Radio mirror (May-Oct 1939)

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S Hi NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn Q ui ui 8:15 NBC-Red: Hi Boys 9:00 < < 8:00 CBS: Richard Maxwell a 8:00 NBC: News < 9:05 c 8:05 NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUE </> 9:15 U 8:15 CBS: Meet the Dixons C 9:30 o 8:30 CBS: Manhattan Mother <r 8:30 NBC-Red: The Family Man a. 9:45 8:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 8:45 NBC-Red: Life Can Be Beautiful 10:00 12:00 8:00 9:00 CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly 8:00 9:00 NBC-Blue: Story of the Month 8:00 9:00 NBC-Red: The Man 1 Married 10:15 12:15 8:15 9:15 CBS: Myrt and Marge 8:15 9:15 NBC-Blue: Josh Higgins 8:15 9:15 NBC-Red: John's Other Wife 10:30 12:30 8:30 9:30 CBS: Hilltop House 8:30 9:30 NBC-Blue: Jack Berch 8:30 9:30 NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill 10:45 1:15 8:45 9:45 CBS Stepmother 8:45 9:45 NBC-Red: Woman in While 11:00 7:00 9:00 10:00 CBS: It Happened in Hollywood 9:00 10:00 NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin 9:00 10:00 NBC-Red: David Harum 11:15 10:30 9:15 10:15 CBS: Donna Curtis 9:15 10:15 NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade 9:15 10:15 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones 11:30 10:00 9:30 10:30 CBS: Big Sister 9:30 10:30 NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family 9:30 10:30 NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown 1 11:45 10:15 9:45 10:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories 9:45 10:45 NBC-Red: Road of Life 12:00 Noon 8:00 10:00 11:00 CBS: Girl Interne 12:15 P.M. i 8:15 10:15 11:15 CBS: When a Girl Marries 8:15 10:15 11:15 NBC-Red: The O'Neills 12:30 8:30 10:30 11:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent 8:30 10:30 11:30 NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour 8:30 10:30 11:30 NBC-Red: Women in a Changing World 12:45 8:45 10:45 11:45 CBS Our Gal Sunday 1:00 9:00 11:00 12:00 1 BS The Goldbergs 1:15 9:15 11:15 12:15 CBS: Life Can Be Beautiful 9:15 11:15 12:15 NBC-Red: Let's Talk 11 Over 1:30 9:30 11:30 12:30 CBS: Road of Life j 9:30 11:30 12:30 NBC-Blue: Peables Takes Charge 1:45 11:45 12:45 CBS: This Day is Ours 9:45 11:45 12:45 NBC-Red: Words and Music 2:00 12:00 1:00 CBS Doc Barclay's Daughters 10:00 12:00 1:00 NBC-Blue: Women in America 10:00 12:00 1:00 NBC-Red: Betty and Bob 2:15 1:15 12:15 1:15 CBS: Dr. Susan 10:15 12:15 1:15 NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter 2:30 12:30 1:30 CBS Your Family and Mine 10:30 12:30 1:30 NBC-Red: Valiant Lady 2:45 10:45 12:45 1:45 NBC-Red: Betty Crocker 3:00 NBC-Red: Mary Marlin 11:00 1:00 2:00 3:15 11:15 1:15 2:15 NBC-Red: Ma Perkins 3:30 11:30 1:30 2:30 NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family 3:45 11:45 1:45 2:45 NBC-Blue: Ted Malone 11:45 1:45 2:45 NRC-Red: The Guiding Light 4:00 12:00 2:00 3:00 NBC-Blue: Club Matinee 12:00 2:00 3:00 NBC-Red: Backstage Wife 4:15 12:15 2:15 3:15 NBC-Red: Stella Dallas 4:30 12:30 2:30 3:30 NBC-Red: Vic and Sade 4:45 12:45 2:45 3:45 NBC-Red: Midstream 5:00 4:00 NBC-Red: The O'Neills 5:30 1:30 3:30 4:30 NBC-Blue Affairs of Anthony 5:45 4:45 NBC-Red: Little Orphan Annie 8:00 2:00 4:00 5:00 CBS: News 6:05 5:05 CBS: Edwin C. Hill 6:45 5:45 NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas 7:00 7:00 9:00 6:00 CBS: Amos 'n* Andy 7:00 5:00 6:00 NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang 7:15 7:15 5:15 6:15 CBS. Lum and Abner 7:30 7:30 6:30 6:30 MBS: The Lone Ranger 8:00 6:00 7:00 NBC-Red: Cities Service Concert 8:30 1 7:30 6:30 7:30 CBS: Johnny Presents 4:30 6:30 7:30 NBC-Blue: Joe Penner (Sept. 6) 9:00 5:00 7:00 8:00 NBC-Blue: Plantation Party 7:00 8:00 NBC-Red: Waltz Time 9:30 5:30 7:30 8:30 CBS: FIRST NIGHTER 8:30 7:30 8:30 NBC-Red: Death Valley Days 10:00 6:00 8:00 9:00 CBS: Grand Central Station 6:00 8:00 9:00 NBC-Red: Lady Esther Serenade 10:30 6:30 8:30 9:30 i l;s. Bob Ripley 1 50 Il'u. '!! zV, ■ First Nighter Bret Morrison, Les Tremayne and Barbara Luddy. Tune-In Bulletin for August 25. September 1, 8, 15 and 22 ! August 25: Both CBS and NBC broadcast the Women's National Open Golf Championship matches this afternoon. . . . Blue Barron's orchestra opens at the Terrace Beach Club, Virginia Beach, on CBS. . . . Woody Herman and his great band open at the Glen Island Casino, replacing Glen Miller, broadcasting on NBC. September I: Just for tonight, you can hear Artie Shaw playing from Hershey Park, Pa., over CBS. . . . Glen Gray opens at the Canadian National Exposition, broadcasting on MBS and NBC. September 8: If you wanna buy a duck, the person to apply to is Mr. Joe Penner, who returns to the air tonight at 8:30 over NBC-Blue. September 15. Johnny Presents, on CBS at 8:30, is a bright variety show for tonight. September 22: After a long run, Death Valley Days goes off the NBC air. Tonight — 9:30 on NBC-Red— is its last broadcast. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: Campana's First Nighter, starring Barbara Luddy and Les Tremayne, on CBS at 9:30, Eastern Daylight Time. On Thanksgiving Day, 1930, the First Nighter program had its initial broadcast. Since then, except for one very short summer period when the entire cast were granted vacations at the same time, "Mr. First Nighter" has transported his audience once each week through the teeming Broadway throngs to the mythical "Little Theater off Times Square" where they have heard the debut of an original play. In the nine years the program has been on the air, all scripts have been bought in the open market, many of them from wholly unknown writers. This in itself would be enough to set First Nighter apart from other radio shows, nearly all of which are written to order by experienced authors. If you'd like to try your hand at doing a half-hour play for Barbara Luddy and Les Tremayne, write to Aubrey, Moore, and Wallace, Inc., 230 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, and they'll send you suggestions for meeting their requirements. When the scripts come in to the agency they are submitted at once to an impartial play jury which reads them without knowing the author's name, thus assuring an equal chance for the established writer and the newcomer who has not previously had his work accepted. Plays that the jury selects are turned over to Joe Ainley, producer of the program. At a First Nighter rehearsal you're likely to see Barbara Luddy and Bret Morrison (who is "Mr. First Nighter") appearing in riding clothes. Both are enthusiastic about riding, and recently Bret presented Barbara with a horse of her own. Barbara usually perches on a high stool at the microphone, which makes her look tinier than she actually is, and Les Tremayne stands behind her, usually with a hand on her shoulder, reading from the same script. Other members of the cast (who usually change from week to week) use a different microphone. Les, like Barbara, is an outdoor enthusiast, and comes to rehearsals in all kinds of sports outfits. One of his interests is aviation, and now and then he appears in flying togs. And usually, because he is an ardent collector of rare books, he will have a newly acquired volume with him. Everybody on the program takes his or her duties rather seriously. After all, they remember, it was the First Nighter that launched such stars as Don Ameche and Gale Page, and it was on this program that Mme. Schumann-Heink did her first dramatic role — which led to a movie contract. With such high marks to shoot at, the cast doesn't let down for a minute. HELLO TO... JACK JOHNSTONE— the director and writer of the dramatic portion of tonight's Johnny Presents program, CBS at 8:30. Jack was born in Vineland, N. J., in 1906, and studied abnormal psychology in college. Until 1929 he worked as an executive in a hospital for the insane, but was offered a chance to do radio production instead, and accepted. Buck Rogers was one of his first shows, and he is still producing it, as well as the dramas on both Johnny Presents programs. He likes golf, fishing, tennis and bridge, collects miniature liquor bottles and flintlock pistols; has one wife, one child, and one dog. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR