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Biff Baker, U.S.A. is the name of Cummings plays the part of a real- twenty-third consecutive year on a new television show on CBS- estate salesman who is blessed with a CBS Radio, Sunday afternoons, and TV on Thursday nights, starring maximum of charm and a minimum for the first time in some years, the Alan Hale, Jr. and Randy Stuart. of efficiency, plus the lowest sales programs are sponsored. The or- It's the story of a young American record in the office. chestra's musical director, Dimitri importer and his wife who travel The Jack Owens Show, which Mitropoulos, will conduct eighteen of all over the world and get involved until recently was broadcast to the the twenty-eight broadcasts during in various challenging situations. Pacific Coast area only, is now heard the 1952-1953 series. Guest conduc- This adventure series is being done on the ABC radio network, Monday tors for the remainder will be Bruno on film in Hollywood. through Friday afternoons. The Walter, George Szell and Guido NBC-TV has a new television se- former "cruising crooner" of the Cantelli. ries, but with the emphasis on laughs. Breakfast Club is assisted in his A few years ago, the big movie It's My Hero, starring movie actor musical half-hour by Rex Koury and producers were swearing that Holly- Robert Cummings, with Julie Bishop his quintet. wood stars wouldn't go into televi- and John Litel. This is a Saturday- The New York Philharmonic- sion, and most of the studio heads did night show, also filmed in Hollywood. Symphony has just started its everything in their power to keep their top talent from venturing into video. But little by little the glamour boys and girls have edged into the medium and, as contracts come up for renewal, stars are demanding their television rights. For instance. Red Skelton and Kathryn Grayson both got their TV "freedom" when they recently signed new deals with their respective studios. Joan Craw- ford, no less, is the latest big name to put her signature to a video contract. Joan has started shooting "Those We Love," a dramatic play to be done on film as part of the America's Fin- est series, which will be coming across your screen within a couple of months. She will also star in a second play of this series, which will go into production in a few weeks Lots of lesser names from movie - town have found new careers for themselves in television. Signe Hasso. for example, who was launched with much hullabaloo several years ago as a Garbo-type Swedish import, only to have her future dimmed by the untimely revelation she wasn't a foreign actress at all, but was born right in the United States. But a good actress she was, so now she has a new- career all over again, appearing constantly on most of the top TV dramatic shows. Another is Martin Kosleck, who unfortunately got himself movie-typed after "Confessions of a Nazi Spy." In television he now Comedian Frank Fontaine calls the roll -for seven of portrays many different characters, his eight children after de-planing in New York City. and is seen regularly on Treasury — to Coast

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(Continued from page 5) In answer to many, many letters, Ted your most intimate marriage problem Mack's Amateur Hour may be back soon on the ABC television schedule. Mack and the network still have a contract, but time and sponsor have to be found, and other details must be worked out before this popular show comes back on the air. James Garner, the handsome young Uni- versity of Tennessee dramatic student who won the $2000 Intercollegiate Acting Com- petition on the Playhouse On Broadway radio program, has a good chance of Wind- ing up in the movies. MGM is screen- testing him and, if he comes across on film as well as he comes across the air, he'll have a contract. How would you like to have madman Jerry Lewis as the honorary mayor of your town? Well, believe it or not, the resi- dents of Pacific Palisades, which is near Hollywood, have elected Lewis for this position. His duties will be to aid in civic improvements and to head the community's welfare efforts. Jerry's partner, Dean Martin, was named honorary chief of police. The boys probably will carry out their endeavors in a not-too-dull fashion. Not such gay news about the team's musical conductor, Dick Stabile. After four years of marriage, Dick and his wife have separated and will get a divorce. Mrs. Stabile used to sing professionally as Trudy Stevens, and was the "poor Miriam" girl on Bob Hope's show a few seasons back. She is planning to resume her vocal career. (Protection from germs) Patrice Munsel, the operatic lass, is 1 ANTISEPTIC and surer than ever! rumored to be expectant. She is married Norforms are now safer television director Schuler. acually to Bob perfected new formula Comedian Jack Carson's recent birthday A highly The in the vaginal tract. gift to his eleven-year-old son, John, Jr., combats ge, ms right temper- bicycle to melts at body was strictly practical. It was a exclusive new base help the youngster in his newly-acquired protecnve film forming a powerful, job as a newspaper (Hollywood Citizen- ature, long-lastmg actum. News) carrier. Jack claims that a couple that permits effective, of years ago when he gave John a pair of tissues. Will not harm delicate cowboy boots he had to keep buying the boy things to go with them, ending up (Protection from odor) with a ranch with horses in Calabassas, 2 DEODORANT a hospital chnxc California. Norforms were tested in Eloise McElhone, the gabby gal from effecuve than any- and found to bC more Leave It To The Girls, and her husband, Norforms^pow- advertising executive William Warwick, thing ithadevernsed. eliminate (rather their first baby, and it have welcomed erfully deodcrant-they was a girl! She weighed in at six pounds, ^unpleasant or embarrassmg fourteen ounces, and they've named her LL. or have no medxcme Eloise Christine. Big Eloise hopes to re- odors, and yet themselves. sume her radio and television work soon. "disinfectant" odor Roy Rogers and his wife, Dale Evans, have just completed arrangements to adopt use) CONVENIENT (So easy to a baby girl. The child is partly of Choc- 3 vaginal taw Indian descent, as is Roy, and will Norforms are small ™W°™>™ use be named Little Doe in honor of her an- and convenient to that are so easy cestors. The Rogers lost their own baby no nuxmgor insert-no apparatus, daughter, Robin, a few months ago. Just and they Jack Benny's daughter, Joan, certainly They're greaseless measuring. has seems to go for popular crooners. Her ro- Your drugpst in any climate. mance with Vic Damone was hot and keep of 12 and 24. heavy for a long time. Then when they them in boxes she switched to Eddie Fisher, CANADA broke up ACSO AVAILABLE IN and they're carrying on via the mails while Eddie does his hitch in the Army. By the NEW IMPROVED booklet way, Damone is just about finished with VAGINAL SUPPOSITORIES informative Norforms his military training and hopes to be dis- FREE charged about the first of the year and resume his promising singing career. N",om b~kl"• * It's nice to have Mr. Peepers back on Pte« ««1 >" *• "» ' " television. This delightful show, which NORFORMS plain envelope. stars Wally Cox, was originally set only Name as a summer replacement. But, after it went off, NBC-TV received so much mail / TESTED by Doctors about it that the net finally found the TRUSTED by Women program a new sponsor and it's now J viewed every Sunday night. (Continued on page 13) ANOTHER TALE OUT OF DEATH VALLEY

Rosie, reared in wealth, falls in love with poor desert prospector, Aaron Winters.

SHE BURNS GREEN

Though she is shocked by the poverty of his shack at Ash Meadows, Rosie insists he carry her over the threshold. Living in loneliness and poverty Rosie loses her dreams, One day Rosie asks her nearest neighbor's new wife over grows bitter—as Aaron continues his quest for gold. for tea— is disgusted at the way she swills wine.

Rosie has made up her mind to leave Aaron, while he is off She follows him into the desert, and arrives just as he

testing for borax ore—but she finds she loves him too much. discovers the ore is borax, more precious than gold.

Among the motley crew of inhabitants that made up the wealthy family. He told her he loved her "as sure as I know population of Death Valley were the strange breed of shade in the blazing sun, or green things among rocks and ' men known as "desert rats." These lonely, forgotten sand." He took her back with him across the desert to his men pitched their little camps in the middle of the scorch- adobe hut, and there the young bride was terrified by the ing desert, and went out each day in search of gold, con- stark poverty and the loneliness of the place. vinced that somewhere underneath all that sand and cactus She begged Aaron to give up his search and return with there lay a hoard, richer than the '49 Strike or the Corn- her to her parents' home, but he persisted. Their story stock Lode. They lived literally like the rats they were veered close to tragedy, as Rosie grew bitter and Aaron named for—in poverty and filth—waiting for that pot of apologetic. But one day Aaron went out in search of a new gold at the end of a desert rainbow. But most of them died ore. The test for it was alcohol and sulphuric acid. If she as poor as they lived, never latching on to that dream of burned green, it would mean great wealth for Aaron and wealth which gold would bring. Rosie—and she did burn green. For, in 1882, Winters dis- Aaron Winters was a young desert rat, living in his covered a rich strike of borax *ore in Death Valley. shack in Ash Meadows—but Aaron had poetry in his soul. He wooed and won an accomplished and beautiful Spanish- Death Valley Days, sponsored by 20-Mule Team Borax, can be viewed American girl away from other suitors, and from her on most TV stations—consult local paper for time and channel. AUNT JENNY Littleton is a small that many a baffling case would be still town, pleasant, placid, unsensational. At unsolved if it were not for the quick ob- least it would look that way to a stranger servation and sharp brainwork of David passing through. But Aunt Jenny, who and his ex-newspaperwoman wife, Sally, really knows her town, can tell all the who partners all his adventures, sharing stories that would be hidden from a equally in their dangers and successes. stranger—the stories of love and hate, of M-F, 5:15 P.M. EST, NBC. laughter, misunderstanding, and hope, that are being lived all the time behind Little- GUIBING EIGHT Lovely Meta Roberts ton's quiet-looking front doors. M-F, 12:15 stands by helplessly as her stepdaughter P.M. EST, CBS. Kathy lays the groundwork for future mis- ery by marrying Dick Grant without re- BACKSTAGE WIFE Mary Noble and vealing her previous brief marriage to the her actor-husband Larry have put their dead Bob Lang, or the fact that she is recent misunderstanding far behind them, carrying Bob's child. Meanwhile the acci- and could look ahead to a happy future if dent in which Bob died becomes increas- it were not for the determined pursuit of ingly interesting to the police. Is Alice Larry by his leading lady, Judith Venable. Graham really trying to help Kathy—or In an effort to divert Judith. Larry has herself? M-F, 1:45 P.M. EST, CBS. M-F, introduced her to a wealthy, romantically- 2:30 P.M. EST, CBS-TV. inclined playboy. But, willing as Judith is to collect another admirer, will he make HIEETOP HOUSE Julie Paterno, su- her forget Larry? M-F, 4 P.M. EST, NBC. pervisor of the orphanage Hilltop House, begins to make plans for her marriage to BIG SMSTER The future seems brighter Dr. Ricky Browning, unaware of the lengths to Ruth as her husband, Dr. John Wayne, to which spoiled Doreen Gordon is prepared to to for makes important strides toward complete go capture Ricky herself. What part will Bannister mental health under the care of Dr. Sea- Reed play in Doreen's plans, as she plays upon his brook at Greenacres. Even Dr. Seabrook own conviction that if Ricky hadn't come cannot foresee what lies ahead as he en- along Julie might have turned to him? courages John's new interest in psychiatry, M-F, 3 P.M. EST, CBS. allowing him to take a hand in the treatment of another patient, Steve Wallace. JUST PEAIN BMEE In spite of much Toward what dramatic climax will this criticism and opposition, Bill Davidson take John? M-F, 1 P.M. EST, CBS. continues his efforts to solve the puzzle of the hit-and-run death of Vernon Fields, BRIGHTER BAY A great many of for which young Paul Norton served a people seem to be taking a special interest prison term. Did Paul plead guilty to pro- these days in young Dr. Tom Gordon, tect Vernon's widow Lila? There is reason resident at Memorial Hospital. of One to suspect that Lila might have killed her them is the celebrated Dr. Cunningham, husband to free herself for marriage to has his plans for Tom's future. who own Paul. Is Bill right in suspecting another Another is beautiful Althea Dennis, who explanation? M-F, 5 P.M. EST, NBC. is being slowly cured of paralysis by Dr. Cunningham. Will Althea's interest in EMFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUE What Tom be lessened or sharpened as she sees pretty girl can turn a deaf ear to the sister also to her Patty being attracted promise that with a little training, a little him? M-F, 2:45 P.M. EST, CBS. M-F, know-how, she may become a model earn- 9:45 A.M. EST, NBC. ing as much as fifty dollars an hour? Even Daytime the skeptical Chichi, trying to help out BOCTOR'S WIFE Now that Dan's po- financially during Papa David's illness, sition as one of Stanton's best doctors is decides she has nothing to lose by trying. reestablished on a firm foundation, the Before long, however, Chichi learns just diary Palmers are free once more to make plans what she could lose, and with Douglas for the future. And, as with most young Norman's help begins an expose of a cruel

couples, their plans include a child . . . and shameless racket. M-F, 3 P.M. EST, but the child Dan and Julie are concerned NBC. with is not their own. Will he ever want to be? Or is their another solution that EORENZO JONES Thousands of miles might, in the end, be better for everyone? away from his distraught wife Belle, Lor- M-F, 5:45 P.M. EST, NBC. enzo, still suffering from a complete loss of memory of the past, tries to build a FRONT PAGE FARREEE David new life for himself—and finds himself Farrell, star reporter on the New York strongly attracted to his boss, the brilliant Daily Eagle, rarely has to talk his way young woman scientist Gail Maddox. past a police line to get his on-the-scene Meanwhile Belle strives desperately to crime stories. The police are well aware learn the secret behind Edgar Grayling,

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convinced that he alone holds the clue to ROAD OF LIFE In spite of Jim stone wall of Vivian Jarrett's hatred. Will Lorenzo's disappearance. Will she be able Brent's certainty that Conrad Overton dev- Vivian's jealousy keep her from revealing to learn of it in time? M-F, 5:30 P.M. astated his brother Malcolm's fortune, the truth that might save Nora? M-F. EST, NBC. Conrad manages to juggle facts in such 2:30 P.M. EST, CBS. a way that nothing can be proved. Augusta MA PERKINS Many a Rushville Center Creel could expose Conrad, but the two WENDY WARREN Wendy's recent problem has been solved by Ma Perkins, who know her whereabouts—Gordon Ful- marriage to writer Mark Douglas slips and many a neighbor has found her help ler and his accomplice, Wanda—have their quickly into dangerous waters as Mark's invaluable, but in the matter of her own reasons for keeping her a prisoner in discouragement over his work makes him adopted son Joseph even Ma finds herself a roadside hideout. Are Jim and Jocelyn increasingly disturbed. A husband who is strangely helpless. Will he ever succeed really helpless against Conrad? M-F, 3:15 afraid his wife's talents outshine his, a in convincing himself he was never in love P.M. EST, NBC. beautiful woman who has never stopped with Gladys? And what of Gladys? Will thinking of Mark despite his marriage her life be wrecked all over again by her ROMANCE OF BEJLEN TRENT what is this combination going to mean to self-centered mother, Mathilda Pendleton? What lies ahead for designer Helen Trent Wendy as actress Maggie Fallon comes M-F, 1:15 P.M. EST, CBS. as she begins work on the great new docu- back into Mark's life? M-F, 12 Noon EST, mentary produced by the powerful, almost CBS. OUR GAL SUNDAY Loyalty to an old legendary Kelcey Spencer? Because Spen- is her is to evade friend places Sunday Brinthrope in a diffi- cer boss, Helen unable WHEN A GIRL MARRIES Impris- cult position when she champions Craig his invitation to his remote mountain oned, helpless, even her appearance dis- Norwood against the accusation of having home, Eagle's Nest, where the unveiled guised by the insane Donald Brady in murdered his wife, June. Is Norwood antagonism of his housekeeper, Mrs. Poin- order to further his plan of removing her worthy of Sunday's help? How will this dexter, adds to her suspicion that some from the life she knew- as Harry's' wife, affect Sunday's husband, Lord Henry, who strange secret lies hidden there. M-F, Joan Davis somehow manages to hold on has always suspected Craig Norwood of 12:30 P.M. EST, CBS. to her courage and faith in the future. a plan to break up the Brinthrope mar- But will Harry's belief that Joan is dead 7 riage? Can Sunday convince Henry that ROSEMARY In spite of the loyal encour- lead him, in time, to make a new life in of for nothing is going to happen to their rela- agement of Rosemary, and the help her which there would be no room Joan tionship? M-F, 12:45 P.M. EST, CBS. family and friends in Springdale, Bill if she escaped? M-F, 10:45 A.M. EST. Roberts finds it hard to get started on the ABC. new career for which he had such high PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY After hopes. Not even his relationship with Rose- WOMAN IN MY HOUSE One by one. years of happy marriage, Pepper and mary seems safe from the nervous explo- all the Carters have tried to talk Sandy Linda didn't know how to handle the missions resulting from the strain he is under. out of the depression she has been unable understanding that suddenly made them How will Dr. Greer figure in the Roberts' to shake off since the death of her young feel like strangers. But the strength of future? M-F, 11:45 A.M. EST, CBS. husband. Even though she is going to col- their love finally led them together again, lege, Sandy feels she is living without and the future seems bright with promise SECOND MRS. BURTON With no purpose. Is her brother Clay right in urg- as they make the important decision to experience and little equipment except ing her to go out more? Will the repercus- adopt a child. New happiness may lie their high enthusiasm, Terry and Stan sions of her brother Jeff's accident affect ahead for the Youngs . . . but will there embark on a totally new venture, as Stan Sandy in a way nobody could foresee? also be new, unforeseeable problems? M-F, becomes publisher of the Dickston Herald. M-F, 4:45 P.M. EST, NBC. 3:30 P.M. EST, NBC. How will its great plans and hopes for the future be affected by his mother, who YOUNG DOCTOR MALONE Though PERRY MASON Marc Cesar and the managed to acquire a controlling block of he himself has not adjusted to the shock strange, fanatically devoted woman who the paper's stock despite Stan's strong of his wife Anne's death, Dr. Jerry Malone operate his sinister helps him racket con- desire to enter on his new career on is making a grim fight to keep the loss tinue to elude Perry Mason, although the his own? M-F, 2 P.M. EST, CBS. from marring the life of their young astute is daily lawyer coming closer to daughter Jill. Will his friend Dr. Browne the secret of their association. Will Ruth STELLA DALLAS The terrible misun- be able to help as much as he hopes to by Davis fall a victim to their ruthlessness derstanding Stella tried to forestall finally coming to Three Oaks? Meanwhile Crys- before Perry has the knowledge necessary breaks up the marriage of her beloved tal and Gene Williams watch helplessly as to save her? Will Perry learn enough about daughter Laurel, who has taken her two Gene's father Sam tries to drink away his the Lonely Hearts Club to lead him to children and left her socialite husband, own grief over Anne. M-F, 1 :30 P.M. EST, Marc Cesar? M-F, 2:15 P.M. EST, CBS. Dick Grosvenor. Is Dick's relationship CBS. with his house guest, Maria Darnell, really RiGHT TO HAPPINESS? Heartbroken what Laurel believes it to be? Heart- YOUNG WIDDER BROWN With his at the threat that hangs over the career, broken, Stella waits and prays for an op- ailing, dependent wife Ruth in a mental perhaps the life of her husband, Governor portunity to convince Laurel that Dick sanitarium, Dr. Anthony Loring feels that Miles Nelson, Carolyn tries desperately to still loves her. M-F, 4:15 P.M. EST, NBC. any hope he once cherished of severing his unravel the complex skein in which his meaningless marriage so that he and Ellen enemies have entangled him. Will Miles THIS IS NORA DRAKE Nurse Nora Brown could find happiness together must ever know that Carolyn exposed herself Drake, with the help of Fred Molina, has now be put aside forever; Anxious to help not only to physical danger but to ruinous traveled a bitter, painful road as she tries Ellen forget their hopeless love, he en- suspicion to protect him? What is An- to clear herself from suspicion in Peg courages her to accept the attentions ol nette Thorpe's true stake in the deadly Martinson's death. One by one the leads the young engineer Christopher Eliot. How political game? M-F, 3:45 P.M. EST, that seemed to offer help have petered will Christopher's mother affect Ellen's NBC. out, and Nora is finally left facing the life? M-F, 4:30 P.M. EST, NBC.

11 th Singing salesman

Dick Hunt tinkers while his son David imi- tates Johnnie Ray with the song "Cry."

keller. Dick emcees, acts as party host, sings, and does commercials for Pilsener Time. At the Rathskeller, Dick shows that his background in radio, TV, musical shows and night clubs really taught him a lot about how to entertain an audience, the one in front of him and the listeners at home. Dick studied voice at the Univer- sity of Akron and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. An extremely energetic guy, and a real trouper, Dick not only sings for WHK but, as soon as Dick Hunt, pionist Hank Kahout, and maestro Willard Potts. he's through with his stint there, he rushes off to the Chesterfield night club, where he entertains from 10:30 to 2:30 A.M. Then he's off in his 1940 "hot-rod" again, There's a young real-estate salesman in but this time to a well-earned rest at Akron, Ohio, name of Dick Hunt. And home, thirty miles south of Cleveland. oddly enough there's a young tenor in When he gets home after a day of sell- Cleveland, Ohio, with the same name, and ing real estate and singing, there is usually the same pleasant personality. Sound like some chatting about the day's events with a real coincidence? Well, it isn't—Dick his wife Betty, over a snack. Betty and Hunt, the singer, and Dick Hunt, the sales- Dick have two children. Carole is nine man, are one and the same man. Station and David, five. It's fairly obvious that a WHK in Cleveland features Dick four man who has as much to do as Dick evenings a week, at nine-fifteen, from must have some relaxation—and, for him, the Pilsener Brewing Company's Raths- building "hot-rods" is the method. What's New STAR CANDIDS 1. Lana Turner RITA HAYWORTH 2. Betty Grable 5. Alan Ladd from Coast to Coast 7. Gregory Peck 8. Rita Hay worth Esther Williams (Continued from page 7) 9. 11. Elizabeth Taylor Nine-year-old Helen Strohm has taken 14. Cornel Wilde over the role of Kathy, the youngest 15. Frank Sinatra in the Anderson household on the 18. Rory Calhoun daughter 19. Peter Lawford NBC radio series, Father Knows Best. 21. Bob Mitchum Helen replaced Norma Jean Nilsson, the 22. Burt Lancaster child actress who became too 23. Bing Crosby "veteran" 24. Shirley Temple grown-up to play Kathy. 25. Dale Evans There's talk that Mitzi Green will land 26. June Haver role famous by 27. June Allyson the Baby Snooks made 29. Ronald Reagan the late Fanny Brice, when the series 30. Dana Andrews finally goes back on the air over NBC. It 31. Glenn Ford 33. Gene Autry again, this time because has been held up 34. Roy Rogers of legal snags over the scripts. 35. Sunset Carson 36. Monte Hale 46. Kathryn Grayson . . . ? What Ever Happened To 48. Gene Kelly 50. Diana Lynn Dagmar, the blonde Mrs. Malaprop who 51. Doris Day 52. Montgomery Clifl was a fixture on the old Broadway Open 53. Richard Widmark House show and who later had her own 54. Mono Freeman television program? Dagmar's Canteen 55. Wanda Hendrix 56. Perry Como on NBC -TV didn't make the grade and 57. Bill Holder, the network dropped the whole venture. 60. Bill Williams She has done little or no television lately, 63. Barbara Lawrence 65. Jane Powell but instead has put together an act and 66. Gordon MacRae is making personal appearances around the 67. Ann Blyth country, mostly in night clubs. 68. Jeanne Crain 69. Jane Russell Ken Murray, the comedian whose TV 74. John Wayne show was so popular last year? Ken is 75. Yvonne de Carlo still under contract to CBS-TV, and is still 78. Audie Murphy 79. Dan Dailey drawing his salary, as a matter of fact, but 84. Janet Leigh at the moment there are no plans for his 86. Farley Granger return to the cameras. CBS couldn't fit 88. Tony Martin 91. John Derek in the time this season for his hour-long exciting 92. Guy Madison variety show, so in the meantime, Ken, who 93. Ricardo Montalban Lanza got his start as a vaudeville comedian, is 94. Mario 95. Joan Evans playing some of the big supper clubs with 103. Scott Brady his own revue. 104. Bill Lawrence John Conte, the baritone veteran of many 105. Vic Damone NEW 106. Shelley Winters radio and television shows? Surprising to 107. Richard Todd receive letters about John, who is very 108. Vera-Ellen much present with a Monday-through- 109. Dean Martin pictures! 110. Jerry Lewis Friday musical show over the ABC radio 111. Howard Keel network. Possibly listeners have missed 112. Susan Hayward hearing him because he's on only for five 115. Betty Hutton 116. Coleen Gray minutes at an early morning hour. off-guard candids of 120. Arlene Da hi Phil Regan, the former "singing cop," 121. Tony Curtis who has appeared in all branches of the 123. Tim Holt 127. Piper Laurie entertainment world? Regan has quit favorite movie stars 128. Debbie Reynolds Edwards show business and has signed a contract LANA TURNER 129. Penny as vice-president in charge of sales and 131. Jerome Courtland 134. Gene Nelson advertising for a big beer company in St. 135. Jeff Chandler Louis. The tenor will divide his time 136. Rock Hudscn All the selective skill between New York and California, plug- fa of 137. Stewart Granger 138. John Barrymore, Jr. ging beer products. Another Irish tenor, our ace cameramen 139. Debra Paget Morton Downey, does the same sort of went into the making of 140. Dale Robertson thing for a soft drink company, except that 141. Marilyn Monroe these startling candids. 142. Leslie Caron he does his plugging, in between songs, 143. Pier Angeli while fulfilling professional engagements. 144. Mitzi Gaynor Bob Burns, the bazooka-playing come- fa Handsome, glossy, full- 145. Marlon Brando 146. Aldo Ray dian, who used to a size quality prints. be regular on Bing 4x5 147. Tab Hunter Crosby's programs and also made many 148. Robert Wagner movies? For the Rusty Tamblyn past several seasons, fa Look over the list. New 149. Bob has been retired from any profes- 150. Jeff Hunter poses and names are 151. Marisa Pavan sional activities and has devoted all his constantly added. 152. Marge and Gower time to his very profitable ranch in the Champion San Fernando Valley. Maybe Burns likes Keep your collection 153. Fernando Lamas the life of a "gentleman farmer" better up to date. 154. Arthur Franz than that of a performer, but wouldn't he 155. Johnny Stewart Oskar Werner be a natural for television? 156. 157. Keith Andes 158. Michael Moore Fill out and mail coupon today. Send cash or money order. 12 pictures , These are some of the personalities read- 159 Gene Barry for $1; 6 for 50c. ers have inquired about. If you have won- 160. John Forsyth dered what happened to one of your 161 Lori Nelson 162 Ursula Thiess favorite people on radio or television, drop WORLD WIDE, Dept. 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the Breakfast bell

^\on Bell is one man who smiled his a scheme to make people smile in spite ^ way into his job and into the hearts of themselves. Listeners were asked to of the Des Moines people who listen to smile at three strangers during the day, him from 6:35 to 8:45 in the morning or and describe the reactions in letters to on his Matinee show, over KRNT. Bell, Don. Clevelanders got the grin habit, now a nationally famous deejay, was a and flooded Don with letters. At this Cleveland station's getter-upper when he point, the KRNT station manager heard acted upon the complaint of a newspaper a network pickup of Don's show and radio columnist about the town's sour- wasted no time in hiring him as the sta- pusses. Bell immediately set to work on tion's morning man. The son of show people—his father was a concert violinist and also did a blackface act—Don has spent a great deal of his life traveling. During his varied career Don has been a reporter for the Chicago American, the New Orleans Item, and city editor of the old Cedar Falls (Iowa) Daily News. A fling at a job on a tramp steamer gave Don a look at the world and plenty of opportunity to meet all kinds of people. Meeting folks is one of his favorite occupations. He got his introduction to radio thirteen years ago when he was hitchhiking through Tupelo, Mississippi. He met a man from a local station who was looking for a "masked baritone." Don claims that since he's been in Des Moines he has really had a chance to settle down. Most of his early life he lived out of a trunk. And, even after he married Fran, they spent much of their time in hotels. But now they've bought a home to adequately house their rather generous-sized family—six children in all. And Don spends a lot of time putter- The Bell clon gathers before the family hearth in their brand-new ing around the place, getting a big kick home. From Don right on down to baby, they're all house-proud. out of each new improvement.

