Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1951)

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Get this remarkable book at once and thrill your family and your friends with your new found culinary skill. Send No Money Send no money. Just mail coupon. Upon delivery, pay postman $2.98, plus postage. Money back if not delighted. Act now. Dept. RM-351 BARTHOLOMEW HOUSE, Inc. 205 E. 42nd St., New York IT, N. Send me MAGIC COOK BOOK. When postman delivers book. I will pay him $2.98, plus a few pennies postage. Then if after reading it for 5 days 1 decide that I do not wish to keep it, I will return it to you and my $2.98 will be refunded immediately. NAME Please Print STREET ' CITY STATE a Check here If you prefer to send $2.98 with this coupon and we will pay postage — same return privilege of course. at my party, especially when Mr. Lester sang a song on the show, all about me, and then paid me a tribute on his Bedtime Story. Even rehearsals for our show are in the spirit of fun and fancy-free and are sometimes much funnier (from our standpoint) than the show itself. Unlike some big TV programs which have the atmosphere of a concentration camp, we just sit around and horse around and kick around the script which is, actually, a mere framework, framing us and the funnies we make. If anyone thinks of anything funny to say, while we're sitting around, he comes right out with it. If it gets a laugh from the rest of us, it's in. If it doesn't, the contributor gets heckled until he comes up with something really good — then he becomes a "genius in good standing" until he issues another faux pas. Our rehearsals last only three hours, from seven to ten p.m. Over our rehearsals Mr. Lester presides with goodnatured tolerance, kidding us, laughing with us, helping us, the pixie that resides in him taking over. From ten to eleven p.m. we are in the make-up room where the kidding and the laughing continues with the result that when we go on the air it hardly seems as though we are working. At the end of the show when Mr. Lester turns to us and asks, "Are you happy?" he means it. He cares whether we are happy or not. He often says, "We're a crazy little family and we know it, but. we are a family." It's true, too. We love each other and we love working together and we're pretty sentimental about each other and we don't try to hide it. Recently, when Jack Bierman left our show to go in the Air Force (He was one of the Mellowlarks) Mr. Lester decided to give Jack his own Night. Anything he wanted to do on stage, Mr. Lester said, would be okay. The show was Jack's and the frsjnework was to be put up that way. Well, for the first half of the program everything went as usual, just the habitual laughs and nonsense. Then suddenly it occurred to me that next Tuesday Jack wouldn't be with us anymore. Immediately this thought smote me, the whole cast seemed to change. Informed as I am on mental telepathy and thought transference as on all other subjects, I realized what had happened and was not surprised when the usual backstage bantering fell from us and left us standing there, off-stage, silently watching Jack on stage as he went through a sketch with Jerry and Ray Malone. Suddenly Tommy Hamm said softly, "I never realized how much I love that guy." Joan Lorry started to cry and then I broke down. We tried hard to hold it back because our makeup would be ruined. But when Jerry came off-stage and saw us, he said "Look, kids, we're human beings, not machines. If you feel like crying, cry. The heck with make-up." If you saw the show that night, I don't have to tell you what it was like. Maybe it wasn't very funny but it was the most beautiful show I have ever been on. That night, after the show, we gave Jack a going-away party. The next day we all went to the airport to see him off. This was the first member of our little family to leave us and I guess this was the first time we'd really realized what our family means to us. There's something comforting, though, in feeling this way about each other.