Radio: Absent Ladies

Although soap operas do a fine business for their sponsors both in summer and winter, the grueling year-round grind of performing in them begins to tell on actresses when the days get hot.

A favorite device for eliminating an actress from a script is to reveal that the character she portrays has to go away to have a baby. Few weeks ago, Alice Frost, who plays the title role in CBS's Big Sister, managed to get away from it all when Scripteuse Marjorie Bartlett slammed Big Sister, over seven months gone, into an auto accident, shipped her off to "Glen Falls" to...

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