TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1955)

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LTetr the INTERLOCKING HANDS LOF FIRM SUPPORT* this way: Interlock hands across abdomen as in the picture, then Lgently press up and in. Feel .and look better? Of cou / FOR 10 OAT , FACE TRIAL / MAIL , COUPON TODAY jdol That's whatTumn Slim will do for yc 9 m^ IBM ■ ■!!■ " WARD GREEN CO., Dept. T-156 ■ 43 West 61 Street, New York 23, N. Y. ' Gentlemen: | Send Tummy-Slim on approval for 10 DAYS FREE _ _ TRIAL. I will poy postman $3.98 plus postage. If ™ ■ not satisfied with results I may return belt in. 10 I I DAYS ond purchase price will be promptly refunded. | I Waist Measure Hip Measure | Name Address i I J City Zone State I ■ D Check here If $3.98 is enclosed ond we pay post | oge. Same refund offer applies. tj 92 Long Live the Queen {Continued from page 74) first joined Queen For A Day (then two weeks old) . He had originally come from station KGB in San Diego to KHJ Mutual in Los Angeles, as a staff announcer on the early morning Rise And Shine show. The audition on Queen was Jack's first crack at the big time. "I was to take over on a trial basis for two weeks," he recalls. "But, after the first minute of the first show, I didn't think I would last even that long! We were doing the show live, and the script and I got confused." Jack was supposed to say: "Now go out and buy the sponsor's product. . . ." But the second and third pages of his script were interchanged. Jack cut from the middle of the commercial message — "go out and buy" — to a gag on the top of page three, reading, "all the old railroad ties you can find!" "Confused!" says Jack. "Why, I bumped into myself three times trying to escape the howl from the audience. I remember asking the folks if I couldn't start all over again. They were kind enough to let me. . . ." It was Jack's humility in the first moment of his first Queen show that forever won the hearts of his studio and radio audiences. As the show went off the air, the producer, the late Bud Ernst — impressed with Jack's humility, his ability to ad lib and quickly recover — said to Raymond R. Morgan, owner of Queen: "If you don't sign this boy Bailey right now, I'll quit!" "That day was my first experience with the graciousness of the Queen's audience," says Jack. "And, for your graciousness, I thank you." Jack's second "thank you" came five years later. Some prospective agencies felt the show was "slipping." Because Mutual's 500 stations reach many small towns not covered by rating services, no one knew for sure whether or not Queen had any listeners. "One day," Jack recalls, "Mr. Morgan visited Carol and me at home. While admiring our tulips, he said, 'I've got an idea that I believe will tell us how many listeners we have. For twenty-five cents, we'll offer an assortment of tulips to your audience, and they'll be "just like Jack's and Carol's." The returns should give us a rough idea of the size of the listening audience.' "Rough idea!" says Jack. "There couldn't have been that many people in the United States — they must have heard our show in Holland! The first day after our offer, the Hollywood post office was swamped. Before the week was out — thanks to our loyal friends — we had fifteen girls sorting returns. We had quarters by the shovelful. For a while, it looked as though Carol and I would have to dig up our own bulbs to meet the demand!" Did the returns prove Queen had many loyal listeners? Before the counting was over, Old Gold joined Queen as a new sponsor — they've been there ever since. Finally, Jack wants to thank all his listeners for the ten years of letters they have sent in. He reads them all, and some of them touch him deeply — especially those that tell how the Queen has helped them in some way. "Some people," says Jack, "feel they are left alone with their problems. But, when they see and hear the Queen, they realize they are not alone — and they are encouraged. "When these nice folks write to us with their thanks, saying, Queen For A Day has helped them, I can only reply, once again. 'Thank you for helping us.' " Here's George Gobel (Continued from page 54) routine. George is a 'thinking comic'." Pat Kelly (George's MCA agent) : "George is the same sweet little guy he was when he first walked into our offices. He hasn't changed a bit. But he has charmed the entire organization! Believe me, that's not easy — when I say 'organization,' that includes the people in New York, Chicago, and Hollywood offices. They are all show folks, experienced, worldly — if you want to call them that. But they have been charmed by George, each and every one." Joe Strauss (George's technical director) : "George has a sense of humor. You may think that's a funny statement, but I've known comics who don't have a sense of humor. And he's fast with an ad lib. Last week, the director called out, Are you ready, sir?' George said, 'Wait one moment. I must consult my book on Stanislavsky!' His humor is infectious. It keeps the set laughing and relaxed. As a result, the work gets done faster, easier, and without pressure. George is a naturally funny man." Hal Kanter (George's head writer) : "George is objective; he thinks about every line in the script. And he's critical. If he doesn't like a line, we discuss it. But he's agreeable, too — he'll always listen to our suggestions. He regards entertainment with integrity. He respects people. He wouldn't think of bringing 'sex' into viewers' living rooms. Integrity, that's the word for George." Jeff Donnell ("Alice" on the George Gobel Show) : "George is a gentleman. The first time I came on stage, he offered me a chair, introduced me to everyone on the set. Everybody knows everybody, and it shows in the work; everyone works for the good of the show. And there's never any tension — no shouting, even on Saturday, the day of the show! I've been on sets that fell apart on show day. Not the George Gobel Show — you'd think we were all there for tea! "My husband, Aldo, comes to all the shows, too. He's as crazy about George as I am. We know Alice — the real Alice, that is — very well, and we all visit and have great times together. "Performers have security on George's show. He never ad-libs within the script. Therefore, you feel safe, because you always know where you are. Some stars will throw in a line — and you're left in the lurch. You can't imagine the sinking feeling that gives you. But George is too much of a gentleman to do anything like that." Harry Winkler (one of George's writers) : "George is a humble liar. For example, he made a trip to Cincinnati not long ago. Twenty thousand people turned out to greet him! When he came back, I asked him, 'How was Cincinnati, George?' 'Oh,' he said, 'pretty good — wish you had been there.' More than twenty thousand people, and he says, 'pretty good'! But that's George." George Gobel (star of the George Gobel Show): "What'd I tell you? They're all a bunch of liars. . . ." Editor's Note: But they're the best kind, aren't they, George?