the a lot of tomatoes and grapefruit, or her re-entry a wiser and more tub. Her hair is tied up, cold cream grapefruit juice with every meal. beautiful girl. No longer was she is probably on her face. If it is, she Do it for four days a week; then eat a copyist. Off came the Dietrich finishes up with some splashes of icy what you will the following three mask and out came her own radi- water, either after she removes the days. Then go back to it for an- ance, her own natural personality. cream, or when it's still on. other four days, and you're through. Boom! She was a- success! Sun and circulation, these are You can have spinach, two lamb "Don't you do anything besides chops and saltine crackers in lieu of diet occasionally for that beautiful bread. And the last day, which is figure of yours?" I asked. the fourth, you can substitute "Oh, yes," she replied. "Ballet. broiled chicken or broiled fish for Three times a week. Not because I the lamb chops. The wisest way is want to reduce, nor because I want to eat your biggest meal at noon, so to be a dancer, but for the exercise, that if you go to bed early there and above all, because it gives me isn't a lot of food lying in your a good carriage." stomach during the night. This, in- And now it was time to end our cidentally, applies to anyone, any beauty talk. But there was one more time. It's conducive to good diges- question, and I asked it: tion. And make your breakfasts, "Look, I said, "how about the when you are on this diet, light girls who weren't born beautiful? ones. A sliced orange, or half a What can they do?" grapefruit along with plain coffee. "They," she said, "can try as I And don't forget—no liquids be- try. And they can remember the tween meals. advice my mother always drummed As for make-up—she wears prac- into me when I was a little girl.
tically none, during the day. Only 'Madeleine Carrol,' she'd say . . . lipstick. And for the three hours or 'Be beautiful if you can so that we sat in the Derby, she Be witty if you must didn't even use that. It was a little But be amiable if it kills you!' mystifying how, without retouch- "And that's why," she added with ing, her mouth remained scarlet, a smile, "I have such a good dis- smooth and satiny. She explained position!"
RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR WHY ARTIE SHAW WALKED OUT ON
He had fame, riches, a
romance with beautiful
WONDER how he felt when he Betty Grable — and yet I know why Artie quit. If you picked up a newspaper that can forget all the misleading facts I November afternoon and saw the he gave all this up, which have been printed, try to re- front page headline: "ARTIE member a few characteristics of one SHAW PAYS OFF HIS BAND of the most talented musicians ever AND GOES TO MEXICO FOR HIS for an amazing reason to catch America's fancy. Remem- HEALTH". That was just before bering them, you, too, will be able he pulled out in his car. The re- to make sense out of a situation porters said he was heading for By JUDY ASHLEY which has rocked the entertainment Mexico. But maybe he wasn't. world. How could they say that when he Artie turned his back on love. To begin with, Shaw is sincere. wasn't sure himself? He was news. He threw it all away. He didn't That's a simple word but it can Big news. He was the kind of man want any part of it. I wonder if he mean paragraphs. In Artie's case for whom newspaper ink was smiled that peculiar one-corner it does because it implies a complete made. smile of his when he read that he lack of hyprocrisy and half-mean- The thing was incredible—noth- was going away for his health. They ings. He has few good friends, for ing like it had ever happened be- all printed that story. But they instance, only because he refuses to fore. He was well on his way to didn't know Artie Shaw. They associate with people and things he earning a million dollars with that didn't know why Artie had kicked doesn't like wholeheartedly. There's black clarinet of his yet he said to everything away. It wasn't because a second important key to Shaw's the devil with it. He had charm he was physically sick. If he was character: he is honest. Honest in and personality and good looks. sick at all, it was an emotional ill- every single thing he does—in his There were women and love waiting ness. Not something a doctor could work, in his thinking, in his love. for him. There was one in partic- put his finger on and say this is a Most importantly, he is honest with ular. Blonde, lovely Betty Grable. result of that sickness you had in himself. There, in a sentence, lies She was waiting in Boston but Hollywood. the clue (Continued on page 54)
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By CHARLES HENDERSON (with Charles Palmer)
Oeanna Durbin Says: "After the hours of personal instruction I've had from Charles Henderson f foved reading this. Everything he ever taught me is In it and so much more that I don't see how any popular singer can do without it." s,"HOW business! A kaleidoscopic that modest little talent of yours world with streets of gold, peopled into something that would work for with inhabitants of unreal beauty you and make your living—but you and charm, bathed in a mist of don't know how to go about it, and glamour. To the outsider, that is. so, until now, you've done nothing. To the insider, it's another way to I'd like to show you the right road make a living—a world of contra- —tell you how to get a start, how dictions, of drab hours and breath- to audition, how to find the songs taking moments, of hokum and hon- and the styles that will fit most est art, of generous friendships and naturally into your own personality, knives in the back, of heartbreaking how to meet and conquer all the failure and skyrocket success, of problems—some of them big, some monotonous mediocrity and flashing inspiration. The most exhausting By all means stay away from and well-rewarded work in the the old-fashioned teacher who universe, and the hardest gate to — tries to build up your volume. crash. But it can be crashed, and it's worth crashing. Even if it weren't, little—that stand in your way. good, I wouldn't waste good typewriter- And even if you're pretty you'll find some ribbon trying to argue you out of it. as a singer, I think You want to sing for your supper things here that will be useful to you. and a good deal more than your You see, most singers don't know business. They know that a supper—and it's my hope and in- their tention here to show you how. song goes over or flops, but they don't For this article, and those which don't know why. More, they for money is a will follow it, are messages of hope. realize that singing one at Thousands of you sing a little, for Decide what type of song your selling job, and a two-level your own pleasure or for that of vocal equipment and personal- that. your friends. You'd like to turn ity enable you to handle best. The singers aren't entirely to AND TELEVISION KUBROR 24 Copyright, 1939, by Charles Henderson and Charles Palmer RADIO At last! In an absolutely unique series of articles that cut straight through all the old taboos, Hollywood's most successful vocal coach tells how you too can become a star blame for this. How can they writers on the subject have ignored learn? Only by digging the knowl- these changes. So did the buggy edge out of the solid rock for them- builders. selves, or by taking a chance on an As the professional singer, you expensive vocal coach. And how will be in the business of furnishing can they learn what goes on inside entertainment. Baldly, to get the minds of talent buyers? Only money from your customers, the by the bitter experience of losing listening public, you must give them out on jobs they wanted desperate- what they want. Here I'll give you ly to get or hold. as artistic a training as the public I'm going to try to do something taste will permit, but when the constructive about it: to shortcut this bitter period for the beginning singer. If you want to be a singer and don't know how to start, I'm When you're getting a start, going to try to show you. If you are don't disdain beauty contests. determined to be a singer, and had After all, what can you lose? started before you opened the pages of this magazine, I'm going to try to help you avoid mistakes and diffi- a number. You don't need a big voice culties that still lie ahead in your voice nowadays: the "parlor" unguided path. of light but even volume through- Before we begin, let me point out out its effective range, free from something that has, perhaps, Tiever objectionable breathiness, is actu- ally better suited to the microphone. You should have a comfortable range of an octave plus two or three sing without obvious Do you whole notes (Their register doesn't strain? People don't like to matter, because you can choose the watch you puffing and panting. key in which you will sing.) Even less range will do in a pinch: Ruth artistic and the commercial consid- Etting got along with just an octave. erations come in conflict, the com- Is your voice free from the mercial will get the call. quaver of a faulty vibrato? The Now then, here are the tools you vibrato is primarily a pulsing varia- need before you go any farther. A tion in pitch; an emotional quality pleasing voice; a natural sense of of natural beauty in some voices, tone and rhythm; something in the but a cultivated one of doubtful at-
