Full text of "Radio mirror (Nov 1937-Apr 1938)"

See other formats

Class.
Book.

PRESENTED BY

Scanned from the collections of
The Library of Congress

AUDIO-VISUAL CONSERVATION
at The LIBRARY of CONGRESS

Packard Campus

for Audio Visual Conservation

www.loc.gov/avconservation

Motion Picture and Television Reading Room
www.loc.gov/rr/mopic

Recorded Sound Reference Center
www.loc.gov/rr/record

■

°EP^'3S

"'■"/:*'

Hilarious JOLSON-PARKYAKARKUS "Readio-Broadcast

D
T

. _ . .

Jt N
O-N

NOVEMBER

HA HENIE

AND
)NE POWER

idden Drama Behind the TYRONE POWER-DON AMECHE Friendship
e Wickedest Star in Radio • Also: A Great Story By Floyd Gibbons

•-filb

HE GOT THE

FROM HIS OWN DAUGHTER

WHY OFFEND NEEDLESSLY? Modern habits ex-
plain why sc many people have halitosis — (bad
breath). The sad part of it is that you never
know when you offend, but others do, and hence
avoid you.

If you want to make sure that your breath is
beyond reproach, get in the habit of using Listerine
Antiseptic every morning and every night, and
between times before social and business en-
gagements. It's just what you need — a quick
deodorant.

Listerine Antiseptic halts fermentation in the
mouth, the major cause of odors, and overcomes
the odors themselves: kills millions of odor-pro-
ducing bacteria outright. Your mouth
feels wonderfully fresh and clean and
your breath is sweeter, wholesome and
more agreeable.

Lambert Pharmacal Company z*?^

St. Louis, Mo. V: '"■" '.

For Halitosis (BAD BREATH) use LISTERINE

Hours for her lovely hands—
Not a minute for her tender gums

How often such neglect leads
to real dental tragedies . . .
give your gums the benefit
of Ipana and Massage.

i'PUCH LOVELY HANDS," her friends ex-
O claim. Why shouldn't they be the
envy of others, for she lavishes hours
of time and patience upon them.

But look at her smile— her dull, dingy
smile — then watch how quickly her
beauty fades, how her charm disappears.

Shocking, yes— but shockingly true!
Yet she's like thousands of other girls
who might have possessed a radiant

smile— who might have had bright, spar-
kling teeth— had she only learned the
importance of care of the gums. What
a price to pay for neglect— what a pity
she failed to heed nature's warning,
"pink tooth brush."

Don't Neglect "Pink Tooth Brush"

If your tooth brush "shows pink," see
your dentist at once! Very often he'll
blame our modern menus— soft, creamy
foods that deprive the gums of health-
ful exercise. And usually his verdict will
be, "Strengthen those gum walls with
harder, chewier foods"— and, as many
dentists suggest, "the helpful stimula-

a good tooth paste,
like a good dentist,
is never a luxury.

tion of Ipana Tooth Paste and massage."
For Ipana, with massage, is especially
designed to help gums as well as keep
teeth sparklingly bright. Massage a lit-
tle extra Ipana into your gums each
time you brush your teeth. Gradually,
as circulation increases within the gums,
they become firmer, healthier.

Change to Ipana and massage today
—see how sparkling, how lovely, how
much more attractive your smile can
be— a smile that will be your proud pos-
session for the years to come.
• • *

LISTEN TO "Town Hall Tonight'-everyWed-
nesday, N.B.C. Red Network, 9 P.M., E.S.T.

IPANA

TWO SIDES OF
A GIRL'S LIFE!

ANOTHER DAY SPOILED by that dull, worn-out,
headachy feeling that so often means constipa-
tion. A familiar experience to most
all of us, but read . . .

It was a new idea to her — tasteless medicine in
delicious chewing gum — but an idea that 16
million people had already tried and found ideal.
Perhaps you, too, feel mean, miserable, out-of-
kilter right now because of constipation. Then
try FEEN-A-MINT, the delicious, scientific
chewing gum laxative. Try it and learn for your-
self that no other type of laxative can do
exactly what FEEN-A-MINT does. FEEN-A-
MINT rates 3 stars for 3 special benefits:

NO STOMACH UPSET — With FEEN-A-
MINT you don't swallow a heavy, bulky
dose; there is nothing to further burden
an already over-burdened digestion.

CHEWING AIDS DIGESTION— The chew-
ing stimulates the flow of the same natural
alkaline fluids that help food digest.

ACTS WHERE YOU NEED IT— FEEN-A-
MINT's tasteless laxative ingredient does
nothing in the stomach. It passes to the
intestine and does its work just where you
want it to— easily, pleasantly, comfortably.

FEEN-A-MINT won't gripe, nauseate, or disturb
sleep. Find the joy of this amazing 3-star relief
yourself. Get economical FEEN-A-MINT today.
It's right for all the family and tastes like your
favorite chewing gum. At your druggists, or
write for generous FREE sample package.
Dept. 54, FEEN-A-MINT, Newark, N. J.

NOVEMBER, 1937

VOL. 9 NO. 1

Lt^S

NO i****

s*»*

,«0

DELICIOUS

Tastes like
your favorite
chewing gum

ERNEST V. HEYN
Executive Editor

FRED R. SAMMIS
Editor

BELLE LANDESMAN, ASST EDITOR

How Radio Can Help You Win Friends and Influence People . . Dan Wheeler 1 1
Dale Carnegie Can Revolutionize Your Life

Hidden Drama Behind the Tyrone Power — Don Ameche Friendship

Kirtley Baskette 12
They should be the bitterest rivals and yet —

The Blind Can See; The Deaf Can Hear Floyd Gibbons 14

A great true adventure

The Wickedest Star in Radio 18

He's — But read the story

In Your Hat— 23

Direct from a Vallee program, a sparkling fashion forecast

It's All Greek to the Greeks 24

A side-splitting Readio-broadcast with Jolson and Parkyakarkus

The Bigger They Are — Jack Sher 26

Looks like the Century's biggest fight, sure enough

Behind The Hollywood Front Jimmie Fidler 28

Our ace reporter's ace news

Does Your Heart Beat For Me? 32

Play Russ Morgan's melodic theme song

School-day Fashions 34

You'll want every one of these Deanna Durbin models

Highway to Happiness Pauline Swanson 40

Alice Faye's romantic life

Thrills Charles Martin 42

Real life has no greater drama

Prof. Quiz* Twenty Questions ....
Facing The Music. . . .Ken Alden

Coast-to-Coast Highlights

Russ King

What Do You Want To Say?

Gallery

Kenny Baker

Charlie McCarthy and Edgar

Bergen

Nelson Eddy

Rosalind Russell

Everybody's Doin' It

COVER— TYRONE POWER AND

3 Even Grade's Dancing 22

4 Personality Close-ups 27

What's New? . . . Tony Seymour 36

6 Look At Cantor! 38

Radio Mirror Almanac 43

Beauty Tricks in Your Hand
'° Joyce Anderson.. 52

Lifesavers for Wives

'* Mrs. Margaret Simpson 54

30 What Do You Want To Know?

3 1 The Oracle 56
20 Put The Bee on Your Spelling. . . 91

SONJA HENIE— By FRANK VAN STEEN

RADIO MIRROR (Copyright, 1937, by Macfadden Publications, Inc.). The contents of this magazine
may not be reprinted, either wholly or in part without permission. Published monthly by Macfadden
Publications, Inc., Washington and South Avenues, Dunellen, New Jersey. General offices, 205 East
42nd Street, New York, N. Y. Editorial and advertising offices, Chanin Building, 122 East 42nd Street,
New York, N. Y. Bernarr Macfadden, President; Wesley F. Pape, Secretary; Irene T. Kennedy,
Treasurer; Walter Hanlon, Advertising Director. Entered as second-class matter September 14, 1933,
at the Post Office at Dunellen, New Jersey, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Price in United States
$1.00 a year; 10c a copy. In U. S. Possessions, Canada, Newfoundland, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti,
Dominican Republic, Spain and Possessions, and Central and South American countries excepting
British Honduras, British, Dutch and French Guiana, $1.50 a year; all other countries $2.50 a year.
While Manuscripts, Photographs and Drawings are submitted at the owners' risk, every effort will be
made to return those found unavailable if accompanied by 1st class postage. But we will not be
responsible for any losses of such matter contributed. Contributors are especially advised to be sure
to retain copies of their contributions; otherwise they are taking unnecessary risk. Printed in the
U. S. A. by Art Color Printing Company. Dunellen N T

Editor's Note: Tune in his regular
weekly broadcasts heard over the CBS net-
work every Saturday night at 8:00, spon-
sored by the Nash Motors.

1. With whom does Mary Living-
stone keep up a perpetual rivalry that
costs Jack Benny a pretty penny?

2. What instruments supply the mu-
sical background for Major Bowes'
amateur program?

3. As what was Fred Allen billed
when he first went on the stage?

4. On what point of pride has Bing
Crosby wagered $2,000, according to
Fidler?

5. Whom did Bob Burns marry early
this summer?

6. Jerry Cooper is a pushover for
what kind of salesmen?

7. To where does Vallee run away
from it all?

8. Name five stars whose names are
colors.

9. What First Nighter star gave up
the part of Bob in Betty and Bob?

10. What's the difference between
Eddie Cantor and Izzie Iskowitz?

TWENTY QUESTIONS

The Professor dictates a
hard one at a broadcast.

11. To what star is the following
quotation credited: "It's only the be-
ginning, folks, only the beginning!"?

12. What is the Easy Aces' new
theme song?

1 3. Kate Smith uses what word most
often on the air?

14. Tizzie Lish wears man's cloth-
ing offstage because . . .

15. How did Jimmie Fidler's most
cherished dream come true?

(You will find the answers on page 56)

16. What device sets True Story
Court of Human Relations apart from
other dramatic programs?

17. Alice Faye fainted and awoke
in whose arms after her first broad-
cast?

18. What is Lily Pons' favorite num-
ber? (Not musical number.)

19. Whom does Jack Oakie call his
"district attorney"?

20. What champion swimmer is try-
ing to run Ben Bernie's life?

If red, chapped hands Tjr / # JTZ 7

Id only talk after WaskingffmaOWS

COUJ

;* f

WASHING windows makes a
"mess" of tender hands.
Harsh soaps, ammonia
water, and wind roughen
skin. No wonder your hands
don't get loving kisses!

USE HINDS I It's extra-creamy
...works fast to soften harsh,
dry skin. With the "sun-
shine" Vitamin D in it,
Hinds helps your hands feel
smoother than ever!

WE'RE PROUD TO BE HIS

f/OWMOONHANDS

EVEN one application of Hinds makes work-
aday hands more thrilling. Use faithfully
— before and after exposure, before and after
household jobs. Hinds helps put back the soft-

ness that wind, cold, heat, hard water, and
dust take away. Gives you smooth, feminine
hands! $1, 50c, 25c, 10c. Dispenser free with
50c size — attached to bottle, ready to use!

HINDS *o*n0Moonds,

HONEY AND ALMOND CREAM

QUICK

ACTING..

NOT

*>:

Dance to William
Farmer's music at
Radio City's Prom-
enade Cafe, or tune
it in several times
each week over NBC

Below, MBS's "Swing and Sway" maestro, Sammy Kaye, and
the smiling face of Bob Hannon, Wayne King's soloist

MUSIC

Horace Heidt and the four King Sisters concoct their own
rhythm effects, Monday nights over the Columbia network.

WIELDING a baton isn't all that
makes a good band. If you
don't believe that statement
talk to Alex Holden, who has under his
management the orchestras of Hal
Kemp and Nye Mayhew.

Organizing bands has become a big
business to the nervous, fast-talking
Holden, and he runs them along the
same hard-headed, practical lines as a
Wall Street brokerage firm is conducted.

"There's no room for the run-of-mine
Tin Pan Alley musicians in the Kemp
or Mayhew bands," warns Holden, who
does most of the behind-the-bandstand
thinking for the two youthful maestros,
"The boys working for me must be
clean-cut, well-educated and able to fit
themselves into any social group."

An excellent example of the type of
man Holden is looking for is Will Hol-
lenback, a trumpet player who was
picked up at Princeton University. He
scored the two hits from the 1935 col-
lege show, "East of the Sun," and "Love
and a Dime." HoIIenback is now one
of Kemp's ace soloists on the CBS Fri-
day programs.

Running a band such as Hal Kemp
does, is expensive. He maintains a spe-
cial public address system that costs
$3,500. The band leased a rehearsal
hall in Forest Hills, L. I., that is used
by no one else even though the band is
currently on the West Coast. At pres-
ent Holden is negotiating with General
Motors for the construction of a special
bus which will have all the comforts of
a club car. You see Holden does not
permit his high-priced musicians to
drive their own cars on any of the one-
night stand trips the band makes, and
a bus de luxe might be the answer to
many a weary trumpeter's prayer.

Holden signs the weekly payroll, ne-
gotiates all deals and when Kemp had
to vacate his luxurious Long Island
home for a stay in California it was
up to Holden to figure out a way to
sublet the estate. He did. The Hol-
den family is Kemp's tenant. What a
manager!

P HE next dance craze will come out
"of the south. It is known as "The
Big Apple" and it originated with the
Gullah negroes around Charleston, S. C.
Already Sammy Kaye and Richard
Himber have sent scouts down there to
find out if this new Mason and Dixon
swing can beadaptediforcommercial use.

An expert at "the apple" — which is
usually danced in bare feet— says it
combines the jigs with truckin', Suzy-Q,
Praise-Allah and a few others.

Dancers form a circle as in the old-
time square dance. The dancers stomp
with one, two, or three pats of the right
foot and then swing the right foot
hack, then the left foot comes forward
to repeat the steps. The band leader
shouts out: (Continued on page 97)

POPULAR MODEL GIVES
TIP ON SAVING

STOCKINGS!

J2£LC>k'VU.Cjl€t./

Here's the girl you see in lots of fashion
photographs — lovely Evelyn Kelly. "I
furnish my own stockings," she says, "and
Ivory Flakes save me money. Stockings
washed with pure suds
wear twice as long."

ACTION ! DEMANDS PHOTOGRAPHER. Look at the
strain on Evelyn's sheer stockings! They
can take it, because they're kept fresh and
strong by Ivory care!

Pure soap prevents weakening

of silk stockings

"Protecting the freshness of silk is the
whole secret of getting real wear from
stockings," say fine stores. "That's why we
advise the soap flakes made from the fa-
mous pure Ivory Soap— the soap that pro-
tects even a baby's young skin."

Don't pile up stockings you've worn-
don' t use any soap less pure than Ivory
Flakes— don't let your stockings get stale.
All these make silk grow weak and old.

Start tonight with Ivory Flakes. One
minute of daily care can add weeks of
wear— Ivory Flakes are pure economy!

ONE MINUTE PLEASE! Evelyn Kelly, popular
photographers' model, takes one minute at
bedtime to dash her stockings through Ivory
Flakes suds. "Now they wear twice as long."

TRADEMARK REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

ijulcldlj . . .

Correct These Figure Faults

Perfolastic Not Only Confines,
It removes Ugly Bulges!

Girdle «f

Brassier* ssav

be worn separately

Thousands of women today owe their
slim youthful figures to the quick, safe
way to reduce . . . Perfolastic.

"Hips 12 inches smaller," says Miss Richardson-
"Lost 60 pounds and 9 inches," writes Mrs. Derr-
Why don'tyou, too, test the Perfolastic Reducing
Girdle and Brassiere at our expense ?

if you do not REDUCE
3 INCHES in 10 DAYS

. . . it will cost you nothing!

Because so many Perfolastic wearers reduce
more than 3 inches we believe we are justified
in making you the above unqualified agreement.

IMMEDIATELY APPEAR INCHES SLIMMER !
H You appear inches smaller at once, and yet are
ko comfortable you can scarcely realize that every
minute you wear the Perfolastic garments you are
actually reducing at hips, waist, thighs and dia-
phragm. Every move you make puts the massage-
like action to work at just the spots where fat first
accumulates. You will be thrilled with the results
. . as are other Perfolastic wearers)
PERFOLASTIC REDUCES SAFELY ... QUICKLY
WITHOUT DIET, DRUGS OR EXERCISEI

■ You do not have to risk your health or change
your comfortable mode of living. No strenuous
exercise to wear you out ... no dangerous drugs
to take . . . and no diet to reduce face and neck to
wrinkled flabbiness. The Perforations and soft,
silky lining make Perfolastic delightful to wear.
And with the loss of excess fat will come increased
pep and energy.

■ See for yourself the wonderful quality of the
material! Read the astonishing experiences of
prominent women who have reduced many inches
in a few weeks . . . safely! You risk nothing. Mail
coupon now!

SEND FOR TEN DAY FREE TRIAL OFFER

PERFOLASTIC, INC.

