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December Phil Cool 1930 NBC
Vol. II. No.2 WAVE-LENGTH GUIDE WHAT'S ON THE AIR
Vol. II. MAGAZINE FOR THE RADIO USfENER No.2
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PaIGe, 1(;0. p.a 001'''; '1.50 I'D T ...... (COP".'OIlT, 11130, "I' WHAT'. ON YR. Aa Co.) PA"JU "EIfTIIIU:O ... '''OOND-CUa! M...... ,.. APR. 19, 1930. AT TltII PO$'!' OFFICii "T OU'CU,NAT., 0., ONOl:. THIl ACT or MAJt(:H 3, 1879." HOW TO FIND THE T he program-finding $Cr"icc COver! Ihr PROGRAM YOU WANT hour. of 6 to 12 P. M. for f ach dar Ir the monlh, Eastern Stand.. d Tirn~, 01 WHEN YOU WANT IT from ~ to II P. M., Contr. l Time. Simply turn to the page bcarins due and hour when program il wanted. Selec. from indn in pan~ls a. (tnln of p.ge partic"lar progr.m or lY~ of progum you prcf ~ r, thcn locate on ocbod · "t~ ch_n .ymbol at ,nure" pOint (by " .. of SUt. indn) hom wbich it is bein, btOrocasl. Or, if you p ..[u, cheek Iymbol.. of favori •• 'lOtioOl .g.in" ind.. of Iymbo[. in pan,1t at cen.~r of page un. il you toca•• typo of pros ram fOf whic:h your p.rticular moocI calls. HOW TO USE THE 0 ...... linet from .he Items of Irrow. WAVE-LENGTH GUIDE pointing to the Wav. kngth. of .. uioru with which you or. fomiti.r to .he ro· 'pKtiv. pOin .. on .he ocII" to .h. right corresponding to the pain .. on .h. dn ... or di.1 of your oct .... h ... these .u• • ion. "come in." Alter you h,.. e dra.... n .bou •• dozen of theoc lin.. you will hIve I g uide .0 all of the .. ltion, in .h. country. For n.mplo, if Su .ion WEAF. which i. on channel No. 12-whic:h "",.n. it open... on a f...,. quoncy of 660 kilocycln and 4)4 met.n----<:Qmet in on yo"r oct It 74, and Su,;on WLW, on channel No. 16. ~om« in On yo"r ..t at 67 ..... ion. on cblnnd. 1). 14 and IS n ..a ..rily mu" com. in at pain" be.ween .bell: t ...o location. on your dial. TO MAKE A LONG "'.. crt.in whicb of your local ,"tion. DISTANCE TEST (DX) are bro.dc.lting ch.in fc .. "r.. "' th. moment. Tun. in one of .h ..~ and find OUt who. num!,.,. i. being r~ndcr.d. Then Itart you r detect or di,[ .t .ither end of in arc and turn $lowly. .... OOOn oJ you hur the ume numb.. , nO .. your di.l ,ening and checl< b. ck to the column .ho .. ins wave leng.h.; . hu. ",coruining the .pproxim ... w.v. [ength of the . ... ion you are rcceiving. T o .he ldt of thi. column you ",ill find .h. call I...... of lI.tion. on the .... v. leng,h of th.t It.tion .nd thOle having 'ppro"im.tely t h .. "'ve length. Ref... ncc.o the .ch~du[e of pro ,lt ram •• pplying to the .ime you arc listening wi!! .ho... you which of t ..... <... ion. it bro.dea"in, .he prosram to wbich you .rc liltening. and you c.n .hut ide",ify it wi.hout huinll . 0 w.it for call 1~' ... rL AGENTS WANTED! 'T.1u {frltrr for W ....T's ON TnE A,.. Inh$cription, in your community. E.. c.,. radio home a good prOlpK' , Your friend, .nd n.i&"bon will eojoy th;. new radio proscam directory .... d masuine. Full or p.rt time work. Liberal offer to botb men and women. Writt for our prt>pOli.ioo to agmtl.. O .. CU.. ... T10N ~t...N ...GD., W ..... T's ON THI! AI", N iD tb and Cutter S,L. Oncinnati, O. TO ADVERTISERS WHAT'S ON THE ...... i. gro... ing d.ily. Th. lIory of tho phenomenal gro.... h of WHAT', ON Till! """ i, in ..nKly intu.. ting. Within 1 period of ten month, Ihi. publication h.., built "p a gu.can.ud net p.id circul .. ion in e"cal of 200,000. A. R. C. applicant. WitH", ON Till! AI .. has a u ..f,,1 life of Ihirty d.y• ••ch month-i. be_ comeo a pa ri of .he radio « VOLUME II. DECEMBER, 1930 No.2 ,.•• - .'1\ ~_sz=-- TAGE-STRUCK," and more S recently "the movie bug," are familiar terms describing rather familiar afilictions-gcn erally of the young. But it looks casting, succeeding in radio is as if they will have to make room much the same as succeeding • for another term which radio is in any other endeavor or call- putting in the same category: ing or career. Which is to say, "mike-struck." there is no royal road to micro It describes, though perhaps phone stardom. Old stuff? Of flippantly, the condition of thou course. But so is the law of sands - yes, hundreds of thou gravity. Yet side-stepping that sands----of people (not just the"young, either) who somehow hasn't been a prosperous business. have the ambition or longing to do things before a When Amos and Andy made the NBC chain microphone. In an army that seems to grow larger and a plump salary back in August, 1929, those and larger every week, they march on the broad who knew nothing about them began saying, casting studios, to sing, to play, to become an "Some people have all the luck." But the facts are nouncers and actors. A ll of which is, of course, far that these boys put in five long years developing from surprising. their act before they got on "big time." Radio has a glamor in some ways even more al Even the air performers who get by simply on luring than that of the stage or screen. Being heard the reputations they have built up somewhere else by an audience of millions is thrill a-plenty in itself, (there's no use to mention names, because you can or so it seems at the receiving end. Besides, the think of plenty of them) have worked hard to pile broadcasters scarcely conceal the fact that fame and up those reputations, in the theatre or the movies fortune await those who attain stardom. And, hu or wherever they came from to radio. That may man nature being what it is, every listener harbors not mean that they are worth $ 5,000 or $10,000 a the more or less secret conviction that he can do week for what they do to a microphone. But it something or other at least as well as many of those does mean that they have traveled a long, hard road he hears. somewhere or other before they took what seems to So, for these innumerable aspirants, it may be . be the short cut to radio stardom. worth while to set down a few facts and conclu And speaking of pay, it may as well be said next sions about getting on the air. If much of what that the lads who accept weekly checks carrying will have to be said seems to blast rosy hopes, that four figures from the broadcasters arc mighty rare is unavoidable. birds. Much printer's ink was spilled, of course, to Aside from a few differences peculiar to broad- the effect that \Vill Rogers drew down $ 5,000 a "An aTmy t bat IrrmJ /Q Page: 4 \VHAT 'S ON THE 1\IH week for his thirteen-week stand, and that Sir when no competitor appropriates them (which isn't Harry Lauder picked up $15,000 for one fifteen often). The performer who has a novelty must be minute turn. But from this to the conclusion that prepared to adapt or scrap it for something else all broadcasting performers own yachts and twelve whenever styles change, as they do so dizzily. room shacks in the Adirondacks is a long, danger If the aspirant is going in for announcing instead ous leap. of music, he wilt need to be thoroughly grounded Far from anything as munificent as that, the in such things as enunciation and pronunciation, average income of radio artists the country over particularly of musical terms, and be able to ex if it could be found-would probably be spurned temporize fluently. Sp~cialties such as sports de by my lord the plumber or plasterer. The reason scribing, of course, carry their own requirements. is that an individual artist makes no "real money" But, in addition to all these qualifications, person until he works in a commercial program. Staff ality is one of the most valuable assets. jobs or appearances in sustaining features carry pay To show how surprisingly rare possessors of this envelopes that are surprisingly thin, while members combination are, \VLW recently tried out two hun of orchestras as a rule draw simply dred men before finding one who the current scale. filled the bill. To quote figures, a performer Should acting be the particular doing an unusual act over an im key chosen to open the broadcast portant station has been receiving ing door, still another set of re $15 a week for three fifteen-minute quirements is presented. Anyone periods. That sounds like $20 an who seeks to get on the air as a hour-not bad. But the catch is thespian must of course have train·· that each fifteen-minute turn de ing; also some stage experience if mands the better part of a day in he wants to get away to a fast start. diligent preparation. It is no accident that most of the This business of preparation best radio actors have been drafted takes most of the "gravy" out of all from the stage. They have become radio salaries. It is not unusual for microphone stars because they a half-hour program to require five learned their jobs so thoroughly in or six hours' rehearsal, and in the the theatre. F;I'( ) 'Urf ()f b.r.:I W(lrk for Amos ',,' A"Jy case of elaborate productions as luf()r~ tINy got on "big lim ~ ." Further, few radio actors can many as ten to fifteen. So, the find regular work if they are lim actual time on the air can not be figured as what ited to one type of role. Every group of broad the performer is being paid for, even when it is a casting players is, in effect, a stock company, which "spare no expense" commercial feature. means that versatility is demanded. Most radio performers arc paid pretty much Granting the qualifications outlined, the first what they are worth, according to the several things step in getting on the air is to have an audition. that determine worth. Chief among these is, of This is a hearing conducted in a studio with the course, our old friend supply and demand; and, as manager listening at a receiver in another room. ought to be expected, but much too often is not, For such an audition the aspirant is advised to the supply of average to good talent in all the prin go to the best station within reach. He or she may cipal cities greatly exceeds the demand. pass the test with fl ying colors and still not get A weary audition manager, for instance, said work because there may be no opening at the mo recently that there are one hundred thousand so ment. At any rate, if nothing comes of this first pranos in New York alone. Perhaps he exagger hearing, the next best station should be tried. ated a hi,=,. But if there were only one thousand A newcomer to radio can do more to further his good sopranos, that would be considerable compe or her career by getting experience and building up tition for one more to meet. a following at a small station than by waiting for So it is rather plain that a musician ought to a break at a large station after a satisfactory audi have ability above average, good training, and pref tion. Many of the present-day headliners got their erably some little experience, if he is to succeed in start in just that way. radio. Besides, he will find it an advantage to be In spite of certain appearances to the contrary, able to do .something just a bit different. all the better broadcasters are on the lookout for This last, however, can be as much a liability as talent which is better than that which they now an asset in the 'long run. The trouble with most have. And who can ask for more of a chance than novelties is that they soon become old stuff, even that? WHAT'S ON THE AIR Page 5 iolnnd Mekcr ELLO, Folks! How are did you hear about the new set H you aU this evenin'? Well, that tunes in a station at every suh, it's :l nice summer we're point on the dial - also the new havin' this win t e r - these one that you set before you set "quick. ., change s" sho' keep yo' down and get all the programs Jumpm. you want all evenin' at one sellin' Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, - (but at that the old phono Jingle all the way; graph gave yo' more excrcise). - Oh, what fun it is to ride Then there's aU sorts of medical In a hayrack Xm:u Day. radio devices - the latest a "cur Sing, Brother, Sing - Frank ing machine" for paresis, a discase Luther used to be a minister be of the mind (should be qltite pop fore he started warblin' tenor ular to-day) . Boy, I'm tellin' you solos over NBC. Boop-oop-a that before long, by the time our doop--. "The Three Doctors" nerves get a bit more frazzled and are mighty popular in Chicago run down, they'll have a machine territory - they'll soon be a nao: where you can drop two bits in tional Chain feature - they're the slot and get a "shot of radio" not Doctors at all, but they got - enough concentrated nervous the cure for the blues. Carson J. Robison, whom energy to go out and kick over six or seven taU I labeled "The Kansas Jay Bird" back in 1924, is buildings. still whisdin', singin' and writin' his way to popu lar success on Chain programs - He's a bird! UNNY Experiences? Never will forget - in \'Villard Robison (no relat ion) came from Kansas F troducin' the famous Moving Picture Star, too - hc's got "A Cottage for Sale" out there \Xfilliam S. Hart, on his first chain appearance. now. Billy Jones 'n' Ernie Hare, the happy pair Last year I had "Bill" come up to the studio to - they're there, even tho' they'rc both los in' thcir recite "Pinto Ben" - and how he delivered! A hair - well - all's fair in the wear 'n' tear 0' ra great big, powerful frame on the man - gigantic dio - they've been at it since radio was " borned." hands and bulldog jaw - fcarin' llothin' - a hc Charley Hamp ' out of NBC, C hicago, and Phil man in every sense of the word. But down under Cook out of N. Y. C., are doin' way early in the neath Bill is all artist - vivid imagination - sens i mornin' scuff - Bet they have to scay up all night tiveness - with a heart as big as a barrel. H e to get there that early in the morn in'. came stalk in' in to meet for the first t ime, face to face, Mistcr Mike. He started AY, what ain't radio a-com in' to? - There's bravely into his recitation - S the new miniature sets (gettin' as popular as stuttered a couple 0' times - the "Minnie" golf courses) . Thcy get in your hair. turned a deep scarlet under that Then there's the auto radio - "you ought to have sun-tanned hide o' his - and one" - yes, 'n' they're turnin' out a radio end then - Collapsed - Yes, Suh table too - (no end to what they're doin') - 'n' reoll/illllrtf (III page 47] Page 6 WHA T'S O N T H E AIR Yire Pres. bnd GeI"l@YI!.1 cJ{ltofney fllM~ \\)Ju~'~------\l)hn------~ f- ~ Ill' ,i" iiUv i'i' iiv ...... --- i ._---i,iiL.F"--' The Men and Women who will dil'ecr the expendilUl'e of ~ JO,OOO,OOO to p,'ovide N B ( P"081'61llr in 19J I WJlAT ' S ON TilE AIR Page 7 , '" f I"", m.e U n,oUl' dl~;~ l t.,JCootiouity Ed itor Page 8 WH AT'S OX 'rUE AIR December CHA IN PROGRAMS December SUNDAY 7, H , 21, 28 7, H , U, 28 SUNDAY Red . ymbol. dell ate NBC : black ' )'lIIbolJ d enote CBS E. S. T, 6t07P. M. C. S. T , 5 to 6 P. M. o Fox Fur Trappers With Earle Nel.on, croonlllr fur·t r.ppur. a Howard Dandin J.mn J . Oor""t~ (u·h,,·y· w~ilh~ ch.mplo .. ); }'reddie Rich'. O...,heotr,; Di.". 