way of looks or personality ; an tractiveness in others. Is yours a emotional awareness (by which I waver over which you have confi- Gone is the old exaggeration mean simply a zest for life, which dent control, or a quaver which of gesture, the bellowing that translates into an ability to feel gives the effect of uncertainty? was necessary a few years ago. what you sing) ; and a genuine lik- Do you sing in tune and in ing for popular music. rhythm? Do you stay on pitch occurred to you. It's just this: the Have you these tools? Let's ask without too much difficulty, and is technique of singing for money has a few questions about your attack sure and true? If you completely upside down in sing along with phonograph records, turned YOUR VOICE the very recent past. There is now, do you stay in tempo with them and always will be, a demand for AND when you ask yourself these easily, or do you find the orchestra glorious voices in opera and on the i questions, be honest in answer- constantly getting out of line? concert stage, yet 99 per cent of the ing them. If the answers to these questions singing which the average Amer- Is your voice pleasing to most are honestly favorable we are ready ican hears and enjoys comes to him listeners? In other words, do people to go ahead, at least on songs of through the agency of a micro- like to hear you sing? Somebody average voice requirements. But if phone, in one or another of the must have heard you—not neces- you feel that your voice, our raw streamlined forms of modern enter- sarily radio audiences—your friends, material, is not yet up to these stand- tainment which are here to stay. your family, your fellow-members ards there is another question The accent today is on intimacy, of the Junior League or the Em- which you will ask. That is: Should and gone is the old exaggeration of ployee's Mutual Benefit Association. you engage a voice teacher? gesture, the vocal mugging and And remember, I said "Do they like Now, the only purpose of voice bellowing which was not only ac- your voice"; not, do they admire it, training as far as it affects getting cepted, but necessary under the or marvel at its technical excel- started in the popular field is to see conditions of a few years ago. It's lence, but do they like to listen to that your tone is true, that you modern science rather than lung it? There is a very real difference. breathe naturally and sing without power that carries today's enter- Do you produce tones without visible strain, that you have the tainer over the distances to the obvious strain? The public dislikes ability to keep time, and that your cheap seats. to tighten up its tummy muscles voice has a pleasing quality. Unfortunately, a great many and strain with you as you puff and However, some instruction on
singing instructors and almost all pant and belabor your way through voice culture ( Continued on page 70)
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Ly EAR DIARY: So many times lately I've thought I didn't have the courage to write down the things that have happened to me and yet, when I have confided in you it has always brought me a measure of strength to go on. You are my only intimate, my only con- fessor. What is a young widow to do? I always thought she had the right to love again, to give her children a new father. When I met Grant A vivid new chapter in the exciting life of Cummings, he was everything I'd ever hoped to find in a man. It Brenda Cummings, a beautiful young widow seemed right, then, that we should who thought she had the right to love again marry. It had been nearly three years since that terrible day when I lost my first husband, Richard Williams. He had been driving, it grown used to running his home back East, leaving the children to was a wet night, the car skidded and even his life, and now she was follow by train, intending to con- and Richard lost control. He died bitterly disappointed at his unex- front Slemp and demand to see the without regaining consciousness. pected marriage. man who said he was my first hus- Three years as a widow in the lit- Mimi took advantage of times band. It didn't occur to me, when I tle Montana town, struggling des- when I felt I must be with the chil- boarded that plane, that I was perately to earn a living for myself dren, to undermine Grant's love for taking the first step toward losing and Dick and Fran—such sweet, me. Jealousy was like a disease with Grant.
adorable children—and then . . . Grant, and it wasn't long before Yes, I've lost him, and the brief the day I met Grant Cummings. He Mimi had him believing I was un- happiness, too, that I thought would was from New York, wealthy, so- faithful to him with Kenneth always be mine. Mimi has won. cially prominent, charming. When Stevens, his best friend. I managed Fran, Dick and I are living in an he asked me to marry him, I to convince him he was mistaken, unspeakable New York boarding couldn't refuse. I loved him, and but the shock of knowing how little house. Night and day the heat is he could give my babies so much he trusted me left a scar that hasn't stifling and filled with thick smells. more than I could. healed yet—may never heal. Tonight we tried to sit on the fire- It wasn't that easy, though; and Only a few days ago we were all escape. But we had to come in and that is why I say perhaps a widow on our way to Montana, for a long close the window. A man and wife has no right to love again. We went vacation—Grant, Dick, Fran and I. who live across the court were say- back to New York to live, and soon But we had hardly unpacked our ing things to each other which I began to see that Dick and Fran bags when a wire came from a New stripped them of all decency, all resented Grant, while he in his turn York lawyer named Slemp, telling pride. They loved each other once, was jealous of my affection for us that Richard, my first husband, I suppose. Well, I've saved Grant them. Mimi Hale, Grant's cousin, was alive! and myself from an ending like
was another problem. She had Grant and I took the first plane that. . . . 26 RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR tij£*g
Portrait of Brenda dimming* By Alec Redmond, 1939
CONTINUING. IN THE INTIMATE DIARY OF BRENDA CUMMINGS. THE DRAMATIC STORY OF SECOND HUSBAND. STARRING HELEN MENKEN, AND SPONSORED BY BAYER ASPIRIN—HEARD TUESDAY EVENINGS ON CBS
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Loneliness, at least, is clean. pital and learning that Grant would office today? I'd better watch out! It's hard to believe that the not regain consciousness before She was surprised to see me. But events of the last five days, since morning. And I remember that I must say it didn't take her long to we went aboard the plane in Mon- Mimi gave me a bromide at dinner, pull herself together and explain tana, have really happened. They've "to calm my nerves." I suspect it she naturally was interested in come so fast, with such kaleido- did more than that. Grant's marital status. scopic frenzy. I got to the Olympic at eight. The I told Slemp—with more courage The air, as we neared New York, desk clerk told me to go to Room and conviction than I felt—that I was bumpy, but I had no idea we 310 and wait, that Mr. Williams didn't believe his "Richard Wil- were in any danger until, suddenly, would be back shortly. He had, the liams"—if indeed there really was the plane gave a sickening lurch clerk said, already registered for such a person—was my husband. and plunged to the ground. Un- both of us. "I'll call upon you tomorrow at believably, I was not injured, but I went to Room 310. And the next this same time," I said. "And if Grant was white and still in the thing I knew Edwards, our butler, Richard isn't here I'm going to sue wreckage. He was still unconscious and a hotel detective were standing you for blackmail!" when they got him to the hospital, over me and it was four o'clock in I think Slemp was frightened. and the doctor, though he tried, was the morning! That was when I sus- unable to give me much hope. pected that Mimi had given me September 2nd . . . I battled back frenzy to think something stronger than a bromide. I'VE had a show-down with Slemp what I must do. Even with my mind But the horrible thing was that and I've won! full of Grant, I knew I must not the doctor had been wrong. Grant I have a paper, signed by him, forget the reason we had come to recovered consciousness while I was which testifies no one named Rich- New York, and as I waited for some sleeping in the hotel. And when he ard Williams exists—to the best of change to come in Grant's condition opened his eyes it was Mimi who his knowledge and belief! And he they brought me a telegram at the sat beside him. has a paper, signed by me, acquit- hospital. It was signed "Richard" He soon found out, the next day, ting him of any responsibility in this and it instructed me to meet him how Edwards had found me at the matter. He wouldn't name the per- that night at eight o'clock in the hotel—and about the damning way son who involved him but I know Olympic Hotel. the register was signed: Mr. and it was Mimi. I'm not very clear about what Mrs. Richard Williams. When Richard wasn't in the office happened after that. Of course I I tried to explain how things I demanded a detailed description was tired and overwrought, but I really were. But suddenly, over- of him at least. Slemp put me off do remember telephoning the hos- powered by Mimi's viciousness and until he had made a telephone call. Grant's willingness to believe her, I Then he described "Richard Wil- couldn't go on. Words just wouldn't liams" as a man resembling Gary come. Cooper. Richard didn't look any- A man either trusts his wife, or thing like Gary Cooper but little he doesn't. Grant doesn't trust me. Dick always thinks of him that way. And that is why I am living here, And when I reached home I learned in this boarding house, away from from the children that Mimi had him. But I'm miserable. met them at their play-school, taken them for ice-cream, and ques-
August 29th . . . tioned them about their father! I have a job! I'm to design dresses. That's all I need to know! Model them too sometimes. Pierre, Ben Porter was right about Mimi the owner of the shop, even has from the start. She's madly in love given me a contract. And he's pay- with Grant and she'll go to any ing me thirty dollars a week. lengths to get him. Well, I'm cer- Now I can rent a little house in tainly out of her way now. the country. And eventually, if
Richard really is alive, I'll hire a Saturday, September 3rd . . . lawyer to get me a divorce. Then Women are strange. When I first perhaps life will be good enough at left Grant I resented the messages least. Without Grant I don't expect he sent me. I prayed he would leave to be happy. me alone so I might go my own way and make a life for my children.
September 1st . . . But since his messages have ceased What was Mimi doing in Slemp's I've been miserable. A woman's independence seems to diminish as
"I went after you. Van Doom her loneliness increases . . . was on the floor, a Icnife be-
." Monday, September 5th . . . side him. It was horrible . . We're home again. I've had Grant's (Continued on page 61) Fink photo
What a party they made for Kate Smith when she went to Hollywood to preview 20th Century-Fox's "Drums Along The Mohawk"! Left to right, Joan Crawford, Merle Oberon, Kate and Claudette Colbert.