Dept.2811. 41 EAST 42nd ST.. NEW YORK, N.Y.
Please send me in plain envelope FREE BOOK-
LET describing and illustrating the new Per-
folastic Girdle and Brassiere, also sample of
perforated material and particulars of your 10 DAY
FREE TRIAL OFFER.

Name . „

Address

Use coupon or send name and address on penny postcard

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT:
It may be a little risky to start
the month behind the eight-ball,
but if announcer Gilbert Bayek of
WDRC does it weekly, we'll chance it
just this once. Yet, Behind the Eight
Ball is what Gilbert calls his every Sat-
urday 1 to 1:15 p.m., EST., program
from Hartford, and that's when he
spends fifteen interesting minutes dis-
cussing both local and CBS personali-
ties and programs. There's plenty of
behind the mike news behind that eight
ball with announcer Bayek, too.

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA:

If you are too busy to read all of your

Above, the man whose
directing ability
responsible for KSTP's
vastly popular Umbrel-
la Court — Bob Barclay.

Lew Clawson, left, is
WHJB's chief announcer
at Greensburg, Pa., and
star of RADIO MIRROR's
weekly gossip program.

favorite magazines, but do have access
to KGB and other West Coast Mutual
Broadcasting System stations, here's a
tip: Tune in Joseph Henry Blake, "The
Magazine Man," each Thursday at 7
p. M., PST.

A faculty member at the exclusive
Bishop's School for Girls at La Jolla,
Blake reads no less than seventy peri-
odicals a month and devotes his pro-
grams to original resumes of various
articles and stories he sifts from the
magazine field.

Mr. Blake has made his magazine
broadcasts something of an avocation,
since his educated golf clubs already
have made him golf instructor at the
fashionable girls school. This month

GOOD NEWS TO MILLIONS

IMPROVIP

NOW BETTER THAN EVER!

we hope to boost his list of magazines
read to seventy-one, with the result
that some interesting radio items will
be included in his weekly magazine
findings.

RAPID CITY, SOUTH DA-
KOTA: For those of us who like our
radio entertainment straight, without
the commercial chaser, and whose sets
cannot reach KOBH, it's just too bad,
because this Black Hills station enter-
tains its Sunday listeners the painless
way. No sponsors is the Sabbath Day
policy at KOBH, with all broadcasts
presented for their entertainment and
cultural values only. The Sunday Sa-

She yodels — Lucille
Squires, only girl
in Charley Marsh-
all's Mavericks, an
NBC Pacific show.

lutes to Black Hills Cities program;
Poems for Sale, in which poets and
poetesses of the Hills compete for hon-
ors; and the educational, historical
Living Granite broadcasts are among
the many seventh day favorites. This
policy, it seems, should get some kind
of a medal for KOBH.

* * *
UMBRELLA COURT

When a program not only develops
into a station's number one program,
but also into a state-wide pastime, that
program must have something besides
plenty of listeners. Comment first be-
gan tp trickle (Continued on page 101 )j

tin *f/r/*

?**- after taking itl

People everywhere are praising the new
Scientifically Improved Ex-Lax ! Thousands
have written glowing letters telling of their
own experiences with this remarkable laxative

"I always liked the taste of Ex-Lax," many
-aid, "but now it's even more delicious!" ... .
"It certainly gives you a thorough cleaning
out ! " was another popular comment . . . "We
never dreamed that any laxative could be so
gentle!" hundreds wrote.

And right they are! For today Ex-Lax is
better than ever! A more satisfactory laxative
in every way! ... If you are suffering from
headaches, biliousness, listlessness or any of
the other ailments so often caused by consti-
pation— you'll feel better after taking Ex-Lax !

Yonr druggist has the new Scientifically
Improved Ex-Lax in 10c and 25c sizes. The
box is the same as always — but the contents
are better than ever! Get a box today!

FREE! If yon prefer to try Ex-Lax at ear

expense, write for free •ample to Ex-Lax, Detrt.

F117, Bex 170, Times-Plaza Sta^ Brooklyn, N.Y.

Now improved - better than ever!

EX-LAX

THE ORIGINAL CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE

Ken Murray (with cigar) and
Oswald are happier than they
look, for they've just left
their own show to join Holly-
wood Hotel early in October.

From Universal Pictures' "Young Man's Fancy'

WhatDoYouWantToSay?

"BOB" EXPLAINS TO HIS FANS

EDITOR, Radio Mirror
Dear Sir: The kindness and interest you displayed to
ward me in requesting an open
letter explaining to the fans of Betty
and Bob why 1 am leaving that show is
deeply appreciated.

I am more than happy to have the
opportunity to express, through the me-
dium of your popular magazine, my
gratitude to the many friends who have
loyally supported me during the two
years I have played the part of Bob
Drake. It is with profound regret that
I leave the show and I do so only be-
cause I am convinced that such a step
will best serve my career as an actor.

It is rather difficult to explain, with-
out going into the purely professional
aspects of the situation, why I have
withdrawn from a show with which I
have been pleasantly associated for so
long a time. Stated baldly, it is simply
the result of a disagreement between
the sponsoring agency and myself re-
garding salary . . . However, I wish to
make it quite clear that it was not due to any demands by
me for an increase in salary at any time.

But more than that, I have felt for some weeks past that
I had been playing the part of Bob Drake too long. In

THIS IS YOUR PAGE!

YOUR LETTERS OF

OPINION WIN PRIZES

FIRST PRIZE, $10.00
SECOND PRIZE, $5.00
FIVE PRIZES of $1.00

order to develop and make the best use of whatever talents
he possesses, an actor must play a variety of roles, bring
his imagination and gift of observation into play in creating
all types of characters. When he has played one role over
a long period of time, the part no
longer offers any challenge to him and he
is in danger of becoming stereotyped . . .
Although I leave the program, many
fond memories remain with me. I am
happy knowing I have made many deep
and lasting friendships . . .

Sincerely,
Les Tremayne (Bob of Betty & Bob)

Address your letter to the
Editor, RADIO MIRROR,
122 East 42nd Street, New
York, N. Y., and mail it not
later than Oct. 25, 1937.

FIRST PRIZE
GIVE SOMEONE ELSE A BREAK

Nothing has done so much to make
the old home what it used to be as
Radio. I tune in the little day-to-day
plays, with musical interludes, while
doing my housework, and it just makes
things hum — BUT — Seems that there
is just bound to be a but —

I do not like to hear the same voice
on several different plays — it spoils the
realism. For instance, David Harum
is a grand character with his easy drawl,
and his voice gives you a good picture of him, makes the
play live, but you tune right onto another play of a diff-
erent type and hear the same drawling voice, and you just
say "shucks" and tune it out. (Continued on page 85)

They didn't do this when WE were young. . .

[

SPECIAL MEDICAL CARE . . . SPECIAL DIET.
EVEN A SPECIAL LAXATIVE!

THAT'S WHY BABIES ARE BETTER OFF TODAY!

]

It's fun to be a baby today!
Look . . .

He GETS special visits from the doctor.
He eats special foods ... Is washed with
special soap . . . Sprinkled with special pow-
der.

And, of course, he gets a special laxa-
tive, too. How reasonable . . .

For if his tiny system is too delicate for
adult foods and adult activity, it is also
too delicate for "adult" laxatives. Even
when given in smaller doses.

That's why physicians everywhere sug-
gest Fletcher's Castoria when children
need help in elimination.

For Fletcher's Castoria is made espe-
cially— and only — for children. It never
upsets a baby's stomach because it acts
chiefly in the lower bowel.

It is mild . . .yet thorough. And it won't
cause cramping pains.

Without any harsh drugs .. .without any
narcotics . . . it's a child's laxative pure
and simple. And we sincerely recommend
it as such.

Do you know that even the taste of
Fletcher's Castoria is made especially for
children? They take it without forcing.
This is more important than it sounds.

Doctors tell us that the revulsion a
child feels when forced to take a medi-

cine he hates can disturb his entire ner-
vous system.

So have faith in Fletcher's Castoria.
More than five million mothers depend
upon it. It won't fail you.

Rely on it whenever your child needs
a laxative. You can get the economical
Family Size bottle from your druggist
today. Look for the signature Chas. H.
Fletcher on the red-bordered band
around the box.

CASTORIA

The Laxative Made Especially
for Babies and Growing Children

A CHARMING GOLFER
FROM THE NORTH SHORE
OF LONG ISLAND . . .
WHO ILLUSTRATES
THE IMPORTANCE OF
HEALTHY NERVES

PEGGY, lovely daughter of the Philip
Stevensons of Glen Cove, Long Island,
has been feted from Newport to Palm
Beach. In clothes, Peggy's taste is simple.
Note the nubby woolen jacket she wears
above — a "comfy" for the golf she enjoys
so much. Her cigarette preference is
Camels. "After nine stiff holes of golf,"
she says, "I'm not so fresh as when I
started out. But Camels give my energy
a lift! And they are gentle on my throat."
Turn to Camels. Like Miss Stevenson,
you will find that Camels are so mild
that you can smoke them steadily with-
out their getting on your nerves.

•'- *<>*;: **«

-l(fht. 1937. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.. Winston-Salem. N.C.

Other women distinguished in society who also prefer
Camel's mild, delicate flavor:

MRS. NICHOLAS BIDDLE, Philadelphia
MRS. POWELL CABOT, Boston
MRS. THOMAS M. CARNEGIE, JR., New York
MRS. J. GARDNER C00LIDGE 2nd, Boston
MRS. ANTHONY J. DREXEL 3rd, Philadelphia
MRS. OGDEN HAMMOND, JR., New York

MISS WENDY MORGAN. New York

MRS. NICHOLAS G. PENNIMAN III, Baltimore

MRS. JOHN W. ROCKEFELLER, JR., New York

MRS. RUFUS PAINE SPALDING III, Pasadena

MRS. LOUIS SWIFT, JR., Chicago

MRS. BARCLAY WARBURTON, JR., Philadelphia

CAMELS NEVER GET ON YOUR NERVES

DALE CARNEGIE, WHOSE

BEST SELLER HAS IN

SPIRED MILLIONS, TELLS

YOU HOW YOU CAN REV-

OLUTIONIZE YOUR LIFE

How Radio Can Help You Win
Friends and Influence People

B y
W H E

THERE is one great lesson every-
one can learn by listening to the
radio," Dale Carnegie told me.
"It is the first lesson that a person
who wishes to be successful in all
his human contacts must learn."

We were sitting in Carnegie's penthouse, combined office
and living quarters, atop a New York skyscraper — a com-
fortable little apartment, furnished with a daybed, several
deep leather-upholstered chairs, and a desk. One floor
below is the busy Carnegie Institute of Public Speaking
and Human Relations — a cluster of offices and class-rooms,
populated by secretaries and instructors.

Down there, at the reception desk, I knew there was a
secretary with one eye on the clock and a finger poised
over the buzzer, ready to warn Carnegie when my time
was up and his next appointment was waiting to see him.

Carnegie, of course, knew it too, but
QAM his easy, unhurried manner gave no in-

dication that we didn't have the rest
E L E R of the afternoon before us.

And I knew, too, that this ease of
manner was added proof that Dale
Carnegie himself practices the truths he preaches in "How
to Win Friends and Influence People" — that astounding
book which has topped non-fiction best-seller lists for the
past six months until it has sold more than half a million
copies and has been read, certainly, by several times that
many people.

Years ago, Carnegie realized that the first desire of
nearly everyone in the world is to have good health, and
that the second greatest desire is to be able to get along
well with other people — to have friends and be well liked
in his community. Twenty-five (Continued on page 58)

TWO OF THE YEAR'S BRIGHTEST
STARS SHOULD BE THE BIT-
TEREST RIVALS, AND YET—

KIRTLEY BASKETTE

ABOUT four months ago, out at 20th Century-Fox stu-
dios in Hollywood, a knotty casting headache loomed.
The biggest picture of the year, "In Old Chicago,"
was preparing to shoot. It demanded a rare cast combi-
nation. The O'Leary boys, Jack and Dion, were brothers,
closer than close. They had to look like one another, act
like one another, reveal on the screen a sympathy and un-
derstanding minus any trace of unconvincing fake. What's
more, since "In Old Chicago" was Darryl Zanuck's big
prestige spectacle, both had to be top-flight stars.

You could have combed Hollywood for the order without
any luck. But they filled it in two minutes right there on
the lot. They filled it because Don Ameche and Tyrone
Power had met back four years ago in a Chicago radio
station and had both instantly felt the electric spark of a
great friendship.

There is something uncanny about that friendship — some-
thing so fine and strong that only by knowing about it can
you realize what swell guys this Ameche and this Power are.
Because it just isn't the sort of friendship that flourishes
in Hollywood. It has no right to exist at all. By all the
laws of nature Don Ameche and Tyrone Power should go
out of their ways to avoid each other, should have nothing
but ill to say of each other, should lie awake nights to
think up ways of doing the other out of his heart's desire.

Plenty of pals and famous friendships are scattered
throughout Hollywood and radio. But there is none like the
friendship of Don Ameche and Tyrone Power, tested and
tempered by the keenest kind of competition which started
the minute they met and exists to this day. What is so
remarkable is that instead of straining their friendship to
the breaking point, each new conflict between their careers
has served only to bring them closer together, assure each
of them once more of the other's worth.

Don and Ty have actually become better friends every
time Fate has tossed their careers into a squared circle
and hammered the gong.

It was that way in Chicago, four years ago, when Ty
landed there on his way to New York and hit the radio
studios for work. He had promise. Producers told him so.
Everybody was for him. But he stayed in minor radio
parts because — Don Ameche was in Chicago, too.

And at last Tyrone Power left Chicago — and radio — be-
cause of Don Ameche.

You see, in those days this young Power-house had only
a name handed down from his dad. He was nobody. Ty-
rone was a tyro; new, raw, young, unseasoned. He had a
good voice, a swell air personality, but they were a dime
a dozen. There weren't so many dramatic shows on the air,
and when sponsors wanted to start a new one they didn't

regularly then and Ty didn't eat very regularly either.
So he was inclined to take whatever showed up in
the way of work. This time the spot was on a homely
program we'll call "Uncle Bob," because it wasn't "Uncle
Bob."

Ty showed up in a studio room covered with newspapers.
Uncle Bob greeted him warmly.

"Well," he said, "let's go on the air."

"Okay," said Ty, "where's the script?"

"Script?" Uncle Bob shook his head. "We don't use any
script. Here — " he handed Ty a sheaf of colored comic
sections. "We just read these."

Y checked his amazement and swallowed his pride; he
needed the job. But when he had finished emoting from
"Red Barry," "Buck Rogers," "Tarzan" and "Flash Gordon,"
he stamped home in disgust.

"A fine business for an actor," he told himself, "reading
funny papers! Nuts to radio!"

The next day he packed his things and
caught the train to New York. Don Ameche
wished him good luck and told him goodbye.
The next time they met both were in Holly-
wood.

History, of course, has a way of repeating
itself. But in the case of Tyrone Power and
Don Ameche, it is nothing short of startling
the way the situation existing years before in
Chicago set itself up exactly the same way in
Hollywood.

Ty had gone on to New York, starved and
pounded the pavements and landed — in a fairly
modest way. A break with Katherine Cornell
brought him before the movie scouts; his
screen test was okayed and Darryl Zanuck put
him on the payroll. But hundreds of young
actors get movie contracts every year. And
darned few stick. Ty had nothing really but
a chance when he came to Hollywood. That
was in May. (Continued on page 81)

care about gambling on
somebody the air audience
had never heard of.

On the other hand, Don
Ameche was an established
star and a big radio name.
Time and again Ty strug-
gled up to the brink of a
contract that would give
him his chance, but always,
somehow, there was Don
Ameche in the way. The
First Nighter went on the
air. Don Ameche got the
star spot. And Ty drew a
bit on the same show. Don
Ameche went on to become
the most popular dramatic
star on the airwaves and
Tyrone Power — well, there's
a little story about his exit
from radio.

