Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1950)

A.M. NBC MBS ABC CBS 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 Coffee In Washington Paul Neilson, News Misc. Programs Conversation With Casey This is New York Missus Goes A Shopping 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 Fred Waring Show Mary Lee Taylor Magic Rhythm Jerry and Skye Albert Warner At Home With Music Galen Drake Joe Di Maggio Show 11:00 11:15 11:30 Lassie Stamp Club Smilin' Ed McConnell Coast Guard on Parade Man on the Farm Joe Franklin's Recordshop Let's Pretend Junior Miss AFTERNOON PROGRAMS 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 Arthur Barriault Public Affair Archie Andrews Man on the Farm Campus Salute 101 Ranch Boys American Farmer Theatre of Today Grand Central Station 1:00 1:15 1:30 1:45 Nafl Farm Home Voices and Events Campus Salute Dance Orch. Concert of America Jazz Stars Over Hollywood Give and Take 2:00 2:15 2:30 2:45 Muslcana Edward Tomlinson Report From Europe Dance Orchestra Metropolitan Opera County Fair 3:00 3:15 3:30 Local Programs Metropolitan Opera Report From OverSeas Adventures in Science Cross Section U.S.A. 4:00 4:15 4:30 4:45 Your Health Today Contrasts Musical Metropolitan Opera 5:00 5:15 5:30 5:45 Hollywood Closeups Concert Hall Dance Music Local Programs Mother Knows Best EVENING PROGRAMS 6:00 6:15 6:30 6:45 Bob Warren Religion In the News NBC Symphony Orchestra Music Bands For Bonds Mel Allen Albert Warner, News The Church and the Nation Harmonaires News From Washington CBS Views the Press Red Barber's Club House Larry Lesueur 7:00 7:15 7:30 7:45 Richard Diamond, Private Detective Hawaii Calls Quick as a Flash 7:55 John B. Kennedy Rex Koury Bert Andrews Saddle Rockin' Rhythm Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar Camel Caravan with Vaughn Monroe 8:00 8:15 8:30 8:45 Hollywood Star Theatre Truth or Consequences Twenty Questions Take a Number Chandu the Magician Superman Gene Autry Show Adventures of Philip Marlowe 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 Your Hit Parade A Day in the Life of Dennis Day Life Begins at 80 Guy Lombardo Dick Jergens Orch. Hollywood Byline Gang Busters Broadway's My Beat 10:00 10:15 10:30 Judy Canova Grand Ole Opry Theatre of the Air Record Show Dance Music Sing it Again BEN GRAUER— the commentator on the NBC Symphony Orchestra broadcasts (Sat., 6:30 P.M. EST) has run the gamut from moderator and straight man to special events reporter and commercial announcer. Known as one of the best ad-libbers on the air he has learned to be at ease with all types of assignments. Grauer is a bachelor and lives in Manhattan. His hobbies include archeology, music, and the study of Latin American culture. KEEME CROCKETT IF you've ever heard flowers bursting into bloom, if you've ever heard gooney birds singing on Guadalcanal or if you've ever listened to the sound of the doomed Mary of Scotland's head rolling off the executioner's block, then you've been in on some of the auditory techniques that versatile Keene Crockett has demonstrated for radio listeners. Producer-actor-soundman Crockett's greatest coup in sound effects, and certainly his most terrifying, was for the Scottish queen's untimely demise in the air version of "Mary of Scotland." Ingredients for the Crockett executionary method consisted of one rather large cabbage and a long, sloping chute. At the critical moment, when the axe was supposed to strike Mary's head, the cabbage was sent rolling down the chute, thumping eeriely out along the ether. Keene later used melons for the same effect on other shows, but that was before squeamish broadcasting officials decided that such realism could be sacrificed. Keene Crockett's career began in the little country school near his birthplace in Blackhawk Township, Illinois. He directed the entire school in his own version of "The Covered Wagon" and ended up by having almost no school at all when he staged the prairie fire sequence and burned nearly everything within sight. The rest of his schooling was marked by an increased interest in drama and the theatre, and after graduating from Knox College, Keene accepted a job in the summer theatre at Boothbay Harbor, Maine. In addition to acting, he was stage manager and electrician. The inevitable next step was New York, of course, and Keene got a job at NBC as a page during the evenings and worked as an actor on an early morning air show called Cabbage and Kings. It was this job which led him into the sound effects department at NBC where he produced noises for such shows as Death Valley Days, Gang Busters, Mr. District Attorney, the March of Time, the Rudy Vallee Hour and the Bob Hope Show. Broadway discovered Keene and for fourteen months he had an important part in Elmer Rice's "Dream Girl." He played in several other stage productions, "Joan of Lorraine" and "O'Daniel" among them, before returning to radio. He now supervises sound for U. S. Steel's Theatre Guild on the Air and is producer and actor in Ray Knight and the Od Bodkins, a new TV show which kids comic strips. Keene also has acted for Theatre Guild On The Air in its version of "Lady In The Dark" with Gertrude Lawrence. But the attractive actor finds time — somehow — for other activities, like still and movie photography. Prompted by the need for sets and decor for his home movies, he enrolled at the Art Students' League. He completed the course there and that led into another absorbing interest— oil painting. Keene's first interest though — and one he hopes to be with always — is radio, with television coming a close second. 73