HOLLYWOOD "inside" has it By GEORGE FISHER Your reporter was host to An- that the Burns Mantle por- drew Jergens (Winchell's boss) for tions of the Star Theater Listen to George Fisher's broadcasts his yearly visit to Hollywood. program will be dropped. The full every Saturday night over Mutual. "Andy" met most of the film stars hour, with Ken Murray, Kenny and spent the remainder of his time Baker, Frances Langford and Dave One reason that Edgar Bergen is in Hollywood's "After Dark" spots, Broekman, will then originate en- pushing Mortimer on the air is said with glowing praise for Earl Car- tirely in Hollywood. to be to popularize his comic strip! roll's show palace. * * * * * * * * * The Bob Hopes are telling friends Ed Sullivan declares in his col- Jim (Fibber McGee) Jordan and they want five kids: but want none umn that "the best comedy on the Mrs. Jordan (Molly) spent a few of their own. They'll adopt four air recently was Winchell's message anxious hours after learning of the more, one each year. to Atlantic ships to look out for two sinking of the British ship Sirdhana * * * men who fell overboard." off Singapore. Jim's sister, Jose- Ken Murray is telling those jokes # # * phine Jordan Hugo, was a passen- to Nancy Kelly in private. But in- Hollywood is all ears when Drew ger, with her husband, Charles sists it's no joke that she's to be- Pearson and Bob Allen spout their Hugo, business manager of the come the leading lady in his new "very exclusive" Washington gossip Nirola dance troupe, also aboard the home! on "Listen America," over Mutual. vessel. Jordan cabled the U. S. Con- * * * This network is certainly hitting the sul at Singapore for word of her M-G-M is dickering with Ray big time. fate to relieve anxiety, but before # * * Noble for a musical. a reply could come, NBC learned * # # PREACHER MATERIAL: Skin- Mrs. Hugo was among the survivors, Charlie McCarthy, in his new nay Ennis, the band leader, and his and relayed the happy word to Jim. picture, "McCarthy Detective," has singer Carmine Calhoun have final- * * * a wig made of real red hair. ly set the date: Christmas. The "I Want A Divorce" program * * * * * # is trying to help couples stay mar- PREACHER MATERIAL: Jack Gertrude Niesen spent two ried by dramatizing some domestic Carson and Kay St. Germaine—as months in Hollywood without sing- situation that might easily lead up soon as the divorce between himself ing at one nightclub and without to the divorce courts for lack of a and his wife becomes final. signing a film contract. common (Continued on page 73)
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R. AND MRS. JAMES JORDAN (really our good friends Fibber McGee and Molly) firmly be- lieve in love at first sight. They'll tell you this miracle has touched them twice. The first time when, as shy youngsters of 17 and 16, they met one eventful night at choir practice in their home town of Peoria, Illinois, and immediately fell in love. There followed a story- book romance and, after they had grown up a bit, they were married. Years of trouping, of living here and there, had been warmed by the dream that some day they'd have a beautiful home of their own. Again and again, they talked about (Continued on page 53)
Jim and Marian outside their playhouse which is In front of their home, show- just over the bridge from the big house. It's ng the long front balcony onto complete with a game room, fireplace and kitchen. which the bedrooms open, over- Right, Fibber's greatest ioy is his own workshop. looking the beautiful gardens. PltotOl exclusively taken for Radio Mirror by NliC RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR —
If he's not in his workshop, then you'll find Fibber in his den, a real man's room with huge comfy chairs. Below, the swanky living room, with a huge fire-place and baby grand piano.
Outdoor living in the true California manner romping with the family dogs before leaving for their Tuesday night broadcast at NBC's Holly- wood studio—only nine miles from the McGee home.
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FEBRUAHY, 1940 mtffllMk
By KATHLEEN NORMS
The Story Thus Far:
FIVE years in a convent school were poor defense for Tamara Todhunter when she met Mayne Mallory, handsome, unprincipled film actor. To her dazzled eyes, he symbolized everything she loved and wanted. Instead of the shoddy existence in her mother's apartment, Mayne offered her glamour, ro- mance, beauty. Only afterwards, when he left San Francisco and re- turned to Hollywood, leaving her to bear his child in secrecy, did she realize what an easy conquest she had been. The Mother Superior of her school helped her by finding her refuge with Mary Hutton, an old friend who lived on a ranch south of San Francisco. Mrs. Hutton took Tarn into her home, and in the days that followed the girl regained some of the pride and self-respect she thought had been lost. When the baby came—a girl—she named it Mary, after Mrs. Hutton, and then returned to San Francisco to pick up her life once more. During her association with Mayne she had done a little stage work, and now it was to the stage that she returned. AT supper, George's mother men- For seven years she worked, devot- Za tioned the Maynard Mallory ing all her energies to making a * case. living, until she was a moderately "Didn't you two see anything of successful star. Every week end it? But of course you didn't! It she would run down to visit little only happened about a week ago. Mary, who was accepted in the com- He's a Hollywood actor, isn't he, munity as Mrs. Hutton's niece. Tarn?" Then she met George Davis, a "Yes . . . used to be," George sup- handsome but dissolute young law- plied. "I haven't seen his name for yer. Through her influence, he years. He married an actress stopped drinking, and eventually she named Florice Fanette, I think." realized she was in love with him. "Well, that's it, you see. He mur- By an accident, she also discovered dered her." that George was the long-lost son of "No-o-o?" George said, widening Mrs. Hutton, and one afternoon she his eyes-. "Confess?" brought mother and son together "Confess nothing! But they say again. Before she agreed to marry they know he did it." George, however, she told him the "They were divorced," Tarn's dry truth about little Mary's father. throat said. George refused to allow this to is entangled in the sordid "Either you do like I want you to," Mayne said, "or tomorrow morning the pa- web of Mayne's, as this pers'll have the whole story." dramatic novel reaches new emotional heights ever want to know. He's Mary's father." After a long time George said: "Well, what of it? I suppose he wants me to defend him. I'll tell him I can't. And that'll be that." 'But then if that made him mad," Tamara said apprehensively, "what could he do?" "Exactly nothing, Tarn. The day has gone by when the—what was it?—the lightest breath of scandal against a woman's name was enough to damn her in decent society." "He thinks you don't know," Tarn surmised shrewdly. "I suppose that's it. I suppose he saw your whole life in his power. Well, he's in pretty deep water now." "It's only on Mary's account that I'm afraid," Tarn said suddenly. "Does he know about Mary?" "I wrote him once. I wrote him that I must see him, that 'something had happened.' " "And what did he say when you saw him?" Listen to Woman in Love, by Kathleen Norris, Monday through "I never did. He didn't write. Friday on CBS at 5 p. m., E.S.T., sponsored by Wheaties. ." I've never seen him, since. . . "Ha!" George said. "So you instantly roused the whole place. upstairs to bed before she began don't know whether he knows or She was lying in the bathroom, quietly: not?" dead, with her head beaten in." "George, we're in trouble." "No. But he may have my old "He did it, eh?" George asked. "Who's in trouble, infant? This," letter—would he have kept it, "What duck soup for Mullins!" George said, luxuriating in firelight, George?" "Mallory was indicted day before with his wife half on his knee and "Probably. He wouldn't have yesterday," the elder Mary said. half on the arm of his chair, "this written you as he did if he hadn't "They didn't find a gun or stick doesn't seem to me like trouble." some evidence of some sort." or anything in the bathroom?" Silently she put a crumpled sheet "Well, you see, if he has heard of "He had a walking stick with a of cheap hotel letter paper into his Mary— He might tell her!" metal head, but it wasn't bloody." hand. He leaned back and jerked "I don't see how," George pointed "Any blood on him? There was on a light to read it. out reasonably. "He can't really probably plenty of it." "My dear old Tarn," he read, "I know of her existence. If he sus- "The floor was a pool, and the am in pretty bad shape for some- pects it, he must