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About Judy stone Plantation needed an actor to play Dear Editor: the role of a Latin-American plantation owner complete with accent. In looking I would like some information on Judy Judy Johnson Johnson of Your Show of Shows. Is she over a list of actors' names they came married, and does she have any children? across Santos Ortega and figured he must S. T., Carmel, N. Y. be the real thing. What they didn't know father Judy Johnson was born on March 8, was, that although Santos' was 1926, in Norfolk, Virginia. She got her Spanish, the actor had been born in New English Spanish. first job when she auditioned for a college York, and spoke —not band in Richmond. All her life Judy But that didn't stop Santos—he acquired wanted to be in show business and that an accent rapidly, and convinced every- addition to radio. first job made up her mind for good. Since one he was a Latin. In then she has worked with name bands. It Santos has done a great deal of legitimate was while Judy was with Sammy Kaye's theatre work, and is a member of the band that Max Liebman, producer of Your Lambs Club—famous actors' group. Today Show of Shows, saw Judy and signed her he is recognized as one of the leading to be a featured vocalist on that program. actors in radio. Judy commutes to New York every day from her home in Nutley, New Jersey, Meet Sam Edwards where she lives with her mother. As far Dear Editor as romance is concerned, with rehearsals, Can you please tell me the age and dancing classes and acting lessons, there's marital status of Sam Edwards, who plays not much time left. Dexter on Meet Corliss Archer? T. A., Newton, Kansas Dragnet Theme Sam Edwards is in his late twenties, but Dear Editor: really sounds like a love-sick teenager on Will you please tell me what the theme Meet Corliss Archer. A bachelor, he lives Santos Ortega song of the TV program, Dragnet is? with his family. R. T., Grand Rapids, Mich. The theme on Dragnet is an original Who Is Cynthia? score composed for the show by Walter Dear Editor: Schuman. Who plays the part of Cynthia Swanson on Helen Trent? Please print her picture Dr. Crane in your column. Dear Editor: E. S., Chicago, III. I enjoy listening to Santos Ortega as Mary Jane Higby, who plays Cynthia on Dr. Crane on City Hospital (radio ver- Helen Trent, is also Joan in When A Girl sion ) . Could you please give some infor- Marries. She and Julie Stevens (Helen mation about this fine actor and how he Trent) were born in the same city, St. started on radio. Louis, Missouri. Mary Jane is married to E. B., Yonkers, N. Y. Guy Sorel, an actor. The Sorels collect About sixteen years ago Santos Ortega vocal records of great singing stars and was an actor who wasn't exactly setting actors of the past, have a Cairn terrier, the world on fire. He was getting along, and a boat which they keep on Long Island but ^ nothing spectacular. Then suddenly Sound. They live simply in a small apart- the producers of a program called Black- ment in New York. (Cont'd on page 17)

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Reid (Chuckles) Chapman of WISH in Indianapolis.

Chuckl es galore

Reid "Chuckles" Chapman—deejay, emcee, years. The music is the most important thing hearty eater and family man—has been on any record show according to Chapman, so working for Station WISH for the past nine he plays as much music as time will allow. No years and as long as Indianapolis listeners re- hot jazz, though. "How can a woman iron spond accordingly—it looks like he'll be around shirts and do a good job if I play hot music?" for quite a while. Chuckles explains. Visiting celebrities often Since he started with WISH, Chapman has appear on the program for a chat with its worked in almost every department including jovial emcee. Stars like: Phil Harris, Monica the job of Program Director. Two years ago, Lewis, Herb Shriner, and Dennis Day—to a new assignment was given him. This was to mention a few. take over the afternoon hours and develop a When he isn't on the radio, you'll find disc jockey type show that would appeal to Chuckles at home. His family is his hobby. the housewife. Actually, Chuckles found this He and his wife Janet have three children easy since he had quite a following among Arthur Reid (known as Chuck), Martha homemakers already as a result of his popular Elaine, and Mark Christopher. The Chapmans Breakfast with Chuckles on the air for five were married in 1942.

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Dear Editor: Can you please give me some information about the actress whom I have en- in IO Seconds! joyed hearing as Bill's daughter, Nancy, on Just Plain Bill for so many years? A. F., Portsmouth, N. H.

Probably one of the busiest young actresses in New York, Toni Darnay, in addition to playing Nancy Davidson on NBC's Just Plain Bill, stars on other daytime serials, and makes frequent free- lance radio and TV appearances, is bringing up her two children and supports an adopted French war orphan. Born in Chi- cago, Toni comes from a long line of stage folk. Her grandfather owned a string of theatres in which her mother acted. Toni's father, who was a doctor, objected to her early entrance into show business—she went on a vaudeville tour at the age of thirteen. When Toni was eighteen she came to New York, where for a while things seemed pretty hopeless, but then she tried out for a daytime serial, and from then on she had no worries about finding a job. She is married to Bill Hoff- man, a free-lance radio and TV writer. The Hoffmans live in New York City with their two children, Toni and Darnay. "The names were Bill's idea," Toni says sheep- ishly.

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On or off the air, it's an old McNeill custom dating from the days Don and Kay first wed: Be happy—and share happiness.

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AND HIS TROUPE REACHED OUT HELPING HANDS

Venerable and well-travelled though one syllable, quite literally, the fish stank. the trophy was, it commanded the Yet no one directed the kid to dump it admiration of only its freckle-faced, in the nearest well-covered garbage can. tousle-headed owner. Others on the stage Instead, Don McNeill brought him to the of ABC's Civic Theatre in Chicago frankly microphone as proudly as, a few months sought to put as much distance between it previous, he had introduced the man who and themselves as broadcasting demands brought him one of the most coveted of allowed. All were uncomfortably aware honors, the Freedom Foundation award. what two hot days and a fifty-mile journey In a manner well-calculated not to up- had done to the lad's treasure. In words of set youthful dignity, Don asked the boy's

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19 From the start, Don shared his family life with listeners, his pride in Kay and their three growing boys.

name, address, age. He coaxed him to tell how he caught the fish and how it felt to feel that spine-tingling tug at his line the very first time he went fishing. The lad concluded, "And now I'm going to bring it home to show my father I really did catch a fish" Then, seeking evaluation of his achievement, he asked, "Don, this is a real big fish, isn't it?" Much as he would have liked to agree, Mc- Neill could not deceive the youngster. "As a matter of fact, for that particular lake, it's a rather small fish." The boy's disappointment lasted only a minute. In* a triumphant comeback, he said, "I betcha, though, it's the biggest small fish anyone ever saw." Reverse giveaway: Don's drives have brought many That young fisherman's uncritical delight, of other comforts to needy homes (above), sold millions in and the pleasure boys who have enjoyed McNeill's hospitality, have meant defense bonds (below, with guest star Hildegarde). more to the Breakfast Club's famed maestro than all the other honors he has received in twenty triumphant years of broadcasting. Establishing a summer camp, within driving distance of Chicago, which not only provides recreation for himself and his own family but also gives boys from distressed areas their first taste of the out-of-doors satisfies for Don McNeill a long-held ambition. It also is his way of returning thanks for those twenty years of broadcasting. The man who signs his show, "And be good to yourself!" is well aware that the public has been good to him. For, in a business where a thirteen-week option period can mark the death of a lifetime IN HIS HANDS

Ted Collins—who has guided her career and planned her shows for more than two decades.

she was a great person, other than a great voice. I could see she was wasting herself doing a singing-dancing comedy role as the butt of the comedian's jokes, and I went backstage and told her so. She already knew it but she didn't know what to do about it. I was sure I did. That was the beginning of our partnership."

It was also the beginning of Kate's success . . . on radio, on records, and on television. "There have been hundreds of Kate Smiths since Kate became famous," Ted will tell you. "Women who thought they, too, personified all the good things that Kate does ... all the fine, simple things that have made the public accept her as one of them. They felt it would be an easy matter to do as Kate has done. They were (Continued on page 81 )

Kate Smith and Ted Collins are seen on the Kate Smith Hour, NBC-TV, M-F, 4 P.M. EST; multiple sponsorship.

23 GODFREY'S MAN, TONY

C7W|^(j LIKES GOOD HUMOR, WARM AND FRIENDLY CITIZENS— 24 Tony's just as versatile around the house as he is on the Godfrey shows. But he swears the real is very musical. talent belongs to his wife, Dot—a superb cook!—and to Lynda Ann, who already

By GREGORY MERWIN

This Tony Marvin—just how accomplished can a man be? Tony juggles four balls as nonchalantly as he juggles four-syllable words. He's as handsome as a modern day Valentino, yet, with as much ease as he reads a commercial, Tony answers Arthur Godfrey's questions on zoology, aerodynamics, medicine and just about anything else. He can sing an operatic aria, make music with a saxophone, tell a riotous story or act as dignified as a high- school principal. Tony Marvin of radio and TV is identical with Tony Marvin, private citizen, and there's Arthur Godfrey's word for it (he recently signed Tony to a new contract), for Godfrey has no mercy for anything phony. Arthur, the great showman that he is, insists upon being natural and insists that his associates be the same. "That's the great thing about working with Arthur," Tony sa"ys. (Continued on page 60)

Tony Marvin is on Arthur Godfrey Time, CBS, M-F, 10 A.M. (part simulcast, CBS-TV, M-Th), for Toni, Star- Kist, Fiberglas, Frigidaire, Rinso, Pepsodent, Snow Crop, Pillsbury, Nabisco, Chesterfield—King Arthur Godfrey and His Round Table, CBS, Sun., 5 P.M., for Kingan & Co.—Godfrey and His Friends, CBS-TV, Wed., 8 P.M., for Chesterfield, Pillsbury, Toni. All EST.

HE HAS ALL THIS AND MORE IN TONY MARVIN 25 Two women am I

"I'm glad I belong to Pepper

Young's Family—I wouldn't miss living

Peggy Young's life for anything!"

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By LUCILLE DAHL

" I^ifteen years and more than 4000 per- and the police. The description of her, as J^ formances ago I, Betty Wragge, met my broadcast after the kidnapping, was that of a 'other self,' Peggy Young, for the first blue-eyed blonde wearing, when last seen, a time. This historic meeting took place, of blue sweater and gray skirt. And I am a blue- course, on the NBC Pepper Young's Family, eyed blonde liable to be found, any morning, "We were young teenagers, then, Peggy and in blue sweater and gray skirt. I. Exactly the same teen age, too, and with, I "Fifteen years ago, the part of Peggy was should suppose, the same birthday—which, actually a child's part. Since then we've grown speaking for myself, is September 22. up together, so closely identified that I some- "We are also look-alikes, although I learned times forget which school-girl problems were this for the first time in all these years when, Peggy's and which (Continued on page 88) recently, Peggy was kidnapped by a mental patient, held prisoner in a shack, and a Betty Wragge, heard in Pepper Young's Family, NBC, description of her was broadcast to the papers M-F, 3:30 P.M. EST; sponsored by Procter & Gamble.

Betty and Walter share many interests and enthusiasms — among them, a love for skiing. 26

HOW CAN A WOMAN HELEN TRENT

Helen Trent seemed to catch her breath for the first time in hours as she turned the key in the latch of her own front door. What an evening! Even though she was a grown woman, completely confident of handling herself in almost any situation, Helen couldn't help but be angry with herself for allowing a situation to develop where she could be open to criticism. Like all career women, however, she had long ago taken the attitude that there were certain men in business who would take advantage of a woman working for them, but for the most part business men treated a woman with cour- tesy and consideration. Tonight, however, had come as pretty much of a shock to her. ... A short -* while ago, Helen had taken a job with Kelcey Spencer, producer of documentary films—it was a Too late, Helen realized challenge to her creative imagination, for she was designing costumes that had to carry along the just what Kelcey's cordiality authentic mood of the dramas. Although she had meant . . . and how guilty turned down a couple of invitations from Spencer they must both appear to Mrs. which might have involved personal attention—such Poindexter's prying eyes! as a dinner date—it had never entered her head that he had other than the most business-like in- tentions when he asked her to come to Eagle's Nest, his great mansion, with the sketches on which she had been working day and night. Conferences, business ones in a home, were certainly not un- heard-of in her business! Also, if Helen had thought of it as a personal entanglement before going to Eagle's Nest, she would have consoled herself with the knowledge which everyone in the film capital S2 had—that Kelcey's ill wife was certain to be there. ... It had never occurred to her that Kelcey's wife was so ill that she kept to herself, secluded away in an isolated wing of the mansion! Her first suspicions were aroused when Kelcey put aside the sketches in favor of a large drink for himself in more. ... It didn't really occur to her just how front of the fireplace. Helen waited patiently for persistent Kelcey was being until his housekeeper, him to finish and get down to business. Thinking Mrs. Poindexter, appeared in the doorway. At back over the scene that followed, she knew that she that precise moment, Kelcey had taken the sketches should have been much less friendly in her chit-chat, from her and had turned from his desk, grasping her as she settled back to relax in an easy chair while shoulders with his strong hands. As he poured out waiting for Kelcey to put away his drink and start the story of his personal interest in her, Helen had considering the costumes. Instead of lightly thrust- listened almost sympathetically, not willing to let ing aside his personal comments with a smile and anger over the situation get the better of her natural changing the subject, she felt she should have sympathy for anyone in trouble. She knew at that bluntly told Kelcey that she had no personal interest moment she would have to thrust him from her. As in him—that he was her employer and nothing she turned from Kelcey and started to walk toward

28 HANDLE UNWELCOME ADVANCES?

the fireplace, she realized that Mrs. Poindexter had time," Helen told herself sternly as she put out the not only witnessed the scene but the shock of her lights in her living room, "I'll be honest, completely own evil interpretation was written all over the forthright, no matter how much I think I'm hurting housekeeper's face. Flustered, Helen momentarily the man's feelings. In the end he'll respect me for lost control and, with words tumbling from her lips, it, and certainly I'll respect myself, which is the she excused herself on the ground that she was late more important thing." for another appointment and must leave. ... As she regained control of her turbulent emotions on the way back to her home, Helen realized she had put The Romance of Helen Trent, heard M-F, 12 :30 P.M. EST, CBS herself in a horrible light with Mrs. Poindexter, to Radio ; sponsored, Whitehall Pharmacal Co. and Boyle-Midway, say nothing of the fact that losing her own self- Inc. Pictured above in their roles as Helen, Kelcey and Mrs. control had made her lose face with Kelcey. "Next Poindexter are Julie Stevens, Mercer McLeod, Leona Powers.

HOW CAN A WOMANJHANDLE UNWELCOME ADVANCES? HELEN TRENT

' ntionj when he asked her to come to Eagle's Nest his great mansion, with the sketches on which she' had been working day and night. Conferences, ones in • a home, were certainly not un- heard-of in her business! Also, if Helen had thought of it as a personal entanglement before going to Eagles Nest, she would have consoled herself with Uie knowledge which everyone in the film capital had-that Kelcey 's ill wife was certain to be II had never occurred to her that Kelcey's wife was so ill that she kept to herself, secluded away In an isolated wing of the mansion! Her first suspicions were aroused when Kelcey put aside the fetches ,„ favor of a large drink for himself in m°re U didn,t ;""."'", '"''^ Helen waited ' reaUy occur t° her just the patiently for Y „ how fireplace, she realized that Mrs. Poindexter had time," Helen told herself sternly as she "" persistent Kelcey was being put out the '" *** * B8 d"™n to business. until his housekeeper, not only Thinking witnessed of room, "I'll b«ck over lh 8 Mrs. Pomdexter, the scene but the shock her lights in her living be honest, completely scene ^ followcd she appeared in the doorway. At own evil should have been that precise moment, Kelcey interpretation was written all over the forthright, no matter how much I think I'm hurting much less—friendly'iendly in chir! had taken the sketches her chit-rhat-W housekeeper's face. Helen momentarily man's feelings. In the erid he'll respect from her and had turned from Flustered, the me for his desk, grasping her lost control shoulders and, with words tumbling from her lips, it, and certainly I'll respect myself, which is the WMUng to, Kelcey to put away with his strong hands. his drink and start As he poured out she excused l '"' ,SUl herself on the ground that she was late more important thing." -loflightlvArut- mteTeSt m her Helen "*d for 7'r ltteneT ? ? "'"""l! ' another appointment and must leave. ... As she "" r m ^'.^Pathetically, " ** wiA « not willing to let regained : control the r„;:::;; r r -^ Intern SltUati of her turbulent emotions on " tshe felt °n g6t e better ', : ««* she should have * of her natural Way back sroatnTf to her home, Helen realized she had put Romance of Helen Trenl, heard M-F, 12:30 P.M. V m m tr°uble She The- EST, CBS 2" - k^w at that herself in to n.m a horrible light with Mrs. Poindexter, Radio; sponsored. Whitehall Pharmacal Co, and Doyle-Midway, that he was her employer J LT t0 and nothing *"** **» from h«- As say nothing above in their roles as Helen, Kelcey Shewedshe turned hornf, £ ^^ of the fact that losing her own self- Inc. Pictured and Mrs. Kelcey and started to walk toward control had made her lose face with Kelcey. "Next Poindexter are lulie Stevens, Mercer Mod, l.eona Powers.

20 In HAWKINS FALLS or Keokuk

BE YOUR

Win Stracke—the guitar-playing Laif Flagle of Hawkins Falls—teaches his art to Bernardine's

sons, Bill and Tony.

Producer Ben Park says the real-life Bernardine has the same gay courage she portrayed as Lona, cheerfully paying her debt to Dr. Corey (Maurice Copeland).

30 By LILLA ANDERSON

During this season, when the greeting "Happy New Year" expresses everyone's hope for a brighter future, each of us in her own way examines the patterns of yesterday's past and sets about building more solidly for the tomorrows. To Lona Drewer, leading lady of NBC's Hawkins Falls, Pop. 6200, a Radio-TV Mirror reader addressed a letter poignantly expressing the hopes of a mother, a wife who wants above all things to find happiness for her family and for herself. Intimately, the reader sketched out the problems which confront her and her family—problems similar to those Lona and Knap meet and attempt to solve—and wistfully she added, "I wish my husband and I could be more like you and your husband." Then, as if catching herself, the reader became a little self-conscious. Realizing that she was writing to a person who was only living for fifteen minutes each day on a television screen, she addressed herself to Bernardine Flynn, who is Lona Drewer of Hawkins Falls. "Perhaps," she added, "if your home life is anything like Lona's you can help me." There are differences in the vital statistics of Lona's and Bernardine's past, but they become as nothing beside the unity of spirit which exists between the two women of reality and fiction. In those (Continued on page 69)

Bernardine Flynn is seen as Lona Drewer in Hawkins Falls, Pop. 6200, Bernardine Flynn, like on NBC-TV, M-F, at 5 P.M. EST; sponsored by Lever Brothers for Surf.

her TV self, Lona Drewer,

knows that a woman can

be all she wants to be WONDERFUL SELF!

which Lona shows to Nancy Campbell (played by Beverly Femininity is Bern's keynote— and the same warm sympathy portrait Bill. Younger). She has great vitality, too, allowing time for many hobbies—such as painting a of her son

31 -

Louise Grant had been one of my favorite Hollywood he's been in and out of trouble, in and out of scandal

. people for some time, ever since I first met her when sheets, and never in a play or movie. "There just isn't she was my waitress at one of the fancier bistros any justice," I volunteered. "There are hundreds of on the Strip. She'd been trying to break into pictures young actors in Hollywood with real talent who need since she was seventeen, and finally, after a lot of hard a break like this, and they give the part to this phony." work, she got the chance to play the lead in a Carter I left feeling pretty disgusted with Carter Studios and Studios movie. Just about the time she started rehears- pretty sorry for Louise—this guy would be murder to ing the film, I saw her in the studio cafeteria. work with. About three weeks later, I dropped around "Hi, Louise—how's my girl?" I sat down at her table, to the studio again, this time to visit Louise on the set. and got one of her best beautiful smiles, a smile that As I walked on the sound stage, Jim Logan, the director, kind of lights up her whole face. "Oh, I feel wonderful, was shouting at the top of his lungs. "Listen, Franklin, Cal, dear—the new part is really the best thing that's I know you have a great, big, long line of pedigree, but ever happened to me. Of course, there is just one thing when you work for me you'll do as I say. Now take that sort of burns me up. Guess who's going to play this over again from the point where Louise enters." opposite me?" This was news, so my ears, got bigger. "But," protested William Franklin, Jr., "I don't quite "None other than that spoiled darling, William Franklin, understand what you want done differently." "Use your Jr." William Franklin, Jr., comes from a long line of head, man, instead of your reputation, and you'll stum- acting greats. But so far, during his twenty-five years, ble through it adequately," sneered Logan. Bill Frank

32 THE DAY

LOUISE MADE MY WORLD

STAND STILL

CAL YORK

lin bristled at this and I watched him closely as Louise difficult to handle as a young mule with seven-year entered. squatter's rights." When she came through the door, his face relaxed, Slowly, Louise shook her head. "No, Bill's fine. He's took on almost a glowing quality and, with complete taking a real beating. A beating, incidentally, that's control, his voice softened as he went through his lines. pretty unfair. He's a fine actor and he's working against As the script indicated, halfway through the scene he terrific odds. Cal," here she hesitated, "I know it's a lot gently pulled Louise into his arms and he was about to to ask, but I'm wondering if you couldn't print an item go into the clinch when Logan let out a bellow. "As a that would help . . . well, would say that he's a good lover, you should have stayed in that mink-lined cradle," guy instead of following along with the horrible things ." he screamed. "More feeling, more emotion. . . My being said in the rest of the columns." ears shut out the sound as I concentrated on Louise's "Say, listen," I protested, "you're not falling for this greeting as she came toward me. Her warm smile of guy, are you? You're not trying to give me a biased Welcome seemed to stiffen as the director's voice grew point of view?" more and more strident. I held out my hand and she "If you promise not -to print it, (Continued on page 90) shook it absent-mindedly as she tried to ignore the tirade and say that she was glad to see me. Photoplay reporter Cal York narrates Hollywood Love Story, NBC, "He getting you down?" I said, indicating young Bill Sat., 11:30 A.M. EST; produced by Wilbur Stark. Marilyn Nowell with my head. "I read where he's been just about as and William Redfield are pictured above playing Louise and Bill.

33 —

Vu GUIDING

Susan's bracelet (opposite page) carries a LIGHT memento of her wedding (above)! From left her mother, Susan, Rev. C. Pugh, bridegroom Jan, the Milton Mounds, Mona Mound. Fate wrote many harsh lines—before

those magic words, "happily ever after"

By ELIZABETH BALL

brim with adventure, with experience—with A tears, laughter, hard work, struggle, triumph—life has at last led Susan Douglas to happiness and to love. Susan of the taffy - colored hair, the changeable gray-green eyes, is Kathy Roberts on CBS Radio and TV's The Guiding Light and, in real life, has lived as fascinating a drama as Kathy ever dreamed on. Born in Vienna, Susan moved to Czechoslovakia when she was three. She lived in this adopted Baby-sitting means a lot to Susan: Once, a land until 1939, when the Germans came source of support—now (as with little Alan into and Susan went out of that torn and Hirshfeld) a pleasant pastime while Jan's on troubled country. Of this adventure, Susan says very little. "I don't like to dwell on it. Let's just tour—in future, a dream of the perfect home. say that I came to America first, which I did. ." My mother, a year later. . . From little things, Susan indicates this was a dark adventure, a thing of loss and pain, {Continued on page 82)

The Guiding Light—on CBS-TV, 2:30 P.M.—on CBS Radio, 1:45 P.M. Both M-F, EST, sponsored by Procter & Gamble. psm % •Y

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Reading the papers, Jan heads first for the sports section—Susan, for theatre news. But both love 34 music, especially Czech folk songs. -.-, w&

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1- HE'S MY GOOD GUY!

Dennis Day is radio's

most naive and helpless

young man, but at home People think that Mrs. Dennis Day has a job that takes twenty-five hours a day. Who do they think makes the job big? Dennis Day, Senior—that helpless, he's a most talented engaging, naive young man of radio and television fame—makes the job big. and engaging husband. Don't you believe it! Dennis Day at home and Dennis Day on the radio are — six different people. As Mrs. Day, I can tell you that I know 'cause he's mine ! Dennis is a very deceiving character. He's about as helpless as Leo Durocher in a circle of umpires! In reality, I'm the helpless one and it's Dennis who rises to any emergency. By MRS. DENNIS DAY We have three little Days, all boys, and a fourth is on the way. I know I'd always heard that in a big family the youngsters look after one another. This is only partly true; they do look after one another—at dinner, they look after one another's dessert; at play, one another's ball; and, in the morning, first one up gets another one's shirt. I know I can send Paddy (Patrick James, our eldest) out in the yard to play with and look after Dennis, Jr. (our second in command). After five minutes, more or less, I can expect the conversation drifting in through the east windows to run something like this: "My ball." "No, my ball!" "I said MY ball." This has all the earmarks of a minor emergency. But before I can do anything Dennis, Sr., arrives- o& the scene. He just whistles—the ear-splitting whistle heard on his air shows—and peace is immediately restored. Dennis, Sr., as anyone can see, is a wonderful man to have around the house, where he wields the master's hand—but gently. This is not a helpless or a naive Dennis. I used to say I wanted nine children! But that was before I had three miniature Dennis Days (plus the original) to look after. And, by the time you read this, the new baby should be added to our clan. That makes a quartette of little Days (with the "end man" turning out to be a girl, we hope!). If we do have nine children, we're told we can start It's my belief Dennis can handle our own baseball team. But so far none of us is very anything—but I'll have to admit interested in baseball. Yet, if the next five were he has his own ways of doing it. guaranteed to be as cute and much fun as the first

36 %or

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I'd like to call this: "Peggy Day and her male quartet." But, any day now, it will be a quintet—and the new voice may. be definitely soprano! That's Paddy at left, Michael in the middle, Dennis Senior and Junior at right. Dad's very good at bedtime stories—but who can tell Paddy whether to expect a little brother or a little sister? —

HE'S MY GOOD GUY!

is eyes seem

three—plus my big boy, Dennis, Sr.—I'd be for having the team. I don't know exactly what Dennis, Sr., thinks. I do know that Dennis adores the boys and when he looks at them his eyes seem to say, "This is what makes living worth while." I know what he means. I can't remember what life was like before I was married to Dennis and was surrounded by the love of my children. Yes, children's love is a wonderful thing. It seems so—untouched. And from the look in Dennis' eyes I think nine sounds like a good round number to him, although he's said an "even number" would be nice. Frankly, numbers are a subject with which I've never been too familiar. Some people seem to think the odd numbers like three, five, and seven—are "lucky" numbers. I can't say that I go along with this. Somehow, the number four is beginning to take on a new meaning. Though it is an even number, to me, at least, it has certain magic properties. Now four of anything makes a quartet, That's Dennis, Jr., wrestling with dad. Paddy (left) is our and in a musical family like ours—the eldest, Michael is our youngest— until the new baby arrives!

38 Barbecue time— Paddy plays at being chef, while Dennis takes his hassock.

It's a big moment for us all, when Dennis leaves for work.

We're proud of his success . . . but happiest when he's home.

to say: "This is what makes living worth while.

boys play a mean music box—the word "quartet" takes on a special meaning. In one of my gay and mad moments I sometimes think of a string quartet. I'm only dreaming, of course, and anything I say out loud (especially to myself) can't be taken seriously. Dennis, on the other hand, says that if there's going to be a quartet, it will probably be of the barber-shop variety. I really wouldn't know. I only want to say again that four is a good round number. One day last week, Paddy (our eldest) saw me unlimbering the bassinet. After eyeing it suspiciously for a few seconds, he asked, "Who's that for?" "We're going to have a new baby," I explained. "Brother or sister?" he wanted to know. "Mommy and Daddy haven't decided yet," I answered. (Continued on page 90)

Dennis Day—heard on Jack Benny Program, CBS, Sun., 7 P.M. EST, for Lucky Strike—and seen on RCA Victor Show, NBC-TV, Fri.. 8 P.M. EST.

—

HE'S MY 1 GOOD y i y, GUY! r i * • M w HAPu / /jSf-'." i

Barbecue time— Paddy plays at being chef, while Dennis takes his hassock.

It's a big moment for us all when Dennis leaves for work, We're proud his of . success . but happiest when he's home.

Whenever Dennis

three—plus my big boy, Dennis, Sr.—I'd boys play a mean music box—the word be for having the team. I don't know "quartet" takes on a special meaning. exactly what Dennis, Sr., thinks. I do In one of my gay and mad moments I know that Dennis adores the boys and sometimes think of a string quartet. I'm when he looks at them his eyes seem to only dreaming, of course, and anything say, "This is what makes living worth I say out loud (especially to myself) while." I know what he means. I can't can't be taken seriously. Dennis, on the remember what life was like before I was other hand, says that if there's going to married to Dennis and was surrounded be a quartet, it will probably be of the by the love of my children. Yes, chil- barber-shop variety. I really wouldn't dren's love is a wonderful thing. It seems know. I only want to say again that so—untouched. And from the look in jour is a good round number. Dennis' eyes I think nine sounds like a One day last week, Paddy (our eldest) good round number to him, although he's saw me unllmbering the bassinet. After said an "even number" would be nice. eyeing it suspiciously for a few seconds, Frankly, numbers are a subject with he asked, "Who's that for?" which I've never been too familiar. Some "We're going to have a new baby," I people seem to think the odd numbers explained. like three, five, and seven—are "lucky" "Brother or sister?" he wanted to numbers. I can't say that I go along know. with this. Somehow, the number four is "Mommy and Daddy haven't decided beginning to take on a new meaning. yet," I answered. (Continued on page 90) Though it is an even number, to me, at least, it has certain magic properties. Dennis Day—heard on Jack Benny Program, CBS, That's Dennis, Jr., wrestling with dad. Paddy Now four of anything makes a quartet, (left) is our *"n., 7 P.M. EST, for Lucky Strike—and seen eldest, Michael is our and in a musical family like youngest— until the new baby arrives! ours—the •>n RCA Victor Show, NBC-TV. Fri.. 8 P.M. EST.

