731 PlYMOlJTH CT. RADIO GUIDE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
RELIGION AND RADIO A GUEST EDITORI A L By The R ev. Henry Scott Rubel (WHO WRITES FOR PICTURES AND RADIO UNDER THE NAME OF HAL RAYNOR)
INCE J was eight years old I have been inter· ested in radio. I had my first commercial wire Cover Picture Sless.operator's license the first year they were It's jusl a hunch, of course, but we believe that issued by the Government, in 1912. The progress many of our readers must be as tired as we are that has been made in radio has been very close to of seeing stars. For all the years of RADIO GUIDE'S miraculous. Little did any 01 us think when we life, we have published nothing but famous faces were tossing about on the broad expanse of the on our covers. Herewith we present for your Atlantic Ocean listening to the faint buzzes from approval a new policy which will, in effect, mix in Cape Cod thai some day a little child would flip a with our parade 01 familiar and celebrated physiog· switch and turn on music hom London, speeches nomies, some of which you have never seen. In from Praque. and instantaneous reports born all brief, instead of glorifying the stars we hope to parts 01 the world. glorify the radio listener. Belore we speak more of radio, let us define This week, for instance, we submit two grand religion. Christ defined religion as a Way. a old folk whose end-of·life is made rich and full Truth, and a Lile, or material. intellectual and spir because of their love for each other and their itual, and the purpose of this religion was to bring appreciati on of broadcasting. They are the couple about the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood everyone knows, the couple down the block; and of man. This is the Kingdom 01 Heaven as far as they are foremost among those millions to whom this world is concerned. There can be no higher radio is an everlasting blessing, ideal than that complete love 01 God and love of neighbor, and this ideal is the common ground on which Jew and Gentile agree and unite. If re The Circle ligion is to bring about an international unity of It is time, finally, for us to report further on The humanity - materially. intelJectually and spiritu. Circle, that S30,000 package of talent which we ally - then radio is a divine agent. Jigious force. Thai is why I feel that radio is a anticipated with a rousing two·page slory inviting Radio is lighl haveling al the rate of 300,000,000 powerful agent of religion, and if, through radio, our readers to get an earful of the nalion's most meters a second (186,000 miles). Thai means radio the fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man expensive entertainment. has placed Tokyo, Moscow. Berlin, London, Rome, is brought about, then the two words will become You know the result. The Circle has been the Washington and Paris splil seconds apart. In synonymous and radio will have fulfilled its great biggest disappointment of the year, according to abort, radio has shrunk the world to the point est destiny. the radio trade-press. The man who produced it when Washington is closer to London today The atonement for the sins of greed and selfish· has had a nervous breakdown, the big stars than New York was to Philadelphia a hundred ness become the al-one-ment 01 all races and na· have pulled out, the public hasn't accepted it. and fifty years ago. tions knit together for the primary purpose of We pause now to wonder why. and we do not Millions of people all over the world listened to making this word a heavenly habitation for every think we are going oul of our way to be nasty the speeches of Benes. Hitler, Mussolini and human creature, to Hollywood when we say it was because Chamberlain in the recent war too much dependence was placed scare. Millions of people, speak. in untrained people. Ron ing many dilferent languages, ald Colman, Carole Lombard, Cary had II deep interest in the welfare Grant, the Marx Brothers- none 01 01 the people in a small, distant these were radio names, None 01 republic in southeastern Europe. CONTENTS these had enough mike experi As we understand our neigh. ence. For example, Colman had bors. our sympathy and interest in been on the air on two previous them grows. We see in Ihe Who Is Your Star of Stilrs? The Radio Newsreel 14 occasions, Lombard had done a Chinese and Ethiopian a brother Proud and Proud of It 2 Airiatto Lowdown 15 half-dozen guesl appearances, Cary with the same virtues and faults as Easter Fashion_Then and Hollywood Showdown 16 Grant had done no more , the Marx Now 4 the members of our own house Let's Look Backstage 17 Brothers had done a short radio hold. Musical Giant: Tschalkowlky 5 series several years ago and a few Lilitening to Learn 18 With the advent of television, Coming Event. 6 guest appearances since. Altogeth. we shall look in upon the people Inside "The Inside Story" 8 This Week', Programs 20·35 er, they had less radio experience of Ihe world as well as hear their Atom·Smasher 9 On Short Waves 36 than anyone of a hundred Wile· words. We shall be, Visually and The March of M ualc 10 Birthdays 37 known character·actresses in a auditorily. a fraction 01 a second Playbill: " T he Guiding Crossword Punle 39 script.show. from every man, woman and child Light" 12 Mr. Fairfax Repllea 41 We think this is a shining ex· in the world. It will be very diffi· ample of how not to build a radio cult then 10 preach doctrines of M. L ANNEN BERG. Publisher show. We think the public has re race haired and nationalistic prow- alized. at long last, thai movie ess. It will be difficult to get men CURTIS MITCHEL L, Editor glamour does not come out of a to deslroy the lives and property Vol. 8, No. 26 April 15, 1939 loudspeaker. Radio lalent which is
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'III P WHO IS YOLJR STAR OF STARS?
rE' Once each year, any listener can ex· Don't let the week go by without ex· Fort Pearson, others. Strike a blow for belter pro· press himself through the Star of Stars pressing yourself in behalf of those Best commentator (temale): Dorothy Ygrams! Poll. Annually he has this opportunity good programs you have enjoyed. Thompson, Kate Smith. Mary Margare! Tell the broadcasters what you think to oller tangible thanks to those enter· Use your ballot. McBride, others. about their programs and palaenalilies. talners who have been his regular Vote! Besl comedian: Jack Benny, Fred guests. So much of radio and broad· Allen, Abbott and Costello. Edgar Ber Your ballot in the Star of Slars Poll ia a gen (Charlie McCarthy). Eddie Cantor. powerfu1 influence for better broadcast casting is "receiving." One's favorites REMINDERS AI Pearce. Bob Hope, Bob Burns, oth· ing_ are so close that you can hear them We present Ihese typical proqrams era. What is the Slar 01 Stars Poll? The breathe. yet so far away that one may properly classified for your conveni Best d'amatic program: Campbell firat Poll was conducted by RADIO never see them or tell them of their ence as reminders. Their arrangement Playhouse, One Man's Family. Lux GUIDI: in 1934. The first Star of Slars importance. But here is an opportunity. is not meant to imply our endorsement Radio Theater. Vic and Sade, Ma Per· was Joe Penner, elected largely by the Every vote you send will be a graceful or that programs omitted are inferior in kins. Woodbury Playhouse, Silver votes 01 children. Bing Crosby was compliment to an old friend. Now, re quality or popularity. You may vote lor Theater, Big Town. Second Husband, second and Jack Benny was third. Amos membering that gem of wisdom which any program whatever that is now or others. 'n' Andy were the most popular com· says "It is more blessed to give than to has been on the air during 1938·39. Best radio aclor: Las Tremayne, Don Ameche, Charles Boyer, Phil Lord. edy team. Wayne King was three limes receive," begin 10 give to those who To aid in making up your Star of Stars ballol, we present the following Raymond Johnson. Orson Welles, Ar· as popular as Guy Lombardo, the soc have been giving to you. thur Peterson. others. ond.place orchestra. The Star 01 Stars ballot contains sev list of programs and personalities strictly as a reminder: Besl radio actress: Barbara Luddy. Since that time, other polls have been eral classifications. Fill in every line, Besl commenlalor (male): Lowell Joan Blaine, Anne Seymour, Virginia originated by editors, by newspaper or fill in only those in which you are Thomas. Edwin C. Hill, Walter Win· Clark. Kathleen Wilson, Virginia syndicates. by clubwomen; but the interested, whichever you prefer. chell, Paul Sullivan. Jimmie Fidler, Payne, Claire Trevor. Helen Menken. Patricia Dunlap, Margery Hannan. Star of Stars selection by the readers others. of RADIO GUIDE remains the one oul· Best male singer of popular songs: standing expression 01 opinion from Official Ballot: Mali Star of Stars Poll, 731 ptymouth Bing Crosby. Don Ameche, Skinnay regular radio listeners. When RADIO " Ct.. Chicago, III. Ennis, Harry Babbitt, Buddy Clark, Jerry GUIDE readers vote, they speak for the I ~J5t my votu for the lollowin~ 5Ur! Jnd progrloms: Cooper, Rudy Vallee, Kenny Baker. great listening public; and broadcasters Best commenl~lor (f.bn) (Womlonl Dick Powell, others. have come to accept their verdict. Bnt comtdilon Best female singer of popular songs: Kate Smith, Ginny Simms, Hildegarde. This year, the Poll will run from April Bnt dr.mlotic progrlom 15 through the last week in May. Final Dorothy Lamour, Kay SI. Germain. Bnt rJdio J[tor A(lrtn Judy Starr, others. votes must be mailed before midnight But singer of pOpU!lof 50ng, (Mlon) Best musical program (commercia/}: of May 31. This and the next seven (WomJn) BUI musiu! prD9rlom Ford Sunday Evening Hour, Chase and issues of RADIO GUIDE will contain bal· Sanborn Hour. 99 Men and a Girl, lots in this same space. Cut them out But .inger of [lnlini 10n9' (Mu) IWomlo n l Kraft Music Hall. Manhattan Merry.Go and make your selection. Your ballots Bnl lonnounur Round, Walt:t Time, others; (sustaining): may be held and sent in one bundle But illditnu·put"ipu;on ~r09"m Music Appreciation Hour. New York before May 31. or you may vote bom But ¥lriny ~r09rlom Muttr of uremonies Philharmonic, NBC Symphony, Cincin· week to week. II you wish, the ballot nati Conservatory 01 Music, Columbia But eduCloI;onlol prOllrlom Concert Hall, others. may be pasted on a penny postal card But serial ""mloli[ progflom and mailed to us in that fashion. You Best male singer of classical songs: But dimt orchut" Bn t swing blond Lawrence Tibbett, Nelson Eddy. Don· may vote as often as you wish, sending BUI swing instrumentili.t But swing singer aid Dickson, Richard Crooks, Lauritz in whatever number of ballots you can Bn! p.... gflom not on J network (lotJI) Melchior, John Carter, others. collect in support 01 the stars or pro fiest temale singer of classical songs: qrama who are your favorites. Radio's sur 01 suu Margaret Speaks, Jean Dickenson. Lu A~~ ••• ' 4·1$_" Use your ballot! Vote! 1>.- .(GiDntinuec/ on Page ~) P I/n PROLJD
V. KALTENBORN. dean 01 the In Ireland, Pitts in England, Burnses in air's news commenlatOf8 and BY JAMES STREET Scolland, Lalayettes in France and Kal· H• the man 01 the minute when tenborns in Germany, sober judgment is needed in radio re His father, Baron Rudolph von Kal porting. says thai if he lived in Ger· H. V . KALTENBORN LIKES TO HEAR lenborn, was a two-listed individualist, many, where his folks came from, he an officer of the Hessian Guards_ Many would be Baron Hans von Kaltenborn. years ago when Prussia reached out Thai is one of the lew errors of re KAL T ENBORN TALK; SO DO MILLIONS and snatched Hesse (it's an old Eu porting thai can be charged to Mr. ropean and American custom), BaTon Kaltenborn's account. II he lived in Rudolph von Kaltenborn couldn't Germany. he would be Baron Hans von OF OTH ER INDIVIDUAL AMERICANS stomach the steal. so he chucked his Kaltenbom only in an epitaph. For his title out 01 the window and came to head would bave been lopped off long America, where, even in that I)ra of before now. The crime would have robber barons and land larceny, a man been talking too much and telling the could enjoy a measure of liberty. truth. He settled in Milwaukee. There Mr. Kaltenborn, nee Baron. loves to millions 01 other persona, and we can change his ways, even if he wanted to, were many Germans in Milwaukee and eat goose grease on while bread. to forgive him il he's proud and proud which he doesn't. And he's just about they called Kaltenborn by his titled drink beer and to talk. Neither hell, 01 it. But there's an inspiring charac the most individuallstic man ever to name. It was one of the oldest names high water nor II crisis can shut him teristic about the man - he doesn't hold aloft the banner 01 reason while in Germany. A Kaltenborn had been up. And that's what's made him fa give a whoop whether we forgive him so many men are waving the bloody minister of war and, as a boy, Rudolph mous after sixteen years of plugging or not. He leads his own Iile, and you, shirt. His people came from a land Kaltenborn was a page at court. The along 88 a reporter with pencil and and you and the world can take it or where individualism is supposed to family still is listed as Von Kaltenborn pronunciation. Mr. Kaltenbom enjoys lump it. bave died, But it hasn'!. Stachan in the Almanach de Gotha, the BOund 01 his own voice. So do He is suly yean old and too old to Thank God there'll always be Burkes which ranks with Burke'. Peerage as 2 '/Z I' the Who's Who of nobility. It also is childhood hero was Robinson Crusoe spite 01 hi. lather'. warning that it until he knows at leut two languages. an excellent reference for the study of and in real Iile, Dana of the New York was a precarious way to earn bread and then our horizons will not be the has·beeIl5. Sun. and b\lUer. end 01 the block where we live. But gradually in Milwaukee, the "My own experiences were Ihe chief America truly was the land 01 oppor· HaIl5 gol a job peddling stereo folks began calling the baron just plain influences of my childhood. The neces· tunity and platitudes in those mauve scopes. He bought ill bike and really Rudolph Kaltenborn. He was a dealer sity 01 fighting my way against pov· days. Preachers and editors insisted, saw Europe, knocking on doors, ring· in building supplies and was a writer erty and small·town IimitatioIl5 also in· and perhaps correctly so, that all men ing bells and mingling with the folks. and poet of sorts, and a top-hand pub fluenced me, as did Shakespeare and are created equal, including peons; that And he learned French. And he lic speaker. His wile formerly was books of newspaper adventure." everything comes 10 him who works learned the heartl and minds 01 the Belly Wessels, and their son, HaIl5, was In the Milwaukee schools he was and waits, including sharecroppers: and people. born on July 9, 1878. His mother was selected several times lor declamation Kaltenborn believed it. He apparently Two years later, in 1902, he returned a New York school·teacher and had contests and was a natural publiC still doe.. He believed any man could to New York, wililked across the Brook· been to Germany to study when she speaker. He liked the theater, but at get what he wanted if he worked for it. lyn bridge iIInd wrote a poem about it. met his father on shipboard. They Merrill he had little or no opportunity He has every reason to believe so. The editor of the Brooklyn E:agle was were married in New York, and lit out to enjoy good shows. However, al Adventure began calling him in so impressed with the poem that he for the West, where the bridegroom Milwaukee he saw a performance he 1899, and he hung \lp his scissors and bought it iIInd gave the lanky poet ill had a job and not much else. never has forgotten. It was his first left the city desk 01 the Advocate to job handling the stock·tables at S8 a Back in Germany, Rudolph Kalten· show. the cockroaches and rats and hied week. There is no poetry in high, low born would have been al least II. Kaltenborn said, "It was 'The Private aWillY to a lumber camp. He sant sto· and bid. but Hans stuck. He even had middle-size shot, but in the new land Secretary' - a marvelous performance rles back to the paper and kept in the great privilege of covering night he was just another German immigrant seen from the paan\lt gallery of the good with the boss. Then one day, assignments for his paper. He got no trying to get along, and It was tough Bijou Theater at a Sunday matinee. My reading his favorite paper. the iI·you· money, but he got his stuff printed going, Hans got in the habit of work· parents didn't know I attended the per· see·jt·in·the·Sun·irs·so New York Sun, -and think 01 the interesting people ing hard as a boy, and he never has lormance." he got a yen to see the Paris Exposition, he met. Those were the days when reo gotten out of it. In MerrilL the boys called Kalten· which was all set. so he lelt his ax and porters worked lor nothing. and little He attended Milwaukee public born "Spiderleqs." He could never headed eas!. Some say he rode a 01 that. schools until 1891, when his family adapt himself to the small town. He freight trillin. Others say, being a re. It took the ambitious reporter only moved to the little town of Merrill, worked in his lather's supply house a porter, he got a pass. Railroads used a few years to realize he was not edu· Wis.. where his father entered the bit, then ran away to a lumber camp to give reporters passes. Of course. in cated. He prepared himself lor Har· building.supplies business. There the and worked as waterboy. Back home those days reporters never called rail· vard and in 1905 entered. During his boy aUended high school and learned to juggle balls and balance a straw on his nose. That's not very much to learn at high school, but the tricks probably saved his life in the 1927 Chinese revolution. He was a good student. even in high school. English was hi, favorite sub ject, and he disliked physics. "The fondest memories 01 my early days are the times I caught trout in the Prairie River," he recalled, "the winters I spent in the woods, the swim· ming in the Wisconsin River and the time I smoked corn·tassels. I've never smoked since. The saddest memory 01 my early days is the time my lirst girl went back on me."