1I0,,·.rd, aoprlno. o Catholic Hour Sermon b7 nOled O.lbolic clel")"m.n: 11r,. cboN.; 0010- ill'. o Raising Jun ior I!umorou, domest ic . kit wilh .... lin. Berry .nd l'~t. Oi"on. o Margaret Olsen Soprano. o Operatic Concert NBO, New York. If E. S. T. 7 to 8 P. M. C. S. T. 6 to 7 P. M. a lodent Big Brother Club Dr.m.tie . ketth with Bob Eme,.,.. e Major Bown' Famil y Louise Ihve . • oprano; or· eh ..l " d irector, "1'.,h. Bnn· ch u k. e Harbor Lights T.lu of .n old .... ~'pI.in wilh Edwin M. Whilner. (!) Williams Oilomatics Fred. W.ldae• • leao. : o r chellr, dl ~ r. Jo.e( K OHl' nero e The Golden Hour of the Li ttle Flower Reli elonl .., ..... ic. ia Del roit. Mi ch. (C'lhoUc). If AFTERNOON PROGRAMS OBS. E . ,. T. 12 :S0 e. M .• ] nteralllon.l Broad· ClOt . 12:45 ,. M .. G"-u.dier G u •• d . Bud. I :SO ,. M .. Oond•• e of N.HoD'. 2:00 ,. M .. C.thedr.1 1I01ir. 3:00 ,. M. Ne... York Philh.· mon ie O rehell... NBO. 2 :00 ,. M.. n o ~ r SmPhonr Oon· <~rt WJZ}. 3:00 .. M" Na'ion l Youth Cou· torenee (WJZ ). ,j :00 e. M.. Ceth e dr a l Hour (W~:U') . 4: 15 P. M., Clud.ll n P.cltlc Mu. lcal Coune .. ( WJZ). Orcheolr a dlreetor, .... I f r ed Heather . 4 :45 P. )f .. "Yo". }:7e." jWJZ). 5:00 P. I.E., Nat ional R ei .:Iou e Se ... I" ( WJZ). 5:00 P . M., Da .. e~ Tree HOnr (W Afl. KEY TO LOCAL PROGRAMS N Newl S Sport, 0 E ducatiOnal T DrllU.Ue p Chlldr.n', V V.rlety featnre WComle • R ellglo" • X On the "e MUSICAL M 1. B l.Dd M 8. PoplIl ... M 2. CI ....l eal M 7. Sy mphonic M S. D I.DCfI M e. Orr in M f. Rell&toul 8. S.ml·c1... leal " 5. NoyelfY " Vuietr 'W H A T'S ON T U E AI R Page 9 FTER our Noven,b €) Our Government David L.,,·,e.noe deoeritte. Oo~ e rnln e ntal acth·ltlel f rom Washlnrlo" . e Atwater Kent Hour Con."t: ,,,,,d oper. artlol8; o rchelt n dl..,Clor, Jo..,f P ..· t er nack. @ Collier'. Radio Hour O ...be ltra. d r.,na,I..,d ItoTiell. pmml"e", ,,",.ker • • o South Sea Islanden ~.tl'"' luin. orche.lra: J ooeph ROI.rl, dl....,tor. o World Ad ventures with Floyd Gibbon.. s Select frm" Ihl, Jill .he pm,ram ''Ou pref ~ r .1 the ,!ven ti me. r..o.::.l .. ,n tbe panel. In the l ~ rt a nd ri~h' the n UTf'5' ..at ion In you ur,..,-,n, il. a nd tune In. .:njo)," .... hat YOU .... nl ",lien YOII ",.n, It. KEY T O LOCAL PROGRAMS N New. S Sport. o E ducational T Dramatic P Children'. V Variety reAture W Comle R R ellg!o". X On Ihe d r MU SICAL 1. BInd M 6. Poplll.x M 2. Cla ..leal M 7. S,.mpho"lc "M 3. Dance M 8.0rg." M f. n ell.lou M 9. ~ml·e l .n le&l M 5. NO'leltT M Varlet)'" 'WH t\ T'S ox TUE All{ Page It ACH M()nd.y, Wtdnuday .nd Fri E day. fr()m 9:45 10 9 A. M.• E. 5. T., over ,he (;()Jumbi. Bro.dc.ning ne,work, .he Old Du.ch Girl. ;ntr() duc~d ., • tr.demork • quarler- Little Jack Li,tI. i. on Ih•• ir .g.in at St.t;on WLW. Cincinnati. H. can bo h ...d-:lnd .njo)·ed-:lt ,he fol l()Wing ,imes uch ...... 1.: Suu.d.y, midnight to 12:)1) II. loI.; Sund.y, midnight to 12:)0 II. M.; T"esd.y, 12: JO I() 1 1\. M. (Wed.); Wcdnnd.r, hI" joillnf /,,~ ""m~r 0/ grul s)'mphr"'k • " ... :1) 1'. M.; Thursd.y. 10:45 to orgalli:~lim.. ,,,{,irb b",', a~pr"r~rJ i~ Spt 11 1'. M.; Frid.y. midnight to 12:JO rial ,.rJio Nmrr,/ •• Tb~y wrr~ br•• J 'r II. M. On uriou. ocouion. Little un/ly 0'''-' all NBC II'/WO'I:.. J.ck h •• his .ccompli.hed friend. Sandy M.cGregor. help him make Oil Ch.i,lm., Day, I.()n. 5 I() 6 p. m .• E. ... ;nn;ng .um of hi, ..di() ~I. S. T .. NBC ....ill ~'~.~fI/ _Sain IIx Pbi/aJd_ ~bi.. Sympho .. , O.rlx,lr. I~" by U()f>r1I" St()/lo .. ',!i. Frederick p.lm The Curti. In"i.ut. of Mu. ie, now in iu seventh ••••00. is bro,dc.sting Iymphony pro.o;raml from ~ to 4:.~ I'. M,. 10, S. T .• • very Frid.y .fter noon during the win.er (fr()m N() "ember 7 to April 11), o"er thf Co lumbia ch.in. Th~ Cunis Oreh~S1r. of 110 piten, under ,he bJlon of Emil Myln ....ki •• nd under the gen c ..1 direction of J o,d Hofm.nn. will pl.y in Phil.delphi •• ,he n,usic being relayed t() New Ynrk f()r din.ibution TIlE DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTR A over . wide ne.work of ,"ti()nJ. PI.)'inS {xr/"li,Ay 10' Ibr .adio ~"rJir"rt, lIN /~"'~"I Dd.oil Sy",phony OrrINf/ •• , P"IMlillll il. fo,lI •• ,irs 0/ rOller.ls ()II I' .. ".lion_lI:iJ, hooIt-.. P• ....;// Ix 1x.,J .1 lusl Iwiu .nJ /IOssib!y Ib'N" I;II"s J ...ing Drr.mlxr ()"U a CBS r()tl.I-I()-r()tls! flr/MJ()rl:.. S.orin t 0 I d by in,er.. ,,;.;..,.lIy TIN lwo r()nrrrl, I'lI.,tJ /0' Ibis n"""b ..:illlx Ji.rtl.J b)' Mr. kn()Wn Kientists ar( '0 bo hurd over -, K()I., Jllring IIx .b,,,,rt On a E•• oPt'." lo.r 01 Mr. G.{,.;/a .n NBCWEAF n .. work on W"'!nu· "'itub, who ro"J"rlrJ IIx ford Ib.u witb whirh IIx It,in dJY .v~ning. from f:t~ 107:10. E. S. opru.J i" No.·.mb". TINY will In br()4JraSI 'rom O'rlxsfra T. Thi. progrom is under Ih. :lUS II~II. lbe hom. 0/ Ibr Drl,oil Sympbm,y Orr/NI/,., WrJ""J,,), ass//' pice. of the N.tion.1 R.,.orcl1 Coun IIigbl. Drr.",b" If.I'()m II) 10 II o·clorl:.. E. S. T., "lid Christ_ GABRILOW/TSCH, cil. wilh Mauric. HolI.nd in thug•• m., E ..... Wtd"rsd"y. Vrrt",brr 24. "I Ihr f.m, hOll'. 1/ "r- "ollJllrtor 1"i()II' pr()gr.m ,()m",it",rnl, ()/ C()lstmbi. t." IN .tt()nrilrJ, M •• K D ece mber CHAIN PROGRAMS Dece mbe r SUNDAY 7. l4. 21, 28 7, H , 21, 28 SUNDAY Red symbolo denot e NBC: bl&Ck .ymbola denote CBS NEB.-WIS. E. S. T. 10 to 11 P. M. EASTERN TIME C. S. T. 9 to 10 P. M. o Jesse Crawford and the Duotones Organ accompanied OJ' other inStrument'" Royal Tn'.... wr it er Company 1"~gUIll. a Around the Samovar Peter Bilj o ' ~ Bal.laika or· ohestra : ooloi.t$, ,-o tal and instrumental. €) Be Square Motor Club Program O,." h",,"a with ocrip! act. o Atwater Kent Hour Coneer! orohe.tr3, dir...,tor. Josef Pasternaok; ooloi.! • . a Studebaker Champions Qrehe8tra di Nlctor. J ~. n Ooldkette. E> Sunday at Seth Parker', Down East hymn 'ing . @ Deane Sisten Vocal Bnd ins!rumen!aL 9 Pennwil Pete And)' Sonnella and no~.lty n,-ches!ra. €) Lew White Orgahi~ !. u.i.ted bv Genia FonuiO\'8, "op,'ano•. E. S, T. 11'" to 12 P. M. C. S. T. 10 to 11 P. M. €) Sunday at Seth Parker's Down Eut·hymn siug. o Sam Herman Xylophonist. auisted by Frank Banta. pianist. o Russian Cathedral Choir Vocal soloists. male qU BrU!t . o Kaffee Hag Slumber Music St ring ensemble. A Reminiscences t:ru Gilel . OOI, rano; Ood frey Lndlow, violinis!; n,a le quartet; Keilh McLeod. 0"" 1(3ni" , Alwyn F.. W, Bach, narrator. o Back Home Hour from Buffalo Religious sen'ice willt sym' phony orehe.tt,,; quartet and .olo i ~t~ , Sermon, Rev. Clin· ton H. Churchill, WhM do your f",'orite Sl81iono offer ~;e:~'i'i~imtte ~~:~t~~~ ~ ~;n'k~~ R!~~d ri1(ht, "nrl find them dr.cribed in thi. middle co)" ,,,,, , )!nk<> )'our ehoiee and t \ln" i1\, K EY T O LOCAL P BOGRAM S N News S Sports 0 E duuu HE H. M. C;o.rudi . n Gre,udier T Gilard. B.nd. regarded by many .s the representativc miliury mll.ie.1 .. ni. of C.nad., br<»dcasts I ...ries of progr.,n. origin .. ing It Montful eV ery Sund.y >ftcrnoon from 12:4 ) to 1:10, E. S. T., over the Columbia nn .,ork. The b.nd, numbering sisty_ N the New Royal H ours, the Royal T ypewriter Company Ii"e ~rforme .., is directed by Capt. J. J. Gagni.r, .nd i. uniformed the I is jealously guarding itS title as a pioneer in commercial Ume ~, the b.nd of the p"rent regi_ broadcasting. This new program boasts an entirely new men< in Englmd. musical arrangenlent which radio has named "d uot~nes." .. It is enchantingly beautiful and so unds like a symphony o~ches t ra, ye t is quite different. Ch.rl.. D. ts ••c,on. n • .,.p.~r mu .ic critic, .uthor. radio program di_ Worked out tWO months in advance of the first broad rector .nd .dverti.ing .peci.list, h •• cast, the unusual combin:ttion W:l.S re heused daily. recently become . member of the staff This effec t is produced by Jesse C rawford (often supple of Na.ion.1 R.dio Adverti.ing, Inc .. whe.e he i, ' noci1tcd wi th Ho ... ard mented by Mrs. Crawford) at the orga n, playing in concert Way .nd Pot Bltnc. in the produc with a solo instrument. The tenor voice of Pau l Small is tion of program. for So-A-Tone elec heard on these broadcastS. Each week there is a different t.ical transcription •. famous solo artist to play in unison with the organ. .. Some of the guest artists who will be heard during t he series include: Aldo R icci, violinist ; William C. McGill, Intimate pict ..... of life among the N.vajo .nd Hopi India", of Ari~ona saxophonisti Robert Etfros, composer; Domenic Maffei, .re revealed by Gilbe" E. Gable, Phil_ banjo virtuoso, and l December CHAIN PROGRAMS DectlPlo.. MONDAY 1 , 8, I ll, 211, 119 1, 8, 1&. 22. 29 MONDAY Red I ,....boll denote NBC; blr.ck e),mlHlla d enote CBS E. S. T. 6 10 7 P. M. C.S.T. 5 to 6 P.M. o Black and Gold Room Orchestra Oi",clor. Ludw!g Laurier. C Who', Behind the Name? Blorra pblUI , h lchu . o Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Organ From Salt Lake Cit)', Utah. o Rise of the Goldberg, Humoroul d ramatic . ketch. e Literary Digest Topics in Brief Lowell Thorn ... o WSPD Commodores Dance mU l ie. a Dance MUlic from New York €) My Bookhou,e Story Time (;) Semi-Hex Pro ",am ScbuU a nd Cornell, piano team. o Tony', Scrapbook Poell')', phUoaophy, humor, elc. or E. S. T. 7 10 8 P. M. C. S. T. 6 10 7 P. M. @ The Crockett Mountaineers llill-bilty m\".ie. e The Gruen Town Crier Alennder Woo/leoti. €) Evangeline Adams Aatrologer. o The Vagabonds Emery I) , puch .nd hi. Or eheat ••. e Air Scoop. with Eleanor Smith Oa u elt &I nemsdell', pro gram. e The World To-day Talk by Jlmn 0, lIc[)onald. (;) Colonial Beacon Lights Robert L. R Ipley. "Beline It or No~" urtoonlat, o The Peplodent Program A m... 'n' And)'. o Tastyeast Jesters Dwight Ll t·ham. Wamp O a r ill a on. Ouy Bonham, long. : mandolnte ICCOn'1'&"i. ment; !:iwedl l h d" lect . toriel . A Phil. Cook The Quaker mIn; One·man Ibo .... B Rosy's Gang F rom RoJ:)' Th"-tl'i/, New York City. KEY TO LOCAL PROGRAMS N N t.". S Spon. o E ducatiOnal T Dr ....aUc P Chlldun', V V.rlety tea.ture W Comic It lteUgloul X On tbe a.lr MUSICAL MI. B.nd 1'4 6, Popul..- M 2. Clasaleal M 7. S)'DIpbonlc M 3. Dance M 8. Or.... M 4, Bellglone M 9. S,,,,l-das.lcal lid: Ii. N01"e.lty M Variety \\, HA'I"S ON T JI E AIR Page 15 In order to obtain the fullest • details of the day's happenings in aU p arts of the world. Lowell In B~ief Thomas uses three wire services !opiuu which bring news flas hes to him as fast as they reach newspaper offi PresenlinrJ. LOMLL TII(),Af,4S -- --Udtfio /loire ofLilenll1/ Oir/est ces. In addition, he has several special correspondents in various HEN t he Literary port by pen and motion~ cities in this country. W DigCJt needed a picture camera the stirring After digesting the news contained in man who could carryon sights of central Europe in dispatches and reading newspapers and and add to the good work the t hroes of post-war re magazines from all parts of the world, of Floyd Gibbons, t hei r bellion. Thomas begins preparing his nightly radi:l outlook covered the w hole Voluminous books have broadcast. Usually he prepares six thou wide world, and Lowell been written as the imme sand words, of which he broadcasts from Thomas was selected. diate result of Thomas' so three to four thousand in the fifteen And what a man! When journ in the land "cast of minute period. he was eight his su rgeon Cairo." He was in Venice, News flashes keep pouring in until just father, imbued with the in the capacity of special before he goes on the air over the NBC spiri t of adventure, left war correspondent, w hen network at 6;45 P. M . By S P. !