Happiness at HILLTOP HOUSE

Jan Miner found wisdom in the good earth—that helped her reap a harvest of dreams

By GLADYS HALL

You remember the story of the Three Little Pigs and the houses they built, don't you? The First Little Pig built his house of straw. The Second Little Pig built his . house of wood. But the Third Little Pig, more industrious than the others, and with a sounder sense of values, built his house of brick. Then, according to the story, the Big Bad Wolf came along and he huffed and he puffed and he blew down the house of straw and the house of wood. Alone of the three, the house of the Third Little Pig stood firm against the

huffing and the puffing, which could not prevail against it. Well, Jan Miner did not build her house in Meredith, New Hampshire, of brick. The old farmhouse was built long before Jan bought it. But she is building her life—as the Third Little Pig his house—of brick. (Continued on page 62)

Jan Miner is heard as Julie Paterno in Hilltop House, M-F, at 3 P.M.

EST, on CBS ; sponsored by Miles Laboratories, Inc., for Alka-Seltzer.

Jan's folks are strong and fine as the New Hampshire hills where she has her farm home.

Heads of the family are Dr. and Mrs. Walter C. Miner (left, below); Jan's brother Sheldon and his wife Ruth are in front; at back—Jan, brother Lindsay, his wife Avis, and their small son, Chuckie.

41 At Autumn Hill Farm, Les and Gingr are almost literally living in the clouds-—and they love it! HEAVEN,

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Parrakeet Joshua and boxer-dog McSinty are only two of many pets, including nearby chipmunks. Les built that lovely staircase and Singr collected the rare antiques. 42 CITY-BORN LES DAMON FOUND HIS PARADISE—OUT IN THE COUNTRY

Les and his actress-wife, Gingr Jones,

revel in rural affairs. She loves fo cook, he loves to eat—and both enjoy planning theatrical productions for community projects. right now!

By MARTIN COHEN

you haven't heard Les Damon, you've just IP never turned on a radio—for he's done more than 12,000 dramatic broadcasts. Currently, he is psychiatrist Dr. Robert Sargent on This Is Nora Drake, urbane Inspector Saber of Mystery Theatre, and a "con" man in TV's Search for To- morrow. He's one of the best actors in the business and has played such different roles as a meek little plumber and the Great McGinty. He's been the Thin Man, the Falcon, Christopher Welles and a few other fictional detectives, but none of these characters are a real clue to Les Damon, private citizen. Les Damon in conversation over a cup of coffee is a quiet, reserved man, (Cont'd on page 61)

Les Damon in This Is Nora Drake, CBS, M-F, 2:30 P.M., for the Toni Co.—Mystery Theatre, ABC, Wed., 8 P.M., Bayer Aspirin, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia—Search for Tomorrow, CBS-TV, M-F, 12:30 P.M., Procter & Gamble. All times EST. s milin' JACK SMITH

My wife can be a stern critic at times, but her notes and comments are my most trustworthy guide.

IdA^mtL

Jey, Jack Smith," some of my business [ associates say, "when are you going to change your style and get sophisticated? Why don't you get off that 'corny' kick?" "Friends," always say I, "I don't want to be sophisticated. I sing the way I feel and, if what I have to offer in the singing department is 'corny,' then I'm grateful I'm corny." Then I look these hard-hearted guys in their many eyes and say, "What's more, old pals, I don't feel it's corny to be grateful." That's kind of twisting the idea around, but it's not too far from what I'm trying to say. Now that the New Year is about to spin around again, I like to take time to count my blessings. That may sound pretty serious coming from a guy they've tagged '"Smilin' Jack Smith"—but even Smilin' Jack's got to be serious sometimes. An honest appraisal now and then helps to New production methods give us more time together, more keep the smile coming from the heart. And I will change my style if the smile ever days at home to watch for guests—particularly "the gang.'' becomes forced and the corn loses its flavor. I'm a lucky guy because I have an honest critic—one who sees me as I really am. It would be hard to be anything that I'm not, when around her, because she'd see through faking in short order. Of course, I mean my wife, Vickii. If I had to number the things for which I'm most grateful (and I do), she'd head any list every time! (Continued on page 87)

Jack Smith—Dinah Shore Show, CBS Radio, M-F, 7:15 P.M. EST; sponsored by Procter & Gamble. 44 I'M A LUCKY GUY—I HAVE A WIFE WHO

KEEPS A SMILE COMING FROM MY HEART

Two things I can count on: Inspiring love from Vickii — unquestioning devotion from old Buff. Between Jane and John, I felt an intimacy—the curious bond of a man and woman who had

almost died together. I was not surprised when they asked me to play for their wedding.

I'm proud to be By MRS. ANNA FROMAN HETZLER the mother of Jane Froman. Five of Jane's aunts are musicians or singers, and I have sung and taught voice all my life. My father In overcoming pain and doubt, was a flutist and my mother a vocalist. With such a heritage, Jane couldn't avoid being musical. We lived in St. Louis. I had settled there after my years she proved herself of study and concerts in New York, Chicago, Paris, Dresden and Berlin. I had started very early in life as a pianist, and, when I was eighteen, the Chicago worthy of every success Symphony awarded me two diamond medals for my recitals! Whether as a professional or an amateur musician, I wanted Jane to experience the great pleasure I had enjoyed in music. When she was three, I took her to a concert. Madame Schumann-Heink was singing the "Cry of Rachel." Jane sat entranced, but I didn't realize the profound impression made on her until the next day. In the morning, I suddenly heard my daughter ranting and screaming in her (Continued on page 79)

Jane Froman stars in U.S.A. Canteen, Sat., 9:30 P.M. EST, CBS-TV.

jliWUUi THE COURAGE BEYOND BELIEF

47 -*• It was so obvious that Laurel's mother-in-law, Mrs. Srosvenor, was unaware of the plot in her own home. She even made phone calls for scheming Maria—whose brother Stanley did nothing to interfere.

48 STELLA DALLAS How much help can a mother give?

Stella Dallas gave herself a stern lecture as she turned from the gossip columns of the Boston papers—she must not let her imagination Laurel's With daughter run away with her every time she picked up the

newspaper. But the feeling of doom persisted . . . marriage threatened by a feeling which had a very firm foundation these days in the rapidly mounting tension that was developing from the combination of the wealthy evil intrigues, Stella Darnells and their unsavory friends who were now living in Mrs. Grosvenor's beautiful mansion on Boston's Beacon Hill. Stella wondered, as she got faces a grave decision up to pour herself her second cup of morning coffee, how it was that Mrs. Grosvenor could be so blind! ... It had all started when Countess Sylvia Darnell and her two children, Maria and Stanley, had come to live with Mrs. Grosvenor. Immediately,

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2. Maria—out to win Dick Grosvenor away from Laurel—spread a rumor that he gave her the new car she drove. STELLA DALLAS

4. Stanley didn't seem so bad—and apparently had fallen in love with Edna, Laurel's friend.

3. Urging Laurel to return to Dick, Stella hid her fears about the strange guests inhabiting the Srosvenor home.

the stately mansion had been used by the Countess as headquarters for establishing her business as social consultant to those wealthy enough to pay her for arranging weddings, debuts and parties ... in itself, certainly no business to worry about, but the hangers- on around the countess—and even her own daughter —were some people to worry about! The press agent, Daniel Powell, who was certainly no one Stella would have tolerated. And the Prince Paul Pascal, who appeared to be selling all the family heirlooms in order to live, smacked of phoniness if not of down-

right crookedness. . . . But, worst of all, there was the situation that had developed between Dick Gros- venor and Laurel. Stella knew the heartbreak her

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5. Knowing Maria would love publicity about her "affair" with Dick, Stella watched the papers anxiously.

daughter Laurel was experiencing—knew that any even publicly tried to establish that the large car she day the whole situation might become the scandal was driving was an outright gift from Dick! Stella on which the newspapers might feed for days. Espe- sighed—these young people certainly weren't helping cially with press agent Daniel willing to spread most things, either. Why, Laurel was acting in the worst any kind of information in return for a line or two possible manner in going to work with Edna Randolph of laudatory space on the Countess! Could it be that in her gift shop, leaving Dick to think things over, Mrs. Grosvenor was absolutely blind to the whole instead of pitching in and fighting for this husband situation that was going on right under her very nose? she loved so much. After all, Laurel had so much It was as plain as could be that Maria Darnell was to offer Dick in the way of love and affection, and out to break up Laurel's marriage to Dick Grosvenor there were the two children whom Dick loved very

—Mrs. Grosvenor's son. . . . Out after wealth and much. If Laurel could only make him see that his prestige, brought up to be decorative and marry actions were leading to unhappiness, perhaps worse money, Maria was stopping at nothing to imply that a scandal or divorce from which none of them would

Dick was in love with her, not Laurel. Why, she'd ever recover any happiness. . . . Life certainly had its

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4. Stanley didn't seem so bad—and apparently had fallen in love with Edna, Laurel's friend.

.*#. Urging Laurel to return to Dick, Stella hid her fears about the strange guests inhabiting the Grosvenor home.

5. Knowing Maria would love publicity about her "affair" with Dick, Stella watched the papers anxiously.

the stately mansion had been used by the Countess daughter Laurel was experiencing—knew that any even publicly tried to establish that the large car she as headquarters for establishing her business as social day the whole situation might become the scandal was driving was an outright gift from Dick! Stella consultant to those wealthy enough to pay her for on which the newspapers might feed for days. Espe- sighed—these young people certainly weren't helping arranging weddings, debuts and parties ... in itself, cially with press agent Daniel willing to spread most things, either. Why, Laurel was acting in the worst certainly no business to worry about, but the hangers- any kind of information in return for a line or two possible manner in going to work with Edna Randolph on around the countess—and even her own of daughter laudatory space on the Countess! Could it be that in her gift shop, leaving Dick to think things over, —were some people to worry about! The press agent, Mrs. Grosvenor was absolutely blind to the whole instead of pitching in and fighting for this husband Daniel Powell, who was certainly no one Stella would situation that was going on right under her very nose? she loved so much. After all, Laurel had so much have tolerated. And the Prince Paul Pascal, who It was as plain as could be that Maria Darnell was to offer Dick in the way of love and affection, and appeared to be selling all the family heirlooms in out to break up Laurel's marriage to Dick Grosvenor there were the tioo children whom Dick loved very order to hve, smacked of phoniness if not of down- Mrs. much. If Laurel could only make him see that his Grosvenor's son. . . . Out after wealth and right crookedness. . . . But, worst of all, there was Prestige, brought decorative and marry actions were leading to unhappiness, perhaps worse the situation up to be that had developed between or divorce from which none of them Dick Gros- money, Maria was stopping at nothing to imply that a scandal would venor and Laurel. Stella knew the any happiness. . . . Life certainly had its heartbreak her Dick was in love with her, not Laurel. Why, she'd ever recover

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twists and turns, Stella reflected, almost with a smile as she remembered the bright, shining light that seemed to fairly shimmer on Edna's face the last time Stella had been in the bookshop. It was plain to see that Stanley Darnell, Maria's brother, was cut from different cloth than the rest of them. Stanley was in the gift shop day and evening, trying in his rather fumbling but rather charming way, to help Edna and Laurel. For a boy who'd never been allowed to soil his hands with toil because his mother, the Countess,

had forbidden it, Stanley seemed to be able to cope

pretty well in the business world. . . . Stella wondered

if, by any chance, this charming young man was going to be able to erase Edna's former attitude of preferring a career to marriage. If she wasn't in love, Edna was giving a wonderful imitation of the way she'd act and look if it were the genuine article. As Stella cleared away the dishes from her breakfast her busy, active mind was wondering just what she could do to help without actually interfering. She hated seeing Laurel unhappy but, on the other hand, she wasn't at all sure that perhaps it wouldn't be better for

7. It took courage for Stella to go to Mrs. Grosvenor—and, as she faced her, she wondered if she could really tell her all.

6. Prince Paul was one of Stella's chief suspects. She was sure he was copying his "old masters," selling them as originals.

Pictured here, as heard on the air, are: f Stella Dallas Anne Elstner

Laurel Grosvenor Vivian Smolen

Mrs. Grosvenor Jane Houston Dick Grosvenor Bert Cowlan

Edna Julie Stevens

Stanley Darnell Richard Holland

Maria Darnell Sybil Trent I Prince Paul Peter Capell

Stella Dallas is heard daily (M-F) over NBC, 4:15 P.M. EST; sponsored by Phillips' Milk of Magnesia.

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8. With Maria ever-present, ever-menacing, will Stella Dallas be able to salvage happiness tor the two she loves—Dick and Laurel? Can she save their marriage and avert doom from the Grosvenor home?

Laurel if she solved her own problems. And maybe, this last was just insinuation—not fact. However, on second thought, Laurel might need a good talking Mrs. Grosvenor couldn't help but be concerned about to—it was certain that she was a babe in the woods the spread of misunderstandings—and actual evil when it came to dealing with Maria's sly insinuations, that seemed to hang over them all. Certainly she deliberate, malicious lies. . . . Stella's jaw set firmly would not want to be part of a vicious racket which as she made up her mind to at least talk things over might be carried on right under her very roof, . . . with Laurel and urge her to return to Dick, if on no Placing her hat firmly on her head, Stella started out other grounds than that absence so often makes the the door. She'd made up her mind. First she'd tackle heart grow fonder—of someone else. Then, the next Laurel, next Mrs. Grosvenor. Her conscience wouldn't step should be to see Mrs. Grosvenor, who couldn't let her rest until she did all in her power to prevent refuse to believe what Stella really knew . . . and scandal and possible ruin from descending on those perhaps might even investigate, on her own, the she loved. This was all any mother could do to pro- things that Stella suspected. For instance, Stella had tect her own daughter, her own friends With never mentioned to anyone her feelings about the all that Stella can do, will it prevent Maria from

Prince and the press agent. . . . There was a strong carrying out her plans to wreck Laurel's marriage, rumor to the effect that the Prince might be copying marry Dick? Will it allow Edna and Stanley to give the "old masters" he'd brought with him—and keep- the love they obviously have for each other a fighting ing the originals while he palmed off the copies. He'd chance? And will it keep Prince Pascal and Daniel certainly done everything in his power to get back Powell, press agent, from creating a situation from the original Stella had been given, when a friend of which only heartbreak for all of them can stem? Only hers purchased it from the Prince for a present! But time will give Stella the answers to these problems.

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Stepping along

June Valli proves any woman can

create her own miracle;—if she's

willing to work for it

New waistline means pretty clothes and a job that pays for a mink stole! By FRANCES KISH

June Valli, five-foot brunette sprite with the piquant face, is a featured singer on Your NBC- TV Hit Parade, with a three-year contract at a salary in four figures. She weighs a slim 102 pounds, is as poised and assured as if she had spent all of her twenty-two years in show business. Yet only two years ago she was a thirty-five-dollar-a-week bookkeeper in a lingerie company, weighed 140 pounds, and was too bashful to sing anywhere except at home, along with records. (Mostly Dinah Shore's records, because Dinah was—and is—her ideal, as a singer and as a person.) On Christmas Day, 1950, there were perhaps only two people in the world who thought that June was something extra-special among girls. Those two were her mother and her father. They looked at their pretty only child with the eyes of love and understanding, not caring whether she was overweight, nor that she was too shy to use her really lovely singing voice even to entertain friends. (Continued on page 85)

June Valli in Your Hit Parade, NBC-TV, Sat., 10:30 P.M.

EST ; sponsored by American Tobacco Co. for Lucky Strike.

Two fortunate songbirds: June bought "Lucky" just two days before her present assignment.

With her mother's help, June now keeps to a healthy and non-fattening schedule, including plenty of sleep and a careful diet which permits only buttermilk as a between-meals snack.

55 the Brand

There is probably nothing in the land like Grand Ole Opry, on the air for the past twenty-seven years. The Opry is not merely an NBC radio program ... it is an institution ... a marathon ... a way of life, almost. Al- though to many people—who only know the Opry as a half-hour radio show on Saturday nights—it's just a very enjoyable program, to folks who have actually been to the Opry, it's (to borrow a phrase from Barnum) "the greatest show on earth." For down in Nashville, at Ryman Auditorium, the Opry gives a whopping show four-and-a-half hours in length every

Red Foley

'T'he dean of the more than 125 entertainers who make up the permanent cast of the Grand Ole Opry is quiet, mild-mannered Clyde Foley. "Red," as he is known to Opry fans, began making music with a harmonica he "bor- rowed" from his father's country store back in Berea, Kentucky. At seventeen, Red won an Atwater Kent singing contest in his home town and went to Louisville to compete for state honors. The red-headed country boy got a real case of stage fright and forgot the words to the tune he was supposed to sing. But his bashful personality completely charmed the audience, Minnie Pearl and he went on to win first prize. He spent one semester at Georgetown University, but he left school to take a job playing bass fiddle on the Barn Dance in Chicago. One of the stars of the IVTrNNiE Pearl made her debut on the Opry radio show, fifteen-year-old Eva Overstake, in 1940—in an eighty-nine-cent dress. Her encouraged to try a solo part. landed Red He hands shook so badly she kept them behind her a singing job and one year later eloped with back to keep her stage fright from showing. Miss Overstake. . . . Red's been featured on the Today, she is the foremost funny gal of the Opry since he came back home from Chicago folk-music business. A comedienne is the last in 1939. In his twenty-year career, he has thing Sarah Ophelia Colley expected to be. recorded than records, is more 15,000,000 and That's Minnie's right name. She went to Ward one of the most popular singers of folk ballads Belmont College in Nashville, and the young in the United States. society girls there were not supposed to end up as hillbillies. But you can't keep a good girl down—and Minnie Pearl was created because WHO'S WHO IN RADIO Sarah liked her. When she says, "Howdy,. I'm mighty proud to be here," she really means it.

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<£>** Ole Opry Bang

Saturday night. Ryman's seats 4,000, but more despite the abundance bi country folk (with likely than not there'll be another thousand babies and basket lunches) who come to spend people waiting outside to catch a glimpse of an evening at the Opry, there are hundreds of Minnie Pearl, Red Foley and more than two "city slickers" who get just as much of a kick hundred other performers who sing, dance, out of the proceedings. The Opry is truly the joke and strum. But the Opry isn't just a show. granddaddy of them all, when it comes to

It's the biggest showcase for American music rural-music shows . . . and out of it have stepped country style. The men and women who enter- some of the most popular singers and com-

tain don't read sheet music (even though many posers in the United States . . . especially since of the tunes casually strummed at the Opry end "that hillbilly music's come to town." up on the Hit Parade). They just give out with

simple tunes and ballads straight from their Grand Ole Opry is heard on NBC Radio every Saturday hearts. And the strangest thing about it is that, night, at 9:30 P.M. EST, for Prince Albert Tobacco.

Eddy Arnold

A veteran of show business, Rod Brasfield C ome twelve years ago, Eddy Arnold left off Minnie's partner-in-laughs on the Opry— plowing a west Tennessee farm field, slung started his comedian career because his brother a guitar over his shoulder and set out to seek Boob got tired. Rod was Boob's straight man his fortune' as a singer. With no formal music until one night brother walked out on the show, training and only nine years of formal schooling and Rod stepped in as the comic—red wig and behind him, Eddy has done right well for him- all. Before that, Rod had been a "heavy" actor self—his yearly income runs to six figures. A in high-class stock companies. Once a comic, headliner for several years on radio's top rural Rod was spoiled for anything else. In 1944, he programs, including frequent guest spots on came to WSM and the Opry, and once in the Grand Ole Opry, Ed is one of radio's biggest Opry you couldn't move him from Nashville. money-makers. Ed's six feet tall, blond and His home town, Hohenwold, Tennessee, is get- husky. He lives in East Nashville with his wife ting to be as famous as Grinder's Switch, where and the apple of his eye—four-and-a-half-year- Minnie was born and bred. old Jo Ann, his daughter. 57 !

there's always LAUGHTER

in Rosemary's Heaven

Rosemary De Camp leads a

triple life as Nurse Judy

Price, as Judge Shidler's wife

and mother of four daughters.

And still makes

time for love and laughter

By BETTY MILLS GOODE

Growing family: The John Shidlers with their four daughters, baby "Lou Cheese"; Marcie, left; Nana, center; Pallie, right.

was such a little puppy, bearing such a big Hebone—almost twice his size. But his puppy instincts told him one thing: Bones were meant to be buried. So he tagged in after the invited guests, that Easter morning, and proceeded to "bury" his prize right in the comer of the living room. The fact that the living room belonged to a distinguished judge and his equally distinguished actress-wife didn't bother him. The fact that the guests shouted with laughter did frighten him for a few moments. But he crept to the feet of the pretty hostess, looked up at her with imploring spaniel eyes, and somehow he

knew he was home . . . where laughter and love always abounded in full measure. For that's the way it is with Rosemary De Camp, beloved Nurse Judy Price of CBS' Dr. Christian, and her husband. Judge John Shidler. To them and to their four stair-step daughters, there's always room for one more. Naturally, they adopted the small bone-bearer on the spot—and (Continued on page 78) Rosemary and John love doing things together,

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Godfrey's Man Tony

(Continued from page 25) "But, on the other hand," Tony says swim, Tony can golf and Dot can hunt "You just be yourself and everything's proudly, "she is just as neat and feminine for antique glass. fine. Nobody on any Godfrey show sheds as her mother, and very musical." The family is very considerate of each personalities for the audience." Their home, furnished with Colonial and other and Tony never forgets anniver- Godfrey likes good 1 uraor, good citizens, knotty pine furniture, has much the stan- saries or birthdays even if he is working. people with intelligence and talent. He dard layout of most houses, except for a Lynda, because of her interest in science likes warmth and friendliness and forceful small music room. Here, the Marvins boast and mechanics, receives things she can personalities. But everything has to be a piano, a flute, three ukuleles, two slide work with her hands or, perhaps, a micro- genuine. That accounts for Tony Mar- whistles and a misplaced ocarina. scope. Dot gets perfume and jewelry. vin's permanent berth. They all play the piano, Dot and Lynda "You know, Tony just doesn't wait for "It's a fine gang we have," Tony notes. much better than Tony. The flute is an occasion to bring us gifts," Dot relates. "No prima donnas. Real affection for each Lynda's and everything else common prop- She goes on to tell of the day they stopped other and real teamwork. We have our erty. Many evenings they go into the room in a jewelry store to have a watch re- differences once in a while, like any family, and make recordings of their family trio. paired. "I walked out with a brand-new but let any outsider interfere and it's just Very good, too. Tony is star vocalist—he watch." like .stepping between a husband and wife. sang for a time with the New York She knew Tony hadn't planned it. The Look out!" Operatic Guild and in several musicals. gift—and the spontaneity of giving Tony well knows about domestic life for The tremendous built-in bookcases thrilled her he has been married fifteen years. He lives which line one entire wall of their living He sometimes brings things home that on Long Island, an hour-and-fifteen-min- room is a clue to the encyclopedic knowl- are good for nothing but a laugh. He hates ute drive away from the radio and TV edge Tony reveals on the Godfrey shows. hats, never wears them, but came in one studios—a drive he makes five days a week All the Marvins consume books as most evening with three French kepis, which and enjoys. people consume sweets. Tony's mind is are caps worn in the Foreign Legion. They "I'm a happy commuter," he says. "Be- particularly inquisitive and retentive. wore them to dinner that night for some hind the wheel I'm relaxed, with both eyes "Practically read ourselves to sleep startled, but amused, guests. on the road. I have the best incentives for every night," he says. Actually, Tony gets much less time with getting home safe and sound." But the Marvins are not bookish people. his family than the average working man. Tony is much in demand at parties for, The weekend is his, but practically every Home is a medium-sized English Tudor besides being a fine conversationalist, he evening he is in the city late, getting home house, surrounded by a 400-foot hedge, is noted for his funny stories. Any time between nine and eleven. He works on elms, dogwood and oaks, but it's the con- there is a benefit Tony is begged to emcee nine hours' worth of programs each week tents that Tony values so highly: Dorothea, because he puts the crowd in such a good with Godfrey and, of course, behind the his wife, and their eleven-year-old daugh- mood. And yet—when he gets serious, shows are many hours of conferences, re- ter, Lynda Ann. watch out. hearsals, and general preparations. Dotty and Tony met back in 1932, when "Lynda came home one evening a little Tony gets up at 6: 45 every morning, and both were counsellors at a summer camp. put out," Dot recalls. "She said a friend some nights he rolls in feeling a little Dotty was seventeen, Tony nineteen, and told her she was as stubborn as her tired. But he and Dot always have a ritual. the moon was full. It was full all sum- father. Tony said, 'When you're right, "What happened today?" she asks. mer and, at the end, Tony proposed. It stick to your guns.' "Didn't you listen?" he asks. was five years later, however, that they Tony and Dot do not beheve in lectur- "Of course," comes the standard reply, were married. Dot had to finish school and ing and "educating" their child. They be- "but where did you have lunch and whom then along came a little thing called the lieve a child is anxious to learn and fol- did you see, and so on?" depression. low. So, if parents present the right She brings out some canapes or cheese The qualities Dotty had then, she pos- example, the children will grow up right. and crackers, and they talk. Dot reports sesses today. While Tony and Dot don't consider them- on Lynda and sometimes on her dual role "She is very attractive, dark, tall, ex- selves perfect human beings, they go to as both mother and father. Tony, like most tremely intelligent—for which I'm very great pains to set the right example for radio people, works on holidays and also thankful," says Tony. He takes a deep Lynda. when his child is in school recitals. Dot, breath and continues, "She is tender, For one thing, Tony knows that oc- however, gives Tony a full accounting of warmhearted, a spic-and-span house- casionally Lynda will be introduced at Lynda's day and her occasional perform- keeper and an excellent cook. And one school as Tony Marvin's daughter. Well, ances. And then, it's to sleep and, almost other thing that I forgot to include—she Lynda thinks there is no one in the before they know it, 6:45 A. M. again. has the quality of loyalty." This latter world like her daddy, but this embarras- "I don't wake Dottie immediately," Tony quality was to come in mighty handy ses her. says. "I get her up after I shower and when, after their marriage, Tony was "There is a dignity in every man, re- shave, just in time to get breakfast ready. sometimes "between" radio jobs, carrying gardless of his job," Dot says. "We don't And she wakes up smiling." a wallet which was mighty thin and, at want Lynda thinking she is set off from times, completely empty. Without fuss or everyone else because her father is a radio At breakfast each of the Marvins starts bother, Dotty got a job to help them along. and TV personality." off with orange juice and a vitamin tablet She's an enthusiastic, energetic wife. She And she isn't. Although the Marvins —this is another ritual, even shared with has help with housework a couple of days number many show people among their guests when they are on hand. After that, a week but no maid. She manages the best friends, their neighbors on Long Is- it's a big breakfast for a big day and then work herself, does all the cooking and land—doctors, lawyers, business men—are a serving for their three cats. enjoys preparing dinner so much that they a part of their social life. This, perhaps as "I drive away with a very pretty picture rarely eat out. much as anything else, has shown Lynda of my family," Tony says. "Dot and Lynda "Really it's no treat for Tony to eat that there may be no business like show each holding a cat in one arm and waving out," she says. "Most of the time he is business but there are others just as good. me down the driveway." forced to eat in restaurants." Lynda, like her parents, has chores As Tony said, he relaxes while driving Tony's a meat-and-potato man and around the house. She helps Tony care for but he always has a lot to think about. speaks ecstatically of Dot's roast beef, the lawn in summer and helps shake snow Arthur is unpredictable, as everyone which gets about twenty-four hours of out of the trees in winter. On weekends, knows, and is just as likely to call on seasoning before it even enters the oven. Tony and Lynda take over breakfast Tony to explain Einstein's theory or have Tony's second favorite dish—second to duties. Dot sleeps on while father and him stand on his head. Once Tony did Dot—is daughter Lynda Ann, his favorite daughter prepare something special. It stand on his head and sing "Old Man topic. Lynda, in looks, is a combination of may be French toast or pancakes with River" because Arthur wanted to check father and mother. Her personality, too, rich egg batter and vanilla flavoring. At a claim that it was good for blood circu- is a curious mixture. At play she is the the last minute, Dot is awakened. lation. In the end, both Tony and the perfect tomboy in patched-up dungarees After breakfast, beds are made and audience collapsed. weighted down by a brace of pistols. She they go to work on repair jobs. Then "But I feel as relaxed going to work also shares Tony's aptitude for mechanical Lynda practices piano while her parents as I do returning," Tony said. "We're all things. Tony is adept at plumbing, carpen- catch up on the morning paper. In the like first cousins on Arthur's shows. You try and electrical matters. Lynda, too, is afternoon, they go for a ride, visit rela- might say I live a double family life, and quick with a screwdriver or hammer when tives and, in. the summer, go boating and I'm lucky to enjoy both." something needs repairing. She and Tony swimming. Yes, Tony, besides being an astonish- together constructed a table and layout Dot and Tony love swimming and often ingly versatile man, has a great apprecia- for their permanent electric-train layout swim tandem, developing their own min- tion for warmth and good friendship— in the cellar. They will work by the hour iature aquacade. They take their vacation which are also basic requisites for the with her Erector set. each summer at a resort where they can Godfrey shows. 60 Heaven, Right Now!