think that you gave walls were spattered. But the thing I never did. I want to see the baby away for adoption. You blood on him might have been be- your husband, and I want to see had six or seven years playing in cause he knelt down and caught him mighty soon. Someone has got stock, with no talk of a baby, no her up in his arms and tried to re- to see me through this like he did story of adopting a baby. All we vive her." the Elliot case. Get in touch with have to do is sit tight until they ." "Looks bad," George mused. me. . . hang him." "It'll be short shrift for him." The formless, blustering writing "You think they will?" "I suppose so. But he has money ended with the signature "Mayne." "Well, it looks that way." to fight. She was rich, and she left "What's he to you?" George asked, But she wondered if he was a everything to Mallory." staring at her, completely at a loss. little more concerned than he chose Tarn was very quiet. She ate "That's just it. That's what I to let her suspect when he went nothing. It was late in the evening, didn't tell you when we first talked. away early the next morning, and and Mary and her Gran had gone That's what you said you didn't she knew that matters had taken FEBRUARY, 1940 33 A V f Once more Tarn's life Either you is entangled in do like I want the sordid you to," Mayne said, "or tomorrow wtdHifa morning the pa- web of Mayne's, as this pers'll have the whole story." dramatic novel reaches By KATHLEEN new -emotional heights The Story Thus Far: ever want to know. He's Mary's years in a convent school FIVE father." were poor defense for Tamara After a long time George said: Todhunter when she met Mayne "Well, what of it? I suppose he Mallory, handsome, unprincipled wants me to defend him. I'll tell film actor. To her dazzled eyes, he him I can't. And that'll be that." symbolized everything she loved 'But then if that made him mad," and wanted. Instead of the shoddy Tamara said apprehensively, "what existence in her mother's apartment, could he do?" Mayne offered her glamour, ro- "Exactly nothing, Tarn. The day mance, beauty. Only afterwards, has gone by when the—what was when he left San Francisco and re- it?—the lightest breath of scandal turned to Hollywood, leaving her to against a woman's name was enough bear his child in secrecy, did she to damn her in decent society." realize what an easy she conquest "He thinks you don't know," Tarn had been. surmised shrewdly. The Mother Superior of her school "I suppose that's it. I suppose he helped her finding by her refuge saw your whole life in his power. with Hutton, Mary an old friend Well, he's in pretty deep water who lived on a ranch south of San now." Francisco. Mrs. Hutton took Tarn "It's only on Mary's account that into her home, and in the days that I'm afraid," Tarn said suddenly. followed the girl regained some of "Does he know about Mary?" the pride and self-respect she "I wrote him once. I wrote him thought had been lost. When the that I must see him, that 'something baby came—a girl—she named it had happened.' " Mary, after Mrs. Hutton, and then "And what did he say when you returned to San Francisco to pick saw him?" up her life once more. During her Listen to Woman in Love, by Kathleen Norris, Monday through "I never did. He didn't write. Wheaties. association with Mayne she Friday on CBS at 5 p. m., E.S.T., sponsored by ." had I've never seen him, since. . . done a little stage work, and now it "Ha!" George said. "So you was to the stage that she returned. don't know whether he knows or instantly roused the whole place. upstairs to bed before she began For seven years she worked, devot- not?" She was lying in "the i>athroom, quietly: ing all her energies to making a "No. But he may have my old dead, with her head beaten in." "George, we're in trouble." living, until she it, was a moderately infant? This," letter—would he have kept "He did it, eh?" George asked. "Who's in trouble, successful star. Every week end "What said, luxuriating in firelight, George?" she duck soup for Mullins!" George would run down to visit little and "Probably. He wouldn't have "Mallory was indicted day before with his wife half on his knee Mary, who was accepted in the com- written you as he did if he hadn't yesterday," half on the arm of his chair, "this munity as the elder Mary said. Mrs. Hutton's niece. trouble." some evidence of some sort." Then "They didn't find a gun or stick doesn't seem to me like she met George Davis, a crumpled sheet "Well, you see, if he has heard of sup- w anything in the bathroom?" Silently she put a handsome but . . . used to be," George tell her!" dissolute young law- i into his Mary— He might for "He had of cheap hotel letter paper yer. Through 'I haven't seen his name a walking stick with a pointed her influence, he back and jerked "I don't see how," George actress metal head, but it wasn't bloody." hand. He leaned stopped drinking, and eventually she He married an out reasonably. "He can't really "Any blood was on a light to read it. realized she was in named Florice Fanette, I think." on him? There of her existence. If he sus- love with him. old Tarn," he read, "I know mur- Probably plenty of it." "My dear By an accident, she also "Well, that's it, you see. He pects it, he must think that you gave discovered in pretty bad shape for some- that 'The floor was a pool, and the am adoption. You George was the long-lost son of dered her." want to see the baby away for walls the thing I never did. I Mrs. Hutton, "No-o-o?" said, widening were spattered. But six or seven years playing in and one afternoon she George and I want to see had Wood on him might have been be- your husband, no brought mother and son his eyes. "Confess?" has got stock, with no talk of a baby, together cause he him mighty soon. Someone again. Before But they say knelt down and caught story of adopting a baby. All we she agreed to marry "Confess nothing! he through this like he did r up in his arms tried to re- to see me until they George, however, she they know he did it." and with have to do is sit tight told him the VJve the Elliot case. Get in touch truth about Tarn's dry her." him." little Mary's father. "They were divorced," ." hang "Looks bad," mused. le. . . George refused to throat said. , George writing "You think they will?" allow this to , formless, blustering «'U be short shrift for him." The that way." make any difference in "Yes," Mrs. Hutton answered. "Mayne." "Well, it looks their love, "I ended with the signature and they were remarried suppose so. But he hag money But she wondered if he was a married. But on re- "But it aeems they were w "What's he to you?" George asked, came fight. She was rich, and she left concerned than he chose turning from their honeymoon, again about a year ago. They completely at a loss little more Tarn ana everything staring at her, when he went found a week to Mallory." I to let her suspect sinister letter waiting up to San Francisco last it. That's what for Tarn was ate "That's just next morning, and her—addressed in they say very quiet. She talked. away early the Mayne Mallory's gave some parties, and nothing. tell you when we first day I It evening, didn't that matters had taken sprawling handwriting. next:t was late in the didn't she knew there was a quarrel. The and That's what you said you nineeandan / I Mary and her Gran had gone 33 32 he says he woke up about ""TOAST, 1940 TELEVISION I "71 — s some sort of unexpected turn, when anything to do with us at all," said. There was an odd weight at her he telephoned her about four o'clock George said. "Women do that sort heart. The best thing that could to come into town and have dinner of thinking. The past doesn't mean happen would be to have a quick and stay the night. He had to see so much to men. A man may wish verdict of "guilty" returned, and a "a man" and was not coming home. he hadn't been such a young skunk retrial refused. But then what of He looked tired when she met to his mother—something like that," Mayne? How would he fight? him in the room he'd taken at the he added musingly. "But as a gen- "Mayne Mallory reveals old affair Fairmont Hotel; but he brightened eral thing the future's the big bet!" with attorney's wife in claiming at the sight of her. After a moment "A girl keeps wishing she could Davis did not exert full powers of he said: go back!" Tamara said, on the same defense!" Would that be a headline "I've seen Mallory." reminiscent note. She drew a great some night? breath. "But we go on from here!" "No, no," she said in her heart. TAM'S healthy mountain brown she said. "Only I can't have my "Newspapers don't do that sort of faded a trifle. "You've seen Mary hurt." thing!" Mayne?" "Marriage is a damn' marvelous Now Oscar Mullins was on his "Yep. He's here in the city jail. thing," George