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A n article ("David Ha rulll " ) ~ Y lT O N 6uS S NTOS 57 . Symbol [or nick el Conn. (Dec. 2 over Station WICC.) e Bill Spargrove ("True or False" an­ nouncer): "Williams Shaving Cream RA D I 0 GU IDE makes a dandy Christmas gift for men The National Weekly of programs, pictures and personalities folks specially wrapped in colorful pa· M . L. ANNEN BERG, Publisher CURTIS MITCHELL, Editor per."-Mrs. C. Martin, 1726 St. Denis St., Apt. No. 10, Montreal, P. Q . (Dec. 4 731 Plymouth Court, Chicago, 111. Vol. 9. No. 11 . Dece mber 29 , 1939 INTH~H I €.~ over Station CFCF.) CONTENTS • Listen i ng-Post; Mr. Fairfax 1 On Short Waves 16 Announcer: "We will send a John ~ntlutrtr Why D i d " Girl Alone" Marry? 2 Listening to Learn 17 Barclay service man to your home with Coming Events 3 Voice of the Listener; no strings attached."-Eleanor R. Pool­ At L ast-Shirley Surrenders 25 Brain- Busters 18 er, 9 Williams St., Salem, Mass. (Dec. BEAUTI FUL PICTURE to Radio 4 Walt D isney's " Pinocchio" 19 4 over MBS .) COLOROTO Airia lto Lowdown 6 Fred Waring and His Gang 20 MAGAZINE PARADE Hollywood Showdown 7 You Asked for Them and Backstage in Chicago 8 Ed Roberts, announcer• on "Lum and Here They Are 22 New Ideas Wanted- SPARKLING FEATURE SECTION " Club Matinee" Brews a Feud 24 Abner": "Drink Postum and see if it or Are They ? 9 isn't the answer to the sleeplessness EVERYBODY'S WEEKLY The March of Music 10 M eet Mr. Weeks 26 What Does American This Week's Programs 27 -43 you've b een looking for."-Dorothea Democra!fY Mean to Me ? 12 Winter Program Locator 44 Davison, 7341 N. Seeley Ave., Chicago. National Song Search 14 Birthdays; Brain- Busters- Ill. (Dec. 4 over CBS.) G l oomy Gtenn Learns to Grin 15 Answers 45

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A random report of interesting facts and unusual events in broadcasting

Speaking of "listening-posts," O. H. Caldwell, editor of Radio Today, tells us in a recent statement that during the A gift that never does year 1939 alone well over four million of them were added to the millions al­ grow old, ready in use in the U. S. Meaning thai A joy that ne'er nine million new radio sets were sold in 1939 and, since never more than half abates, of any year'» total radio sales is for re­ gift placements, there are at least four mil­ 'S a of a "sub" lion new "listening-posts" this year. to Radio Guide At these special All kinds of Americans in all walks Gogo Delys is the charming song star. of life have entered the essay contest heard on "Hall of Fun" over NBC holiday rates. sponsored by "America's Town Meet­ ing of the 'Air" and Town Hall. Inc. Probably every conceivable answer to MR. FAIRFAX REJ2l-IES As you know, this ideal Christmas the query "What Does American De­ gift doubles your radio enjoyment mocracy Mean to Me?" has found its way to the sponsors. Particularly inter­ by giving the most complete pro­ esting should be the answers of fifty­ Mr. Fairfax will give personal Arthur Mason is portrayed by gram listings available in the one prisoners at the Atlanta, Ga., Peni­ answers to all readers who send RICHARD KEITH, and ARNOLD United States. Plus this, RADIO tentiary, who made a sizable run on self - addressed stamped envel­ Moss has the role of Ahmed . . . GUIDE is crammed full of pictures, Town Hall with their essay entries. The opes. Remember that he must In "Betty and Bob" ROBERT photos, and articles about your contest closed December 4. confine himself exclusively to SLOANE portrays George Hartford, network personalities and pro­ Jane Hartford is played by ELS­ favorite radio stars every week. Strange and tortuous are the ways of grams. Address Arthur Fairfax, PETH ERIC . . . In "The . Man I Just fill in the coupon below to let modern radio when used as- an imple­ RADIo GUIDE, 731 Plymouth Married" BARBARA LEE is Evelyn ment of war. Recently news came from Court, Chicago, 111. Waring, VAN HEFLIN plays Adam RADIO GUIDE express your Christ­ Waring, SANTOS ORTEGA portrays mas spirit throughout the coming Brazil that officials had applied Brazilian Stewart Wynn, Denver, Colo.­ neutrality laws by sealing the radio Phineas T. Grant. and Grandfather GOGO DELYS was married to Rob­ year. We'll also send, in your room of the German passenger liner Grant is characterized by HARRY ert 1. Redd, NBC producer and name, our special CHRISTMAS Windhuk which had recently arrived FISCHER .. . Alice Day Craig i:l writer, on June 8, 1938, in Los in disguise, equipped for sea raiding. "The Woman in White" is por­ GIFT LETTER. Angeles. Her first big radio show A double purpose was behind it. First. trayed by RUTH BAILEY. was on the Phil Baker program. neutral powers canno.t permit messages SPECIAL CHRISTMAS RATES­ to be radioed from their territory by a Mrs. C. M. Lee, Abilene, Tex.­ Miss Margaret Moyer, Lansing, United States and Canada belligerent power. Sec;:ond, Brazilians In "Stella Dallas" Stella is por­ Mich.- Julie Downing in "Ro­ yearly subscription of 52 issues ••• \ •. $4.00 have no hankering for possible espio­ trayed by ANNE ELSTNER, ARTHUR mance of Helen Trent" is por­ 2 yearly subs~riptions of 52 issues •.• .. 7.00 nage or secret contact between German HUGHES plays Steven, VIVIAN trayed by DORIS DUDLEY . . • six-month subscription of 26 issues ••.• 2.50 war vessels and German residents of SMOLEN has the role of Laurel, GENELLE GIB;BS portrays Sonia Brazil. MACDONALD CAREY characterizes Kirkoff in "A r n old Grimm's (Clip this coupon and mail to RADIO GUIDE, Dick Grosvenor, JANE HUSTON Daughter" ... DAVID GOTHARD Dept. 12-29, 731 Plymouth Court, Chicago.) Sad news for radio listeners was the portrays Mrs. Grosvenor, Helen plays Bruce King (the stranger) in death of Ernest Schelling, internation­ Dallas is played by JULIE BENELL, "The O'Neills." ally famous concert pianist, conductor RADIO GUIDE, Dept. 12-29, and composer, on December 8 in New 731 Plymou.th Court, Chicago, III. York City. Mr. Schelling, a w ell-known radio conductor, was especially loved Please send RADIO GUIDE as or­ dered herewith to the following per­ by children for his . Young People's THE GIRL 'ON THE COVER sons. Also send, in my name, your Concerts of the New York Philharmonic special Chri stma ~ Gift Letter to: Symphony Orchestra broadcast over CBS. Thousands of children called him NTRODUCTIONS that when they Name'______~~_ --~~------Uncle Ernes! anQ his death denied them in the case of learned that the ( Pl ease Print) a new series of radio concerts under I Shirley Temple, youngster who his direction which were to have be­ Address ______----, ---; __::-:--,- ______who smiles out at ~ played the bit had ( Plea5e Pri nt) gun on December 10. you from this -lifted a mediocre week's cover of . picture into a box­ Ci t y-----:(:::p'-eacc'e.,.-::-p'-:-; nCCt)"--- Sta te-(p-'e-a.-e -P'-i11-') Alton Cook, New York radio column­ RADIO GUIDE, are office wow. She ist, recently compiled a self-styled Ra­ probably unneces­ became a star im­ o year o 6 months dio Primer which unearths, among sary, for there is mediately. others, the following interesting facts: no better known Unlike others, Each of the four big radio networks smile in the world Shirley had had no Name------:(P:::,~.a~.e~P~,~;n~t)------averages over 20,000 programs a year. than that given our long period of Besides those 80,000, there are m ore readers in this photograph of the preparation for stardom. But as Address, ______~.",----::-:---:------than four hundred local stations pro­ famous child motion-picture star, one picture followed another, di­ (Please Print) ducing their own programs daily . . . who makes her radio debut this rectors learned that Shirley was City__ ___ --:---,-___ State____ _ A Coast-to-Coast fall network broad­ week. Shirley was born in Santa developing into an actress. Not (Pl ease Print) ( Please Print) cast costs $1 5,000 an hour. Talent is Monica, Calif., April 23, 1929, to content with her being sweet, o year o 6 months extra .. . Major Bowes, with a salary of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Temple, pretty, adorning, Shirley's par­ about $20,000 weekly, is still the high­ who, in addition to being her par­ ents had hired the best dramatic Enclosed herewith is my remittance est-paid personality in radio, but not ents, serve as wary agents for coaches, the best music teachers. the most popular ... Hollywood broad­ their star daughter._ Bill Robinson, master of tap, had of $__ _ casts have a more noticeable bass tone Shirley's screen career started personally taught her to dance than those originatihg in New York. when she was only three years .. . because he liked her. Soon Your N ame----:c:-:--::-:---:-----­ The reason: They are brought by tele­ old with a spot in a short subject Shirley was a polished actress, ( Please Pri nt) phone wires and transmission tends to which led to a minor part in a capable of handling the most dif­ Your Address______..,- ______build up lower tones . . . Radio stars full-length feature, "Stand Up and ficult parts. (Please Print) have mQre publicity agents than any Cheer." Twentieth Century-Fox, Today Shirley stands among the City__ -=:-_-::-:-.,,- __ sta te-=---=~ other type of entertainers. producers of the film, did just top dramatic stars of Hollywood, (Please Print) (Please Print)

P 9/ 11 WHY 1)11) JJGIRL ALONE" BY FAYETTE KRUM-Author 0/ "Girl ' A lone"

Serial listeners take their drama seri­ HE week after Patricia Rogers and They're my brain-children, but, like blooded, passionate emotion she felt for ously. Many of them were surprised John Knight suddenly eloped, children in real life, I can't entirely con­ John Knight. The affection she subse­ when .in "Girl Alone" Scoop Curtis Teverywhere I turned I was asked, trol their actions. Being what they are, quently developed for Scoop Curtis was (played by Pat Murphy) married Stormy "What in the world ever made you there are certain things they will do or of an entirely different kind. There was Wilson (June Tr avis). They were more decide to let Patricia get married?" will not do. And all a mother or an something about the easy, carefree, Bo­ startled when just recently Patricia Rog­ Well, here's the answer. I didn't decide author can do is to try to influence hemian type of life, so in contrast to ers (Betty Winkler) married John Knight to let Patricia get married. Patricia them. It takes some conniving some- the prim standard of social conduct by

(Lester Damon). Author Fayette Krum made the decision herself. The most I times. I which she'd been brought up, which was buried under an avalanche of mail, could do was .int'luence her. For instance, when John Knight broke had a strong appeal to her, and it was ' from which she emerged to write this Back in 1935, when I gave birth to his first engagement to Patricia back in inevitable that after two years of an ex­ logical defense and hint of the future "Girl Alone" and its large batch of 1936 and refused to marry her because citing, adventurous association with of, "Girl Alone." Why did she let brain-children, I didn't dream I'd have she was the Rogers heiress, it was only Scoop that he should become the domi­ Patricia marry John? Are there more so much trouble with them. Actually, natural that she should turn to the easy, nating factor in her life. As a suitor, surprises in store? Read what the au­ most of the time, I haven't had' much gay companionship of Scoop Curtis in Scoop left pomething wanting. He was thor herself says about it.-Editor. to say about what my characters do. a way that would inhibit the warm- (Co'nlinued on Page 44) 2 9/11 P Saturday, December 23 Thursday, December 28 LAST-MINUTE SHOPPING on "Main COMPETITION for Bob Burns' ba­ Street" will be pictured for those lis­ zooka will be furnished on his own teners not engaged in the same activ­ home grounds by Georges Barrere, flu­ ity, when NBC broadcasts scenes from tist, who will introduce his new instru­ department store, street and dime store ment, a concertino, the "Barrere-Britt," of Sycamore, Ill. Announcer Fort Pear­ on "Kraft Music Hall." NBC. E aste rn Ce ntra l Mounta in P acific son and Frank Dean, Sycamore editor, 1 0 :00 p.m. 9 :00 p.m. 8 :00 p. m . 7 :00 p. m . will do the interViewing. NBC. E astern Ce n t r a l M ount ai n Pacific Friday, December 29 ~: 45 p .m. 4 : 45 p.m. 3 : 45 p.m. 2: 45 p.m. COMING EVENTS DON AMECHE, soon to say adieu as THE GOSPEL SINGER. Edward Mac­ host of "Chase and Sanborn Hour," Al Hugh, back on the air in a ' regular Jolson and Nancy Kelly will present a series after being absent from radio A preview of some of this radio adaptation of the new movie, for some time, will also present a spe­ "Swanee River," on "Kate Smith's Va­ cial one-time program dedicated to week's better broadcast features riety Hour. " Ameche and Jolson are in Yuletide music Saturday. NBC. the motion-picture cast. CBS. Eastern Centr a l Mountai n Pacific E ast ern C e ntral M o u n t ai n P aeific 6: 4 5 p .m . 5: 4 5 p.m. 4 : 45 p . m, 3: 45 p.m. 8 :00 p.m . 7 : 0 0 p.m . 6 : 00 p. m . 9:00 p .m .

Best two consec­ setting for a musical Yule program by haps he 'd like some appropriate music Notice the cover utive one-hour the Bach Choir of Bethlehem. CBS. for his good-will mission. He can get it this week, read E aste rn Centr al Mountain P acific by tuning in the "Annual Christmas 2:30 p.m. 1 :30 p.m . 1 2 : 3 0 p.m. 11 :30 a. m . the story on programs for the Carol" by the Columbia Concert Or­ -: week, all things PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT will put pages 4 and 5, . . chestra and Chorus. CBS. aside war worries and third-term won­ E astern Centra l M ount a in Pacific considered, are 1 2 :00 mid. 11 :00 p.m. 1 0:00 p. m. 9:00 p. m . then tune in Sun­ probably "Camp­ derings for a few minutes to extend day to CBS greetings to the nation and to throw Monday, December 25 11 bell Playhouse" the switch that will light the capital's "Screen Guild WHAT IMPORT will be in the wish­ with Barrymore's "Scrooge" and Christmas tree and symbolize the spark­ Theater" (7:30 p.m. EST, 6:30 ful greetings of King George VI to his ing of the season's spirit throughout "Ford Sunday Evening Hour" with empire at war! NBC, CBS, MBS. p.m. CST, 5:30 p.m. MST, 4:30 p.m. the land. NBC, CBS, MBS. Marian Anderson. Tune to CBS E astern Ce n t r a l M o unta in Paci fic PSTJ-The radio debut of Shirley E astern Ce ntra l Mountain P acific 10:00 a.m. 9:00 a .m. 8 : 0 0 a .m. 7 : 00 a. m . Sunday, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. EST 5:00 p .m . 4 : 0 0 p. m . 3:00 p. m . 2 : 00 p.m. Temple-and with Nelson Eddy! THE GREATEST "Story of Christ­ THREE HUNDRED strong, the Los Angeles Civic Chorus will blend their Sunday, December 24 ' mas"- greater even than "A Christmas MUSIC CUIDE Carol"- is in the Book of Books. Those voices into a mighty cavalcade of V A TICAN CITY will present its ra­ Christmas songs. MBS. ringing words will tell the story again Among this week's many musical dio contribution to the season with a E aste rn Centra l Mountain Pacific 2:001). m . highlights are: "La Traviata," "Nut­ broadcast of carols sung in Latin by in the form of a unique drama, with a 1 : 00 p .m. 12: 00 noon 11:00 a.m. cracker Suite," Rudolph Ganz, Bach the choir of the North American Col­ background of descriptive music to en­ EAMON DR , VALERA, American­ Cantata. lege in Rome and a talk by Bishop rich the Biblical message. NBC. born prime minister of Eire-formerly (For further details see pages 10 and 11.) E aster n Central Mountain Pac ific Ralph Hayes. NBC, CBS, MBS. 6 : 30 p. m . 5 : 30 p . m . 4 : 30 p .m . 3:30 p. m . Ireland- will speak greetings from his Easte rn Central Mountai n Pacific 1:00 p .m. 12:00 noon 11:00 a. m. 10:00 a.m. IF YOU LIKE an atmospheric drama neutral country to ours. CBS. SCHEDULE CHANCES Easte rn Central Mountai n Pacific CHILDREN in the war countries­ to put you in proper mood for sleep on 3 : 35 p .m. 2:35 p. m . 1:35 p.m. 12:35 p . m . Christmas Eve, tune in the traditional "Orphans of Divorce," formerly heard many of them spending their first "PINOCCHIO," the likable little brat Monday through Friday, was last Christmas away from home - will be seasonal drama on Mutual. "A Modern who is soon to cavort on the screen in Christmas Carol." MBS. broadcast Friday, December 22. NBC. heard from their emergency homes a Disney cartoon to prove that Charlie Easte rn Ce ntral Mountain Pacific talking of Christmas. NBC. 11 : 15 p . m 10: 15 p . m . 9:15 p . m. 8 : 15 p.m. McCarthy isn't the only wooden boy The "Voice of Experience," formerly East e rn Central Mounta in Pacific heard each Monday, Wednesday 1 : 15 p .m . 12: 15 p.m. 11:15 a. m. 10: 15 a.m. THE LAsT HOUR of Christmas Eve who can come to life, will preview his and Friday, was last broadcast Fri­ LEGION VETS- even the 64,000 who wouldn't be complete without · "Silent antics for radio listeners on "Lux Radio Theater." CBS. (See Page 19.) ' day, December 22. MBS. are in eighty-five hospitals-can be Night, Holy Night." The tradition, car­ East ern Centra l Mountain Pacific thankful at least that there are no ried out by the gloriOUS voice of 9:00 p.m . 8:00 p . m. 7:00 p.m . 6 :00 p.m. The "Court of Missing Heirs," a new American doughboys "over there" this Madame Schumann-Heink for a num­ program dramatizing real-life searches Wednesday, December 27 Christmas. Commander Kelly of the ber of years, will be observed this for 'the living heirs of fortunes, American Legion will send to those year with young prima donna Marjorie LATEST FLARE on the swing hori· started Tuesday, December 19. CBS. zon, you probably know, is Glenn Mil­ E astern Ce ntral Mounta in Paci fic 64,000 boys a message of cheer for Lawrence singing the immortal song 3 :30 p.m. 7 : 30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. their o;"'n Christmas. C)3S. as Christmas day draws near. NBC. ler. Do you know, too, that he is set­ Easte rn Ce ntra l Mou nta i n Pacific E ast e rn Ce n t r a l Mounta in Pac ific tling his band in the groove formerly Glenn Miller and his orchestra replace 1:45 p.m. 12:45 p. m . 11 : 45 a. m . 10:45 a .m . 11:56 p .m. 10: 56 p . m . 9 : 56 p.m. 8 . 56 p.m . occupied by Paul Whiterpan? CBS. Paul Whiteman on the cigarette show OUR OWN BETHLEHEM, a town in WHILE SANTA is putting the toys Easter n Centra l Mountain Pacific Wednesday, December 27. CBS. 8 : 30 p.m. 7 : 30 p.m. 9 : 30 p . m . 8:30 p.rn E ast e rn Ce ntral Mou ntai n Pac i fic Pennsylvania, will be the appropriate under the tree at the magic hour, per- (See s tory o n Page 15.) 8 : 30 p.m. 7 : 30 p.m. 9 : 30 p. m. 8 : 30 p.m. Pa 9/ 11 3 AGE THREE. With " Baby Burlesques" Shir­ AGE SEVEN. Shirley was a real trouper by ley Temple made her film debut in 1932. Short 1936 and " Stowaway" (above) did much to make on acting, long on cuteness, they became a hit her Hollywood's biggest box - office attraction

HAT to do until Santa Claus comes? being one of radio's better shows with plenty of big Along about the time when the youngsters names in every cast, is also Hollywood's favorite W are in their pajamas and ready to be charity. Glamourtown's biggest stars, directors, pro­ snuggled off to what little measure of sleep they can ducers lend their talents to making it a first-rate at­ be expected to work in the night before Christmas, traction, and the sponsor, instead of paying them for the problem of what to do to while away the time their services, turns the salaries they would receive often becomes rather pressing. But for radio listeners charity. Neither Shirley nor her studio will receive over to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, which aids this year there just won't be any problem. They'll a cent for her work, but the money that would have needy members 01 th::: profession. So the staff which simply gather the youngsters around the radio in been paid her will go instead into the Motion Pic­ will aid in making this Christmas Eve broadcast a the living-room and twist the dials to "Screen Guild ture Relief Fund for needy actors and actresses. memorable one was chosen from the wide list of Theater." Then, as grand a surprise as anyone could Her d~Cision to do this charity show after refusing talent available to the committee. Bill Bacher, ace ask on Christmas Eve will be waiting. the large offers which had been received was made Hollywood radio producer, and Tom Lewis, head of Shirley Temple makes her first radio appearance! by Shirley on the spur of the moment. Jean Hersholt, the radio department of a large advertising agency, This grand little actress of the screen couldn't president of the Relief Fund, and James Roosevelt, are in charge of the show. "The Blue Bird," which have chosen a more fitting time for her debut. one of its directors, visited Mrs. Temple on the Shirley was making for the movies, was adapted as Neither could she have chosen a more apt role than 20th Century-Fox set where Shirley was making a the play, and musical portions of the program have as Mityl in "The Blue Bird," a gloriOUS story of the screen version of "The Blue Bird." Because the Tem­ been left in the hands of composer Alfred Newman, things that happen to a little girl and those about ples' refusal to permit Shirley to d~ radio work was who did the musical score for the picture version of her in the interval between Christmas Eve and . well known, no one supposed that their visit had "The Blue Bird," and Oscar Bradley, director of the Christmas morn. This unbeatable combination of any other purpose than to watch "One-Take Temple" Screen Guild show. Shirley's grand dramatic talent plus a play that's at work. But suddenly Hersholt turned to Mrs. Tem­ made to order for the festive occasion promises a ple and told her what he had come for. FOR Shirley, her advent into radio is a grand adven- show long to be remembered by radio fans of all "We know that your policy- and that of the studio ture, for she is an enthusiastic radio fan with a ages everywhere. - has been that Shirley's motion-picture work keeps long list of "must hear" programs she drops every­ While this will be Shirley's first radio appearance, her busy. But this is for charity. It's to help those of thing to listen to. The stalwart "Lone Ranger" is at it is not by any means her first radio offer. Since her own profession who need it." the very top of this list. There are six radio sets in that day when her appearance in "Little Miss For a pJ,oment Mrs. Temple didn't answer. Then the Temple home, two in her dressing-room, to say Marker" proved to the world that a new star had she callEf1 Shirley over. nothing of the one in the car. As the time draws been born, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Tem­ "How would you like to do a radio show Christ­ closer for the program, Shirley's enthusiasm mounts, ple, have been literally flooded with offers for her mas Eve for the Motion Picture Relief Fund, Shir­ although there are some in Hollywood who wonder radio appearance. The manufacturer of a famous ley?" she asked her daughter. if she will succumb to mike fright, as many veterans food product rushed from the theater to cable the before her have. They remember that Patsy Kelly Temples-then vacationing in Honolulu- an offer of SHIRLEY'S face beamed. She's an ardent radio fan. fainted dead away of mike fright just before airtime $300,000 for eighteen weeks. Returning from Hono­ ''I'd love it." She was enthusiastic. But then her and the weird performances other mike-frightened lulu, they found other offers awaiting them. They face fell. "Would I be able to bring Miss Klant and screen stars have put on. But the betting is that came from oil companies, food manufacturers, candy­ Mary Lou, too?" Miss Klant is her teacher, Mary Shirley- with twenty-one pictures behind her and a makers, cosmetic houses, the networks themselves. Lou her stand-in, and they've worked with her on trouper at heart-will come through with flying And they totaled far more than a million dollars, all of her pictures. . colors. but the Temples and the studio, feeling that Shirley "We'd love to have them," Hersholt assured her. If she does, radio may playa far-reaching part in had enough to do in pictures, refused them all He turned back to Mrs. Temple. her future life, for it is no longer a secret that she is unequivocally. "All right, then, we'll do it if we can get the becoming the problem-child of her studio. This is But now Shirley is to make her radio debut, a studio's permission." through no fault of her own. She is a grand act~ess, debut that might well change this entire picture. Elated at having accomplished in a few simple amenable to direction and without temperament. The And behind this first appearance of Hollywood's words what millions of dollars in contract offers had problem grows out of the fact that Shirley is grow­ best-loved child star lies an amazing story. Jveen unable to do, Hersholt and Roosevelt hurried ing up iind out of the cute little roles that endeared • Several months ago an automobile manufacturer ro the office of Darryl Zanuck, production chief at her to millions. Under a heavy contract to 20th Cen­ offered Shirley $25,000 to sing one song with a sym­ 20th Century-Fox. They promptly received both his tury-Fox for several years to come, executives have phony orchestra on a Christmas Eve program. An­ approval and that of Joseph Schenck and hurried begun to wonder what they could do with her during ot~er radio advertiser raised that figure by ten away to make plans for what they feel will be the this period of transition. . thousand dollars. Both of these offers were refused biggest broadcast of 1939. That there will be a screen place for an older by the Temples. Now Shirley will appear in the The Screen Guild show, as you probably know, Shirley is undoubted, for,Shirley is not only a lovely, Screen Guild's production of "The Blue Bird" for is sponsored by an oil company and, in addition to curly - haired youngster with a captivating smile 4 9/11 P Shirley approaches the "awkward age" with the completion of " The Blue Bird" in 1939. Can radio bridge the gap between child and adult stardom for her ?

but she knows all of the tricks of the acting-trade. At an age w ith Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland and the other adolescents who have come to the front . in recent years, she will again be an asset to the studio. But for the present, during those growing years when she is neither a baby nor a young wo­ man, pictures which might present her in an ade­ quate way would be few and far between. At best, she could expect only supporting roles and not the stellar parts to which she has become accustomed . . Radio might well be the answer. In radio, unseen by her listeners, Shirley's fine dramatic talent and experi"ence could be put to a good use. Radio lis­ teners would welcome the seasoned talent she could bring to the microphone, while for Messrs. Schenck, Zanuck et al. it might prove an entirely satisfactory answer to what has been, thus far, a perplexing problem.

Shirley Temple may be heard Sunday on "Screen Guild Theater" over a CBS network at:

7:30 o.m. EST - 6:30 CST - 5:30 MST - 4:30 PST

AGE NINE. Charming, poised , but still cute in 1938, Shirley knew all the tricks of the acting-trade, had reached her peak

P 9/ 11 5 AIRIALTO LOWDOWN

Peter Van Steeden 'a proud new father; Firestone show joins radio's new economy bandwagon

By Martin Lewis

NEW YORK.-Your reporter was in sketches heard on the Kate Smith show the studio the night Jack Haley was will also come to an end after one or Fred Allen's guestar and the comics two more airings . . . An informant compared the difference between a states that Paul Whiteman is slated to joke being told o~ the radio and. in get a new radio sponsor soon. This of front of a television camera where peo­ course will cancel his plans for a one­ ple can see. They went on to relate month vacation in Florida if it goes that a comedian will have to look as through . . . In the meantime, Clark funny as he sounds and with that they Dennis has already departed from the made funny faces and placed derbies Whiteman organization and songstress on their heads that were at least four Joan Edwards is expected to leave very sizes too small for them. Then, after shortly, if she hasn't already done so, finishing a joke, they socked each to go on her own. other over the head with a rolled news­ paper. During rehearsal that afternoon "Scouts to the Rescue," produced by Haley got in a few extra healthy whacks Trans-Americ;p.n Radio, will make' its and Allen had been waiting for that debut on January 8 over the NBC-Blue particular moment in the script. You .. . President Roosevelt's address at can take my word for it, Haley got the annual Ja ckson Day dinner in ~ocked over the head by Allen like he Washington will be heard over the net­ has never been socked before, and of works on January 8 . .. "Abie's Irish course it got the laughs. I bet he had Rose" has been adapted for radio by a funny headache later in the evening. its author, Anne Nichols, and may get a spot on one of the networks any Before the Allen program got started, w'eek now . . . Movie star Luise Rainer, Harry von Zell introduced maestro Pe­ who is lovely to look at, will be th~ ter Van Steeden to the audience and guestar on the New York portion of the Popular maestro for Fred Allen on Wednesdays (NBC) and George Jessel on Fridays (N BC) , stalwart Peter Van Steeden blushed pretti lyon a recent Al­ told them that the maestro's wife had "Star Theater" on January 3 . . . limmy Ien broadcast when congratulated on the birth of his fourth child, a daughter given birth to a little daughter that Cagney, the hard-boiled boy of the morning - and did Peter blush? It's screen, is scheduled to playa very un­ their fourth child. After the program, usual role during the Arch Oboler play whose husband is producer of the Fred great many practical jokers are in op­ Van Steeden told me that the child ar­ on Saturday, January 13. Cagney will Allen program. . eration on Tuesday nights while the rived a month earlier than expected play the part of Joe Bonham, deaf, P. O . G. program puts in the call to but that it was fine and weighed six dumb, blind and limbless ex-soldier of Cops Nab Radio r;"cket-Scalpers the lucky winner. Letters have reached pounds. He confessed that he and his "Johnny Got His Gun," Dalton Trum­ Six youngsters were nabbed by the my desk from quite a few readers tell­ wife were hoping it would be a boy bo's best-selling nove).~ Oboler will fly cops for selling radio tickets in front ing me of their experiences. Here's a and even had a name picked out. Now to New York to produce the play trom of a CBS Playhouse. They were haled typical gag pulled by a sixteen-year-old they don't know what to call it ... The Radio City. into Night Court, with one ot them be­ boy on his mother. They were listen­ Jan Peerce baby daughter was born ing fined and the other five receiving ing to the "Pot 0' Gold" program, and prematurely and weighed four pounds Radio Stars to Become Movie Stars suspended sentences .. . What's wrong just before the telephone call was put ten ounces at birth and had to be kept Barry Wood is such a hit on the with this sentence? A tourist going in he excused himself and went out of in an incubator for several weeks and "Lucky Strike Hit Parade" that he's through the NBC studios recently asked the room. The boy ran into the neigh­ was given five blood-transfusions. The been signed for a movie by one of the a guide, "Where do you keep the kilo­ bor's apartment next door, where his baby is now at home and doing very major picture companies . . . Hobby cycles?" . . That's almost as bad as playmate was' in on the gag and was nicely .. . I forgot to report the arrival Lobby will be made into a series of the answer Jane Ace gave Goodman also tuned in on the program. At the of a seven-pound-two-ounce daughter movie shorts by Warner Bros. '. The when he tried to find out why a jury exact moment, the youngster called his for CBSongstress Doris Rhodes. shorts will feature several of the hob­ has twelve men. Jane thought the own telephone number and, as ex­ byists who ha've appeared on Dave El­ answer was elementary Dr. Watson. pected, his mother answered the phone. Seems as though an economy wave man's program. Incidentally, I heard She stated there are twelve men on the' Disguising his voice, the boy inquired has hit radio. Following the announce­ that Elman is going to ask Mark Vlar­ jury because they have twelve chairs whether she was listening to the "Pot ment that Chase and Sanborn will be now to change the title of the Lucky in the box to fill. She's such a nice girl, 0' Gold" program. Of course the an­ cut to a half-hour and the possibility Strike theme song to "Hobby Days Are too! . . . I liked that gag Bob Hope swer was in the affirmative and then that the Maxwell House show will do Here Again." .If you don't like that gag pulled on a recent program after he she was told she was the winner of the the same, I learn that the NBC "Voice blame me, I made it up myself . . . had answered the telephone. Judy ~ar­ $1.000 prize. WelL you can imagine · of Firestone" orchestra has been sliced Templeton F~ : the very attractive dra­ land asked him who it was and Bob her excitement. She confessed that she in half, reducing it from seventy men mactress, is another gal who came to bobbed up with, "Oh, something about had practically the entire amount spent to thirty-five .. . Larry Clinton departs New York from out of the West and a Pot 0' Gold." for Christmas presents. Then in walked fiom his Monday night ciggy show on made good. "Tempy" portrays Claudia the amused practical joker and con­ the NBC-Blue after one or two more Foster on "Your Family and Mine" and Pot 0' Gold 'n' Boy fessed. Tpe leiter ended with some­ broadcasts . _ . The Group Theater in private life is Mrs. Bob Welch, Which reminds me that I'm told a thing about a sound spanking. 6 9/11 P HOLLYWOO[) SHOW[)OWN

Bergen plays Santa to Charlie and Mortimer as other stars plan Christmas for their kids

By Evans Plumfner

mas present his mother in Berkeley, Casualty Toll High Calif., has had in six years. Right after A string of hard luck has been touch.. staging his first "Pot 0' Gold" broad­ ing radio folk. Mrs. Bill Hay, suffering cast, he flew up to spend a week with an acute intestinal disorder which re­ her . . . Likewise Christmas Day will quired surgery, is convalescing at Hol­ be an event for Gale Page, leading lady lywood Hospital. An auto sidewipe, at of the "Woodbury Playhouse," who first report, only cut a lip cartilage and hasn't spent the Yuletide with ,her en­ gave many bruises and abrasions to tire family for ten years. Her sister and comedian Joe E. Brown-but X-rays re­ husband, the T. W. Symons, . Jr., of vealed a collapsed lung from which he Portland, Ore., two nieces and Gale's will recover. Don Quinn, the S. C. John­ mother will join the radio and screen son show scribe, has- been bedded by actress December 25 in Hollywood for a strep throat, and Mrs. Jan Garber was a good old-fashioned taffy pull . . . scalded about the face, neck and arms "Fibber" and "Molly" also have re­ when an electric mixer's bowl broke ceived cheering word from Fibber's in her kitchen. sister, Mrs. Josephine Hugo, and her husband, who were 'aboard a ship Off Live Mikes ••• which struck a mine off Singapore, that Bonnie Baker, Orrin Tucker's canary they will arrive in Los Angeles to cele­ whose "Oh Johnny" put her atop brate Christmas with them. fame's ladder overnight, missed out on a featured role singing the tune in a Ghosh Talk tor O. Welles! Universal Picture when she failed to Listeners who tune in the CBS turn up at the studio on the appointed "Campbell Playhouse" rendition of day, so Betty Jane Rhodes won the DiG:kens' "Christmas Carol" December break . .. Dissension in NBC "Grouch Comes Christmas and all ill feeling between Charlie and his rival , Cousin 24 . wilL according to Al Span, Colum­ Club" is rife; addition of Ned Sparks Mortimer, is erased. Santa Bergen of the coffee hour, just out of the hospital where he went recently for observation , dandles them, one on each knee bia's Hollywood sound-effects boss, to the Sunday show's cast is reported hear the most convincing group of to have given a big grouch to every­ ghosts ever to have fluttered from a one . .. "One Man's Family," 'tis said, HOLL YWOOD.-Out of St. Vincent's an observation last week by his five­ radio studio. Under orders of Orson will get the second half-hour of the Hospital in time to play Santa' Claus to year-old son Tad. No, Andy will wear Welles, Span has been experimenting Chase and Sanborn hour when the lat­ his two durpmies, Edgar Bergen will no red pants and blouse this year since with the art of imparting the power of ter is streamlined, minus Don Ameche lead Hollywood's Christmas parade ... Tad observed, "You know, Pop, you'd speech to objects such as whistles, and Dorothy Lamour, to thirty min­ It was your reporter's pleasure to shad­ look just like Santa if you had a white bells, trees and even fires, and the utes come January 7 ... Bill Lawrence, ow Saint Nick, or rather his impending beard!" young Mr. Welles, who just loves to producer of "I Want a Divorce," is visits to other celebrity homes, this past frighten folk. will do his level best to pioneering a new trick with this show­ week, to wit: Sandra and Ronnie Burns, The Stars and Santa haunt the nation. he calls it "perspective of motion." who boast Gracie Allen as mother, re­ Frances Langford, more ravishing­ Take an earful. ported that they are filling a stocking looking than ever in her auburn-tinted In connection with our opening allu­ and hanging it for Santa this year be­ locks, will be swapping amethyst and sion to Santa Bergen, you possibly Athlete Crosby Boops 'Em cause he has been so good to them in diamond-jeweled gifts with hubby Jon heard McCarthy and Bergen broadcast Bing Crosby took time out from his the past. Sandra also remarked, "You Hall. The gems are their respective from St. Vincent's Hospital. If you December 7 Kraft rehearsal to show the know, he's an awful big man because birthstones ... Hedda Hopper will play didn't, 300 nurses, nuns, internes, doc­ NBC page boys, on the studio parking­ last yea.r he lost his boot getting up the Santa herself on Christmas Day by tors and patients did. They almost lot, how he used to carry the ball for chimney and it was big enough for eliminaiing the star-life-story drama wrecked the emergency broadcast with old Gonzaga. He showed them, aided both Ronnie and me to put our feet in!" from her "Hopper's Hollywood" airing their loud laughter . .. At "Silver Thea­ by Arch Oboler, for five minutes, that Sandra is also inviting all the store and so that her acting cast need not work ter": Mary Taylor was selected at audi­ is, until Messrs. Crosby and Oboler street-corner "brothers" of Santa to the on the holiday. . Mike Raffetto, Paul tions by Clark Gable as his leading were winded. The follOWing Sunday, Burns and Allen home for Christmas of "Gne Man's Family" and Jack Pack­ lady. Then he learned that she was however, Bing did better at Lakeside Eve. ard of "I Love a Mystery," made his none other than the wealthy ex-New Country Club with a golf stick. Meeting little daughter, attending a private York society girl who had decided to Bob Hope in a charity match, he gave To . Joan Benny, December 24 may school in Maryland, quite happy by break into Hollywood the hard way­ Hope four strokes, then turned in a net be broadcast night fo r;. rna Mary Living­ fulfilling her request for a "lot of auto­ an merit! ... At "The Aldrich Family": 73 to Bob's 77. Bob won the toss and s/one and pa Jack, but to her it's an graphed pictures for my friends." He Ezra Stone understands the misunder­ the cup. But paired with Paulette God­ ideal night tq stay home. That, in effect, even picked a serious pose because stood boy. Noting in ,his audience a dard and her 107, against the Hope­ was Joan's choice when her daddy and she requested, "And p)ease, Daddy, young magazine salesman playing Ruby Keeler twosome, he was sub: mother asked her to be their guests at make them look very important!" hookey from work, "Henry" walked merged when Ruby turned in a 90. the studio . . . Andy Devine has been into the audience to the lad and bought Hope presented Ruby with the four­ forced to a momentous decision, too, by Horace Heidt became the best Christ- everyone of his magazines! some cup. P 9/11 7 CHICAGO.- This is Christmas sea tiona I Barn Dance" recently . . . Pet son at radio's Crossroads: Mrs. C. C. possession of Virginia Verrill, song star Doherty will play her favorite role of "Uncle Walter's Dog House," is a Christmas as just the mother of two­ handsome silver beaker pr.esented to year-old Tony Doherty, a role less her by W alt Disney for her triumph in widely known but one which she pre- a badminton tournament. Vee, by the • fers even to that of Sade in "Vic and way, flew West Coastward to be at Sade" or as Emily Burke in "Right to home in Hollywood for the holiday. Happiness" or even as Bernardine Flynn, the name by which she is most Red Skelton, "Avalon Time" comic widely known off the air ... Betty Lou and nation's number one doughnut­ Gerson had copies printed of her col­ clunker, had to consult his dentist re­ lection of children's verse for gifts to cently after a "friend" slipped him a her young friends . . . Santa found a couple of six-month-old sinkers camou­ crew of diligent helpers in the cast of fl aged with powdered sugar . .. Betty "Caroline's Golden Store." Caroline Winkler has asked many times for a Ellis collected used toys from children good autographed likeness of her par t­ of radio personalities, and the w hole Iler in many plays, Pat Murphy. Las t cast of the show plied paint, glue and week she got one- an X-ray shot of th e needles to renovate the toys for distri­ Murphy skull, autographed neatly by bution to poor children. both Pat and the technician who ex­ posed the cranium. Ransom Sherman has been charging "Club Matinee" audiences one jitney DEAR SANTA: for a utographs- his own stunt for sell­ When you blow into the Windy City, ing Christmas seals, for he pastes a won't you please include some of 1t1e seal on the paper to which he signs his follOWing items for our radio famil y ? name .. The aforementioned Sher­ Those prospective sponsors for the man and Bob Brown played host on "Breakfast Club"; that trip to Miami " Quicksilver" to the Santa Claus of for Wayne King; pencils for Virginia State and Madison, world's busiest Clark (she collects them, you knoY'l); corner. This particular St. Nick of the greater recognition for the artistry of Volunteers of America collects more such great conductors as Harry Kogen charity contributions than any other and Roy Shield; Mary's Joe Marlin; a Volunteers Nick in Chicago, and he pair of shoes for Whitey Ford, the does not reveal his identity- he's just Duke of Paducah; a bigger chance for Santa Claus . .. hna Phillips, author of Dave BacaJ's novachord and electric­ four serials, did her Christmas writing organ wizardry; respite for some of the early, got sufficiently ahead that she serial characters; a hearty slap on the could give herself the gift of a vacation back for Aunt Fanny and Grandpa over the holidays. Putterball, masterfully created by Fran Bernardine Flynn (Mrs. C. C. Doherty), air favorite as Sade in "Vic and Allison and Sid Ellstrom; a long radio Sade" on NBC-Red .a.nd as Emily Burke in " Right to Happiness" on NBC­ Seymour Goes Shopping life for such talented young singers as Blue, forgets radio at Christmas to make the season happy for son Tony Anne Seymour-even as you and I­ CBS' Edith Hendrick (age twenty-two) went shopping the other day and got and NBC's Betty Barrett (·fourteen) and interested- even as you and I- in the Dinning sisters (fifteen, fifteen, seven­ toy department, especially with a set of teen). magic tricks. "Pardon me," she said to BACKSTAGE the clerk, "but will you show me how For me just a bundle of commercial this works?" "Sorry, ma'am," he solic­ plugS- if I've been a very bad boy. itously replied. ''I'm a demonstrator; You'll find Don McNeill's sock hanging I'll have to call the floorman if you IN CHICAGO, up, Santa. It will hold all the stuff. want an instructor." Even as you and P. S. Will you carry the following I ... "National Barn Dance" headliners humble greeting to radio in general donated their services for the Christmas Bernardine JlSade" Flynn, other ' from yours sincerely?- Giving Party, annual charity event sponsored by WLS, held this year in stars observe Christmas season; THE PUBLIC INTEREST the baJlroom of the Stevens Hotel. When in a stable on a frosty morn Price of admission was one toy or non­ The very hands of time were stopped perishable food item. Last year over Jack Baker be2ins fourth year and started, 4,000 children and their parents at­ There was no broadcast. "Flash! The tended .. A musical treat Christmas Christ is born!" day will be Walter Blaufuss' orchestra ~y DON MOORE Only a silent star selections on "Farm and Home Hour"­ Flashed wise men from afar including an excerpt from "Nutcracker The greatest news th e world has yet Suite," a "Doll" medley by pianist Bill reported. Krenz, a drum extravaganza, "Tom Thumb's Drums," "Toy Trumpet" and Jack Baker Here to Stay networks. A further suggestion: Have Of that event no network Coast-to-Coast "Noel." Maybe this will furnish the Louisiana Lark Jack Baker last week the elevator operators make a quick Put on the air an on-the-spot descrip­ musical piece de resistance of that passed his third anniversary as tenor stop at the nineteenth floor to don red tion, scrumptious noontime meal, huh? soloist of the "Breakfast Club." Hope false noses to match their blue uni­ But song ethereal by a heavenly host Jack, who sings like a lark, pops into forms . .. Did you know that "Jack Brought shepherds on the hill Many of those listeners who seldom the chatter like a jaybird and giggles Armstrong" is played by Charlie The message, "Peace, good-will!" or never listen to the serials might well like a pecksilated parrot, doesn't ·.get Flynn, talented son of Bess Flynn, And spread o'er all the earth that grand afford fifteen minutes for the "Guiding drowned in hig;h C's, but sticks around author of "Bachelor's Children"? .. . conception. Light" sketch on Christmas day. The for a Baker's dozen and more years­ Johnnie Gannon, who plays Billy in the only character on that episode will be don't you? ... Betty Lou Gerson is same sketch and who is the only mem­ And "Greater things than these ye yet Dr. Ruthledge, who will deliver a star of the new "Grand Hotel" series, ber of the original cast still appearing shall do." Christmas sermon on "The Brotherhood supported by Frank Behrens . . . Rumor on the show, will soon pass his 1,300th Shall radio help carryon His labor? ot Man" (11:45 a.m., NBC) ... Christ­ has it "Manhattan Mother" may move episode. Wonder if that doesn't deserve Then let it spread abroad the gospel mas letters and gifts swell the volume to Manhattan the first of the year. It a tangible recognition from his boss~s. true of postal traffic coming into the NBC isn't certain y~, . though. That Christ was born to give Merchandise Mart studios to utter ca­ Happy Jack Turner, whose free-and­ His lite that men might live pacity. And it is noticeable that at least The nineteenth and twentieth floors easy style of singing and piano-playing In peace and learn at last to "love thy during this season the announcers, so of the Merchandise Mart, headquarters has pleased many ears for many years neighbor." often considered necessary evils or of NBC, now have red and blue rather in the daytime, appeared on his first simply fixtures, come in for a very than red and green elevator lights­ Coast-to-Coast night - time commercial "And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God generous share of appreciative mail. presumably to signify red and blue show when he was guest of the "Na- bless us everyone." 8 8/11 P NEW IDEAS W ANTED- OR ARE THEY?

Radio men must con 15,000 or 20,000 of them-sane and screwball-every year

One man wanted to air the myriad One offered to leap off a sky­ time juggling both that and his hat. variety of deer - hunters' snores course of an entire year, prove practical scraper to give his dying reactions or even of potential value. Writers ap­ Finally he puts them both on the floor, pear to have an utter disregard for what then announces that he has "a swell SUALLY when a sponsor comes to radio can and cannot do. Hypnotists idea." orable tumble in Wall Street, a pro­ a big network with a program want to practise their art for the benefit It goes like this, you find. Two peo­ gram mogul at one of the big networks Uidea in his head and a bag of of radio's millions. ple are suppos"ed to have been knocked had this to remark- and in print: gold in one hand, doors fly open, car­ Typical of many ideas received is a ~nconscious in' an automobile accident "We had a proposal the other day pets are unrolled, and the welcoming recent letter from a man in upstate New and will describe their experiences from a man in the dress-goods business committee is paved with vice-presi­ York who wrote from a deer-hunters' while under ether. "Over the ether," he that we put on a program, with his adds, with a smug ' smile. dents. camp. It came to the desk of a pro­ assistance, built entirely on the trade There have been horrible exceptions. gram-director, advising him that the. You lean back in your chair and nod jargon of his industry. He said there One of them was an important maker snores of hunters staying at the camp for the young man to go on. It appears were thousands who would like to hear of mattresses who approached broad­ were of infinite variety. "A program that this is all he has on his mind. A such a sketch. Of course they would, casters with the announcement that he would be," said he, "of great use to script? No, he hasn't written anything but how about the hundreds of thou­ wanted to buy a half-hour of air time. the medical profession. The snores but an outline about it.· Hasn't the net­ sands to whom such 'entertainment' The network allowed as it had some have a variation beyond imagination work got its own writers? He's just an would be meaningless?" mighty choice half-hours for sale and and can be -appreciated only when "idea man." One of his ideas was to The crystal ball must have been what kind of a program did Mr. Mat­ heard." have the ushers walk up and down the clouded that day. Otherwise he might tress Maker propose to ' put on the kilo­ Another candidate for air honors of­ aisles, wafting a mild odor of ether have foreseen that his very network, cycles? Maybe a swing trio or a couple fered to go over Niagara Fall~ in a over the studio audience with spray­ some seven or eight years later, would of high-priced comedians? barrel, broadcasting as he went. One guns. produce a program called "Americans No, admitted the gentleman with a man, in desperation at his inability to Outside it was a pleasant. sunny day. at Work," devoted to the every-day dreamy look.. in his eyes. He wanted get a job, came to the special-features The young man shows no inclination work of trained American experts in to buy half an hour Coast-to-Coast and division of a network last year and de­ to leave. You remember Blatherskit and many fields of endeavor_ The program send it to the radio listeners of the land clared he would leap off a skyscraper what a good friend of yours he used ranks high today as an educational and as "a program of complete silence, rest­ popular feature, winner of many awards ful as the So'n'so brand mattress!" -in short, a sizable radio success. The idea never quite reached _the --~ The same gentleman of 1931 had loudspeakers, novel as it might have quite a few ideas on programming. been, because of a little ruling which ' "Then there are the imitators!" he says stations must keep spouting music moaned. "Here again is displayed an or conversation without a break while amazing lack of understanding of ra­ they are on ' the air. Something about dio's requirements. "public convenience and necessity." v "And of course," he added breezily, But the notion sent radio folks into a "it is obvious there is no field for the v dither. woman who imitates a little girl or a The man who made mattresses- a great actress- why shouldn't it be the feat which, incidentally, he still per­ little girl at the microphone, or the forms-is only representative of those great actress herself?" thousands who accost the ramparts of No imitators? What would Major radio each year with a galaxy of screw­ Bowes do? No field for a woman who ball ideas. Of course he had the added Another idea - man wanted to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel , broadcast­ imitates a little girl? Explain away, virtue of crisp cash to back up his sug­ ing as he went. A mattress-maker planned to sponsor a show of dead silence then, the success of Fannie Brice and gestion, had it been half-way accept­ her Baby Snooks. Or-what was even able. Ideas come from everyone--from remoter from the gentleman's thoughts taxi-drivers to bank preSidents- who with a pack transmitter, broadcasting to be. Pretty soon your secretary an­ in 1931- a man who imitates a little imagine that the shiny institution of his dying reactions as he fell, if the nounces there are some more people girl. such as Tommy Riggs and his broadcasting can do just about any­ network would agree to give his widow with ideas waiting to see you. Betty Lou. thing. Which, as a matter of fact, is and children $1.000. If broadcasters had adhered to his rather right. . It's all a constant parade of amazing But before you guffaw at. such inan­ early formula, Charlie McCarthy would Most of these program notions are suggestions which, if an index to the ity, consider that there's another angle not be a national hero. And, it is quite proffered with the conviction' that great range of the human mind, of.ten de­ to the matter. Like those remarkable logical to add, the network which fol­ wealth is assured if one can only reach presses program men to the point of things which women wear on their lowed it would not be a national hook­ the microphone. Radio, lik~ the movies, indigestion. heads, radio programs also have great up. is America's modern EI Dorado. In one Pretend, if you will. that you're a fluctuations in fashion. Suggestions It all goes to show that you just can't respect that's correct. It's just about as program-director. It is a pleasant, sun­ which were laughed to scorn five years tell. And with television gathering a hard to find as the glittering city of ny day. Your secretary says there is a ago by reputedly far-sighted men today certain amount of sluggish impetus, the the conquistadors. young man outside to see ' you with a are among the most popular features of vistas opened up for program ideas are Anywhere from fif teen to twenty letter of introduction from Mr. Blather­ the airwaves. frankly terrifying. Probably the soul of thousand program suggestions are sub­ skit. Blatherskit is a preity good friend The blame is probably not all with radio's success lies in, the fact that it's mitted each twelve month:; to the major of yours. "Send him in," you tell the the far-sighted men. Some of it rests even more unpredictable than the in­ networks . . It's a dull day that doesn't girl cheerfully. • in the fact that broadcasting has proved genuity of the men who created it. see fifty or more letters from ambitious The young man comes in. He has a to be unpredictable beyond our night­ Maybe the mattress-manufacturer, the people dumped on a program-director's well-scrubbed face that is quite sincere mares. It can do almost anything ex­ snore-fancier and the ether-sprayer all d esk. yet, alas, not very intelligent. He car­ cept defrost the refrigerator. had pretty good ideas after all. Time The law of probability runs at a wo­ ries a leather portfolio and, when he Back in 1931. while America was still will . tell. ful ratio. Perhaps a dozen or so, in. the sits down, seems to be having quite a brushi~g off its clothes after a mem- -Dick Dorrance. [' D/ Il 9 THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC OR­ conductor. Margaret Daum, soprano. CHESTRA, CBS. John Barbirolli, con­ Mixed Chorus; Julius Matfeld, or­ ductor. Concerto Grosso No. 8 in G ganist. Minor-UFatto per La Notte di NataLe" Eastern Ce ntra l Mountain Pacific 12:00 mid. 11 :00 p.m. 10: 00 p . rn. 9 ; 00 p.m. The March of Music (Corelli), " Christmas" (Weinberger), Va1'iations /In a Christmas CaroL by Monday, December 25 Tsc4aikowsky (Arensky), " Emperor" Edited by LEONARO LI-EBLING WaLtz (Strauss), O verture to " The "NUTCRACK En SUITE" (Tschaikowsky), Gypsy Baron" (Strauss). NBC. Symphony Orchestra, Frank " ... An ampler Ether, a diviner Air .."-Wordsworth Always pl-eferable to a commenta­ Black, conduc1!Dr. P resented in nar­ tor's analysis of a composer's music is rative form. Eastern Ce ntra l Mountain Pacific the creator's own explanation of what 2:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 12:00 noon 11:00 a.m. he intended to express and convey. Therefore readers may welcome what THE VOICE OF FIRESTONE, NBC. Alfred recital. It presents not too familiar Jaromir Weinberger has to say a bout FORECAST music by living Hungarian composers, Wallenstein, con d u c tor. Richard his "Christmas." (In Prague, Wein­ Crooks, tenor. "Christmas" (Shilkret), and also th e musically refined and berger's home, it became the tradition HRISTMAS on the radio means technically polished keyboard art of the Orchestra; Comfort Yeofrom "The the airwaves filled with cho­ to perform the work every Christmas V era · Brodsky. Eve over the radio shortly before the Messiah" (Handel), Richard Crooks; Cruses, ringing of bells and special Dohnanyi's bent has always been March of the Toys (Herbert), the qr­ President of the Republic made his symphonic Christmas programs. This chiefly m~lodic despite the dissonant annual Yuletide address. This cus­ chestra; Open Your Window to the year is no exception, and every day manner of some of his contemporaries. tom ended, of course, with the German Morn (Phillips), E Lucevan Le Stene during the holidays brings a special The charming "Capriccio" seems per­ occupation.) . m anently in the repertoire. from "La Tosca" (Puccini), Richard musical treat. '~ einberger says: "The title page of Bartok, generally more severe in the Crooks; Largo (Handel ), the Orches­ NBC continues its annual tradition my score bears these notes: 'From the tra; Christmas CaroLs, Richard Crooks. crass modern style, lets at least a lit­ snow-covered mountains is heard the of performing "Silent Night" at mid­ tle sunshine creep into his "Sonatina" E ast e rn Central Mountain Pacific sound of shepherds' pipes in the night. 8 : 30 p . m. 7 : 30 p .m. 9:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. night on Christmas Eve, with Marjorie here and there. Lawrence as the soloist. Beloved The tidings have come that in an or­ Kodaly's vigorou s measures reflect chard still under snow an apple tree SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, MBS. Overture Geraldine Farrar reads her own poem the rhythmic jubilations of the hardy has suddenly put forth blossoms. to " The ' Messiah" (Handel), Pastoral to a musical accompaniment by Frank peasants in the Carpathian mountains. " 'An angel appears to the shepherds Symphony from " The Messiah" (Han­ Black. The Vatican broadcasts on East(>rn Central Mountai n Pacific 3:30 p.m . 2:30 p.m. ~ 'l O p.m. 12:30 p.m. and announces the birth of the Saviour. del), A MusicaL Snuff Box (Liadow), They hasten to Him. The village band Suite from " The Christmas Tree" (Re­ follows on foot with clarinet, trumpet bikov), Nicolai Berezowsky, con­ and bass viol to honor the Holy Child ductor. with music.' Eastern Central Mountain Pacific ("It was a t this time that Bohe­ 9 : 30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 7 :30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. mian music received its gift of honest joy and sincere feeling, a g.ift that it Tuesday, December 26 has never lost.") "'At the manger appear the three CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC, CBS. Holy Kings. They kneel before the Beryl Rubinstein and Arthur Loesser, Sacred Child. Angels descend from duo- pianists. Mary Kirk, contralto. heaven to rock the Infant Saviour to " Mortify Us by Thy Grace" (Bach­ sleep. Children run in to bring the Williams), Duettino Concertante (Mo­ little Child Jesus a cuckoo, and He zart- Busoni), Zueignung (Strauss), sits up and calls lovingly to them. "'There is great joy at the birth of Der DoppLegaenger (Schubert), Die the Saviour and there sounds forth Post (Schubert), Schmerzen (Wag­ jubilantly "Glory to God in the High: ner), Etude in the Form of a Canon est, and on earth peace and good- w ill in A FLat (Schumann-Debussy) , Rondo to men."'" B-rilLiante (Schuberi-Bau er), E astern C e ntral M ount ain Pacific Eastern Central Mountain Pacific 3:00 p.m . 2 : 00 p . m. 1:00 p.m. 12:00 noon 4 :C!0 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 2 :00 p.m. 1:00 p.m.