He got a call one day
for a broadcasting job.
Calls didn't come very

-tf/M* 7)wm 'A&A

TYRONE POWER
DON AMECHE

■

TWO OF THE YEAR'S BRIGHTEST
STARS SHOULD BE THE BIT-
TEREST RIVALS, AND YET—

By
KIRTLEY BASKETTE

ABOUT four months ago, out at 20th Century-Fox stu-
i dios in Hollywood, a knotty casting headache loomed.
I he biggest picture of the year, "In Old Chicago "
was preparing to shoot. It demanded a rare cast combi-
nation. The O'Leary boys, Jack and Dion, were brothers,
closer than close. They had to look like one another, act
like one another, reveal on the screen a sympathy and un-
derstanding m,nus any trace of unconvincing fake What's
more, since "In Old Chicago" was Darryl Zanuck's big
presttge spectacle, both had to be top-flight stars 6

anvTucT 1 ?T°tr\ H°llyW0Od f0r the order without
T . x?Ut ^fyJfi led n ln two minxes right there on

jn Hollywood „ ;„;h ™ * J'» *P to. flourish*
l»ws „t nature Don Amedie ,«.! T,„ i ""■ By a" tlle

Don and Ty have actually become better friends every

Z\^Lh:i theSSg1ngtheir CareCrS int° a *»Mred CirC'e

landedath^at "!? '" Chicag°' four >**« ago. when Ty
s ulos for l°l SuWuy ,t0 New York and hit the radio
Eve vbodv w f Hl-had Pr°mise- Producers told him so.
partsybecayusllri0r a "u But he stayed in minor 'adi°

Ad iTt Ameche Was in Chicago, too.
ca^of Sfe P°Wer 'eft Chica^"d -dio-be-

a nie'handeH11^6 dT thiS y°Ung P™er-house had only
rone was a Jvl W" fr0m his dad He w^ nobody. Ty-
Zd voce ayswe.|eW' '*"■ y°Ung' ""basoned. He had a
a doJn There w ™t Personality. but they were a dime

a^entlT: fT^ dramatic shows on the ^
sponsors wanted to start a new one they didn't

20th Century-Fox

care about gambling on
somebody the air audience
had never heard of.

He got a call one day
for a broadcasting job.
Calls didn't come very

Ty showed up in a studio room covered with newspapers.
Uncle Bob greeted him warmly.

"Well," he said, "let's go on the air."

"Okay," said Ty, "where's the script?"

"Script?" Uncle Bob shook his head. "We don't use any
script. Here—" he handed Ty a sheaf of colored comic
sections. "We just read these."

T Y checked his amazement and swallowed his pride ; he
needed the job. But when he had finished emoting from
"Red Barry," "Buck Rogers," "Tarzan" and "Flash Gordon,"
he stamped home in disgust.

"A fine business for an actor," he told himself, "reading
funny papers! Nuts to radio!"

The next day he packed his things and
caught the train to New York. Don Ameche
wished him good luck and told him goodbye.
The next time they met both were in Holly-
wood.

THE BUND CAN SEE;

MELLO EVERYBODY:
Gee, you know, it isn't often that a real true adven-
ture story can get under my skin and well kind of sort
of get me. But by golly, the other night on my program,
your True Adventures for Colgate, 1 told a story that just
left me speechless. Well, it's a fact. 1 don't know when in
all my years of broadcasting — of telling stories on the air to
you — that 1 ever found myself in such a spot.

But this story I was telling the other night had a lot
more to it than just thrills and action. I like action and
thrills, but believe me, all adventures don't have to be
packed with gun shots, and galloping horses, and roaring
planes, no sir. This story was one of silence and darkness.
It was a story of courage such as you and 1 perhaps will
never know but that we recognize and envy. It was a story
of grit and determination. And
too, it was a story of beauty,
of beauty that we cannot see or
hear, but of beauty that Ste-
phen Cartright felt for eleven
long years.

Steve Cartright was a nor-
mal, lively, clean-living young-
ster whose parents died when
he was a baby. So he
learned at a tender age to
stand on his own personal
feet. If, while he was work-
ing his way through college, he
thought about bridge building
as he served charming coeds
at the soda fountain, he was
no different from the youth of
today who spent half their
time dreaming about the fu-
ture. But a lot of unusual
things were to happen to him
before commencement day.

The first was that misun-
derstanding on the Mexican
border. For that, Steve left
college and enlisted in the U. S.
Army in 1916. And very early
in 1917 we find him with the
Eighth Infantry in the Philip-
pine Islands. Not long after
he arrived, he passed an exami-
nation for which he had been
cramming and was commis-
sioned a second lieutenant.
Still ambitious, he used his

spare time studying the Russian language. That was about
the time the Bolsheviks blew the lid off old St. Petersburg.

Uncle Sam sent a military observer to Siberia, where a
nasty civil war was being fought by Reds and Whites. And
Steve was detailed to go along in command of a detachment
of enlisted men. A few weeks later the military observer
was sent to Kiev, a mighty long distance from Siberia. That
left Steve alone with his handful of infantrymen.

There were some British troops nearby. One day a
British major told Steve the Russians were going to attack
and asked him to join forces. That night found Steve and
his doughboys in an outpost directing artillery fire by tele-
phone. Early in the fighting telephone communication was
broken by shell fire.

When the British counter-attacked and recaptured the
outpost they found it a shambles. A direct hit had sent
the heavy timbers and tons of earth crashing down upon the
occupants. Every one of those Americans was wounded.
Steve, he was told in the British Red Cross Hospital where

By FLOYD
GIBBONS

he woke up, had a badly fractured skull. While he was

recovering he became chummy with two Tommies on cots

that flanked his. On one of the dreary days that dragged

along they began discussing Steve's case.
"Now take the leftenant, lyin' alongside o' me 'ere, John.

'E thinks 'e's lucky," Dick said.
"How is that?" Steve asked.
"Well sir, when your leg is gone, it's gone. But when

you cracks your bloomin' 'ead you don't know what's liable

to come about."
"Don't worry about my head," Steve replied. "It's as

good as the next man's. And when this show is all over

I'm going home and prove it."
Within a month Steve was assigned to duty with an

American brigade of infantry that had arrived while he

was convalescing. When our
troops were at last withdrawn
Steve came home with them.
And when he was discharged
he made a bee-line for the col-
lege he had quit in 1916. Study-
ing hard, he finished his work
in two more years and imme-
diately found employment
with a large steel company as
a metallurgist.

A few years later Steve
visited Long Beach, Cal., dur-
ing his vacation, stopping at
the home of his friend, John
Fischer. One afternoon after
lunch Steve turned on the
radio. The set warmed up just
in time to carry the introduc-
tion of Miss Jessica Dragon-
ette, who sang "Alice Blue
Gown."

When she finished, Steve
turned off the radio. To the
inquiring Fisher he said he
thought the perfect song would
be spoiled by anything that
followed. Steve remembers the
incident vividly. For, you see,
it was the last song he ever
heard. Or heard just that
way.

Later in the day Steve sat
down on the beach, a little
short of breath after an hour's
swim. As he turned and

twisted to reach for a cigarette held out by his friend, who

was sitting a little behind him —
Something snapped.
A terrific pain shot through Steve's head. Blood gushed

from his nose and mouth.

I N the hospital where Steve came to, the doctor said he
had had a cerebral hemorrhage. It was the result of that
fractured skull he had suffered in Siberia. That Tommy
had been right. "When you cracks yer bloomin' 'ead you
don't know what's liable to come about."

It was dark when Steve awoke in the hospital. He
called for lights. A nurse touched his forehead with her
hand to quiet him.

Hours later there were still no lights. But there were
people in the room. He could sense their presence. But he
could not hear them. He called out for lights. And could
not hear his own voice. And then came to Steve the ter-
rifying realization that he could not {Continued on page 65)

THE DEAF CAN HEAR

THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS REPORTER BEGINS AN EX-
CLUSIVE SERIES OF YOUR TRUE ADVENTURES FILLED
WITH ALL OF REAL LIFE'S PATHOS AND EMOTIONS

• Who could resist that smile of young Mr. Kenny Baker, so happy about
his success in the picture "Mr. Dodd Takes the Air"? We're happy
because he returns to the air with Jack Benny October third, on the
same program that gave him his start less than two short years ago.

Scotty IVelbournc

Photo by Ed. Estabrook

• Universal Films has signed him to a contract and the New York Times
has published an editorial on him. He's Charlie McCarthy, radio's
obnoxious dummy whose unhappy master is Edgar Bergen. Now turn the
page and read what Charlie writes about "The Women I Have Loved."

IT was Dorothy Lamour who first dubbed me "Casanova"
McCarthy. Ah, Dottie! Ah, women! I've learned about
them since I came to Hollywood.
There was blonde Ann Harding, blonde Carole Lombard,
blonde Mary Boland.blonde Constance Bennett, blonde Son ja
Henie, blonde Ann Sothern, blonde Gladys George, blonde
Mrs. Buddy Rogers (I've got to be -careful since I offered
Mary Pickford that McCarthy Clipper and Mow Them
Down ride to Mexico City — Buddy may catch up with me),
blonde Joan Blondell. . . . say, Bergen, can't you stop this,
or bring in a brunette? That's right, Zasu Pitts and Jose-
phine Hutchinson aren't blondes, are they? And neither is
May Robson ... I wonder if she still wants me to be her

little boy? She certainly did make, a play for me!

Dottie doesn't like it. I suppose she's jealous of my pla-
tonic friendships with Carol, Sonja, and Joan. But can I
help it if they like me? Of course not.

Take that meeting of mine with Carole Lombard. It was
most upsetting. Not for me. of course. But for Bergen.
He got absolutely furious with jealousy.

Even Mister Don Ameche, our master of ceremonies. He
wouldn't introduce me to Miss Lombard at first.

"She wouldn't talk to you, Charlie," he told me. "She
dates the best men in Hollywood."

I had to tell him she hadn't met the best man in Holly-
wood yet, before he'd break down and introduce us. And

THEY CALL HIM CASANOVA McCARTHY, THE ROLLICKING HEART-
BREAKER OF HOLLYWOOD, WHO KISSES— AND THEN TELLS HERE IN
HIS OWN WORDS ABOUT ALL THE GLAMOR GALS HE HAS LOVED

Ah women! I've learned about them
in Hollywood. Take Carole Lombard
(far left) — if you can get her — who
said, "Charlie, I'm madly in love
with you," and Connie Bennett who
said, "You look better every day."

It was Dottie Lamour
dubbed me "Casanova." I suppose
she's jealous of my platonic friend-
ships with Carole, Sonja Henie and
lovely Joan Blondell. But can I help it
if they all like me? Of course not;

was he blushing when he heard the way Carole went right
after me.

"Charlie!" she said in her husky contralto,
we meet!"

That had the boys for a minute, all right. So I modestly
replied:

"Oh, Miss Lombard, 1 have so much to tell you."

"Charlie!" she breathed.

"Carole!" I replied, thawing a bit. "At last, Carole, we
are alone. For years I have wanted to tell you how beau-
tiful and charming and stuff you are."

"You're not just saying that, are you?" she said with a
flash of her lambent eyes. (Continued on page 62)

THEY CALL HIM CASANOVA McCARTHY, THE ROLLICKING HEART-
BREAKER OF HOLLYWOOD. WHO KISSES— AND THEN TELLS HERE IN
HIS OWN WORDS ABOUT ALL THE GLAMOR GALS HE HAS LOVED

I1 "as l)lM tnova"

*,Ul di.Dottie! Ah, women! I've learned about

nee i cami

le 1 ombard,

aett.blondeSonja

blonde

K"8 o be -careful sincel oSd

K"y ' ;k""' ",hv Clipper and Mow tS

She certainly did make, a play for me!
Dottie doesn'1 like it. I suppose she's jealous of my pla-
tomc friendships with Carol. Sonja, and Joan. But can I
help it il they like me? Of course not

I ake that meeting of mine with Carole Lombard. It was
most upsetting Not for me, of course. But for Bergen.
He got absolutely furious with jealousy
I ven Mister Don Ameche. our master of reremnnies IK
blonde Joan BlondeU. J ™ «£■ ^^^ « to Miss LomS at fi™

-- » £ datSlhrSmenll: hXoo^'" ^ t0'd ^ "^

wJodaif°W '"T ?J}euhadn,« ™t 'he best man in Holly-
wood yet, before he d break down and introduce us. And

Robson- •» «n«ter if she still wants me to b , he

It was Dottie Lamour who first
dubbed me "Casanova." I suppose
she's jealous of my platonic friend-
ships with Carole, Sonja Henie and
lovely Joan Blondell. But can I help it
if they all like me? Of course not!

was he blushing when he heard the way Carole went right
after me.

"Charlie!" she said in her husky contralto. "At last
we meet!"

That had the boys for a minute, all right. So I modestly
replied:

"Oh. Miss Lombard, I have so much to tell you."

"Charlie!" she breathed.

"Carole!" I replied, thawing a bit. "At last, Carole, we
are alone. For years I have wanted to tell you how beau-
tiful and charming and stuff you are "

'You're not just saying that, are you?" she said with a
flash of her lambent eyes. (Continued on page 62)

^^A f

, *x«*e * *ve

\A-

Heaven help professionals on a night like this!
Grade Allen's taken up tap dancing and Fred
Astaire's stuck with it, as you can easily see
by these pictures as Gracie and George Burns re-
hearse with Fred for RKO's "A Damsel in Distress."

EVEN GRACIE'S DANCING

Directly above, it looks like such an easy job when Fred
starts. But then Gracie gets some ideas of her own, and
when George joins in, Fred gives up and sits down. Gracie
makes a bulls-eye on George's toe, so he quits too — while
Stoneface Astaire turns a deaf ear to their pleas for help.

John of John-Frederics started the
vogue for those crownless hats.

YOUR

DIRECT FROM A RUDY YALLEE PROGRAM,
A SPARKLING FORECAST OF HOW YOU'LL
COYER YOUR HEAD THIS FALL— AND WHY

FROM Rudy Vallee's radio program comes this amusing
and instructive interview between Rudy and John Fred-
erics, hat wizard, which brings us up to date on Amer-
ica's "overhead" for the coming season.

Vallee: During the past year the women of these United
States spent more than one hundred million dollars for new
hats. You might not think so to look at them, but all those
hats had to be designed by somebody. And the designer
whose ideas have most consistently influenced the trade is
one Mr. John Frederics of John-Frederics Incorporated,
Madison Avenue, New York — a firm which caters to people
who are definitely "in the dough," if they will pardon a
vulgar phrase.

For example, it was John of John-Frederics who created,
literally out of thin air, the present vogue for hats with
no crowns — hats with tops that appear to have been nibbled
away by an absent-minded goat. That was nearly two
years ago, at Palm Beach, and the topless topees were sold
to swank sunshine-seekers for twenty-eight-fifty and up,
mostly up. Now, I'm told, you can get them for forty-nine
cents — and everybody's wearing 'em. Or were, the last time
I looked.

It takes, as I've said, all kinds of people to make a town
like New York. Here's a living New York success story
and an enemy of the pocketbook of all male mankind —
John of John-Frederics. Mr. Frederics, answer me this:
Why did you remove the tops out of the hats of the women
of this great nation?
John: Well, Rudy, my partner and I had been getting

It was Rudy Vallee who inter-
viewed this heartless hat dictator.

well paid for a
number of years
for what we put
into and on top
of hats. It oc-
curred to me that
we might iust as
well get paid for
what we took out
of hats. So I de-
signed the open-
crown or air-con-
ditioned lids for
ladies.

Vallee : And
the ladies loved them.

John : Heaven bless 'em, yes.

Vallee: Do you think it's true, Mr. Frederics, that hat
designing is an art?

John: Well, just between us artists — no. It's a trade, Mr.
Vallee. Like plumbing or bee-keeping or crooning popular
songs.

Vallee: And how did you get into this trade of thinking
up hats?

John: My mother was a milliner. I grew up in the trade,
so to speak. It seemed to be the thing I could do best. I
wanted to design hats — so I did.

Vallee: I see. And now, from your viewpoint as a hat
expert, can you tell us what's new (Continued on page 57)

RADIO MIRROR'S OWN

Editor's Note: Vacation's over, and the Al Johon pro-
gram is back on the air — Tuesday nights at 8:30, E.S.T.,
with Parkyakarkus, Martha Raye, and Victor Young's or-
chestra. You'll want to listen to them, but you'll also want
to read this, the third in Radio Mirror's series of READIO-
broadcasts.

OU'VE probably suspected it for a long time, and now
you can be sure: Parkyakarkus is the dumbest Greek
that ever came out of Athens. He's the funniest too,

and that's why Radio Mirror is so proud to present this
special READio-broadcast, with all the hilarious evidence
set before ^you so you can judge for yourselves if there's a
dumber man living. The evidence is all in the records —
every bit of it taken from material furnished by Al Jolson
and Parkyakarkus on their broadcasts — the first time it's
ever been collected into one fast-and-furious, conclusive
half-hour of fun.

Order in the court! The prosecuting attorney is Al Jolson,
and you're the judge and jury. Hold your hats — let's go!

LISTEN IN ON THE PRINTED PAGE TO A SIDE-SPLITTING PROGRAM

■i

AND

p p

ARKU

READIO-BROADCAST

Al Jolson: Hello, folks! You know, history has given
us Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Three Wise Men, Two
Smith Brothers — but, thank Heaven, only one Parkyakar-
kus — and here he is, on trial for his sanity!

Parky: Hello, Sonny Boy. Where's Jolson?

