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C{~~:~C :/ Established 1975 Number 225 June 1995 QI!ZQt~:A~'hOC{~~:~c :/";';:4~f975=-f9:9;$ ... (I' I I i Ye., but one of these day. in the not too di.tant future the young Skipper will be taking it over again. Ju.t how soon that will be, depends upon the united efforts of all of u. in this CFIFTH VICTORYFeN LOAN CAMPAIGN CALGARY ALBERTA THE VOICE OF THE PRAIRIES .Ylie!I((ustrated"!l!ress !Information !l:age Publication of the Old Time Radio Club Membership Information Club Officers and Librarians New member processing, $5.00 plus club President membership of $15.00 per year from Jan 1 to Dec 31. Jerry Collins (716) 683-6199 Members receive a tape library 56 Christen Ct. listing, reference library listing, Lancaster, N.Y. 14086 and a monthly newsletter. Memberships are as follows: Vice President & Canadian Branch If you join Jan-Mar, $15.00; Richard Simpson Apr-Jun, $12.00; Jul-Sep, 96016 Rood R.R.3 $8.00; Oct-Dec, $5.00. All Fenwick, Ontario renewals should be sent in as Canada, LOS 1CO soon as possible to avoid missing issues. Please be sure to notify us if you have a Treasurer, Back Issues, Video & change of address. The Old Time Radio Club meets Records \ the first Monday of every month at 7:30 P.M. durinq the Dominic Parisi (716) 884·2004 months of September to June at 393 George Urban 38 Ardmore PI. Blvd. Cheektowaga, N.Y. 14225. The club meets Buffalo N.Y. 14213 informally during the months of July and August at the same address. Anyone interested in the Golden Age Editor of IP, Renewals, Change of of Radio is welcome. The Old Time Radio Club is Address affiliated with The Old Time Radio Network. Peter Bellanca (716) 773-2485 1620 Ferry Road Club Mailing Address Grand Isfancf,"N.Y. 14072 Old Time Radio Club Membership Inquires, and OTR P.O. Box 426 Network Related Items Lancaster, N. Y. 14086 Richard Olday (716) 684-1604 100 Harvey Dr. Back issues of The IllustratedPress am$1.50 Lancaster, N.Y. 14086 postpaid. Publications out off print may be borrowed from our Reference Library. Tape Libraries Deadline for The Illustrated Press is the Cassettes Don Friedrich (716) 626-9164 1st of each month prior to publication. 21 Southcrest Cheektowaga, NY 14225 The Illustrated Press is a monthly newsletter of The Old Time Radio ClUb, headquartered in Western New Reel to Reel and Reference Library York State. Contents except where noted, are Ed Wanat Sr. (716) 895-9690 copyright 1994 by the OTRC. 393 George Urban Blvd. Cheektowaga NY 14225 Send all articles, letters, exchange newsletters, etc. to: The Illustrated Press Tape Library Rates: All reels and video cassettes clo Peter Bellanca, editor are $1.85 per month; audio cassettes and records are 1620 Ferry Road $0.85 per month. Rates include postage and handling. Grand Island NY 14072 Canadian rates are the same as above, but in Canadian funds. .!I1Je!I{(ustrated"!l3ress JUDe 1995 Publication of the Old Time Radio Club Tlve Per-feetft ;1/tlIKelter-ia.!l!er-OlffeJ jJaFt2 by Jim Cox There were three Marys during the series' long run -­ body who could release them even temporarily from Lucy Gilman, Vivian Fridell and Claire Niesen. Ms. despair and hopelessness. Niesen is probably the best remembered for she car­ ried the role almost all of the decades of the 1940's Real life actresses Henrietta Tedro and Ethel Wilson and 1950's. To the part she brought an empathy that played quick-spoken Maude. The part of Tom was exuded virtue, selflessness, devotion, compassion and carried in succession by Frank Dane, Charles Web­ tenderness. From it, her audience developed a ster and Mandel Kramer. sympathetic caring for Mary Noble. This must have figured into the high C. E. Hooper (1935-49) and A.C. Another regular in the story line was more often Nielsen (1949-59) rating Wife consistently held. mentioned than heard -- the Nobles' young son, Larry Among Ms. Niesen's other radio credits were lead Jr. Could it be that he was discussed in absentia roles in The O'Neills, The Second Mrs. Burton and more than other characters because the childlike We Wlw Dream. She reportedly succumbed to cancer voice belonging to him actually was portrayed: by in 1965. Wilda Hinkel, a woman? No matter, When the situation warranted it, Larry Jr. would enter the plot A trio of actors played the part of Larry Noble -- Ken at the most poignant moment. This could be at a Griffin, James Meighan, and Guy Sorel. The one time that Mary was virtually devastated over Larry's inextricably linked with the role was