Radio and Television Mirror – October 1941

Description: This is the October 1941 issue of Radio and Television Mirror. Its cover features a photo of Pat Ryan, who starred in “Claudia and David” on the CBS Radio Network. Two articles are highlighted on the cover – “Read Amanda of Honeymoon Hill – Radio’s Most Beautiful Love Story” and “Against the Storm – See Your Favorites in Full Page Photographs.” In addition, there is a two-page+ article on “Superman in Radio,” featuring three panels of original art. There are also numerous black & white and sepia-toned photos and vintage advertisements. (See photos for highlights of the magazine’s contents.) The magazine contains 88 pages and measures approximately 8.5 x 11.5 inches. Patricia Ryan (February 25, 1921 – February 15, 1949) was a child and later young adult radio performer and an actress. She was taken ill during an evening broadcast and died the next day. Ryan began working in radio when she was 4 years old Her best-known role was probably that of Kathleen, Henry Aldrich's girlfriend on The Aldrich Family. On February 14, 1949, Ryan was performing on a Cavalcade of America broadcast when, as reported in a United Press (UP) wire service story, she was "stricken with a splitting headache." The UP article related: "The show had been on only a few minutes when she [Ryan] clutched her head and swayed. She was helped to a chair and two other actresses alternately read her lines. Before the program ended she had recovered enough to resume her part, but still complained of an extremely severe headache." The next morning, her husband found her dead in their apartment. Her death was attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage.The Adventures of Superman was a long-running radio serial that originally aired from 1940 to 1951. The serial came to radio as a syndicated show on New York City's WOR on February 12, 1940. On Mutual, it was broadcast from August 31, 1942, to February 4, 1949, as a 15-minute serial, running three or, usually, five times a week. From February 7 to June 24, 1949, it ran as a thrice-weekly half-hour show. The series shifted to ABC Saturday evenings on October 29, 1949, and then returned to afternoons twice a week on June 5, 1950, continuing on ABC until March 1, 1951. In all, 2,088 original episodes of The Adventures of Superman aired on American radio. Just as Superman's true identity remained a secret, the identity of radio actor Collyer also remained a secret from 1940 until 1946, when the character of Superman was used in a promotional campaign for racial and religious tolerance and Collyer did a Time magazine interview about that campaign. Since there were no reruns at that time, the series often used plot devices and plot twists to allow Collyer to have vacation time. Kryptonite allowed Superman to be incapacitated and incoherent with pain while the secondary characters took the focus instead. At other times, Batman (Stacy Harris) and Robin (Ronald Liss) appeared on the program in Superman's absence. Many aspects associated with Superman, such as kryptonite, originated on radio, as did certain characters, including Daily Planet editor Perry White, copy boy Jimmy Olsen and police inspector Bill Henderson. On March 2, 1945, Superman met Batman and Robin for the first time. Paramount's animated Superman short films used voices by the radio actors, and Columbia's Superman movie serials (1948, 1950) were "adapted from the Superman radio program broadcast on the Mutual Network."

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