SHOOT 'EM ALL .A,l SUNRISE A Modest Proposal passes, the children slip Stand By in­ Paging Ezra to the house and never lay it down I am a farmer and I have been until they are. all through. We do I am seven years old. I like all the laid up for some time with a broken not see how so much information can stars and would like to see Uncle leg. During that time I have listened be printed in that size magazine. We Ezra as he really looks on the cover to radio a lot--about 15 hours a day are a family of 10 and we all enjoy of Stand By . .. Virginia Sample, -and I have heard a lot of different it . ..Mrs. C. R. Bousineau, Centralia, Jacksonville, Ill. programs, some good, some bad. I Ill. (We understand Uncle Ezra has got a wallop out of the letters by had some brand new pictures taken some farm people published in Radio -at least he promised us he would. Guide in regard to hayseed programs • • • We plan to have a picture of the for farm people. I think these letters Ole Jenny Wren on the cover before were fine; but much too mild. They 72 Degrees! Brrrr! long.-Ed.J did not crack down hard enough. I We listen every morning to the suggest that every guitar-playing son­ Smile A While program and enjoy it of-a-gun of a cowboy or hill billy immensely. As we live in the far • • • Singer, all the mouth organ players North and have very severe weather and every old-time fiddler on the during the long winter months, we radiO be shot at sunrise tomorrow. surely appreciate the music that Check's Wide Talents .. George Rosp, Arlington, Minn. comes over your broadcast. A short I didn't know that Check Stafford distance from Kapuskasing the tem­ was an artist until I saw his sketches • • perature has been as low as 72 de­ on his page. They are quite clever. grees. So you may consider us North­ Marjorie Gibson's Fanfare and Pat erners as Jack Frost's neighbors. Buttram "Butting In" are fine, too. Songs From Life . Mr. and Mrs. Howard Faulkner, . Janie Raft, Urbana, Ill, . I am surprised that out of the Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada . hundreds of stations on the air selfish listeners even want to take WLS' big­ • • • gest feature away from us ... that is • • • music as our fathers, mothers, uncles Why Not, Indeed? and aunts used to Sing and dance to. No Yodeling, Please Why not a word of commendation Songs that were written from.life and I've just been listening to the could be sung by people who didn't for Romelle Fay and Howard Cham­ Prairie Ramblers and Salty Holmes' berlain for their beautiful Sunday have time or money to take lessons fox hunt is surely realistic-even if and study notes. Popular music? It's morning program, honoring our older he did kill Old Blue instead of the friends? This program, I know, gives about the silliest jumbled up mess I fox .... Patsy, don't ruin your sweet ever listened to, but just because I many untold pleasure and is deserv­ voice yodeling . ... 1\Irs. Irene War­ ing a "thank you." We'd also like to don't care for it is no reason to stop ren, Cairo, Mo. playing it. Let everyone have what visit more of the homes of our radio they want. If I do not like popular friends . ... Mrs. E. R. Sommer, Elk­ or classical music I am not selfish • • • horn, Wis. enough to want it cut off the air. (Listener Sommer 1S directed to .. Gene Jones, Glen Carbon, Ill. Prefers Hymns page 5 of this issue for a detailed story at this Sunday morning pro­ I, too, like to hear Ford Rush and gram series.-Ed.J • • • Rocky sing, but I would rather hear them sing hymns and old time music. Tumble's Sticking Popular music is all right if it has It seems as if everyone has for­ any meaning and music back of it. STAND BY gotten about Tumble Weed on this . Mrs. Clyde Richards, Richland Center, Wis. BURRIDGE D. BUTLER, Publisher page. We all think he is a very nice Copyright. 1935. Prai!'ie Farmer Publishing Co. singer and hope to hear more of him. 1230 Washington Blvd., Chicago Don't let him go back to Arizona. • • • Indianapolis: 241 N . Pennsylvania Adeline Kelbel, Hillsboro, Wis. New York City : 250 Park Avenue Pleasing Mixture Subscription Price, $1.00 a Year • • • Single Copy, 5 cents . .. On the subject of popular musIc Issued Every Saturday I have this to say: I like both and More Smoothies Entered as second-class matter February my favorite artists are those who do 15, 1935, at the post office at Chicago. Illi­ Saw the letter from Mr. Wincen­ each equally well. I should hate to nois, under the Act of March 3. 