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ConEribUEIONS. of e o Greatest Lack o s o Recorder. of . & Directed. and . S o MatheElSETAIeRES TN Wrote, Contents o e . o 10 o 10 . 15 Broadcasting. 12 TODAY IS MAY INTERVIEWING FELT BITNER, PROVO, UTAH. HW: 17, 1985. I AM HELEN GIBBONS AND I WILL BE HELEN BITNER WILCOX, THE DAUGHTER OF IRMA IN MRS. WILCOX' HOME, 951 EAST 150 NORTH, Mrs. Gibbons This 1is asked Helen thirty-nine, when I very had very nice, sense of humor and the a as 1life of like. My for Saturday provided some their funny going earliest show of the at was the She enjoyed people, Elizabeth and she and was her all a when Capitol advertising for LaMont, the it Mother's basis I'd go Theatre. a had time community probably very They of a sister brother, memory on Mother spontaneous parties. on a Mother for but younger family her had they as a knows and humor, have was person, kinds. of our basis she fun around. entertainment generalized since She different didn't and and making sense be about that Elizabeth's, to fun proclivity on and She fun way aged she me people. was middle yet vivacious the of and asked with Mother already people, very personality. when Elizabeth touch Toronto something seemed a delightful 1laugh. charming of Helen enjoyments to the as in loved were her people very Felt remembér sister light entertaining Etta born was similar a was my Elizabeth had I awareness to providing Mother's . person. her. were I any similarity about Wilcox. so 1lively me coal or to She company HELEN BITNER WILCOX #1 EneSatcSiEaketnCity, entertaining way. community could and who then about costumes the and Her here She HG: Theatre girls Kirkham, was 58 is would her What about Well and B. details G. through some drawers Studios on was that was that it?" I was times When I she to together and the show. now their a song they sang red Now Mrs. on one O. of of Ned CA 95926. Grand Circle telephone that devil stage Chico, girl stationery when said, I was number. that danced probably. me I'd was this you history. 2 what was like I a Josie Goff's little, born." Apparently to said, the the ILater she B. was. talent answered cute, digging with that And happened were I young Goff." I'd because what was Studios. Josie met when Mother "It with "Well, the on about asked mother asked said, she doing familiar dance other Bitner-Goff And many and was in lives the Studios? some it up who the and very in them dressed Place, a gals dance, Shepard, is in taught Saturday Common who found said I the 377-6821 the tap and Davis, remember with at it young She They Renee John Provo. a song Northwest nephew in them this did two dance. company. did she got tap got coal Capitol these She somehow this “but G. She "What agency name telephone round lady. partnership I pieced and Josie HELEN BITNER WILCOX started they in #1 this could the talent write agency programs community later. and Josie did lot but she had Josie involved For with activities church very held the in section nativity There about. some been in right the after It J. most of the Whether he was there don't know, but her would have pageant Glade that I was desire an outlet 3 was the remember when she to for a go her with the still in program the program. They It must have even been that of Mother to be in done first to of that have head was and lot part scenes. may the she pageant that her was do what of thirties. KSL. as replay was for that to 1947 she that programs show the and Testament the to years New had and went been a that Earl also the stories early pageant one--that of up, a of sister, planning printed fact, similar the She are sort coming big herself except writing, the got In was soon of scene, existence--I've Tabernacle in by that younger was something some years curtailed 1930 Tabernacle. production. did in it with of where entertainments did her my somewhat involved a was and centennial writing help studio purposes, She couple me were much the the a provide different she too. and also for that things and KSL during being there. went KSL, Mother of talents, there course, as well I HELEN BITNER as a WILCOX career. good She homemaker wasn't kinds the and at. of were that oil painting. fireplace in the that. did bedspread that it textile a that beautify I textile found years picture, Mother the summertime, home. She viher, friends,s Happiness and Fraternity" and Judd and Woolf Marge was would bring the was twelve in formal dinner this She could party My sister and hers and poetry 4 the she a Mary club. DeVon When Dad he called it, party for were lovely, a almost friends. creative urge rhyme little the Dad's could Y“In DeVon dinner I loved it. School. big to Smoots. that as the years of name a on in the and on put strong, tremendously write nice, embroidery early trout" had was <club,', High of There “InHaFra South a for Mother cook, of of opening excellent members all painting picture, the and for would Mother and was mess home. our maids had signal an ‘her of "a back in Howels were principal Woolf this Marcia the with painted done Eolhavel Grant later was in painting. a had a and of front was stood didn't home in a There she like, It was home. our made, that She that in had frame at try she oak She effective evidences an in oriented. would an painted middle she was peacocks and career very that things the very all, There fireplace of was anything succeed of #1 She in her. anything. HELEN BITNER She WILCOX just gather them about this it, at I of She required this difficult for women complain at performing, held asked overcome didn't jokes got a do George have to things to produced, different and and remember one Education had when some work an big 5 that so