said reflectively. feet and saying everything that of I talked with him for about an "Well, I'll go to it tomorrow and see course one knew he must say. Her hour." what I can dig up. But I don't be- heart began to beat hard and stead- "Why did you see him?" Tarn lieve I can do much for him!" ily with a sort of sickening fright; asked, in a light, frightened voice. On the last day of Mayne Mal- she looked now and then at Mayne' lory's trial, and the "Well—it looks as if I'll have to Tamara charm- silhouette. defend him," he confessed. Then, ing middle-aged wife of Warren "This man has placed voluntarily rapidly, he explained the tangled Hunter were smuggled into incon- outside the category of those of us skein of circumstances which was spicuous chairs in the court room. who are still old-fashioned enough dragging him into the Mallory case. to appreciate our women, who feel His own candidacy for the district only reverence and gratitude for attorneyship, and the necessity for the sacred gift of a woman's love and defeating Oscar Mullins, the incum- companionship . . . Florice Fanette bent who would naturally prosecute was young and lovely ... in the Mayne. Pressure from old Martell, radiant flower of her extraordinary the head of George's own law firm, beauty . . . other men desired her, month! Read the and from Warren Hunter, one of the Next longed for her . . . her heart was partners. Both felt that the case true to the man she first had loved would be invaluable publicity for Secrets of the Lux Radio . . . not as successful as she . . . not George, particularly if he could get rich . . . any other kind of verdict beyond a "Ladies and gentlemen of the Theater — the unrehearsed flat "Guilty." And in the meantime, jury, if this monster leaves this George said finally, Mallory had court room a free man, then justice written the firm, asking that George and unexpected dramas is indeed dead in San Francisco, and handle the case. no one of our women may lay her- "I didn't see," he finished, "what that happen behind the cur- self down to sleep tonight beside her else I could do but say I would take little children in safety. ..." it. In fact, the firm had practically "Bosh," Tamara said fiercely in committed me to the job before I tain, to the embarrassment her heart as she listened. "Bosh, knew anything about it." bosh, bosh!" But was the jury Tarn's eyes were far away. "Oh, it of Hollywood's biggest stars thinking it was bosh? is strange!" she said, under her When Mullins had finished, there breath. was a pause, then George stood up "Yes—it is strange." and began to talk quietly, and the "Can you make any sort of case blood came back to her heart. The for him, George?" room was completely still. No one "I don't know. I don't think so. moved; there was neither murmur I think they'll hang him. Poor fel- Tamara's eyes were on the pris- nor rustle as the words went on, low, he was trembling and sweating oner as he was led in. She felt the clear and natural. George skimmed as he talked about it." blood leave her face, and the cold the general history of the crime and Throughout dinner, which they sweat on her hands. Mayne Mal- the trial smoothly; there was but took in their room, Tamara was lory again. He looked an old man one point he wanted to make. He silent and afraid; but afterwards fat, soft, fearfully sobered. felt it was what might be called a she sighed, relaxed a little. "Oh, The usual rustling of papers and small point, but if it happened to be well," she said, "it's started—and moving of figures was going on in- one that his learned colleague Mr. once things get started we can go side the rail; the usual whispered Mullins could not, with all his elo- on. It was having it sprung on me consultations. But for an hour every quence, explain, then it was as so suddenly that you'd have to de- seat in the courtroom had been oc- valuable to his client as the most fend him that frightened me." cupied. Nobody moved there. Ta- perfect alibi. "You mustn't be frightened. mara studied the jury; six men, six The jury had seen the bathroom There's nothing to be frightened women. They were serious-looking walls that had been the silent wit- about." folk; one man looked stern and nesses of either a brutal murder or "George!" Red-cheeked, round- cruel, one woman motherly and soft a strange, dramatic accident. He eyed, she was facing him squarely, and irresolute in type. was prepared to reconstruct those her hands clamped on the arms of "Warren looks terribly blue. I'm walls from photographs right now the chair. "Do you mind horribly? afraid it's all up with us," Margaret before their eyes; show that they I mean—its being Mayne." Hunter whispered. had been spattered lightly, evenly, "I don't think of him as having "George looks tired too," Tarn with a (Continued on page 57) 34 RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR - THE MUSIC By KEN ALDEK Dorsey competition con- THEtinues. Tommy and Jimmy are both currently in Chicago, Jim- my at the Sherman, Tommy at the Palmer House. But on January 4, Orrin Tucker replaces T. D. * * * Latest maestro-to-be: Tony Pas- tor, Artie Shaw's popular tenor sax player and novelty singer. * * * Arnold Johnson, who formerly had Benny Goodman, Russ Morgan, Bob Chester, and Freddie Martin work- ing for him, is trying a comeback. He will feature an eight-piece sax section. * * ' » With all the big name bands on MBS, CBS, and NBC, radio row wonders where Elliott Roosevelt will snare orchestras for his- pro- posed new web. * * * Dave Tough, as authentic a jive drummer as you could find in swing alley, is really very ill. * * * Al Donohue, who junked a sweet Glen Gray, Judy Garland and band for a swing one, opens in New Jimmie Fidler go in for a Jersey's Meadowbrook in January bit of jive at the Palace Ho- with a MBS wire. He succeeds tel in San Francisco, where Glen's was Larry Clinton . . . Jan Savitt band playing when grabbed Gabe Gelines, hot tenor sax Judy and Jimmie stopped in. man, from Glenn Miller. . . . BANDOM'S BAD BOY Too much money almost changed the career of Bob Chester and de- prived radio of its newest dance band threat to the currently estab- J lished swing kings. The stepson of Albert Fisher, re- tired head of world-renowned Fisher Bodies, Inc., Bob could have left the portals of Dayton Univer- Too much money almost sity, armed with an impressive changed the career of Bob looking brief case, that contained Chester and deprived radio among other things, one possession of a new dance band threat kings. many of us always strive for, but to the current swing never attain—security. Instead the determined lad tossed all this away for a shiny saxophone, and a job in Russ Mor- (Continued on page 74) FEBRUARY, 1940 Comedy—Duet by Howard and Shelton. Fencing—Television success- fully captures a unique sport. m HOURS The camera reaches to the four corners of the world in the search for new subjects for the 690 minutes a week of television programs Debutante—Society's Cobina Wright, Jr., and night club entertainer, being televised. if -jif. I . Vaudeville—-The medicine man returns for a laugh. The Duncan Sisters—in their Topsy and Eva roles A WEEK famous for so many years. Hair Stylist— Emile demonstrates the latest FROM the newest styles for your hair to a in fashions for the hair. fencing exhibition, the television cameras >~ every day range over dozens of new subjects, truly making "the greatest show on earth." Pictured on these pages is proof that the tele- caster is V J thinking of other ways than the more obvious spot news broadcasts to bring you new hours of pleasure. Here are some typically interesting performances that are daily being televised by NBC in New York. Schedules are expanding rapidly—television now has a working week of 11% hours! Novelty—The Kidoodlers, radio's Fashions—a popular fea- popular entertainers, play queer in- ture for women is the show- struments for you to see and hear. ing of the latest clothes. '« fr t « l **~ • 1 (Vaudeville—The medicine returns for a laugh. The Duncan Sisters—in their Topsy and Eva roles m HOURS AWEEK famous for so many years. Hair Stylist— Emile demonstrates the latest the newest styles for your hair to a The camera reaches to the four corners of FROM in fashions for the hair. fencing exhibition, the television cameras the world in the search for new subjects for every day range over dozens of new subjects, the 690 minutes a week of television programs truly making "the greatest show on earth." Pictured on these pages is proof that the tele- caster is thinking of other ways than the more obvious spot news broadcasts to bring you new hours of pleasure. Here are some typically interesting performances that are daily being PHOtO- televised by NBC in New York. $ Schedules are expanding rapidly—television ^y> now has a working week of 11% hours! Debutante—Society's Cobina Novelty—The Kidoodlers, radio's Fashions—a popular fea- »°Pular Wright, Jr., and night club entertainers, play queer in- ture for women is the show- niments entertainer, being televised. for you to see and hear. ing of the latest clothes. frk t I K T v *5? , — — The personal life story of a gallant lover, whose pursuit of an ideal has brought both heartbreak and happiness to the women he has loved s.'OME of you who read this story able to understand, and so he has But there were, also, two impor- may say that Herbert Marshall just never given any one of his loves the tant reasons why they might have doesn't know what he wants from chance to reach the beneficent peace been awful. The first was the heart love, or marriage. And, of course, of maturity. of Mr. Marshall. The second was you're entitled to your own opinion, And because he has never given the heart and memory of Miss Best. but I think you wouldn't be look- love a chance to grow up, he is part For when they had originally played ing very deeply into his character of a foursome that Hollywood sees "There's Always Juliet" they had and emotions if you dismissed him as a most modern rectangle. You been one of the most famous of as lightly as that. depending on your point of view ideally married couples. Their love The trouble with Bart Marshall will find it either very sad, or very story was the kind that you liked is not that he does not know what cynical, or very civilized. Or, per- to know existed in real life—the he wants in love. Not at all. He haps, a little of all three. kind that you'd like to have happen does know. He wants the ideal, No matter how you see it, you to you. They had exquisite twin and the vision of that ideal is al- will most certainly get an insight children. They were magnificently ways with him, giving him warmth, into the soul of a charming man, successful, and beautifully in love. coloring his fine, masculine voice, who is still in love with love. putting an eternal aura of romance Perhaps you were listening on the UT1 on the recent night of about him. It has made him what evening of last October 23, when B "There's Always Juliet" on the he is—a very great lover, on the Herbert Marshall, supported by air, while still man and wife, the air, the screen, the stage, and in pri- Edna Best, played "There's Always Marshalls were no longer in love vate life; it has given heartache and Juliet" on the Hollywood Playhouse with each other. Bart was in love ecstasy to him and to the women program. "There's Always Juliet" with Lee Russell, a quiet, beautiful he has loved. is an ardent love story and Mr. Mar- girl. Edna was engaged to Nat His trouble is simply this: that shall and Miss Best, the latter mak- Wolff, who is the personal agent for he does not know that none of us ing her air debut, were most de- both his fiancee and her husband. can maintain such ideal loves even lightful in it. Mix into this the fact that Nat if we find them. They are too per- There were many reasons for Wolff was quietly sitting in the stu- fect. They are too wonderful. They that. For one thing, it is a beauti- dio audience, watching them at the are all climax. No woman can pos- fully written play. For another, microphone; and the further fact sibly live up to them, hour by hour, Edna and Bart had already played that Miss Russell, though not pres- in the stress of everyday existence. the show, both on the London and ent at the broadcast—because she That is why the other loves replace the New York stage. They knew never does come to them, holding pure romance, mature loves found- exactly where the laughs were in that Bart's work is personal to him ed on tolerance and friendship and the lines, and where the tenderness. and that she shouldn't interfere association and knowledge. But that Such knowledge helps a perform 1S also one of Edna Best's good is something Bart has never been ance greatly. menas. Addi that up. See, as Hol- <4 38 Edna Best, Herbert Mar- shall's lovely wife, and Lee Russell, the girl he plans to marry after his divorce from Edna. lywood often does, the four of them frequently dining together, in peace and amity. And you have that mod- ern rectangle I spoke of. Edna Best is Bart's second wife. His first was Mollie Maitland, whom he married before the war. It's hard, now, to find out much about Mollie. His closest English pals in Hollywood say little about her ex- cept, "She was a very good woman, Mollie." They might, of course, have stayed married if it hadn't been for the war. Bart left her to fight for his country, and though he wasn't killed he came so near to it that his career and his whole life were almost ruined. That war made a cripple of him. He, a man in a profession where physical beauty is all-important, seemed doomed to hobble out the rest of his life in obscurity. It is to his eternal credit that he refused to accept that sentence. He, who was then and still is in prac- tically continual pain, came back to the theater, learned to walk with incredible smoothness, overcame his His trouble is handicap so that audiences never simply that he has for one moment pitied him, but ac- never permitted any of cepted him as the personification of his loves to reach maturity. all that (Continued on page 83) 39 1&CJb*1 By KATE SMITH RADIO MIRROR'S NEW FOOD COUNSELLOR HELLO, everybody: This is Kate Smith speaking to you from the cooking pages of Radio Mirror where each month I'm going to visit with you and talk about the most important item in the house- wife's notebook—food. From time to time we'll discuss other matters, too. If I hear about a new gadget or a different way of doing some household task that will make your kitchen workshop func- tion more efficiently, I'll pass the news on to you. But for the most part, we'll concentrate on planning nourishing, appetizing meals which are economical and simple to pre- pare. Since so many of my friends seem to feel that baking is the most diffi- cult of kitchen arts, we are going to consider first of all cake and cooky making. Many people believe that baking requires a special knack. That is quite true. But—and this is the important thing—you can ac- quire that knack. The first step in acquiring it is to use only the best ingredients. Be Tune in Kate Smith's noon-day talks Monday through Friday at sure that such important items as twelve, EJS.T. and on Friday nights at eight, both over CBS. flour, shortening, baking powder and flavoring are the best the market affords. Before you start to bake, read able to master just one recipe and Sift flour once, measure, add bak- your recipe over carefully and be still get a variety of cakes! Your ing powder and salt, and sift to- sure that everything you require is family will cheer the results. I've gether three times. Cream shorten- at hand. Next—and I can't stress tried the recipe myself and I know. ing thoroughly, add sugar and this too much—follow your recipe cream together until light and Basic Cake Recipe to the letter. Measure accurately, fluffy. Add beaten egg yolks and combine the ingredients as di- cups sifted cake flour beat well. Add flour, alternately rected and see to it that your oven tsps. double-acting baking pow- with -milk, a small quantity at a registers the exact temperature der time, and beat after each addition specified. Vz tsp. salt until smooth. Add vanilla extract. This month I've a very special % cup shortening 1 cup sugar Fold in egg whites. Bake in three recipe to give you—a recipe that 3 egg yolks, well beaten greased 9-inch layer pans at 375 you can use to make at least three 3 cup milk degrees F., until done (25 to 30 entirely different and equally de- 1 tsp. vanilla extract minutes). licious cakes. What a blessing to be 3 egg whites, stiffly beaten The first time you use this recipe, 40 RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR An exclusive new feature to solve your kitchen problems and to make more zestful the meals you serve—written by a star as famous for her cooking as for her singing put the layers together with all- Fit the sections together like a layer around chocolate frosting. (See cake, placing a plain layer on top, illustration upper right). then cover top and sides with all- around chocolate frosting. A luscious chocolate layer cake Ail-Around Chocolate Frosting For a richer cake, add one cup of made from the basic cake recipe. chopped nut meats to the basic 4 tbls. butter recipe just before folding in the shaved chocolate. Dot others with 3 cups sifted confectioners' sugar egg whites. Use either all-around cinnamon drops. Press raisins, cur- % tsp. vanilla extract chocolate frosting or seven-minute rants, chopped candied fruits or nut V4 tsp. salt frosting between layers and on the meats into the tops