Paul Raven

Betty Worth Just Plain Bill Betty Walters Road of Life Lucy Gilbert Alias Jimmy Valentine Rose Lane Heart of Julia Blake Young widow Ned Wever Central City Soldier Who Came Home (Barry Cameron) Guy Sorel Lora Lawton Adam Collingswood 1945 Katherine Raht Light of the world 1945 Front Page Farrell 1945 David Harum 1945 Agnes Moorehead By Kathleen Norris Hope Summers Masquerade 1945

Yes, I saw the infamous Donna posting and thought - here we go again! Glad you got rid of her. Thanks for the list.I'll see what I've got for those names in anticipation.

More on TGL from around that time with a couple of new characters and plots mentioned 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 has filled 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, and, 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 most intimately touching Dr. Ruthledge's life is centered around his secretary-church organist, Laura, added to the parsonage after the marriage of Mary, the doctor s daughter. T h e 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 drove Ned to repudiate Fredericka and flee to the West Coast, where he married Torchy Reynolds, young waterfront girl. They were eventually divorced, so that Ned and Mary could marry. Ned is now reconciled with his mother. Another thread in the story concerns the lives of the Kransky family. Rose, the daughter, once loved Charles Cunningham, wealthy publisher. She became the mother of his child and figured sensationally in a trial when Cunningham's wife divorced him, naming Rose as co- respondent. Now Charles wants to marry Rose but she is engaged to her present employer, Jack Felzer, prominent young attorney. Ellis Smith, an artist who calls himself "Mr. Nobody from Nowhere," is another important part of the story pattern. Ellis, blinded when he rescued Fredericka from a tenement fire, has recently regained his sight. Torchy, now a famous night club and radio singer, loves him; so does Iris Marsh, a young woman who has left her husband and little son to build up a new life of her own. Ellis isn't sure of his own heart and is currently planning to leave Five Points and start life over again. Although he has long been a verbal antagonist of Dr. Ruthledge, the artist has his own cynical way of spreading kindness through the little community. Mary Ruthledge Holden is played by Sarajane Wells; Ned Holden, by Ed Prentiss; Mrs. Kransky is Mignon Schreiber; Rose Kransky, Ruth Bailey; Jacob Kransky, Seymour Young; Torchy Reynolds, Gladys Heen; Fredericka Lang, Muriel Bremner; Irish Marsh, Betty Arnold; Ellis Smith, Phil Dakin; Charles Cunningham, Bill Bouchey; Jack Felzer, Paul Barnes; Laura Martin, Gail Renshaw: T h e serial written by Ima Phillips, "Radio's No. 1 Author, was inaugurated January 25, 1937. It is broadcast Mondays through Fridays at 9:45 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. CST over the NBC-Red network. The show is produced by Howard Keegan, for the agency, and announced by Fort Pearson.

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House Jameson By Kathleen Norris 'Mystery House' Dr Randall Howard Muriel Kirkland Central City Virginia Livingston John McGovern Amanda of Honeymoon Hill 1943 David Harum 1948 Just Plain Bill 1941 and 1948 Herb Nelson Woman in White Donald Grey

Hope Summers The Guiding Light Doris Thompson

Thanks for those. Finally, a radio role for Ruth Warrick. I keep reading that she was on radio but never any specifics.

Daytime Ratings reported Jan 1944 1. When A Girl Marries 9.0 2. Portia Faces Life 8.7 3. Backstage Wife 8.6 4. Right to Happiness 8.4 5. Big Sister 8.4 6. Young Widder Brown 8.2 7. Stella Dallas 8.0 8. Pepper Young's Family 7.9 9. Lorenzo Jones 7.6 10.Kate Smith Speaks 7.6

Macdonald Carey I Love Linda Dale Jason Blade Affairs of Anthony Andy Pickering Kay Campbell Just Plain Bill 1947 Lora Lawton 1948 Arthur Vinton Stories America Loves 'The Virginian' Trampas 1941 Humphrey Davis Portia Blake Mayor Bartlett Matt Crowley Life Can Be Beautiful Barry 1939 Ernest Graves Backstage Wife 1941

