NEWS BROADCASTS ~ T~~~~A ~¥:J~~ I~ CBK DAILY I • I WATROUS Trans-Canada Nelwork: (Trans·Canada Network) I~OO. 9:00 •.In. 1:00,6:30. PROGRAM 540 Kcs. ':00 p.m. 12:00 p.m. CBC Dominion Network: Prairie Region 10:00 p.m. eRe SCHEDULE Transmitter Times given in this Schedule are Central Standard DATE OF ISSUE APRIL 12, 1947. PRAIRIE REGION Week 01 April 20th, 1947 612 Telephone Bldg., Winnipeg, Canada Qualities and Prices Coming of Age No Bed Of Roses Is High At Western Fairs Life Of CBC Producer esc Farm Commentator Back r:'rom Arranging Network Programs In Calgary, Regina and Brandon Meet- volves Much Detail ings An average lay opinion as to how Qualities and prices were both radio programs get on the air might higher at Western Canada's three be stated roughly as follows: principal winter fairs this year, "Someone has a brain-wave, hires according to Bob Knowles, CBC's an orchestra and a singer or two, assistant farm commentator in and maybe a comedian-and there the Prairie Region, who returned g you are." last week after visits to Calgary, •.. Well, it's not quite so simple a.<; Regina and Brandon, during that, according to CBC producers, March and early ApriL especially if it happens to be a net Bob attended the Calgary work program. First of all, one has Spring Bull Sale March 17-21, to give some thought to the matter largest event of its kind on this of placing the program in the intri continent; the Saskatchewan 11 cate jig-saw puzzle of the network Winter Fair at Regina, March program schedule. Before something 24-28; and the Manitoba Winter new is put into this solidly booked Fair at Brandon, March 31 time list, something old has to come April 3. out. And it will not do to drop the Herefords Predominate program in just anywhere. Suppose Herefords predominated at Cal ~ it happens to be a musical variety gary, he said, and to a considerable I program. If the program immediately degree also at the other fairs. In I following or preceding it is also musi three days of continuous selling by cal variety, CBC program planners four auctioneers, 850 bulls were sold 1.1 might wish to rearrange it. at Calgary, of which 550 were Here-, Then there is the matter of music. fords. The highest price paid was Programs often nul in series-four, $4,000. The Grand Champion Here or thirteen, or twenty-six weeks, as ford brought $3,400 and the Re the case may be. The orchestra can't. serve Champion $3,800. All these as in Allen's Alley. keep playing the bulls were sold individually on the same thing over and over again. So halter, and Ute vast majority went the CBC music library must be con to Alberta purchasers. Only about sulted. Producers and conductors 100 went out of the province. I must get together and select music Bob took a detour by automobile which they think will be suited to through Lethbridge and district on the program. Then the singer may Continued on page 2 On the occasiQn oj her twenty·ftrst birthday, Monday, April 21, H.R.H. come along with a nice song he or PRINCESS ELIZADETI-I will speak on CBC's Tra7ts-Canada network from BBC she wants to sing, and you, the lis Back From West in the BBC news period, at 11 :00 a.m. tener, arc not going to be satisfied with just a piano accompaniment. Swiss Correspondent cess through CBe International So the accompaniment has to be Service headquarters at Montreal, to scored tor orchestra, and that takes Likes CBC Shortwave Sackville, N.B., where the transmit time and work. Above all, the pro "Almost. As If I Were Speaking In ters are located. Broadcast there, it ducer must keep plenty at music Geneva St.udio," Says Paul Ladame is recorded by the Swiss Broadcast. available well in advance, so that he A Swiss correspondent broadcast- ing Corporation tor re·broadcasting won't run short and have to com ing over CBC's International Serv- on Swiss stations. The final recep pile a hodge-podge in a hurry. All ice to his horne country, has re- tion is 50 good, according to Mr. eBC programs are carefully planned, ported on the basis of mail response Ladame. "that it is almost as if I not just thrown together. to his regular broadcasts on the work were speaking in the stUdio at Gen· Let us suppose, then, that we have of the United Nations Organization, eva." He added that this is "a re some very nice music picked out, that the CBC shortwave signal is re- markable compliment for the CBC some pleasant chit-chat written for ceived in Switzerland almost as Sackville transmitters." the announcer, and cheerful patter clearly as the ordinary Swiss Mr. Ladame said that he was bas- for the comedian. What then? Well, mediwn·wave stations. ing his report on 14,OOO~odd letters there is the little matter of timing. The correspondent is Paul La- receiVed from listeners in Europe Network programs run to a close dame, one of the numerous radio since he began broadcasting from schedule. If your program is to last commentators whose reports go out the UN assembly last fall, His Budi· half an hour, then it must be half regularly over CBC's shortwave ence resides not only in Switzerland, an hour and no more. In fact, it must transmitters during a daily period but in France, Belgium, Luxem be a little less, to allow for station allotted to the United Nations for bourg, the Netherlands, Great Bri breaks. It comes down to a matter official use. "Only three or four tain, Italy. Yugoslavia and' Ger· of seconds, so the program must be BOB KNOWLES, assistant commenta· transmissiol'\S out of more than a many. run over once or twice to see how it tor lor the CBC'!p Prairie Region hundred were poorly received," he "I am glad," Mr. Ladame said, "to times out. And that brings up the Farm Broadcast department, who said. have lh1s opportunity of expressing matter of rehearsals. has 1ust returned to his Winnipeg Mr. Ladame's voice, like that of my deep gratitude to the CBe for its Let us not go into this rehearsal headquarters Irom visiting winter other UN correspondents using the co~operation in the truly intema business too deeply. It has its pain fairs at Calgary, Regina, and pOwerful Canadian transmitters, is Itional spirit which we are aU trying ful aspects. It involves, for example, Brandon. carried by land line from Lake SUc- to promote." Continued on page 7 Page 2 CB PROGRAM SCIIEDULE Prairie Region
