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Love Story Magazine from January 24th 1931

The 1936 run of Love Story Dramas was transcribed and syndicated by San Francisco-based MacGregor & Sollie

Lucille Wall circa 1938

Background

Magazines and syndicated newspaper features often made their way into Radio during the Golden Age of Radio. One of vintage Radio's most prized canons is The Shadow, which first came to Radio from Street & Smith's pulp periodicals of the era over the Love Story Drama Hour (1931). Throughout the Golden Age Radio era listeners were treated to some of their favorite magazine and recurring newspaper features such as:

1928 Mary and Bob’s True Stories [True Story Magazine]
1929 Collier's Hour [Collier's Magazine]
1931 Uncle Henry [Love Story Magazine]
1931 Liberty Magazine Hour
1931 Love Story Drama Hour
1931 March of Time [Time Magazine]
1932 The Real Silk Program
1932 George Bruce’s Air Stories [Aces Magazine]
1932 Redbook Drama [Redbook Magazine]
1932 True Story Hour [True Story Magazine]
1934 Love Story Dramas [Love Story Magazine]
1935 Cosmopolitan Magazine
1936 Love Story [Love Story Magazine]
1936 Modern Romances [Modern Romance Magazine]
1936 Voice of Liberty [Liberty Magazine]
1937 American Scene [American Magazine]
1943 Liberty Magazine's Short, Short Story
1947 Puck's Comic Weekly
1957 Life and the World

Founded in 1855, Street & Smith Publications, Inc. was one of the more successful publishers of what was commonly referred to as pulp fiction or dime novels--inexpensive periodicals readily affordable to the common man. While the founders, Francis Street and Francis Smith, died between 1883 and 1887, the publishing house they founded went on to over 80 years of publishing romance and adventure novels, fiction digests, and ultimately sports digests and magazines. Street & Smith was purchased by Condé Nast Publications in 1959. Condé Nast continued to publish Street & Smith's popular pre-season sports almanacs until 2007.

As noted above, Love Story Magazine sponsored Radio programs between 1931 and 1939. Street & Smith sponsored Radio programming between 1928 and 1941. Love Story Magazine's female personality over Radio was intended to be lovely, versatile Lucille Wall, who first served as the Collier's Hour 'Love Story Girl' between 1929 and 1931. Lucille Wall was later remembered as Portia in Portia Faces Life, a popular, long-running serial melodrama that ultimately aried from 1940 to 1951.

Love Story Dramas debuts during Columbia's Fall 1931 Season

Though never identified during the series' initial fifty-two Love Story Dramas, the 'Love Story Girl' had been identified in newspaper articles of the era as 30-something Lucille Wall, a talented and attractive Radio and Stage actress who went on to a dramatic career spanning almost 60 years. She last appeared on Television during the 1982 season of General Hospital. Lucille Wall was featured in General Hospital as nurse Lucille March Weeks when it first debuted in 1963. But Lucille Wall never actually appeared in the Street & Smith-sponsored Love Story Dramas series. Portraying 'The Love Story Girl' for Street & Smith would have obligated her to perform in two, similar Love Story magazines of the air--The Real Silk Program and Love Story Dramas. Street & Smith demanded exclusivity of Lucille Wall's services, but Ms. Wall couldn't break her other contract. So despite the ballyhoo regarding hints of Lucille Wall's portrayal of Street & Smith's 'Love Story Girl,' the two parties went their own way.

The scripts for Love Story Dramas were adapted "with the permission of Street & Smith and the editors of Love Story Magazine." It would have been an excellent opportunity for Lucille Wall. As things turned out, several other young actresses ended up portraying "The Love Story Girl" for both the 1931 Love Story Dramas that included a 'Love Story Girl' and the entire 1936 canon of Love Story Dramas that succeeded them.

Love Story Magazine redux appears over NBC during 1936

The 1936 Love Story Magazine adaptations that briefly aired in the Midwest over NBC affiliate stations were transcribed and syndicated by MacGregor and Sollie, and pressed by RCA. MacGregor and Sollie was then a San Francisco-based electrical transcription house that often worked with the major networks of the era, as well as recording, pressing and marketing their own syndicated Radio programming features.

In the case of the 1936 MacGregor and Sollie syndicated run, Street & Smith's Love Story Girl was featured in every 15-minute episode of the twenty-six episode series. Love Story Dramas was probably recorded and pressed during the Summer to Fall of 1935.