TWILIGHT IN PALESTINE, NBC. Sym­ MOZART CONCERTO SERIES, MBS. Alfred phony orchestra, Frank Black conduct­ Wallenstein, conductor; Nadia Reisen­ ing. Miss Farrar will read her own berg, pianist. Concerto No. 14 in E Christmas poem, " T w ilight in P ales­ FLat (K. 449) (Mozart) . tine." E astern Centra l Mountain Pacific East ern Cen t ral Mountain Pacific 9:30 p.m . 8:3d p.m. 7:30 p .m . 6:30 p.m. _ L eonard Hyam!' 3 : 45 p.m. 2 : 45 p.m. 1 :45 p.m. 12:45 p.m. Conductor John Bal'birolli, left, studies the score of the symphony, " Christ­ METROPOLITAN AUDITIONS OF THE AIR, Wednesday, 'December 27 mas," with its composer, Jaromir Weinberger. Barbirolli's "New York Ph,i l­ NBC. Metropolitan Opera tryouts. INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, harm~nic Symphony Orchestra" presents it Sunday afternoon over CBS Milton Cross, master of ceremonies. CBS. F abien Sevitzky, conductor. E astern C e ntral M Olmtain Pacific 5:30 p .m . 4 :30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. "Fire bird" Suite (Stravinsky), Over­ ture " SchooL for ScandaL" (Samuel Sunday. These are only a few of the THE NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, NBC. BACH CANTATA SERIES, MBS. Alfred Barber) . Desire Defauw, conductor. Sinfonia Wallenstein, con d u c tor; Genevieve E astern Central Mountain Pacific holiday musical "musts." 10:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 8:30 p . m . 7:30 p .m . from " Christmas Cantata" (Bach), Rowe, soprano; Mary Hopple, con­ Saturday, December 23 Dream Pantomime from " HaenseL and tralto; William Hain, tenor; Raoul Friday, December 29 Nadeau, baritone. Cantata No. 132. THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG GreteL" (Humperdinck), Suite de BaL­ Let (Gretry), Over ture Joyeuse (Mar­ Ea stern Ce ntral Mountain Pacific SINFONIETTA, MBS. Alfred Wallen­ PEOPLE 'S CONCERT, CBS. Rudolph 7 :00 p . m. 6:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. stein, conductor. Symphony No. 2 Ganz, conductor. L e Tambourin de cel Poot) , Symphony. No. 3 (Brahms). E astern Central Mountain Pacific THE FORD SUNDAY EVENING HOUR , CBS. (Weber) , Summer (Frank Bridge). Triomphe (Destouches), SeLections 10:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m . 7 :00 p.m. The D etroit Symphony Orchestra. Eastern Central Mountain Pacific 8:30 p.m. 7 :30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 5 :30 p.m. from " Acante et Cephise" (Rameau ), Sunday, December 24 Fritz Reiner, conductor; Marian An­ Suite in B Minor (Bach) , Andante derson, contralto. Overture " Roman THE RADIO CITY Musi-c HALL OF THE CantabiLe from " Jupiter" Symphony CarnivaL" (Berlioz), the Orchestra; 0 , AIR, NBC. Sinfonietta program. Erno (Mozart), Everybody sing " We Three Thou That Tenest from " The Messiah" Rapee, condu ctor. Second and Third Kings of Orient Are," Tambou1'ine and (Handel), SeLections from "Nutcracker Movements Quintet in C Major, Opus Gigue (Gretry), Tanz aus der Oster­ Suite" (Tschaikowsky) , the Orchestra; 163 (Schubert), the Orchestra; Pa Luu mark (Schonherr). Fantasie on FamiLiar Christmas Hymns (Erkki Melartin) , Alexandra Ramalha, The sudden death of Ernest Schel­ (Gilbert), Marian Anderson, Chorus soprano; Piano Concerto in G Minor ling, so long at the head of these con­ and Orchestra; GoUiwog's CakewaLk (Mendelssohn), Henrietta Schumann, certs, will bring sorrow to their many (Debussy), Witch's Ride from " Haen­ young listeners all over the country. pianist; . Three BraziLian FoLk-Songs, seL and GreteL" (Humperdinck) , the His present successor has previously Alexandra Ramalha; Last Movement Orchestra; None But the LoneLy Heart endeared himself to them with his de­ Octet (Gliere). (Tschaikowsky), Sum mer (Chami­ lightful talks and understanding con­ E astern Central Mountain Pacific ducting. 12:00 noon 11:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. n ade) , Marian Anderson; Mary, Easte rn Central Mountain Pacific Where's Yo' Baby (Negro song), 11:05 a.m. 10:05 a.m. 9 :05 a.m. 8:05 a.m. CHOIR FROM THE VATICAN, ROME, CBS, NBC, MBS. North American College Marian Anderson (unaccompanied) ; ' NORDIC CHORAL ENSEMBLE FROM Du­ Choir. ChoraLes . Treasure WaLtz from "The Gypsy LUTH, CBS. Scandinavian Christmas Eastern Centra l Mountain Pacific Baron" (Strauss), the Orchestra; Come 1 :00 p.m. 12:00 noon 11 :00 a.m . 10:00 a.m. music. An Ye FaithfuL (Trad.), Marian An­ Eastern Ce ntral Mountain P aci fic STRING SYMPHONY, NBC. Frank Black, 3:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m . 1:00 p.m. 12:00 noon derson, Chorus, Orchestra and audi- conductor. PreLude in D Minor; Hun­ ence. PIANO RECITAL, CBS. Vera Brodsky. garian FareweH (Salta), Piano Sonata; Eastern Central Mountain Pacific. Capriccio in A Minor, Opus 23, NO.3 Opus 28 (Beethoven-Black). 9:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m . 7:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. (Dohnanyi), VaLse Impromptu in E Easte rn Ce ntra l Mounta in Pacific "SILENT NIGHT," NBC. Marjorie Law- 2:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 12:00 noon 11:00 a.m. Minor, Opus 23, No. 2 (Dohnanyi), Sonatina (Bela Bartok) , Dances of BACH CHOIR FROM BETHLEHEM, PA. ) ' re~~:~r:Opra~~~ral Mountain Pacific CBS. Four ChoraLes (Bach), Three ",56 p.m. 10, 56 p.m. 9,56 p.m. 8.56 p.m. Maroscek (Kodaly). Fulfilling NBC tradition, Marjori e As an enlivening change from the Moravian ChoraLes. CHRISTMAS CAROLS, CBS. Columbia Lawrencl! si ngs " Si lent Night," eternal vocal in radio comes this piano 2:~~ s~~~. 1:~~ n;~~. J::~~n:~:;. 1I:';~i!i.c:n. Concert Orchestra, Howard Barlow, 11:56 p.m. EST, Christmas Eve 10 9/11 P "Recognizing your own personal con­ In a Box at the .opera tribution toward these achievements, I By Leonard Liebi ing am commissioned, Mr. Johnson, as Mu­ sic Editor of RADIO GUIDE Weekly, to JJLa DW ARD JOHNSON and I sat oppo­ present to you herewith its Medal of Traviata" site eac~ other at a little table in Merit, conferred upon outstanding per­ Eone section of a second-tier box at sonalities and programs over the . air. the Metropolitan Opera House last Sat­ "Our congratulations, Mr. Johnson, This Week's Opera urday afternoon. The other section, afld best wishes for many more years screened from our view, held NBC of splendid success." broadcasting apparatus and controls, Thereupon, Mr. Johnson answered the operators, and Milton Cross, the most modestly: ace announcer. "Please accept my sincere thanks Saturday, December 23, The Metropoli­ noted demi-mondaine, living a luxuri­ . In front of the managing director of . for RADIO GUIDE and for yourself. I tan Opera Company will present Giu­ ous, reckless, and none too particular the Metropolitan and myself were NBC deeply appreciate also your very kind seppe Verdi's "La Tr aviata" on NBC at life in the French capital. gives a sup­ microphones and some sheets of type­ words about me and my work. 2:00 p.m. EST; 1:00 p.m. CST; 12:00 per party to the "cafe set" of those written paper. We could hear the mu­ "However, ·1 look upon the medal noon MST; 11 :00 a.m. PST. days. Romantic Alfred Germont is a sic from the stage, part of the per­ you have just given me as a tribute to guest, and becomes enamored of the formance of "Boris Godunoff." Pinza the Metropolitan Opera Company rath­ THE CAST: beautiful young hostess. Naively he was singing the title role. er than to me individually. Violetta ...... Helen Jepson (soprano) questions her about herself, she is "Sounds great," I said. "No military general can conduct a touched by his deep interest and pity, "Pinza is a most remarkable artist," Alfredo ...... Richard Crooks (tenor) successful campaign without devoted and her heart goes out to him. She . commented Johnson; "he gets better cooperation from his staff and soldiers. Germont Senior ...... agrees to give up her light career and and better with every appearance,. even And certainly no general manager of . . . Lawrence' Tibbett (baritone) devote herself to him alone . though no improvement seems possible opera can succeed without such de­ They move to the country and are over his previous work." Laura .. .. . Thelma Votipka (soprano) voted cooperation from his executive ideally happy until Alfred (Alfredo is "All great singers study incessantly," aids and artists. I enjoy both in fullest Conduct~r: Ettore Panizza his name in the opera) learns that Vio- I continued. "I remember that the late measure. Caruso once told me--" "In that spirit, therefore, I accept the What he told me remained unre­ Medal from RADIO GUIDE as a high vealed at that moment, for a young compliment to our institution. man stationed near us waved his hand "We shall continue to try to give the at me, as a signal, and I began to read: best operas in the best way for our "Thank you, Mr. Cross .. . Mr. John­ thousands of visible hearers and our son, there is no fitter time or place than · millions of unseen listeners on the au. this for me to carry out the commission "Again, thanks to RADIO GUIDE and that brings me here this afternoon, to you, Mr. Liebling ..." through the courtesy of the National "Good luck,' Mr. Johnson Broadcasting Company and of the Met­ "Thank you, Mr. Liebling." ropolitan Opera Association. "Your later career is known to every­ body, Mr. Johnson, but chiefly your Suggestions to Santa older friends and admirers- and I be­ long warmly to both- are familiar ytith HE following, dear Santa, might be your earlier .. achievements. First, a appropriate presents for some of Tyour musical boys and girls ~ choir singer; then a featured tenor in light opera; finally, a star of grand Jan Peerce- that long-deferred en- opera. gagement at the Metropolitan. "After your long years of public James Melton- ditto. singing, you were chosen in 1935 to Most torchists- a vacation from the become general manager of the Met­ air. ropolitan- and you are brilliantly ful­ Howard Barlow - embossed thanks "La Traviata" is Verdi's operatic version of the famous story of Camille. filling your mission in that high office. from American composers he has per­ On Saturday over NBC, the Metropolitan Opera presents it with Helen Jep­ "Under your informed and intelligent formed. son (r.) as Violetta (Camille) and Lawrence Tibbett as Germont, the elder supervision, this organization stead­ Milton Cross- a beautifully wrapped fastly upholds its gloriOUS traditions as package of throat lozenges: the world's most eminent theater of Arturo Toscanini- the programs he II LA TRA VIAT A" is the Italian for letta has secretly been selling her be­ operatic art. promises in advance. "The Castaway," but the li­ longings in order to maintain their "Best of all, millions of new opera­ John Barbirolli- a renewed contract bretto has nothing to do with little home. He rushes off to Paris to lovers have been won through the with the Philharmonic. the sea. The story Verdi set to music secure funds of his own. noteworthy . broadcast perform~nces Deems Taylor - a copy of Julius was that of Dumas' (the younger) Alfredo's father arrives and upbraids you bring to radio listeners every Sat­ Caesar's "Commentaries." drama, "La Dame aux Camellias" (The Violetta for leading his son into "sinful urday afternmon all over the globe. Nino Martini - police protection Lady of the Camellias), best known and and extravagant ways." Also he de­ against autograph-hunters. best wept over, in America under the clares that the notoriety of Alfredo is Nelson Eddy- ditto. name of "Camille." interfering with the contemplated mar­ Samuel Chotzinoff- more time on the Francesco M. Piave adapted the ro­ riage of his sister. The susceptible and Toscanini broadcasts. mantic-tragic play for opera use, and noble-minded Violetta renounces Al­ Lauritz Melchior- some songs not by Verdi furnished a brilliant score, in­ fredo, writes him a note of farewelL Wagner. cluding some of his loveliest and most and goes back to her old life in Paris. Erno Rapee-a few weeks away from popular airs. Venice saw the successful Alfredo finds her at a brilliant party Sibelius. premiere in 1853. and implores her to return to him. She Jose Iturbi- more piano playing. For some · reason Piave redated the refuses without giving any explanation. Fritz Reiner-a testimonial for first- story, for while Dumas' tale covers a Alfredo plays wildly at the gaming­ class program making. period of Parisian life in the first half table, wins, and throws the money at Eugene Ormandy- ditto. of the nineteenth century, the Glriginal Violetta, as "payment in full." His fa­ Edward Johnson- another Caruso. Italian libretto took it back to the days ther turns up again, reproaches the son Richard Crooks-cheers for his su- of Louis XIV. However, at the Metro­ and takes him away. perfine delivery. politan the Dumas era is featured and Violetta, always tuberculous, is fa­ Lawrence Tibbett- ditto for his fault­ the costumes are of the Second Empire. tally ill in the last act. Alfredo, now less diction. By the way, Dumas' play had its first informed by his father of her sacrifice, John Charles Thomas- ditto for his production in 1852, at Paris (the year visits her repentantly. They pledge eter­ appealing voice. Napoleon III became Emperor). It will nal love. Her last vows end in death. Henrietta Schumann- a copy of some be seen, therefore, that Verdi possessed The role of Violetta requires ability piano concerto she doesn't play. keen theatrical instinct apd was a sharp to sing coloratura and lyric music, as Lucille Manners - congratulations opportunist, for twelve months after in the "Ah, fors e lui" aria (The One ot' and plaudits. • "La Dame aux Camellias" first tri­ Whom I Dreamed) at the end of the Geraldine Farrar, famous veteran Ford program-long may it airwave. umphed in the theater it made its ap­ first act. Nearly every noted soprano of opera, will read her poem, "Twi­ Nadia Reisenberg- a "Life of Mo­ pearance as a Verdi opera. has essayed the part. light in Palestine," over NBC, Sun. zart." Violetta (Camille), the heroine, a -Leonard Liebling. P 9/ 11 ) 1 i ·WHAT [) O"E S AMERICAN [)EMOCRACY MEAN TO ME?

HAT does American Democ· hand, amateur actor, circus clown, bur­ racy mean? lesquer, vaudevillian, radio actor, pic­ W To you? ture-player - much water has passed To the cop around the corner in the under the bridge since the day my ship squad car? To the delicatessen clerk came through. As an adopted son of down the way? To the pregnant mother the United States, democracy means to pushing her last kid through the park? m e opportunity. The small share of suc­ To you? cess that has come to me is due to that To Joe Louis who is black and Jim opportunity - to the freedom assured Thorpe who is red and Joe DiMaggio every American no matter how humble who is white? his origin. Only in a democracy such To you? as ours is such opportunity offered all Answer that to yourself slowly and m en. I thank God I am an American." thoughtfully. Work on it until you get it. The answer is important. It is more Fred Allen; "American democracy important this year of our Lord 1939 means to me that as an individual I am than it ever has been during the 163 permitted to voice my sentiments and years of our republic's existence. enjoy sharing in the direction of gov­ There is a ' hymn people used to sing ernmental activities that have a direct in church. It went "Count your many influence on my daily life and welfare. blessings, name them one by one . . . " In all other forms of government the That is still a good idea. Count your individual is relegated to the role of many blessings. innocent bystander." That is what we asked a lot of fa· mous people to do recently. We said, Lowell Thomas: "For an American to "Brother, count your many blessings appreciate what democracy means to and then tell us what American democ· him, just let him travel around the racy means to you." The answers are world. Let him see the variegated sorts too vital and too significant to keep. of governments from primitive tribalism They come straight from the hearts of on the Burma·China border to the com­ people who have visited your parlors plete despotism of the advanced totali­ and porches for years. There was no tarian nations of Europe. Let him see editorial doctoring of these reports. the restraints on individualism and per­ Challenge to Broadcasters! Here are America's radio stars and sonal freedom among the caste-ridden American citizens searching their secret masses of India; the tabu-hoarded On these pages are the thrilling, crack­ souls. clan-dominated tribes of the South Seas: ling words of men and women who love Hear them speak! the militarized goose-steppers of Euro: their country. That they are radio stars peaR fascism and communism, and the is of secondary importance. They are Dave Elman, "Hobby Lobby": "Sev· war-hoarded terrorists of Europe. Then citizens of a democracy fint. On these eral years ago I heard about a man who he will say as I say-'American democ­ pages are words that should rise through was asked, 'If you were not an Ameri· racy means to me something precious the skies far beyond the limits of the can, what would you rather be?' He and unique_ on this earth.' " circulation of Radio Guide. They should answered, 'Dead.' My answer would be echo in every home and reecho in every Lucille Manners: "To me, American heart along with the imperishable re­ the same. Anyone who has known the democracy gives an equal chance for frain, . "Thank God, I'm an American." joys of life, liberty and the pursuit of everybody, no matter how humble his Take these dec/arations and let them happiness in our country and compares . (or her) beginnings, to realize his am· rush out on the wind so people can know his good fortune with people living in other countries must know that our bitions, to see his fondest hopes come that democracy does work. Speak to all true. It means a system that gave me America, broadcasters. Make us proud democracy is the only form of govern· opportunity to make my own dreams radio can help men to love one another ment under which Mr. and Mrs. Com· mon Man can be truly Iiappy." come true, and Cinderella stories like in a world nearly shatte"ed by hate. mine become actualities every day." Joe Penner: "When but a boy of eight, I sailed for America with a tag Edward G. Robinson: "In a world pinned on my coat marked: 'Destina­ burdened with 'isms: there is only one tion- Detroit, Michigan.' There I joined for me. That 'ism' is Americanism .. con· my parents, who had preceded me. ceived and founded in the spirit of true Newsboy, choir-singer, Ford factory democracy. ':rhat democracy guarantees 12 9/11 P Read the answers of your favorite radio stars and then formulate

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years of peace and plenty ahead. The millions grope for hope and courage. same comforting thought that is in the Above all, it means that I am free to minds of the millions and millions of reach out to God and possess that most other American families. These are just priceless of all jewels-the jewel of to all, irrespective of race, .creed or patriotic songs and the upholding of a few of the reasons why I am thankful faith. color, the inalienable rights of free as­ American ideals referred to as 'flag­ I am a citizen of a grea't and good "The lamps grow dim nearly every­ sembly, free speech and free worship. waving.' democracy in this year of o~r Lord where. Men surrender or men are It thus assures us the sacred privilege "To those who label patriotism and 1939." forced to surrender their liberties, their of living, thinking and acting as free Americanism as flag-waving, I'd like to faith. American democracy means that men. Democracy exemplifies the right say this: I'm not an orator. I'm not a H. R. Baukhage: "Back from war in we who are lucky enough to live under of man to live as a human being, not politician, but I'm proud and happy to regimented, censorship-gagged Europe, it will never be called upon to sur­ as a vassal slave. It is our blessing." be known as a flag-waver. I love my the American brand of democracy render it. And having it, we shall be country, I honor my flag. I am filled looks pretty good. Freedom to move free. To be free is to live, To be free Clifton Fadiman: "I am very old­ with reverence and gratitude for being about as one pleases, freedom to say no longer is to know only the living fashioned. I still think oemocracy means so fortunate as to live in a democracy and to print the truth- all of these are death." what it has always meant: equality, as which gives its people freedom. Well, unknown in Europe today. To me, real far as possible, of economic opportu­ they can call it flag-waving, sentimen­ democracy means miXIng enough re­ George Jessel: "'All men were cre­ nity; the assurance of comfortable sur­ tality or anything else they care to. As sponsibility with our freedom so there ated free and equal.' This implies a free­ vival for all; protection against domina­ for me, I'm going 'right ahead saying will be plenty of liberty to go around, dom for the individual that is possible tion by any group or any 'ism.' And as that America is the most wonderful P. S, There isn't any democracy in only in a democracy such as ours. I an ideal for humanity-well, you'll find land on earth, I'm going to continue to war." was born here and so were my parents it all better stated in the New Testa­ do everything in my power to uphold and grandparents. We have been able ment. Why not try it sometime?" and proiect its democratic principles. Benny Goodman: "Democracy has a to smile at all times, and because of I'm going to keep on being a flag­ very important meaning as ' far as I am that, democracy means to me that a Bill Stern: "To me democracy means waver- a Star Spangled Banner flag- concerned, It gives me the right to find sphere of happiness is completely pos­ having a home today and knowing it waver, now and always!" ' the finest talent for my orchestra re­ sible to us, a sphere whose only boun­ will still be there tomorrow! It means gardless of creed or color; it means that daries are our own personal, intellec­ living in a country where a 'smash hit' Walter Damrosch: "The Bill of Rights I can have Lionel Hampton, Fletcher tual and physical abilities." crowds theaters instead of air-raid shel­ expresses more lUCidly than I ever Henderson and Charlie Christians, three ters. It means, too, that it's much pleas­ could what democracy means to me. outstanding Negro musicians, working Ted Malone: "This is a land where anter to sit in a stadium describil1g a Especially Article L which, in estab­ beside men like Toots Mondello, Artie the visions and dreams of a people are football game{ than to listen to the roar lishing a free speech, press and relig­ Bernstein, Ziggy Elman, Nick Fatool, not regimented by a few; where the of a cannon, and, lastly, it means that ion inferentially prohibits any single­ Red Ballard and all the other boys in miracle of the mind finds life a great under a democracy we can watch our minded tyrant from telling Americans my band. , D~rpocracy means equal adventure bounded only by its OWl) boys pitch pigskins instead of hand­ what type 'of music can or cannot be rights for artis.t~ and musicians without capacity; where the glad song of work grenades." heard and whether a composer's work concern for n'ationality, religion or any is echoed in a poetry of peace." is 'playable' or 'verboten.' '' other o,f the forms of discrimination Kate Smith: "For the past few months which act only to lower the standards Burgess Meredith: "In general, a I've devoted a great deal of time on the Carlton E. Morse: "I was a guest of of art and music wherever they ap­ democracy doesn't talk about itself air to the subject of Americanism. I've Mother and Father Barbour in their Sea pear." much, and the people in a democracy voiced my creed as an American. I've Cliff home the other evening. I found don't praise it excessively. For a long emphasized the privileges and values family continuity; I found home life in Gabriel Heatter: "What does Ameri­ time it has been taken for granted­ of democratic government. I've talked full bloom. Paul was home to dinner can democracy mean to me? It means a perhaps for too long, since men have about our flag and what it stands for and not 'flying a plane in enemy terri­ way of life that makes life worth while. died for it. Possibly the reason that in our lives. Over and over again I've tory on the Western Front. Hazel and It means I'm free to dream and, if I'm there is so little flag-waving is that sung Mr. Irving Berlin's stirring patri­ the children were over for dinner and willing to work hard enough for it, to democracy leaves us so free as indi­ otic hymn, 'God Bless America.' Now, they weren't required to bring their make my dreams come true. It means viduals that we forget we are confined all these allusions to our country were gas-masks with them. In fact, except I am free to climb as high as my heart by a government. Our government not an accident. It seemed to me a for pictures, the Barbours hardly knew will carry me and there is no one to serves us and we become used to it sacred duty-and still does- to use what a gas-mask looked like. And ask: Who was your father? What was and are apt to pay it as little attention whatever influence I may have to pro­ they've ' never been in a: bombproof his faith? Where was he born? as a good servant. But in times like tect and pay tribute. to that which shelter nor heard the distant thunder "It means that I can go to my boy or these, the advantages of living in a should be pearest and dearest to all of enemy guns, nor the' angry snarl of girl and say: You live under a govern­ democracy are brought strongly to our our hearts-our American democracy. an enemy plane. The Barbours worship ment of laws and those. laws will pro­ minds and we can pause for a little bit Literally hundreds of thousands of let­ as they see fit and speq.k their mind tect you from any who preach hate or of gratitude and even flag-waving and ' ters have come to me from people who without fear or reservation. And when persecution. It means tolerance and chest-beating for the form of govern­ feel as I do, yet it amazes me every they bow their heads in thanks it is hope and courage in a world in which ment under which we are still able to now and then to hear the singinq of with the comforting thought of the millions pray for tolerance, in which live." P 9/ 11 13 Joe Emerson, famed baritone of "Hymns of All Churches" (Mon., Tues., Thurs., NBC), is honorary judge of the Song Search Hymns

PERFECT Christmas gift for two young song-writers of A Geneva, N. Y., is the two­ Read These Rules Carefully hundred-dollar check which is now 1. Contestants must live in the United States or Canada. Anyone may enter the National in their hands as composers of Song Song Search with the exception of employes or Search winner No.9. A. Maurice G~id~e~~ ~~e t~a!i:~l~h~~~leermt~~~~n~~ Radio Crance and Les Bagley are the 2 . . Entries must be addressed as follows : lucky pair and their song is "The National Song Search Hea'dQuarters, Radio Guide, 731 Plymouth Court, Chicago, Ill. No Night Has Begun." Incidentally, manuscripts will be returned unless accom­ they also took a consolation prize in $200.00 PRIZE WINNER OF panied by self-addressed stamped envelopes. 3. An entry must be written in ink (not Contest No.8. pencil) on regularly ruled music copying paper. POP-SONC CONTEST NO.9 It may be a full piano arrangement or a simple melody. Words . will not be considered in Song Search Story Must Wait judging. 4. No correspondence can be entered into Although four more winners are "The Night Has Begun" by either Radio Guide or Davis-Schwegler Company regarding individual contributions. yet to be announced, the Pop-Song By Maurice and Les Bagley, Geneva, Y. A. Cranc~ N. 5. Contestants may enter any or all con­ Contests of the National Song Search tests. Winning any contest prize does not dis­ are all closed now. Among the tens Consolation Prizes (Pop-Song Contest No.8) q ualify for other cantest prizes. 6. The name and address of contestant must of thousands of songs which have Robert Michael, 2854 Octavia St .• Box 1924, Boise, Idaho. Composition: be written in ink or typed in the top margin of been considered, there were hun­ Oakland, Calif. Composition: "My Great· "It's Unbelievable." page one of each entry submitted. The name of est Thrill." Ken Manges, Les Bagley. A. Maurice the contest must also be written in ink or t yped dreds of interesting and unusual en­ John N. Wilson, 419 Santa Clara Ave., Crance. Geneva. N. Y. Composition: on page one . Oakland, Calif. Composition: "In My • ' Forgotten Angelo" 7. A contestant may submit as many entries tries and many a fascinating story. Dreams of Avalon. II Walter Cottle, Oakland, Calif. Com­ for any single contest as he may wish-and The telling of the behind-the-scenes Joe D. O'Tosky and Merrill Tanning, position: "You're So Adorable." may win more than one prize provided his en­ tries merit such consideration. Song Search story must be left, Honorable Mentions (Pop-Song Contest No.8) 8. Each entry shall be judged solely on its however, for another time. Andy Mansan and Art Liscombe, 4069 Ralph R. Travis, Box 234, LaVerne, m usical m erit. Judges will be the editorial W. 12th Ave., Vanc.ouver, B. C" Can. Calif. Composition: "I'm Lost Without boards of Radio Guide and Davis-Schwegler Composition: "Provi'dtn' ." You ," Company. Contestants. by entering the con­ Two New and Different Contests test, agree decisions of judges shal1 be final. L. T. Coulter, 630 Pearson, Walla George L. Cutler. 1620 Ninth Ave., Walla, Wash. Composition: "Beneath a Watervliet, ~. Y. Composition: "Deep in 9. The prizes awarded winner s of each con­ . Just now, the most important the Spell of Love." test are identtcal, namely" the song-writer Silvery Moon. II Don Bauman. 238 E. Race St .• Somer­ w hose song is selected by the judges as best in Song Search news concerns two re­ Gaston Sion, Summerville, Ore. Com­ set. Pa. Composition: ., I Don't Have each contest w ill receive: (a) $200 in cash; (b ) maining contests described on this position: "Cornered by Love." Time." The standard song-writers' can tract with Davis­ Schwegler Company. music publishers, provid­ page. Remember that the reward ing for standard royalties on s heet music and other sales; (c) His song will be published for each is identical to those already and distributed through Davis-Schwegler Com­ given to Pop-Song winners. Be­ pany outlets; (d.) His song will be recorded Last Call for a New American Hymn a nd phonograph records offered for sale sides $200.00 in cash, winning song­ through regular D -S outl~ts; (e) His song wIll be electTlca~ly transcrtbed and placed in writers will receive the standard With the object of finding a great, new American hymn or sacred num­ the regular DaVIs-Schwegler Company library song-writer's contract with full roy­ service to more than 200 radio stations. One ber, the National Song Search 'issues a last call for entries in the Hymn dozen pieces of sheet music, two records, and alties; immediate publication of Contest. This competition, which offers the same prizes - and additional one electrical transcription will be g iven free to the song-writer. The next five songs se­ song in sheet-music form; immedi­ rewards as the Pop-Song Contests (see rules) is a magnificent opportunity lected by the judges as being most worthy ate recording and distribution as for all writers of serious music. Can you write a song like "The Old will win for their writers the sum of $10.00 each. The next s ix songs selected win be phonograph records; placement of Rugged Cross" or "Rock of Ages"? Submit your song today. All entries given Honorable Mention Certificates. the song in the regular Davis­ must be mailed before midnight of Saturday, December 30. 10. Hymn or sacred music contest entries Schwegler library service; one doz­ D~'~!m~eerm3adled before midnight of Saturday, en pieces of sheet music, two rec­ Sem~-c1assical nun:be~ contest entries must • . A Semi-Classical Number Contest be maIled before mldmght of Saturday, Jan­ ords and one electrical transcription. uary 6, 1940. Be sure that your entry for the One last contest, besides that just described, remains open. That is the Hymn Contest is mailed before mid­ Semi-Classical Contest, purpose of which is to find a great, new American n~ght of Saturday, December 30. semi-classical number for voice. Example: "Trees," "Indian. Love Call," Runners-up of Pop-Song Contest Mail your semi-classical songs be­ "Sylvia." All entries must be mailed before midnight of January 6, 1940. No.9 Will Be Announced fore midnight of January 6, 1940. Next Wee" 14 ./11 l' GLOOMY GLENN LEARNS to GRIN Shy, retiring Mr. Miller hits the jitterbug crowd and . hits it hard