Irna wasn't afraid to head to court November 1940 Irna Phillips Loses Suit on Strip Show CHICAGO, Irna Phillips. writer of soap operas, lost her appeal of a Superior Court ruling In her suit against WGN. Inc.. and The Tribune over property rights in the strip show Painted Dreams. The Appellate Court upheld the decision of the lower tribunal that the show belonged to WGN. Miss Phillips claimed that she was the creator and Independent owner of the drama and owned It by copyright She had, however written the script in September. 1930 while employed by WGN, following a general outline supplied by the station. The court brought out that, after a sponsor was found, she Copyrighted the first 10 scripts without advisng her employer. Justice John N. O'Connor stated: -She did the work, was paid for It. and In such situation under the law the ownership In the result of what was done belongs to the defendants.

Lucy Gilman Right To Happiness Katherine Burke

Butler Manville Story of Mary Marlin Li Yu Katherine Raht Front Page Farrell Martha 1945 Hope Summers Arnold Grimm's Daughter 1941 Erin O'Brien Moore David Harum Jone Allison Light of the World 'Joseph' Astra Cliff Soubier Ann Thomas Career Girl Bill Baker Win Your Lady Mr Maldon Affairs of Anthony Horace Biddle Story of Mary Marlin Mac Girl Alone Irish butler Guy Sorel Road of Life Dr Ferdinand Yates

THE WOMAN IN WHITE" has been on the air since January 3, 1938. Karen Adams, graduate nurse, is the central figure of the story. A modern-day Florence Nightingale, Karen has devoted her life to the service of others. Although faced with a problem of her own, her love for a man who has contracted an incurable disease, she nevertheless carries on unselfishly her ideals and philosophy. Another problem in Karen's life concerns her young sister, Betty, infatuated with a wealthy young man -about -town, Bob Banning. Betty's association with Banning has brought unhappiness into the lives of Aunt Helen and Uncle Bill Spalding, with whom Karen and her brother, John, make their home. Written by Irna Phillips, top-ranking radio author, "The Woman In White" is aired over NBC, Mondays through Fridays, 10:45 a.m. EDT. KAREN ADAMS, played by Luise Barclay, is about 30 years old, understanding and sympathetic. yet. despite her long experience with people, she has a tendency to take herself and life itself too seriously. This attitude, unusual though it is in so young a woman, is understandable, because since the death of her parents many years ago Karen has more or less assumed the responsibility of bringing up her sister, Betty. and her brother, John. Her motto is: "I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore, there is any kindness I can show, or any good I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now-for I shall not pass this way again." To a nurse, whose daily life is a constant round of ministration to the sick and unfortunate, such a philosophy is a fortress of strength; but to Karen it is more than merely an aid in her daily toil; it is a way of life; everything else in secondary BETTY ADAMS is Karen's younger sister. She is 20. bright, cheerful, and affectionate. However. as is so often the case with young people, she is impatient of restraint, sure that she knows enough about life to manage her own affairs. Toni Gilman plays the role JOHN ADAMS. played by Willard Farnum, is a gifted violinist. He is several years older than Karen. He has one ambition in life -to carve out a great musical career for himself. Despite frequent differences of opinion, he and Karen share a deep, undying love ALICE DAY has been Karen's roommate and her closest friend during the years of training they both underwent in order to become nurses. She lives with Karen, at the Spaldings'. Her carefree attitude toward life is a factor in Karen's life. Ruth Bailey's role ROY PALMER, a young Englishman who has worked with Bryant Chandler in India, plays an important role in "The Woman in White." To him, Bryant has confided that he will not marry Karen so long as he faces the prospect of a life of invalidism. Frank Behrens plays Palmer. Meanwhile, in India, SYBELLA MANSFIELD, a half-caste, attractive and intelligent, a friend of both Palmer and Chandler, waits for Bryant's return. She is in love with Bryant, but she knows of his love for Karen. Lois Marley plays Sybilla. BOB BANNING, played by C. Henry Nathan is wealthy young man -about -town who is currently paying much attention to Betty Adams. ROSEMARY HEMINGWAY, Betty's close friend, warns her against him. Genelle Gibbs plays Rosemary. THOMAS HAWKINS, wealthy and elderly eccentric, is characterized by Phil Lord. AUNT HELEN SPALDING is played by Henrietta Tedro. Since the death of their own child, Aunt Helen and Uncle Bill Spalding have taken care of the orphaned Adams children. They consider the children as their very own. BRYANT CHANDLER, played by Dave Gothard, is deeply in love wiith Karen Adams. But for three and a half years he was in India, there he contracted incurable blackwater fever. Now in America, he wants to return to India DR. LEE MARKHAM is an old friend of the Spalding family. He met Karen when she was in training loves her, has great influence over her. Macdonald Carey plays the role.