Festival Musicians ·llilJ SUNDAY, April 20th, 1947 1111111· All times given aTe Central Standard; jor Mountain time deduct one hour. STATION CBK, WATROUS 10:00 CBC NEWS 10:02 NEIGHBORLY NEWS FROM THE PRAffiIES CAPITAL REPORT (1 :03 p.m.) 10:15 PRAIRIE GARDENER Speakers to be heard today in 10:30 THE CONCERT ALBUM clude Thomas Reynolds [rom Wash 11:00 BBC NEWS AND ington, Matthew Halton from Lon COMMENTARY don, and \Varren Baldwin from Ot 11:15 THEY CAME TO CANADA tawa. 11:30 THE MAN OF PROPERTY 11:59 DOMINION OBSERVATORY OFFICIAL TIME SIGNAL RELIGIOUS PERIOD (1 :30 p.m.) 12:00 CALLING ALL CHILDREN Rev. A. B. Moore. Principal, St. 12: 15 JUST MARY Andrew's COllege, Saskatoon, will be 12:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED heard. 1:00 CBC NEWS 1:03 CAPITAL REPORT CHURCH OF THE AIR (3:30 p.m.) 1 :30 RELIGIOUS PERIOD Rev. F. G. Stewart, St. Andrew's 2:00 N.Y. PHILHARMONIC Presbyterian Church, Kingston, ant., 3:30 CHURCH OF THE AIR will conduct the service. 4:00 CBC NEWS 4:03 JOHN FISHER WHAT ABOUT YOUR MARRIAGE? 4:15 WEEK-END REVIEW (Dam. 7 :00 p.m.) 4:30 SINGING STARS OF Children's early training has a TOMORROW great deal to do with their ability 5:00 OZZIE AND HARRIET as adults to achieve a happy mar 5:30 CBC NEWS riage, in the opinion of Dr, R. O. 5:33 PRAIRIE WEATHER FORE Jones, head of the child guidance CAST clinic at Dalhousie University, Hali 5:38 MUSICAL PROGRAM fax, who will be the next speaker 5:45 CANADIAN SHORT STORIES in this weekly CBC series. Dr. Jones' 8:00 MUSIC FOR ROMANCE talk will be the second in a new 6:30 YOUR MUSIC radio series designed to point the 7:00 BERGEN AND McCARTHY way to success in marriage. . The. Bach Festival on CBe f~om Vancouver during April and May is a 7:30 STAGE 47 I maJor musical event oj the sprmg season. The programs are heard on Sun 8:30 ALBUM OF FAMILIAR PARLOW STRING QUARTET days at 11 :00 p.m. Here are some of the participating musicians and pro MUSIC ducers. Above: CARDO SM...LLEY, violinist; ALBERT ST£lNBEnG. violinist and (9:30 p.m.) 9:00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS • conductor. Below: JOHN AVISON, orchestral conductor; and 9:10 THE OLD SONGS The only string quartet written ALAN THOMPSON, producer. 9:30 PARLOW STRING by the modern French composer, QUARTET Maurice Ravel, will be played on the 10:00 THE READERS TAKE OVER QUALITY, PRICE-Concluded According to Mr. Mitchell the next broadcast concert by the Par coyotes made heavy inroads into the 10:30 SUNDAY SERENADE low String Quartet, tonight. The 111s way to Regina, and found the 11:00 BACH FESTIVAL antelope population in the Medicine F is spring well advanced there on March 12:00 CBC NEWS Quartet in Major, one of the Hat area this winter. Possibly be 22, with gophers and wild ducks in 12:10 PRAIRIE WEATHER FORE composer's earliest works, completed cause the snows were heavy, food CAST in 1903 when he was 28 years old. evidence, and hints of green. At scarce, and the antelope weak from Regina, prices and' qualities were 12:15 MARY ANN MERCER Its movements are scored Allegro hunger, they seemed to tall easy vic 12:30 PRELUDE TO MIDNIGHT Moderato, Assez Vif, Tres Lent, and again better than last year's. The tims. Two of his cowboys rode across Vif et Agite. The Parlow String highest price was $1,700. Provincial the "British Block," n huge tract Hereford, Angus and Shorthorn As TRANS-CANADA Quartet includes Kathleen Parlow, of 600,000 acres of wild land in the (Programs 0/ the Trans-Canada net director and first violinist; Samuel sociations met during the fairs. Surrey district north of Medicine work offered to Prairie Region net~ Hersenhoren, second violinist; Stan COljote Hunting By Air Hat along the Saskatchewan River, works or stations. not carried on ley Solomon, violist; and Isaac Ma CBK) Bob had an interesting interview and counted more than 1,000 car mott, ·cellist. casses of dead antelope. The blizzard 9:00 CBC NEWS (Cent. stns.) with Hargrave Mitchell, large-scale (3 Mins.) rancher or the Medicine Hat district, may have got some of them, but SUNDAY SERENADE (10:30 p.m.) most were certainly victims of 9:45 HARMONY HARBOUR during 111s trip. Mr. Mitchell had re (Cent. stns.) (15 Mins.> Percy Harvey and the concert or cently taken up coyote hunting as a coyotes. Except for the odd calf, chestra, with Cora James, soprano" hobby, which is nothing new in ranch coyotes do not molest cattle, Mr. DOMINION are heard in this series. Cora James' country, but his method was unique. Mitchell said. (Pro!lTams of the Dominion network numbers have sUll to be announced. He hunted his coyotes from the air, The "British Block" was used dur offered to Prairie Regton networks OT The orchestral selections include: with a private cabin aeroplane. ing the war as a training ground for stations, not carried on CBK) Alt Wien (Godowsky) , Berceuse Working with a neighbour, he bagged chemical warfare, and for maneu 7:00 WHAT ABOUR YOUR (Godard), Apache Dance (Offen 200 coyotes during the winter, 19 vres. MARRIAGE (15 Mins.> bach), Bank Holiday (Ketelbey), Al in one morning. The method is to 7:15 GISELE LA FLECHE Fresco (Herbert), and Cossack Lul fly over the coyote country, pick Popular Taste.-The CBC believes (15 Mins.> laby (Jiranek). that popular taste is a lot better 7:30 FRED ALLEN (30 Mins.) up tracks on the snow, and follow them at about 70 miles an hour, fly than some people think, and that in 8:00 MEET CORLISS ARCHER Britain a.nd Europe.~All order to please the public you don't (30 Mins.) our dif_ ing low. They shot the coyotes [rom have to play down to tt.-From "This 8:30 TONY, MARTIN SHOW ficulties spring from a single as the air, with shotguns, which didn't (30 Mins.) sumption that Is now out of date: seem to spoil the pelts. Having is the CBC." 9:00 TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT that dangers come to us from bagged the game, they would land (30 Mins.) Europe and that we are secure in on the Alberta prairie-which, as the Freedom In Burma.. Burma today 9:30 EDMUND HOCKRIDGE the outer world. The opposite Is Commonwealth Air Training fliers is free to shape her own destiny. (30 Mins.) true: dangers, especially economic used to say, is just one big landing Britain is standing by, to help her 10:00 CBC NEWS AND COMMEN· field-and take [rom 3 to 5 minutes in every way possible, whatever de TARY (15 Mins.> dangers, come to us from the outer 10:30 DANCE ORCHESTRA world; security can come to us from to skin it and toss the pelt into the cision Burma may make.-George (30 Mins.) Europe.-A. J. p. Taylor, Of). BBC. cabin. Appleton. on BBC.
