PROGRAMS FOR WEEK BEGINNING FEB. 15 Ever worry about leaving the house without a rain- coat? Ever have a shower spoil your best backyard barbecue? Does it always rain after you get the car washed? , Troubles like these can ruin your disposition. So if you don't want gray hair and wet feet, get the PC habit. Hear the official U. S. weather bureau forecasts on the hour. As an added feature, each hourly broadcast includes the correct time and a report on actual temperatures. KMPC is your station for weather. M iglielle rolee Two ae Sur Aspires the Pen 7-47r week os k . K F I Winifred Duncan, 1349 Glenmeyre, Laguna Mayfair Transcription Company, 8511 -13 .Beach, Calif. Sunset Boulevard, Hof ywood, Calif. Sirs: To get a good all-around pic- Sirs: In reference to a reader's FRIDAY NIGHT IS A GOOD NIGHT ture of the news, I like to listen reg- question (December 28) about the ularly to Edward R. Murrow and Alan Ladd show, "Box 13." TO ENJOY SOME OF THE FINEST Charles Collingwood on CBS, Cecil ENTERTAIN MENT ON KFI. TWO Brown on Mutual, and Pat Bishop Not only is this new radio series and the Richfield Reporter on KFI. I being heard on manj, small stations NBC SH O WS THAT HELP TO throughout the country, but also a wish the musical fare the radio pro- number of the larger stations from PROVE THIS POINT ARE "PEO- vided were half as good as the news coast to coast. Amorg the steadily broadcasts. Cannot get KFAC at La- PLE ARE FUNNY," HEARD AT 6, growing list of markets carrying guna, so lose the fine Gas Company "Box 13" are WOR, New York; KSL, AND WALTZ TIME, WHICH FOL- programs, which is a serious loss, as Salt Lake City; WC07, Boston; KGO, none other can take its place. LOWS AT 6:30. San Francisco; VeGBS, Miami; Meredith Wilson and Bob Mitch- WTCN, Minneapolis-St. Paul; KATL, ell and some KMPC quarter-hours Houston; KGMB, Honolulu. And for Art Linkletter are excellent, but like hors d'oeuvres, our local friends, "Box 13" will be leave one hungry for more. Can't heard shortly after the first of the someone supply our need? Please? year (station to be announced). Mrs. Dorothy Weber, Route I, lox 14. Lyndon Taylor, 809 Vist3 Street, San Ga- Yucaipa, Calif. briel, Calif. Sirs: As usual, I can't praise your Sirs: I saw the letter of a Mr. Car- little magazine as much as it de- roll Van Court and I agree with him serves, but I can say that I hope it on all counts except the one on Red "goes on forever" like Tennyson's brook. Skelton and the "Bad wittle kid." I think that Mr. Van Court's criticism Those people who are so business- here is silly, because if a child is go- like and sensible that they can't re- ing to be bad a sktt on the radio lax and enjoy a few laughs with our won't have anything to do with it. star comedians should listen to. the (Please Turn to Pape 8) more serious programs and not waste their time criticizing the people who make the public happy! Thank good- ness my husband and I both have a sense of humor, and we enjoy a good laugh a lot more than a tale of woe. ART LINKLETTER is familiar to millions as the emcee of radio's hi- * * RADIO LIFE * * larious funhouse, the "People Are CARL M. 111(0481-, Publisher Funny Show," a half-hour of rollick- ing mirth. Feb. 15, 1938 rar-,-X154.44 Vol 16. No. 24 Published Weekly at Loa Antelen, California. Buttiner% and 'editorial Office*: Wei Selma Bob Hannon M e., Hollywood WI. Phone Hilleide 9275. 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Iife " N US' , 3OLLY •• Guaranteed bY • BOB HA N N O N sings on "Waltz TINS & Wire Poe G.00d Housekeeping Time," a program of the nation's top .`"....00nteeee tunes played and sung in a smooth, melodious manner. Also featured are DD 3OLLY Evelyn MacGregor, The Amsterdam *Ebb UNE Chorus and Abe Lyman's orchestra. THAT'S KF1 —DIAL 640 -=Igirm-ss — Advertisement Page Three 41' N 4": 40.* ye .• Hlue Mountain Ranch! ey Icej"oree .4;.; ALTHOUGH JIM AND MARIAN'S home is all on one AT HOME. "FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY." Mr. and lv,rs. Jim level, they have three beautiful terraces on which they Jordan, brandish !woad grins as they parade down the walk grow geraniums, bougainvillea and plumbago. Though proud of of their remodeled Valley home. It's taken them a year and a half their flowers, the Jordan: make a specialty of their citrus nursery, to do over a five-room bungalow into the streamlined home you see which adjoins their home and occupies eleven acres. Jim, whose in background, but they've had a lot of fun rounding up meterials hobby is w oodworking, made 1000 redwood boxes for his seed- and labor, as our story tells. Carport is at left of house, Jim's work- shop is farther left and in rear are servant's quarters. lings. FAVORITE SPOT in the remodeled Away From the Mike as "Fibber and Molly" le home is the sun room, whose three glass window-walls afford occupants a These Unassuming Persons Find Relaxation gorgeous view of the valley. Marian made needle-point stool cover and supe-vised And Joy in Their New Home Snuggled Up decorating of this corner with powder blue To .a Hill and Overlooking the Valley rug, Early American paper, tomato and gold accents. Tuesday, 4 :30 p.m, N BC- KFI-IS feSP TEPPING AC R OSS the threshold of the Jim Jor- dan ("Fibber McGee and Molly") .home in Encino, one immediately senses complete warmth and rooms really lived in, coupled with a peaceful pin neat- ness. A year ago, the warmth would have been there, but neatness? Per- haps no. For Marian and Jim, since July, 1945, have been in the throes of "doing over" an old five-room place into which they moved when they sold their large Encino establishment about a mile away. They chose the outmoded five-room house because it centered six acres which immediately adjoined eleven occupied by their citrus nursery. To- day, the five rooms have expanded to eight and the Spanish architec- ture has been remodeled into a streamlined white stucco planned with an eye toward the gorgeous Valley view obtainable to north and Early American furniture, brought east. from the other place, with Jim's de- Glancing back over their tribula- light—modern gadgets. All switches tions in lining up remodeling mate- are silent and the kitchen is equipped rials, the Jordans are philosophical with Waring mixer (for Jim's milk and humorous. Marian derives par- shakes), dishwasher, disposal unit, ticular relish from telling how they mangle and clothes dryer. Jim's shop, corraled some plaster board, an item the ex-garage, has fluorescent light- practically Impossible to obtain. ing. Seems she and 'Jim were staying Repainting of the house, inside and on their ranch up the line, but took out, has been necessarily a gradual their regular time out on Sunday to affair and has been accomplished by attend mass. Because they had to a brush wielder name of Fred Banks. drive quite a distance for the service, A few weeks ago on the "McGee" the priest asked them to have a cup show, when the script included a of coffee before starting back and in painter, Jim thought it would be fun- the course of polite conversation over ny to use Fred's name on the air. the java cups, inquired about prog• Banks was so puffed up over his ress on the house in the Valley. The shadow air debut that he showeJ up Jordans resignedly bemoaned the for work next morning rigged out in fact they coUldn't get some much. a tuxedo—attire befitting a tor ra- needed plaster board. dio star, no doubt. Ye Rescue Both Jordans like blue, so the sun The priest listened attentively, then room, most frequented in the house, made a telephone call to one of his has been done in powder blue rug, parish members. Next day the Jor- paper in Early American tomato dans' truck picked up a load of plas- shade and with gold accents. The ter board from one of the town's master bedroom has an aqua carpet leading merchants. Jim and Marian and chocolate walls hung with cl-intz paid their bill and started congratu- draperies. Gray and black, pet dis- lating themselves, but their joy was likes of both Jim and Marian, are THIY'RE TOP air fare, but the Jor- a little premature, for shortly after, colors frankly avoided.