SOME men are born lor adventure, and Kaltenborn is one 01 them. He looks and acts as though he were a college professor, a cousin about lour limes removed to Casper Milquetoast. His Harvard accents, his pince·nez, his enthusiasm for living-they don't make lor the Richard Harding Davis type of vagabond journalist, but few, if any, writers or lecturers of the last decade have had the adventures 01 the proper and proud Mr. Kaltenborn. He has talked with the mighty. He didn't re alize recognition until he was a middle aged man. He aaw flamboyant and
DurLng the European crisis lut ynr that skyrocketed him to fame. H. V. KaLtenborn literally lived In and PROUD OF IT the ItudLo. Above: Resting spectacular commentator. flhoot up the he returned to his father's employ and roads the steel ribs 01 the robber barons freshman summer vacation, he says he ladder while he plodded along. worked for him until the Spanish.Am· and other bad names. "swallowed lour years 01 Latin while But last year, when the world stag· erican War was declared. In New York, young Hans slept in act!ng as a tutor." gered to the brink 01 war, tottered Hans was nineteen when that comic· ten-cent flophouses and saved his pen· He was an excellent student. a Phi drunkenly on the ramparts and stag· opera war broke out, and, like his own nies. His only extravagance was a Beta Kappa and winner 01 two prizes gered away again, radio looked around country, was sulfering with growing daily investment in the Sun (Yes, Vir· in oratory and debat!ng. It was in tor the best man to tell the world pains and wanted 10 light somethlng ginia. there is a Santa Claus). He read Harvard that he learned he was an about it, and Kaltenhorn was the man. not particular what it was, just some· all about the Paris lair and hung around extemporaneous speaker. He was slated He was ready. He was ready because thing. the docks waiting to hitch a ride to to speak a piece from "Gentlemen: The everything he has done since child· He reckoned hi.s parents would lor· Europe. Finally he got a berth on a King!" And he forgot his lines, but hood helped equip him to know the bid his enlistment because he was cattle-boat and headed for Liverpool. made up new sentences and ad·Jibbed world and the ways 01 men who run under age. So he lied about his age, He', never been headed since. He got his way to lame In Harvard. The judges and ruin it. Yet, at twenty-one he'd stuffed himself on bananas and water paid for crossing the Atlantic. He's awarded him a prIze, and he hasn't never seen a great painting or heard a to make the weight·limit. and joined the crossed it scores of times since, and stopped talking yet. great symphony. He was a city editor Fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. always gets paid. He earned extra money in colleqe 01 a small newspaper, and every day He fought the war in an Alabama train· He saw Paris and, liking France, de. by writing lor New York papers. His he sat at his desk, the rim 01 the world, ing-camp as a top sergeant, and his cided to tour the country. 11 was one favorite sport was cross-country run· and watched news How under his eyes. memories of conflict are concerned of the wisest decisions a man ever ning. but he had to give it up lor lack but he never helped make it and re mostly with boredom and spoiled food. made. He was a level·headed fellow of time. Deepite the lacthe had 10 ported only the doings 01 the sewing· Mustered out. he rode a Misaissippi even then. He knew German perfectly. eam his way, Hans won the Coolidge circles and rowl of the town meetings. River sidewheeler back north and got a having learned it from his people. And prize as Harvard', bast debater. the "When t was a boy I wanted to be job as city editor 01 the Merrill Advo he elected to learn French. A man who Boylston Prize as the best public speak· a newspaperman," he said. "My father cate. Previously, he had reported a can speak several languages never will er, and was one of the organizers and urged me to preler business as afford· bit lor the Merrill DaUy News and was slarve. Some day schools will con· business manager 01 the Harvard ing a more certain livelihood. My determined to be a newspaperman in vince students that a man is ignorant (Continued on Paqe 37} 3 EASTER FASHIONS- THEN AND NOW RESSES. whether worn by First ladies, radio actresses or sehool-girls, lire a mirror of the times. In the Smithsonian Institution at Washington the collec D tion of First Ladies' gowns forms a picture of our national history and our social development. This Sunday over NBC (4:30 p.m, EST, 3:30 CST, 2:30 MST, ':30 PST) "First ladies' Fashions" will be broadcast. Shown here are striking con· trask between Easter garbs of yesterday's First ladies and today's ,,,dio stars_
Martha Washington's (1732-1802) This gown of Mary Todd Lincoln'. gown is of salmon pink, hand-paint ed silk. Waist Is a pointed basque (1818·1882) is of velvet, piped with white silk, and with low-neck waist
Mrs. John Adams' (1744·1818) dress Joan Blaine, well.known radio actress and star of the NBC serial "Valiant "Dolly" Madison (1772-1849) wears Is of dark· bloc crepe. The skirt has Lady," has recently been chosen "best· dressed woman in radio:' She is yellow satin masterpiece, brocaded wide border of Chinese embroidery here wearing her newest millinery creation for Easter, a flat, tied·on affair with silver, draped over petticoat
_ ...... h.och ...... h,octo Kay St. Germain, radio songstress, wears blue In compliance with the patriotic motif in this Helen Wood, NBC actress, also goes patriotic bolero, white blouse with red and blue polka spring's styles, Kathleen Wilson of N Be "One with a whlte·and·blue jacket costume. She has dots, white panama with red and blue ribbon Man's Family" di,play,emblems on hat and purse red hat and bag, American emblem on blue gloves
4 ~/n p TSCHAIKOWSKY: CRYING GENllJS
M us i c al G i a nt S e ri e s No.9
BY LEONARD LIEBLING
N A blowy afternoon in April. 1991. a small and nervous group O stood on a New York pier wail ing lor a boat born Europe. "What do you think he'll be like?" "Well, I've heard he's very excitable. but then most Russians are. He'll prob ably be eccentric, too." "It's thriIHng ... imagine. rachai kowsky is the first gTeat composer ever to come to America," "I wonder if he'll like us as much ilB we like hi. music." Sighs of relief as the live welcomers watched the gangplank lowered. All 01 them recognized the slim, gray bearded man with the deep. sensilive dark eyes, the full soil mouth with its hinl 01 weakness. However, he looked distraught, completely miserable and ready to bursl into lears. He was homesick and wished himself thou slInds 01 miles away in Moscow. "I regretted ever having undertaken this insane voyage," he wIOte later to his brother Modeste. "I was met by four very amiable gentlemen and a lady, who took me to the Hotel Nonnandie. Alter all these people had gone. I walked up and down my room and shed many tears ... I dressed and went lor a stroll on Broadway. An extraordinary street. Houses of one and two stories alternate with some nine· storied buildings (l). Most original. When I got back I began crying again." wter in the week, Tschaikowsky stopped crying long enough to receive The great AUilian composer, Peter Tschaikowsky (left), suffered from a a tremendous ovation at the inaugura. psychological malady that made him shun social contacts. For fourteen year. tion 01 Carneqie Hall, when he con· he corrtlponded with Nadejda von Meek (above), without meeting her ducted some 01 his music at its open· ing concert. He shared the program with a young. highly talented conduc· eight months since word bad come ing, although he had not started his of some of the world's greatest arl. For tor named Walter Damlosch. In an· from her ... alter fourteen years of musical studies until the age of twen NilIdejda von Meck had fallen literally other JeICer to Modeste, Tschaikowsky the strangest relationship in musical ty-one. head over heels in love ... with marveled, "I am ten times more history. Fourteen years during which "He's a gentleman, you understand," Tschaikowsky's music! lamous in America than I am in Eu Nadejda von Meck. wealthy Russian Nicholas assured Nadejda, "but he Immediately she commiuioned. a rope .. I am a much more impor widow, and Peter Tschaikowsky ex hasn't much money except what he work from him and wrole him. "For tant person here than in Russia. Is not changed the most companionable and earns at the conservatory. It's hard go several days alter hearing your 'Tem that curious?" intimate kind of letters. And yet they ing for him. but he gave up a good job pest' I was in a delirium from which I However, the whole American trip never met! as clerk in the Ministry of Justice 10 could not emerge:' She begged. for his was an agony to him, despite ovations, Left a widow in her early forties, with study music:' photograph. But never did she propose Jare sights€9ing and the lavish hos eleven children, Nadejda von Meek Nadejda listened symp THE WEEK'S BEST DRAMA Soturdoy, MBS not the body of the Lord Jesus. And it nation's oldest outdoor Easter ceremo. Many listeners will be glad to hear came to pass as they were much per· nies ... From the steps 01 the state Sunday, NBC that two movie idols of not long ago, plexed thereabout, behold, two men capitol in Olympia. Wash .... And In contrast to the whimsical, imagi who have long been a devoted and stood by them in shining garments. from the studios of Mutual's Los An· native plays 01 Barrie and Maelerlinck popular married couple, will be heard And as they were afraid .. they said geles' KHr. Listeners will hear this cav· heard recenlly on "Great Plays," this again in this country via one of the unto them. 'Why seek ye the living alcade 01 ceremonies exclusively over week we have stark realism.' Bul it is regular broadcasts of the BBC "Music among the dead? He is not here, but the Mutual network. at the following dramatic realism and it was aimed. respective times: when writlen, al the greatest goal a [utun (~nt' li t Pu il;c writer can hold, the improvement 01 8 :00~.m. 7:00 ~ _m . 5:00 ~.m. 9:00~.m. 8:00 ~ m. 6:00 ~ . m. social conditions. Galsworthy's "Jus 9:30~,m. 8:30ll.m. 6:10 ~ .m. lice" is said to have inspired Winston 10;30~.m. 9:30 ~ .m. 7:30 i.m. Churchill to make drastic changes in the English penal system. John Bar Sund"y, N 8C rymore scored his first great triumph On tha combined NBC networks the when he played the lead in "Justice" customary series of impressive Easter in New York. morning services will ba presented Luttm Pu ;f;c from various Significant spots ranging \;()()p.m. 10 :OO ~ . m. across the country. Prior to this series Sunday, CBS of broadcasts, NBC will carry an inter· national broadcast from Vatican City. Bob Montgomery, who used to be The Vatican program will be a de· one of the movie public's lair-haired scription of the recessional following boys and then somehow got lost in the pontllical high mass at historical 51. Hollywood shulfle, is treading securely Peter's, with a papal benediction by the comeback trail. He will appear this Pope Pius XII. week and next week in one of "Silver Entun Ctntril Pad!ie Theater's" two.part dramas. 6:10a.m. 5:301l.m. 3:30 •.m. Ct nt,,1 Pu iiie 5:00 p,m. 3:00 p.m. A typical American indu$try and ",n import",nt one is that represented by the The series 01 NBC sunrise services Wednesday, C BS Chicago stockyard,. a section of which i$ shown above. The meat· packing will open from Temple University Sta· industry will be described on "Americans At Work," Saturday over CBS dium in Philadelphia in a program lea· Ranking United States, arrived holl, one of Corwin's radio discoveries, 10:3Op.m. 9:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. with the news that he, General Wash in a program that is, if not poetically ington, was now duly elected President streamlined, at least distinctly a modern PLAY SAFE! Thursday. CBS Washington, America's first. That was experiment. Corwin overheard Maye Automobiles have killed more Ameri April 14, 1789. Exactly one hWldred holl doing one of his impersonations in cans than war has. Motor traffic has and fifty years later, this Friday, Wash a recording.studio on Broadway, where been America's slaughter-house, her ington would still recognize his beloved Mayehoff was making records just for population "purge," her nearest ap Mt. Vernon, but America would cer amusement. The uncanny authenticity proach to Armageddon. You know that, tainly be a stranger to him. Perhaps of hi' characters seemed striking because you've been in or witnessed he would, however, give President enough to be 01 documentary value. or in some other way had forceful con Franklin D. Roosevelt a hearty back Corwin found tbat Mayehoif, bandlead· tact with automobile accidents. You slap for thus far avoiding the trap of er at New York's Governor Clinton Ho know, but repeated warnings don't entangling alliances that the "Father tel, started the practise as a hobby hurt. You know also, perhaps, thai ra of His Country" so vigorously warned several years ago. The reason for this dio has played a big part In curbinq against. Perhaps when President Roose type of program appearing in a series the curse, but it's worth a reminder. velt delivers a special talk from Mt. devoted to experimental literature for With special safety programs, regular Vernon commemorating the anniver radio is that Corwin regards it as ill. shows like NBC's "Sunday Drivers," sary of Washington's notification he serious study of language and idiom of and traffic-court broadcasts, the micro will reiterate in his dynamic manner the Great White Way of the country's phone has done much to make the pub the same policies of Washington that qreatest city. The yOWlg bandleader lic safety-conscious and to bring about time has proved sound. will impersonate a series of Broadway a saner America on wheels. Eddie E.uun Ctntrlt Pnili( 2:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 11 :lOa.",. types-a. hawker, a barker, ill. business Cantor has long been known for his man. ill. harassed husband, etc. activities in the name 01 safety and Elltern Ctntral Puili, other social movements. This week MEET THE MEAT Saturday, C8S 2:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 11 :30~.m. adds another to his string 01 special America likes its cherry pie, Its ice humanitarian broadcasts. The National BOOKS Sunday, NBC cream-a.nd its meat. Finned, feath· Safety Council gives its annual Award ered, furred - haired, horned and Joseph Henry Jackson, one of the