(Continued from page 43) End" and the part of Curly in "Of Mice He had a stairway built to the attic and as real as the family doctor. and Men," touring the country. then put in two bedrooms. The master Some sixty miles out of Manhattan, In 1938, when the daytime serial center bedroom he built himself, from dormer across New Jersey and just short of the was in Chicago, Les happened to be there windows to papering, and it took him a Pennsylvania border, one thousand feet in a play and took on a couple of mike as- year. up, on the very summit of a mountain, are signments. Then calls began to snowball He converted a rear open stone porch twenty -four acres containing a vast amount and he found himself a busy radio actor. into a dining room. This he did as a sur- of trees and a handsome fieldstone house. And that was when he and Gingr met. prise for Gingr, who was in the West Indies This is Autumn Hill. This is Les Damon's Both were working on Lone Journey. for a month. (Nearly any time she is ab- home. Across the horizon is Schooley's "We didn't really pay much attention to sent more than a week she comes home mountain range, below in the valley is a each other for a long time," Les recalls. to find something new in the house.) village of five hundred homes, on the hill- "Not until we were notified the show was To do the home justice would require a sides cows and sheep graze. Les Damon moving to New York." Gingr was doubt- detailed description of every room: The is proud of his home. He has worked hard ful about making the move and asked Les handsome pine chests and dry sinks fin- for its ownership, he has spent much time for advice. Out of this one serious session ished down to a beautiful grain, the dis- and labor in converting the house to his grew a succession of dates. Gingr decided tinctive but cheerful wallpaper, the warmth needs, he commutes fifteen to twenty hours against New York but Les went. of the lighting. a week to enjoy this home, which he shares "But we kept on dating between Chicago This handsome home, which seems about with his wife, Gingr, and two boxer dogs. and New York," she says. "Both of us as far removed from New York as you Gingr is a vibrant, beautiful woman, were flying back and forth constantly and could get, short of the moon, came about blonde with gray-green eyes. She's a rare finally had to decide between getting mar- in a rather unusual way. Gingr, of course, person, a cosmopolitan actress completely ried or buying up the airline. We couldn't had been raised in a small town and didn't at ease in a rural setting. She is buoyant afford the airline." have to be sold on country living. But Les and zestful, yet sophisticated in a real Gingr came to New York with her Great had always lived in a city and had never sense. Dane in tow. It was a case of marry-me, entertained the thought of living anywhere "You can measure the years of our mar- marry-my-dog. Les was short of being else. And then came the war. riage by my anniversary flowers," Gingr enthusiastic about dogs, and his attitude Les spent part of his service in Burma says quietly. "Each year Les has given didn't improve much in the first years of and it was very quiet there. "No noise, no me a dozen red roses plus a yellow rose their marriage. The apartment he had frenzy," he remembers. "No subways, no for each year we've been married. This was adequate for two, but not three, and taxi horns, no one jamming you in an ele- year I got a dozen of each." they finally wound up in a penthouse, vator. And I liked it." mostly for the sake of the Dane. He got home on the eve of his wedding Gingr knows Les as a remarkable artist, "But that will give you the wrong im- anniversary. He met Gingr with a load of sensitive and brilliant, as well as a re- pression," Gingr says quickly. "Les is easy roses, an Indian ring set with a ruby, and markable husband, considerate, good and to live with. He actually surprises me an idea about living in the country. Claudia very, very sentimental. She points to an with his lack of annoyance when he has Morgan, who stars on Right to Happiness, unusual ring he had made for her out of a right to be upset. For example, if I was a close friend and talked about the a tiny wristwatch she once treasured. In spend money on something we don't really wonders of the New Jersey countryside. the center is a turquoise, her birthstone, need, or if I'm late as a hostess when guests So the Damons began investigating. circled with diamonds and in the case are are arriving. He shows not a trace of "I remember the first time we saw the several grains of their wedding rice. annoyance." house," Les recalls. "The agent drove us Les and Gingr met in Chicago some In twelve years of marriage, he has never through the town and pointed at the top fourteen years ago, but it took them about failed to notice something new she is wear- of the mountain. It looked too good to be a year and a half to discover how much ing and he always comments favorably. He true. When we got on the property and they had liked each other. During this understands, too, that Gingr, like many walked through the house, we felt as if a time, Les discovered Gingr had been raised women, enjoys little surprises. million wouldn't be too much to ask for it. in a small town, Kinderhook, Illinois, in the "How about a dinner and theatre date Luckily, it turned out to be something we heart of Mark Twain country—her grand- next Friday evening?" he asks and Gingr could afford!" father was a friend of Twain's. She remem- never knows where they will dine or what bers her childhood with pleasure, and it show it will be until she arrives on Les's Living in the country has had a notice- was only her ambition to be an actress that arm. able effect on their lives. For one thing, took her into the big city and away from Often when she sits down to dinner, they've had the opportunity to really enter small-town life, which she loved. (It was Gingr finds a package by her plate, and it into community life. The community is bad handwriting, scribbling her name may be a bracelet or perfume or a piece of the little town of Califon at the foot of their "Gingr," that resulted in the "e" being costume jewelry. mountain. Last winter, with the assistance dropped when she had her first billing.) Their only differences are over the fur- of Gingr, Les staged a play which was so Les, on the other hand, grew up in the nishing of their home. "It's unusual, too," successful that local business men are con- city of Providence, Rhode Island. As a Gingr admits, "for Les never infringes on sidering the idea of building a permanent youngster, he worked hard. He was always my personal privacy, never tries to in- theatre. fascinated by the theatre. "I always hung fluence my ideas on other matters." During the Yuletide season, Les told the around the theatre, the Albee, one of the But once they maintained a three-day Christmas story at the Methodist church. best stock companies in the country," he silence over whether or not a table should It was so warmly received that, the fol- recalls. "But I had to get a job and I was be moved a few feet to the left or right. lowing Easter, he and Gingr did the story very lucky." As insignificant as this sounds, it's based of the Resurrection in the candlelight ser- He was employed as private secretary to on the intense interest they've taken in vice. For weeks after, townspeople would a public utilities chief. His boss, im- the conversion and furnishing of their approach Gingr and ask, "Can't we make pressed by Les's theatrical ambitions, made home. And their home is a masterpiece in your husband into a minister?" a deal. "I don't care how much time you the art of good living. "You know Les works five or six days a spend at the Albee or what kind of hours The living room, pine panelled, has a week in the city and seldom gets home you keep here," he told Les. "Just see roof-high, peaked ceiling. An enormous before eight in the evening," Gingr notes. that your office work gets done." fireplace takes up a third of one wall and "It is hard on him to take on community Les would show up at seven in the morn- runs up to the arch. The windows on one jobs, but in spite of this, he manages." ing and pound the typewriter until ten- wall overlook the valley. The furnish- The summer of 1952 was a full one for thirty, then take off for the theatre. He ings are mostly Early American and rep- both Gingr and Les. In the beginning, stayed on, if there was a matinee, but was resent much hunting and shopping by Jackie Gleason moved into their farmhouse back at the office in the early evening. Gingr. Shelves against two windows are for a month. (The 110-year-old farmhouse He rushed back to the theatre for the night filled with beautiful pieces of glass and is better than a football-field length from performance and afterwards returned to porcelain. Above the staircase is an old the Damon home, and Les renovated it the office to work until one or two in the Amish hanging. A nearly complete set himself.) Then Les worked in a summer morning. Les did this for eight long years, of Copenhagen date dishes flanks the front theatre production of "Come Back, Little and the hard-earned apprenticeship paid of the staircase. The lamps are converted Sheba," and did such a terrific job that the off. He was sponsored to further training beer-steins and a very old oil lamp. Broadway producer regretted Les wasn't at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and then "In order to maintain peace," Gingr con- in the original production. spent a year at the famous Old Vic Theatre fesses, "we finally decided to specify our In July, Gingr got a wire from Gleason in London. responsibilities. I was given charge of dec- asking her to fly out to Chicago to play the R He came back to a couple more seasons orating, and Les took over structural part of Alice in The Honeymooners. The M of stock in the U.S., then broke into the changes." actress, who had been playing the part on big time. Among his Broadway successes All bedrooms were on the ground floor TV and the road, was ill. was the role of Baby Face Martin in "Dead until Les began to get ideas, good ones. "I almost didn't take that part," Gingr 61 —

remembers. "We had arranged for two Les and Gingr have to be early risers. steak. After dinner, they may play some children, to stay with us as part of the There's that two-hour haul into Manhattan backgammon or read quietly. Fresh Air Fund's activities. I didn't want for both of them. Even Gingr is in town a Weekends usually find four or more to disappoint them." few days each week. She was on the Beu- house guests on Autumn Hill. Informality is "Why can't I take care of them?" Les lah TV show a year ago. She played the the note, but not by accident. No busi- demanded. So Les had two little children lead on Cavalcade of America recently and ness is ever conducted on weekends and all to himself their first week in the coun- generally free-lances. She's a very active the Damons invite only people who like try. woman and, a couple of summers ago, freedom of action. Everyone does just as "They were having a delightful time," actually found herself in the jelly business. he pleases. Guests get up at their own Gingr remembers. "Les had taken them She and her housekeeper, Vi, put up 1700 choosing and often make their own break- all over the countryside. There were pic- jars of jams and jellies that season. fasts. They can play ping pong or go sled- ture puzzles, toys and white shoe polish all "It all started when Eddie and Cathy ding or just sit around and talk. over the place." Byron were out," she tells you. (Eddie "Les is a wonderful host," Gingr says. To the Damons, it is a real sense of loss produced Mr. D.A.) "They had some of our "Everyone feels at ease here." that they have had no children. Gingr, preserves and the next day Cathy called Gingr admits there are men who are in particular, believes Les would have and said she'd like to buy a case." probably easier to describe than Les. Com- made such a wonderful father. After that, orders began piling up and, plex and reserved he may be, but definitely She points to his devotion to their two when they approached the two-thousand not lacking in the virtues that make him a boxers. "In spite of the lack of enthusiasm mark, Les made her call it quits. It was credit to his profession and the human race. for our Great Dane," she says, "I knew Les just too much with her professional work. "No, you can't tell much about Les by would love dogs, given the opportunity." "There are always plenty of projects the parts he plays. He's much too good The boxers, brother and sister, are called going on around here," he says, "and we do an actor," she says. "On the other hand, McGinty and Ruffle. McGinty is the clown like to relax once in a while." he's too much a man to be anything but of the house and Les tells dozens of stories They seldom finish dinner before eight- modest." about his escapades. Their one other pet, thirty. And cooking for Les is a real pleas- Of course, as it turns out, a man who is a parakeet, is titled Joshua and he is quite ure. He likes food, particularly cheese respected and admired by his wife and a voluble bird, inclined to upstage either souffles, Welsh rarebit, southern fried friends doesn't have to toot his own horn. one of his owners. chicken, and is always ready for a good Everyone else does it for Les Damon.

Happiness at Hilltop House

(Continued from page 41) whirl of gay parties, fabulous furs and being assigned commercials. Later, she Jan is building her life, that is to say, jewels and gowns and the lavish like. worked for a spell in Hartford, Connecti- of the things that are sturdy and strong But not Jan. Not any more, that is. Not cut, had three half-hour shows on Hart- and enduring ... of the fields of corn now. Not since her Uncle Charlie gave ford stations handling commercials and

and beans and peas and pumpkins . . . her the values by which she lives today interviewing people, during the war, from

the potato patch, the chickens and turkeys . . . Uncle Charlie Morrow, for whom all over the world, which made her quite

. . . and apple and pine trees and grape Jan's farm is named, and of whom she a student of dialects. To this day Jan can

arbors and blueberry bushes . . . that speaks with her heart. . . . lapse at will into a Cockney, German, grow and live on Morrow Farm. Of the As she spoke to me the other morning, French, New Hampshire, Russian, or what- work it takes, and the love it takes, and over cups of black coffee (Jan is a mara- have-you accent. And often, just for the the health and happiness and peace it thon coffee-drinker—she says she gets heck of it, does! gives, to make them live and grow. that from brother Shel) in the green- After two years of New England radio, You must feel, most of you, that you walled living room of the charming apart- Jan was given the lead in Linda Dale, and know Jan as well as a member of your ment which is home to Jan during the Jan was on the big (CBS network) time! own family. You hear her, five days a working week. Today, the girl who never once thought week, as Julie Paterno on Hilltop House, "Before I tell you about Uncle Charlie's she was pretty enough for on-stage per- over CBS Radio. And many of you will little talk with me—the talk that is re- formances is one of radio and TV's estab- remember her, before Hilltop House, as sponsible for the way I live today—I'd lished, most loved and popular actresses! the lead in Linda Dale, and as Lora on better explain that I, Boston born and "It was when I landed my job on Linda Lora Lawton and Anne in Casey, Crime bred, the daughter of a family without Dale, and set off for New York," Jan said, Photographer. She's also been spotlighted so much as a diluted drop of theatre "that Uncle Charlie had his talk with me on many evening dramatic shows—such blood in their veins (my Dad is a dentist, —motivated, I am sure, by his realization as Mystery Theatre, Official Detective, an orthodontist), never had any idea of that I was sure-enough going to be one Counter-Spy, Radio City Playhouse, Cav- becoming an actress. As a Boston teen- of those spendthrift characters, an actress. alcade, Gangbusters—and has taken part ager, I worked as a salesgirl in one of "At any rate he told me, did Uncle in a great many commercials, including the local dress shops and used my lunch Charlie, that I should put away fifty cents six years of selling the sponsors' products hours to write copy for women's fashion of every dollar I earned. He said that I on Break The Bank. Those of you who shows. Then I attended Boston's Vesper should 'lay it aside' to buy a farm. He have television sets have seen Jan, as well George Art School, where I took set de- said that people in our business, the busi- as heard her, in starring roles on TV signing. For, although I didn't dream of ness of acting, 'sometimes work, sometimes The Cameo Theatre, for instance, Lights becoming an actress—I never once thought don't,' so that all they may have in their Out, and Robert Montgomery's super I was pretty enough for on-stage per- later years is their bit of land and their Lucky Strike Theatre. formances—I did love the theatre and little home. To the thousands who now listen to had my heart set on becoming a stage " 'Don't you think it would be fun to and love—Hilltop House, Jan Miner is designer." buy a farm,' he said, 'stock it with an- Julie Paterno, the capable, great-hearted A stage designer, Jan believes, is what imals, build up the land so you can have head of the orphanage whose sensitive she would have been—but for a sum- your little vegetables,' he winked, 'in- understanding of young people always mer holiday during which the directors of stead of spending everything you earn on helps the "problem" children out of their the Cambridge, Massachusetts, Strawhat fancy dresses and mink shawls?' scrapes, resolves their conflicts, heals their Theatre gave her a part in their adapta- "He knew me better than I knew my- hurts of heart and spirit as well as of tion of "The Short Story." The directors of self. If I have a dollar, it is characteristic body. the Strawhat Theatre did more than give of me to think, Wouldn't it be fun to buy Jan Miner has no children of her own, Jan a part in a play—they introduced her that? Or rather, it was characteristic of but she is a fond stepmother and a doting to—whether she knew it or not—her nat- me, for I am much better, I think, much aunt. In terms of kindliness and whole- ural element. Must have, for from there thriftier than I was. It has taken me seven someness and sympathy and competence, Jan went on, in stock, until she'd completed years in New York to get wise about a she is the Julie Paterno she makes so some fifty-two weeks of performances, dollar. Perhaps to use the word 'wise' is real to you. which included leads in such standbys as giving myself too much, but nowadays I bill At the same time, Jan is an actress "Death Takes a Holiday," "The Devil's often find myself fingering a dollar re- and a very fine one, or she wouldn't have Disciple," "Pygmalion," "Street Scene" flectively, while the word 'taxes' dances the ability to make Julie so real—from the and "Clutterbuck." before my eyes and I think, Fifty cents of top of her ash-blonde head to the tips It was then that radio first beckoned this is mine, if that. . . . of her ten toes. actresses in private to her with an offer from NBC's Boston "I've closed out my charge accounts, R And — life, as you may know (or have heard outlet, Station WNAC, of a spot on Mar- too, so that I won't be tempted beyond and read), tend to be exotic and extrava- riage Clinic, a show which dramatized my strength. I run weekly bills at the gant creatures who live for today—and marital problems. She was also given butcher and grocer but no charge accounts never mind tomorrow—in a perfumed spots on other dramatic shows, as well as anywhere for clothes or the luxury items. 62 ! —

It's a matter, of saying, every day, 'I am Charlie had his 'little talk' with me al- "One of these days, I hope to have not going to spend more than I earn.' It most ten years ago, but it took me five some Aberdeen Angus cattle like our good is also a matter of putting at least half of years to save enough money to buy the friend and neighbor, Dr. Hale. Dr. Hale, what you earn into something that will, farm. For the first three or four years who is the veterinarian in Meredith, and eventually, earn for you. A farm, for after I bought it—or until Uncle Charlie a wise and wonderful man in more ways instance! The sixty-eight-acre farm on died—he and I ran it together as a com- than his knowledge of animals, went with Lake Winnepesaukee in New Hampshire, mercial enterprise. We sold our produce Lin and me when we bought the sheep. for exact instance, of which I am the (we had chickens, eggs and vegetables) to He also picked out the turkeys for us. proud and happy owner! the neighbors and to summer camps. Now And you should see his beautiful well- "The house is a little old house, white that Uncle Charlie is gone and I have so kept farm, where he and his two sons have with barn-red shutters," the proud owner little time to be there, it's not being run made the fields look just like velvet carpets. went happily on, "and an old-fashioned commercially any more but we continue "Country people help each other, which porch, half of which we used to enlarge the to make improvements which will, in time, is one of the warm and wonderful things," living room. There is a big, red barn—yes, make it self-supporting and eventually, I Jan said, "about being a country woman! shadowy and sweet- smelling of hay, as hope, profitable. And there are so many organizations with old barns are—with white doors and trim. "Even now, it's making small strides specialized knowledge which stand ready There is another house near the property, in the self-supporting department. Uncle to help, too. Meredith has a Forestry De- too, a little hundred-year-old New Eng- Charlie got me interested in animals, and partment, for instance, and they come over land house, set in its own twelve acres, kid brother Lin and I now have five reg- and test the soil for us, decide what it which is named Hilltop House. My broth- istered Hampshire sheep with which to needs, what crops should be rotated, what er, Lindsay, and his wife, Avis—and my start a stock herd. Last spring, we sold kind of trees and vegetation we should little nephew Chuckie and niece Susan the wool! Lin works at the Meredith As- have. . . . Ethel—live there. bestos Mill—and still finds time to care "Right now, we're putting in the kind "Avis, who is a divine cook (which I for the animals. of things which do not require too con- unfortunately am not!), makes and keeps "By selling 200,000 feet of pine on the stant care and attention. Apple trees, for us supplied in town with heavenly wild farm, I also made enough money this year instance. We're starting to build up an grape, currant and blackberry jelly from to replace the old dirt cellar with a new orchard—which we go up and spray when our bushes on the farm. And keeps us cement one, which I felt we needed, and necessary and which, if there's a storm, 'filled,' when we're at the farm, with won- an artesian well. Ten years from now, Lin or Shel runs down and sees to. We're derful apple and blueberry pies from our that same lumber will be grown up again putting in potatoes. And there is still own trees and bushes. If nothing ever —and ten years from now may be the work to be done on the house, which we're tastes half so good as home-cooked food, time when it will come in very handy for trying to make authentic Early American. nothing even begins to taste as good as taxes or something. . . . We call on our "Some of the work to be done—as much home-cooked and home-grown food! neighbors Mr. Boothby and Mr. Colby for of it as I have time for—I do myself. "Mother and Dad are in Meredith most advice about the forest timber and how Last summer, I spent my four weeks' va- of the time, and my brother Shel and his to sell it, because a tree to me is a tree cation at the farm, during which time I wife Ruthie are now living in Meredith, and I never thought of it as lumber, but learned to run the tractor and did the too—which makes it truly home, of course, these men know. mowing and the plowing. At the same to me. My middle brother, Don, lives in "And, in addition to our blue-blooded time, we had men at work enlarging the Hingham, Massachusetts, with his wife and sheep, we also have some turkeys—a spe- living room and putting rock into the three adorable children, so they are also cial breed the name of which escapes me foundation of the house, pointing it. Be- country folk, although not up-country in at the moment. But they are fancy birds ing the impatient type, I always want Meredith, New Hampshire, with us. We liable, with luck, to bring in fancy prices! everything to be beautiful all at once. So, wish they were! And we have beautiful pigs, soon to be after a day or two of going about saying "T've had the farm five years. Uncle butchered—Lin and I hate to do it, but wistfully, 'Oh, I wish that loam and those

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68 Bernardine Flynn

(Continued from page 31) basic womanly characteristics which remain unchanged by time and which tran- scend social and economic classifications, Bernardine is both Lona's interpreter and the inspiration for much that happens in Its my one Hawkins Falls. "No actress, however skilled, could merely pretend Lona's admirable qualities," says Ben Park, the producer. "These essential qualities must first be present in the woman herself before she can communicate them to the audience." And Bill Barrett, the show's writer, adds, "Lona's happiness stems as much from Bernardine's cream heart as from my pen." In one respect, Lona and Bernardine are Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., identical. Each is that rare creature, a makes one special cream a truly happy woman, and it was from Ber- nardine the happy wife and mother that "must" for her daily skin care. the letter writer received her answer. Be- This famous cleansing cream is hind the answers in living which Bernar- an exclusive formulation of skin- complete understanding dine gave, was a helping ingredients. Together, of Lona, a complete understanding of problems which any woman could en- these ingredients in Pond's Cold counter. When Doug Johnson created Cream work on your skin as a Hawkins Falls, he felt that Lona's way of team — in inter-action. They sources: Her life should stem from two cleanse embedded dirt from pore- failure to have a child, which gave her a and, at the same time, more kindly perspective toward other hu- openings, man failings; her marriage to Knap, which supply your skin with oil and contributed for the first time in her life a moisture it needs to be smooth, feeling of belonging and being wanted. young-looking. Use Pond's Cold Lona's childhood had been drab. Young- Cream every night (mornings, est of five children born on a Missouri hillside farm, she had been forced at too) . 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They have two sons, fourteen-year-old of our boys, just for me." Bernardine's heroine, flew in from Holly- Tony and eleven-year-old Ruffin, who pre- Thus encouraged, she turned her formal wood to talk about a radio role which he fers being called Bill. Their home is a dining room into an impromptu studio. Her termed "made to order." spacious Chicago apartment. portrait of young Bill is almost finished. Prospect of a weekly program on the Out of this background Bernardine (and The matching one of Tony will soon be Coast presented problems. In a conference hence Lona) has found a key to happiness. started. with both husband and wife, Ameche Both before cameras and in real life, that The same magic touch of mutual confi- acknowledged it. "Darn it, Chet, I'm not key is a marriage to which husband and dence has also served to develop one of trying to break up your family life, but wife bring a refreshing amount of confi- Bernardine's husband's latent talents. Bern got me my first big radio part and dence as well as affection. "Lona and Knap Nearly fifteen years ago, Chet grew inter- now I feel I should reciprocate." are unashamedly in love. They don't go in ested in his family's history. Interest in- Instead of objecting, Chet defined his for phony smooching things," Barrett ex- creased when he discovered an ancestor personal atittude. "I respect my wife's plains, "but they love each other and never with a record of high adventure. Bernar- talent and I want her to accomplish as try to hide it." dine, on hearing his excited account said, much in her field as I expect to accomplish Bernardine, in her appraisal, goes further "Sounds to me as though that's the main mine." and in so doing also reveals her own basic terial for a novel. Why don't you write it?" Although Bernardine finally rejected philosophy. "Lona has found out what she Although his professional duties are the opportunity, she appreciated her hus- wants in life," she says, "and she also heavy, Chet worked at it during those band's view. "You just can't imagine what knows she experiences it with Knap. Be- chance moments a busy man can spare, that meant to me. It was almost as im- sides loving him, she deeply admires him." and it is finally completed. A critic has portant as when Chet first made me under- Then, with an attitude too seldom en- enthusiastically recommended it to an edi- stand I could do anything I truly wanted countered in this age, when amateur psy- tor. Chet and Bernardine hope it will soon to do." choanalysis has become a substitute for be published. That particular milestone was reached small talk, she says, "I'm always astounded The clearest parallel between fact and early in their marriage. From childhood, to hear a woman try to analyze her hus- fiction comes in that often-controversial Bernardine had suffered such a phobia band or her children. No wife can do that. question of work after marriage. against anyone walking up behind her She's too close to them to see them objec- In Hawkins Falls, Knap approves of unexpectedly that her mother was in the tively. Her own emotions get all tangled Lona's working because she is happy in her habit of cautioning other children, "Now up in it. What's more, if a husband knows greater usefulness—happy enough to find don't go scaring Bernardine." his every small action is still enjoy her home subject to scru- ways to do her job and She went into her customary screaming tiny, he's going to be too embarrassed ever family. and tizzy the first time Chet, crossing a car- to try to bring out a idea." Bernardine has mastered the same art new peted floor, loomed over her shoulder. Bernardine took Knap's change from in real life. During the first years of mar- She says, "I'll never forget the look on machinist to editor as an example. "He riage, she was so in demand for daytime his face. All he said was, 'Don't be like would never have tried it if Lona had serials she took only two weeks off when that,' but he looked as though I had turned doubted his ability. Of course, she realized each of her sons were born. Her role as out to be a lesser person than he expected that he didn't have the formal education Sade, in Vic and Sade, was the high point me to be. It stopped me cold, until I real- usually required. But, from the very mo- of her radio career. ized he was right. I didn't have to be like ment he started showing her little things When that show went off the air, Ber- that. It was simply a matter of control." he had written, womanlike, she knew he'd nardine announced her retirement. Her Were any woman to draw from Bernar- be good at it." sons needed her. The family moved to the dine's example, she would learn such con- Knap shows the same respect for Lona's suburbs. trol, learning carefully at the beginning abilities. "You remember how she started Bernardine says, "I was restless, and until it becomes second nature. This con- working for Dr. Corey?" Bernardine asks. Chet knew it. Unless I have outside activi- trol has been important to Bernardine's It was right after Knap's illness and she ties to fit into my household schedule, it career, as well as to her personal happi- went to apologize because they didn't doesn't seem as though I can accomplish have ness. the money to pay his bill. a thing." Confident that, through work, she can "That's when Dr. Corey offered her the Her idleness was brief. Her friend, the accomplish anything she chooses, Bernar- receptionist's job, and although she wasn't late, great Walter Huston, then had a play dine is also free to acknowledge that all trained for office work, Knap believed she in Chicago and, when a role opened up, he human beings make mistakes. Instead of could learn. It was the same way offered it to her. Bernardine, certain she when criticizing errors of others, she endeavors ." Lona wanted to try painting. . . couldn't leave the house, regretfully re- to prevent her own. On set, she'll endlessly The interest in painting carried farther fused. Chet changed her mind. He said, rehearse even so familiar a thing as set- than Hawkins Falls. Stimulated the on- "I've never seen you on stage and I'd like by ting a table or peeling a potato. She set art classes, Bernardine went on to to." matches action to speech and knows ex- finish the portrait of the venerable Butler Applause from that successful run had actly what she will do at every word. Manville which she had started there. Her scarcely died out when a more critical Says Frank Dane, who plays Knap, own husband, on seeing it, said, "That's situation arose. Don Ameche who, during "She's a dream to work with because you pretty good. I'd like it if you'd do portraits campus days, had often played hero to know you can always depend on her." Says Ros Twohey (Millie Flagle), "Be- cause she's such a perfectionist, she sets STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP. MANAGEMENT. AND CIRCULATION REQUIRED BY THE AC'l OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24. 1912. AS AMENDED BY THE ACTS OF MARCH 3. 1933, AND the tone for the whole production. I just JULY 2. 1946 (Title 39. United States Code, Section 233) Of RADIO-TV MIRROR, published Monthly at hope I'll sometime be able to accomplish New York. N. Y.. for October 1. 1952. 1. The names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher: as many things as she can." Macfadden Publications, Inc.. 205 East 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. ; Editor-in-Chief. Fred R. Sammis. 205 leaves others open- East 42nd St.. New York 17. N. Y. ; Editor, Ann Daggett Higginbotham, 205 East 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. Bernardine's schedule Secretary-Treas.. Meyer Dworkin, 205 East 42nd St., New Y'ork 17, N. Y. mouthed with wonder. Without ever seem- 2. The owner is: (If owned by a corporation, its name and address must be stated and also immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 percent or more of total amount ing to hurry, she moves with incredible of stock. If not owned by a corporation, the names and addresses of the individual owners must be given. pace. In addition to home and studio duties, If owned by a partnership or other unincorporated firm, its name and address, as well as that of each

individual member, must be given.) Macfadden Publications, Inc., 205 East 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. : she takes vocal lessons, exercises at a

