Radio romances (July-Dec 1945)

SATURDAY 1h k East! rn War Time 3 i 8:15 8:15 CBS: NBC: Music of Today Richard Leibert, Organist 8:30 8:30 CBS: ABC: Missus Goes A-Shopping United Nation News, Review 8:45 CBS: Margaret Brien 6:00 8:00 b:Cll) 9:00 3:00 ABC: NBC: Breakfast Club Home Is What You Make It 8:15 3:15 CBS: The Garden Gate 3:30 3:30 CBS: NBC: Country Journal Army Air Force Band 8:45 9:45 CBS: David Snoop Orchestra 7:00 3:00 3:011 10:00 10:00 CBS: NBC: Give and Take Archie Andrews 10:15 MBS: Rainbow House 11:00 9:00 3:30 3:40 10:00 10:30 10:30 10:30 10:45 ABC: CBS: NBC: ABC: NBC: What's Cooking Mary Lee Taylor Doc, Duke and the Colonel Land of the Lost Alex Drier 8:00 10:00 11:00 11:00 ABC: NBC: Johnny Thompson First Piano Quartet 1:30 11:05 CBS: Let's Pretend 8:30 8:30 10:30 10:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 ABC: NBC: MBS: Vagabonds Smilin' Ed McConnell Hookey Hall |ll:45 ABC: Note From a Diary 3:00 ll:00'l2:00 3:00 11:00 12:00 111:0012:00 12:00 CBS: ABC: NBC: MBS: Theater of Today Piano Playhouse News Hello Mom 9:15 11:15|12:1S NBC: Consumer Time 3:30 11:30 3:30 lx:30 3:30 11:30 12:30 12:30 12:30 CBS: ABC: NBC: Stars Over Hollywood Farm Bureau Atlantic Spotlight 12:45 MBS: Red Cross Reporter 10:00 10:00 12:00 12:00 1:00 1:00 1:00 1:00 NBC: CBS: ABC: MBS: The Veteran's Aid Grand Central Station Fun Canteen Luncheon with Lopez 1:15 NBC: Music for Your Mood 10:30 12:30 1:30 1:30 1:30 CBS: MBS: ABC: Elliot Lawrence, Orchestra Symphonies for Youth Round-up Time 1:00 10:45 12:45 12:45 1:45 1:45 CBS: NBC: Report from Washington John Mac Vane from London 1:00 2:00 2:00 CBS: NBC: Of Men and Books Musiciana 2:15 2:15 CBS: ABC: Adventures in Science Larry and Irene 11:30 1:30 2:30 2:30 2:30 NBC: CBS: ABC: Sky High Carolina Hayride It's a Hit 12:00 3:00 3:00 3:00 3:00 NBC: CBS: ABC: MBS: Minstrel Melodies The Land Is Bright Saturday Senior Swing This Is Halloran 2:30 3:30 3:30 CBS: NBS: Syncopation Piece Music on Display 4:00 4:00 4:00 CBS: ABC: Report from Washington Saturday Symphony Memo for Tomorrow 4:15 4:15 CBS: NBC: Report from Overseas Here Comes the Bride 4:30 4:30 MBS: NBC: Music for Half an Hour World of Melody ' 4:45 CBS: Report from London 2:00 2:00 4:00 5:00 5:00 5:00 5:00 ABC: CBS: NBC: MBS: Duke Ellington We Deliver the Goods Grand Hotel Sports Parade 2:30 4:40 5:30 5:30 NBC: MBS: John W. Vandercook American Eagle in Br tain 3:30 4:45 5:45 NBC: Tin Pan Alley of the Air 3:15 5:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 MBS: NBC: CBS: Hall of Montezuma Rhapsody of the Rockies Quincy Howe 3:15 3:15 3:30 5:15 5:15 6:15 6:15 CBS: ABC: People's Platform Harry Wismer, Sports 5:30 6:30 6:30 ABC: MBS: Edward Tomlinson Hawaii Calls 3:45 3:45 3:55 5:45 5:45 5:55 6:45 6:45 6:45 6:55 ABC: CBS: NBC: CBS: Labor, U. S. A. The World Today Religion in the News Bob Trout 4:00 6:00 7:00 7:00 NBC: MBS: Our Foreign Policy American Eagle in Britain 7:15 ABC: David Wills 4:30 6:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 ABC: MBS: NBC: Swinging on the Golden Gate Arthur Hale Noah Webster 7:15 7:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 CBS: MBS: ABC: Beulah Show Frank Singiser Gang Busters 5:30 8:30 7:30 7:30 8:30 8:30 8:30 ABC: CBS: MBS: Boston Symphony Orchestra Viva America Symphony of the Americas 5:55 7:55 8:55 CBS: Ned Calmer 6:00 6:00 8:00 8:00 9:00 9:00 CBS: NBC: Your Hit Parade National Barn Dance 6:30 8:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 NBC: MBS: MBS: ABC: Can You Top This Jean Goldkette's Orchestra Calling All Detectives Flight to the Pacific 6:45 8:45 9:45 CBS: Saturday Night Serenade 9:55 ABC: Coronet Quiz 10:00 10:00 MBS: ABC: Theater of the Air Hoosier Hop 10:15 CBS: Assignment Home 7:30 R 3:30 10:30 10:30 NBC: ABC: Grand Ole Oory Hayloft Hoedown " 10:45 3:45 10:45 CBS: Talks 11:15 1:301 ABC: Hoosier Hop COVER GIRL 54 By ELEANOR HARRIS IMAGINE a radio star who is blonde, blue-eyed — and who weighs only 85 pounds! Imagine an actress who's had a career for eight years now — and isn't afraid to tell her true age! (Which is eleven years old, of course; you might have known there'd be a catch in it!) Imagine all of