Nine years ago in Chicago a vaudeville trouper named Myrtle Vail, who with her husband the late George Damerel was once a headliner in the big-time two-a-day, conceived the notion that her worries and woes would make good radio fare. At the, time, Myrtle was finding billings hard to come by, and she didn't quite know how to support herself and her 19-year-old daughter Donna, who had done a bit of hoofing before things got tough. So she whipped together a script called Myrt & Marge, recounting the adventures of a mother & daughter intent upon making a theatrical splash. It...
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