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September 7 1936 •

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RAY ana CHua • Page 9 ISTENERS' Paderewski in Trans-Atlantic Broadcast October 12th

Lanny Ross' State Fair Concert has Ignace Jan Paderewski. world fa become so popular that its sponsors mous Polish pianist. will present his have decided to keep it on the air at first American radio concert this fall least three weeks longer than origin :t was announced today. The noted ally planned. Heard over an NBC musician will be heard over an NBC Here's a Thought WJZ network each Sunday at 5:00 W JZ network from 9: 30 to 10 : 00 Partner for Otto '! p. m.. CST. the program now is ll. m., CST, on Saturday, October 12 . Listeners, this is your page. Your An autograph of one of the gang scheduled to continue through Sep when he broadcasts from his home In Stand By! of August 17 the pic letters concerning the magazine, each week! What a splendid sugges tember 22. Riond Bosson, Morges. Switzerland .. ture of otto reminds me of when I tion. But why not add a little to it? Howard Barlow's 35-piece semi Seated at his piano in the living had the mumps. Gee. I can almost the programs, or other letters, will Have an artist write an article of room of his villa. Paderewski will play hear his left eye click. He also looks symphonic orchestra and guest art be welcome. Please hold your some kind and sign his name to it. I Mrs. B. F. Langworthy ists also are heard on the programs. an all-Chopin program. The program as if he has "hassenpfeffer und " scripts" to one hundred words. am sure they could do as well as Ala was arranged by the Societe Romande kleets" for dinner often .... My little Address "Listeners' Mike." bama Buttram.-Helen Kunkel, Riv Mrs. B. F. Langworthy, president of de Radiodiffusion. daughter said. "Mother. perhaps you erside. Ill. the National Congress of Parents and The famed pianist. now in his 74th and Otto could team up and call (Your suggestion is excellent, Miss Teachers, will speak during Home year. will give no concerts this year yourselves the 'Beef Trust·... Well. Kunkel, but take it from the editor, makers' Hour on Monday. September NEXT WEEK so that the broadcast to be relayed Otto. don·t lose any weight. I have Faithful Fans 9. Mrs. Langworthy has just returned it's mighty hard to corral any oj John Lair. outstanding au from his own home on Oct.ober 12 to just 12 pounds to go to catch uP. and We have l!Ieen fans for 12 these fo!ks and convince them that from Oxford. England. where she at NBC listeners will offer the only op that's that! ... Nothing like olden years since 'way back when Charlie tended the International Federation thority on folk music and leg their literary efforts are in demand. ends, writes a fascinating story portunity to hear him. times. old scouts. Today it·s the bunk. Stookey gave temperature reports However, next week you'll find what of Home and School. Her subject I wish those old days would come from his back porch . . .. We never will be "The P. T. A. Around the of the fiddling. dancing and we think is a fascinating story by other goings-on at the annual back with seven yards of goods in our miss a Barn Dance.-Mrs. Sylvia John Lair. Look for it.) World." This is the second in a new street gowns.-Mrs. Florence B. N .. Conn. Marion. Ind. series of P. T. A. talks to be given White Top Folk Festival on Willow Springs. TIL each Monday on Homemakers' Hour. White Top Mountain, Virginia. The glory that was Gr,ece and the It's a story of a little known grandeur that was ancIent Rome- Thanl{s, Boys group of our fellow Americans and Florence, Venice, Versailles, PariS, and you won't want to miSS it. Heidelberg, and other famous histori There Are More Men Greetings from the Timberline cal spots in Europe-will be revived Shanty Boys to all that take part in Common Sense Magazine Why is it that nearly all your pic Jack Benny's return to his Sunday for NBC listeners in a series of pro making Stand By! the best paper night spot on an NBC-WJZ network grams from the actual scenes. begin ... I shall always cherish the love tures on the front page of Stand By! that reaches our shanties. Not only ly picture of Linda Parker which is are of the men folks? Come on, bring following his first vacation from radio "Little Known Facts About Well ning in October. to Stand By! but to every entertainel' in several seasons has been set for The series was announced by Dr. in this week's Stand By! This is a on the women folks for a change. I on the staff. We love every one. Sure Known RadiO Stars" is the title of a real radio magazine, full of so much also think that the idea for auto September 29, at 6:00 p. m .. CST, new program being broadcast daily Franklin Dunham, NBC Educational ly would love to be a part of that big with a repeat performance for west Director, after conferring with John common sense and good advice. I graphs is wonderful. . . . Mrs. J . happy family. We are, in spirit, if not from 1 :45 to 1 :50 p. m., CST, in which look forward in happy anticipation Kopshever, Chicago. ern states at 10:30 p. m., CST. The Dale Carnegie, radio commentator, F. Royal, NBC vice-president, who in person.-Fred Hall and the Tim popular comic will be inaugurating has just returned from a trip to Eu of its arrival each week.-Mrs. Galin (You're right, Mrs. Kopshever, but berline Shanty Boys. Antigo, Wis. world traveler and noted author, is Crook. Logansport, Ind. his fifth series of broadcasts. Aided heard. The program is presented by rope during which he arranged with there really are more boys than there by his heckling poetess-partner. are girls here. We like to spread out the American Radiator Company. foreign radio officials for an increase Mary LiVingstone, Jack will introduce which is also announcing a daily in broadcasts to the United States. the girls' pictures. However, we can two new cohorts on the fall series. promise you a front page picture of Another Ad Lib Fan prize-a complete heating system "The programs will be designed to Michael Bartlett, screen and stage for the best letter in a contest. benefit history students in schools Friends in Need a girl real soon.! The pictures on the cover of Stand tenor-actor. will replace Frank Park and colleges as well as the general By! are just grand. The radio listen er, while Johnny Green's band will be listener," Dr. Dunham said. Just finished reading the account ers who haven·t subscribed for Stand heard instead of Don Bestor and his of the Doolittle children in Stand By! "Here we will be carrying out the By! don't know what they're missing. orchestra. greatest mission of radio to educa We are so happy to know that Wil Jack Holden's Ad Lib is my favorite. A talk of seasonal interest to the fred Jean is getting along nicely. We Microphone Twins tion. by bringing to the classroom a . . . Mrs. Ralph D. Fierce, Blooming home gardener will be heard during picture of events and places of great all realize in times of illness how Pardon my southern accent, but I ton. Ill. Homemakers' Hour, Wednesday. Sep heartily disagree with Mrs. Mary historical importance which vitalize splendid it is to have friends. But not tember 11. often do we anticipate such coopera Rhorer of Tremont, TIL You can't Niela Goodelle. former singing star the lessen. thus doing for the school tion from an appeal to people un tell Jack Holden's and Howard Cham STAND BY! of the Ziegfeld Follies. will be the what it cannot do easily itself." berlain's voices apart. They have known to us. as these folks received BURRIDGE D. BUTLER. Publisher star of a new weekly radio series of in their moments of distress. This big "twin" voices and could easily pinch "one-woman" musical shows begin c opyright. 1935, Prairie Farmer Publishing Co. It's the informal, unprepared radio world is a friendly place to live in. hit for each other.... I never would ning Sunday, September 8. Playing show that crops up with bits of hu isn't it? ... Mr. and Mrs. Karl Kas have known the difference but one 1230 Washington Blvd .. Chicago Indianapolis: 17 West Market Street her own accompaniments and singing mor like this: Jerry Belcher and After five years distinguil:'hed serv ten. Carlinville, Ill. day I went to the studio and Howard New York City: 250 Park Avenue the hit melodies of the moment, the was announcing a canary program Parks Johnson had the ferrymaster ice, Jimmie Wallington, one of radio's Subscription Price, $1.00 a Year young songstress will be on the air of the Weehawken-New York ferry on best-known announcers, leaves NBC while Jack Holden wandered around over an NBC-WJZ network each Sun the air in NBC's Vox Pop last week. September 12 to join his famous the studio. Good heavens, thought I. 