Radio mirror (Jan-June 1948)

Record Details:

Title:
Radio mirror
Date:
Jan-June 1948
Publisher:
New York : Macfadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Radio mirror (Jan-June 1948)
Leaf #:
00050
Language:
English
Collection:
Fan Magazines and Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Radio Mirror (later known as Radio and Television Mirror) was a fan magazine for radio listeners and later TV viewers that includes profiles of the stars, visits to radio and television studios, and program listings. The early years in the 1930s show the interaction of motion pictures, recordings, the stage, radio and even politics. The role of radio in World War II is well covered in the 1940s, and by the 1950s the focus shifts to television and a new generation of personalities. -- David Pierce, 2013
Date Added:
September 28, 2023
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Some people think love at first sight is an old wives' tale. Some people — like Grace and Court — are much more fortunate By GRACE MATTHEWS (RADIO'S BIG SISTER) THE FIRST TIME I saw Covirt was the last time I saw any other man — ^with interest, that is, with girl-meets-boy excitement. Yet it was to be three years after I first saw Court before I met him. Thanks, not to be rude, to a stuffed shirt . . . I first saw Court in 1937 when he was playing the lead in "Merrily We Roll Along" at the Hart House, in Toronto. I was there with the young man I was going with at the time. But stopped "going with" then and there, after that evening — for the young man made it obvious that he was merely suffering through the play. He was, in fact, so impatient to get out of the theater that I didn't get to meet Court which, from the moment I saw him walk on the stage, I must admit, I planned to do. A very fine actor, I told myself. ThM's why I vxint to meet him . . . He appeals to you, as a man, my embarrassingly honest heart told me. You know he does. So he did. But, thanks to the stuffy young man I didn't meet Court that evening. Not for three years of evenings to come. Court tells the story of our first meeting better than I do: "On New Year's Day, of 1940," he says, "I walked in the studio in the CBC — Canadian Broadcasting Company — ^building in Toronto, where auditions were being held for the title role in The Story of Dr. Susan, a daytime series, which I was announcing. The room was crowded with girls trying out for the part, but I saw one girl. Only one." Well — ^maybe he doesn't tell it so much better at that. What I'd say is: "I saw only one man." After I'd seen him, the audition faded into the background, for me. Maybe that's why I got the part! It was probably a very few days after I went on the air as Dr. Susan that Court first asked me for a date. But at the time, it seemed to me more like weeks, or months, or longer. According to Court, when he did ask me for a date, he made the "wrong approach."