TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1955)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

Callouses, Tenderness, Pain, Burning at Ball of Foot? Ball-o-foot Cushion LOOPS OVER TOE QUICK RELIEF BEYOND BELIEF! Made of soft LATEX FOAMland NYLON You Actually WALK ON CUSHIONS! It's entirely NEW! Never before anything like it for relieving painful callouses, tenderness, burning at ball of foot! The cushion — not you — absorbs shock of each step. Dr. SchoU's BALL-O-FOOT Cushion loops over toe. No adhesive. Flesh color. Washable. Worn invisibly. $1.00 pair at Drug, Shoe, Dept., 5-10f! Stores and Dr. Scholl's Foot Comfort* Shops. If not obtainable locally, order direct, enclosing $1.00 and state if for woman or man. DR. SCHOLL'S, INC., Dept. 57B, Chicago 10, 111. High School Course at Home Many Finish in 2 Years I and abilities permit. Equivalent to i ichool work — prepares for college entrance exams. Standard texts supplied. Diploma awarded. Credit for H. 8. subjects completed. Single subjects if desired. Ask for free Bulletin. American School, Dept. HA53, Drexel at 58th, Chicago 37 HOW TO MAKE MONEY! Write today for FREE plan which shows how to make big money in your spare time. All you do is help us take orders for magazine subscriptions. No experience needed. Send .name and address on a postal. There is no obligation. MACFADDEN PUBLICATIONS 205 East 42 St.. N. Y. 17, N. Y. ENLARGEMENT ofyoufi 7-auofMe Photo FROM FAMOUS HOLLYWOOD FILM STUDIOS Just to get acquainted, we will make you a beautiful studio quality 5 x 7 enlargement of any snap\ shot, photo or negative. Be sure JJ» to include color of hair, eyes and i clothing, and get our Bargain \ Offer for having your enlarge' ment beautifully hand-colored in oil and mounted in a handsome frame. Limit 2 to a customer. Please enclose 10$ to cover cost of handling and mailing each enlargement. Original returned. We will pay $100.00 for children's or adults pictures used in our advertising. Act NOW1 HOLLYWOOD FILM STUDIOS. Dept. F-58 7021 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood 38, Calif. NEW EYE GLAMOUR ARTIFICIAL EYELASHES— Absolutely natural-looking lashes that give you GORGEOUS EYES instantly. Exotic! Glamorous! Simple, easy ... put on in 5 seconds ... can be used over and over again. In compactlike purse-size case. Black or Brown T 10 DAY TRIAL FREE! Order today at our risk. If not comV pletely satisfied return the eyelashes after 10 days' h trial for full refund. HONOR HOUSE PRODUCTS CORP. Dept. E-7T7 LYNBROOK. N. Y. 98 only $1 Happily Ever After (Continued from page 33) five-eleven — but, being scrupulously honest, he insists on waiting till he reaches his full growth. Although he photographs on your screen romantically dark, he actually has light-brown hair, blue eyes and fair skin. However, the Doug Fairbanks mustache is not false, and neither is the very bright disposition. "When I was young — when I had been discovered only a couple of times," he recalls, "I was just a big yawn to most women. Now, suddenly, when I'm Jack Benny's age, I get a lot of mail from women. Some invite me to drop myself in a mail box — and they write as though they mean it. These letters I give to my wife to answer." Earl and wife Markey and daughter Wendy Ann live on the fashionable North Shore of Long Island, in a home with only one fireplace. Their previous home had seven, and Earl was thinking of installing a couple more — one for each bathroom. This whole business of renovating houses started in 1950 when Earl went into the real-estate business because he was making more money than he could spend. "I bought up old property and renovated it. The first house I did over wound up twelve thousand dollars in the red. After I had more experience — about the fourth house — I got so I lost only forty thousand." He grins unhappily. "Anyway, when it came to decorating our present home, I let Markey have the fun and she did a wonderful job." The Wrightsons have been married sixteen years. They were born and raised in Baltimore. Earl joined the world at just about the time most New Year's Eve parties were folding up on January 1, 1916 — at six A.M. He was the youngest in a family of eight children. His father was a Methodist minister, who died when Earl was eleven. His mother was a musician and former teacher. ("Sunday evenings, we were all together making beautiful music," Earl recalls, "and eight or nine people can really play loud.") As a boy soprano, Earl lent his voice to the church choir. At sixteen, he decided he wanted to be a singer. "I'll give you lessons," the choirmaster told him, "but