Meighan. A attention to one of those glamor girls who swooned veteran radio actor, Meighan's deep bass voice won over his every move. At such juncture, the writers for him lead roles on at least nine other long-running might introduce Larry Jr., who would inadvertently radio series: Dot and Will; The Falcon; Flash Gordon; catch his father being kissed by the latest hussy. Of Gentleman Adventurer; Lora Lawton; Marie, the course the youngster would carry his eyewitness ac­ Little French Princess; Orphans of Divorce; Peggy's count to his mother, making life even tougher for her Doctor; and Special Agent. And on most days when to swallow: he finished his role as Larry Noble, Meighan slipped into another NBC studio for a Just Plain Bill re­ In the late 1940's one of those hussies was wealthy hearsal. For nearly two decades he played Bill's son­ Regina Rawlings. Rawlings put up the money to in-law, Kerry Donovan. The fact is, one simply didn't back a Broadway play in which Larry was to star. have to listen long to radio drama in the 1930's, 40's She further believed that gave her the right to have and 50's before Meighan's dulcet tones came wafting him answer her every whim. In time she became so over the airwaves. infatuated with Larry that she purchased a parcel of land less than a mile from the Nobles' Rosehaven At least two other recurring roles were prominently home. After moving into the mansion she built on it, featured in Wife's plots. Both were friendly to the Rawlings confided one day to her maid that she Nobles. would resort to violence and stop at nothing -­ "absolutely nothing, do you hear?" -- to rid herself of Aging, matronly character actress Maude Marlowe, Mary Noble so she could have the undying affections who often lived with the Nobles at their Rosehaven, of Larry. By the spring of 1948, she had imported a Long Island home was one. Larry's best friend, play­ sinister man to her estate whom she identified as her wright Tom Beyson, for whom they maintained a cousin, Arthur Duncan. In no uncertain terms, he permanent guest room, was the other. Tom and announced that he would "do what I can to help you Maude were always waiting in the wings of the story get rid of Mary Noble." The plot thickened and mil­ line; ready to come on stage to advise the principal lions listened for weeks to find out how Mary's characters about their predicament of the moment. strength and Larry's weakness would be resolved. These two were the only true blue friends the Nobles shared. To the end they defended the honor of Mary The part of Regina Rawlings was played by real life and Larry before all who would destroy them. In so radio actress Anne Burr who had something of a pen­ doing, they gained the respect of the Nobles and un­ chant for making life hell for Mary Noble. Burr un­ doubtedly millions of listeners who might cheer any­ doubtedly made a hit with Wife's producers. A short !I((ustratecf!l3ress 3 .!l1ie!I{{ustratetffEress JUDe 1995 Publication of the Old Time Radio Club time after her character was written out of the script, conditioning, a woman's place was in the home and she reappeared as aspiring actress Claudia Vincent, radio was just about everybody's link with the world. yet another hussy. This time, at Larry's invitation Because of it, I discovered the noblest of all radio and to Mary's dismay, she would move in under the heroines -- in name and in deed. Noble's roof. For months she brought as much grief to Mary in this new role as any woman ever had. In They Rode the Airwaves: fact, one day a character compared Claudia Vincent part to Regina Rawlings, the earlier villainess. Perhaps Cowboys on Radio, 7 by then listeners had forgotten the similarity in tech­ by Dom Parisi nique and voice. The Roy Rogers Show hit the airwaves on November Backstage Wife was the creation of Charles D. An­ 21, 1944 over the Mutual Network. There is a story drews who was also responsible for the immensely going around that just before his first broadcast, Roy popular and enduring Just Plain Bill and Ma Per­ had a bad case of mike fright. Even though he be­ kins. came a veteran, with hundreds of radio shows under his belt, he never lost the fear of the microphone. In After beginning as a sustaining feature on Mutual any case, Rogers soon was competing with Gene Au­ Wife at its transfer to NBC a few months later at­ try as the country's top cowboy. tracted a sponsor -- Sterling Drugs -- that would re­ main with it the next fourteen years.
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