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THOUSANDS WROTE IN ASKING FOR THEIR FAVORITE RADIO SERIAL TO COME BACK, BUT ONLY A MOTHER'S LOVE FOR HER SON MADE IT POSSIBLE
By WHE
MYRTLE VAIL won't want her son George to read this story. There are too many things in it she would rather not have him know. But I hope he does read it. If he's the boy I think he is, it will make him very happy.
It's entirely a radio story. It couldn't possibly have happened in any other profession. Which is rather odd, because it's also one of the oldest, and sweetest, stories in the world. It's about a mother who kept at what seemed to be a losing fight, putting aside all her personal hopes and dreams — simply that she might give her son the chance he needed if he was to preserve his happiness and self-respect.
Myrt and Marge are back on the air now. To their thousands of fans it seemed only natural that they should return. After all, in their five years of broadcasting for one sponsor they had become one of radio's institutions. It was unthinkable that they might not return.
It wasn't unthinkable to the world of radio, however, nor to Myrt herself. When Myrt and Marge went off the air
DAN ELER
last April, and for a long time after that, the odds were a good two to one that you would never listen to them again. There were so many reasons why they might not come back — and there's only one reason why they finally did. There is only one reason why Myrtle Vail isn't in Hollywood now, writing scenarios. One reason— her son.
Myrt was tired, bitterly tired, when the program went off the air. No one who hasn't written and acted in five fifteen-minute radio scripts a week, every week, knows what a drain it is upon mental and physical resources. For five years, with only brief summer rests, she had been subjecting herself to that routine; and now, suddenly, she was brought face to face with the question, had it been worth while?.
The sponsors of Myrt and Marge had suddenly bought another program, and their contract hadn't been renewed for the next year. In addition, they were going off the air two weeks before they had (Continued on page 71)
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THAT BROUGHT
MYRT and MARGE BACK TO RADIO