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oast to Coast
■ Ginny Simms and Kay Kyser attend the preview of their new RKO film, "You'll Find Out." Below, listen to Father Young's Christmas program on NBC.
sent their annual Christmas show for the thirteenth time on the network.
Father Young is pastor of St. Juliana Church in Chicago. He has always loved to write poetry, and in 1922 a Chicago station asked and received permission to read one of his Christmas poems over the air. Father Young, listening in over a friend's crystal set, was delighted, and the following Christmas he himself stepped to the microphone to read his own poems and present the choir of boys' voices which he had trained.
Until 1928 the program was heard only locally in Chicago, but that year NBC invited Father Young to bring it to the network, as part of the Farm and Home Hour, and since then it has become a regular part of radio's Christmas season.
The program is as simple and beautiful as the Christmas story it tells. Against a background of Christmas music, Father Young reads his most famous poem, " 'Cause It's Christmas." Then comes a short sermon — a plea for charity
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and tolerance — followed by carols sung by the choir. Some of the carols are Father Young's own versions of German and Polish songs. This Christmas, more than any other, it might be a good idea to make a point of listening to Father Young's program, for its message of
good will and peace.
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Wisecracks aplenty from the radio stars who have put their signatures on cement blocks which are being embedded in the wall of the Earl Carroll Theater in Hollywood. Jack Benny wrote "Much Love," and Mary Livingstone followed that up with her name and "Me Too." Edgar Bergen's signature is in tiny
italics, underneath a big, scrawled "Charlie McCarthy." Gracie Allen contributed the best one, though. She looked at the sign over the stage door which reads, "Through these portals pass the most beautiful girls in the world," and scribbled over her own name: "What am I doing
here?"
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Cupid made a raid on the Big Sister program, and bagged two victims. Fred Uttal, the handsome announcer of the show, married Miss Madeleine Frick, of South Carolina, and went on a typical radio honeymoon, lasting exactly two days. Betzy Tuthill, producer of the (Continued on page 67)
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