Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

What's New From Coast to Coast? (Continued from page 9) Don't ever let yourself be impressed by the glib way Sunda Love, star of the CBS Stepmother serial, can speak French. It sounds wonderful, but the truth is Sunda has a remarkable pair of ears — so remarkable that she has learned to speak French just by hearing it. But she'd be as lost as anybody else in Paris, because she understands the language almost not at all. Selena Royle had to wait six months before she received congratulations from her husband on her fine work as the star of the CBS serial, Woman of Courage. The reason was that Woman of Courage isn't broadcast over any of CBS stations near New York, and Earl Larimore, Selena's husband, never heard her until he went on tour in the South in a stage play. Then he sent her a telegram telling her how good she was. It will be a long time before South Carolina's station WCSC broadcasts another "salute to Orson Welles." On the first anniversary of the Orson Welles "Man from Mars" program which terrified thousands of people all over the country, WCSC put on a fictional radio play in honor of Orson, dramatizing a fantastic story which included a death ray that went berserk and began sucking up and destroying all the atmosphere of the earth. Seven times during the broadcast the story was halted and an announcer carefully explained that it was all in fun — there was no death ray, and the earth's atmosphere was still intact. But by the end of the hour several hundred people had run out of their homes in their night clothes, terrified, and the station's switchboard was swamped with calls from frightened listeners. Locally, it turned out to be almost as big a panic as the Welles affair had been nationally. So you thought swing musicians were the only ones who ever indulged themselves in jam sessions? Not at all — the dignified instrumentalists of the New York Philharmonic Society can, and do, jive right along with the rest of them. After a particularly hard rehearsal, these musical great like to swing out in a half-hour jam session, trading intruments, picking up a chance musical phrase and embroidering on it as their fancies dictate, and having a fine time generally. Close your eyes so you can't see Carnegie Hall's austere lines, and you'd swear you were in the Onyx Club. Did you know that Elaine Sterne Carrington, author of radio's Pepper Young's Family and When a Girl Marries, recently published a book of short stories too? Its title is "All Things Considered," and it contains ten short stories, Mrs. Carrington's favorites among her own work over a period of several years. The publisher is Julian Messner, Inc. FEBRUARY, 1940 SEEIN' DOUBLE '/ LICK TATTLE-TALE &RAY'' Millions of women know that tattletale gray hasn't a chance — when the golden Fels-Naptha bar tackles the wash. They know it's the liveliest, busiest dirt-chaser that ever swished in a tub. But did you know this . . . ? *ME TOO' You can now get Fels-Naptha in chip form, too ! Huskier chips that work wonders just like the grand golden bar! Chips specially made to whisk all the dirt out of clothes — to banish tattletale gray ! Now at last . . . */'M RICHER GOLDEN SOAP AND NAPTHA* ME TOO* You can get Fels-Naptha's extra help any and every way you wash ! For in the chips as well as in the bar, you get richer, golden soap combined with that wonderful dirt-loosener, napthai Use the bar for bar-soap jobs. See how quickly it hustles out dirt — without hard rubbing! See how gorgeously white and sweet it gets your clothes. And . . . Wherever you've been using box-soap, put the new Fels-Naptha Soap Chips to work. They speed washing machines because they're HUSKIER — not puffedup with air like flimsy, sneezy powders. And they give oodles of rich suds because they now hold a marvelous new suds builder. So try Golden Chips or Golden Bar — and banish tattle-tale gray. COPR. 1940, FELS a CO. WHEREVER YOU USE BAR'SOAP-USE FELS-NAPTHA SOAP WHEREVER YOU USE BOX'SOAP-USE FELS-NAPTHA SOAP CHIPS o BANISH "TATTLE-TALE GRAY" WITH FELS-NAPTHA — BAR OR CHIPS 51