Abraham & Co., 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y. ; King & Co.. c/o City Bank Farmers Trust Co., 22 gymnasium, and still finds time for such William Street. New York 15. N. Y. : Henry Lieferant. The Ansonia Hotel. 2109 Broadway. New York 23, N. Y. (Mrs.) Elizabeth Machlin, c/o Art Color Printing Co., Dunellen. N. J.; (Mrs.) Margaret Machlin. Beaver Dam considerate feminine things as personally Rd., Stratford. Conn.; Irving S. Manheimer. 1841 Broadway. New Y'ork 23. N. Y'. ; (Mrs.) Ruth B. Man- Y. choosing exactly the right Christmas pres- heimer, Somerstown Rd.. Ossining. N. Y. ; O'Neill & Co.. P. O. Box 28. Wall St. Station, New Y'ork 5, N. Samuel Scheff. 1841 Broadway, 23, Scliultz. 205 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. New York N. Y. ; Joseph East ents for cast and crew. Arnold A. Schwartz, c/o A. A. Whitford. Inc.. 705 Park Ave.. Plainfield, N. J.; Charles H. Shattuck, Box 422, Pharr. Texas; Harold A. Wise. R.F.D. 1. Box 159. Onancock. Va. What's more, she thoroughly relishes it, 3. The known bondholders, mortgagees, other security holders owning or holding percent or more and 1_ therein, Bill Barrett believes, is found of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (If there are none, so state.) City Bank Farmers and \'. Tohnson. 115. Trust Co.. Trustee for Mary Macfadden. 22 William Street. New York 15. N. ; James John Box the final revelation of the secret of her Suring. Wisconsin; (Mrs.) Mary Macfadden. 406 E. Linden Ave.. Englewood, N. J.; Charles Mendel. 720 West (Mrs.) happiness—which could be the foundation End Ave.. New York 25. N. Y. ; O'Neill & Co.. P. O. Box 28, Wall Street Station. New York 5. N. Y. ; Braunda Macfadden St. Phillip. 400 Linden Ave.. Englewood. N. J.; Braunda Macfadden St. Phillip and L. for happiness for any woman. Arthur St. Phillip. Trustees for Braunda Macfadden St. Phillip. 400 Linden Ave., Englewood, N. J.; Arnold A. Schwartz, c/o A. A. Whitford. Inc., 705 Park Ave., Plainfield, N. J.; Charles H. Shattuck, Box 422, He says, "She has what everyone pos- Pharr, Texas. sesses but many of us have not yet dis- 4. Paragraphs 2 and 3 include, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom covered how to utilize. She's rich in that such trustee is acting; also the statements in the two paragraphs show the affia"nt's full knowledge and belief quality called courage, and as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon often-neglected the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of she also knows how to appreciate every bona fide owner. a of a goal rather .5. The average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails step toward attainment or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the 12 months preceding the date shown above was: (This than pinning all hopes on a single distant information is required from daily, weekly, semiweekly. and triweekly newspapers only.) (Signed) MEYER DWORKIN. Secretary-Treasurer objective. She's a fine ideal for anyone Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of September, 1952. _ follow in 1953, for I know (SEAL) TULLIO MUCELLI to choose to Notary Public, State of New York, that a woman could then serenely enjoy Qualified in Bronx County No.03-8045500. Actually, Certificates filed in Bronx and New York every moment of the new year. County Clerks and Registers Offices. if women could be like Bernardine, they (My commission expires March 30. 1954) would only be their own wonderful selves." 70 — . .

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IN a way, Dan and I actually saw Mrs. Irwin get- was Dan. She wanted him to head the new wing. ting the idea that was to cause so much trouble. The other was something Dr. Sanders couldn't seem At least Dan saw it, and told me when he came to find the exact words for. Not until the night home. She had been in his office for a routine check- of her dinner party did we come away with the up—she could afford to take excellent care of herself clear, definite knowledge that she wanted her —when she had accidentally learned about poor Mr. pavilion to be used exclusively for the benefit of Coley, who'd been such a problem to the hospital what she called "Stanton's old families." because he couldn't afford anything but a ward bed Dan had promised me he wouldn't lose his temper. and the wards were all filled up. She had been Mrs. Irwin was far too important in Stanton—and appalled. far too dignified an older woman—for him to "But Mr Coley—why, he's descended from one of turn on her as fiercely as I knew he'd want to. "The Stanton's most distinguished familes," she'd ex- thing is to try to make her see your point, don't claimed. "It's incredible there shouldn't be room for attack her for her own," I'd pleaded before we him in Stanton's hospital." started out, and Dan had reassured me that he had "Incredible but true," Dan had told her wryly. no intention of mounting a soapbox. It was hardly "This town's growing so fast, Mrs. Irwin, that I'm the kind of thing you'd bring to dinner at Mrs. afraid both the distinguished and the undistinguished Irwin's stately, white-columned mansion. are going to be waiting their turn if something isn't But it was awfully difficult not to get excited. She done about it." and Dan seemed to speak such different languages. "You're quite right; something should be done," She kept harping on the distress she'd felt at learn- she had replied thoughtfully. And, almost before ing that some of the descendants of the earliest

we knew it, something was being done. Something settlers . . . "People who fought Indians here, my so incredible that Dan couldn't believe it when the dear," she said to me. "People who ought to be the hospital's chief of staff, Dr. Sanders, gave him the very ones who benefit (Continued on page 74) news Mrs. Irwin was planning to give the hospital $250,000 to build an Irwin Memorial Pavilion in The Doctor's Wife is heard on NBC Radio, M-F, at 5:45 P.M. memory of her late husband. Her lawyers had EST, sponsored by Ex-Lax, Inc. Donald Curtis and Patricia already investigated, and laid the groundwork. She Wheel are pictured, at the right, in their original starring planned to make only two conditions. One of them roles as Dr. Dan Palmer and his devoted young wife, Julie.

Reople are so entwined," I told Dan. "Who can tell where their

72 effect on each other begins, where it ends?" Only time would give us the answer. . . .

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most from this community — because they ders can't stomach is the idea that I'm re- Mrs. Irwin. He simply wishes not to be gave the most to it fusing the offer because I don't approve associated with them. He feels a hospital "Howard Coley can't be put into that of the conditions. It's an implied criti- should be open to anyone and everyone class, Mrs. Irwin." Dan's voice was level, cism of him. He's so eager to get the who needs hospital care, that's all." That's but his mouth was firm in a way I recog- money he'd take it under any conditions." straight enough, I thought. Surely she nized. "He hasn't contributed to his own "Well, he's the hospital's administrator, must see the justice of it! I went on, em- support for some time." Dan. He's got to keep things rolling some- boldened. "Dan must act according to his "There are so many like him! I had no how. Dr. Sanders is a good salesman. He'll beliefs, too. He couldn't be the doctor he idea I it. until started looking into So find a way to slip one of the other doctors is if he didn't. And after all—it doesn't many farmers and artisans who bear names into the spot. He can talk anyone into matter who's head of the new pavilion, does that ought to entitle them to every con- anything. You told me that yourself." it? What's vital is that the hospital will sideration. And they can't even find room "He can't talk himself out of knowing have some of the new space and facilities for them in the hospital!" that fundamentally he really agrees with it needs so desperately. Stanton General's "We couldn't find room for Mrs. Wence- me. That's what gets me, Julie—he doesn't doctors are all very fine, Mrs. Irwin. Any ." slas when she broke her leg, either. What like it any more than I do, that even a one of them. . . I'm trying to say, Mrs. Irwin, is that a hos- small part of the Stanton Hospital should Silence came heavily over the wire. pital has no business with discrimination of be guilty of discriminatory practice. Why Heavily and all of a sudden ominously. any kind. Surely, that can't be argued." won't he come out and say so, stand on his Why didn't she speak? What was she I knew by Mrs. Irwin's slight frown that principles?" thinking? she had at last grasped Dan's criticism. "My Personally, at this point I didn't care "I've had great regard for Dr. Palmer's last wish is to argue, Dr. Palmer. All I what Dr. Sanders stood on as long as it ability." She sounded muffled, as though want is to use my money for a worthwhile wasn't Dan. Dan was working far too hard she'd turned from the phone, thinking. cause, and to add thirty -six beds to your these days to carry any extra worries. Mrs. "Only for that reason would I dream of hospital seems eminently worthwhile to Irwin would undoubtedly transfer her ail- asking you to talk to him. You seem to be ments to another doctor's care, but we'd a young person of unusual good sense. just have to put up with that loss. She Perhaps you can help him to—to recon- It was a merciful release when just then had been a valued patient and a pleasant sider his stand. It's rather unpleasant to a call came for Dan—a call which made it acquaintance, until now, and her gesture hold out a gift and have it thrust aside as possible for us to leave without going into toward Dan had been so very kind that I though it were unworthy." Her voice the next question. The question of how found it hard to be very angry in my sharpened again. She had made up her Dan felt about the honor Mrs. Irwin was thoughts about her. Oddly, it was Herbert mind about whatever it was. "Perhaps the bestowing on him in selecting him to head Irwin rather than his mother who stirred Stanton General Hospital can get along the new project. I don't think Dan could me to anger. He was young, after all. He quite well without an Irwin Memorial have answered her then. It was an honor, ought to be more in touch than his mother Pavilion. Goodbye,— my dear." for a doctor who'd only been settled in with the world as it was today. Why "Mrs. Irwin " But she was gone. I Stanton for two years. It would mean tre- couldn't he be some use to her, show her sat there for a moment, my heart beat- mendous things for his career, his repu- that her distinction between this kind of ing hard. Darn it, anyway, the whole thing. tation. person and that kind of person was as out- It wasn't over. Something was going to And yet the decision was inevitable. He of-date as the dodo? He was her only con- happen. I'm not given to premonitions, but came to it after calling on his patients that tact with real life. He was all she had to I had one then, shivering in the chill night. We were rolling to a stop in our love. I recalled her fond sigh over Her- that had suddenly invaded our gay little driveway. "It would have been great it bert's cars. "He goes much too fast in hall. It wasn't over by a long shot. But she'd just stopped at giving us the money," them," she'd confided. "But he gets such oh, dear, what was coming now? he said rather wistfully. "Or even if she'd pleasure out of it. I can't bear to say no picked on some other staff doctor to head when he falls in love with a new one. He Dan was pale and jumpy when he got ." the thing up. Then I could have kept my gets excited about so few things as it is . . home. Dr. Sanders had made another try mouth shut. As it is, I've got to turn it From what I had seen, he got excited at getting him to change his mind. He down, Julie. I can't stand by and see dis- about nothing but cars. Was he bored, smiled grimly when I told him of Mrs. crimination and intolerance and snob- lazy, spoiled—or just plain stupid? What- Irwin's call. bism— Of all places on earth where a hu- ever it was, there was no help to be looked "You'd think I mattered," he said wear- man being ought to be nothing but purely, for from Herbert. Or anybody else. There ily. "The two of them, working away with simply, a human being who needs care, a would be no changing of Mrs. Irwin's mind. their own particular axes. You should hospital is it!" The best thing we could do was remove have heard Sanders, Julie. He was mag- I said irrelevantly, "Maybe I can go to Dan from the situation and let her find nificent. All the subtle, artful arguments, work on her son. She doesn't seem to be somebody whose ideas jibed with her own. putting me in the wrong. What did it mat- able to deny him a thing." Dan may have suspected it wasn't going ter how the hospital got help as long as Dan laughed mirthlessly. "Herbert? to be that simple, but I certainly didn't. The it got it, as long as it meant thirty -six Don't waste your very considerable charm day he told me he was going to see Mrs. more patients could be taken care of? He on him, Julie. I don't think he'd notice." Irwin and decline her offer with thanks, I even said he had no doubt that in the long "No," I agreed. "I don't think he would. was in such a celebrating mood that I per- run it wouldn't matter what Mrs. Irwin All he talked about all night was his new suaded Betty to let me try my hand at a said about who could be sick in her beds Italian car. Do you know how fast it can chocolate cake, in spite of her familiar mut- and who wasn't good enough. Get the new go?" terings that there were those who could wing first, and, little by little, I'd see that "No, and I don't care." Dan snapped off cook and those who were best off not try- these things could be managed. Little by the car light and pulled out his keys. "All ing. We were in the middle of it when the little, there would be no difference between I care about is what I'm going to say to phone shrilled. the wing and the rest of the hospital." Sanders tomorrow to soften the blow. He's It was Mrs. Irwin. Hev chiseled tones "Then he really does agree with you." going to have a hard time figuring out couldn't be anything but gracious, but it "Sure he does. That's why he's work- which of the other men on the staff to sell was clear enough that something had ing on me, Julie, his conscience is prob- Mrs. Irwin, and he isn't going to like me for ruffled her. "Forgive me for disturbing ably working on him. If he were as callous it." you, my dear. I felt you were the person as he tries to sound he wouldn't spare me That turned out to be quite an under- to ask for clarifications. Your husband a minute. He'd write me off as an ideal- statement. Dr. Sanders at first refused to has been to see me." istic jackass, who hadn't grown up yet, and believe Dan was serious, and afterwards "Yes, I know." I took a firm grip on the sell Mrs. Irwin on one of the other staff turned literally purple when he couldn't phone and wondered frantically how much doctors."— get him to change his mind. or how little to say. "Dan " I went over and sat on the arm Finally Dan had called up support in the "And naturally you know what we dis- of his chair, so I could look down into his person of Dr. Edwards, his immediate su- cussed. I'm afraid I don't understand Dr. eyes. I put my hands on either side of his perior. He had taken the precaution of Palmer's position. Can you explain why face to hold it steady. "It doesn't make talking it over with Dr. Edwards, who was he should be concerned as to how I wish you change your mind, does it? Any of a good friend as well as a colleague, be- my money spent?" it?" fore he saw Dr. Sanders, and he knew that "I'm sure Dan did his best to explain, Dan pulled one of my hands down to his it. "Not a chance. The Dr. Edwards was completely on his side. Mrs. Irwin. He—is not in sympathy with lips and kissed "Sanders has so much regard for Ed- he doesn't feel " I was furious at the more worried he gets the more sure I am wards that I thought maybe he'd be con- way I was sputtering. How could I put it that what I'm doing is right. It would be right side, vinced by him, if not by me, that I meant without just telling her, straight out? such a smacking blow for the hospital what I was saying." Giving me his report "He suggests that I am a bigoted, intol- Julie, if Sanders persuaded the the money down because of „ of the interview at lunchtime, Dan was erant old woman. I'm afraid I find his board to turn too tense to eat. Betty, the "help," took attitude intolerant. Is it not intolerance what it stands for. If the whole hospital away his untouched salad and quietly sub- to deny another person the right to act went on record as taking a stand against stituted a glass of milk for his coffee, and according to her beliefs?" intolerance and snobbism even if it meant ." I sent her a grateful look. "What San- "Dan isn't trying to control your actions, losing a quarter of a million dollars. . . 74 " —— "

He sighed. "They won't, of course." hospital board meeting—a case for my dis- I had told Dan everything about Mrs. missal. And then I'm going to speak my Hrwin's call except the most important piece, believe me. For all he knows, half thing—the way it had made me feel. I the men on the board will agree with me. couldn't shake off the growing feeling of He'd give anything to avoid it. He prac- bad things ahead, but there was no sense tically pleaded for my resignation. Said adding to Dan's strain. Still, I had to do he'd recommend me to any hospital in something, and after a couple of days of the country, explain— it had nothing to do increasing uneasiness I did it. I went to with my work see Mrs. Irwin. "I should think so!" Frightened visions She was charming, polite, gracious—and tumbled about me. Dan's career toppling, frightening. For I knew after the first five his practice wrecked, all the devoted hard minutes that I was talking to a woman work of years shattered ... I took hold of who had made up her mind. Perhaps if myself. Dan wasn't scared. I wouldn't be! I hadn't come—perhaps if I hadn't tried again to explain why Dan couldn't accept We slept so little, and so fitfully, for the the honor she'd offered him—she might next couple of days that time seemed to have gone on discussing it with Dr. San- run together. There was a waiting feeling ders, might in the end have let herself be all through the house, a sense of something talked into choosing another doctor for the impending. One thing I do remember job. But no—now that I think of it—she sharply enough was Dr. Edwards' kindness, must have had her plans already made, for the trouble he took to come around and she told me her lawyer was already up in talk things over. I don't know that he Boston making the new arrangements she'd would have counseled Dan to act as he decided on. Stunned and unbelieving, I had, but the fact that Dan had done it was heard her say she was withdrawing her enough, and Dr. Ewards' support would be offer from the hospital. She was going to no small factor in the fight. He was im- give the money instead to a New England portant at Stanton General Hospital—per- genealogical society. haps only Dr. Sanders himself knew just I stared at her. "Mrs. Irwin, you can't how important. He told us merrily that be serious!" Sanders was almost beside himself be- Her eyebrows went up. "My dear child, cause it turned out nobody had told Mrs. PAIN why not? They were quite delighted, I as- Irwin about Dan! PERIODIC sure you. It's really a most worthwhile I jumped up impatiently. All talk of organization. So many people—really fine, Mrs. Irwin right now got under my skin. well-connected people, you know, even It was so maddeningly unfair that a woman though they may be farmers or workmen we hardly knew could be having such a *** have no means of ascertaining their family violent effect on our lives, perhaps a per- M\uo\ * *W but m 9 background except through this group." manently damaging one. I didn't want to "So many fine people here in Stanton will hate her— I knew that wasn't really justi- have to go on the hospital waiting list, fied. But if we kept talking about her this t e\«** to bri<* u „ because there aren't beds enough for them, way I wasn't going to have any choice. ~ f™ and put off the care that might save —them I brought out a pitcher of iced coffee and suffering, might even save their lives a complete change of conversation, and I Mrs. Irwin shrugged. "It's evident that was grateful when both men seemed to my whole contact with the hospital was ill- understand and follow my lead. cbases**;, advised. I meant well. I meant it for the That passed one night. Another day and UnON best. But in view of the reception—Mr. another night ... I was counting them off Forsythe will inform Dr. Sanders tomor- as the night set for the board meeting came row. I trust he won't be too upset." She nearer. I made myself stick to routine. The smiled and nodded toward an embroidered only giveaway that things weren't normal bell-pull beside my chair. "If you'll ring was the extreme irritation I had to fight that, my dear, Jasper will bring us some down whenever some small snag occurred tea. Or would you prefer coffee?" in the routine. I came home almost in tears I couldn't wait for Dan to get home so the day Mr. Pulaski's shop wa^ unaccount- I could tell him. I think we both knew ably closed and I had to go to the super- then that the thing we'd been calling a market three blocks further down for the "situation," and had been hoping would week's meat. be closed without any more trouble for Betty thought it was queer when I told anyone, was rapidly approaching a climax her. "He's got no family," she said. "Never far more shattering than we'd foreseen. goes anywhere. Say, could ho be sick?" It was coming fast, too. The next day "He could be. That stomach trouble he I was on my way out of the hairdresser's complained about got better after Dan told when Dan suddenly materialized before me what to tell him to eat— I opened the me on the street. At eleven in the morn- refrigerator door so that I could put it being! My heart tripped violently, and I tween Betty and me. I didn't want her almost threw myself at him. to see the nervous flush I could feel rush- "Dan! What's wrong?" ing over me. Anything was enough to un- "Let's get out and I'll tell you." He hur- nerve me these days. If only that meeting ried me across the sidewalk to his car. would come, and be over! "Everything's busted wide open, Julie, Mrs. The feeling passed, and a twinge of Irwin apparently meant what she told you. shame took its place. Couldn't I think of Sanders got the news this morning from anything but my own troubles? Suppose her lawyer, and he went right through the Mr. Pulaski was sick, alone up there in his roof. Asked me to resign." flat over the store. I tried to telephone him I turned cold all over. "Oh, Dan, no!" and when I didn't get any answer my "That's not the worst. I told him I vague oppression deepened. I was about wouldn't do it. I'm sick and tired of help- to try it again, just for luck, when the ing him sit on the fence. He wants me to phone rang under my hand. I snatched it resign so he can get the news to Mrs. up. Irwin that I'm out, and there are no longer "Julie?" It was Dan, speaking with just any critics at the hospital. Maybe he really that extra measure of quiet control that thinks she'll do an about-face and put up told me instantly something was up. the money again. I think he's crazy "Something rather grim has happened. Not she'll never change her mind." to me," he added, hearing my swift intake "Never mind her," I said impatiently. of breath. "Mr. Pulaski—the butcher— is "What about you? How can you not re- in the hospital. Had an accident. Pretty sign?" bad, but he'll be all right." Dan's jaw tightened. "It'll be a mess, "Oh, Dan. I was just wondering why his Julie, but I can't see doing it any other shop wasn't open." way. He suspended me, and he'll have to "It won't be for some time, I'm afraid. prepare a whole case to present at the next But that's not all of it. Julie, did Mrs. 75 —

Irwin tell you where she'd be staying in of the rest of the world, as the taxi crept "Then stop paying with money for what Boston?" through traffic toward the hospital. She he did. Unless you can pay him with love, "Tell me! Of course not. I could find out talked to me, asked about Dan. She even with understanding, you can't pay at all from Jasper, probably. Dan why?" recalled that the board meeting was to be and you'd better not try it." Dan had "Because I'm afraid Herbert Irwin wasn't held the next night. Dr. Sanders, she said, gone quietly out then and sent the nurse in as lucky as Mr. Pulaski. It looks as though had kept her well informed, though she with Herbert's medication. He was so Mrs. Irwin ought to be told to get back didn't understand why he bothered. shaken and startled at those words, those here as fast as she can. I've got to go Her poise was so perfect that when I thoughts, coming from Herbert Irwin that now. I'll tell you the details when I get took her hand in the hospital lobby I could he'd been afraid for a minute he was going home. See what you can find out, will feel it steadier than my own. She did look to cry himself. The tragedy of Herbert's you?" at me then, though. "Don't be upset for accident was suddenly intensified beyond He didn't hear me say, "I'll try," because me, my dear," she said. "I'm—quite old." bearing. It had been sad, because he was my throat was suddenly so dry. It took a Then her hand twisted suddenly in mine. so young—because it was so terrible. But lot of effort to sound natural when I talked "But Herbert was so young." A nurse for Herbert to find on the thin edge of the to Jasper. With a shaking pencil I noted came up and touched her arm, and I left end of his life that he might have lived a the hotel he named. What had happened? them. There was no more I could do for very different one, that he might have been The question hammered away at my skull anyone, no way I could change anything a really worthwhile, thinking, feeling per-

like a woodpecker. Mr. Pulaski and Her- that might happen. All I could do was go son . . . that was tragedy to twist even a

bert Irwin . . . what happened? home and pray for all of us . . . and wait. doctor's carefully protected emotions. Doc- Dan came in almost on the heels of my And try to be everything Dan needed, so tors see many births and deaths in the call, stopping on his way from the hospital that in some way I'd keep him strong when course of a lifetime, many wonderful, ter- to his office. There had been a big dance he so badly needed to be. rible things—but it isn't often even a doctor at the country club the night before. Maybe Everything I know about what happened sees the birth of a soul. that was why Herbert Irwin was driving at the hospital I got in brief snatches of Preoccupied with Herbert and his office along the highway somewhere around four talk with Dan, on the phone or when he practice, to say nothing of his other hos- in the morning—maybe he'd just taken came tiredly home to eat or sleep. It wasn't pital patients, Dan didn't have the time or his date home and was racing back to until everything was over, the next night, inclination to brood about the board meet- his own house. Had something gone that we sat down together long enough for ing that was now only hours away. He wrong with the beloved Italian car? Or him to tell me the whole thing. Even then, was too tired to think about fighting. Dr. had he closed his eyes for a second ''o^ed of course, there were important parts he Sanders intended to press for his dismissal off before he knew it—it only needed a didn't know because he'd spent most all on the grounds that he had been reckless, second to lose control, swerve, crash into his time with Herbert Irwin. irresponsible of the hospital's welfare, had a stone wall. And then with Herbert un- It must have been quite a shock for Mrs. shown poor judgment. In short, Dr. San- conscious, pinned behind the wheel, the Irwin to discover that Herbert had insisted ders was going to say, "Gentlemen, if Dr. car had burst into soaring, devouring that Dan take care of him. The poor fel- Daniel Palmer weren't such an idealistic, I flame. That they knew for certain, for low's conscious moments were few, but bull-headed, opinionated man, this hospital when Mr. Pulaski came along in his one- they'd been enough for him to find out that would now be drawing up plans for the half-ton panel truck on his way to the Dan was Mr. Pulaski's doctor. Herbert new wing we've all been crying for. I do wholesale meat market all he saw at first seemed to attach a mystical importance to not criticize him as a doctor; we all know was a mass of flame. It was a second or that. Mr. Pulaski had saved his life. He that his devotion and talent have added so before he even realized there was a car kept calling him his "brother," and Herbert greatly to the stature of our hospital. I in the center of the horror, and a man in seemed to want to get as close to the say that in view of the difficult situation the car. He'd rushed in, thoughtless of butcher, spiritually and emotionally, as he his stubbornness has created, he would be anything except that he must do some- could in the time that was left to him. For a more useful doctor in some other insti- thing, something. Nobody could imagine Herbert knew that he was dying. "It was tution than ours." how he'd twisted and heaved that charred a strange thing to watch," Dan told me figure out of the flames. Or how, burnt thoughtfully. "Almost as if the fire had All Dan wanted was a few minutes be- as he himself was, he'd managed to speed burned away a useless shell and suddenly fore the board, to clarify his position. He to the hospital, and stay conscious long freed the real person in Herbert. The way just wanted to explain, and get out. But enough to make them understand there was he lashed out at his mother when she the evening of the board meeting he saw somebody out in his car. started giving orders to have Pulaski that he might not even be able to do that, moved!" and he didn't even care much. For Herbert Somebody Nobody knew who. There Mrs. Irwin had been grateful to Mr. Pu- Irwin was sinking. Dan judged he mi^ht was only just life in him, but no identifying laski, of course. She had stood by his bed not last through the night. And he couldn't mark of any kind remained. They did what and told him, with the closest approach to seem to bear having Dan out of his hear- they could, even as they did for Mr. Pu- tears anyone had ever seen in her, that ing. He wasn't conscious much, and some- laski, and put them both in the same room. there were no words she knew to convey times he wandered. At one point Dan When Mr. Pulaski regained consciousness her gratitude. "I owe you the life of my thought he heard him say, "I wonder if he told the nurse Dan was his doctor, and only child," she told him. "If you were it's an illusion. Maybe at the end everyone that was how Dan came into it. He'd a mother you would understand that there thinks he might have been something dif- taken charge of Mr. Pulaski, and at the are no words, nothing I can do or say, that ferent. Stay around, Dr. Palmer. You butcher's pleading he'd agreed to have a would begin to thank you enough. You're help." look at the motionless, nightmare figure a fine man, Mr. Pulaski, a good and won- Dan bent to him. "I'll stay, Herbert. that lay so quietly on the other bed. He'd derful man. You risked your own life, I As long as you want me." had to lift swathing bandages to see the understand. One thing I can and will do In the corner, Mrs. Irwin stirred in her face. Only then had Dan recognized Her- is to see that you have every comfort." chair. When Dan left the bedside, she mur- bert Irwin. Blinded and maimed and so And she started giving orders about a mured, "The board meets tonight, Dr. Pal- terribly destroyed that recovering would private room for Mr. Pulaski, day and night mer, does it not? I imagine you'll want to be no mercy for him. nurses, a fund to make up what he'd lose be there." You couldn't even cry or be torn with while his business was closed. She was "It's not that important. If Herbert wants pity. It was too dreadful for that. All you dumfounded when Herbert refused to let me here, that's that." could do was any small thing that might Mr. Pulaski be moved. She gave him a strangely piercing look. be of some use. We never even thought it Mr. Pulaski didn't want to go, either. He "Of course," she said. "It would be chat was odd that we, of all people, should be had tried in his quiet, deprecating way, to way, with you. " They had spoken little calling Mrs. Irwin. This was the quickest say that she needed to do nothing for him, after that, and Herbert's fitful mutterings way, that was all, and better than having but she had simply disregarded that and had been the only sound for a while. her learn of the tragedy from a servant. gone ahead. It was Herbert who got At about nine a nurse motioned Dan into She was amazing. I can't remember what through to her. "Can't you understand the corridor. Dr. Edwards was out there, was said, exactly, or what words I used. anything, anything about people?" He worried. "Dan—the meeting's held up But I do remember, very well, the hard hadn't had the strength to shout, but Dan waiting for you. When can you get loose control that came down over her like an said you could feel him wanting to. "Hu- here?" iron mold, shaping her actions, steadying man beings, Mother, with feelings and "I can't at all. Irwin wants me with him. her words. I remember that when her hearts. I want him here, beside me. He's He's going, and he knows it. They can get plane got in she didn't seem surprised that my brother. There's nobody closer than a along without me better than this kid can." I had come to meet her, to go with her to man who's done what he did for me, with- Dr. Edwards hesitated, searching Dan's the hospital. out knowing or caring who I was, only that pale, drawn face. "Sanders will make capi- It was almost frightening, the way she another human being was in trouble and tal of it. He'll hint you're afraid to defend R didn't break down. I would have been needed help." yourself." It must have carried so M terrified if she had, but at least it would "Darling, don't waste your strength." Mrs. Dan smiled. have seemed normal. She was like a stone Irwin held the bandaged hand lightly in much meaning—so much scorn of what Dr. figure, but her mind wasn't frozen. With both of hers. "I'll do anything you say, Sanders or anyone could do to influence going „o at least one small part of it she was aware anything." him in the face of what was on in the " " —