Dinner in Washington, when honors hoofed-we must have our fish and most successful book-reviewers on ra will be conferred upon four states and flesh. If anyone ever doubts that, all dio, who haa been broadcasting his fa six cities as winners in the national he has to do is spend an hour around mous "Reader's Guide" program on the In an Euter broad cut from VaU safety contest. Comedian Cantor will can City (NBC, CBS) , Pope PiU8 the milling, teeming Chicago stock Pacific Coast continuously for fifteen be the featured speaker, with Dr. XII extends a papal benediction yards. That's the headquarters 01 the years, will make bis debut this week as George Gallup, director of the Ameri· nation's meat diet, the neck of the fun· a regular Coast·to-Coast feature. During can Institute of Public Opinion. In addi· nel where the farms and ranges pour the years he has been presenting his tion, some child who actually owes his their products into the national maw. or her life to safety measures will come broadcast from San Francisco, Jackson The Chicago stockyards are the key to Washington to participate. has reviewed more than 3,000 books, spot of a typical American industry, including all the important contempor E~lttrn Centrll Pitilit and as such wUi be the scene of thi8 10:45 p.m. 9:45 p.m. 7:45 p.m. ary literature of the period. His pro week's "Americans at Work" broadcast. gram has had such a wide lollowing F. D. R. DOUBLEHEADER [astem Ctntral Puili, among radio listeners that booksellers 7:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 4:00 p.rn. reported supplies of new books had Friday, NBC, CBS, MBS sold out completely immediately fol· SCHEDULE CHANGES lowing Jackson's approval of them. He President Roosevelt will do heavy vocal duty with two speeches the same (Conlult tilt progrlm pages lor always treats new books as news, and your loul u .llion) day. The first will be an address be Irequen!ly varies his programs by in· viting authors to the studio for inter· fore a special session of the governing PROGRAM CHANGES board of the Pan American Union. He views. He also conducts a daily book Amos 'n' Andy (Campbell's Soup) column and a Sunday book section for is expected to discuss the friendly re lations existing between the twenty switched over to the CBS network the San Francisco Chronic/e. He was Monday, April 3, and will be heard born in New Jersey, educated at Lafay· one American republics and their sig nificance to fulure peace and welfare. Mondays through Fridays at their ette College in Pennsylvania, and went regular time. to California after serving in the in· The Pan American Union, once just a loose, social-club sort of organiution, [lItftn C~nlr~l Puilit fantry in the World War. 7:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. has developed into one of the most [.stun Ctntrll Plcllic 5:30 p.m. 4:30 p.rn. 3:30 p.m. emphatic and promising forces in inter· loe e. Brown (post Toasties), big national relations. It reached a point of mouthed comedian who was former SWEET TWEETS Sunday, NBC powerful crystalliution with the Lima ly aired on Saturday nights, moved conferences a few months ago, where his show to the old Joe Penner time, We all know canaries are musical a strong union was cemented lor the Thursday, April 6. and that they're obedient, but most of preservation of the democratic ideals of [astern Ctntr.1 Puille 6:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. us didn't realize they have a sense of the western world against the designs 7:30 p.m. rhythm and respect for a conductor's of the old-world dictators. If Herr Hitler downbeat. Joseph Belmont has a ca· or II Duce should decide to "convert" CLOSINGS nary choir that's good enough to the western world now, they might find frank Simon's Armco Band, SWlday, threaten the security of some of the themselves in III pretty hot "frying·Pan." April 9. radiO choruses, since their union scale [nttrn Ctnlr~1 P.,ilic would require only a few choice lid· 11:00 a.m. 10:00 I.m. &:CXII.m. Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the bits for each rehearsal and broadcast. Air, SWlday, April 2. Maybe lOme radio executives will be MT. VERNON SPEAKS rale ot Today, Sunday, April 9. listening when the avian chorus struts Friday, CBS, NBC, MBS its stuff on Cheerio's program Sunday. Carson Robison and His Buckaroos, Under the direction 01 Joseph Belmont, George Washington stood on the Monday, April 3. the leathered choristers will lurnish the porch with the while colonial columns. musical background for a dramatized His hands were locked behind his back The Wonder Show, Jack Haley, Friday, reading 01 William Allingham's "The and his forehead was drawn into pen April 7. Abbot of Inisfalen:' a European legend sive furrows. He looked across the --.... -.ole< Warden Lawes' Criminal Case Histor concerning an abbot and forest birds. Anne Jamison, 80prano, formerly spacious acres stretching down to the ies, Friday, April 14. Soloi8ts from the Belmont Canary 0p on "Hollywood Hotel," 11nlll on Potomac. This was home and a. place era will be cast in the roles of forest lunrise service SundlY over NBC to rest hom the ardors of war and Ie- Betty Moore, Saturday, April 1. I' ./11 7 INSIDE "T HE INSIDE STORY" eOPLE li~. to be "in the ~now." Curiosity is one of the nearly uni.,e"al NBC Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. EST; for the Midwest and West, 9:30 p.m. CST, attributes. Words like "lowdown" and "revelation" and "the dope" 8:30 p.m. MST. 7:30 p.m. PST. The show is based on the premise that behind Pintrigue us immensely. The eheraderistic has made Walter Winchell e innumerable events and personalities lie interesting hidden stories. It is the lot of money. It also helped make II cavemen discover fire and Edison give purpose of "Inside Story," by dr"matizetions and intervie .... s with personali. electricity to the world. It is making II large and appreciative audience for e ties, to ferret out these hidden storiei for the benefit 08nd enteri08inment of program comparatively new to the networh. "Inside Story," heard over liiteners, Fred Sullivan, master of ceremonies; Glenn Weltv, music director JIMMY YOUNG, head of the Interna- THEOS BERNARD, American lawyer, JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR" noted tional Newl Service In the Orient, ap_ flnt white man to become a Lama in flnlncler , put , team.,hovel watching on purlng on "Inlide Story," laid: "In my TIbet, told thll Inlide _tory: "I went to a plane with other ,portl, according to GUI opinion Japan II In China to gain control India to Itudy the tuchlng of Guru Perklnl of Chicago, hlmlelf a top· ranking of it_ She II rully aiming at England to Rimpilhay, a n ancient leholar, laid to have "watcher": "John D. Rockefeller, Jr., hal prevent Engllnd getting a Itrong economic found whit I WII leeklng-happlnell and been a ,team-Ihovel Witcher for yearl. hold on China, Whoever can hold out peace. The trill drew me into Tibet. I be· Ono dly lome one chaled him IWIY from longelt flnanclaUy will win , _ . They let gin to feel thlt I mYlelf w .. Guru Rlmpi an eXCIvatlon for the New Holland Build me lend out all the neWI I want to-but shay. The prlettl called me Guru, lIying ing at Rockefeller Center. So he put up a try and get newII The government pro he promi,ed to come back In 1200 yean, grand_Und, had an opening day, organized vldn me with bodyguard_to keep away which had palled. A my'torlou, light In the Sidewalk Superintendentl' Club. Motto: anybody who might have information I" their temple retted on my ,houlder •• ," 'The best pilotl 'tand on the Ihore.''' E LSA MAXWELL, Internationally known ROY POST, noted .clentiflc crime ·i nvnti· M RS. JOHN LARSON , one of the lur- society-party fileer, gavo thil lowdown: gator, revealed: "They could balance vlvorl of the iII · fated Titanic, whOle "Edgar Bergen haunted my door until I the naUonal budget by finger-printing photograph (above) il the only thing that engaged him to entertain at ono of my Americal The Government could lay Its Itill connectl her to her mother country. partin. He and Charlie McCarthy were a hand, on billion. of dollar. worth of gold Sweden, laId: "Those '~17 humanl mlllht riot and I made up my mind they had to and currency. It'l In safe-depollt vault. in have been ..ved. The S. S. California Will go on the air. I w .. to appear with Rudy bankl all over the country, nored Iway eight miles away. Whe", the TitanIc sent Vallee and I in,l,ted that Bergen appear by gang.ten and crook .. They could be out Itl SOS there w .. no anlwer. In thOle with me. He w .. a .enuUon. He', a geniu, conflleated If the Government could prove daYI twenty-four-hour duty for r eceiving and mOlt deserving wit. I'm very proud to who the depolltor. were. If everybody were setll w .. not required by the IIW, and have been able to offer him the flr.t rung finger' printed, bankl could check the the operator had put In hll full day. Since one the ladder of hi. Immediate lucce... " finger . prints and ,llInature, of depollton." t hen thll weakne .. hal been corN;cted." 8 '/" p ATOM - SMASHER WILL IT BLOW CALIfORNIA TO BITS-OR RING A BELL? LISTEN ON CBS. SATURDAY Left: Professor Ernest O. atom. That's why they're after it. It Lawrence, of the Univer. does have tremendous potentialities of sity of California, stands energy. Enough atomic energy is con· beside the cyclotron ;1'1 tained in a few spoonfuls of water to his radiation laboratory drive a ship ilcross the Atlantic. When an atom is broken into fragments, incal· culable forces can be released. Some Below: Winfield W. Salis· day those forces may be put to work bury poll'lts out features at useful tasks in commerce and indus· of the cyclotrol'l'S oscil· try. II is quite possible that the per· lator chamber and COI'I· petual dream of alchemists of changing den&er, which he desigl'led base metals to gold may be realized through atomic bombardment. More important to the present is the possible significance to the treatment of cancer. Through the atomic reaction to splintering force. radioactive sub· stances can be created. They explod3 spontaneously, and the atomic frag· ments they emit may curb cancer by zipping into tissues and killing dis· eased cells. Numerous atom· smashing machines have been invented involving differing principles. Dr. Merle A. Tuve of the Carnegie Institute perfected a rna· chine for generating a 6,000,000· volt Iightning·bolt that cracks like a cannon. It simply fires electrically charged pro· tons at each other to see how much force is required to make them collide and stick. You can understand the prin· IIU P 'N' ATOM, BOYS!" ciple better if you perform the old trick That's the battle-cry today of running a comb through your hair of the army of intrepid scien and then holding the comb near your lists who fight all comers lor the prog fingers to make the artificial electricity less of mankind. They don', always crackle. pick on opponents their own size. At Cornell University developed an the risk of seeming to be bullies, often atomic gun in the shape of a glass tube, they attack very small enemies-germs. with a radio short·wave generator as for instance. One of their latest and the impelling force to accelerate the fiercest battles is being waged against speed of the atoms enough 10 tear them the smallest material thing that man apart. knows about or thinks he knows about will there simply be an instant of silent is the smallest and most fundamental Most gigantic and most generally -the atom. import? particle in all substances. It's smaller used of the "atomizers" is the cyclo The scientists select or invent their Will this air premiere present a pre· and more indispensable than Charlie tron, perfected by Prof. Ernest O. Law· own weapons. An unusual radio broad view of staggering potentialities for the McCarthy, tougher than Edward G. rence, thirly·seven·year-old University cast this week-over CBS, Saturday, at future? Such as the driving of motors, Robinson and more aloof than Greta of California scientist. There ale more 6:15 p.m. EST, 5:15 p.m. CST, 4:15 p.m. the creation of new substances, new Garbo. It's the inlinitesimal unit that than thirty cyclotrons in use or under MST, 3:15 p.m. PST-will introduce to forms of energy, the destruction of has through the centuries delied all construction. The largest of all will be you one 01 the newest and most dia mailer long considered impossible, the man's attempts to blow it to bits. the one now being completed at the bolically efficient of those weapons. prolonging of human lives-or the sud· You're full of atoms yourself, billions University of California, weighing 440,· You'll meel the cyclotron. It's an den shortening? of them. Everything that exists is com· 000 pounds and measuring twenty by atom-smasher, and it will he making its The future course of the world and posed of them. It would tilke all the thirty by forty feel. II an instrument r .. dio debut. Unusual? Words like humanity may be locked up in one 01 people in the world thousands of years that big can't smash the modest atom to "sensational" and "momentous" would those mighty mites that will go whiz· to count the aloms in a single drop of smithereens, it is hard to imagine one not be extravagant. You'll be a first· zing around in the cyclotron. water! that can. It is this colossus with which nighter althe only show of its kind ever But why is the atom on the spot? the forthcoming radio broadcast will be yel performed. It could be a flop, but LEST you cringe in fearful consterna· Why are the scientists bent on smash· concerned. it has all the earmarks 01 a "smash hit," tion at the prospect of taking a ring· int; it? A cyclotron is a modern version of lor when one hunched thousand billion side seat at this battle royal between the Not because it's a goblin to get us, the Biblical story involVing David, Go· atomic bullets, each one loaded with flyweight atom and the heavyweight a spook to haunt us, or a man from Iiath, and a sling.shot. In this case tiny super-energy, are fired each second, cyclotron, let us pClve the Wily lor the Mars to destroy us. Maybe you've been atomic nuclei represent the stone mis· then whatever happens shouldn't be a encounter with a few intimate facts reading H. G. Wells or Edgar Rice Bur· siles, and the sling of the weapon con· surprise. There are intriguing possi· about the opponents. roughs or Buck Rogers. Or Hearstian sists of a powerful magnetic field which bilities. We speak of the atom as an enemy newspaper stories. Maybe you think keeps the particles whirling around Does an atom make a noise when it not because of ilny specific harm it hilS you and the world are doomed by the while picking up the colossal speeds explodes? Does it hiss, crackle, or go done but because of its stubborn re insidious potency of the atom. Perhaps that mean super·energy. The power "bilng"? fusal to be caught and broken and har· !ou have wild nightmares of explosive source of the cyclotron is high.fre. When the atomic bullets hit the tar· nessed to man's uses, as other more cataclysms that would rend the uni· quency, alternating-current voltage in get. whilt will happen? Will they blow spectacular· appearing elements have verse asunder. Don't worry. You're place of David's good right ann. Now, the sunny shores of California into the been harnessed. It is ironicill that. ac· safe for a long while yet. if a sample of a chemical element is briny deep? Will they ring a bell? Or cording to the atomic theory, the atom They want to tame and train the (Continued Oll Page 39) (' I/lIt 9 Glnster, J;oprano; Bruna Castagna, con tralto; Charles Kullmann, tenor; Leo nard Wanen, baritone. Petite Meise SolenneUe (Ros.