>I., when Ohio for the turbulent word reached him of Al he broadcaSts over the CBS network. more Cripple Creek mining area. lc ,by's attack on Palestine. dispatches have been received and are It was in this cradle of Elated at the prospects for waiting for him in the Columbia studios. adventure that Lowell a stOry, T homas, the twen~ Since he began his broadcasts he has re Thomas grew to manhood, tieth-century sbld, made ceived telegrams and letters of congratu gleaning a world of infor- his way to Cairo. He likes htion from men prominent in the affairs mation from t he hard-bit- to contrast his airplane of this and other countries and from ten miners, serving as printers' devil, trip from Cairo to Palestine, which took friends made during his years of travel. piqued a bit under the strict discipline oi him JUSt forty minutes, with the forty General Rafael Nogales, stormy petrel of a wise parent. His father early taught year sojourn of the Is raelites between politics in Venezuela, dropped into the him the rudiments of oratory, a keen these points. While with Allenby in Je C BS studio in New York one night to appreciation of the stars, plants and of rusalem, T homas had his romantic first hear him broadcast; Count Von Luekner, nature's great store of valuable mineral meeting with T. E. Lawrence, the blond of whom Thomas wrote a book, dropped deposits. The boy had a keen appreciation "uncrowned king of Arabia." Through him a nOte; Tom Skeyhill, Australian poet of his eyrie habitat. The man, Thomas, this meeting and ensuing close compan and writer who was blinded at Gallipoli, now tells of an old farmer living there ionship such a story of daring, of intrigue, wired him. Each day he receives a larger who sold out to make room for an inn for of skill, was woven by Thomas as to take batch of mail from those who knew him sightseers. The old man, hearing of the him over the entire British Empire and hc and arc happy to renew their acquaint_ tourists' delight in the view, hastened fore four millions of people for its telling. ance over the radio. back to see for himself. "Gosh," he said, Broadcasting " T opics in Brief - the H is is the only voice heard regularly "that is a nice view! I never noticed it!" News Behind the News"- is meat for over both the chains, and hence available Graduating from high school, Thomas Lowell T homas. Still in his thirties, he to every set owner in the United States. forged his way through four universities has circled t he globe -Valparaiso, Denver, Chicago and several times. T here LOWELL THOMAS ... nJ Princeton - workirig his way t hrough are few cities and SHAH WALl KHAN, of each, assisted admirably by his ready stOre towns of any size K~b"l. of valuable knowledge and his almost su that he has nOt vis perhuman ability to "cat up" education. ited. Hence, when By the t ime he was twenty-five he had the newspapers carry explored the Yukon, the land of the c1iff headlines of events dwellers, had been newspaper repOrter for transp i rin g in a Chicago daily, and was the youngest C hina or Arabia, in member of Princeton's Faculty. He gained Burmah or Malaya, the esteem of Franklin K. Lane, then Lowell Thomas can Secretary of the Interior, and, at the summon up a mental outbreak of the World War, was com picture of the locale missioned by him as a special war corre as he knows it from spondent. According to the late Lord personal experience . . Northcliffe, the great British newspaper Knowing personally owner, "he saw more of the World War men and women than any other m an." w hose names con~ He numbered among his intimates su l~ standy ate in the rans, prime ministers and kings. H e was headlines, he ca n and the trusted confidant of German revolu does give inter.esting tionists, and. crawling through the Allied sidelights o n those lines by night. was one of the first to re- who create the news. Page 16 WHAT'S ON THE AIR December CHAIN PROGRAMS D ecember MONDAY 1, 8, 16. 22. 29 1 , 8, 15, 22, 29 MONDAY Red symbol. dcnot!on. 6 I ' I" JL """"M Ml 6 1 ' I"HAM a A. & P. Gypsies Orella.tra director. Har'7 Horlick; vou iiSl • • e Roxy's Gang }'rom Roxy Theatre, N. y, 0 1pana ·Troubadoun Ingram Shavers Orchestra dir,,<,lor, S. O. Lanin; vocal trio; ooloioto . x ,. IMIIMI MI •• IE) IO I O ~ OA"" ..." ... E. S. T. 9 to 10 P. M. I 0 'WfJC ..." .. . C. S. T. 8t09P.M. e Minneapolis Honeywell IM I M ~ +~m d~ ".. I Symphony Hour a l ""I H enri Vorbrugghen. condue H~,"a""n tor. x • 10H. m""~ o Bourjois- An Evening in Paris I a a ~!""""",,,. ' . m Style radiogum; orchestra; .. Pierre Brugnon. lenor: Tay· la e l e l€l €I ••~ lor Buckley. baritone. I'W'" E) A. & P. Gypsies Orche~tra diNlcto .., Harry Horlick; vocalisti. €) General Moton Family Party Oreheolra director, FranK Black; ooloioto; male Qu artet. !I O ~O I O I €l€lIW~""m ... @ Maylag Orchestra ...... Tom, Dick and Harry. "oeal trio; Jim",y Both, """ophon' i.t; orelte. na director, Vie· tor Young. Mx X ,a l . ~ e Cbeseborough Real Folks I MIIM €II .OIlA m~.·" •• Sketch 01 small'lown life: nO"elly band. mf nm CBS-DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Organ Reveill •• 8 A. 1I. P opula" 0 10 NJAK ,\Iulie by Fred ~' e ibel. Mornln.lj" D evotions, 8 ;30 A. lIf. Re· 10 , IM611 liK"lou, Sen·iec.. led by New York CI~rlly",en. @ I @ I €l €l =:: : Something tor Every Olle, 9 A. M. M",,"~ }Iu. ic. 1\'ew8, Hymns, Poetry. lalO by Ernest Nan',er. Radio Home·Makers' Club, 10 to X IO !€) M I M I M IVff.WjTc- Noon. Feature P CTio N ~labo r .tc broodc .., i, pl~nned A for the December 1 "edition" of "Bill Schudt·, Going 10 Pres,," 6 1'. M., E. S. T., Over the Columbia nU work. At thi, tim. the program .. ill celebrue itS S(Ccond y." On the ~ir. /lfus;c lovers ~r. guteful for NBC, neW program, "1"0 MUlic.:' helrd uch Sund.y from 12:)0 to 1:)0 P. M.• E. S. T. Cesue Sodero i. direct_ ing Ihne beaadc ..u. h.ving at hi, command • symphony orehes"l, I chorus, le.ding IOloill$ and. dum .. i. can. .. Good harmony ,nd livdy patte. ". hurd on the Un ..al S.ving. Xr•• n.den program., bro.dc.1I on Wed nCld,ys, from 7:15 to 7:JO I'. M., E. S. T., O,·cr a Columbi. network. Thi, radio tum includel the ..ell-kno ... n n.m", of Scrappy lambert, Arty Dunn .nd ~hury luf, bro,h.r of Ann u.f. .. 110m." /hilt" if IN.,,, o.'t' CBS Com", .. "if" F.,tII "~fwo'''-. Ro On October 18. NBC ..,umed full stfll•• "d Vi";." D" Ite"" "ltd COtIIrol and opt.ation of WTAM. Ifr/tn Mor~.1t "Tt oce",io,,~II)' 'O,ODO-"att Cleveland .. "ion. Th. IN ••d M ~lItJt .rlid. 0.·., NBC. p .....nt Ckv(!."d man.gement and lbfb Ku" h ""oci""J with MTJOI",~I of WT AM 'Olltinu•. At the "Mo'"i"~ ilk/Ollitl" ."d "Ruit.l h ••d of WTAM i. John 1'. Roy.l, "f," of NBC. A,hle ROII'Oll i. showm.n of nation.l reputa'ion ....ho ." impor/."f p~rt of tht"Col/itr'$ bec.n,. gene ..1 m.n.get of Ih. 11.,ion R.dio NOli,." f·r.llce, ~"J JII'U in J un., In9. P•• II. "'.~ .It m/rr/.ill'"g vocal alld ;',$1,""",,1.1 NBC lu",. COpt. Frank M. '"Hawkl, ,peed kinje of ,he .ir. i, a .eeenr :acquisition of NBC Whil.... uming hi, n ... radio dUlies. C.pl.in H ..,·k ...ill retain .110 his position .. ith the Teus Companr, .. h... h. i, ,uperin,endent of ,h • • ,·il,ion divi,;"". H ...iII 1O!r.e Ihe .ir at vorying in,ervaJ. 10 t.lk on outstanding .viation .venU. R.dio liSteners who'" have httn he ... .. ing the new program series of NBC, featuring mtn and ",onu:" houllY m.m~rs of leading Eastern colleges for "'o"",n, ",ill "anI 10 folio.. thi, .s",i., 10 it< conclusion. ProffslOr Sh.~I.y. of Radcliff•• i, oche Alox,nd D ~ eemb e ~ CHAIN PROGRAMS D ecember MONDAY 1, 8, 15. 22. 29 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 MONDAY Rcd Iymbols denote NBC; black symbols d enote CB S E. S. T, 10 to 11 P. M. C. S, T. 9 to 10 P. M. o Adventures of Sherlock Holmes W ith Richa rd Gordon. Leigh Lo~ell a nd J oe Bell, nacra· ~" Symphonic Rhythm Makers Director, Hugo ;lol a n ani. Stromberg.Carlson Program Roche.ler civic or cheSlra; director, Gu y Fruer H ar';· W O. @ Empire Builders D ra malic $ke«:h with lIa l" ,'ey H a y • . o Robert Burnl Panatela Program Ouy, Lomhardo', Orchestra ; male Q.uartet. E) Nit·Wit Hour ~' u n for a ll and a ll for fun. €) Adventures of Don Amaizo E . S. T, 11" to 12 P. M. C. S. T. 10 to 11 P. M. o Will Osborne and His Orcnestra Dance m,nie from Ne w York. €) Columbia's Radio Column o Dance Music CD S. €) Dance Music NBC. Dance' Music NBC. Slumber MUlic o Strina: en.emble; director, Lud wIg I,a uTi er . Pepsodent Program o A,nOI 'n' Andy. NBC-DAILY E XCEPT SUNDAY Charlie Hamp- Quaker Early Bir d , 7:S0 A. M., t:. S. T ., on Eu· tern ; 7:30 A. M., C. S. T ., on Midwest. l'hU. COGk_The Qu aker M an. 8 A. M., E. S. T .. 00 EMler"; 8 A. M .. C. S. T .. 0" Mldwu t. Jolly B m a n d J'ane---Chlldre n'. PrG, ram, 7 :4 5 A. M., E. S. T ., O,'\Ir WJ Z, CheerlGJ. 8:80 A. M., E . S. T., o.,.e. W.t; A ~', Ver mDnt L umberjacks, 8:80 A. M., E . S. T., O,'er ~:a",ern; S:30 A. M., O. S. T., Dyer Mid wen. Ra dlD H GtlSehold I n stitute (except Saturday}. 11 :15 A. M., E. S. T _. rhrouJ Il WEAP. NaUDnal F arm and H ome H our, 12 :45 P _ }[ .• 10 _ S. 1'., tllrough WJZ. K EY TO L OCAL P ROGRAMS N News S Sports 0 Ed ucational T D ramatic p Chlldreu's V V u tety foature WCDmlc R Kellg lDu , X On tile ~, MUSI CAL M 1. Band M 6 . P Dpnlar M 2. Clu,leal M 7 Sy mph onic M 3. D ance M 8, Organ M 4. Rellg tDlll M , . Seml·classleal M 6 . Novelty M Variety: WH AT ' S O N 1' II E A IR Page 19 TATION 'IIthorities at KYW, Chi S c~o. are cOll"inced oJ the popular_ ity of Roxy'. Symphony, One Sund.y, dllring the World Series, it was eX pedient for thi, .ration to "CU t " Roxy in f.vor of a Worl d Serits b' S.m Herm.n, NBC ~ylo p hon;,t, play. On thirty·one progr~m' uch week, Living ;n the country hu iu dr.w_ j : ; ; r ) '. ': : ....~ ~ t .~ " ...~...,; ,. ... '.... , 10J • baclu. according to Eli .•OOh l.cnnQx, NBC OJIC'ratic contralto. She 'pend. her .p.. c time seeking maid, who ... ill Jj"e off the buten path at he. coun try .. tUe. Probably hun't yet ..ied NBC TH.OUGH WEAF. the in .. allation of • miniature golf MONDAYS AT 10 P. M. cnunc, Nell Vinick, chrming Columbia Tiu "bOt,~ pbalogr.ph "'~. ,~!tm at llu NBC', Timtl Syltcm buut)' .dvi HER LOCK H O LMES is back with a Succeeding stories have been more amus Sadly enough, it goes down on rte_ ord that • certain "'I\7MAt.Colllmbi. S new thrill to prod the imaginltion of ing and entertaining than chill .producing. announcer, dll ring the international his audience - this time he is free of t he R ichard Gordon, himself a finished actor, is broadc.It, ,uccllmbed to hiccouSh' printed page and docs his work before our regularly cast as "Sherlock Holmes;" the and h~d to surrender the bro.tdcut to Bill Doherty, CBS publicity m.n. Bllt cars, Leigh lovd as Dr, W atson, and J oe veteran actor Leigh Lovel continues his work on • Henry Rurbis: or a Henry-George Bell as narrator, set the scenery, and t hen t he as " Dr. Watson," and Joe Bell is the narra program th.,. ,arne hiccougb. would villain t urns to his crime lnd Holmes to his tor. O t her members of the cast are chosen he ",orth money. detecting; a new story portrayed every Mon from week to week to fit t he peculiar needs ,. day night, of each s[Q ry. The George Washington Cof A"Jy--ti>.en .0 dis letter ah gQt T he o pe ning performance w:u l hum fee advertisi ng (that company is sponsor) is frQm M.d.m Qllccn, AmOl; du dinger. Lucile Wall, Collier's love-story lady, withheld until the listeners have relaxed with W<}m.n is spendin' mah mon~ ~fo' had the star feminine part, \'(fi llilm Gilleu e. the villain f rustrated and the story rounded we', even m .....d_ ''I'm gwine get nuh lister to be mah m.id of hon The ;.",'s.halp i. ;n r.. li ty 1 native ARRY VONZEtt, Columbia Ilroadc.lting System announcer, of [rol.nd, according to Obed "Oad" H ~ho h., become well identified with the "to Palin. Hour" and Pickard, dean of the Pick ..d dan and the "Henry George" program, is t~enty.thr"" years old and w •• NBC exponent of the jew'l·h"p. But born in Indian.polis. Hi, family moved to Californi. when he was it look, like "O~d" wu kicking a child, and he r«eived hi • ..:hooling then. "Ab.... Out after he h.d alrudy At the Uni"euity of Southern Californ;a he was :active in mu· "olen hi> "Rose." "O~d" uy. that l;c.1 .nd dramuic dUM, .nd, at the . uaeotion of hi. ;nstn.&Ctors. Henry Ford .nd him December CHAIN PROGRAMS December TUESDAY 2, 9, 1 6, 23, 3 0 2, 9, 16, 23. 30 TUESDAY Red aymbolB denote NBC; bl..,k symbol. denote CBS E. S. T. 6 to 7 P. M. c. S. T. S to 6 P. M. o Black and Gold Room Orchestra Di~etor, Lud wig Lanrier . o Who's Behind the Name? Biog raphical d'tlcheo. o Railing Junior Domestic ,kit 'Wilh ,\Jine Berry and Peter Dixon. 9 Savannah Liners Orchestra Harold Sanlord. director. €) Literary Digest Topics in Brief Lowell Thomas. o National Security League Broadcut .eriea. E} Concert Orchestra OBS. €) Crockett Mountaineers Hill-billy mUBie. o Tony's Scrapbook P<>etry, humor, philosophy. E. S. T. " 7to8P.M. c. S, T. 6to7P.M. o Political Situation in Was hington To-night Frederic William Wile. o Westchester County Salon Orchestra 9 Wise Shoe Company Program Walt,e.r Winchcll and guest arlioU!. €) Musical Aviators Orcbestra Daoee mU l ie. CD The Early Book Worm Alexa nder " 'oolleoll. €) Air Scoops Elinor Smith. o Laws that Safeguard Society Lawyer. tell you how, o Soconyland Sketches Dramatic talco . CD Pepsodent Program Amo.