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George and Gracie's Toughest Assignment PROGRAMS for WEEK BEGINNY s VEMBER 19th WEEKLY www.americanradiohistory.com Z'Gre Three Hits for You in Sar lnspfres the rar The Sutherland Sisters, Long Beach, Calif. THE BROADWAY'S Sirs: Jimmy Durante has been a movie favorite of ours for years, and ON OUR COVER since he has been in radio we enjoy Plymouth Rock was never like RADIO LIFE him even more. His "If I Am Elected this. Bold pilgrim of yore is Jack President" in a recent issue of Radio Carson, CBS comedy star who Life was tops in nonsense. brings good old American corn to the ether waves BROADWAY NEWS ... hot off One of our special favorites is each Wednesday Spade Cooley, arid his gang. We evening at nine o'clock. Comely the wire . KHJ, 12 noon, would enjoy seeing a picture and miss who stands steadfastly be- side him is songstress. 5 P. M. Monday thru Saturday. a story on them in Radio Life. Dale Evans. We hope you didn't miss the June Noon on Sunday. II 1h Issue of Nadia I.ife. Your favorite. Spode Cooley, was on MI rover. .4 ¡so, matic interest. It is the only serial on page :t2 of that issue, there was a that I am sorry to miss a single .story an Stat K.11741 with enlighten - fifteen- minute episode. aty farts about Spade and another I enjoy hear- FASHION FORUM . com- photo of the "Cowboy ing what is happening to the charac- King ters mentary on fashion news by as though they were old friends and I don't want to be out when they Mary O'Brien . KHJ, 10:30 Helene Collins, 2226 California A call for a pleasant visit. a. m., Tuesdays. Santa Monica, Calif. All that matters in the other serials Sirs. We like your magazine so is a bare skeleton of a plot which can well that we buy two copies each week. It saves a lot of trotting and HOME CHATS . f o r h e t borrowing to find out what's on the homemaker by Miriam Lane. On air! KMPC, 10:45 a. m., Mon. -Fri. We have scoured the pages for a picture of Ernest Chappell, and also. one of Chuck Collins. I wish someone would start a "Strange Experience" program -act- -13roael ual experiences with mental telep- Nell athy, psychic phenottlena, etc. -such MAlCOLM M,MAGM1tH, PIES. as Dr. Carrington had in New York. w here Los Angeles Shops with Confidence Many people are interested these days. Did you see our .4 moist 13th Radio Life with the picture and .story on Chunk Collins on page N" KEYEXTRA ew. ENERGY E. R. Brown, San Bernardino, Calif. Sirs: Why not ,print a story on UNDAY NIGHT Kenny Baker who received an award as being the best tenor on the radio? He has a fine program. There are Mildly too many of those slap -stick artists xative publicized in Radio Life. I'd like to Breakfast Food read of some of the real artists. //j AT LEADING GROCERS Sorry -we weren't aware we were rtnnr- iug "slapstick" artists and neglecting those who are real. The thing is that listeners' opinions vary as to which is which. Our Job is our to keep linger on the pulse of J RVOOW the public. In doing so, we printed a story Ili) the golden -voiced Mr. linker on page :tl of our August 20th isst, or Hadio Lire 1L133 Mrs. W. H. McNeely, 3346 Victory Street, San Diego, Calif. GI=VI332 FL Sirs: To my knowledge you have KNX 9:30 never printed an article on the only morning serial worthy of space in your magazine -"Llfe Can Be Beauti- °<<r Stories woven around ful." It makes my housework go fast- 94 NATION'S ME, the romantic and adven- er when I listen to the stories, but turous atmosphere of sometimes they become tiring with FAVORITE their monotonous Early California. repetition, the ex- Packed r.tite to keep aggerated melodrama - with goody thin perfect ' Pop Corn in Sponsored by goody heroines and fiendish villains, Perfect Popping Condition. the stagnant emotional situations Look for it in 1 ITLE INSURANCE which twist and turn and writhe and this gay new AND groan, but never develop or change label TRUST as the story plods slowly and labor- COMPANY iously LOS ANGELES onward. It sometimes nause- SPECIAL TENDER VARIETIES ates me so that I have to turn them off with OF WHITE HULLESS AND - the single exception of GIANT YELLOW HULLESS "Life Can Be Beautiful," which is true -to -life without sacrificing dra- Page T wo .d/,., u, ,. www.americanradiohistory.com ' tlesegNeen t week without losing