~inl). Rossini 0192-18681, worldly, cynical The March Pari~. of Music operatic hero of was Intensely in terested In church music due to hIS early .studies with priestly teachers. He Edited by LEONARD LIEBLI NG composed three major ritual ""orks: "SOlemn Mass" written in his youth. ", .. An tlmpler Ether, tI diviner Air ..."-Wordsworth "Stabat Maler." production of middle age; "PelUe Messe" ,LltUe MassI fin Ished four years before his death. Tbt're Is. by the way. nothing little about the score. which takes nearly two hours to Th e Music 01 Spring 6:00 a.m. EST perform. International broadcast from Vatican Originally (at a private hearing in HETHER you call it fruehling, City; Pontifical High Mass, followed Paris) the work had only twO pianos printempli or spring, It's all by a description of the recessional. and harmonium as accompaniment for W the same and It's here now, tM' voices: later Rossini added orches Benediction. (CBS, 6: 00 to 7: 00 a.m.; tration. but did not survive to hear the with blue skies, growing grasses, the NBC Red and Blue, 6:30 to 7:00 a.m.) opus In that form. its public prem:cre piping of birds intermingled with the with Patti as soprano soloist followmg rhymed rhapsodies of the poets. 7:00 a.m. EST his death by one year. Traditionally credited with being Sunrise Service from Temple Uni Appended to the score is a touch!n!!;: the chosen interpreters of the vernal versity Stadium, Philadelphia; Edward Han, Lange wltl conduct The NBC note by the composer which bears quot ing here: "Oood God. behold completed season, the poels really share that MacHugh, NBC Gospel Singer, soloist; Symphony Orchestra in it!! program over the Blue network Saturday this poor IIlllc mass. Is It muslque sacree high estate with the composerll. From congregational singing: Dr. Ross H. (sacred muslcl 01' only sacree mnsiQue song to symphony, springtime has Stover of Messiah Lutheran Church, (wrelched music) I have written? 1 been glorified os rapturously in tone speaker. (NBC Red and Blue.) was born for Opera Butra (comic operal. Thou knowesl It well! A little science as in verse. Almost as old 35 music is FORECAST 7:30 a.m. EST and a little heart are all there. Be then its VOicing ot the sounds and panoplies Easter Sunrise Service, High School IGHSPOT of the week is one of blessed and grant me Paradise." of spring-and summer, of course. The "Petite Messc" is strongly influ Auditorium, St. Louis, Mo. Chorus. the infrequent radio appear Mozart made the violet into an im enced by Bach. whom Rosslnt revered "Oh, Morn of Beauty" (Slbelius), H ances of the Philadelphia Or immeasurably and called "a miracle of mortal songi Beethoven expressed his chestra, led by Eugene Ormandy, on "The Lord Is Risen" (Nevin), "Holy, Ood." At.so he declared In his bed pastoral adoration in an inspired sym Sunday. Holy. Holy," "All Hail to the Powel' ridden old age that he would get up phony. Mascagn! and Rimsky-Korsa A novelty is Rossini's "Petite Messe even at mldnlghL to hear Bach's IIran of Jesus' Name" (Trad.). (CBS.) kof!" penned hymns to the sun. Even Solennelle" played by the New York diose Mus In B Minor. It should be most arresting for dial the cynical Stravinsky intoned the 8:00 a.m. EST Philharmonic also on Sunday. The work has not been heard in America ers to IllIten to tills Rossini music totally fertility ot young eal·th and man's Brigham Young University Sunrise for thirty-five years. unfamiliar to prC6Cnt generations of riotous welcoming to reawakened na Service, Provo, Utah. Ninety-piece Americans. ture, in his Sacre de Printemps. e.~"., University Symphony Orchestra, Prof. SUNDAY, A PRIL 9 2 00 '."'_ Schumann rushed the warm seasons LeRoy Robertson, conductor. Univer Dr. Charlea Courboin. organiat, M BS. The Bach Cantata Seriea, M BS. Mil a bit with his "March Violets," but sity Choir of 125 voices, direeted by Dr. Cristus Resurrexit, flmo de Floria. from ton Katims, conductor; Genevieve Thomas Moore stayed through with Franklin Madsen. (CBS.) "COllcert Pieces for Organ" (Rava Rowe, soprano; William Hain, tenOI'; his "Last Rose of Summer." As early Sunrise Service from Will Rogers nella), Paques Fleuries (Mailly), In Raoul Nadeau, baritone; Chorus con as the year 1240 or so, an anonymous Memorial Shrine, Manitou, Colo. High Thee Have I Put My Trust (Bach), ducted by Craine Calder. Canlala genius set down his salutatory ode, school choir of 300 voices. (NBC-Red). Three Movements fTom "Grande Piece No.4. SJjlnpllOllique" (Franck). "Summer Is Acumen In." The poet ... ~ Hollywood Bowl Sunrise Service, ...... ,00 p_. ... e.~, "00 '_"'. . ... ~ ~ and the composer meet over and over Ho!lywood, Calif. Mario Chamlee, ,.,00 ..... "00.... •. ..,. again to unite theIr arts in praise of tenor. The SOO-voice Lutheran Choral RadiO City Music Hall of the Ai r, NBC. The Ford SUnday Evening Hour, CBS. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra. spring. A set of verses by Boettger Union and 300 children of the Sunrise Due to a last-minute change in pro Franco Ghione, conductor; J ose Iturbi, moved Schumann to create his "Spring gram, the opera this week will be "Die Service Choir. One of the oldest and pianist. "La Pasqua" trom "Siberia" Symphony." No less appealing than best-known services. (MBS.) Walkuere" (Wagner). The cast: Maria Delden (Bruennhilde), Annelies von (Giordano), the OrChestra: Hungarian that work are the same master's ten Fa1llasie (Liszt), Jose lturbi and Or der songs" 'Twas in the Lovely Month 8:30 a.m. EST Molnar (Sieglinde), Jan Peerce (Sieg mund), Louise Bernhardt (Fricks), chestra; Prayer from "Cavalleria Rtu of May" and his ecstatic outpouring in Easter Service from Grand Canyon Raymond Lutz (Wotan). ticana" (Mascngni), Chorus and Or National Park, Ariz. A Cappella Choir chestra; Prelude in E Major (Bach "Spring Night." Schubert's heart was e.~ ..., always filled with vernal wannth, but of 50 voices. Description of Grand >"00 , ...,. Pick-MangiagOllli), the Orchestra; The especially in "Spring Dream," "Spring Canyon at sunrise. (NBC Red and The Magic Key of RCA, NBC. The Three Lilies {Breton Easter carollo Longing," "Spring Faith." Grieg's Blue.) Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene 01' Chorus and Orchestra; Scherzo in B Flat Minor (Chopin), Jose lturbi: "Springtime," Wolt's "Song to Spring," Forest Lawn Memorial Park Sun mandy, con d u c tor. Interlude and Overture to "TanJlhaeuser" (Wagner), and-but one could go on almost in rise Services from Glendale, Cali!. Los Dance, "La Vida flreve" (Dc Falla), Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Otto Air, String Orchestra (Bach), Polka the Orchestra. definitely with such a list Ford climbs up a goodly step artisti Klemperer, conductor. Anne Jamison. and Fugue from "Schwanda" (Wein Solo instrumental music has the berger), Roumanian Rhapsody No. I cally with this fine Easter program. pre soprano. William Farnum, rcader. senting Iturbl In plano performances, same urge; to cite only Singing's "Rus (Enesco), Russian Easler Overture Overture "Oberon" (Weber), Prelude and the splendid chorus In appropriate tle of Spring" and Mcndelssohn's im (Rimsky-Korsakoff). holiday music. perishable "Spl'ing Song." The green to "Die Meistersinger" (Wagner), The Philadelphia syrnphonists make a e~~" •• ing season far outdoes autumn and "Panus Angelicus" (Franck). "The welCQrne reappearance on the air. Many • ,00 p."_ winter as a source of musical inspira Master Is Coming" (read by William expert.s still regard this orcl'lestra the Farnum). (CBS.) best In America. (No bricks, please. tion. from patriotic local fans in Boston and 9:00 a.m. EST New York!) Eugene Ormandy deserves Easter Service from Mt. Davidson, large credit for sustaining the standards set up by Stoko\>,·ski. Calif. (NBC-Red.) Speaking Up With the exception of tile Rimsky se Easter Service from Mt. Rubidoux, lection. the numbers played today are By V. Vidal Calif. Elsie CarlSlrom, sopl'ano. Mt. thl'lce familiar. "Russian Easter," a Easter Sunday is one day in the year Rubidoux Chorus. Newell Parker, or concert overture based on motives from ganist. (MBS.) the Russian church service, draws its when a lot of people become nature "story" from the Sixty-seventh Psalm conscious and suddenly disCQver the 9:30 a.m. EST and the Resurrection scene in Sl. Mark'S sunrise. They drive miles and miles, Services from the capitol steps, Gospel. clOSing with the exultant. Resur rexlt theme. "Resurrexit" sing the climb endless mountains and sit for Olympia, Wash. (MBS.) hours in memorial parks to hear angels to the .sound of archangels' trum 10:30 a.m. EST pets and the fluttering of the wings of choruses, orchestras and speakers the seraphim; "Resurrexit" sing the usher in the sun. Los Angeles Civic Chorus. Choir of temple priests through clouds of in However, those who stay at home 100 mixed voices in sacred music. cense by the light of innumerable can and peek at the sun oul of the parlor Frank Holliday, tenor soloist. Selec dies and chimes of the massed trium tions from Handel's "Messiah." (MBS.) phant bells. A true Easter celebration window needn't feel cheated. The ra in tone. leaving one with a sense of dio brings them everything of the sun 11:00 a.m. EST joyful uplIIt ana glory. rise services except the !renery. And ...... e.-~ ..., First pel'formance of Don Lorenza 2_.,.." ',"",."" television will soon flx that. Perosi's new oratorio, "ResurreCtion," -...... ,., The New York Philharmonic Orchea· Here is a list of the services. And Frederico lonllBa. Spanilh pianist· from the Sistine chapel in the Vati tra, CBS. John Barbirolli. conductor; don't forget to !'tet your alarm! composer heard on "Keyboard Con· can. Rome. (NBC-Red.) The Westmin~ter College Choir: Ria c .. rh" over CBS. Friday afternoon 10 I, [. MONDAY, APRil 10 The Rochester Civic Orehestra, NBC. Guy Fras~r Harrison, conductor. Bal lel .'Iusie from "Le Cid" (Masscnet), Something About Shorter Audantino from Concerto for Flute alld Harp (Mozart), Joseph Mari(uio, ftulist; Eileen Malone, harpist. Ro maJitic Poem (Wynn York). "Lac De. Orchestral Works ellyn!"S" (Tschalkowsky). h., •• ~ ~..,,"" 3 ...... 0200_ By Leonard Liebling The Curtis I nstitute of MUlle, CBS. Vera Rcsnikoff, soprano: Frederick Vogelgesang, violinist. Songs by Car AVING disposed of the symphony orchestral variations were the last penter. Blech, Cimara, Guarnieri. Sad and the symphonic poem in this movement of his "Eroica." His most ero, Obradors, Rachmaninoff, Glaz H series, we can turn our attention effective successors in the form have ounow, Tschaikowsky, Gretchaninow, to the shorter examples of orchestral been Brahms, with "Variations on a i\loussorgsky. Violin pieces by Bach compositions. The word "snorler" is a Theme" by Haydn: d'!ndy, variations Kreisler, Paradis-Dushkin, Paganini Kreisler, Paganini-Wilhelmj-Zimbalist. relative term, however, {or some of depicting the story of Istar and her ...... Co."" the fantasias, variations, overtures, veils; and Elgar with his lovely opus, 3'00 ..... 2.00 ...... rhapsodies, ensemble concertos and "Enigma." Tschaikowsky also has an Music of the Georgian Period. CBS. -0... ",. the like are not exactly of striking appealing series of variations in one or The Columbia String Orchestra, Ber· Sag! Vela, Spanish baritone .•Ing. brevity and terseness. lig ht cl assics and operatic arln his suites. nard Hcrrmann, conductor, The concertos came before the sym· Overtures and preludes are self· .,.,.," c ••,,., over M as, Saturday. 8:00 p.m. EST S'OO p,"'. ..,00 •. "'. phonies, and gave the latter their evident. Usually they are introductory T he Voice of Firestone, NBC. Alfred earliest inspiration in form, content to an opera, but often represent de· Wallenstein. co n due tor: Richard conductor. SymphollY No.6 (Haydn), and treatment. Vivaldi, Corelli, Bach tached compositions telling their own Crooks, tenor. From Los Angeles. Dance (Glinka), Suite English Folk and Handel were the best of the or· story. By the way, Tschaikowsky pe. Songs (Williams). Overture "Russlall and Ludmilla" cilestral concerto composers, and at culiarly calls his "Romeo and Juliet" u.