· ·n' Andy. A Benrus Orchestra Director, Sam Lanin. B Three Mustachios Vocal and inotrumenlal Irio. C Phil Cook, the Quaker M• • One-mao .how. D Adventures of Polly Preston E Bonnie Laddies Vocal Irio. F Billiken Pickards NBC, Chicago. WIlAT 'S ON THE AIR Page 21 NBC ••• D AILY EXCEPT TTESTING to the gre.t popular_ MONDAY AT 6 1'. M. .. / A ity of Mr. Phil blonde, radio an nouncer on Station CKAC, MOntre.l, Can., i, the rna" of correspondence received in WHAT' ON THE Al~ of dlfln3 fice, prot D ecember CHAIN PROGRAMS D ecember TUESDAY 2 , 9, 16 , 23, 30 2, 9, 16, 23 , 30 TUESDAY Bed 8,.mbol" denot e NBC ; bl..:1i: 8,.mbol" denote CBS E. S. T. 8 to 9 P. M, C. S. T. 7 to 8 P. M. o Blackstone Program Mu . ical program wilh Julia Sand e.aon and Frank Crumi!. a Kaltenborn Edits the News €) Premier Salad Dressers O r,h.Olta; Predd ie Ri'h. di",,\or; P remier Cher. len Or and mUler or ceN!rnoniu; I{ ue,t artioto. o Troika Bells Ge nia Fonario,·a. $Oprano; S. Ko'· ~ koff. domr •. 8010iS!; Ralalaika orche.\ra; dire<:· tor. Aluander Kirillotr. E) Snoop and Peep Corned,. detch. €) Florsbeim Frolic Coon·Sanders Oa nee O rches· t ra; male quartet. o Pure Oil Orchestra Wayne Kinl{. conducting; mala quartet. o To Be ADnounced.. E . S. T. 9 to 10 P. M. C. s. T. 8 to 9 P. M. 19 Eveready Program Oreh ••tra direction, NBlh"" . iel Shilkret. o Happy Wonder Bakers b· .... nk LUlher. tenor; male t rio; .inginl{ ..-;(>1;".; o.ellea· tra d ireclion, Frank Black. €) To Be Announced €) Deatb Valley DaYI D ramatic ,kelch with Vir· g inift Oa rdner. Will iam Shel· ler,. J aCk McBride; John " hite. nO"elty voca li.t; Or. ehe.tra. 13 Henry.George Eve nt3 in Ihe live$ Or two n~n .·" nnlinent a l tra veler• • and al80 "Pete" and hi. "r eheotra. o The Philco Sympbony Concert n owa rd Barlow. di~cler . TUESDAY- DAYTIME E lgin Prog.. m, noon, over W Jo::A F and associaln. Old Dutch Olrl, 8 :45 A. M., nver CBS Cha in. Your Child. 11 A. M .. over WF.AF Hnd useda lea. KEY TO LOCAL PROGRAMS N News S Sport. o Educational T Drama.tlc P Childre n's V Variety teature WComlc R Rellglou. X On t he air MUSICAL M 1. Ba nd M 6. P opula r M 2. CI ...IB lcal M 7, Symphonic M 3 . DLDce M 8. Organ M -t, Relig lou. M 9. Se ml·elM . leal M 6. Nove lty M Va.r1et,. WH AT ' S ON T H E Al it Page 23 Musicc.! flvioJorsDc.nceOrchestm. L~w St .. k, of WHAM. is '\lIhority for Ih~ .Ulement thot • Sco,ch s oli cout"" bun Ihe .dmonition: "Pbr~n a,.., ( o rbidd~n to pick up Ion b.lI, be fore the)' nop roJl ins." Ik~dcd dr~"es >T. unpopular with NBC cngin..,cs. The rud. of ,he bud. $Oun ds lik. ",.chine.gun /ire when ,he microphone h.s don. with it. Guy Lomb ..do, Ind•• of the Roy.l C.n.di.", O.ch.str>, w.s evidently bQrn '0 the profession he is following, for the 1t""O "Guy" ", ..n, ". I ~a dcr." T ..... tdephOOH company has • good ClIlIom .. in Bill Mllltd.y, ;u h~ m."· .se' to be home onlr abou, twO nigh .. c,·try ..... k .nd call. hi, wif.... ery night he ;, .w.y from hom.. He "" ·ct. for ,he At!>n .. IOJ"".I wh ~n h~ i, not bro. dc.sting for N IIC. R.)· I'ukins. NBC', "Old Toppe.·· of ,he Shell Oil ~nd ...... r prog .. m•. hs copyrightrd that litle. ~nd mi&h' fin... .. lic.mcJ g;, pi/olS ",glu up Tom T'I'tlJ.lt'. },fu,;c.1 A.,i.lo,. O,clN,/,., wbicb b.oaJu./s ',o~, lIN be uid 10 be of th~ .. Americ.n peer· Avi.lio .. G,i/l ill Iw P~,k C,nlr,,1 Hol.l, Nrw York, .rr,y Mo"J~ ), Tuwl~), ThurlJay .,"/ f'riJ"y al 1 p. m., E. S. 1'.; or' T,,",day lit 7:1j, a!lll 011 hiJ"y "I 6, o,er tb. CrJI .. ",bj" .b"i". Al Mdg>rd. suff orgoni" for \\"18B,\I, Chicogo. bOOrl • 'Hiking rc_ .. mbhnc( to J udge Joseph McC.rlhy, of Chingo. Al was onCe ~king .d· minion to • foo,b.1l same .nd r.il~d to /ind hi ••dmj"ion nrJ. During hi. f •• ntic .., ..ch • policem.n .p. pro.ched .nd .. id, "Howdy. Judge?" and u.hered him into. front.row bOl<. Frederick R. HuMr. diroctor of \\"IBAL, B.!timore·$ nation, on hi, "'. • urn (rom ••cernt Soulh Ame.ic.n trip. uy' tha. r.dio in Soulh "me.",. i. ot low ebb. The udio programs dilp<"nscd there arc either .ecord. or gr.nd Opt" •• bro.doost dir":l fro", ,he o~r •. hou..,. .. AI on A,nty ond Novy Club din. ntr, ~~ ill ie Collie •• the actOI'", rose ' 0 .pe.k .fter • drury hour' culOSY by a /leneral. Coll"'r', enli.e Ipc«h ".J: "l.di.., and sentlen.. m. nOw [ know wh .. ,he)" me.n by ',he .rmy .nd n.V)· forever.''' l>hyor Curley. "of .h. city of 11M· lon, presenled to Ihe famous b.nd rn:ocnro, Ed,..in Franko Goldm.n. a [artt, .·ood~n key 10 .he city. Any [i ncnet 10 Goldman', band Conceru O\'er ,he Nation.1 net"'ork would judge hi. baton '0 be , he key with which he could unlock any ci,y. Hu. ;. lIN /""'0'" SI"",lNr IlI'O"P. now .ppur;"g n ... ,y SunJ.y .wn;"g on K. llogg', SI"",IN, }.j."k prog,.",. A/tho.. gh 0". 0/ /IN mosl lCupl.blt prog,."" 0" lIN .i, /0' ) .... rs, L.,J.dg t.. .. ,ia " .. J hi' t .. ,.",bl• • ,. only nOlll ",.king IlNi, pbolog,.pbic dtbN/. Page 24 WUAT 'S ON T ilE AlB. Decembe r CHAIN PROGRAMS December TUESDAY 2. 9. 16. 23. 30 2, 9, 16, 23. 30 TUESDAY Sed .ymbo]s denote NBC; bla.ck symbols denot(! CBS E. S. T . 10 to 11 P. M. C. S. T. 9 to 10 P. M. o Graybar's-Mr. and Mrs. "Joo alld Vi." a Paramount Publix Radio Playbouse Screen sUlrs as guest "";$to; orchestra. a B. A. Rolfe and His Lucky Strike Orchestra Dance musie. o Westinghouse Salute Symphony orcheatr.; dirac· tor. Zoel Parenteau and T. J. V ••ti ne. NBC, from Pitt.burgb. @ Cuckoo Radio burlesquo. E . S. T. "11 10 12 P. M. C. S. T. 10 to 11 P. M. €) Dance Music CBS. from New York. o Columbia's Radio Column o Dance Music CBS. €) Duke Ellington and Hi, Cotton Club Orchestra NBC. {rom New York. o Vincent Lopez and Hi, Hotel St. Regis Orchestra NBC. hom Now York; d~nce music. e Slumber Music String ensemble; dire~tor, L"dwig La"rier. Q Pepsodent Program Amos 'n' ..Andy . TU£SDAY--DAYTDME Libby Grocer, 10 A. M .• WJZ. Jo.ephinB B. OIbaon--Food Talk. 10:45 A. }'l., Tuesd ay ..nd ~'ri· dar. WJZ •• waz. WIIAM. W(JKY, KDI\.A. KWK WS.\!, WMC... WSB" WAPI. 'WSMB, W&",N. STP WEBO WRVA. wrso. W10D. KTHS: KVOO. WBAP. KPRC. WOAl. K~'AB, WKY, WTMJ. WHAS, WPT1'. O'Cedar TIIDB. HI:3(1 A. M. WAllC, ~i'~1~'u~VE\~~ lV~.A~v \~'IC.~~: WJAS. WLllW. W~'IlL, WKBW. WADC. WHK. WKRC. wowo. WBIBI, KMOX, KOTL KYBO. WISN, wcco, wBdi', WSPD, WOST. WLAO, WDSU, KRI,P. KLRA. K.'H'. KTSA. WXYZ. KTRH. WPG. WBT. KEY TO LOCAL PROGRAMS N New. S Sporh o Educational T Dramatic P ChUdren'. V Variety feature WComle R R el1glou~ X Ou the air MUSICAL M 1. Band M 6, P opuJu M 2. Claulcal M 7. S7mphonlc M 3. Da.uce M 8. 0rg .... M 4. Religious M 9. Semi-d ualcaJ. M 6, Novelty M Va.rlety WII ,\T 'S ox 'I' II E ,\ I n Page 25 ACH membor o( the Cb:uc and E Sanborn Choral Orchestra h .. an outdoor hobby. Jock P ~rlr.er, firu ' enor, i. a nut on yuh. in/;; Frank Luther. $CCond , enor, lov ... hor$ Ch.rlie Ahgn. nlC,'" the .ccordioni•• W9XAO ... ho .nliven. Ih. Vermont Lumber j.cks progu m nch ... «"k-d.y morn_ ing o,'cr .n NBC ne.work, nOl only is • ....orld,.cno... ned ~ccordionin. but he holds a record for radio ap_ p..... nca nch ... «"k . He is hurd .hirty_one .imes over .hc air, in addi tion 10 numero". recording ~nd .. r«"n 'ppea.. nc.", .. Arthur All.n, Phil Lord'. p.nner on ,h. "Uncle Abe .nd D.vid" .. dio ,kc.chel ,ponl{l",d by ,h. B. F. Good rich Rubber Comp. ny, is one of the ( ...... clio ..... to belong 10 Ihe L~mb s ChicIlIO', plotrrt. /,I"'ilio,, b.t)IId,",/i"1 $I11/iO" h., ,uccrtdd in Club. H. bec.me • member during b'OIIdrll,'i", lim, oplirlilly "i.u/ /.on, II ~!rI ",.Icb. SMC"..U the d.ys ... hen h. «ouped up and /,,1 'rrcplio" IU. upo.,~d ., / •• "".y "' fi/ly ",iln. TIN PirtltTc do .... n ,he country in rur.1 p.... lin,i_ .bo,~ .bo.. ·• ,IN "mir,o,·iu.," "'hirh CO",I/>OII", to tIN ."Ji hr 10 .hOK he is hurd in over the bit T.Jio ",k.opbo"" ... ·ith 1/ ,"0""1e I."y bold;"l • G.II'II ..,atrh air. br/orr it. III Iix- .i,ht ;s • Pirt"" 0/ II I,fnilio" Tutker ",ith ,he l,anlmi/l,J i"'''Ie' 0" its lern". Thi.;s IIx firsl lime in 1",";1;0" h;"Q', llul 10 1",,,1/ a" obirrl al lIN dial 0/ a ,.!,,/ch has br,.. ,IIC Don Rod. rigo, '"of Ih. Bl.cknon. cru/lllly "r04dra,l. HI'''''''''. ItOne 0/ Ih, IrI";I;o,, ,xPtri",rnll progum, o,herwi.. S.n.oo O".g.l, w;"l 'o,uf"r/cd ill lb. U"ilrd 5111/'1 10 I~r 1/;'" b0Pt O/I''''a;",d Itudied .0 be a pri"" for two yun mlula;"",.,,1 ,·" Iu, ,,·b ieh won/,{ jU/li/y Ib,' 8,,,,.,,1 publi. ill in .he Chri"i. n BrOlh ... ' s " R ..'io h .. >ttmingly" proven dius_ Hou' (or r.dro 0. Cordob" "heavy" in Columbia'. Don Am.i~o offerings . • On .he luge, before hi. microphone debu" Cordob. u.u,lIy played a .. int_ Iy role. Gent Warner, WTAM continuity ... riter. loot hi, voicc ,he OIhcr d.y, aflef ,,,ccumbing 10 ,he genu,,1 .f fliclion of • "cold:' A tr.mp. finding his .... y in.o .he st.tion, m.de an impa ..ioned pin (or ."ist.nce. W.rne •. uking a .h.. t of p.per, ... ro.e .h= .... ords: " I am do.( and dumb.'" The m.n of the ,1'"U 'Iuick,wincdly carried the p.per ' 0 a MIND OJ livdy 0$ Puck', ha. Aleunder Woollcolt, the £1rly l,",rCtHY, ,nd, rubbing hi ••bdomen, A Book Worm o( ,h. Columbia Bro.dc.ning Sy.tem. Mr . Wool_ ,ilcnlly presonted ,h. meonge. (Ott ... as thc ch.ll.nging d .. m>tic critic o( th. N.w York Timu and Ihe Ne ... York World, .dumbr>!in, d.ily the volu¢ o( cucren. pl~y ., upounding "'theti, numbo .. , dir('(:ling .udicneCJ, Th~n he broke .... ~y from journ.li"ic .h:iCklt~ .nd .pplicd him_ S..,nr--Onc coil.d ronlan.kc and stl( in.tnlivdy '0 .he ... ri.ing o( pi('(:o in n,.ny m.gnin..... nd .he onc N.w Engl.nder in immwi.le ... orking OUt o( book. .ueh •• "The Ench.ntw hI."," "Shouu and forc~round, Murmu.," .nd "Going '0 Pice."." Be ....c,on crowded yun o( ... ril_ Nrw E"gl.ndcr (to O.. in g friend) ing and re.ding. h. (ound time: 10 lec turc al univeniti"" . nd to -Don'. run, Bill; everything', .ll ."t.blish • tr. dition for hscin.ling bre.khsu u hi, new homt, right. 5«, it'. ... agging iu nil .. mc:l "Wi,', £nd." T horoughly famili. r wi,h lhe 8re>( in all lin •• of ac.ivi.y, he dor •• to say wh, h. chon<... 1, i. ,hi. demtn, of ("nkn".. thot m.h. hi, r:iC Y criticism nimuluing, "nl.ruining .nd d.,iroblc. Bec.use of the "iSor of hi. judgm.nl ,<>, ...1 It.. . of .he American "oge owe much of their £Orne '" Mr. Woollcou, d .. mot 'c . nd literH)' cri,i~ p.r .xedlonce. Page 26 WHAT'S ON THE /\IR D ecember CHAIN PROGRAMS December WEDNESDAY 3, 10, 17. 24. 31 3, HI, 17, 24, 31 WEDNESDAY Red .ymbola denote NBC; black ,>, - ~ ,;;;;;;;- symbols de note CBS TmE 6 ,01" 7 '0 " E, S. T, 6to1P.M. C. S, T. 5to6P.M. o Black and Gold Room Orchestra Lud wig Lauri,'r, directo,'. El Uncle Abe and David HUral ijkctch witb Phillip. Lo,'d and ,\,t)o",. Al len. o Raising Junior ])o,,,estie .kit wit h Aline lIeO'ry and Peter Dixon. CD Dance Music For ten minutes, then Talk lIr Jobn B. Ke,,,,edy. €) Gloria Gay's Affairs A Literary Digest Topics in Brief Lowell Thoma!. I N ,el ala i€) o Bill Schudt's Going to A ~rrF Press '''0'" .. Talk by proonillent news· paper "'''''. E) MacDougal Restaurant Orchestra Dance muoie f",.. n New ! '" • m o. ,.. YOl'k. XI X X X I €)~')!,WKRC a .o ..," " €) My Bookhouse Story-time MIM3IM; I M I " o Tony's Scrapbook I 1M: , on Poetry, Jlhilo. ophy and lou· 'nOr. il €) I 0 10 I €) ,,~ I XI XI XI f) X ",AM ""a-, '" E. S. :1'. 1t08P.M. I IM110 'OW,"" C. S. T. 6to1P.M. 0 I il ~X~!IIAIU IW, o Crockett Mountaineers ,. H ill·billy nm,ie. I f) - l'1~0M 1 ~0M I il;~~~~""oo~~ I @ Rhythm Ramblers i iMI r !IIKl om"" M ~at SrIUilotf and hi. or- cheslta. €> Central Savings Serenaders ;;;crappy Lambe,·t. ArI!' Dunn ~"d ~8ury Leaf. o Evangeline Adams A#I,·ologor. €) Eskimo Pie Program A,h·entur•• or Sandy Lil. E) Air Scoops With Llinor Solith. o Science ,\ talk. o Radio Luminaries V(}('al and inslrumental "0' lnist". o Back of the News in Washington William Hard. B Pepsodent Program Amoo 'n' Andy, C The Vikings ~!al . qual1ct. D Phil Cook, the Quaker M.. I ~=+-..t-il N~II X I X X I X , On ~· ,,,a1\ sl,ow. l(l lfl NI NI0I O i ~ k.:"'''0" E The Die-a-DoD IMHMI IM A [l!~' I' '' ' A """'''' Entertainers Women'. qn"rtet. Sax I ~ I el l ( 10 l €i~f@~ri~';;~~",""~'''' Smith and )';8 enaliers. IM IMIMI<> IM -1M7I [ E F The National Surety's 10 140 ~WISN, Secret Cases L.l-"-J IS<.!.-€l --L-.Lt E""IE...!; IWTM I ,,,rm. W HA T ' S O N T H E AIR Page 27 RECENT survey indicztts t h~ t A Rudy Vall~ and hi. Conn«:ticut Y~nk.es, wh.n th.y broadcnt u,h , (fdv~ntur~~ of ~~ndr ~nd T hursday evening ov.r th. Fl,isch III mann Y . ~n Hour, ruch an ~ udiencc T~.n Fc ... : ...... n. D;..... AI- 7.4'i 0 ~ ""''') O.,.''I\~ of ton million potuons. If Rudy ~nd ...... L.-...... , ...... hi. band ... ~nud ' 0 m.tr.e a potnonal . ppotlUnCC !>tfare .hi. ~ud"n c., play in, 10 two thousand people a night, it would nke them more Ihan l ... en lY yurs to do so. Score another one for rad io. Phil Dewey, boriton.'" of th, H.ppy Wonder Bahrs, Ch.~ and Sanborn. and other NBC program., one. JOld Bibles for. living. h i. for Phil to uy ... h"her or not this hOI m~dc: him such a good singer. Mary Hopple, contr.lto of the Enna 1, .. i,1r. M,lodi.. , Armstrong Quake.. and other NBC programs, I.orncd mUlic in 'M public sc hool , of Pcnnlylvania. T hey luch mu.i. there u the three R's or. taught in mos. SUtes. Both Ernie Hart ~nd Billy 10n .. , th. NBC Interwov.n Pair, .djou. n to th. corridor for a f.w puffs on a final cigor" !