Series Derivatives:

The Love Story Hour; Love Story Drama; Love Story; Love Story Girl Dramas;

Genre:

Anthology of Golden Age Radio Magazine Story Dramatizations

Network(s):

CBS [WABC]; NBC [KTFI]

Audition Date(s) and Title(s):

Unknown

Premiere Date(s) and Title(s):

31-10-01 01 Title Unknown
36-04-18 01 Romance On Deck

Run Dates(s)/ Time(s):

31-10-01 to 32-09-22; CBS; Fifty-two, 15-minute programs; Thursdays, and 9:30 p.m.

36-04-18 to 36-10-17; NBC; Twenty-six, 15-minute programs; Saturday and Wednesday mornings

Syndication:

Columbia; MacGregor and Sollie; RCA

Sponsors:

Street & Smith's "Love Story Magazine"

Director(s):

Principal Actors:

Recurring Character(s):

The "Love Story Girl"

Protagonist(s):

None

Author(s):

None

Writer(s)

Music Direction:

Musical Theme(s):

Unknown

Announcer(s):

Estimated Scripts or
Broadcasts:

Episodes in Circulation:

Total Episodes in Collection:

Provenances:

radioGOLDINdex, Hickerson Guide.

Notes on Provenances:

The most helpful provenances were the log of the radioGOLDINdex and newspaper listings.

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Given the OTRR's absurd adoption of the commercial Vintage Radio Place Cassette Logs to populate the OTRR's wildly error-prone and inaccurate OTTER Log database, it's no wonder that their 'Certified Complete and Accurate' set of Love Story Magazine is a complete travesty. Nor is it any wonder that The Vintage Radio Place log is inaccurate, given that it was simply plaigerized from the radioGOLDINdex transcription log of what the radioGOLDINdex refers to as Love Story:

The radioGOLDINdex is a database of predominately transcription discs and tapes--or so it's represented, in any case.
The radioGOLDINdex's Love Story database is comprised of a specific set of transcriptions that bear a sequential series of twenty-six, 1937 dated transcriptions that were never ever actually broadcast in 1937.
We have no idea when the radioGOLDINdex's set of transcriptions actually did air--you'd have to ask the radioGOLDINDex--but it certainly wasn't in 1937. Nor could that set of transcriptions have possibly aired in 1936, since they're all labeled with 1937 dates--at least a year after the canon actually did first air in the Midwest.

Given our past history with the OTRR's questionable integrity--on virtually every level--it came as no surprise to us that the OTRR simply lied about the details of yet another of their 'Certified Complete and Accurate' sets. Clearly the 'Certified Complete and Accurate' set they purport to own isn't even theirs. And whomever they did 'borrow' their set and its accompanying details from simply passed along it's historically inaccurate information. The OTRR, as is often the case with the OTRR, simply laundered that shabby information by pronouncing it 'Certified Complete and Accurate.'

