Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

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What Do You Want To Say? (Continued from page 3) THIRD PRIZE THE BITTER SIDE OF RADIO Every one sings radio's praises, and well they can. However, like everything else there is always the bitter side. To me, radio is almost a curse, with my son of school age fairly glued to it every moment. In my childhood, mothers did not have radios to contend with in raising their children, but perhaps the worldliness which I must admit my son acquires through radio, and the self control which he eventually will have to exercise in order to tear himself away from it, for the more important business of school work, will make him a finer man. I maintain if tuning constantly will make of him a successful radio announcer, I will give in to his wishes and let him continue his merry way. — Mrs. Faun Fogel, Brooklyn, N. Y. FOURTH PRIZE THOSE DAYTIME SERIALS AGAIN! I sincerely believe that I am an average American woman. I listen to the radio while I cook, iron, sew, etc., for relaxation and entertainment. And in the ensuing atmosphere of savage gorillas, gangsters, kidnappings, murders and attempted mob violence, with hysterical women and intolerant, mentally under-developed men as the chief characters, I scorch my clothes, or iron wrinkles into instead of out of them; my thread tangles into knots and breaks; my food cooks dry; and by the time my husband comes home from work I am as silly and screaming a nitwit as ever graced a daily radio drama. Program directors, have a heart and protect your own sex from a domestic repeat in the home! If we must have radio dramas in the daytime why can't they be as frankly silly as Toby and Susie, or as humorously real as Vic and Sade? — Mrs. C. A. Hanson, Oakland, Neb. FIFTH PRIZE WHEN IS A GROUCH NOT A GROUCH? When you have to get up early in the morning, you have a right to be grouchy. Haven't you? I don't know why not. And what could be more aggravating to that grouch than to hear someone on the radio being a little ray of sunshine? But this Larry Elliott has a different effect. He grouches because he has to get up so early. He grouches because he has to sleep in the studio and then he turns around and grouches because he couldn't sleep there. One day he grouches because he had to make his own coffee; the next day he grouches because there wasn't any coffee to make. The result is that, in spite of yourself, you can't help be glad you're not such a wretched mortal as one Larry Elliott, and so you start your day's work with your face shining like the mid-day sun. — Alta M. Toepp, Sloatsburg, N. Y. SIXTH PRIZE WHAT A MAN! John J. Anthony — what a man! I think it is perfectly uncanny how he can grasp a person's whole life by a few questions and promptings, and lead him or her on to a safer, healthier, happier life — on the spur of the moment — and usually in such a manner that he leads the person to make his or her own decision — in such a way that they really think they decided for themselves — when it was really all his doing! — Miss Thora Eigenmann, San Diego, Calif. SEVENTH PRIZE DELIGHTFUL TO HEAR Tuning in on Alec Templeton Time is assurance one will hear music, not as heard last night and the night before, but melodic impressions which are different, clever, unique. His flair for mimicry and subtle travesty are a source of delight — refreshing, captivating. For artistry as amazing as his perception is keen, a medal of merit to ALEC TEMPLETON.— Mary E. Lauber, Phila., Pa. Herbert Marshall's Love Tangle (Continued from page 39) was delightful and exciting. During this come-back in the theater, he met Edna Best. 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