Spooky ... some of those radio names I am researching right now!

Never Too Young Freddie Cannon performed 'What Do I Hear? June 24th 1966

Please tell me that Ron Raines is playing Daddy Warbucks in Annie.

Can we add Anthony Pena Tony Randall Mary Jane Higby Hope Summers

Joseph Julian Kate Hopkins Angel of Mercy Blackie James Lipton Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters 1947 Romance of Helen Trent 1948 Herb Nelson His Kitty Keene role was Bob Jones Leona Powers Betty and Bob Mrs Gardner replacing Selena Royle for the final 8 weeks of the program Barry Jenner Search for Tomorrow

Nov 1982 Guiding Light' loses another head writer BY LYNDA HIRSCH A LITTLE OVER a month ago, Pat Falken Smith was hired to replace Doug Marland as head writer of "The Guiding Light," after Marland quit the show due to less-than-cordial relations with the show's producer, Alan Potter. Last week, Falken Smith was removed from the post with the official word being "it just didn't work out." L. Virginia Browne, who spent nine months as one of Marland's writers on "Guiding Light," takes over head writing duties, with her first work showing up on the air Nov. 29. It is believed some characters will be written out in the next few months, but there's no word on who. Most likely, Browne will return to many of Mar-land's storylines as well as instituting a few of her. own. But first she must clear up the plots that Falken Smith started. Browne did an excellent job when she served as head writer for "Another World" a while back; she managed to bring many characters together in strong central units, and produced witty, down-to-earth dialogue

Sam Wanamaker Front Page Farrell 1948 Boris Aplon Backstage Wife DA Patterson 1951 Patricia 'Patsy' Bruder True Confessions 1958 Bernadine Flynn Thunder Over Paradise Margaret Hamilton The Egg and I

Feb 1968 'The Edge of Night' Same Actress,Blonde Wig SINCE the character of platinum-haired, sultry nightclub singer Julie Jamison made her debut on the CBS Television Network daytime drama, "The Edge of Night," viewers have been asking questions. Is the actress playing Julie on the program, seen Mondays through Fridays, the same young woman who last year portrayed Laura Hillyer, a brunette socialite whose love for a blackmailing disc jockey resulted in their deaths on the serial? Their features are similar, necessarily so because this resemblance is essential to the plot development, but Julie is blonde and she also has a southern drawl. Producer Erwin Nicholson is not too surprised at the viewer reaction because, he laughs, "even organist Paul Taubman, who had worked with Laura for an entire year on the show, wanted to know who the new blonde actress playing Julie Jamison was the first time she went before the cameras." So to settle all neighborhood controversies, Nicholson has decided to set the record straight "Millette Alexander played Laura Hillyer last year and she's playing Julie Jamison this year," he says. "Same actress, only she's now wearing a long platinum wig and speaking with a southern drawL" 'Miss Alexander, who Is married to James Hammerstein, youngest son of Oscar Hammerstein II, eight years ago played the role of Gail Armstrong, girl commercial artist, on ."The Edge of Night," and two years ago she was Nurse Sylvia Hill on "As the World Turns," another CBS Television Network serial. , "My husband and children like me in the new wig," she laughs. "It gives me an entirely different personality especially by dawn's early light when I'm slinking around that big old kitchen making breakfast for the entire family."