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The Love Story Dramas Radio Program Log [1931-1932 CBS Run]
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
31-10-01	1	Title Unknown	N	31-10-01 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Magazine Hour
31-10-08	2	Title Unknown	N	31-10-08 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story drama. 31-10-08 New York Times WABC--9:30--Dramatic Sketch 31-10-08 Circleville Herald WABC--9:30--Love Story
31-10-15	3	Title Unknown	N	31-10-15 Chester Times WCAU 9:30 Love Story Hour. 31-10-15 New York Times WABC--9:30--Love Story Drama 31-10-15 Washington Post WMAL--9:30 p.m.-- Love Story Magazine Hour.
31-10-22	4	Title Unknown	N	31-10-22 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Drama. 31-10-22 New York Times WABC--9:30--Love Story Drama
31-10-29	5	Title Unknown	N	31-10-29 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story drama. 31-10-29 New York Times WABC--9:30--Love Story Drama
31-11-05	6	Title Unknown	N	31-11-05 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Drama. 31-11-05 New York Times WABC--9:30--Love Story Hour
31-11-12	7	Title Unknown	N	31-11-12 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story.
31-11-19	8	Title Unknown	N	31-11-19 Chester Times WABC 9:30--Love Stories.
31-11-26	9	Heart's Desire	N	31-11-05 New York Times WABC--9:30--Sketch--Heart's Desire
31-12-03	10	Title Unknown	N	31-12-03 Chester Times WABC 9:30--Same as WCAU. WCAU 9:30--Dramatic sketch. 31-12-03 The Evening Independent WADC--9:30—Love Story
31-12-10	11	Title Unknown	N	31-12-10 Chester Times WABC 9:30--Same as WCAU. WCAU 9:30--Love Story.
31-12-17	12	Title Unknown	N	31-12-17 Chester Times WABC 9:30--Same as WCAU. WCAU 9:30--Love Story.
31-12-24	13	Title Unknown	N	31-12-24 Chester Times WABC 9:30--Same as WCAU. WCAU 9:30--Love Story.
31-12-31	14	Title Unknown	N	31-12-31 Chester Times WABC 9:30--Love Story Magazine.
32-01-07	15	Title Unknown	N	32-01-07 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-01-14	16	Title Unknown	N	32-01-14 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-01-21	17	Title Unknown	N	32-01-21 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story.
32-01-28	18	Title Unknown	N	32-01-28 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-02-04	19	Title Unknown	N	32-02-04 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-02-11	20	Title Unknown	N	32-02-11 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-02-18	21	Title Unknown	N	32-02-18 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-02-25	22	Title Unknown	N	32-02-25 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-03-03	23	Title Unknown	N	32-03-03 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-03-10	24	Title Unknown	N	32-03-10 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-03-17	25	Title Unknown	N	32-03-17 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-03-24	26	Title Unknown	N	32-03-24 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-03-31	27	Title Unknown	N	32-03-31 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-04-04	28	Title Unknown	N	32-04-07 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-04-14	29	Title Unknown	N	32-04-14 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-04-21	30	Title Unknown	N	32-04-21 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Story Hour.
32-04-28	31	Title Unknown	N	32-04-28 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Story Hour.
32-05-05	32	Shopping For Love	N	32-05-05 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour, "Shopping for Love."
32-05-12	33	Title Unknown	N	32-05-12 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-05-19	34	On the Sand	N	32-05-19 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story "On the Sand."
32-05-26	35	Title Unknown	N	32-05-26 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-06-02	36	Title Unknown	N	32-06-02 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-06-09	37	Title Unknown	N	32-06-09 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-06-16	38	Title Unknown	N	32-06-16 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-06-23	39	Title Unknown	N	32-06-23 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-06-30	40	Title Unknown	N	32-06-30 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-07-07	41	Title Unknown	N	32-07-07 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-07-14	42	Title Unknown	N	32-07-14 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--The Love Story Hour.
32-07-21	43	Title Unknown	N	32-07-21 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--The Love Story Hour.
32-07-28	44	Title Unknown	N	32-07-28 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--The Love Story Hour. 32-07-28 New York Times WABC--9:30--Love Story, sketch
32-08-04	45	Title Unknown	N	32-08-04 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Story Hour.
32-08-11	46	Title Unknown	N	32-08-11 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Story Hour.
32-08-18	47	Title Unknown	N	32-08-18 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-08-25	48	Title Unknown	N	32-08-25 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-09-01	49	Title Unknown	N	32-09-01 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour.
32-09-08	50	Title Unknown	N	32-09-08 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--The Love Story Hour. 32-09-08 Portsmouth Herald WNAC 9:30--Love Story Magazine Hour.
32-09-15	51	Title Unknown	N	32-09-15 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Love Story Hour. 32-09-15 Portsmouth Herald WNAC 9:30--Love Story Magazine Hour.
32-09-22	52	Title Unknown	N	32-09-22 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--The Love Story Hour.
32-09-29	--		--	32-09-29 Chester Times WCAU 9:30--Snoopnagle and Bud.

