Radio mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

RADIO MIRROR the carefree life he and his classmates had led. "I'm not going back to school," he told Myrt. "I want to go to work. Be independent." Looking at him, Myrt saw past the determined set of his jaw to the scared, confused, rudderless state of his mind. She saw, too, the mistake she herself had made. A good education. Yes, it had been that, the best that money could buy — and what good had it done her boy? He talked about earning his own living, but what was there that his education had fitted him to do? Nothing. It had not even taught him to care for money which was given him, much less earn that money for himself. "What kind of work do you want to do, George?" she asked. Stumblingly, he tried to hide from her his lack of confidence. He'd like to work on a newspaper — he'd always liked journalism in school. Of course, he knew it was pretty hard to get newspaper jobs without any experience. But there was the stage. He'd gone on a personal appearance tour with Myrt and Marge the summer before, so he had a little experience in that profession, and perhaps, if he couldn't get on a newspaper. . . . JulVRT looked swiftly back, down the "■ years of her own experience on the stage. She knew what the stage could be, and usually was. Why, thirteen days after George was born she'd been rehearsing in a new vaudeville act — she'd had to, to get money to feed him and Donna. And when George was twelve she'd pawned her wedding ring to buy a new dress for the audition which sold the Myrt and Marge series to the radio. As for newspapers — frankly, she didn't believe an eighteenyear-old boy without any experience could find work on any of them. Nor could she help hm if she did what she had been making up her mind to do — give up radio, go to Hollywood, and try to write for the movies. She could give him a little money, the money she had set aside for him to go to college on, but what good would that do? George didn't want money; he wanted, and needed, a job. Something to tide him over a difficult period in his life, something to assure him of his usefulness in the world. There was only one way she could help him, and yet not appear to be helping him. "How would you like to go on the air with me?" she asked him. "I can write in a part in Myrt and Marge for you, and as soon as we sell it you'll be making a small salary — just what I'd pay any other actor." George leaped at the idea, naturally; and Myrt, with a small sigh, put aside her dreams of a life in California, away from the treadmill of writing, rehearsing, broadcasting, writing, rehearsing, broadcasting, day after day, week after week. Now, if she could only get a sponsor — It wasn't easy. Several times, that summer and fall, negotiations seemed to have progressed with this sponsor or that, practically to the dotted-line point; but something always happened. Out in Hollywood, Donna waited, her trunks all packed, ready to come East at a day's notice. At last, after eight months off the air, Myrt's confidence in the program was rewarded. Under the sponsorship of Super Suds, Myrt and Marge took over the 2:45 spot on CBS every afternoon except Saturdays and Sundays. I was in the studio the afternoon George made his air debut. He had a song to sing, and a few lines to speak. His singing voice is naturally sweet, but untrained. As to his lines, Myrt had been firm in her LITTLE ''COAL MINES" IN YOUR SKIN! THAT'S WHAT BLACKHEADS REALLY ARE! Here's How to Deal with Them Those little black specks that keep showing up in your skin — do you know what they really are? They're nothing more than little "coal mines" in your skin ! They're imbedded dirt — dirt that has found its way deeply into your pores. This dirt isn't easily removed, as you know, or you wouldn't have blackheads. Like Black Little Candles In Your Skin This dirt is stiff and waxy. 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