Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1942)

8:30 10:15 10:45 10:15 8:00 8:15 8:15 8:15 11:00 8:30 11:15 8:45 9:30 9:30 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:15 10:45 10:45 4:15 11:00 12:30 11:15 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:45 11:45 12:00 12:00 12:15 12:15 12:30 12:30 12:30 1:00 1:1)0 1:00 1:15 1:15 1:45 1:45 2:00 2:00 2:30 2:30 2:45 7:45 3:15 3:45 3:45 8:00 4:00 8:00 8:15 4:15 4:15 4:30 6:00 8:30 5:00 8:30 5:30 5:30 5:SS 9:00 6:00 6:00 9:30 6:30 6:30 6:30 7:00 1:15 7:00 7: JO 7:4S 8:15 8:45 9:00 9:00 9:15 9:15 9:15 9:00 9:30 9:30 9:45 9:45 9:45 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 10:30 10:45 10:45 10:45 11:30 11:30 12:00 12:00 12:15 12:15 12:15 12:45 12:45 12:45 1:00 1:00 1:15 1:15 TUESDAY Eastern War Time 8:30 llluc Texas Jim 9:00 Blue BREAKFAST CLUB 3 15 CBS: The Radio Reader 45 CDS Harvey and Dell . 00|10 00 10 00 10 Jo'io (US Valiant Lady \ hi' Best Johnson CBS. Stories America Loves Blue. Helen Hiett NBC Bachelor's Children CBS; Stepmother Blue: A House In the Country NBC: Help Mate CBS: Woman of Courage Blue: Chaplain Jim— U. 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NBC: Mary Marlin CBS: Mary Lee Taylor Blue: Second Husband NBC: The Bartons CBS: Down Brush Creek Way Blue: Honeymoon Hill NBC: Vic and Sade CBS: Bright Horizon Blue: John's Other Wife NBC: The Road of Life CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories Blue: Just Plain Bill NBC: David Harum CBS: Kate Smith SpeaKs CBS: Big Sister CBS: Romance of Helen Trent Blue: Farm and Home Hour CBS: Our Gal Sunday CBS: Life Can Be Beautiful Blue: Baukhage Talking CBS: Woman in White MBS: I'll Find My Way Blue: Edward Mac Hugh CBS Vic and Sade CBS: The Goldbergs MBS: Don Norman NBC: John Vandercook CBS: Young Dr. Malone NBC: Light of the World CBS: Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne NBC: Arnold Grimm's Daugnte We Love and Learn James Mac Donald The Guiding Light Pepper Young's Family Jack Baker Hymns of All Churches David Harum Prescott Presents : Against the Storm News : Ma Perkins Concert Orchestra Men of the Sea Pepper Young's Family Right to Happiness Jerry Wayne Club Matinee : Backstage Wife Fletcher Wiley Stella Dallas CBS: Blue: NBC CBS: Blue: NBC CBS: Blue: NBC CBS: NBC CBS: Blue: NBC NBC CBS: Blue. NBC CBS: NBC NBC Lorenzo Jones CBS: News NBC Young Widder Brown CBS: Are You a Genius? NBC: When a Girl Marries NBC: Portia Faces Life Blue: Flying Patrol NBC: The Andersons Blue: Secret City CBS: Frazier Hunt CBS: Dorothy Kilgallen CBS: The World Today Blue: Lowell Thomas NBC: Bill Stern CBS: Amos 'n' Andy Blue: EASY ACES NBC: Fred Waring's Gang CBS: Glenn Miller Blue: Mr. Keen NBC: European News CBS American Melody Hour Mi( Tommy Riggs, Betty Lou (July 7) CBS. Are You a Missing Heir MBS: What's My Name NBC: Johnny Presents CBS: Nature of the Enemy NBC Horace Heidt CBS; Elmer Davis 00 CBS: Duffy's Tavern 00 MBS: Gabriel Heatter 00 Blue: Famous Jury Trials 00 NBC: Battle of the Sezes 30 CBS: Cheers from the Camp 30 Blue: This Nation at War 10 Blue: Meredith Willson 00 MBS John B. Hughes 00 Blue: Lum and Abner 00 NBC: A Date With Judy 30 NBC: Tommy Dorsey 45 CBS News of the World AN UNCANNY SCOT... Not many folks are indispensable, but it's hard to imagine what the Fibber McGee and Molly program would be like without Bill Thompson. Bill has so many different voices that he regularly plays the "deef," rug-cuttin' Old Timer, the hen-pecked Wallace Wimple, Horatio K. Boomer, and the "Grik," Nick Depopolus — plus other characters as they come along. All of Bill's various voices are the offspring of a voice he uses little these days, but which is his favorite of them all. It's the embarrassed, half-boy, half-adult voice of a very young man. Bill's acting ability is an inheritance from his parents, old-time vaudeville performers, but his double-register voice is the result of patriotism. He was five years old when America entered the first World War, and he applied his talents as vaudeville's youngest song and dance man to selling Liberty Bonds. He did such a thorough job campaigning the country that he sold two million dollars worth of the bonds — and lost his voice in the process. It took two years of throat exercises to recover his voice, and when he became older he discovered that he possessed two distinct pitches, being able to jump from bass to tenor with no effort at all. Doctors diagnosed the phenomenon as a result of having lost his voice at such an early age. It was a lucky accident, because his two voices, added to his natural comedy sense, have made Bill what he is today. Bill entered radio in 1932, after winning an audition with a comedy sketch he wrote, produced, and acted in. He was on Edgar Guest's NBC show, master of ceremonies on the Breakfast Club, and on Club Matinee before Fibber hired him, four years ago, to play