Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1942)

lO-Tling^ fmam mAft^i^ottl^^ SUNDAY u S o iZ 5 < 8:15 8:30 8:30 8:30 8:30 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:30 9:30 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 10:30 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:30 11:30 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:30 1:00 1:15 1:30 1:30 1:30 2:00 2:00 2:30 2:30 2:30 2:45 3:00 3:00 3:05 3:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 9:15 4:00 4:00 8:30 4:15 4:30 4:30 4:30 5:00 5:00 5:00 8:00 8:00 5:30 5:45 5:55 6:00 6:00 9:00 6:00 9:15 8:15 6:30 6:45 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:30 7:30 :00 8:15 8:15 8:15 8:30 10:05 10:15 11:15 2:15 4:45 5:05 5:45 6:15 8:15 8:45 Eastern Time 8:00 CBS: News 8:00 Blue: News 8:00 NBC-Red: Organ Recital 8:30 Blue: Tone Pictures 9:00 CBS: The World Today 9:00 NBC: News from Europe 9:15 9:15 9:15 9:30 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:30 10:30 11:00 11:00 11:05 11:15 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:30 12:30 1:00 1:00 1:15 1:15 1:30 1:30 1:30 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:30 2:30 00 10:00 CBS:From the Organ Loft Blue: White Rabbit Line NBC-Red: Deep River Boys NBC-Red: Words and Music CBS: Church of the Air Blue: Musical Millwheel NBC-Red: Radio Pulpit CBS: Wings Over Jordan Blue: Southernaires CBS: News Blue: News CBS: Milestones of Music Blue: Al and Lee Reiser CBS: Invitation to Learning MBS: Radio Chapel Blue: Revue in Miniature NBCRed: Music and Youth CBS; Syncopation Piece Blue: Foreign Policy Assn. NBCRed: Sunday Down South Blue: I'm an American CBS: Salt Lake City Tabernacle Blue: Radio City Music Hall NBC-Red: Emma Otero CBS: Church of the Air NBC-Red: Upton Close MBS: George Fisher NBC-Red: Silver Strings CBS: What's New at the Zoo Blue: Josef Marais NBC-Red: The World is Yours CBS: Spirit of '42 Blue: Great Plays NBC-Red: Sammy Kaye CBS: Columbia Workshop NBC-Red: University of Chicago Round Table CBS: N. Y. Philharmonic Orch. Blue: Wake Up America NBC-Red: Bob Becker NBC-Red: H. V. Kaltenborn Blue: Tapestry Musicale NBC-Red: Listen America Blue: Sunday Vespers NBC-Red: Tony Wons CBS: Pause that Refreshes Blue: Behind the Mike NBC-Red: Plays for Americans CBS: The Family Hour Blue: Moylan Sisters NBC-Red: Metropolitan Auditions Blue; Olivio Santoro MBS: The Shadow Blue: Musical Steelmakers NBC-Red: Nichols. Family of Five CBS: William L. Shirer CBS: SILVER THEATER NBC-Red: Catholic Hour Blue: New Friends of Music CBS: Gene Autry MBS: Bulldog Drummond Blue: Pearson and Allen NBC-Red: The Great Gildersleeve Blue: Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt MBS: Voice of Prophecy Blue: News from Europe NBC-Red: Jack Benny CBS: Public Affairs MBS: Nobody's Children CBS: Screen Guild Theater Blue: Capt. Flagg and Sgt. Quirt NBC-Red: Fitch Bandwagon CBS: World News Blue: Blue Echoes NBC-Red: CHARLIE MCCARTHY CBS: Crime Doctor Blue: Inner Sanctum Mystery NBC-Red: ONE MAN'S FAMILY MBS: Gabriel Heatter CBS: Elmer Davis CBS: FRED ALLEN (Mar. 8) MBS: Old Fashioned Revival Blue: Walter Winchell NBC-Red: Manhattan Merry-GoRound Blue: The Parker Family 9:30 Blue: Irene Rich 9:30 NBC-Red: American Album of Familiar Music 9:45 Blue: Dinah Shore 10:00 CBS: Take It or Leave It 10:00 Blue: Goodwill Hour 10:00 NBC-Red: Hour of Charm 10:30 CBS: They Live Forever 10:30 NBC-Red: Sherlock Holmes 11:00 , ^ I CBS: Headlines and Bylines 8:0010:00 ll:00lNBC: Dance Orchestra FROM COMIC TO QUIZZER . . . PHIL BAKER was one of the first comedians to use a "stooge" — a heckler in a stage box who kept interrupting the funny man's act. When Phil entered radio the stooge came along as "Beetle", the cynical ghost who insisted that Phil was gypping the sponsors every time he stepped in front of a mike. But times change. Beetle's remarks don't seem so funny in 1942, and he has been discarded, while Phil himself steps into a new role — that of stooge to the contestants who appear on Take It or Leave It, the CBS quiz show Sunday nights. In many ways, it's a much harder job than Phil used to have, because quiz shows are necessarily unrehearsed and all of the comedian's jokes must be thought up on the spur of the moment. It was a spur-of-the-moment joke which started Phil off on a comic career. Barely out of school, he got his first job as officeboy to Carl Laemmle, then a big movie executive. In his spare time Phil studied the piano and accordion and filled out his income with prizes won at theater amateur nights. One day he failed to answer his boss' buzzer because he was out getting a haircut. When he returned Laemmle furiously demanded to know where he'd been. Phil's explanation didn't satisfy him. "What right have you to get a haircut on company time?" he demanded. Phil gulped and said, "Well, it grew on company time, didn't it?" All right — so you've heard that joke. But Phil says it was original with him at the moment. It was not