Radio-TV mirror (July-Dec 1952)

Bauer-ish by showing the same lack of understanding of women's moods that «he does. Anyhow, we patched it up fast and when I got home Diana had everything planned." It was quite a wedding. There were three best men, two of whom Diana had never met. An OCS buddy had come up with Lyle, and there was another childhood pal, Ted, and Will Geer, the actor, whom they had both been with in a show and who had been aware of their turbulent romance through all its stages. "Will passed the ring on to the Lieutenant, who then passed it on to Ted, who passed it on to me," Lyle described the scene. "One of our show-business friends had decided to hire horse-drawn hansom cabs to take us from the church, there being a thing called gasrationing, but only one cab was available that day. We all piled into it and drove up Fifth Avenue. A crowd gathered to watch us come out of the church and get into the hansom." "It was really a beautiful wedding," Diana adds. "I used to say, as lots of girls do, I never intended to get married, but just in case "I 'did' get married I wanted everyone to know that 'Tales from the Vienna Woods' was to be played at the wedding. Nobody remembered to do anything about it in all the excitement, but as the guests arrived at the reception those beautiful strains were filling everyone's ears. It was the perfect touch." After that, Lyle continued to pop up weekends from wherever he was. In 1943, he was still in the Army, when Nicole was about to be born; in fact, he was being transferred that December 8 from North Carolina to Fort Meade, Maryland. His orders were to leave North Carolina at 4 P.M. December 7, but at 1 A.M. Diana had called him and said the baby would be arriving soon. Frantically, Lyle spent the next twelve hours trying to persuade the proper authorities to let him get home in time to be with Diana. After going through all kinds of channels, he finally managed — by flying part of the way, then transferring to trains — to arrive in New York just in time to take his wife to the hospital and pace the corridors as a father properly should. Their baby was born December 8. Two years later, at the end of April, 1945, Lyle was retired to inactive duty. Back in New York, he got opportunities in some musical shows but decided the theatre was too risky for a young man with a family to support. He hammered at radio, and was lucky enough to make a friend of the casting director of CBS, who gave him his first post-war assignment, which led to others. He was soon making his own opportunities and over a period of years was established as a sought-after young leading man, playing roles in about a dozen daytime dramas — Road of Life, Portia Faces Life, Dorothy Dix at Home, Laura Lawton, Young Widder Brown, Helen Trent, David Harum, Front Page Farrell, When a Girl Marries, Marriage for Two — and a few he has forgotten! He did commercial announcements, had television roles in Studio One and other leading TV shows, and got a solid reputation as a seasoned and successful radio-TV actor. Since Guiding Light is now on both radio and television, he has been concentrating on playing Bill Bauer in both mediums, a 9: 30 to 6 P.M. schedule most days, what with separate rehearsals for each, completely separate broadcasts, and lines to learn at night for the television version. Diana, too, has been in radio and TV and will be continuing both this fall. Lyle, Diana and Nikki like to make things, especially Lyle, who says he can't remember when he wasn't interested in mechanics and in creating things with his hands. Lyle produced much of the furniture and decoration in their attractive four-room apartment. He made a stunning pair of cabinets in the living room, of forest-green wood, with Chinese brass handles, and as time allows he is working on the screening to enclose the shelves at the top of the cabinets. A pair of love seats are his design, as is a handsome sofa, a coffee table and end tables. He designed partially concealed lighting under the bookcases he made to fill one wall. Another wall is covered with grooved or strafed plywood squares, cut from long strips of the material and placed so that the lines are horizontal across one square. and vertical across the next, with handsome effect. 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