Just discovered that Search for Tomorrow was adapted for radio in Canada, using the TV scripts. Corinne Conley (Phyllis Anderson Curtis, Days) played Joanne. This article is from 1957.I'll try and find out when it began and ended. Esse Ljungh Offers Time-Honored Soap Operas By Jim Gonsalves "I find that a lot of people deride sentiment because they are afraid of being branded as sentimental themselves. You may call it a sort of defence mechanism." Thus Esse Ljungh dismisses people who turn up their noses at that time-honored radio institution, the daytime serial Irreverently known as the soap opera. It's quite hard not to listen to Ljungh's defence of "soaps" because the Swedish-born CBC producer has ample proof that he knows what he's talking about. In his twenty years in the business he has stacked up an Imposing collection of drama awards, including many coveted Ohio State firsts. As long ago as 1942, two years after becoming a producer In the CBC's Prairie Region, he was honored for out-Ljungh standing work in the development of drama in Canada In constant demand as a staff producer on CBC Radio, Toronto, Ljungh finds time to handle "Search for Tomorrow", a five-a-week adaptation on the CBC's Trans Canada net of a TV serial originally done in the U.S. "Most soap operas today are exceedingly well done," Ljungh maintains, "and when well done, they do represent a specific style in dramatic radio presentation. A soap opera poses the same problems and laxes a producer's ingenuity as much or more than any other form of dramatic presentation." "Admittedly it isn't great literature," he continues, "but it is a dramatized picture of life, the sort of life you'd see if you looked into your next door neighbour's living room window. It takes a great deal of skill on the part of writer, producer and actor to achieve that form of naturalism that isn't dependent on a series of understatements." Who listens to "soap operas"? Ljungh points out that in this age of television the bulk of listeners to radio serials comes from the mature group of housewives who grew up with the "soap opera". "For this very reason," he says, "you'll find that the main characters in "Search for Tomorrow" aren't kids. They're mature adults with whom the audience can easily identify themselves. "This brings us to audience participation, not the sort of participation which gives rise to bagfulls of money and free washing machines, but that unique participation peculiar to the radio listener. The listener plays' as much as the actors. Her imagination gives form to the voices and translates sound into action." Ljungh feels that in television the viewer has to be spoon-fed whereas the radio listener, over the past twenty years, has developed the sense of participation to such an extent that the radio serial, unhampered by the need to underscore the obvious, is able to move along at a much faster clip. Ljungh adapts and rewrites the TV scripts of "Search for Tomorrow" himself. A television writer usually tries to get away with as little dialogue as possible, relying more on the picture to tell the story. It's the opposite in radio, but where lines have to be added, Ljungh is able to cut out much unnecessary action. He sometimes boils down two TV episodes to one on radio. The tightening up process which goes on in converting "Search" to radio pays off for the sponsor as well as the audience. The show moves so fast and Ljungh keeps his plot so tight that the listener literally can't afford to miss an episode without losing the thread of the story. While some critics claim to be able to get along well without "soap operas", most actors will readily sing a different tune. So far, over 40 Canadian actors have been used on "Search for Tomorrow", many of them top rated triple-threat players (stage-TV-radio). The female lead on "Search" is played by Corinne Conley. a familiar personality on CBC-TV, whom director David Greene once described as "the most convincing actress I have ever known". The cast of top-notchers also included Paul Kligman, actor-writer Tommy Tweed, Doug "Hap" Masters, Iris Cooper, James Doohan, William Needles and veteran Frank Peddie. Ljungh insists that his actors approach their roles in "Search" with the same degree of intensity as they would for a "CBC Stage" production. "And it's hard work," he says. "We record the shows In advance. Every Thursday we start at nine in the morning and work through to five-thirty. That way we can do five shows. The artists' contract allows 75 minutes per show. They get an hour off for lunch and fifteen minute break between each episode." "Soap opera" critics often claim that if the serials went they could be replaced by more "worthwhile" programs. Ljungh shrugs this off easily. "The housewives don't want great literature while they're doing the ironing or vacuuming the rug. People still gossip. In the country they still listen in on the party lines."

