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East and West meet as Ruth interviews India's Mme. Pandit.
WMAL audiences need no introduction to Ruth Crane, Washington s friendly, fascinating
Ruth and her husband Bill Schaefer go a-portying.
LADY of DISTINCTION
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Ruth Crane hails from Missouri, and so — while she is invariably poised, amiable and unpretentious — she can be fairly stubborn in her insistence on not being classed as a "performer" or having her daily Modern Woman programs referred to as "shows." "Makes it sound too staged, artificial," she explains. "After all, I don't play a role."
That she doesn't play a role, on the air or off, may account for Ruth's record of more air-hours than any other woman in Washington, her house-full of awards and citations, and her enthusiastic, loyal audiences. Heard on WMAL Radio at noon and seen on WMAL
Hobbies for Ruth and Bill include gardening and history
TV at 3 P.M., Ruth presides over half-hours of news, fashion, home-making and interviews that are intelligent but never stuffy, informal but never "cozy." She loves Washington and she fills her shows (oops, programs) with a variety of interests that range from protocol to pickle-making.
Ruth's journey from Springfield, Missouri, to the nation's capital included a stop-over in Chicago for schooling and the start of her career, and a sojourn in Detroit for fifteen successful years with Station WJR. An attractive, alert woman, she has been Director of Woman's Programs for WMAL since 1944 and for WMAL-TV since 1947 and, since she is usually president of something, is now in her second year as head of the American Newspaper Women's Club.
Ruth is married to William H. Schaefer, an automobile manufacturing executive, and the two make a striking couple at Washington theaters and embassy parties — or as they pore over old records in the Library of Congress in their mutual love for Civil War history. The Schaefers live in an eight-room, white brick home which Ruth has decorated partly in Williamsburg blue, partly in salmon pink and white.
A maker of radio and TV precedents, Ruth clearly proved her pioneer instinct when she left a job she had held for fifteen years to take up a new life in Washington. "The monumental build-up given me when I joined WMAL Radio gave me an acute case of mike-fright," she recalls, "and on my first program here, I lost my voice!" With her usual adaptability and sense of humor, Ruth has been able to laugh about such TV mishaps as the cookies that ran together and formed a solid sheet of dough when she took them out for all the audience to see. "I've never been nervous on television, because I have so much to do," she says. "I don't have time to worry about how I look or sound." She need never worry, because Washingtonians agree that Ruth Crane looks, sounds like — and is — a lady of distinction.