~ DR. JOHN RUTH LEDGE (played by Arthur Peterson) is the kind of min- THE REVEREND TOM BANNION (played by Frank Behrens) ia Dr. Ruth- ister that people prefer as a leader and an auoeiate. He'a a man with a ledge'. recentll( appointed a"istant in his church In Five Points. At first strong and definite phitosophy of life, both thl, life and the next. He's a there were differences of opinion between Dr. Ruthledge and the Rev. Ban believer in justice and a superb example of toleranee. He translates into nion. However, the latter has come around to Dr. Ruthledge's way of think human and soeial action every word of Ihc Spirit in which he believes. Dr. ing on most points, and they are now In complete agreement. A romance is Ruthledge has that rare virtue, even among understanding people, of being rapldly.growlng up between the Rev. Bannion and Dr. Ruthledge's daughter, able to guide not only the simple in heart but also those Who have become Mary. Their relationship. however, cannot seem to release itself from the bitter through Dversophistication. He's a man among mlnistera and men shadow of the man whom Mary first loved and c;m.not forget, ~e.d Holden liTHE GUIDING LIGHT" is the light of tolerance. It is the light that guides the life of Dr. John Ruthledge, a minister of the gospel. With the cosmo politan community of Five Points as its locale, "The Guiding Light" traces through the dramatic and spiritual histories of a group of distinctly varied character-types. Cynics and saints, aggressor!. and media tors, soul-builders and soul-destroyers these are only a few of the strange array of human types which are shepherded by Dr. Ruthledge. His profound sympathy, sound philosophy and reassuring voice assert themselves for good in aU the con flicts of life in Five Points. Another impor tant character is Ellis Smith ("Mr. Nobody from Nowhere"), a strange mixture of cynic and sentimentalist who. though disillusioned with nearly everything about him, has a deeply generous spirit for those who are penetrating enough to see_ "The Guiding Light," with its dramatic spiritual theme, ranh as one of the most popular serials on the air. The writer is the prolific Chicago authoress, Irna Phillips. "The Gui~ing Light" may be heard Monday through Friday over an NBC net at 3:45 p.m. EST, 2:45 p.m. CST 1:45 p.m. MST, 12:45 p.m. PST. NED HOLDEN (played by Ed Prentiss) was .""00''''.' .....",._ ...."""" .... Rom ..... MARY RUTH LEDGE (played by Sarah Jane reared from childhood by Dr. Ruthledge Wells) has all the deep humanity and un_ when the boy was deserted by his mother. Deeply derstanding of her father. but there are times in love with Mary Ruthledge, Ned suddenly en NEXT WEEK: when even these traits seem to be of no avail countered a ,pi ritual eri,is which caused him to in helping h er. Despite her admiration for the break down completely. He left and married "DOC BARCLAY'S Rev. Bannion, life has somehow narrowed its Torchy Reynolds, but returning to Five Points scope for her. She cannot seem to forget he realized that it I, still Mary he really loves DAUGHTERS" that sh~ and Ned Holden were once in love 12 Bi n p TORCHY REYNOLDS (played by Gladya Heen) is alowly coming to the ROSE KRANSKY (played by Ruth Bailey) i. the prototype of the career reallntlon that Ned Holden did not marry her for love, even though girl of the twel'ltieth century, who ia so intent on being a complete indi hla eonaeloua intention. may have been aineere and honeat. She I, beginning vidual dependent upon no one that she falla Into trouble through her own to understand that he married her beeauee, on that bitter, wretched night deficiency. She doesn't understand people becaule Ihe prefera to stand on the San Franelaeo waterfront when he flret ran Into her, ehe gave him alone, and that lack of understanding bringl about her downfall. She Wa1l the kindnen and comfort which thoae who have been beaten themaelvea tricked into an affair by the book-publisher, Cunningham. Now, besrlng know belt how to give. Torchy is convinced that Ned, however loyal he EIIiI Smith's name but calling herself Mill Smith, Ihe hal put her baby Into may be. Itlll loves Mary Ruthledge and cannot put her out of hi. life a nUriery II if freeing herself of II fetter to Itrlke out again_lone as before MfiS. KRANSKY (played by Mignon Schreiber) F REDRI KA LANG (played by MargOiret Ful- F ORT PEARSON, OInnouncer for "The Guiding 10lt her huaband through death. Another ler) il the my.tery woman who came to Five Ught," came Into radio II a alnglng an Ihoek il the Iplritua' waywardneu of her daugh Point. unknown to anyone except Or. Ruth nouncer. He waa born In Chattanooga, Tenn., and ter, ROle. whOle headltrong Independence hal led ledge, When It wa. dlKovered that Ihe was the when only two years old moved with hla parents her astray. Mrl. Kransky II. however, one of mother who had deserted Ned Holden yeara ago stili further aouth to Mlululppl. He held singlng thOle rare perlonl of the old Khool whOle Itrong becauae her huaband waa a convict and Ihe did and-announcing jobs ;IIi various polna in the faith keepi alive In her the fe$Ung that "some' not want the boy disgraced, Ned w .. 10 uplet he South, then came to NBC In 1935_ He la married; day ROle will find hetlelf." She Ilvet In that hope left town. When he returned, he waa Irtlll bitter hrs favorite hobble. are yaehtln" and flahlng r lIn 13 NEW Herbert THE RADIO NEWSREEL Guardia York W in honol" Melton a potenti what the the air i spots on making t over the Wednesd team's c shift to t1\ They sta~ left New newal co vacation Heatter i vacation program and rew Circle" thirteen The Lyn have be Hall Qua that the trio has The ne scale is News to Radio Guide readers this week I, the cutti that a new cover idea makes its bow. It's an idea that humanizes the cover appeal and identifies it with you, the reader•. "Tizzie Rather than continue the conventional cus Pearce P tom of plastering celebrities on covers, more, bu; we'll present, from time to time, pictures able to f'l of everyday folk that everyone knows. stock, wh) Kate Smith, radio songstress and favorite perlon . This week we glorify a grand old couple Dorothy I..amour, radio singer and film beauty, gave "Tizzie," f) ality, Will firal private citiZen to receive Legion whose lives have been made richer and New York audiencl!$ a thrill recently when she ap of Valor medal for "outstandlng Americaniam" fuller through the medium of broadcasting peared on Paramount Theater stage in movie earong Sill·s pel! has filed Pearce fo} of contraCl and Abnet Chicago fo en route te paid off a ton Brick. him a bag When Jal their gueS" in the sal mention t: got all abl cast for th up at the announcec boys broa Texas, is a local qu Parks Jot For the fint time in air-transportation history, an airplane has been Four radio actresses were chosen by Chicago Vassar College Alumni Club tional rec named in honor of a radio program. An American Airlines flagship was as candidates for "Miss Television of 1939." Above, L.. to A.: Joan Winters. and-answ christened CBS "Howie Wing". for the serial sketch of the same name Louise Fitch. Fran Carlon. Ernest Newman. couturier. Betty Lou Gerson the honOl a few fin answers 1 pay-off i! questions Ihe Vox Abe S, broadcas· Crom l\1a sentative This carr bro:ldcas reports A later hadn·t t gi\·es yo· to get t Experts J ...... ~. Severl Father Coughlin makes news often. Because station WMCA in New York Four society girls presented their demands, with banners and speech. to Glen Adams barred his program when he refused to submit advance script, loyal fOl Gray. leader of Casa Loma band. but he refused; will keep playing with. crophon. lowers swarm the station every Sunday carrying banners of protest out socialite vocalists during his stay at New York's Waldorf· Astoria Hotel I' 5,U 14 1 /16 I' NEW YORK. - President Roosevelt, Governor Paul and Minneapolis. For the next lew days the Herbert H. Lehman of New York and Mayor La mailman brought sacks of mail from listeners in Guardia of New York, will speak from the New the Twin Cities area mentioning the lact that the IN NEW YORK York World's Fair grounds on Sunday, April 30, above statement was an error. The sponsor was in honor of the official opening ot the Fair ... James greatly pleased at aU the mail, because he didn't Melton and Frank Black's orchestra auditioned lor realize the program had so many listeners in that a potential sponsor last week . Hope it isn't trus sector. Just for the records, the reason fol' the huge what they say about the RCA Magic Key leaving mall response was due to a suggestion in Cedric the air in a couple 01 weeks. It's one of the bright Adam's popular colwnn in the Minneapolis Star ~I)()ts on the early Sunday dialing ... Another story for all his readers to write FPA and inform him making the rounds is that Paul Whiteman will take that Lake Minnetonka is not between St. Paul and over the Burns and Ailen spot In addition to his Minneapolis. Wednesday night airing at the completion ot the team'S current series. Lum and Abner will not To I •• or Not to ••• shirt to the spot vacated by Amos 'n' Andy on NBC. Studio 3B(ee) at NBC had to be quarantined for They stay right where they are, and before they almost two days after a handful of bees went off left New York, they tucked away a one-year re on a rampage at the end of Dave Elman's "Hobby newal contract which allows them an eight-week Lobby" program on March 22. Elman had presented vacation during the summer season ... Gabriel a hobbyist who trains bees to do tricks (escaping HeaUer isn't so lucky: he will have just three weeks is not one of them) and this tellow had gone into vacation Irom "We, the People" this swnmer. The a net-enclosed cage to do his act. The excitement program goes off the air the latter part at August started when he stepped out of the cage and, despite and returns in September. . I hear tell "The precautionary measures, permitted a squadron of Circle" will get a permanent vacation after the bees to step out with him. It was a great sight to Phil B.ker, L.anny Ro.-, and Ben Bernie chat with D.ve Elm.n after rehearalng for all.celeb watch from the enclosed control-room, but to the thirteen weeks are up, which is just as well ... r ity appearance an Elman'. "Hobby L.obby" The Lyn Murray Singers on the Fred Allen show studio audience it was as frightening as an air raid. have become the Town Fortunately, all this took Hall Quartet, which means place after Hobby Lobby that the Mullin Sisters was off the air, and the trio has been dropped. people that were lett in The new AFRA wage the studio got out in a scale is responsible (or AIRIALTO big hurry. The hobbyist- the cutting down. owner was the only one to stay behind and he set You won't be hearing about capturing his bees "Tizzie Lish" on the AI LOWDOWN with a net. Bright and Pearce p r ograms any early the fo llowing morn more, but Al won't be ing. the Radio Rogues, able to torget Bill Com ready to broadcast from stock, who portrayed 3B, scampered like mad "Tizzie," for quite a while. out of the studio shouting, Bill's personal manager "Bees!" It seems that not has filed suit against all of the insects had been Pearce for alleged breach captured. Thereafter the of contract ... When Lum doors were locked and a and Abner stopped off in quarantine was estab Chicago for one broadcast lished. More than twenty en route to the Coast, they four hours later, the quar paid off announcer Carl antine was lifted, the ton Brickert by handing BY MARTIN LEWIS doors were opened, jani- him a bag full 01 pennies. tors gave the valiant bees When Jack Benny was 1 dustpan funeral, and L.eft to right: Edmond Abel, Jeri Anne Raphael, their guest a few weeks ago, he received his salary the Il;lcident was declared closed. J ackie Grimes. Betty Jane Tyler. of NUa in the same manner. Oh yes, I musn't forget to Mack'. "Let', Pretend," exhibit Eatter finery mention that the aforementioned Mr. Brickert for Last Wednesday night I went over to the CBS got all about L and A having to do a repeat broad Playhouse to watch Jim McWilllams put on his cast for the West Coast listeners, so he forgot to show Ask-It-Basket program. I don't remember when up at the studio-and he is the same fellow who r laughed so much, so long or so loud. The big howl announced their show (or several years when the did not take place while the program was on the boys broadcast [rom the Windy City .. Houston, air; it happened during the after-broadcast enter_ Texas, is proud of the fact that for the second time tainment which McWilliams puts on each week. Ie a local quiz program was promoted to the networks. you're in the audience and have talent, you cnn Parks Johnson's Vox Pop was the first to get na feel free to step upon the stage to do your stuff. tional recognition, and now Dr. 1. Q., a question Several of the ushers got up and sang and did quite and-answer show which originates in a theater, gets weU. Two of Columbia's early morning entertainers, the honors .. Which reminds me that there are Charles Stark and the network's pianist-whistler, a few firms in the business of selling questions and Bob Byron, put on a hilarious act that got a great answers to radio stations for their quiz shows. The hand, but the big laugh was yet to come. While pay-off is that Parks Johnson was offered a set of McWilliams was on the stage announcing the next questions by one of the outfits, which he used on act, a middle-aged gent in tuxedo came staggering the Vox Pop show months before. down the aisle-but I mean staggedng. Jim saw him and immediately gave the ushers the signal by Abe Schechter, who is in charge of all special yelling "Gendarme--one stew." The man fell into broadcasts at NBC, received the following cable a seat and it was quite apparent that he didn't trom Max Jordan, the network's European repre know where he was. Jim went on to tell a story sC'lltative: "Don't urgtnt me tonight am dead tired." while the inebriated gentleman gazed about his This came after a week-end of many trans:lllantic unfamiliar surroundings. The story related how he broadcasts which brought listeners in America the got into the wrong theater many years ago because reports ot Hitler's advances into Czechoslovakia. two theaters were right next to one another and A later cable informed Schechter that Jordan he imagined that is what happened to the unex hadn't been to bed lor thirty-nine hours, which pected visitor. Sure enough, he guessed right; the gi\'es you an idea of what work is entailed in order man had a ticket for "Leave It to Me," which was to get these special broadcasts 10 you. playing next door. So McWilliams, feeling that the gent might have missed some of the nwnbers lrom Exp.rtl N•• d More J"formatJa". ,.'.a •• the show, went into a fast routine of aU the h it Several broadcasts ago the expert Franklin P. songs, including an impersonation of Mary Martin LoadIng the 125-year-old coach in which MBS Adams stated into the "Information, Please" mi singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and Sophie announcers and celebritiet will r ide down 5th crophone that Lake Minnetonka was between St. (Continued on Page 38) Avenue. describing the 1939 Easter Parade /' I,U 15 HOLLYWOOD.