Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1942)

L>cu| Hetto to — SHE'S Esther Ralston, once a glamorous star of the screen, still glamorous, and now the star of Woman of Courage on CBS, on which she plays the appealing role of Martha Jackson. Esther — if you know her well enough, you can call her by her nickname of "Tee Tee" — has been an actress all her life, practically. Her parents were billed as "The Ralstons, Metropolitan Entertainers, in Scenes from Shakespeare, Playlets, Sketches. Songs, Dances, Mimicry," and when Esther was a little girl they toured the United States, playing in high schools, at church socials, or in town halls. They weren't big time, by any means, but those early years taught Esther a great deal about acting. The Ralstons started their theatrical career in New York, where Mr. Ralston ran a gymnasium for crippled children. He also gave lectures on physical education, using Esther, aged two, and her brother Clarence, four, as living examples of scientifically raised children. Today Esther says doubtfully, "I'm not so sure about the scientific part." The family was always poor, even after it took to the road in its vaudeville act. Their travels finally brought the Ralstons to Los Angeles, where a financial crisis sent Esther into the chorus of a burlesque show — until police authorities discovered she was less than sixteen years old. She got bit parts in the silent movies, but success passed her by until she was cast as "Mrs. Darling" in "Peter Pan," with Mary Brian. Remember it? The picture and Esther were both hits, and for years afterwards she was a top star. When she finally left Hollywood it was with the idea of appearing in a Broadway play, but she got interested in radio instead, and now devotes all of her time to it, when she isn't busy running a beautiful home in Great Neck, LyuT Cover Cili4> Long Island, a New York suburb. Great Neck people know her as Mrs. Ted Lloyd. Ted is a New York radio commentator and columnist, and they met when he interviewed her for a story. She's been married before, and has a ten-year-old daughter, Mary Esther, whom she and "Ted both adore. Esther would give up acting if it ever interfered with her marriage, but it never has. She could probably make a good living as an interior decorator. Just as a hobby, she planned and furnished her mother's home in California, and the job turned out so successfully that she did the same for her own home out there and later in Great Neck. Her greatest extravagance is buying material to make dresses for herself and for Mary Esther. She's a handy person with a needle. If you think of an actress as someone who lies in bed until noon, you aren't thinking of Esther. Woman of Courage is heard at 10:45 in the morning, and each day's rehearsal starts a couple of hours before that, so she arises at six every day in order to arrive at the studio on time. After the broadcast, unless there's something important to keep her in New York, she hurries back to Great Neck and becomes as housewifely as Martha Jackson herself. Radiant new Dreamflower shades don't simply match your skin — but tinge it with alluring dream-girl color magic! Tender new Dreamf)ov\rer smoothness suffuses your face with an angelic, clinging "soft-focus" finish . . . V ^^v.^\Do/nfy new Dreamflower box ^^ -^all garlanded with miniature ^ New Pond's "LIPS' — stays on longer! Shatter his heart with your stay-lush new Pond's "Lips"! 5 wicked Stagline shades. Try "Heart Throb" — Its magenta hue Is fashion's darling! ^ Pond's new Dreamflower Powder is ideal! I haven't found a powder with more luxurious texture — or lovelier shades — at any price. And the box is adorable!" WHITNEY BOURNE Free — k\\ 6 new Dreamflower Powder shades POND'S, Dept. 8RMPD, Clinton, Conn. I want to see how the new Dreamflower shades and smoothness make my skin look lovelier. \^ill you please send me FREE samples of all 6 Dreamflower shades? Nan AddressCity _S/o/,- (This offer fiOtKi in U. S. only)