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Canadian Songs of works by the celebrated Russian MONDAY, April 21st, 1947 pianist and composer, Sergei Rach 1111111· maninoff. Her selections are: Melodie in E Major, Prelude in E Flat Major, All times given are CentTal Standard; jor Mountain time deduct one hOUT. Prelude in G Sharp Minor. Elegy in STATION CBK, WATROUS 4:30 SONGS TO REMEMBER E Flat Minor. (Midw. stns.) (15 Mins.> 8:00 aBC NEWS 5:00 COWBOY TROUBADOUR WALTER MACNUTT, ORGANIST 8:05 MUSICAL PROGRAM (Midw. stns.) (15 Mins.) (11,15 p.m.) 8:15 BREAKFAST CLUB 5:15 MIRROR FOR WOMEN For the concluding program of 8:45 THE CLOCKWATCHER (Midwest stns.) (1S Mins.) his present series, the organist and 9:00 CBC NEWS 5:30 SERENADE choirmaster of All Saints' Anglican 9:10 PRAIRIE WEATHER FORE- {Midwest stns.> (I5 Mins.) Church, Winnipeg, has chosen the CAST following selections: Scherzetto, 9:15 THE CLOCKWATCHER 5:45 BBC NEWS (Midwest stns.) (10 Mins.> from a group of 24 pieces for organ 9:30 ETHELWYN HOBBES by a blind French composer, Louis 9:35 MORNING COMMENT 5:55 NEWS COMMENTARY Vierne; Agnus Dei, a stately move 9:45 MORNING DEVOTIONS (Midw. stns.) (5 Mins.) 10:00 ROAD OF LIFE ment from the early First Mass by 7:00 CANADIAN CAVALCADE Mozart; Bourree and Minuet (Han 10:15 BIG SISTER (30 Mins.) 10:30 GEORGE'S WIFE del) • and Now Is Salvation Come, by 10:40 INTERLUDE 10:00 MUSIC FOR YOU J. S. Bach, one of the short choral 10:45 LAURA LIMITED (Cent. stns.) (30 Mins.) preludes, founded on the hymn 11:00 TALK BY PRINCESS known to many as the Confessional ELIZABETH DOMINION Hymn of the Reformation. 11:15 LUCY LINTON GEORGE KENT, Winnipeg tenor, will 11:30 MORNING CONCERT (Programs oj the Dominion network sing a program of songs by Canadian 11:59 DOMINION OBSERVATORY offered to Prairie Region networks OT Suggests Canada-less OFFICIAL TIME SIGNAL stations, not carried on CBK) composers in his CBC recital on Monday, April 21, at 8:15 p.m. on the Britannic Alliance 12:00 R.C.M.P. BULLErINS AND 2:45 BARRY PHILLIPS Dominion network. The composers PROGRAM NEWS (Midw. stns.) (15 Mins.) What I do think possible is a 12:15 THE HAPPY GANG represented are Gladys Davenport 7:00 SERENADE FOR STRINGS Britannic a1l1ance-not for Canada, 12:45 THEY TELL ME (30 Mins.> of Vancouver: Walter McNutt of because the French-Canadians would 1:00 CBC NEWS Vancouver; the late William Dich 8:00 PROVINCIAL AFFAIRS veto it-but for Australia. New Zea 1:15 MARCHING WITH THE mont of Vancouver and Winnipeg,' land, possibly South Africa, certainly BAND (Man. stns.> (15 Mtns.> and Margaret Drynan 01 Toronto. 1:30 PRAIRIE FARM BROAD- 8:15 RECITAL (Man. stns.> Southern Rhodesia, perhaps New CAST AND WEATHER (15 MtnsJ foundland, and perhaps some of the 2:00 LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL By Miss Gibson, When You Left Asiatic countries Which are now 8:30 SO YOU WANT TO LEAD A Me, My Heart Sings, from Anchors 2:15 MA PERKINS BAND (30 Mins.) passing from the Empire into free 2:30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY Aweigh; and When I Grow Too Old nationhood. The important thing Is 2:45 EASY LISTENING 9:00 CONTENTED HOUR to Dream. By the pianos, Midnight (30 Mins.) to break with the idea that all the 3:00 CONCERT HOUR In Paris, paso doble in three-quar dominions must have the same rela 3:30 RECITAL 9:30 INSTRUMENTAL RECITAL ter time; Hora Staccato (Dinicu), (30 Mins.) tion to Great Britain. For that 3:45 WOMEN'S NEWS COM- and Flying Down to Rio. means that no one of them can have MENTARY 10:00 CBC NEWS (10 MinsJ 3:48 NOVEL CHAPTERS 10: 10 INTERLUDE (5 Mins.) any closer relation to us than 4:00 FEATURE CONCERT RECITAL (Dom. 8:15 p.m.) Canada has, although, otherwise. 4:15 FAMILY FAVORITES George Kent, Winnipeg tenor, more than one of them might wish 4:30 WORLD OF RADIO wUl be heard in a program of song;t to do so.-R. C. K. Ensor, on BBC. 4:45 DON MESSER by Canadian composers. His selec· 5:00 LA CHANSON FRANCAISE 5:15 ClS:LESTE ET VALENTIN lions are: COOl and Silent Is The "Gangster" 5:30 UN HOMME ET SON PlS:CHll MORNING DEVOTIONS Lake, by Gladys Davenport of Van 5:45 RADIO JOURNAL (9:45 a.m.) couver; From My Tent, and Ma LIttle Banjo, by the late William 6:00 CHICO VALLE This week's morning devotions will 6:15 JACK SMITH Dichmont at Vancouver, rormerly of be conducted by the Rev. W. G. 6:30 CBC NEWS Winnipeg; Take Me to a Green Isle, Berry, of King Memorial United 6:40 PRAIRIE WEATHER FORE- by Walter MacNutt at Winnipeg; Church, Winnipeg. CAST and three songs, Sighs, Restless, and 6:45 STORY TIME The Half Moon, by Margaret Dry. 7:00 TOP BANDS nan of Toronto. 