IDING high on the hepcat horizon bandsman, however, Miller's real these days is a new contender for chance at originality popped up when Rthe Throne of Swing. Ray Noble, droll Britisher of the Burns . That contender is Glenn Miller. Peo­ and Allen show, came to Amer\ca sev­ ple who are familiar with only the more eral years ago, leaving his orchestra widely ballyhooed of dance-band sta­ behind because of United States labor tistics know that Glenn Miller runs the laws. Noble needed a man to organize hottest thing in swing bands today. and manage his new band. He hired They have watched him edge quietly Miller to do the job, and his immediate up to Benny Goodman himself in the success as a network orchestra was popularity polls. They have seen him built on Miller ideas of style and band outstrip high-flying Artie Shaw in New construction. York, where Miller's take for a week So when Glenn decided, after a lot at the Paramount Theater was $56,000 more deliberation than most bright to Shaw's $30,000 for the same days at young men, to start his own band, its the Strand. Perhaps they are also success was a foregone conclusion. aware that he will step into Paul White­ That is, to wiseacres who knew him man's shoes on this Wednesday's (De­ for a real musician's musician. In addi­ cember 27) Chesterfield dance broad­ tion to brilliant success as arranger cast. and organizer of bands, he was.already The fan magazines will tell these peo­ a song-writer. His "Moonlight Sere­ ple how Glenn Miller-brilliant, young, nade," for which Mitchell Parish, fa­ unknown - sky-rocketed to jitterbug mous for "Deep Purple" and "Stardust," favor by some art of black magic. At later wrote lyrics, and which sold least with a rabbit's-foot in his vest­ 30,000 copies before it was even re­ Long-legged, bespectacled Glenn Miller played with many name-bands leased for use by other 'bands, was before he started his own, but in barely a year his swing band has pocket. Actually, the story is quite dif­ made big-time radio. Wednesday he succeeds Paul Whiteman (CBS) ferent. once a trombone exercise thought up For twelve years, almost a lifetime in for practise hours. Here was a triple­ his business, Glenn Miller has knocked strength front- writer, arranger, virtu­ about in the big-time band world. Fresh oso rolled into one-with which to hit from the big bands, and didn't want which contrasted strangely with a ball­ out of the University of Colorado, American dance fans. A foregone con­ them anyway- virtuosos spend most of room atmosphere. A few months under whither his not-too-affluent parents had clusion, yes, but with one question the time promoting themselves - he the public's exacting eye, however, seni him, this gangling youth's main mark. Was his pers'onality right for toured one-night stands, listening for were enough to break down whatever asset was an extra special way with a band-leading? That was soon to be talent. Almost every man he contracted excess reserve he may have had. Dance trombone. At first his father, a carpen- . proved. was from some hinterland spot. fans who meet him now find him a ter, had reluctantly watched the boy While Dame Fortune had thus been After a quiet openihg at Boston's smiling, cas\lally genial person who wrap himself up in a horn, but when treating Miller quite decently in his State Ballroom in September, 1938, a likes people and likes to give people he earned his way at college by toot­ profession, she had also played ball few college dates and months of shap­ what they like. He likes jitterbugs. ing it for campus dances, Mr. Miller with him in other ways. Seven years ing up, he hit New York at Broadway's "Why should anybody have any­ saw the light. When Glenn left school ago he married Helen Burger, a college Paradise Restaurant. Network wires thing against them?" . he asks. "They he was good enough to rate a berth in sweetheart. Mutual distaste for a his­ from the Paradise got him a wider h ear­ may not be music critics but they've Ben Pollack's orchestra. Those were the tory course at Colorado may have been ing. A four-week engagement at Mead­ obviously got a feel for rhythm. So days when Ben had Gene Krupa, Ben­ responsible for their meeting. More owbrook lengthened into twelve weeks. what if they are demonstrative?" ny Goodman and the brothers Dorsey. likely, it was the prosaic but charming And then a summer date at famous Miller's close friends are all in the Though he has played in many bands story of boy meeting girl. Helen doesn't Glen Island Casino. By now he had music business, directly or indirectly. and organized at least one besides his take to the road with her husband, is jarred New York dancing crowds to Tommy Dorsey, George Simon of Met­ own, Glenn has never since left the content to stay in their Hotel Pennsyl­ their molars. Summer attendance rec­ ronome, Chummy MacGregor, his own ranks of virtuoso popular music-makers. vania suite in New York. That is, since ords at Glen Island were shattered. pianist, and Claude ThornhilL pianist, Even during the years before swing Glenn has turned maestro. NBC broadcasts several times weekly are among them. Dorsey is a friendly meant anything more to American spread the Miller rage everywhere. enemy- but mostly friendly- of old. youth than a rope hanging from the AND Glenn has been a maestro for a Obviously the next step was bagging When he organized his band several backyard apple tree, Glenn was pri­ few weeks more than a year. That a big commercial air show. That step years ago, Miller helped him pick his vately swinging out on his trombone. explains the "rapid rise" and "fame and will be taken as Glenn Miller succeeds men. Later, Dorsey returned the favor. Bix Beiderbecke, then pioneering swing fortune" patter which has been applied Jazz King Paul Whiteman for Chester­ Each thinks the other tops. arrangements for recordings, hired him to him in some quarters. Here is what field. Go back twelve months and this Today Glenn Miller has two all-con­ on hearing. The Dorseys, Red Nichols, really happened. story sounds like a Sindbad tale. Go suming interests. They are the same and almost all the name bands used Like oiher top arrangers, Miller saw back twelve years and it is the inevi­ interests which he had years ago when him for recording dates. Thus he his ideas misinterpreted and emascu­ table which has happened. Unusual tal­ he tooted his horn on the Boulder (Colo­ reached and stayed at the pinnacle of lated by other bands and bandleaders. ent plus far-sighted, cautious planning rado) campus- his wife, Helen, and his free-lance success. "I was just tired of being pounded at," plus a love for one's craft could add job, music. His music is shaking Amer­ Long-legged, bespectacled, he sat he explained. "I was tired of arguing up to no other result. A foregone con­ ica. And though he has neither children under Ben Pollack, Tommy Dorsey, An­ about arrangements, of hearing things clusion, did we say? Except for the nor permanent home, he has Helen and dre Kostelanetz. Few dancers knew come out entirely different from the personality question. "Pops Haggerty"- Boston Bull supreme. that it was the quiet trombonist who way I wrote them. I wanted to actually A year ago Glenn Miller was a seri­ What more can a trombone-tooter ask? had devised this trickl' combination of hear my ideas and I figured the only ous lad whom friend and occasional foe -John W. Carlson. instruments or that little freak twist of way I could was with my own band." alike loved to call "Gloomy Glenn," Glenn Miller may be heard Wednes­ arranging which add U}i) to make a Turning down a $350-a-week job, with "The Great White Father," or more day on "Chesterfield Program" over a bandleader's style. Hard work behind Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he began to pungently, "Glum Glenn." His appear­ CBS network at: the scenes tHen are the sure founda­ recruit men- he knew the kind he ance wasn't a big help, either. Simple EST 8:30 p.m. --- CST 7:30 p_m . tions of his' success at arranging today. wanted- all through the country. Be­ utilitarian glasses and an earnest ex­ And later for the West Coast at: Influential as he was as rank-and-file cause he couldn't afford top virtuosos pression gave him a professorial mien MST 9:30 p.m. --- PST 8:30 p.m. P 9/ 11 lS European News in English Important Stations Daily Morning I M ('~u(\}'<:Ies or thousands of kilocycles shown} CSW7. P ortugal 9.795 PARIS MONDI AL, CST MST CITY STATION DIAL DJB. Germany 15.20 F l'all ce 9.68 . 11 .885 5:30 a.m. 4:30 a.m . London eSG 17.79 On Short Waves DJC." 6. 02 11 .845 5 :45 a.m. 4 :45 a.m. Be rlin DJB 15.20 g ~ r : U:U :~ : U : ~ ; 8 . R . 1 ~: gg 7 :15 a.m. 6 :15 a.m. london GSV 17.81 DJ N. 9. 54 RV96, 6.09. 15. 18 7:30 a.m . 6 :30 a. m. Berlin DJB 15.20 Edited by Charles A. SplLin 9 :55 a. m. 8 :55 a.m. Rome 2R06 15.30 Morrison ~~~: ~.1l . ~::~ ~ ~~ : Swe,~en u:m 10:00a.m. 9 :00 a.m. 17.81 EIRE. Irela nd 17. 84 TGWA, Guatemala london GSV President, Internat ional DX'ers A lli ance 9. 596 9.685. 15.17 Daily Afternoon g~: . E n r! ~nd • : : g ~ ~~~ Gua,t,emala 6im 12 :00 noon II :OO a.m . London GSI 15.26 GSB. " 9.51 WCAB. Philadelphia, Programs f rom f ore ign countries GSC. 9.58 P a. 6.06. 9.59. 21.52 12:18 p.m. 11 :18 a. m. Rome 2R04 11 .81 GBD . 11 .75 WCBX. New York City 12 :20 p.m. 11 :20 a. m. Paris Paris 11.845 subject to c hange without notice GSE . 11.86 21.67. 15.27. 11 .83 2 :50 p.m. 1 :50 p.m. London GSD 11.75 GSF. 15.14 9.65. 6.06 GBG. 17.79 W GE A. Schenectady. 3 :15 p.m. 2 :15 p.m. Ro me 2R03 9.63 GSH. 21.47 N .Y. 21 .50. 15.39. 9.55 3 :15 p. m. 2:15 p. m. Berlin DXB 9.61 GSI . 16.26 W GEO. Schenectady. 3 :45 p.m . 2 :45 p.m. London GSD 11.75 GSJ. 21.68 N .Y. 9.53 GSC 9.58 HOW TO LISTEN TO NEWFOUNDLAND GSL. 6.11 W LWO. Cincinnati. 5:00 p.m. 4 :00 p.m . Berlin DXB 9.61 GSO . " 15 .18 Ohio 6. 06 DJD 11.77 H 0 R T -W A V E broadcasts can day on 9.48 megs, at the low-fre­ g~~ : " ~ ~: ~t W NBI. New York CiU.7P 5 :30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. London GSC 9.58 now be heard daily except Sun­ quency side of the 31 -meter band, HAT4. Hungary 9. 125 W P IT. pittsburgh. Pa. HBL. Switzerland 9. 94 2 1.~4. 1~.21 , 11 .87. 6.14 Daily Evening 5 day from the Island of New­ about half-way between ' COCH HBO. " 11.402 W RCA. New Y O~~6.fi~: I O 6 :00 p.m. 5 :00 p.m. Moscow RAN 9.60 foundland, om. of Great Britain's old­ (9.44). Havana, Cuba, and GSB (9. 51), ~~ ~~: P.~~ma t U ~ WRU L. Boston. Mass. 6 :30 p.m. 5 :30 p.m. Budapest HAT4 9.125 H VJ. Vatican City 1~ .12 11.79.6.04 est colonies, a famed fishing and London, from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p_m. JZI. Japan 9.535 WRU W. Boston. Mass. (ex. Sat. ) JZJ . " 11.80 11.73. 1~ . 1 3 6 :30 p.m. 5:30 p.m . Rome 2R03 9.63 vacation spot lying east of Canada CST and on either 9.48 or 5.97 megs, JZK. " 16.16 XECR . Mexico 7.38 6:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m . Paris GSC 9.58 and forming the furthermost tip of on the low-frequency side of the K GEl , San Francisco, X EWW," 9.50 GSL 6.11 Calif. 9.59. 15.93 X GOX. China 15.20 7 :03 p.m. 6 :03 p.m . Paris Paris 9.68 the North American continent. 49-meter band, from 3:30 to 8:30 K QH . Hawaii 14.92 XGOY." 11.90 Paris 11 .885 The Broadcasting Corporation of p _m_ CST. ~i~HA~i~~i~~~nes 99~~~ ~~~~Jug:~lavia lr:~! 7 :15 p.m. 6:15 p.m. Berlin DXB 9.61 MTCY. Manchuk uo YUG." 15 .24 DJC 9.02 Newfoundland, which first com­ Chimes similar to those employed 11 .775 YV5R N. Venezuel. 5.04 OZF. Denmark 9. 52 2R03, Italy 9.63 7:40 p.m. 6 :40 p.m . Madrid EAQ 9.86 menced its services in March of this by NBC may be heard on VONG's OZH," 15. 32 2R04 " U.81 8 :45 p.m . 7 :45 p.m. London GSC 9.58 year, operates two transmitters at programs each half-hour. In addi­ GSL 6.11 ~ fli. H ol \~ nd 9 . 69 ' 1 ~ 57 ~g ~~g~ : .. 1~ :~~ 9:00 p.m. 8 :00 p.m. Ireland EIRE 9.595 Mount Pearl, while the programs ac­ tion, the station can be easily iden­ 9:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. Berlin DXB 9.61 tually originate from studios on the tified during its regular relays of the DJC 6.02 top floor of the Newfoundland Hotel English news broadcasts from Lon­ 6 :45 p.m.-London-Rebroadcast of King George's 10:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m . London GSC 9.58 Christmas messa~e to Empire: GSC (9.58) 11 :00 p.m. 10:00 p.m. Berlin DXB 9.61 in near-by St. J; hn's. VONF, a don, at 12 noon and 6:30 p.m. CST. 6 :45 p.m .- Rome--Christmas Night program with DJC 6.02 lO,OOO-watt transmitter, operates on The station's officials welcome . re­ Italian caro!s: 2R03 (9.63) 2R04 (j 1.81) 11 :15 p.m. 10 :15 p.m . Paris Paris 9.68 7 p.m.-Rio de Janeiro-Brazilian program foJ' 12:15 a.m. 11 :15p.m. Lon don GSB 9.51 a broadcast frequency of 640 kilo­ ception reports and these should be North America. with typical music. travel GSA 6.05 cycles. Its programs are relayed by addressed to A_ N. House, Broad­ talks and ne\\'s: PSI-I (10.22) 2 :00 a.m. 1 :00 a.m. London GSD 11.75 short-wave station VONG, which, 7 p.m.-London-Talk, " The Empire at War": GSA 6.05 casting Corporation of Newfound­ GSC (9.58) GSL (6.11) 2 :00 a.m. 1 :00 a. m. Mosc ow RV96 15.18 notwithstanding its low power of 300 land, P. O. Box E5372, St. John's, 7 ;30 p.m.-Rome--Letters from listeners in all watts, is heard consistently through­ N ewfoundland_ Correct reports will parts of the world: 2R03 (9.63) 7 :45 p.m . -Switzerland-Pro~ram for lisleners in Daily Programs, Sat., Dec. 23, out eastern North America and, be verified with a neat white QSL North America: HBL (9.345) through Fri., Dec. 29 when conditions are good, through­ card bearing an outline map of New­ 7:45 p. m.-Berlin-English talks on current wa. out the United States and Canada. foundland and the station call-letters topics: DXB (9.61) DJC (6.02) The p r ograms list ed here a r e t h ose broadcast dai ly at the same t ime. E xceptions a re i ndicated. VONF broadcasts daily except Sun- in blue. Tuesday, December 26 CST City Program Station F or programs b r oadcast daily see D ai l y Progr ams (Co l. 11 5 :15a.m.-China-News (English): XGOY (11.9) 9 a.m_-London-Talk, "In England Now": GSV 5 :30 a.m .-Saigon-Relay of BBC news bulletin FINLAND : Finland is not an easy country ir reg ularly. By wat ch ing t hese variou s chan­ ( 17.81 ) from London: Radio Saigon (11.78) to receive even during peace times when its ne ls you may be fort unate enou gh to hea r 3 p.m . ( Tues., Thurs., Sat. )-~ngli sh variety pro­ 5 ;30 a.m.-Berlin-Variety program fo r "'orth two sho rt -wave t ransmitters are ope rat ing on news direct from Hel sin ki, t he capital of the gram from Lisbon: CSW7 (9.74) American listeners: DJB ( 15.29) regular schedules. Reception co nditions have besieged state. I don 't know whether the 4:45 p. m.. - London- Talk, "In England Now": 6;30 a.m .-Delhi-News (Engli sh): VUD2 (9.59) been so poor for the past few days t hat it is 100,OOO-watt sho rt-wa ve transmitter, ordered GSD (11.75) GSC (9.58) 6 ;30 a.m.-Manila-News (E n g li s h): KZRH impossible to state definitel y whether or not by t he Finn is h gov ern ment for use in con nec­ 6 ;45 p.m.-Rome--EIAR Symphony Orchestra: (9.635) t he Fin nish sho rt-wa ve station is . still on the ti on with the 1940 Ol ymp ic Games, has been 2R04 (11.81) 2R03 (9.63) 6 :30 a.m. (ex. Sun.) - Melbourne-War news from air; however, the Lah t i t ra nsmitters operate completed at t he Britis h Marcon i Wo rks or 7 p.m.-London-.Talk, "Cards on the Table": Australia: VLR (9.58) normally as follo ws: Over OFE ( 11.18), from not, but Finla nd need s this stati on so badl y GSC (9.58) GSL J6.11) 6 ;45 a.m.- Manchukuo-News (English): JOY 12;05 to 11:05 a .m. CST ; over OFD (9.50) , at presen t t hat it seems logic al to assum e 7 ;45 p.m.-Holl and-Music, English talks and (9.925) from 11 :15 a.m. to 4 p.m . CST ; over OlE if such is huma nly possi ble it will be ru shed humor for Ameri ca n li steners: PCJ (9.59) 7 :30 a.m .- Manila-News (E n g l is h): KZ IB ( 15.19 ), from 12 :05 to 3 a.m . and · from to completi on so the t rue sto ry of Fi nla nd's 8 p.m. (Tues., Thurs., Sat.)-Costa Rica-Info I" (9.492) 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. CST ; over OIH ( T7 .80) . cou rageous stru ggle aga inst almost overwhel m­ mal Engli sh programs fro m Amando Cesped., 7:30 a.m.-Tokyo--:'iews (English): JZJ (11.80) from 3 t o 8 a.m. CST, a nd over 011 ( 21.55) , iog odd s may be told to the entire world. Marin's parlor: TI4NRH (9.69) 7 :45 a.m.-Man ila-News (E n g lis h): KZRH (9.635) 8 a.m.-China-News and talks in English : XGOY Wednesday, December 27 ( 11.90) XPSA (7.01) 6 p.m.-Mo cow-News, talks anel music from 8;15 p.m.- Paris-Helll'i Berger's all ·star Parisian F or programs b roadcast dai l y see D a ily Prog r ams (Col . 1 ) 9 a.m.- Manila-Night Hawks, variety program Soviet Russia for li steners in ~orth America: revue for North American listeners: (9.68, 7 ;40 a.m .-Holl and-International Happy program for Engli sh listeners: KZ RH (9.635) RAN (9.6) RIG (15.04) Rv96 (6.03) 11.885, 11.714) for English listeners: PCJ ( 15.22) 9 :30 a.m.-Saigon-News (Engli sh ): ( 11.78) 6 p.m.-Belgrade-Program for North America 9 p.m.-Guatemala-Symphonic orchestra: TG WA 3 p.m.-Rome-The Listener's Corner: 2R06 10 a.m.-Saigon-Rebroadcast of London news: from J ugoslavia: YUG (15.24) (9.685) ( 15.3) ( 11.78) 6 p.m. (ex. Sat.)-Budapest-Program from Hun­ 12 mid .-Guatemala-Special Christmas concert 4 :45 p. m_-London-Talk. "Matters of Moment": 11 ;30 a.m .- Panama City-)lews (E n g l i s h): ga ry for North Ame rica: HAT4 (9.125) for North Ameri can listeners: TG2 (6.195) GSD (11.75) GSC (9.58) HP5G ( 11.78) 6 :30 p.m.-Bahamas-Newfoundland-New- relay 7;15 p.m .-Rome-Cetra dance orchestra : 2R03 11 :30 a.m .-Paris-Noon day program for North from London: ZNS2 (6.09) VONG (5.98) Sunday, December 24 (9.63) 2R04 (11.81) 6 ;30 p.m_-Rome-American Hour, for li steners 7 :30 p.m .-Rome-Tou rist notes in Englis h : American listeners : ( 11.845) F or prog r ams b roadcast daily see D ail y Prog r ams (Col. 1 ) 11 ;45 a.m.-Guatemala-Popular marimba music in North America: 2R03 (9.63) 2R04 (11.81) 2R03 (9.63) 2R04 (11 .81) for North Ame rican listeners: TG WA ( 15.1 7) 6 :45 p.m .-Maelrid-Special North American pro­ 10 :10 a.m.- Berl in-Symphonic concert: D,J B 8 p.m.-Costa Rica-Engli sh talks de~cr i b i l1~ in· 12 noon-St. John ' s, Ne wfo undland- News (En­ gram from Spai n : EAQ (9.86) ( 15.2) teresting spots in Costa Rica : TIPG (9.61) . glish ): VONG (9.48) 7 p.m.-Pari s-Talks, plays,' ".. music and news for 4 :15 p.m .-Pittsburgh-Schenectady - European 9 :15 p.m.-Guatemala-Onera, "Cavall eria Rusti­ 2 p.m .-Rome-Evening concert with English an­ North America: (9.68, 11 .885. 11.714) pickups : WPIT (11.87) WGEA (15.33) cana": TGWA (9.685) nouncements: 2R06 (15.30) 2R04 (11.81) 7:15 p.m.-Tokyo-News (English): JZK (15.16) 5 p.m.-Mexico City-Music, songs and travel 2 :15 p.m .-London-Talk on England during war 7 :15 p.m.-Paris-English talk on current events talks in Englis h : XECR (7.38) Thursday, December 28 tllnes: GSD (11.75) in France: (9.68, 11.885, 11.714) 6 p.m.-Buenos Aires-Gala Christmas Eve dance 5 ;15 p.m .-Lisbon-Variety program from Portuu­ 8 p.m.-Berli n-English talks on clirrent topics: program: LRX (9.66) For p rograms b roadcast da ily see D a ily Programs (Col. 1 ) gal for North American listeners: CSW7 (9.74) DXB (961) DJC (602) 6 :15 p.m.-Guatemala-Outdoor Christmas Eve 7 p_m.-{l.ome--Talk on cooking Italian dishes: 5;15 p.m .-Martinique-News (Engli sh ): (9.70) 8 p.m .-Panama City-Symphonic concert with Band Co nce rt in Central Park, Guatemala 2R03 (9.63) 2R04 ( 11 .8 1) 5:30 p.m.-Panama-News (E n g li s h ): HP5A English announcements : HP5A (11.70) City: TGWA (9.685) 7 p.m.- London-Talk. " Background to the ( 11.7) 8 p.m.- Ch ina- Program in Engli sh for li steners 6 :45 p.m.-Rome---Opera, !( Don Pasquale," from News": GSC 19.58) GSL (6.11) in North America: XGOX (15.20) Royal Opera House in Rome: 2R03 (9.63) 7 ;15 p.m.-Paris-English listener's letter box: 8 :30 p.m .-Delhi-Oriental program from India: 2R04 (1 1.81) Paris Mondial (9.68, 11.885, 11.714) VUD2 (9.59) 7:15 p.m.-Rome--I nterviews in English with 7 :45 p.m.- Berlin-English talks on current top­ Special for Pacific Coast 9 ;50 p.m .-Berlin-English talks on curren! top- celebrities visiting Rome: 2R03 (9.63) ics: DX B (9.61) DJC (6.02) 7 :30 p.m.-Rome--Chl'istmas Eve concert: 2R03 7 :55 a.m . dail y-China-Special broadcast for ics: DXB (9.68) DJD (11.77) • J1 ;03 p.m.-Tokyo-News (English): JZJ ( 11.80) (9.63) Friday, December 29 San Francisco: XGOX (9'.500) 7 :30 p.m .-Honolulu-"Voice of Hawaii." Native 12 :30 a.m.-Hsinking- English program _from F o r programs broadcast daily see D a i l y Prog r a m s (Col . 1 ) 5 ;22 v·m. da ily-London-Special broadcast for songs and dances of Hawaii: KQH (14.92). li steners . on Pacific Coast: GSC (9.58) Manchukuo for Pacific Coast listeners: MTCY 7 ;30 a.m.- London-" Worl el Affai.rs": GSV( 17.81) (1 1.775) KHE (17.99) 11 ;03 p.m. dali y-Tokyo--)l",vs (English): JZJ 7 :30 p. m.- Tokyo-English talk, "Japan at the 9 a. m.-London-Talk, "In England Now": GS\' ( 11.80) 1 a.m.-China-Special broadcast for San Fran­ ( 17.81 ) cisco: XGOX (9.500) End of the Yea r": ,IZK (15.16) 12 ;30 a.m. daily-Hsinking-Engl ish program 7 :45 p. m.-Berlin-English talk: DXB (9.61) 3 p.m.--Buenos Aires-News and Brazilian music: frolll Man chukuo for Pacific Coast listen­ 2 a. m.-London-Broadcast for British troops at LRA5 (17.83) LRA 1 (9.69) front lines: GSB (9.51) GSA (6.05) 10 p.m.-National Hour of ~Iexic o: XEQQ (9.68) ers: N1TCY (11.775) XEWW (9.5) XEXA (6.175) XEUZ (6.1 17) 4 ;45 p.m.-Landon-Talk, "In England Now " : 1 a.m. dail y-Chin a-Special broadca t for San XETW (6.045) XEBT (6.00) TGWA (9.~5) GSD (11.75) GSC (9.58) Francisco : XGOX (9.500) Saturda.y, December 23 6 ;45 p.m .-Rome-Guest staJ' appearances: 2R03 • F o r p r ogr ams broadcast d a ily sec D a ily Prog r ams (Col. 1) 11 p.m.-New Yo rk City-P rogram of Christmas 2 a.m. daily- London-Broadcast for British Carols : WCBX (6.12) (9.63) 2R04 (11.81) troops at front lines: GSB (9.51) GSA 2 :15 p.m.-TurkeY"':-'NelVs (English): TAP (9.465) 7 p. m.-Holland-International Happy Pro!(ram (6.05) 4 :45 p.m_-London-Talk, " London Log" : GSD [oJ' American li steners: PCJ (9.59) 11 ;40 p.m. Mon _-Tokyo--English talk, " A Re­ (11.75) Monday, Dec. 2S (Christmas Day) 7 ;30 p.m.-Rome-Talk in English about current view of Past Year's Japanese Diplomacy" : 5 p.m.-Budapest-Christmas songs: HAT4 (9.125) F or p r og r a m s b roadcast dai l y see D ai l y Pr og rams (Col. 1 ) events in Italy: 2R03 (9.63) 2R04 ,(1 1. 81) . JZJ (11.8) 7 :15 p.m.-London-"In the Canteen Tonight": 8 :15 a.m.-London-Empire Christmas P arty: GSV 9 p.m.-Guatemala-Radio Th e ate 1': TGWA 12 :45 a.m. Mon .-London-Talk, " The Empire GSC (9.58) GSL (6. 11 ) ( 17.81) (9.685) at War" : GSB (9.51) GSA (6.05) 7 :30 p.m.-Hawaii-UHawaji Calls." Native music 12 noon-SchenectadY-Christmas celebration in 10 ;30 p.m.-London-" World Affairs," Wickham and songs from Honolulu: KQH (1 4.92) Fairbanks, Alaska: WGEA ( 15.33) Steed: GSC (9.58) GSL (6.11 ) 16 9/ 11 l' Background for Listening Saturday, Dec:ember 23 BuU Session, CBS. "And on Earth Peace-Good Will to Whom?" is the timely subject to be discussed this week by a group of Northwestern University students. Eastern Centra l Mountain Pacific 4:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 1 :00 p , m. People's Platform, CBS. Four philosophers, including author Irving Edman, will discuss the pros and cons of the oft-repeated question "Is Life Worth Living?"-and will give their opinions on what philosophy has to offer people today. Eastern Central Mountain Pacific 7:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Sunday, Dec:ember 24 War Children's Chrisfmas, NBC. When war was declared in Europe, hundreds of thousands of young chil­ dren living in the great metropolitan areas like London, Paris and Berlin were scattered in the less-crowded country districts. Today m any of them are spending their first Christmas away from home in strange, new sur­ roundings, and for a brief quarter­ hour NBC will let them tell in their own words what this Christmas means to them. From "somewhere" in En­ gland, France and Germany, Europe's war children, through NBC interpret­ ers, will tell the world what they are doing on their first war Christmas and sing the traditional Christmas carols in their native tongues. For human­ interest appeal this program holds great promise of being the most out­ standing in the entire Christmas schedule. Eastern Central Mountain Pacific 1:15 p.m. 12:15 p.m. 11:15 a.m. 10:15 a.m.

The Man Named Christmas, NBC. An original play by Ranald Mac­ Dougall touching on the ancient ques­ tion of whether people would live their lives differently if they had them to live over again. Following this - I nternational theme Mr. Christmas", the gentle and mellow spirit of Christmas itself, re­ stores beliefs and illusioons to a man who had lost them. LISTEN INC' LEARN Eastern TO Central Mountain Pacific 2:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 12: 00 noon 11:00 a.m. Twilight in Palestine, NBC. "If radio can stimulate a person to look further into things, or If It can provoke a Against a background of special man to think-then it's an education, and you have a college in your living-room." music, Geraldine Farrar will read a beautifully written poem, her own, titled "Twilight in Palestine." This work by Miss Farrar, of grand opera fame, deals with Palestine on the eve sweethearts and friends of British sol­ Person-to-Person ; •• broadcast over the networks is being of the birth of Christ. diers looking forward to the encour­ prepared for publication in RADIO Eastern Central Mountain Pacific agement such a message can give, the GUIDE soon. Teachers using radio and 3:45 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 1 :45 p.m. 12:45 p.m. occasion assumes highly dramatic po­ • Sterling Fisher, Columbia's director of education and talks, is preparing a listeners interested in educational pro­ Story of Christmas, NBC. tentialities. Easte rn Central Mountain Pacific unique conference (without speeches), grams will find this list of great serv­ Using the actual words of the Bible 10:00 a.m . 9 :00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. to be held at CBS headquarters in New ice. To make sure you don't miss it, to tell the story of Christmas, author­ watch for an announcement of the Adventures in Science, CBS. York for three days during the last composer Wells Hively blends unique publication date in this column. drama with original descriptive mu­ For the final program of 1939, Wat­ week in March. Invitations to leaders in the field of educational broadcasting sic. A m ale quartet and string orches­ son Davis presents the highlights of • Representatives of practically every tra will support the cast. Science Service's annual report that will be forthcoming shortly. The meet­ E astern Central Mountain Pacific ing is an outgrowth of a suggestion important unit at work in the field of 6 :30 p.m. indicates the most important scientific 5:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 3 :30 p.m. developments of the year. made by H. Clay Harshbarger, of education by radio were present at the Eastern Central Mountain Pacific Third School Broadcast Conference CampbeU Playhouse, CBS. 4:30 p.m. 3:30 p . m. 2:30 p . m. 1:30 p.m. State University of Iowa, to give those Christmas without a hearing of actively engag.ed in the preparation held in Chicago recently. Conference Cha~les Dickens' immortal legend, "A Thursday, Dec:ember 28 and presentation of educational pro­ director Harold -Kent's program, fea­ turing demonstrations of radio's use Christmas Carol," just wouldn't seem Columbia Workshop, CBS. grams an opportunity to freshen up complete. And with Lionel Barrymore Brewster Morgan, who directed Co­ on the latest network techniques. Pro­ in the classroom, was the most com­ breathing life into the warped soul of lumbia'S memorable Shakespeare cycle grams to be witnessed will include the prehensive ever directed at the prob­ Ebenezer Scrooge once again we will lems of utilization. To those educators get the story at its best. The familiar in 1937, is both author and director of "American School of the Air" rebroad­ tonight's presentation. Titled "Higher cast on Thursday afternoon, "Columbia and broadcasters who were unable to legend of the skinflint who thought attend, the detailed report of what was Christmas celebrants should "be boiled Than A Kite," it is the story of a gam­ Workshop" and "Americans at Work" in their own puddings and buried with bler-and the embarrassment and tur­ on Thursday evening, the Friday said and done during these three days moil created by a rubber check. should be of extreme interest. How a holly through their hearts"-and who Eastern Central Mountain Pacific morning "American School" session learned to "wish the whole world a 10:00 p.m. 9 :00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. from the auditorium of a . New York this report may be secured will be Merry Christmas" promises once more announced here as soon as it is ready Americans at Work, CBS. City high school, and "Bull Session," to be one of the highlights of the "What Price America" and "People's for distribution. season's schedule of special programs. With Christmas, 1939, past, the turn This year it will be the "Playhouse" to matters of daily concern is imme­ Platform" on Saturday. Assisting Mr. • The University Broadcasting Council presentation on Christmas Eve. diate. The job to be treated in this Fisher in his plans for this meeting is presenting a unique series of drama­ Eastern Central Mountain Pacific broadcast is one with which Americans will be the CBS staff of expert pro­ tizations of the lives of world famous 8:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 8 : 00 p.m. 7 :00 p.m. are becoming more concerned. The ducers and writers, including Max artists whose works are shown in the program will begin with a stUdio dra­ Monday, Dec:ember 25 Wylie, Earl McGill, Margaret Lew­ Masterpieces of Italian Art 'exhibit on m atization of the history and work of erth, Murray Dyer, Brewster Morgan view at Chicago's Art Institute. This King George VI, NBC, CBS, MBS. the Marines, and include a remote and Norman Corwin. pickup from Marine headquarters in series over WGN is serving to bring For a brief five minutes the ruler of many Chicagoans to the Institute to an empire that embI1lces about one­ San Diego, California, and a musical fifth the surface of the globe and one­ interlude by the Marine Band in Wash­ • THANKS to an excellent suggestion view this unusual collection lent by fourth the population of the world ington, D. C. Marines who have dis­ from Kathleen Lardie, of the Visual­ the Royal Italian Government. The will extend a Christmas greeting to tinguished themselves in service will Radio Education Department of the Art Institute recently became a mem- ' his people. This year, with the empire be interviewed. Detroit Board of Education, an alpha­ ber of the UBC. Eastern Central Mountain Pacific at war a.nd with mothers, fathers, 10:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 8 :30 p.m. 7 :30 p.m. betical list of educational programs -James G. Hanlon. £' 9/11 17 The ,Voice ' of the Listener $LOO will be paid to the writer: of every letter used in this department. Express your opinions, write V. O. i., 731 Plymouth Court, Chicago, 111.

