Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1951)

LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL Here's your Radio Mirror guide to daytime drama — information on plot, characters, time and station Toby Nelson heard on NBC 3 P.M. EST The break-up of Chichi's romance with Cal Duncan has left her in a strange state of mind — one that Papa David is rather worried about. She has decided she wants nothing but fun, and is pursuing her fun in ways that make Papa David nervous — for instance, in an intensified friendship with night-club owner Coleman Reynolds, suave, sophisticated, and with certain mysterious connections in the underworld that hold great interest for Assistant D.A. Craig Roberts. How much truth is there in the analysis that her friend Alice made of Chichi when she said that she thought Chichi turned instinctively to older men because of her respect for Papa David? GUIDING LIGHT. Ray Brandon heard on CBS 1:45 P.M. EST After the death of her son Chuckie, and her own arrest for the murder of her husband Ted White, Meta White submits without resistance to arrest, imprisonment, the possibility that she may have to pay the extreme penalty for Ted's death. Her friends Charlotte and Ray Brandon try to plan a. fight for her, but Ray, as Meta's lawyer, finds that she doesn't care what happens — doesn't care whether she lives or dies. But gradually the terrible pressure coming upon her from every side reawakens her will to live. Ray begins to hope that they have a chance. Will reporter Joe Roberts, who has become absorbed in the case, be the one to break it wide open? LORENZO JONES. An outfit called the Canadian Tracers of Missing Heirs has informed Lorenzo that he may be heir to a large fortune. It looks as if they knowwhat they are talking about when the head of the agency, Lord Cyril Edgerton, comes to town personally to make a further investigation of Lorenzo's claim to the money, and climaxes his visit by giving Lorenzo a large check. Lorenzo, beginning to believe that maybe miracles do happen, innocently deposits this check in the local bank, but at this point the bank's president, Mr. D il lings, begins to interest himself in the situation. Just what Lorenzo has become involved in may take some fancy figuring out. HILLTOP HOUSE. Grace Dolben heard on CBS 3:15 P.M. EST As head matron of the Glendale orphanage, Hilltop House, Julie Paterno has a record of considerable success in dealing with the problems of children. But lately she has been confronted with a situation that requires unusually careful handling, when teenage Pixie, bitter over the discovery that her father died in jail, falls in with a fast high school crowd whose activities are dangerously close to the borderline between recklessness and delinquency. Worried about Pixie, Julie finds little time to devote to the relationship between herself and Hilltop's young Dr. Jeff — a relationship into which Jeff would like to instill a more 'romantic note. MA PERKINS. Evey Fitz heard on CBS 1:15 P.M. EST Family loyalty has placed Ma Perkins in a dangerous situation. Her cousins, the Hammachers, manage to upset her household, almost gain control of her lumberyard, come close to wrecking her friendship with Shuffle Shober — all because Ma is unwilling to listen to Shuffle's insistent warnings that they are crooks. Young cousin Sylvester in fact comes close to getting Ma's daughter Fay to marry him — Fay being a widow with a fortune. At this Shuffle really goes to work and manages to build up a case, with proof, that even Ma cannot refuse to believe, though Ed and Sylvester are very fast thinkers. But what about Ma's affection for Cousin Bonita, who just isn't very smart? JUST PLAIN BILL. Bill Davidson heard on NBC 5:30 P.M. EST The illness of Bill's daughter Nancy, upsetting enough in itself, looks as though it may lead to the disruption of her previously happy marriage to lawyer Kerry Donovan. For in Nancy's absence the Donovan household is cared for by Theresa Blake, whose sharp young brother, Vincent, has his own reasons for trying to break up the marriage of Nancy and Kerry. With Nancy, in the hospital, listening to all of Vincent's lies, Bill is seriously worried that his best efforts may not be enough to patch things up between Nancy and Kerry — particularly after Dr. Leonard Drew admits that he loves Nancy, confirming the bitter accusation of his ex-wife, Vivian. NONA FROM NOWHERE Vernon Dutell heard on CBS 3 P.M. EST Because of the unexpectedly poor reaction to the first film starring his protegee, Nona Brady, producer Vernon Dutell is in a shaky position at Palladium Studios. Knowing this, Nona is further disturbed as Kay Lanier, an old flame of Vernon's, continues her efforts to ruin his romance with Nona. At the* same time Nona's foster father, Pat Brady, appears to have become strangely and deeply involved with the glamorous Countess Zelda, which is exactly what the Countess has been trying to get him to do ever since they met. Nona's life may become even more complicated when she learns the Countess's reasons for wanting Pat under her spell. RADIO MHIROR READER BONUS 57