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Who's Who in Radio and TV
JULIA MEADE
A NATIVE New Yorker, lovely Julia Meade was born while her mother — a Shakespearean actress— was in Boston. When she was ten, her family moved to Ridgewood, New Jersey. There, as a high school student, Julia showed early show-business promise by winning a' recitation contest two years in a row — once with a selection from "The Taming of the Shrew"; the second time with "something from 'Cyrano' " — and appearing in the senior class play. Diploma in hand, Juha headed for the Yale Drama School. Although this famous school is for graduate work, Julia was accepted after passing the entrance exam. After completing her studies, she spent several years as a TV actress, then received an offer to join Ed SuUivan's Toast Of The Town. At first she turned it down, but, a while later, she reconsidered and. decided to try it — ^just once. She's still there, and happily so. "I love the show and I love Ed," Julia says. "He introduces me as though I were one of his big acts." Also familiar to viewers of Your Hit Parade, Julia has not given up acting entirely. Last season she appeared on Broadway in "The Tender Trap," and hopes to do another play soon. Married to Worsham Judd, a commercial artist, Julia and her husband share their Manhattan apartment with two cats. In addition to making home movies, she loves to cook and "adores" the Yankee baseball team.
Announcers
REX MARSHALL
IIFE, for handsome Rex Marshall, has been a series of I gambles — some good, some not so good. Bom in Jamestown, New York, the thirty-six-year-old announcer has had broadcasting in his blood since he was a young lad and worked for small and medium-sized stations throughout the East. After establishing himself in Boston as a capable announcersalesman-emcee. Rex decided to try his luck in New York. After a series of menial jobs, none of which were in broadcasting, he returned to small stations. A few more years of developing his talent and stature on local stations, and Rex was again ready to gamble on New York. Uncle Sam, however, detoured him, and he entered the Air Force. The day he won his wings, he also took his home-town sweetheart, Barbara, as his bride. After five years of war flying, during which he survived fovu crack-ups. Rex resumed his "Invasion of New York Broadcasting" and finally landed an announcing job with the ABC network. Then, eyeing television in 1948, Rex took a chance and joined New York's Station WPIX before it even opened. Soon, he was on his way to the top, highUghting his stay at WPIX with his brilliant coverage of the 1948 political conventions. Offers began pouring in, and Rex was hired to handle the commercials, and later served as narrator and host, on numerous leading network shows. Suspense, Ellery Queen, Mr. Peepers, are only a few of the programs on which his friendly face and manner have appealed to millions. Often busy seven days a week. Rex still finds time to play some handball, go skeet shooting and make recordings for the blind. His happiest moments, however, are spent with his wife Barbara and their children —Pamela, 12, and Peter, 8 — at home in Greenwich, Connecticut.