Lesson from Athens which the oboe has a bewitching little ton, It would seem that this provides Morse's programs are not to be missed. ,Dear V, 0, L.: melody. Such methods as these re­ a pattern for the kind of thing that Mrs. Wesley Coffey, Wichita Falls, Tex. During my 'early newspaper days, I quire effort but the results are worth ought to be done by other religious was returning horne one morning about it. groups. In a recent bulletin of the • We might say another exclusive two o'clock,anQ I saw the Village pho­ Mrs. Hugh G. Crawford, Ajo, Ariz. Federal Council there is a phrase "to quality of radio has been discovered: tographer fo'bl'sihg on a sh0pw~ndow maintain our unbroken world-wide The humor, artistry and good-will of • in which heaps of clothing were flung • Mrs. Crawford is to be commended Christian Fellowship." It strikes me that one of the best ways to do this the kilocycles is contagious but can't about and dripping out of dresser and for her purposeful listening system. be quarantined.-V. O. L. wardrobe drawers, would be to use American short-wave Such are the channels by which radio in several languages. "Did the burglars get a good haul?" may be turned into a great instrument North of the Border asked, Frank Nelson, Lakewood, Ohio. "They told me to take a picture of of cu1ture.-V. O. L. Dear V, O. L.: a bedroom," he explained with pride, I, thePerso.n We in Canada listen to a goodly "so I fixed things up to look like a Something for Nothing Dear V. O. L.: number of serials sponsored by Amer­ ican firms, who .a lso have selling-rights bedroom," Dear V. O. L.: I believe that I can do big things in Doubtless the "home drama" and radio if I ever get a chance. I've been in Canada. In the commercials when It's refreshing to find one program they advertise their particular product "real life stories" of radio are sup­ that gives away something for nothing. in several amateur shows, and won a posed to represent the typical Ameri­ second prize. What can I do to get on and are giving away certain additional Just for suggesting a song and having souvenirs, they invariably say "good in can home, just as that riot of disorder the pleasure of hearing Wayne King "We, the People"? represented a bedroom to the photog­ Jay Borden, Chicago, IlL the D, S , A, only," and that gets my and his men play it, a listener may re­ goat. There are several products that rapher, There is a time-honored axiom ceive a diamond ring! That's really a in education and in newswriting which • Live to be 199, invent a better mouse­ can be purchased here in Canada, and double treat-Wayne King playing we do not get the benefits as do the forbids scaling what is offered below your favorite song and a ring for good trap or explosive, support, a family on the average intelligence, Radio's day­ Amer-icans, Cannot you kindly bring measure. ' $5.00 a week, or memorize "Finnegan's this to the notice of the sponsors? tirrie programs migh t take a lesson Mrs, Meg G . Eddy, ,Providence, R. 1. from the theater of Athens, to which Wake" backwards.-V. O. L. Thomas C. Angell, 'Erican, Ontario, Canada, is attributed the leaven which raised • That listeners appreciate the "no box­ a people, unable to read or write, to "One Man's Family" Quarantined top" awards on the Wayne King pro­ • Weare not lawyers, but we feel the be one of the greatest societies the Dear V. O. L.: world has ever known, gram is evidenced by the fact that as reasons for this practis~ must involve My two children and I have been legal restrictions of some kind rather Frances James, Eau Claire, Wis, many as 25,000 letters suggesting songs quarantined for five weeks because have been received in one week.­ Ann, the younger, has scarlet fever. than deliberate discrimination against Relaxation Music V. O. L. I can't imagine what we would have Canadian customers. However, we pub­ Dear V, 0, L.: done in this house shut off from every­ lish Mr. Angell's letter to bring his Those who want that sweet, sooth­ one if it hadn't been for the radio, My complaint, as he requested, to the at­ Pattern for Fellowship husband couldn't even come home. But ing music to do their reading with tention of sponsors.-V. O. L. should listen to the Viennese Ensemble Dear V. O. L.: .. the radio programs have kept me from I note that you reprint a recent going completely berserk. We all have uver NBC, It comes in the morning at Sherman vs. Morfit just about the time when a housewife speech of Frank Buchman, who spoke our favorite programs, naturally, but ~a n relax and enjoy the music after a over short-wave station WRDL, Bos- on one thing we all agree-Carlton. Dear V. O. L.: busy time getting the children off to I'm a regular "Club Matinee" listen­ .. chool, the beds made, the dishes er, and I'm getting a big kick out of washed, and other tasks done, the current feud between Sherman and I'm a gral'':imother who lives alone MorfH. I don't know whether they're and likes it, especially with my por­ really goo'd friends or not. Anyway, table r adio, I have part-time work as , '. they make a funny and exciting fight relief operator in our local telephone out of it. If they ever come to blows, _ office and take my radio with me on who should really win? Sunday and evenings when I work. I ERAI TERS Mrs. R. N. Laine, Dallas, Tex. can't do without it. Mrs, Gwen Beeler, Effingham, Kan. • It's hard to say who would win in a blow-for-blow battle, as they're both ex­ • We add our recommendation to that pert blowhards. In size and disposition, of Mrs, Beeler in behalf of the Vien· (Join radio's quiz game! Try your 5. Has any President ever received Sherman is the buxom, bawling mas­ nese Ensemble's fine music. It is heard skill at answering these radio brain­ the entire electoral vote? · tiff, Mortit the yapping bull terrier. Monday through Friday at 11 :00 a.m. busters. For correct answers see page Take your pick.-V . O . L. From "Nome Three" EST over some of the NBC stations.­ 45.) V . O . L. (MBS. Sot.• 8:00 p.m. EST) Report on "Guest Star" Poll From "So You Think You Know Music" 1. Name the places described by the The tabulation of ballots on the Shut-In Corner (CBS, Sun .. 2:30 p.m. EST) following: (a) a sea without fish; (b) a "Guest Star" question submitted in this Dear V. O. L.: 1. Name an opera,-(a) written by an forest without trees; (c ) a circus without department for listeners to vote on re­ Will you please welcome another Italian, taking place in Japan; (b) writ­ clowns. veals the following results: shut-in into the circle. I love radio ten by a Frenchman, taking place in 2. What are the famous character "There are too many big-name guest and its music. I myself write words Spain; (c) written by a German, taking for songs, have done so all my life, names of: (a) Count of Monte Cristo; stars on regular programs"- 67%. though I h ave never had the means to place in Palestine. (b) Man Without a Country; (c) Hunch­ "The guest-star situation is all right get them set to music, though I wish 2. What light opera is based on the back of Notre Dame. as it is"-33%. I could. You see, we shut-ins don't work of these literary greats? (a) Mark 3. Name three sports in which a "Guest stars cause me to buy more like to feel that we are dependents, Twain; (b) Edna FerQ~; (c) Alexander score of 70 is: (a) good; (b) fair; (c) bad. and most of us are gifted in some way of the sponsor's product"-No, 74%; Dumas; (d) George Bernard Shaw. yes, 15%; non-committal. 11 %. or another, if we could only find a From "Question Bee" way to commercialize it. I hope some­ (NBC. Sot., 7:30 p.m. ESTI Most frequently voiced remarks day through radio and your kind help From "True or Folse" were: Guests are all right in modera­ that shut-ins w ill be given a broader (NBC. Mon .. 8:30 p.m. ESTI 1. If the London Bridge falls down. tion if they actually have something opportunity to show their resourceful­ 1. George Washington owned slaves. into what river will it fall? outstanding to contribute, but are a ness. 2. Custer made his last stand in Mon· 2. What is the name of the lame boy Ma.ude E. Knecht, R. F , D. No.1, bane if they appear only for name­ tana. in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"? Copley, Ohio value without doing anything of out­ 3. In football, the line of scrimmage 3, What university has graduated the standing entertainment value; money Worth the Effort is always painted white. greatest number of Presidents of the spent on guest stars should be c/iverted Dear V. O. L.: 4. It never snows in Texas, United States? to the pocketbooks of talented radio This is the method I .employ to de­ 5. The Rio Grande River separates 4. Where are the next Olympic aspirants needing only a break to suc­ velop my ten-year-old daughter's in­ Texas and Mexico. games scheduled to be held? terest in music so that she listens at­ 5. What is an a cappella choir? ceed; the part on a show of the guests tentively to radio concerts, Turning to 6. President Wilson died in office. 6, Name two former governors of too often consists merely of shallow your "March of Music," I examine the their life or their forthcoming programs. If Brahms' From "Dr. I. Q." New York State who were nominated chatter about work (NBC. Mon .• 9:00 p.m. ESTI Second Symphony is to be played by for the presidency and defeated. in the movies; there is too much mu­ the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, 1. By what name is the moral science tual back-slapping between master of I get my Victor Book of the symphony of rig'ht and wrong known? From" Morch of Games" ceremonies and guest; great musicians and familiarize myself w ith the sketch 2. Name ttu.~e seas, named for colors, (CBS. Sun .• 10:30 o.m.1 are highly desirable as guest perform-­ on the life of Brahms as well as the music itself. Somewhere I try to find that have figured prominently in the 1. A sponge is an animal. ers; guest celebrities are desirable iT; a picture of Brahms. Then Carol and I news recently. 2. Mark Twain's real name was programs which are bl1111 entirely upon read and talk of Brahms' life. We dis­ 3. Has France a population of more O . Henry. that principle - programs such as cuss different movements of the sym­ or less than 50 million people? 3. What do the follOWing Spanish "George fessel's Celebrity Program" phony-the first movement where we will remember to listen for the horns 4. What's the difference between words mean? (a) sombrero; (b) siesta; and "Pursuit of Happiness"- aIso on and the playful third movement in seedless and seeded raisins? (c) fiesta. strictly dramatic shows. 18 9/ 11 l' N "'PINOCCHIO," a fuil­ length feature cartoon in I color, Walt Disney promises • a movie to exceed his record­ breaking "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in breath-taking appeal. Important to radio lis­ teners is the fact that "Lux Ra­ dio Theater" will present a full preview of this new Disney mas­ terpiece as a special Christmas night broadcast. "Pinocchio" is the classic story of the old wood-carver who carved into a puppet named Pinocchio all of his yearnings for a son. The , Blue Fairy gave to the puppet the gift of ,life for as long as he proved his right to live. But Pinocchio fell .into one tempta­ tion after another and, unable to resist, it seemed that the gift of life would be taken from him. But- What really hap­ pens to Pinocchio will be re­ vealed on the "Lux Theater" Christmas night (CBS, 9 p.m. EST; 8 CST; ? MST; 6 PST).

JUST APPOINTED keeper of Pinoccliio's consc;ience, Jiminy Cricket explains the meaning of the word to the puppet. "Wrong th.ings·· may seem right at times and · right things wrong sometimes," he explains in· his·· most lucid manner. He is Pinoc~hio's shadow

Listen to IIPinocchio" Cf"ristmas Night

GEPPETTO, the lovable old toy- maker, paints a smite on the pinewood face of Pinocchio, little knowing that the puppet is sodn to come to life and throw his household int9a thrilling series of adventures - but let's hear the end on the lux Christmas broadcast

OF RADIO;S 'SINGING sirens, Fred Waring boasts more than IF PERFECTION in dance broadcasts is possible, Fred Waring's is perfect. Old Gold, his fair share: ·Left to right, they are balladeering comedienne Ford and now Chesterfield admit that in the huge sums they have spent on Waring Patsy Garrett, Pennsylvanian glamour girl Jane Wilson, blues shows. Current weekly Waring budget is said to be $20,OOO. ·Part of the perfect band is specialist Donna Dae. Waring features them as soloists, trio, this string section (left to right): Fred Culley, Johnny Richardson, Ferne. "Lady of and in various combinations with the Glee Club and orchestra the Violin," Ferne is sol'oist, a rarity in dance bands, after five years with Waring

DRUMMER POLEY McCLINTOCK'S tie-up with Fred War­ AND HERE IS the Glee Club-source of smooth, thrilling male-ensemble singing, which ing goes back twenty years, when as an eighteen-year-old lad listeners have admired on Fred Waring shows for years. Often supported by all other he started his first band-of four pieces. Frog-voiced, portly, male Waring entertainers, these fifteen are the nucleus, often close "Pleasure Time" with Poley rivals his boss in clowning, is best known for his "bathy­ "Sleep," an old spiritual Fred converted into a waltz. Although singers come and go, this sphere bass." He sings tenor in the Pennsylvanians' Glee Club ' group remains an original Waring idea-one which many other radio shows now imitate

-Gustave w. Gale "LIGHT UP AND LISTEN to Fred Waring • • •" Thus an­ STUART CHURCHILL'S mellow, silvery MOST ORIGINAL comic idea of nouncer Paul Douglas' (left) warm voice welcomes you to tenor voice has been a prime Waring at­ the show gives listeners the hodge­ "Pleasure Time." A vital part of Fred's (r.) grouching-clown­ traction since the Pennsylvanians went on podge of unrelated words one gets ing technique, Douglas acts alternately as stooge and gagster. the air. Best all-around musician of the through "Push - Button Tuning" and For weeks the two vied at guessing college football scores band, "Stu" plays many instruments well this is the gadget providing the click YOU ASKED ·FOR THEM-AND HER·E THEY ARE RADIO GUIDE will pay one dollar tor any letter from a reader which the editors accept and print on this pictorial-feature page. Address Pictorial Editor, 731 Plymouth Court. ' Chicago, 111.

DEAR RADIO GUIDE: LeI's have a pidure at DEAR RADIO GUIDE: May we have a picture at Orson WeUes in some pose other than eccen· ill prior fa his recent disappearance the new Joyce Jordan, famous girl doctor 01 trk genius. - Mrs. J. James, Boston, Mass. from radio?- Ann Long, Baltimore, Md. serial dramas?-Mary Brown, Tampa, Florida Precocious Mr. Welles, who presents "Camp­ In most pictures Artie Shaw looked h is Naughty but nice Bonnie Baker, latest Here is Ann Shepherd, who plays the title role be ll Playhouse" (CBS, Sun.), doe. little strut­ twenty-nine years, but this rece nt shot rage in dance-band vocalists, is that ladr · of "Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne" (CBS, Mon. ting at home, for Miss Chrilitopher Welles with Betty Grable (above) of fi lms 'does Be low she fe nces with maestro Orrin through Fri.). She is seen in character with (above) is complete boss in that quarter.-ED. not reve al any noticeab le sy mptoms.-ED. Tucker (heard Friday on NBC) ~ -ED. Ted Newton, a male medico in her story.-ED. j

t DEAR RADIO GUIDE; What kind of a girl is DEAR RADIO GUIDE; I've been wailing tor a Wynn Murray, vocalist on the "New Fred picture at limmy Shields. who sings now on Allen Show"?-/ack B.. St. LoUis, Missouri "Fibber McGee:'-/ane King, Dallas, Texas Above is a good likeness of Fred Allen's Tall and good-looking and single, Jimmy blond, nineteen-year- old songstress. Wynn Shields (above) Just rece ntly succeeded has been in radio since she sang, as a lit­ Donald Navis as tenor soloist for homespun tle girl, on NBC ch ildren's programs_-ED. "Fibber McGee" (heard Tues., N BC).-ED.

DEAR RADIO GUIDE: Does Cal Tinney look DEAR RADIO GUIDE: How does Al Pearce as homespun in real life as he acts on the compare in size with his stooge, tat Billy air?- Mrs. James Johnson, Spokane. Wash. House?- Mrs. H. Wadhams, Lincoln, Nebr. The "Oklahoma Funste r ," shown in ten-gal­ Our answer is this shot (right) of Pearce Ion hat at left, is entire ly himself on "Youth (heard Wed., CBS) training 285-pound Bi lly l _ vs. Age," the comedy-quiz show on which for a bigger and better-mostly blgger­ he presides on Saturdays over N BC.-E D. McCarthy. House joined AI this year.-ED.

- ~. - 1 .- MATINEE" BREWS A FEU[)

HERE'S the very deuce to pay on "Club Matinee" these days with its joint. emc~es-Ransom Sherman and ~arry TMorfit....:..engaged In a bitter verbal battle over who IS the rightful manager of baritone Johnnie Johnston. 'Confidentially, Johnnie has signed contracts with both of the boys, and while they battle back and forth over who will take the first man­ agerial cut out of his weekly pay-check, the only loser in the battle thus far has been Johnnie. Both Morfit and Sherman seem equally capable when it comes to exchanging verbal punc~es and so far the fight's a draw. Of course it's all in fun, and if you have any doubts as to just how much fun it really is, be sure to . listen to "Club Matinee" (NBC, Monday through Friday, 4 p.m. EST; 3 CST; 2 MST; I PST) this Thurs­ day when this whole side-splitting, word-splitting battle of phrases and epithets comes to a head. Six months ago the pair decided to split the shows, Morfit taking them on Mon­ days, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Sherman now handles the assignment on Thw'rsdays and Fridays. But Sherman, during • one of Morfit's days to handle th~ program, walked in. and engaged Garry in a verbal tilt. Morfit reciprocated when it came Sherman's turn to handle the show by walking in and challenging Sherman to a barrel-jumping duel before the whole NBC-Blue network's audience. Now both Morfit and Sherman have sued, the papers to be served this Thursday. Johnnie Johnston, as a climax, threatens to sue them both! ASIDE FROM .. ITS feuding masters of cere­ STANCH SUPPORTERS of the Sherman faction monies, "Club Matinee" offers plenty of in the feud now raging are the Escorts and Betty­ musical variety -to make it a "top" after­ a mixed musical quartet. Although their job on noon program. Featured are (left to right) the show is singing, they-like other performers Evelyn Lynne, contralto soloist; Pauline, on "Club Matinee"-often find themselves embroiled Evelyn and Marge _ Morin who try to in the argu ment. Left to right, they are: Cliff soothe savage breasts of emcees with music Peterson, Betty Olson, Ted Clare and Floyd Holm

ORCHESTRA-LEADER Rex Maupin finds that leading a band on "Club Mat­ inee" often means doubling as a referee in the feud between Sherman and M orfit as "IT'S NINE O'CLOCK in London, it's well as serving as a butt for their 'niftiest three o'clock in Chicago and it's 'Club !\!Iat­ gags ' on those few occasions when things inee' time everywhere!" Louis Roen, an­ are running smoothly between the pair nouncer of the program, waits here for his cue to sign the show on with these words, which mean - for listeners everywhere­ an invitation to rollicking entertainment

EARNEST S£CONDS of Morfit in PLAYING ON "CLUB MATINEE" this feud are (I. to r.) saxophonists means doing a little bit !If everything Jack Cordaro, Jimmy Both and Fritz to make the show a success, and sing­ Wolf. Sherman says it's a cinch Cor­ ers often pitch in to help with the daro isn't under contract to Morfit, comedy. At right, Evelyn Lynne (left) because if he were he wouldn't even and Betty Olson, vocalists, study gag­ have a cigarette to put behind his ear lines which have been assigned them ~ . JO M(S

When you hear his rousing stories of writ­ ers, books and literary forgeries, you'll say he's' a man to listen to

"Y 011 advertised for a black IIMEET Mr. Weeks-" and white photographer" You hold out your hand reservedly and say "How do you do" in a stiff sort of way, because Here's to a Gaggy this is Edward Weeks, editor of Atlantic Monthly, one of our uppercrust maga­ CHRISTMAS zines. You remember that here is the man who occupies the chair once held THIS is just one of the 401 car- by James Russell Lowell, William Dean toons that appear in Click's Howells, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and Cartoon Annual, which will give you naturally expect him to b&-welL you and your friends many eve­ intellectual and far above the rank and nings of fun as- each of these file. (All of this is figurative, of course, cartoons packs a belly-laugh. because Mr. Weeks is in Boston and you may be in Kansas or California and One hundred and twenty-eight the meeting is taking place by radio.) pages of the best gags ever pub­ Then he starts talking and his accents lished - many of them in full aren't nearly as Harvardish as you had color-drawn by America's best­ expected, and the things he talks about known artists. See the cavalcade are things you always wanted to know of cartooning - -from crusading anyway about people who write books Thomas Nast to modern Peter - their little quirks of character, how Arno. they came to write this or that book. And then, in the next minute, he may after the War, that he enter Harvard. long been dead live again. He is as Click's Cartoon Annual will be be talking about some literary forgery Later, this editor aided Weeks in secur­ timely as your daily newspaper and he the hit of 1940. If you want to be or theft, and he makes it as thrilling as ing a scholarship at Trinity College in makes reading a new and glorious ad­ smart, you must get yourself a an Ellery Queen mystery story. Again, Cambridge, England. venture. Typical of the programs he copy. You'll find it on the news­ he strikes at the heart of today's news After Cambridge, he became a sales­ does on this NBC public service series stands at 50c a copy. If you want when he tells what censorship ,and dic­ man, later an editorial apprentice with are: "How to Live with an Author," to order by mail use the coupon tatorship have done to such writers as the publishing firm of Boni and Live­ which is the inside story of the wives below. - Thomas Mann, fleeing the wrath of Hit­ right, leaving them in 1925 to become and family lives of famous writers, liv­ ler. He's been talking only a few min­ assistant editor of the Atla,ntic Monthly ing and dead; "Men Against Women," utes, but suddenly books and stories Press, the book-publishing division. in which, with keen judgment and a and people who have been cold and far It was here that he really came into sharp humor, he compares the sexes in away have come magnificently alive his own. His was the idea that an edi­ literature; "The One Book in Every and you find you aren't listening to a tor's job went beyond reading and ac­ Man," in which he expounds his idea cold book-review at all. You're going cepting or rejecting manuscript. He felt that there is one good book in every on a real journey of adventure and ex­ that an editor should travel about the person, suggests ways of liberating ploration with a guide who knows his country, meet new authors, encourage that book. - way around. You're finding the human them to write the sort of books he feels In his early forties, Mr. Weeks is a side of literature. the public will be interested in reading. tall, slender fellow with a long, aquiline Mr. Weeks was ) ,2orn in Elizabeth, This he did, and for the next ten years nose, laughing brown eyes and the N. J., in 1898. His parents wanted him played an important part in American common touch. He comes by the com­ to be an engineer and sent him to Cor­ letters. From a pile of rejected manu­ nion touch naturally, having worked­ nell with that end in view, but some­ scripts about to be mailed back to their in earlier years- as a circus pitchman, how building bridges didn't appeal to authors he personally rescued Mazo de as a 'harvest hand in the Kansas wheat­ the youth who became more interested la Roche's "Jalna"- later to win a $10,- fields, as a dishwasher in a greasy­ in stringing words together than watch­ 000 prize and become an international spoon cafe. He's ridden freight trains ing steel girders climb skyward and, at best-seller. Other famous authors he and twice ~orked his way across the the risk of precipitating a family war, either discovered or aided materially in Atlantic (ocean) as a seaman on a was planning to transfer to the E,nglish their climb to fame are Nordhoff and freighter. That is why, perhaps, he con­ department when the World War 'broke Hall (of "Bounty" fame); James Hilton siders Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" Click Annual, out. He left Cornell to drive an ambu­ ("Goodbye, Mr. Chips"), Nora WaIn, an important landmark in American let­ 731 Plymouth Court, Oept. RG29, lance in the French Army, and on eight­ Harvey Cushing, and Ann Bridge. . ters. That is why, too, I suggest that if Chicago, III. een different sectors during the next He spends much of his time traveling you've been frightened away from this four years he saw plenty of action, about the country lecturing, but he con­ broadcast as something that might be I am enclosing 50c for my copy won the -Croix de Guerre for distin­ fesses, "I learn much more from the stiff and coldly formal, forget your of Click Annual. guished services. people who come to hear me than Jhey fears and this Tuesday night meet Mr. It was his. war experiences which do from me." He has discovered many Weeks! Name'______were to lead .hi~ directly into his pres­ new writers on these speaking-trips -Lorraine Thomas. ent field. His letters home were so -and they permit him to keep his finger Edward Weeks may be heard Tues­ Address;______warmly descriptive and human that on the public pulse. days on "The Human Side of Litera­ they won high praise from the editor of On the air, he is informal and chatty ture" over an NBC network at: the Atlantic Monthly, who suggested, and has the knack of making people 1 EST 9:30 • p.m. CST 8:30 p.m. CitY'-,-______State_ _ _ when Weeks was finally discharged and characters in literature who have MST 7:30 p.m. --- PST 6:30 p.m. WEEK'S PROGRAMS

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* News KQW H WMT ~ t ~:~;:;~~a r Music ~~~f.57~BBM KRNT «FAB :W~;"~~!/rfi~~ Roth's Band 12:30 CST 11 :30 MST ~~~~~-Meetlt thel ~ ssus . 9:15 CST 8 :15 MS:r WM IN-Safety Club at Tt~~~a~'ts t:·~:~d (;~rtto l ~;~f~"~~.~~ WOW ·Ma"ic Story Circle NBC -Dance Orch ,: WMAQ WKBHg~~c:t11~; a Re~~~er va tlOn N BC-Ra kov's Orch.: WM T KSOO 10:45 CST 9:45 MST duee )lar ket. KROC-Tick Tock Topics WM IN-Sev Olsen WTCN IIOX ( sw-15.27.11.83) MBS -The First Offend er: WDG Y KOIL·Waltz Time WlB-Art Gallery Department of Illterior to the KFAB-Last Cal! lor Dinner MBS-Th e Hayride : WDCY KOIL 9:45 CST 8:45 MST KROC·Publi c Service Bull etins 11:30 CST 10:30 MST c itizens of th" United States. :~~~.J_-~~~~~i~sn: l ~:'~~ I e l ~~isum's KFAB-Yesterday's Melodies NBC -The Child Grows Up: KSOO·Pipestone Merchants : Mar· D.NBC -Ca ll to Youth : «ROC CBC -Under the Bi g To p: CBI< Band hfDY·Farm Fl ashes KF YR WDAY KSCJ (sw-21.5) ~e~DGY N WOW ( sw- 15.33) MBS-Ed Fitzgerald's Program : KFNF-l etter Basket hFJM ·Request Prgm. CBS-Nat' l Hillb ill y Champions: WlS.Dei~:i~s Sisters .. R,~r e \ \'~ I ~~~\;~et~~1~kec~h~~~lt~n~~ WDGY * KFYR-News: Markets EFNFGospel Singer W K BH WLW·Story of Wool Does to Me." * News: «FAB WM IN KOIl KMA ·Eari May's Visit *Ii M«I./S~o1 ·SNepwl.~m NBC -Bright Idea Club : KROC 11'00 CST 10'00 MST D.CBS-Let's Pretend : WMFG weco KMOX-Salety Brigade, speakers I at urday Night Party KOIL WCCO WMFG WHLB KSCJ KMA CBK WENR WMT 9.53) Macy 's, Ne w York City. WOW WENR (sw·9.53) (sw-15.33) WKBH-Sports Flash KDAL KMOX ( 5w. I1.83) CBS-What's Art to Me: KGLO WMT-Here's Your Lucky Break NBC-Stop Me If You've Heard CBS-Bull Session: KMOX KGLO CBS-Eddy Duchin's Orch. : KDAL WHLB WMFG WII \0 ~~&~~X:~~i~~; Views N(ws ~6W:~~~~~ J3~~~son's Orch. CBS -Bud dy Rogers' Orch.: KGlO NB C-Chuc k Foster's Orchestra: .h·~ lI ::; Boy, [l nd tlJe Se l'elluders WDAF WOW KOA KSTP WTMJ WTMJ "'ill olrel' :l 1t14 ·(lle.r of Cllri~t­ WBBM-Americans at Work WGN-C lvde Lucas' Orch. WBBM KFAB KR;-.rT WNAX IlIftS C'i1I'oIR illc llHling' 0 Little (also at 6 p.m. CST) * WKBH-News: Music WHAS-The Nativity CBS -B ob Chester's Orch.: WHAS CBS -Carl Lo rch's Orch .: WJR Town of Hf'lhl f' llelll: G'ofl R ?st * KLPM ·"'ews WLS-Barn Dance Varieties WLW -Orrin Tucker's Orch. WCCO WJR (sw-6.12) WHAS CBK (sw-6.12) Ye Merry, GentIClllf'n: It Came * KMBC-News: 5ports UP01l tlw l\lidnigtlt Clear. and WMAQ-Ted Weems' Orch. WIVlAQ- Lou Breese's Orch. NBC-Gl enn Mi ll er's Orch.: KMA ' MBS-J imm y Walsh 's Orch.: KSO The First X(l(~1. The ense mble KSL-Kate Smitb Hour *WNAX·Th . Final Edition *WTCN-Front Page KSCJ WTCN will v lay Holy X ight. Silellt WBBM -S ports Huddle KROC KOrL WGN KSTP Ni;.::ht. an(1 the oJ'\'lw~ tl'n will WDGY · Corneo~y Jottings 10:15 CST 9:15 MST 10:45 ~ST 9:45 MST CBC -Happy Vall ey: C1(Y CBK *News : KMBC KOA Otff'I' I ,,'allt Ton }i'O]' rhri~t­ NBC -Li ttle Jack Little's Orch.: NBC -Dance Orch .: KROC WOW MBS-Tommy Do rs ey's Orch .: mil S. ""edllillg' of the Paiuted WG"' -Boyd Raeburn's Orch. CJ R~~ - Your Dancing Party Doll and a JUNlh.'y of Clll'istlllH S WLS -Barn Dance Frolic WMBMs~QJa clk(SMTPc LeWa nD:sAYor ch ... \"GN ,S,BCSC-oTo mmy Re yno ld's Orc h_: KSO WDGY WMT WGN KOIL KG LO-Rh ythm Club :'O Il .C"~. WTCN ·Barn Dance ., " CJRM-Howard Russell's Orch. KSL-Freddie Nagel's Orch. *WBB:YI -Ne ws: The Aristocrats CBS -Samm y Kaye's Orch. : (sw- 9:45 CST 8:45 MST 11.83) ~V~S~~ei ghton Noble's Orc h. : ~~g- Tedd Y Wil son 's Orchestra: ;~~ipB~;v S~~::~~;s'O~~~ch. WEBC-Weather & Hydro CBS-P ublic Affair s: KDAL WJR WENR-Charlie Agnew's Orch. KOIl-Musical Varieties WLU) "FAB KMBC KRNT ~~~~ H KGLO WNAX WJR (sw- NBC-Del Cou rtney's Orchest ra : ! ~~~if.'~~:~s: Weather *WLW-Sonny James' Orchestra: vv'CrO· Farmers' Forum WNAX I