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Laughter in Rosemary's Heaven

(Continued from page 58) cup it would slowly slide toward the edge mary took her to her first movie several just as promptly named him "Easter." of the saucer. He thought maybe they years ago. The Shidlers' (and Easter's) home is a were haunted. I can see it would be rather Nana at a tender age was familiar with big hilltop house overlooking a sweeping disconcerting to reach for a slowly sliding the workings and jargon of radio, but she ocean view at Redondo Beach. A colorful cup of coffee, especially if it's the first had never seen a movie. Not even one with winding street leads to the top of the hill. cup in the morning. her mother. So Rosemary took her to a The impressive two-story Spanish house "In the baking and firing, the dishes picture, timing their entrance into the immediately commands attention and be- shrank to odd sizes and shapes," she ex- theatre with the beginning of the feature. yond it lies the beautiful blue Pacific, plains, "so that not all of them came out When the feature began over again, Nana stretching for miles like a great smooth perfectly. John's cups were bigger and of turned to her mother and asked, "Are bowl. course suffered more. I must admit some they getting ready to transcribe it now?" But it isn't the big, solid, comfortable of them were warped a bit! John said the Marcie, the five-year-old, whom Rose- house, sitting among newer houses of all cups looked drunk, even if they weren't mary dubbed "old prune eyes," has one shapes and sizes, that sets this family haunted—and, at any rate, they weren't peculiar trait. She adores money! "Which apart. It's the family itself. the sort of thing into which you put a we can't understand," marvels Rosemary, Perhaps it begins with Rosemary, who man's morning coffee." "because she's never been deprived of leads a dual—if not triple—life. Once a It's easy to see that Rosemary and John anything. Yet she hoards money in her week she travels to nearby Hollywood, were meant for each other. John is just fat piggy bank. We're not sure where this where she enacts her radio role for Dr. as vitally interested in as many things as thrift will lead, but it's obvious she'll be Christian. At other times, the neighbors Rosemary. Two careers in one family in the banker of the family, from whom we aren't at all startled to see her auto head- this case blend and complement one an- might have to make a touch!" ing out of the family driveway as early other. As Rosemary, the actress's husband, Four-year-old Pallie is an avid dev- as five a.m. She's on her way to a motion John is understanding and a part of all otee of television. Not content just to picture studio where she takes part in three she undertakes. watch, Pallie plans to be a TV entertain- or four movies a year. Rosemary, on the other hand, is equally er. Rosemary's delighted, for one reason. But the rest of the time, on all those at home as a judge's wife. She enjoys en- "It helps me to help her to reduce." Pal- days in between acting, Rosemary is Mrs. tertaining political groups and even has lie is inclined to be a little chubby and, John Shidler, wife of the judge from Tor- made speeches on her husband's behalf because she wants to dance on video, her rence, a neighboring community of Re- during compaigns. "But being the mother mother assures her she's much too stout dondo, and mother to four healthy daugh- of four young children puts a limit on now to do so. "Now Pallie thinks twice ters. No small job in itself. this," she laughs. before she stuffs that second cookie down "I don't have a schedule," confesses The four children are individuals, them- her throat." Rosemary, "it's just luck that gets things selves. "Characters, we think," adds Rose- The family has many pleasures they done. I'm a very disorganized person, but mary. "Even the youngest, born just March share together, but none more eagerly twenty-first, my husband is wonderfully sane and well- already has a personality." awaited than their annual fishing trip to There's balanced. And my children all pitch in Margaret, called Nana, who is the mountains. Rosemary and John rent a and help run the house. Even if, when I nine. Martha, who is known as Marcie, cabin at the city recreational camp grounds fall age five half. Valerie do get home, they immediately upon and a Dorothy, an- and the whole gang settles down to the the is the couch and look completely helpless." swering to nickname of Pallie, who serious business of fishing. "We go where In spite of Rosemary is a four and a half. Finally, Nita Louise, her modesty, who's the water is so filled with fish you just in been tagged sisters. strong guiding force the household. "Lou Cheese" by her can't help but catch one," she smiles. "We "They're Everybody adores her, from the nurse very average," Rosemary even expect that Lou Cheese will have a and housekeeper to the family pet, Easter. chuckles. "They love to fight!" pole in her hand by next summer." Rosemary's always been a person of The two older girls go to a nearby pub- During their eleven years of marriage, divergent interests. She likes to try every- lic school of whose school board their Rosemary and John have never stopped thing and, with her easy, charming man- father is president. "This has absolutely having laughs. "We even got together be- ner, she's a success—after a fashion. Just no influence on their behavior," says cause of a laugh." says Rosemary. "We last January she took up ceramics at night Rosemary, "there are still times when they had known each other in our college days, school to while away the hours during are demons!" but drifted apart after we left school. Then pregnancy. She turned out a complete set Rosemary believes in free expression one spring the robins took to nesting in of dishes for four, plus individual pieces up to a point—for her children, and en- my family's rooftop and the newspaper for the girls. "But John would greet each courages their taking part in whatever ran a picture of us captioned, 'Strictly new effort with a raised eyebrow and ask interests them. Nana, at nine, is a whale of for the Birds.' John saw it and thought me when was I going to bring home a bridge player and plans to enter tourna- it so funny that he called up." something we could really eat out of!" ments. Nana is also interested in politics she laughs. and can tell you about her father's cam- After a year's courtship they were mar- "The dishes for the girls came out all paign platform as well as his opponents'. ried. During the war years, when John right. But poor John would sit down to Her analytical mind has never failed to was in service, Rosemary and Nana—their a cup of coffee and as he reached for the amaze the family. Not even when Rose- only child then—lived in Beverly Hills. But, with John's discharge, the trio wanted to move to the beach where John was a judge.

"We bought the house, in spite of its huge size, in fifteen minutes. Now, with four daughters, we're awfully glad we did." Rosemary doesn't mind being kidded by —So writes a regular listener of "MY TRUE STORY" her friends about having four daughters! "It's very practical," she explains, "after Radio Program. "No cliff-hanging melodrama; but all, they can bunk in with one another real-life more than 'thril- stories of people. They're and share clothes." ing'; they're stimulating because they are sincere." Rosemary's and John's sense of humor I Listen to radio's greatest morning show adapted is made obvious in the big, department- from the pages of True Story Magazine, and you'll store-sized clock they have on their bedroom wall. "Because we are two near- see for yourself why so many women hear it every sighted people, we bought the clock with I morning, Monday thru Friday. the idea in mind of having it right over I the bed. Mighty handy at night for feed- TUNE IN ings, you know, because we attached a cord to light up the clock's face by merely pressing a hand switch." "MY TRUE STORY" As their family grows, so does their and understanding, their AMERICAN BROADCASTING STATIONS resourcefulness love of life and of each other. Easter sensed it, in his lost-puppy way, and knew Be sure to read "Your Sex Life—Is It Normal?"—frank truths warmth and cordiality when he found it. about the average woman—in January TRUE STORY now on sale! There's always laughter in Rosemary's heaven. 78 — The Courage Beyond Belief

(Continued from page 46) be instrumental in my being married again. ajftiw* bedroom. I ran upstairs. There she was, The day after a Columbia newspaper re- clubbing one of her dolls against the wall ported Jane's good fortune, my telephone and repeating the tragic line from the rang constantly with congratulations from opera. our friends and one near-stranger. "Death let me in," her little voice raged "I want to tell you that the city is very in imitation of the great singer. proud of your daughter," a man said. During Jane's early years, I began to "Who is this?" I asked. teach her to play the piano. There were "This is Mayor Hetzler." other lessons to be taught, lessons in living. I thanked the Mayor for calling and for- Jane was growing into a beautiful girl. got about it, but he didn't. The next day She toe-danced gracefully and loved sports he sent flowers for me and Jane. He but, like most children, she didn't like to phoned several times again and it didn't practice her music lessons. As soon as she take long to realize that, while he admired could toddle, Jane had more beaux than I Jane, his real interest was in me. could count, and little wonder. She was so "Mother eloped on me," Jane still tells pretty and full of fun. Jane loved to dance her friends, because the Mayor and I were and swim and I encouraged her to go to married while she was in her first year at parties from the time she was ten. the Conservatory. Although we were miles When we went to Christian College, apart, Jane and I were always in touch. where I was to be on the faculty, Jane was In the spring of her first year, I journeyed twelve years old. I had been giving her to Cincinnati to hear her sing the lovely occasional guidance with her voice, and, aria from "The Queen of Sheba" at com- by accident, she was about to make her mencement exercises. She was the only Hollywood Stars first professional appearance as a singer. one outside the graduating class invited to It happened this way. Besides teaching at sing. the college, I sang in church choirs of At the same time, she worked for Radio many faiths. A choir leader called me on Station WLW. It was the beginning of a a Sunday morning to say that one of the radio career which was to make her in Pin-Up Poses sopranos was ill, and asked if I could famous. bring along someone to fill in temporarily. "Working for peanuts" is a joke I've [NEW EDITION] I took Jane. It was the first time she had heard people make about a job which sung in public, and she was uneasy and doesn't pay well, but that's exactly what It's new! . . . It's glamorous! . . . It's anxious to do well. After the services, her first program was. Jane earned ten she watched as the choirmaster approached dollars for a broadcast sponsored by a terrific! . . . It's the second big colorful us. He practically ignored her as he spoke maker of toasted peanuts. In a short time, album of Hollywood stars in captivat- to me, but what he said was: she had twenty -two commercial programs ing poses, prepared by the editors of "Mrs. Froman, I intend to let the other a week and—even at ten dollars a broad- Photoplay Magazine. Here in brilliant soprano go and use your daughter per- cast—that was a lot of money for a girl full -color pictures are your favorite going to school. manently." Hollywood stars. Each picture is a gem I It was at that she her big didn't like the idea of Jane's getting WLW got —each picture can be cut out for fram- the work because of the other woman's opportunity, shortly after being graduated ing or pinning up without interfering misfortune, and I told him so. from the Conservatory. Her one a.m. with any other picture in the book. "Someone else will get Jane if I don't," broadcast was piped into New York. There he insisted. "You can't hide your daughter's Paul Whiteman heard her and wired, ask- Only Photoplay Magazine could bring voice." ing if she would meet him in Chicago for this prize collection of colorful That was the beginning of Jane's career an audition. you and, no matter what other interests she When Jane phoned me about this big pictures—printed on heavy paper—at had, people always called on her to sing. chance, her voice was filled with excite- the low, low price of only 35^. You'll She completed her secondary schooling on ment. I was sorry that I couldn't join her be the envy of your friends with this the Christian College campus while I was on the trip to Chicago, especially in view of glamorous Pinup Book. Get your copy teaching there. Having me around didn't what actually happened. Jane was hardly at your newsstand now. interfere with her fun. Jane's grades were off the train in Chicago when she fell and never better than average, but I didn't broke her ankle! This happened fifteen complain so long as she enjoyed herself. minutes before her appointment with Paul The only run-in she had there seems Whiteman. • Marilyn Monroe • Marie Wilson very amusing in retrospect. Christian Col- How she did it, I don't know, but Jane • Esther Williams • Vera-Ellen lege forbade smoking. So when I found hobbled to a cab and arrived at the studio • Rita Hayworth • Jane Russell Jane with a cigarette, I was profoundly in time to make her date. Mr. Whiteman, shocked. noticing her dead-white face, must have • Betty Grable • Samia Gamal "You'll have to report yourself to the thought she was merely frightened. student council," I told her. "How many songs shall I sing?" Jane s4(td a foot o£ ot£&t feewtieA "But, Mother, I had only two puffs," she asked. said. "Just keep going till I tell you to stop," Only 35c We talked further about it, though, and he said. the upshot was that very unhappily Jane began to sing in spite of the — —she pain If Photoplay Pinups are sold out at your reported herself. shooting through her leg. She was even more upset She got through newsstands, you may still obtain copies with their decision. twelve songs before she lost consciousness of this fascinating book by mailing the "It's lucky I didn't take three puffs," she and collapsed. When she came to, she found attached coupon at once. Hurry! Don't said woefully. "I've been restricted to the Paul Whiteman more concerned with get- miss this gorgeous array of female pul- campus for two months." ting a doctor than with criticizing her chritude. Mail coupon, with remittance When Jane was graduated, she stayed in voice. Later, he told Jane that he'd liked today. Columbia to study journalism at the Uni- what he heard and offered her a contract. versity of Missouri. She had no concrete That was how Jane got her first network idea of making music her career, but it's show; her successes since then are public PHOTOPLAY. Dept. WG-153 doubtful that she could avoid it. As a child, knowledge. She has been starred in four 205 E. 42 St., New York 1 7. N. Y. as a girl in her teens, and as a student at Broadway musicals, heard on her own Send me, postpaid, PHOTOPLAY PINUPS the University, her teachers and compan- radio programs, in night clubs, concerts No. 2 as checked below: ions and choral groups always invited her and operettas. And now, of course, she's 1 copy I enclose 35c to sing. So it was that she starred in her starring in U.S.A. Canteen, CBS-TV's big ( ) —

Senior Class operetta, and the Cincinnati Saturday-night show. ( ) 3 copies— I enclose $1.00 Conservatory awarded her a two-year Although I was making a home for a scholarship to study voice. She was very husband then, Jane and I saw much of Name excited. From her reaction, I knew that each other. I visited her in New York or music was her real choice and that she Chicago or Hollywood. Jane often got home Address had been 'merely filling in her education as to Columbia. Then I had her favorite dishes she studied journalism. However, neither ready—chicken and dumplings, or country City State of us anticipated that the scholarship would ham and potato salad. Whenever we got together, we continued our lifelong prac- But it was no joke. She had lost forty- she had done was in the letters that ar- tice of trading clothes. Since Jane has been two pounds in eight weeks. The one leg rived for months after her return. Her a grown girl, we've worn the same size was in fearful shape. She told me then courage had helped all who had seen and shoes, dress, coat and hat. that, after being rescued, she had been on heard her. Jane likes to tell the history of one dress the operating table for three hours without The year of 1947 saw Jane at the most in particular. She had stopped off in ether or novocain. She was afraid that, if critical point in her life. She had endured Columbia and, as usual, was going through she lost consciousness, the Portuguese doc- twenty operations on her leg, yet most of my closet. tors would amputate the bad leg. the doctors were doubtful that she would "Mind if I take this blue dress, Mother?" "I'm going to keep both my legs," she ever be able to use it again. They still It was a dress I'd never been sure I liked. said determinedly. "No matter how hard it recommended an amputation. That year "Of course," I told her. "You take it." is." Jane met one surgeon who did not say About a year later, when visiting Jane, I And it was very hard and very painful. "amputate." looked at her clothes and then saw a dress Through the next five years and twenty So she went into the hospital for the last that appealed to me. operations, Jane was never assured that operation. If this were not successful, she "Could you give this up?" I asked. the chances of saving her leg were good. knew her six years of patience and grueling She glanced at the dress, and nodded. Until the fall of that first year, I com- pain would be for nothing. As she went into I I didn't think any more of it, except that muted between Columbia and New York the operating room, realized how I was charmed by the dress. When I got to see Jane and to care for my husband. important it is that a sick person must home, I found a letter from Jane to dis- But when the Mayor died in October, I never give up hope, even though doctor cover she had been laughing at me all the spent all my time with her. For Jane, the after doctor offers no encouragement. time. The dress I'd taken was the same long days in bed were tedious because she "I think it was satisfactory," the doctor one I'd given Jane a year before! had always been a gregarious person. To- said afterwards, but added cautiously that It makes me happy that Jane seems as gether we talked and occasionally played they wouldn't know for five months, when proud of me as I am of her. She's always cards. Friends visited, but she got much the cast would be removed. maintained that my voice would be a per- of her pleasure in reading letters from So through the hot summer Jane lay ab- fect substitute for hers. Once, while I was fans. And—although she was in the hos- solutely still in St. Luke's Hospital, allowing visiting New York, she tried to prove it. pital for two and a half years—eight for the slow healing and knitting of I sat in the studio while she rehearsed a months after the accident she went back bones. It was during this most anxious show. Suddenly she gestured for me to to work. period that John Curtis Burn turned up. join her at the microphone. She was carried from the hospital bed He was the pilot who had saved Jane after "You know this piece, Mother," she said. to the studio or theatre where she was the crash. "Sing it while I go out for some water." working. For the Broadway musical, "Ar- He arrived at the hospital on a hot day. Jane told me the rest of the story. While tists and Models," stagehands carried her When the nurse announced there was a I sang, she walked back to the control on and off stage twenty-two times at each visitor, Jane was feeling very tired. room where the producer and his assis- performance. But she had to work. Good "I don't believe I can see anyone today," tants were chatting. As she opened the doctors, hospitals and nurses were ex- she said. door, the men were stunned. They heard pensive. She had received nothing from The nurse showed Jane his card and the orchestra and what they thought was the airline company. Jane changed her mind. Jane's voice—but there she stood, quietly Two years later, still on crutches, with They were almost strangers as they con- smiling at them. Their mouths hung open several more operations to undergo, she fronted each other. But from the beginning for a moment. made a decision that again demonstrated I could feel an intimacy between them. It "That's my mom," Jane said. her courage. was difficult to classify, for it was the That was typical of her, always full of a She suddenly announced, "Mother, I'm curious bond of a man and woman who mild kind of fun that never hurt anyone. going overseas again for the USO." had almost died together. Her charm and infectious smile always It seemed unnecessary, when there were John was still flying commercial planes, made many friends. During the war, sol- other entertainers available, in better but through June, July and August he diers loved Jane. But it was on a trip for physical condition. I asked why. came to the hospital every day he was in the USO that she met with that tragic "I'll sing in the military hospitals," she New York. It didn't take me long to realize accident, the accident which was to affect explained. "It'll be better for the injured they were falling in love. I heard it in her life profoundly. soldiers than speeches on fortitude and pa- their voices and saw it in their eyes. tience. I was in Columbia at the time. I knew When they see that a girl has He was by her side in late August, when Jane was going into the European war front been able to make up for a crippled leg, it they removed the cast and X-rayed. I to entertain our soldiers. Like any mother will give them hope." think everyone's eyes filled with tears with a child going overseas, I was terribly I went back to Columbia and my teach- when the doctor finally knew the result. worried. And I was under another strain. ing at Stephens College. Jane flew over- "Jane, you're going to be all right," he seas. traveled said quietly. My husband was very ill. She thirty thousand miles and gave ninety-five It was on February 22, 1943, that the shows in France, We were speechless with our joy. The Germany, England, Luxembourg, shock of her accident came to me. I read Austria six months of tense expectancy suddenlv in the morning paper that her plane had and Czechoslovakia. The proof of the good evaporated. It was the end of a horrible crashed at Lisbon. That was all I heard, episode for Jane. Another year of crutches and I didn't know whether or not she was and braces, then she would be able to use still alive. Until late afternoon, I sat in a her leg. £ daze, numb with fear. Then a wire ar- MOVING? And it was the beginning of a new li e. rived from the then Secretary of State, She and John soon announced they would Cordell Hull, and for the first time I be married the following March. was For prompt change of address, conscious of breathing. The telegram said I was very happy for her, because I think please notify us six weeks before- briefly that Jane was injured but would John is marvelous. He is sweet, gentle hand otherwise, live. ; some issues may and strong. miss you. Also, some back copies Before Jane got back to the States, the In the spring, I joined Jane at her Coral other details of the accident were filled in may not be available. Gables home for the wedding. An organ by the papers and friends in Lisbon. The Write to MACFADDEN PUBLI- was installed and I played as she walked Clipper was approaching Portugal in a bad down the aisle. She was a beautiful bride, CATIONS, INC., 205 E. 42ND ST., storm when it smashed into the river. even on crutches. It was wonderful seeing NEW YORK 17, N. Y. Twenty-six passengers were killed. Fif- the happiness that shone from her eyes. teen survived, Jane among them. Her body Send both old and new address, Especially wonderful because I knew that was badly mangled and one leg had been and if possible, enclose mailing la- Jane had earned everything she had. crushed. In the darkness of night, rain bel from a recent copy of your It was like this: In the beginning and and wind, another survivor, co-pilot John Radio-TV Mirror Magazine. early years, success had come easily to her. Burn, swam to her rescue and supported Her natural talent and beauty had taken her in the water for an hour. Later she It's possible to have your mailing her farther than most singers who had was to learn how heroic his act had been, address corrected by filing your put as much, if not more, time into train- for his back was broken in two places and new address with the Post Office; ing and schooling. But, when fate had his skull fractured. they will notify us. However, if de- made her suffer and fight to overcome a Two months later she was returned to layed and we dispatch current great handicap, she had come through with the States and I saw her for the first time magazine before that notice reaches valor. It showed that, beneath her seem- in the Doctors Hospital in York. I ingly effortless advance, she had always New us, it means added expense to you wasn't prepared to see her looking so bad. had a strong core of courage. In overcom- R because the Post Office will not for- She seemed almost emaciated, her face ing pain and doubt, she proved herself ward copies unless you pay extra drawn and pale. Characteristically, she worthy of every success she achieved. postage. smiled at me. That's why I'm proud to be the mother of "Better than going on a diet," she joked. Jane Froman. 80 Kate Smith— Star in His Hands

(Continued from page 23) and it long since healed. mistaken. First, they couldn't sing like "When one of the musicians got sick

Kate. She is an artist in her field. recently, Kate took over . . . worried hollywood "Second, they judged Kate by the scales, whether he had the right doctor, the right rather than by her figure and the way care, everything he needed to get well. she moves. Her bones are big, her shoul- If someone in the crew becomes a father, ders are heavy, but her hips are slim . . . Kate can hardly wait to mention it on the and she doesn't carry herself like a stout program. Some listener always sends a WHISPERING! girl or act like one. She doesn't think like little present . . . and she knows the one, either. Her height may top five feet, parents will glow with pleasure at a pair ten inches, and her weight run close to of booties specially knitted for their child, The inside, the inti- 235 pounds . . . but her size has never or some other small gift which was un- interfered with her work, her good humor, expected. It is Kate herself who puts mate, the truth about or her happiness. She just doesn't let it everything on a personal basis by her in- Hollywood whisper- count as anything but an asset. terest in everyone and everything around "Third, to succeed as Kate Smith has, her." ings are in these women would have to have her This personal interest almost makes her vitality. Kate can scrub a floor until it forget she's a performer when it comes to gleams, faster than most men could. . . . the part of her TV program called Kate's The funny part of this is that she's apt General Store. Kate asks her questions of to do it, too . . . half an hour before she's contestants as if she were conducting an due at rehearsals, if it needs it . . . al- informal conversation with one of the though normally she reserves such house- neighbors she ran into at the corner drug- keeping activities for her Lake Placid store or the beauty parlor. If something house during summer vacations. I think strikes her funny in the conversation, she that women see in her the homemaker is apt to laugh so heartily that she all but she really is, the woman who may at ten breaks up . . . and makes her guests do o'clock at night decide a refrigerator shelf likewise ... as if she were completely needs rearranging or a closet needs clean- unaware that they are all under the scru- ing. She represents the tireless home- tiny of thousands of eyes every minute. keeper, the woman who loves order and "A lot of Kate Smith's charm lies in her cleanliness, as well as the artist who works infectious laughter," one of her co-workers for perfection in her performances. Such says. "We feel it flowing from her to us combinations are rare." and to the audience. Her sense of fun is Kate Smith would have a hard time contagious because it is so natural, so un- changing herself now, even if she wanted forced. You never think of it as part of to. She has to stay the way she is. If any- her act, because it isn't." one thought it would be a shock to her In spite of the fact that Kate is inter- admirers to see her on television, her mail ested in people of all kinds, she has never after the first broadcast two years ago had the reputation for being easy to know completely belied it. So much had been . . . because she insists on a private life said about her size that viewers were sur- that remains just that. Most people know prised to see how trim she was, how that she and her mother live together in gracefully and lightly she moved about, a New York City apartment ... a Park how little conscious they were of her Avenue penthouse which is not as swank Writers who know the weight after the first few moments of as that sounds . . . because it is small and facts tell PHOTOPLAY watching. If Kate herself had had any homelike, even though filled with some of moments of doubt (and both she and Ted Kate's loveliest antique pieces. They know readers about did, naturally enough), they were now she has a delightful summer home at Lake proved unnecessary. Placid. They probably know, too, that she • MARILYN MONROE Many had failed to realize how pretty doesn't care about night clubs . . . doesn't she is, how her light brown hair ripples make "entrances" at first nights of plays • AVA AND FRANKIE around her face, how expressively she and pictures, has never had a personal uses her hands, how feminine she is in press agent. • ESTHER WILLIAMS her dress. (She has very definite ideas Yet when she walks Freckles, her about how big women should dress . . . cocker spaniel, every other dog-lover in • THE DEAN MARTINS doesn't think they have to wear black and the neighborhood becomes her friend. One navy all the time, by any means, chooses poodle "writes" to Freckles during the • THE JEFF CHANDLERS many of the jewel tones herself—wines, summer on poodle-monogrammed station- strong blues, deep greens . . . doesn't ery . . . with reports on what's happening TYRONE POWER think they have to wear untrimmed things on the local scene. • if trimmings are well chosen . . . doesn't At Lake Placid, Kate "goes native" two • ROBERTO ROSSELLINI like to see too much fussy stuff or too hours after she arrives. That means getting much jewelry . . . has some lovely pieces into a housedress, not worrying whether herself, but never uses too much at a the curl is in her hair, being up to her time.) elbows in cooking something special, get- There's reading and pic- Kate couldn't cut her hair too short, even ting ready to put up preserves, working if she were tempted to, because her in the garden, going over the linens . . . torial excitement galore, audience doesn't expect anything so dif- everything she has been longing to get at. ferent from her. Letters and telephone There she swims . . . drives a speedboat stunning and practical calls would pour in, protesting. Such pop- like a streak . . . runs her car from place ularity is limiting, as well as gratifying to place looking for the special antique . . . but it proves a personal interest in pieces she collects—glassware, certain fashion tips, beauty sugges- the real Kate Smith, just as she is. china, rare furniture pieces . . . plays golf,

