Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1949)

Coast to Coast in Television (.Continued from page 55) are for the young in heart of all ages, it's the young in heart and in stature who should have first lien on the clowns and tumblers and monkey acts and circus bands and all the rest of the joys of the sawdust ring. ^ # ^ Bill Marceau is one of television's first and busiest directors, with DuMont's Morning Chapel, Television Shopper and Fashion Revue. Bill was born in Butte, Montana, and grew up in western mining towns. When he finished school he donned a miner's cap, but a little more experience of the world convinced him there were easier ways to make a living. He decided he'd be an actor, and his first jobs were in burlesque, combining acting with scene-shifting, directing, and the hundred and one chores of a small theatrical outfit. This led . to organizing a repertory company of his own, after a little experience in stock. He finally landed on Broadway and, like all good actors, he landed at last in Hollywood. There he doubled in brass a good part of the time by acting at one studio during the day and working in the special effects department of another studio at night, catching forty winks if, as and when he could. Going without sleep seemed easier than going without meals, and it took two paychecks to furnish enough of them. As he looks back now and compares his job in television with his job as a miner, he's not so sure that mining wasn't the easier way to make a living, after all. At least, he thinks so on the days a TV camera blacks out suddenly or a player fluffs his lines. But on any other day he wouldn't change jobs with anyone — unless it's a fellow that has a bigger spot in video! Films for television have staunch support from one quarter where you might least expect it— from that veteran of radio and pioneer on TV, Dwight Weist, former emcee of We, the People. Weist helped make TV history last year when We, the People became the first regular radio program to be airborne simultaneously for television. Several months after that he gave up the emcee job to work on some televisual ideas, all of them connected with filming. You'll be seeing the first of these any day now, if indeed you haven't already. They're being sold regionally, so it all depends on the part of the country where you live. One is a 15-minute Feature Story, in which Weist plays a reporter, which of course he is, who takes the televiewer all over these United States to see for himself what amusing, what serious, what educational and what stimulating things his fellow-citizens are doing. The second Weist series is called What's New, and tells all about the newest gadgets and gimmicks. The third series is called Where Is It? — a sort of quiz game for home viewers in which American landmarks are to be identified and correctly placed, with prizes for the right answers. * * * Check DuMont's A Woman to Remember. It shows how different the TV approach to the daytime drama is going to be from the radio approach. They're NEW and they're NEWS! PANTIES ^jy and Tf #▼ FLARE SUGHTL/ HIGHER . . . for a fouch of If enus 3 popular styles in 2 quick drying Tricot rayon fabrics — »ancl iust look at the unbelievably low prices. Pink, white, blue, black, maize, nile and orchid. Small, Medium and large, T-V "Gold Ribbon" (Run Proof) Briefs . .49e T-V "Silver Ribbon" {Run Resist) Brief s . .39e Flare in each fabrit ?0c higher Individually cellophane packoged McKAY PRODUCTS CORP. • 350 fIFTH AVE., NEW YORK, N. Y. to give you smooth, round hips . . • Besttorms wonaerful trocaaea siae-nook girdle, Doned front ana back, elastic side panels for firm control. At fine stores. Style 3280-12", sizes 23-34. Style 3480-14". sizes 26-36. Style 3680-16". sizes 27-36. In nuae only, $5.00 R M 97