'SIngle Copy. 5 cents day from 7:45 to 8:00 p. m .. CST. have they developed a new system Issued Every Saturday A few questions about marriage cere teammate of the air waves, Eddie He's for Autographs monies brought the response, "All I Cantor. it was announced today. where the announcer can wander all Entered as second-class matter February remember is the 'two dollars, please' It's a plain case of friendship tri over the station at will? Then I took 15. 1935. at th e P03t o!'f\ce at Chicago. lIli· I favor having an autograph in at the end of the ceremony." But a umphing over all odds, Wallington Stand By! each week of some artist. another squint to see if Jack's lips nOis. under the Act of March 3. 1879. were moving and they were not. JULIAN T. BENTLEY, Editor A discussion of a current best seller sudden thought that his wife might explained. He and Cantor have been I want to add that I surely enjoy will feature the regular weekly book ,be listening in evidently prompted together since the comedian's first Stand By! In fact. it's the only mag They're the only announcers with September 7. 1935 twin voices I know of.-Mrs. Harri chat during Homemakers' Hour Tues what followed-"But I certainly got broadcast over NBC networks four azine that I read from cover to cover. NUMBER 30 day, September 10. my money's worth." years ago . -Ben F. Drake. Litchfield. Ill. ette Wolf. Chicago. VOLUME 1

. 2,! BY PHIL LAMAR ANDERSON

Pine Lake, Ind. August 27, 1935. Julian Bentley, Editor, Stand By!, Eventful inutes Chicago, Illinois. Good Morning, Editor: Well, J. T. B., here's that other Whole Midwest Hears letter I promised. Have done a nice bit of traveling since I wrote you last Grain Market Review week. Jean and I put about 1,700 miles on the car aud not only saw LANG! ShOUting, arm-waving, in turn should ultimately some real country but some relatives, finger-signalling men in a great make better conditions for too. We left Indian River and drove C room in Chicago's loop grow the city dweller. down south to Saginaw, spent a few By J ACK HOLDEN suddenly quiet. They mop damp hours there and then came down to Accordingly, even if you brows, some do a bit of last-minute live in the city and have Detroit where we spent two days. figuring as the room slowly clears. Then back here to the cottage at Pine It's really difficult for me to con Chicago, yesterday. But there he was never owned a single kernel Lake where we found the kids busy centrate on this letter. I'm upstairs waiting for me in front of NBC. Be Another day's trading is ended in of wheat, nevertheless the playing in the sand and not miSSing in the cottage and lOOking down at cause my Uncle Andrew was with me the great wheat pit of the Chicago radio grain market reports us a bit. the lake I see four boats shoving off I was nice to Pat and for the same Board of Trade. On these men's ac which you may tune out have for the bass beds. I wanted to get out leason Pat suggested a bit of lunch tivities of the day depends in large a definite bearing on your life. The other day we passed through and for the same reason I had to pay measure the price of wheat for the Twenty-five minutes after Alba, Michigan. You know I was born there ahead of them this morning. Say, that reminds me ... there are the check again. For some reason or next 18 hours. the clOSing of the grain in that town up over the drug store. other I dislike the state of Alabama Out in the country other sweaty market each day WLS opens I hadn't been there since I was six and for what reason, do you allow men also are laboring with wheat but its channels to F. C. Bisson, months old so thought we might stop Pat to write such tripe as "Buttram their day will extend almost into the associate market specialist over for a few minutes and look the Butts In," for Stand By!? night as they cut, bind and thresh with the United States De old town over. Found the drug store Buttram Butts In Now I'm all upset again. I'll have the golden grain which will become partment 0 f Agriculture. just about as it was when Dad used to Sign off, but tell the gang I '11 be in the chief source of the staff of life. Thousands of listeners re to sell licorice root and castor oil Well, they's lots uv news this week. The Young Democrats for Barn Dance Saturday night. Not Their welfare and prosperity and ceive facts and figures on the there. But the happy surprise came that it means anything, but Harold their families' standard of living may closing of the day's grain when I met 'a dear, little old lady met in Meawalkey fer a little githerin'. They tuck up all the Safford might be glad to know he hang on the price fiuctuations of the market to gttide them in who used to take care of me when I day in the great stone and steel sky- buying and selling commodi- week explainin' the Rhode Is won't have to wear overalls in my was a mere infant. When I was in place when the curtain goes up. troduced to her she threw her arms land election. Roosevelt made a speech Saturday night an' he So long, around me and kissed me. Her name Jack. is Mrs. Kerr but everyone in the tiny sez we got to change the ole town knows her best as "Auntie" parchment around a little ... P. S., Wednesday. When you phoned Kerr. We had a great visit and, al it looks like that'll be the big me at nine o'clock this morning at though she hadn't seen me for 28 issue fer 1936, it'll at least make the cottage you got me out of bed to years, she said I hadn't changed a lot. some uv the candidates read answer the call. I had only 10 hours Well, you may be sure I derived a lot the constitution. sleep as a result. How would you like of real pleasure out of our visit. You know, a funny thing, if a to have 10 hours sleep? n's great foreign speaker talked about stuff. Try it some time. I'm really Heard the Barn Dance Saturday getting caught up. night from Detroit. Thought it was our government like the parties a great show 'till Pat Buttram came that ain't in power, there'd be a The Board of war before you could say, Oh, along. Everyone else in Detroit Trade buUding thought he was great but I can't. un mY goodness! derstand it. Yourn til it stops rainin' in flings its taU Etheopia, tower skyward While in Detroit I visited WWJ radiO station owned by the Detroit Pat Buttram. at the foot of News. Had a nice visit with "Ty" P. S. Thar's plenty uv joy in LaSalle street. Tyson, one of the best sports an Mudville . . . Congress has I· Atop the sky nouncers in the b\lSiness. Ty has struck out. scraper i s the been broadcasting ball games ever giant figure of since the station first took the air back in 1920. They're all excited at Ceres, goddess five nice ones down in the boat we scraper hundreds of miles away on ties untn the next morning. WWJ. Moving into beautiful new Chicago's LaSalle street. Into five minutes, Mr. Bis of harvests. In studios next month. brought in last night. (Oh, yes, there are, Mr. Bentley.) Many other factors-reports of son packs a vivid, concise clear side is the great I also went over to visit WXYZ. -crop damage, draught, war threats, report of what happened in grain pit whose Al Rice, Pat Petterson and Art You know that is the key station for foreign or domestic crop estimates the grain pits, what caused activities F. C. Janes were out here last night. You it and its final effect as shown by the market's close. the Michigan Radio Network. Boy, :also affect prices and in turn the pro Bisson summar are they ever busy. They are mem know Art's cottage is only a short ducers' life. Ultimately they have This service of radio-speedy, accurate, direct-has re bers of the Michigan network, the way from here and every once in a their effect on the urban dweller and lieved much of the old uncertainty of grain farmers. It is izes for radio Mutual network and the Canadian while the Maple City Four come out the entire country. Many economists no longer necessary for them to rely on the word of others listeners daily. network and often they have to feed to see who can catch the most fish. :agree that rural prosperity is a snund Pat usually wins although Art says who had the advantage of more direct market connections. Price changes different programs to each net all at baSis for a prosperous nation. When Now, by tuning his radio, the grain farmer knows im have a far the same time, so you can imagine it's only because he looks so much . -grain prices are riSing, farmers have mediately and exactly what price he should get for his how they fiy around up there with like a big-mouth bass that he at ·greater credit facilities and feel more commodity. Being familiar with the approximate cost of reaching effect three programs going out. (Yes, boys tracts them to the side of the boat. inclined to spend. The effect of their transportation of grain to the terminal market, and also in town and and girls, I saw the Lone Ranger, old I don't know who told Pat Buttram "If she could see him, she'd never :spending should be wide spread p- country. . Tonto and Silver.