this, and you've imagined Lorna Lynn. Right now she's busily engaged in acting five days a week on the CBS show Danny O'Neil, Songs — in which she plays Danny's mascot Kathleen. But that's only one of the shows in the radio bouquet she carries around. She's also been on The March of Time, Salute to Youth, We the People, Arthur Hopkins Presents, Big Sister, American School of the Air, Here's to Romance, Appointment with Life, My True Story, and Treasury Recordings. And lest you think for a moment that this tiny twig of femininity doesn't know how to carry her end in a pinch, let us give you this to gnaw upon: on the Ed Wynn Show, which was sponsored by a milk company, Lorna played the part of Beulah the calf; and the calf and Mr. Wynn had a four minute skit together each program. Mr. Wynn, having been a stage veteran for endless decades, rejoiced in ad libbing. One night he got off a very funny crack that wasn't in the script, and then turned to Lorna and asked directly, "Well, how'm I doing?" Lorna wildly reread the script, but there was no sign of his question or her supposed answer. "Tell me," Mr. Wynn repeated, "Beulah, how'm I doing? Is it good?" Lorna came to life. "Why, it's better than good," she said slickly. "It's homogenized!" Lorna Lynn's been on her own (even though she has a charming mother around to help out) ever since she was three years old. Mother or no mother, it was Lorna herself who went after what she wanted — and won it. At three, then, she marched down to try out for the Jed Harris production of Ibsen's "A Doll's House," with her small hand tucked in her mother's. Well, the preliminaries were very simple: Lorna outread them all, got the part, helped her mother pack her bags, and set out for Toronto the following Monday to open with the play. The next three months were fairly simple, too: they toured, Lorna's reviews were splendid, and so was the entire show. Ahead lay New York City and Broadway — and trouble. It came in the form of an order from the Children's Society, which had noted with horror Lorna's age: three. Young, Lorna Lynn has a fat list of acting accomplishment behind her, and a great career ahead. The order stated that no child could perform in the theater until he was seven years of age. Lorna's three-yearold face was lined with sorrow — and so were the somewhat older faces of Jed Harris, Helen Hayes, and the late Alexander Woollcott, who all made a direct appeal to the Society, explaining how important Lorna was to the play and how impossible it would be to train another child in so short a time. But the Society stood firm. So then there was only one thing to do, which was done. Down went Jed Harris and little Lorna to the City Hall, to see Mayor LaGuardia! Lorna scrambled to His Honor's lap at sight of him, and remained there twenty minutes alternately sobbing and smiling. The result was that she got a special permit — and she (and the show) played for eight rave months. By the time she was nine years old, she was used to reading her notices over her breakfast cereal and milk. She'd been in the plays "The American Way" with Fredric March, "The World We Make" with Margo, "Love's Old Sweet Song" with Walter Huston, "The Trojan Woman" with Margaret Webster, "Panama Hattie" with Ethel Merman, "Jane Eyre" with Sylvia Sidney, and "Mary Ann" with Ernest Truex. But so far she's resisted all the movie offers she's had, which have been plentiful. She likes radio because she can play a thousand types of roles — and because it doesn't interfere with her schooling or home life. Now we're almost done with the incredible story of the amazing Miss Lynn. All but one last item: she's been engaged since the age of four — to Rags Ragland! During a show, he told her solemnly, "Lorna, I'll give you a dime if you promise to marry me in 1950." "Okay, it's a promise," said Lorna, pocketing the dime. Years later Jerry Wayne approached her on the same subject — also during a show rehearsal. "Lorna," he said, "if I give you a nickel, will you marry me?" "I'm sorry," Lorna said, "but I got a better offer from Rags Ragland — he offered me ten cents!" Lorna Lynn thinks on her feet!