Al: (It's starting already) Where's Jolson? Who am I?

Parky: Don't you know either?

Al: Look, Parkyakarkus, don't tell anybody, but I'm
Jolson. Remember, you met me last week — and every week
before that?

Parky: No, I couldn't remember you because I never
forget a face.

Al: This must be a new kind of language — if you never
forget a face, why can't you remember mine?

Parky: (Scornfully) You call that a face?

Al: Now, look, Parkyakarkus, we may as well under-
stand each other right now —

Parky: Yeah, well, it's a hard job to understand when
you talk. You talk with a dialect.

Al: (Stung to the quick) I'd like (Continued on page 92)

WHICH PROVES THAT THE WORD THE GREEKS HAD WAS— LAUGHTER

By JACKSHER

THE BIGGER THEY ARE

THIS is a fable of a huge rattle and two gigantic babies.
You, the people, are the rattle. The National Broad-
casting Company and the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tem are the two gigantic babies. Time was, with these hot-
headed kiddies struggling to get and hold the rattle, that
radio listening was swell. Now the rattle's a side issue and
they're fighting each other; they're far more concerned
with upsetting each other's cribs and dosing each other's
spinach with castor oil.

And radio listening isn't so swell.
It's not that radio ain't what it
used to be — it's that it isn't what
it could be. You said so yourself.
But who can put that small piece
of logic across with so much com-
petitive shrieking going on in the
nursery?

In case you've been bored lately
(as who hasn't) by a lot of the
programs you've tuned in, this is
partly why: Much of NBC's and
CBS' money, time and ideas are

spent trying to keep each other from broadcasting the pro-
grams you want to hear. Or better still, if one of them
can get a certain feature on the air two seconds before its
rival does, that's pulling a nifty! It doesn't matter what the
feature's about. If CBS discovers NBC is going to treat its
listeners to a frog derby they'll go to any end to broadcast
a frog derby of their own to you first.

By the way, you're not so keen about frog derbies, are
you ?

INTO YOUR CELLARS.

READERS— THE NET

WORKS ARE A-FEUDIN'

Well anyhow, the reason for these foolish fights and re-
sulting foolish programs is pretty much that the networks
are still in their infancy. Newspapers suffered the same
growing pain until they realized their readers were far
more pleased by a good story than they were by a 'scoop'
on a rival sheet. Nowadays 'scoops' are rare but the gen-
eral run of stories is excellent. There have been a few op-
timistic souls who have tried to bring home to the networks
the neat point about less fighting and better programs. But

Junior's as hard-headed as the next
one. You can't tell him a thing,
you've got to let him find it out for
himself.

The quarrel between the net-
works rages in all departments.
Special events, stunt broadcasts,
commercial programs, sustaining
programs, press releases, even the
artists bureaus become entangled.
Ever since radio's three-cornered
pants era the NBC-CBS scrap has
been kicking up considerable dust
in the Fifties. But nobody paid much mind to it until the
recent Hindenburg disaster, upon which occasion these two
big kids came to noisy verbal blows over — of all things —
a telephone booth.

You see, the first thing any network does when it broad-
casts outside its home studios is to fix it so all witnesses and
photographers present can't possibly mistake which network
is doing the broadcasting. And this they accomplish by car-
rying, with every microphone that {Continued on page 73)

Grade Allen's air

Romeo is handsome

Tony Martin —

but he's really

still Alice

Faye's beau.

Maxine, above, is Phi!
Spitalny's attractive
singer, on his all girl
Hourof Charm program
NBC, Monday nights.

PERSONALITY
CLOSE-UPS

Beth Holly of One
Man's Family is Barbara
Jo Allen below, who
poses with her daugh-
ter Joan, radio veteran.

Left, meet

Laurette Fill-

brandt, who is

Dot Houston on

Sunday's Tale of

Today, over NBC.

IT'S OUR STAR REPORTER BROADCASTING,

TELLING ALL THE SECRETS YOU SHOULD

KNOW AND PERHAPS A FEW YOU SHOULDN'T

THE Alice Faye-Tony Martin ro-
mance continues warm, but pub-
licity keeps hooking Alice with
other men. And, since Tony is pretty
touchy, Alice finds it a bit difficult to
keep his feelings from being hurt. . . .
Gertrude Niesen saw the sun rise and
set on Craig Reynolds not so very long
ago but right now she's unselfishly shar-
ing her time with too many swains to
be sure just which is the "heart" . . .
Of course it's been kept pretty quiet
but I'll bet you a hat that Benny Good-
man is more than seriously considering
the marital leap with Phoebe Turbell,
the Chicago society eye-widener.

Al Pearce made a generous gesture
last week. He sent several large motor
busses to the Old Soldiers' Home at
Sawtelle, picked up a mess of vets and
took them to the broadcast of his coast-
to-coaster. After the air show, Al put
on some entertainment that had the
old warriors rolling in the aisles with
glee and merriment. A bouquet to Al,
therefore.

* * *

INVESTMENTS

Jerry Cooper is the latest entertainer
to follow in the footsteps of the cinema
smarties and invest his $$$$. He just
bought a string of bungalows in Holly-
wood which pay him a monthly income.
Insurance, as it were, against the day
popularity becomes a deflated balloon.

You should get a load of Bob Burns

and his hair. He's to portray a certain
role in a forthcoming moompicher and
so hasn't been allowed to have his locks
barbered. The guy looks like the hairy
ape. On Sunset Boulevard, a day or so
ago, Bob was invited to race with a guy
in a gray roadster. In the course of the
getaway, Bob pulled ahead. Suddenly,
the gray roadster turned a corner on
two wheels and Bob heard the motor-
cycle siren. As he held the ticket for
speeding, he wondered if the gray
roadster was bait for the speed cop.

In case you're curious, that ravishing
brunette who is seen everywhere with
W. C. Fields, is a Spanish senorita
named Carlotta Monti. She's been sec-
retary for Bill come ten years next
Whitsuntide, and has stuck to him
through fun and frolic, sickness and
suits.

At that press party for Don Ameche,
the handsome lad cleaned the news-
paper boys like a hound's tooth. That
doesn't seem to be the smart thing to
do but Don had one of those winning
streaks and couldn't lose. One hand, he
threw away three kings, held only the
King of Hearts and filled the hand out
to a flush. How do you like that?
* * *
PRETTY PROGRESS

The last of the plain, mousie, school-
marm concert singers has finally gotten
an injection of Hollywood and has gone
glamour with a vengeance. While Fran-

cia White was always sweet and charm-
ing, she was definitely plain about it
but now this Covina, California, ca-
nary sports a fringed hair-cut, cute
curls and daring decolletage in her eve-
ning gowns. However, her voice is
still as clear as crystal and warmer than
an August afternoon in Georgia.

Despite millions of joint denials of
marriage, newspapermen feel pretty
sure Lily Pons can legally sign her
name "Mrs. Andre Kostelanetz."
They're immensely popular. In Chi-
cago's Grant Park, you'd have thought
they were Garbo and Gable when the
nearly 200,000 people pressed in on
them and forced authorities to rush
an armored car to the scene so that
Lily and Kosty might get safely away
from their admirers. Incidentally,
these two find lucky for them, those
things most of us consider unlucky. Au-
to license numbers are AK1? and LP13.
their summer concert in the Hollywood
Bowl was on August 13 and Lily owns
and adores a black cat, recently lost
but recovered.

Charlie Butterworth had dozens of
automatic pencils engraved "To Tom
from Charlie," distributed them to the
sound men, musicians and technicians

Jerry Cooper (left, with Frances Longford) is
making Hollywood realtors happy; and Deanna Dur-
bin, below with Mischa Auer, Leopold Stokowski,
and Adolphe Menjou, gets a spanking from Jimmie.

on the program. What about the guvs
whose handles were not "Tom"? There,
customer, you have me. I wouldn't
know.

Speaking of Charlie Butterworth, he
and Bob Benchley are inseparable pals.
These guys even share dates with Tala
Birell or Hazel Forbes, the tooth paste
heiress.

Werner Janssen, son of a famed res-
taurateur, began his musical career
by tinkling a piano in a sailors' dive,
played an accompaniment to Will Rog-
ers' rope-twirling act in the Follies,
and finally "arrived," giving a concert

in famed Hollywood Bowl this summer.

OPEN LETTER TO DEANNA DURBIN

Deanna, darling, I love you but you
worry me — and lots more of your
friends. You're still pretty young (and
very pretty) and I'm going to talk to
you like a Dutch uncle in the hope you
won't go on making a very serious mis-
take. Lots of stars have gotten tem-
peramental but I can't remember one
who got away with it very long. Don't
you think you're making a needless fuss
to insist on your own interviewers?
And do you think it's right to hold up
picture and radio production whenever

it suits your fancy? Talk is that you're
acting mighty spoiled now that fortune
has smiled on you. But Deanna, the
newspaper boys don't like that — and
you can't blame them. And you might
like to know that publicity makes or
breaks public figures in show business.
So, for your own good, why not stop
worrying your friends; why not turn
on the full force of your lovely charm
and personality and make everyone
love you? Uncle Jimmie suggests that
you do an about-face before it's too
late and they shut out the sunlight.

Yours for great success with many
friends, J. M. F.

(Continued an page 68 )

Hyman Fink

Frances Farmer, above, with Spencer Tracy and Virginia
Bruce riles Fidler; right, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Raymond.

• Seldom has the fury of fans waxed hotter than when Nelson Eddy's followers learned he'd joined the Chase &
Sanborn broadcasts. Sacrilege to mix his baritone with the gags of W. C. Fields and Charlie McCarthy!
Now everyone's happy, for Nelson is having the time of his life sparring with his two riotous companions. His newest
picture will be "Rosalie" with a new leading lady, Eleanor Powell. And guess what? He's learning to dance for this!

if)

^^^^■■^■■M 1 1

M^M ^^»

by CWenCC

• Presenting your listening highlight for October — Rosalind Russell, M-G-M's highly prized, beautiful and talented
young actress, who comes to the air October third for a four-week stand. She will be heard on the Columbia network
Sunday afternoons, in a four-act play, "First Love." At the moment, all her time is taken up with work in her
newest picture, "Live, Love and Learn," and a polite but firm feud with Robert Montgomery, who plays opposite her.

DOES YOUR HEART
BEAT FOR ME?

Words By
Mitchell Parish

Music By
Russ Morgan • Arnold Johnson

CHORUS

dim D7

o o o

v=d

D pb

o o

dim D7

o o o

ffl

S*^ ■VI

^=m

Tho' we said "good - bye,'.!

when the moon is high,-

I id '1

IT -a*- — <#

? F fe^g

f=f

ot/

.'*»» -

fin

ffl m

o o

m m

-&-

Does your heart - beat-

for me ?.

N . J- J

5±

H27

* f M1

ff*T

Tyry

•^

{g>

=z±

-J3Z.

won - der_

if I still ling - er.

*^=^

r f * f

-a. rJ l

f r r f

t f *

F»

r r ~'r

c»

your

mem

ry-

When you

g ^ ig—

^=j3

i P * F

> ■! n

i p i

r=P

=^=

ANOTHER SPARKLING THEME SONG
FREE TO RADIO MIRROR READERS!
THE MELODY THAT INTRODUCES THE
RUSS MORGAN DANCE BROADCASTS

►■-

A model for the school mis;
is Deanna Durbin's fall ward-
robe. Homework's fun in this
taffeta hostess gown striped
in green, gold, rust and blue.

Frocks are smart for fall,
especially this blue cotton
with its ski-jumper print.

For crisp days — this
blue and black tweed
skirt and beige cash-
mere sweater. Right,
Dean na 's aqua-marine
taffeta party frock.

Photos through courtesy of Universal Films which star Deanna in "One Hundred Men and a Girl"

Colder nights call for this practical, yet smart and feminine tailored robe of soft pink quilted silk with
its zipper all the way down the front. The fur-trimmed bedroom slippers are of the same material.

BOOKS as if radio, having hired Ty-
rone Power to star in a series of
Sunday-evening programs, starting
October third doesn't quite know what
to do with him. It's the old story about
drama on the air and its shortcomings.
Anyway, the best the sponsors have
been able to think up so far is to pre-
pare a set of adaptations of Broadway
hit plays of some years back — "Her
Cardboard Lover" and the like — to
star him in. Later on, it's said, there
will be dramatizations of magazine
short stories, but in the meantime we'll
have to be satisfied listening to this
bright new star in revised versions of
things we've heard before. . . . You
can't really blame the sponsors, though.
Getting a steady, week-to-week stream
of good dramatic material for the air
has stumped many a good man.

THE Camel people, sponsors of Jack
Oakie's show, think they may have
solved this little toughie of a problem.
They've hired George Marion, Jr., to
write the playlets in which Jack and
his guest stars will appear on the air
— and George Marion is one of the
toppers among top-notch moving pic-
ture writers, having penned some of
Jack's most successful movies. This
move of Camel's is expected to start
some spirited bidding among sponsors
for the services of high-priced movie
writers, which will be all to the good
if the writers can do as good jobs for

Above, Eddie Cantor, Sally Eilers, Sophie Tucker, dine
at Victor Hugo's. Eddie is probably explaining why he
decided to broadcast on Wednesdays this fall instead
of Sundays. Opposite page Mrs. Don Ameche with Norris
Goff (Abner of Lum and Abner) at the Cocoanut Grove.

the air as they do for the screen. An-
other startling innovation on the Oakie
show is that the playlets will be written
first, and then guest stars who fit the
parts will be picked to fill them. Usu-
ally it's the other way around — a guest
star is asked to be on a radio program,
and then a dramatic vehicle is dug up
to fit the star. Reversing the order
ought to make for better-written, bet-
ter acted shows.

THE rumors that Louella Parsons is

to leave the Hollywood Hotel show

are just that — rumors — according to the

best authorities. Lolly has another two

years of contract with the soup people
safely tucked away in her strong-box.
Besides, she sells soup only too well.

BURNS and Allen have a skit you'll
probably never hear. Like an un-
derground river, it runs on and on and
never comes to light. George wrote it
more than a year ago, intending to
hold it for use if the program should
ever run into a last-minute emergency.
The emergency has never happened, but
each week George brings the sketch
along to the studio, drags it out of its
portfolio and changes it around a lit-
tle, adding a line here, taking away a

THEY'RE DELIGHTFUL AND

DELICIOUS — ROLLICKING

AND REYEALING-THESE

NOTES ON THE NEWS FROM

OUR BROADCAST SLEUTH

couple there. Altogether, it's been rewritten
about fifty times. By this time it ought to be
perfect, and probably is — so perfect it wouldn't
be a bit funny if it were put on the air.

THE tumult and the shouting are only memories
now, and this year's Packard program is run-
ning along smoothly, with Lanny Ross, Charlie
Butterworth, Don Wilson, Florence George, and
Raymond Paige's orchestra. The dancing feet of
Fred Astaire, so much a part of your Tuesday list-
ening last year, are absent now, and indications
are that they won't be on the air at all this
winter. As a matter of fact, you may not see
Fred many more times in the movies, either. His
contract with RKO (Continued on page 82)

<r-3

i *\ JM

Picture of the month is this of Walter
Winchell and Louella Parsons, two col-
umnists at least who seem to be friends.

Hyman Fink

Unlike Andy, Amos and his wife (Mr. and
Mrs. Freeman Gosden) are still happily
married. Above, watching a prize fight.

-t

Still another party, with Charlie Win-
ninger, the Cap'n Henry of Show Boat,
Vera Marsh and Mrs. & Mr. Joe Penner.

Hyman Fink

LOOK AT CANTOR!

IN FACT, LOOK TWICE, FOR

EDDIE'S GOT HIMSELF INTO

A BAGDAD HAREM WITH THAT

OLD TEASE, GYPSY ROSE LEE

Love conquers Ali, as Eddie proves in his
new picture, "Ali Baba Goes to Town" — love
that is, aided by the two fetching damsels
(below) whose charms would brighten up any
harem. This 20th Century-Fox production fea-
tures besides Eddie, June Lang, Louise Ho-
viclc (remember, the strip tease gal, Gypsy
Rose Lee?), Tony Martin and Roland Young.

Right, the voluptuous damsel is Louise Ho-
viclc and don't let all those clothes fool
you. She plays the role of the Sultana to
Roland Young's Sultan (below). Eddie plays
a Hollywood extra who falls asleep and wakes
up in Bagdad a thousand years ago. The Sul-
tan signs him up to put the country on a New
Deal basis and Eddie — but need we tell more?

Photos ihrouoh courtesy of 20th Century-Fox

The gent with the mous-
tache is radio's own1 Tony
Martin who makes love to
June Lang while Eddie's
fighting off Gypsy Rose.

Alice went to Hollywood be-
cause Rudy Vallee signed to
make a picture — and arrived
to find herself before the
camera. Left, her newest
picture with Don Ameche is
proof of the distance she
has come since "Now I'll
Tell," with Spencer Tracy.

