Radio-TV mirror (Jan-June 1953)

DIC PA'N PERIO N\\uo\ W**e ^vee fo\\ ^sleV n vcWeves sttua\ **eSS' —nil *°d but tort uO^ NNaV t^ adS i i<oro l0 bT\n6 t;,^ K cramps ceases ' b\ues" VJon> . ..^ho* ^f^ ^oPP* book. ^ . v? om „ vA V V All Drugstores have Midol What's New from Coast course, is My Friend Irma's sidekick, Jane, and Elliott is currently directing and producing the radio version of Suspense. The Catholic Hour, which has been broadcasting for twenty-three years, can now be seen on television, too, over NBC-TV. The narrator is Reverend Vincent Holden, frequent speaker on the ABC program, The Christian in Action. Still another movie star has switched to TV. This time it's Ann Sothern, debuting in a new series called Private Secretary, and it will be on Sunday nights on CBS-TV. The accent is on comedy, and the show will be filmed in Hollywood. Horace Heidt is back on the CBS airlanes after a lengthy absence. He's the headman on a new program, The American Way, accompanied by his Musical Knights and other entertainers in his organization. The show is heard Thursday nights, and will originate from a different city each week. With more or less of a three-way format, the Heidt crew will handle the musical portion of the show, there will be a new-talent segment, which offers career opportunities to talented youths, and the program will give aid to local service organizations with their individual community projects. Margaret Whiting and Les Brown's orchestra have been signed for regular berths on Bob Hope's new nighttime air show on NBC. Hope, by the way, recently celebrated his fifteenth year with Paramount Pictures, which prompted the comedian to quip, "Boy, that's a lot of gum under the seats." This 'n' That: The Beulah show, which was scheduled to be cancelled from the CBS radio schedule when the sponsor dropped it, is remaining, after all. The network plans to keep it on sustaining, in the hope of getting a new sponsor. They're using tape recordings of the outstanding scripts which star the late Hattie McDaniels, and her fees for the rebroadcasts are being paid into her estate. Gordon MacRae is in a snit these days because his popular program, The Railroad Hour, may become a television show, and Gordon won't be able to appear on it. His contract with Warner Bros, says in great big letters "No TV." The John Reed Kings have a date with the stork for April, and they're hoping like mad for a boy, inasmuch as they now have two little girls. Speaking of the stork, Ben Grauer says he'll never be surprised at any "special event" assignment he may get from NBC in the future. Ben telecast the actual preparations for Caesarean birth of a baby in Denver a few weeks ago, and, as he says, "How can they top that?" Audrey Totter gave up her role as the star of Meet Millie, and Elena Verdugo, who is Millie on television, will take over the part on radio as well. Audrey, who recently became a bride, says she wants to devote more time to being a Mrs. Dave Garroway just celebrated his first anniversary on the NBC-TV early-morning show, Today. Dave is the boy who has to get up every morning at a snappy 3:00 A.M. in order to be at the studio by 4:00. From 4:00 to air time at 7:00 A.M., he's busy with interviews, checking the news, camera rehearsals, etc. So he puts in heavy working time in the wee hours before somebody yells, "You're on!" With his career and personal troubles piling up and up, Mario Lanza at least had one thing to smile about during the holidays — the arrival of his new baby son. Here's hoping the new year finds Lanza straightening himself out with his studio, his managers and his friends. Trash Or Treasure, the interesting Du Mont Television Network show, may soon be the basis for a series of film shorts. This is the program on which viewers bring their antiques to find out whether they're valuable or not. Sara Selby, who plays Judy Graves's mother on the Junior Miss air show, has been signed to appear opposite Frank Lovejoy in a new Warner Bros, movie, "The System." Incidentally, Lovejoy, who started in radio, is moving right along in his movie career. Remember him as the original Lieutenant Weygand on the Mr. and Mrs. North program? There's nothing like loving your work, but Jerry Lewis has been overdoing it lately. He just got fined $1,000 by the American Guild of Variety Artists for doing a gratis show at Ciro's night cluS in Hollywood. AGVA, which is the governing union for all night-club performers, has a very strict rule concerning performers appearing on Meet Millie cast: Elena Verdugo, Marvin Kaplan, and Florence Halop.