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Guiding Light Cast
INHABITANTS OF "FIVE POINTS" GET READY TO GO ON THE AIR
Members of the cast of the Guiding Light, which is broadcast IVIondays through Fridays at 9:45 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. CST over the NBC-Red network. The setting of the serial is in the mythical melting pot community of "Five Points." Left to right, front row: Ruth (Rose Kransky) Bailey; Gladys
(Torchy Reynolds) Heene; Dr. John Ruthledge; Mignon (Mrs. Kransky) Schreiber; Muriel (Fredericka Lang) Bremner; Betty (Iris Marsh) Arnold. Back Row: Bill (Charles Cunningham) Bouchey; Paul (Jack Felzer) Barnes; Phil (Ellis Smith) Dakin, and Seymour (Jacob Kransky) Young.
THE LIVES of half-a-dozen people color the pattern that is the Guiding Light, now in its fourth year as an NBC network serial. Dr. John Ruthledge, kindly minister of the mythical melting pot community of Five Points, is the central character actor, made his debut and his gentle, understanding influence, the various personalities and plots revolve.
Dr. Ruthledge is portrayed by Arthur Peterson, who nas tilled the role since the show was first inaugurated. Peterson, a talented character actor, made his debut reciting "pieces" in Sunday school. Oddly enough, when he matriculated at the University of Minnesota, that school's vocational guidance department recommended that he study for the ministry.
Although Peterson once served as junior superintendent of a Sunday School, the grease paint tradition is strong in his family — both grandparents on both sides, his parents, uncles, aunts and his wife were all connected with the theater. Some of them still are. So it was more than natural that Arthur follow their lead.
Born in Mandan, North Dakota, Peterson was graduated from the University of Minnesota. He had the theater as his goal from kindergarten days onward, cmd, by the time he received his sheepskin, he already had 900 performances to his credit. He went directly into stock and repertory theaters and from there to Chicago and radio.
Currently, in the serial, the plot
RADIO VARIETTIES
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most intimately touching Dr. Ruthledge's life is centered around his secretary-church organist, Laura, added to the parsonage after the marriage cf Mary, the Doctor's daughter. The discovery that Laura is a kleptomaniac has driven away Ellen, the housekeeper for many, many years.
The Doctor's daughter is now the wife of Ned Holden, a young man reared in the parsonage. The marriage has been brought about recently, after many trials for the young people. Once, just before their wedding, Ned discovered that his father was a thief and a blackmailer; that his mother, Fredericka Lang, had shot her husband rather than let him influence her son's life. The discovery
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