many that he was KSL, entertainment. and City I was just part. laugh lots had and Lake in her. good floor celebration her together, at it for he and Kiwanis Salt made occasionally dumb a large the the got enjoyed Mother's of a congenial directed kind and He interest part was they they conventions, any like half somewhere) it So very that addition in walk=on said could. on but that supportive. demands did, she around never the give energy he have to thinking had so and Washington, He were her letter speak.) They and In Club, (I've it. made that "dot'a by that. on, I that had didn't ‘and’ to she tear He so way to I'm that was and and that Dad any create creative and that and of. Now this in to talented, all Never her and were outlet, her S EililisEn remember of an her. pull who and feeling talent would write the had assist respected to expression. remember home. would urge together vehicle really He had people a her #1 (He out of too. wrote, she for shows the Lion's seem I Board wanted to of Mother HELEN BITNER put WILCOX on a program together people Freeze so two the two and women beautiful to go to the a lot of dancing. don't One was a tap the men that she did at for different she KSL what was the a lot. writing companies in Oh, Keddingtons and to of of soap operas, Salt Lake also "adagio dancers. Lake, type used have the Salt The I called, names I duets. used in Virginia quartets. they teacher used the She gather Dinwoodey. many sing lot. remember boys, so of would had dancing would Annette Two a She She singing women rehearsals I too. Keddington beautifully! these dancing." them, Clark, those sang for like Barker remember they #1 one thing and who of that jingles wanted to advertise. You mentioned "John Well, the first "Mary and John." John but was in was to know Lynn I'm the I early he came with give him sure and soap I Shaw Another the that train with that tips 6 on played the was he came needed, part that I He was early, task When Mother. his remember announcers. when he opera? can That continued. said few that that. train training a the Glen of that he the opera thirties. 1long didn't Mary," think not McKinlay 1937, did soap audition how and that she I said to KSL in that he although presentation had don't talked to of over she the HELEN BITNER radio WILCOX so #1 that he he had. I think in the way he the mode that an time. Mary, same was at KSL. I KDYL in or bachelor's radio. Mary so was to in guess it the early forties degree time Colson, was could when Northwestern in education, Eoo: radio but Mary been she Did some doing was that born the late at taught you at was University so the doing was she sister some dates, have the doing and forties. was column, my had at KSL that those I on is Mother meet audience remember what the to advice scripts of formal radio did aiso writing that can't thing Mary any. from I Bitner less radio newspaper the similar graduated that Mother sometime thirties She that was so the thing have 1912, on Lake don't probably become Salt KDYL, Mary on himself interesting then to tendencies of on An certain had like was used. experience. things style it thing he presented program who modify said Another that she he the advice except name or could KDYL. with a part of have a question? HG: Luacine when long she L. Fox went time. Luacine and Clark did. show to She Do said KSL, that your produced you with in mother some remember Jenny i about had of Mary Lee, 1936 been the Finche, or Miss or 1937, there shows the Anna, a that U.P. a HELEN BITNER WILCOX storytelling Oh, yes. #1 time? Lynn Apparently, McKinley your mentioned mother that one. directed and produced that was probably years. I was these shows. Yes, HG: Mother junior high listen to I and radio that say Luacine got She said was about that's born think high association Well HG: did. much she 1937, think Mother may or '31, because my or two Who took Our older were of us I summer. or I I asked a sometime we I the gone to My would the When you did '36 and younger Centennial KSL as have to remember between have. had while were school, we being little either. the '38. sister in early been mother a 1930. as 1930 a year only don't little, when took memory at the girls care all during I don't have it, Maybe we 8 and went course who house about Of gone? know the girl. was lot. I girls any in your there and were know Elizabeth remember year? sister her haven't anybody was of high school. what have sisters when in busy my old. care in Luacine. or too I with Then I but had impression 1929. years then, there, the in school through of were in in any hired girl winter when and to care us clue, Mary, up took of the a they and they Aunt the I've don't Etta's. HELEN BITNER I just to have been HG: five us it worked. By then born Well she How she dismissed reminded or KSL. C. Mr. mayor of during go Sharp Salt those were high school notice most I don't or that of her took the way After you know died before I with was me, so 1927. I of before duties were I just 1965. I was fit into is when this the several Mr. Glade on changed, busy don't Did heads for was she was Glade continued because in think KSL KSL didn't became Mother and Mr. He Sharp head and life? 1934, girls things. and and and college she some whatever. the Her just past 1940, 1left years. in been pregnant of Ivor Lake, would KSL? somehow, was the Studio? up was me or and Glade they KSL let Evans Ivor after I about gone Joan school have G. continue with in must it she didn't reorganization Richard gave stay school. then B. not up? when that did That have to And the that in gone was. have sick that have it might both school. gave reorganized HG: when McKinlay the would didn't was Mother were