7:30 LET'S WALTZ SERENADE FOR STRINGS 7:45 RHYTHM AND ROMANCE (Dom. 7 :00 p.m.) MUSIC FOR YOU (T-C 10,00 p.m.) 8:00 RADIO THEATRE Works by Beethoven, Vaughan 9:00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS Williams, Tschaikowsky and Sini The orchestra under Richard Sea 9:15 CBC NEWS ROUNDUP gaglia will be played by the orches born, with Grace Lowery, soprano, 9:30 SUMMERFALLOW tra under Jean Deslauriers. Mathe and Kerr Wilson. baritone, as solo 10:00 CANADIAN CAVALCADE ists, will be heard in a program of 10:30 HARMONY HOUSE LapoInte, soprano, who has been the 11 :00 RECITAL guest soloist with the orchestra light concert and ballad music. The 11:15 WALTER MacNUTr, throughout the month ot April, will orchestral program includes: Sche ORGANIST be heard in songs by modern French herazade (Rimsky-Korsakov); We 11:30 FANTASY IN MELODY composers. Fantasia, from Sir John COUld Make Such Beautiful Music 12:00 CBC NEWS in Love, by Vaughan Wllliams, Bee (Manners), Managua, Nicaragua 12:10 PRAIRIE WEATHER FORE thoven's Variations on a Theme, (Fields), Dark Eyes (Russian Gypsy CAST Air), Jazz Legato (L. Anderson), 12:15 MILTON CHARLES La Cl Darem La Mano, and Valse 12:30 PACIFIC PIANOFORTE (Serenade), by Tchaikowsky, are and Stay As Sweet As You Are (Gor among the orchestral selections. don-Revel>. Grace Lowery will sing TRANS·CANADA Chere nUit, by Bachelet, Les ber Spring, by Handel, and Wilson's An original member 01 the Happy ceaux, by Faure, and Nicolette, by solo is The English Rose, trom Gang, KATHLEEN STOKES has been (Programs of the Trans-Canada net Merry England (Edward Gennan). work Offered to Prairie Region net Ravel, will be sung by Miss Lapointe. playing the organ and contributing works OT "lotion., not carried on The two vocalists will join in a duet, to the general merriment 01 this CBK) As I Went Roaming, by May H. daily program since June, 1937. Be RHYTHM AND ROMANCE Brahe. fore joining this group she was active 8:45 OFF THE RECORD (7,45 p.m.) (Midw. stUB'> U5 Min!.> as a pianist and theatre organist in 9:15 PARADE OF BANDS Mitchell Parks and Percy Burdett. RECiTAL (11 :00 p.m.) Toronto. She is heard with the (Mldw. 5tnS.) <15 MfnsJ Winnipeg duo pianists, with Lois Margaret Fetherstonhaugh, Win· Happy Gang Monday to Friday, at 12:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM Gibson, vocalist, are heard in this nipeg pianist, will continue her re. 12:15 p.m. over the CBC Trans- (Mldw. stns.) (15 Min•.) series. Tonight·s program includes: ettal series tonight wIth a program Canada network. Page 4 eRe PROGRAM SCHEDULE Prairie Region
RECITAL (Dam. 10:45 p.m.) , , Zoella Carroll, organist, will be IThe Prairie Gardener I ·!!!LlLIIIIII.L-1_T_UE_SD._A_Y_Ap_ri'_22_"d_1_94_7--1.1U· heard from Saskatoon. Tonight's program includes: I've Told Every Summary 01 Broadcast 0/ April 13, All times given are Central Standard,' tOT Mountain time deduct one hour, Little Star, from Music In The Air 1947. STATION CBK. WATROUS 12:00 MUSIC BY GOODMAN (Kern); When You Wish Upon a (Midw. 5tn5.) (15 Mins.) Star, from Pinocchlo (Washington Growing Bedding and Vegetable 8:00 CBC NEWS Harl1ng); Stardust (Carmichael); Plants: 8:05 MUSICAL PROGRAM 5:00 COWBOY TROUBADOUR (Midw. stns.) (15 Mins.) Liebestraum (Liszt) ; One Kiss, from 1. Transplanting from seed Ilat 8:15 BREAKFAST CLUB to growing Ilat; 8:45 THE CLOCK WATCHER 5:15 SERENADE TO AMERICA New Moon (Romberg), and Carry 9:00 CBC NEWS (Midwest stns.) (15 Mins.) Me Back To Old Vlrginny (Bland). (a) Time to transplant is when 9:10 PRAIRIE WEATHER FORE- 5:30 SERENADE seedlings acquire their first set of CAST (Midwest stns.) OS Mins.) true leaves (not to be confused with RECITAL (11 :00 p.m.) 9:15 THE CLOCK WATCHER 5:45 BBC NEWS seed-leaves) . 9:30 ETHELWYN HOBBES Eileen' Arnold, Winnipeg pianist, is (Midwest stns.) (10 Mins.) (b) Caution: Do not transplant 9:35 MORNING COMMENT tonight's recitalist. She will play: 5:55 NEWS COMMENTARY when too dryas they will wilt qUickly 9:4, MORNING DEVOTIONS a prelude from the Holberg Suite by {Midw. stns. (5 Mins.) and some may not recover. Seed flat 10:00 ROAD OF LIFE Edward Orieg; two etudes by Chopin, 10: 15 BIG SISTER 7:00 BIG TOWN (Cent. stns.> shoUld be watered a few hours previ Op, 25, No.1, and Op, 25, NO.5; 10:30 GEORGE'S WIFE (30 Mins.) (US to transplanting operations. 10:40 INTERLUDE 10:30 DANCE ORCHESTRA and Valse Impromptu by Franz (c) Soil for the growing flat should 10:45 LAURA LIMITED
