COMPLETE PROGRAMS FOR WEEK ENDING JUNE DAREDEVILS DRIVE WAR ADMIRAL: CHAMPION AGAIN AT INDI- ANAPOLIS. READ ABOUT IT, PAGE 6 CAN RADIO AC- TORS REALLY ACT? SEE THE ANSWER IN PHOTOS, PAGE 22 Hear the greatest horserace of the decade-Monday, CBS SEASISCUIT: CHALLENGER AEA 8 7 8 OFFICIAL STAR OF STARS BALLOT RADIO GUIDE Mail to: Star of Stars Editor, M. L. Publisher Radio Guide, ANNENBERG, 731 Plymouth Court, CURTIS MITCHELL, Editor Chicago, Illinois. 12 My Choice for the Most Popular Human -Interest Show Is CONTENTS My Name Is This Week! Selected Outstanding Programs 1 "Millionaire's Toy" My Address Is The Saga of Hetty Green's Son By JAMES STREET 2 (This Ballot May Be Pasted on a Penny Postcard) $100,000 on the Nose Race of the Century 4 Highlights of This Week's Programs A Picture -Plan for Listening 5 The ballot above is for this week's election only. Read the instructions below before you vote. This ballot must be mailed by midnight this Saturday, June 4 Will Death Ride Again? Indianapolis Classic 6 Gene Lester Joins the Break- fast Club The Breakfast Club- in pictures 7 The March of Music RADIO GUIDE'S ANNUAL BY LEONARD LIEBLING 8 Hollywood Showdown BY EVANS PLUMMER 10 POLL Airialto Lowdown STARS 11 STAR OF BY MARTIN LEWIS On Short Waves BY A. MORRISON 12 THIS WEEK -MOST POPULAR HUMAN -INTEREST SHOW CHARLES Radio Guide's X -Word Puzzle 13 Listening to Learn STYLES in radio, as in everything else, are limited to one division each week, and the win- Education on the Air 14 constantly changing, fluctuating with public ners in the various classifications are announced Stories of Near -by Stations Meet Your Local Favorites! 15 taste and inclinations. The program that each week. Us a very In the just -finished poll Between yesterday might find A Forum for Listeners 16 But the Wilson, genial guiding light of the Jack Benny small listening audience indeed today. In Memoriam never-ending variety of American radio is one of program, has once more been named king of Those We Love 17 the things that makes it the world's studio announcers, and Ted Husing Local Gal Makes Good Sara Rehm visits Chicago 20 best! New stars, new ideas, new types leads the sports classification, as he rEnrtu fvY Can Radio Actors Act? of programs are being offered almost did in 1937. Complete listings of the Chicago stars turn to stage 22 daily to the American listening audi- results in the announcers poll may be What's Become of- ence-and that's all to the good. found on the inside back cover of Reports on Arnold Johnson, Joe Cook, Conrad Thibault, One of the newest and most com- this issue of Radio Guide. Ray Knight, Countess Olga pelling of the new program ideas in But this week America votes on the Albani, Lennie Hayton, Rubinoff, and Judy, Zeke radio is the "human -interest" show- human -interest program! Your vote and Annie Canova 24 the program typified by "Professor is important. Fill out and mail the Programs for Sunday, May 29 25 Quiz," "Your Neighbor," "We, the coupon above at once-don't wait Programs for Monday, May 30 27 People," and all the other programs until just before midnight on Satur- Programs for Tuesday, May 31 29 day. That may be too late! And if you are one that have brought to the airways the spontaneity, Programs for Wed., June 1 31 the freshness, of unrehearsed lines spoken by the of the millions of Americans who have come Programs for Thursday, June 2 34 average man and the average woman. Technic- thoroughly to enjoy the human -interest program, Programs for Friday, June 3 36 ally called "audience -participation programs," you owe it to yourself, and to the sponsors and Programs for Saturday, June 4 39 we think the plain phrase "human -interest pro- stars of your favorite program, to vote, and to Husing, Don Wilson grams" fits much better. For that is exactly what do it today! Top Announcers Poll Results in the Ninth Division they are, essentially, and above all else: programs Next week the climax of the eleven weeks of of the Star of Stars Poll designed to make use of the innate talents that voting will be reached! Next week Radio Guide Inside Back Cover are undoubtedly present, in greater or less de- publishes the last-and most important-of all Star Stars Ballot! Results of gree, in all of us. the ballots: the of R.% DM Orma (Trade Mark Registered U. S. Pat. Office). Volume VII. Number 33. Week Ending June This year, for the first time in the five years the voting in this final classification will deter- 4. 