By PAULINE
S W AN S O N

PART TWO

TWO years later, when their car overturned on a rainy
road at night and he lifted her limp form onto
an ambulance cot, Rudy Vallee found it necessary to
coax Alice Faye back to consciousness a second time.

But the first time he was laughing when she opened her
blue eyes wide and asked him if she'd "made it."

Only punk kids fainted when they made their first radio
broadcasts. Of course she'd made it. Didn't she always?

Alice was inclined to agree with the "punk kid" charge.
Fever or no fever, mike-fright or no mike-fright, it was silly
to fold up over a song when she'd been singing in public for
nearly a year. She glared up at the mike with a wordless
vow that this fainting business would never happen again.

That was the last round in the mike's favor. Alice sang
on all of the Vallee broadcasts after that, and after a week
or two she was singing into the black face of the microphone
without so much as holding on.

She had jcrst turned seventeen, but the marks of a

Fox

NOW HOLLYWOOD GIVES HER STAR-
DOM BUT FIRST IT HAD TO BREAK
ALICE FAYE'S HEART— THE DRA-
MATIC STORY OF A ROMANTIC LIFE

trouper were beginning to show in her work.
Alice had been born with rhythm; she had
learned performance the hard way with the
dancing girls in Chester Hale's traveling
vaudeville units. Now she was learning to
be star-stuff by watching Rudy Vallee.

Vallee was "tops" with an adoring public
at that time. Women swooned at his mati-
nees. College kids stopped dancing, just to
listen, when his orchestra played at the
Pennsylvania Roof. There were many who
hazarded a bet that Rudy would be the next
to fill the Great Lover's throne.

Rudy was about "tops," too, to seventeen
year-old Alice Faye. He was a hard worker,
frantic with the demands that the many
phases of his work made upon him. But
he found time to fill his role of matinee-idol
graciously, and he was a generous — if hard-
driving-boss. Alice watched Vallee, and was
struck down with an acute case of hero wor-
ship. Hadn't he snatched her out of the
chorus, decreed that she should have a per-
sonality, an opportunity, of her own?

As time went on, Vallee took more and
more notice of his young protege. Alice
was developing a unique song style. Rudy
sang all of the sweet music, so the hot tunes
fell to Alice. The fans didn't have a word
for it when they wrote in to applaud "We're
in the Money" or "Sleepy Time Down
South," but as it turned out Alice was the
first of the girl singers to "swing it."

The fan letters she received from her radio
listeners and the applause of hard-boiled
New York night clubbers who heard her at
the Pennsylvania Roof or Club Hollywood
were thrilling signs (Continued on page 75)

FOR SYNOPSIS OF STORY, SEE PAGE 76

They tried to make Alice look
like Jean Harlow, with curves,
plucked eyebrows and bleached
hair. Below, with Rudy Vallee
in their only film together.

Photo by Otto Ilym

CHARLES MARTIN

Editor's Note: Continuing its policy
of recreating memorable broadcasts on
the printed page, Radio Mirror here-
with presents the drama of William
Robinson. First broadcast on the Philip
Morris program — Tuesday nights over
the NBC-Red network — this remark-
able true story of a man who lived
thirty-four years of torture, was written
and produced by Charles Martin, di-
rector of Three Minute Thrills and Circumstantial Evidence.

A SEMICIRCLE of cold, unsympathetic faces hemmed
him in. Above him, on the bench, the Federal Judge
bent forward.
"William Robinson," the judge said sternly, "you have
been found guilty of breaking into the United States Post
office building in Shibley, Arkansas, and attempting to rob
the United States mails. Have you anything to say before
the Court pronounces sentence upon you?"

Now — now was his last chance. They must listen to him,
believe him, before it was too late.

"Yes, Your Honor. I should like to plead that you be
lenient. I'm not really a crook — that is, I have never stolen
anything in my life. I was desperate— my mother, in Cali-
fornia— she's dying and I wanted to get some money so I

ADAPTED FROM A GREAT BROADCAST— THE
DRAMATIC STORY OF A MAN WHO ESCAPED
THE LAW BUT NOT HIS OWN CONSCIENCE

could get her a doctor, she must have an immediate operation."
"We have reviewed all that in your trial."
He felt his carefully-prepared argument leaving him.
breaking up against the cold wall of the Court's indifference.
Stumbling, he went on, "But don't you see? If 1 don't get
her an operation she'll die! Putting me in prison will kill
her — "

"You should have thought of that before you committed
your qrime."

"But I didn't intend to commit a crime! I met a man in
a restaurant. I told him about my mother. He said he'd
help me. I went with him — and the next thing I knew I
was arrested. Please — " Suddenly he felt his nails digging
into the flesh of his hands — "please, if you can postpone
my sentence — let me go to California and help my mother —
I promise I'll come back and go {Continued on page 78)

RfcO**

st&

.2*"*°

0&>2X

-{OV9-

M-

,»*tf»*c

0«*S

kG*W*

*Vt*

■owi*u£Vt

GVN°6

tHE

BR°

AOC

*i* G^£S

.?\A>S

bro*°

CAS*1"*

H»©tft

Of ^ M

^jOR

fOO^

.B^

o<*

.0^

u*1

\M&

tHt

WtT

^lOR*s

&R°

All time is Eastern Standard

8:00 A. M.

NBC-Blue: Melody Hour
NBC-Red: Goldthwaite Orch.

8:30
JVBC-Blue: Tone Pictures
NBC-Red: Children's Concert

9:00
CBS: Sunday Morning at Aunt
Susan's

NBC-Blue: White Rabbit Line
NBC-Red: Orchestra

10:00
CBS: Church of the Air
NBC-Blue: Russian Melodiei
NBC-Red: Bible Highlights

10:30
CBS: Romany Trail

11:00
NBC: Press-radio News

11:05
NBC-Blue: Alice Remsen. contralto
NBC-Red: Ward and Muzzy, Piano

11:15
NBC-Blue: Neighbor Nell
NBC-Red: Bravest ot the Brava

11:30
CBS: Major Bowes Family

11:45
MBS: Football Talks
NBC-Red: Henry Busse Orch.

12:00 Noon
NBC-Blue: Southernaire»
NBC-Red: Hour Glass

12:30 P. M.
CBS: Salt Lake City Tabernacle
NBC-Blue: Music Hall of the Air
NBC-Red: University of Chicago
Round Table Discussion

1:00
CBS: Church of the Air
NBC-Red: Dorothy Dreslin

1:30
CBS: Poets Gold
MBS: Ted Weems Orch.
NBC-Blue: Our Neighbors
NBC-Red: Smoke Dreams

2:00
CBS: St. Louis Serenade
NBC-Blue: The Magic Key of RCA
NBC-Red: Sunday Drivers

2:30
CBS: Dramas of the Bible
NBC-Red: Thatcher Colt mystenet

3:00

IBS: Everybody's Music
NBC-Blue: Broadway

4:00
IBS: Spelling Bee
NBC-Blue: Sunday Vespers
NBC-Red: Romance Melodies

4:30

NBC-Blue: Fishface, Figgsbottle
NBC-Red: The World is Yours

4:45

NBC-Blue: Modern Foods Show

5:00

CBS: Silver Theater

MBS: Singing Lady

NBC-Blue: Metropolitan Auditions

NBC -Red: Marion Talley

5:30
CBS: Guy Lombardo
NBC-Blue: Smilin' Ed McConnell
NBC-Red: Slieiia Barrett

6:00

CBS: Joe Penner

NBC-Blue; Grenadier Guards Band

NBC-Red: Catholic Hour

6:30

CBS: Chevrolet Program
.MBS: Tim and Irene
NBC-Red: A Tale of Today

7:00
CBS: Jeanette MacDonald
NBC-Red: Jack Benny

7:30

CBS: Phil Baker

NBC-Blue: Ozzte Nelson

NBC-Red: Fireside Recitals

7:45

NBC-Red: Sunset Dreams

8:00

NBC-Blue: General Motors Sym-
phony

NBC-Red: Don Ameche. Edgar 8er.
gen. W. C. Fields.

»:00 _

CBS: Ford Symphony
JIBS: Passing Parade
NBC-Blue: Tyrone Power
NBC-Red: Manhattan Merry-Go-
Round

9:30

M'.C-Blue: Walter Winchell
NBC-Red: American Album of
Familiar Music

9*45

NBC-Blue: Irene Rich

10:00
MBS: Commentator
NBC-Blue: Concert
NBC-Red: Sunday Night Party

10:30
MBS Good Will H->ur

11:00
CUS: Press Radio News
NBC-Blue Judy and the Bunch
NBC-Red Orchestra

II :30
Dance Music

SUNDAY

MOTTO OF THE DAY

By JOE PENNER

Sleep on that problem — and tomorrow morning it will be ironed out.

Highlights For Sunday, Sept. 26

^/"OU'LL be in plenty of trouble with
your listening today if you don't re-
member that last night radio put Day-
light Saving Time behind it for an-
other year . . . Unless your city was
one of those which operated on Day-
light Saving all summer, all your ra-
dio programs today come an hour later
than you've been used to hearing them.
. . . You'll probably be confused for a
while today anyway, but don't worry
— you'll soon get used to it. . . . The
new fall programs are lining themselves
up for your premiere inspection, with
four "firsts" today. ... At 1:30 P. M.,
you've your choice of two new ones —
something called Smote Dreams, with
The Dreamer and Virginio Marucci's
orchestra, plus guest stars, on NBC-

Red; and Ted Weems* orchestra, re-
turning for another fall and winter sea-
son, same time on Mutual. . . . Marion
Talley returns next, at five o'clock on
NBC-Red. Half-hour program. . . .
The Chevrolet people have a new show
lined up for 6:30 this afternoon on CBS,
but when your Almanac went to press
nobody knew who would be starred on
it. . . . It's the last broadcast (7:30,
NBC-Blue) tonight for Werner Jans-
sen and his band on the Bakers Broad-
cast . . . next week Ozzie Nelson and
the gang will be back. . . . Don't you
want to get in on Tim and Irene's prize
contest? Find out all about it between
6:30 and 7:00 P. M. on MBS. . . . It's
your chance to win a beautiful silver
fox fur.

Marion Talley, once
of the Met Opera,
returns to the air this
afternoon at 5 P. M

Highlights For Sunday, Oct. 3

Now a star, Tyrone
Power returns to the
radio which once
gave him bit parts.

"^TTTH a loud bang, the 1937-38
radio season gets under way to-
day. You'd think a Presidential de-
cree had been handed down punishing
a sponsor by cutting off his head
if he dared to start a radio series any
day but Sunday, October 3. . . . Here's
the list of debuts: Five o'clock, the Sil-
ver Theater, on CBS, starring Rosalind
Russell in the first act of an original
four-act play called "First Love". . . .
Five o'clock on NBC-Blue, the return
of the Metropolitan Auditions of the
Air for their third year. . . . Five
o'clock on Mutual, Ireene Wicker, the
Singing Lady, begins a weekly series
of half-hour song-stories. This new
show doesn't affect her four-a-week
series on NBC. . . . Five-thirty on NBC-

blue, The Time of Your Lite, starring
Sheila Barrett, the mimic, Joe Rines'
orchestra, and Graham MacNamee. . . .
Six on CBS, Joe Penner's back again
. . . Seven on NBC-Red, so are Jack
Benny, Mary Livingstone & Co. . . .
Seven on CBS, Jeannette MacDonald
bows in as a regular radio feature . . .
Seven-thirty on NBC-Blue, Ozzie Nel-
son's back with Harriet Hilliard and a
new supporting star, cartoonist Feg
Murray. . . . Seven-thirty on CBS,
Phil Baker returns. . . . Eight on NBC-
Blue, likewise the General Motors sym-
phony concerts. . . . Nine on NBC-
Blue, Tyrone Power starts his series
of half-hour plays, replacing Rippling
Rhythm, which went off the air last
week. Whew!

Highlights For Sunday, Oct. 10

CPEND today, along with your Al-
manac, in listening to the shows
you didn't get a chance to hear last
Sunday because you were listening to
others at the same time. ... If you're
a Joe Penner fan, you're lucky, be-
cause so far Joe hasn't any competi-
tion in his six-o'clock CBS spot. . . .
Of course, Joe's lucky, too. . . . Little
known facts about this famous duck
salesman who no longer sells ducks.
. . . He's the only Hungarian-born
comedian of any prominence in this
country . . . Real name is Pinter . . .
He once was a boy soprano in the choir
of St. Paul Cathedral, Detroit, and also
sang in Liberty Loan drives during the
World War. . . . Like Milton Berle, he
started his career as a comedian by

winning a Charlie Chaplin contest. . . .
Is another Rudy Vallee protege who
made good. ... Is married to Eleanor
Mae Vogt, who was a dancer in Joe's
first Broadway hit. . . . Birthday is
November 11, Armistice Day. . . .
Rosalind Russell, who continues her
starring engagement on the Silver
Theater at 5:00 today, is a Water-
bury, Conn., gal . . . and not English
at all, in spite of her accent. . . . She's
traveled extensively in Europe, though.
. . . Isn't often seen around the Holly-
wood night spots. . . . Tried to get out
of playing the part of Craig's Wife in
the movie of that name, but couldn't,
and did it so well it made her a star
overnight. . . . Will be on the air for
two more Sundays after today.

Hungarian-born Joe
Penner (ne Pinter) is
the six-o'clock comedv
high-light today at 6

Highlights For Sunday, Oct. 17

Sheila Barrett brings
her acid wit to radio
today and every Sun-
day at five-thirty.

\K7HAT would an October Sunday
be without a new show or two to
add the spice of variety? . . . Today
there are two — a short one on NBC-
Blue from 4:45 to 5:00 P.M., spon-
sored by the Modern Food Process Co.
. . . and a half-hour program on MBS
at 10:00 P.M., sponsored by Commen-
tator Magazine, and described as being
"variety-dramatic." . . . There ought to
be a birthday party on Tim and Irene's
show on MBS tonight at 6:30, because
it's Irene's birthday. . . . Her maiden
name was Noblette, but she changed
it to Ryan when she married Tim. . . .
Prefers polka dot blouses and ham-
burgers with. . . . High time you were
listening to Sheila Barrett in The Time
of Your Life on NBC-Blue at 5:30 to-

day and every Sunday. . . . This is the
first week-to-week program she's ever
been on, though she's made plenty of
guest appearances. . . . She's Broad-
way's favorite mimic, as well as Lon-
don's, Paris', and Chicago's. . . .
Mostly she appears in night clubs, but
maybe she'll be in a stage show this
winter. . . . That was one reason she
decided to sign up for a regular radio
program. . . . Used to mimic famous
people like Garbo and Tallulah Bank-
head, but has stopped doing it because
she always made them sore. . . . Writes
all her own material and henceforth
will concentrate on mimicking everyday
types. . . . Has turned down numerous
moving picture offers because she
wants just the right part.

All time is Eastern Standard
8:00 A. M.

NBC-Blue: Morning Devotion'

NBC-Red: Good Morning Melodies
8:15

NBC-Blue: Island Serenaders

NBC-Red: Malcolm Claire
8:30

NBC-Blue: William Meeder

NBC-Red: Cheerio
9:00

CBS: Metropolitan Parade

NBC-Blue: Breakfast Club

NBC-Red: Fields and Hall
9:30

CBS: Jack Berch
9:55

NBC: Press Radio News
10:00

CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly

NBC-B!ue: Mary Marlin

NBC-Red: Mrs. Wiggs
10:15

CBS: Myrt and Marge

NBC-Blue: Ma Perkins

NBC-Red: John's Other Wife
10:30

CBS: Tony Wons _ .,

NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family

NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill
«0:45

NBC-Blue: Kitchen Cavalcade

NBC-Red: Today's Children
11:00

NBC-Blue: The O'Neills

NBC-Red: David Harum
11:15

CBS: Heinz Magazine

NBC-Blue: Road of Life

NBC-Red: Backstage Wife
11:30

CBS: Big Sister

NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade

NBC-Red: How to Be Charming

• ' :45 . -, c. •

CBS: Aunt Jenny's Life Stories
NBC-Blue: Edward MacHugh

12:00 Noon
CBS: Swinging the Blues
MBS: Journal of Living
NBC-Red: Girl Alone

■2:l5
CBS: Edwin C. Hill
NBC-Red: The Goldbergs

CBS Romance of Helen Tren'
NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour
12:45
CBS: Our Gal Sunday

1 :0°
CBS: Betty and Bob

1:15
CBS: Hymns

I '30
CBS: Arnold Grimm's Daughter
NBC-Blue: Love and Learn
NBC-Red: Words and Music

CBS: Hollywood in Person
2:00

CBS: Kathryn Cravens
2:15

CBS: Jack and Loretta
2:45

CBS: Ted Malone
6:00

CBS: Col. Jack Major

NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family
3:15

NBC-Red: Ma Perkins
3*30

NBC-Blue: Let's Talk it Over

NBC-Red: Vic and Sade

3*45
'NBC-Red: The O'Neills

CBS: Bob Byron
NBC-Blue: Carson Robison
NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones

4*15
'NBC-Red: The Guiding Light

'NBC-Red: Mary Marlin
4 "45
'CBS: Dr. Allan R. Dafoe
NBC-Red: Road of Life

CBS: Follow the Moon

5*15

CBS- Life of Mary Sothern
NBC-Blue: Junior Nurse Corps
NBC-Red: Dari-Dan

5 '30
NBC-Blue: Singing Lady
NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong

5 '45

CBS: Funny Things

NOB-Blue: Tom Mix

NBC-Red: Little Orphan Annie
6:30 J. ,

Press Radio News
6:35

CBS: Sports Resume
6 '45

NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas

'CBS: Poetic Melodies
NBC-Blue: Hughie Barrett's Orch.
NBC-Red: Amos 'n' Andy

'CBS: Song Time

NBC-Red: Uncle Ezra
7:30

NBC-Blue: Lum and Abner
7:45

CBS: Boake Carter
8:00

CBS: Alemite Half Hour

NBC-Blue: Gen. Hugh S. Johnson

NBC-Red: Burns and Allen
8:30

CBS: Pick and Pat

MBS: Let's Visit

NBC-Blue: Campana Program

NBC-Red: Voice of Firestone
9:00

CBS: Lux Theater

NBC-Red: McGee and Molly
9:30

NBC-Red: Hour of Charm
10:00

CBS: Wayne King

NBC-Blue: Warden Lawes

NBC-Red: Contented Program
10:30

CBS: Neck o' the Woods
11:00

Oance Music
11:30

MBS: The Lone Ranger

MONDAY

MOTTO OF THE DAY

By CECIL B. DEMILLE

Your dreams won't come true if they're all day-dreams.

Highlights For Monday, Sept. 27

'"pHE kid who wants to go outdoors
and play from five to six this after-
noon is just a fresh-air fiend, that's all.
. . . Because four of the Juvenile fa-
vorites are back today after a summer
vacation. ... At 5:15, on NBC-Blue,
comes the Junior Nurse Corps; fol-
lowed, at 5:30 on the Red, by Jack
Armstrong, All American Boy. . . The
5:45 quarter-hour has a conflict, -but
what would radio be without its con-
flicts? . . . NBC-Red has Little Orphan
Annie, starting her seventh consecutive
year on the networks, and NBC-Blue
has Tom Mix, who's not really a new-
comer either. . . . The older folks have
an old favorite returning and a new
star making his first appearance today,
too. . . . The old favorite is Cheerio,

who returns this morning at 8:30 — a
little too early if you don't live in the
eastern states. He's on NBC-Red every
morning except Sunday. . . . And to-
night radio takes a deep breath and puts
Brigadier-General Hugh S. Johnson to
work for it. . . . The General wouldn't
sign a radio contract until he was as-
sured that he could say whatever he
liked, without fear of censoring ... so
there's no telling what will happen. . . .
His schedule's a little complicated:
Monday and Thursday, 8:00 to 8:15;
Tuesday and Wednesday, 10:00 to
10:15. ... All broadcasts on NBC's
Blue network, and no broadcast Friday.
. . . The General is one of the country's
most accomplished word-slingers, so
expect some entertaining listening.

General Hugh S.
Johnson, who. starts a
commentating series
tonight over NBC.

Highlights For Monday, Oct. 4

Tony Wons returns to
the air today after a
year of illness — tune
in CBS at 10:30 A.M.

JUST as yesterday was the great day
for all the new night-time shows,
today fires the starting gun for the day-
time, five and three broadcasts a week,
programs. . . . NBC-Blue has one new
show, Carson Robison and his Buck-
aroos, today and every Monday, Wed-
nesday and Friday from 4:00 to 4:15
P.M. . . . and CBS has four new ar-
rivals. . . . Tony Wons, that beloved
radio figure of a few years ago, comes
back on this network at 10:30 A.M.
for a Monday, Wednesday, Fr:day
sponsored series. . . . And you can bet
he has his Scrapbook with him. . . . Dr.
Allan R. Dafoe is back too, also Mon-
day, Wednesday, Friday, at 4:45 in
the afternoon. . . . After Dr. Dafoe
comes Follow the Moon, the five-a-week

serial starring Elsie Hitz and Nick
Dawson which was on the air last year
— though on a different network. . . .
And Follow the Moon is followed, in its
turn, by a new network serial, The Life
of Mary Sothern. No stranger to people
in Cincinnati, Mary Sothern is just now
hitting the networks after years of local
sponsorship. . . . Minabelle Abbott
plays Mary, Jay Jostyn plays Max
Tilley, and Charles Seel plays Daddy
Stratford. . . . This too is a five-a-week
serial .... For sports addicts, CBS
has the Women's Amateur Golf Tour-
nament, from Memphis, Tennessee. . . .
It's scheduled to continue for the next
two days. . . . And don't forget Uncle
Ezra, on NBC-Blue at 7:15.

Highlights For Monday, Oct. 11

(~\ NE lone newcomer to the radio
^^ parade today : a program spon-
sored by Campana, the same firm re-
sponsible for the First Nighter, which
bows in on the Blue network of NBC at
8:30 P.M. ... At nine tonight you
have another chance to listen to Fibber
MeGee and Molly and their crew of
comedians, who are mostly McGee and
Molly under different names. . . . For
instance, Mort Toops, who always
laughs his own jokes to death, is none
other than Jim (Fibber) Jordan. . . .
Jim is qualified to discuss that old leg-
end about the rainy afternoons in Peo-
ria. . . . He was born there. . . . Com-
ing from the Corn Belt, it's natural
that he wants to retire some day and
settle down to the life of a gentleman

farmer. . . . He's the first Jordan in
three generations who hasn't been a
farmer. . . . Was in the Army during
the War, but never saw the front. . . .
When he arrived in France he was
taken sick and sent to the hospital. . . .
On recovery was detailed to a troupe
whose business it was to entertain the
soldiers and keep up their morale. . . .
Jim and his good wife Marion, who is
Molly, are both avid mystery-story
fans. . . . They read them in the inter-
vals of broadcasting and taking care of
their two children, Kathryn and James,
Jr. . . . After you've listened to Fib-
ber and Molly, don't forget to leave the
radio tuned to the same station for the
Hour of Charm girl orchestra, directed
by Phil Spitalny.

Hah! It's Mort Toops,
who's really Fibber
McGee, playing an-
other part on his show.

iff «

Twenty Thousand
Years in Sing Sing,
and Warden Lawes,
return at 10 tonight.

Highlights For Monday, Oct. 18

13ACK for another year: Warden
Lewis E. Lawes, tonight on NBC-
Blue at 10:00. . . . The Warden has a
new batch of crime stories for your en-
tertainment— and if they all point a
moral, that's so much the better. . . .
Warden Lawes is a quiet, soft-spoken
gentleman, not at all like the movies'
idea of a prison governor. . . . Lives in
a big house atop the hill above Sing
Sing prison, where he can almost look
down into the prison yard. . . . Wrote
a play about convict life, which was
produced in New York last winter. . . .
But the critics didn't like it. . . . There
are a couple of time changes you ought
to notice, if you haven't done so al-
ready: NBC's Farm and Home Hour
is being broadcast these days at 12:30,

E.S.T., instead of 1:30. . . . and The
Guiding Light is on the air at 4:15,
NBC-Red. . . . Personal Column has
been replaced by Road of Life — NBC-
Red at 4:45. . . . Your Almanac spe-
cially recommends for Monday lis-
teners: Col. Jack Major, 3:00 P.M.,
CBS; Carson Robison and his Bucka-
roos, 4:00 P.M., NBC-Blue; Funny
Things, 5:45, CBS; Boake Carter,
7:45, CBS; Burns and Allen, 8:00,
NBC-Red; and the Lux Theater, 9:00,
CBS. . . . There's also Carl Carmer
and his fascinating folklore on CBS at
10:30. . . , Carmer ought to be a de-
tective ... he finds out so many amaz-
ing things about these United States —
and tells them in such an entertaining
way.

All time is Eastern Standard
8:00 A. M.

N'BC-Blue- Morning Devotions

NBC-Red; GooJ IVUriiirm Melodies
8:15

N'BC-Blue: Dick Leibert

NBC-Red lUalvnlm Glairs
8:30

NBC-Red: Cheerio
9:00

CBS: Dear Columbia

NBC-Blue: Breakfast Club

NBC-Red: Fields and Hal!
9:30

CBS: Richard Maxwell

JIBS: Journal of Living
10:00

CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly

NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin

NBC-Red: Mrs. Wings
10:15

CBS: Myrt and Marge

NBC-Blue: Ma Perkins

NBC-Red: John's Other Wife
10:30

NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family

NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill
10:45

NBC-Blue: Kitchen Cavalcade

NBC-Red; Todays Children
11:00

CBS: Mary Lee Taylor

NBC-Blue: The O'Neills

NBC-Red: David Harum
11:15

<BS: Heinz Magazine

NBC-Blue: Road of Life

NBC-Red: Backstage Wife
11:30

CBS: Big Sister

XBC-Blue: Vic and Sade

NBC-Red: Mystery Chef
11:45

(BS: Aunt Jenny's Life Stories

MBS: Myra Kingsley

NBC-Blue: Edward MacHuQh

NBC-Red: Hi Boys
12:00 Noon

NBC-Red: Girl Alone
I2;I5 P. M.

CRS: Edwin C. Hill

NBC-Red: The Goldbergs
12:30

CBS: Romance of Helen Tren«

NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour
12:45

CBS: Our Gal Sunday
1:00

CBS: Betty and Bob
1:15

CBS: Hymns
1 :30

CBS: Arnold Grimm's Daughter

NBC-Blue: Love and Learn

NBC-Red: Words and Music
1:45

CBS: Hollywood in Person
2:15

CBS: Jack and Loretta
2:30

CBS: Dalton Brothers

NBC-Blue: Music Guild

NBC-Red: It's a Woman's World
2:45

CBS: Ted Malone

MBS: Beatrrce Fairfax
3:00

CBS: Theater Matinee

NBC -Blue: Airbreaks

NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family
3:15

NBC-Red: Ma Perkins
S:30

CBS: Concert Hall

NBC-Red: Vic and Sade
3.45

NBC-Blue: Have You Heard

NBC-Red: The O'Neills

CBS: Bob Byron

NBC-Blue: Club Matinee

NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones
4:15

NBC-Red: The Guiding Light
4:30

NBC-Red: Mary Mariin

NBC-Red: Road of Lifo
5:00

CBS: Follow the Moon
5:15

CBS: Life of Mary Sothern

NBC-Blue: Junior Nurse Ccrps

5 "30

NBC-Blue: Singing Lady

NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong
8.45 , _

CBS: Children's Corner

NBC-Blue: Tom Mi»

NBC-Bed; Little Orphan Annie

Press-Radio News

CBS: Sports Resume

6*45

NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas

7:00 . ... j.

CBS- Poetic Melodies
NBC-Blue: Easy Aces
NBC-Bed: Amos V Andy

CBS: Song Time
NBC-Red: Vocal Varieties

7 '30

CBS: Helen Menken
NBC-Blue: Lum and Abner

8:c°BS: Mark Warnow

NBC-Blue: Husbands and Wives
NBC-Red: Johnny Presents

8:C°BS: Al J olson

NBC-Blue: Edgar A Guest

NBC-Red: Wayne King
9:00

CBS: Al Pearce

NBC-Blue: Ben Bornlo

NBC-Red: Vox Pop — Parks Johnson
9 :30

CBS: Jack Oakle

NBC-BUie: Grand Central Station

NBC-Red: Lanny Ross

CBS: Your Unseen Friend

NBC-Blue: Gen. Hugh S Johnson
10:30

NBC-Blue: Past Masters

NBC-Red: Jimmie Fidler
10:45

NBC-Red: Vic and Sade

TUESDAY

MOTTO OF THE DAY

By MARK WARNOW

People will read anything, except the handwriting on the wall.

Highlights For Tuesday, Sept. 28

■HpODAY the Camel show swings back
into its winter set-up . . . Expands
itself to a full hour. . . . Adds Jack
Oakie and the faculty and student-
body of Oakie-Dokey College. . . . Said
faculty includes Georgie Stoll's orches-
tra, Meyer Alexander's Swing Chorus,
and various and sundry guest professors
and visiting alumni. . . . Behind the
scenes is George Marion, Jr., big-shot
screen scenarist, who is doing the writ-
ing for the program, and it ought to be
very, very good. . . . Benny Goodman,
back in New York after a summer in
Hollywood and on the road, contributes
his usual scholarly discussion of Suh-
wing music. ... AH at 9:30, E.S.T., on
the CBS hookup. . . . Another guy who
has just retutrned to New York after

spending the hot months batting around
the country is Al Pearce. . . . His spon-
sors had Al and the bunch on tour,
whipping up friendly relations with
Ford dealers — they hope-a-hope-ahope.
. . . First program from New York is
on CBS tonight at 9:00, just preceding
the Oakie-Goodman session. . . . There's
a brand-new show making its bow to-
night, too — Grand Central Station on
NBC-Blue. . . . Jr's ;'usr bad luck that
it's on at the same time as Jack Oakie
— 9:30 to 10:30 . . . You'll have to
take your pick. . . . Grand Central Sta-
tion's setting is New York City's great
railway terminal, and each week's play
goes behind the scenes of the dramas
enacted there, into the lives of the
people involved.

President Jack Oakie
of Oakie-Dokey Col-
lege dons cap and
gown for a new term.

Highlights For Tuesday, Oct. 5

Rosaline Green takes
leading -feminine roles
in the Grand Central
Station sketches, NBC.

TF you want it, you can have some
more golf today. . . . CBS is in the
second day of broadcasting the Wo-
men's Amateur Golf championship
rounds at Memphis, Tennessee. . . .
Better listen today, because tomorrow,
when the World's Series begins, you're
going to be too busy listening to it,
. . . Tonight two of the biggest of big-
name bands go into new dance spots,
and radio does its duty by bringing
you the festivities. . . . Glen Gray and
the Casa Loma boys go into the Hotel
New Yorker, with an NBC wire to your
living-room. . . . And Jimmy Dorsey
goes into the Congress Hotel in Chi-
cago. . . . Jimmy favors a CBS remote
control arrangement. . . . No space last
Tuesday to tell you about the cast of

that new Grand Central Station show,
9:30 on NBC-Blue. . . . Rosaline
Greene and Ned Wever are playing
leading roles in the weekly sketches,
supported by Clayton Collyer, Erik
Rolf, John Brown and Charles Cantorp
all well known for swell work in other
shows, in important parts. . . . Rosa-
line, you know, is also the announcer
for the Hour of Charm Monday nights,
and was Mrs. Roosevelt's announcer
when the First Lady was on the air. . . .
Was also the first woman to write, pro-
duce, direct, and act in a half-hour ra-
dio show. . . . Until recently, Ned
Wever was Irene Rich's leading man.
. . . Tall and dark, he writes songs for
a hobby. . . . "Trouble In Paradise"
was one of his hit tunes.

Highlights For Tuesday, Oct. 12

TT'S Columbus Day. . . . Not a holi-
day exactly, but the networks will
be taking notice of it just the same. . . .
Did you know that : This is not Christo-
pher Columbus' birthday, but the day
he sighted land in the New World?
Nobody knows just when he was born,
except that it was between August 26
and October 31, 1451. . . . That Co-
lumbus probably wasn't really looking
for India when he started sailing west-
ward? His agreement with the Spanish
rulers didn't say a word about India . . .
just mentioned "certain islands in the
sea of which Columbus knew." . . .
Apparently he didn't, because when
he landed on an island the natives
called Guanahani on October 12, 1492,
he didn't know what it was, and finally

decided it was part of Asia. . . . He
called this island San Salvador, and
authorities today are still squabbling
over what island it was. . . . Tonight's
the night to listen to Helen Menken
in Second Husband, CBS at 7:30. . . .
Joseph Curtin, who plays Grant Cum-
mings, the title role in this serial, was
born in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
July 29, 1910. . . . Did directing and
acting in the Lobero Theater in
Santa Barbara, California. . . . Was
with Maude Adams and Otis Skinner
in "The Merchant of Venice". . . .
Came to radio in 1934 to play in
Roses and Drums. . . . Has blue eyes,
dark brown hair and a fair complexion.
.... Owns two Welsh terriers, named
Jonsie and Walk-up.