ture; Ballade in A Flat Major, Opus the Editor of the Northern Mail. I 47; a Polish dance entitled Mazurka read of it in Winnipeg newspapers, ·111/ /I I WEDNESDAY, April 23rd, 1947 1111111· in A Minor, Opus 67, No.4, and two and many of the old timers too are prelUdes-in A Major and F Major. worried about that little black book All times given are Central Standard; lor Mountain time deduct one hour. that most men buy for ten cents and carry in their pockets. But the most STATION CBK, WATROUS 3:00 CONCERT HOUR SONS OF THE WEST (10:16 p.m.) 8:00 CBC NEWS (Midwest stns.) (30 Mins.) Ameen Ganam leads this Edmon concerned are the Chlpewyan In. dians. Their very lives may depend 8:05 MUSICAL PROGRAM 5:00 COWBOY TROUBADOUR ton ensemble, with Dick Taylor and (Midw. stns.) U5 Mins.) AI Melnyk as soloists, and a vocal on the notebook. The Chipewyan 8:15 BREAKFAST CLUB nre the only Indian tribe Who live 8:45 THE CLOCK WATCHER 5:15 SERENADE TO AMERICA trio. Tonight's program includes: (Midwest stns.) (15 Mins.) Ganam's Special No.4, Shine, and exclusively on caribou meat away up 9:00 CBC NEWS 5:30 SERENADE Cross Bow Special, by the orchestra; in the barren lands. They live side 9:10 PRAIRIE WEATHER (Midwest stns.) (15 Mins.) by side with the Eskimo, yet they do FORECAST Born to Lose and Make Room In 5:45 BBC NEWS (10 Mins.) Your Heart For a Friend, by the not associate with each other. 9:15 THE CLOCK.WATCHER (Midwest stns.) trio; My Adobe Hacienda, by Al, and I heard the story of their great 9:30 ETHELWYN HOBBES 5:55 NEWS COMMENTARY When There's Tears In the Eyes of patriarch and leader, Charlie Duck. 9:35 MORNING COMMENT (Midw. stns.) (5 MinsJ a Potato, by Dick. They do not live long, these slim 9:45 MORNING DEVOTIONS agile braves, for life is too hard in 10:00 ROAD OF LIFE DOMINION 10:15 BIG SISTER GWYN PRICE SINGS (11 :00 p.m.) the barren lands. Charlie Duck was 10:30 GEORGE'S WIFE (Programs 01 the Dominion network dUTerent--he was over sixty. and offered to Prairie Region networks or Gwyn Price. Vancouver baritone, 10:40 INTERLUDE opens his recital tonight with Gab that made him more revered. 10:45 LAURA LIMITED stations, not carried on CBK) riel Faure's song Les Berceaux. This Charlie had more education than 11 :00 BBC NEWS 2:45 BARRY PHILLIPS most Indians in this wild country, (Mldw. stnsJ (15 Mins.> is followed by Psyche, by Paladllhe; 11:15 LUCY LINTON and so he wrote down the tribe's his-' 11:30 MORNING CONCERT 7:00 JACK CARSON SHOW Dedication, by Richard strauss; A 11:59 DOMINION OBSERVATORY (30 Mins.) Dream, by Grieg; and Like L1l1es in tory. He recorded the wisdom of the ancients, and for the hunters he told OFFICIAL TIME SIGNAL 8:00 DUFFY'S TAVERN a Pool, by Maurice Lowe. 12:00 R.C.M.P. BULLETINS AND (30 Mins.> the cycles of the fox, the beaver, the PROGRAM NEWS ermine. Most important or all, he 8:30 CURTAIN TIME (30 Min,.) 12:15 THE HAPPY GANG kept a record of how the mighty 12:45 THEY TELL ME 9:00 BING CROSBY Fisher Relates Tale caribou herds moved, for the caribou (Cent. stns.) (30 Mins.) 1:00 CBC NEWS Of Missing Notebook sweeps across Canada's Northland in 1:15 MARCHING WITH THE 9:30 LATIN AMERICAN BAND SERENADE (30 Min'.) cac Story Teller VIsits The Pas On mysterious migrations. The Chipe 1:30 PRAIRIE FARM BROAD- 10:00 CBC NEWS (10 Min,.) Western Tour wyans wait lor them. If they miss CAST AND WEATHER Min,.) the migration, they may face winter 10: 10 INTERLUDE (5 (John Fisher on CBC, March 23) 2:00 LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL 10:30 DANCE ORCHESTRA long starvation. Charlie Duck held 2:15 MA PERKINS (30 Mins.) The Pas, Manitoba, is north of the learning of the tribe in his note 2:30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY Parallel 53-far from the blase big book. They relied on him. Their 2:45 EASY LISTENING 3:00 SASKATCHEWAN SCHOOL cities. The inhabitants are not blase, gUidebook to life was written down BROADCAST ___A/6te.:.L1_--, but nothing surprises them. They painstakingly in a little black note 3:30 MUSIC STYLED FOR are too busy waiting for the next book. STRINGS STRING TIME (7:00 p.m.) thing to happen, and .anything is Then one day a few months ago, 3:45 WOMEN'S NEWS COM- likely to happen in this Grand Jack Norton looks into the past Charlie Duck took ill-the white MENTARY central Town of 3,000 permanent doctor said it was tuberculosis. Down 3:48 NEW WORLD CALLING and the future in the opening num bers of his program tonight. The inhabitants. Anything - from sales from the barrens the Chipewyan was 4:00 FEATURE CONCERT • men selling aeroplanes as new as to 4:15 FAMILY FAVOURITES numbers are Forgotten and Sep sent-hundreds of miles he travelled, 4:30 SONGS TO REMEMBER tember in the Rain. The Montreal morrow to dinosaur bones as old as till at