> I was going to make a short trip into come 'round the mountain." Prize Winning OOD afternoon Fanfare readers. Well, we've been Keeping our G eyes open, snooping about here, there, and elsewhere, peering around • corners, and~verything except look ing in folks' windows--to find some 1 es radio news to bring to you via Stand By! Here is the result of our snooping. A Smile Will Go a Long,

The laughingest thing we've heard Long Way in a Contest I1nything about for some time is good old Ralph Emerson's Laughing Bee HE smiles you see on the faces Gcorg'l! Richards which he conducted recently on the of the folks pictured here are ( below) reflects Household Parade program. Now this Tsure to return again today when pcrsonality smile. is the way Ralph went about having they open Stand By! to this page and his contest. He gave each of the 10 see how easy it was to win c2.sh prizes boys in the studio a number. Then other day to say hello to the folks Eddie Allan-warbled out old-time for ·'smiling." he told 10 of his choicest jokes as here. Jack has been appearing for tunes by the carload over Station Hundreds of enthusiastic amateur only he can tell them, each boy the past five months with the Georgia KTNT (now defunct) in Muscatine, cameramen (and women, too) are en laughing at Ralph's joke when it Wild Cats over WHAS in Louisville, Iowa. Eddie also sang over WOC, tering each new weekly contest an came his turn. How they did laugh. Kentucky. Previous to that he broad Davenport, as well as conducted a· nounced by the WLS Camera Club They "loffed" and "loffed" and cast over WLW in Cincinnati. peppy fiddle band. Eddie says, re during its Sunday morning broadcast ·'laffed." The remarkable part of it garding his vocalizing, that he lived meetir.gs at 10 :30, CST. The judges was nobody made the mistake of so near the MiSSissippi river in Dav have found the majority of entries of laughing at the wrong time. Folks enport that his voice pipes got rusty such excellence that selection of five listening in have been testifying by and he had to resort to a more me prize winners is becoming increasing Muriel Gephart of Niles, Michigan, chanical means of expressing himself the dozens as to which one of the 10 makes these inquiries about the Hoo ly di1ficult every week. But, that's was the "champeen" laugher. As we musically-so he took up the har just what you folks shonld do-keep write this, the final score has not yet sier Sod Busters: "What are their monica. That's Eddie's story, folks. real names? How old are they and up the good work. If at first you don't been determined, but Ralph informs are they married?" The real monik succeed, try, try, again, is an old ad us that Howard Chamberlain and age that still rings true. Your turn to Paul Nettinga are tying for first place. ers of those two peppy harmonizing harmonicists are th& same as those win a prize (first, $7; second, $4; In the event of a tie, it may be neces third, $2, and two of $1 each), may sary to hold another contest. Well, if by which they are known to their When Robert or Bob Brown, popul radio audience--Reginald Cross and come next week. That's part of tha they do, and we hope they do, we're lar NBC announcer, went up to WJR joy in taking snapshots--t.he hours going to have our photographer sneak Howard Black. Both Reggie and Howard are 24 and single. back in 1925 for the first audition he of wai ting and into the studio and capture a laugh ever had, he read an inspiring-sound wondering if your ing picture of every blessed one of ing magazine. article titled "High camera shots will them. Then-will we laugh-and how. Price of Rice in Louisiana." He has be profitable as been announcing for NBC since 1932. well as pleasur Mildred Ransom, who portrays He declares that the most dramatic' able to you. Aunt Sarah of the "Nosey News" pro moment in his career was covering Miss Anna Well the arrival of Balbo's fleet from a Here are some questions from John gram heard each Friday morning over nitz, Route I, Box plane at A Century of Progress for 104, Janesville, Hayes of Kansas City, Missouri. "Who KMOX in St. Louis, was guest of the NBC in 1933. . plays the parts of 'Marie, the little Morning Round-Up program recently. Wisconsin, didn't French princess' and her husband, She gave a monologue from her rep win a prize this 'Richard Collins'? And, who takes ertoire of clever character sketches. , week, but she sent the part of 'Dennis Fallon' in the a most interest ing letter to The I've taken." To be sure, the 'Romance of Helen Trent'?" .. . Ruth Doyne Wilson came in this morn Yorke plays the role of "Marie" and Camera Man, Cameraman likes to get let ing proudly displaying one of his which we thought ters like that. James Meighan, "Richard Collins." According to Loring (Red) Nichols, archeological finds from his father "Dennis Fallon" is portrayed by Ed you'd enjoy read Here are the winners in popular dance band leader, he was in-law's farm down in Arkansas. It ing. She said, in the "Smiles" contest. First Prentiss. This character was origin christened Ernest Loring, has always was a petrified bud! One spring many ally played by the late Jack Doty. part: "Enclosed prize, $7, goes to E. T. Mc been called "Red," but should be thousands of years ago, this tiny bud find pictures for Carron of Peoria, Illinois, called Gabriel, for he has been trump was just starting to bloom when it your contest, for a fine picture of his 11- eting ever since he was three years well from its tree or bush into the called Smiles. I've year-old son, Edward, Jr., old. Regarding his nickname, "Red," sea, which, it is believed, then ex listened to all of taken with the aid of a "How long has Johnny DaviS been he says that it has stuck to him "like tended up as far as the present state your programs flood light, and enlarged with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians?" a burr to a golf stocking." He's hop of Missouri, and this fossil and thou and I ha ve learned with a home enlargement queries Margaret Smith of South ing now, though, that he won't al sands similar to it would seem to more about tak set. The camera was set on Bend, Indiana. Johnny Davis, scat ways be "stuck with it," for, says he, substantiate that theory. Lending an ing pict.ures than 8 stop, and the exposure singer and trumpet player, joined "Gosh, now that I am 30, it would be ear to Don's scholarly explanation of I ever thought was one twenty-fifth of a Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians in swell to be known as Loring Nichols." the petrified formation, we learned could be learned. I'm forever tak The sunny second. Edward obviously 1932. Previous to that time he con . .. Red (We can't get away from it) that as the sea receded, the bud be ing pictures of some sort, also smiles of these is enjoying the WLS Cam ducted an orchestra of his own. and his band are heard with the Col came embedded in the sea's mud, and trying different things with the boys captured era Club program. You lege Prom program each Friday at as the ages passed hardened into the camera, but never thought of ever the judges' at amateurs will all be getting 6:30 p.m., CST, over an NBC-WJZ limestone conglomerate, and became doing the things you mentioned. If tention. results like Mr. McCarron network. just another unobtrusive little fossil everybody learned as much about in a short time, if you lis ... that is, until Don came along. taking better pictures through your Elizabeth Abel' ten closely to what the Jack DUnnigan who was known as this summer and found it-now it programs as I have, I'm sure there (right) says this Cameraman tells you dur Hank of the former team "Hank and Once upon a time the baritone holds a significant place among Don's would be a lot more better pic is her "every ing his Sunday morning Hiram"· dropped into the studios the voice of that Dixie Harmonica King- treasured archeological possessions. tures, especially better than those day smile." broadcasts. (To page 11> on an eastern road. All the time, THE LATCH STRING though, his love for music and show Tuning Suggestions .; ..... '. Men on the Cover business sought expression in enter OWDY, folks. Now that the .