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DOUBLES YOUR RADIO ENJOYMENT Complete Programs to Be Broadcast Week Ending October 29 Lucille Manners will sing the "Blue Danube Waltz" Friday night-NBC www.americanradiohistory.com RADIC DOUBLES YOUR RADIO ENJOYMENT 731 PLYMOUTH COURT, CHICAGO, ILL. him Ahead playwrights; some would call Careers the greatest living playwright writ- to the list of things your son Add ing in English. 'Beyond the Hori- want to be "when I grow up" may zon' is one of his more important No more that of swing musician. plays. The reason given by the in this advanced cowboy ambitions FCC for this ruling was that three inventor or sol- radio age; no more expressions in the O'Neill play- Nowadays youthful dier or sailor. 'damn,' 'Hell' and 'for God's sake' or a minds choose to be a G-man -are 'obscene and indecent.' Credit the latter to trap -drummer. "The FCC member who voted No jitterbug era. this was Commander T. A. M. Craven, Heroic examples are before them. U. S. N. Ret., who denounced the is King of Swing Benny Goodman ruling as an FCC attempt to 'censor his scepter. Bunny and a clarinet is the air.' man among trum- Berigan is high "We agree with Commander Cra- is the high peters, Tommy Dorsey ven. And we believe that now is of trombone -players, Gene priest the time for citizens, broadcasters, Oom of Krupa is the Omnipotent newspapers, magazines, etc., etc., drummers. Add the bank accounts to get up on their hind legs and do together and of those gentlemen some fighting on Commander Cra- would get a sum you probably ven's side. twice as great as that owned by four even unusually successful bus- LIMITS OF CENSORSHIP inessmen of their own age. Indeed, "This paper will not be barred at their age it is hard to find any from the mails for publishing the unusually successful businessman. above headline. But readers are Swing pays and the kids know. entitled to stop reading any paper There is a glitter about the work, whose language they don't like. too. It puts you on a pedestal, the Barring use of a handful of well- public at your feet. You know stars, above heading, on the ground that "This seven -member outfit super- known English words which all ball -players, heroes, statesmen, it is cheap, weak writing -tactics to vises radio. By a vote of four to agree are too dirty to print, that is celebrities. try to attract attention by the use one, with two members absent, the the only censorship to which the Once, boys rode to manhood on of profane language. FCC decided Thursday to silence a press should be subject-reader imaginary white chargers, clad in "We agree. The reason why we lot of radio stations for having censorship. the invisible armor of Sir Lancelot. are using that language this morn- broadcast Eugene O'Neill's 'Beyond "The same reasoning applies to Now they ride on the beat of ding- ing is that we want to call all the the Horizon' last July 28 as part of the radio. When Mae West broad- donging broadcasts, hammering attention we can to a ruling day an NBC -Blue network educational cast her Adam and Eve skit some their feet against scarred floors, before yesterday by the Federal drama series. months ago, various Legion of De- twisting their backbones in vain at- Communications Commission. "O'Neill is one of our greatest cency sympathizers had a perfect tempts to outjitter the King Jitter, right to make the protest which Gene Krupa himself. they did-or to go on and boycott There are those among us who the station broadcasting the pro- wonder how it will all come out. CONTENTS gram or the advertiser sponsoring it if their protests were not heeded. "Damn It to Hell, 13 By Wireless from Berlin 1 Father Devine "But the dangerous line is It's Dangerous" "To Jessica, With Love" 2 Listening to Learn 14 15 crossed when attempts are made Highlights of This Week 4 Mr. Fairfax Don't be alarmed. We have not Program Selector 16 to have government cut off news- Playbill: "Vic and Sade" 6 Records of the Week 17 or radio And it lost our sense of the proprieties. The March of Music 8 Crossword Puzzle 19 papers programs. But we saw that head in the New Airialto Lowdown 10 This Week's Programs 20-35 is a very dangerous line indeed. 