of some, and 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, top and sides, sprinkling with nut dust the remainder with fruit melted meats while the frosting is still soft. lozenges—the kind you'll find at 4 tbls. hot milk Now let's turn our attention to five cents the package at any candy Cream butter, add half of sugar cookies. Here again we have a basic counter—which have been ground gradually, creaming after each ad- recipe. It will give you the best up in your meat chopper. With dition. Add vanilla, salt and melted plain sugar cookies you've ever these as a starter, I know you will chocolate. Add remaining sugar, eaten—and many people believe work out other combinations and alternately with milk, until mix- that the simple, unadorned sugar variations of flavor yourself. ture reaches right consistency for cooky is the perfection of the baking And so—happy baking day. I'll spreading (you may find that you art—or it can be given last minute be seeing you here next month. won't need quite all the milk) beat- variations which will assure you a ing smooth after each addition. cooky jar full of pleasant surprises. Here's a trick I consider in- valuable for removing onion NEXT time, make a coconut cov- Basic Cooky Recipe aroma from the hands. As soon ered layer cake, using coconut as you've finished peeling onions, run your favorite deodorant. seven-minute frosting. (See illus- 3 cups flour xk tsp. salt for Use it liberally on your hands tration right). 1 tsp. double-acting baking and allow it to remain for at powder least five minutes. Then wash it Coconut Seven-Minute Frosting 1V4 cups sugar off and, presto! all onion odor has disappeared. 1 cup shortening 3 eggs 2 egg whites, unbeaten 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1V2 cups sugar 5 tbls. water Sift flour, measure, then sift to- 1% tsps. light corn syrup gether with baking powder, sugar 1 tsp. vanilla extract and salt. Break up shortening with 1 can moist sweetened coconut a fork, then work it into the flour Combine egg whites, sugar, water mixture. Add eggs, one at a time, and corn syrup in top of double beating after each one. Add vanilla boiler, beating with rotary beater extract. Roll thin on floured board until thoroughly blended. Place and bake on greased cooky tin at over boiling water, beat constantly 375 degrees F. for eight minutes. and cook for seven minutes, or un- Just before the cookies go into the til frosting will stand in peaks. oven, decorate the tops so that in- Remove from boiling water, add stead of one kind you will have an vanilla and beat until thick enough infinite variety. Sprinkle some with The same basic recipe cake, with to spread. Spread between layers a coconut party dress this time. and on top and sides of cake, Bottom, an attractive chocolate sprinkling with coconut while frost- oaf cake, from the same recipe. ing is still soft. Next, you might want to try the chocolate loaf cake (illustrated). Use the same basic recipe, plus four squares of unsweetened chocolate. The chocolate is to be melted and added after the vanilla and just be- fore the egg whites are folded in. Bake this in a greased 15 by 10- inch tin at 375 degrees F. for 25 to 30 minutes. As soon as it is done, turn it onto a rack and cut away the crisp edges. When it has cooled, cut it into half lengthwise, then into half crosswise. Spread three of the quarters with % cup whipped cream which has been sweetened IHIIIII MIRROR and flavored with vanilla to taste. • * FEBRUARY, 1940 41 Eastern Standard Time a 8:00 CBS: News HIGHLIGHTS 8:00 NBC-Blue: Peerless Trio SUNDAY'S 8:00 NBC-Ked: Organ Recital 8:30 CBS: Morning Moods 8:30 NBC-Blue: Tone Pictures St 8:30 NBC-Red: Four Showmen NBC-Red: Animal News 8:00 9:00 CBS: Today in Europe 8:00 9:00 NBC-Blue: White Rabbit Line 8:00 9:00 NBC-Red: Turn Back the Clock NBC-Red: Tom Teriss 8:30 9:30 CBS: Wings Over Jordan 8:30 9:30 NBC-Red: Sunday Drivers CBS: Church of the Air NBC-Blue: Morning Musicale NBC-Red: Radio Pulpit CBS: March of Games NBC-Blue: Four Belles NBC-Red: Children's Hour NBC-Blue: Alice Remsen NBC-Blue: Neighbor Nell 8:30 CBS: MAJOR BOWES FAMILY 8:30 NBC-Blue: Southernaires 8:30 NBC-Red: News ' 8:45 NBC-Red: Music and Youth 9:00 BC-Blue: RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Benny's Dennis Day . . . and Dennis' talkative "Mother." Story Book 9:00 N BC-Red : Vernon Crane's 9:30 CBS: Salt Lake City Tabernacle Tune-In Bulletin for December 31, January 7, 14 and 21! 9:30 NBC-Red: On the Job December 31: Here it is the last day of 1939, and nobody's sorry to see it go. The 10:00 CBS: Church of the Air 10:00 NBC-Blue: Ted Malone networks are doing their bit to send it on its way, with all-night dance programs 10:00 NBC-Red: Music for Moderns chasing 1939 across the continent and clear out to Honolulu. . . . From 2:00 to NBC-Blue: Ted Malone 3:00 this afternoon, E.S.T., NBC-Blue broadcasts Headlines of 1939, a review of 10:30 CBS: Grand Hotel the year's news events. . . . The Rose Bowl Pageant in Pasadena is to be described 10:30 NBC-Blue: Metropolitan Moods on Mutual tonight. . . . Grace Moore is the guest star on the Ford Hour. 10:30 NBC-Red: From Hollywood Today January 7: One of your old favorites returns today when Grand Hotel begins on CBS 11:00 1:00 2:00 CBS: Democracy in Action at 1:35 this afternoon. . . . And the Chase and Sanborn show, NBC-Red at 8:00, is cut 11:00 1:00 2:00 NBC-Blue: Great Plays 1:00 2:00 NBC-Red: Smoke Dreams to a half-hour beginning tonight—with One Man's Family in the other thirty minutes. 11:30 1:30 2:30 CBS: So You Think You Know January 14: Today's your last chance to hear Paul Wing's Spelling Bee program over Music NBC-Red at 5:30. . . . Ted Malone makes a pilgrimage to Oliver Wendell Holmes' 11:30 1:30 2:30 N BC-Red: University of Chicago Round Table home in Boston at 1:15 over NBC-Blue. . . . Gladys Swarthout is the guest star on the Ford Hour. 12:00 2:00 3:00 CBS: N. Y. PHILHARMONIC Cloutier's Orch. 12:00 2:00 3:00 NBC-Blue: Norman January 21: Helen Traubel, soprano, is the Ford Hour's guest tonight. . . . Henry 1:00 2:00 3:00 NBC-Red: I Want a Divorce Wadsworth Longfellow's home is visited by Ted Malone at 1:15. 12:30 2:30 3:30 NBC-Blue: H. Leopold Spitalny 12:30 2:30 3:30 NBC-Red: News from Europe ON THE AIR TONIGHT: A new singer heavy radio schedule, Verna manages to Vespers 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC-Blue: National and a new comedienne—in fact, you do most of the cooking for her family, 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC-Red: Glenn Miller Orch. might agree with lots of folks and call and a good deal of the sewing besides. Pursuit of Happiness 1:30 3:30 4:30 CBS: them the new singer and the new come- She and her husband always criticize each 1:30 3:30 4:30 NBC-Blue: Richard Himber Orch. 1:30 3:30 4:30 NBC-Red: The World is Yours dienne of the current radio season. They're other's radio performances, and wouldn't 8:00 4:00 5:00 CBS: Hobby Lobby Dennis Day and his "mother," heard on think of going on the air without first 2:00 4:00 5:00 MBS: Musical Steelmakers Jack Benny's Jell-O show on NBC at 7:00, rehearsing at home and getting sugges- 2:00 4:00 5:00 NBC-Blue: Moylan Sisters E.S.T. and 8:30, P.S.T. tions from the other. "Mother" is Verna's 5:15 NBC-Blue: News "Mother," Mrs. Lucretia Day, of course favorite role all time. 4:15 5:15 NBC-Red: Bob Becker Dog Chats at isn't really Dennis' mother at all. In real Her "son," Dennis Day, after three 9:00 4:30 5:30 CBS. Uen Bernie 2:30 4:30 5:30 MBS: The Shadow life she's Verna Felton, a veteran radio months of amazing success on the Benny 2:30 5:30 Met Opera Auditions 4:30 NBC-Blue: actress who has appeared frequently on show, is the same self-assured but unas- 4:30 5:30 NBC-Red: The Spelling Bee the Benny show in the last three years. suming kid he was when he first stepped 3:00 5:00 6:00 CBS: SILVER THEATER In fact, at one time or another, its mike. entirely his 3:00 5:00 6:00 MBS: Listen America she has up to He's given up Friends of Music 3:00 5:00 6:00 NBC-Blue: New played mother to everyone in the gang. early notion of being a lawyer, and is so 3:00 5:00 6:00 NBC-Red: Catholic Hour Besides her radio experience, she has a definitely committed to a singing career Hollywood 3:30 5:30 6:30 CBS: Gateway to long and honorable stage career behind the! he refuses to drink or smoke because 3:30 5:30 6:30 NBC-Red: Grouch Club her too, for she made her theatrical debut such things are bad for the voice. 