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Above, Doris Day sings on WLW's "Moon River." Jay Jostyn at WLW before he oscame Mr. District Attorney. Durward Kirby met Mary Paxton at WLW, and they married. The Morin Sisters appeared on WLW in the early 1930's as the Ladies in Waiting.
FATES & FORTUNES
WLW has earned its title
Alumni from the Cincinnati station top profession
Like a great university, WLW Cincinnati has graduated hundreds of skilled performers and production men into the higher realms of the radio and television world.
Gene and Glenn were an early WLW twosome. Glen Rowell is still in radio at Rapid City, S.D. Gene Carroll is
leading tv emcee in Cleveland.
Sid Ten Eyck and Bob Burdett
starred in one of first comedy shows — The Doodlsockers.
Soap opera was born at WLW with The Mad Hatterfields, Midstream, The Puddle Family, The Life of Mary Sothern, and the queen of them all — Ma Perkins, starring Virginia Payne, who became one of the leading dramatic actresses and recent president of the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (AFTRA).
Little Jack Little was WLW pianist. Later became an NBC orchestra leader and national radio idol. Partner was Bob Brown, writer-producer-announcer, now with Leo Burnett Co., Chicago.
Among the distinguished WLW announcers were Jean Paul King; Blayne Richards Butcher, now head of a Philadelphia station group; Charles Godwin, vice president of Mutual Network stations; Floyd Mack; Jimmy Leonard; Dan Riss; Don Davis; Charles Woods; Doug Browning; Don Dowd; Tom Slater, Fuller Smith & Ross v.p.
In the actor lineup — Ralph Moody was one of the WLW great character actors; Eddie Albert started on WLW as a tenor; and Frank Lovejoy acted his way to the great white way, now starring in the hit show, The Best Man.
Lon Clark, creator of the Nick Carter role on radio, was a WLW thespian.
Among the many fine actresses who performed at Crosley Square were Bess McCammon, Minabelle Abbott, Mary Jane Croft, Anne Seymour.
WLW is also proud to boast that the king comic himself, Red Skelton,
clowned on the station for two years.
Jeff Sparks, present radio-tv director of the United Nations, was a member of the Crosley station group.
Above, Lloyd Shaeffer, now a network star, was with WLW here. Shaeffer holds the baton, Virginio Marucci is first violinist from center. Jimmy James and Clyde Trask were in the band. Below, considering they were heard and not seen, early studio productions were quite elaborate, as this one in the 1930's. Another popular studio orchestra leader was Henry Theis.
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BROADCASTING, April 2, 1962