36 News the other day, on that Hollywood Showdown 11 On Short Waves "We have all seen evidence in York The Radio Tattler 12 Football Broadcasts 37 great paper's editorial page, and the last few days of the terrific when we saw what that publica- M. L. ANNENBERG, Publisher power of the radio in Hitler's to accomplish fierce war speech from Berlin, in tion was attempting CURTIS MITCHELL, Editor we decided to borrow both the Mussolini's various trumpet -voice headline and the editorial. We be- Vol. 8. No. 2 October 29, 1938 orations, in Chamberlain's tired -old - lieve it is the most forceful way in peacemaker speech. A[ark It,'giileleli I'. 5. Pat. (Ribs,. Volume A'Ill. Number 2. ANice], ending It CI lum ,Ttade ('putt, Chicago. Illiuoi:. 1 731 urliabcr Y!I, I!I ;u. l'ubli.hed l reklp by Ite;l,l Pre.., Ime.. I'I,Iwmtb which we can plant our banner on Chicago, Illinois, l'cbruaey 2 I. 1912, under act et. Ilnelyd as and-class mattere et the tost (IRi AN INSTRUMENT OF by (Mice Deli attmcnt. (Viole,,. Canada, a, d rund-rlasa matter. (opy- 1 l'ust \larrh :I, sSa. Authorized d'l'tassy, Iten- the side of the listener and against by ltegal rn,:.. Inr. All rlghG s . ecrd. Arnold6ru.c. I9 r.ideut; George light Iu:IS, Manager. l'nsolirt ted nl:tlulsrrit,t'i TOTALITARIANISM erat yl:ma#er; ('w li; llltchell, Vice -President 1i1''r1y. ('ii-culatiuu rd if rue return. '('en rout: per ropy in the United the decision of the Federal Com- .lpllld bH at'l'plllpallied l{ .sl:llllpclI. elt-adlll'eyr ens, 5nb.eriptipn rate, in the U. S. and posesºions and countries mt the Pan-Anlerir,ul Postal `lates. foreign eptllltries: . ]intintlei, Union: , luuntb., F2.5a One ,ear. $'.1.1111. .Ill.er iptisn rate: in "It may well be that whoever can munications Commission. Hereun- X:0u0; by pp:tal lmlm order. rvOil's money asdes, pr sleek drauu In order der is the editorial: p( Itapll, (:l'II,F.. (Mummy sent tit :nbserillel-. control a nation's radio facilities in "Many readers will dislike the (Continued on Page 15) S/2 N www.americanradiohistory.com Map, left, shows points between which William L. Shirer was shuttle - cocked during the war crisis in order to re- port events via radio WHIT; RUSSIA 1%. Another RADIO GUIDE First! ried at prospect of war; the various reactions of men bed at 6 a. m. say, then at about 7 or 8 a. m. the Wars and war scares require a new technique of in the face of danger, and your passion to make the news started coming in. Correspondents started coverage these days. The old romantic figure of American public see this via radio kept you going phoning from Sudetenland, and by 9 a. m. the Richard Harding Davis, the beau ideal of former at top speed all the time. Probably I wouldn't have government ministries and local radio engineers newspaper days, is gone. In his place is a hard- slept or eaten much even if I could have. were on the phone with the news and broadcast hitting American news -hunter who mixes sweat and But, of course, sleep was impossible when you schedule. Or at 7 a. m., after an hour's sleep, you speed and an expert's knowledge of economics into were either broadcasting or gathering news until were setting out on a drive of 200 or 300 miles a word -brew and pours it into a microphone. He four or five in the morning. And if New York or through Sudetenland, which is mountainous and knows diplomats, prime ministers and cab -drivers. London didn't phone you at 6 a. m. with the day's slow going in any old trap of a car you could find He was born in America-usually in the Middle news and schedule of talks, you phoned them. It (since the army had taken the best) and there were West. He is tireless, fearless, and sometimes reck- was only midnight in New York, and if you went to nerve-wracking breakdowns when you had to be less. He was responsible for the most exciting radio back in Prague, a hundred miles away, in a couple week America has known when, three weeks ago, of hours to broadcast at a scheduled time. he talked from the frying -pan of Europe. At Godesburg the night of the Hitler -Chamberlain Wherever the fire was hottest, American voices talks, which finished at 1:30 a. m., I finished my recorded the temperature. One voice was that of SHIRER work at 5 a. m., since the phone service to the William L. Shirer, central European representative outside world was terrible. At 5:50 a. m., my car of the Columbia Broadcasting System. How he got COVERS left for Cologne to catch the Berlin airplane leaving there and what he saw is a great story. RADIO GUIDE at 7 a. m. So I just lay down on the nearest table is proud to present in him today's newest hero, the in the hotel lobby and snatched forty minutes sleep.