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Radio Album 1948 GINNY SIMMS FILED FOR DIVORCE FROM ARCHITECT HYATT DEHN, WILL RESUME HER INTERRUPTED CAREER. ,RADIO ALBUM TABLE OF CONTENTS Feahres ·People Ar. Funny ....................................•....•....•....... 4-1 Past.1 Blues (Lena Horne)................... ............•........ '·9 Boy With A Burden (Bob Crosby) ...........•••••.••..•...•.. _..•.....•.. 10-11 -Fifteen Vears With Ln Radio Theat.r..........•...•............. 12·15 Dr. Christian's Prize Winner ................•..............• _.......•..... 16-11 Ufo Of Tho Pony (Bob Hapo) . 1'·19 lone Ranger, Wyoming ...............•................................. 26-21 Red's Brood (Red Skelton)................ 2'·29 -Th. Living legend IFronk Sinatra) _ . 30·)5 The V.lvet Fog,horn Abe Burrowst , , . 3.·]9 Radio Album Reports: No.2-Disc Jockeys, ......•.••....•..•...•...••.... o\G"" A Day With Jolson ,.... ., . 42...3 -Heart's Desire _ _...... ................•••..•.... 44-41 Orchid .For Tom Br.n.man _.......•...• , ...••................. _'" 4....9 Garry Moore Carri.s On _ _ ,. SO·51 Rooney Takes The Air ' ", . 5Z-53 Don McNeil For Presid.nt. ...•.........•. _..•...... 60-61 Meet Beulah (Hattie MacDaniel).... , . 62-63 *It Took Ninet.en Tailors (Berg.n & McCarthy). _............•.......... 64-61 Airborne Soprano (Mono Paul.e) , .•............ 61-69 Duffy', Tav.rn.K.ep.r {Ed Gardner) _ . 10·11 Buddy Clark's Housing Problem ...............•••..•...••.......• , •... _.. '2·1] Eighteen Caret Spurs {Gene Autry} ..................•...• , . 84-.5 -Inside Durante , : ••........•...•...••...•...... .6-.9 Trigg.r Man (Jack Berch) .................• _.•....••..•••. _.••....... , .. 90·91 Spotlight Review , .........•...•.......... ,. 94-95 Te;••lllo. Oponlng Night At WPIX........................................ 54-55 Video In R.vi , _ _................. 56-57 Tonight On Broadway...... ...........•.. 5B·59 Soap S.ds Alley Story Of Ros.mary ... ....•.•...•...••... t •••••••••••••••••. 20-23 Inside Durante (page 86) Fiv.-A·Day .. ,,., ........•....•...•....•. _..............•..•..... - .. 14-15 -Charting Soapsuds AlI.y , .•.......... , ..•......••...........•.. 16-19 Gallery Ginny Simms _...•........•.......•...•.. _.....•........•..... 2 Morton Downey _.................•..............................•. 24 Margaret Whiting , .. _..............•...............•._ ...•.......•.. 25 One Man's Family ,....... ..............•...... 36 Claudia (Kath.rine Bard) . 31 Jock Ben"y . ........•........•....... , •....... 12 Dorothy Shay .. , ' .. _.... ..........................•... 13 Family Portrait (Fibber McGee & Molly) ,. BO·,I Beryl Davis . _................• ' .. _..........•....... 92 Jo Stafford.Peggy le•......... _.. ..... , ... _.........•....... ~3 Fr.d Allen-F. P. Adams , ..•...•......•..... ' ............•....•...•.... 93 ·Studio Snaps , , ..........•...... , ..•...... _ . 96-98 Tonight On B'war (page 58) Burt Ives ' . 99 °RADIO ALBUM MULTI·PAGE FEATURE CHARLES D. SAXON ••• editor ESTHER WALLACE ••• alloel.t. editor MIKE LEFCOURT ••• ort editor TOM CARLILE ••• westerR Nltor ALL PROGRAM LISTINGS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE RADIO ALBUM. Fall. (Oct..Dee.,) 1948. Publlahed quarterly. CopJTiqbt 1948 bT Dftll PublwhiDq Co.. Inc., Dun.U.n. New Jersey. txecutiYe and editorial office., 261 Fifth Ayenue. He'llii" York 16, N. Y. GeoJ"qe T. Detacocte. Jr., President; Helen Meyer, Vice-President; Albert P. Delacorte, Vice-President. SiDql. copy price 2Sc: in U. S. A. and Canada••ubac:ription price $1.00 per year in U. S. 'A. and Canada. For.iCJD subacription price 11.50 per y.ar. Applicatioo for ..cond-closa entry applied foI' at the Pa.t Office at Hew York. H. Y, PublWhed aimultaneously Soapsuds Queen (page 74) in the Dominion of Canada. IntematiOllal copyriqht NC'UJ"ed under tho proYiaiona of the R.YiMd Coaventioa. for the Protectioo of IJt.rary and Artiatic Worn. The publisber acceptll no r..~ibility fOl' the retwn of unsolicited CODtribUtiOllS, Printed in th. U. S. A. 3 The contestant getting dunked on the lert had to choose • between two buckets or water--one sealed, one un8ealed. Bad picking. Above leri, Guede! and Linkletter work up a script in a comparative calm. Ahove, right, a young lady has hon~y licked off her toes by a bear. It tickled. .. '. .... • In 194.2, a couple of radio chajls named Art Linkletter and John Guedel decided to invest $30 to prove the thesis that .