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who never thought they could! Learned Quickly at Home Plays on Radio Wouldn't Take $1000 for Course I didn't dream I could actually Jearn to play I am happy to tell you that for four weeks I The lessons al'e so simple that anyone can under without a teacher. Now when I play for people harc been on the air over our local radio station. st!lnd them. I ha.\·e learned to play by note In U1Cy hardly believe that I learned to play so SO thanks to your institution for s\lch a won a little more than a month. I wouldn·t take a well In so short a time. derful course. thousand dollars for my course. °H. C. So, Call!. ·W. H. S" Alabama. ·S. E. A., Kansas City. lI.'1o. You, too, can play any instrument By this EASY A·B·e Method OU think it's difficult to learn music? That's lovers are enjoying the thrilling satisfaction of Ywhat thousands of others have thought! Just creating their own music. They have found the like you, they longed to play some instrument key to good times, popularity and profit. the piano, violin. guilar, saxophone or other favor Only a Few Cents a Day ites. But they denied themselves the pleasure And that's what YOU can do, right now. because they thought it took months and years of Get the proof that you, too, can learn to play tedious study and practice to learn. your favorite instrument- quickly, easily, in spare Learn in Spare Time at Home time at home. Never mind if you have no musi And then they made an amazing discovery! cal knowledge, training or talent. It you are Surprised Friends They learned about a wonderful way to learn truly interested. just send for the faScinating illus· I want to say that my friends are music at home- without a private teacher- with trated booklet that fully explains all about the fa j!'I'cntly surprised at the different pieces I can alrea dy play. I am very happy to out tedious study- and in a surprisingly short mous U. S. School of Music method. Tear out the have chosen your method of learning. time. They wrote to the U. S. School of Music for coupon now, before you turn the page (I nstru oR F .. Bronx, N. Y . the facts about this remarkable short-cut method. ments supplied when needed, r---- And the facts opened their eyes! They were cash or credit.) U. S. School of amazed to find how easy it was to learn. Music, 43310 Brunswick Bldg., The result? Over 700.000 men and women New York City, N. Y. have studied music at home this simple, A·B·C way.......... Now,......... all over........ the........ world,. ..............................................enthusiastic music· forty_lir$t Year lfiltab/.........llhed ........................... 1898/ . U, S, SCHOOL OF MUSIC 43310 Brunswick Bldg" New York City, N, y, I am interested in music study. particularly in the instrument checked below. Please send me yOUf free iIlus· trated booklet, "How 10 Leam Music at Home" and the Free Demonstrated Lesson. PIANO BANJO TROMBONE VIOLIN MANDOLIN FLUTE GUITAR UKULELE PICCOLO PIANO ACCORDION CORNET ORGAN PL AIN ACCORDION TRUMPET DRLlMS AND TRAPS SAXOPHONE HA RP MODERN ELEMENTARY HARMONY CELLO Best Method by Far HAWAIIAN GUITAR CLARINET VOICE CULTURE Enclosed Is my last examination sheet for my course In Tenor Banjo. Thls Have you completes my course. I have taken les Name .. ' ....................... This Instrument? ....... sons before under teachers. but my In structions with }'OU were by far the best. • A. 0., Minn. Address ........................ ......... City ... .•.. • . ..•.. ...... ......•.. Slate. 