Mrs. Osborn, Inglewood, Calif. be heard once a the thread of the story. You usually Sirs: The Duro -Glass company is DEFINITELY know how it will come out anyway, to be congratulated on giving Fred DIFFERENT, and the only thing you wonder about Waring and his band a half -hour is, "Will the climax come next month show. I never missed his former pro- MADAM! or the month after ?" Not so with gram and always regretted that it "Life Can Be Beautiful." Events occur lasted only fifteen minutes. His with the unexpectedness and reality quiet voice, lack of fanfare and bal- of life itself. The characters live and lyhoo, and his courteous recognition breath, are as consistent and incon- of each member of his company as sistent as true people, each with his they performed made his program own personality. The events of their a favorite with everyone. It is a lives are interesting, yet what hap- genuine pleasure to have him back pens to them seems not to be as im- on the air. portant as what they are and what ti they feel - their reactions to those 4th Street, events. Mn. L. S. Smith, 715 East ti°11.Se Santa Asa, Calif. We would be Interested to know if RE 4 other Radio Lifers share this reader's Sirs: W h y can't the announce- enthusiastic commendation of "Life Can iae:j1ENGLISPUH STYLE Re Ueatiliful." ment of a new program be given in sufficient detail to enable the lis- tener to find the show on the dial. Mrs. Joseph Girard, 2706 Augustine Court, Recently we were advised to listen ORANGE MARMALADE Los Angeles, Calif. to a new skit entitled "Rosemary" -but where and when? I looked Its lifry-year old recipe from Sirs: Reading one of your recent through the local papers, and then copies, I noticed that someone agreed no "Rose- Berkshire, England, makes Saxon with me that Jack Owens had some- to Radio Life, and still mary." I can't understand why it House Old English Style Orange thing when he crooned to the ladies. be secret. in the September 24 issue, a must such a Marmalade truly different... But Perhaps, dt first. the show's time reader is confident that there are and station were not set, and those delicious. It's the "fresh hundreds of people who would agree details could nut be announced. Rut In fruit" marmalade made with her that there is no one who the "Precast and Previeua" section on page 27 of our October 1 issue of in California from could compare with Crosby and Radio Life, we listed "Rosemary." and Sinatra. What confidence! Jack complete data on it including time. whole ripe and of the 4 Owens is good has person- station. length. type author plenty and show..4nd since then, it has been listed oranges! ality plus. regularly in our dully logs and handy Also, in regard to pet peeves on program finder. We always try to bring you complete information on new shows lu ) lb. and r lb. for, soap -operas, I wholeheartedly agree ns soon as we leur,, the facts of rsetnes. with other Radio Lifers. "Widder At your Grocer's Brown" and Dr. Anthony were talk- * ing about getting married long before Mrs. Ethel M. Snow, 5027 Biloxi Avenue, I ever did. I now have two babies North Hollywood, California. and they are still talking about get- Sirs: I can't help but wonder why ting married. Can't you please put we can't have more intimate stories a bug in the author's ear? I'll wager and pictures of our "Bing," to nearly I am not alone in my opinions. all of us the most beloved and lis- We know u urea! many Radio Lifers tened-to of all radio talent. Why share your liking of Jack Owens. can't we have pictures of his home, Seems you've proved Truth is F i I Eli than firlion: his children, his wife. I am one of the many I am sure that would love * to see something of Dixie Lee and Mrs. Violet H. Hodgson, 353 West I I th the boys, and hear them as a fam Street, Claremont, Calif. ily on the air. Can't something be CREAM done about this as it is very impor Sirs: May I trouble you to tell me tant to all of us. AS LOW AS the time and station over which Dr. We shah see Harry Emerson Fosdick may be heard on Sundays. National Vespers is listed in the program finder of Radio Life at 5:00 p. m. over KECA, but has not * * RADIO LIFE * * 110 a pint been presented at this time for the \Treiber 19. t95í l'olarr,r Ill. .\'uo,her II past two Sundays. Published Weekly at Lo. Angeles 15, California.