>tfot. going on tho air. " No 'molt in, is ~rmitted in the NBC ftudioo. T he tooling ,ys.tm, keeping tho ttmpuuure at sc:venty dtgrttl .Il y.ar, ... ouldn't ...nd it, the .ngin •• " .. y. HE Sandy and Lil ski ts are based prin hoydenish Gwendolyn in the Sandy and Lil T cipally on t he activities of little Ulysses, episodes, has a dark, deep secret; she's reall y l"siu Dr>gonette i. already malt in a short time has become radio's bad a sweet little girl off the air. T his came to in , prep.. uion. to repl y to a ddug. who of Christma. cord. from radio fan •. boy. light when she was observed in her home sur Last YUt the NBC Cili.. ~ .... ~, s0- Messrs. Carlton and Manley, writers of roundings hel pi ng mamma with the dishes, prano r«.iv.d almost fifteen thounnd remembrances from list.nerl. the Sandy and Lil radio stories, who are by and doing a very complicated bit of croche t way of being em inent psychologists, say that ing, as wel l as occupying herself with other t he principal reason for our laughter when conventional household tasks. Sandy, Lil or little Ulysses find their way in An interview discloses that Gwendolyn off Ruding th. daily n.... ' dispatch" frorn One of America', foremOllI ne"', t o trouble is :l sort of left-handed sympathy. [he air had no desire to indulge in t he pranks ...eekl"', Jack Brinkley, WTIC an _ Sa ndy and Lil, n you may k now, are very of Gwendolyn on t he lir. H er mother claims nouncet, pronounced this Ii"", "M". Hoover board.d the train, the Pr" i_ frequently in some minor t rouble or other that her radio performlnce obviously :l. llows dc:nt Ittppt"d aboard, and then be fore and it is likely to be some trouble brought on her an outlet fo r whatever excess energy she the new, photog .. pheu kis~d hi .... if, by the irrepressi ble and sometimes misdirect ITI:l.y have, and that when she returns from on the rear platform." ed activities of little Ulysses. the studio she is an ideal young lady for the And, judging from the m~i1 re ceived anent this ~nnoun c ement, you The young lady, who tlkes t he put of t he rest of t he week. un', gCl away with card." g,.mm.,· ~.I "rUclurt on th. udin any mo~ Ih~n you can ,ot ..... y with ;1 on the printed p~ge. INCENT SOREY, ~. fin, Ihow,d luch ~n ovid int""t in d ..... · V ing out mu.ical .on" from the string. of ~ .oy violin that hi. f.th.r g.,t, him ~ re~l violin ~nd tho n«.nary l... on.. H. studi.d All of tho humor tradition.lly ~ •. violin ~ nd pi~no .t Turin Con •• rvatory of /lfu,ic, T urin, Italy, hi. sociat.d with fn tnen i. found in th. b irthpl ~ c.; th.n under the grut Andolfl in Pori• . ",•• kly ,.dio offoring of Clom Dac.y Vin,.nt Sorey, >l ~ youn, m.n, gave conccrt$ in France, Spain and 1·I.,ry Hosford, the new harmony and in Sou,h Am.,ica, apP'oring ... ith sueh hmou. artilll ~ I Gigli, tUm on O'ud., Time, onr the Co Mme. P~~,o and Toscanini. lumb;~ nOl ... ork. Harry, ... ho plays During ,he wor Vincen, and his violin wtrt bvoritts ... ith the the pi1nO, tips the K al., U 21S soldi.,.. Since ~nd prior to entuin, rodio in 192 1, Sor.y h", pound.. Cl. m i. jU!! a littl. fellow pla)'ed en",e"",nU with thi. country', most rtp,",nutiv" m1.&skal of 22 S. or.uniutions. Of hi' South Amcric~n tour Sorty ny., " All the tim. th .. I wn nOt looking at stung. people and strang. dres, I wos playing the violin. I learn.d fol k .ongs .verywh .... " Wh .. he hurd h, nved for others. And thus at. Sorey', pro gnnu, hurd onr CBS, m~d. up of ,h. wo.lr.. h. hOI coll«ttd. Page 28 " ' HA 'l" S ON TTl E AIR December CHAIN PROGRAMS Dlcemb.r WEDNESDAY 3, 10, 17, 2", 31 3, 10, 17, 2 4. " WEDNESDAY Red l :naboia dellote NBC: bl~k l:nab<>ia dellO!.e CBS E . S. T. 8 to 9 P. M, C. S. T. 7 to 8 P, M. o Romany PaUeraa Eme.,. o..,,~b Iud bl. 0 ... ebeotrl. a Literary Digest T opiu in Brief Lowell Tbo",", 19 Burbig'1 Syncopated History Hen.,.. Burbie. Ihe Siroller.. end ?'" B ru.ilotrl o rt be.· ,~. o East of Cairo Dr.m.ti~ .ke t ~h: Orlentsl mOll ie: director, Bvan 'fon Hillberg. a Mobiloil Concert O.che.lu diN!~lor. Na;, . Schilkro!. o The Yeast Foamen Msle quertot; o,che.trl director, IIITT)' Koee n. The Luden Balalaika Orchestra Di,..,.,lOr, A..IeuDder.. Xirlnot!' . E. S. T, 9 to 10 P.M. C. S. T. 8 to 9 P. M. Halsey Stuart Program Cllie-IO Lillie S,.",pbon,. Or· cb ..I,.; director. Oeo.... DI.eb; ID.", . I""D.~ \l.lk. e Palmolive Hour OliT, P l lm.r, IOp ' lno; En.... betb Lenno.l", ""nl.llto; 1' . 111 Oliver. teDor; Ihe Revele", m.l. "nltlet: d lreclOr, 0 01 11- \l.ve Hunchen. e Muriel aDd Vee Instrumental .Dd .... ul duo. (!) To Be Announced o Camel Pleasure Hour Mary "McOOf, oopro"o; Rei n. aid Werre"r.lh .nd 1Il1ly Hughe' , h~riton u; W11I,..d R(>biwn and hi. Deep Ri ver Orcheotra; nay ton and Schutl. 1);lnO duo: n.ele chorul 0 eil hlel!" voku; o",h., I .. dir WEDENBDAY-DAY'f1..ME Mary Hili Martin', HOUMbold Period. 10 A. 1I., Ib1' KEY TO LOCAL PROOB.A.MB N New. S S porta 0 EduClttODILI T D.IUUIUC P Ch!ldren'. V VlrletJ" feature W Comic R Reitgioul X On the ., MUS ICAL M 1. Band M 6. Popular M 2. CI""lolLI M 7. Sympbonlc M 3. D anci M 8.or,aD l!![ ... Reltgloua M 9. SemJ·cl""lca.\ M 5. Novelty M Varlet!' W U A 'r's ON T HE A I H Page 29 • U1i1 R.dio 'nnOuncen hark back to ,h. d.)' when young O.n;el W.bsln (or ..... ir P1t,ick Htnryl) outed to the occup.nu of the cow,hed. MO$l Co· CBS , , • WEDNESDAYS .. T 9 1'. M., E. S. T. lumbi ••nnounce .. . pend at lun an hour a day reading ne ... ,p'pe .. OUt ERE are t he man ( Domenico Sa vino) and loud to tOO r wives or fril:nd.. Ted Hu, ing read. to hi. wife by the hou r; H the girl (Mary Charles) who make La H.rry Vonull deocribn ".d lib"' Palina Smoke Dreams a very real pleasure for ... h~t h. nw .t Ihe n>OvW:s to Crorll' !kuchler, .nd D ... id Ross likes .0 you and us. rcad poe.ry Out loud. And . nocher La Palina's Drea m Girl, Mary Charles, brings cu"om •• k.n OUt of the pOSI i. that of Ted H Ul ing ... hen he turn. in bt· to this new La Palina program a piquant charm fore nine o'clock on .h. eve of one of of voice and personality that autOmatically con hi. lightning foorb.1I desc ription •. trol the radio dials of many thOuSands on Wed_ nesday evenings. Besides native charm and ,l lovely soprano voice, Mi ss Charles exhibits Harry Fronkd, .li.. "Singing S.m," marked ability in her delineations and of WTAM'. Widlar progrom, givn us an .musing page out of an inter ... ing impersonations of such celebrities :1.5 p.st. H ...... a membtr of • v.ude_ Irene Bordoni, Gertrude Lawrence and ville troupe and ,he place -os N ...._ others. canl., Pa. The to... n hall, housin& . he ,how, was ligh ted by g", ..... u Since her debut on a Philadelphia ,h•• ne ient Jterwpticon used by , h. stage at five, Miss C harles has followed pilycrL Harry could not sec the the theatrical profession. Contrary to ... ords 10 Ih1\ under ditty, "Down in ,he Old Cherry Orchard," in ,h. un_ custom, she returns to .her native helth certa,n ]igh r. A I.ntern w. s pro after success ful years on the London stage, where she played in Charlot's Revue cured .nd found un.vailing, .0 H.rry had to eh.nge the numMr for a more and later opened the Splendide Club, Lo.ndon's fashionable after-theatre rendezvous. f.mili .. One. Ltc Barton Evan., no ... Even in New York she was the only American in t he all-English cast of " In ter a ... (II.known opera singer, was .1.0 a ference." Ziegfeld claimed her for his "Show Girl," and last winter she danced lnd m.mbtr of .hi. noupe. sang with the English musical-comedy Har, Jack .. Buchanan. at the C::.sanova Club. New York. while engaged in motion-picture work at the ParamOunt T he ..il .... g"" row;nll on. his day off, Ih. letter...:.rrier "",lkJ during hi< Long Island City studios. holid.y, .nd Ihc bus condu({or gath. It was Paramount-Publi x who introduced M:l.ty erl his family logether for a b\ll rid. Charles as a radio personali ty, and Columbia has on hi. [r« d.ys. And nOw tho John,. M.nville prognm, dedicated 10 the been quick to enlist her as an exclusive artist. firemen of Amnico, is attended by a No small part of the musical success of La Palina luge studio aud ie nce, the m.jority of Smoke Dreams is due to t he conductor-composer, these being rul ".moke·ea,eu" ... hose day off falls on • Sat\lrday. Domenico Savino, who came to America soon after being awarded the title of master of composi fion at the Naptes Conservatory of Music. Uly.~, young irritant in tho F... Under the 11011 de plume of Onins, he has kimo Pie prognm. on ,he CoIumbi. written " Indianola," "Arabian Nights" and network, i. g.ining favor ... ith m.ny ... ho "c, nev.rthclcu, uti.fied thot he "Burning Sands." Savi no, like en ...... their homes only through tho Mi ss C harles, comes to Colum n dio. He wa, called upon 10 have bia f rOm the Paramount studios. hi< pictu« ..ken wi.h S.ndy .nd lil. And, thank. ' 0 UlysSCI, the el mer. · where he was chid COmpose r. m.n m.de ",nn .!temp .. 01 i{ before he was .ble to ".hoot" Ih. liule trouble·maker. EN YON CONGDON ....s born in Cleveland, 0., in ]aH. K When he ..... fi"e hi. hmily moved 10 Ne ... York. A .plen "Tiny" lkrm.n, despite his nick did "oice and • 10"e of mu.ic ... a. early manifest. bu. thc.e wos name. il one of the biggest mu.i· paren ..1 opposi,ion '0 a .uge ".«.. So Kenyon studied meul ci.n. in ..diodom. " Tiny";s baSi IU'IIY n y.lc, Inc. associoting him~1f wi,h !klhlehem SI«I. viol player of Ihe WTIC d.ne. 1I.1f. He soughl respile f.om ,hi, monocony by drivinll .mbul.nc" H. we,gh, 270 pounds .nd .tand•• ilt for Fr.nce in "16; then ;ained ,he: Amc.iun forces in tnt ",i .. ion f«1 ,ilt .nd • h.lf inches in hoillht. _tion of ,he army. NOlhing di December CHAIN PROGRAMS December WEDNESDAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 3, 10, 1 7, 24, " WEDNESDAY Red symbol. denote NBC; black symbol. d enote CBS E . S. '1'. 10 to 11 P. M. C. S. T. 9 to 10 P. M. o Detroit Symphony Orchestra Except December 3 a nd Dc, cember 10. on which dates "Caribbean •. " Spanish .,I' dl~ . !r a , will be hea rd in opecial program, o Palmolive Hour See preceding schedule for descrIption. e Cocoa Cola Program Sport! interview by Orant· land Rice; Itring orcbe. tra; direclOr, Leonard J OY. o Camel Pleasure Hour See preceding o.heduie p age for descrlption. o Wayside Inn Vocal loloi ots; the clloristero; director, Oe.. orge D ilworth . E. S. '1'. 11 to 12 P.M. C. S. T. 10 to 11 P. M. €) Vincent Lopez and St. Regis Orchestra Dance IIlusic froIll New York. o Jack Albin and His Hotel Pennsylvania Orchestra Dance mueic from New York. o Slumber Music String en semble; director. Ludwig La urier. @ Pepsodent Program Amos 'n' Andy. €) Will Osborne and His Orchestra D ance mUBic from New York. o Columbia's Radio Column o California Melodies Orel,e_us di rection by Ray· mond Paige: guest staro. SchOOl of the Air. 2:30 P _ M.. E. S. T. Monda y- American hi.· tory dramatizatio". , alte rnate iy for flUh snd oi::rth gUde. and high "chool. Tue. day Music appreciation for Junior and SeDlor higb a'Choot Wed n u day-Literature dramatiu.. tions altunat~ly for ftfth a nd o;xth grade. and hi g- h ae hool. Thu.. day-----Story.tellin ~ and mu. le appreelMion for the firat, second a nd third /:rade • . Friday- Current event., fifo t een minute. for filth and sixth !!,r&des and vocational information, fift ~n minutes for eleventh and twelfth grade". KEY TO LOCAL PROGRAMS N News S Sport. o Eduu tlonal T Dram.. Uc P Children'. V Variety fu.tnre WComlc R R eliglou. X On the alr MU SICAL M 1. Ban.d M 6, Popular M 2. Cl ... lcal M 7. Symphonic 14 3. Dance M 8. Or gan M 4, Religions I'd 9 . Seml_cla.s.lcal I'd (;. Novelty M Vanety \ V H AT ' S ON TilE A I R P age 31 ETTl'..RS of comn'N'nd.,ion," says L 'IIL'il!i.", S. P.I.)·. prr5id .... of the Columbia Br01dca .. ing Sptem. "5im. ply pour in .ince Ihe Columbi~ n.'_ work ....'cd in bro..dcast of ,he Ph il. h •• monic Symphony and the 1.1i"no_ . poli. Symphony Orch.su.. and .he .. lk. by din inl>uished speaker' over_ seu." "Muy. Uur. quilt co",rory," is ~;ng . pplit-d '0 M.ry aurl." C0- CKNC Iuf " ."mot~-ro" l rol st.dio '0- lumbia A .. i.. ·• Bureau ..,., ..no. Min ..."a i,. • •d,.do", 0" 0'" 0/ TorOll'O', Charles :K.ually bre'k. mirrors for ",,,i,, bll,in.U ,'r«I•. luck! ,inu .h•• ccidcnully broke on' ond .tn minu,es lo,.r wu signing a mOSt prom;.;ng COOtract. W ABC continuity ICr;bes must kno,,· ,heir , .. ff .nnouncer< "(rom A !n Z,·· a' it hOJ now hocon,. put of ,h.ir conrcrn '0 f"hion the script '0 6 •• he .nnouncer-r.lher th.n I., d,• • nnouncer h,,'c ~ fit o\·u the script. ".~ BURTON TILL hIlS ",,,,,'ira orr/Nsl,.1 / ..111' •• o.a eFeA The young I.diu who make up ""et Ib,,1 1I~/ion'J i"c~,,'ioll ill Columbia', "Sing Somtthing Simple" I9U. .rio ... putting thtir lumwork ;nlo good ult. When one of th.n, find, ,\IALDWYN BRAZ£tL is " ,h. con nO' budge the he,,'y doo .. of I,,,dill/( To,o"to I."or, Ixurd /,r_ WAlles !ludios, .h. oth~ .. or. ulied lilmlill on. CFR/j. .nd .h. ,hr« of ,hem ",.n.ge to opcn the ponderou, port.ls. GORDON CALDER is Ilx .h'g_ ;n", """0""""; RU/'ER7' I.UCAS is " Jr.",alie ,la" "lid ERNEST BUS HNELL h b.s; A fo~l' stun. ",'a. pulled by • Fiflh ,1(1f m.,."g~, 0/ CKRB. M,. A,·.nue branch of the L J. Fo~ Fur n.sh"rll .""01",.. ,, IIx e ..."Ji." Tupper.... ho bro.d"$' ow' \VAlIe E.n.. J)· Ho.... They h.d • "'indo"" dispI1)· fu,u.ing Ii,'. ,ih-u fo,,", who did nO. "Iigh. a Murad," bu, were nonch,"n, hoiore ,he mike, Th. N . .... l Research l1hor1l0ry ;, «)Olductin, somc ex.codingly in'crcst in, experiment> will. .,dio hiSh frc_ 'Juc".i",. T he prescn' purpolC is 10 di,co,·c r ",he,h.r eXpOSure 10 frcquon ciC$ in Ihe 'egion of 60,000 kiloqd.. i. h ..mful '0 , h. hum.n ,y"em. Alrudy "'perimen .. h ..