Joseph Curtin is lead-
ing man for Helen Men-
ken Tonight at 7:30 in
Second Husband show.

Highlights For Tuesday, Oct. 19

Elsie Hitz plays Jean
Page in CBS' five-a-
week serial, Follow the
Moon, at 5:00 P.M.

VOUR diallights for the day: Heinz
*■ Magazine, 11:15 A.M., CBS; Farm
and Home Hour, 12:30 P.M., NBC-
Blue: Dalton Brothers, 2:30, CBS; Pep-
per Young's Family, 3:00, NBC-Red
(also 10:30 A.M., NBC-Blue); the
Concert Hall, 3:30, CBS; Follow the
Moon, 5:00, CBS; the Singing Lady,
5:30, NBC-Blue; Lowell Thomas, 6:45,
NBC-Blue; Easy Aces, 7:00, NBC-
Blue: Al Jolson, Parkyakarkus, and
Martha Raye, with a guest star, 8:30,
CBS; Lanny Ross, Charlie Butter-
worth, and Florence George, 9:30,
NBC-Red; and for a rousing, stimulat-
ing night-cap. General Hugh S. John-
son, 10:00, NBC-Blue. . . . About time
you were being told something about
the stars of Follow the Moon. . . .

Elsie Hitz, who plays Jean Page, is a
Cleveland gal, and has been on the
stage since she was fourteen, on the
air since 1927. . . . You remember her
best as Gale Page in Dangerous Para-
dise. . . . For a long time has ap-
peared almost exclusively on the air
with Nick Dawson, who is Clay Ban-
nister in Follow the Moon. . . . Nick
began his radio career as an executive
in the business end of the field, was
drafted into acting because his voice
was exactly what was needed in a series
of sketches. . . . Was in the war. . . .
Got in the army by disguising an ap-
pendix scar with grease-paint. . . .
Was wounded by shrapnel and today
the roof of his mouth is built on a sil-
ver plate.

Island Serenaders
Malcolm Claire

William
Cheerio

Meeder

Breakfast Club
Fields and Hall

All time is Eastern Standard
8:00 A. M.

NBC-Blue: Morning Devotions

NBC-Red: Good Morning Melodies
8:15

NBC-Blue:

NBC-Red:
8:30

NBC-Blue:

NBC-Red:
9:00

NBC-Blue:

NBC-Red:
9:30

CBS: Jack Berch
10:00

CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly

NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin

NBC-ited: Mrs. Wiggs
10:15

CBS: Myrt and Marge

NBC-Blue: Ma Perkins

NBC-Red: John's Other Wife
10:30

CBS: Tony Wons

NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family

NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill
10:45

NBC-Blue: Kitchen Cavalcade

NBC-Red: Today's Children
11:00

CBS: Heinz Magazine

NBC-Blue: The O'Neills

NBC-Red: David Harum
11:15

NBC-Red: Road of Life

NBC-Red: Backstage Wife
11:30

CBS: Big Sister

NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade

NBC-Red: How to Be Charming
11:45

CBS: Aunt Jenny's Life Stone*

MBS: Myra Kingsley

NBC-Blue: Edward MacHugh

NBC-Red: Hello Peggy
12:00 Noon

CBS: Cheri; Three Notes

MBS: Journal of Living

NBC-Red: Girl Alone
12:15

CBS: Edwin C. Hill

NBC-Red: The Goldbergs
12:30

CBS: Romance of Helen Trent

NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour
12:45

CBS: Our Gal Sunday
1:00

CBS: Betty and Bob
1:15

CBS: Betty Crocker

'OBS: Arnold Grimm's Daughter
NBC-Red: Words and Music
NBC-Blue: Love and Learn

CBS: Hollywood in Person
2:00

CBS: Kathryn Cravens
2:15

CBS: Jack and Loretta
2:45

CBS: Ted Malone

MBS: Beatrice Fairfax

NBC-Blue: Peggy Wood

'CBS: Manhattan Matinee

NBC-Red: Pepper Youngs Family
3:15

NBC-Red: Ma Perkins
3:30

CBS: Current Questions

NBC-Red: Vic and Sade
3*45

-CBS: Concert Hall

NBC-Red: The O'Neills

NBC-Blue: Carson Robison
NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones
4:15
NBC-Red: The Guiding Light

NBC-Red: Mary Marlin
4*45

'NBC-Blue: Road of Life

CBS: Dr. Allan R. Dafoe
5:00

CBS: Follow the Moon
5:15

CBS: Life of Mary Sothern

NBC-Blue: Junior Nurse Corps

NBC-Red: Dari-Dan
5:30

NBC-Blue: Singing Lady

NBC-Ked: Jack Armstrong
5:45

CBS: Funny Things

NBC-Blue: Tom Mix

NBC-Red: Little Orphan Annie
6:00

NBC-Red: Allen Prescott
6:30

Press- Radio News
6:35

CBS: Sports Resume
6:45

NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas
7:00

CBS: Poetic Melodies

NBC-Blue: Easy Aces

NBC-Red: Amos 'n' Andy
7:15

CBS: Song Time

NBC-Red: Uncle Ezra
7:30

NBC-Blue: Lum and Abner
7:45

CBS: Boake Carter
8:00

CBS: Cavalcade of America

NBC-Ked: One Man's Family
8:30

CBS: Eddie Cantor

MBS: Ed Fitzgerald

NBC-Blue: Sidney Skolsky

NBC-Red: Wayne King
9:00

CBS: Andre Kostelanctz

NBC-Blue: String Symphony

NBC-Red: Town Hall Tonight
9:30

CBS: Beauty Box Theatre
10:00

CBS: Gang Busters. Phillips Lord

NBC-Blue: Gen Hugh S. Johnson

NBC-Red: Your Hit Parade
11:00

Dance Music
11:30

MBS: The Lone Ranger

WEDNESDAY

MOTTO OF THE DAY

By EDDIE CANTOR

A hunch is like a piano — no good unless you know how to piay it.

Highlights For Wednesday, Sept. 29

QONSIDERATE-LIKE, Eddie Can-
tor is doing something tonight for
the benefit of everybody who likes
Charlie McCarthy and W. C. Fields
as well as they do Eddie himself. . . .
Instead of staying on Sunday nights at
the same time as the McCarthy-Fields-
Ameche-Eddy combine, Eddie has
taken over a new time, tonight and
every Wednesday at 8:30, on CBS.
. . . And tonight he gives his first pro-
gram in the new spot, after a two-week
absence from the air. . . . Your Al-
manac welcomes Eddie back, thanks
him for his courtesy and good judg-
ment in changing his air time, and ex-
pects you all to do the same. . . .
Deanna Durbin, Pinky Tomlin, Say-
more Saymoore, Jimmy Wallington,

and Jacques Renard and his orchestra

are all with Eddie on the show Only

Bobbie Breen is missing. . . . Bobbie is
busy with pictures and personal-appear-
ances, but your Almanac is iaying bets
he'll be back on the air. probably in a
program of his own, before so very long
. . . Andre Kostelanetz' Chesterfield
show starts on its new "winter set-up to-
night at 9 : 00 over CBS. . . . Each week
Kosty will have a different guest star,
starting tonight with John Charles
Thomas. . . . The maestro promises some
new and startling musical arrangements
for the future, too. . . . He won't keep
his orchestra always the same size, but
will enlarge it or reduce it according to
the evening's program. . . . He'll offer
both popular and classical music.

Eddie Cantor starts
his Wednesday-night
series of comedy pro-
grams this evening.

Highlights For Wednesday. Oct. 6

With Cantor tonight,
Deanna Durbin is also
the star of another
smash movie success.

TF you're a baseball fan and there's a
radio anywhere near, your boss
isn't going to get much work out of
you today, because the World's Series
begins and NBC and CBS are both on
hand to tell you about it. . . . Those
knots of people on the street, grouped
around taxicabs haven't been attracted
there by an accident; they're just lis-
tening to the radio. . . . Somewhere, in
spite of the baseball interest, CBS is
still planning on sandwiching in an ac-
count of the third and last day's play
in the Women's Amateur Golf tourna-
ment in Memphis. . . . Your Almanac
certainly doeesn't know where or
when they'll do it. . . . Somebody
realized, not . long ago, that there
wasn't a single Hollywood gossip-col-

umnist on the air Wednesday nights,
so tonight at 8:30 some new sponsors
are rushing in to remedy the error. . . .
Sidney Skolsky is their choice for
gossiper-extraordinary. . . . Sid is an
old newspaper hand, but this is his ini-
tial try at air work. . . . NBC-Blue is
the network, if you must have your in-
formation about the latest deeds and
misdeeds of the movie-ites. . . . One
movie-ite who got her start in radio
and is on the air tonight has just done
a very good deed indeed. . . . She's
Deanna Durbin, with Eddie Cantor at
8:30 on CBS, and the good deed is her
work in "One Hundred Men and a
Girl." . . . Kostelanetz' guest star to-
night is Jose Iturbi.

Highlights For Wednesday Oct. 13

HpODAY and Friday are the only two
days of the week you can hear one
of the new serials. . . . Called Hello
Peggy, it's on at 11:45 A. M. on the
NBC Red network. . . , Each episode
is about the same characters, but tells
a complete story in itself. . . . Eunice
Howard and Alan Bunce are the two
leading characters, playing Peggy and
Ted Hopkins, and Jackie Kelk and
Andy Donnelly play a couple of ram-
bunctious hotel bellboys. . . . Eunice
is a striking blonde. . . . Likes solitary
hikes, milk, and salads. . . . Alan used
to be a prominent stage actor, but now
devotes most of his time to radio. . . .
You've heard him in Pepper Young's
Family, John's Other Wife, David
Harum, the True Story Court, and

Personal Column of the Air. . . . For
some reason or other, he specializes in
playing romantic young doctors on the
air. . . . Whenever there's such a part
going, Alan's sure to be . called for it.
. . . Has brown eyes and red-brown
hair. ... Is married to Ruth Nugent,
daughter of the veteran actor, J. C.
Nugent, and once toured with her in
Australia and New Zealand. . . .
Don't forget Walter O'Keefe and Town
Hall Tonight at 9:00 o'clock on NBC-
Red. ... Walter will have more "drama-
teurs". ... At 9:30, if you're in the
mood for singing, switch to CBS and
Jessica Dragonette. . . . The guest
star tonight on the Chesterfield show,
9:00 on CBS, is an old air favorite —
Nino Martini.

Eunice Howard plays
a switchboard girl In
the two-times-a-week
serial, Hello Peggy.

Highlights For Wednesday, Oct. 20

mm l

Dark-eyed Fran Carlon
plays important parts
in two of your favor-
ite daytivne serials.

t_JAVE you read the story on page
11 in which Dale Carnegie tells
you how radio can help you win friends
and influence people? ... If you
haven't, read it now. . . . Then let
your Almanac help you to pick out the
programs to practice on, and make it
a Dale Carnegie day. . . . As a starter,
if you're a woman, listen to Kitchen
Cavalcade, NBC-Blue at 10:45 A.M.
. . . That'll help you win the friend-
ship of your husband, if nothing else.
. . . And here are others that'll help
you put Mr. Carnegie's advice into
practice: Edwin C. Hill, CBS, 12:15.
. . . Farm and Home Hour, NBC-Blue,
12:30. . . . Kathryn Cravens, CBS,
2:00. . . . Peggy Wood Calling, NBC-
Blue, 2:45. . . . Current Questions,

CBS, 3:30. . . . Sports resume, CBS,
6:35. . . . Lowell Thomas, NBC-Blue,
6:45. . . . Cavalcade of America, CBS,
8:00. . . . Frank Black's String Sym-
phony, NBC-Blue, 9:00. . . . General
Hugh Johnson, NBC-Blue, 10:00. . . .
Alistair Cooke, NBC-Red, 10:45. . . .
There's plenty of food for thought in
that lineup to keep you busy for a
day. ... If you've taken time out
from these programs, some of which
are pretty weighty, for listening to two
of your favorite serials, you've prob-
ably heard Fran Carlon. . . . She's
Bunny Mitchell in The Story of Mary
Marlin, NBC-Blue at 10:00 A.M. and
NBC-Red at 4:30 P.M. . . . and also
the English Eileen Moran in Today's
Children, NBC-Red at 10:45 A.M.

All time is Eastern Standard

8:00 A. M.

NBC-Blue: Morning Devotions

NBC-Red: Good Morning Melodies
8:15

NBC-Blue: Dick Leibert

NBC-Red: Malcolm Claire
8:30

NBC-Red: Cheerio
8:00

CBS: Music in the Air

NBC-Blue: Breakfast Club

NBC-Red: Fields and Hall
(1:30

MBS: Journal of Living
10:00

CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly

NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin

NBC-Red: Mrs. Wiggs
10:15

CBS: Myrt and Marge

NBC-Blue: Ma Perkins

NBC-Red: John's Other Wife
10:30

NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family

NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill
10:45

NBC-Blue: Kitchen Cavalcade

NBC-Red: Today's Children
11:00

CBS: Mary Lee Taylor

NBC-Blue: The O'Neills

NBC-Red; David Harum
11:15

CBS: Heinz Magazine

NBC-Blue: Road of Life

NBC-Red: Backstage Wife
11:30

CBS: Big Sister

NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade
11:45

CBS: Aunt Jenny's Life Stories

MBS: Myra Kingsley

NBC-Blue: Edward MacHugn

NBC-Red: Hi Boys
12:00 Noon

CBS: Merrymakers

NBC-Red: Girl Alone
12:15 P. M.

CBS: Edwin C. Hill

NBC-Red: The Goldbergs
12:30

CBS: Romance of Helen Trent

NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour
12:45

CBS: Our Gal Sunday
1:00

CBS: Betty and Bob
1:15

CBS: Hymns:

I :30

CBS: Arnold Grimm's Daughter

NBC-Blue: Love and Learn

NBC-Red; Words and Music
1:45

CBS: Hollywood in Person
2:15

CBS: Jack and Loretta
2:45

CBS: Ted Malone

MBS: Beatrice Fairfax

NBC-Blue: Peggy Wood
3:00

CBS: Theater Matinee

NBC-Blue: NBC Light Opera

NBC-Red. Pepper Young's Family
3:15

NBC-Red: Ma Perkins
3:30

NBC-Red: Vic and Sade
3:45

NBC-Red: The O'Neills
4:00

CBS: Howells and Wright

NBC-Blue. Ctub Matinee

NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones
4:15

CBS: Novelteers

NBC-Red: The Guiding Light
4:30

NBC-Red: Mary Mariin
4:45

NBC-Red: Road of Life
5:00

CBS: Follow the Moon
5:15

CBS: Life of Mary Sothern

NBC-Blue: Junior Nurse Corps

NBC-Red: Turn Back the Cock
5:30

CBS: Elsie Thompson

NBC-Blue; Singing Lady

NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong
5:45

CBS: Children's Corner

NBC-Blue: Tom Mix

NBC-Red: Little Orphan Annie
6:30

Press-Radio News
6:35

CBS: Football Scores
6:45

CBS: George Hall's Orch.

NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas
7:00

CBS: Poetic Melodies

NBC-Blue: Easy Aces

NBC-Red: Amos ■ V Andy
7:15

CBS: Song Time

NBC-Red: Vocal Varieties
7:30

CBS: We, The People

NBC-Blue: Lum and Abner
7:45

NBC-Blue: Cabin In the Cotton
8-00

CBS: Kate Smith

NBC-Blue: Gen Hugh S lohnson

NBC-Red: Rudy Valtee
9:00

CBS: Major Bow^s Amateurs

NBC-Red: Show Boat
9:30

NBC-Blue: Helen Triubel
10:00

CBS: Floyd Gibbons

MBS: Witch's Taie

NBC-Red: Kraft Music Hall
10:30

CBS: March of Trme

NBC-Blue' Piccadilly Music Hall

I I :05

CBS: Dance Music
NBC-Blue: Dance Music
NBC-Red: John B Kennedy
11:15
Dance Music

THURSDAY

MOTTO OF THE DAY

By BOB BURNS

Walking on the beaten path is good if you don't mind crowds.

Highlights For Thursday, Sept. 30

*"PHE big news of the day is that
Kate's back. . . . The friendly Miss
Smith is once more on the air at her
old time, 8:00, on her old network,
CBS, but with a new sponsor. . . .
Jack Miller's orchestra, Ted Collins,
and Henrty Youngman are all on the
show with her, plus assorted guests
and special attractions. . . . Kate's
been vacationing all summer, and
ought to be in fine fettle for another
winter of entertaining. . . . You prob-
ably thought you knew all about Kate,
but did you know that she was chris-
tened Kathryn Elizabeth, or that she
studied to be a nurse? . . . That she
has been inducted into the Winnebago
tribe of the Sioux Indians, and chris-
tened by them "Hom'b-o-goo-win-ga?"