'Actual pupils' names on Tequest. Pictures by professional models. D Check here fOf Booklet A if under 16 years of age. P 1/01 HE World Series of 1939 be ning with one shoe off, staggered gins in New York's Yankee the rest of the way home! TStadium on Wednesday, Octo Baseball fans will never forget ber 4. The complete event will be that crucial game in 1926 when broadcast by the Mutual Broad the murderous Yankees were casting System through stations all threatening to go on a spree. Tony over the country. (See the program Lazzeri was at bat with the bases section for further details.) full and two out, and Cardinal Will there be a hero or a goat manager Hornsby sent into the Ihis year? Undoubtedly. There box wise old Grover Cleveland will also be spectacular thrills of Alexander. Alex, with live pitches, a color such as only the baseball struck out the dangerous Poosh classic can paint. Will there be a em-up Tony, turned the tide, and Merkle pulling the colossal blun gave the hot·stove league some der of neglecting to touch a base thing to talk about forever. in a crucial game? Will there be In 1929 occurred one of the most a Pepper Martin completely de astounding pieces of baseball mora!lzing the foe by running wild strategy in any series. Foxy old on the base paths? Will there be Connie Mack surprised and can· a pigeon holding up the game founded the whole sports world while players and umpires chase by starting the first game with it all over the diamond? pitcher Howard Ehmke, considered The world series of the past have an old has-been. But Connie furnished countless examples of hadn't been keeping Ehmke around the heroic, the bizane and the the club for nothing. The veteran spectacular. Go back just to 1922, went to the mound and beat the for instance, and lind that the urn· Cubs three to one. pires called a series game because of darkness when it was still broad THE most dramatic of all such daylight! There was an immediate hero acts was put on by Babe public uproar, the gate receipts Ruth in 1932. The Cub players and ! were turned over to charily, and fans had been giving the Babe a Will Rogers observed, "The urn· particularly juicy razzberry in this \ pires in my home town may not game. Babe was sore. Came the be up on all the line points, but, first pitch from Charlie Root. by gum, they can tell day from Strike one-and Ruth waved one night!" finger defiantly at the crowd. Pitch In the 1923 series veteran Casey two, strike two-and he waved Stengel of the Giants hi! a drive two fingers. Then two balls. And to the wall. As Casey rounded then with a sweeping gesture that second he slowed down and every eye in the park could see, started limping. Aller he finally the Babe pOinted to the center· beat the ball to the plate by an field bleachers. Nobody breathed eyelash, his mates expressed con at this colossal prediction. Pilch cern over his injury. Casey said five-Babe swung and the ball it was nothing, his shoe had sim sailed far out into the indicated ply come off-but both shoes were spot in the bleachers for a tie· still on! Then he remembered breaking homer. he had put a sponge in one shoe Things like that make the World for his blistered heel, and the Series the most colorful sports sponge had sailed out. Casey had spectacle in the world. You can America will lean forward in stands and at radios as Yankee seen it out of the corner of his bet there will be something this catcher Bill Oickey (above) squats for. first pitch Wednesday eye and, convinced he was run- year, too. ITlirn to H.d Pagel M. L ANNEN BERG, Publisher RA 0 I 0 GU IDE CURTIS MITCHELL, Editor 731 Plymouth Court, Chicago, IU. The National Weekly 01 programs, plctllres ond personalities Vol 8. No. 51. October 6, 1939 CONTENTS The 1939 World Serle. , National Song Search Listener's War Map of Poland 22 Airialto Lowdown 6 The March of Music "14 Don Ameche 24 Hollywood Showdown 7 On Short Waves 16 AI Pearce and Charlene Wyatt 25 And Whose thc Glory? 8 Listening to Learn 17 "Lum and Abner" 26 The Lies Begin 10 This Week's Programs 18 Crossword Puzzle 43 Europe Is Talking Sherlock Holmes Coming Events; Radio Quiz Game: Blondie and Dagwood 20" Bulls and Boners; Football Broadcasta 44 Voice of the Listener " Joe Penner 21 Mr. Fairfax Replies; Birthday. 46 R.ol<> " .. , .. IT",I. M.,k n .. I<I ...d U. 8 . 1'01 . om.. ). Volu","" VITI. "Uld"'" H . W_ .n~lnl October f . un. ""hll.~NI ...kl, b, The (·... 11. I'omp.",. 131 Plr_th eou". rMeqo. lllinob. to:.lo,t4 ..._. rl ••, mO]", 01 1110 POll ""...•. ("hI ..... llllo"'h.• ·.hruor. 11, lt1!. unlit, 110. or! ~ )1 ..r11 i. I ~;~. ,4.ulhoflud br I'<~I O!!lrt 1)...,.'1....... 011'~·'. C.n.do. .•• 'f«"'d·01 ... ",." ••. Copnl,ht. un. bY Tho C_ll. 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