Nick Depopolus. He developed his other characterizations later. Of Scottish descent, Bill takes his ancestry seriously and is a student of Scottish history and customs. He has a valuable collection of Scottish books, and another of prints showing the tartans of the different clans. Playing the bagpipes is as easy for him as whistling. Straight-faced and serious-eyed, he's still a constant clown and is always entertaining the McGee troupe with his impromptu comedy acts. All he needs is a make-shift curtain and an audience of one, and he can be a whole Punch and Judy show by himself. He's a mainstay of the "warm-up" put on for the studio audience just before the show goes on the air, because he owns a trunkful of masks, Mack Sennett police equipment, odd headgear and ten-cent-store toys to serve as properties for his pantomimes. Whenever there's an extra commotion in the corridors of Hollywood's NBC everyone says, "Bill Thompson's around with a new trick." And that's usually exactly what all the noise is about. 30 9 4Sl WEDNESDAY Eastern War Time 8:30. Blue Texas Jim 9:00 Blue Breaklast Club IS 9:1S CBS: The Radio Reader CBS: Valiant Lady NBC: Bess Johnson CBS: Stories America Loves Blue: Helen Hiett NBC: Bachelor's Children CBS: Stepmother Blue: A House in the Country NBC: Help Mate CBS: Woman of Courage Blue Chaplain Jim — U. S. A. NBC: Mary Marlin CBS: Clara, Lu, 'n' Em Blue: Second Husband NBC: The Bartons CBS: Victory Begins at Home Blue: Honeymoon Hill NBC: Vic and Sade CBS: Bright Horizon Blue: John's Other Wife NBC: The Road of Life CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories Blue: Just Plain Bill NBC: David Harum CBS: Kate Smith Speaks NBC: Words and Music CBS: Big Sister CBS: Romance of Helen Trent Blue: Farm and Home Hour CBS: Our Gal Sunday CBS: Life Can Be Beautiful Blue: Baukhage Talking CBS: Woman in White MBS: I'll Find My Way Blue: Edward Mac Hugh CBS Vic and Sade CBS: The Goldbergs MBS: Don Norman NBC: John Vandercook CBS: Young Dr. Malone NBC: Light of the World CBS: Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne NBC: Arnold Grimm's Daughter CBS: We Love and Learn Blue: James Mac Donald NBC: The Guiding Light CBS: Pepper Young's Family Blue: Jack Baker NBC: Hymns of All Churches CBS: David Harum Blue: Prescott Presents NBC: Against the Storm CBS: News NBC: Ma Perkins Blue: Men of the Sea NBC: Pepper Young's Family NBC: Right to Happiness Blue: Arthur Tracy NBC: Backstage Wife CBS: Fletcher Wiley Blue: Club Matinee NBC: Stella Dallas CBS: Children Also Are People NBC: Lorenzo Jones CBS: News NBC: Young Widder Brown CBS: Are You a Genius? NBC: When a Girl Marries NBC: Portia Faces Life 8:45 9:45 9:00 9:00 10:00 10:00 9:15 9:15 9:15 10:15 10:15 10:15 9:30 9:30 9:30 10:30 10:30 10:30 9:45 9:45 9:45 10:45 10:45 10:45 10:00 10:00 10:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 10:15 10:15 10:15 11:15 11:15 11:15 10:30 10:30 10:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 10:45 10:45 10:45 11:45 11:45 11:45 11:00 11:00 12:00 12:00 11:15 12:15 11:30 11:30 12:30 12:30 11:45 12:45 12:00 12:00 1:00 1:00 12:15 12:15 12:15 1:15 1:15 1:15 12:30 1:30 12:45 12:45 12:45 1:45 1:45 1:45 1:00 1:00 2:00 2:00 1:15 1:15 2:15 2:15 1:30 1:30 1:30 2:30 2:30 2:30 1:45 1:45 1:45 2:45 2:45 2:45 2:00 2:00 2:00 3:00 3:00 3:00 2:15 2:15 3:15 3:15 2:30 2:30 3:30 3:30 2:45 3:45 3:00 3:00 4:00 4:00 3:15 3:15 3:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 3:30 3:30 4:30 4:30 3:45 3:45 4:45 4:45 4:00 4:00 5:00 5:00 4:15 5:15 4:30 4:30 5:30 5:30 4:45 5:00 6:30 5:45 6:00 6:00 5:10 6:10 5:15 6:15 5:30 6:30 5:45 5:45 6:45 6:45 6:45 6:00 6:00 6:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 6:15 6:15 6:15 7:15 7:15 7:15 6:30 7:30 6:45 7:45 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 8:30 8:30 8:30 7:55 8:55 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 8:30 8:30 8:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:00 9:00 9:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 Blue: NBC: Blue; CBS: Blue. CBS: CBS: CBS: CBS: Blue: NBC: CBS: Blue: NBC: Flying Patrol The Andersons Secret City EDWIN C. HILL The Lone Ranger Ted Husing Hedda Hopper Frank Parker The World Today Lowell Thomas Bill Stern Amos 'n' Andy EASY ACES Fred Waring's Gang CBS: Glenn Miller Blue: Mr. Keen NBC: European News CBS: United We Sing NBC: H. V. Kal ten born CBS: Old Gold Show MBS: Cal Tinney Blue: Quiz Kids NBC: The Thin Man CBS: Dr. Christian Blue: Manhattan at Midnight NBC: Uncle Walter's Dog House CBS: Elmer Davis MBS: Gabriel Heatter CBS: Junior Miss Blue: Basin Street Music NBC: Those We Love CBS: Report to the Nation Blue: Quizzicale NBC: Mr. District Attorney CBS: Great Moments in Music MBS: John B. Hughes NBC: Kay Kyser 00 10:00 Blue: Lum and Abner 30 10:30 Blue: Morgan Beatty 45 10:45 CBS News of the World 44 RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR