E 7 8 K C 2 D 5 3 4 T 1 tJ P MOVIE-RADIO FIFTWCENTS PROGRAMS FOR MAY 23 -29 GU E Penny Singleton, better known as "Blondie" of movies and radio, does her bit on Poppy Day The truth About Shirley Temple's Secret Hobby Start the Amazing Fiction Story of "Stepmother" www.americanradiohistory.com MOVIE -RADIO GUIDE CONTENTS Shirley Temple's Secret Hobby 1 For Soldiers Only 2 Bonita -* Jackie Equals Worry 4 See Hollywood with Ona Mun- son 5... - Stepmother (a fictionization by Wiley Malony) (Part 111) 6 The Movie Front. by Leon Ras- mussen 8 The Radio Front. by Lieut. Col. Curtis Mitchell, Glen Ander- son, Don Moore and Arthur Miller 10 Classical Music. by Robert Ba- gar 12 Short Waves. by Charles A. Morrison 14 Frequency Modulation. by Dick ACTIVE member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Women's Auxiliary Post 2061, Movie -Radio Guide's cover girl Dorrance 16 attends opening of Post 2805's new clubhouse for V. F. W. with husband Bob Sparks, Marine in World War I Programs Broadcast Mondays Through Fridays 18 -19 Other Programs 20 -31 Feminine Forum, by Alberta North 33 BUY A POPPY What's Cooking! by Georgia Scott 35 ON POPPY DAY Cover Photo by A. L. Schafer the one word heard most on the lips of Amer- to keep alive the tradition of the red poppy as associated PERHAPS icans everywhere today is SERVICE, and buying a with our heroic dead -Lieut. John McCrae, with the poppy on Poppy Day is one way of serving which helps medical corps of the First Canadian Contingent, who not only all war veterans in government hospitals but in- died in France, January 28, 1918, after four years of cludes, this year, aid to service men in the present con- service on the Western Front. His poignant verses titled flict and their families as well. "In Flanders Fields" were written in the trenches during Adopted as the official flower of the American Legion the second battle of Ypres. They finally found their way in 1919, all the flowers sold on Poppy Day are made by to London, and were published first in "Punch" on De- Volume 11. Number 33 in disabled veterans hospitals throughout the nation. This cember 9, 1915. Because they represent such a vital link May 23-29. 1942 work, for which they are paid, represents their only source between today's and yesterday's Poppy Days, we quote of income, and the activity it affords these men has been them here for all those who will serve on Poppy Day this called invaluable by medical authorities from the stand- year by buying the symbol of sacrifice that honors Amer- SUPERVISING EDITOR: Carl A. Schroeder point of occupational benefits. The service ica's war dead and helps those who still r I.ANACINC canon: Ruth Bizzell began back in 1922 when Veterans of carry on the fight with the foe in the pres- rsoMOTlON DIRECTOR.: Martin Lewis Foreign Wars inaugurated the custom of ent world conflict: ASSOCIATE EnaTOI : Evans Plummer. Holly- wood; Dot Moe. s Midwest; Arthur Miller. having ex- service men sell Buddy poppies New York: Richard Kunstmmn. Programs: James G. Hanlon. Education; Charles A. Mor- for the benefit of disabled soldiers, with "In Flanders Fields the poppies grow rison. Short Waves; Dick Dorrance, Frequency each flower carrying the tag: "Honor the Between the crosses, row on row, Modulation; Robert Bagar, Classical Music. That marks their place; and in the sky EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Ann Montgomery. Dead by Helping the Living." The sale of Raymond Hanlon. Charles LOCigno, Clarence these poppies every year since has become The larks, still bravely singing, fly Reuter. Melvin Spiegel. Scarce heard amid the guns below. EDITORIAL AND CIRCULATION OFFICES: 731 a custom now in most of the forty -eight Plymouth Court. Chicago. Illinois. states as well as in other countries. In We are the dead. Short days ago MOVIE -RADIO Gums (Trade Mark Regis- America the day is usually observed yearly tered U. S. Pal. 011iceI. Volume XI. Number We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, 33. Week 01 May 23 -29. 1942. Published weekly on the Saturday nearest May 28, which iv e ,5) .l1Í by Triangle Publications. Inc.. 400 North Broad Loved and were loved, and now we lie Street. Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. Editorial commemorates the capture of Cantigny in and Circulation Offices: 731 Plymouth Court.. BUY WAR SAVINGS In Flanders Fields. Chicago. Illinois. Entered as second -class mat - 1918, first offensive by American forces on ler at the Post Omce. Chicago. Illinois. Febru- sr1' 21, 1940. under the Act of March 3. 1879. the Western Front in World War I. In BONDS AN D STAMPS Take up our quarrel with the foe; Authorized by Post Office Department. Ottawa. Canada. as second -class matter. Copyright 1942 some sections of the United States, Poppy To you from failing hands we throw by Triangle Publications, Inc. All rights re- served. Unsolicited manuscripts should be ac- Day is referred to as "Buddy Day" or The torch; be yours to hold it high. companied by stamped. self-addressed envelope for return. Fifteen cents per copy ln the United "Flower Day," but the purpose,. irrespective of name, is If ye break faith with us who die Slates. the same -to serve America's war veterans in a vital way. We shall not sleep, though poppies grow SUBSCRIPTION RATES In the U. S. and posses- sions and countries of the Pan American Postal Digging back into the short history of our present In Flanders Fields." Onion: six months, $3.00: one year. $5.00. Subscription rates in foreign countries: six Poppy Day custom, it is heart -warming to know, too, that months, $4.00: one year. 57.00. Remit by postal money order, express money order or check it was born in the France of yesterday as a service of So when you buy a poppy this momentous year of drawn to the order of MOVIE -RADIO Gumc. love, Currency sent at subscriber's risk. Please allow and fostered by her school children, who each year 1942, keep in mind that in a small way you, too, ai'e four weeks for change of address. Be sure to give both old and new addresses. Please address placed flowers on the graves of American soldiers buried keeping the faith, fighting the fight on the home front all correspondence in reference to subscriptions in to the Subscription Department, 731 Plymouth their country. that will help our men over there in the struggle for free- Court, Chicago. Illinois. But it remained for one soldier -poet of World War I dom for all men everywhere! -The Editors. I IIINTr:D IN U. S. A. ":3 P www.americanradiohistory.com SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S Secret Hobby KEEPING a secret in Hollywood is just about as easy as finding the proverbial needle in a haystack; yet now and then some star does manage it until a chance word or a spontane- ous gesture gives it away -and completely, as Shirley Temple did recently at CBS. rehearsal of "Junior Miss," airlane show, in which she is now starring. Until she spontaneously picked up the hammers of Charlie Price's xylophone and started playing, no one in radio or movie circles was aware that Shirley had been hiding a musical talent. The ease with which the little star played electrified her impromptu audience, and Movm -RAnto GUIDE was the first to get the facts as well as the first picture of Shirley xylophoning, right. Digging into this deep, dark secret, it developed that La Temple has a full-size vibraphone in her special quarters at home which she plays a good deal. Hereto- fore, those who guard her interests had a "no story, no pictures for publication" ruling on her secret hobby and talent. In fact, those who heard her for the first time were as surprised as the New York college professor who toured out -of-way spots in Europe and the Orient before the war and was astonished to find that the children there were interested in only one famous American -Shirley Temple. A few of them even had Shirley Temple dolls. After that experience, should the good professor peruse the 1942 edition of "Who's Who" in America, he will probably not be so surprised to find Shirley Temple one of the youngest of the thirty -two thousand notables listed, and rating twenty -six lines in this roster of Amer- ica's great. In fact, her biography gets more space than John D. Rockefeller, Jr. About the same time Shirley's secret hobby came to light, she revealed a secret talent on her four- teenth birthday .(April 23) when she enter- tained two dozen pan- American youngsters, children of nine Central, South American consuls. Everyone had fun at the ice-cream -and- cake feast served at Brittingham's Columbia Square restaurant, next door to Shirley's CBS broadcasting studio. Later she played hostess to the group at her "Junior Miss" show, took time to sign autographs for each guest, severi for a red -headed representative from Mexico, who explained, "I got friends at home who are expecting them." Shirley's warm friendliness and hospitality marked her as a true ambas- sador of good-will among our pan-American neighbors. Certainly no young matron twice her age could have shown more charm and grace than little Shirley Temple, who has been a movie star eleven of her fourteen years, and whose secret hobby for the xylophone aston- ished listeners at "Junior Miss" rehearsal.