~ '" . ~ Sunday, September 8 tainments of various kinds. As a re CST school bell is ringing through sult, he was an experienced showman P.M. H out the country, we are still re )... :: t By when he came to Chicago in 1920. 12:30-Natlonal Light Oper a . (NBC ) minded of the bells, whistles and WLS 1:30-Penthouse Serenade. (NBC) HE Ole Harmony Slaves, Chuck The boys teamed up and because 3:00-Rhythm Symphony. (NBC) varied hubbub of the State Fair week .,.II ..... '.. ' \ .. :1 Haynes and Ray Ferris, have at Springfield, during which great 1.~'.~ of their beautiful harmony were soon 4 :OO-Canadlan Grenadier Guards Band. NBC Tbeen enslaved for over a dozen branded by some radio scribe as "The 5 :00-Lanny Ross. (NBC) throngs crowded the grounds and Ill rl~1 -'-'C-HE-C-K'~' years now and are getting pretty well 5:30-Volce of the People. (NBC) filled the Prairie Farmer tent daily, Ole Harmony Slaves." The name has 6 :00-String Symphony. (NBC) ~ 4 .~ acquainted. The same goes for their stuck and with good reason. Their 7:45-Neila Goodelle. songs. (NBC) breaking all previous years' attend t host of loyal followers who have ance records. STAFFORD love for the old-time ballads drew 9:15-Shandor (week nights. 10 :00) (NBC) trailed them from one station to an them together and formed a natural other throughout the Middle West team. Monday, September 9 During the Friday morning show and South. 5:t5-Boake Carter (el< . Sat., Sun.) (CBS) folks, was Mary Powell, 10, of Athens, Guitarists Scarce "Fritz" Crisler football comments. NBC So it wasn't at all strange that Illinois. Ice cream cones just wouldn't given on the stage of the State Fair "Each time we'd appear on a new 6:30-Evenlng in Paris. (NBC) many little folks became lost from pacify her. It was her mother she Prairie Farmer tent, Art Page, master station," says Ray, "it wouldn't be Chuck and Nick Lucas were two of 7:0O--Greater Minstrels. (NBC) wanted. In less than an hour we had of ceremonies, surely had us on a spot long before some of our old-time lis the pioneer guitar players in the Chi 7:30-Drama. (NBC) their parents. Opening day Art Page cago area and were much in demand S:OO-Ray Knight's Cuckoos. (NBC) and the Prairie Farmer crew got the found her mother, and what a happy when he announced it was our birth teners would write in and tell us they reunion tha twas! day. At the same time we were pre had tracked us down again. That at old WTAS, Charles Erbstein's sta Protective Union at work, restoring tion near Elgin, Illinois. Tuesday, September 10 the strayed children to their dis Last Saturday a large number of sented, in front of 1,500 people, a kind of letter we prize more than we The boys worked on WCFL, WOK. 6:30-Wayne King. (NBC) tracted parents or relatives. When visitors from many different states beautiful ribbon-tied box. The crowd can tell you." 7:00-Ben Bernie. (NBC) the Fair ended, nearly 30 children registered in the studio guest book. yelled to have it opened, and imagine WGES, WQJ, WBCN, KYW, WGN, 7:36-Russlan Symphonic Choir. (NBC) had been found. Several older folks, Among them was Fred Laird, 15, of how red our face was when we lifted Well Acquainted WSBC, WENR, WLS-in fact, all Fred Waring, Col. Stoopnagle and out a big red tomato and a large Chicago stations. During the two Budd. (CBS) too, who had become parted from Benton, Illinois, who was accom The boys say they have been ac 9:00--Stanley High, commentator. (NBC) each other, were re-Wlited. Lost keys panied by his uncle Robert Harold potato! quainted "as long as we can remem weeks of continuous broadcast over 9:30-Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. (NBC) and wraps and other articles also of Gary, Indiana. Fred, up to his ber." Their musical partnership in WLS in 1925 during the drive for were found and returned to rightful fifth year, was a rollicking, happy clubs and chautauquas dates back to funds for Illinois fiood victims, the Wednesda;r, September 11 It boys did yeoman service. owners. All this work was accom boy. Then an illness left him totally was a week of meeting fine folks, pre-radio days, but their first dual 6:00-0ne Man's Family. (NBC) plished by announcing over 1lbe tent's deaf and unable to speak. However, and smiles and jollity were every air appearance was in Chicago on With Gene Arnold, the boys pre 6:30-Wayne King. (NBC) public address system the lost ones' he aI;ld his parents set about learning where. We shall long remember those the early programs of WCFL. sented radio's first minstrel show 7:Il6-Town Hall Tonight. (NBC) names and descriptions and through the sign language so that he would happy crowds of friends, and their the original Three-Man Minstrels on 7 :45--Educatlon In the News. (NBC) fiml handclasps. actual search about the groWlds. get an education, even though so WOK. Thursday, September 12 badly handicapped. It's Doing All Right 5:30-Dorsey Bros. Orchestra. (NBC) 6:00-Rudy Vallee. (NBC) "We really didn't know ' how long 7:00-Death Valley Days. (NBC) Time and time again, some little Batted Out the show would last," says Ray. "For Showboat. (NBC) boy or girl, would come to us, tear a minstrel snow background, we had 8:00-Paul Whiteman's Music Hall. (NBC) fully saying their mother or dad was Fred was quick to learn and is a Anne Seymour, star of Grand Hotel only a cello, piano and Chuck's 9:00--J'ohn B. Kennedy, conunentator. NBC gon~r that Uncle CharleY or Aunt bright YOWlg man. He has now a full over NBC, says the audience walked guitar." Mable somehow got away from them. grade school education and has taken out on her only once in her career. Friday, September 13 That was when she was playing sum The show lasted rather well. In So, little Johnny's or Betty's name up pastry cook work, aided by his fact, it's still going strong, coast to 6:00-Jesslca Dragonette. (NBC) and descriptions were put on the mother. He is now a good cook and mer stock in a reconditioned barn in 6:3ll-Ruth Ettlng. (NBC) Vermont and a stray bat got past the coast, as the Sinclair Greater Min 7 :OO-Beauty BOl< Review. (NBC) speaker-and soon tears and sobs makes fine cakes and cookies. As he strels. After a short time at WOK, 8:00-First Nlghter. (NBC) were changed to smiles and hugs, is soon to start in at the Jacksonville, doorkeeper during the second act. 8:30-Al Pearce and Gang. (NBC) The audience promptly dashed out. the boys took their show to WENR, when the worried parents claimed Illinois, school for mutes, Saturday, where a 25-piece brass band was 9:0O--George Holmes, commentato~. (NBC) their little loved ones. One little girl, he came and enjoyed his visit very added, together with more enter Saturday, September 14 the first to become lost from her much. tainers. Chuck and Ray were with 5:36-Rabbl Jonah B . Wise. (NBC) the Minstrels for five years on the 5:45-Sport Parade. (NBC) Folks, shake hands with John Bak NBC network. 