The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 35

A THE PRES NO BEE JANUARY 4 1942 MAGAZINE SECTION SUCCESSFUL ON AIR AND IN HOMES VILLAIN PURSUES HER' Careers Marriage AreMixed Can a woman be a successful home maker and at the same time pursue a professional career Much has been said on both sides of this question but neither side will admit the other has provided a thoroughly convincing answer Protagonists point to the Uvea of many radio actresses and writers as proof that a woman may be a successful home maker and at the same time engage In a career either In the same Una In which her husband la engaged in anpther field Owen Vinson and Paulina Hopkins are cited as one of the outstanding examples For thirteen years their careers have run parallel and today they handle three major network productions They met In 1928 when Vinton took the male lead In a road company of Smilin' Through opposite Mist Hopkins Today they are responsible for the serial Midstream and the weekly comedy and dramatic productions That Brewster Boy and Knickerbocker Playhouse Their chief point of collaboration It the bringing up of their year old daughter Kathleen Elizabeth who was named for the leading character of the play which brought them together Edith Melser actress and writer whose scripts are heard In the Sherlock Holmes dramas Is the wife of Tom McKnlght one of radio's successful producers 'Red Skelton and his wife Edna collaborate on his comedy scripts of which she Is the writer Then there are Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone Marian and Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee and Molly) Jack Carson and Kay St Germain Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa Frank Crumlt and Julia Sanderson Hal and Cornelia (Dr Kate) Burdick and others Actress Lauretta Flllbrsndt Is married to Russ Young NBC director and announcer Constance Crowder who puts in full day as a radio actress on both NBC and CBS networks is married to a commercial photographer Louise Fitch and Sunda Love who are heard In various serial dramas and other programs are married to lawyers The former has a small daughter and the latter a year old son Introducing Delma Byron used to play ingenua leads in stage productions and in Shirley Temple pictures Now plays a variety of roles in radio productions the most recent that of the young woman who is chased by the villain in The Mystery Man series FAN FARE Chips From The Radio Log tures woodwinds when he turns to playing instead of conducting started his musical career at the age of 10 by winning a violin playing contest As though Jack Benny has not had enough trouble with his famous Maxwell a sympathetic listener In Tombstone Arlz recently sent him the registration certificate for a 1916 Maxwell which la "for the driving away" The catch Is there Is no motor In It The Cantors had a reunion on Una Merkel's part of the Johnny Presents program Nancy Bacon Reporting when Nat Cantor re rently Joined the cast of which his brother Charlie Is a fixture They used to have a vaudeville team known as the Cantor Brothers in vaudeville years ago Nat Cantor fired his straight man Charlie Leach to take brother Charlie Into the act Leach Is not orry You know him today as Cary Grant on the screen Maesro Bob Strong who fea GRACIE GRABS SPOTLIGHT Some of the radio folk who successfully combine marriage and careers are pictured here Sunda Love upper left Is wwN known as a dramatic serial actress and she also finds time to supervise her own home end her young son Peuline Hopkins and Owen Vinson are Mr and Mrs team who write end produce several radio shows Louise Fitch gives her daughter Dale a glimpse of the Christmas turkey at the lower left and at the right is Constance Crowder serial actress and the radio mother of That Brewster Boy Veteran At 21 up an English mountain and the youngster hauled a kitten all the wty up the hill Her draftsman father and designer mother moved to this country ahorlly after that The auburn haired brown eyed actress wears a ring presented to her by the children of the Detroit Children's Theater of the Air after he spent 48 weeks with them as assistant director The memento wss presented to her In 1918 and has nevar been off her Anger slnre Beryl 9 feet 5 Inrhea In (light weighs 109 pounds Her favorite foods are vegetable soup spaghetti nd sparcrlbs and sauerkraut She loves California traveling dogs Chopin and the works of George Bernard Shaw She collects books of ail kinds and her library consists of several hundred volumes Beryl Is not superstitious but she will not Ring before breakfast or look at a new moon through a window She Is heard In Ingenue roles on Uncle Waller'e Dog House Fridays 6:30 end as Jessica In the serial Ma Perkins Mondays through Fridays 12:19 Actress Is la view of the fact that one of her forebears was Mrs Shake-i i'tmre (nee Aba Hathaway) Boryl Vaughan could hardly be anything elan but an actress although her mother wanted her to become a pianist and her father held out for a teaching career Beryl had her first "paid at the age of 8 when she gave a recitation in a church play at St Louis She got 25 cents for the appearance and decided that speaking pieces In public was a lucrative occupation At the age of 11 she was auditioning for the girl the only feminine part In an all boy and found herself with a twenty six week Job Thereafter the youngster divided her time between radio and school and now finds herself a veteran at the age of 21 By the time she finished high school Beryl was so busy she managed to squeeze In Just two years of college at Wayne University Detroit Afier that aha was always somewhere else either In pictures on the stage or tied up with rsdto and unable to get baejt at registration time She stilt has her eye on a BA degree Beryl's biggest thrill was when she auditioned for the Ingenua lead In Every Man For Himself starring Lee Tracy She won the part which took her on a 19000 mile tour which Included Broadway and the West Coast Bryl was horn In England July 1 1920 and her first memory goes bark to a time when she was 3 years a day when her parents took her Script Session Is Madhouse Writing sessions for the Burns end Alice show ere conducted with all the serenlfyjf rq'lrg football rally AH that Is missing Is the bonfire The walls fairly rock with Uia comedy generated by Burns his brother Willie and the writing staff which Include! Sam Perrin George Balzer Harvey Helm Frank Galen and Keith Fowler George paces the floor waving a Malacca cane and outlines gsg routines la staccato tones Up pops Willie with a suggestion and he and George both talk In unison until ont or the other runs out of breath At this point Silent Sam Perrin quietly drawls out a pertinent remark then Galen and Fowler who work as a writing team begin a Gattllng gun description of a comedy situation which has been bouncing around In their brains Balzer or Helm come forth with a wacky "We're getting It exclaims George "Now Jerry read It all hark to (addressing Jerry Bogglo the feminine secretary who has been taking all the remarks down In shorthand) When Jerry finishes reading her notes the whols staff takes a hand In reconstructing the routine before aha retires to an adjoining room to type It out Then George starta to outline his Ideas for the second and the excitement starts all over again When Jerry returns with the typewritten dialog Genrgo puis on a one man show with It acting out all parts and simulating all Sound effects On one occasion George was acting out a script at 2 A In a New York hotel room "It goes Ilka he said run to the window and yell Fire In his enthusiasm George did Just that And a few minutes later the hotel wsi surrounded by fire trucks with sirens screaming The hotel management asked the comedian and hla coworkers to vacate the pretnlaea but For up to tho minute announce and schedules of the coming week's programs consult the index on Page I and turn to the Radio Programs Page Reactions ot the Bums and Allen casr seem to vary when tracie on one of her nitwit routines espressioni of th mole contingent Bvrns Senor Lee end Jimmy Cash upper left to right do not like if and Paul WMeises teem to get a kick out of It Ceacia aomes to at 6 grabs the spotlight and puts ere any indication George very much but Bill Goodwin KMJ listaners tach Tuesday Beryl Vaughan ASSOCIATES Geylon Smith Optician A MERCER OPT OPTOMETRIST Richard Gregory SCIENTIFIC EYE EXAMINATIONS -k -k -K -k Glasses Only When Necessary.