NEWS TRANS·CANADA I DOMINION 1mI BROADCASTS III NETWORK . NETWORK !ill CBK DAILY fll I WATROUS Trans-Canada Nelwork: (Trans-Canldl Nelwor.) 7:00,8:00 a.m. t:z:OO. 5:31 8:00 p.m. It:oo p.m. PROGRAM 540 Kcs. CBC Dominion Nelwork: Prairie Region 9:00 p.m. CDC SCHEDULE Transmitter 300 Telephone Sidg., Winnipeg, Canada DAT£ OF ISS'UE, MAY 14, 1948.

PRAIRIE REGION Wuk of M.y 23rd, 1948 $1.00 PER YEAR Old Savoyards Offer Canoe Trip In The orth Engineers' Anniversary Talent For Operas (H. fO) Gilbert And Sullivan Series Attract­ s. M. Kemp, 011 ene, May Ing Wide Interest Among Singers The wagon-trip through the blur of white water, so all we could muskegs was more a nightmare than do was chuck navigation to the The CBe's Gilbert and Sullivan usual, we were windbound a day and winds and trust to lUck. Then after series. which continues this week a hall on Montreal Lake, and as for a worse than usual bit of going, the wit h Iolanthe. has apparently the river, the wat-er was as low as baby started to whimper again. warmed the heart of many a listener, I've ever seen it. We bumped and Well, we couldn't blame him. He and made many an old Savoyard itch scraped down most of the rapids, but was bedded down in the bottom of to get back into harness. Judging by finally. about four o'clock in the the canoe, and when I stl-uck a the response when word of the series afternoon, we reached the head of match to see what was wrong, I got around, singers react to the the Montreal Rapids. found him afloat in six inches of names of Gilbert and Sullivan with Now the rapids go around In a water. The canvas covering of the the instinctive reflex of a war horse canoe had ripped in a dozen places responding to the trumpet! ten-OllIe horseshoe bend, but the portage, about four miles long, cuts and the Montreal River was moving The series had hardly been an­ tn. So I picked him up, soggy blan­ nounced when Geoffrey Waddington, straight across. Four in the after· noon was too soon for supper, so we kets and all, and found him a. new music adviser to the CBC and di­ resting place on top of a big trunk rector of the series, began hearing a put my wife ashore at the portage with two ')'TlA,1I children and a brand we were carrying amidships. ringing in his ears. At his oftlce o.nd The moon came up about eleven; in the evenings at home he was be­ new Scotch cierk, Bnd LOtd them to wnlk across. We'd go down the river but it didn't do us much good, as the sieged by telephone calls from people spruce almost met overhead. At any thirsting for a chance to sing once and have supper ready for them by the time they reached the far end. rate, it didn't show us the bad rock more the immortal ditties from Pina­ that sat squarely at the top of one fore and Pirates, Patience and And as for the third child, the baby of 18 months, I'd take care of him. roaring rapid, for we hit it broadside. Princess Ida, to say nothing of And did we hit it. The sideboards operas that begin with other letters So we started off, Norman and Jonas At the recent celebrations in con­ in one canoe, Mooneas and I In the cracked and I thought they'd caved nection with the 75th anniversary oj of the alphabet. In two days, Mr. in. Then Moonens and I went over­ Waddington answered 40 calls dur­ other. the Faculty oj Engineering at the We figured it would take the folks board and tried to swing the canoe University 0/ Montreal, one of the ing periods when he wasn't at re­ stem-on to the current. But we hearsal, conducting orchestras, or about an hour to cross the portage, officials taking part was the general while we, in the lightened canoes, might as well have been shoving on manager oj the CBe, DR. AUGUSTIN catching up on his sleep. Since the Noah's Ark. All we did was what the cast of the CBC light opera group would make the swing in far less FRIGON. Dr. Frigon was the diTector­ time than that. But four hours later, current was doing-listing her over general 0/ Technical Education lor had already been chosen, the answer till she threatened to capsize. Then had to be a regretful "no"-but Mr. at eight in the evening. we were the province 0/ Quebec from 1924 to barely half-way there. -splash!-and the baby was over­ 1935, and a member at the National Waddington was glad to hear from board, too. his callers. It was the fault of the low water. Research Council from 192J to 1939. Continued on page 4 "It was a great tribute to Gilbert We'd go cock-a-whoop through one He is a graduate Of the Massachusetts and Sullivan," he says. "It just goes rapid, then run smack aground in Institute oj Technology, oj the Ecole to prove that people like singing the the next. We'd pile overboard, strain, Superieure d'Electricite oj Paris, and operas as much as they like hearing shove and heave; then pile aboard 0/ the University 0/ Paris (Sor­ them, and that once you've had even again soaked and sodden when the bonne). He is a former dean oj the a bit part In the chorus, you're bit­ canoe took the sudden notion to nm Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal. As ten by the bug." away from us. Sundown brought a member oj the AlTa Royal Com­ Not, he hastened to add, that his mosquitoes in clouds, the chill of mission he is one of the earliest callers were only ex-members of the evening came on, and the baby pioneers Of radio broadcasting in chorus. He heard from singers who hOWled his hunger. We fed him, took Canada. had sung many of the principal roles a smoke, shoved on again. in Gilbert and Sullivan operas-some But I had worries my Indians The Soil Tn Peril. - We of the amateurs, some professionals who didn't have. What of the folks at the United States ... have ripped across had trouped with the D'Oyly Carte portage end? They had no grUb, no our fair lands and induced soil company. blankets. and as the Scotch clerk erosion that has cut fields with riils Aside from the phone calls, both didn't smoke, not even a match. And and gullies and created dust bow~. Geoffrey Waddington and producer without matches they could neither Ernest Morgan h a v e also been light a smudge against the mos­ In a century we have already pleased by the mail they received quitoes, nor kindle a. fire to keep destroyed for further cultivation an after the first two broadcasts-letters them warm. But there was no use area the size of England, Scotland, from critical listeners who know worrying, for nothing could be done Wales and Ireland, The United their Gilbert and Sullivan, and who about it. The only thing to do was to hang on every word. keep shoving on. States is losing 500,000 acres of good The broadcasts are being heard on We shoved on-and night fell. And farm land every year from soil the CBC Dominlon network on Tues­ if the going had been mean before, It erosion, in spite of the great soU days at 10:30 p,m. MDT, 7:30 p.m. was now downright risky. We could conservation movement in the coun­ COT. not see a thing in the rapids but a H. S. M. Kemp try.-Walter C. LOWdermilk, on CBe. Page 2 CBC PROGRAM SCHEDULE Prairie Region