6:00-Hit Parade. (NBC) er, the newest addition to the staff, 7:00-G-Men. (NBC) He senses music through his fingers who got his mike baptism at the Illi Down to Old Mex 7:30-9:00-Natlonal Bam Dance. (NBC) SAFE AGAIN 7:3O-Carefree Carnival. (NBC) and when he placed his finger tips on . nois State Fair. You heard John The boys then left Chicago and the vibrating walls of the organ room, 9:00-El Chico, Spanish Review. (NBC) regularly this past week at the Indi headed southwest. They appeared 011 he smiled and nodded. Through sign ana State Fair and you'll be hearing XER, Villa Acuna, Mexico, and then language which Fred and his uncle The Ole Harmony Slaves, Ray came back north to WSM, Nashville. held, the young man told us he was Ferris and Chuck Haynes, snapped There, their minstrel training came interested and happy to be with us, by the candid camera in the midst in handy and they were featured WHAT A HAT! adding that life offered much to be of an old-time baDad, with Lasses White and Honey Weil grateful for. This should be a lesson and their famous minstrel show. to us all. Ray was born in Chicago, but he Late this summer the boys returned spent a good share of his boyhood on to WLS, where they are featUred in an Illinois farm. He knows all about the Morning Minstrels and in a vari We receive many inquiries regard milking CQWS, plOWing, com planting, ety of other programs including the ing visiting the studios. The public is wood cutting and the thousand and National Barn Dance each Saturday welcome at any time during broad one other duties that besiege a farm night. casting hours, 5:00 a. m. to 2:00 p. m., er the year-roWld. He came of a It doesn't look as though the Ole CST, and no passes are required. musical family, and with his three Harmony Slaves will ever break their However, if a group or large party brothers, Wlder the leadership of chains. At least, their listeners hope expects to come, it would be best to their father, formed a family quartet not. write in advance, stating the number at a tender age. In the naval avia and the date the party intended to more from him on Dinnerbell pro tion service during the war, Ray was call. Seating capacity is limited, and grams. The gentleman with him always in demand for work in service quartets and other groups. Commencement exercises of the The efficiency of a public address on peak days, like Saturday, it is im needs no introduction. He's Check men's trios, American Institute of Banking, the Tommy Rowe, at the rear of the system and short-wave radio re possible to provide seats for all. Week Stafford, boss of the Latch String Chuck was born and lived the first educational division of the American station's new mobile transmitter united 10-year-old Mary PoweD days are suggested as better days to page and the voice of the early morn 16 years of his life on a farm near Banking Association, will be broad truck, shows what the well-dressed and her mother after they were visit. SWlday hours are 7 :00 to 11 :00 ing Bulletin Board program. By avo Bucyrus, Ohio. Railroading appealed cast over an NBC-WEAF network young radio engineer will be wear separated, a.m., CST. cation, Check is an expert camel'man. to Chuck and he become a brakeman Monday, September 9, at 7:30 p. m. ing in the line of hat styles. corregating the edges, run the tines ket, or the price which the farmer of a fork lengthwise of the cucumber secures for his grain at his local Shucks! What's Money? S'Weet COInbina tions to make the scalloped edges. Five Eventful lnutes elevator. Turning down an $85,000 contract For the dressing, mix the following But Mr. Bisson quickly furnishes for a single motion-picture. Helen ingredients : an answer for that problem. He says: ~ayes has decided to give up her "The reason is that Liverpool, repre highly successful screen career in or for (Continued from page 5) Sour Cream ~ '2 c. sour cream 12 tbsp. lemon juice senting, as it does, the principal Euro der to concentrate on her flrst series 12 tsp. salt 1 tbsp. vinegar handling it, he can make instant pean market, closely reflects the sup of broadcasts to be heard over an '2 tsp. sugar 12 tbsp. pimento BY MRS. MARY WRIGHT preparations to sell his grain within ply and demand situation insofar as NBC-WJZ network this fall and win the next 24 hours and determine, United Kingdom and Continental ter. The famous actress also will cur Add pepper, paprika, mustard and tail her theatre appearance until the celery seeds to suit taste. within a few cents, how much money millers are concerned and Chicago OT weather and a supply of full of a quick acting baking powder he will receive for his crop. being the principal speculative and radio programs are well under way. sour milk and sour cream have (phosphate or tartrate) or one tea You may whip the sour cream or Incidentally, WLS is the only Chi hedging market in the world-is nat "I have nothing against Holly a way of happening at the spoonful of a slower baking powder not as you wish. urally concerned with developments wood," declares Miss Hayes. "There H cago radio station that furnishes the abroad. same time in households where re (Combination type) for each cup of The important thing in making farmer--and of course many elevator simply is not room in my life to be frigerators are not in use. But there flour is recommended. this dressing is to use cream that has and mill operators also comprise the Affects Chicago Trade active in the theatre, on the screen are many, many ways in which sour Sift It with Flour been soured quickly so it will have a listening audience each day-with the and over the radio at the same time milk and cream good flavor. closing grain markets. During the ooThis action," he continues, "on and still do justice to all of them." can be used to In order that soda be given a summer months, the quotations are the other side is, in turn, usually re better advan chance to act as a leavening agent. Sour cream pie is not unusual, but flected in a sympathetic advance or here is a different sour cream pie given at 12 :40 p. m., CST. This hour tage even than however, it should be sifted with the will prevail until the last SundaY' in decline, as the case may be, in the in the sweet flour, just as the baking powder is. which really is out of the ordinary. Chicago futures market. It hails from Purdue university and September. Then the time schedule stage. You have In the old method of adding the soda changes to 1 :30 p. m., CST. "Due to the fact that practically Prize 8m 1 only to recall to the sour milk and cream, practical tastes so much like mince meat pie every car of cash grain which ar those delicious ly all the leavening action of the soda I thought you might like to add it to Bisson a Veteran your list of recipes. rives at Chicago is hedged, these sour milk grid is lost before the mixture is placed Mr. Bisson has studied grain mar swings in the local (or Chicago) fu (Continued from page 7) dle cakes, devil's in the oven; then the regular amount SOUR CREAM PIE keting for the past 24 years. For tures market are in turn reflected in food cakes, cu of baking powder should be used. similar action in the cash grain or (2 crusts) seven years he was with the Minne Both indoor and outdoor pictures are cumbers in sour With the above flgures well in "spot" market. This is because the I c. sugar sota State Inspection and Grain de permissable in each of our contests. cream dressing, mind, you can substitute sour milk 1 c. seedless raisins partment at Minneapolis. Three of actual car of grain is sold at a flgure 12 tsp. clnnamon I c. sour cream Second prize, $4, goes to Miss Eliza or sour cream for sweet milk or sweet these years he spent at mills sampl directly dependent upon the price in Mrs. Wright 1,2 tsp. cloves II. tsp. salt beth Lukens of Chicago, for the snap :~~! ~r~:~da~ cream, respectively, or vice versa', in ing and weighing grain. Then fol the pit when the cash transaction is 2 eggs, beaten 2 tbsp. vinegar shot showing the big personality many other good foods to know this. making corn bread, waffles, dough lowed eight years of grain reporting completed. nuts, baked puddings and cakes. smile of a friend, who she says is Those of you who have refri Mix sugar and spices together well, work before coming to Chicago to Knowledge Necessar;\' George Richards. We'd like to see gerators, you must plan to have sour Well-flavored sour cream, whipped add to beaten eggs. Add remaining join the U. S. Department of Agricul the smile on Miss Lukens' face when cream or sour milk if it is to be good. or plain, is delicious mixed with either ingredients and bellt well. Pour mix ture nine years ago. During the past "Thus," says Mr. Bisson. "it is quite evident that in order to cover the she receives her check for this win To have a good, fresh flavor, milk and cooked dressing or mayonnaise. Sour ture into a deep pastry-lined pie