Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1950)

TeC JP PERRY COMO ^ FRAN ALLISON Last year the Kuklapolitans had a Val_ online Parly and after °°™ng °nd games the Valentine Box was opened My name wasn't called on the first round, but 1 didn't mind too much. By the fourth round panic set in. Nobody loved me! Then I heard a faint voice call my name. I stood, wondering, when a qiant heart moved into view on the stage. It said "To Cutie-from Guess Who'" Two dear faces burst through. Kukla and Ollie. My Valentines! ABE BURROWS Of course if you had asked me for my sweetest Valentine or my darlingest Valentine, it would be a different story. I But this is one I'm not apt to forget. Here's what it said: "Dear Abe. in theso eyes of mine. Your lovely head will always shine. You're the patron that I love the best, When you're in my chair I know I can rest. Your barber." And you know, it wouldn't surprise me il he made a copy and sent it again this year. It's still true! My best-remembeied Valentine? Well. I don't know that there is just one. but last year I got one of the best valentines ever. It came from the kids who sinq with me on the Supper Club show — Bea. Marge and Geti Fontane. and it's a sentiment I think very much of. The kids certainly went to town on this one. Here's what it said: "We do adore Caruso. And love our Valentino. But our favotite Valentine, oh. Is you, dear PerI ry Como." Pretty nice? MY BEST REMEMBERED VALENTINEM* ^/fa& a fov tvnfme wh> mm w* wondwtd DOROTHY DOAN The Valentine I'll never forget came from my husband. Dick, when we got our house in Silvermine, Conn. I was always losing my key and telephoning frantically for his. Valentine's Day brought me a bracelet, tiny charms linked around a large gold key. The card read: "With charms to charm my Valentine. This bracelet is entirely thine. The key's to our house in Silvermine. So you'll no longer ask for mine." I'll wear the bracelet, and key. always. JACK CARTER I was feeling low, but when I got home I found a Valentine from the girl I loved. It read: "Berle is so funny, Youngman is too, Amsterdam makes money, What's wrong with you?" I grabbed the phone and broke our date, Later we met. She glared, told me to go home and read the second page— "But really I'm kidding, I think you're the best, I think you're just wonderful. You know the rest— Will you be My Valentine?" Would I? I made her my wife. «*,« JOHNNY STEARNS My wile, Mary Kay, is sentimental about Valentine's Day. Her Valentines come in several parts, each accompanied by a poem which tells where the next part is. Last year my Valentine began with an arrow tie-clip that pointed to the hiding place of the next, a Love Song. That sent me hunting for a necktie with a Cupid motif, and an other helped me find a box of candies. My Valentine to Mary? A gold heart for her bracelet, like her own heart of gold. BILL SLATER For two days we'd been dropping our missives of love in the Valentine Box teacher set up. I was sure that _ IVuldred. the filling station owner's daughter, my Valentine. And she was, *"» touching document of devotion. was mine alone, it said Homew^ trod on air. I had to share my emot.o^ with Johnny Sickles, for he »°, .„ just like mine, signed 'Guess wn • the. same hand. Best remembered, cause I never believed another. RADIO MIRROR TELEVISION SECTION 3^& ^ m '&AX&. w, ■Jiat me Jhtwteenm o/ eowtaw 7 wou /t/f> i'UHl f ROBERTA QUINLAN During the war when I was leading an orchestra in a war plant I met a young man who worked there. I didn't have much time for dates, but when Valentine's Day came along I got frilly ones from a lot of the boys I had met. Still searching, down at the bottom of the pile I came across the nicest one of all. It was written on the back of an old envelope, and said, "This is not the best Valentine in the world, but —will you marry me?" And I did. DAVE GARROWAY A couple of Valentine Days ago I found an envelope under my door with [his card: "Here's a horse laugh. I'd '°ve to be Your Valentine." Attached was a piece of red ribbon which snaked °n under the door, down the steps, and into the yard, where it was attached to a swaybacked mare, rescued from the stockyards by a friendly girl I knew, 'he tragedy of my life is that I had to give her— the horse, that is— back to ">e stockyards. RADIO FRED WARING My best-remembered Valentine? The cock-eyed moose! Gift of that unpredictable Feme Buckner, known to our listeners as "Feme and her violin." It came in a huge crate, this mangy moosehead with a bunch of flowers in one antler and red hearts dangling from the other. Strung on red ribbon around the neck were letters spelling "Be My Valentine." I looked at it. laughed, looked again and simply roared. The funniest Valentine ever! PETER LIND HAYES Nine years ago Mary Healy was in Hollywood and I was doing nightclub dates. Valentine's Day found me in Washington with two quarters— not enough for a telegram. Discouraged, I shoved them in a slot machine. The coin hit and I rushed for a telephone with eight dollars in quarters. I had decided to propose, but before I got started the operator said "Your time is up." Mary accepted the charges and me too! She's still my Best Valentine. MILTON BERLE It was Valentine's Day, 1949, and I lound a lace-trimmed package from my daughter Vicki. 1 could hardly wait to open it. Inside. I found a copy of Joe Miller's Joke Book and this little note: "Dear Daddy, I can't think of any poetry that is pretty as you are. You are also funny. And Mommy says you should read this book. I love you. You are My Valentine. Vicki." It's not only my best remembered Valentine but one I know I'll never, never forget. KYLE MacDONNELL I was a high school freshman and he a senior. At school He gave me a Valentine and I was so thrilled that the braces on my teeth vibrated, until I opened it. II was a comic Valentine, a I very unpretly girl, with my Dutch bob , and braces. My heart cracked. That night a heart-shaped corsage of violets came. Later he arrived to explain the comic Valentine was only kidding. It was a wonderful romance — I wonder what ever happened to him! HOWDY DOODY y I have received lots and lots of Valentines from my friends, but I think my favorite was one from a 70-year-old ,grandma. Even though the Howdy Doody Show is for kids, she said, she wouldn't miss it for anything. Mr. Smith and I loved this Valentine because we think fun and laughter are good for everybody — no matter how old or young. And it made me feel so good to know that we are bringing happiness into the life of this nice grandma friend. MIRROR TELEVISION SECTION d2*