you haven't got much of a voice, so it wouldn't be honest to take your money." In his junior year, Earl quit high school. "I quit because I was bored," Earl tells you, "and I have never regretted it." Earl was not irresponsible. He took on after-school jobs when his father died. He had an evening newspaper route for years. From the time he was thirteen, he paid for all his own clothes. But he was bored, so he quit school and got his first job in a bank which his brother Frank managed. "I was operating an adding machine next to a slim, beautiful brunette," he grins. "She was conscientious and wanted to attend to work — and I wanted to talk." The girl was Alta Markey. So Earl quit — to her relief and also that of his brother, who wanted to be president (he has since become the president of the biggest bank in Maryland). Earl found a job as designer in a jewelry firm, and the courtship of Alta Markey continued mostly in restaurants, hot-dog stands, diners, ice-cream parlors , candy stores — anywhere there was food. Eating happened to be the favorite sport, avocation and way to spend a vacation for both Alta and Earl. ("There was one restaurant in Baltimore which served such quantities of food that no one else was ever able to eat dessert — but, for us, the manager had to send out for ice cream." Earl's aspiration to sing was never forgotten. At nineteen, he sang for John Charles Thomas, who was also the son of a Baltimore minister. Mr. Thomas was enthusiastic and positively encouraging. Earl continued his lessons. "And I had a deal with an undertaker. I sang 'Going Home' in his funeral parlor and he paid me five dollars for each engagement. I tell you I didn't like it. I had to get into a corner where no one could see me, and my only accompaniment was a pitch pipe." Earl grimaces. "To this day, I can't sing 'Going Home.' " In March of 1938, with $23 in his pocket, Earl took a train to New York and tried for a page-boy job at NBC. At that time, an NBC page-boy job was considered the springboard to fame and fortune. Earl's application was accepted and he was told to wait. He got a bed at the YMCA, looked for a job until his money ran out, and then went back to Baltimore. "This is the point where the faith of a friend meant the difference between a singing career and who-knows-what. Our neighbor asked me if a two-hundreddollar loan would keep me in New York until I got a start. I said yes." The day Earl got back to Manhattan, they were hiring page boys and, because he was there, he got a job. He then took a letter of introduction to Robert Weede, the fine Metropolitan Opera baritone. Mr. Weede heard Earl and agreed to give him lessons. That October, Earl and Alta Markey married. "I was making fifteen dollars a week, and we moved into a fifth-floor walk-up on 47th Street. We lived on the cheapest food we could find, which was spaghetti — with our appetites, it had to be filling, too — and I gained twenty-five pounds." The young Mrs. Wrightson got an accounting job in Wall Street to supplement Earl's pay, but, before the year was out, Earl had been "discovered." Earl, in one of those it-can't-possibly-be-true Hollywood scripts, went from page boy to concert singer overnight, with star billing in the same studios where he had been ushering people to seats. It came about this way. Robert Weede asked Earl to return a score to Walter Damrosch. The score was the balconyscene solo from the "Cyrano de Bergerac" opera. Mr. Weede had been asked to sing it on a special broadcast honoring Dr. Damrosch's birthday, but Mr. Weede had another commitment. "I got to Dr. Damrosch's home and the servant took me up to the study," Earl recalls. "We got to talking about my ambitions, and Dr. Damrosch asked me if I could sing the 'Cyrano' score. I could. I had, in a sense, been studying it over Mr. Weede's shoulder." Earl sang and Dr. Damrosch went to his phone and called up Dr. Samuel Chotzinoff, who then, as now, was in charge of long-hair music at NBC. "I've got a discovery," Dr. Damrosch said, "and I want him to sing for my party broadcast." Dr. Damrosch was so important, you see, that he picked the program for his own party. On the day of the broadcast, Milton Cross — who had known Earl the day before as a page boy — did handsomely by his friend and, in reading off the list of "great artists who are here to honor Dr. Walter Damrosch," sandwiched in the name of Earl Wrightson. The next day, Earl signed up with NBC's artists' bureau. "And, with such success, we began to move uptown," Earl remembers. "We moved from our fifthfloor walkup on 47th Street to a fifth-floor walkup on 49th."