It is hard to be completely impersonal and canasta in the evenings . . . goes to the tions in . . . about Kate . . . especially if you know her local movie . . . rests her voice (her own well or work with her. "Her theme song idea of a precautionary measure, although ought to be 'You Belong to Me,' " Ted her vocal cords appear to be tireless). JANUARY Collins says. "She takes on everybody's She comes back to New York and tele- problems. If a stagehand has a cold, and vision to start a new season each fall, begins to cough and sputter, she will stop aware that she remains the top money- rehearsing and run up the stairs to her maker of all the female singers after dressing room to get her favorite cold twenty-two years, aware that she has PHOTOPLAY. remedy . . . and stand over him while he never had an off-season when she didn't takes it. On the way down, she will scold work—-or an unsponsored program—grate- Get It At Your Newsstand m one of the NBC press staff for racing up ful for this success, for the gift of her the same stairs she just did, even though voice, and for the vitality that has al- Now it's months since he had an appendectomy lowed her to do so many things so well. 81 — —

Her Guiding Light

(Continued from page 34) It was fun to be a part, even an assistant question: 'What experience have you had?' as when she says, "I don't care about pos- part, of telling people about Elizabeth I'd answered that one many times before sessions too much. Never think of run- Taylor, Jane Powell, Gene Kelly, Clark with the honest, one-syllable word, 'None.' ning around, buying those bits of glass! Gable and all the glamorous others. And 'Nothing right now, I'm sorry,' was This comes from my feeling about pos- But, whether I liked it or not, I needed the answer I got in return. So, this time, sessions, from losing everything, so that a job, I had to work. By this time, I had what with the passing months eating away I think now—collecting? For what?" caught on to the fact that there is no at my savings, I told a real whopper: Susan's name, her real name, is Zuzka National Theatre in America, where you 'Well, I worked for two years in Scranton, Zenta. She stands a doll-sized five feet can go and work for the rest of your life, Pennsylvania,' I said. (Why Scranton, I and three-quarters of an inch in her ny- but that it is a matter of a job here, a job will never know— I had never, so help me, lons. She weighs ninety-nine pounds. there, for the one who has the time to seek heard anything about the place!) "But my weight should be ninety-five jobs. This made me realize that I had to "But Mr. Sandville appeared to accept pounds," sighs this animated Dresden fig- save enough money to take time for the story and I got the job. urine auditions. "The first day in the studio, he told me "My husband always went out, he tells "I stayed at MGM a year. During that during a scene, 'Now you fade.' I hadn't me, with very tall, lusciously-built girls year, I'd use my lunch hours to see agents. an idea what he meant. 'Fade.' What was and here he gets stuck," Susan says, mak- One agent, who was really wonderful to that? In another scene, a short while later. ing fun of her diminutive height, "with a me, was Jane Broder. She took me to see 'This time,' said Mr. Sandville, 'you cross- midget like me!" Katharine Cornell in 'Three Sisters.' The fade.' I didn't know what that meant, And, tit for tat, Susan always went out two people I most wanted to see in Amer- either. with American boys, none but American ica were Katharine Cornell and Helen "When the rehearsal was over, Mr. boys (tall ones, too). She didn't want to Hayes, so this gave me a big, big thrill. Sandville said, looking me straight in the marry a European because she'd heard, I also learned from Jane Broder how diffi- eye: 'Even in Scranton, they know what she says, that American men make better cult the theatre is. Not as it is in Europe, a fade and a cross-fade is.' And I knew that husbands. "Then, boom!" laughed Susan, she made plain to me—no security. Why Mr. Sandville knew I had never before "I met Jan in Canada—Jan, who is a didn't I, she asked, try radio? seen the inside of a radio studio, either in Czech, both of us half a world away from "This was fine with me. I'll act in any- Scranton or any other place! our native homes—and we fall in love, thing, just so long as I can act. I've done "But from then on, I worked pretty all and marry, and make a home together four mediums now—theatre, movies, steadily . . a new thing, a new job, al- here in New York City, U.S.A." radio and television—and in these I've ways seemed to come out of the job before. But this part of the story is part of the done everything but sing. I can't sing," Out of the three or four shows I did for

love story and comes later on. . . . Susan added ruefully. "Imagine that Theatre Guild on the Air came my first Susan changed her name because, when and me married to a basso profundo! Broadway play, 'Prologue to Glory,' in she was trying to break into radio and "But, for radio, as for any other me- which I played Ann Rutledge. And out gave her name, Zuzka Zenta, agents and dium, I had to have time to get around of 'Prologue to Glory' came an offer from producers cried out, in pain, "Oh, please, and meet people and try for auditions. So the Theatre Guild to play the part of Con- no, not another foreigner!" during that year, to save enough money, suelo, the girl lead, in 'He Who Gets Susan did her pavement-pounding, she I lived with a family, helping them take Slapped.' I then did a couple more plays explained, during the war, when refugees care of their kids, which was mostly a and a couple of movies in Hollywood, were a dime a dozen and the hue-and-cry matter of getting them up in the morn- 'The Private Affairs of Bel Ami,' 'Lost was on to give our American girls the ing and helping them with their home- Boundaries.' And then I did a movie in breaks. work in the evenings. Since I didn't have Canada called 'Forbidden Journey.' " As "So finally, out of desperation," she said, to pay any room rent, I saved enough she spoke of the movie in Canada called "I chose Susan—which is, by the way, a from my salary to live for six months "Forbidden Journey," the color of Susan's translation of Zuzka." She picked the without working, which was the whole eyes changed, deepened, for it was dur-

Douglas out of a telephone directory as, purpose. . . . ing the making of "Forbidden Journey" many years ago, the late great David Be- "Once this purpose was accomplished, Susan met her love. lasco rechristened another little girl, name and the money in the bank, I went to "We were doing the picture in Mont- of Gladys Smith; the name he picked for live at the Rehearsal Club on Fifty-third real," Susan said, "and were looking for Gladys Smith was Mary Pickford. Street—a non-profit organization where someone to play the part of a Czech stow- "I had to have something that didn't you can live (I did) for thirteen dollars a away. Jan, whose full name is Jan Rubes

sound foreign," Susan said. "I wanted week for room and two meals. (pronounced Rubesh) , had just got over something that was pretty usual and ail- "So that's when I started the radio from Czechoslovakia—he left soon after American. I wanted a plain name and, rounds, applying for auditions. I must the Communists came in. And someone next to Smith and Jones, which seemed to have taken about sixty auditions, over a who knew about the film, and had met be going too far, there were more Doug- period of three or four months, before I Jan, suggested to him that he try for the lases than any other name in the phone got my first job, which was a part in part. He did. He was given a test and he book." a dramatic educational program called got the part. So there we were, playing As a teenager in Prague, Susan went School of the Air. Dick Sandville was the the leads, and Jan—a Czech, who spoke through the Conservatory. "I had seven director and out of that first job—and almost no English—practically playing years of ballet," she said. "I had music, thanks to Dick—came my first running himself! drama, languages. After the Conservatory, part in the serial, Wilderness Road. I "The first scene we played together, I was in the National Theatre in Prague played the daughter, who was one of the having barely and briefly been introduced, for a year before the Germans came. Then leads. I was in that for a year—which was—the love scene! With which we had they closed the theatre. was really terrific! so much difficulty that we had to do it "When I arrived in New York, the peo- "But I must tell you a funny story," thirty-eight times! It was a jinx—sort of ple who gave me my affidavit to come here Susan laughed, "about the first job. When a lovely jinx," Susan smiled and sighed, —the affidavit which declared I would not Mr. Sandville interviewed me for the part "for, halfway through each take, some- become a public charge—met me. I stayed in School of the Air, he asked the key thing happened, either to the camera, or with them for a little bit. When my mother the birds made too much noise, or a plane came, I lived with my mother. zoomed overhead, or we forgot our lines, "Because I didn't know English, and for which the 'penalty' was—Jan and I go- also because I was told you must have a ing into the clinch time after time after high-school diploma if you hope for any WATCH FOR time up to the count of, as I've said. work in the theatre, I went for one half- RADIO-TV MIRROR thirty-eight! year (the last half of the senior year) to "Yes, it was 'at first sight' with both of February issue on sale Jan. 9 with George Washington High School. I took us, I guess. But speaking for myself, no courses in English, which was a good way 1 guesswork about it—and why not? He's of learning English and of getting, at the BERT PARKS LIFE STORY six-foot-one," Susan said, eyes blue now, same time, a diploma. During this time, and shining, "he weighs 195 pounds. He Mother went to work as a beauty con- has light brown hair and gray-green eyes sultant for Lord & Taylor, so that the bills MARION MARLOWE- and, as a singer, he's a basso profundo, might be paid. the rich volume of which shatters your "After I was graduated, I went and heart and mine! R FRANK PARKER STORY — worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's New "Originally, Jan wanted to be a doctor York offices. I was an assistant to one of "People Say We're In Love" —as I, originally, wanted and hoped to be the publicity directors in the publicity de- a ballet dancer—but when the Germans partment. I liked it, too. I like publicity came to Prague they closed the Univer- 82 — —— .

sity, so he couldn't continue with his dishes. Always have to have the bed studies. Music was his next love, so he made five minutes after I step out of it, went to audition at the Conservatory of and always have to do the dishes right Music in Prague and won the scholarship quick! But otherwise ... I don't care over 280 applicants. After he finished at about possessions or taking care of them

the Conservatory, he was engaged as bass too much. . . . baritone at the Prague Opera House. He "I do enjoy cooking, love to cook, love STARVES' was the youngest bass baritone at the to experiment with things. One of my Opera House, the youngest that had been favorite recipes is a graham-cracker-crust there for twenty years. pie filled with a layer of lemon chiffon, "The only thing Jan likes better than then sliced bananas, then layer of straw- PIMPLES a singing is his sports. He is a big sports- berry chiffon, another layer of sliced ba- man. In Czechoslovakia, he was cross- nanas, the whole topped with whipped SKIN-COLORED SSZ& country ski champion and on the Junior cream and sliced strawberries." National tennis team. We ski together When young Susan and Jan are not now, every winter, Jan and I. The only cooking, painting, performing in radio, on dance we like to dance is the waltz—to the TV, on the concert stage, in movies or in strains of 'Tales from the Vienna Woods' opera, they have any number of hobbies —and the polka, to a Czech polka we both to keep them happy. They take a lot of

remember from back home. . . . We can't eight-millimeter pictures of each other play tennis together—it would be too ri- and the places they go, Susan says, then diculous of me—but now we've started a cut their own film, edit it and caption it. new hobby, playing golf, which we can They play games. Charades, for in- do together. stance. "And a wonderful new word "All this, and more, I learned about him, game," Susan said, a glint in her eye, as he learned my life from me, between "called Scrabble. And we love cards takes on the picture and at dinner in our bridge, poker, canasta and gin. Jan loves hotel after work at night. It was one to play chess, but I haven't the patience. morning, toward the end of the picture, DOCTORS' TESTS PROVE while we were waiting for the down ele- I can't sew, but I used to love to sculpt. 9 out of 10 cases cleared up vator, that he proposed to me. In English, And I fool around some, even now, with as a matter of fact! I said 'Yes' right away. pottery. or definitely improved "After the picture was finished, we saw "We hate parties, big parties. If we CLBARASIL— SCIENTIFIC each other every weekend in Montreal have more than eight people for dinner NEW ADVANCE for I flew there to see up him until such at one time, my husband doesn't have a At last! A new medication called clearasil time as he could be admitted to the good time. We go to the theatre a lot, and is so effective it brings entirely new hope States. Practically a year from the day to the ballet, and we go dancing, as I've to pimple sufferers. In skin specialists' we met, we married. said, usually to the St. Regis Roof. tests on 202 patients, 9 out of every 10 were cleared or definitely improved. "The Czech custom is, when you get "I'm not much of a one for clothes. I up married, you break a plate and keep the can't, just can't stand shopping. I just AMAZING STARVING ACTION, clearasil pieces, which are lucky pieces. For my loathe it. When girl friends call up and is greaseless and fast-drying in contact marriage present, Jan gave me a bracelet say, provocatively, 'Let's have lunch and with pimples. Starves pimples because it of gold and pearls. And, after the mar- go shopping,' nothing could excite me less helps remove the oils* that pimples "feed" on. Antiseptic, stops growth of bacteria riage, he had a bit of the broken plate put or bore me more. I never go. About once that can cause and spread pimples. in a gold link as a charm for the bracelet. a year, propelled by necessity, I hurl my- For my first wedding anniversary gift, he self into a shop, say 'I'll take this, and INSTANT RELIEF from embarrassment be- gave cause clearasil is skin-colored. And me the Roman numeral I, made out this, and that—goodbye/' clearasil is greaseless ... stainless. of pearls and gold. For my second, which "Except for evening clothes," Susan said. came up last September twenty-second, (With Susan, who is as feminine as fili- THOUSANDS HAIL CLEARASIL. So many he gave me the Roman numeral II, also gree, there is usually an "except.") "I love boys, girls, adults found that clearasil made of gold and pearls—which are my evening clothes because of the big, vo- works, it's become the largest-selling spe- cific medication for pimples in America.** favorites of all jewels. I am not crazy luminous skirts—it's the romantic in me, about jewelry," Susan said, "except for I guess and also because, with evening — Readers Digest reported on clinical the gold and the pearls and Jan's imag- clothes, I platform shoes! — can wear tests using clearasil type medication, ination which has gone into them." "But if I had my way—my ideal way of Thanks to CBS Radio and TV's Guiding life—I'd live in the country in sweaters, GUARANTEED to work for you as it did in Econ- Light, and Susan's lead role thereon, no slacks and skirts. doctors' tests or money back. 594. size Get clearasil at druggists. honeymoon was possible for Susan and "The minute we have enough money, omy 98tf. Jan, at the proper time for a honeymoon. I'd like to have a farm in the country - Agpmffs1 But last year they flew to Havana, |\Vi Clearasil "if" which especially because I'm mad for fireplaces $ Guaranteed by was a honeymoon Ml*' WMPLES )nd ACNE ^ (even though a be- . . . sit Good Housekeeping we listen to music so much, to by Wl.l ttbumsi . rusiwrB j lated honeymoon) heaven. a fireplace and listen would be lovely . . .

"My husband went there," Susan said, and mad for dogs. And horses. In Czecho- % Over-activity of c rtain oil glands is recognized by authorities acne. **According to actual store surveys. "to sing 'II Trovatore' and 'The Marriage slovakia, we had a town house in Prague as a major factor i of Figaro.' As, at another time, he went and a farm outside of Prague where my to Washington, D. C, to sing 'Faust' and dad used to breed horses. I rode side- to New Orleans for 'Don Giovanni.' In saddle. addition to opera, Jan does concert and "At home, we had dogs, too, lots of them. has made some TV appearances. He is We had five police dogs, one Irish setter "For Quick Relief now on a cross-country concert tour all and one cocker spaniel. When I have a Ask your Druggist lor DENT'S through Canada. I flew to Canada—on a dog again, I'd like to have a collie, or a four-day leave of absence from Guiding police dog, or a St. Bernard—only they Light —to be with him at the start. But eat so much. . . . back to Havana, beautiful Havana ... in "Our immediate plan is to stay in New PSORIASIS Havana, apart from the work Jan did, we York and work for another five years, (SCALV SKIN TROUBLE) danced in the moonlight, swam in the during which time we hope to have two MAKE THE ONE D€RmOIL moonlight, did everything romantic honey- children, one right after another, as fast mooners are supposed to do." as we can. Then to the country, where nowlongyouhavesuffered SPOT or what you have tried. Now in New York, these two met, instead Beautiful book on psori- —who of working every day—we'll do a asis and Dermoil with as if by inscrutable design, half a TEST amazing:, true photo- world TV show once a week, a movie, a play, a graphic proof of results sen tF away from their native home REE . Wri te for it —make their concert once or twice a year. Don't mistake eczema home. In an apartment which Susan de- the stubborn, ugly "How we make out financially will de- embarrassing scaly skin SEND FOR scribes as "very small and disease Psoriasis. Ap- not too inter- termine, of course, whether this dream ply non-staining Der- , GENEROUS moil. Thousands esting . . . except for the furniture, most do for comes true, or not. ... If it doesn't," Su- scaly spots on body or of which Jan built." scalp. Grateful users often TRIAL san shrugged, "life with Jan and with the after years of suffering, As a housewife, Susan doesn't, she report the scales have SIZE - said two one-right-after-another children we gone, the red patches gradually dis- ^^BM^^ «* » appeared and they enjoyed modestly, think too much of herself. to will still for the thrill'of a clear skin hope have be, me—in town again. Dermoil is used by many doctors and is backed by a "I'm not neat around positive agreement to give definite benefit in 2 weeks or the house," she or in country, with or without a fireplace money is refunded without question. Send 10c (stamps or sighed, "only in the kitchen. and a ideal coin) for generous trial bottle to make our famous "One Spot You could dog the way of life." Test." ' — Test it yourself. Results i surprise you. Write to- eat off the floor in my kitchen. And I The years have been good to Susan, for can't stand an unmade bed or unwashed indeed she has found love's guiding light. Box 3925. Strathmoor Station, Dept. 6904, Detroit 27, Mich. 83 — .

Twenty Years of Deeds Well Done

(Continued from page 21) ation and several members of the present Thus the Breakfast Club audience grew career, brilliantly begun when, upon grad- cast had also made their appearance. In and, as listeners responded to his confi- uation from Marquette University, he be- Sam Cowling, Don found a comedian to dences with letters telling of their own came both radio editor of the Milwaukee whom he himself could play the always lives, a time came when there was sense Journal and an early favorite at its sta- trusting straight man; in Fran Allison, a as well as sentiment behind Don's frequent tion WTMJ, had recently run completely quick-witted actress who could use her references to "the Breakfast Club fam- out of steam. Aunt Fanny stories as a commentary on ily." His original WTMJ popularity brought current affairs. In Eddie Ballantine, who Although he made no profound public him an offer from Louisville, and from had been with him since Pepper Pot days, announcements about it, there is evidence, there he went to the Coast. They loved he found an orchestra conductor who could too, that he was becoming increasingly him in San Francisco and, on the strength match his own mood in music. aware of his personal responsibilities as of it, he married his home-town sweetheart, In addition, there was his always-present head of that family. the beautiful Katherine Bennett. Just but seldom-heard family cast. Son Tommy, War showed him what the family would about that time, however, the nation's big now a freshman at Notre Dame, first gur- do when he asked its cooperation. The depression tailspin started and the young gled into the microphone when he was Breakfast Club cast, on a series of bond couple tried their luck in New York. fourteen months old. And, by the time tours, raised fabulous funds. A Chicago Luck was non-existent, so the two Donny and Bobby arrived, the audience rally brought purchases amounting to stitched up their pride and returned to was following McNeill family happenings twenty-five million dollars; in the small Milwaukee. WTMJ took him back, but the with the feeling they were neighbors. city of Sheboygan, Don's childhood home, manager, after watching a Saturday-night They shared both his chuckle and his the contribution was nearly seven hun- show where Don teamed with his bride, chagrin when, after a birthday party, he dred thousand dollars. The record was fired McNeill with the statement that he reported he had checked up and discovered matched or bettered every place Break- felt Kay had a future in entertainment his son had gotten three books, four guns fast Club appeared. business—but Don, to radio, was a total and the measles. At war's end, McNeill's desire to make at loss. As his personal fortunes flourished, Mc- least a gesture in appreciation of the men The young McNeills elected to play it Neill was adding to his concept of radio as who had defended their country was the other way. While Kay starred in the a companion the belief that a star, as well couched in typical Breakfast Club terms. kitchen, Don besieged Chicago stations as a station, has an obligation to fulfill Christmas, he concluded, was a state of with a do-or-die determination. the requirement the FCC makes in grant- mind and not necessarily tied to a date on The long-houred schedule which NBC ing a license and should use the public's the calendar. Consequently, for a large imposed upon him turned into a fortunate air to serve the public's "interest, conven- group of veterans reunited with their fam- break. With no time for either writing or ience and necessity." ilies in midsummer, he staged a Christ- research, he soon found himself talking It began on an individual basis when the mas in July, complete with tree, tinsel and about things closest to him—Kay, their increasing number of letters from his au- all the trimmings. home, and, after a time, their sons. dience gave testimony that he was meeting The interest which listeners took in the The audience loved it, for here was an personal needs. One of the most devoted event gave Don, the next year, his answer intimacy seldom found during those early of these distant friends has been Canadian to the huge giveaway shows which were days of radio. It was forecast in one of Jimmie Darou, a former jockey who had then establishing a new pattern of audience his earliest published statements. Writing been thrown from a horse and developed participation. When a fan wrote chiding in a Wisconsin trade publication in 1929, he tuberculosis of the bone. him for not joining the trend, he saw in it described radio as: "In 1927, a luxury; His first letter to McNeill, written in an opportunity for a little public service. 1928, a necessity; in 1929, a companion." 1934, stated, "The Breakfast Club, you Don, He challenged his friends to reverse the He was later to amplify this person-to- and Memory Time, have become a religion process and send loot to him instead. The person concept by describing what he feels to me ... I'd never have had the courage resulting collection, which included wash- is happening at the other end of the line to get along without you. Don McNeill ing machines, refrigerators, a year's supply while he's addressing the Breakfast Club comes on smiling and the gags are terrific. of coal and enough food to stock a gro- microphone. Some day I'll surprise you and be back on cery, brought cheer to a large number of "I see a guy," he says, "who has waked my feet." needy families. up not feeling too good. Maybe one of his Jimmie Darou has never achieved that Having found a way to combine gags and kids is sick. Maybe the mortgage payment particular ambition, but through the years gifts, McNeill dated his next drive for the is due. Maybe it's the day he must tell Don has reported his other achievements. show's sixteenth anniversary on June 23, the boss he needs a raise. If we can make With the aid of McNeill and a Montreal 1949. It was also, he stated, his half-year him smile just once before he gets out of newspaper, he went into business operating birthday and a much more satisfactory the house, we've done a good show." a gasoline station. Then, in 1946, his best one to celebrate than his own natal day. With that first smile as his objective, dream came true. He married his nurse; A bit wistfully he remarked that he and the other segments of the well-known McNeill brought the couple to Chicago on Kay, both born in late December, had all Breakfast Club program began fitting in and, their honeymoon and Breakfast Clubbers their lives experienced the frustration of by the time the Federal Communications heard him announce, "This is the biggest having relatives and friends acknowledge Commission split NBC's Red Network from moment of my life." Recently, Don has both birthday and Christmas with a single its Blue and ABC was born, the show had been able to report another happy develop- gift. He was therefore taking steps and virtually reached its present plan of oper- ment. The Darous are adopting a baby. organizing The Society to Prevent One from Forgetting to Give Birthday Presents to Christmas Week Babies. His invitation to listeners to correct the oversight brought in another load of loot for the needy. Don and Kay, making a personal contribution to the drive, fur- listen then look! nished a room at a Salvation Army hos- Listen to "True Detective Mysteries" every Sunday pital. afternoon and help police look for the fugitive The lighthearted stunt with a benevolent criminals described on the program. objective was not, however, sufficient to satisfy McNeill. Listeners glimpsed indi- $1000.00 REWARD! A reward of cation of his personal concern with social $1000.00 is offered for information leading to the problems when, during the Senate Crime arres^ of any of these criminals. For details tune Investigating Committee hearings, he chal- in your Mutual station, Sunday afternoon and hear lenged his audience to grill themselves Ke- fauver-style, then set an example by airing DETECTIVE his own "Q-and-A." A transcript of that "TRUE MYSTERIES" broadcast reads: Q. "McNeill, are you doing everything you can for the good of your community?" Every Sunday Afternoon on 525 Mutual stations A. "I try as much as the next fellow." Q. "Suppose the next fellow isn't doing much?" A. "Well, I always donate to worthy Be sure to read "THE BAT MAN"—the latest facts on the exploits and causes." Q. "McNeill, if you know there are un- capture of that eerie figure who stalked women and murdered his last vic- healthy conditions existing in your com- tim in July 1952. In January TRUE DETECTIVE magazine now on sale. munity, do you demand that something be 84 — — done about it?" city. Trees and hills surround it. There A. "I'm always glad to go along with he could build the kind of house and live whatever is suggested." the kind of life he had always wanted. Q. "But you wait for someone else to Then his eyes lighted up and his voice start the ball rolling. That's all. Next wit- took on an edge of excitement. "And, Fred, S ness." you know it wouldn't take much more to S Shortly thereafter, Don McNeill found put up a bunkhouse of some sort on the NE his personal answer to what he himself other side of the lake. Maybe we could P wanted to do about the aforementioned use it for some of these city kids who never «*U unhealthy conditions and, when he did, he have had a chance to find out what it's didn't wait for anyone else to roll the like to catch a fish." ball. This year, McNeill's dream became a u„„. reality. season, ft Fred Montiegel, the public relations man Throughout the summer who has also been the closest of personal members of Boys Clubs who were far more friends to Don, ever since the two were familiar with the neon-studded corners students at Marquette University, was first near their crowded homes than they were to hear the idea. Montiegel reports that with the sight of a full moon shimmering already it bore evidence of the kind of over quiet water got their first taste of family discussion and planning which Don the kind of camping which develops self- and Kay have always done. reliance and a healthy perspective. They'd been talking it over, Don con- Each group of ten came out and spent fided, and he and Kay agreed that, with a week with McNeill footing the bill for work taking so much of Don's time, it transportation and all other expenses. would be nice if they could find a summer Some who arrived asking such questions as This bewitching fragrance of the night place close to Chicago where Don could "Do the leaves come with the trees?" re- be outdoors hunting and fishing with his turned, like the proud young man with the ...KLIMEX "—intoxicating yet delicate, so sons every weekend instead of waiting for very dead fish, boasting their prowess as new.. .yet so smart. 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Imagine it — a table sportsmen both—had taken him out to talked the fish out of the water, but both $7.50 value for only $1.00 — compare! the Wisconsin woods and taught him to kids and adults loved every moment of it. Remember, only hunt and fish. Gradually he regained his Don McNeill, one of the earliest stars PJjKm Use the coupon below for your intro- health. to see radio as intimate, individual com- Lv L'l'j duction to America's greatest buy in How to find such wholesome outdoor ac- munication, has with his camp for boys parfum...imrnediate delivery. Money tivity, fulfilling a demanding schedule, had put public service and citizenship, too, on back guarantee within 10 days. been a problem Don had long tried to solve. a person-to-person basis. To Don and ToSTPAID* But now at last, he told his friend, he be- Kay—and to thousands of devoted Break- t) Gentlemen: Please rush my % oz. bottle lieved he had the exact right place. There fast Club listeners through the years | of KLIMEX Parfum. Here's my $1.00 — was a little six-and-a-half-acre private their private world has become an ever- *P cash or money order. lake for sale just forty miles outside the expanding family of families. S (PRINT ONLY) % NAME I STREET CITY .STATE- Stepping Along in Hit KLIMEX CORPORATION - Dept. Q Your Parade BOX S MIAMI BEACH 39, FLA. REMEMBER THIS ADDRESS AS YOU CANNOT PURCHASE jaiMEXJN_ANY RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT IN THE COUNTRY (Continued from page 55) whole number, not just a chorus, choosing How lovely that voice was they didn't 'Stormy Weather' because it was the only even guess then. Her father—himself a song I knew from beginning to end. Every- singer, although not a professional—had body seemed to like it. Saul Gilbert, who is given up trying to get her to sing for com- Abe Burrows' uncle, was there and he told 62ft qet awmttitedi* pany, because it made her too self-con- me I would be 'terrific' in show business. scious to have all eyes upon her. On that I didn't know what to make of that. I come holiday morning, no one dreamed that be- from a plain background, from people who fore the day had ended something new and didn't know anything at all about the the- wonderful would be happening to June, as atrical world—and I didn't, either." a result of one song. No one dreamed it Mr. Gilbert, who does know about show would make her a star on radio and tele- business, got June an audition for the vision, and an RCA-Victor recording artist Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts show. The with many platters already to her credit judges were equally impressed by the pro- makes gravy "Always, Always," "The Three Bells," fessional quality of her voice a voice she — r,ch... *ast "Cry," "It's Raining," "Strange Sensation" had been training by singing with fine brown... l