- people tend to he pretty comical and that other -people like to see and hear them being comical. The two sat ov~r coffee in the Brown Derby in Hollywood, worked up a format for a program, and put up SI5 each to cover the cost of audition records. The program was snapped up immediately by a sponsor, and for a good reason-it was uPeople Are Funny." The idea, as some thirty million listeners know very well, was simply to inject a bunch of people into wacky situations, submit them to interviews, enter th~ in conte&ts, and offer them prizes. The show includes an inside stunt--<:xample: a woman has to sew a patch on the seat of a man's pants, blindfolded-and an outside stunt--<:xample: a fellow has to drive a herd of sheep through somebody's cottage. The result of all this has been aptly described as "unadulterated bedlam." The only thing that is sure to tum up on "People Are Funny" is the emcee, Art Linkletter, who probably de­ livers more ad lib lines and appears on more programs than any other entertainer. In the coone of his career on ~'Peoplettt Linkletter has done such things as kiss a 91·year· old spinster who had never been kissed by anyhody hut her brother and father, interview a little girl who said her favorite dolls were named Goodnik, Foofnik, and Pugnik (that was the nearest Art has ever come to throwing in his microphone), have a lion tamer and a cage full of lions on the stage, and drop an annoying• drunk with a swift left hook. Linkletter, a husky 210·pounder born in Saskatche­ wan, has been a bus boy, harvest hand, fire fighter, theater usher, clerk, seaman. He and Guedd now split a quarter of a million a year-from their initial investment of $30. more+ 5 people are funny, cont. This blindfolded contestant thinks he's about to kiss One of Art's kinder ideas: tills contestant was transformed an Earl Carroll girl. He's going to get a cold cow's into a talent scout for a week. One day, more than 400 longue instead. Linkletter describes his reactions. lovely ladies like these turned up skirts on his front lawn. This man complained about how slowly his wife Alan Young was given twenty-five minutes--fulI time of dreaaed. Art put him through the trial of don­ show-to worm his way out of a straight jacket. It's ning a girdle, slip, dress, and silk stockings. called the Hindu escape trick, but Alan couldn't do it. 6 PHOTOS BY FRED BON NARD • A mind-reader (with inside info) answers questioDs put to her by a contestant. Every time she's right, he gets a balloon filled with water broken over his moist head. This man ~a8 sent out to register at a fashionable Two male contcslanb race against cach otber to see hotel with a trained seal. The clerks stare in horror, who can dress a female dummy firsL It looks 88 if the but the radio audience thought these people were funny. sailor has the edge, but maybe he's left something off. end postel blues • They throw 8 spotlight on her-this beautiful woman in a shimmering gown, and before you catch your breath, she starts the song. Low and sad it comes, and drifts in the air. Maybe it's Stormy Weather, or St. Louis BlueJ, or The Man 1 Love-the old ones. Maybe she's singing some· thing you never heard before. But the words and the music-they don't malter when she's there. Only the mood and the meaning. And she takes you with her out of the smoke·filled room; she takes you where you may not want to' be, where the laughter isn't half so loud as the tears. And it's a while coming back:. Even after she's flashed you a smile that says it was only a song, even then you're still faT away ... When she was sixteen, her mother, who was an actress, got her a job "at the Cotton Club. She was a dancer then, though she'd never studied dancing in her life. And singing she'd do in .the dressing room with the girls kidding her. But one night, Lyle Miller, a producer, heard her voice coming through the transom. There was something about it that made him listen till the end, and then he arranged for her to tour with Nohle SissIe's hand. She learned a lot the next few years--how to dress, how to walk, how to use her speaking voice. She was beginning to make herseU a name when sud· denly she changed it-hy marriage in 1937. Except for her two chil· dren---:Gail, 9, and Theodore, 7-the marriage failed. Lena went hack to work. Cafe Society in New York's Greenwich Village was the place. She liked it there. Artists 'came, actors, musicians, they'd watch the enter­ tainment and then put on a show themselves. If it weren't for her agent she'd be there still. But her agent said Hollywood was next. Lena went along for the ride. Every morning in California she'd pack up to come She knows what to home. Her agent said "no,h and finally he took her to see Arthur Freed. "I have five minutes:' said Mr. Freed. In five minutes he had another actress for M·G·M. You saw her in PaMma Hattie, in Cabin In The Sky, do with a song. She more recently in Till The Clouds Roll By. Success didn't hurt when it came. Lena accepted it quietly. When you work that hard and that long makes it rove; she makes success looks smaller than it did hefore. And when you're fighting all your life against race hatred, other things matter even more--simple things that most Americans take for granted. Important things--basic it cry-that Lena Home ..
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