NBC -Smil in' Ed McConn eli , so ngs: WGN -Music You'll Enjoy KMA-Semi·Solid Ramblers MORNING WLS WMT KSO KFYR WTCN SUNDA YI December 24, 1939 IVMI N-String Along IgiolJ , \\,EBr-\e)-;oll Sister s WDAY WOW KROC WlW KSTP-Christmas Sea l Prgm. M usic detai I o n page 1 0. WBBM -S und ay Sunshine F or detai I sec Good Listening G uide. will d e liye r his C'hristmas mes- WGN -To be an nounced 8:00 CST 7:00 MST *CBS-N ews & Rh ythm : WBBM WEBC-Pres byteri an Church * News . KFNF I{Ol l WMFG -PeopJe, Just People *CBS-Today in Europe : KG LO KRNT KOlL KMOX (sw-21.57) W ~1AQ-Take a Picture KF JM ·Salon Si lhouettes NBC -Ho llywood Tod ay: WOW * IVM IN-N ews: Hollywood Brev i­ ties *NBC-News : Alice Remsen in W~lIN -Wesley Foundation KGLO -Huck Shaffer's Orch. ~~~~~ w~gbL w~il;GA?sw~~I~i; KLPM-Sunday Concert * News: WGN WMT KSOO IVMT-Family Party Land of Make Beli eve: KSOO 11:30 CST 10:30 MST KWYO ~ NBC - Chri s tma s Services : WOW KOWH KMOX-In the Dean's Study * WM IN-News: Mu sic Hall NBC-Mu sic fo r Moderns : KOA KROC-Fariba ult Sunday Hour KFJM-Hawaiian String Pichrs WNAX -Stud io Salute KSTP KFYR-S unday Serenade Sen-ices from the ~~irs t Col­ ~ CBC - Ch r istmas Carols: CBK WDAY KROC !( STP WOW WENR -This Week '< Hit Tunes WTC"'-Pinocchio or e(1 Bapt i st Church, XashYille, CKX KFYR WGN-Alice Blue, pianist * KMOX ·Head li ne Hi ghlights T ('ll llessee. KROC-Ow atonna Radio Hour 1:15 CST 12:15 MST 10:15 CST 9:15 MST CBS-S alt Lake City Tabernac le : * W~ II N -News: Luncheon on the J\F,IM-Old Favorite, . NBC -Co ast to Coast on a Bus : NBC -Walter Logan's Mu si cal~ : WHLB WMFG KGLO KOIL WCCO-Lamp Li ghters Terrace KLPMW. C. T. U. Prgm. WEBC WMAQ KSO WMT WLW WHO KOA KRNT WNAX CKX CBK WMT -Dad & the Bo),s from WGN -Mu sical Memori •• WTC;>.! -Funny Paver Show *KOWH·;>.!ews KROC I(SOO WTCN KSCJ NBC -To be announced: KSCJ NBC -Radi o Cedar Vallev I.!AX -McConnon Barn Dance 1:00 CST 12:00 MST 8:15 CST 7:15 MST WCA L-March of Faith MBS-Reviewing S t an d : l.\ NBC-The Man Named Ch rist­ WMFG-The L alll plj~hter s CBS -Outdoors with Bob Edge : K"O MBS -Am erican Wild Life: WDGY 12:15 CST 11 :15 MST WGN WMT mas, dram a : KSOO KSCJ I~SO WMIN-Hollywood Brevities IVBBM KGLO KOIL WH LB KMOX ·Pete & Goldie with Canary ~ N BC-Wa r Chi ldre n's Ch rist- 10:30 CST 9:30 MST mas : KSO KSCJ WOAY KSOO WENR ( 5w· 15.33) 1:30 CST 12:30 MST w cco WMFG KMOX (sIV-21.57) Chorus M Ore d etai l o n page CBS -Ma jor Bowes' Fam ily: KDAL WEBC KOWH (s\\"-15.33) 1 7. NBC-Uni v. of Chicayo Ro un d Ta­ 8:30 CST 7:30 MST KWYO ·Qlli1. Box M ore d ctai I on page 17. NBC -St ring Symphony Co ncert : WNAX KGLO WHLB I\RNT W3BM ·Man on II,e Street ble Discussion: KSTP WDA \' CBS -Wings Ove r Jordan : KMOX WMFG WCCO I\MOX KFAB .Q.MBS -Vati can Chri stm as Serv ­ WHO WOW WMAQ KSTP WLW * WCCO ·News WEBC WOW KFYR KOA IVYIAQ WBBM KGLO KO l l WHLB (sw-21.57) Wea - ice: WGN WEBC KFYR F o r detai l see Goo(! List e n ing Guide. WLS-Reading the Funnies: Music detail on page 1 0. / WMFG (sw-21.57) For deta il see Good listening Guide , *CBS-Anso n Weeks' Orchest ra: Speaker: Rf'W' TC'll d 'Yo P . Of­ ther: Livestock: Bookings ~ CBC-Vati c an Chris tmas Serv­ CBS -Demo cracy in Action , dra­ futt, pa stor of the C.'ah::n:f NBC -To be announced : KFYR New ice: CBl( News: 1<00L KRNT WCCO WEBC WDAY WMAQ KSTP WMAQ -Prev ue of Brand mas: WCCO WHLB KMOX KOIL Baptif.;t Chun:h, LoUISVIlle, Records II' BBM Ip tile s II bjPct of todilY'S Gt. Fall s, Montana, at 1280 011 WLW KSCJ (5w,21.5) WI(BH WCCO OrOIHkust. your dial) MBS-Su nday Mo rni ng Mati nee : KMOX .Ke y to the City: Trav- KOlL-Rb ythmaires CBS ·Chu rch of t he Air : WKBH WGN WDG Y- Vari eties ~C BC - M ystery of Bethlehem: M usic det ai I o n page 10. CKY CBI{ WBBM WC CO KGLO WHLB 10:45 CST 9:45 MST e l o~ue WMIN ·Luncheon on the Terrace CBC-De votiona l Service: CKX KDAL WMFG WNAX (sw-21.57) MBS -Sunda y Morning Matinee: ~al~er: n e \re re nd Unr} A. WDGY WCAL-SundAlbum NBC -Pilgr image of Poetry: K~(".J CST . MST WEBC -Morning Mlisicale 9:45 8:45 WDAY I< SOO KSO WEBC KMA WBBM -Meet the Band LlNGUAPHONE INSTITUTE C BC -Concert Music: CB I{ WH O·l st Evangelica l Church Ir 5:00 MST K~ . IA · 930 W.fH-7:;0 LiMBS-Christmas Tree Lighting: NBC-Dinah Shore, songs: KSCJ . lOIBC-950 WKBH-lSS0 WCCO KMOX WNAX KOIL K~IOX-1.090 WLtl·760 '1(50 WGN WDGY KFAB KRNT CKY CKX CBK KMA KROC KSO (sw-9.55) For detail see Good Listening Guide. KOA -S30 WL8-S70 For detail see Good Listening Guide. NBC-Jack Benny, comedian: CKY KOIL-12GO WL\Y-700 ,6N BC-Christmas Tree Lighting: KFJM·Twilite Yespers WLW WMAQ WOW WHO WSM KO\YH-660 WlIAQ-670 GULF SCREEN • K MA WENR WLW KFYR KSCJ KH:\T·1320 \y~IFG-1210 KGL()·North Iowa Press WTMJ WDAF WEBC CKX KROC·13l0 Wm:\-J370 WTCN KLPM-Rev. Brown W~lT " 600 For detail see Good Listeni ng Guide. WDA Y KFYR KSTP CBK (sw· KSC.J-l330 KROC-Lutheran Hour K8L-1130 W~AX -5 70 9.53) l GUILD THEATER. eBC.- Church of ' the Air: CKY WDGY-Little Homelike Church Kf'O-1430 WO\V-l\9(i CKX CBK MBS-Bach Cantata Series: KOIL KSOO·1l10 WSl[·650 WENR·Arnateur Hour WDGY KSTP-H60 W 'I'C1\-125O KFJM·Tu.,eful Tempos WHO·Cameos of New Orleans Music detail on page 10. KWYO-1370 W'1'lIJ·620 CJ RM -Music for Sunday WDAY·All en Roth's Orch. NBC -Hour of Charm: KSTP KOA in t. he song·fest will be school CBC-Sweet &: Low: CJ RM CKY C-9/ 11 Page 31 groups, t ll e I1 ltHl ieipa1 chorus, CKY -Church Service WDGY-Listen America WEBC WL W WHO WTMJ WSM ra dio artis ts aud the entire CKX CBK KF nl·Mae Claypool, songs WEBC-Lone Ranger WDAF WMAQ WOW (sw-9.53 ) audience of the auditorium * News: wow WMFG WEBC KLPM-Ave Maria WGN-Your Sundav Date ll. N BC -Christmas Story: WTCN frolll w liic IJ this is pres·cllted, KSL-Church Service SUNDAY WGN -Heidelberg Concert Orch. 8 -:15 CST 7 :15 MST KMA MBS-Griff Williams' Orchestra : WBBM-Master Works on the Air WHAS-Rev. Charies E. Fuller NBC-The Parker Famil y, sketch : Reading b~' )'1r8. Sa ra Delano WD GY WGN WDA F-Da nce Orch. WLS-Old Fashioned Revival Hr. WENR WTCN KSO WSM WM T Hoosevelt, llI othel' of the Presi. December 24 de nt. * News: WLW KGLO WDAY WE'IR-Art Kassel's Orch. * WMT-New. WLW WKBH WGN -Dick J urgens' Orch_ 7 :15 CST 6:15 MST Old Fashioned Revival Hour: WDAF WBBM WMAQ * KFJM-News WMT KMA KSL KOIL WHAS-Bluegrass Brevities .0CBS-Annual Christmas C.;ol: KFJM-Piano Moods WDGY KFJM KFYR WMT KG LO-Federal String Qu artet KMBC-Wayside Chapel WMAQ -Lo u Breese's Orch. KRNT WCCO KFAB WN . ~X WG'I -To mmy Dorsey's Orch. WK BH WNAX WDAY KROC WMT-Electric Park Band KROC-Music for Sunday CJRM- Half & Half . KMOX-Twi li ght Trail KGLO WKBH KMBC WBBM IVMT-Eastern Sta r Pr ~m . ____ WNAX-Cabinet Series WJR WMFG KSCJ -Sioux Cityans KGLO-A Christmas Carol KOA-Night Editor 7 :30 CST 6 :30 MST 8 :30 CST 7 :30 · MST KMBC-Good Will Court KSTP-Memory Pictures 10:45 CST 9 :45 MST C.I RM-Treasure Chest NBC -Voice of Hawa ii: KFYR ll. N BC-American Alb il'm of Fa­ * KSCJ-News WCCO-Cedric Adams CBS-Har ~ y Owens' Orch. : WHLB KMOX-People's Platfor;" KROC WTCN KSCJ KMA KSO mi li ar Mu sic: WHO WEBC WSM WEN R-Mammouth Min strels * WENR-News: Charlie Agnew's WM FG WNAX KOIL-Music You Want WMT WDAY (sw-9.55) KOA WMAQ KSTP IV DAF WOW WJR -G race Ber man Orch. MBS -A Modern Christmas Carol: * KSL-News CJRM-Remember These? WTMJ l £l'urf KMA m e mber , South A.lltPl' kali \-\' ay, Dant:c, and the ensem bl e \" ill (5w-9.53) and. with )11'. , I.e Krenn, I ','e otfe r Now the Day Is On:!r. ~ ~~~HO~; - ~~!~ , variety prgm .: ~J~~H KGLO WCCO WJR (sw- For det ai l see Good L istening G u ide, .o.CBS -An nual Christmas Carol: Found the R eal Tllin~. ) [r. Le KI·eHn will Sillg' 8tay ill :,\1)' Al'ms, NBC-Irene Rich . drama : WEN R -"ISM WMAQ NBC-Irene Rich , drama : WOW 11 :00 CST 10:00 MST WJR KFAB WNAX WBBM Cinderella. The trio will ot'feL' KSO WMT WLW WTCN NBC -Fats Waller's Orc h. : KMA KMBC WKBH weco KRNT Looking A t the 'Vorld T hrough Old Fashioned Revival ; WMFG IWoody Herman's Orc h.: CBC-Sanctuary : CKY CBK Hang Up Your Stocki ng and KMA -Richard Wilson WD AF-D ance Orch_ CKX CBK WTMJ WHO WDA Y WSM WOW TW A-Ran Wi lde's OrCh. ) I y Tem ptation and . Pour Etre .a La Page alld I \Vant to Be KRGC- Valencians WHO-Death Valley Days ll.MBS-A Modern Chri stmas WEBC KSTP WENR KSL-Choral Music Happy. WDAY -Peggy Lee, song stylist W.l R-The Hermit's Cave Carol: WDGY lI.MBS-Midn ig ht Mass : I

NBC -Th e Man I Married , sketch : WMIN -Bulletin Board WKBH-Ame r. Family Robinson MORNING WMAQ WOW KSTP WHO CKY MONDAY, December 25. 1939 WMFG-Betty & Bob, sketch WLB -Lady's Leisure WDAY WL W KFYR KOA CBK WNAX -Manhattan Mother. sketch * WLS -;I1a rkets : News IVMT-Hilltop Hou se *Star in program listings KF'JM -Salon Silhouettes 10:30 CST 9:30 MST indicates news broadcast. KLPM-Rev. Carlson MBS-K ee p Fit to Mus ic: KSO 11 :00 CST 1 0 :00 MST KMA -Homemakers' Visit ll.MBS-Cal vary Baptist Chu rch CBS -Lanny Ross, tnr.: WCCO WDGY NBC-The Ca rters of El m Street, Choir: WDGY WBBM KRNT KMOX KOIL ,c.Bell in program listing KROC-The Chrislmas Tree KFAB NBC-Charles Sears , tnr.: KOWH skelch : KOA WMAQ indicates special network KSOO-Russ Morga n's Orch_ Grandma Travels: WEBC WDAY CBS -Kate Smith Speaks : IUAB KWYO-Devotional CKY-Singing Stars NBC -Dav id Harum, sketch: WHO CKX CBK Chrbtmas broadcas~ WOW KSTP WMAQ NBC -Ag ain st the Storm , sketch: KR IT WCCO KMOX KO IL WDGY-Jeanne Kimball KF JM-Household Chat WNAX WBBM (sw-21.57) WGN -Yuletide Melodies KFNF-Flower Talk ll.CBC -Christm as Band Conc ert : KSTP WOW WMAQ WHO KOA 8:00 CST 7:00 MST KGLO- Revue CBK CBS-Bi g Sis ter, sketc h : KRNT ll. NBC -Amer ica n War Corre­ NBC-B re akfast Club: KOWH 9 :05 CST 8:05 MST KOA-Musica l Magazine WMFG WHLB WBBM KFAB spondents Reunion : KSO KOIVH CKX-Christmas Concert WEBC (sw-21.5) weco WNAX KMOX KDAL KSCJ (511' -15.33) NBC -Josh Hig gi ns of Finchville : KROC':Wornin g Bible Class CI,Y-Record Library F or detail see Good Listen ing G uide. CB S- Melod y Ramblings : (sw- KSCJ KSO CKX ~;I?O-Gr a in Quotations : Concert NBC-Jack Berch & His Boys : 21 57) KFJM-Morninl( Melod ies 11MBS -Santa Barbara Missi on ll.MBS -Yuletide Melodies : CKY KFNF.JiIllIllY Morgan (sw-15.33) Christmas: CKX CEK WGN CBS -Good Morn ing: KOIL KDAL KWYO-Housewives' Prgm_ WDGY CBK WCAL-Greetin gs * KFYR-Markets: Wealher : News CKY-Home Folks Frolic Th j~ prO)!I'llllJ ,ll' pi.-t..: the Coffee Pot Inn: KFAB WDAY * KGLO-News: Tune Time KFJM-Music Hall p k tu n"J"' C! Il l' (·U:o-l01t1 of ( · hl"i~t· CBS -Ch ansonette : KOIL WBBM WGN-Keep Fit to Mu sic III;,~ ;IS it " ' :1:0) i.·."It'lJrate ...l ill the KFYR KSTP WHO WNAX KMA KLPM -Bob Simmons, Minot KFNF-Cornfield Hawaiians WCCO KMOX WNAX KGLO * WKBH-News : Window 'Shopper ~~ tl" il.l";t. Jlli s~io n t1~I.rS of C;J1i· WOW KRNT WMTN-Doc Sell ers Bible Church KFYR-Sam & His City Fellers *News: KOA WKBH KSCJ *KMA-Weather. Markets & News KGLO -Parade of Bands 9:15 CST 8:15 MST WTCN-Whoopee John Music Toby's rorntuS5el News: W,\IT WGN KOA -Adopted Daughter, sketch KMA -Markets & Farm News KMA Nlu sical Clock: WMFG WTCN N8(.Vagabonds: KSCJ KSO 9:45 CST 8:45 MSr * KSCJ -News: Timetable: Mu sic * KOIL-News CKY-Gems from the Operas KSOO WBBM CKX (sw-21.5) NBC -Woman in White, sketch : * KSOO -Grain Quotatio)," : Live­ WMT-Myrt & Ma rge KFJM -Mu sic of the Ma sters 8:15 CST 7:15 MST N Be-John's Othe r Wife, sketch: KSTP WMAQ WHO WOW WEBC stocks: Wea ther : N e~ s WTCN -Morning Edition I\FNF-Weather: Mark.ts: Farm CB S-Good Morning: WKBH KOIL WMAQ WOW KSTP WHO WLW NBC-The Trouble with Marriage , KWYO-Polish Varieties KOWH -Grain Markets New~ KDAL (sw- 21 .57) WCA L-German Service I{ ROC-Gol,her Tales KFYR -Betty & Bob. sketch NBC-R ig ht to Happiness: WLS sketch: WLS * WDAY -Ma rkels : News: Hom e­ KSCJ -A. A. U. W. NBC-Breakfas t Club: KFYR *KGLO-J-iome Tow n News ll. CBC -Ch ristm as Box : CBK ~~So~e0m:~~ r , sketch : WCCO town Reporter: \\feather KSOO -Real Gold Prgm. h LPM -Special Christmas ~Iu < ic WDAY IVDGY-Happy Hollow Boys * KWYO -News: To be an- CBS-Myrt & Marge , sketch : NBC-No velettes: KSCJ KOWH J( HOC -Dow n Memory Lane * News: KFJM WLS WEBC-\'/oman's_ Hour nounced: Tri-We ekly Gossip *1\ 500-Tim e: Farm Specials: Blue Ribbon Melodies: KOA ~~~~ 1~~l5x ~J~L& ~~IX~ CKX (sw-215) WG N- Len Salvo, organist WDAY -His Majesty the Babv r\ews : Grain Qu otations WHO KDAL KRNT ll.CBC -Christm as Box : CBI< IVKBH -llome Economics WEBC-Getting the Most Out of KSTP-Household Forum 8 :30 CST 7 :30 ~ AST KOWH IVLW -Linda's First Love, sketch Life KI':YO-Holl \'\\ood Brevities CKY-A ll an Caron. organist WMFG -Musical Momen ts WGN -Don Pedro's Magic Violin CBS-Chanson ette : KOIL KDAL CKY -British Dance Bands \\'CA L-Central Lutheran Service KFJM-Passing Orchestra Parade *\ • Where there is no listing 011 page 17 . col um n 1. " The Adventures of the Three Tom Howard and George • Opal Cravell (Lullaby Lady) ; N BC ·Wili Os bo rne's Orchestra: for a dation its prec:eding Garridebs II an attempted Shelton, co medi ans; Eton Contine ntals Quartet; J osef KFYR K SCJ KMA program is on the air. 11 :00 CST ( 10 :00 MST) Ame r· murder o'f Dr. \"latson. B o~t s; Ray Bloch's orchestra. P asternack. conductor. ican War Co rres ponde nts Re· CBS ·Tu ne·Up Time: KSL 7 :00 CST (6 :00 MST ) Qu aker 8 :00 CST (7:00 MST ) Do ctor 9 :00 CST ( 8:00 MST) Guy 6:00 CST 5:00 MST union, NBC . * CBS·Paul Sulliva n Reviews the Part y, NBC. I. Q., NBC. Lomba rdo 's Orchest ra, CBS. l1N BC · Fred W a ring in Pleasure \V a r correspondents in Eu­ Ne\\'s: WBBM KMBC WCCO A novel audie nce-participa­ Time : WOW KSTP WLW WEBC rope will be. heard exchang­ Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou; tion program. 9 :30 CST (8:30 MST ) Bl ondie, KFAB KOIL KMOX I{RNT WDA Y WSM WDAF WTMJ ing Christm(,1s greetings with Freddie Rich's orchestra. S~e pictu res on pag e 2 0. CBS . N BC ·The Ad ventu res of Sherlock F o r det a il sec Good Li s teni n g G u ide . their fa1l1i lies in Am erica. 7:00 CS T (6 :00 MST) Tune· 8 :00 CST (7 :00 MST) Lu x Comedy sketch, \\'i t h Arthur Holmes : KOA N BC·Ray Kinn ey's Orch.: WMT Up Time, CBS . Rad io, Theater, CBS. Lake and Penny Si ngleton. N BC ·Xa vier Cu gat's Orch.: WSAI WENR Tony Martin, YI. C.; K ay \Valt . Disney's " Pi nocchio," AFTERNOON II'DAY KSTP WEBC WTM,J CBS·The Chicagoa ns: KFAB Thompso n' s Rh~ l thll1 Singers; based Oil the story by Col· 10 :00 CST (9 :00 MST) F red WHO David Laughli n, tellor; Andre lodi. \" ill be presented. Waring in Pleasure T ime, *MBS·Fulton Lewis , J r., neWS : CBC-Immortal Mu sic : CKY CKX 2 :00 CST . (l :00 MST) Ha n· Ko stelanetz' orchestra. Pictures may be f o und on page 1 9. NBC. WDGY del's Mess ia h , N Be. An entire program of carols CBl( CBS· Amos ' n' And y, sketch : WJR Th is presentation wi ll be 7:30 CST (6:30 MST) True or 8 :30 CST (7 :30 MST) Al ec by the Glee Club. MBS · Be nn y Good ma n's Orch. : KMOX weco WHAS (sw·11.83) heard from the T abernacle in Fa lse, NBC . Templeton Time, NBC. Pictures m ay be found on page 20, I\ SO WMT WDGY CBC · Between Ourselves : CBI{ Salt Lake City, U tah. Quiz program, with Dr. Alec Telllpleton, blind pian. See bottom of opposite Mu sic You Wa nt: KROC WTCN CK X Harry Hagen. is t; Pat O'Malley, come· page for frequenc:y list­ * News: CJRM WGN * News KGLO KOI L KSCJ 3 :00 CST (2 :00 MST ) Chris t · d ia n ; string orches tra ; choral h GLO·Dance Hour WBBM mas at t he Front, CBS. 7 :30 CST (6:30 MST) The gr oup ings. IVDAF·Moonbeams Capt. Midnigh t. , ketch: WGN \vEi'> R·An Kassel's Orch . WHO Refer to adjac:ent c:olumns for stations broadcasting these programs \I'J H·,/ack :vI eyers' Orch. Di nner Music: WLB WMFG IVI\HH·Wa\ Hack When CJRM·Market New, IVLW ·Orril; Tucker's Orch. CK Y·Old Refrains \ViVlAQ·Fats Waller' s Orch. KF.IM·Weather & Market. CKX·Li ght Up & Listen Club l\SCJ· Bi ll & Mike CJ R~ I · Genthon's Grainbelters IViBS · Di ck Barrie's Orch.: v\,MT \I' NA X·Waltz Time KFYR·To be announced CK Y ·Easy Aces. sketch * W KBH·Bagatell e: News hFYR ·Chiffon Interl udes WDGY WOIV ·Window Picture. I(LPM -Dinner Dance J\FJ M·Northern Lites 8:00 CST 7:00 MST 1\GLO·Slum5 Cost You Money * News : WHO WMFG WEBI' 11:15 CST 10:15 MST KMA · Bashful Bachelor KFYR·The Stroll ers * MBS· Raymond Gra m Swing, II'[JAY·Fqirmont Old Ti mers WDAF WBBM CBS· Loui s Arm stronQ's Orc hestra : *K MBC· New>: Sports KGLO·Clear Lake Christmas news analyst: WDGY KSO \VDGY -S ultlething SW'eet c'IRM ·J ohnn.\ Bering's Orch. hGLO \\,BBM WKBH WNAX K OA·Speed Gibson, sketch Show CBS· Lu x Radio Theater : IVBB\"I \\' !d3H Bar" Dance * KFYR·News & Weather I\R1\T I\~IB C KF AB * KROC·News: Theaters: Sports h ' ,':I,J · Pick the Win ner J( SL CKY CKX WCCO I01BC W~'lFG · T h e Three Wise Men KMOX·France Laux, sports N BC · Xa vier Cugat's Orc h.: WOW KSL·Story Telling Time KMA-Earl May's Visit KFAB WJR KRNT KMOX 1<011 . 9:15 CST 8:15 MST I\OA-O" with the Dance ('JHM ·Tn'asul'e Chest WK BH·Sports Flash h( j !\ · ()rph :~ 11 Ann ie KOI L·Sports Hi, hlights WNAX WHAS CBK ( sw· ll .83) *MBS· Foreign News: WGN 1 \ ~' IOX · Ma s t e r Works on the .'\11 WMAQ·Organ Moods KROC-Let's Sing a While See pict u r e s on page 1 9. IVDGY KSTP ·Loooing th e Loop: Musicale * hOIL·Music You Want : News * WNAX·Sunset Edit ion WDAF·Twili ght Tra Li s \VCGO·Cu rfew Time WTCN·P aragraphs on Parane * WDAY· Boa ke Carter new. ~~ I~ R~~~gaK~~~ic (~~ c~w) a : N BC · Li t tle 01 ' Holl ywood : KSO h SCJ·Five Rhythmaires WDAF·Ch ri stlllas on th e Moo n lVeCO·Master Works 6:15 CST 5:15 MST WDGY·World's Fair Museum KFYR ·Fann ers Un ion WHAS·Walsh Look, 'Em Over MBS-5avoy Swing : WDGY WMT WEBC·Sports: Safety Club NBC· Doctor 1. Q .. quiz program : KGLO Music Graphs * IVGN -Fulton Lewis. Jr .. connn WMAQ WTMJ WDA Y KFYR IVGN ·Boyd Raeburn's arch. 1 1:30 CST 10:30 MST W HO· McCannon Call ers IYJ Peaceful N BC·Science on the March : iWA WSM WDAF KSTP W HO 9:30 CST 8 :30 MST R·A r ~ lI nd ~Jichi ga n: N BC · Erski ne Hawk in s' Orch.: WTCN WENR * WMT·News: Dinner Dance Mu· Vall ey WOW WEBC WLW (sw-9.53) NBC · Na t 'l R, di o Forum : WENR lOlA I' SC.J \vENR sic KFYR KSCJ KMA IVL W·Paul Kenneuy CBS· Lum & Abner. sketch : WTCN.Spol Is r JRM-Ha lf & Half MBS·J oe Sa nders' Orch. : IVGN KFAB WBBM KMOX WMAQ·Jim Bl ade's Orch. WCCO· WTMJ · Kilowatt Hour KFJM·Let's Dance N BC·Ba rry Wintor's Orchestra : IYMT I\SO WDGY WNAX KRNT WHAS ( s\\' ·9.53) * WNAX ·Final Edition KOIL 7:00 CST 6:00 MST * KGLO·Ne\\'s WOW ·Merry·Go· Round: Sport, CBS·Lawrwce Welk's Orch.: WJ R KLPM·Hollywood on Parade MBS·Au thor! Authorl WDGY NBC·Sensations & Swing: WLW 1~'SM ·S port s Re view I,FAB WBBM W:-IAX KR\JT NBC ·I Love a Mystery, sketch : WENR ·Concert Miniature WG:-; W DAF WMAQ KSTP KOA K SO WTMJ ·Shadow of Fu Manchu IV.IR I (~ I B C KGLO (5'1'·6.17) WTMJ WSM WMAQ K STP WHO WGN·Bill y Repaid WMT IVOW \VTMJ WEBC NBC ·Qu aker Part y : WSM WTMJ 10:30 CST 9:30 MST NBC · Eddy Rogers' Orch.: II'SM KOA WEBC WOW WDAF (sw· I'll< RH fl arn Dance CBS·Blondie. sket ch : KGLO KSL WDAF KFYR I\OA WHO WOW WMFG·Personality Sketches NBC · Ben Cutler's Orch.: KFYR II'T~1,J ,\'011' WEBC 1\ STP ~;i ~ (also KFI at . 10 :15 p.m. WDAY KSTP WMAQ CKY WLW KOIL KMOX KDAL WKB H WMT·Sta n Stanley's Orch. WDA Y WEBC WSM h STP ( 3 \\, ' II'TCN KFYR. WDA Y KROC CBK 1\ 1111:1 " t AB I'\ NAX WMFG \OV1T N· Was hi n~ton ~po tli e.h r 9.53) \I' DAF CBC·Lar ry Cross & Company : lIlS·Tune· Up Time; Tony Mar· W HAS I *N BC -Lowe ll Th omas. news WKBH-Dinner Mus ic * CJ HM ·News . Spurts Revue WGN KOA K STP WHO WOW WMAQ KOIL cOlll me nta tor : WL\'" * WLW·Mi chael I·[i un, news KF J M-Homelown R~p one r CBC -Talk : C BK CKY CKX KFYR WDAY * News: WDGY KFAB *CBS·Today in Eu rope : KGLO WMFG·Captain Mid night KGLO·T he Town Cner * KFJM ·News MBS-The Johnson Famil y, sketch: CKX· University Lecture WHLB WCCO WBBM WMFG \VNAX -Artists' Ser vice I\. LP~ l ·Go\'ern m ent Reports * KFYR·News: Aunt Sammy & IVDGY WMT CKY·l nspira tion: Home Folks KOIL KFAB WKBH K DAL KOA · \V es ler naires & Elsa Ka uer I' Mus ic 6:30 CST 5:30 MST CBK·Musical Matinee Frolic KMOX NBC-Magnolia Blossoms : I, ROC KR OC- Por t, of (all KLPM -Hits & Encores KFJM·Teatime Tempos KSCJ · H o\Y li n ~ News KMOX-Editor' s Daughter CKX·Swing Time NBC -Ad ventures of Tom Mi x: KFYR KSCJ (sw.9.55 ) CKY·SteJl a Dallas KFNF-Cha rl ie Krall 's Orch . WE NR WMT WTCN KSO IVI' HI·I· Hal'ij Ad KOlL·Top Tunes KFYR ·U. S. Gove rnment Reports CBS-Second Husband , drama: IVMFG·Co nce rt Ball K W YO-Serenader KFAB·Y§.terday's Melodies Helen Menken : KRNT WBBM K LPM·Worid Vocal KGLO·To be a nnoll nced N BC-Li'l Abner, sketch : WMAQ WBBM-Meet the Missus KOA·Univer sitl' of Den,· er KFYR WH AS KSL WJR WCCO l(MOX 7:15 CST 6:1 5 MST WCCO·Ma nhatta n Mother KMA-AI , Lem & Bud KMBC KFAB WNAX KOIL CJ H:l1 ·Supper Son~sters KOIL-Swing E nsemble * KSTP·News: Mu sicale CBC ·Salon Orch.: CKX * WLB·Background of th e News KWYO·Lest We Forget *CBC-News : CKX CBK KFJM · Lam t'- Li g h t i n~ Time KOWH·To be a nnounced Ca ptain Midnight. sketch : WNAX·Life Can Be Beautifu l WDAY·Ch a rl ie & Cedric WEBC * News : WGN WHO WLS KGLO·Nort h Iowa Forum' The 3:30 CST 2:30 MST K ROC·Song Shoppers KROC WDAY WNAX Hours Ah ead KWYO·To be a nnounced WEBC·Minnesota in the News: KSTP Sports: WMFG KFJM NBC- Lorenzo Jones, sketch : WHO Twilight Review Little Or ph a n Annie: WEBC-The Spoken Word WGN WHO Good Will Court: K STP WSM ( Co nt in ued on Next Page ) K STP WMAQ. WOw.· WLW WENR·J u nior League Radio WEN R·Swingtime Serenade * " ews : WOW CKY CBS-Of Men & Books: KGLO II'GN·Mark Love & Len CBK · Ma~ i c al Voyage WMFG KDAL WKBH KRN1 Salvo ~~~ ~teEdna O'd ell & Harold WKBH·Albina Bina J\FJ M·Sundown Serenade WH LB ( sw-11 .83) Turner WMFG·The Spoken Word 1' ;'vIA·The Two Lous ~. ' Archibald Mn cL!'is h. Lihrn· WHO-Story of Ellen Randolph \V l\ lI N -~ o n £ S hopper~ r ian of Co ng ress. will partici ­ WKBH· Kiddies Hour KOA ·Da vid Adams pate ill a dist'ussion of tb ~ W NA X ·Echoes of Hawaii KSCJ·Gatherin' Boy. TONIGHT WLW·It Happened Today Gutenuerg Cele urs tiOD of ] 940. hWYO·HiJlbilJies 4:30 CST 3:30 MST WMAQ·Life Can Be Beautiful *NBC-Clu b Ma tinee : New s: NBC-Bud Barton, children's pro- WMFG-Twilight Time WDGY-Petite Mu sicale WMIN·Hearth & Home KFYR CKX C KY eram: W EBC KSCJ KMA ( sw- * WMIN -News: Rhv thm in Rhyme MBS-Two Keyboards: WDGY 15.33·9.53) Time WGN NBC -K it ty Keene, sketch : KFYR WNAX·Bohemian Band , NIGHT CBC-Vic & Sade: CBK WDA Y WHO KOA KSTP WOW WOW·Meet Mi ss Jlliia KFAB·Hired Ha nds WMAQ WTCN·Bill . Mac & Jimmy Where there ;s no listing KFJM·U. N. D. Educ. P rgm. CBS·1t Ha ppened in Hollywood : 5:15 CS:r 4:15 MST for a station its preceding WBBM KRNT KMOX KOIL KLPM-Nighthawks *NBC-Malcolm Cl ai re, st ories : program;s on the air. KMOX·Ma P erkins, sketch W CCO KOA ·Musical Cruis es ( : u ~:-:t: Sa l'flh B ell l'er . hnpet· News: KFYR WENR ( sw·9.53) 6:00 CST 5:00 MST So uHto r of H Olly wood stars, for CBS-Deep River Rh a psody : KOIL NBC-Easy Aces, sketch : KSO k O[L·Agency Series \ L llt D i.slley. KWYO·Haif & Half Prgm. KRNT KFAB IHn WENR WTCN MBS-Uncle Don : KOIL WBBM·Mi ssus Goes to Market NBC -Wash ing \ on Call ing: ( sw· CBS·Amos ' n ' An dy, sketch : WJR \vCAL-Langu,,!!;e Group NBC-J ack Armstrong. sket ch : 9.55) K MOX WCCO WHAS (sw· WCCO· Life of Mary Sother n WLW CBC-To be an nounced : CBf( 1l.8}) & MOLLY WLW·Against t he St orm CBC-You rs for a Song: CKY W rvIl N· Kaff ee Kl atch * :' TP-News : Dream Ship NBC -To be announced: WEBC NBC-Bob Hope Variety Prgm. : * WBIB 'l- News, Todd Hunter WTMJ -Dance Orch. WJH-J ack Meyers' Orch. * WBBM-News : FOllr Californians K\I A KFYR WDA\, KSCJ KROC IV SM KSTP WHO WOW KOA W CCO·St,·les for Men 10:30 CSi 9:30 MST IVhBH- I-" ay Back When WEBC·Weather & Hydro (51\'.9.53) \\'YIAQ WLW WTMJ WDAF (sw- WDGY-Skv Reporter NBC-Johnny Presents : KOA WllV-Orrill Tucker' s Orch. WENR-Music YOli Want 9. 53) Prgm. NBC-Blue Barron's Orch.: WSM W :-I AX -Waltz Time * WllV-Sonnv J ames' Orchestra : CBS-We, the People: KFAB WJR · M u s i ~a l KR1\T KMOX WCCO WBBM CBS-Marcelle Denya, sop.: KMBC WTCN·Hoc key Game WHO WDA Y KFYR KYIA KSTP 11 :15 CST 10:15 MST News KMI3 C WHAS WJR KOIl WNAX KFAB WHlB WBBM WHAS 10:00 CST '1:00 MST (sw·9.53) CBS-Tommy Reynolds' Orch .: WMAQ-little J ack Little's Orch. KDAL (sw.ll .83) (also at 11 :00 KMOX WKBH KRNT WMFG NBC -Fred . Wa ring in Pleasure NBC-Lou Breese's Orch. : KYIA KR.'H KFAB WBBM WKBH WOW :Dance Orch. p.m. CST) IVJR Time: WHO KOA WMAQ KFYR KSCJ WMAQ Wl\A X KGLO End of Tuesday Programs ; ....

