New Stories McGUIRE SISTERS RADIO-TV WHEEL OF FORTUNE MIRROR JANUARY N. Y. radio, TV listings PEGGY McCAY Her Love of Life JOE MANTELL The Real Cass Todero r PHYLIS AVERY Meet Mrs. McNutley 25* -• Hbsc a shampoo that .a . will . Pen! Sheer heaven the way your hair shine . so silky soft, so silky smooth, so silky bright . with new Drene. Breath-taking . that shimmering silkiness! New Magic Formula . Milder than Castile! Silkening magic! That's what you'll find in Drene's new formula! It lathers like lightning, rinses out like lightning— it's milder than castile! Magic, sheer magic, the way this new Drene silkens your hair. Leaves it bright 8*5 as silk, soft as silk, smooth as silk —and so obedient! ifomkaJ^ti Lathers like lightning — J) This is a no other lather is so thick, yet so quick. •' Me* Milder than castile — so mild you could use this new formula every day. Drene ! A PRODUCT OF PROCTER & GAMBLE ! USTERINE ANTISEPTIC Slops Bad Breath 4 Times BetterThan Any Tooth Paste !... 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Chlorophyll doesn't kill germs — but Listerine kills bacteria by millions, gives you lasting antiseptic protection against Every week 2 different shows. Radio & Television bad breath. "THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE & HARRIET" See your paper for times and stations and for COLDS and SORE THROAT due to colds . LISTERINE ANTISEPTIC The same germ-killing action that makes Listerine Antiseptic the extra-careful precaution against halitosis, makes Listerine a night and morning "must" during the cold and sore throat season JANUARY, 1954 RADIO-TV MIRROR VOL. 41, NO. 2 Contents Keystone Edition Ann Higginbotham, Editor Jack Zasorin, y4r« Director Teresa Buxton, Managing Editor Frances Maly, Associate Art Director Ellen Taussig, Associate Editor Joan Clarke, Art Assistant Betty Mills, West Coast Editor Fred R. Sammis, Editor-in-Chief people on the air What's New from Coast to Coast by Jill Warren 4 The Best Things in Life by Jean Hersholt 21 Strike It Rich, Please Do! (Warren Hull) by Martin Cohen 22 Squire of Beacon Hill (Arthur Godfrey) by Tom Davis 26 Meet MRS. McNutley (Phyllis Avery) by Elizabeth Goode 28 The World Was Before Them (Jeff Clark) by Philip Chapman 30 PERIODIC PAIN Dotty Mack—Beautiful Ugly Duckling by Betty Haynes 32 Jim Backus—and His Other Wife by Betty Mills 34 All the Things Ralph Bellamy Is by Kurt Martin 54 «*et '""! MM Around the World on the Wheel Of Fortune by Mrs. Eva Wilcher 56 Love Can Be Blind (a real-life romance) by Patsy Campbell 58 Who's Who on Kraft Television Theatre (Constance Ford, Tom Taylor, John Baragrey, Ann Hillary, Patti O'Neil, Irene Vernon) 60 Roughing It w»*b Art Linkletter by Peer J. Oppenheimer 62 features fn full color Walter Brooke's Three Steps To Heaven by Elizabeth Ball 36 Joe Mantell—the Real Cass Todero by Gladys Hall 38 The Lady in Mink (Bess Myerson) by Gregory Merwin 40 Life's Easy to Love (Peggy McCay) by Frances Kish 44 Lucky to Be So Right! 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"Famous Husbands" Edward Arnold and Tom Harmon greet famous Mrs. Charles Black (Shirley Temple). By JILL WARREN of the saddest events in all Oneshow business occurred last month when Arthur Godfrey, who was characterized by Julius La Rosa as, "He's been like a father to me," dismissed Julius, of whom he had once said, "He's like a son to me." Here, bared in all its ugliness, were behind- the-scenes workings in show business —perhaps events, more than persons, are to blame for the break-up of one of the finest relationships that had existed between two persons in show business. Arthur Godfrey, some three years ago, heard Julius sing while Julius was still in the Navy. When Julius finished his stint, Godfrey made him into a "Little Godfrey," gave him singing, dancing, skating lessons, took him to Florida with him, handled his business affairs, counseled him in problems that were personal, as well as business prob- lems. In turn, Julius worked hard to perfect himself, tried to make himself into the entertainer that Godfrey want- ed him to be. Meanwhile, Julius and Godfrey's orchestra leader, Archie Bleyer, formed their own record com- pany (after they had been turned down by the major companies) and Julius found himself with two hit records on his hands. As a result, literally hun- Our Famous Husbands: At TV premiere—Mrs. Tom Harmon, Mrs. Art dreds of requests poured in for Julius, Linkletter, Mrs. Edward Arnold, Sheila MacRae (with hubby, Gordon). — ! from COAST to COAST The inside story on Julius La Rosa . a million new shows for TV . what's happened to your old-time favorites I Married Joan: Beverly Wills and her mom, Joan Davis, play-act as "sisters." asking for personal appearances which would give him more money than he could ever have dreamed of making from his appearances on the Godfrey show. Julius is twenty-three, with his whole life before him, and each week he found himself not being able to take advantage of the fact that his voice was in demand to the tune of a lot of money.