Radio-TV mirror (July-Dec 1954)

Record Details:

Title:
Radio-TV mirror
Date:
July-Dec 1954
Publisher:
New York : Macfadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Radio-TV mirror (July-Dec 1954)
Leaf #:
000502
Language:
English
Collection:
Fan Magazines and Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Radio Mirror (later known as Radio and Television Mirror) was a fan magazine for radio listeners and later TV viewers that includes profiles of the stars, visits to radio and television studios, and program listings. The early years in the 1930s show the interaction of motion pictures, recordings, the stage, radio and even politics. The role of radio in World War II is well covered in the 1940s, and by the 1950s the focus shifts to television and a new generation of personalities. -- David Pierce, 2013
Date Added:
September 28, 2023
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Aunt Fanny herself — with Eileen Porker, Johnny Desmond, Don McNeill, Sam Cowling and again, Don McNei Breakfast Club Gossip 32 Fran Allison in person — with her husband, Archie Levington, who is a music publisher. Don McNeill's Breakfast Club, ABC-TV & ABC Radio, M-F, 9 A.M. EST, is on radio for Swift & Co., Philco Corp., Quaker Oats Co.. Rockwood & Co. and ReaLemon-Puritan Co., and on TV for Philco Corp., Quaker Oats Co. and A. E. Staley Co. Fran Allison also stars in Kukla, Fran And Ollie. M-F, seen in New York on WABC-TV, 7 P.M. EST, and in Chicago on WBKB (Channel 7), 6 P.M. CST. By HELEN CAMBRIA Aunt Fanny, that tart-tongued spinster of the Breakfast Club, while discussing early Christmas shopping with Don McNeill, cast a slightly jaundiced eye over the whole business. The stores, she stated, already were filled with shoppers moving in a determined tide. "I'll tell you," she reported, "I'm just beat black and blue. I am. I started out in washrags, then a crowd of women came shoving along and, before I knew it, there I was in the step-on garbage pails." But she had her Christmas list well worked out, she confided. One friend would get crepe-paper butterflies of variegated red to pin on her curtains. "I can't give her anything to wear," she explained. "That woman's picked up so much, nothing but a handkerchief would fit her." For her friend Nettie, she had a pickle dish. "That will remind her she never gave me that recipe for Chattanooga chow-chow I wanted last summer." She was willing, too, to bet a nickel she would get a pillow top in return. "It will be 'The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,' " she predicted. "I gave it to her five years ago." She paused reflectively. "And then there's Lucy. Last year she gave me a churn. She plumb forgot it was mine to start with and she'd borrowed it from me." Obviously, Aunt Fanny anticipated that in the Christmas exchange she was going to come out secondbest. She covered hastily: (Continued on page 84) Is Fran Allison really Aunt Fanny?