1879. sten of Chicago in the November 30 have to listen to either all the time, issue. Speaking of smoothies, we have and I don't have to, for WLS gives a JULIAN T. BENTLEY. Editor more than one. We live on a rural pleasing mixture. Mrs. Earle December 14, 1935 route and when the mail carrier Compton, Cowden, Ill. VOLlnVIE 1 NUMBER 44 "(2)lo- RITAIN'S, empire-wide celebra­ tion of Christmas, including a B talk by King George, a char­ acterization of Dickens' Scrooge by Sir Seymour Hicks, noted British actor, and the exchange of greetings between England and her far-flung territories, will be brought to Amer­ ica in a series of programs over NBC network starting Friday, December 20, King George will be heard on the British Broadcasting Corporation's "This Great Family" program on Christmas Day over an NBC-WEAF Mrs. Knute Rockne, widow of A flying trip through London by network at 8 :25 a, m" CST, The Notre Dame's famous football coach, night, taking radio listeners to inter­ broadcast opens with the pealing of will make her debut as sports com­ esting spots of one of the world's bells in Bethlehem, turns to London menta::;or as a guest of Thornton smartest capitals, will be broadcast for the reading of a Saint Luke Fisher on the Sport Page of the Air over an NBC-W JZ network on Tues­ Christmas story, and returns to Beth­ on Saturday, December 14. She will day, December 17, from 5:05 to 5:30 lehem for the sound of bells again, go on the air from Miami, where she p. m., CST. The London carolers will then Sing is spending the Winter with her four The tour, a..rranged by the British "God Bless the Ruler of This House," children, and will be heard over an Broadcasting Corporation and brought following which "sound pictures" will NBC-WEAF network at 6 :00 p , m., to America via short-wave by RCA, CST, be heard linking ' typical homes in will start on the roof of Royal Albert Canada, South Africa, India, Austra­ Mrs .. Rockne will recount some in­ Hall with a description of London by lia and New Zealand, teresting episodes in her husband's night, Then it will jump into the Child Presents King career and reveal for the first time kitchen of one of the big hotels, what he considered the happiest day After an exchange of greetings where a famed chef will be described of his college life, Notre Dame's de­ at work preparing delicacies for the among these points, a child in New feat of Southern California in 1930. Zealand, staying up late just to par­ .hungry after·-theatre crowd. ticipate in the broadcast, will intro­ • • • There also will be a brief peep into duce King George to their world-wide the House of Lords, the churchyard audience, Al Pearce and His Gang are com­ of st. Martin-in-the-Fields, a panto­ .ing to Chicago on December 15 to mime rehearsal at one of the well­ Sir Seymour Hicks wtll be heard broadcast their thrice-weekly infor­ from London on Christmas Eve over known theatres, and a visit to one of mal variety shows from the NBC Chi­ the famous London night clubs. an NBC-WJZ network at 6 :45 p, m" cago studios for an indefinite period. CST, in a 15-minute characteriza­ The program is presented each tion and narration of "The Story of Monday, Wednesday and Friday over • • • Scrooge," the famous figure from the an NBC-WEAF network at 4:00 p. m., pages of Dickens' "Christmas Caro!." CST. The first broadcast from Chi­ What a time Jolly Joe's palsy­ The broadcast on Friday, Decem­ cago will be heard on Monday, De­ walsies are going to have at the WLS ber 20, from 2 :00 to 2 :38 p. m., CST, cember 16, kids' Christmas parties this Saturday over an NBC-W JZ network, will be and next, December 14 and 21. All titled" 'Round the Northern Pantos," • • • the youngsters who crowded the and will consist of Christmas panto­ Eighth Street Theatre last year for mimes in important theatres in vari­ the Christmas party are coming ous parts of Great Britain. From the again this year and bringing their Empire Theatre in Manchester will friends. come "Mother Goose," featuring A toy or useful gift, either clothing Anne Seigler. From the Theatre or food, is the only admission charged Royal in Leeds will come "Red Riding for the party, and these presents are Hood." From the Empire Theatre in passed on to children whose Christ­ Newcastle will come "Dick Whitting­ mas stockings would otherwise be ton," and from the Prince's Theatre empty.