pan, eight years he has been heard daily ner. Perhaps George will send it to us. cream should be soured quickly---out cream is also very good as the main moisten edges, add upper crust and on WLS and thousands of farmers situation in a thorough manner, it is side the refrigerator-and it should ingredient of a salad dressing. bake in a hot oven, 425 degrees F. for and dealers depend upon his accurate necessary in reporting the cash grain Third prize, $2, goes to Mrs. Elsie 10 minutes and then lower heat to reports. market at a large terminal, such as Ray of Cuba, Illinois, who submitted be used as soon as possible after it Cucumbers in Sour Crea.m Dressing has "set." Those of you who buy your that of a moderate oven (350 degrees Highly specialized is the business Chicago, to have a rather compre a snapshot of her grandson, William milk, will probably flnd it more con Peel cucumbers and slice them. If F.) and bake until the cruSt is golden of marketing the grain crop, it be hensive knowledge of the world grain Eugene Ray. smiling at the ease with. venient and sometimes less expensive you do not have a special knife for brown. comes evident during a trip to the situation as it is likely to affect the which he rides a hog. to buy cultured buttermilk and sour Board of Trade where the technique price which the farmer receives for The next two prizes, $1 each, gO to cream instead of souring milk and of trading in grain futures is prac his grain the day that he delivers it Mrs. Howard Hicks of Chicago, for cream, respectively. • • • ticed. to his country grain dealer." the picture of three boys, Jean ~heri dan, aged 5; Vincent Sheridan. aged: Use Soda with Care PLENTY OF HARMONY Great Market Place 6, and Buster Hicks, aged 11, with The acid present in sour milk and The pit, however, Mr. Bisson ex typical jUvenile smiles we all like to. cream makes baked products more plains, is merely a market place for PAR FOURSOME see; aRd to Elizabeth Aber, Rural tender than those made with sweet the buyer and seller to meet and a Route 5, Crawfordsville, Indiana, who. milk or cream, unless so much baking place for the registering of the day says she is portraying merely "an soda is used that it neutralizes all the to-day fluctuations in grain prices. everyday smile." acid. One-half teaspoonful of soda It gives those engaged in grain trans per cup of sour milk is the amount actions a composite idea of the value usually recommended. However, milk of grain for future delivery. varies greatly in degree of sourness Crop conditions the world over, ex and so this amount of soda should be port and domestic flour demand, for Weird Drama lessened if the milk and cream has eign exclRange, extremely heavy or not "set." Very often recipes con light accumulations of grain in the "The Flood Is Rising," a psycho taining sour milk also call for mo terminal markets, variations in the logical drama based on the strange' lasses or some other acid ingredient. number of animals on the farms, story of a hypnotist and flrst present in which case more soda is used. hedging operations incidental to the ed over National Broadcasting Com Soda has another important work movement of grain from flrst hands pany networks on May 22, 1932, will to do in baked mixtures beside neu into the larger markets, swings in the be repeated over an NBC-WEAF net tralizing the acid in sour milk or securities marts, rumors of and ac work on Wednesday, September 18, at 8:00 p. m., CST. . cream, and other acid ingredients. It tual declaration of war, legislative acts as a leavening agent and in such action (both national and state) and This original radio drama was writ capacity can replace part of the bak dozens of others are among the fac ten for the Reichs Rundfunk Gesell ing powder. When used in combina tors which determine the trend of the schaft German Broadcasting Com tion with an acid ingredient, a half futures markets. pany) by Dr. Geno Ohlischlager. It teaspoonful of soda will furnish was translated into English for NBC' Far-Reaching Effect enough leavening power for one cup There was plenty of sweet harmony on Jolly Joe Kelly's Junior Star The Neighbor Boys. Vernon, by Kurt Jadassohn. of flour. If more than one cup of program the other Saturday when the Girls' Choir of the Methodist To an outsider, it is rather difficult Lawrence and Louis Quiram with flour is used for each half teaspoon Episcopal Church, Bradley. Illinois, was featured. The girls. who range to understand why a sharp break or Carol Hollister (kneeling) take of soda, some baking powder will in age from nine to 15. are under the direction of the Rev. Robert an advance at Liverpool, England, for time off from theatre appearances ~olls Developed ~J~o ,~~uh~fu:.r~~~: need to be used to leaven the re Chapler, pastor of the church. He and Joe are seated on either side of instance, shOUld affect the price of a with a Barn Dance unit to shoot slime) EnJnrgemt'nts and 8 ruaranteed ~eYer }~ade maining flour. Usually two teaspoons- of the girls' accompanist. carload of grain in the Chicago mar- Perfect Tone Prints, 26e coin. a few holes of golf at Austin, Minn. RAYS PHOTO SERVICE, La Crosse, Wisconsin. "(10k much-loved and lamented Little Sun bonnet Oirl, Linda Parker. The ma , jority have asked for "Take Me Back . to Renfro Valley" and "Bury Me Be If I Had neath the Willow." Since "Bury Me a Beneath the Willow" was the last In s J' song she sang that dreary pain-racked afternoon before she went to the hos pital and was, consequently, the last she ever sang, we have selected it for publication at this time. BY a p FRED BURY ME BENEATH THE WILLOW My heart Is sad and I am lonely. ALLEN Thinking of the one I love. I know that I shall never more see him By JOHN LAIR Till we meet in Heaven above. Attention, Program Directors! CHO-- HANKS a lot, folks, for the help ning down to the present staff. More Then bury me beneath the willow, ing hand you gave us by sending about it as we go along. Beneath the weeping willow tree, Here Are Some Ideas in your list of favorite songs. It And when he knows where I am sleeping T Then perhaps he'll weep for me. enabled us to get a clearer picture of Many Thanks, Ruth just what songs listeners prefer and The library is in receipt of, and They told me that he lOVed another. would be trussed to the mike until But how could I believe them true Town Hall sage of fully sustained our conviction that very grateful for, a number of old that time when they should get sleepy the old-timers are still the big fa Until an angel softly whispered fers a few sugges and be put to bed. song books sent in by Miss Ruth "He has proven untrue to you." tions to clear up some vorites. Worst of 1334 W. 64th St., Chicago. ether conditions he All Band Leaders who feature their Included in the collection are "The Tomorrow was our wedding day; brass sections would have their heads Now here's what it was all about. God, oh, God, where can he bet thinks need fixing In attempting to find some way in Patriotic Olee Book," printed in 1863, buried in French horns as far as the and another very scarce song book of He's gone away to wed another badly. which more of this type of songs And no more he cares for me. Adam's Apple while their horn play could be made available to you who the Civil War period, "The Bugle All Bridge Experts, who explain in ers rendered "Wagon Wheels" fortis write in to ask for copies of them, we Call." The fiy leaf carries the follow tricate plays over the air, would be simo. had struck upon the plan of putting ink inscription. "This old book was .. made dummy for the duration of the All Comedians would be prohibited purchased during the Rebellion by one hundred of them into a book col =~ _ __- program. by law from laughing at their own lection to be offered for sale at a R. A. Halleck, and is now held dear We would very much like to trace jokes, thus insuring a 100% studio because of its associations. Oiven All Hill Billies would be forced to moderate price. We wanted to let you back the history of this song on ac stop singing through their nostrils. I silence. listeners choose the songs to be in this 17th of March, 1883, to my count of the associations which it will daughter, Hattie, who is nearly as old always hold for us in the future. Who F I had Aladdin's Lamp I would be know a hill billy singer 