Radio-TV mirror (July-Dec 1953)

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V r tOA^ the gayest 0^ tVis side .,,,- yi merry J||ygo\ots No need to search the shops for fabrics! Rit-dye the odds and ends you f>ave in the colors you want and you'll have twice as much time for gift making. Not to mention the fun you'll have turning curtains into party capes (aprons, too) or an old felt hat into a tri-color "beanie" for Junior. The finest dye . . . the high concentrate dye . . . and only 4% ■• . 16 RIT PRODUCTS CORPORATION 1437 W. Morris St., Indianapolis 6 ^'Miss Frances" rings the bell for members of the tricycle set There's nothing else like it on TV. In fact, when Ding Dong School was first launched on Station WNBQ, an NBC executive in Chicago said: "It's either the worst show we ever pitched up, or the best." Within weeks, it was on the network — by popular demand — and now it has a sponsor, numerous awards, and many a pat on the back from grateful mothers . . . for the very thing that had everybody worried at the start: Ding Dong School is aimed straight at its three to five-yearold audience, rather than their parents. Low-angled cameras see everything at Lilliputian eye-level, stories and activities are paced at the slow rate just right for small ears and hands. Most startling of all, a real, live schoolteacher is "cast" as the TV teacher . . . the small fry's beloved "Miss Frances" holds impressive degrees in education, has done much practical teaching — and is really Mrs. Frances Horwich, who was born on July 16th (some forty years ago) in Ottawa, Ohio, met her future husband when they both taught Sunday school in Chicago, and was married in 1931. . . . When husband Harvey returned this faU from Korea — where he'd been civilian historian with the 8th U. S. Air Force — they took a happy secondhoneymoon trip to the Bahama Isles. He was somewhat amazed, when the fourteen children aboard their plane sang the Ding Dong song all the way to Miami — and absolutely