-For one straight year, Rudy program were killing time by swapping stories Vallee has been urging hi, sponsor to let him act in which might not be published but at least wcre IN HOLLYWOOD those dramatic sketChes heard on his Variety Hour, funny when the men began to suspect that the but until last week, it looked as If for once Rudy lovely canary of the troupe wasn't catching on at wasn't going to get what he went arter. However, all but was feigning her laughter. So they secretly on March 30, the sponsor relented; Rudy became a framed on her by electing One of their numbers to supporting actor to the extremely capable Claude tell a boresome, wandering and meaningless tale Rains. How good he was, your observer can't say at which they would ali laugh at the proper cue at this writing-as the writing is being done betore signa\. After ten minutes of conversation. the nar the broadcast ... But back of that victory hides a rator finally reached the supposed pay-ofT lint., most typical story of the Vallee determination. His which was, "So the doctor told him he had sclE'rosis radio contract permits Rudy a certain number of of the liver!" EveryOne laughed-and the canary paid guest appearances on other programs each year. all but rolled on the floor. Then, regaining her com You haven't heard him, though, because VaUee posure, she said, "J shouldn't listen to stories likE' instructed his agents not to accept any guest spots that, but I just can't help laughing:· Then thE' group unless the script permitted him to act! He turned really howled. This will let the songbird know how down all bids for his service simply as a crooner, she was taken. comedian or master of ceremonies. With Rudy, the obsession became acting or bust. Trouble was, most Hollywood's FO 'lorlt. Daddy radio producers probably had the lear that if Rudy Last week your cinemaland spy spent a mo;;( were cast as an actor, he might be a bust. We shall enjoyable day in San Francisco, where he ftew to hear what we shall hear. We went to his last motion catch the premiere at Irene Rich's starring play, "A picture. Broom fOI" the Bride," by Jaques Deval, and a very Rudy Vallee, In Hollywood t o do a new picture, worthy comedy-drama It was, too. But, returning ,hown Iqulrlng beaut1ful Barbara Brewster. H is show orlglnatel from the Weat Coast these day. It's "" Sirongi to Hollywood by United Mainline,·, he struck up a Last year when the University of Southern Cali- conversation with the plane's stewardess, a Miss tornia established its new McNeill, and asked her radio department, the col- where she had taken her lege's officials thumbed nurse training. She re down the proposal that plied, "At Cedars of Le· they confer an honorary banon," which happens to degree upon Amos 'n' HOLLYWOOD be largely patronized by Andy as a gesture to cal1 movie and !"adio stars. attention to the school's "Who," he asked, "is the addition to its curriculum. most popular expectant The U. S. C. faculty SHOWDOWN father at Cedars of Le thought the A&.A degree banon?" The anS"Wer she stunt "beneath their dig gave: "Bing Crosby, but nity," regardless of the of course he's had lots o~ fact that Amos 'n' Andy practise. Bing is always have done as much to de- 50 thoughtful and cheery velop the radio dramatic with the nurses. We all technique as anyone ... loved him!" .. So. we So last year, Northwest might add, does Dixie ern University awarded Lee, his wife. Charlie McCarthy, a blockhead, the degree of Mcrgnlliunt Geltllr. "Master or Inuendo and George ('"Red") Corco Snappy Comebacks," and ran, comedy writer whose a couple 01 weeks ago, BY EVAt-!S PLUMMER works was last heard on New York University the Ai Jolson Show. -~ Clem McC.rthy. N Be aporta announcer, pin. a gave the dE!gree "Mistress passed away March 27 deputy_,herltt', badge on Shirley Temple. Clem of Amusement," to Dorothy Lamour, whose attain [rom complications tollowing a ruptured appendix. fulfill. year· old promlae to get one for petite star ments have definitely been more physical than Beloved by aU, "Red" was best remembered by his spiritual or mental. ex-partner, Ken Brown, who upon lea!"ning of Corcoran's death signed a blank check and sent it Off Liv. MIl" to Mrs. Corcoran with his note of condolence, which When Eddie Cantor's post-broadcast anti-Hitler read: "My bank balance Is __ Use all or any part jokes were objected to by a couple of German of it." And he meant it. Plums to you, Ken Brown. Americans March 27 and the latter lett the studio I'm sure that Red is smiling down upon you. theater and were set upon by Cantor sympathizers, the peculiar part of the set-up was that a police loebtog. Go1n9,·On squad car arrived by call before the brawl began~ At the Jack Benny show April 2: Eddie ("Roch indicating that the couple might have been Nazi ester·') Anderson, who will be seen as Uncle Peter "plants" and the whole stunt framed by pro-Nazis in "Gone With the Wind," announcing the opening who were out to belittle Cantor ... Dick Powell in downtown Los Angeles of his colored night-club isn't wonied at all these days about motion-picture known as "Rochester's"; Eddie also moaning over contracts. Says he, "I've saved my money and if the long-shot his Jell-O show pals talked him ofT the Tuesday Night Party broadcast goes the way of, and which won at odds of bettcr than 200 to one: I hope it does, I don't give a hoot if I never make Sam (Schlepperman) Hcarn rcjoining his mates and another picture!" . William Paley, the CBS head incidentally seeing hIs wife for the first time in thf' man, in town, and said, "The movie producers issue seven months he's been on tour-and his new home so many conflicting statements about radio; I'm which she built whilc he was away. Phil Harris afraid much of it is milksop for their exhibitors." I"evealing his new song composition, "What's the Paley also promised CBS would build two more Matter with Dixie?" ... At Lux Theater March 20: big audience studios in Hollywood, would not com Clark Gable day, meaning extra police guards at mit himself whether he preferred sound-drama doors and ..... indows, more traffic jams and a tripled broadcasts better than television dramas, and as army of autograph coUectors and fans-who almost sured that the CBS look·see transmitter in New failed to recognize Gable with his Rhett Butler York would be on the air by June 15 ... The sideburns and hair style .. April 2 at Screen Guild other night, veteran restaurateur George Rector, Show: Virginia Verrill and Bob Burns recalling old fully grease-painted, was about to make his tele times; both made their Gilmore Circus radio bow vision bow before W6XAO, the Don Lee station nine years ago when Ginny was thirteen years old here, when power failed. "Might just as well," he . Any week at Burns" AUen program: An in quipped, "have gone on in blackface!" formal jam SfCssion taking over the instrumt'nts Recovered from a long Ulnea, Marian Jordan, just before airtime. Talent swinging it includes "Molly" to "MeGee" fan', wlll.Clon return to air. Story "bo.t 0 . Story ClifT Arquette at the piano; Elliot Lewis, bass fiddle: Above: Arriving In Hollywood with Ion James A bunch of the boys and gir ls cast on a famous (Continued on Page 39) 16 CHICAGO.-Up until 1932 every show that played Suite" he's composing ... What a change of pace! at the Eighth Street Theater at Eighth and Wabash Catherine McCUne has taken up chess to furnish a here in Chicago had the curtain at half·mast before balance for her fast-talking role of Clara Potts in IN CHICAGO it started. It was a jinx theater. Practically every "Scattergood Baines." That reminds me that back show that braved its curse was a ftop, lasting only a fn the days of Rex Maupin's Aces of the Air on few days or several weeks. The record run was, KYW here in Chicago there was a saxophonist in significantly, thirteen weeks. Then in that dark year the orchestra who took my measure consistently in of 1932 the "National Barn Dance," with the cocki· correspondence chess. Wonder if Eddie Swan can ness born of eight years of su~ess as a radio show. play the game as good as ever? ... Smiling, singing moved into the jinx theater with all its yodels WLS announcer Hal Culver is thinking of moving and cowbells. At the same time a shabby, haU into a big house this summer to allow more oppor wild cat strayed into the playhouse. Nobody knew tunity to follow his hobby, raising Kerry Blue tef the why, the whence, nor the how of its coming. riel's ... If your eyes get bloodshot when you listen It just appeared. And the jinx disappeared. The to Cincinnati's "Avalon Time," it's because this cat and the "Barn Dance" chased the hoodoo right show on the NBC·Red network features not only out the rear exit, and the show has been a per· "Red" Foley and "Red" Skelton but also a vocalist, petual success ever since. The cat is a female, and Janette, who has flaming-red hair ... Skip Farrell some maintain she's the mother of the kittens who and Emily Vass, who sing duets 011 the "Barn were martyred to make strings for Arkie's fiddle. Dance," make a fine-looking young couple at the She's a very unfriendly cat, except to the stage· microphone, and maybe they're beginning to think manager of the theater, who is somewhat of a they'd look all right together in other surroundings guardian. She comes around the cast only when ... It's almost the "Inside Story" of Omaha. Three they gather for the Saturday night post·broadcast important men connectc(! with the NBC "Inside feed, but she never deserts the theater. She used Story" show, engineer Bob Jensen, announcer Paul to be known only as the "Phantom of the Eighth Luther and character actor Ray Suber got their Stt'eet Theater," but now she has a real name, start at Omaha, Nebr. "Kitty Kilocycles," thanks Year. ago a tenor Idol, now " Dean of B.llad to a contcst conducted by Hewl Hotes Singers," Henry Burr Itlll h ... ability to please the WLS "Smile-a-While" It was shocking news listenerl on "National Blrn Dance," NBC. Sat. program and participated to their associates and in by listeners from forty friends, as well as listen one states. To heighten LET'S LOOK ers, that young CBS an the mystery of it all, K. nouncer Don Hancock and K. just spits out a vindic his wife, with their two tive "plflft" when inter- children, were involved viewed. BACKSTAGE in an automobile accident while returning from a 'eNoeality 'arade trip into Indiana. At the Anne Seymour, who present writing, Don's eld plays the title role in "The est son, eight years old, Story or Mary Marlin," appears to be the only celebrated her second an one seriously injured, al niversary in that part though aU were battered. March 29. In those two Dick Post did the pinch years a lot of ether has hitting on the air for Don. blown over the bridge, The curtain has rung and Mary's life has been down on the series of erammed with evenllul- dramas enacted by Bert ness. Her husband (play Lytell over NBC-Blue on ed by Bob GrIffin), a BY DON MOORE Friday nights; it is suc- United States Senator, has ceeded by a third "Vocal disappeared and Mary has Varieties" show, spon taken his place in the Senate. Her son Davey (Do sored by the same company and featuring Jerry lores Gillen), who was an infant when the story be Cooper, popular baritone. gan, is now walking and talking. Miss Seymour, It's a big tribute to a local program and to Tom who has been in radio since 1932, made her stage my Dorsey's new magat.ine, "Bandstand," that Don McNeill. m.c .. and Jack Baker, tenor Itar. debut at the age of twelve, when she took part in WCFL reee:ived almost 25,000 replies in five days to of NBC "Breakfast Club," alwaYI have a good time at the mike with their good· natured banter a banquet scene in Helen Hayes' "To the Ladies." an offer on Eddie Chase's "Make-Believe Dance· She joined NBC in 1933 to play the lead in "Grand land" of a subscription to Dorsey's new publication. HoteL" She is now one of the best-known and Mail was received from 1,250 towns in nineteen most popular actresses in radio. states and Canada. Inside story about the recent signing of the Chi cago City Opera Co. with AGMA, the union for WlIy- opera artists, is that a radio actor was the guiding Does Don McNeill's "Breakfast Club" have such hand in the n!!gotiations. Leo Curley, who plays a loyal and tremendous audience-unless one big Uncle Ed in "Backstage Wife" and Mr. Boswell in reason is that it's clean as well as jolly? "Those Happy Gilmans," and has been a regular Have I neglected until recently giving you more performer on many of radio's biggest dramatic news and pictures of the lesser· publicized sustain shows, has also long been an official of Actors ing artists, if it isn't because you're just now be Equity and active in entertainment· union work. ginning to make your wish!!s known? The Chicago Opera was the last important opera Isn't MBS' "Curtain Time" given more recogni company in the country to sign with AGMA. tion as an excellent dramatic program? The now oldest team in radio celebrated their Do so may people listen regularly to Mutual's seventeenth anniversary on the air recently. Since "Your Sunday Date" and "Pageant of Melody" un Ernie Hare died, Eddie and Fannie Cavanaugh rate less it's because they're outstanding musical pro· the "oldest team" title. They started in 1922 on grams? KYW, then in Chicago. The gossip·and-information with-music pair have conducted about 5,000 broad· Crouroad. Callrt 0' HOllar casts and interviewed some 3,000 entertainment Nominating this week for recognition for out· celebs. Congrats, E. and F., tor a real record of standing radio achievement NBC's versatile man con.>islency. of-all-roles Art Kohl. You don't hear his real name often, but he turns out ftne performances in many Tlr.I_, a e th SJdeU,IIt regular and special parts. His work includes "Girl "Contented Hour" maestro Marek Weber believes Alone," "Mary Marlin," "Lights Out," "Story ot the in ftrst-hand information, so he donned a sandhog's Month," "Inside Story," and many others. Art is helmet and descended forty-five feet below the slightly over torty, got his dramatic start in the George Sherman, g·year·old Ion of NBC come· surface of Chicago's streets to get some atmosphere A. E. F., and he's a mighty nice guy. A toast to dl.n, Ranlom Sherman, hal hobby of miniature from the new subway construction for a "Subway Art and his art. 8Ound·effecla, wal recently an "Hobby Lobby" 17 LISTENING TO LEARN Educational Program Classifier GREAT PLAYS-Study manual for noted author and journalist held in those who wish to keep posted on leg the entire series of programs; dhitrib high esteen at the capital for his islative measure!'l before Congress. LISTENING AIDS uted by the National Broadcasting thorough knowledge and keen judg Company, Radio City, New York; ment in matters of national economy, price, ten cents. John T. 