Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1951)

snape. ms tans send mm presents 01 bean bags, hundreds every week, made of everything from muslin to mink (women send me bean bags, too, beautiful ones, embroidered and all) and although his fans have also sent him such costly commodities as a television set and a motor car, it is the thought and not the token that touches Mr. Lester. When people put their hearts on paper and write him affectionate letters he is so near to tears, I have observed them glisten. I would say Mr. Lester is a sincere man, very sincere. If I have a lovely gown on, he'll say "You look lovely tonight." He always says this when I wear the royal blue velvet with the ermine at the top which I wore the first night I appeared on the show. My lucky dress, I call it. . . . Before I made my debut on Broadway Open House I had worked with Mr. Lester on television's Cavalcade of Stars in various and sundry sketches. Mr. Lester seemed to like my work for after Broadway Open House had been telecast but twice, I got a call at twenty to nine one evening (I was at home studying, as is my wont). The voice raid: 'Tome on over and do a spot on the show with me tonight." If I had not been a nice girl, serious-minded and all, I might not have been at home that evening and this might never have happened. I was told to bring an evening dress with me. I brought my royal blue velvet. When I arrived at the studio Mr. Lester told me, "Here's what you do tonight. You sit on the bandstool. We just want you to act dumb and be the new band-singer." "Please, Mr. Lester," I said, "dumb— you're destroying my mood!" But Mr. Lester just smiled at me, that pliable smile of his. He was very sweet. He really built me up that very first night. "Where's your home?" he asked me quizzically. "West Virginia." "Where do you live there?" "In Huntington." "Where's that?" "In West Virginia." When I say Huntington, West Virginia, my attitude is that of someone saying, "I am from Paris." Still and all, people laughed and everything went so well that night Mr. Lester decided to have me on the next night and after that, it just sort of developed. Despite his blind spot about poetry, Mr. Lester has many talents. He is the co-author, with our Milton De Lugg of the hit song, "Orange Colored Skies," and he and Milton recently co-authored two new songs which have been recorded. "The Bean Bag Song" on one side, "Your Sister Knocks Me Out" on the other. He is really a combination of every quality and talent, my boss, but I would say that the key, the big key to Mr. Lester's combination is the big, warm, sentimental mother heart in him, which led me to call him our "little mother hen," not only because I am twice his size but because he watches over the entire cast of Broadway Open House the way a mother hen watches over chicks just out of the shell and still damp behind the cockles. He loves his "little family." He is forever throwing parties for us. On my birthday, he threw a surprise party for me and the way he went around to everyone warning them not to let the cat out of the bag would have touched your heart as it did mine. I am very soft-hearted, too, you know. I cried STY16 804 : NXION TAFFETA A Cup — 32 to 36 B Cup — 32 to 38 C Cup — 32 to 40 WKJT6;.onty J6 The exciting difference is , ibis simple smoW torre, \l EXQUISITE FORM BRASSIERE, INC. New Yo'rk 16 • Los Angeles 14 • Toronto, Canada $25,000 in cash prizes for YOUR True Story! The editors of TRUE STORY Magazine want your story, the thrilling, suspenseful human-interest drama of the great moment in your life! Enter this fabulous $25,000-in-cash contest. You don't have to be an experienced writer. It's the story that counts, the story in your life . . . For complete details Get March TRIE STORY Now on Newsstands Tune in "Mv True storv"MondayF"day * ' '' ' ARC (f/ili'nnc ABC Stations 87