1:138. Published weekly by Regal Press, Inc., 731 Plymouth Court, Chicago. Illinois. Entered as second- mine, indisputably, the greatest radio star of the class matter at the Post Office, Chicago, Illinois, Feb- during which it has conducted the Star of Stars ruary 24, 1932. under act of March 3, 1879. Author- ized by Post Office Department, Ottawa. Canada, as polls, Radio Guide offers a separate classification year 1938. Will Jack Benny, already chosen the second-class matter. Copyright 1933. by Regal Press. Inc. All rights reserved. Arnold Kruse, President: This week, radio leading comedian of 1938, once more be named George d'Utassy, General Manager; Curtis Mitchell. for the human -interest program. Vice -President; Ed 7.oty, Circulation :Manager. Unso- by stamped. has liri t cd manuscripts should be accompanied listeners from Coast to Coast will name the top- Star of Stars? Benny won the coveted title self-addressed envelope for return. Ten cents per copy in the Polled States. Subscription rates in the U. S. human-interest program by filling in and three times in succession: in 1935, '36, '37. He and possessions and countries of the Pan-American ranking Postal Union: six months, 52.50; one year, $4.00. Jack Benny fans all over the Subscription rates in foreign countries: sis months. mailing the ballot printed above. The ballot must may repeat. Loyal 92.00; one year, $8.00. Remit by postal money order, express money order, or check drawn to order o7 RADIO be in the mails by midnight of Saturday, June 4. country will cheerfully bet that he does just that. Gun De. Currency sent at subscriber's risk. The Fifth Annual Star of Stars Election is being Time-and your votes in the Star of Stars poll conducted on an entirely new basis. Voting is -will tell! Vol. 7. No. 33 June 4, 1938 Turn fo inside back cover for results in the Announcers Election! 7/33 N a° Popular request returns "Girl Alone," starring Betty Wink- ler, to the air. Tune in NBC Monday, at 4:45 p.m. EDT for [r first show of the new series THIS WEEK PREVIEWS OF SOME OF THE BETTER REGULAR AND SPE- CIAL BROADCASTS TO BE PRESENTED THIS WEEK SUNDAY, MAY 29 MONDAY, MAY 30 junior school -children of the East and Middle West. Champions in the finals will be heard from Wash- Commander A. B. Campbell ... from London Daredevils' holiday ... at Indianapolis ington, and will compete for a $500 prize. "Europe Calling"-CBS, 1:30 p.m. EDT. 500 -Mile Classic- Commander Campbell was senior naval reserve MBS, 11:45 a.m.; NBC, 12 noon EDT. officer of the Otranto when the ship, convoying What strange fate awaits the daredevil drivers in WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 troop -ships and carrying one thousand American the Indianapolis classic this Memorial Day? Will soldiers, was rammed and sank. Listeners will hear death again ride with them, or will he take a holi- English Derby ... at Epsom Downs him describe "The Last Voyage of the Otranto." day? Let your loudspeaker bring this exciting event Racing Classic-NBC and M BS, 9:50 a.m. EDT. to you from start to finish. This is a race all the world awaits. in For a complete story, see page 6. that Rich Helen Jepson ... for Ford tradition, the English Derby has been run since 1780 at Epsom Downs. Stationed at vantage points Sunday Evening Hour-CBS, 9 p.m. EDT. on the course, English announcers will bring Amer- Helen Jepson came all the way from Titusville, Memorial Day ... from Gettysburg ican listeners graphic accounts of the race. Pennsylvania, to capture Metropolitan Opera goers In Memoriam-NBC, 3:30 p.m. EDT. with her lovely soprano voice. Sunday listeners will hear her singing the songs that she has made famous Listeners will hear an address by Arthur H. Van- as an operatic and concert -stage star. denburg of Michigan; Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Jack Knight ... air ace Hon. W. C. judge of the For program details, see page 9. read by Sheely, presiding "lt Can Be Done"-CBS, 10:30 p.m. EDT. Courts of Adam County; Invocation by Henry W. A. Hanson, president of Gettysburg College. Jack Knight of United Airlines has flown more For program detail., see page 14. miles than any other man in the entire world, and is holder of countless air records. Wednesday night listeners will hear Ace Knight tell about the fears War Admiral vs. Seabiscuit and fun of America's flying -men. Race of the Century-CBS, 4 p.m. EDT. All America will be listening when the world's two wonder horses go to the post to decide a ques- Scoop ... horror drama tion that has become a national issue. Easterners "Lights 12:30 a.m. EDT. are betting on War Admiral, westerners on Seabis- Out"-NBC, cuit.