·• pro ...d it il pouibtc '0 f<>cu •• he electric.1 601d on ~ gi"en ,poe_o boil eggs in,id •• j .. ER.NEST DA/NT)", ~ ",h",,1 C",."Ji"" o'gu ... i.hout hu.ing the j .., for n.n,ple. isl, pi."ist ""J (onJ .. ,/o., is IN.,J 0 ..... CKCL. In txp"rim "le,', get $Ome more ptpptr into ANTOS ORTEGA onCe d.,ormi".d ,0 ch.",';. hi, ".me en'irely ,I,il" i•• he favori •• exho .... ion of S '0 $Ome,h ing simpl •• nd d.6ni,o; h. ch.ng.d hi. mind instud, Bob Burdette .. ho pUts the \\?l.W luving .1.. nam< intoc.. And .hi. h'PP"ned .very .im. ,h., h. .udiencc through in ... 11' morning tried to Itl«:t ~ n.m< ,h .. ""OIJld ~ o>ly for P«'ple '0 rttol>nize .nd nerci".". Son'N' linener .ook him It renw:n,ho r, Nor ean S.ntos he bl>med for hi. inlkei,ion. ri"""y .nd $tnl him , qu ... un of In .he 6nt ploc •• hi. n.me reprnt"" hi. picturesque p ..enug •. block P"Pptr. With:> litde ox." ,ime Hi. ( •• h •• w ••• full-blooded Sp.ni ..d, rol'lod '0 ,he dromoti." on hi, h.nd. and Itv... 1 ",'il1i.ng con Lopt D ecember CHAIN PROGRAMS December THURSDAY 4, 11, 18, 25 4, 11, 18, 25 THURSDAY Red aymbob d enote NBC: blacll: symbols donote CBS E, S. T. 6 to 7 P. M. C. S. T. S to 6 P. M. o Black and Gold Room Orcbestra Director, I. E . S. T. 7 to 8 P. M. C. S. T. 6to7P.M. o A. S. Beck Bfevities o Fro.Joy Novelty Dance Program 9 Ward's Tip Top Club Il ra dford Browne a nd Al Llewelyn; Cookies OrCI,eSU3; mixed quartet. €) Midweek Federation Hymn Sing l>(i~ed quart e t: Geor;e Vau.e, accompanist. o Niagara.Hudson Program Dramatic sketch: orelle&t'·s director. William Merrigan Daly. €) Pepsodent Program Amo. 'n' Andy. CD Tastyeast Jesters Malo trio : mandolula aeco,n· paniment; storie. in SwediSh dial«t. A Phil Cook, the Quaker M •• One·man show. B Friendly Five Footnotes O rehe.lra director. Del Lampe. KEY TO L OCAL PROGRAMS N Ne.... s S Sporta o Educa tional T Dramatic P ChUdreo's V Variety fe"ture W Comic R Religloua X On tbe &ir MUSICAL M 1. B and M 6. Popular M 2. CIIUI . lea.!. !II 7 . Symphonic M 3. D ance 14 8. Organ M 4. ReUg loua M 9. Semi-cl.... leal M 5. Novelty !II Variety \VHA T'S ON THE AIR P age 33 HETHER ottribuuble to arti,. W tic temperoment Or not, ne.rly ."ery One of Columbi.', b.nd .nd or ,h.St .. le.ders .dmit of • ~t .venion for 'O m ~ composition. Freddie Rich won't h.ve hi, men pl.y either "The Rosary" or Tosti', "Good·by," if he c.n .void it. Co lumbi.', progrom department once n.med "The Rosary" for Rich'. B.I· bd Hour; • conductorle", orch.. u. play~d the piece, while Rich .at with head bowed and his h.nd, over hi, CBS, 7 r, M" ON THURSDAYS ear,. ERHAPS more than any weekly radio offer With N.t Bru'iloif it', Suppe'. "Light C. v.lry." "Th~ boy, say it', P ing, the A, S, Beck Brevities brings to us the • jin~, and thot', my r ..,on for never pl.ying it," .nd he .dds philosophic· humor, the music, the very spirit of Broadway, ally, "Iif.', difticult enough without Willie and Eugene H oward have for many inviting b.d luck." :years been the idols of comedy-loving New York~ "I<.' y di,utrous number" i, Em.ry Deutsch', Comm~nt On "Ye Who ers. A, S, Beck Brevities offers the Howard H.ve Yearned Alone." brothers their first regular radio vehicle; hitherto Claude MacArthur finds tOO much Willie's dialect and their comedy and songs have misery depicted in "The Volg. Bo .. · m.n" to ever de, ire to pl.y it. been confined to one-time broadcasts. No brik, however .lluring, can Howard Lanin's Orche stra persu.de the Crockett Mountoin..,n makes an outstanding contribution to pl.y "Sweet Alice Ben Bolt," Mark WlI'now hOI on .version to to this program, reco iling the w.nime period, .nd says Audrey Marsh, soprano on Co "O"er There" i, hi, hoodoo number. Vincent Sorey reluctantly .. "e' I, d lumbia's artists' staff, thot his in.dequ.cy to cope witl. was guest soloist on a Schukrt', "$eren.de" lie, in a f .._ recent performance of 'W'l' ...ne in h.ly; he he ..d thi, number the night he p.rted from his this typica l Broadway 6. nc..,. program. Both Bill Munday .nd Gnhom Mc_ Namee. the NBC footb.1I . nnouncen, ..e left-handed. Another ch.ucter i"ic they ,h ..e i. tho< hoth formerly were b.,eb.ll pitchers. McNamee played sem i_pro b.1I ",ound St. r.ul. Minn., while Mund.l' hurled for v.ri_ nU' tum, in the Piedmont, S.lIy . nd other Southern minor le.gu($. How time flie,! Rudy Vall~ .1_ W' ys oign.1. hi, orchestra with his left h.nd, when broade.sting, thot the NBC crOOner i, .bout to ,ing. We C.11 remember when. m.n beg.n to de .. hi, thro1t it w;iS the ,ign.1 h. wos .bout to 'ing. B.by Rose I<.1or ie, the si,,·y... ·old. Sf .. who thrill. d NBC listeners with her repertory of 12~ song. 10 .. win ter, pl.ns ~n ur1y return to the mi · crophone, if ,h. con conclude the v.udcville eng.gement that beg.n last 'ummer .nd h.1 uken her into all the principal tOwn S of the South and ROM Honolulu to Puis is • long trek, and though the colorful Southwest, F c ..~r of N.tion.I', .ce .nnouncer, Kelvin Kirkwood Keech, hu taken him to m.ny for cities, thtough .11 the vicissitudes of hi, life h;iS rem.ined the influence of his e.r1y .,wei.tions, An}' boy who will write to U nde He wa, horr> in Honolulu; m.stered the ukulele under n.tive in Don, 0< WOR. the Newark station, Structors; gr.duated from the high .chools there and then under on the subject "Why I Should H.ve took a degree in chemic.l engineering, th. Dog Unde Don Is Giving Aw. y," A y.ot in \'.ude\'ille, ploying the ukulele .nd singin g, preceded has • chone. to become it, owner hi, entry into the World War as • member of • rodio company at (the dog's, of cours.) , os Uncle Don, n ched 10 the Army Signal Corps. colhboro D ecembe r CHAIN PROGRAMS Uecember THURSDAY 4, 11, 18, 26 4, 11, 18, 26 THURSDAY ROd 5ymbo,," denote NBC; black aymbol9 denote CBS E . S. T. 8 to 9 P. M. C. S. T. 7 to 8 P. M. o Voice of Columbia I,igltt classical p rogram; Claud e Mac Arlhur. d i~c\o r. E) Literary Digesl T opic:s in Brief Lowell Thomas. €l KaltenborD Edit. the News o The Hamilton Watchman o Fleilchmann Hour Rudy Vallee and hi. orches· tra. e B. A. Rolfe and His Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra E. S. T. '"9 to 10 P. M. C. S. T. St09P.M. o Arco Birthday Party Male . e"tet ·L "tring en""mble ; direction. udwig Wilder ; . imulate THURSDAY- DAYTIME Brazilian-American Program. 5 1'. ~L 0" 6r W.l l,. II' t;N R, WHAM wnz. K D KA. \\' LW. K W K. \\'REN, K ~'AB. O'Cedar Time. 10:15 A. M .. o,'er WJ Z. WBZ. WHAM, KDIU. WJR, W I,W. WIU; N. WEBC. WRVA. WP'l'P. WJ AX. WlOO, WPLA, K.'KX. WT~ !J, K WK, WSB. WJDX. WSMB. KVOO, KPRC, W K Y, WS}I . WMC. WAPI . ChatB wltll P eggy Winthrop. 8:15 A. M .. Thur sday, ~'rid~' ond Somrda y, OHr WJZ. WBZ, KDKA. VlIAU, K EY TO LOCAL PROGRAMS N New. S Sports o Educa tional T Dram&tie P Chlldren'$ V V&rlety futuro W Ccrmlc R Religious X On the air MUSICAL M 1 . Band M 6. Popular M 2. C1&5$lcal M 7. SYmphonIe M 3. Dance M 8. Organ M 4, Relig ion. M , . SemJ,cl&ulcai " 6, Novelty M Variety WHAT 'S ON TilE AIR Page 35 J. a.yton Randall, phnt ensin.,.,r of Station WTlC of Hartford, i, of ,en c.!led upon to tinker .... i.h his fr~nd ,' radio seu. "Somuhing', the mUter ... ith my ..dio $("t," one of hi. friends tcle. phoned him one evenin8; "I can't got .nything on it uce!>t IOp .. "05." s.m HU man, "ylophoni'" ...... ho is plans were discussed early are the Quaker identified ... ith TUany NBC prog ram •• Man broadcasts. Phil Cook is sure lO have a h ..n·t time to t ...... e • vacation, but he Christmas feast for " Puffy," his talking doll. h .. many intcrestinll diversions. He i. credited .... ith 150 hOllrs of Ayin,;. Dr, S. Parkes Cadman will deliver a Christ is • devot.,., of motor-boating. ~nd re_ mas sermon in the late afternoon hours, cently pllrch ..ed • ,hort_wave radio while the Morning Devotions and t he Mid Set. week Fedention Hymn Sing will aid in .. pointing the religious significance of the dlY. AJpirin,; young ooectiv" nO longer For the children, Jolly Bill and J ane arc pore OVCT an "innruction book," but tunc in on Wedn~ . d~Y I to the NBC', planning a special program in their morni ng "National SlIrety', &<:ru Casu" which Cream of Wheat broadcast, while T he Lady weekly arc being divulsed by Dcttc NeX[ Door, in the pcrson of Miss Madge ,ive Harkn... , the National Surety Comp.ny·s crack investillator. Tucker, will have In 19reeable su rprise for those who join .her program bte in the If .. ternoon. - -? Joe' Lath.m. who i. "81. ck Brew JoIJyJ),IIQ3reinke.s '<3oo,.81.u" Even if Amos 'n' Andy do find themselves otcr" in NBC's thriller, "Big Glln.," unable co pay the rent or buy an appropriate h .. played in stock . nd v~udeville in every State in the Union, .nociating meal, they arc sure to discuss the Christmas hi. work .... ith such "big shou" .. ADIO'S plans for the 1930 Christmas "Sichlshion" in their own fashion. And Denn;, Kinll, W.l t. r H.mpden, R celebration program se ries have been whether or not they figure yeast will play an GfllrS< Jessel and Oti. Skinner. in the process of development for several important part, Rudy Vallee and Graham months. And jf the families who sit in hont McNamee will pay proper attention to t he of their speakers Thursday, December 2S, do spiritS of the day in the Fleisc hmann broad Murray Kellner'" beg.n directin,; an orch."ra in the Flatbu. h Thulrr in not find what they want in t he eighteen-hour cast. Brooklyn at the :o,ge of . ixtcen. He broadcast schedule of the National Broad T wo programs sure to offer the Tul home now conducts ,h•• plendid Mnwell HOllsc Oreh",,,. on ill w","kly NBC casting Company that day, it will be because like Christmu feeling are the Vermont lum program• . they arc not looking for Yuletide programs. berjacks and the National Farm and H ome .. Since the history-making C hristmas Day H our. The former may be counted on to No danger of conflliion in that broadcast of 1929, when America, England, let the listener in on a rul New England sn.ppy au ..,.tion directed by Larry Holland and Germany were linked in one C hristmas, while the latter program, coming Funk, NBC'. "B.nd of a Thollnnd huge broadcast, the program builders hlve in the middle of the dlY, will depict the ru Mdodicf." Often an entire program i. memorized by every mu,ici.n, ob_ realized that they must have something big. ral ide:! of a holiday dinner at that hour. viating the need of orchestrated mil- In addition to t hese special broadcasts, the Billy Jones :!nd Ernie H are, the I nter sic. regularly scheduled programs will offer plen woven Pair, nOt being on the air Christmas .. ty in keeping with the Yule spirit, NBC olfi Day, will spend it at home, but arc sure to YOllnrit"--BilI, if yOllr hther could cills say. "dish up t he hash" when they broadc.ut the saYe a dollar a ....,., k for foor w.,.,ks. what ... ould he then havc~ Among the prognms for which Christmas following night. BiII- A radio. a ncw su it, a refrig .rator .nd a SCt of furniture. HE JI"nd"r, dyn.mic c(lO'lductor of ,he Spo CHAIN PROGRAMS De<:ember THURSDAY '. 11, n, 25 THURSDAY lUd ' rmboll d enal. NBC; black Iymbal. delloU! CBS E . S. T. 10 to 11 P. M, C. S. T . 9t010P. M, o RCA Hour Concert orctle'ttl: di rector, Na th n iel Shilkrut. a Victor Herbert Opera Series o The Lutheran Hour Dr. WIlier A. Mliu; Ill'gfI cboir I nd or,loill. a CBS Feature .. E. S. T. 11 to 12 P. M. C. S. T . 10 to 11 P. M. €) Will O. borne and Hi. Orchestra nan« mll,le from New York. o Columbia'. Radio Column o Dance Mu. ic CBS. @ Dance Mu.ic NBC. €) Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra Olnce IUlll le from New York. o Slumber Mu.ic Strin~ eO",lIIble; director, Lud ... " 1"lIrier. o Pep. odent Program Am ... 'n' And)" ,. THVR8DAY_ DAYTJlIUl Our Dilly F ood, 8 :45 A. l!., o.-er WJ7., wal'" WBZA, WHAt., KDKA, WJR.. WJ'\ I!, WTAG, WCSII, Wfh; , WGr, WGR. WCAE, WTAM, WWJ, WSAI. KSD, WOC, wno. WL\\', WDAP, OKOW. WTMJ, WERC, WRVA, \\'1'1'1', WJAX. WIOD, WFLA, WS US, W HAS, \\·SM. Wlle. WSB, WAI'I . ws~m, WJDX. KVOO, WRAP, Kl'RC, WOAI, WKY. Ceruol . Progum_Dr. ROY' l S. Copellnd. 