CHURCH OF THE AIR SUNDAY, May 23rd, 1948 (2:30 p.m. MDT) IThe Prairie Gardener I ·1111111 1111111· Hon. Captain Fred Goforth, De­ STATION CBK, WATROUS HARMONY HARBOUR partment of National Defence. From Summary of Broadcast of May 16, (MDT) (10:30 a.m. MDT) Kingston, Onto 1948. 8:55 WEATHER FORECAST Setting Out Plants: 9:00 CBC NEWS Acadian Male Quartet; Marjorie THEATRE HOUR 1. Prepare plants JOT outdoors be­ 9:02 NEIGHBOURLY NEWS Payne, organist. Quartet: The Bully 9:15 PRAIRIE GARDENER Boat Is Coming; The Sea Song; (Dom. 3:00 p.m. MDT) fore transplanting. 9:30 RECITAL Harmony Bay; A Ship For Singa· Radio adaptation of A Star Is Born (A) Harden of] by providing 10:00 BBC NEWS pore; We're Homeward Bound; Miss by William A. Wellman and Robert gradual exposure to full sun and wind 10:15 SONGS AND SINGERS Lucy Long; My Home Is By The Carson. It concerns a girl who goes for a week to ten days. A protected 10;30 HARMONY HARBOUR cold frame that can be covered on 10:59 DOMINION TIME SIGNAL Ocean. From Halifax. to Hollywood and, through charm, 11:00 ALAN MILLS talent and a break, becomes a fam­ cool nights is best for this purpose. ous actress, the dream girl of millions Never transplant directly from warm 11: 15 JUST MARY ALAN MILLS (11 :00 a.m. MDT) 11:30 THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT of moviegoers. But the thrill of her quarters to outdoors. 12:00 CBC NEWS Folk songs for children by Alan success vanishes when the man she (B) Water thoroughly a few hours 12:03 CAPITAL REPORT Mills, baritone. From Montreal. The loves, a faded film star, ends his life. prior to setting out. Never move 12:30 RELIGIOUS PERIOD Fox Jumped Over the Parson's Gate, plants in a dry condition. 1:00 CBS SYMPHONY an old English hunting song; The 2:30 CHURCH OF THE AIR WEEKEND REVIEW 2. When to set out plants: 3;00 BY THE SEA Golden Vanity, a dramatic sea­ A) Cool weather, more or less frost 3:30 CBC NEWS narrative of the early 16th century of (3'45 p.m. MDT) 3:33 JOHN FISHER which there are many versions; and J. B. McGeachy. From Toronto. resistant plants may be set out as 3:45 WEEKEND REVIEW One More River. a game song of soon as danger of killing frost 1s over 4:00 ALAN AND ME Noah's Ark. Listeners will also be -usually in period May 10-20. (Cab­ 4:30 WEATHER FORECAST able to make an interesting com­ JAN PEERCE RECiTAL bage, cauliflower, lettuce, alyssium, 4:35 RECITAL parison between two songs with re­ (4'35 p.m. MDT) pansies, snapdragons, etc.) 5;00 SONGS FROM THE MOVIES lated themes. Mr. Mills will sing Jan Peerce, Metropolitan Opera 5:15 MOVIE CRITIC (B) Warm weather, more or less 5:30 CONCERT HALL Some Folks Do, by Stephen Foster, tenor, will be heard in recital from frost tender plants should be kept 6:00 BERGEN AND McCARTHY dating back about a hundred years; Winnipeg. The broadcast, in aid of protected until any serio'us danger 6:30 FRED ALLEN and Some Folks Say, a Finnish folk the Building Fund for the WinnIpeg of frost is past. In most districts this 7:00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS song that dates back many hundreds Children's Hospital, will include a means, after June 1. It doesn't pay to 7:10 THE OLD SONGS of years. short address by L. W. Brockington, "rush the season" with expensive 7;30 ALBUM OF FAMILIAR K.C., who will speak from Ottawa. planting material. (Tomatoes, pep­ MUSIC 8:00 STAGE 48 INDIAN WITCHERY pers, lokelia, African marigolds, cos­ mos, etc.) 9;00 THE READER TAKES OVER (11 :15 a.m. COT) STAGE 48 (8:00 p.m. MDT) 9:30 MUSIC BY ERIC WILD Talk by Emerson Coatsworth. From Drama. From Toronto. Irwin 3. Points to observe is setting out 10:00 CLASSICS FOR TODAY Shaw's stage drama The Assassin, 10:30 VESPER HOUR Toronto. plants: 11 :00 CBC NEWS adapted for radio by Andrew Allan, (A) Choose cloudy weather if pos­ 11:10 WEATHER FORECAST CBC supervisor of dram,a. It is the sible. In hot sunny weather do all 11:15 CANADIAN SHORT STORIES THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT story of the events surrounding the planting in late afternoon or evening. 11:30 PRELUDE TO MIDNIGHT (11 :30 a.m. MDT) death of Darland. Leading roles will Shade plants if required. 12: 55 CBC NEWS be played by Bernard Braden and I Biblical drama produced by the (B) Water plants thoroughly in Barbara Kelly. CENTRAL STATIONS CBC in co-operation with the setting out process. Possibly best (CDT) National Religious AdvIsory Council; method is to make holes with plant­ 9:00 CBC NEWS Canon J. E. Ward, editor. From MUSIC BY ERIC WILD ing trowel, half fill with water, and 11: 15 INDIAN WITCHERY Montreal. Today's program is en- (9:30 p.m. MDT) set plants after water has soaked in. titled, The Good Ship Canada. It This makes it unnecessary to wet the CBC DOMINION NETWORK Idispels an oft-held notion that mis- Orchestra conducted by Eric Wild; MDT) Therese Deniset, soprano; George ground surface and gets the water ( sionaries-inspired by the Holy Spirit K Fr m Winni 01'- down below the roots. It also en­ 3:00 THEATRE HOUR -are necessary only in foreign lands. ent, tenor. 0 peg. courages good contact between soil 4:30 JANE FROMAN The narrative and the dramatic in- chestra: S'won?erIUI, from Funny and roots. 8:00 C.F.PL. CHORUS terludes give a vivid insight into the! Face (GershWIn); In an 18~ g ~cott), (C) Plant at normal depths. Don't 8:15 GISELE unselfiish work of missionarIes who century.Drawin Roon: (R. set plants higher or deeper than be­ ., serve the nearly isolated places along TemptatIOn (Brown) , POinciana fore. In districts subject to dry con­ 8:30 CLARY S GAZETTE the coast of British Columbia. (Simons); I'd Give You a Million 9.00 DOMINION NEWS AND Tomorrows (LIvingstone). Therese ditions set plants in slight depres­ COMMENTARY Deniset: Pres de l'etang (Longas). sions that will catch rain water. CAPITAL REPORT George Kent: Donkey serenade, from (D) Make soil firm around plants downward (12:03 p.m. MDT) Firefly (Friml); Mary of Argyle with a pressure. Avoid __A/ote:J-j__ (Norton) . pressing towards the plants and in­ Robert Elson from Washington, juring the tissues. RECITAL (9:30 a.m. MDT) Robert McKeown from Ottawa, and (E) Space plants according to CLASSICS FOR TODAY NatalIe Minunzie, 19-year-old Van· Matthew Halton from London. their size at maturity, not their size COllver mezzo-soprano, will be heard (10:00, p.m. MDT) at setting out time. In dry areas or in a group of songs by Mozart, Schu­ String orchestra conducted by Jean in gardens without a water supply mann, Mahler, Duparc, Chausson RELIGIOUS PERIOD de Rimanoczy. Petite Suite Sym­ space plants farther apart to ensure and Warlock. Eight years ago Miss (12:30 p.m. MDT) phonique (Davis); Romantic Piece each plant enough soil moisture. (Dvorak); Es 1st Vollbracht, from Minunzie arrived in Vancouver from Rev. J. Milton Fraser, of Brookfield 4. Flower bed arrangements: her southern Alberta farm home to The Passion According to Saint John United Church, Ha.llfax. (Bach). From Vancouver. (A) Beds in solid colours are stUdy singin'g, and she made her usually more attractive than mix­ concert debut in 1945 as soloist with tures. TWo tone flower beds are also the Vancouver Junior Symphony Or­ CBS SYMPHONY (1 :00 p.m. MDT) good. chestra. After doIng recital work on CBS Symphony Orchestra directed Jan Peerce, Tenor (B) Aim at cultural rather than the west coast and studying W1der too formal arrangements. John Goss, she was awarded the by Erich Leinsdorf, regular conduc­ L. W. Brockington, K.C. tor of the Rochester Philharmonic; (C) Accents Lor increased interest Diamond Jubilee Scholarship of the In Aid of may be secured by placing taller Eileen Farrell, soprano, as guest Royal Conservatory of Music of Tor­ WINNIPEG CHILDREN'S plants or plants with unusual foliage onto in 1946. Now a student at the soloist. Program will include excerpts HOSPITAL or contrasting colour of flowers at Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, she from the opera Ariadne auf Naxos CBC Trans-Canada Network, appropriate ihtervals. has been heard in several CBC (Richard Strauss) with Miss Farrell Sunday, May 23, 4:35 p,m. MDT. (D) Express your own artistic broadcasts and in concerts in eastern ideas. Don't worry about the crItics. Canada. From Toronto. singing the monologue. Prairie Region CBC PROGRAM SCHEDULE Page 3