apparently long Lynn and she She think we after she were I until that's of born. remember. work maybe care #1 don't back so HG: WILCOX of years became at but either KSL what at remember. continue at HELEN HW: BITNER WILCOX As soon as in to he became was city be that #1 Mr. Glade city recorder; mayor, recorder it became was so mayor, whatever it would be from and left KSL. I 1945 but around he called year then have it Mother it was on that the that she impression might have been to radio the city. earlier. HG: I can look after HG: that Did she ever go back ithat? No, but she She was still What do ever did, Oh, I what did what was her said before and thing. And this the biggest certainly the radio station--I small always people that She that as Salt a mean Lake it a of I pioneer because the going on. unu§ual station in course that was of her the soap wrote were for a KSL I time. that at stuff. some and she radio of was doing in think the think wrote wasn't radio 10 and that programs she for talents something she I vehicles people's was if thing. provided, forefront McKinlay one performing she thing contribution? providing was those Lynn any There had asked greatest was in satisfying of Jjingles in most about thing. and operas, there people shows. expansion outlet The views. for those the think always on was and biggest shows think don't I Mother write putting you development as up. a small community was the HELEN BITNER only WILCOX one scene #1 for many until, said well, [that] bigger and cities long were quite course, what for going on, that Did she try their to the were other of did How in were a what think the for a it doing. Of alert to I think, things other and Los that always for people that people, also Broadcasters, some and these of N.A.B. of in in an for conventions? East. She went all with them all. feel, where the head you do women 4i the think, were an of to hear? National the She her always closest went friends organizations. cities she liked in active very was officers world not out conventions correspondence HG: been were and the and intuition, appropriate aspect find She back Yes, to he midwestern had was an communication said large they She had He and the And Francisco seemed way. she anyway. the that on aspect. Association To were in to yes. Oh, HG: that San of he come was. things thing communications entertainment some but and it and same advanced effective the and the was things were York Mother was thought guess, an didn't thirties Chicago doing I KDYL the he like New time, was in yes, cities Angeles years. not time, and about being announcing organization like kept a news a up a woman and radio HELEN BITNER WILCOX station? Did #1 she resent it? Did she just take it for granted? No, she noticed. wasn't right. women, even say all in the as he ever seem HG: to be the of story at announcers, I when home, can and KDYL's intonation and their quality of over their exception and think don't I to complete mother my of lack a It's whereas it did situations. ought the working was she to add to and announcers presence--the air--the voices, 12 the way way with the to KSL's evaluating their listening her remember announcers themselves and show for we at times, issue that treated, all, to other in and and an an treated respect there. worked to much was respect have mother? your remember I of As lack. seemed of equality equality. a just femininity think you were many Glade occasionally one else Anything that it I was and practice tremendous their made she equality that of thought Sometimes, their of she lack station Mr. man and way That's women other the in a had He equality. for sign Now was He that. a that. know the the the proclaims individuals. in that happen we that community. at not was church course noticed our women didn't it noticed fairness it our She in other times, She they way they they presented sounded, the pronounced HELEN BITNER WILCOX their words thing that and I standard, the terms that the the in and the York at Do you of grammar York Salt and Why didn't that history is that don't know what of the KSL standards. The way spoke was standards in time they are spoken think on Lake for many that was I allow the sounded the the standards of New the City was typical all I and the don't of know, areas City as years colloquialisms York same might be the was Chicago on talk to our that of New stations. people here That's interesting. You're welcome. high that a the same Thank 13 you country and than people as the very in terms but community whole the our now, actually, different but then now? California in talk way, is of standard radio, than provincial, certainly the higher still me considered people way they're thing was regard were pronunciation, think interesting all that this interesting Lake. Well, sound people nationwide. people Salt the the One standards--I nationwide be in in were idioms to be speech educated New Those vocal thing. are--the speech, but whole should the standard radio the think that announcers HG: #1 in that this because and New York the way the community announcers much, in the Mrs. they did. Wilcox. HELEN BITNER [END HG: Can WILCOX OF FIRST we left #1 SESSION pinpoint radio so ABOUT more we HG: Well, my from city fast at to won't mother have was fat’ up the to old! MOTHER] date spend your many mother hours microfilm of in old dates? about government. sixty-five She when was born in have been '55, she '88. retired Are you math? Sixty-five to that's about years, fifteen Well, match WILCOX'S closely thelmlbibrasriilgeking” newspapers MRS. maybe ninety would right. So she before was [END that she closer OF would died. to seventy. INTERVIEW] 14 have 1955, been 1953, twelve |