The Love Story Dramas Radio Program Log [1936 RBC Run]
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
36-04-11	--		--	36-04-09 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, April 11, A.M.: KTFI--9:00 With the Grenadier Guards
36-04-18	1	Romance on The Sundeck	Y	[Premiere; RBC Network (KTFI)] 36-04-16 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, April 18, A.M.: KTFI--9:00 The Love-Story Girl
36-04-25	2	Two Diamond Bracelets	Y	36-04-23 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, April 25, A.M.: KTFI--9:00 Love-Story Girls Adventures
36-05-02	3	Love At Midnight	Y	36-04-30 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, May 2, A.M.: KTFI--9:00 Love at Midnight
36-05-06	4	The Gay Red Cape	Y	36-05-05 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, May 6, A.M. KTFI--8:30 The Gay Red Cape, dramatic presentation
36-05-09	5	Bitter Triumph	Y	36-05-07 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, May 9, A.M. KTFI--8:30 Drama: "Bitter Triumph"
36-05-13	5	Bitter Triumph	--	36-05-12 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, May 13, A.M.: KTFI--8:30 Drama — "Bitter Triamph"
36-05-16	6	Tiny Pink Elephant	Y	36-05-14 Idaho Evening Times Saturday a.m.: 8:45 Opening, market quotations latest dance releases drama
36-05-20	--		--
36-05-23	7	Such A Charming Young Man	Y	36-05-21 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, May 23, A.M.: KTFI--9:00 "Such a Charming Young Man," drama
36-05-27	8	Streak of Moonlight	Y	36-05-26 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, May 27, A.M.: KTFI--8:30 Drama: Stread of Moonlight
36-05-30	8	Streak of Moonlight	--	36-05-28 Idaho Evening Times Saturday a.m.: KTFI--9:00 Drama: Streak of Moonlight
36-06-03	9	Hostage of Love	Y	36-06-02 Idaho Evening Times KTFI--8:30 The Hostage of Love
36-06-10	10	Unexciting	Y	36-06-09 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, June 10, A.M.: KTFI--9:00 Unexciting ---drama
36-06-13	10	Unexciting	--	36-06-13 Idaho Evening Times KTFI--9:00 Unexciting ---drama
36-06-17	11	Trapeze Girl	Y	36-06-16 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, June 17, A.M.: KTFI--9:00 Drama: The Trapeze Girl
36-06-20	11	Trapeze Girl	--	36-06-18 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, June 20, A.M.: KTFI--8:30 Trapeze Girl ---drama
36-06-24	12	Just Another Blonde	Y	36-06-23 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, June 24, A.M.: KTFI--8:30 Drama: Just Another Blond
36-07-01	13	Flash Girl	Y	36-06-30 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, July 1: KTFI--8:30 Flash Girl . . . a Drama
36-07-04	13	Flash Girl	--	36-07-02 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, July 4: KTFI--8:30 Adventures of "Flash Girls"
36-07-08	14	The Last Dance	Y
36-07-11	14	The Last Dance	--	36-07-09 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, July 11, A.M.: KTFI--9:00 Drama: "Girls' Adventures"

36-07-15	--		--	36-07-13 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, July 15, A.M.: KTFI--9:o0 Westinghouse Newleyweds
36-07-18	--		--	36-07-16 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, July 18, A.M.: KTFI--9:o0 Arthur Pryor's Band
36-07-22	--		--	36-07-20 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, July 22, A.M.: KTFI--9:o0 Morton Downey Vocals
36-07-29	--		--	36-07-27 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, July 29, A.M.: KTFI--9:o0 Arthur Pryor's Band

36-08-01	15	Army Kisses	Y	36-07-30 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, August 1, A.M.: KTFI--9:00 Drama: "Army Kisses"
36-08-05	16	Untamed	Y	36-08-04 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, August 5, A.M.: KTFI--8:30 Drama: "Untamed"
36-08-08	--		--
36-08-12	17	A Prince Arrives	Y	36-08-15 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, August 12, A.M.: KTFI--8:30 Drama: "A Prince Arrives"
36-08-15	17	A Prince Arrives	--	36-08-15 Idaho Evening Times KTFI--9:00 Drama: "A Prince Arrives"
36-08-22	18	A Toast to Cinderella	Y	36-08-20 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, August 22, A.M.: KTFI--9:00 Drama: "A Toast to Cinderella"
36-08-29	19	The Difference Between	Y	36-08-27 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, August 29, A.M.: KTFI--9:00 Drama: "The Difference Between"
36-09-02	20	June House Party	Y	36-09-01 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, September 2: KTFI--9:00 Drama: June House Party
36-09-09	21	Devil Wind	Y	36-09-09 Idaho Evening Times KTFI--8:30 Drama: "Devil Wind"
36-09-12	21	Devil Wind	--	36-09-10 Idaho Evening Times Monday, September 12: KTFI--9:00 Drama: "Devil Wind"
36-09-16	22	Forgotten Girl	Y	36-09-15 Idaho Evening Times Wednesday, September 16, A.M.: KTFI--8:30 Drama: "Forgotten Girl"
36-09-23	23	Week-end Party	Y	36-09-23 Idaho Evening Times KTFI--8:30 Drama: "Week-end Party"
36-09-26	23	Week-end Party	--	36-09-24 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, November 26, A.M.: KTFI--9:00 Drama: "Week-end Party"
36-10-03	24	Accent On Perlita ~~Accent On Fralita~~	Y	36-10-01 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, October 3, A.M.: KTFI--9:00 Drama: "Accent On Perlith"
36-10-07	25	Nola Says 'I Do'
36-10-10	25	Nola Says 'I Do'	Y	36-10-08 Idaho Evening Times KTFI--9:o0 Drama: "Nola Says I Do"
36-10-17	26	Some Men Are Different	Y	36-10-15 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, Oct. 17, A.M.: KTFI--9:o0 Drama: "Some Men Are Different"
36-10-24	--		--	36-10-15 Idaho Evening Times Saturday, Oct. 17, A.M.: KTFI--9:o0 Arthur Pryor's Band