. . . Which means "Glory of the
Morn." . . . Her exact weight is 235
pounds. . . . Has never been in an
airplane and never intends to set foot
in one. ... If she can't get where she
wants to go by train, she stays home.
. . . Wears silver -rimmed specs when
she's rehearsing. . . . Can move those
235 pounds across a tennis court with
astounding speed, and is no slouch at
swimming and golfing. . . . Always has
her lunch (which invariably includes
fried chicken) brought to rehearsals in
a wicker basket. . . . Learns all her
songs by hearing them played over
once on a piano. . . . At 9:30 tonight
NBC-Blue hopes to present its long-
delayed production of Bernard Shaw's
"Back to Methuselah."

Kate Smith, the South's
own songbird, returns
to the air tonight at
8 on the CBS network.

Highlights For Thursday, Oct. 7

Gabriel Heatter stars
on We, the People, as
it returns to the air
at 7:30 this evening.

/^jNE of last year's most fascinating
^"^ shows, We, the People, returns to
the air tonight — and at a much more
convenient time for most listeners than
that which fell to its lot last winter.
. . . Listen to it at 7:30 over the Co-
lumbia network. . . . Phillips Lord,
who originated the idea for the show,
isn't on it this year. . . . His place is
being taken by Gabriel Heatter, who
did such a good job subbing when Phil
took a vacation last spring. . . . Gabe
always drops his suspenders off his
shoulders when he sits down at the
mike. ... Is addicted to loose-fitting
clothes anyway. . . . Loves his home
on Long Island and hates night-clubs.
. . . Gets frightfully nervous when he
rides in a car somebody else is driving,

and as a result hates taxi-cabs ... so
almost goes crazy when he has to get
someplace in a hurry. ... Is the
editor of the steel industry's trade
magazine, The Shaft. . . . Has two
children, a son, Buddy, nineteen, who
wants to be a poet; and a daughter,
Maida, twenty-one, who is an art stu-
dent. . . . Not long ago Gabe learned
that Maida was saving her pennies to
buy a Ford. . . . Without saying any-
thing he went to work. . . . One night
when Maida got home she found a
Packard roadster standing in front of
the house. ... It was wrapped in cello-
phane and had a bottle of champagne
tied to the steering wheel. Gabe smokes
lots of cigars, but usually throws one
away after he's puffed on it five minutes.

Highlights For Thursday, Oct. 14

T3UDY VALLEE'S broadcasting to-
-t^- night at 8:00 o'clock from Holly-
wood— the second of three programs
he plans on putting on the air from
there. . . . It's a long time since Rudy
saw Hollywood. . . . Wonder how he
likes the old town? . . . Meanwhile,
your Almanac's sort of interested in a
comedian who's featured on the show
which competes with Rudy — Henny
Youngman, on Kate Smith's program.
. . . Your Almanac is regretfully com-
pelled to say that last year, when he
was on the air, Henny wasn't very
funny. . . . Yet's when he's on the
stage he panics the people who can see
him. . . . Has he learned microphone
technique since then? . . . You're the
only judge that counts. . . . Henny

started entertaining when he was only
nine, appearing in various amateur
shows. . . . Wanted to be a dramatic
actor, but his looks always made au-
diences laugh instead of cry. . . .
Studied the violin for five years, but
admits he's like Jack Benny — playing
it is no proof that he studied it. . . .
Is married and has one child. ... Is
a very light sleeper. . . . Isn't super-
stitious, which he proves by knocking
on wood whenever he steps on the
stage to do his act. ... Is so generous
with his money that he's a soft touch
for a sob story. . . . Lives in Brooklyn
instead of New York for only one rea-
son— he likes it quiet. . . . He's under
a long term personal contract to Kate,
so you'll be hearing him a lot.

Henny Youngman's the
comedian on the Kate
Smith show tonight
and every Thursday.

Highlights For Thursday, Oct. 21

Gertrude Berg is the
brilliant woman who
writes The Goldbergs
and acts in it too.

TD ECOMMENDED for day-to-day
listening for people who want their
serials homely, true to life, excellently
acted, nicely sentimental, and not too
much burdened with thrills and melo-
drama: The Goldbergs, on NBC-Red
at 12:15 P.M. every day except Satur-
day and Sunday. . . . It'll never get
you so excited you're sitting on the
edge of your chair, but it'll keep you
•coming back for more just the same.
.... Mrs. Gertrude Berg, who writes
the scripts and acts the part of Mollie,
doesn't need the money her radio and
movie work brings her but she works
just as hard as if she did. . . . Has just
finished writing a movie for Bobbie
Breen. . . . Has two children of her
own, Harriet, eleven, and Cherney

Robert, fourteen. . . . She's accom-
panied, wherever she goes, by her
secretary, ... Is never known to lose
control of her temper or her poise, but
in rehearsals knows exactly what she
wants from her players and invariably
gets it. . . . Under another name, be-
longs to a women's club on New York's
East Side, none of whose members
know who she really is. . . . The other
members are all typical East Side wo-
men, none of them very well-off finan-
cially, and Mrs. Berg makes a hobby
of doing what she can to help them. . . .
As well as studying them to gain in-
spiration for her radio shows. . . .
Writes all her scripts in longhand in a
penthouse study on New York's Cen-
tral Park West.

All time is Eastern Standard
8:00 A. M.
NBC-Blue: Morning Devotions
NBC-Red: Good Morning Melodies
8:15

NBC-Blue: Island Serenaders
NBC-Bed: Malcolm Claire
8:30
NBC-Blue: William Meeder
NBC-Bed: Cheerio
9:00

NBC-Blue: Breakfast Club
NBC-Red: Fields and Hall
9:30

CBS: Jack Berch
10:00
CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly
NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin
NBC-Red: Mrs. Wiggs
10:15
CBS: Myrt and Marge
NBC-Blue: Ma Perkins
NBC-Red: John's Other Wife
10:30
CBS: Tony Wons

NBC-Blue. Pepper Youngs Family
NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill
10:45
NBC-Blue: Kitchen Cavalcade
NBC-Red: Today's Children
11:00
CBS: Heinz Magazine
NBC-Blue: The 0'Neill9
NBC-Red: David Harum
11:15
NBC-Blue: Road of Life
NBC-Red: Backstage Wife
11:30
CBS: Big Sister
NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade
NBC-Red: How to Be Charming
11:45
CBS: Aunt Jenny's Life Stories
MBS: Myra Kingsley
NBC-Blue: Edward MacHugh
NBC-Red: Hello Peggy
12:00 Noon
MBS: Journal of Living
NBC-Red: Girl Alone
12:15
CBS: Edwin C. Hill
NBC-Red: The Goldbergs
12:30
CBS Romance of Helen Trent
NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour
12:45

CBS: Our Gal Sunday
1:00

CBS: Betty and Btb
1:15

CBS: Betty Crocker
1:30 , „

CBS: Arnold Grimm's Daughter
NBC-Blue: Love and Learn
1:45

CBS: Hollywood in Person
2:00

PBS Kathryn Cravens
NBC: Music Appreciation
2:15

CBS: Jack and Loretta
2:45

CBS: Ted Malone
MBS: Beatrice Fairfax
3:00
NBC-Blue: Radio Guild
NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family
3:15

NBC-Red: Ma Perkins
3:30

NBC-Red: Vic and Sade
3:45

NBC-Red: The O'Neills
4:00

CBS: Bob Byron
NBC-Blue: Carson Robison
NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones
4:15

NBC-Bed: The Guiding Light
4:30

NBC-Red: Mary Marlin
4:45

CBS: Dr. Allan R. Dafoe
NBC-Rett: Road of Life
5:00

CBS: Follow the Moon
5:15

CBS: Life of Mary Sothern
NBC-Blue: Junior Nurse Corps
NBC-Red: Dari-Dan
5:30

NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong
5:45
'CBS: Funny Things
NBC-Blue: Tom Mix
NBC-Red: Little Orphan Annie
6:30

Press-Radio News

CBS: Sports Resume
6:45

NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas
7:00

CBS: Poetic Melodies

NBC-Red: Amos V Andy
7:15

CBS: Song Time

NBC-Red: Uncle Ezra
7:30

NBC-Blue: Lum and Abner

7=45 . „ .

CBS: Boake Carter
NBC-Red: Bughouse Rhythm

8:00
CBS: Hammerstein Music Hall
NBC-Blue: Varsity Show
NBC-Red: Cities Service Concert

8:30

CBS: Hal Kemp's Orch.
NBC-Blue: Death Valley Days

9:00

CBS: Hollywood Hotel
NBC-Blue: Robert Ripley
NBC-Red: Waltz Time

9 '30

'NBC-Blue: Jack Haley

NBC-Ked True Story Court
10:00

CBS: Song Shop

NBC-Blue: Tommy Dorsey Orch.

NBC-Red: First Nighter
10:30

NBC-Red: Jimmie Fidler
10:45

NBC-Red: Dorothy Thompson
11:05

CBS: Dance Music
11:30

MBS: The Lone Ranger

FRIDAY

MOTTO OF THE DAY

By TED MALONE

Find your pleasure in doing a favor, not in the thanks you get.

Highlights For Friday, Sept. 24

/~\PEN and doing business is a new
^"^ kind of shop, The Song Shop, on
CBS tonight and every Friday at 10:00.
. . . Kitty Carlisle, Frank Crumit, and
Gus Haenschen's orchestra are the
stars of this new show, which lasts
forty-five minutes at a session, instead
of the usual fifteen, thirty or sixty. . . .
This is the program Gas Haenschen
thought up many months ago, sold to
Coca-Cola, but could never put on the
air because of difficulty in clearing
time, getting the right talent, and what
not. . . . Now, after all that build-up,
it better be good. . . . Kitty Carlisle,
the lovely brunette singing star, is no
stranger to you— you've seen her in
the movies and maybe on the stage. . . .
Remember her singing "Alone" with

Allan Jones in the Marx Brothers' pic-
ture, "A Night at the Opera"? . . . She
was born in New Orleans of wealthy
parents and was raised in social and
diplomatic circles abroad. . . . Over
there, they taught her how to walk
and talk like a lady, and how to con-
ceal her thoughts and emotions. . . .
Result was that when she began to act
she had a "dead pan" which expressed
no emotion at all, and had to work like
a trooper to overcome the handicap. . . .
speaks French, Italian and German
fluently, as well as singing them. . . .
Was a favorite singing pupil of Lotte
Lehman's teacher, Mme. Kaszowska.
- . . Was the star of last year's hit
Broadwav musical show, "White Horse
Inn," and may make a movie of it.

Listen to Kitty
lisle singing tonight
on the Song Shop, on
CBS at ten o'clock.

Highlights For Friday, Oct. 1

Frank Crumit is the
jovial master of cere-
monies on the Coca-
Cola show at 10:00.

£* OLLEGES have settled down to an-
other year of — well, if you hap-
pen to be going to college you call it
work; if you don't, you call it play. . . .
So the Varsity Show returns to the air
tonight at eight o'clock on the NBC-
Blue network. . . . The University of
Alabama was picked for the honor of
being the first campus to be broadcast
from this year. . . . All you Alabama
U. grads, gather round. . . . John
Held, Jr., who em-ceed the Varsity
proceedings last year, is among the
missing this year . . . Maybe he grad-
uated. . . . The explanation is that there
were enough amateur emcees on every
campus to keep the show going . . .
Further collegiate atmosphere is lent
to the day by Paul Douglas, who turns

from baseball to football on his sports
resume on CBS at 6:35-. . . . Paul will
concentrate on ,the pigskin paraders
until December . . . For an exhaustive
schedule of football broadcasts, turn
the page and see the Saturday section
of your Almanac. . . . Horace Heidt
starts his series of sustaining late-at-
night broadcasts from the Biltmore
Hotel tonight . . . MBS, exclusively.
. . . Frank Crumit, the genial master
of ceremonies on the Coca-Cola show
at 10:00 tonight on CBS, is an amateur
psychologist, and finds plenty of ma-
terial for his hobby in his fan mail. . . .
He wanted to be an opera singer when
he left college . . . Instead, he became
a popular vaudeville singer. . . . You
hear him on Heinz Magazine too.

Highlights For Friday, Oct. 8

AFTER a couple of years of hovering
"^^ around the fringes of radio . . .
doing guest appearances . . . appearing
briefly on Show Boat . . . Jack Haley
comes into his own as a full-fledged
star comedian tonight. . . . He's top
man on the Log Cabin show, which
bows in at 9:30 on the NBC Blue net-
work ... It was really his success in
"Wake Up and Live" with Winchell
and Bernie which brought him to
radio's attention. . . . If he has good
material on this show, you'll like him.
... If he hasn't, it's just some more of
the Haley bad luck. . . . The Pontiac
Varsity Show tonight comes from Pur-
due University. . . . Eight o'clock,
NBC-Blue. ... If you miss hearing
Phoebe of Trouble House now that

the program has been replaced by
Carol Kennedy's Romance, you'll
want to be on the lookout for a Pathe
movie short which Elsie Mae Gordon
made not long ago. Elsie Mae is the
actress who played Phoebe. . . . The
short is called "Radio Audition" and
it's based on the monologue Elsie Mae
did recently on the Magazine of the
Air. . . . Audrey Christie, who plays
Elsie Gates in CBS' Big Sister serial
at 11:30 today, is holding down a
stage job as well. . . . She's one of the
leading characters in the Broadway hit,
"The Women." . . . Don't forget the
True Story Court, which has another
gripping drama for 9:30 on NBC-Red,
adapted from one of the real life
stories printed in True Story Magazine.

Jack Haley becomes a
full-fledged star in
Log Cabin program,
which starts tonight.

Highlights For Friday. Oct. 15

At the age of seventy-
five, Dr. Walter Dam-
rosch begins another
series of programs.

'"pHE Dean of Music, Dr. Walter
Damrosch, returns today with his
valuable music appreciation courses.
. . . NBC at two o'clock. . . . Don't
get the idea that these programs are
only for children . . . You'll enjoy them
just as much as Junior, and probably a
lot more . . . Dr. Damrosch is seventy-
five years old, but refuses to admit
that seventy-five is any very advanced
age . . . Says he intends to work until
he doesn't feel young any longer . . .
And that's a long time yet. . . . Was
born in Breslau, Germany, and came
to America when he was nine . . .
When he was only twenty-three he
was conducting German opera at the
Metropolitan and directing the New
York Symphony orchestra. . . . Has

written several operas, and is still writ-
ing them ... A new one was produced
last year at the Metropolitan. . . .
Besides Dr. Damrosch your Friday
listening brings Kathryn Cravens at
2:00 on CBS. . . . Ted Malone on the
same network at 2:45 . . . Bob Byron
at 4:00 . . . Amos 'n' Andy at 7:00 on
NBC-Red . . . Uncle Ezra and his own
radio station at 7:15 on the same net-
work . . . Followed by Bughouse
Rhythm at 7:45 . . . The Varsity Show,
from Southern Methodist University at
8:00 on NBC-Blue . . . Hal Kemp and
Alice Faye at 8:30 . . . Bob Ripley on
NBC-Blue at 9:00 . . . not to mention
Hollywood Hotel and Waltz Time ©n
CBS and NBC-Red at the same time,
and Jimmie Fidler at 10:30.

All time is Eastern Standard

8:00 A. M.
NBC-Blue: Island Serenaders
NBC-Bed: Good Morning Melodies

6:15

NBC-Blue: Dick Leibert
NBC-Bed: Malcolm Ciaire

8:30
NBC-Red: Cheerio

9:00
CBS: Roy Block
NBC-Blue: Breakfast Club
N3C-Red: Fields and Hall

8:30

CBS: Fiddler's Fancy
MBS: Journal of Living

9:55

Press Radio News

10.00
CBS: Eton Boys
NBC-Blue. Breen and Oe Rose
NBC-Bed: Charioteers

10:15
CBS: Richard Maxwell
NBC-Blue: Raising Vour Parent*
NBC-Red: The Vass Family

10:30
CBS: Let's Pretend

10:45
NBC-Blue: Bill Krenz Orchestre

11:00
CBS: Fred Feibel
MBS: Ed Fitzgerald
NBC-Blue: Patricia flyan

11:15
NBC-Blue: Minute Men
NBC-Red: Nancy Swanson

1 1 :30
CBS: Compinskv Trio
NBC-Bed: Mystery Chef

11:45
NBC-Red: Melody Men

12:00 Noon
NBC-Blue: Call to Youth
NBC-Red: Continentals

12:30
CBS: George Hall Orch
NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour
NBC-Red: Rex Battle's Orcn.

1:05
NBC-Red: Happy Jack

1:30
CBS1 Buffalo Presents
NBC -Blue: Our Barn
NBC-Red: Campus Capers