4:00 6:00 7:00 CBS: European News Roundup in 1901, nine. 4:00 6:00 7:00 NBC-Blue: Dinah Shore when she was He lives with his real mother in a small 8:30 6:00 7:00 NBC-Red: JACK BENNY Verna is married to Lee Millar, a former North Hollywood house surrounded by 4:30 6:30 CBS: SCREEN GUILD THEATER stage director who is now a radio actor flower beds. This garden, next to his 7:30 Mr. District Attorney 4:30 6:30 NBC-Blue: too, and they have one son, fifteen years second-hand coupe, is Dennis' greatest joy, 4:30 6:30 7:30 NBC-Red: Fitch Bandwagon old. Young Millar followed in his mother's since he was born and brought up in New WELLES 7:00 7:00 00 CBS: ORSON footsteps by appearing on the stage when York City, where he never had a chance 5:00 7:00 8:00 NBC-Blue: Festival of Musir 5:00 7:00 «:00 NBC-Red: CHARLIE MCCARTHY he was nine, but since then he's decided to cultivate anything more extensive than 8:30 ONE MAN'S FAMILY 6:30 7:30 NBC-Red: that he likes music better (Jan. 7) than acting, and a window-box. He's no night-clubber, and 6:00 8:00 9:00 CBS: rORD SYMPHONY now is studying piano. his idea of a really good time is driv- 9:00 8:00 9:00 NBC-Blue: Walter Winchell 9:00 NBC-Red: Manhattan Merry-Go- The Millars live on a ranch in San ing his car all over Southern California. 6:00 8:00 Round Fernando Valley, where, in spite of her He hasn't any "steady girl." NBC-Blue: The Parker Family 8:15 8:30 9:30 NBC-Blue: Irene Rich 6:30 8:30 9:30 NBC-Red: American Album of Familiar Music SAY HELLO TO . . . 6:45 NBC-Blue: Bill Stern Sports Review BILL JOHNSTONE—who plays "The Shadow" on the mys- *3F| *** tery thriller of that name this afternoon at 5:30 on MBS. 7:00 9-00 10:00 MBS: Goodwill Hour 7:00 9-00 10:00 CBS: Ellery Queen Bill was born in Scotland in 1908 and came to America 9:00 10:00 NBC-Red: Hour of Charm "*&*?' 7:00 as a boy, where he was first a reporter, then switched 7:30 10 10:30 NBC-Blue: Cheerio to acting. He owns a farm in Connecticut and spends 7:30 9:30 10:30 NBC-Red: NBC String Quartet his summers on it, living in a New York apartment in Paul Sullivan 10:00 10:30 11:00 CBS: winter. His eyes are hazel, his hair prematurely gray. 8:00 10:00 11:00 NBC: Dance Orchestra INSIDE RADIO-The New Radio Mirror Almanac 42 RAD"0 AND TELEVISION MIRROR — — Eastern Standard Time HI CBS: Today in Europe E NBC-Red: News MONDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS NBC-Blue: The Wife Saver •§- NBC-Red: Do You Remember t§ o< CBS: Phil Cook's Almanac 1 Life January I: And a Happy New Year to you! That's your Studio Snooper's wish, as 10:45 NBC-Red: The Guiding Light well as the wish of CBS, NBC and Mutual. . . . Don't be sad if you don't live where 9:00 11:00 CBS: KATE SMITH SPEAKS 9:00 11:00 NBC-Red: Carters of Elm Street you can see the Rose Bowl football game—you can hear it on the air, over Mutual 9:15 11:15 a Girl Marries CBS: When or NBC. . . . Listen to the newest network—the Transcontinental—which goes on the 9:15 11:15 NBC-Red: The O'Neills air today. Elliott Roosevelt is its president, and it includes stations all the way across 9:30 11:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent 9:30 11:30 NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour the continent. 9:30 11:30 NBC-Red: Time for Thought January 8: Have you listened yet to Young Dr. Malone? It's been on NBC-Blue at 9:45 11:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday 11:15 in the morning for several weeks now, and it's a realistic, human serial. 10:00 12:00 CBS: The Goldbergs 15: is for 10:15 12:15 CBS: Life Can be Beautiful January Don't forget that Monday the night two of the season's best musical 10:15 12:15 NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph half-hours—Tune-Up Time on CBS at 8:00 and Alec Templeton on NBC-Red at 9:30. 10:30 12:30 This Day is Ours CBS: January 22: It's your last chance to hear Woody Herman tonight, playing from the 12:45 CBS: Road of Life 10:45 12:45 NBC-Red: Words and Music Famous Door. 11:00 1:00 CBS: Doc Barclay's Daughters 11:00 1:00 NBC-Red: Betty and Bob ON THE AIR TODAY: Pretty Kitty Kelly, blind date, and now she's Mrs. Collyer. sponsored by Wonder Bread, heard on Pretty Kitty Kelly has a large cast, but 11:15 1:15 2:15 NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter CBS at 10:00 A.M., E.S.T., 9:00, C.S.T., of course everybody in the story doesn't 1:30 2:30 CBS: Your Family and Mine 11:30 1:30 2:30 NBC Red: Valiant Lady 8:00, M.S.T., and 1:00 P.M., P.S.T. And appear on every single program— if they 11:45 1:45 2:45 CBS: My Son and I if you live on the West Coast you are al- did, the small CBS studio where they 11:45 1:45 2:45 NBC Red: Hymns of All Churches ways a day ahead of your fellow listeners broadcast would be filled to overflowing. 12:00 2:00 3:00 CBS: Girl Interne 12:00 2:00 3:00 NBC- Blue: Orphans of Divorce to the east, because the morning broad- The "regulars," though—the people who 12:00 2:00 3:00 NBC- Red: Mary Marlin cast is always a repetition of the same are on the air from time to time, are 12:15 2:15 3:15 CBS: Society Girl 12:15 2:15 3:15 NBC Blue The Chase Twins episode that was put on the air the after- Helen Choat as Bunny Wilson, Artells Dick- 12:15 2:15 3:15 NBC- Red: Ma Perkins noon of the preceding day. son as Slim, Howard Smith as Inspector 12:30 2:30 3:30 Pepper Young's Family NBC Red: Arline Blackburn, star of Pretty Kitty Grady, Charme Allen as Mrs. Murger, 12:45 2:45 3:45 NBC- Blue Ted Malone 12:45 2:45 3:45 NBC Red: Vic and Sade Kelly, also plays Tamara in By Kathleen Dennis Hoey as Mr. Welby and Ethel In- 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC- Blue: Club Matinee Norris, on CBS at 5:00 this afternoon, and tropidi (pronounce it Ahn-tro-pee-di) as 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC- Red: Backstage Wife Eileen Turner in The O'Neills, on NBC at Mrs. Welby. Matt Crowley is the narrator 1:15 3:15 4:15 NBC- Red: Stella Dallas 12:15 So you can see she's a pretty busy who sets the scenes when they change, 1:30 3:30 4:30 NBC Red: Lorenzo Jones — 3:45 4:45 CBS: Smilin' Ed McConnell girl. That's probably the reason that between stretches of dialogue, and An- 1:45 3:45 4:45 Widder Brown NBC Red: Young though she collects dogs for a hobby, none drew Stanton is the man who does the 2:00 4:00 5:00 CBS: BY KATHLEEN NORRIS of them is alive. Like the title character commercial announcements. 2:00 4:00 5:00 NBC Red: Girl Alone 6:00 5:15 CBS: Billy and Betty of Pretty Kitty Kelly, Arline has red-blonde Because everyone on the cast is work- 2:15 4:15 5:15 NBC- Red: Midstream hair, green eyes and a fair complexion. ing on other programs, rehearsals for 2:30 4:30 5:30 CBS: It Happened in Hollywood Her leading man, Clayton Collyer, who Pretty Kitty Kelly are businesslike affairs, 2:30 4:30 5:30 NBC Blue: Affairs of Anthony 5:30 NBC Red: Jack Armstrong plays Michael Conway, has been on the with everyone doing his or her best to 2:45 4:45 5:45 CBS: Scattergood Baines air since his undergraduate days, when he get the most done in the least possible 5:15 5:45 5:45 NBC- Blue: Tom Mix was always billed as "Bud" Collyer. time. They're all 5:45 NBC Red: Little Orphan Annie He's good friends, though 3:00 5:00 6:00 CBS: News thirty-one years old, and is the brother they've worked together so long. Arline 6:05 CBS: Edwin C. Hill of June Collyer, film star. True to the and Helen Choat, who plays Bunny, are 3:15 5:15 6:15 CBS: Hedda Hopper family tradition, he always wanted to act, just as fond of each other off-stage as they 5:30 6:30 CBS: H. V. KALTENBORN but was persuaded to study law instead are on. 6:45 NBC- Blue: Lowell Thomas and though he graduated from law school Artells Dickson (Slim) is a specialist in 8:00 6:00 7:00 CBS: Amos 'n' Andy 8:00 6:00 7:00 NBC Red: FRED WARING'S GANG he gave up legal practice for the stage Western types, and Howard Smith (In- 8:15 6:15 7:15 CBS: Lum and Abner and radio as soon as he could. Three spector Grady) can play a policeman and 8:15 6:15 7:15 NBC- Red: I Love a Mystery years ago he met Heloise Green on a a gangster with equal ease. 7:30 6:30 7:30 CBS: BLONDIE 7:30 7:30 7:30 MBS The Lone Ranger 4:30 6:30 7:30 NBC Blue: One of the Finest 7:30 9:30 7:30 NBC- Red: Larry Clinton 9:00 7:00 8:00 CBS: TUNE-UP TIME SAY HELLO TO . . . 9:00 7:00 8:00NBC Blue: Sherlock Holmes 5:00 7:00 8:00 NBC Red: Tommy Riggs FRANK NELSON—whose voice carries the opening mes- 8:30 7:30 8:30 CBS: Howard and Shelton sage of the Lux Radio Theater tonight on 5:30 7:30 8:30 NBC Blue: True or False CBS at 9:00. 8:30 7:30 8:30 NBC Red: Voice of Firestone He's also a regular member of the cast in supporting 6:00 8:00 9:00 CBS: LUX THEATER roles, and you heard him opposite Bette Davis in that 6:00 8:00 9:00 NBC Red: Doctor I. Q. "Alter 6:30 8:30 9:30 NBC Red: ALEC TEMPLETON memorable drama, Ego." He's married to a radio 7:00 9:00 10:00 CBS Guy Lombardo actress, Mary Lansing, is an enthusiastic candid camera- 7:00 9:00 10:00 MBS Raymond Gram Swing 7:00 9:00 10:00 NBC -Red: The Contented Hour man and possesses a big collection of shots of picture stars. 27 to January 25 FEBRUARY, 1940 43 Eastern Standard Time