The Love Story Magazine Radio Program Biographies

Lucille LorettaWall Concert Pianist; Stage, Radio, Television and Film Actor (1898-1986) Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Education: Academy of The Sacred Heart, Washington, D.C. Radiography: 1929 Collier's Hour 1931 Uncle Henry 1938 Great Plays 1945 Treasury Salute 1948 Lorenzo Jones 1948 Portia Faces Life 1952 The Chase	Lucille Wall directed her ambition toward the stage when her dream of becoming a concert pianist was shattered, and the Stage afforded her the training to become a radio heroine Lucille Wall circa 1938 Lucille Wall circa 1940 Lucille Wall (right) in Portia Faces Life	From the May 5th 1931 edition of the Hutchinson News: MUSIC CAREER A FADED DREAM OF RADIO'S "LOVE STORY GIRL" New York, (AP)--Lucille Wall, who once tried to hitch her wagon to a musical star, now is the "love story girl" of radio. There was a period in her teens when ambition was strong within her to be a concert pianist. But her enthusiasm wilted when, after laboring for weeks to achieve something like a correct rendition of a certain piece of music, she heard Paderweski run through it perfectly, with no more effort than a loss of his locks. Miss Wall's later ambition to be an actress found no such discouragement, however. And her career led to radio. Now she is cast for heroine parts in radio drama, particularly the Sunday night WJZ series of Uncle Henry and the editor, where she always is the more or less love sick young woman. In her radio experience of four years she has played more than 500 roles. Miss Wall has a middle name, Loretta, which she uses only occasionally. She was born in Chicago, but has spent her latter years in Washington and New York. After attending the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Washington, her determination to go on the stage overcame parental objections. To her listeners, who send her stacks of mail, including many a proposal, she is the "love story" girl. Miss Wall is good looking--and unmarried. From the July 18, 1986 Edition of The Post-Standard: Lucille Wall, Star of Radio's 'Portia Faces Life,' Dies Los Angeles Times Lucille Wall, who as Portia Blake faced life on radio for nearly 12 years, much to the delight and concern of millions of soap opera fans, has died. She was 87. The veteran actress, who later established herself on television as the venerable head nurse on "General Hospital," died at a Reno, Nev., convalescent home. Although she won a special television Emmy for her portrayal of nurse Lucille March at an age when most actors would have been happily retired, it was as Portia in the long-running "Portia Faces Life" that she will be best remembered. "We got hundreds of letters and calls when she first went on television," said Kylie Masterson, a former associate producer of "General Hospital." "People had never seen her face, but they recognized her voice from radio and wrote to ask if she had indeed been Portia." From 1940 until the program went off the air, Miss Wall was briefly the supportive wife and then grieving widow of an idealistic young attorney who briefly battled the corrupt elements in control of the mythical city of Parkerstown. But her husband was mysteriously killed after a single episode while warring with Parkerstown's political boss, and Portia, also an attorney, was left not just to continue the crusade but to raise their young son, Dickie. It was, as the announcer said five days a week, "a story reflecting the courage, spirit and integrity of American women everywhere." The program's popularity with American women gave it top ratings. From 1940 until 1952, when television doomed radio serials to the entertainment archives, Portia survived a remarriage (to the "brilliant, handsome" journalist Walter Manning); World War II (when Manning was alternately accused of being both an American spy and a Nazi sympathizer) and accusations that she was carrying a child fathered by another man. A lesser woman would not have endured, but Portia (named after the heroine in Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice") not only endured, she also proved a master of deception. For 45 minutes prior to the time she became the sophisticated Portia, Lucille Wall had been heard as the uncomplicated Belle Jones, wife of "Lorenzo Jones," a garage mechanic whose simple, comedic homilies brought mirth to late afternoon America. Both programs originated at the NBC studios and ran for roughly the same number of years. Miss Wall said that none of her millions of listeners ever realized she played both the completely disparate roles. Miss Wall began her career in Chicago with the Ralph Bellamy Theatre Players and before landing roles in "Portia" and "Lorenzo Jones" was heard on "Pretty Kitty Kelly," "Sherlock Holmes," "True Confessions" and "Your Family and Mine." In the early 1970s she was interviewed by Richard Lamparski. She disclosed that in 1952, when Portia's death knell was sounded by the network, the program's writers concocted a scheme to keep the show on he air. They contrived a situation in which Portia, who had saved the lives and fortunes of countless hundreds over the years, would be framed and convicted on trumped-up charges. Surely, the writers reasoned, public outcry would force the series back on the air, if only long enough to free the source of their income from prison. The ploy failed.