appreciated by Laemmle, and that night Phil was out of a job and free to devote his entire time to the stage. After making the rounds of the local vaudeville houses he teamed up with an obscure violinist with a taste for cigars who was named Ben Bernie. They were getting along all right as a team when World War Number One came along, and for two years Phil shelved his stage ambitions to serve in the Navy. After the war he went on and up to become one of America's most famous comedians, first in musical comedies and revues and then on the air. But the last couple of years haven't been very lucky for him. He's seemed to have difficulty in finding just what he wanted to do. His program went off the air, and for a while he toured in "Idiot's Delight," the stage play. Then there was a musical show in which he invested a good deal of his own money, and which came to a disastrous and costly end. Phil's one of the most friendly and likable men in radio, and there are a lot of people who are wishing him all the luck in the world with his new quiz-master job. a. 1:30 8:45 8:30 10:15 10:30 1:00 12:45 12:00 8:15 8:15 11:00 11:15 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:30 9:45 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 4:15 11:00 12:30 11:15 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:45 11:45 11:45 12:00 12:00 12:15 12:15 12:15 12:30 12:30 12:45 12:45 2:00 2:15 2:30 2:30 2:30 2:45 5:45 3:15 3:30 7:30 3:45 3:45 8:00 8:00 8:15 4:15 7: 7: 7: 5:00 9:15 8:30 5:00 8:30 8:30 5:55 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:30 6:30 6:30 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 h i/i u 8:00 8:45 8:45 9:00 9:00 9:15 9:15 9:15 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:45 9:45 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 10:45 10:45 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:00 12:15 12:15 12:15 12:30 12:30 12:45 1:00 1:00 1:15 1:15 1:30 1:30 1:30 1:45 1:45 1:45 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:15 2:15 2:15 2:30 2:30 2:45 2:45 3:00 3:00 3:00 3:15 3:15 3:15 3:30 3:45 3:45 3:45 4:00 5:00 4:00 4:15 5:15 4:15 4:30 4:30 4:30 4:45 5:45 5:15 5:30 9:30 5:45 5:45 6:00 6:00 6:15 6:15 9:30 7:30 6:30 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:55 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:30 8:30 8:30 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 MONDAY Eastern Time 8:30Blue: Texas Jim 00 Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB 15 CBS: School of the Air CBS: Stories America Loves NBC-Red: Edward MacHugh CBS: Hymns of All Churches NBC-Red: Bess Johnson CBS: Myrt and Marge Blue: Helen Hiett NBC-Red: Bachelor's Children CBS: Stepmother Blue: A House in the Country NBC-Red; Help Mate CBS: Woman of Courage NBC-Red; The Road of Life NBC-Red: Mary Marlin CBS; The Man I Married Blue: Alma Kitchell NBC-Red: Right to Happiness CBS: Bright Horizon NBC-Red; The Bartons CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories NBC-Red: David Harum CBS: KATE SMITH SPEAKS MBS: John B. Hughes NBC-Red; 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 MBS: I'll Find My Way CBS: Woman in White MBS: Government Girl Blue: Ted Malone CBS: Vic and Sade MBS; Front Page Farrell CBS; Road of Life CBS: Young Dr. Malone NBC-Red; Light of the World CBS; Girl Interne NBC-Red: The Mystery Man CBS; Fletcher Wiley Blue; Into the Light NBC-Red; Valiant Lady CBS: Kate Hopkins Blue: In Care of Aggie Horn NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter CBS: David Harum Blue; Orphans of Divorce NBC-Red; Against the Storm CBS: News Blue; Honeymoon Hill NBC-Red; Ma Perkins Blue: John's Other Wife NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family Blue; Just Plain Bill NBC-Red: Vic and Sade CBS: Helping Hand Blue: Arthur Tracy NBC-Red; Backstage Wife CBS: Spotlight on Asia Blue; Club Matinee NBC-Red; Stella Dallas NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones CBS: Mark Hawley MBS: Boafce Carter NBC-Red; Young Widder Brown CBS: Mary Marlin Blue; Adventure Stories NBC-Red; When a Girl Marries CBS; The Goldbergs Blue; Secret City NBC-Red: Portia Faces Life CBS: The O'Neills Blue; Flying Patrol NBC-Red: We the Abbotts CBS; Scattergood Baines Blue; Tom Mix CBS: Edwin C. Hill CBS; Hedda Hopper CBS: Frank Parker Blue: Lum and Abner CBS: The World Today Blue: Lowell Thomas NBC-Red: Paul Douglas CBS: Amos 'n' Andy NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang CBS: Lanny Ross Blue: Edward Tomlinson CBS: Blondie MBS: The Lone Ranger NBC-Red: Cavalcade of America CBS; Vox Pop MBS: Cal Tinney Blue: I Love a Mystery NBC-Red; The Telephone Hour CBS: GAY NINETIES Blue: True or False NBC-Red; Voice of Firestone CBS: Elmer Davis 00 CBS: LUX THEATER 00 MBS: Gabriel Heatter 00 NBCRcd: Doctor I. Q. 30 MBS; Spotlight Bands 30 Blue. For America We Sing 30 NBC-Red: That Brewster Boy 00 CBS: Freddy Martin OONIBS: Raymond Gram Swing 00 Blue: Merry-Go-Round 00|NBC-K«l: Contented Program AFBIL, 1942 41