Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1951)

AUNT JENNY BRIGHTER DAY Aunt Jenny heard on CBS 12:15 P.M. Are country doctors born or made? Aunt Jenny had her own opinion recently when she told the story of young Dr. Bill Martin, who became the aging Dr. Allen's assistant. Dr. Bill found Littleton and its outlying areas a rewarding section in which to practice, but his wife Denise, confident that Bill was destined for a bigger, more glamorous, higher-paid place in medicine, refused to become a part of Littleton and never ceased urging Bill to keep looking out for a better post. One stormy night, with Bill out on a EST confinement case, Denise suddenly found herself responsible for a man's life. What she learned then about a country doctor's importance she never afterward forgot. Liz Dennis heard on CBS 2:45 P.M. EST The plane accident that almost cost Hollywood producer Nathan Eldredge his life ends by gaining him something he values nearly as much — Elizabeth Dennis. The news of Nathan's illness, coming just as Liz decided they could never be happy together, started a chain of circumstances that led her back to Hollywood and eventually to a reversal of her decision. She and Nathan are going to be married. The news that they may lose Liz has a profound effect on the rest of the Dennis family. But the news that follows has them even more upset, for with Nathan's return to health will come problems that he and Liz never foresaw — and may not be able to resolve. BACKSTAGE WIFE Larry Noble beard on NBC 4 P.M. EST BIG SISTER Dr. John Wayne heard on CBS 1 P.M. EST Police investigation of the murder of Oliver Wilson, whose body was found backstage after the curtain on Larry Noble's play, climaxes with Larry's arrest. Mary, his wife, frantic with fear that circumstantial evidence may convict Larry of a crime of which she knows he is innocent, turns for help to wealthy Rupert Barlow. Barlow, in love with Mary, is secretly delighted at the opportunity to pursue his plans for breaking up Mary's marriage. He hires a lawyer and gives every evidence of eagerness to help Larry. Mary, pathetically grateful to Barlow, does not know that in reality he has influenced the lawyer against Larry Noble. What will happen to Larry now? The strange struggle between Ruth Wayne and the wealthy Parker approaches a climax as Parker begins more and more to confuse Ruth with the woman who exercised a mysterious power over some period of his past. Knowing that Parker's neurotic craving for control over others has already caused suffering to several of her friends, Ruth tries desperately to convince her brother, Neddie, that if he hopes to save his marriage to Hope he must sever all ties with Parker, in spite of the tempting financial assistance Parker has given him. Finally the situation becomes so intense that Neddie agrees to look for another job — but how deeply is Hope involved with Parker? DAVID HARUM. David Harum heard on NBC 11:45 A.M. EST David Harum's interest in the lives and families of his neighbors in Homeville goes far beyond merely wishing them well. When he becomes aware of tangled family situations— like the one that has developed in the home of his friend Roger Marshall — David cannot stand by and see the growth of misery without trying to help. He has taken a liking to Roger's niece Betty, who is visiting the Marshalls, and is disturbed that she has innocently aroused fierce jealousy in Roger's flighty socialite wife, Helen, and their daughter Celia. Watching the jealousy turn to actual hatred, David wonders how — or if — he can prevent tragic outcome for the Marshalls. FRONT PAGE FARRELL David Farrell heard on NBC 5:45 P.M. EST David Farrell, star reporter for the New York Daily Eagle, is instantly suspicious when he is assigned to cover a murder story which he refers to as the "Blinding Light Murder Case." The dreadful killing of the head of a model agency appears to be an open and shut case, and police are about to arrest the person toward whom suspicion points when David begins his own investigation. David's reaction to the evidence is that it is too open and shut, and points so inevitably in one direction that it looks very much as though it was designed to point that way. The conclusion he reaches surprises the police but David's evidence convinces them of its correctness. . 56 DAYTIME DIARY—