Radio romances (July-Dec 1945)

Taking pity on yourself "these days"? Sitting it out just because menstruation's functional cramps, headache and "blues" are making you feel slightly lower than sea level? You don't have to take stopand-go signals from menstrual pain. Instead, take Midol and experience the quick comfort these tablets can bring you. Midol is offered specifically to relieve functional periodic pain. It is free from opiates, and its speedy action is three-fold: Eases Cramps — Soothes Headache — Stimulates mildly when you're "Blue". So don't let up just because Nature lets you down. Perk up — take Midol with complete confidence and enjoy real comfort! Get Midol today at any drugstore. used more than all other products offered exclusively to relieve menstrual suffering CRAMPS -HEADACHE -BLUES" (Continued from page 6) forced to do a whole broadcast without ■ benefit of script. * * * An ex-GI tells us that Dan Seymour's program, Now It Can Be Told, is one of the favorite shows of wounded servicemen in the hospitals around the country. It seems that in the Army, you follow orders and carry out missions and nine times out of ten you have no idea why, or sometimes even where, you're carrying out the orders. Lots of soldiers are catching up factually, now, through these broadcasts, with their own combat history and the war is beginning to make sense. Our veteran tells us, from his own experience, that it's easier to reconcile yourself to having been injured, if you understand the complete ramifications of the action in which you were wounded. This Now It Can Be Told program is another example of the thrill-possibilities of reality. And they're real, all right. At this moment, some 29 government agencies and 53 foreign embassies are supplying Dan Seymour with hitherto censored facts for material. Personally, we're all for hobbies. They make people happy. But they can be carried too far sometimes. James Melton's enthusiasm for old cars is kind of fun — up to a point. But we hear that he carries it to the lengths of having old car motifs on wallpaper and lampshades in his home and embroidered and printed and painted on sweatshirts and ties and handkerchiefs. Wonder if his wife ever feels like a small rebellion? A new note of neatness prevails in the NBC newsroom. Robert St. John used to be a familiar sight whenever things got hot in the news. He'd run around with a sheaf of papers in his hand and his suspenders trailing behind him. It was always a sign of pressure, when St. John pulled the suspenders off his shoulders. But the crowded, hectic situation at the time of the Japanese surrender ..called for a change. William F. Brooks, the director of news at NBC, got worried that St. John would carry away half the newsroom equipment with his flying suspender— because St. John was doing some tall dashing about in those tense days. Brooks hit on a perfect solution. He just whispered to St. John that he was giving the wrong impression — that the office girls all thought he had a bellyache whenever he went around like that with his braces hanging down. In a way, considering the work St. John did in those frantic days, it's a shame he had to give his mind to remembering about keeping his suspenders up, too. The man worked 117 straight hours, with only cat naps at odd moments, which added up to about ten hours sleep in that whole time. He appeared on his regular 10 A.M. program, aired 76 special broadcasts, wrote 2,000 word biographies on each of the principal contenders for the post of Allied Supreme Commander, changed his shirt ten times and lived on orange juice, sandwiches and coffee. * * * We love listeners' reactipns. Charlotte Hanson, who plays — among other roles — the part of Patsy on the Nick Carter series, had a line in one of the recent scripts which went something like this: "Now look, I've ruined my stockings — and it's my last pair!" And, in the next day's mail, Charlotte received six pairs of sheer hose from a sympathetic listener! * * * Not all fans and listeners are like that, though. Mark Warnow's mail on any given day has at least two letters from aggravated songwriters. Songwriters seem to suffer from persecution complexes. Each one of them is positive that publishing houses have turned down their songs because they resent new talent, that the song was so sensational it might make regular composers like Romberg, Kern and Cole Porter look like bums — and that's why publishers turn down the songs. And they demand that Warnow play thtir songs on the Hit Parade. Moreover, they will frequently give a specific date when (Continued on page 10) Radio Romances editorial director Fred Sammis goes into the problems of being an editor with Maggi McJSellis, as guest on her woman's program, heard daily at 12:15, WEAF.