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TO Fred Waring, Tom Waring, Rosemary Lane, Phillips Lord, Ethel Barrymore, Jerry Sears and Kelvin Keech in New York; to Don Wilson, Johnny Green, Kenny Baker and Trudy Wood in Hollywood, Radio Mirror and I give thanks.
You stars appeared on a special Radio Mirror broadcast over NBC's Blue network the last Sunday in October and — I would like to think — made it one of the most outstanding of all the special programs that were held in honor of NBC's Tenth Anniversary.
Of course broadcasting, even as guest stars, is no novelty to any of you, but it was the first program 1 had ever actually produced. I hope it's a long time before I produce another. Those thirty minutes were the longest half hour of my life.
None of you knew it, but just five minutes before the program started, I was told to cut two minutes from the Ethel Barrymore interview. I was still at it, out in the control room, at ten seconds to eight. Just ten seconds before the opening strains of music. And you, Kelvin Keech, couldn't wait for me to give you the corrected script, but had to go to the microphone without it and leave me not knowing whether you had anything to say when the program began.
And you in Hollywood, Don Wilson. Was if really necessary to let twenty seconds slip past before beginning your part of the broadcast? I know it takes fifteen seconds to switch over and clear the wires. But those extra five. I felt like a prospective first father waiting for a word from the doctor. 1 even felt a little like the mother.
Seriously though — you, Fred Waring, taught me that a radio star is willing to come and rehearse for two hours, then stay and broadcast, then just as soon as hes through be on his way to Detroit for a conference with his sponsors. And without telling me that he was so pressed for time he had to bring-all his luggage to the studio with him.
Or you, Kelvin Keech, that a star would rehearse nearly five hours on a program that was making its debut at four-thirty and then, without pausing for breath, come up to our studio for more work.
Or you, Ethel Barrymore, that a star would cancel an important discussion with the director of her Wednesday night dramas because she'd promised to appear for us. Or you, Phillips Lord, that a star would go without his dinner and come right up after his program at five in order to work with us right through until broadcast time.
No wonder Radio Mirror and I give thanks to Fred Waring, Tom Waring, Rosemary Lane, Phillips Lord, Ethel Barrymore, Jerry Sears and Kelvin Keech in New York; to Don Wilson, Johnny Green, Kenny Baker and Trudy Wood in Hollywood.
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