Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1950)

PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY Ivy Trent heard on NBC 3:30 P.M. CAST: Pepper Young, married to Linda; Mother and Dad Young, his parents; Peggy, his sister, wife of Carter Trent; Mrs. Ivy Trent, Carter's mother; Miss Taylor, her secretary; Jerry Feldman, pilot friend of Pepper's; Edie Hoyt, who lives with the Youngs, and whose husband Andy was lost in a plane crash in South America. BACKGROUND: Mrs. Young has always detested the high-handed selfishness of Carter's mother, and is afraid that Mrs. Trent's present visit to Elmwood may mean trouble for the marriage of Carter and Peggy which has been happy so far. RECENTLY: Grimly, Mother Young watches Ivy Trent's efforts to keep her efficient secretary from becoming involved in a love affair with Jerry Feldman, and vows that she will not allow the self-centered Mrs. Trent to interfere in the happy future that might otherwise lie ahead for these two young people. In the meantime, the search for Andy receives new impetus as the Youngs learn that a man has been seen deep in South America who may be Edie's missing husband. PERRY MASON Gertie Lade heard on CBS 2:15 P.M. CAST: Perry Mason, brilliant lawyer-detective; Delia Street, his secretary; Gertie Lade, his switchboard operator; Martha Herold, now the wife of Don Smith, through whom Perry became involved in the murder of blackmailer Wilfred Palmer. BACKGROUND: Gertie Lade, who was discovered with Palmer's body, has been exonerated by the police. Martha, who, as one of Palmer's victims, had a strong motive for murdering him, dreads the moment when her name will come into the case, and Don, who loves her deeply, prepares to protect her even if he must sacrifice himself. RECENTLY: Meanwhile flamboyant Allyn Whitlock congratulates herself on having so successfully covered her tracks that the police may never learn it was she who plunged the letter-opener into Palmer's heart. And the man who exercises such a strange and sinister power over Allyn — Walter Bodt — feels fairly secure too, as he sees the police hurrying down false trails. Will over-confidence lead these two to give their secret away to the alert, experienced eyes of Perry Mason? PORTIA FACES LIFE Clint Morley heard on NBC 5:15 P.M. CAST: Portia Blake Manning, who hopes to give up the practice of law to devote herself to her new baby, but is forced to undertake the defense of her own husband, Walter, charged with murdering Joan Ward; Clint Morley, district attorney, determined to convict Walter; Dickie, Portia's older boy, who knows something he is afraid to tell; Connie Abbott, waitress, Portia's friend. BACKGROUND: As Portia dreads the moment when Dickie will be called to testify against his father, the boy takes matters into his own hands by running away. He is too upset to realize that this is an admission that he knows something against his father. RECENTLY: Portia is almost desperate with anxiety when a radio alarm finally brings Dickie home. After Morley extracts his story things look hopeless for Walter. But Connie Abbott, the waitress whom Portia once helped, is working grimly to get to Nick Evans the man she knows can save Walter by breaking the alibi of Steve Ward, the murdered woman's husband. Will Nick Evans be willing and able to help? WENDY WARREN ivlark uouglas heard on CBS 12:00 Noon CAST: Wendy Warren, successful newspaperwoman; Mark Douglas, who wants to marry her; Nona, Mark's estranged wife; Sam, Wendy's father, who has gone to a sanitarium to recover from a bad heart attack, leaving Aunt Dorrie free to come to New York to keep house for Wendy. BACKGROUND: The long heart-searching that preceded Wendy's decision to marry Mark was wasted, for Nona has discovered that she is going to have a baby and now refuses to go ahead with her divorce. She pleads with Wendy to help her re-establish her marriage with Mark, and Wendy, though she is bewildered and almost stunned by the abrupt change in her own expectations, succeeds so well that now to all outward appearance Mark and Nona are together again. RECENTLY: Wendy's personal troubles are complicated by professional ones as a new managing editor takes over on her paper. His gruffness and sarcasm infuriate the independent Wendy, who has yet to learn that her new boss has a thorough understanding of his job, of men . . . and of women. GUIDING LIGHT Meta Bauer heard on CBS 1:45 P.M. CAST: Charlotte Brandon and her husband, Ray, bitterly estranged over the loss of their adopted son Chuckie; Meta Bauer, Chuckie's mother, who has taken him to live at her parents' home; Trudy, Meta's sister, in love with surgeon Ross Boling, resentful of Meta's interest in him; Ted White, Chuckie's father, determined to persuade Meta to marry him in order to provide a home for their son; Sid Harper, Charlotte's theatrical agent. BACKGROUND: Unable to explain to Ray why she was willing to give Chuckie up when Meta claimed him, Charlotte sees her marriage drifting toward disaster. RECENTLY: Resentful over Ray's attitude, Charlotte begins to pay more attention. to Sid, who has always loved her. In the Bauer home, strained emotions approach a climax as Trudy, whom Chuckie already prefers to his real mother, tries to force Meta to marry Ted White and leave Ross Boling free. And Ted's own determination to give Chuckie a real home intensifies when his father reveals the truth about the strange environment in which Ted himself grew up. R M 64 DAYTIME DIARY— A NEW