C.P. MacGregor (Series Syndicator) Producer, Transcriber, Studio Owner (1897-1968) Founded: Los Angeles, CA Radiography: 1936 Love Story Magazine 1938 Jonathan Thomas and His Christmas On The Moon 1947-1954 Proudly We Hail 1948 The La Rosa Hollywood Theatre Of Stars 1950-1952 Salute To Reservists 1953 Better Living Radio Theatre 1953 Keep Your Guard Up 1956-1965 Heartbeat Theatre [for The Salvation Army] Obsession The Henry King Show The California National Guard Show The Cavalcade Of Drama Skippy Hollywood Theatre The New National Guard Show and literally thousands more.	C.P. MacGregor c. 1945 1939 promo for C.P. MacGregor's 'Proof of Profit Plan'	Information on C.P. MacGregor and his family remains somewhat sketchy, but he's one of the more fascinating icons of the era of The Golden Age of Radio. In 1924, MacGregor was Brunswick Records manager for the San Francisco territory. He later founded his own studios--C.P. MacGregor Studios--at 729 S. Western Avenue, Hollywood, CA. He was referred to as "the DeMille of the discs." This first of his companies--MacGregor and Ingram Company--was incorporated around 1929. Some of their electrical transcriptions of the era bear the call letters of KFRC, 610 AM, San Francisco--one of the 31 stations comprising the West Coast Don Lee-Mutual Network. Given the close association between Don Lee and C.P. MacGregor there's every likelihood that MacGregor often used Don Lee's KFRC Studios in San Francisco before establishing himself in the Melrose District of Los Angeles. By 1932 the company had changed its name to MacGregor & Sollie, located on Mission Street, in San Francisco and survived until approximately 1937. MacGregor & Sollie promoted their San Francisco transcriptions as Hollywood-style dramas. Stations from coast to coast routinely contracted with MacGregor & Sollie for their syndicated transcriptions at $17.50 for each episode. By 1945 the C.P. Macgregor Studios had migrated to 729 South Western Avenue, Hollywood, CA. Throughout that era C.P.MacGregor had begun to adopt 16" transcription discs exclusively. MacGregor was a prolific, diverse producer and distributor of syndicated transcription discs, producing The Shadow, Cecil and Sally, AFRS programs, Al Jolson, Jubilee, Lux Radio Theatre, Hollywood Theatre, and Eb and Zeb. He also produced hundreds of commercial recording sessions with the lofty likes of Leadbelly, Charlie Parker, Stan Kenton, Peggy Lee and hundreds of other prominent Jazz and contemporary recording artists. Liberty Records--the predecessor to Capitol Records--recorded in their studios in the mid-1940s. It goes without saying that MacGregor operated in a highly competitive field, with the likes of Westinghouse's World Broadcasting System and the Radio Networks themselves. That he was able meet his much larger competitors head-on--and dominate them--speaks volumes for C.P. MacGregor's quality and business acumen. Today the Library of Congress has possession of the entire surviving MacGregor collection, including the surviving output of the 1931 through 1970 masters and recording ledgers from all three companies: MacGregor and Ingram, MacGregor and Sollie, and C. P. MacGregor.

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Love Story Dramas debuts during Columbia's Fall 1931 Season

Love Story Magazine redux appears over NBC during 1936

The Love Story Dramas Radio Program Log [1931-1932 CBS Run]

The Love Story Dramas Radio Program Log [1936 RBC Run]

The Love Story Magazine Radio Program Biographies