Radio Digest (June 1932-Mar 1933)

40 Perkinscribia {Continued from page 13) of the lot behind the hi-board fence only to find come Thurs. that they've all cleared out to the firemen's picnic — some place: That first snow storm is far off today ..." One lady, it seems, had sent our hero her portrait done in oil or pastel. She writes : "And I might just as well have used a picture of Greta or Marlene, or the Golden Gate as the one I did. I resemble one as much as the other. My face, you see, is one of the durables. Even my husband thinks it's cute to pinch my cheek, look surprised and say in awed hollowed tones, 'It's Armstrong — pure cork linoleum.' And it was swell of Miss V to take one pained look at my mug, screw her eyes up tight and draw something that I might have looked like if I didn't look like what I do. . . . Here's the picture. The scene, the garden of Baron R 's English estate ; the moonlight streams through the trees, a nightingale sings, the air is sweet with the flowers, golden candlelight streams out from the mullioned windows ... I, dressed in draperies, flit about entranced, intoxicated, my gypsy blood (or maybe its sprite) surging up and dominating the good old AngloSaxon. I dance, I flit, I sniff at the flowers (and probably get a touch of asthma), and suddenly music floats from the mullioned windows ... I look up to heaven, my face is transformed, the old cork linoleum effect fades, and there, THERE in its place is Miss V's conception. And there as I stand with the moonlight on my new face, my Prince of Pineapple comes through the mullioned windows . . . Perhaps I had better stop. He probably fell and broke his neck." Practically all of the letters have something to say about the product of Perkins' sponsors. A Georgia lady comments how she had raced around the dials for days until she found him, then: "Now that I have found you I have a season ticket, front row, aisle seats, and armed with my trusty bottle of Jergens I shall attend every performance. . . . Privately, regarding all this blah about soft white hands holding hearts — it does pretty well as a theme song but when a woman reaches my age and weight, all the hearts she holds are contract bridge, Jergens or no Jergens." A New Jersey matron writes with a problem, should she or should she not join a so called Ray Perkins club? "No I haven't got my programs mixed. I know you are not a Sister of Skillet but I have a problem that needs you, just you. (Here, I go into my dance.) For some time I have considered writing you and complaining that you, among your many other attainments have taken up a great disappearing act. No sooner do I grow to feel that all's right with the world because I can hear you on several programs, and have these highlights to look forward to through the daily grind of household duties, bored (that's spelled right) meetings and overwhelming domesticity, then you vanish like Houdini's elephant. Blue Ribbon WEAF— Key Station, NBC Red Network, New York. WJZ— Key Station. NBC Blue Network, New York. WABC— Key Station, Columbia Network, New York. Throughout the Week (Daily except Sunday) 7 :45 a.m.— WJZ— Jolly Bill and Jane (July) 8:00 ajm.— WEAF— Gene and Glenn (August) 9:45 a.m.— WEAF— Our Daily Food (July) 12:00 noon— WEAF— G. E. Circle (July) 6:45 p.m. — WJZ — Lowell Thomas (August) 7 .00 p.m.— WJZ— Amos 'n' Andy 7:30 p.m.— WJZ— Stebbins Boys (July) 7:45 p.m. — WJZ — Billy Jones and Ernie Hare (August) 7 :45 p.m.— WEAF— The Goldbergs ( August) 10:00 p.m.— WABC— Music That Satisfies (Liggett & Myers) 7:00 p.m.— WABC— Tito Guizar ( Mon. and Wed.) 7:15 p.m.— WABC— Mills Brothers (Tues.) (Thurs., 7:45 p.m.) 7:30 p.m.— WABC— Connie Boswell (Tues.) (Thurs., 7:45 p.m.) 7:30 p.m.— WEAF— Ray Perkins (Tues. and Thurs.) 7:45 p.m.— WABC— Bing Crosby (Mon. and Wed.) 7 :45 p.m. — WABC — Georgie Price and Benny Kreuger's Orchestra ( Chase & Sanborn) (Tues. and Thurs.) 8:00 p.m. — WABC — Bath Club Program with Irving Kaufman (Mon., Wed. and Fri.) Willard Amison (Tues. and Thurs.) and Roger White's Orchestra 8:15 p.m. — WABC — Abe Lyman's Orchestra and Guest Stars (Tues. and Thurs.) 8:15 p.m. — WABC — Singin' Sam the Barbasol Man (Mon., Wed. and Fri.) 8:30 p.m. — WABC— Kate Smith La Palina Program (Mon., Tues. and Wed.) 8 :45 p.m. — WABC — The Gloomchasers — Colonel Stoopnagle & Budd (Mon. and Wed.) (Dixie Network— 8:30 Tues.) 8:45 p.m.— WABC— Joe Palooka (Tues. and Thurs.) 8:45 p.m.— WJZ— Sisters of the Skillet (Tues. and Fri.) (July) 9 :30 p.m.— WABC— Eno Crime Club (Eno Fruit Salts) (Tues. & Wed.) 9 :30 p.m. — WJZ — Jack Benny, Ethel Shutta and George Olsen's Orchestra (Mon. and Wed.) (July) 10:15 p.m.— WABC— Musical Fast Freight (Tues. and Thurs.) 10:30 p.m. — WABC — Howard Barlow's Symphony Orchestra (Daily except Sat. and Sun.) 11:00 p.m. — WABC — Irene Beasley (Tues., Thurs. and Sat.) 11:15 p.m.— WJZ— Cesare Sodero and the NBC Concert Orchestra (Tues.. Thurs. and Sat.) Sunday 11:30 a.m 2:30 p.m. 2:30 4:30 5:30 7:30 8:00 8:30 8:30 p.m.p.m.p.m. p.m.p.m.p.m.p.m. August) ( 9:00 p.m.9:15 p.rn.9:30 p.m.9:45 p.rn.10:00 p.m and Guest —WEAF— Major Bowes' Capitol Family —WEAF — Moonshine and Honeysuckle —WJZ — Yeast Foamers (August) —WEAF — International Broadcast -WEAF— Pop Concert (Sat.. 9:15 p.m.) -WJZ— Three Bakers (July) -WEAF— Chase and Sanborn —WABC — Lewisohn Stadium Concert (Sat., 8:30 p.m.) -WJZ— Goldman Band Concert (July) (Tues., 9:30 p.m.Thurs. and Sat., 9:00 p.m. — July and Aug.) -WJZ — Enna Jettick Melodies -WJZ— Bayuk Stag Party -WABC— Pennzoil Parade -WEAF — Sheaffer Lifetime Revue . — WABC — Gem Highlights with Jack Denny, Ed Sullivan Stars