60 years old cluded in this book, but we were faced the Radio Editor tor a day. My whose throat is as good as new. with the possibility that many of you as the book, with the request that she knows anything about its origin? will preserve it with care and keep it I office would boast of but three Jack Benny would be on the air might ask for popular songs, under Who has a copy of it in sheet music articles of furniture . . . one chair current copyright protection, which as long as she lives." (Signed) R. A. form? What is the oldest book you every night from 9 :00 to 12 :00. Kleinman. have seen it in? . . . one waste basket . . . and one All Early Birds who hope you are the owners would not allow us to radio set. ;print. Most of the requests for song poems Don't forget to send in suggestions doing the morning exercises with to be printed on this page have been for the new book. It·s yours; help us After I had stuffed the radio into them would be hustled back into bed Old-Timers Preferred for some of the numbers used by our make it just what you want it to be. the wastebasket I would lean back in for another hour. However, since your expressed pref my chair and start rubbing the lamp erence is overwhelmingly in favor of . . . obeying restrictions of the lamp the tried and true old-timers on • • • rubbers' code ... of course. The fol which no restrictions are placed we lowing things would instantly happen feei safe in telling you that we can in radio! include in the collection almost any GANG'S ALL HERE soag or tune which a majority of our listeners ask for. One hundred songs are a lot of songs! We'll need help from you in choosing them. The collection will All Ouest Stars would be delayed also include fiddle tunes with square in traffic en route to the station. dance calls, religious songs, qUartet All News Commentators would and trio numbers-in fact, about ev watCh their diction. Half the time ery type you hear on our programs. you can't tell whether Emperor Haile A big feature of the book will be Selassie is at odds with Benito Mus the favorite songs of old favorite acts solini or whether your radio is in the of the station's earlier days, just as throes of static . . they were put on then. All M.C:s on amateur programs All Announcers who spell out one syllable words over the air ... "This Let's Have Advice would be compelled to identify them selves so we could tell them from the is the Eureka Cat Nip Program ... We can't begin to tell you all we amateurs. spelled C-A-T" ... would have their have in mind for this book right now. tongues tied to the top buttons on 'We're getting new ideas every day. All studio audiences would be their vests. 'Maybe yOU have one for us. We'd be eqUipped with woolen mittens. Their All this would happen ... it I had applause would be seen and not heard Aladin's Lamp. But I haven't ... so ·glad to consider it. Work on the book and those who listen at home would ·started last Monday and we'll try to it won't. The radio editor will con push it through to an early publica not be disturbed. tinue to squat in his littered corner. tion date, !IO get in your suggestions All Cooking Experts who skip over The soprano, the comedian and the .and requests for the songs you'd like wasn~e~~~:~e~~!dt'::n!::~ ~:t:::: ;:::~a:!st:~:u:i~~ur~;c~~~~ All lone cowboys would be forced a line of the recipe in their scripts statesmen will wail ... bore and rant to see in it. Remember, this is for no Illinois, when they arrived in Chicago, August 24, to attend the National to bring a friend to the mike with would be forced to go from house to ... in that order. I shall return to ·one particular act, but will include Bam Dance. A. D. Mercer, who was in charge of the tour, is seen holding them. This would stop cowboys from house and collect the burnt offerings minding my own business and doing the favorite songs of the most popu the large sign. The club members attended the first show of the Barn being lonesome and with an acquaint that repose in housewives' ovens. what I came to Hollywood to do: to 'lar singers from the station's begin- Dance and returned to Decatur on the midnight train. ance in the studio the cowboy would All Child Prodigies who attempt to wit: appear in Darryl Zanuck's forth be assured of one listener. sing "About a QUarter to Nine" coming picture "Thanks a Million." • • • LISTENING IN ITH LS DAILY PROGRAMS

Saturday I September 7. to Saturday, September 14 12 :45 p. m . to 1 :00 p. m., CST EVENING PROGRA... \I S Thursday, September 12 12:45--Pralrle Farmer Dlnnerbell Program. Monday, September 9 6:UO-Nlckelodeon; Comedy; Songs; Drama. 870 k.c. - 80,000 Watts Monday - Orchestra; Sophia Gennanlch: (NBC) C. V. Gregory. Editor of Prairie Farmer. 6:00-Fibber Magee & Mollie. (NBC) 6::l0-"Evenlng In Paris." (NBC) 6:3O-Cyrll Pitts, soloist. (NBC) in "Parade of the Week." j':OO-Sinclalr Minstrels. (NBC) 6:45--Hendrlk Van Loon. (Author) Monday, September 9, to Friday, September 13 Tuesday-Ralph Emerson, organist; Tune 1:00-"Death Valley Days." (Pacific Coast Twisters; Evelyn Overstake; Ken Wright; Tuesd~ , September 10 Borax) (NBC) Sophia Germanlch. MORNING PROGRAMS 8:30-Today's Children - Dramatic Adven 6:00-Eno Crime Clues. (NBC) tures of a Family. (NBC) Wednesday - Orchestra; Chuck & Ray: 6:30-Edgar Guest. (NBC) Friday, September 13 5:00-Dally-5mlle-A_ While. Sophia Germanlch. 1:00-N. T. G. and His Girls. 8:45--Morning Minstrels, featuring Home ThursdaY-Orchestra; Hllltopers; Tommy 6:00-Irene Rich. (Welch's) (NBC) 5:20-5:30-Daily-5ervlce features. Including Towners Quartet. Chuck & Ray, Howard Wednesday, September 11 Tanner. 6:I5--Lucl11e Manners, soloist. Temperature Reports; Chicago Livestock Chamberlain and "Possum" Tuttle. (Olson 6:00-"Hits & Bits." (NBC) Estimatcs; Weather Forecast. Rug Co.-M., W ., F .) Friday - Orchestra; Phil Kalar; Sophia 6::J0-"House of Glass." (NBC) ll :3O-College Prom. (NBC) 5:35-l:-l5--Farm Bulletin Board by "Check" 9:00-Service Features, conducted by Mary Germanlch. 1:00---.10hn Charles Thomas. (NBC) 1:00-Beauty Box. (NBC) Stafford: Day's WLS Artists' Bookings. Wright; Produce and Weather Report; Sat'urday Morning, September 14 6:00-News Report---.Jullan Bentley. John Brown and Evelyn Overstake. 5:00-8:00-Sec dally morning schedule. 6:IO-Daily program summary. 9:I5--Mon., Wed., Fri.-"Little Bits from 8:1:>-Scars Junior Round-Up. 6:I:>-Morning Round-Up--Otto & HIs Tune Life." Bill Vickland, Ralph Emerson and Twisters; Chuck and Ray; Tommy Tanner; Chuck & Ray. 8:30---.101ly Joe and His Junior Stars. Ralph Emerson. (Dally) Eddie Allan (Tu .• Tues" Thurs.-Hllltoppers, featuring Tom 9:00-Servlce Features, conducted by Mary Watch This Space for Appearances of WLS Artists Th .. S.); Evelyn Overstake (Wed. only); my Tanner and Don Wilson. Wright. Hllltoppers (Dally ex. Wed.); Chicago, In 9:15--Home Towners Quartet. dianapolis and East St. Louis Livestock 9:30-Mon., Wed., Fri.-Phil Kalar, "Old in Your Community. Estimates at 6:30. Music CIlest," with Ralph Emerson. 9:30-"Rocky," basso. 9:45--Julian Bentley In Up-to-the-Minute Thurs., Sat.-"Keep Posted." (Creosoted ~~e:;~~urs.-Grace Wilson and Ralph World-Wide News. Pine Post) Otto's Tune Twisters; Dave • Fent.,weli. 9:45--Mld-Mornlng News Broadcast---.Julian 9:50-Butter, Egg, Dressed Veal, Live and Bentley. Dres3ed Poultry Quotations. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 CUTahoga Count,. Fair, Berea, Ohl_WLS Here are two of the reasons why 9:55--Program News, George C. Biggar. Barn Dance--Tom Owens & His Enter IllinoIs Theatre, Macomb. Illlnols-WLS tainers; Oeorgle Ooebel; The Ozark Sis Emilio Silvest re, versatile musi~ 9:50-Butter. Egg, Dressed Veal, Live and ters; and other well known WLS act.-. Dressed Poultry Quotations. 10:00-Feature Foods. Barn Dance, 19i.~ Edltlon-Olaf the cian, is always glad to go home 10:I5--Hilltoppers. featuring Tommy Tanner Swede: Barn Dance Band; Flannery 9:55--Jhn Poole's mid-morning Chicago Cat Sisters; Three Neighbor Boys; The after a day's work. They are and Don Wilson. Sternards. Saturday Eve., Sept. 7 tle. Hog and Sheep Market direct from WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Emilio's daughters, Emilia Rosa, Union Stock Yards. (Chicago Livestock 10:30-Henry Burr's "Book of Ballads" Old Settlers R.unlon, BowllnJ Green, In Ralph Emerson. (Kolor-Bak) diana-The Hayloft Trio. Eagl ~ AuditorIum, Galena, Il11nols-WLS two years, and Lola Azucena. six 6:00-0tto's Tune Twisters a nd E\'e Exchange) Merry-Go-Round-Lulu Belle; Skyland 10:45---Romemakers' Hour. Indianola Commercial Club, Indianola, Scotty; Hoosier Hot Shots; The Stranger; months. Iyn, the Little Maid. ( Lltslnger Mo 1O :00-Feature Foods. IlIInols-Sears Harmony Ranch Boys; Sears Harmony Ranch Boys. tors) I1:30-Weather Report; Fruit and Vegetable The Stranger. 