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Authorities on current dio Digest, 731 Plymouth Court, Chi problems "hash over" outstandmg Aids (Page 19). weekly broadcasts; distributed by the cago, Ill.; price, twenty-five cents a National Broadcasting Company, Ra events that affect the common weal. Our Amerle.n School .. NBC. See copy or $2.00 for a twelve-month sub c ...... , dio City, New York: price (worksheets "'. ."'n .... . "Parent Aids" under Personal-Social scription. .. ~-"..... Problem.t (Page 19). in sets of twelve), ten cents; (teacher's Unl ... erllty of Chicago Round Table manual) ten cents. Discunlon, NBC. Lively treatment of Thursdays AMERICAN SCHOOL OF THE AIR timely topics characteriz.es this half Parlde of ProgreA In Foodl, NBC. - Teacher's manual and classroom CURRENT EVENTS hour. Experts and prominent ftgures in Dramatiz.ing legends and facts about guide containing supplementary facts both national and international affairs food drawn from the whole history of for the entire semester's schedule; are matched to defend divergent view distributed free to teachers by the Co points on subjects 0.1 momentous con man, from the era of the caveman Commentary . •• cern in spontaneous, straightforward, down to the present. lumbia Broadcasting System, 485 Mad c ...... , ison Ave., Ncw York. Also a special Sundays uncensored discussion. '.00 .... . booklet containing supplementary data c.~ .... ~ ... ,... .. : ...... : ...... Fridays for the Tales FTom Far and Near pro Hendrik Willem Vln Loon, NBC. grams; published by the Association World _ renowned author, illustrator The People'l Platform, CBS. Citiz.ens Men Behind the Starl, CBS. 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Veteran ,,00 ...... , ...... price to others, fifty cents a copy. like to learn or man's momentous sac news analyst and dean of radio com Amerlc.n Forum of the Air, M BS. riflces in the interest ot humanity. mentators, Kaltenborn interprets news Free discussion 01 controversial issues SCIENCE EVERYWHERE - Work (This sel"ies is a Federal Theatre ot the day, word-paints its background, by distinguished statesmen [rom the sheets to supplement weekly programs; Radio Division production). predicts its future. new Department of the Interior audi c ....,., distributed by the American Associa ...... ~.., .... c..to.' torium in Washington, D. C. After the .' ...... ", • 00 ...... ", tion (or the Advancement of Science .,"" ~.m. discussions by the main speakers, a LI ... e. of Grut Men, NBC. D'stlll (address Science Everywhere, Wash Tuesdays forum panel of four statesmen com guished as lecturer, author, critic. Dr. ington, D. 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A confusing appliC'ations. Unequaled {or (Con!inued on Page 19) 18 1,21 I' (History-Government, cussing the twelve different themes observation in animal and plant lire Fridays and other common things around them. Continued from Page 18) of the Federal Government's exhibit Men BehInd the Stars, CBS. Inti ...... ft for the 1939 New York World's Fair, 2'00 ..... CBS. In this series the contributions of cabinet members and other ranking mate glimpses into the lives or the men all races and nationalities to the great Wednesdays: "Your Health." See whose vision and courage have writ officials in this series reveal interest ten the fascinating pages of astronomy ness of the United States are drama ing information regarding the Govern "Health" under Personal-Sodal Prob- tized. lems. presented chronologically and dramati ment's participation in the social and cally. economic lile of the nation . 2,00...... Thu"days: "Ideas that Came True." c,., ... " ....ft c."... , ••.._" 's ..... o.n • . "'_ Mondays 71"" ...... '00 •. m. The evolution of present-day methods of communication and travel presented Saturdays Frontiers of Democracy, CBS. See Mondays in the popular style of the historical This Wonderful World, MBS. Men "American School of the Air" under Let', Talk It Over, NBC. Ladies are short story. Classroom Aids (Page 19). ," c,..... who study the stars know well many treated to their own quarter-hour 2,00..... •• m. "'00 •. ..,. ...'""i""00 ..... of the wonders of this world, and in Cavalcade of America, CBS. Empha thrice weekly. Comments on cultural Fridays: "Music Appreciation Hour." this series describe some of the most sizing the character traits of the men subjects are presented by distin interesting aspects. and women who helped build this na guished, nationally prominent persons. In this music workshop Dr. Walter ...... """,,., (Also Wednesday and Friday at this Damrosch analyzes types of composi .. " ...... 10,11 ...... lion, this series features significant tions, illustrates lunctions and effects episodes in American history. time.) s .... . ft c.""., of instruments, reviews and compares e.""., 12.,S ..... ••""""00 ...... "00 ...... "'''~-'', the works of outstanding composers to General •• Fridays Wednesdays promote an enjoyment 01 good music through an understanding of it. Sundays The Nation', Playhouse. M BS. This Of Men and Books, CBS. Professor ...... Con"" ;~ 2.00 •. m. ,.00 ...... '''00... a .... The World Is Yours, NBC. See "Arts is a wise choice for the listener who Frederick reviews contemporary books and Sciences" under History (Page 18). likes to combine the practical with the and comments about their authors entertaining. The flexible fields of bi with the keen understanding of a man American School of the Air, CBS ography and history are treated with who not only reads books but writes Mondays authenticity in enjoyable dramatiza them as well. Mondays: "Frontiers of Democracy." Science In the News, NBC. For the Having pointed out the nature and tion. C ...... • ..i~< many who are interested in the latest 3.00 ...... "... ,. ~.."ft • abundance of the frontiers that arose •• 30 ..... developments of science but cannot with the passing of those our forefa understand the technical language thers knew, this series now turns to usually used to describe the advances CLASSROOM AIDS treat the accomplishments, present ac and complex applications of scientific PERSONAL-SOCIAL tivity and the future on these new work. frontiers...... " c." .... ~ . ..00 ...... c ...... , .aoe'~< """ .... . Nation's School of the Air, MBS ...... ,,~o 2.~O ..... ,.m. '''30 •. m. Parent Aiels ••• Mondays: First period-"Highl1ght Tuesdays: "Music and the Friendly Tuesdays Ing the Headlines," current events for Arts." Popular impression credits in ScIence Everywhere, NBC. See Wednesdays junior and senior high schools. Second spiration almost exclusively as the "Classroom Programs" period-"Backyard Adventures," na under Class- Your Health, NBC. See "Health." guiding lorce of great composition. In room Aids. ture lessons for elementary grades. this series is demonstrated the in Our American Schools, NBC. A se " C.n".' ries directed at parents of school-age '0.""..... '.M.. .,"" ...... stances where great composers have Wednesdays been stimulated by other arts. Each children that attempts to acquaint Tuesday.: First period-"Guideposts New Horizons, CBS. See "American them with the changes that have taken broadcast treats the relation of music to Living," vocational guidance for to one of the various other friendly School of the Air" under Classroom place in the classroom since the era junior and senior high schools. Second Aids. of the little red schoolhouse. arts to show how many great works period_"And So It Happened," his resulted from this relationship...... 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SllIry III Mary Mulln, Ikltch: WLS (lw.15.21) ff :OO WMT,!>b,w: Kitchell CBS·Ann Leal. or,"nlst: (I... .ketch: WIS (.w.15,21) 21.51) Jo~nlOn: WISN wraM weco CBS· BI, Sisler. sht(h : WfBM NBC-Meet tile Songwriter : WOWO WOC·Of Inttrtlt 10 Yoa 1 :45 WIJB\I KMOX WMBD CBS-Miry LH Tlylor: K~OX WCCO WB8M WMBD K:\IOX WOWO.rarm Fl ..bH: Billboard WrBM WBBM WM80 WOC C B S· TCI~r Town Tlmpos: WISN WROK.On Ihe 101.11 NBC_Smllin· Ed McConnell, WfBM WTAQ CBS· 8ach.lor's Children ••ht( h : NBC·Voun, Wjd~er Brown. WTAO·AIl lor Ihe Lldi": Jane KMOX WCCO OOnll: WIS IYLW (lw.15.21) NBC ·Ould Hilum. skltch: KSO II'.IIAQ WHO WillE skttcb: WMAQ WHO WIRE NBC -The Clrters IIf Elm Street, Fifer CBS·Muslt In th, Air : (0.... NBC·Ranch 80YI: WBOW WOOL sketch: II'MAQ KSO WTMJ·Hymn. of All Cburches CB S·Rhythm';rti: WCCO NB C-V,gilbonds: WcrL WBOW 21.57) MBS-Slnlling Strings: KWK WTMJ 1'.'18.\ KMOX·Ltt's Compar. Not .. 11:30 NBC-CadelJ: KSD WrAM Mra, Riley'. Sboppell' ~,~~ChIfIIY Freshwater's Orc h.: MBS·Kttp Fit 10 Music wltlt KW K.Tu: ... Drift.r C8S·RomlnCt 01 HtI.n Trent : NB C·Edward MnHugh, Gospel Guid. Wallact: KWK WII Br WAAF·LeI'. Dlnct KMOX WBUM KWKP""lic Plradi" WBAA Tht Denli.1 SlY' SinKer: WLS WLW ( ..... 15_21) WGS Kup Fit 10 Mu.ic KSO·MlSttr Canary Strtllad. NBC-Nal'l rllm " Homl Hou r : \\'IEASIOritl 01 Pen~ & Paul WAAF-Rhythm & Romanc. WBBM·Hurt of Julia Bll ke WIBA WMAQ WBOW KWK N8C·Bruklul Club. WOOW WAAF fooli.h Qunlio..l WBOW·PreHnt!: COIlnly Api_ '_'W WII8F-Tho .. HIPPY Gilmanl WCFL-Variety Prim. wfAM-Lou Pike 15.21) 9 :00 WillI' aUdlllH1 Jlour WFAM·P,cific F.ndiH cultural Agfllt NB C-Story of tht Month, sktleh : WIIA Homemahn WGS·Jant Anderson, pi.nill WCCO·Hollywood Discoyer;" an~~~:=~lr."'~~~.:. "."","'~b.l~ II'IBA ~h"Fpinl with I)wolhy .WHIP·Monitor View> lb. N..... KWK WBOW wcn WIBA hw. *WH8FN ..... s: Colltle Chapel: WCFl.-Peekers 'a the Plolry 0011 of I'Ilal," AAA "PN_P' 15.21 ) WILL·Markll. WINO·Mornin~ Rhylbm oa "ProR'''' la Iplnttu ... ' \\'1"0 J''',my DUll, oD1'l'bo1I011P Hi$ M.jesty. lho Baby WFAM·ln Iht Radio U_liPt AdjOltnlnl.·· CBS·Pretty Kitty Ktlly. iktlcll : WHIP Four Men & a Son, WISN·Tonic Tu".. WGN·Manhatt.n Motller WJJO:llid MOt,,;n, M.Iodi .. WJBC ~Ille Qu,rt.1 NBC-WIltr. to Look lor Hetp: \\"FB_\I WC,O kMOX WKBB WKB8WPA Prgm. WILL·Farm MlJ:Ilgtmtln: Musi~ WHA·Music Apprecialioa WBB:\! WISN WOC WISIl·Mu"icip,1I Coun WJJOWomtn'. Exchln!, Prpa. WHBF·Toby & Susie Wl.S . II'KBH';.,.." Bafl':;n Counter WKBB-Si"gi,,~ Sirinil W I S~Gtms 01 M,lody WHIP·UnivtrH of Mel""" KSO,ThI Buccaneers Ocltl NBC-C.ntrll City. sktle~: WIRE IVMT-S'''Cin, Slrinll' WKBII-This Woman's World \\'JBC-Thnt~r Time WHO.Jud, & Jane WAAF·lnlerlude: U ....I~k Re WIIO KSO WMAQ woe Evtryd.y .1 PetelWll'. .WLW·N~I: Liy"IOCk: Ri..... , WOII'O·LivtSlock Marktls: Dish· WJJD-Viclor H, Lindl .. l" WIBA,Linda', Finl LoYe porI: W.lkalho~ MBS·To be InllOunced: WLW Wnthff: Marh" WILL.pJ.. nl_Tuder Forulll . WBAA·Home Maken; Ntwi pan Pu~ WK8B·HolI""ood Rt'PO'"ler . Nrws: WROK WOWO WTAD WKBH.llomt ECODomi« Prim WMT \I)".t & 'lar" WINO·Sob Atcber. ....op WCCO-nUH Happy GilmlAl II'ROK R3di(, Allclion WOC·M ..ktl Openiugs WMT WSUI·Famou. 110m ... WLW·Lindl'. nul Lov. WIRE-Sioci!l' S...... WCFL-N",,: Mu,it Hall of ",OWO·t.i.nd.'. f"ltSl Lon WJBC.()rpo MtiodiH *\I'AAF.News: Melody Rtvi"," WTAO-~Ia Ptrkins. sktlch * \I'ROK S~~: RevoMnl: SUlle FI"" II .NIIWI: WROK WMT WOIVO NBC'The Carters 01 Elm Stfnt, WJJD,Criminal Court Inluvi.... s MORNING WTAD WAAF THURSDAY, April 13, 1939 ~ketch: WMAQ KSD WKBBWhat', No-w WFAM·Concert Time K~IOX·Let's Corop ••e Noin WKBII-Club Calendar WGN·Mornint Melodieo KWK·Tall Drifter W)IT.MI,pc Kitchen 8:00 o.m, CST WHA Your lIealth II"AAF·Let'. Oaoct WOC-OI Interest 10 You *NBC·News BrukllSl CIII~: * WHBF·Ne,.. : Color in Music MBS·John Mttull's Choir Loll: WSUI·YuterdaYI Musical F,· WBAA·P.·T. A. Prim WOWOFarm Flash": Billboard WCFt (sw.21.5) WIIIP·German ~Iu;'cal Sho.. KIVK WMT VOtitll WBB~I·Htlrl of Jutia Blake WROK ·On Ihe Mall CBS~ ilton Chnlt$ Reull" WILL·Anleriun Lit~rature * N...... , IYISN WMBD WTAD,Almanac WBOW-Pre~nts: Count) Agri· WSUI'F.~II, Foods & Faaeitl WKBB WTAQ WFAM WFB~I WI NO Ht~llim' MuSl' WBOIY·lndiana Statt Tuchen' WTAQRhythm " Romance cultural Agenl WTAD·All for th~ Ladiel: hili' WJJD·B.,.worth B.eadcast Colleo:-. Prgm, WnlJ·Blue Room En«mhl. WCCO·Ho!1ywood Di!coverie. Fifer CBS·Richard MiXwtll, songs: WKBH.Nine O'Oock Fro!ic (lw·21.57) W(;Fl·Bltterswett Metodits 10:30 IVCFL.P""ke .. in the Plnlry WTAQ-Illt. & Encor" WlS·The P.airie Sweelhurh WGNMulical Mail 80. CBS·Big Sister, ,ketch : WCCO IVFAi\I.ln tbe Radio Limtl4lht WTMJ ·Hymn , of AU Churches Mu,ic.1 Cloclt: WROK WIBA WMBO·M"stn,er, W.. th .. *Ntwo: WJJO WKBH WMBO WIISF·Huber lIarmonie-o II'BIlM KMOX WMBD WFBM WGN·Manhattan Mother, ,ketcb 11:30 WSUI ,Reli,ion & the Prohlem. 01 WIND Waltl Time WIIA·~lusic Appreciation CBS·R~mance al Htltn Tnnt, WGN WIRE Democracy NBC·V 0 u n g Widder Bro ..n; 8:15 WKBB·TodaYI Alm.nlC lketch: WIRI:-: II'MAQ WHO 1\'HBf·Toby & Susie Iketeh: IVBB~1 KMOX WTAQ Mornin, Potpourri WKBH .Music for Mil3dy WHIPU"ivtrst 01 Melody CBS·Ann LuI. 01'9,nlsl; WTAQ MBS·Keep Fi t to Musle .... ith NBC·NiI'l Fum &. Hom' Hou r; WTMJ,Whll'. New! WlW·Cent •• 1 City WIIO·Judy " Jane Gunt Spk ... : IVMAQ WBOW NBC·Band Goes to To .... n: KSO 9:15 WOWO·Modern Home Forum Wallaee: KWK WHBF WTBA. l.i nda·, First Lou WillA KWK (aw.15.]1) WLW NBC .John's OIMer Wife, sketCh: WROK·Mo.ninll Var;ttiu NBC·Pepper Veunfs Flmily: WILL·Currenl Economic ProJ.. 8peH ... , n,,!b l'on ~",.a CBS·Manhattan Mother, sketch WMAQ WII\E KSD WHO WSUI·Prim. Cllendar & Wuth" IVLS (sw-15,21) lellls on "ll'btn ,'u" n", Or }hke Report S,""'"U C".UI"~"; lJH<'Y Gibnan~ sketch CBS·Ann Lui, nrgutst: . WIIANew. Ie Vie ..', CBS·Mary Let n~lor: IYBB~I Woe·Thu.sday Shoppeu .WCFLSe_: MII";c Hill 01 IYFBM K~!OX liMBO WOC WJJO,\\'omt"', Ezchan,t 21.57) WIIBF MUlical ~Iood' WROK-Reveltrs Quartet Fomt MBS'Ch,,'ey freshwater', Orcb.: WKBB S;n~in~ Strin,. KSD·Clrolyn Pryce, food romm. WINO.P.il~ilb Holbrook. PI"",W! WK8H Thi, Wo",an'. Wo.ld \\SUI·Within the C"'"room, Go~ \\FAM II arlan 1I",ln 1:45 WKBHMulic in th~ Mod~ M~n· InlT WGN ...... ment " Social Wella .. Wf8M Town Critt: Hoosier far", *WLW No-w. Livntodt: River: Circlt CBS· Buhtlnr', Childrtn, sk~lch: KWK·Poetic Par.di... Weather: Ma.ket. * WTAD·F ..hion Parade: Ntw'S * WMAQTo lit ann ..... n«d: Ntws WTMJ.aeny & B<>h. sbteh .Wr.N-N .... K~IOX weco "" WAAF·Th. Orehellra Pli W~IT·Sonu 01 the I.land. WMT "yrl " 'h ••e WIIBF,Hymns of All Churches WCCO·To lit ."nounCII<1 WOC- Market Op'min~ 11:15 NBC·Bruklut C III b: WOOli' WROK,Towo Cr~r WlIlI'Variety lime WeFl·Better HOlan. 11111:: lIIulic WOWO·L,ndl·, Finl Lovt, sktt~b CBS'Her Honor, Nancy Jlmes, CBS·Mornlng Moods: (lw·2I.S7) WTAO-G~m, of \Ietody WFAM.Plcific Paradise WROK·Weman'l Forum *:«"". KWK WI:-ID WIND·Jimmy Dea", eo .. boy lonl' WSUI-Prgrn. Cal.ndar " W ..ther MORNING WSS\! L'nda·. Firel Lon FRIDAY, April 14, 1939 WJJDMid Mor~i"1 Dlnc. WFAM \t~,n;n. o.'-ohO"' WKBBWP,\ PllIm WTAD"-" Kilty Kttnt. lnc~ ,ketch II F8\t-Apron Slrin,. *WKBHN~ws: Music to:OO 8:00 G .,". CST W!.S·DeZurik Si~I.rs WG~ Wht'. Ne ..... on Ih. Slor" NBC· ... ddreu by Prnid.nt F. D, * NBC·H.w, Bruklast Clu b; Mu· WIISFllou"," of \Iu<,c *N.w, WROK WIlT WOWO II'AAf Canary Serenade WI.W·Th. H ..rt of Julia BI.1tt siul Prim,: WCFL (sw·21.5) lloo",vell: WIRE 11')lAQ KSD WUOLlr Call Ik Oc.utiful IV1'AD WeFl Rhumba Caft II'OC·E,·eryda}· at Pett"eo', WHO CBS·Rlchard Maxwtll. 