Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1949)

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rare talent in the glamor town. Gus took Marie home to dinner one night to meet his wife, Betty Rowland, whose "Ball of Fire" strip act is one of the classics of present-day burlesque. Marie fell in love with Betty because, she said, "we look so much alike we could be sisters." Betty has red hair and green eyes, and is 5-1; Marie has blonde hair and hazel eyes and is 5-6, but anyhow they both have beautiful figures. They could be sisters in their mutual relaxed love of life, and good fun, and they became fast friends. Inevitably, Marie took the Schillings, too, under her protective wing. When Gus went to the hospital recently for a serious operation to remove stomach ulcers, Marie sent him a pie that she had baked herself and five pounds of salted nuts. "If I had had a stomach," Gus recalls, "it would have turned." When he got home and was convalescing, Marie telephoned every day. One day she was bubbling. She had agreed to "adopt" a European war orphan. It would cost only $185 a year, and Marie had never had such a bargam. "And what's new with you?" she asked Gus. "Oh, nothing much," he replied. "I've just had half my stomach out, Betty closed last night at Zucca's and Republic cancelled my contract." "Oh, dear," said Marie. "Maybe I shouldn't have adopted that orphan. I may have to take care of you." There is no limit, the Schillings say, to Marie's solicitude. Hobbs, the dog, goes regularly to a canine hairdresser, and Marie insisted — until Betty put her foot down — that their mongrel pup should be beautified too. "Our dog would have got pneumonia," Gus insists. Marie doesn't limit her flow of human kindness just to her family and friends. The day the Bob Mitchum story broke with headlines announcing Bob's sins in every newspaper, a magazine writer went to interview Marie and opened up with a flip, "What do you do that's interesting, say like Robert Mitchum smokes marijuana?" "Don't say that," cried Marie, aghast. "Why, if a rumor like that got started that boy could get in a lot of trouble." Cy Howard is still shaking his head over his first meeting with Marie. He had gone to see "Blackouts" and met Marie backstage afterward. He hadn't thought of her as Irma when he saw her on the stage, but afterwards she was "so sweet and cute" that he asked her if she'd like to do a radio program. "Yes," she replied, "but I cant read." What she meant was that she had tried radio a couple of times and flopped. Reading from a script was an insurmountable problem for her. But Howard insisted that she could "read," that he would teach her. "Oh, Mr. Howard," she said, "it's so nice of you, but I couldn't really. You'll get fired, you know, and that would be terrible. You look like a nice guy." Cy's directing technique is authoritative, to say the least, and Marie quit after the first show. She was simply terrified. A script — and Cy Howard too. Cy had to coax her all over again, and he won — but to this day she turns her back on the control room when she works, and if she makes a blunder hides her head in her coat collar and whispers agonizedly to whomever is nm pun Lo and behold, here's the beauty bra for flattering curves . . . designed for every neckline. • miracle SEPARATOR* gives you perfect separation, uplift, control— always, all-v^ays. Glorious comfort ... it breathes with you! • Be alluring —softly feminine! The secret's in the circular stitching and fagotted seams of the new merry-go-rounp CUP. PRE-TESTED SHRINKAGE CONTROL —Fit and Lift won't wash out. tfant natural curves ? Write for FREE booklet, i "Your New Guide to Bustline Beauty, " "PETER PAN FOUNDATIONS, INC. 312 Fifth Avenue, New York l, N. Y., Dept. TH-3 Behold" in popular styles, for every fashion, for every figure, from $1.50 to $5.00 • PATENT PENDINa or over Designed especially , for you tall gals. Higher at the waist, longer at the bottom . . . with Thi-Kontrol, a special thigh trimming and slimming feature exclusive with Real-form. Raschel knitted with nylon, rayon and Lostex.* In pink and white, girdle and panty girdle, sizes 26 to 32. Front and back panels for firm control $6 Front panel for gentle control $5 Also with removable crotch. If not available oi your local store, write REAL-FORM GIRDLE CO., Dept. F-2, 358 Fifth Avenue, New York R M 107