10 A. ~L. O,-er W ~:A ~', WJAn. WTAG, WCSIl, W~'I, WRC, \\'OR, ,roy WCAE, W\\'J, WSA I, KY\\', KSTI', W!lVA. Tbe Toddy P .... tY. 5:S0 P. M., o,'cr W ):AP, W);); I, WJAR, WTAG. wcsn, WLlT, WRC, WOY , W(lR. WCAF!; WSAJ , KYW, CKOW, WTIl'. KEY TO LOCAL PROGRAMS N New. S SpOrta o Edueatlon-.I T D rlmltlc p CbUdren'. v V.rlety fe.ture W Comlt R Rellglou! X On tbe air MUSICAL M I , Band M 6, p opul .... M 2. Clu.lci l M 7.8J'mpbonlc M 3 , Dance M S. Or'ln M of. Rel1l loll' M 9. Seml·clu.lcll M 5, Nayelty M V&rtetJ' WHAT 'S ON THE A I H Page 37 (hicC\Qo DecominQ ~dio (entel' !'oj 6 C Plans to Move E:nth'e Blue NetwOI'k to I t's !'It/ ew ~ad I 0 Center In Chica40 N ext Yea.' By JOSE PH ATOR ITH the opening of the National space taken up by this, which is so pecu· pickcd up for broadcasting whcnever that W Broadcasting Company's $3,000,· liarly a "cas tle in the air." proccss becomes feasible as a chain propo 000 studio plant at Chicago. that city This great radio chain has taken a t ip sition. makes a se rious bid for the title of t he from the movie palaces and has uniformed There arc six studios, four of them country's princiPll radio center. boys at the service of visitors. Further. two·story structures, and all "floated" in To make full usc of its Chicago phnt, there are young bdies, college graduates, sound.proof materials. Of these thcre is the largest in the world, the NBC is pre who are hostesses and charm all guests by one like nothing so much as a cozy En pared to transfer to Chicago, early neXt their intelligence, grace and beauty. glish library. In this rcstful atmosphcre yu rt III of the programs of itS blue net t he civic leader, distinguished scientist or ""ork previously broadclst from New THE LAST WORD IN STUDIO ApPOINT. football sur, making his first radio talk, York. When that is lccomplished. that "lENT will find a comforting influence. chlin alone will be sending out of the city Enteri ng the largest of the six studios, Few visitors are allowed in the studios lpproximltely 17S programs weekly. onc is conscious thH this is really a full during a broadcast, but there is am ple Since the NBC plyS well over $1,000,- si zcd and fully equipped thcatre. Strange provision fo r onlookers in the upper story 000 yearly in wire tolls, shipping its art ly cnough, an outdoor theatre indoors; of cach of thc four studios, which is a ists from the Elstern seaboard to Chicago fo r it is ligh ted by a ncw lighting that gallery construction, with triple glass to may well save it a tidy sum in such tolls diffuses the ultra·violet u y. It would be look through, down ontO the cntcrtainers. through the central location of the ne;v easy to acquire a sun un by spending NERVE CENTER OF BLUE NETWORK. plant. much t!me in this studio. No small part There is a natural curiosity to know of thc equipment of this "theatre studio" But to this writer the most interesting just what $3,000,000 can produce in the is the massive pip<: -organ, concealcd be· t hing of all about this great radio pbnt is way of studios and technical departments. hind a grille; another notable install ation behind the sce nes. It is the mastcr con· In Nltional's Chicago headquarters this is the fan·shaped stage, large enough to trol-room-again one may use the phrase great expenditure is eas il y reflected in accommodate a full-sized orchestra. "biggest in the world"- from which the these Ia.rgest studios in the world, located N BC is awake to the possibilitics of tele· programs of the chain are relayed out to On tOp the world's biggest building, Chi vision, although its exccutives admit that somc forty broadcasting stations between cago's new Me rchandise Mart. they don't know just yct what course of the Appabchians and the Rockies. development this latest fonn of radio Most unusual is the decoution of the "WELCOME" THE P ASSWORD science is to follow. There is a television great mastcr control.room, which is done Visitors are given an excellent oppor· scrccn in thc big studio, wherc programs in black and flashing chromium-a per tunity here to survey and to learn. "Sur may be shown to sevenl hundred specta fect modcrnistic setting for the ncrvc vey" is peculiarly fitting, considering t he tors, and a booth from which television center of the most modern of entertain· sixty-six thousa nd square feet of floor programs enacted upon the stage may be ments. Page 38 WHAT 'S ON T lJ E AIU December CHAIN PROGRAMS Dece mber FRIDAY 6, 12, III, 26 5, 12, 1 9, 11 6 FRIDAY Red s,..,bola d euot. NBO; blaelt .,..,bola d enote CBS E. S. T. 6 10 7 P. M. C. S. T . 5 10 6 P. M. o Musical Avialon Orchestra Da n"" mill ie. a MacDougal Restaurant Orchestra Dan"" mU l ic. €) T ODY'S Scrapbook H umor, poet.,., plll1o.opb,.. €) Bookhouse Stofy.time o "The World in Mu. ic" Pier", Key. a Black and Gold Room Orchestra Director. Ludwig {'Iurier. €) Uncle Abe and David Rai.ing Junior Dome~Iic ,kit br Aline Ber r), a"d Peler DIxon. Dance Mu.ic N"BC. Ne'" York . Literary Digest Topic. in Brief Lowell Thom.. ... D. S. T. 7 to 8 P. M. C. S. T. 6 to 7 P. M. o Spotlights in Drama and Literature ~[ontroq J. MOH •. College Memories Male IIuarlel. Old Company', Program American , In,en qU lncl. A The Pep,odent Program Amo. 'n' Andy. B To Be Announced C Phil Cook, the Quaker Man Oue·man . bow. D Brownbilt Footlights .Male .. ocal trio; o...,IIutra diI" KEY TO LOCAL PROG RAM S N S Sport. o T Dr .. m ..Uc P V Vlrlet,. W Comlc R X On tbe air MUS I CAL 14 1. B a.nd 14 6. P oplll ar 14 2 . ClUllcal 14 7. S,.mphOnlc 14 3. Da.nee 14 1. 0 rt... 14 t . R ell,loll. M 9. Seml·du. ltal 14 &. Novelty 14 _ Va.r!ety WHA T'S ON T U E AIR Page 39 AROLD BEAN, popular lyric H tenor ,,,d announeu of the o.i c,",o .. ation KYW. admits having lone to the Univu. ity of llIinoi. l or the purpose 01 >!udying mathem.ticl and c~dl. Then he wal aw.rded a bachelor'. degree in Kiene •• which, he poinu OUt, probably aCCOunU for the het 11.0< I.e', nOt m.rried. After a , hort c.recr •• an accountant he c.me 10 the important deci.ion thOl lin gi"s RADIO HOME-MAKERS numbe ... w.s e ..ic r thIn Idding them up. I'h rold uy. th .. hit.ge i. t ...enty_ D ... II_v P.ICIl1'T SUNO ... Y ... NO S ... TUI.O ...V, I;I. and he prefe .. his c;&"e Decelllber CHAIN PROGRAMS Decembef FRIDAY 6, 12, 19, 26 6. 12. 19, 26 FRIDAY Red 'TJD,bol, de note NBC; black Iymbols d lnote CBS E . S. T. 8t09P. M. C. S. T . 7 to 8 P. M. o Cities Ser.ice Concert Orchestra J)ir~(O. n o'arlo Bourdon; J elll.1 br.conette• ...,prln Q; the CI~.lie . .. mIle q u.rte! ; Leo O'Rou. ke. tellor; J ohn SeaCle, baritone. o Nestle', Program O~bM l ra d lreclo" Nat. Brg. lilolr; .....I t .rtb~. o Le Trio Morgan F rance., .10I In111; yarjfue.... il~. pl.nilt; Vircini., h.rp l. t. (!) Natural Bridge Review ~r.l. t.10; or~ h ut •• dir ~· tor, Lewl. Graerne. o Grand Opera Miniatures E"'.lrptl f rom ope... with Adele V"" ...pr.uo; ~ ..... bar. M.u,..,L contralto; Theo. Ka rle, t.nor; Kell1011 COliC' dou, barlton •• a Literary Diged Topics in Brief Lowell Thom... 6 Weed Tire Cbain Program I neidenu In h illo.y of . uto mobllOl; Hurlet I... e. eoo· t •• llo; WIIlI.m n.ln, tenor. E . S, T. "9tolOP.M, C. S. T. 8to9P.M. o True Story Hour D ram.ti.ed 1I0rlel of ,..,.1 Ufe. a CHequot Club E. kimos -<.On:hetlra director. na •..,. €) Del Lampe', ~Yen harp Orchestra 9 Interwoven Pair Billy Jon ... nd E.nie H. r e ; o...,hut... d irecto., Will C. Per..,.. €) Armour Program Mixed ehoru .. ' ....e nt,. ~oiefll; orehnlta dINelo.. J oaef KlIelIlner. .. FRJ1)AY- DAYTlM£ Mllilc AP,nd.t1OI1 H our . 11 A. M .• \\ .ltef lJam. oleh ill ··M,,· lieal Univenity of tlle Air." WJZ. W~:A.· . WEt:!. WJAR. WTAG. WCSH, WLIT. WRC. WOy.... WOR. WOAE. WTA~I . WWJ. W SAT WON, KYW, W f:NR. WIIJO. KSD. woe, WHO, WOW. W[)AF. CK(lW. WT ~IJ. KSTP. WEBC. WR VA. WPTF. WJAX. WIOD, W~'LA. WSUN. WHA S. WSM, W)iC. W S B. WAP I. WJ DX, WSMB. KVOO. WI'AA, KI'RO. WKY. WOAt , KOA. KSL, WII Z WBZA. W BAL, WIIAM. K o kA. WJR. WL\\!. KWK. WItES. K)'AB. KE Y TO LOCAL P ROGRAM S N Newl S Sport, o Edue.tlonal T DTlII\atlc P Children'. V Vlrlety feature WComlc R Relliiou. X On tho alT MUSICAL M 1. Rind M G. FopullU" M 2. m udCIl M 1. B.,.mpbonic M 3 . Dill"" M 8.0TI'" M .... Rallclou• !of 9. Be mi·cluaicll .M: 5. No".I~.,. M Va.t1et.,. \V HAT'S 0;0.. T H E A IIl Page 41 T'S too bad .hot Will Rogers I doesn't go in for fight bro.dcam. Only his geniw could properly de· rcribe the antics of King L... in,kr, the uncouth, but po""erful. heny. wciSht ""ho ;. the sUr ottrxtion It . ~ the Sudium right no... T h. Kin, is undoubtedly bo,.inS'. dumbest and By JOSEPH R. ATOR funniest performer. A couple of months ago he had F anything was lacking to sump Lilliputt Year's Day, The opponents haven't been lAo Lornl!.i, who ""II and is a p~lty good hu .. y, out on his f ~ t, lAo', I golf as a full.fledged sport, the National picked at this writing, but here goes a good second. tossed in a t ...... ! in toktn of Broadcasting Company supplied that acco sized bet that Notre Dame's spectacular lurrendu. Tht King c.ught it in midair .nd c.lm]y wipc:d hi. penpir· lade. It broadcast the play of the first na team will represent the East, Both chains ins brow with ont mitt .. hile fum. tional open championship peewee golf tour· also plan to carry accounts of the East-West bling toward the tOU uing uo with and North-South all·star games on the coast Iht othu. nament, which was held lC the Chicago Sta And ,hue arc ;nnumeroble ""itness· dium from October 29 to November 2. and in Texas, respectively, the latter put of es 10 tes.ify th.t this i. not • presl' Notice, if you please, that it was an open this month, ogenl yarn, It is a!leged that on th~ .fternoon of one of hi, nghts Ih• tournament. It had not come to the atten .. King showed up .t hi. tuining quor· tion of this department before, but ' appar The announcer who proclaimed the b. ,e", his hce fillcd ""ith pcrpluity and woe. ently t~er e arc professional persons who train fayette-W. and J. at Atlantic City, October , "Honest, mister," h. "".iled to hi, dubs to trickl e their shots through rain-pipes 25, as the first indoor football game ever m~n.ger, "I c.n·, go on 'o..night, and over rain-barrels just as their fellows on played, should ha ve looked back through the My f~t, thfY·" killing me. Risht no .. ] can hardly "and up." the full-sized links tell the new members old newspaper files, lllinois took on the Car Th. man.g.r glanced .. the tor· how they might, but don't, get 250 yuds on lisle indians at such a game some time in the tured dog" thm sn.pped, "Sit do .. n. bum, and ch.nge you • •hon. You'''e their drives. 90's .at the Chicago Coliseum, if my infor gOt , h.m on the wrons f~t." It's a shame t hat the putt-putt sport was mation (not my memory) is correC t , and not discovered a couple of years ago. Think gOt soundly trounced too. And since there ,. of Ted Husing's relief at announcing Bobby's is nothing new under the sun, there have The he. dline, "Fredd" Ri<:h II to feats f rom a comfortable armchair. instead probably been other such games before or Tn;n Young Lyon.," might sou nd as of trudging all over the Merion Club be si nce. ' if Columbia', ace orchestra lude. had hind him, with a young broadcasting plant gone in for animal ... ining. In f:act. .. he i. j Ust u.uming the manageri.l strapped to his back. respon.ibility foe Young Lyons, Ihe ,. The Chicago Stadium has signed a con; former l ight·hu"Y""~Sht champion traCt with the National BroadcaSting Com of . he Navy. December snows haven't put football en· pany, giving that organi zation exclusive tirely on t he fritz, Penn and the Navy will chain rightS on broadcasts of fightS in irs Flj'ing i. Eddie Thor!!'"en', major chance an early blizzard to tangle December arcna, second only to Madison Square Garden sport. Th. NBC Lucky Strike an 6 at Philadelphia, and the chains will have in fiSfic importance, nouncer hal given ove r learning to Graham McNamee (NBC) and Ted Husi ng pilot. rlane, bu. ne"er mines an op· II ponunity to fly •• a po ..,n!!,r . (CBS) on hand to bring you the action and color of the Eastern finale of the gridiron J ames J. Corbett, on a recent Howard sport. That, of course, doesn't take into ac Dandies broadcast, told of his fight with " Grah.m McN.m~ k~p •• 'ouYenir count the professional teams. Those hlrdy "alias Mr. Mulligan." Whenever Corbett from the sctn. of every impor.. n. souls go rambling wellliong into December, vanquished .a challenger, he was met with broadcast, Hi. trophy case is an in · dex to major NBC broadcasts of ,h. cracking their join..ts on the frozen turf, and, the comment; " Wait until you meet Mr. pa .. f ... y.on. In ano.h.. yur h. _while the chains do nOt pick them up, local Mulligan!" For weeks he dodged Mr. Mul should be ready to opc:n a .porting. sutions give pretty complete coverage on ligan, but finally had to box him. The bat goods StOre. the pro games. de ended when Mulligan, badly beaten and .. Then, of course, the annual Rose Bowl nearly out, whispered to the untouched Cor Good ..am· play ch ..ac ..rizes thlt spectacle on the Pacifi c Coast will be com· bett: "We'd better stop now before we kill football au. eg ation made up of C0- lumbia's artisu, .n gin~1'1 and In· pletely described by the chains on New each other." nounc.... T hey punice in Centrol Park on Saturd.y, .nd play on Sun. d .ys, Ted H u.ing will probably get to bed u six o'clock Ihe ...ming be· OST tn«n~in(l'~ compl.in of voi<:e hu,kinen n ':)0 o'c1odt in for. h. i. called upon to broadcast M the morning, but t hor. hour i. almost lunchtime for John this. Whitcomb, master of ce~monies on the n rlr morning Vermont .. Lumberj. ck. progrom bro. dcast over NBC. Until September 29, John Whitcomb occupied a prominent place Friend, of Ed ... rd H , Smith, in the industry of Ellsworth. !>Ie.-in fsct, he virtu.lly wn the in· WT AM program dirKtor, have often dustry, H e w.s the senior in the logging firm of W hitcomb. Haynes wondered why Smith kn,,,,, SO much 1St Whitney, "" hieh w~' founded by young Whitcomb', gtandhther, .bout golf, but nevcr accepted on in· T h. only time he h.d e\'er ~n ....y from the logging.c.mp vitotion 10 play, were the four winteu he spcnt in Bo""doin College, There he met Th • • tory is out. Mr. Smilh m ..... Phillips H. Lord, who remembered the M. ine m.n·, nory.telling ried the profes.ional fcmininc golfer ~bilit>C . ""hen P.ni.k. ~nd Ford sought ulent for the Vermont Lum. of the Sag.more Country Club, S.g.