TV & RADIO LOGS-MAY S-14 Loretta Young's Own Story: The Mother Behind My Success Blue Ribbon Bouts: tomeof A $15,000,000 Project What's Wrong? TV Discovers 'Em; The Movies Grab 'em! fe INSPIRE THE PEN Mrs. Renzo Dare, Fontana experience that the ones who write about the Lord loving the common To the person who says she doesn't in are regulars who try to get on people because he made so many of like the Pallais Sisters on "Western every quiz show and do not make the them—is true. Attending the Liberace Varieties," all Ican say is she doesn't grade. In fact I never knew there concert in Pasadena it was interest- know good entertainment when she were so many jealous people until I ing to see how people really love him started going to the broadcasts. hears it and sees it, so let her turn —and he loves to play. He gives the KABC is one of the few studios that her dial. For me, the Pallais Sisters public what they want and is sin- are the best part of "Western tries to do anything about it, and they penalized some very nice people cerely grateful for his good fortune. Varieties." If it wasn't for them I He is so big hearted I imagine he wouldn't even tune in the show. on account of a few who thought they had special rights to be on every pro- would even hand out beans to starv- gram. ing critics. He won't be needing hand- Michael J. Cavanagh, Los Angeles outs for a long time. Iwish that people would write their Barbara Allen, Los Angeles Oh yes, couldn't someone tell Gale right name or initials when com- We all laugh over the Liberace Storm to stop gasping for breath. I plaining about so-called regulars at critics. Even the most caustic critic can't watch her anymore—I get out quiz shows. I have found in my own has to admit that Lincoln's statement of breath. 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Sterling silver (M R.Bracelet $200, Earrings $1.25, Set $3.00 postpaid.tos incl. Send to CAMPUS PRODUCTS, Iles 6)-11 , Alhambra, California. T% -litadio Life (Formerl, Radio-Tries Mims Life) May 7, 1931. 1'01 'eft. No. 12. CAUL M. BlISSISA. Publisher. Published weekly at Los. An -ri,.. California. Business and Editorial Off ires: IRIS N. Argyle Air., Las Angeles el (Hollywood Station). California. Witone MUllywood 1-9215. 1'V RarfL Life was entered as Seeond Class Matter September II, 194R, at Los Angeles. undo'- _let at March 3, 1879. Page Two May 7, 1954 Gayilan . • Aragon Carter Olson conceivably reach the 15 million SKin theTHE street: average man dollar mark. "What's Wednesday Ringside Russ night at seven o'clock mean to you?" Capable Russ Hodges has been on ,•004 A n d you'll more hand for the majority of the brawls, than likely get the answer: with Jack Drees filling in when Russ had other commitments, such as "That's the time for the fights on broadcasting the New York Giants TV." baseball games. TV has set up a lot of habits in the average American family. The Russ has done a commendable job Wednesday night routine of pulling on Wednesday nights, keeping the up the chair to a ringside seat at a yak -yak down to a minimum and Blue Ribbon bout is undoubtedly one letting the fans at home enjoy, of the strongest habits, and certain- watch, and criticize the bouts them- ly affects every member of the fam- selves. ily. The forty -two -year-old is a real vet That's just about the time that the in the sports announcing world. Ori- family has finished eating and is ginally from Wayton, Tennessee, and sitting around relaxing. Pop and reared and educated in Kentucky, he the elder sons tune automatically to got his first big break announcing Channel 2 for the fights. Mama and Western League baseball and Big the kids may protest slightly, but all Ten football games. Since 1935 he to no avail. They either have to ig- has been the regular announcer for nore the bloody blows or else sit the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Bears, el> RUSS HODGES is the boy who down and endure the fisticuffs. (Ac- Northwestern University, Washington does a minimum of chatting and tually, many women have become Senators, Washington Redskins, New who allows fight fans to enjoy the avid fight fans because of the TV York Yankees, and has done coast-to - Wednesday night CBS-TV Blue Ribbon bouts.) coast grid games for the Mutual houts. (CBS photo.) Fourth Anniversary Broadcasting System. This week marks the fourth anni- He has handled the New York e 15 Million Bucks of Blue Ribbon Bouts versary of the Blue Ribbon Bouts. Giants baseball games since 1949. The first one was telecast on May Other highlights of his announcing 8, 1950. Including the May 5 bout career include eighteen different this week, a fantastic total of 186 shows on V-J Day, the Army-Navy Maxim complete fights have been offered to games of 1940 and 1943, and the the TV sports fans. Sixteen of them Eisenhower parade and Roosevelt have been world championship con- funeral in 1945. In private life, Russ tests. is married and has two children. He For the time alone, Pabst Blue doesn't like traveling around the Ribbon pays the CBS-TV network ap- country as much as he does and be- proximately $55,000 for each telecast. ing away from his family, but that's a part of his job. Moon, That makes the grand total (or per- haps we should say the "million" Russ has one all-important sug- total) come to approximately $10,- gestion for TV fights fans: "Never. 230,000 for the four-year period. This but never, take your eye away from figure does not include the extra fees the screen during the action. You for announcers, technical equipment. never know when a fighter is going and the vast amounts of money spent to sneak over a good punch and KO for promotion, advertising, publicity, his opponent. You can pick up the Davey etc. The over-all cost then could beer between rounds!" May 7, 1954 Page Three !PAL -M4.4141F44% 4 (Not Monroe) Pert, blonde Marilyn Hare Alb,, KATHY LINN, member of the Glendale Youth Com- mittee, visits Marilyn Hare and David Street. Kathy has a magnetic attraction and her teen-ager friends participate in organized social activities. The committee sees to it that there is no time for shove biz and it for her. for idleness or undesirable temptations. talents have long been established. and invites them to appear on "Hol- KCOP was very astute in selecting lywood on TV." She claims the stories Marilyn as fern star for their "Hol- of do-gooders are usually buried in By Mildred Ross lywood on TV" stanza. some obscure section of the newspa- Marilyn has been in show business per, but if she looks hard and long since she was three and she's been enough she finds what she wants. before the TV cameras for the past The fashion picture has also be- five years. Obviously no stranger to come an integral part of Marilyn's the videolanes. As a matter of fact, show. Editors of fashion magazines, Betty and Marilyn aren't strangers designers and people in allied fields either. They've been friends for many are spotlighted on the program. years and before their respective TV Family commitments encroached upon their time they saw one another socially. Marilyn happily combines her career and family life. She is the When asked if stepping into some- mother of two lively youngsters, one's TV shoes was embarrassing, Stevie, five, and Chris, three. Despite Marilyn replied that she and Betty her long and successful career, Mari- are two entirely different people and lyn says: "My first concern is my that there is room for both of them family. I do not spend twenty-four on the video scene. hours a day concentrating on my Fans career. Fortunately, I haven't had to Viewers of "Hollywood on TV" push for my career. Somehow things substantiate Marilyn's opinions. Com- just seem to come my way without plimentary letters overflow her KCOP seeking them out. mailbox. One viewer wrote Marilyn "I leave my role of career girl be- that she stops her gardening at three hind at the studio. At home, I'm *ust in the afternoon so that she can Mommy.