last he was in a strange bed, 4:45 DON MESSER Violinist wlll also conduct his string time itself. In the mining journals and white-fracked nurses attendE;d 5:00 LA CHANSON FRANCAISE ensemble in Tico Tico, The Girl of Canada the name Austin Me· him. Winnipeg hospital did all it 5:15 C~LESTE ET VALENTIN Veigh is known for Lynn Lake nickel That I Marry and For Me and My could for this Indian wise man, but 5:30 UN HOMME ET SON P~CHE and big gold strikes, but one time 5:45 RADIO JOURNAL Gal. Simonne wlll sing the lyrics to life had been hard for him-he could You Should Know, The Thrill Is Austin prospected a graveyard of not fight the white plague. They 6:00 EDMUND HOCKRIDGE dinosaurs. Up here, they have found 6:15 JACK SMITH Gone, and stars Fell on Alabama. moved him to The Pas-closer to his 6:30 CBC NEWS tropical snakes wound around tropic beloved North. He died there, and is 6:40 PRAIRIE WEATHER al trees-petr11ied in stone. Another buried in the Indian cemetery out FORECAST THE LIVELY ARTS (7,46 p.m.) man from this country at Herb Lake side The Pas. The Chipewyans away 6:45 MAGGIE MUGGINS Britain's plans for rebuilding her found the boundary of the great In up at Duck Lake mourned-their 7:00 STRING TIME blitzed cities will be reviewed and land Sea which once covered the leader was gone, but they still had 7:30 RENDEZVOUS ROOM analyzed by Graham McInnes, Ot whole of the midwest. Here you can the history and the secrets of the 7:45 THE LIVELY ARTS tawa art critic, in his next fort have one foot on limestone which lay 8:00 LONDON BY LAMPLIGHT wild life, and especially the caribou. 8:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED nightly talk in the CBC series, The beneath the salt water, and your The little black notebook would be 9:00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS Lively Arts. Mr. McInnes will speak other foot on pre-cambrian granite, their guide. They went through the 9:15 CBC NEWS ROUNDUP on the three main themes of Archi which was the shoreline ml1l1ons of old man's effects, confident, and then 9:30 DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS tecture, Planning and Community years ago. The great rock of Canada bewildered! The little black notebook SERIES Centres in Britain. This broadcast swings by here - the same pre 10:00 THE NATION'S BUSINESS was missing. Their secrets were lost. will be the last of six talks by Mr. Cambrian shield which has brought That's why the government, the 10:15 SONS OF THE WEST McInnes on art activity in the Bri wealth to Yellowknife, Red Lake, 10:30 INVITATION TO MUSIC Mounted Police, the missionaries, 11:00 GWYN PRICE SINGS tish Isles. He has been heard on al Sudbury, Cobalt Timmins, Noranda, are today scouring the Northland 11:15 MIDWEEK REVIEW ternate weeks with Paul Duval, art Rouyn, Val Dar-it goes through for that little black notebook. The 11:30 MYSTERY MASTER editor of a Toronto weekly, who has Manitoba. Why, the leading hotel in hospitals at Winnipeg and The Pas 12:00 CBC NEWS reviewed the arts in Canada. Mr. The Pas is called "Cambrian." And have been searched-it's no laughing 12:10 PRAIRIE WEATHER FORE Duval's discussion of the Dominion's in the lobby of that hotel you'll meet CAST matter. The very lives of a whole architectural plans will be heard the characters who are fortune hunting Indian tribe may depend on the 12: 15 MILTON CHARLES following week, on April 30. -you'll meet men just back from 12:30 DANCE ORCHESTRA finding of that ten-cent scribbler. the muskrat farms, and Yanks who TRANS-CANADA DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS have been shooting white whales at (Programs the Trans-Canada net 01 SERIES (9:30 p.m.) Churchill, or taking pictures of the work offered to Prairie Region net A Useless, Frivolous Rose. This caribou further North. And that happens to be the first time for works or stations, not carded on Margaret Miller Brown, Toronto brings up a subject-Caribou. For pianist, will playa program of com many years in which the owrters of CBK) that introduces a great hunt of the 8:45 OFF THE RECORD positions by Chopin, which will in English gardens have felt free to Northland-the problem of the miss (15 Mins.) (Midwest stns.) clude: Waltz in A Flat Major, Opus push back the brussels sprouts from 9:15 PARADE OF BANDS 34, No.1; A Fantasy in F Minor, ing notebook. beside the porch and plant a use (15 Mins.) (Midwest stns.> Opus 44, regarded as one of the The )!issing Notebook less, frivolous English rose instead. 12:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM I heard the story from Bob Taylor, -Gordon Glover, on BBC. (Midw. stnsJ (15 Mins.> great compositions of piano litera- Page 6 CBC PROGRAM SCHEDULE Prairie Region