Farm Commentators MONDAY, May 24th, 1948 ·1111111 1111\\\· STATION CBK, WATROUS 2:15 MA PERKINS 2:30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY (MDT) 2:45 RIGHT TO HAPPINESS 7:00 CBC NEWS 3 :00 KING'S PLATE 7:05 MUSICAL PROGRAM 4:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 7:15 MORNING VARIETIES 7:45 TO BE ANNOUNCED 7:30 BAND REVIEW 8:00 RADIO THEATRE 7:45 NELSON OLMSTED 11 :00 RECITAL 8:00 PARADE OF BANDS 11:30 EAST, WEST AND BROAD­ 8:15·MORNING DEVOTIONS WAY 8:30 ETHELWYN HOBBES 11:45 TROUBADOUR 8:35 MORNING COMMENT 8:45 WESTERN TIME CBC DOMINION NETWORK 8:50 CLOCKWATCHER (MDT) 9:00 CBC NEWS 5:30 CLUB 15 9:10 WEATHER FORECAST' 6:30 JOHNNY BURK TRIO 9:15 BREAKFAST CLUB 6:45 SUSAN FLETCHER 9: 45 MUSIC BOX 8:00 CONTENTED HOUR 10:00 BBC NEWS 8:30 INFORMATION PLEASE 10:15 LUCY LINTON 9:00 DOMINION NEWS 10:30 LAURA LIMITED 9:15 UNITED NATIONS TODAY 10:45 R.C.M.P. BULLETINS 9:30 ARABIAN NIGHTS 10:55 CBK REPORTER 10:59 DOMINION TIME SIGNAL 11:00 WHAT'S YOUR BEEF? ~4te.J.1 11:15 HAPPY GANG __ __ 11:45 CLAIRE WALLACE MORNING DEVOTIONS 12:00 KINDERGARTEN OF THE BOB GRAHAM, recently appointed an assistant Farm Broadcast commentator AIR (8:15 a.m. MDT) fOT the eBC Prairie Region. stopped aD in Winnipeg last week on the way 12:15 PLANTATION HOUSE Rev. Daniel Fuchs, of McDermot to his new post in Edmonton. While in Winnipeg he spent some time dis­ PARTY Ave. Baptist Chw·ch. Winnipeg. cussing Farm Broadcast plans with PETER WHITTALL, Prairie Region Farm 12:30 ROAD OF LIFE Monday to Saturday. From Winni­ Broadcast C01nmentatol' (right) and BOB KNOWLES, assistant co'mmentator 12:45 BIG SISTER (left). 1:00 CBC NEWS peg. 1:10 INTERLUDE The Tale of Peter and the Wolf 1:15 FARM BROADCAST, MORNING COMMENT String Quartet To WEATHER (Prokofieff); Liebestraume (Franz 1:45 LIGHT CONCERT ORCH. (8:35 a.m. MDT) Liszt); Sat.urday Night in Central Play Canadian Work 2:00 LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL Dorothy Dahlgren, commentator. Park (Horwitt-Lewine); La Rosita Composition By Harry Somers To Be 2:15 MA PERKINS Monday to Friday. From Edmonton. (Paul Dupont); Moment Musicale Heard On CBC Wednesday Night, 2:30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY (Franz Schubert); stumbling (Zez May 26 2:45 RIGHT TO HAPPINESS Confrey). Lois Gibson: TooUe OOlie EAST, WeST AND BROADWAY 3:00 FEATURE CONCERT DooHe (Beul-Horton); Ghost of a A string qu.artet by a YQung Ca.n­ adian composer Harry Somers, will 3:15 FAMILY FAVOURITES (6:30 p.m. COT) (11 :30 p.m. COT) Chance (Croshy-Young) ; You're Too 3:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED be performed by the Second Senior First of a series of four programs Dangerous, Cherie (Louiguy-Pia!); 3:45 DON MESSER School Quartet from the Royal Con~ 4:00 RADIO JOURNAL by Frank Morriss, movie and drama Save the Last Dance For Me servatory of Music of Toronto on 4:10 LA CHANSON FRANCAlSE editor for a Winnipeg newspaper. (Magine-Spitalny). From Winnipeg. CBC Wednesday Night, May 26. The 4:30 YVAN L'INTREPIDE Mr. Morriss is just back from a trip program will also include Oracion 4:45 UN HOMME ET SON PECHE east where he attended the Domin­ 5:00 CHICO VALLE ARABIAN NIGHTS del Torero, or The Toreador's Prayer, ion Drama Festival in Ottawa, later by Joaquin Turina and will be heard 5:15 JACK SMITH spending some time in New York. (Dam. 9:30 p.m. MDT) 5:30 LYLE EVANS at 7:30 p.m. MDT, 8:00 p.m. CDT, on 5:45 THE MAGIC ELEPHANT During his talks listeners will hear Those who remember the colorful the Trans-Canada network. 6:00 SPRINGTIME what he has to say about the western and exotic tales of the Arabian Born in Toronto 22 years ago, 6:30 EAST, WEST AND BROAD- entries in the Drama Festival and Nights-and who could forget them? Harry Somers began his musical WAY the people who took part in them. -will find Ali Baba & Co. brought to studies at the age of 14, and from 6:45 CBC NEWS He will also tell about his New York the start impressed teachers with his 6:55 WEATHER FORECAST life in what writer Tom Tweed calls visit, the Canadians he met there "a fabulous fictional fantasy, freely talent for composition. He wrote his 7:00 TROUBADOUR and the place they are making for 7:15 TALES OF THE TALL adapted and newly set down tor string quartet in 1943, while serving TIMBERS themselves in artistic circles. From radio." Frank Peddie lolls about as in the R.C.A.F. After discharge he 7:30 RECITAL Winnipeg. the Sultan with a penchant for turned actively to composition, his 8:00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS stories, and Mona O'Hearn plays the works winning him the interest of 8:15 CEC NEWS ROUNDUP RECITAL (7:30 p.m. MDT) role of the beauteous Scheherazade, Ettore Mazzolini, Principal of the 8:30 SUMMERFALLOW Randall Stevens. baritone; Egon who kept her head by telling tall tales Royal Conservatory of Music of 9:00 DATE AFTER DARK Toronto, and a number of orchestral 9:30 HARMONY HOUSE Grapentin, vioUnist; Mary Drum­ for a thousand and one nights. In mond, piano accompanist. Randall tonight's episode, Ali Baba gets into conductors, inclUding Sir Ernest 10:00 RADIO THEATRE MacMillan and Dr. Bernard Heinze 11:00 CBa NEWS Stevens: Ideale (TostO; Who Is the cavern of the 40 thieves by utter­ 11:10 WEATHER FORECAST Sylvia? (Schubert); All Confess the ing the magic words "Open Sesame!" of Melbourne. As a composer he is 11:15 MILTON CHARLES Tender passion, from The Magic Ali's somewhat grasping brother, an individualist, his music being dis­ 11:30 CALIFORNIA MELODIES Flute (Mozart). Egon Grapentin: Cassim, comes to no good end when tinguished by an astonishing use of rhythm as an emotional force. 12:00 DANCE ORCHESTRA GYPSY Serenade (Charles Robert he tries to re-steal some of, the rob· 12:30 IT'S TIME TO DREAM Valdez) ; Waltz in A Major (Brahms~ Joaquin Turina has long been a 12:55 CEC NEWS bel'S' gold; and Ali Baba is about to Hochstein); Slavonic Dance in E be killed also when, in the nick of leader in the composition and pres­ CENTRAL STATIONS Minor (Dvorak) ; Tambourin Chlnois time, the 40 thieves are outwitted by entation of chamber music reflecting (eDT) (Kreisler) . Randall Stevens and Morgiana, a slave girl. From Toronto. the color of his native Spain. One of 8:15 BREAKFAST CLUB Egon Grapentin: Vienna, City of My his most picturesque works is The 9:15 KINDERGARTEN OF THE Dreams (Rudolf Sieczynski). From Toreador's Prayer, inspired by the AIR Edmonton. The Real Novel.-It was James private chapel attached to every 10:00 ROAIl OF LIFE Stephens who put the matter in a Spanish bull ring for the use of bull­ 10:15 BIG SISTER fighters. Before a toreador makes his DATE AFTER DARK nutshell many years ago. "A real 10:30 WHAT'S YOUR BEEF? novel is about the progress of some entrance into the ring he enters this 10:45 LAURA LIMITED (9:00 p.m. MDT) soul towards maturity, whereas most chapel to offer a prayer for his suc­ 12:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED Mitchell Pal'ks and Percy Burdett, novels are about the progress of cess and safe return. This is a sol­ 1:00 BERNARD BRADEN emn ritual in the dangerous life of 1:15 FARM BROADCAST, duo-pianists; Lois Gibson, vocaUst. some male or female person towards WEATHER Pianos: The Best Things in Lite Are matrimony."-Protessor J. Isaacs, on the bull-fighter, and one that he 2:00 LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL Free (DeSylva-Brown-Henderson) ; BBe. never misses. Page 4 CBC PROGRAM SCHEDULE Prairie Region

Alley Landlords TUESDAY, May 25th, 1948 Radio Adaptation Of 1111111· Sarah Rinks On eRe STATION CBK, WATROUS 3: 15 TO BE ANNOUNCED Dramatized Broadcast On P. G. (MDT) 3:30 ARTISTS OF TOMORROW Hiebert's "Sweet Songstress Of 7:00 CBC NEWS 3:45 WOMEN'S NEWS COMMENT Saskatchewan" 7:05 MUSICAL PROGRAM 3:48 ETHELWYN HOBBES 7:15 MORNING VARIETIES 4:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED The brief, but colourful life of the 7: 30 BAND REVIEW 7:30 MY CITY late Sarah Binks, "sweet songstress 7: 45 NELSON OLMSTED 8:00 AMOS 'N ANDY of Saskatchewan," whose refreshing 8:00 PARADE OF BANDS 8:30 FIBBER McGEE AND ballads have become almost a legend 8:15 MORNING DEVOTIONS MOLLY 9:30 LEICESTER SQUARE on the prairies, will be dramatized in 8:30 ETHELWYN HOBBES an hour-long performance at' 10; 00 8:35 MORNING COMMENT 10:00 WINNIPEG CONCERT 8:45 CLOCKWATCHER ORCHESTRA p,m. MDT, 10:00 p.m. eDT, on the 9:00 CBC NEWS CBC Trans-Canada network. 9:10 WEATHER FORECAST CBC DOMINION NETWORK Deserving fame might not have 9:15 BREAKFAST CLUB (MDT) come to Sarah Binks if it had not 9:45 MUSIC BOX 5:30 CLUB 15 been' for one of her greatest ad­ 10:00 BBC NEWS 6:30 GILBERT AND SULLIVAN mirers, Paul G. Hiebert, Professor of 10:15 LUCY LINTON (7: 30 p.m. COT, Manitoba) Chemistry at the qnlversity of Mani­ 10:30 LAURA LIMITED 7:30 LET'S PLAY BRIDGE toba, who, after a great deal of re­ 10:45 R.C.M.P. BULLETINS 8:00 BOB HOPE 10:55 CBK REPORTER 8:30 THE CHUCKWAGON search in connection with her life 10:59 DOMINION TIME SIGNAL 9:00 DOMINION NEWS and poetry, compiled them both into 11:00 WHAT'S YOUR BEEF? 9:15 UNITED NATIONS TODAY a recent best-seller called Sarah 11:15 HAPPY GANG 9:30 CROSS SECTION Binks. Tommy Tweed, writer-actor 11 :45 SINGALONG 10:30 GILBERT AND SULLIVAN' and long-time friend of Hiebert's, 12:00 KINDERGARTEN OF THE (Saskatchewan) has written a radio adaptation of AIR 11:30 GILBERT AND SULLIVAN FRED ALLEN, radio laughmaker, and this book, which listeners will hear 12:15 SMOKE RINGS (Alberta) his girl Friday, PORTLAND HOFFA on May 26. 12:30 ROAD OF LIFE (who's Mrs. Allen off the air) try Professor Hiebert has made a spe­ 12:45 BIG SISTER out a gag before broadcast time for cial trip to Toronto to participate in 1:00 CBC NEWS The Fred Allen Show. Their famous 1:10 INTERLUDE the broadcast. easy humour, along with the antics 1:15 FARM BROADCAST, Although Sarah Binks spent most WEATHER ARTISTS OF TOMORROW of the eccentric Allen's Alley resi­ of her life close to home in Willows, dents, the singing De Marco Sisters, 1:45 LIGHT CONCERT ORCH. (3:30 p.m. COT) Saskatchewan, the influence of her 2:00 LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL and Ai Goodman's orchestra are Raymonde Martin, 'cellist. From works is widespread. Numerous hon­ 2: 15 MA PERKINS heard Sundays at 6:30 p.m. MDT, on ours came her way, among them be­ 2:30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY Montreal, the CBC Trans-Canada network. 2:45 RIGHT TO HAPPINESS ing the Wheat Pool Medal, never Guest artist on the May 23 broadcast before awarded for poetry. In public­ 3:00 FEATURE CONCERT MY CITY will be BING CROSBY. Fred Allen's ly presenting Miss Binks with the 3:15 FAMILY FAVOilltlTES (7:30 p.m. MDT) (7:30 p.m. COT) show business career began in 1912, 3:30 WOMEN'S NEWS COMMENT medal, Senator A. E. Windheaver The human drama, often happy. when he was billed cu a joking paid her this tribute: 3:33 ETHELWYN HOBBES juggler, and he arut Portland Hoffa 3:45 WESTERN FIVE sometimes tragic, always exciting. that takes place behind the doors of have been a regular radio team since "Come drought, come rust, come 4:00 RADIO JOURNAL h1gh tariff and high freight rates a big city hospital is the theme of 1932. 4:10 LA CHANSON FRANCAISE and high cost of binder twine-and 4:30 YVAN L'INTREPIDE the next broadcast in this series. To to 4:45 UN HOMME ET SON PEGHE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN what about the roads?-I still say the hospital come the desperate and you as I have already said to the 5:00 AL HARVEY the anxious, the trusting and the (Dom. 10:30 p.m.) (7:30 p.m. COT) 5:15 JACK SMITH This series continues this week electors of Quagmire and Pelvis, that skeptics. All enter a world with its a province that can produce such a 5: 30 MAX CHAMITOV with Iolanthe, the hilarious story of 5:45 UNCLE FRANK own code, its own rules and a dis­ pOet may be down, but it's never 6:00 LOOSE LEAF cipline that knows no outside law. fairies invading the world of mortals_ ,out." 6:30 ACCENT ON RHYTHM Mac Shaub is the author of the series. The opera will feature Edmund Hockridge, Eric Tredwell, Jean Haig, Paul Hiebert feels that no other 6:45 CBC NEWS From Montreal. author so well understood Saskatche­ 6:55 WEATHER FORECAST Nellie Smith, William Morton, and 7:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED Alex Maurice in the principal roles. wan as did Sarah Binks. But not all 7:30 MY CITY LEICESTER SQUARE Geoffrey Waddington conducts the her pOetry was concerned with the prairies-one of her verses has been 8:00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS (9:30 p.m. CDT) orchestra.. From Toronto. 8:15 CBC NEWS ROUNDUP Orchestra conducted by Harry called "the finest sea song to come out of the dry belt;" and many 8:30 AMOS 'N ANDY Pryce; Belle McEwan and Bill Carr, 9:00 FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY CANOE TRIP IN NORTH-Cone. readers claim that her best efforts vocalists: the Barbershop Quartet: 9:30 BIG TOWN I heard Mooneas yell-and caught were her translations of German 10:00 ALBERTA RANCH HOUSE Eric Vale as the Old Stager. Mighty poems. 10:30 HERITAGE OF MUSIC Lak a Rose (Ethelbert Nevin); Put a glimpse of something sweeping by 11:00 CBC NEWS On Your Old Grey Bonnet; Ja Da: me in the moonlight. I made a grab 11: 10 WEATHER FORECAST Temptation Rag; Bye Bye Blackbird; for it, Bnd by luck got a handful of baby instead of blankets. Then, as 11:15 POINTS OF VIEW Forty-five Minutes From Broadway. Winnipeg Concert Orchestra 11 :30 PACIFIC PIANOFORTE the canoe swung free. Mooneas and 12:00 OPERA TIME From Vancouver. I managed to grab a gunwhale and Conducted by 12: 55 CBC NEWS hang on, WINNIPEG CONCERT ORCHESTRA We had a swift ride, and a bumpy Sir Ernest MacMillan CENTRAL STATIONS (10:00 p.m. CDT) ride; and when we finally managed (CDT) to clamber aboard, we still had a On CBC, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 8:15 BREAKFAST CLUB An augmented orchestra of 45 10:00 p.m. COT. pieces will be conducted tonight by long way to go. So it was well past 9:15 KINDERGARTEN OF THE (Central Stations Only) AIR Sir Ernest MacM1llan ot' Toronto, one in the morning when we finally 10:00 ROAD OF LIFE who is making a special flight to completed the loop. A cold, clammy 10:15 BIG SISTER Winnipeg for this occasion. The mist rose from the water, and I was Albert W. Trueman 10:30 WHAT'S YOUR BEEF? guest soloist will be Albert W. True­ about sick when I thought of what DARITONE 10:45 LAURA LIMITED the rest of the folks had put up with man, baritone. Dr. Trueman is the Guest Soloist 12:00 MU8ICAL PROGRAM president of the UniversIty of Mani· for the past nine hours. 1:00 BERNARD BRADEN toba, and Is distinguished for his fine But ... Fate had dealt them a An augmented orchestra of 45 1:15 FARM BROADCAST, singing voice in musical circles of kind hand. By that one chance In a pieces will be heard. The WEATHER broadcast will originate at a 2 00 LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL both ManItoba and his native prov­ hundred, a moose-hunting Indian 2 15 MA PERKINS ince of New Brunswick. The broad­ was camped at the portage. He and public performance in Winni­ 2 30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY cast will originate at a public con­ his squaw invited. them in. Well-fed peg's million-dollar Civic 2 45 RIGHT TO HAPPINESS cert performance in the milllon­ on meat and black tea, their only AudItorium. 3 00 POPULAR SONGS dollar Winnipeg Civic AudItorium. worry had been concerning us. Prairie Region eBe PROGRAM SCHEDULE Page 5

Wednesday Talk Violinist Discusses ·1111111 WEDNESDAY, May 26th, 1948 1111111· Canadian Composers Harry Adaskin To Be Speaker on 2:30 PEPPER YOUNO'S FAMILY STATION CBK, WATROUS cec Wednesday Night, May 26 (MDT) 2:45 RIGHT TO HAPPINESS 3 :30 RECITAL Canadian listeners who recall the 7:00 CBC NEWS 3:45 WOMEN'S NEWS COMMENT informative music commentaries of 7:05 MUSICAL PROGRAM 3:48 MY OWN MOTHER violinist Harry Adaskin dUring the 7:15 MORNING VARIETIES 4:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED season when he was intermission 7:30 BAND REVIEW 7:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 7:45 NELSON OLMSTED speaker on the Sunday afternoon 7:15 CANADIAN MUSIC broadcasts of the New York Phil­ 8,00 PARADE OF BANDS 8:00 STRING QUARTET harmonic aTC looking forward to his 8:15 MORNING DEVOTIONS 9 :30 DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS 8:30 ETHELWYN HOBBES 10:00 SARAH BINKS return appearance thls week when 8:35 MORNING COMMENT 11:00 TALK he will speak from Vancouver on 8,45 WESTERN TIME 11:15 POINTS OF VIEW CBC Wednesday Night, May 26. 8:50 CLOCKWATCHER 11:30 SYMPHONIC RECORDINGS For the past two years he has been 9:00 CBC NEWS living at the west coast where he is 9,10 WEATHER FORECAST CBC DOMINION NETWORK head of the music depaTtmcQt at the 9:15 BREAKFAST CLUB (MDT) University of B.C. On Wednesday 9:45 MUSIC BOX 5:30 CLUB 15 Night he will discuss contemporary 10:00 BBC NEWS 6:00 DENNIS DAY 10: 15 LUCY LINTON Canadian composers in a talk at 6:30 OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS 9:45 p.m. MDT, 11:00 p.m. CDT. 10:30 LAURA LIMITED 7:00 MAYOR OF TOWN HARRY ADASKlN, violinist and Profes­ Ever since he began violin study 10:45 R.CM.P. BULLErINS 7:30 CURTAIN TIME sor oj Music at the University oj 10:55 CBK REPORTER at the age of seven, Harry Adaskin's 8:00 THE WHISTLER British Columbia, will discuss con­ 10:59 DOMINION TIME SIGNAL life has been devoted to learning as 8:30 STAR THEATRE temporary Canadian composers in a 11:00 WHAT'S YOUR BEEF? 8:30 PROVINCIAL AFFAIRS much as possible about music, and talk on CBC Wednesday Night, May 11,15 HAPPY GANG (Sask. and Alta.) helping otbers to understand and 26. He will be heard at 9:45 p.m. 11:45 CLAffiE WALLACE 8:45 YESTERDAY'S BALLADS appreciate it. One of his beliefs is 12:00 KINDERGARTEN OF THE 9:00 DOMINION NEWS MDT, 11:00 p.'''. eDT. that the classics can be made at­ AIR 9:15 UNITED NATIONS TODAY 12:15 PLANTATION HOUSE tractive and exciting to people who 9:15 PROVINCIAL AFFAIRS ordinarily prefer jazz and other folk PARTY (Manitoba) DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS tunes. He is working toward this end 12:30 ROAD OF LIFE 9:30 OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS 12:45 BIG SISTER (8:30 p.m. MDT) (9:30 p.m. COT) through numerous concerts and lee. 1:00 CBC NEWS 10:30 STAR THEATRE Oscar Natzke, bass; Leo Barkin, tures featuring down-to·earth in­ 1:10 INTERLUDE piano accompanist. From Toronto. terpretations of works by the great 1:15 FARM BROADCAST, Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves, from masters and more modern composers. WEATHER __4teJ-.:1__ the opera Scipione (Handel) ; Honour A professional musician since he 1:45 LIGHT CONCERT ORCH. and Arms, from the oratorio Samson was 12, Mr. Adaskin is not only well 2:00 LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL MY OWN MOTHER (Handel); 0 Isis and Osiris, from known on this continent but in 2:15 MA PERKINS (3:33 p.m. MDT) (3:48 p.m. COT) Britain and Europe as well, through 2:30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY The Magic Flute (Mozart); La 2:45 RIGHT TO HAPPINESS A series in which women visitors to Calunnia. from the Barber of Seville numerous concert tours. He was one 3:00 FEATURE CONCERT Canada are describing their mothers, (Rossini) ; Creation's Hymn (Beetho­ of the original members of the fam­ ~lile 3:15 FAMILY FAVOURITES and home in their native coun­ ven); Pilgrim's Song (Tschaikow­ ous Hart House String Quartet, 3:30 WOMEN'S NEWS COMMENT tries. The speaker today will be sky); Captain Harry Morgan (Sir founded in 1924, with which he 3:33 MY OWN MOTHER Induk Pahk of South Korea. Record­ Granville Bantock). played second violin until 1938, when 3:45 DON MESSER ed for presentation from Winnipeg. he left to devote his time to playing 4:00 RADIO JOURNAL and talking about musical classics 4:10 LA CHANSON FRANCAISE for CBC listeners. 4:30 YVAN L'INTREPIDE CRC Wednesday Night PROVINCIAL AFFAIRS 4:45 UN HOMME ET SON PECHE STRING QUARTET (Dam. 8:30 p.m. MDT) 5:00 EDMUND HOCKRIDGE (7'30 p.m. MDT) (8:00 p.m. COT) 5:15 JACK SMITH Talk by B. R. Swankey, provincial CRC 5:30 MUSIC BY GOODMAN Second Senior School Quartet leader of the Labour-Progressive 5:45 MAGGIE MUGGINS from the Royal Conservatory 01 Party. From Edmanton for Alberta VVednesday Night 6:00 RENDEZVOUS ROOM Music of Toronto-Morry Kemer­ only. 6:30 ROSA LINDA man, first violinist; Victor Feldbrtll, May 26 6:45 CBC NEWS second violinist; John Mair, violist: Canadian artiste; and works YESTERDAY'S BALLADS 6:55 WEATHER FORECAST James Hunter, 'cellist. String Qua.rtet will be saluted on CBC Wed­ 7:00 CURRENT AND CHOICE (Dam. 8:45 p.m. MDT) nesday Night, May 26. The 7:30 STRING QUARTET (Harry Somers) ; Oracion del Torero, programs are 3S follows: 8,00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS or The Toreador's Prayer (Joaquin Isabelle Monk, soprano; Mitchell Parks, piano accompanist. Look For A pcnormam,'C by the Second 8:15 CBC NEWS ROUNDUP Turina). From Toronto. Senior School Quartet from the 8:30 DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS the Silver Lining (DeSlyv8-Kern): Royal Conservatory of Music of 9:00 CANADIAN MUSIC CANADIAN MUSiC As I Went a-Roaming (Mae Brahe) ; Toronto of a string quartet by 9:45 TALK (9'00 p.m. MDT) (7:16 p.m. COT) Come to the Fair (Martin); Killar­ Harry Somers at 7:30 p.m. 10:00 SARAH BINKS ney (Balfe): Homing (Del Riego). Orchestra conducted by Alexander MDT, 8,00 p.m. CDT. From 11:00 CBC NEWS From Winnipeg. Toronto. 11:10 WEATHER FORECAST Brott. From Montreal. One of Mr. A talk on contemporary Cana­ 11 :15 ERIC NICOL Brott's own compositions - The dian composers by ] larry Adas­ 11 :30 MUSIC FOR LISTENING Prairies, trom the Canadian SUite­ PROVINCIAL AFFAIRS kin, of the University of British 11:55 INTERLUDE will be included on the program. Also (Dam. 9:16 p.m. MDT) Columhia at 9:45 p.m. MDT, 12:00 DANCE ORCHESTRA 11:00 p.m. CDT. From Van­ 12:30 DANCE ORCHESTRA to be heard are Carnival Overture Talk by Hon. J. S. McDiarmid, (Oscar Morowitz); Ballad for Piano couver. 12:55 CBC NEWS Minister of Mines and Natural Re­ and Orchestra, by Paul DeMarky, Program of Canadian music sources. From Winnipeg for Mani­ bY' a string orchestra conducted CENTRAL STATIONS who will be at the piano in his own (CDT) toba only. by Alexander Brott at 9:00 p.m. composition: a medley of Sea MDT, 7,15 p.m. COT. From 8:15 BREAKFAST CLUB Chanties (Sir Ernest MacMillan); Montreal. 9:15 KINDEROARTEN OF THE Brazilian Dance (Roger Matton). The Press and War.-Freedom of A dramatization of a recently AIR speech does not include the right to published book, Sarah Binks, 10:00 ROAD OF LIFE by Paul G. Hiebert, of the Uni­ 10:15 BIG SISTER SARAH BINKS (10:00 p.m. MDT) stand up in a crowded theatre and (10:00 p.m. COT) versity of Manitoba, at 10:00 10:30 WHAT'S YOUR BEEF? wildly shout "Fire!" That, in effect, p.m. MDT, 10,00 p.m. COT. 10:45 LAURA LIMITED Radio adaptation of P. G. Hiebert's is what many Canadian newspapers From Toronto. 12:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM recently-p ubI ish e d book Sarah are doing. In a tense and d11Dcult Distinguished Artists recital 1:00 BERNARD BRADEN Binks, written by Tom Tweed, Tor­ time, they invite the public to panic, by Oscar Natzke, ew Zea1'lnd 1,15 FARM BROADCAST, onto actor and writer. Hiebert is with their shouts of "War!"-Albert bass, at 8:30 p.m. MDT, 9:30 WEATHER p.m. COT. From Toronto. 2:00 LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL Professor of Chemistry at the Uni­ Shea, on CBC Points 01 View, April 2:15 MA PERKINS versity of Manitoba.. From Toronto. 20. Page 6 eBe PROGRAM SCHEDULE Prairie Region

·m_TH_U_RS---::D:-:AY-==-,_M_aY_27_th_,1_94_8_[[][l· I Farm Broadcast Notes STATION CBK, WATROUS 2;30' PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY Poultry And Egg Markets. Bull Sale. (MDT) 2:45 RIGHT TO HAPPINESS The other day someone in ottawa A dozen groups of' keen buyers 3;00 POPULAR SONGS tl th t "t rt1 7:00 CBC NEWS 3:30 RECITAL observed very ap y a a u e from the United States descended on 7:05 MUSICAL PROGRAM 3:45 WOMEN'S NEWS COMMENT never makes any progress until it the fourth annual sale staged by 7:15 MORNING VARIETIES 3:48 I LEARNED LATE sticks its neck out." This could well Claude Gallinger in Edmonton and 7:30 BAND REVIEW _ 4:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED apply to poultry producers who have paid some fancy prices for Short­ 7:45 NELSON OLMSTED 7:30 JOHN AND JUDY ventured to go 1n for eggs and horn bulls raised at Gallinger's 8:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM 8:00 MUSIC HALL poultry meat production this spring K1llearn Farms. There were plenty of 8:15 MORNING DEVOTIONS 8:30 WAYNE AND SHUSTER in the face of market prospects for Canadian buyers, too, but as usual 8:30 ETHELWYN HOBBES 9:30 EVENTIDE those products which We1'C all too the Americans paid the top prices. 8:35 MORNING COMMENT 11:00 ERNEST ADAMS indefinite a few months ago. Condi- 8:45 CLOCKWATCHER tions in the poultry industry can and The bUll that topped the sale, 9;00 CBC NEWS CBC DOMINION NETWORK Killearn Max Ian, was sold to John 9:10 WEATHER FORECAST often do change very rapidly, and a Mathieson of Sand Point, Idaho, for 9:15 BREAKFAST CLUB (MDT) decided change for the better has $6,000. Another bull, Killearn Begg, 9:45 MUSIC BOX 5:30 CLUB 15 occurred in recent weeks. Prairie went for $5,600, the second high price 10:00 BBC NEWS 6:30 THE WINNERS poultrymen brave enough to "stick of the sale. Washington State College 10:15 LUCY LINTON 7:00 DICK HAYMES their necks out" now have no reason bought K1llearn Norseman 73rd for 10;30 LAURA LIMITED 7;30 PROM CONCERT to think they will be chopped off. 10;45 R.C.M.P. BULLErINS 9;00 DOMINION /<";WS $4,500; and the University of Wyom­ 10 ...· CBK REPORTER In spite of setbacks to the in- ing bought Killearn Max Jasper for 10:""59 DOMINION TIME SIGNAL 9;15 UNITED NATIONS TODAY dustry such as higher Ire ight and $2,800. The University of Alberta 11:00 WHAT'S YOUR BEEF? 9:30 SONGS BY DENYSE express rates, there have been a paid $2,000 for Killearn Conquest 8th. 11:15 HAPPY GANG 9:45 ED McCURDY i number of things happening recently Most at the U.S. visitors drove to 11 :45 SINGALONG which have led observers to believe Calgary where cars had to be aban­ 12:00 KINDERGARTEN OF THE M that prairie poultrymen can look doned owing to bad road conditions AIR i'Ai{ forward to very good markets and between the two cities. The sale av­ 12; 15 SMOKE RINGS good prices lor the next ten months. (J "',.:<1-___ eraged $1,749 for 35 bulls sold. the 12:30 ROAD OF LIFE The most important has been the highest of the four annual sales put SISTER RECITAL (3:30 p.m. COT) 12:45 BIG opening of the United States market on by Killearn Farms.-Broadcast of 1;101:00 CBCINTERLUDENEWS Lise Inabla, soprano. From Mont- to Canadian poultry meats and the May 5. 1:15 FARM BROADCAST, real. Deh vieni non tardar, from The reduction of duty for export to the WEATHER Marriage of Figaro (Mozart); L'Au- United States of from six cents a 1:45 LIGHT CONCERT ORCH. rare tiede et claire (Antonio Lotti); pound to 34 cents a pound. Says Witchcraft 2:00 LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL Ainsi qu'un papillon leger {Scarlat- A second factor which offers bright Still Practised 2: 15 MA PERKINS tD; Le Rossignol et la rose (Saint- hopes for the coming season Is the 2:30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY Saens)', and Una Voce Pio Fa, from Emerson Coatsworth, Student Of ~~~g ~TUREGHT TO HAPPINESS prospect that United States markets Indian Folk-lore, Discusses Discov­ CONCERT The Barber of Seville (Rossini). will continue to absorb our surplus eries On CBC 3:15 FAMILY FAVOURITES I poultry meats at prices a b a v e Witchcraft - that mystic power, 3:30 WOMEN'S NEWS' COMMENT I LEARNED LATE domestic levels. There has been a usually associated with the middle 3:33 I LEARNED LATE (3:33 p.m. MDT) (3:48 p.m. COT) very sharp decline in production in ages, which people were supposed to 3:45 WESTERN FIVE This week's speaker will be CBC that country owing to the relatively 4:00 RADIO JOURNAL 11 .IV higher feed costs and other factors. obtain by entering into a compact 4:10 INTERMEDE MUSICAL Commentator .E e? HarrlS 0 .an- with the devil-is still practised in 4'15 SHERLOCK HOLMES couver, who WIll dISCUSS the subJect, High meat prices in the States have Canada by a small minority of In­ 4~45 UN HOMME ET SON PECHE Women in Strange Jobs. Recorded also been partly responsible for the dians, according to Emerson Coats­ 5:00 YVAN L'INTREPIDE from Winnipeg. good demand for our poultry meats. worth, young member of the Na­ 5:15 JACK SMITH --- The U.S. poultry producer is not tional Film Board, Toronto, who 5:30 DON HARDING SHOW THE HAPPY TIME buying chicks on anything near the makes a hobby of studying Canadian 5:45 LORD CARESSER (6:00 p.m. MDT) same scale as he did in 1947. Indian folk-lore. 6:00 THE HAPPY TIME YOtu1g love and kleptomania com· In western Canada, the situation In a series of radio talks called 6:30 ACCENT ON RHYTHM bine to hold the interest in this has improved. For one thing, poultry :~~~ ~~=s Indian Witchery, Mr. Coatsworth is FORECAST episode about the boy Bibi. Listeners feed prices have levelled off at lower telling listeners about his discoveries 7:00 MELODIES FROM will hear how the fates sometimes levels than was feared when ceilings while delving into the existence of BRITISH RADIO conspire to make a hero out of an on feed grains were removed. There this ancient superstition in Canada. 7:30 JOHN AND JUDY errant son. From Montreal. has been some reduction in the price His program is heard on central 8:00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS of concentrates and other com- stations of the CBC Trans-Canada 8:15 CBC NEWS ROUNDUP SONGS BY DENYSE mercial feeds. There is a rea-son to network Sundays at 11: 15 a.m. CDT, 8:30 MUSIC HALL (Dom. 9:30 p.m. MDT) think feed grains will be plentiful at and Saturdays at 11:15 p.m. MDT, 9:00 WAYNE AND SHUSTER Denyse Guyot, vocalist; Percy least in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. on CBK. 9:30 THE NATION'S BUSINESS Burdett, piano accompanist. You Apart from the regrettable increase 9:45 SPORTS REVIEW D (N' H b ,'n Irel'ght charges it seems unlikely The belief in witchcraft is nearly 10:00 EVENTIDE Stepped Out of a ream aclO er as old as the hills. It was common in 10:30 VANCOUVER DRAMA Brown); Robin des Bois (Francis that western poultry producers will Europe until the middle of the 17th 11 :00 CBC NEWS Lopez); Forgiving You (Bierman· be asked to assume any further sud- century, and large numbers of re­ 11:10 WEATHER FORECAST Manus); Shauny O'Shay (Hugh den or sharp increases in production puted witches were condemned to 11:15 POINTS OF VIEW Martin); Berceuse (George Clut. costs. death. In England alone over 30,000 12:0011 :30 THISNOCTURNEWEEK'S COMPOSERS sam)·, What Makes the Sunset (Jule It now appears IB.ir1 y a bvousi tha t of them died at the stake. They were 12:55 CBC NEWS Styne). From Winnipeg. the people who bought early chicks feared because they were said to this year for either egg or poultry have sold their souls to the devil. CENTRAL STATIONS EVENTIDE meat production will t1.nd their ven­ who, in return, promised that they (CDT) (10;00 p.m. MDT) (9:30 p.m. eDT) ture a profitable one.-Broadcast of would want for nothing, have the The theme of this week's broad­ May 3. power to intl.ict or cure diseases in 8;15 BREAKFAST CLUB whomsoever they pleased, and be 9;15 KINDERGARTEN OF THE cast will be Worship. Hymns to be AIR Stu1g by the choir under Dalton able to punish their enemies in a VANCOUVER DRAMA variety of horrible ways. 10;00 ROAD OF LIFE Baker include: 0 Worship the King; 10;15 BIG SISTER Glory Be To God the Father; All (10:30 p.m. MDT) 10;30 WHAT'S YOUR BEEF? People That On Earth Do Dwell; My The Princess and the Taxi Driver in love with the girl, whom he calis 10;45 LAURA LIMITED God How Wonderful Thou Art. Read­ by Eric Ajello. In most stories boy his princess, but she is in love with 12;00 MUSICAL PROGRAM ings by E. V. Young will be: The Te always gets girl, but in this one the the other man, and eventually after 1;00 BERNARD BRADEN Deum; Adam's Morning Hymn, from order is reversed when girl gets boy. a murder or two. all ends happily for 1;15 FARM BROADCAST, Figuring in the story are a girl, her everybody but the taxi driver. Chel'ie WEATHER Milton's Paradise Lost; and selected 2;00 LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL passages from the Bible. From Van­ psychoanalyst uncle, a taxi driver, King and Juan Root are heard in the 2;15 MA PERKINS couver. and another man. The taxi driver is title roles. From Vancouver. Prairie Region CBC PROGRAM SCHEDULE Page 7

Commentator flint, while the arrow feathers were vanes from the wings of eagles and oUJl-_FR_ID_A_Y_,M_a_y _28_th,_1_94_8--!UIJ· hawks and geese. STATION CBK, WATROUS 2:30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY Just imagine-an Indian hunter (MDT) 2:45 RIGHT TO HAPPINESS may have come along here ant 3:00 POPULAR SONGS evening at a time like thts, and just 7:00 CBC NEWS 3:15 TO BE ANNOUNCED as he reached this little ridge have 7:05 MUSICAL PROGRAM 3 :30 RECITAL heard a frightened cry from a deer 7:15 MORNING VARIETIES 3:45 WOMEN'S NEWS COMMENT and looked down into the hollow 7:30 BAND REVIEW 3:48 TOO MUCH EDUCATION there in time to see a cougar, or 7:45 NELSON OLMSTED 4:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 8:00 PARADE OF BANDS 7:45 SPEAKING AS A LISTENER mountain lion, strike down a de­ 8:15 MORNING DEVOTIONS 8:30 WALTZ TIME fenceless doe. Then our Indian 8:30 ETHELWYN HOBBES 9:30 SOLWAY STRING QUARTET crouched down, plucked an arrow 8:35 MORNING COMMENT 11:00 WINNIPEG DRAMA from his back quiver and nocked it 8:45 WESTERN TIME on the sinew bow string, then raised 9:00 CBC NEWS CBC DOMINION NETWORK the bow and drew the arrow back to (MDT) 9:10 WEATHER FORECAST Its head. Fffffttttt! Away went the 9:15 BREAKFAST CLUB 5:30 CLUB 15 arrow, speeding true to the head of 9:45 MUSIC BOX 6 :30 TREASURE TRAIL 10:00 BBC NEWS 7:00 LIGHT UP AND LISTEN the evll cougar. Then the Indian let 10:15 LUCY LINTON 7:30 OZZIE AND HARRIET out a whoop of triumph and ran 10:30 LAURA LIMITED 8:00 CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT down the slope to claim his vlcUm. 10:45 R.C.M.P. BULLETINS 9:00 DOMINION NEWS And back at his teepee, later on, his 10:55 CBK REPORTER 9:15 UNITED NATIONS TODAY dark-skinned squaw may have fashw 10:59 DOMINION TIME SIGNAL 9:30 WORLD'S GREAT NOVELS toned the cougar pelt Into a rug to 11:00 WHAT'S YOUR BEEF? spread on the floor.-KeT1M' Wood, on 11:15 HAPPY GANG RICHARD DIMBLEBY, BBC commenta­ 11:45 CLAIRE WALLACE tator who is frequently heard on CBC. 12:00 KINDERGARTEN OF THE special events programs broadcast by AIR the BBC and carried in Canada by 12:15 PLANTATION HOUSE TOO MUCH EDUCATION the CBe Trans-Canada and Do- Operatic Bass In PARTY (3:33 p.m. MDT) (3:48 p.m. CDT) minion networks. Wednesday Recital 12:30 ROAD OF LIFE With the registration lists at Cane.· Oscar Natzke, New Zealand Bass, To 12 :45 BIG SISTER dian universities lengthening every 1:00 CBC NEWS Solway pupil, was a soloist with the Broadcast From Toronto 1:10 INTERLUDE year, some people feel that there is 1:15 FARM BROADCAST, danger in giVing too much education Canadian. Army Show during the Oscar Natzke, New Zealand bass WEATHER to too many stUdents, that it will war. Robert Warburton, first violist who is currently singing with the 1:45 LIGHT CONCERT ORCH. mean a surplus of clerical workers with the Toronto Symphony, has ap­ New YOrk Civic Opera Company, 2:00 LIF'ECANBEBEAOIIF'UL and not enough labourers. others are peared with several popular chamber will be the recitalist on the Distin­ 2:15 MA PERKINS all for more education, saying that music groups. Marcus Adeney, an­ guished Artists on CBC Wednesday 2:30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY it takes the well educated to cherish other Royal Conservatory staff mernw Night, May 26. Accompanied at the 2:45 RIGHT TO HAPPINESS democracy. and that ignorance 15 ber in Toronto, is a poet and music piano by Leo Barkin, he will be 3:00 FEATURE CONCERT one of the greatest breeding places critic as well as a 'cellist. From Tor­ heard at 8:30 p.m. MDT, 9:30 p.m. 3:15 FAMILY FAVOURITES CDT, on the Trans-Canada network. 3:30 WOMEN'S NE."S COMMENT for a dictatorship. Both sides of this onto. 3:33 TOO MUCH EDUCATION education question will be explored Known through his homeland, 3:45 DON MESSER by Mattie Rotenberg, radio com­ Home Town Boy Sings Australia, North America and Britain 4:00 RADIO JOURNAL mentator. In approaching this sub­ as "the singing blacksmith:' Natzke 4:10 INTERMEDE MUSICAL ject from the point of view of a Paean To Red Deer makes London his headquarters, 4:15 LES LEGENDES DE MON parent and a college faculty member, where he has appeared frequently at PAYS Here we are again, down the river Covent Garden in a wide variety of Mrs. Rotenberg will draw on her ex­ 4:45 UN HOMME ET SON PFCHE at Three Mlle Bend, that lovely little operatic roles. periences as a mother, and a lec­ wilderness three miles downstream 5:00 YVAN L'INTREPIDE Natzke's father was a Russian who 5:15 JACK SMITH turer at the University of Toronto. from my home at Red Deer, Alberta. took up farming in New Zealand 5:30 MUSIC BY GOODMAN From Toronto. Let's go through the log gate and 5:45 SLEEPY TIME STORY and his mother was of English stock. walk the sloping path through the 18 TELLER PRAIRIE SCHOONER When at the age of Natzke's voice spruce woods. This is the only tratl broke, he began to develop a basso­ 6:00 STRING STYLINGS (9:00 p.m. MDT) 6:30 KEYBOARD AND CONSOLE at this part of the Bend, leading profundo of great pOwer. He was 6:45 CBC NEWS Orchestra conducted by Jimmy from the high hills down the steep first discovered by Galli-Curci, fam­ 6:55 WEATHER FORECAST Gowler; Myfanwy Evans, contralto, banks to the river bottomlands far ous Italian coloratura soprano, who 7:00 BEAT THE CHAMPS as guest soloist. Orchestra: St. Clair's below. One time this path was a urged him to take up a musical 7:30 WINNIPEG DRAMA Hornpipe: WUhelmus-Dans (Dutch); roadway, where men and teams career. Shortly afterwards, in 1935, 8:00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS La Russe; Serbian Folk Dance; Come hauled lumber from the sawm11l that an examiner from Trinity College 8:15 CBC NEWS ROUNDUP his 8:30 WALTZ TIME Adolphina (Swedish); McDonald's stood in the centre of the clearing of Music, London, heard rich, 9:00 PRAIRIE SCHOONER Reel; The Brig O'Perth (Highland next the river. But even before that, colourful voice, and offered him a 9:30 DREAM TIME Schottische) ; Springtime Polka; this trall was here. The trapper who scholarship it he would go to Eng­ 10:00 SOLWAY STRING QUARTET Four Dance (Danish); Boston Horn· used to live in the old cabin near land. A group of enthusiasts sub­ 10:30 SYMPHONY FOR STRINGS pipe. Myfanwy Evans: Bugeillo'r the Clay Hill probably walked along scribed the money to finance the 11:00 CBC NEWS Gwenith Gwyn (Welsh); In Mezo al thIs faded path; at this time of year trip, and young Natzke left his anvil 11:10 WEATHER FORECAST Mar, or Out Seaward (Italian); A he'd be packing in his grub-stake or to sail for London. 11:15 SPEAKING AS A LISTENER food supplies to last him through At that time he did not know a 11:30 DAL RICHARD'S Bouquet of Rosemary (French, sung in English). From Winnipeg. the winter, and he'd also have a big note of music, but determined to jus­ ORCHESTRA tify the confidence of those who had 12:00 HOT AIR bundle of steel traps and snare-wire; 12:55 CBC NEWS SOLWAY STRING QUARTET later, In the springtime, he'd come helped him, he crammed 10 years' (10:00 p.m. MDT) (9:30 p.m. CDT) out along this trall, carrying the stUdy into three years, under the CENTRAL STATIONS A new chamber music group made turs that he'd trapped there In the Eng Ii s h teacher Albert Garcia. (CDT) Vladimar Rosing, then director of up of Maurice Solway, founder and beautiful river valley. 8:15 BREAKFAST CLUB Covent Garden heard Natzke singing first violinist; Jack Groob, second 9:15 KINDERGARTEN OF THE And long before the trapper's time while passing Garcia's stUdio, and AIR violinist; Robert Warburton, violist; the rndians walked this path, tread­ w without an introduction entered and 10:00 ROAD OF LIFE Marcus Adeney, 'cellist-all mem tng silently on moccasin-clad feet, offered him an operatic engagement 10:15 BIG SISTER bers of the Toronto Symphony Or­ their keen brown eyes searching the at Covent Garden. It was a great 10:30 WHAT'S YOUR BEEF? chestra. Quartet No. 2 in D Major Woodlands for sight of game. They 10:45 LAURA LIMITED success, and other roles followed. (Borodin). Maurice Solway has been carried bows made of chokecherry Later Oscar Natzke toured Eng­ 1:00 BERNARD BRADEN concert master and soloist with the 1:15 FARM BROADCAST, and saskatoon, with arrows made of land, North America and Australia WEATHER Toronto Philharmonic, and is now on w11l0w wands and split spruce and as a concert and radio recitalist. 2:00 LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL the staff of the Royal Conservatory tough saskatoon shoots, the arroWw During the war he served as a 2:15 MA PERKINS of Music of Toronto. Jack Groob, a heads formed. of chipped stone or lieutenant in the Canadian Navy. Page 8 CBC PROGRAM SCHEDULE Prairie Region

Corrections ·I~II SATURDAY, May 29th, 1948 ILale Program Noles I For Prairl. Rlglon Schedule Dated lJiJ· May 18. 1848. WEEK OF MAY 18-22 STATION CBK, WATROUS trom B~bi (Mo.r~y-churchi1l); To SUNDAY, MAY 18 SUNDAY. MAY 18 <1:35·5:00 p.m. (CDK) MDT (MDT) the Ladies (tradItional); The MJl1- Dam. 4:30 p.m.---.Jana Froman. Percy Cane.': To Ke ..\Ilnounc!ed. tary Polka (Hamilton-Arnor); Beau- Failh',s orchestra; Jane Froman, vocalist. Schedule: Mu~l('al Program. 7:00 CBC NEWS tiCul 0 hi 0 (MacDonald _ Earl)' Orchestra: Medley or Hess, You Is My 7:05 MORNING MELODIES • Woman ami I GOI Plenly 0' ~u1.Un·; May 9 and 18 7:30 MUSIC FOR MADAME Goofus (Kahn-K1ng-Harold); Kut- Somelimes J'm Ilappy; Capullto De Alell­ TUESDAY, MAY 18 ehe Polka (traditional) The Village I'll Follow ~Iy Secret l-Leart. Jane Fro: 7:45 THE CLOCKWATCHER !111m: II 'Vas \Vl'ltten In the Stars; JUy

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