NBC-Right to Happiness, sketch: KGLO-Church in the Wildwood CBS -Mel od y Ramblings: (5W. MORNING IVLS WEDNESDAY, December 27,1939 KLPM-Today's Almanac 21.57) *C BC-News: CBK KMA -Old Favorites ' NBC -The O' Neills, sketch : WMAQ *Star in program listings 9:30 CST 8:30 MST KOll·Waltz Time KOA WlW indicates news broadcast. NBC-Originalities: KSCJ KFYR WNA X-Geo rge B. German KWYO-Cava!cade of Drama i~~ ~Vt P~~; :~'eTi~~~, me N BC -Rakov's Orchestra: KSCJ KSO KOWH WMT (sw-21.5) WTCiI:-A rollnd the Town WCAl-Our Church KSCJ-Wa nl Ad Rambles: Gath- ~S~ ) C KX CBK WTCN (sw­ 8:00 CST 7:00 MST NBC-Story of Mary Marlin , 10:00 CST 9:00 MST WEBC·Houseboat Hannah, sketch eri n' Boys NBC -Breakfast C I u b : WEBC sketch: WLS NBC -Da v id Ha rum, sketch: WHO WG N- Bachelor's Children KSOO Merchants Prgm.: Grain MBS -Dick O'Heren, tnr.: WDGY KOWH (sw·21.5) MBS-Melody Strings: WDGY WOW WMAQ KSTP WI(BH Your Home Prgm. Qu otations KFAB-Kitty Keene CBS-Good Morning: KOll KDAL CBS-Hilltop House, sketch: KFAB CBS-La nny Ro ss , tnr.: WBBM WMFG-Bet ty & Bob * WDGY ·News KFNF -Seed Sense of the Air (sw-2 1.57) WCCO KMOX WBBM WNAX KRNT KFAB KOIL '. WCCO IVM IN ·Bulletin Board WEB(.The Guiding Light. sketch *KFYR-Markets : News : Police W NAX-Manh attan Mother, sketch Coffee Pot Inn: KFAB KFY R KOAL WHLB WMFG KRNT KM OX IY.G N- Morning Melodies Bulletins KMA KSTP WDAY WHO WNAX hOIL 10:30 CST 9:30 MST W K I3H·Rodney Cole KGLO-Mystery Melody G,me NBC -Pepper Young's Fa mil y, WlB-Child Welfare WOW N BC-J ust Plain Bill, sketch: WHO skelch: IVlS NBC -Wayne Van Dyne, tnr_: lOlA-The little Show * WL.S-M arkets: News KOWH-Coullly Agent Speaks * News : WKBH KOA KSCJ IVL.IV WMAQ WOW KSTP NBC-V iennese Ensem ble: KOWH KOWH CKX CBK WMT-Hill too House KROC-Titpe for a Song Mu sical Cloc k: WTCN WMFG CBC-Choral Music : CBK KROC NBC-Jack Berch & His Boys: 1\500 WBBM (sw-15.33) 11:00 CST 10:00 MST K W Y 0 -Varieties CBC -S;ngers Songs: CBK WDAY -The Man on the Street 8:15 CST 7:15 MST Grandma Travels: WDA Y WEBC CBS-Big Sister, sketch: KFAB NBC -Carters of Elm Street: KOA Ch X-Console Caravan CKX-Over the Backyard Fence *WEBC-Morning Musicale: News: NBC-Breakfast Club: KFYR CKY-Todcl Russell, tnr. WBBM KRNT WCCO WNAX WMAQ Storks WOAY CKY·Radio Kitchen KMOX KDAL WMFG WHLB CBS-Kate Smith Speaks: KMOX KF.IM-Household Chat IroX WGN·Melody Time WLW·Meet Miss Julia, sketch or even $5,000 cash for cert a in books. Better investi­ Chest *WKBH-News: Tea Time Tunes : WTCN·Fashion Qui. WMIN -Modern Hillbillies gate NOW. Send JOe coin or stamps t o American NBC-Paul Martin's Orchestra: Travel Talk 4:00 cst 3:00 MST Book Mart, 140 S. Dearborn St., Dept, 1101. KOWH WTCN (sw-15.33) 1:30 CST 12:30 MST WLB-Bach; Peasant Cantata; Chicago, and we wiII send you latest list of old books N BC·Girl Alone, sketch: KOA we want to buy and cash prices we will pay. CBC-Road of Life: CBK CKY N BC·Favorite Waltzes: I{FYR P assacaglia in C Minor WOW KSTP WHO WTMJ WMAQ CKX WTCN KROC KSCJ KOWH "VLS ~ Hol11emak e r s' Prgm. See story on page 2. Page 38 9/ 11-C NBC -George Ol sen's Orch.: KROC WEDNESDAY GOOD LISTENING GlJlDE WTCN IR;~::a l e ~~~-2 a~~tc~ i ~S~~SJ ~~~~'j ~~* 5:45 CST 4:45 MST 9.53) WEBC-Va riety Bill MBS· Boyd Raeburn's Orchestra : * WTMJ-Today's Events NBC-Wood y Herman 's Orch . : NBC-The AdVentures 01 Tom NBC -Paul Barron's Orch.: KMA WKBH-Bob Connelly WGK WDAY WEBC WDAF WMAQ Mix: WENR WMT WTCN KSO KSCJ ( sw-9.55) 7:30 CST 6 :30 MST CBC -Da nces of Al l Nations: CKY 10:15 CST 9:15 MST W5M WOW KSTP *N BC -Lowell Thomas, commen· *CBC-News: CBK CKX C BC-Serenade for Strings : CKY CJ RM CBK NBC-Fred Waring's Orchestra : CBS-Vince nt Lopez' Orchest ra: tator: WLW * News: WHO WG N WLS CKX CBI{ NBC-Kay Kyser 's Orc h.: \vLW ~V:~L a~~v'~;:~ p s on ' s Orchestra: KMBC WJR *CBS-Today in Europe: '{OIL Sports: WMFG KFJM NBC-Avalon T im e : WHO WLW WOW KOA WS:I1 WHO WTMJ MBS-Phil Harri s' Orc h' KSO WHLB KFAB WBBM WCCO CJRM-Matinee :Vlelodies K STP WMAQ WOW WDAF WDAF WMAQ KSTP WDAY KFAB KGLO WKBH (sw-9.65) WDGY .. WMFG KGLO WKBH KMOX CK V-Speed Gibson, sketch WEBC- 'WTMJ WSM I (F~~ ~~c7u~~ 0~S\~~~~5 ~~. ~ ~f,-S ~~rRM Dust: CKX CKY CBC-Theat e r Ti me ' CKY CBK KDAL N BC-Li 'l Ab ne r, sketch : WMAQ ~~~~ : i~te o:n~~t~n:,~oPl e ;;!sS; GI ~~ B ~ille~'~B~r ch~si~a~ GBS -Dr. Christia n, sketc h: KFAB NB~ - R ay Ki nney's . Orc h. : KMA CJRM -World Danc~s KFYR * KLPM-News : Sports KRNT KMOX WHAS KDAL KR;\'T KOIL KMOX WJR WNAX CBS-Lum & Abner, sketch '. KSL KFYR-Farrious Door WBBM WCCO WHAS KMBC KSL-Gov' t Agencies Pr~m. CBC -Lucio's Ensemble: CKX * KMA-Weather: Markets: News WMFG WKBH WCCO WHLB KSL KMBC (also see 6 :15 p.m. CST) WENR-Liltle J ack Little's Orch. Captain Midnight .sketch: WNAX lMoonlight Serenade KDAL-l:;OO \yD.\ \"-940 KFJM-Weather & Markeh 7:00 CST 6:00 MST the 1"0111'1> ,ide of life. WNAX-Sallite Prglll . Ie~pM11\~~ ~e n N BC .TiP' To p Show; Joe Penner: See pictures on page 24. *~ ews : KMA K\VY O l 1of; ~ W~b~C ~~I~il:t ll;aasng~~1 the Moon J(GLO-Jim Woods' Sports Camera WLS CBS . Ray Bloch's Variet ie s : KDAL KFAB -Appl ause & Enro res KLPM -Boys of Swing KMA -The Noveliers Fa, /,,,/1,,, t O NBC·Young Wid d e r Brown, WENR-Affairs of Anthony W:YIlN- Today's Best Se ll ers WEBC·Sports: Safety ClUb ],n.U.-l:iOO WDAY-940 WGN -Hits of Today WNAX-G eor~e B. German * '';MBC-News; Sports sketch: WMAQ WOW KSTP KOA -Speed Gibso n, sketch WHO-S unset Ro un dup K'·,IB·770 WDGY-ll R{) WHO W KBH - ~1 u s ic Mak'ers WOW -Creighton University * WMT-News: Dinner Dance Mu­ K t'DY-780 WEBO- 1200 * KROC ·News: Theaters: Sport, I\:I~·.DI·l-1-10 WENR-870 CBS·Tune Time : (sw-ll .83) WM IN·Ho1 lvwood Brevities WTCN-Dan J)unn sic WM T-Cheerful Charlie Flagler 5:30 CST 4:30 MST KSL-Story Te lling Time K"'1\'F·S90 WG1\'-720 IVKBH ·Sports flash WTCN-Sports KFI'R·:;oO WHAS-820 *CBC·News: CKY CKX CBK WNAX·Betty & Bob *CBC·H, V. Ka lte nborn , news WTMJ -Richard Hi mb.er's Orch. KGLO·1210 WHI ,R-1370 MBS-Book·A·Week: WDGY WGN WTCN·Th ree Strings an.illyst: WMFG WHL B KFAB WMAQ-Organ Moods Kr.P~1 · 13GO WHO-lOOO 7:00 CST" 6 :00 MST K~ [ A-930 4:45 CST 3 :45 MST KOIL' KGLO (sw-ll.83) WNA X·Sunset Edition WJR·7:;0 KGLO-Home Folks Frolic CBS -Ask II Basket: KM B( K~lR o ·ni\O WKRH-1380 KOA-S inging Stri ngs NBC·Dinning Sisters : KFYR N'§ C- Blue Barron's Orch.: (sw. 6:15 CST S:15 MST WCCO KFAB WHAS WBBM . KMOX ·1090 WLB-7GO KOI L-Swing Ensemble KROC WE NR KMA KSCJ 9.53) NBC ·Mr, Keen, Tracer of Lost KtlA-830 WLS·S10 WJ R WNAX KRNT KMOX KOIL KOIL·U(;O WLW-700 WBBM· Li nda's First Love MBS·Bill McCune's Orc h.: WGN NBC.Johnny Magee 's Orchestra : Persons, ,jrama: WTCN WENR (sw·ll.83) K])\\'H·(; r;O WMAQ-G70 WLB-Minneapolis WDGY KSCJ CBK (sw-9.55) KSO WM T F o r det a il see Goo d Li s t e ning Guide. KR:\,(,·1320 1V )'1FG- l ~ tO K UOC·I S10 WMI:-.I-1370 WLW-Meet Miss J ulia, sketch N BC ·Adventures of Tom NBC-The Green Ho rnet, drama: WM'IN -Modern Hi ll billies Mix: Capta in Midnight : WK BH WOW NBC ·I Love a Mystery, sketch: K;;('.l -1330 WMT-GOO (sw-15.33·9.53) WTCN WSM KSTP WTM J WHO KOA KSCJ KSO KROC KFYR KMA 1(81,·1130 WNAX-370 KSOO WDA Y WM T • 1(:;:0-1430 WOW-l'>nO 4:00 CST 3 :00 MST CBS·Scattergood Bai nes, sketch : J ack Ar ms trong, sketch : KFY R WMAQ WEBC WOW WDAF KSOO· I1JO W8M -nilO NBC·La rry Clinton's Orch.: KSO WBBM KR:"lT WCCO KDAL WMAQ WNA X KROC KSTP (sw-9.53) (also KFI at 10:15 MBS ·Heidelberg Concert Orch.: 1(!=;TP-1HiO WTC'N-12::;O KROC KFYR WMT KFA B WNAX KMOX WHO p.m. CST ) WDGY WGN KIVYO·1370 WT ) IJ-I'~ O 8:45 CST 7:45 MST *KMBC-News : Sports CBS-Eddy Duchin's Orch.: KDAL WNAX-Pot 0' Gold CJR~'I -Treasure Chest C-9/ 11 Page 41 1·~GLO · Alohaland KMOX -Twiliglrt Trail KFAB KMBC WBBM KGLO WTMJ-Sports: Dance Orch. KMOX-Mastel' Works on the Air WGN-Jack McLean's Orch. KOIL-Harry Horlick Presents (sw-9.65) 10:45 CST 9:45 MST KSCJ-Five Rhythmaire.; WBBM-Sports Huddle MBS-Dick Jurgens' Orch.: WGN CBS-Benny Goodman's Orch.: WCCO-Master Works THURSDAY 9:00 CST 8:00 MST WDGY-Corneaby Jottings * News: WHO WMAQ WMFG WJR KRNT WNAX WHLB 11:30 CST 10:30 MST MBS-Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra: WMT-Eleanor Lane, pianist WEBC WMAQ NBC-lou Breese's Orch.: WTCN NBC-Horace Heidt's Orch.: WSM WGN *WTCN ·Front Page C.JRM-Hockey Game NBC-Jan Savitt's Orch. : KROC KSCJ WTMJ KMA KROC December 28_ NBC-Kraft Music Hall : WEBC 9:45 CST 8:45 MST *KFYR-Weather & News WEBC WOW WHO CBS -B uddy Rogers' Orch. : KFAB KSTP WMAQ KOA WOW WLW CBS-Americans at Work: KRNT WHO WSM WDW WTMJ CKY KMOX-France Laux, sports MBS-Sammy Kaye's Orchestra: WNAX KGLO KR:-JT WBBM CJRM-World Dances KROC CKX CBK (sw-9.53) KLPM· Nighthawk's Orch. ~gii:IV~~~rt~f ~~~h;~~Stts WDGY NBC-Dance Orch.: KFYR KOA WCCO-Art Mooney's Orch. • For detail see Good Li steni ng Guide. KMBC-Strange Enchantment KSL-American Fur Prgm KMOX-Benny Strong's Orch. . -' 'l'VDAY WOW WEBC WDAF 1200 CST - 0 S L', CBS-C 0 I u m b i a Workshop: KMOX -Onward Road I KSTP-Looping the Loop: Musi. KOA-Colo. Chamber of Commerce J(STP WMT : 11:0 M T KGLO WKBH WHLB WMFG *KOIL·News cale WBBM-Piano Parade CBS-Harry Owens' Orch.: WJR *CBS-P~~L Sullivan Reviews the KRNT KMBC KDAL WJR KFAB KSL-Donald Novis, songs WCCO -Curfew Time WCCO-Art Mooney's Orch. KMBC New." *WBBM-News. Todd Hunter WBBM WDAF-Christmas on the Moon WLW-Schnickelfritz Band CBC-Talk : CKY CBK MBS·Phil levant's Orch.: KSO More detai I on page 17. WDGY-Sky Reporter F or detail see Good Liste ning Guide. WMT-Go\'ernment Reports WHAS·Wabh Looks 'em Over 11:00 CST 10:00 MST * News: WHO CJRM KROC CJRM-Youth Training Talk WNAX-Salute Prgm. *WJR-News: Musical Memories CBS-Bob Chester's Orch.: WHAS CJRM-World Dances CBS-Emery Deutsch's Orchestra: KFJM-Joe Plummer'. Orch. WKBH-State Teacher's College (sw-6.17) KSL-Knitting Anniversary Prgm. WHAS WJR 10:00 CST 9:00 MST KFYR ·Chiffon Interlud" Band NBC-Dance Orch.: WTMJ WHO WENR-Little Jack Little's Orch. CBC-Song of the Vears: CBK KMOX-Inquiring Reporter *NBC-News: John Gun the r, ~~',i::~fe~ltri~e~~;~y KOIL-Musical Varieties news : WEBC (sw-9_53) *WNAX-The Final EdItion WDAY WOW KSTP KFYR :1~~~~r~~I:sS~eena~~: r * News: KMBC KMOX KOA KSL-Good Will Hour CBS -Amos 'n' Andy, sketch: WOW -Merry-Go-Round: Sports NBC-Dance Orch.: WEBC WSM WLW-Moon River CKY Wh D I WCCO-Who's the Champ KFAB KSL KRNT WBI3M WSM-Evening Fantasy KMA KSCJ KSO WMT WMAQ-Charlie Agnew's Orch. ~:s~p N en ti 5 Done WDAY- Havloft Jamboree KMBC WBBM WNAX KOIL WT:vJJ -Dance Drch. *CBS-Paul Sullivan Reviews the WTCN-Law rence Welk's Orch * - ews : ream Ship 10:30 CST 9 :30 MST News: WBBM KFAB KOIL WBBM-News: The Hawaiians WDGY-S o~1et hin g Sweet . NBC-Fred Waring in Pleasu', CBS-Benny Goodman's Orchestra: KMOX WCCO KMBC KRNT 11 :45 CSi 10:45 MST I\'EBC-Weather & Hydro WHAS-University of Kentucky Time : KOA WHO WMAQ KFYR *WNAX-News WMFG KFAB KGLO KDAL CBS-Strange As It Seems: KSL CBS-Buddy Rogers' Orch.: KOIL ~~~:D~:"~~c 6:-~~. Want 8:15 MST *CBS-Paul Sullivan Reviews the WKBH KOIL WHLB MBS-Griff Williams' Orchestra: *WLW-Sonny James' Orchestra: 9:15 CST News: WJR WHAS (sw-9.65) MBS-Sammy Kaye's Orch, : KSO KSO WGN WDGY News ~~~~ommy Dorsey's Orchestra: *CBC-News: CKY CKX CJRM VW~: ~SM~-~a(nS \\,J_~9;.5~3rk)tt's hO;~~: ~~it ~~~A~~e~t~~sK in Rhythm: NBC-Dance Orch.: WHO WTCN WMAQ-John Kirby's Orch CBS-Columbia Workshop: KMOX CBK CBK CKY WOW-Dance Rhythms CJRM-String Quintet MBS-Dance Orch.: WDGY CBS-Ask-It-Basket: KSL ~~s~~s~o~J~Vr:;n~G~TCN KROC CBS-Harry Owens' Orch.: KMOX End of Thursday Programs KFYR-Weeki} Press WNAX-Sunset Trail :,~~\~: I~~G~~ ~~C~ ~~~ NBC-lou Breese's Orch.: WMT ~g~~~:n~il~~,~r Orch. 9:30 CST 8:30 MST ~~g6 _ ~£·~F A~a~~ WOW ~~~:M:~~i~~ Revel Memorial WDAF-Moonbeams " ; NBC-Vicki Chase, sop.; Tom WDGY-Bob Chester P'·gm.: CKY CKX CBK WENR-Art Kassel's Orc/!. Thomas, bar.; Orch.: KSCJ TU N E IN WENR-Ten o'Clock Final KMBC-Dance Time WJ R-Jack Meyer's Orch. KFYR WDA Y WENR *WKBHNews: Musicale KMOX ·Organ Melodies L',C BS-Americans at Work: ~~~!It~i':; T~~~:r,;V3~~~. KDAL KFAB KGLO WCCO :~~~-I~~'l~~ ?:-cl~ev iew ~~~-~~~~,htonT~~i!s Street WMAQ-Fats Waller's Orch. WKBH WMFG KMBC WHLB *WTMJ-Today's Events WCCO-Rollie Johnson's Orch. ~1~~~ - ~~¥ Time 10:15 MST JOE PENNER WJR WHAS (sw-9.65) More detai I on page 17. ~~:~_~e~S~rupa's O~~~.~ ~~I ~g~~--~~I~~: ~~t~ e MBS-Coronation of Queen of MBS-Henry Weber's Concert Re­ AND HIS GANG vue : WGN KSCJ ~~~~j;~m~e;L;:n ,~O';~'c~~.ce ~~~n~ment of Roses WGN KSO * News: KLPM KSL NBC-Little Jack Little's Orch. : WHAS-Contrasts in Rhythm CBS-Bob Chester's Orch.: KRNT 7:30 P. M. Central Time CJRM-Maestros of Modern Music KROC WDAY (sw-9.53) WHO-Bill Austin, pianist hFAB WBBM KOIL KMBC NBC-Blue Network _Stations KMA-Shenandoah Town Meeting CBS-Star Dust: CKY CKX CBK WLW-Henry Busse's Orch. WKBH KGLO WNAX