· berj.ck. prog .. m. more, Mich. "My wife uled to go Whitcomb w ~, hard to s D ecember CHAIN PROGRAMS December FRIDAY 5, 12, 19, 26 5 , 12, 19 , 26 FRIDAY Red I ymb ol. d enote NBC ; bl ack _s:rm boll denote CBS E . S. T. 10 to 11 P. M. C. S. T. 9 to 10 P. M. o Radio Follies l>'amon, aetOcI and weiten; Guy Lombardo and Iti. Or cheotra. a Wrigley Program 49 Phoenix Ten-year Hosiery Program o Crime Prevention Program Dr.mstic sketch with WHo liam Sb~ney and T. Daniel Frawley. S RKO Theatre of the Air Occh c$tca dicectoc. Milton Schwanwald; film. vaude· ville and radio ota ••. o Arms.trong Quakers Loil Bennett. soprano; :lof ..ry Hopple. contr.. llo; m .. l e quartet; occhutra director, Don Voorheeo. o Under the Jolly Ro ger Dramatic sketch with mus;· ca l backs round.. . E . S. T. 11 to 12 P. M. C. S. T. 10 to 11 P. M. e Vinc.ent Lopez and His SL Regis Orchestra Oance music trom New York. €) Slumber Mus ic. Strinl\ en.e n,ble; director, LudWIg Lauric r. €) Pepsodent Program Amo. ·n' Andy. o Will Osborne and His Orchestra Dance music from New York. e Columbia's Radio Column o Romanelli and His King Edward Orchestra CBS. DanC'. WSB. Te tley Program. 5 P. M .• over WJZ, WBZ. WllZA, KnKA, WHAM, WLW. KYW. WRYA, WPT~~ WJAX, WIOD, WFLA. WSUN , WBAS, WSM, WMO. WSD. KEY TO LOCAL PROGRAMS N News S Sports o Educa tionaJ. T D ramatic P Children'. V V .. rlety foa t ure WComlc 11. RelIgionl X On the aJr MUSICAL 14 1. B and M 6. Popular 14 2. Cl .... lcal M 7. Sym pb onlc M 3. D ance M 8. Organ 14 , . R ellgiou l 14 9, Semi-c l .... lcal II![ 5 . Novelty M ·V .... lety \VIIAT 'S O N TH E Page 43 ICROPIiOBIA" is the n.... "'0'.1 M coined by O"'id R.oss, of the Columbi. Bro.d ••"ing Syltem •• nd. to iIIustrole the proci,. m•• ning of his word, he bring. to light id iosyncr..,i.. of prominent radio uli..... hich ,h.y .mploy to comb.t • ntfVOuSnCSI that i. ">1u ..1 before the "''',ophone, Ikn Alley. 'X'ABCs tenor, crouch., over ,he mih .nd I>(nd, hi. he. do... n to it .s though he .... re drink_ ing from. fountain. Mory Ch.rle" who used to d.nce On the >I.ge. cxocu, .. . few steps to ...... m up" Mfore .he .ings in the L. r.lino progum. Howud Barlo ..• mutte.. "bum. bum·bum" .nd "d ••d •. t3.d." in ti...... to hi. b'lon :u he conduc .. ,he Philco w/!xJ b,o.dc".'. Iwicc Symphon)' Orchestr., II'rrily I,a", WG8S .. Old M" ... 'X'ornow won', use .nything WRNY, Nrw York • • ,, but • pencil in lieu of • buon. ,,,,-rr, """dred, af lellr •• Fr •• ,k Crumit kccps time by 1'''' • d"y ,ohing Jomlllie ting hi, p.rtuor, Juli. S.nde.,on. On proi>lnllJ "nd hdpi"" Ib~ the b"lr.. Ilw,lo",. F •• ddie Rich. .nother Columbi. mxsuo, thumps his fcct on the d.is MARION fARRAND "iolentlr .. he conducts. .rod JI/IIMY KElT" .rr Announcer Funk Knight dirn:u lIN ..:tll.known h~.mo"y "TII:tnly Flng.,. of Swrrln.u," horribl. grim" " >t ,he men in the conlrol_room. Iun, "R"dio R.sr"I•• " r.ch Wtdnr.d"y .. t 7:'1 p. ",., Henry Burbig uses .xp.nsiv. g••• Ix",,{ .wry T h" ' Id"y .w_ i. tIN p,og,.", oDrri".t 01 turel 10 illustr.te hi. legend. in di •. "ing fro", KS1 P (SI. SW."ldow" S""",. O,'f' KDKA. p."I). T brlt r",,,,,, .""eh,d 10 lect. IRENE. JONES "nd A DA H Bnd IIrown. k e. p I his h.nds STRAUB .,. lul'l """hll' clutch.d nervously in hi. pocket. And ... hot dOd Mr. Ros. do? '']'.. . b... ~t1Nybll'''' ,.I.nlyof I!H III,ie,,1 .ng"g,m.,,'s ...... /1. never b«n .bl. to discover my p.. . ticular quirlr.," h. aven. MER LE 8tACK· .. BURN •• in!,ing "n_ "OIlIlN, .1 Ih( Mil. If. during the cro... d Icene•• you CHARLIE DA MERON'S ",an"-re "lau.n .. I" hut .n .bullient voice d.m.nding .d. ""0' ~'t)iN b,ighlms 1M "a/iou. is ... •• ,Iy miS!io", to liank Simmon.' "Sho... . p.og,.m 01 lIN Ki"gl •• I. ,iu1'-M Iu, 10 hr. bon." it undoubudly I>(long. to Not Son .. ,II.Tf 0/ WI.W. 0" frio .. IN .1 ...·.)'. 0"'''' Bru.iloff. For this purpose tho ....g . d.y "'ghls. H. ""iln I~ lIN ,I,lY ./ "lVTM, gish Columbi. m • .,tro hOI dev.loped ~liroltily fo, Ihi. luillre • 1 7 •. m. with an .ceont ... hieh he d.im. i, 1"Ii.n . 'W. "Thr /IIo,ning P. but ... hich e,'en hi' best fr~nd. cl.im •• ,fr." i, terrible• .. /IIa/ld.)'. Thu"J.. y Pl.ying the pi)no i. hard e.r1y in .nd SO/""/d) "I 10 the morning for Pauline Ii.ggard, a. n/" "TIN &mJ NBC ooprono sprei.li" . who plays her n./urI" .rr 0/1 l be O.. n accompaniments. Most sin~rI .i, .1 IVCIIU. /n find il diffieult '0 .ing bdo", noon • • JJilio .. to lb. but Mis. H.gg ..d sayl her trouble is o,rbrsl,a Inl b), of tho finge .. rather ,h.n ,he ,hm",. Cb.,lu Vrrn ll , p.omint'nt Qnaka CU)' d""rr "''''/fT, Ibt',. ".r .010 """,. Orom. i. the big ",oak".ss of Erv. b... b) Tom O'h.,., Gil.,. She travel. '0 (,·cry suburb of "phil.Jr/pbi.'. OW" N .... York to ... itn ... pre·Bro.dw.y T."o,." opening.. She is • finl gu ....r. If she nyl •• ho ...... iII dick. the critics gone.,lly .g ..... with her !aler. Miss Gil., ...., onCe bte for an NBC ,.,. ICHARO MAX'X'ELL. young f .. ,ur.d ' .nor ovor the no,,",ork. he ....1 be<; • .,.. she .".nded • m1tinfl: R of NIIC, h •• distinctive recordl of .chi.vement Mhind him. it1 Hoboken. He po ...... thr~ college d~gr ee5 , ~ wu record . nd sever.! rUrI of .uge experience. Mnwd! w .. dr.wn into the wor while ' !fending K.nyon Coi. l'orJdOKiC1l1y enough, the light b.n. leg., Ohio; s..rved in the Aviation Corps, re December CHAIN PROGRAMS December SATURDAY 6, 13, 20, 27 6. 13. 20, 21 SATURDAY Red .,.mb<>la denote NBC; black .,.mb ol. denote CBS E. S. T. 6to7P.M. C. S. T . St06P.M. o The Jameses Skelcb of An",riun famU,. life. Black and Gold Room Orchestra Director, Lud..-i, Lauri~r. €) Uncle Abe and David Rural I k~ICh wilh l 'bUIi~ Lord .nd Arthur Allen. o Raising Junior Dom e~ ti c okil whb Aline Hel' ry and Peler Dixon. o Saltzman's Restaurant Orchestra DiNe!ion by SUlilh nellew. C) Literary Digest Topics iD. Brief l..owell Thoma.. o Tom, Dick and Harry lIale trio. a Dance Music CBS, Ne ...• "\"or". o TOD Y's Scrapbook liumor, poet..,. a nd pbllollO phy. II E. S. T . 7to8P.M. C. S. T. 6 to 7 P. M. o Crockett Mountaineers HiIl·biU,. muoie. o Columbia Educational Features Romance of American indu.· try. o Necco Surprise Party llenry II u r big; ~'re KEY TO LOCAL PROORAMS N New. S Sport, o E dUcational T Dramatle P Children', V Variety featu.e WCOllllc :It :IteUglouI :x: On tbe air MU SICAL M 1. BInd M 6. Popul .... M 2. Cluslcal M 7. Sympbonlc M 3. Dance M 8. Orran M 4. Religious M 9. Seml·c1.. , lcal M Ii.Nonlt)' 1\11 Varlety WHAT 'S ON THE A IR Page 45 Thp-----..... Iricky Te.cher ",os t 'J'ing to i!l ust,n. dif_ f.rent .dverb. OS ap plied to 'p«d. Walking across the room ropidly. ,h. turned . nd ... ked: "Now. children. LA BORATE turns and more accentu how would you oay I w,lked then?" All in a chorus t hey shouted: "Bo~.. _ E ated body movements-a natural mo legged." Written Exclu tion of abandon-are features of the new lively for WHAT'S seeps this winter. The dance seeps are al so ON TH£ AIR. The po,,·.r of radio in police work. becoming more intricate and more interest ,. demonnnted by the Fugo ( N. 0.) Police Dep.rtment and WDAY, Fargo ing. No longer can a person get by by r.dio .t.tion. i•• ho .... n in • report merely w alking around the floor, occasionally be sure to keep your weight on t he left. JU St compiled by Inspector Andrew t urning at a corner. The girl who is a good 4. Step directly forward with the right Qu.m. In two month. thirty_six CO" ,,'e l"<' reported ,tolen l""ally. Of this dancer is nOt content to be pushed around or foot, turning body one-quareer co right . number twenty-two were reco\'C ..d taken for a w alk. Intelligent girls, especial 5. Draw the right foot up to the left, by me.ns directly trace.ble to the ro_ ly, want their partners to be interesting, and, dio .nnOUnCement$. D uring the same with your weight on right foot. period twenty·nine p THE SYNCOPATED WALTZ Man's part: l. Step forward on left and hold weight Austin Huston. bas, phyer in the The Syncopated Waltz is a swaying sort of C"ncert orch Decemb. r CHAIN PROGRAMS December SATURDAY 6. 13, 20, 2 7 6. IS. 20. 27 SATURDAY R ed .,.mbol. d enote NBC : bl...,k .,.mbol. d enOlA CBS E. S, T . 8t09P.M. C. S. T. 7 to 8 P. M. o Dixie Echon E) Literary Digest Topics in Brief €) Dancing Ynlerday. Old-time d.nce tunu. o Wallace Silversmithl lIIT'Y S.1t~r'. orehellrl ",ltb IOl0islI. Salon Singers o O",,"eOI.. d ireClor. C,o.re Sodero. E) To Be Announced o Dixies Circus Cire". life; etow n bind o Fuller Man E ••le Spicer, bultone: male qU&I'lel: orc..... tr. dl"",lor. Don YoorbWI. E. S. T. 9 10 10 P. M. d. s, T, 8 to 9 P. M. €) General Electric Hour \\·.lte r Dam.....,", COndUCI' In,: .d .. enlure. In oden«; I'l ord Giboo05. Edwin Sianley Seder Orllniol . G) Dutch Maslers Mi n. lrel. Plul Dnmonl .,,,1 Al lJer· nlrd, e nd me .. ; inllTume nl.1 trio: ",.le " "uUt; Or<: h ~$' ITI direClor, H arold Sa,,!o,d, o Carborundum Hour h'dion le~end. wilb Cuba· rund"m band; directed b:r t: SAT~AY--DAYT~ Talkl--Helen Chuc. Wlnl'rtd S. (larter, Helen Howe, B .atrl« linford .nd Mu , ReUley. I O:I~ A, ~l _. o,-er Wt;At·, wn:r, WJAH. WTA(l, WCRH, I,'FI, W RC. W(l\·. ,,'OR, WCA J; W},JC \\,WJ \\'SAI K\'\\' ' K SD, ' woe: WHO: \\'OW', K e,..lone Chr onicle, 1 :30 P. :.1. nr"m.ti~ ,kct KEY TO L OCAL PROGRAMS N New. S SpOrt. 0 E clnCl!lonll or D r .....Uc p Chlld ren'l V Vlr'ctl fe.tuft WComlc R Relltlo". X On the ~ , MUSICAL M I , Bind M 6. P opular M 2, Cl ...lcol M 7. S,.mphonle M S, D anca M 8.0r,.n M 4. E eU,lon. M 9, S.ml·cl.... ical M Ii. llon!!,. M v,... etr W lIAT'S ON THE AI R P age 47 RAMBLIN' ROUN' RADIOLAND more seriously and seem to know that they're back again to "the su rvival of the fittest " (Con,inued from page ~) thing. It's about time, 'for Big Business gOt _ for an instant absolutely gave up. T he to be a "sailor on shore leave" proposition - great two-gun m an had met his boss. He Capone and Rothstein got to be bigger shots hesitated a moment - his legs began to t han Morgan and Rockefeller. Well, that's quiver - his hands began to shake - he be "Gone, but Not Forgotten," for everything came a schoolboy again recitin' his little that goes up 1II11$t come down - every bub piece - then, as only the maSter of himself ble must bust - and every balloon 111ill get that Big Bill is, he got hold of himself again "droopy." The great Army of Install ment and the poem literally flew from his lips - Stallers had been steppin' on the gas so hard he waxed eloquent - loud and vociferate. and drivin' their " Prosperity Model T's" The Cook on the Caller. H is experiences in the great dramatic shows down Flush St. so fast that sooner Of later of the past asserted t hemselves and he be they were bound to smash up against the old STOP SIGN. That 's exactly what happened ROBABLY . lack of space wa' re came as one inspired. He was wonderful! P spon.ible. but Phil Cook ought to But! - I noticed his legs were wobblin' .and they came to their senses with a Big h.ve a warm .pot in his hear, for worse than ever - I was afraid he was goin' Bump! Guess the "baby business" is the G.sp.no Rice.. Ricca is ,he .nist who put Cook On the cover of this to faU down on the floor, a-kickin' 'n' only one that hasn't felt the slump. So turn month'. WHAT'S ON THE Ant, ifter a-shoutin' 'n' recitin' that piece 0' his at the on yo' radio, folks (yo' gotta stay home any Cook found that he could no' possi top of his voice - and no foolin', maybe way), 'n' spend yo' large evenin's a-listenin'! bly $quee?e in ,he time to draw him_ .elf. passin' out in the attempt. So I tiptoes up Merry Christmas - So until then sec yo' H Ricca h.d had a billboard 10 and slips my arm around his massive shoul pretty 50ooon, pretty 5OOO-00-00n. Nite Owl. work on, r .. her than • magazine ders sorta chummy-like, yo' know - it had cover, here's whot you mighr h.ve always worked before - but, oh, to Bill it A man wi,h twelve December CHAIN PROGRAMS DKember SATURDAY 6, 13, 20, 27 6, 13, 20, 27 SATURDAY Red .ymbol. d enote NBC; bl..:1l . ymb oll denote CBS E . S. T , 10 to 11 P. M. C. S. T. 9 to 10 P,M. o B. A. Rolfe and Hi. Lucky Strike Orchestra '01"(8 m,, "ie. o Chicago Civic Opera o Hank Simmons' Show Boat Old·tlm, melod ...... I. II E . S. T. 11 to 12 P. M. C. S. T. 10 to 11 P.M, a Jack Denn y and His Hotel Mount Royal Orchestra C BS. lIu, le rro ... Yontreal. €) Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians cas. nlnce :l.191ic Irom Nt w York. a Troubadour of the MOOD LIllny non. te"or, with It rl", 'rio. Bemie Cummins and Hi. Hotel New Yorker Orchestra n once mPl le. o Slumber Music Strinlr en8emble; director, l.udwl, Lluri.r. o P ep . o d e n ~ Program AmOi 'n' Andy. SATURDAY- DAYTIME New York Philharmonic O v ~ r CB S Net .... ork. Children' , Concerti. 11 A. Y., 011 Dec e mh ~ . 6 IDd 13. Fri~ay . from 4 to 5 1', ll .. E. A. T .. NBC I, broldcuting ouull nd· ing play" of ~11 t ime will, bmoul arti". m Judin, rOlel', Tbe play for Decemher 5 wll! be "The Oreen Godden . " ."d for December 1 J "'ill he " T he 1}o11 HOUle," with 1::" 0 La aillienne ... d Dudly Dig~ 1 hudin&' the nil. "Peer 0,"1, ' " The Str,..,,' in the "o,,"e," "Twelfth :Silt"'." '''rhe Ri ... II, ·' "llr. Pim l' ulel By" are oth~ r . soheduled ror urlr pr ...e n,.tlon. 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