Some more story info Concerning Miss Marlowe. Her first marriage ended in heartbreak. Daughter of a Chicago motorman, she married a wealthy Winnetka boy against his parents' wishes. But he dies of pneumonia just before their daughter is born. Broke and without a job, she gives the child to husband's parents, who are loaded. Later, her mother-in-law takes the girl to Paris and is " swallowed up in the confusion in France when the Germans took over in World War II." She never hears from her daughter again. As the series opens, Miss Marlowe, played by Louise Albritton of the movies and stage, begins a new romance with Jeff Howard, an international lawyer. Ronald Anderson, her English suitor died suddenly a few days before.

Looks like Chris used the wallpaper from the Brooks' for her blouse!

Thanks for posting. I guess that episode was during the writers strike. MJ fussing over Jerry...nothing came of that relationship. Back to the 60's. July 1964 Fans Kept Her From Being Killed By Script Writers When a character on a serial drama becomes too lovable to write out of the script, what can you do? That's the dilemma which veteran actress Ruth McDevitt presented to the producer of NBC-TV's The Doctors (Monday through Friday, 2:30 p.m. on channels 4 and 5). First of all, you call the lady's agent and find out if she is signed for a Broadway play in the fall. When she is (as Miss McDevitt is signed to star in "The Absence of a Cello"), you agree to write around her for many a long week provided she will return from time to time. Ruth McDevitt signed to play Mrs. McMurtrie, an elderly Irish housekeeper for Chaplain Sam Shafer. The lovable lady of the script was supposed to expire of a kidney ailment but the warmth of the on-the-air relationship with the chaplain drew so much appreciative fan mail, that neither the producer (Jerry Layton) nor the writer could bear to eliminate dear Mrs. McMurtrie. She survived her kidney operation and after a few weeks returned to her duties as the chaplain's housekeeper. The chaplain is portrayed by Fred J. Scollay, whom the actress holds in high regard. "Fred is a very good actor," she says. "But then in daytime television you've GOT to be fast, accurate and good. They don't have time to fool around with people who have to try things a dozen ways before they're right. Some of the best acting on television is done in the daytime. "I think many actors make a bad mistake if they look down their noses at daytime drama. It's a great mistake." Although Mrs. McMurtrie is a woman of impeccable behavior, Miss McDevitt often plays ladies who are somewhat less inhibited. "In my new play," she points out, "I will be seen as an elderly lady named Emma Littlewood who drinks, swears and gambles... but she IS a lady, despite that." Miss McDevitt wagged her head and said firmly, "Don't underestimate Mrs. McMurtrie. She may not drink, smoke and gamble, but I think she is more than a meddlesome old woman in a daytime serial. She's a simple honest woman of keen insight who feels too much responsibility toward human nature. The only reason she seems meddlesome, I guess,' is that she tries to get everything fixed up for everybody before her life span runs out. I like Mrs. McMurtrie." Other people like Mrs. McMurtrie, too, as the fan mail arriving at Studio 3B in New York's RCA Building amply indicates. "So glad to see you," writes a fan who has enjoyed Miss Mc-Devitt's work on Alfred Hitchcock's nighttime TV show. "I've always enjoyed your work," wrote another woman who recalled Miss McDevitt as Mrs. Gamadge the national commit-teewoman, in the Broadway production of "The Best Man."