School Valedictory THURSDAY, April 24th, 1947 Inspired Announcer ·1111111 1111111· Charles Miller Of Montreal Began All tfmes gtven are Central Standard; lor Mountain time deduct one hour. Announcing Career Early At the end of his hlgh~school days. STATION CBK, WATROUS 5:45 BBC NEWS Charles (Ted) Miller was chosen The Prairie Schooner. (Midwest stns.J (10 Min•.) 8:00 CBC NEWS valedictorian of his class, and he I do not know that I am address 8:05 MUSICAL PROGRAM 5:55 NEWS COMMENTARY has used his voice to make his way (Midw. stns.) (5 Min!,) ing this bit of appreciation to the 8:15 BREAKFAST CLUB in the world almost ever since. Now proper place, but I surely hope so. onc of Montreal's top announcers, he 8:45 CLOCK WATC'HER DOMINION I should say we, because my hus 9:00 CBC NEWS Is heard regularly over station CBM band also enjoys the Prairie Schoo 9:10 PRAIRIE WEATHER (Programs 01 the Dominion network and the CBC networks. ner. We used to Hsten regularly on FORECAST offered to Prairie Region networks OT Born in Cupar, Saskatchewan, Saturday evening, but for a long station" not carried. on CBK) 9:15 THE CLOCK WATCHER Miller moved to Regina with his time past have not been able to 9:30 ETHELWYN HOBBES 2:45 BARRY PHILLIPS family during his early school years. locate the program. Late last night 9:35 MORNING COMMENT (Mldw. stns.J (15 Mi1l.l.J His high-school valedictory address (Friday, March 21) I happened to 9:45 MORNING DEVOTIONS 8:00 DICK HAYMES SHOW determined his future, for it con· run on to a transcription (nearly 10:00 ROAD OF LIFE (30 Min••) firmed a long-standing desire to be 10:15 BIG SISTER ended), static interfered. I could not 10:30 GEORGE'S WIFE 9:00 WORLD SECURITY WORK come an actor. Miller enrolled at learn the station, but I am prompted 10:40 INTERLUDE SHOP (30 Mim.) Regina College for two years' tuition to write to thank you in Canada, not 10:45 LAURA LIMITED 9:30 DANCE ORCHESTRA in voice and drama. Advised that he only for this particular program, 11:00 BBC NEWS (Cent. stns.> (30 Mins.) should be more practical, he also but for others we enjoy as well. 11:15 LUCY LINTON 9:30 BING CROSBY studied medicine and engineering, Mrs. V. A. Allen, Barberton, Ohio. 11:30 MORNING CONCERT
"HopplI" Parents And Children FRIDAY, April 25th, 1947 ·~IIIII III ~II· Can Join In "Co-Study" All times given are Central Standard; for Mountain time deduct one hour. While CBC school broadcasts are designed primarily for classroom use, STATION CBK, WATROUS 5:15 SERENADE TO AMERICA (Midwest stnsJ (15 Min!.> parents, too, may be interested in CBC NEWS 8:00 5:30 SERENADE hearing the same lesson their Chil 8:05 MUSICAL PROGRAM (Midwest stnsJ (15 Mins.) dren arc hearing in school. 8:15 BREAKFAST CLUB 5:45 BBC NEWS The Idea behind this Is that both 8:45 THE CLOCKWATCHER (Midwest stnsJ (10 Afins.) 9:00 CBC NEWS may cont.lnue to explore and add to 9:10 PRAIRIE WEATHER 5:55 NEWS COMMENTARY the information contained in the (Mldw. stnsJ (5 MinsJ FORECAST program after school hours. This 9:15 THE CLOCK WATCHER 9:30 E:rHELWYN HOBBES DOMINION sharing of Interest in radio lessons 9:35 MORNING COMMENT
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Group of Seven Corrections 'I~IIII SATURDAY, April 26th, 1947 For Prairie Region Schedule dated lU· April 13, 1947 ..tIl times given are Central Standard; for Mountain time deduct one hour. MONDAY, APRIL 14 STATION CBK, WATROUS DOMINION 5: 55-6 p.m. (T-C) Kill: Canadian Commentaries. 8:00 CBC NEWS (Programs 0/ the Dominion network Schedule: 8:05 MORNING MELODIES News Commentary. offered to Prairie Region networks or MONDAYS TO FRIDAYS WEEKLY 8:30 NOVELTY IN MELODY stations, not carried on CBK) 7:30-7:45 p.m. (OBK) 8:45 THE CLOCKWATCHER 4:45 KING COLE TRIO (15 Min,.) 9:00 CBC NEWS Schedule: Let's Waltz. 6:00 CUCKOO CLOCK HOUSE WEEKLY 9:10 PRAIRIE WEATHER (30 Mins.> FORECAST 7:00 TWENTY QUESTIONS 8-8:30 p.m. (Dom.) 9:15 THE CLOCK WATCHER (30 Min,.) Kill: To Be Announced. 9:30 CURTAIN CALLS 7:30 MAYOR OF THE TOWN WEEKLY 9:45 MORNING DEVOTIONS (25 Mins.> 10:30-11 p.m. (nom.> 10:00 MUSIC MAKERS 7:55 INTERLUDE (5 Min.o.l Kill: To Be Announced. 10:15 CHILDREN'S PROGRAM 8:00 THE MIGHTY CASEY WEEKLY 10:30 MUSICAL COMEDY TIME (30 Mins.> TUESDAY, APRIL 15 11:00 BBC NEWS 9:00 MART KENNEY 11:15 JUNIOR CONCERT (30 Mins.) 12:45-1 p.m. (OBK) 11:30 THE LAND OF SUPPOSING 9:30 ART HALLMAN (30 Min,.) Kill: Musical Program. 11:59 DOMINION OBSERVATORY 10: 00 CBC NEWS AND Schedule: Waltzes of the World. OFFICIAL TIME SIGNAL COMMENTARY US Mins.> TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS WEEKLY 12:00 R.C.M.P. BULLETINS AND 10:30 DANCE ORCHESTRA lO:30-10:45 p.m. (nom.) PROGRAM NEWS <30 Mins.) Schedule: Provincial Affairs 12:15 WORLD CHURCH NEWS (Sask.). Hon. J. W, Corman, 12:30 MELODY ROUNDUP Attorney-General 12:45 CBC NEWS THIS OCCASION ONLY 12:55 PRAIRIE WEATHER _-,))(}fejJ--_ FRIDAY. APRIL 18 FORECAST RED RIVER BARN I)ANCE 7:30-8 p.m. (CBK) 1:00 MUSIC MAKES PICTURES Kill: Recital. 2:00 ON TIlE TEEl'; :3EI..T (1/):00 p.m.) ,-.p'" "'i" !'r''''~ " .... ~.' r... ..In'.. ?ItO'" .:>cneuule: rt.aQIO It.r~ U.ttl1t:L 2:30 JIVE HIVE The Fiddlers under Pete Couture, famous artists to the microphone THIS OcCASION ONLY 3:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM with Wilf DaVidson, Marjorie Diller on Friday, April 25. LAWREN HARRIS 4:00 NOTRE FRANQAIS SUR LE and Ben Schram as vocalists, con will talk about his own life and the SATURDAY, APRIL 19 VIP tinue their famous series from the philosophy of his paintings. The pro 5:45-6 p.m. (CBK) 4:15 QUESTIONNAIRE DE LA Kill: Wes McKnight. JEUNESSE ancient fork of the rivers of the gram is one in the National School prairie, which has been the centre Broadcast series heard on Fridays at Schedule: To Be Announced. 4:45 LA BONNE CHANSON WEEKLY 4:55 BULLETIN DE NOUVELLES of western Canadian history for 3 p.m. over western stations of the 5:00 EL RITMO TROPICAL more than a hundred years. To~ CBC's Trans-Canada network. Mr. 7-7:30 p.m. (CBK) Kill: Playhouse Party. 5:15 CBC NEWS night's fiddlers' specials include: Harris is one of the founders the 0/ Schedule: Tonight at. Timber 5:25 MUSICAL PROGRAM The Clay Pipe, Good for the Tongue. famous Group 0/ Seven. He will 5:30 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL Lodge. Monopol Polka, Beautiful Lady speak from Vancouver where he now WEEKLY MUSIC Waltz, a Polish Dance, Polka a la makes his home. He will tell some 5:45 TO BE ANOUNCED 6:00 HAWAII CALLS Russe, Rig a Jig Jig, and The Crooked thing of his work in the Lake Super with club leaders, talks on cltizen 8:30 SPORTS COLLEGE Stovepipe. Schram's solo is Rose of ior country and Of his adventu.res ship, club ralHes, and many other 6:45 SWINGTIME the Rio. Marjorie will sing Down in the Arctic with fellow painter subjects will be inclUded. The broad 7:00 TONIGHT AT TIMBER Tumble Weed Trail, and Davidson's A. Y. Jackson. casts will not be technical, but will LODGE number is Dusty Road. The studio deal rather with the social aspects of 7:30 SHARE THE WEALTH I audience will join in the weekly Junior Period On club work, and general news of club 8:00 esc NEWS : sing-song. this time a venerable 8:05 TO BE ANNOUNCED CBC Farm Broadcast activities. 9:30 ORGAN MUSIC favourite of the early 1900's, In the 10:00 RED RIVER BARN DANCE Shade of the Old Apple Tree. Boys' and Girls' Clubs To Have Spe 10:30 DANCE ORCHESTRA cial Five-Minute Spot On Thursdays CBC OWNED STATION 11 :00 JULIETTE THIS WEEK (11 :16 p.m.) A special five-minute period on CBK WATROUS, SASK. (60,000 11:15 THIS WEEK watts) 640 Kes. 11:30 CELLO RECITAL Dr. Arnold Gesell, founder and di the CBC Farm Broadca.c;t from Win 12:00 CBC NEWS rector of the Yale Clinic of Child nipeg on Thursdays, commencing TRANS-CANADA April 10, will be devoted to the work 12:10 PRAIRIE WEATHER Development. will be ~ tonight's NETWORK Kes. FORECAST speaker. Child Behaviour will be the of the "Junior Fanners," the Boys' CBK, WATROUS 640 12:15 HOLLYWOOD BARN DANCE and Girls' Clubs in the prairie CKY, WINNIPEG m. 990 subject of Dr. Gesell's talk. Dr. CJCA, EDMONTON 930 12:45 ORGAN INTERLUDE Gesell is known in the United States proVInces. CFAC, CALGARy...... •.. 960 TRANS-CANADA and Canada as the author of a great These clubs have been an import CJOC, LETHBRIDGE 1060 (Program of the Trans-Canada net number of books on child psychology. ant educational feature of western DOMINION NETWORK work offered to Prairl.e Region net Among his widely read works are agriculture for many years, and are CKRC, WINNIPEG •__ 630 organized under the provincial de CKX, BRANDON m 1150 works or ,tations,· not carried on Infant Behaviour-Its Genesis and CJGX, YORKTON 00 940 OBK) Growth, The Psychology of Early partments of agriculture. Clubs con CKRM, REQINA mm m 980 8:30 MUSIC FOR MADAME cern themselves with various depart CHAB, MOOSE JAW 800 Growth and The First Five Years. CFQC, SASKATOON 600 (Mldw. stns.) (30 Min.o.) ments of work on the farm, such as CKSI, PRINCE ALBERT ... 900 9:15 FOLK DANCE FROLIC homecraft, poultry, swine, beef, CFCN, CALGARY _..~ 1010 (Midwest stns.)
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