Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1951)

That's why we love our little mother hen so much. He made it happen. It is especially comforting to me to have this family feeling about those with whom I do my Life Work because I am such a big family girl in my private life. In addition to my mother and my father I have three sisters and three brothers, all younger than I am. We are a very close warm family, too. My younger sister, Jean, she is twenty-one, lives with me now in New York, helps me in every way possible. I have had three fan letters from my little brother, aged nine. He sends them to me at NBC because "I thought it might help you, Sis." He is very careful to call me Dagmar, too, and not Ruth — Ruth Egnor is my real name — or even Jenny Lewis which is what I named myself when I came to New York to obtain a career on the stage after having enjoyed a career down home as tap dancer and during business hours as a typist. It is for my family's sake that I hope to put everything into this opportunity I have been given on Broadway Open House. I want more than I want anything to buy my family a home. What, you may inquire, not something special for myself. No, not now, not yet. If I buy my family a home, I will make eight people happy. If I buy something for myself, only one person. Mr. Lester has this love-of-othersbetter-than-himself in even greater degree, for he not only loves his little family he loves, he really loves, the Public. The Public is almost like a religion with him. At rehearsals he often admonishes us, "The Public is never wrong. If we don't entertain them, that's our fault. The Public is George all the way." As Mr. Lester's fans, friends and fellow bean baggers know, a bean bag, in the Lester lexicon, is a regular guy while "George" (this is said slowly, while breathing deep) means something good; if something extremely good, it is "George all the way." One of the reasons Mr. Lester loves video as he does is because, "There is a relationship here between actor and audience never attained in the theater, or motion pictures. You work with your audience almost like a friend invited over for coffee." Mr. Lester says, "I guess it's just that I love the people and I'm glad they found out. If they'd have me, I'd marry them." Please, Mr. Lester! But seriously, Mr. Lester is very clever and it is very charming for me to have met someone who is almost as smart as I am. It has been said of me that I "showed my astuteness," when I turned down a movie contract that was offered me on the grounds that I was, at the time of the offer, too inexperienced. But that was only one of the reasons for my refusal. The least of them. The real reason was I'd have been too homesick for my folks here on Broadway Open House. Especially for Mr. Lester who is a bean bag and George all the way! NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS When changing your address, please promptly advise your postmaster and Macfadden Publications, Inc., six weeks in advance, furnishing both your old address (printed label) and your new address, in order that copies of Radio Television Mirror may continue to reach you without delay. Such notification may be by letter or on post office card Forms 22 and 22-S , respectively, which your postmaster will supply on request. MACFADDEN PUBLICATIONS, INC 205 E. 42nd Street New York 17, N. Y. D /ulljuount OUOl MU0JWJY\W •j2a&U jZenac/i/ tlxa/n, toilak utaia/i/ >j2eM coatfcj tkcw, pe/iicttmc, ejct/iacfc ytoericct's , fon/esb selling cheese cracker/ oumhine Biscuits, m. Colorful photos and interesting description of the following vacation regions. Mail coupon for your free copy. SUN VALLEY, IDAHO • CALIFORNIA • PACIFIC NORTHWEST • COLORADO • YELLOWSTONEGRAND TETON • ZION-BRYCE-GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARKS • LAS VEGAS-HOOVER DAM DUDE RANCHES UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD Room 429, Omaha 2, Nebraska Please send free folder "Western Wonderlands.' Name Street Address City -State I am also interested in All-Expense Vacation Tours Q UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD 89 ,