Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1951)

R I M 86 Meet the Winners of the PHOTOPLAY GOLD MEDAL AWARDS Here they are, the top actor, actress and motion picture in 1950, as selected by the movie-going public in a nationwide poll conducted over a period of a year, and announced in the March issue of Photoplay Magazine, now on newsstands. First honors go to Betty Hutton for her performance in "Annie Get Your Gun" and John Wayne for "Sands of Iwo Jima." The winning movie was "Battleground," (above) with Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban and George Murphy in the leading roles. Read the complete story of the Photoplay Gold Medal Awards — the fabulous rise to stardom for Betty Hutton — the reason John Wayne is America's favorite boy office attraction — exciting stories and pictures of the outstanding performers and movies of 1950. Don't miss this thrilling issue! Get MARCH PHOTOPLAY NOW ON NEWSSTANDS My Boss Is a Bean Bag (Continued -from page 39) is an honor such as befalls few females. In order to comprehend the dignity with which I fill my office you should read my minutes sometime! Since I feel there is no present like the time for demonstrating my gratitude I am taking a few minutes out from writing my lectures and my great plays and my great poems to pen this elegy about Mr. Lester. As you know, I have been called America's most prominent literary figure. I spend my evenings reading Shakespeare and writing poetry. I feel that the educational lectures I write are important to us all. It is of equal importance, however, that these people who are helped by my lectures should be helped to a knowledge of this man, this Jerry Lester which, with my intelligence and my command of the Mother Tongue they will come, in these pages, to have. I am not, alas, too well versed in Mr. Lester's private life, due to his living incognito in an apartment on Central Park West in New York. Mr. Lester is, in short, a Mystery Man. When people pose probing questions about his pretelevision days, he says, "Why do you have to talk about my life? Who cares? It is what I am now." With the facets of Mr. Lester's personality, however, I am familiar and it is facets, I always say, that Make the Man. For those whose vocabulary is more limited than mine, which is the limit, I shall explain that facets mean the "little things" that are so integral a part of every character, male and female. Such as, for example, what an individual does with his leisure time which casts a great Searchlight upon the Self. Mr. Lester employs his leisure time, I happen to know, in picking up these heavy bowls and balling them in an alley. Mr. Lester is an Outdoor Man, but definitely, when he is not indoors. He loves water. He loves to fish. He loves to swim. He loves to water-ski. He loves the country. He is at home in field and woods and stream. He is at one with the birds and the bees. He aspires to buy a country place. Last summer, Mr. Lester had a week end place in Connecticut. Several times he invited us, his television family, up for a swim. Embroiled as we were in the hot city, he was "a sweetie" as those of limited vocabulary refer to a Man of Distinction, to invite us. Off-camera, as we say in video circles, Mr. Lester is just as full of life and things as he is on-camera. In fact, off and on Mr. Lester is one and the same although I have never, come to think about it, seen him chewing gum when not at work, so I suspect he does it only when in the Mood. Mr. Lester has a nice appreciation of clothes despite the fact that he doesn't have the same appreciation for poetry. "I think Mr. Lester dresses very, very snappy," said a young thing behind a desk at NBC. He especially likes ties, unusual ties. One of his fans knits him a bright blue tie which is decorated by enormous initials of his name set in white squares. This goodly gift is Mr. Lester's favorite cravat. Mr. Lester has a nice appreciation of favors done him in whatever form or I I