NBC-Morin Sisters: KSO (sw- KROC-Picture Frame WMT-This Day is Ours MORNING 21.5) FRIDAY. December 29, 1939 *WDGY-News WNAX-Ma Perkins. sketch *CBC-News: CBK WEBC-The Guiding Light, sketch WOW-Adopted Daughter Jemm *Star in program listings CKX-On Parade WGN-Morning Melodies WTCN-Handy Facts CKY-Stars of the Week WKBH-American Family Robison 11:30 CST 10:30 MST indicates news broadcast. KOIL-Polly the Shopper KOA-Heart of Julia Blake WLB-Neighbors Broadcast KFJM-Passing Orch. Parade NBC-Nat'l Farm & Hon,e Hour . KOWH -Homemakers Club KOWH -It's Dance Time *WLS-Markets: News 7:00 MST KFNF-Prairie Sweetheart 8:00 CS,T KROC-Shoppers Parade KSOO-Baker's Variety Show WMT-Hilltop House KOA KSOO WMAQ KFYH NBC-Breakfast Club: KOWJ,I *KFYR-News : Top 0' the Dial KSOO-Madison Merchants KWYO-Cav"lcade of Drama WTCN \\-EBC WDAY ICBS-Kate Smith Speaks: KMOX 1.001,; fll" tile X(->\\, Yea!'." A loffee Pot Inn: WOW KSTP *KSOO -Bee's Cook-Book: News WKBH-Olive Hag~n WMIN -Bulletin Bo;ud KF AB WBBM WCCO KOIL U. S. F ort!~t HUII.:':'cl's drama. WOAY WHO KFAB KFYR KWYO-Organ Music WLW-Ri ght to Happiness, sketch WMT-Young Dr. Malone, sketch WNAX KRNT (sw-21.57) CBS-Romance of Helen Trenl WDA Y -Old Refrain s KMA WNAX *WMFG·Stocks: News WNAX-Manhattan Mother, .ketch NBC-The Carters of Elm Street. skelch' KRNT WBBM KiIW\ * News; WKBH KOA KSCJ WDGY-Pastor Prince KOIL KFAB WML'I-Gospel Singer 10:30 CST 9:30 MST sketch: KOA WMAQ WGN *WEBC-News: Weather: Song WMT-Gwen McCleary Styles: Stocks NBC-Wayne Van Dyne, tnr.: NBC-Meet the Artist: KSCJ (sw- NBC -Talk by Dr. Daniel A. Pol- Mu sical Clock: WMFG WTCN WNAX-Tena & Tim. sketch 15.33) ing: (s\\'-15.33) 1( SOO WBBM WGN -Myrna Dee Sergent KSCJ KOWH CKX CBK WTCN -Around the Town MBS-Toronto Trio: WDGY CK X 8:15 CST 7:15 MST WM IN -City Hall '.00 CST 9 '. 00 MST NBC-Against the Storm, sketch : CKY-Gems from the Operas WMT-Household . Hints: Birds­ 10 KSTP WHO WMAQ WOW KOA KFJM-Mu sic of the Masters CBK NBC -Breakfast Club: KFYR CBS-lanny Ross, tnr.: WDAY eye Prgm. KRNT MBS-Keep Fit to Music: KSO KFNF-Weather : Markels: Farm CKY-MlJsical Prgm. _ KFAB KOIL WBBM WCCO WDGY News KFJM-Ben Ben jam in 's Band CBS-Statler Employees' Chorus: 9:30 CST 8:30 MST KMOX KFYR-Betty & Bob, sketch J(GLO-Markets WKBH ( sw-21.57) NBC-Originalities: WTCN KSCJ NBC-Pepper Voung's Family, ~s~v~i~a3~) Berch & His Boys: ;~P~J-~~s~~~ V';~et~~Ws *KLPM-News: Markets : S & L * i\ews: WLS KFJM . KSO KOWH KFYR WMT (sw- sketch : WLS K~IA-Countrv School Blue Ribbon Melodies: WHO 21 .5) NBC -David Harum, sketch: WHO CBS-Big Sister, sketch : WCCO KMA -Tobie's Corntussel Nooz hSTP-Woman's Page of the Air KOWH-Pacific Paradi .. !{OA 7:30 MST CBS-Hilltop Hou se, sketch: KFAB WOW WMAQ K STP ~~~~ ~~11 ~~fOBX ~'i>~~ KWYO-Topics 8:30 CST KMOX WBBM WCCO WNAX NBC-Viennese En semble: KOWH KROC-Memory Lane WCCO-Grandma Travels NBC-Breakfast Club : KROC KOIL WMFG KDAL WHLB KROC CKY-Home Folks Frolic *KSOO-Time: Farm Specials: *WGN-Q uin Ryan's News Com · Betty Crocker: WOW WNAX KRNT KF JM-Music Hall News: Grain Quotations mentary CBC-Singers & Songs: CBK KSTP-Household Forum 8:45 CST . 7:45 MST NBC-Just Plain Bill, sketch : KFNF-Cornfield Hawaiiano WHO-AdoJ)ted Daughter. sketch KWYO-Hollywood Brevities WKBH-Tonic Tunes NBC-Life Can Be Beautiful, WLW WOW WMAQ WHO KSTP CXX-Over the Backyard Fence KFYR-Sam & His City Fellers CKY-Peggy' s Point of View KGLO-Parade of Bands WDAY-Markets : Martha West \I' LB-Franck; Symphony in D sketch: WHO NBC-Story of Mary Marlin, KFJM-Morning Melodies * KLPM-News: Markets: S & L WDGY-Charles SengiI' Minor CBS-Bachelor's Children, sketch: sketch: WLS KFNF-Jimmy . Morgan KMA -Markets & Farn.. News WEBC-Springtime in Harvest WLS-Feature Foods KMOX WCCO CBC-Musical Prgm.: CBK *KFYR-Markets and Weather: *KOIL-News WHO-Judv & Jane * WLW-News: Everybody's Farm CBS -Tune Time: (sw-21.57) MBS-Melody Strings: WDGY News KROC-Gopher Tales *WKBH-News: Music WMFG-Noon Revue WLB-Music al Prgm. II'NUN -F I.,hes of Life Tena & Tim, sketch: KSTP Grandma Travels: WDlty WEBC *KGLO-News : Tune Time I{SOO-Real Gold Pmm. BBM KLPM·Mid-morning Concert *KWYO-News: To be an- WLS-Feature Foods WMT-Magic Kitchen W9 "OO CST 8'.00 MST CKX-Romany Rambles *KMA-Weather, Markets & News nounced: Tri-Weeklv Gossip WL W-O ne Woman Speaks W:>IAX-I' II;ts W13 ~~~ KF .I\1 -ll it of the Day KMA -Kitc hen Klatter CB S-Time Ou t for Dancing: WDA Y KFYR WM AQ KSTP KR\,T WHLB WCCO I(FAB Mercy KROC -J ule Th eater Co. WKB H KRN T WM FG KWYO-Morning Bull etin Board KFr\F-Grab Bag WOW WH O 1\OIL (5\\, -1 1.83) KSC.J-Pappy J ess * \'.\\,s. KFJM WLB WDGY Stock Quotations KLPM -Radio Players ~v~~Ja Ck Arm strong . sketch: MBS -Bill McCune's Orch .: WGN WGN -Radios' Voice leVIA-Humorous Sq uibbs KWYO -Buffa lo Prgm. KFYR ·Markets : Aunt Sammy \\'KI:l H-:Vl atinee Musicale KLP:I1 -Hils & Encores WHO-Markets & Weather KSOO-Happv Bill's Troupe CBC -Vi rginia Entertains: ~-l'~'~" Midnighl: W K BH WV \\ W.VIFG-Town Crier KMOX -Editor's Daughter Fair *WKBH-Interlude : News: Music KW YO·Stuciio Prgm. CBK CKX WeCO-Adopted Oaughter *WMI N·\'ews: Mu sic Hall KOIL-Top Tunes J ack Armstrong, skelch: WNA X WL B-Po litical Science CK \' -Bac k1m ic ll al l 3:30 CST 2:30 tlST K OIV H -Sports Sn apshotter KLPM -Band Co nce rt Music *W:VIl N·New s: Treasure Chest WCCO WNAX MBS ·W ayne West. songs: WDGY 12:15 CST 11:15 MST KROC -Haze l J ohn so n KMA -Barbersh'op Quartet \\'MT-f'1uestion Ma n NBC ·Qxy dols' Own Ma Perkins, \VG X MBS-Happy Gang: KOIL WGN IV NAX -J udy & J ane KSOO·S ports : Shoppers News K~IO X · Bob Dunham Comments sketch: KOA WDAY WHO WLW NBC-To be announced: WTMJ Iiews: WN AX WLB KMA lI-Noonday J ambo ree II'MFG-Noo n Pos tscript WI. B-Gener:a l Coll ege Workshop WMT-Voice of Iowa. Markets ' \\' .III 'i-Se v Olsen I\oA IV LW.·. KS TP WHO WEBC WDGY WG\' I< OIL CB K \\'OW CKX CK Y CBK WLW -Agains t the Storm. sketch Vinton Varietie~ \\ · ~IIT-Favorite T u nes: Tre asure \\' \11\ ",ff•• Kl atch CBC -Closin g Stocks: CBI< Orphan Ari nre. sketch: WGN NBC-Affair s of Anthony, sketch: WOW -Middav Melodi es Chest WX.\X.Tips by Taylor * "ell's: WHO l\OW H. WTCN II' HO KSTP WTCN-Slim Jim WTC\'·Three Strin gs KSlJ KSO KOIV H 3:45 CST 2:45 MST Ellen Randolph. sketch : KSTP Caplain ~ 'I i dni,ht: WNAX WOP Y 12:30 CST 11 :30 MST 1:30 CST 12:30 MST * \'ews' WDGY WTCN *CBC-Ne ws: CKY CKX CBI< WOW KROe WEBC KFAB -:\Iarkets: Irma & The University Lecture: CK Y CKX * :-.Ie\\'s: WOW CKY NBC -Re vue in Miniature : (sw, NBC-Valiant Lady , sketch : KO A NBC- Young Wid der B row n. l KG LO -Horne Folk s Frolic KfDY-Markets: Di strict Super· CKY-Concert H-all WNA X-Markets : Rodeo Rece ss KOA -Hap py Cowboy NBC-Pianist: Alma Kitchell's 6:00 CST 5:00 MST visor l()O-Reo ll e,t C lub Twilight Review KFYR-To be announced WBBM KRNT KFAB KMOX WOW WMAQ KSTf' WHO ' KOA WDAY-Texas Ranger WHO-Story of Ellen Randolph WKBH-Kiddies Hour WOW WMT Matinee: News: CKX *WEBC-Town Crier: News FREQUENCIES ~BBSB~e :~~~ °0~~~ S~~~\~ ~~;x :C~?ne: :'~:C-CIUb \"' E~R - Hom e Forum * WLW -Fred Kirby: New! WHLB KDAL KOIL WEBe WMFG ClI K ~ IBC KillOX WCCO KRNT NBC -Ted Weems' Orch. : WDAY WTTv1.1 -Sports ' Dance Orch. WCCO-Art Mooney's Orch. IVK BH -Do You Know ? CBC-House of Variety: CKY IVBBM WHAS KFAB KOIL J(HOC (0\\-9.53) 10:45 CST 9:45 MST 12:00 CST 11:00 MST I'VLW-Four Sters Tonight CKX CBl< \IJR CBS -Lum & Ab ne r, sketch : KSL ~~~-~ i~~~~, Himber's Orch .: * ·CBS.Paul Sullivan Reviews the * WMAQ-Kell' s : Mu sical Entce C.1R:I l-Bill Hoberl's Orch. *MBS-Raymond Gram Swing. I01BC Kews: KSL WM T·Yax Pop KFJM-S\\'ing Session News ' WGN NBC-Larry Clinton 's Orch . : KMA f

!'Continued from Page 2) gave her some good advice in order (Continued Bl azers (Wonder Breaq), Steelmakers; Dorothy Ann "" to win her confidence, and made h er Sa t. 6 :30 p.m. CBS. from Last WeekI ~;~::; J,~i~~e ; S~s:=~s ; c~'i : never romantic in his love-making. realize, as a person closer to her U ~ert; The Old Timer; Sing- For instance, do you recall that scene couldn't ha'lre, that she must admit that T Uncle W a lter's Dog House. 109MBS. MIlImen, Sun. 4 p.m. I ast spring when Patricia, following a Taylor, Mary Lee. Pet Milk, Sir Walter Raleigh Tobac­ Scoop was unattainable to her. Tu es. Thurs. 10 a.m. co. Tu es. 9 :30 p.m. NBC. W~:~ti:1 Girif~arI~es~ra~~~ - session' of ardent love-making by John During the last four years John ~~S45 p.m. for West ) University of Chicago Round . Table Discussions, Sun. ~BS: thru Fri. 11: 15 a.m: Knight, tried to provoke something of Knight has also done considerable T e4" 1. M ids tream. Mon. thru 1 :30 p.m. NBC. White, Ardenne. Musical the same fervor in Scoop with the fol- growing up emotionally, and during Fri. 9:45 a.m. & 4:15 p.m. y NBC ; Prof. Quiz; Bob ~~~~i):akse~~. (:(' p~~.e ~Bl lowing results: that time has achieved a greater under· Trout, Fri. 6:30 p.m. (8 Valiant Lady. Wheaties, Mon. p.m. for Wes t) CBS. thru Fri. 1 :30 p.m. NBC. Whi.te Naphtha. Guidin g standing of Patricia. Hence he recog­ Temple ton. Alec. Alec T em­ LIght, Mon. thru Fri. PATS: Did you notice what a gorgeous plet on Time (Alka-Seltz­ Van Stee den, Peu; r, Orch. 10:45 a.m. NB·C. nized what it was she feared in him­ Th e Ne w Fred All en Show White man, Paul, Orch. Ches ­ spring night it is out tonight? er), Mon. 8 :30 p.m. NBC. (lpana. Sal Hepatica & recognized that the strong physical at­ T e nde rleaf Tea. One Man' s Minit-Rub), Wed. 8 p.m. terfield, Wed. 7 :30 p.m. SCOOP: Yep. . Family, Thurs. 7 p.m. (11 p.m. for West) NBC; ti?S.30 p.m. for West) traction they had for each other which (Sun. 11 :30 p.m. for West) Vitalis, Fri. 8 :30 p.m. PATS (dreamily): A night like tonight NBC . NBC . Willia ms Shaving Cream. - ooooooh, I was standing in the she'd so long inhibited and denied was Texaco Star Theater. Kenny Vaseline. Dr. Chris tian; Jean True or False: Dr. Harry what was proving so disturbing to her. Baker; Ken Murray; Fran­ Hagen, Mon. 7 :30 p.m. (11 window down in the library tonight, Hersholt, Wed. 9 p.m. CBS. p.m. for West) NBC. ces L a n g for d; Da vid Verrill, Virginia. Uncle Wal­ watching all the sweethearts strolling And so handled the situation in a man­ Broekman's Orch., Wed. 8 ter's Dog House (Sir Willson, Meredith, Orch. ner that reassured her. p. m. CBS. Walter Raleigh Tobacco), Good News of 1940 (Max ­ along the lake front and wishing you The Shadow. Delaware, Tues. 9 :30 p.m. NBC. well House Coffee), Thurs. I have great faith in John Knight, so Lac kaw anna & Western Vic & Sade . Crisco. Mon. 8 p.m. NBC. and I were with them. There was Coa l Co., Sun. 3 :30 & 4 :30 thru Fri. 2 :45 p.m. NBC. Wilson, Don. Jell-O, Sun. 6 something in the breeze ... it was ably portrayed by Lester Damon. I p.m. MBS. Vitalis. Geo rge Jessel; Peter ~r;;i:: .( 10:30 p.m. for West ) believe he's the one man capable of This D 3v Is Ours. Crisco, Van Steeden's Orch., Fri. so soft and sweet. I don't know. Mon. thru Fri. 12 :30 p.m. Winchell, Walter. Jergens , holding Patricia's interest. He and Alice 8 :30 p.m. NBC. Sun. 8 p.m. (11 p.m. for What is it a night like this does to CB S. Voice of Experience. Pink­ Warner, of all my children, are the Thomf\ s . Lowell. Sun Oil, ham Medicine. Mon. Wed ~e~ t ) NBC. you? It sends you~ heart winging Mon. thru Fri. 5 :45 p.m. Fri. 12 :45 p.m. MBS. . WIn g. Paul. Spelling Bee most grown up. And with his mature NBC. (Energine ). Sun. 4 :30 p.m. toward a promise . . . uh ... I don't Voice of Firestone. Mon. NBC . Thompson, Bill. Johnso n's 7:30 p.m. (1 0:30 p.m. for know. A promise of something. understanding of Patricia, I believe she Wax . Tu es. 8:30 p.m. NBC. Wes t) NBC. Woma n in Whit~. Pillsbury, has a chance to bl~ssom out into a Thomp s o n. K a y , Rhvthm Vox " op. e r:tucky Cl ub To­ Mon. thru Fn. 9 :45 3.m. SCOOP: Yep. A night like this sure Sill~ e rs. T u n e- Up Tim e bacc o, Thurs. 6 :30 p.m. NBC. normal, emotionally adult person, able (Ethy l Ga soline). Mon. 7 Woman of Courage. O c tag on gits the sap to runnin', don't it? CBS. Soap. Mon. thru Fri. 9 :45 to face reality, not resorting to the p.m. ( 11 p.m. for West ) W PATS: It's wonderful to be in love on CBS. a.m. CBS. drastic escapes she always has in the Tho se We l.ove. Royal De s­ Wain, Bea. Your Hit Parade Wonde r Bre ad. Pre tty Kitty a night like this. serts. Thurs. 7 :30 p.m. (Lu cky Str ike). Sat. 8 p.m. Kelly, Mon. thru Fri. 9 past. Wha.t's more, John Knight has (11 :30 p.m . for We st) (11 p.m. for West) CBS. a.m. ( ~ p.rn fo r W ec; t ) SCOOP: Personally I don't go much NB C. Wallace, Tom_ Uncle Wal­ CBS: Sky Blazers, Col. by the seasons. I'm an all-year-round many things in his make-up which are Tinney. Cal. Youth vs. Age ter's Dog House (Sir Wal­ Roscoe Turner. Sat. 6 :30 bound to make their marriage an ex· (Slo an's Linim ent ). Sat. ter Ral eigh Toba cco ), Tue s. p.m. CBS. guy. Wood, Barry. Your Hit Pa­ citing, adventurous one. 7 :30 p.m. NBC. 9:30 p.m. NBC. rade (Lucky Strike ). Sat. PATS: But doesn't a night like this do Tip Top Show. Ward' s Wallenstein, Alfred. Fire- There's much excitement and many Brea d. Thurs. 7 :30 p.m. stone. Mon. 7 :30 p.m. 8 p.m. CBS. . do something special to you? NBC. (10 :3 0 nm. for We" ) Woodbury Soaps. Hollywood surprises in store for Scoop, too. And Playhouse : Jim Ameche & SCOOP: Urn-hum. It makes me sorry I Todd. Dick. Ava lon Ci ga­ NBC; Sinfonietta, Fri. Gal e Pa ge. Wed. 7 p.m. who can tell? Perhaps eventually Pa­ rettes. Wed. 7 :30 p.m. 7 :30 p.m. MBS. (8 :30 p.m. for West ) wore my heavy underwear. (10:3 0 p.m. for West ) Waltz Time. Phillips, Fri. 8 tricia and Scoop will get together again. NBC. p.m. NBC. NBC; Parker Family, Sun. PATS: Awwww, Scoop! Tom, Dick & Harry. Planta­ Ward 's Bread. The Tip Top 8:15 p.m. (11 :15 p.m. for It's surprising how much the charac­ Show ; Joe Penner; Jacques West ) NBC. SCOOP: Hunnh? tion Party (Bu gler Tobac­ World Is Yours, Sun. 3 :30 ters in "Girl Alone" resemble the ac­ co). Fri. 8 p.m. NBC. Renard's Orch., Thurs. p.m. NBC. PATS: I stood there in the window to­ Tom Mix, Adventures of. 7 :30 p.m. NBC. tors or "ctresses who portray them. Ralston Purina, Mon. thru Waring, Fred, Orch. Chester­ Wrigley's Gum. Scattergood night ... wishing you were with me Fri. 5:45 p.m. (7:15 p.m. field Cigarettes. Mon. thru Baines, Mon. thru Fri. For instance, in real life Pat Murphy 4 :~ '5 p.m. CBS: Gateway . .. Wishing I was in your arms ... for West) NBC. Fri. 6 & 10 p.m. NBC. to Hollywood, Sun. 5: 30 has the same engaging buoyancy, the Tremayne, L est e r. F ir s t Warnow, Mark, Orch. Your SCOOP: Who was that guy I seen you Ni ghter (Camp ana ), Fri. Hit Parade (Lucky Strike), p.m. CBS. with? That wasn't me, was it? same tongue-in-the-cheek boastfulness, 8 :30 p.m. CBS. Sat. 8 p.m. (11 p.m. for y Trotter, Johnny. Orch. Kraft West) CBS. PATS: No, this was all before John the same ready sense of humor which Musi c Hall. Thur s. 9 p.m. We, the People. Sanka Cof­ Young Dr. M~lone. Post Scoop Curtis has. In real life Betty NBC. fee, Tue s. 8 p.m. (11 :30 40 0/0 Bran Flakes, Mon. came. I don't want to talk about him. thrll Fri. 10 :15 a.m. NBC. Winkler is the same warm, sweet, sym­ Trouble with Marriage. O xy· p.m. for West) CBS. Scoop . . . dol, Mon. thru Fri. 9 :45 Welch. Irene Rich, Sun. 8 :30 Young M a n with a Band. pathetic person that Patricia is. She has a.m . NBC. & 10:15 p.m. NBC. Columbia Record Co ., Fri. SCOOP: Hunnh? Trout. Bob . Teel, Fri. 6 :30 Welles, Orson. Campbell 9:30 p.m. CBS. the very same intense desire for under­ p. m. (8 p.m. for West) P I a y h 0 u s e (Campbell's Young. Roland. Good News PATS: You love me? CB S. Soups ), Sun. 7 & 9 p.m. of 1940 (Ma xwell House SCOOP: Yup. You're the kid. standing. During the last four years True or False . Wil1iams CBS. Coffee) , Thurs. 8 p.m. I've watched Betty develop in many of Shav ing Cream, Mon. 7 :30 Westerners. Pla n t ation Party NBC. PATS: Why don't you ever make vio- p.m. (11 p.m. fo r We st) (Bugler Toba cco), Fri. 8 YOU,1"lg" Widder Brown. Cal­ the same ways which Patricia has. Per­ p.m. NBC. . Asp irin & l-Ial ev's M-O. lent love to me? . NBC. haps then it was no mere coincidence Turns. Pot 0 ' Gold: Horace What's My Name? Oxydol, Mon. thru Fri. 3 :45 p.m. SCOOP: WeIlll, I'll tell you, my love Heidt's Orch., Tues. 7 :30 Sat. 9 :30 p.m. NBC. NBC. that the Betty in real life finally settled p.m. NBC; Quicksil ver, Wheatena. Hilda Hope, Your Family & Mine. Seal­ -sometime I will. I'll build you a 'Quiz Prgm.. Wed . 7 :30 M. D., Sat. 10:·30 a.m. te st, Mon. thru Fri. 1 :30 down and got married at just about the p.m. (10 :30 p.m. for We st) NBC. p.m. CBS . rose arbor ... and hang out a moon NBC. Wheaties. By Kathleen Nor­ Your Hit Parade. Lucky and stir up a balay breeze for you. same time Pat did. Tunc -Un Time. Ethy l Ga .;;o­ ris . Mo n. thr u Fri. 4 p.m. Strike. Sat. 8 p.m. (11 p.m. Another member of the cast who's li ne, Mon. 7 p.m. (11 p.m. CBS ; Valiant Lady. Mon. for We st 1 C B~ And then I'll say some right pretty for W eo::. t ' (, 'P: S thru Fri. 1 :30 p.m. NBC. Youth vs. Age . Sloan' s Lini­ been with us since the very beginning Turner, Col. Roscoe. Sky Whee ling Steel. Muslcal ment. Sat. 7 :30 p.m. NBC. things to yuh. But I'll tell you some­ thing, Pats. I'm no good without a is Joan Winters, who is one of those strikingly beautiful girls whom all men rose arbor. PATS (little laugh): You're such a goop. rave about. But she is the same down­ WHATWAS 1939'S BEST BROaDCAST? SCOOP: But zowie! You should get a to-earth, level-headed, practical person load of my ardor once I'm in a that Alice Warner is. She's completely arbor! >"lrapped up in her home and her hus­ band and her two children. f ALL that your radio brought wood? Or was it the Louis-Galento But Patricia, having had certain of John Knight is hoping to find be­ you during 1939, what was the fight? RADIO GUIDE invites you to neath the prim, meticulous heiress a O one splendid broadcast which choose, and to write a letter of fifty her more vital emotions inhibited or encased in a protective shell because reaL warm, vital girl capable of giving will remain in your memory when all words or less explaining why your way whole-heartedly to a passionate others are forgotten? Was it a great first choice was, in your opinion, best of their association with the painful, unhappy memories she had of John love. John must necessarily have Pa'­ opera or a Toscanini broadcast? Was it of 1939 programs. Coupon must be tricia whole-heartedly. Whether he suc­ Kate . Smith's broadcast from Holly- mailed by midnight of Januar1 1. Knight, found Scoop entirely satisfac­ tory. Never one to face reality, Patricia ceeds in finding her makes the prob· ••••••••••••••• R ...... would doubtless have gone on cherish­ lem of their marriage. As Mr. and Mrs. In my opinion the best broadcast of 1939 was: ing her dream of Scoop, hoping ~n­ John Knight will Patricia and Joh~ . conSCiously, no doubt, that one day he achieve the complete happiness of Fi7'St Choice ______would be fre e to marry her. Marriage marital life that is the dream of every to anyone else would have been im­ newly wed couple? Second Choice ______possible. So here an outsidell was The answer will be a surprise brought in (mother's influence again) to you, and even to John Knight. Thi7'd Choice to make her realize what a chance she Name' ______was taking on leading a completely "Girl Alone" may be heard Monday flitile life if she persisted in holding through Friday over an N Be network at: Add ress_--S"trl'f't ad' ~d-'::,o~"~------'C:-it)'------S-ta-t -o- to her dream of Scoop. Dr. John Rich­ mond, actually a fiend and a villain, EST 5;00 p.m. CST 4:00 p.m. Tear out and mail to Radio Guide, 731 Plymouth Court, Chicago, 111. but an adept psychiatrist, deliberately M ST 3:00 p.m. PST 2:00 p.m. 44 8/11 T BRAIN-BUSTERS Be a RADIO Technician Learn at Home - Make Good Money Get facts abou t job op portuniti es in H adia and' those­ tom ing j n 'l'eleds iun . Head how 1 train rOll at home 1'01 R adio and '1'010\'i510n. Hundt'eds I tmined ha\'c good Hadia (See questions on Page 18) jot),; or their own Hadio IJu ,.; incss cs. 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"Dr. I. Q." 1. Ethics. When Chase and Sanborn announced you'll want to read "Our Songs are Blac k, Red and Yellow. that, come the New Year, their popular Steeped in Memories," a heart-warm­ 3. Less. Charlie McCarthy hour would become ing story of a program you love. 4. Seedless raisins are grown without seeds ; seeded raisins have the seeds removed. a half-hour and that Don Ameche and 5. Yes, George Washington is the on ly Presi· Dorothy Lamour, long favorites of the • de nt who rece ived t he entire electoral vote. program, would be dropped, rumors The year 1924 had reached the last "Name Three" flew through the air like sparks from hour of its life and the infant year 1925 A MB!~ llt~~,B!~:~li~ t Ol'ial Photo Statue tte made fl'om any 1. (a) Dead Sea; (b ) Petrified Forest; (c) a eat's back. They said: "The show had already given its first lusty bawl. photo of child, adult, gTOUp 01' pets, 6 inches high on fine bronze·tone base. fl ea circus. was a failure_" They said: "Ameche But for Freeman Gosden and Charles FOl'me l'iy 98c. Now speCial at 25c t o In· tI·oduce au I ' service, Send pilot o fi l m with 2. (a) Edm und Dan te s; (b) Ph ilip Nolan ; (c) and Lamour quarreled with their spon­ Correll- whom y ou know as Amos and 2 ~c coin Qt. stHmps to pa l,tially covel' COSl Quasim odo . of postag-e. mailing, etc. If pictu re is sent i ~s t e ad of negativ/:.', send l Oc ad(li­ sor." They said a lot of other things. Andy - it was not only a time for merry­ tional. Money-bad. gtl(lrantee, Film I'e · 3. (a) golf; (b) trap·shooting; (c) bowli ng. turned with ordel', De ta il s on H and For what really happened, radio fans making. In that solemn hour when the PRinter! Nalul·a l CO I0 1' Phot o Statl1t! ItC' sent FREE. Send ol·dl'I· today. "Question Bee" will read "The Inside Story of the Char­ New Year was JJeing ushered in, these HARTLEY STUDIOS Dept. 9 Janesville, Wisconsin 1. Th ames. lie McCarthy Program Break-up" in two sat down and made a serious reso­ 2. Tin y Tim . next week's RADIO GUIDE. lution, a resolution th at was to mean, 3. Harvard. ultimately, the difference -between suc­ 4. Fi nlan d. • cess and failure. Each New Year's Eve 5. A chorus of voices without instrum ental ac ­ Ladies' hats have long been a subject since that day, they have repeated this companimen t. for jests - w arranted or unwarranted. resolve and followed it implicitly. 6. AI Sm it h and Th eodore Roosevelt. Without taking sides about this year's "Clasped Hands at Midnight," one of Xo\\" . , . 1).\' s impls ,lttaching "March of Games" crop, which has aroused more comment youI' \\'OSJ)(O; H-TUSE SOHa: the many highly readable stories in ELIl\IISA'I'OH. tu your radio 1. Right. than usual, R ADIO G UIDE next week next week's R ADIO GUID E, tells the (i o l ~g 01' s iTOlt wan) practically all di:i t!'acting huzze;; and {'I il'ks 2. Wro ng, his real name was Sa muel Clemens. presents a fe ature to fascinate the la­ story of this strange ritual which Amos will ranish. Entirely differ­ ent. this ,lI ullz inl{ now imen­ 3. (a) hat; (b) nap; (c) celebratio n or fe as t. dies and- well. interest the men. It's and Andy have followed so faithfully . lion inii lll'CS thl"i lling, rleur­ tone r ecept ion Oil lo('a l and d is- ..._ ...._ "Hedda's Hats" and in it the creations tunt s taLion 5 ~ SEND NO MONEY. Pay pos t ma n $ 1. 00 plus few cents P OS l

Costly Work Formerly EARNINGS "Sent Out" by Business Men One man in California earned over $1,600 per month for three months-close to $5,000 in 90 days' time. Another writes Now Done by Themselves from Delaware-"Since I have been operating (just a little less than a month of actual selling) and not the full day at that, because I have been getting orgaliized and had to spend at a Fraction of the Expense at least half the day in the office; counting what I have sold outright and on trial, I have made just a little in excess of one This is a call for men everywhere to handle thousand dollars profit for one month." A man working small exclusive agency for one of the most city in N. y, State made $10,805 in 9 months. Texas man unique business · inventions of the day. nets over $300 in less than a week's time. Space does not per­ mit mentioning here more than these few random cases. How­ Forty years ago the horse and buggy business was supreme-today ever, they are sufficient to indicate that the worthwhile future almost extinct. Twenty years ago the phonograph industry ran into in this business is couple

Not a H Gadget"- Profits Typical of No Money Need Be Risked Not a HKnick-Knack"- the Young, Growing Industry in trying this business out. You can measure the possi­ bilities and not be out a dollar. If you are looking for a but a valuable, proved device which Going into this business is not like selling something busilUss that is 1I0t ov,rcrowd,d-a business that is just has been sold successfully by busi­ offered in every grocery, drug or departmwt stOre. For coming into its own-on the upgrade, instead of the ness novices as well as seasoned instance, when you take a $7.50 order, $5.83 can be your downgrade-a business that offers the buyer relief from veterans. share. On $1,500 worth of business, your share can be a burdensome, but unavoidable expense--a business that $1,167.00. The very least you get as your part of every Make no mistake--this is no novelty-no flimsy creation has a prospect practically in every office, store, or factory dollar's worth at business you do is 67 cents-on ten which the inventor hopes to put on the market. You into which you can set foot-regardless of size-that is a dollars' worth $6.70, on a hundred dollars· worth $67.00 n,ceJJity but does not have any price cutting to contend probably have seen not~ing like it yet-perhaps never -in other words twO thirds at every order you get is dreamed of the existence 01 such a devlce--yet It has already with as other necessities do-that because you control yours. Not only on the first order-but on repeat orders been used by corporations of outstanding ptominence--by the sales in exclusive territory is your own business­ -and you have .the opportunity at earning an even larger dealers of great corporations-by their branches-by doc­ that pays more Oil som, individual sales than mallY mm make tors, newspapers, publishers-schools-hospitals, etc., etc., percentage. ill a week alld som,times in a mOllth's time-if such a business and by thousands of small business men. You don't have to looks as if it is worth investigating, get in toltch with "s convince a man that he should use an electric bulb to light This Business Has at alice for the rights in your territory-don't delay­ his· office instead of a gas lamp. Nor do you have to sell because the chances are that if you do wait, someone else the same business man the idea that some day he may need Nothing to Do With will have written to us in the meantime-and if it turns something like this invention. The need is already there-­ House to House Canvassing out that you were the better man-we'd both be sorry. the money is usually being spent right at that very So for convenience, fU' the coupon below-but send it right moment - and the desirabil ity of saving the greatest Nor do you have to know anything about high-pressure away-or wire if you wish. But do it now. Address part of this expense is obvious immediately. selling. "Selling" is unnecessary in the ordinary sense of the word. Instead of hammering away at the customer F. E. ARMSTRONG, President and trying to "force" a sale, you make a dign ified , Dept. 402S-N , Mobile, Ala. Some of the Savings business-like call, leave the ins tallation-whatever size the customer says he will accept-at our risk, let the You Can Show customer se ll himself after the device is in and working. You walk into an office and put down before your prospect This does away with the need for pressure on the cus­ a letter from a sales organization showing that they did tomer-it eliminates the handica.p of crying to get the r US-H -;0;- E~l~IV'i'" -- , work in their own office for $11 which formerly could have money before the customer has really convinced himself COSt them over $200. A building suppl y corporation pays 100 %. You simply tell what you offer, showing proof of I R TERRITORY PROPOSITION I our man $70, whereas the bill could have been for $1,600! success in that customer's particular line of business. I F. E, ARMSTRONG, Pres., D ept 4025 ·N. Mobile, Ala. I An automobile dealer pays our representative $15, whereas Then leave the invention without a dollar down. It Without obligation to me, send me full infor- I the expense could have been over $1,000. A department starts working at once. In a few short days, the installa­ mation on your proposition. store has expense of $88.60, possible cost if done outside tion should actually produce enough cash money to pay the business being well over $2,000. And so on. We could for the deal, with profits above the investment coming in I not possibly list all cases here. These are just a few of at the same time. You then call bac k, collect your money. Stru t or R oute ... the many actual cases which we place in your hands to Nothing is so convincing as our offer to let results speak work with. Practically every line of business and everY' - for themselves without risk to the customer! While others Box No ..... I section of the country is represented by these field reports fail to get even a hearing, our men are making sales City .. . which hammer across dazzling, convincing money-saving running into the hundreds. They have received the atten­ I opportunities which hardly any business man can fail to tion of the larges t firms in the country, and sold eo the Statt .... understand. smallest businesses by the thousands. L_ ___ .:..J This file including all text and images are from scans of a private personal collection and have been scanned for archival and research purposes. This file may be freely distributed, but not sold on ebay or on any commercial sites, catalogs, booths or kiosks , either as reprints or by electronic methods. This file may be downloaded without charge from the Radio Researchers Group website at http://www.otrr.org/

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