'nf,; WlB"'Soci,I)' RtJl Log of Short-Wave Stations Times gIven are EST. For CST subtract 1 hour; MST, 2 hours; PST, 3 hour. Whose Programs Are Listed Monday, April 10 118a.m.-PrOS,a", from Siam: HS6PJ (19_02) (1II~I'OTol ..... thounnd. of kn"'T~le. lho.. a) N PREPARATION for the Olympic SHORT-WAVE SHORTS: Recent 10a.m.-Motor "cin~ l! Brooklinds: C~F G"c COGF, Cub.. 1l.806 IZL, 10pl.. 17.780 Games which are to be held in revisions in frequencies are as fol tlOa.m.-Spanish n~",", W2XAO (21.5) CSW1, l'.... tupl '.736 OLB2A. ('''''01>0· in DJB, 00rm""7 1&.:10 ILovaki. 6.01 I Finland 1940, the government lows: TIPG of San Jose, Costa Rica, 10:201.m.-Lan~iShire St~~ plechOlSt: G~F G"C DJe, " '.6 OLR3A, '.U of that country has placed an order to 9.695; COCM to 9.85; COCQ to tI L ~ .m. -En~lish "en.: 2R06 DID. 11.77 GLBaB. 9,61 with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph 8.85; COBZ to 9.03; COBX to 9.21; t2 p.m. (ex. Thurs.)-Valican City pro~,am: H\'J IlJL, lUI OLR4A. U ,M (6,03 or 6.19) DJZ. n.80 OUtR. 11 .16 Company for the supply and erection HH2S of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to EMU, c. .... ri ... OZF. Denmark 9.G! of a 50,000-watt short-wave broad 5.895, and ZIK2 of Belize, British t3:30 p.m. (n. Sat.)-News: WIXAL (11.79) ,.to, 10.37 OZK, " 15.31 11113:45 p.m.-Fr~n~h mail-bag: \\'3Xl (17.78) EAQ. 9po.la 9.aU PCJ. Rolland 9.51. I~ ,U casting station to be installed at Pori Honduras, to 5.3 megs, where it is 1'4 p.m.-Broadcast 'rom 51. Kills: ZIZ EAR. " 9.49 PHI," 11.11~ near the Gulf of Bothnia. This trans operating Tuesdays, Thursdays and EA9AH, S"• ..wo RAN. U.S.S... 9.60 1'4 p.m. (ex. Slt.)-Porlugut... ne",~: w2xx IIIOT..,O. U.O~ RXI, " 15.01 mitter, which will rank in power with Saturdays, trom 8:30 to 8:50 p.m. (11.83) OSB. E""lad 9.61 those at Daventry, England; Zeesen, EST, under the new call ZIK3 .. , 4:30p,m.-l'athways to PUtt: IVIXAL (11.79) GSC " II." ~~~. ~::~ t4;55 p.m. (u. SiL)-Soi~n (Continued from Page 3) of W JZ in Newark, N. J., asked him to conduct a sort of a quiz on foreign CARTER Dramatic Club and editor-in-chiel of affairs. About the same time, he began the Harvard llJuslIated Magatine. He broadcasting over the Government sta· participated in French, Gennan, Greek lion on Governor's Island. and English plays, was president of the As radio history goes, 1922 was the BACK? Cosmopolitan Club and vice-president stone age and Kaltenborn was the path of Deutsclur Verein. In those days they finder. called him Hans von Kaltenborn. There "My radio debut." he said, "was an People have be.n askin9 was no animosity between America and extremely painful experience. The ab about the once free.talking Mr. Germany, and the aristocratic "von" sence of an audience was appalling. Boake Carter. They want to meant something, even in America, for The moment of silence between my ex we hadn't gone haywire and never temporized sentences WAS terrifying. know why he isn't free-talk· dreamed that we some day would try For two months I was qreatly tempted ing any more and if the cen· to make Germany do ilB we do. to aba.ndon my lifelong habit of ex sorship charges thai he left Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Robert tempore speaking, but I stuck it out e..... n..... E. Bogers were Kaltenbom's class despite a constantly recurring fear PLES for AGENTS scattered across the counlry in mates. complex when facing the microphone. JUST I ~":.~~>,T~:~ln': !:,.'!:n'~ .~::":i~; his parade of lectures are true. He was graduated in 1905, and took It required four months of regular :","'r;~.,\I"!i:,n~f! ~:~~'~ti a job tutoring Vincent Astor, first in radio work to put me at my ease." SEND O~Rthot' ...... ~.,.."" ...... oISa .. I ... SPEEn ,,"INa lor de""'...... ,;"". y"" W. may not have the an Europe and then aboard the Astor Kaltenbom was well known on the NAME ~ ....k. p~a., cl c:o.oh .. my ..ut. HURRY! Ill, on...... iu no,,_ WilB swer. but we do have some yacht in the West Indies_ lecture platfonn long before he SPEEn KI NG 001_ 'M hot waler ptOb~m "I><.. fur- His first love of ink called him back known as a radio commentator. He __ oil ... 40.... Ad. Quick .... I'U .how ...... _ to thing very close to it. Next _aU tl>< I ...."". _yof l'O'lr life. L.B.f'a_",". to New York and he hooked on again also W ilB a writer with a large follow Send No Money!-Jlut ~r naml. week. RADIO GUIDE discusses with the Eagle and went up these sleps ing and contributed rather consistently NU-WAY MFG. COMPANY Boake Carter and tells what - reporter, military news editor, Navy to the class magazines-Scribner's, the Yard reporter, city.hall reporter, gen New Outlook. W orld's Work, etc. His bpl.17iO.WAlHUT SUILDING, DES MDINES, IOWA has happened to him and to eral news reporter, Washington corre articles dealt with politiCS and current the free speech of which he spondent, war editor, foreign corre events, domestic and foreign. His first was so ardent an advocate. spondent, dramatic editor, editorial book, "We Look at the World," was a writer, assistant magazine editor, asso fair.to-middling succeu. ciate editor. His wanderlust and news nose took a.,.r ye (I copy of IIfllI' f w •• t', Hey! You missed the sports desk him to the four corners of the world. Inue of RA DIO GUIDE fit YOIl t' and the obit page! He had a regular spot on W EAF as a lI,ar.d lI.wlSfolld_fodayJ Kaltenbom made it a hard-and-fas! commentator when he was in America, rule to go abroad at least once a year but he was not well known in the tank to study the foreign scenes. In that 10wlUl. To be blunt about it, such com way he kept abreast of the times, and mentators as Hill, Thomas and Carter when a foreign news story broke he seemingly passed him by. Kaltenborn BIRTHDAYS could analyze it for the Eagle. Foreign had a select audience, but he was not news always has been of tremendous known to the man on the street. importance to New York papers. and During the 1920's he WAS often in APRI L 9 years ago the Eagle. once one of the Russia, and is the only American ever Mildred Stanley, truly great papers of America, was permitted to speak extemporaneously known for its conservative, accurate over the Comintem stalion at Moscow. Lucille Peterson. presentation of foreign news. Kalten He was, and is, a quiet, reserved man, born unquestionably was responsible the kind of whom one would say, KODAK ROLLS APR IL 10 for that enviable reputation the old "Nothing ever happens to him." Two FREE Enlargements Victor Lombardo, NBC, RCA Build Eagle enjoyed. It WAS in China in 1927 when the In 1910, while returning from Eu proper Mr. Kaltenbom fell from his dig W. d.v.lap yau. .aU .nd you .eceive • ing, New York, N. Y. PERFECTION HI- CLOSS prin's, 2 BuutHul rope, he met Baroness Olga von Nor nity. He had his choice of unbending Profusionsl enl"aem.nu. AU for ZSc (COin). Peg LaCentra, NBC, RCA Building, denllycht on shipboard and they were or losing his head. The folks way back New York, N. Y. 'rompt S ervlee married. Remember, his lather had met in China didn't like Mr. Kaltenbom's Clobe Photo Service, D~pt. S, L. C.O.U, Wi ••• Sigmund Spaeth, NBC, RCA Build his wife on shipboard and later Kalten looks, what with the pince·nez and all. Ing, New York, N. Y. born's only daughter, Anais, met her They reckoned he was a Communist, husband on shipboard. inasmuch as Reds wear morning trOUt OPPORTUNITY BROADCAST!! Carlton Guy. Kaltenbom and his wife moved to a sers and monocles. So they grabbed quiet, respectable street in Brooklyn Mr. Kaltenbom and asked some ques· APRIL 11 and have lived in that borough ever tions. They were not satisfied with his Paul Douglas, CBS, Hollywood, since. Anais Kaltenbom was bom replies and pointed guns and swords CaliC. twenty-seven years ago. She now is and other unhealthy things at his head. the wife of Allmore Robinson of Stony He explained that he was a member of Pat Flanagan, CBS, Wrigley Build Brook, Long Island. They have one the glorious free press of America. It ing, Chicago, IlL child, Erika. didn't mean a thing to those fellows. Johnnie Welsh. The Kaltenborns' other child, Rolf, It was looking rather black for Mr. was born on June 12, 1915_ He is a Kaltenborn. Foreigners were not wel Start APRIL 12 graduate of Harvard and is a member come in China's interior in 1927. But of the production stalf of CBS. He Mr. Kaltenbom, the man of the minute, $IOS Fannie Cavanaugh, StaUOD WCFL, hand]es the "We, the People" show, salved everything. He picked up a t. Chicago, III. "The New York Philharmonic," "Music handful of oranges and juggled them. Jobs $17S Bonnie Blue. for Fun," "Exploring Music" and rus The Crunese were pleased. Hereafter, Month father's IS·minute Sunday night com juggling should be on the course of Howard Phillips. mentary for General Mills. study of every school of journalism. More than twenty years ago the Then Mr. Kaltenbom snatched a APRIL 13 Kaltenboms moved into a dignified but straw from a stack and balanced it, jUflt Gene Carroll (of "Gene and. Glenn"), commonplace three-story brown house one straw, on his rather dignified nose. NBC, Cleveland, Ohio. in Brooklyn and have lived there with The Crunese howled with delight and out a break. Although the man is a dropped their guns. He was never in Tom Breen. globe-trOller, he has never moved his danger thereafter on that trip. Every home since his children really were Evan Evans. time some Chinese yokell5 poked guns Railway Postal Clerks-Mall Carriers children. He is a sentimentalist about al him and asked questions, he bal Post Office Clerks-Clerks a t Washln , hlD A P R IL 14 his home, which is at 9 Garden Place, anced a straw on his nose. _Steno,r a phers-Typisi.s--File Clerks. Lily Pons. Brooklyn. Years later, when talking about him· GET READY IMMEDIATELY When the war with Germany came, sell, which is no ordeal for him, Mr. APR I L 15 Kaltenbom dropped the "von" in his Kaltenbom said, "I have never been a Men-Women name and substituted the V as an in professional entertainer, although many ______Cu1' "uc ______Fr ...llllft anit",", Casper Reardon, NBC, RCA Build itial. His knowledge of Europe made people find me entertaining." n.,I. XI ... Roc:N.\.O". I. T. ing, New York, N. Y. him a valuable uset 10 the Eagle's Maybe he WilB thinking about the 1t".I, to Itle (1) rull ,,""I~ ..l ... T't/I.rdl .. , lJ. II staff, but it was not until 1922 that he (~O ~~ MU.. ~ .. t lobo>. (2) • I,.... I'OP1 01 32-"",. booll. Marian Jordan (Molly McGee), Chinese. "110" 10 Grt U. 11. Oo.ent_nl JobI." (a) 'r.1I NBC, Sunset and Vine, Hollywood, really began to be known outside of n'e .... " 10 qUIUr7 ror I (Q~~ ...... tnt Job. a few circles. lames Street's second and concluding S.lDe ...... _ ...... CalU. He always was interested in foreign article on the Ii/It 01 H. V. Ka ltenborn Addnu ...... ••• .• •.•.•••...•.....• • _ ••••.•. Phil Porterfield. doings, and in 1922 the factory studio appears in next week's issue. v ... eo_POI IMlo .... 7" 10 .. I\- .../21 37 CRYING GENIUS AIRIALTO (Continued trom Page 5' again. His impressions of the foreiqn (Continued from Page IS) visits he set down faithfully in leiters DeafeI to each other. The malady is to Nadejda, and particularly interesting Tucker warbling '·Some of TheM misanthropy. lor il does not spring from are his opinions of contemporary com· Days." The audience was hyslet'ical at either hatred or contempt of mankind. posers. Brahms was "cold and full of McWilliams' very lunny and fast Those who suffer from it do not fear pretense"; Waqner "could have been thinking antics nnd watching tne man the evils which their fellow creatures a qreat symphonist"; "The Ring of the for whose benefit he put on the act. The may bring upon them, bul they fear the Nibelung" seemed "incredible non· poor fellow was sitting thcre blcary· u-- ... ____..... -...... ~... -, ... , ... .. ,-- __ ...... disillusionment whlch generally fol· sense" though with "delightful mo eyed and looking all around not know EMUI RE ALTY CO., lows upon intimacy." ments"; but "Tristan and Isolde" "bored ing what it was all about. Jt coutdn·, Dept. 11. 8te~kDOiU •• Fourteen years they shared each me to death." MOUlrt and Glinka were have been funnier if it had bt:en pre· other's hopes. lears, worries, joya and Tachaikowsky's great passions in mu· ananged. More about the broadcast 600 P.CAlALOG OF 6000 NOVELli ES sorrows ... in letters. Peter expatiat. sic - Mourt because of his pure style next week. l<",,'III~. ~,,~~ u Jub K<>O (Continued Irom PiJge IJ cille Manners, Elizabeth Lennox, Viola Philo. Gladys Swarthout, Rose Bamp lon, Meliza Korjus. others. Best announcer: Graham McNamee, Ford Bond, Alwyn Bach, Ted Husing, Don Wilson, Ken Carpenter, Ken Niles, others. Best audience-participation program: PwfessoI Quiz; True or False; Informa tion, Please; Bailie of the Sexes; Kay Kyser's College, others. Besl variety program: Kraft Music Hall, Kj'lte Smith, Chase and Sanborn Hour, 'l'he M OONE broadcasting stira up aa much fervent excitement as Father N Coughlin. Many of his friends and followers believe him to be a Messiah of beller days and things to come. In recent broadcasts. Father Coughlin stirred up a ferment on the German situation. Read for yoursell "Persecution-Jewish and Christian" and "Let's Consider the Record" by Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. They are condensed in the May issue of RADIO DIGEST. just all the press. An angry. heated. answer to Father Coughlin is given by Rev. William C. Kernan. Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church. Bayonne. N. J.. and this is also presented in May RADIO DIGEST. Read both sides of this great debate that ia stirring up both the hopes and the prejudices of the listeners of the nation. It is the most vital topic on. the air and its beautifully condensed. versions give you the highlights that will enable you to judge for yourself whether Father Coughlin is a Messiah or a Menace. MAY RAOIO OIGEST HITS A NEW HIGH This up·and·coming, readable publication gives you the Besl Broadcasts in May RADIO DIGEST reflects the life of the world and its articles answer: Brief. The May issue contains many other absorbing, amusing and important How did King Edward VIII refer to Wally Simpson in his abdication speech? condensations of broadcasts that you may never have heard or wanl to remem What does Jimmie Fidler think is WIong with Hollywood movies? ber. Here are the highlights in the May issue: When did Jack Benny propose to Joan Crawford? What broadcast helped save the lives of two boys convicted of murder? What one joke brought Will Rogers SIO .OOO? 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