Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1949)

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Coast in TELEVISION Ex-gridiron great,. Tom Harmon, who carried the ball for Michigan, will do UCLA games for KECA. ing director Eleanor Kilgallen and Paul V. Galvin, Motorola's president. The door prize, a 1950 television console, was won by an NBC mcin who looked as smug as anything as he gazed on his king-sized loot. Beverly Phillips, at twenty-one, is on her way to where she wants to go in television. A few months ago she was pursuing her job as a guide at Radio City, New York, when her friend Carol Ohmart told her that a third Bonny Maid was needed on George Givot's Versatile Varieties show (NBC-TV every Friday from 9 to 9:30). Beverly auditioned and got the job, joining Carol and the original Bonny Maid, Anne Francis. Now the three girls sing and act out the commercials that are an integral part of the show. Beverly is a pretty blue-eyed blonde who came east from Salt Lake City on a Rotary Club scholarship for further study in music and dramatics. She had been working with a theater group in Salt Lake and had been on the radio two years, so joining Radio City's guide staff was merely her way of being on the premises when an audition came up. Her friend Carol is a stage and radio veteran too. Maggi McNellis, Leave It to the Girls femcee, had to develop whole new wardrobe techniques for video. starting at three in a song and dance act and joining radio at thirteen. Being chosen Miss Utah, and runner-up to Miss America in 1946, brought her to New York and big city radio and TV. The third member of the trio, Anne Francis, is Bonny Maid herself. Anne's experience in television goes back to 1941, but she too was a radio veteran before she was eight. You'll see Anne in the movies soon, in a picture with Paul Henreid called "Runaway." To get back to Beverly, the girl who started us off on this little piece. Maybe you think that now she's in television Radio City has lost an efficient guide. 'Tain't true! A good job is a good job to a girl on her way up, and Beverly is hanging on to both of them. "Television," says Maggi McNellis, "has brought about a fashion revolution." Miss McNeUis speaks with some authority, for she is already a TV vet and is currently seen as narrator of "Leave It to the Girls," heard via NBC-TV on Sundays at 8:30 P.M. "I had to completely replenish my wardrobe for television," says Maggi. {Continued on page 81) RADIO MIRROR TELEVISION SECTION 51