Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1950)

OUR GAL SUNDAY Sunday Brinthrope heard on CBS 12:45 P.M. CAST: Sunday and her husband, Lord Henry Brinthrope, who live at Black Swan Hall, in Fairbroolce, Virginia; Lewis Carter, his crippled daughter Hazel, and his brilliant ward, Joyce Irwin; Florence, Carter's wife, just released from a mental hospital; Roy Kingsley, the mysterious stranger who was kind to Haiel — until he saw Joyce; Clifford Steele, an insistent suitor of Joyce's. BACKGROUND: Everyone, including Joyce, is shocked when Lewis Carter's devotion to her is finally revealed as a romantic attachment, instead of the fatherly affection it seemed to be. It is particularly upsetting in view of Florence Carter's recent return to a normal life, full of hope that it will be a happy one. RECENTLY: The tragedy which Sunday fears finally strikes. Joyce Irwin falls to her death from a hotel window in nearby Richmond. Everyone assumes she killed herself in remorse over coming between Carter and his wife . . . everyone but Sunday, whose firm conviction that Joyce was murdered is triumphantly vindicated when she helps to expose the murderer. PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY Peggy Trent heard on NBC 3:30 P.M. CAST: Pepper Young, the red-headed boy who grew up to be Mayor of Elmwood; Linda, his wife; Peggy, his sister, wife of Carter Trent; Dad Young, who hopes Mother Young won't tell Carter's wealthy, strongwilled mother, Mrs. Ivy Trent, what she thinks of her; Edie, who firmly believes that Andy, her husband, is still alive though he's been missing over a year after a plane crash in South America. BACKGROUND: When Mother Young sees Ivy Trent maneuver her secretary out of what might be a happy love affair with pilot Jerry Feldman, she explodes. Now things can never be the same. RECENTLY: Ivy Trent persuades tough Gil and his long-suffering wife, Min, to come to Elmwood for a while. She gives Gil some money, feeling vaguely that it's wise to have him available for anything she might want him to do. Bored with Elmwood, Gil arranges for his extra-marital girl friend, Sadie, to come on from Chicago. What will happen when Min finally rebels? And what of the search for Andy, which is still going on down in South America? PERRY MASON Perry Mason heard on CBS 2:15 P.M. CAST: Perry Mason, sharp-witted lawyerdetective; Delia Street, his secretary; Martha and Don Smith, his clients, now standing trial for the murder of blackmailer Wilfred Palmer; Allyn Whitlock, a willful girl completely corrupted by her association with a peculiar man named Walter Bodt; Audrey Beekman, desperate with fear that her hardwon happiness will be destroyed if her husband, Ed, learns she was involved with Palmer. BACKGROUND: In spite of Perry and his colleague, Paul Drake, Martha is indicted for Palmer's murder, with Don named as her accomplice. The most hopeful clue Perry has so far is a glove ... a glove which Audrey, from its picture in the newspapers, recogniies as her own. RECENTLY: Hysterically, Audrey visits Martha in jail and extracts a promise that Martha will not reveal that Audrey, too, was being blackmailed by Palmer, and can testify to Martha's innocence, unless there is no other way for Martha to save herself. But is anyone safe while Allyn Whitlock is still at large? PORTIA FACES LIFE Connie Abbott heard on NBC 5:15 P.M. CAST: Portia Manning, a lawyer, whose heart-breaking present assignment is the defense of her husband, Walter, who stands accused of the murder of Joan Ward; Clint Morley, the district attorney whose admiration for Portia leads him to press for Walter's conviction; Dickie, Portia's son, who was forced to reveal evidence which he knows helped build the case against Walter; Connie Abbott, a waitress who owes Portia a debt of gratitude, and pays it by trying to clear Walter. BACKGROUND: As circumstantial evidence piles up around Walter, even Murray Lathrop, the lawyer with whom Portia is working, decides his client is guilty and withdraws from the case. RECENTLY: Connie Abbott knows that if Nick Evans can be persuaded, or paid, to tell the truth Walter will be out of danger, for Nick's story can prove that Steve Ward, the dead woman's husband, has no alibi for the time of the murder. But can Connie and Kathy Baker raise the five hundred dollars without which Nick will not reveal what he knows? RIGHT TO HAPPINESS Carolyn Kramer heard on NBC 3:45 P.M. CAST: Carolyn Kramer, divorced from Dwight Kramer, who has been granted custoday of their son, Skippy; lawyer Miles Nelson, Carolyn's fiance, who is running for Governor; Constance Wakefield, once Carolyn's good friend, now Dwight's wife; Dr. Dick Campbell, Carolyn's former suitor; Annette Thorpe, powerful head of the newspaper chain backing Miles's candidacy. BACKGROUND: Miles, after beginning a brilliant fight on Carolyn's behalf in the custody battle over Skippy, was forced to turn it over to his partner when a crisis in RADIO MIRROR READER BONUS his political party called him to the state capital. Though Carolyn knows his presence might have made no difference, she feels that he deserted her when she needed him. RECENTLY: Carolyn's resentment and fears for the future are intensified when, on Miles's return, she sees that Annette Thorpe's claims on him have become powerful. Losing hope that he will succeed in getting the custody decision reversed, Carolyn forms a plan to take Skippy and flee the court's jurisdiction. It's an unwise scheme, but Carolyn is too upset to see how foolishly she's acting. R M 67