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RADIO BAZAAR
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WTIC's Director of Women's Activities and of that station's Radio Bazaar.
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Winter evening at home with Hill, Jean and June Colbert.
EVER since Jean Colbert, WTIC's Director of Women's Activities, played the part of a pussy willow in a kindergarten Easter program and wrote skits for her Central Park playmates, she wanted to be a big-time actress. Her determination and natural talent did win her parts in school plays and even a scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, but then her dream career struck a snag. Her father, a professor at New York's City College, frowned upon his daughter's stage aspirations. He demanded that Jean acquire an education and choose (as he termed it) "a decent way of earning a livelihood." So Jean continued her education but she never got a teacher's license because she managed to graduate from Hunter College at the age of 19 — too young to teach. Jean's father knew when he was licked, and it was actually through his efforts that Jean got her first job on Broadway, playing the part of a French girl with Philip Merivale, Basil Rathbone, Elsie Ferguson and others. She was a natural for the part — looked it, acted it, and spoke it convincingly. Jean played in play after play until marriage and children made radio a more convenient vehicle for her talents. As one of the leading dramatic actresses on all the networks, she went to the coast in 1936, performed on the Radio Theatre and Hollywood Hotel. She was the "voice" for Rose Hampton, Gladys Swarthout, Lily Pons and many other opera stars who did not want to read lines. But now, Jean has put the acting part of radio behind her. She admits it is fascinating, but finds writing specialized women's shows more to her liking, and she has displayed the same unusual talent for writing that she did for acting. For the past six years Jean has written and produced women's programs. She tackles anything she feels women should be interested in — fashions, homemaking, politics — even sports. Admitting that the last category is predominantly a man's world, she says "we gals must buckle down and learn exactly what sports addicts are jabbering about." Jean's duties at WTIC include the writing and m.c.-ing of the station's Radio Bazaar, a program for women heard each weekday, 8:30-9:00 A.M. Constantly on the go, you're apt to meet her anywhere but at her studio office after program-time. She may be filling a speaking engagement before a women's club, visiting expositions and demonstrations or attending a session of the United Nations General Assembly. But all these extracurricular activities provide material for the Bazaar, to which Jean has given a most unique format. In respective order, the days of the week are Glamour Day, Children's Day, United Nations Day, His Day (dedicated to the man of the house), Household Roundup Day and Home Decoration Day, and the ladies at home like this orderly housekeeping on their favorite program. Jean is interested in everything and everybody, but her main interest naturally is her two children ... a red-haired, blue-eyed daughter June, who goes to Ohio State University, and a sportsloving son. Hill, a junior at Hartford Public High School. Jean herself is dark-haired and brown-eyed and, according to John Robert Powers, "on the glamorous side."