10:30-Mon., Wed., Fri.-"Hilltoppers." (Pe Markets; Artists' Bookings. Gibson County Fair, Pr inceton, Indlana Rollamo Theatre, Rolla, ~11 ..o ur1-WLS 6: I5--Ra lph Enlerson, Wm. O'Connor, runa) WJ.S Round-Up Show- Tom Owens & His Barn Dance-The Barn Dance Band; 11 :40-News-,,}ulian Bentley. Entertainers: Hayloft Dancers; Th. Hayloft Dancers; Polly, Uncle Dan & Sunday, September 8 Hllltollpers, Tues" Thurs.-Henry Burr's Book of Bal Ozark Sisters; Oeorgle Ooebel; Polly. Buster; Tom Corwlne; Hayloft Trio. lads. (Kolor-Bak) H :45--Poultry Service Time; Ralph Emer son, organist; Home Towners Quartet. Uncle Dan & Buster. 1:00-Romelle Fay plays the organ in 30 1:00-Keystonc Ba rn Dance Party, featuring Lulu Belle. (Keystone 10:45--Mon., Wed., Fri. -Cornhuskers and 12:15--Lulu Belle and Skyland Scotty. THURSDA Y, SEPTEMBER 12 friendly minutes announced by Howard Steel and Wire Co.) "Chore Boy." SUNDA Y, SEPTEMBER 8 Chamberlain. 12:30-Weekly Livestock Market Review by Glllio. Theatre, Monett, MI •• ourl-WLS Tues., Thurs.-Chuck & Ray. Jim Clark of the Chicago Producers Com· Grand Theatre, Sullivan, Ill1nols-WLS 1 :30-National Barn Dance NBC Hour Round-Up Show-Olaf the Swede; The Barn Dance-The Barn Dance Band; 11 :OO-Mon., Wed., Fri.-Vibrant Strings. mission Association. Hayloft Dancers; Tom Corwlne; Polly, 1:30-Lois and Reuben Bergstrom In heart with Uncle Ezra, Maple City Four, Barn Dance Band; Flannery SIsters; Dan & Buster; Hayloft Trio. songs. (Willard Tablet Co.) Tues.-Intimate Interviews, by Phil An . 12:3O-Graln Market Quotations by F. C. Oeorgle Ooebel; The Sternards. Cumberla nd Ridge Runners; Ve rne, derson. Bisson of U. S. Department of Agriculture. Wuerth Theatre, Ypsilanti, MlchlJan-WLS Cent.nnlal & HomecomIng, Paw Paw, 1111- Lee and Ma ry, Lulu Belle, Hoosier Merr,. - Go - Round - Cumberland Ridge 1:45--News broadcast with summary of week Thurs.-Dr. J ohn W. Holland, "In a Poet's 12:45--Pralrle Farmer - WLS Home Talent Runners; B1I1y Woods; Hoosier Sod ~r~~;;~~s ~:[enrs~ao~~f tms SV!i~~~ end world-wide news brought through 1I0t Shots, Lucille Long, Skyland Workshop." Acts. Busters: Pancakes; Play Party Olrls; Twisters; Pat Buttram; Jolly Joe Kelly; Max Terhune; Winnie, Lou & Sally. The Sternards. Scotty, Hiram an d Henry, and ot her 1:00-2:00-Merry-Go-Round, with variety of Trans-Radio Press. 1I:I5-Mon., Wed., Frl,-Tommy Tanner. .·alr Grounds, Boscobel, Wlscon.ln- WLS Hay loft favorites, with Joe Kell) (Johnson Motor) acts, including Lulu Belle. Scotty, Tune Barn Dance Show-Lulu Belle; Skyland Ea/!~~deTh~~!~:..c':~t~~r"ndIn~II~~:-:"~~ 8:00-"Sycamore and Cypress"-Eureka Ju Twisters, Hllltoppers. Scotty: Hoosier Hot Shots; The Stranger; as master of ceremonies. (Alka Ttles,-"The Waltz Timers." ners; Hoosier Sod Busters; Pancakes; bilee Singers with Bill Vlckland. 2:00-Sign Off for WENR. Sears Harmony Ranch Boys. Billy Woods; Play Party Olrls: Winnie, Seltzer) Thurs.-Little German Band Concert. Forest Park, Brazil, Indlana-WLS Barn Lou & Sally. 8:30-WLS Little Brown Church of the Air HOMEMAKERS' SCHEDULE Dance, 1!I:1lI EdItion-Tom Owens & His R:30-Pralrie .'armer - WLS National II :30-DailY-Weather Forecast; Fruit and , Entertainers; Hayloft Dancers; Oeorgle v~rs ~h:a'::~a:~~~luv~~~re ; IM~~~~·;.j Hymns by Little Brown Church Singers Vegetable Markets. Monday, September 9 Ooebel; The Ozark Sisters; Polly, Uncle Barn Dance continues until II :00 Dan & Buster. ~~~~~k~~~~~; ~~~~~~~~Zhe Stranger; and Henry Burr. tenor. assisted by WLS II :40-Ncws broadcast by Julian Bentley. 12:45--0rchestra; Chuck & Ray; Jack Eliot; Orchestra and Romelle Fay, organist. r~:.'~;II~:~pa ':~~ ~aa~~ t ::~~~~~l~ Marjorie Gibson In Fanfare. Dodg~ County Fair, Beaver Dam, Wiscon "Night- Tim e In Dixie" with Eu rek a MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 sin-Verne, Lee and Mary. 9:15--WLS Orchestra, featuring Herman Singers and Bill Vick land at 10 :00. AFTERNOON PROGRAMS Tuesday, September 10 State Theatre, Kalamazoo, Mlchl,an (2 BIJou Theat re, Battle Creek, Mlchl,an (2 Felber. Jr., violinist, Ted Du Moulin. days)- WLS Round-Up Show-Cumber daysl-WLS Barn Dance-Tom Owens & 12:4!>--Ralph Emerson: Phil Kalar, soloist; land Ridge Runners: HOOSier Sod Bust- His Entertainers: Arkansas Woodchop- cellist. (Daily ex. Sat. & Sun.) "Hilltoppers"; Marjorie Gibson In Fanfare. g-iiils~lI~a,:!O.'}~~h.::.~~ca~~~':nl~~ayt1uar~ ~~~s;T~~u~~a~h~I~:::S; Three Neighbor 9:45--Henry Burr, "Well Kpown People I II :45 a. m. to 2:00 p. m ., CST Wednesday, September 11 Sally. Have Met." 1 :OO-Morning DeVotions, conducted by 12:45--0rchestra; Marjorie Gibson In Fan Kiwanl. Club, Petersburg. I1l1nols-WLS II :45--Pralrle Farmer Dlnnerbell Program. Barn Danc~ Show- The Barn Dance FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Howard Chamberlain, assisted by Home fare; Evelyn Overstake; Jack Eliot; R. T . Band; Olaf the Swede; Flannery Sis 10:00-NBC-Capitol Theatre. Towners and Ralph Emerson. conducted by Arthur C. Page, 45 minutes Van Tress, Garden Talk. ters; Three Neighbor Boys; The Stern varied farm and musical features. Dr. Miami County F a ir, Converse. Indiana- 1:15--Jolly Joe and His Pet Pals. ards. 10:30-WLS Camera Club, featuring picture Holland In Devotional Message at 12 :10. Thursday, September 12 :.!'nSne~~rnHO~~~; e-~~mt;:~!t;'r~' R~~l~; 1:30-Sears Retail Program with Ford Rush. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Woods; Pancakes; Play Party Olr!s; Max pointers for amateur photographers. Ralph Emerson and Marquis Smith. 12 :30---.11m Poole's Livestock Market Sum 12:45--Vlbrant Strings; Wm. O'Connor, ten Terhune; Pat Buttram; Winnie, Lou & mary direct from Union Stock Yards. or, with Orchestra; Marjorie Gibson In Jackson County .·alr, Black River Falls, Sally. 10:45--"Keep Chicago Safe," dramatic skit. 1:45--Dally-Hilltoppers; WLS Artists' Book Ings. (Chicago Livestock Exchange) Fanfare; WLS Little Home Theatre, Drama. WI.con.ln-WLS On Parade-Lulu Belle; Dodge Count,. Fair, Beaver Dam, WIscon Skyland Scotty; Hoosier Hot Shots: The sin-The Backyard Follies. l1:00-WENR Programs until 5:30 p. m . !\'lon., Wed., Fri.-Arthur MacMurray in 12:40-F. C. Bisson of U. S. Dept. of Agri- Friday, September 13 Stranger; Sears Harmony Ranch Boys. culture In grain market summary. Williamson County Fa Ir, Marion, IllinoIs Ozark Theatre, Fayettev1l1e, Arkansas News of Prairie Farmer-WLS Home Talent 12:45--0rchestra; Chuck & Ray; Jack Eliot: Bookings. WLS Barn Dance-The Barn Dance WLS Barn Dance, 1931'i EdItion-The Barn 12:45--Homemakers' Hour until 1:30 p. m . Marjorie Gibson in Fanfare; John Brown; Band; Ha~' loft Dancers; Polly, Uncle Dan Dance Band; The Hayloft Dancers; Polly, Sunday Evening, September 8 1:55-News Report-,Tulian Bentley. Lois Schenck. "Prairie Farmer Homemak & Busters; Tom Corwlne; The Hayloft Uncle Dan & Buster; Tom Corwlne; Hay 1:30-"Ma Perkins," a rural comedy sketch. ers' News"; Jean Sterling Nelson. Home Trio. loft Trio. 5:30 p. m ., to 1:00 p. m ., CST 1:59--Chlcago and Indianapolis Livestock 1 :45--"Well Known Facts about Little Furnishings. Estimated Receipts; Chicago Hog Flash. 5:30-"The Voice of the People." (Standard Known Radio Stars. (American Radiator) Saturday, September 14 8:00-0tto's Tune Twisters (Dally) with Mon.-Guest Artists. • Brands) (NBC) 10 :45 a. m . to 11:30 a. m., CST Evelyn Overstake (Tu .. Th., Sat.) Tues., Thurs. - Better Housing Bureau 6:00-NBC Concert Orchestra. Speakers; Home Towners; Helene Brahms. 1O:45--Ralph Emerson; Marjorie Gibson In 8:I5-Tower Topics by Sue Roberts. Songs Fanfare; Winnie, Lou & Sally, Interview WLS ARTISTS, Inc. 1230 Washington Blvd., Chicago by Bill O'Connor. tenor, assisted by John Wed.-Guest Artists. 6 :45--Hendrick Van Loon. of WLS Personality; John Brown, and Brown. (Sears Mall Order) Frl.-Guest Artists. Paul Nettlnga, tenor. Questions and Answers - -

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