Radio stars (Oct 1934-Sept 1935)

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RADIO STARS Hp ID YOU REALLY KNOW HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF LIFE? HOW TO BE HAPPY? THESE "CHILDREN" WILL TELL YOU al friends. Surrounding her is her family, a son, who i: married, and her two daughters and their friends, ley're all young moderns fighting for success in the cnplex maelstrom of big city life. "Today's Children," Iither Moran calls them. In the stress of urban life t!y sometimes rail against her simple and homely plosophy. pier daughters, of course, want love, romance, marriage, dren — but they demand a career, too. When you're paintin' your dreams." Mother Moran inds them, "be careful of the colors you're goin' to be ', 'cause sometimes you make a mistake and the colors tit you think are goin' to look good don't look so good in t finished picture. There are only three colors that have sod the test of all the men and women in the world — t colors of love, family, home." These are the colors that shed their glow over all the episodes of Today's Children. A dozen flesh and blood characters, typical of average living, dominate the scene, yet none of them is dominant. With consummate skill, Irna Phillips and Walter Wicker, out of whose facile minds the homely episodes and characters who make them are spun, manage always to keep the spotlight on the family. And the experiences of this intimate group) — their hopes and aspirations, their triumphs and failures, their joys and woes keep a tremendous audience glued to their radios every morning. Why, a few months ago the sponsor, yielding to unnumbered requests for pictures of Today's Children, got out a little booklet and invited fans to write in for it. Well, listeners flooded NBC with an avalanche of 320,000 flour (Continued on page JQ} (Below) In the foreground, left to right: "Frances Moran," "Judge McCoy," "Bob Crane," "Katherine Crane," "Dorothy Moran," "Lucy