(her first big record success) , "Mighty artists and studying their records—but Lonesome Feeling," and "Tabu." they hesitated to take a chance on her un- One song, with June a reluctant per- professional nervousness as a performer. former combined with the party at really think could through a "Do you you go .Quick relief with friend's wedding, started the whole thing. with it if we put you on the Monday night This performance was to set up a combina- Talent Scouts program?" they asked. June COUGHING tion of events which were to bring June nodded, and managed to gulp yes, she out of the obscurity of a bookkeeping job, could. There was no doubt she was ready remold her whole personality to make her for it in every other way. SPELLS? or money back! into one of the really successful performers Luckily enough, only two weeks later a Enjoy unbroken restful sleep with time-proved, on television today. Someone had said dur- female singer was needed to round out the clinic-proved Vapo-Cresolene medicated vapor ing the party, "Let's have a song." Some- show, and there didn't happen to be any inhalant. Relieves coughs, bronchial asthma, one else had nudged June, knowing she other girl waiting a turn—a most unusual whooping cough, stuffy nasal colds. Effective, had a sweet voice, knowing also that she occurrence. So on January 15, 1951, three safe for children and adults. Special offer! was shy and wanting her to join more in weeks after her singing debut at a wed- Day and Night treatment. Includes new Vapo- the fun. "Just sing a little chorus," she was ding, June made her professional debut. Nasalene, $1.00; Vapo-Cresolene, 60c, Elec- urged. Audience applause awarded her first prize tric Vaporizer $4.00. Regular $5.60 value — "I thought they would think me a poor for the evening. The fact that she sang all for $4.00 at your druggist now. (Same sport if I refused," June explains now. "I with her eyes half-closed was considered offer with Kerosene Vaporizer, $3.00.) if was scared, thinking about how I would an appropriate gesture for the type of song druggist can't supply, order direct. look up there in front of all those people, she was delivering ("Stormy Weather," VAPO-CRESOLENE CO., 912 Sycamore Street afraid I would flat or forget the words. But again, one of her favorites then and now). Dept. NW-4. Cincinnati 2, Ohio I made myself do it. I went through a No one guessed she was too frightened to 85 —) — I

keep her eyes open and look out at the but to lose out because of something I sports, which I loved, because I felt I audience and the television cameras! could control seemed just terrible. Harry looked so awkward in shorts. Here it was that fate stepped in once Salter was doing everything to help me "Now that success was within my grasp, more. Musical director Harry Salter had coaching me musically, teaching me phras- my weight was getting in the way of my tuned in his TV set to the last few bars of ing and style and showmanship. Mrs. Salter becoming a top-rated performer. That her winning number. He invited her to au- was a wonderful friend to me, helping me chance remark made me realize I was dition as a replacement for Kay Armen, in every way she could. creating more difficulty for the good people who was vacationing from Stop the Music "Now I knew there was something I who were trying to help me make some- for two weeks. She still knew only a few of had to do. Something no one else could do thing of myself. the currently popular songs well enough for me, and in which they could give me "The first few weeks of dieting were just to take the audition. She was still bewil- very little help. I had to develop my own terrible," June says of them. "The first dered by the way things were happening will power. I resolved that never again few pounds off, after about ten days, gave to her so fast. (Her company was planning would anyone say I was too heavy for a me the courage to go on. But, when my to raise her salary five dollars a week, and part. I didn't want to be heavy, anyhow, neck and hip bones began to show (as they her mother was wondering why she would and I had never wanted to be. I had just should a little), I almost got scared. I had even consider the insecurities of show let it happen, and I wonder now why I never seen them before and I wasn't sure business in the face of this stamp of ap- didn't do something about it long before." they shouldn't stay covered with fat! I don't proval on her good work as a bookkeeper! It suddenly dawned on June that every want to prescribe a diet for other girls, She still weighed that extra thirty -eight girl has some incentive for wanting to look because their doctors should do that, but I pounds, which looked even more on a her best—her parents' approval, a boy can tell you a little about mine—although television screen, although she had a good friend she wants to look her prettiest for, you have to remember that I lost more figure for a stout girl. June's weight made a teacher who is interested in helping her, quickly than I should have, because I was her feel terribly self-conscious. Fearfully a job or career she is planning. Using this so eager to make myself ready for any new she forced each new opportunity, to over- incentive wisely a person sets herself a opportunities. It had hurt deeply to lose out come her feeling of inadequacy. definite goal. on a role, an opportunity, and I felt it must Groomed musically by Mr. Salter, as he "I began to analyze the things over- not happen again." began his successful guidance of June's weight was doing to me," June said. "Most Here is June's diet breakfast: Coffee, work and her career, she made an instant of these things apply to all girls, whether black and without sugar; large glass of hit on her first appearance. Within the next they are in school, in offices or factories grapefruit juice; scrambled eggs with few months, engagement after engagement or shops, or starting their own homes as bacon; one hard-boiled egg. (She used came her way—a famous night club in wives and mothers. to have orange juice, scrambled eggs which she appeared on the same bill with "Overweight was making me so self- with bacon, qr an omelet, two or three Celeste Holm, feature billing as vocalist on conscious that I couldn't accept even the slices of buttered toast—sometimes with the Broadway to Hollywood TV show, most sincere compliment gracefully, be- marmalade—sugar and cream in her coffee. guest appearances on radio and television cause I thought I couldn't possibly deserve Sometimes she had coffee cake instead of broadcasts. When her name first went up in it. It was making me feel uncomfortable toast. "I got so accustomed to overeating lights on the theatre marquee from which whenever I was out among people. I always that I didn't feel comfortable unless I did," Your Hit Parade originates, her mother and felt like apologizing for my looks. It was she says, which is a thing that happens to

father came down from their home in the a vicious circle because I began to think, • most people who gain weight.) Bronx to stare at it. 'Oh, what's the use anyhow, I'm already so Lunch: Usually a fresh fruit salad with Meanwhile, while others were helping fat!' cottage cheese. No dressing. Buttermilk in her take firm but hesitant steps along the "When I tried to make myself look nicer, mid-afternoon if she wanted it. (She used road to success, June, in one agonizing I found it hard to get clothes that would to eat sandwiches for lunch, well-buttered, moment of revelation, realized that if she help, especially on a small salary. I couldn't well-filled, sometimes with mayonnaise were to continue on this road there were wear the cute clothes other girls wore, be- dressing; often with a malted milk and things she had to accomplish herself. It cause they were out of my size range. Now dessert, with some candy for an afternoon wasn't enough to be coached, it wasn't I can wear an inexpensive dress and have snack.) enough to have opportunity, if these were it look as though it cost a great deal more. Dinner: Mostly steak, plain sliced toma- to be fleeting moments, ending inevitably "I loved light colors but had to stick to toes and lettuce. "I could have had cottage back at the bookkeeping desk. With a sud- dark ones. In show business you have to cheese again with the salad, but I got so denness that was cruel to her sensitive wear light colors, so this became a big tired of eating it that once a day was nature, she realized from a chance remark problem for me. I could never wear any- enough. Most of my salary went for lean that her appearance, her personality, had thing figured, either. meat in the beginning, and that was hard, to undergo a change if she was to maintain "I had to be careful of the way I wore but I needed it for strength and nourish- a place in the star firmament. my hair. I couldn't change it around the ment and low-calorie intake, and I had to During those early months of her career, way my slim friends did. I was always try- eat most of my dinners out, unlike girls before her Hit Parade success, June ing to make my face and neck seem who are not doing my kind of work. (June chanced to hear a conversation in which slimmer. Now I can wear a short curled used to eat plenty of Italian antipasto, her name was mentioned for a role. To cut, or can let it grow long, and either way spaghetti and macaroni.) this day she doesn't know what the role will be all right. "Now I break away from my diet and eat was, but she does know why she lost it. "Worst of all, I felt unpopular, and I some of everything, but the minute I find "She's fine," she heard a man say, "but blamed my overweight for it because I myself gaining a couple of pounds I go she's much too heavy for the part." knew it held me back from participating right back to it. I am very careful about "I wouldn't have felt so bad about it if in many things the kids I knew liked to do. sugar and all sweets and I don't even want he had said I didn't have enough voice In school I had sometimes held back from to overeat any more. I guess I shrank my stomach to normal size. I think, too, that you don't ever put weight on as fast, once it's off. I went down to 100 pounds, a forty -pound loss, then gained two pounds listen to and have decided that 102 is about right HOLLYWOOD LOVE STORY for me." Now, June has had just about everything lucky career-wise happen to her, in- A complete romantic drama presented cluding a Your Hit Parade contract. She has at last fulfilled her dream of buying a on each program. Cal York, mink stole (from her earnings on Your Hit Parade), and of doing nice things for her famed PHOTOPLAY Magazine reporter, parents. June has become a fine record- digs into Hollywood's love ing artist, and now has faith in her ability to measure up to all her fine opportunities. life for these heart-palpitating June has proven she can build will power discipline into her life, as shown by stories. Also latest and the way she stuck to her determination to Hollywood news. lose weight. "If it all were to end tomorrow—all this good that has come to me— can truly say that I have had some wonderful experiences in living," she sums up. Every Saturday morning, 11 :30 A.M. EST, NBC At twenty-two, June has proven to herself that a girl can be anything she wants Be sure to read—"Will The Ava Gardner-Frank Sinatra Marriage to be—as long as she's willing to work for Last?"—in January PHOTOPLAY now on sale at all newsstands. her own miracle. Truly, June is stepping along in her own Hit Parade. 86 Smilin' Jack Smith *#r. (Continued from page 44) Of course, we see thousands of people Vickii's the kind of wife who takes an we've never laid eyes on before. When interest without interfering. She's my we meet a person for the first time and severest critic—and my most avid fan! our hands go out in greeting, his jaw drops. After eight years with the Jack Smith- He says, "Why, I thought you were short, Dinah Shore Show, Vickii's still as inter- fat, and fifty-five! I'm so glad you're not!" ,M\ ested in my last show as she was my first. So am I. So's Vickii. And, after eight years with five shows a Not long ago, Vickii visited a depart- week, that's a lot of shows! But Vickii has ment store. When she gave her name to never missed one. the clerk for the charge account, the girl I'll come home after a program and say, asked, "Are you Mrs. Smilin' Jack Smith?" "Well, honey, everybody thought it was "Yes," replied Vickii. She knew what fine. Did you?" was coming. I get three kinds of answers to this "Oh," blurted the clerk, "I thought he'd WO FEAR OF question. be married to a much older woman." The first kind is dead silence. My face When Vickii first learned of our plans ACID INDIGESTION, falls like an elevator, for I know the show to tape ahead, she just looked at me in HEARTBURN, NOW! was terrible. My first thought is of the bewilderment. "What will you do with millions of people who suffered through your spare time?" I knew what she Eat without fear of acid it. (Thank you all!) My second thought is meant. I have to be busy. And I have been. indigestion. Just take one about the well-intentioned people at work I've learned to play golf. My father and or two Tunis. Gas, heart- who told me the show was great. Well, brothers are golfers, but I always said it burn, full feeling go fast. I can't blame them for being nice. And, was an "old man's game." Now I wonder Turns neutralize excess it if I late. I'll never catch besides, maybe they thought was good. started too Maybe acid, soothe and settle up- Anyhow, Vickii only gives the "dead up with the old men or with young — set stomach. Turns do not silence" kind of answer once a year. women. over-alkalize or cause acid The second kind of answer is "Okay" Not long ago, Frank De Vol, Dinah Shore rebound. Cannot irritate . . . and she keeps right on knitting. Well, and I played golf together on a course in delicate stomach or intes- my eyebrows go up and I get kind of a the Valley near Dinah's home. It was tinal lining. cold feeling in the pit of my stomach. what I call a goat golf course—up and Either I sang flat, or the engineer didn't down hills. After nine holes, Frank and send us out on the air, or maybe last I could hardly walk. Dinah? She was night I forgot to put out the dog. Some singing like a lark. And the game ended small thing was wrong and, since I'm a with her tripping off to fix luncheon for TUMS naturally curious guy, I wonder what it us all. Who says women are the weaker GUARANTEED was. So I stand there and scuff the rug sex? TO CONTAIN NO SODA with my foot, and wring my hat in hands My association with Dinah, Frank De waiting for the decision. Finally, Vickii Vol, producer Bill Brennan, and the whole TOR THE TUMMY says, "You were too eager on one of the gang on our show is something for which songs, and I think you were too far off- I'm ever grateful, too. Not just once a mike on another." She smiles and I know year, but every day. You couldn't ask for TRY ONE OR TWO TUMS AFTER BREAKFAST she still loves me. a more wonderful bunch. I'm sure we are SEE IF YOU DON'T FEEL BETTER The third kind of answer is "Swell, very exceptional people. We're just like honey!" and a big kiss. Now, that's what a family. We even depend on one another. LEARN AT HOME I call honesty, and it's the kind I like. Recently, we taped the show ahead for BE NURSE I've often heard (I wouldn't know, a two -week stretch. I was playing a TO A PRACTICAL since I'm no astrologer) that couples born night-club date in Las Vegas, and the You can learn practical nursing at home in spare time. Course endorsed by phy- under the same sign aren't suited for each rest of the gang were busy with chores sicians. Thousands of graduates. other. Opposites attract, they say. But I of their own. For the whole two weeks, HIGH SCHOOL NOT REQUIRED 54th year. One graduate has charge of don't believe it. Not only were Vickii and our sound man, Harry Esmond, wandered 10-bed hospital. Another saved $400 learning. Equipment included. I born on the same day and year, but al- around the halls of CBS with a lost look _ while Men women? 18 to 60. Easy tuition payments. Trial plan. most at the same hour. And we were on his face. In spite of the fact that he CHICAGO SCHOOL OF NURSING Dept. 21, 41 East Pearson Street, Chicago II, Ml. married on our combined birthdays. "So works on five or six other shows, Harry Please send free booklet and 16 sample lesson pages. you won't forget our wedding anniver- told everyone sadly, "My show is gone. I Name. sary," Vickii teased. don't know what to do with myself." But City State Age I've never needed any prompting, for Harry wasn't alone. We have all felt the I've never forgotten either occasion, birth- same way. day or wedding anniversary. And I'm more Even the boys in the band feel the convinced, as the years roll by, that our attachment. Some musicians are like roll- ANY PHOTO ENLARGED being born under the same sign has some- ing stones, never staying too long with Size 8 x lO Inches on DOUBLE-WEIGHT Paper thing to with the outfit. to do our sharing same one There used be a time when Same price for full length or bast interests. like the I of the form, groups, landscapes, pet ani- We same things (one sang a Scotch ballad and some mals, etc., or enlargements of any another). And, most important, we under- boys (who had just joined us from a part of a group picture. Original is returned with your enlargement. 67 stand each other's moods. It's a wonderful "hot" band) would shudder to themselves Send No Money 3 for $1 kind of companionship. and murmur, "Oh, no." Now they tell Just mail photo, negative or snap- shot {any size) and receive your enlargement, And Vickii brought someone into my everybody, "Why, I'm with the Smith- guaranteed fadeless, on beautiful double-weight portrait quality paper. Pay postman 67c plus life to whom I'll never cease to be grate- Shore show . . . and I love it!" postage—or send 69c with order and we pay post- Take advantage of this amazing offer. Send your photos today. ful—my mother-in-law. Just the other day, I walked into a age. Professional Art Studios. 534 S. Main. Dept 33 -A. Princeton, Illinois Whenever I hear mother-in-law jokes, music store to buy some sheet music and, I only wish the comedian could know while I was there at the Counter, in came mine. My mother-in-law shares our home our drummer. He's really a great drum- and at our request, too. At the time I mer and a "hep" musician. Well, the drum met Vickii, she was going with a laundry salesman greeted him like a long-lost £MeCQ\J)M/sEfiv man (although he owned the laundry I brother. "Where ya been, haven't seen still refer to him as the laundry man) and ya in -weeks?" I was trying to get her to go with me. I'm "Man," said the drummer, "I joined the sure it was Vickii's mother who succeeded Smith-Shore show. And let me tell you, in talking her into trying it. (Reason man, they're terrif!" enough to be eternally grateful.) But That convinced me. Bar none, we're one more than that, sharing Vickii's mother's big happy family! humor and wisdom has enriched us both. As I've said, some folks think it's corny Vickii—she's grateful, too. Up until this to be grateful oi" to show sentiment. I'm year, she says, she has been thought of as just not one of vhose. I'm grateful to all listeners are friends. the wife of a short, fat old man. Vickii's of the show's who my AT ALL mad for the man who invented tape I'm grateful to all the gang who make the DRUG STORES recordings. He has changed all this. Now show a hit. And most of all I'm grateful I tape ahead, I to wife, Vickii, keeps smile Tabcin that my show have time my who my to get out and make personal appearances. coming from the heart. 87 ! — —

Two Women Am I EMLARGEMEKT (Continued jrom page 26) money can buy. But we are unalike in one Check number, size and color of frames were mine whether, for instance, it was very important respect: Peggy is strictly [2 1-5x7 rj 2—5x7 — Ivory and Gold Peggy who had the crush on the older a homebody, a housewife, and I am a Q 1—8x10 Q 2—8x10 3 Brown and Gold man, and I on the handsome young archi- career girl. Beautiful silk finish black and white around. It was, "This difference (it's enlargements made from your favorite tect, or the other way a big one) made a snapshots, photos or negatives. Be it," laughed again, difference in school-girl sure to include color of hair, eyes and come to think of Betty our problems and clothing for having your enlargements beautifully hand colored in oil. "the other way around! teen-age romances and what we did about SEND NO MONEY. Simply pay post- pair of us. Peggy them. man for each enlargement and each "Grownups now, the frame plus cost of mailing. Additional I Walter "Peggy's $1.29 for hand coloring 5x7 size or is Mrs. Carter Trent and am Mrs. problem in high school was $1.69 for 8x10 size. Satisfaction guaranteed. Limit 2 returned nlargements. Brooke. Peggy still lives in her home town, mostly a financial problem. She comes to a customer. Originals with ep"» i Prompt service. Offer good in U.S.A. only. Elmwood, and I still live in my home town, from a family which has had its ups and Color of Hair Eyes Clothing.. New York City. Peggy's husband is a downs and one of the downs occurred Color of Hair Eyes Clothing.. big business man from a suburb of Chi- while Peggy was in high school so that cago, who lives in Elmwood because he, she was obliged to make do with very l Address like Peggy, prefers the simple, small-town little in the way of pretty clothes, parties I i City ..Zone State.. life. My husband is an actor from New and spending money. She also faced the FILM STUDIOS. Depf. NF-28 HOLLYWOOD York (and Hollywood) who would also problem so many girls must face of 7021 SANTA MONICA BLVD., HOLLYWOOD 38, CALIF. like to live in the country if our schedules whether she should finish her education would permit because he—and I, too—like or take a job to help tide things over at life. Walter and I will home. Before this problem reached crisis f How to Moke Money with country Although a have our country home, when we have it, the Youngs hit an up again—and Peggy Simple Cartoons'' not in a small town but in the real country graduated! I ^ ^< and on a lake or near the ocean. "My problem, at the same age, was book everyone who likes to draw "Peggy lives, as her next-door and her different. After I graduated from the Pro- 'should have. It is free; no obligation. Simply address network neighbors know so well, in a dar- fessional Children's School in New York 3 ling little house in Elmwood and does her my parents wanted me to go to Dean JARTOONISTS' EXCHANGE own work. I live in a sort of country- Academy, a girls' finishing school in Massa- Pleasant Hill, Dept. 591 , Ohio house, old-world apartment (large rooms, chusetts. But I'd been on radio ever since very high ceilings, parquet floors, fire- I was ten years old and it was during places, old-fashioned shuttered windows) high -school days that I got real busy on ANALYZE HANDWRITING in New York and do my own work. Well, radio so I wanted to study at the David my own cooking, anyway," Betty added Mannes School of Music in New York; in MORE INCOME . . . MORE PRESTIGE/^/V AND MORE SUCCESS! /*«=* with painstaking honesty. "I love to cook. short, stay in New York and on radio. Fascinating, uncrowded profession -busi- Walter loves cooking. is what I did. ness, full or spare time. Free illustrated my Which lesson and year-book shows how men and "Peggy and Carter have two children, "There is no similarity at all, really, women in home and business find opportunity in analyzing handwriting. 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Peggy was 'in love,' I BUNIONS separates (Betty was wearing, this late remember, with an engineer, a newspaper winter morning, a full quilted skirt pat- reporter, and with Frank, the handsome Enlarged or Tender Joints terned in black and white, a black chiffon young architect, with whom she eloped blouse) and of suits. And of sports coats. a mistake from which she was saved when Relieved Quickly I also like antique earrings and because they got caught in a flood and were forced Dr. Scholl'a Zino-pads my ears are pierced I'm always on the to turn back. After this Peggy was cured quickly relieve painful lookout for unusual but lovely old designs. of her infatuation. pressure on the sensitive I'm as fond as Peggy of surprises, and for- "I, at the same time, was going around spot . . . soothe, cushion, Erotect it. 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(Continued from page 39) marriage. Not because of such church in- I think the den is Dennis' favorite room "But I want a sister. Can't we vote on cidents—but because Dennis up to now has —he spends most of his free time there it?" had to be in Hollywood on Sunday for the (with radio and TV shows, motion pictures Let me explain here that, when there are Jack Benny broadcast. This season Jack and recording dates, there's not much free decisions to be made which affect all of intends to tape his programs earlier in the time). But he gets to other parts of the us, we generally take a vote on it. One week, leaving us this one day free. This house, too. In fact, he's responsible for a voice, one vote—a simple way to teach the makes Sunday Dennis' day with the boys, lot of decorating suggestions. For instance, beginnings of democracy. Since a new and it usually begins at a very early hour. I'd been looking for a chandelier for weeks baby will certainly have an effect on all Early hours can be a little hard on parents to complete the motif of our Early Ameri- of us, Paddy was of the opinion that it if they've gone to bed late the night be- can den. No success. I told Dennis about should come to a vote to decide whether fore, as we all do sometimes. By seven my unsuccessful search, but I thought he the new one would be "little brother" or a.m., the older boys are jumping up and had promptly forgotten it. Two days later, "little sister." I've tried to point out to down on our bed (Michael is too small to there was a great rapping at the front door. Paddy that votes, democracy, and babies get out of his bed yet) and demanding to Two moving men stood there, supporting don't have much in common. But so far I go swimming. Dutifully Dennis arises and a giant pink-and-white chandelier between haven't been able to get the concept across. sleepwalks toward the pool with the gang. them. I couldn't believe my eyes. The Now that the boys are a little older, Paddy is the first one in because he can't chandelier was perfect. It couldn't have we've tackled the problem of taking the stand to have a big or little Dennis do any- been better if it had been made specially. brood with us to church. Naturally they thing he hasn't done first. All the boys Dennis had remembered my chance re- love the music, but sometimes the other swim like fish, even Michael, so we've mark and had found the chandelier, and parts of the service find them restless. never had any worries about their safety. bought it immediately. Usually big Dennis takes charge of young As for Dennis, he says you haven't lived So you see, Dennis has all sorts of hid- Dennis at early mass and I look after until you've been in that pool at seven den talents that don't come to light on his Paddy at a later mass. Not long ago, how- a.m. At breakfast he puts his arm around radio show. You know him only as a ever, we included Michael and took the the boys and looks across at me, "Only we helpless, naive, but engaging young man. whole family to the same mass. Of course, men can do it every Sunday," he says ac- Don't you believe it. He's an all-around we were late and the church was packed, cusingly. husband, a good guy to his small children. so we had to find seats in the very front, At the end of a rough, tough Sunday He's a humorist (especially when he can

practically under the priest's nose. The with the boys, we all adjourn (with tongues play jokes on me) , and a decorator with boys were in fine shape that day and I had out expectantly) to the built-in barbecue a memory like an elephant. He's another my hands full trying to control them. They in the den. There Chef Dennis prepares Escoffier when it comes to sauces and bar- squirmed, talked, fought, and giggled. Des- the specialty of the day—barbecued steaks becued meats. There's just one other thing. perately I looked for Dennis to give forth with sauce, a la Dennis. I believe he's harboring a secret desire to with a little fatherly discipline, but he had What a sauce! The measuring cup and make "nine" an even number. Well, we'll moved as far away from us as he could. the measuring spoons make sad forgotten see! "I don't even know you," his blank face noises as Dennis wades into the spice chest seemed to say—and I had to laugh to my- with both hands. He soon sings out, "Red (Editor's Note: After Peggy wrote the self. As I told you, Dennis knows how pepper—black pepper—mustard—oreeano foregoing story, the Dennis Days were to handle anything. —and oh, sweet basil " and each little granted their wish—the newest arrival is Sundays have become an important day spice tin flashes bright in the firelight, a girl! Name: Margaret. Weight: Six in our life now for the first time since our caught up in the spirit of the occasion. pounds, eleven ounces. Voice: Soprano.)

Hollywood Love Story

(Continued from page 33) writer and wrote down the story of Louise's and said seriously, "Cal, you'll never know Cal, I'll tell you truthfully—I've never romance, Louise's elopement, complete what your friendship for us has meant." been so deeply, wonderfully in love in my with quotes of her glowing happiness. I raised my eyebrows, waiting. "You see, life. You see, I know Bill—probably the I'm still not the most cynical man in Bill and I knew this whole town was only one who does, because there isn't an- the world, but I'm also (after years of against him—he tried to be nice, he tried other living soul in this town who will having Hollywood as my beat) not the most to be friendly, but the reputation which give him a chance to be anything but naive man, either. However, the events that he'd carelessly built before then just bitter, fighting angry most of the time." followed surprised even me. Bill and Louise wouldn't let him be human, wouldn't let I went away with my own emotions torn. honeymooned to the tune of some mighty others judge him for himself." I saw Bill's How could a really good kid like Louise snide comments from the local armchair hand press into her arm, tenderly, under fall in love with a louse? Bill would make predicters of the well-known "doom" type. standingly. "We knew that, once the film her unhappy, I argued to myself. I should The two bought a home up in the Holly- was finished and people had a chance to print the story and let everyone in town wood hills and, the first day in the new judge his acting, at least they'd accept that warn her, let the studio jump on her, place, Louise telephoned me. Would I like part of him. Accept it? They've tried to control her if she didn't have sense enough to have dinner with them the following gobble him up—three major studios bid- to take care of herself. Somehow, however, Friday and attend the opening of their ding for his services at once! the days slipped into weeks. I ground out picture? No, I couldn't. Then could I come "But, 'way before that, your story about my column without mentioning Louise. for dinner on Saturday evening, or better our marriage—and the understanding you Then the inevitable happened. The day still spend Sunday afternoon with them? put into it—gave us the courage to stay." the picture wound up, Louise called me, Thinking I was really a glutton for punish- I started to protest and then I looked at breathless, as excited as a kid at her first ment, I had to pick Sunday afternoon. Bill, whose face was solemn, and I stopped. birthday party. She was eloping. She was When I reached for the paper on Satur- Slowly, gently taking Louise's hand in his, marrying Bill. She was divinely happy. day morning and read of the gala premiere, Bill rose to his feet. "You see, Cal, I was No, Bill wasn't under contract to the studio I was surprised—cracks were replaced by a spoiled brat—I deserved everything any- any more. They'd fired him. But I'd see. He praise for one William Franklin, Jr. Seems one cared to say about me. But there is If act was a great actor and it didn't matter. He'd critics had discovered he was an actor— one thing Louise taught me: you get a job when the picture was released superlative, magnificent, sensational one. decently, humanly, toward people, they'll just as you are and, anyway, they'd have her salary to But it wasn't until Sunday afternoon that change toward you— you've prov- live on if no one wanted him. And the the full impact of what had happened changing toward them. When "thank you's" poured forth because I'd struck me. Louise was on the phone when en yourself, they'll give you a break— been the one columnist in town who hadn't I arrived but Bill extended a warm, wel- and that's just what they've done." hasn't said anything bad about Bill. coming hand and made me comfortable Touched? Sure, my heart hard- because I live in Hollywood. As I left For a few moments after I hung up the with a drink. He grinned a little ruefully ened their house that afternoon, I couldn't help phone, the world seemed to stand still. I when I mentioned that I'd read the fine that a woman's love is a strange held my breath at the thought of Louise's praise for his work in the columns. Then but think thing. Perhaps Louise getting involved in such a marriage. Then Louise joined us with a radiance that took and a wonderful of didn't actually change Bill, because basic- I let it out, in half a sigh and half a snort. my breath away. She sat on the arm ally he was a good guy all the time—but I hadn't said anything bad about Bill be- Bill's chair and every time he'd look up light love did work a miracle in giving him the M cause I was afraid of hurting Louise— at her you could almost see happiness courage to prove his goodness. Yes, even just had refrained from ever mentioning up his face. in Hollywood love is a wonderful thing. his name. Wearily, I turned to the type- Finally, Louise interrupted her chatter 90 ^ Ladies — here's the best news you ever heard! Your chance to get a whole new beautiful wardrobe of your own ... a stunning collection of the most colorful new styles

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