Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1941)

h in a! 2:00 8:45 1:15 10:30 1:45 2:30 1:45 12:00 8:15 11:00 11:15 9:00 9:00 9:15 9:15 9:30 9:30 9:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 3:00 11:00 3:30 11:15 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:45 11:45 12:00 12:00 12:15 12:15 12:30 12:30 12:45 12:45 1:00 1:00 4:15 1:15 1:15 1:30 1:30 12:30 8:30 2:00 2:00 2:15 2:15 2:45 5:45 8:55 3:15 10:00 3:45 8:00 8:00 8:15 7:30 8:30 7:30 9:00 8:30 5:00 8:30 5:30 8:30 6:00 6:00 7:30 7:00 7:00 I </) o 8:05 2:30 8:45 8:45 9:00 9:00 9:15 9:15 9:15 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:45 9:45 4:30 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 10:30 10:45 10:45 11:00 11:00 11:15 11:15 11:30 11:30 Eastern Standard Time 8:30 NBC-Blue: Ray Perkins 8:30 NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn 9:05 NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB 9:15 CBS: School of the Air 9:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 9:45 NBC-Red: Edward Mac Hugh 10:00 CBS: By Kathleen Norris 10:00 NBC-Red: This Small Town 10:15 CBS: Myrt and Marge 10:15 NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade 10:15 NBC-Red: By Kathleen Norris 10:30 CBS: Stepmother 10:30 NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin 10:30 NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph 10:45 CBS: Woman of Courage 10:45 NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family 10:45 NBC-Red: The Guiding Light 11:00 CBS: Short Short Story 11:00 NBC-Blue: I Love Linda Dale 11:00 NBC-Red: The Man I Married 11:15 CBS: Martha Webster 11:15 NBCRed: Against the Storm 11:30 CBS: Big Sister 11:30 NBC-Blue: The Wife Saver 11:30 NBC-Red: The Road of Life 11:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories 11:45 NBC-Red: David Harum 12:00 CBS: KATE SMITH SPEAKS 12:00 NBC-Red: Words and Music 12:15 CBS: When a Girl Marries 12:15 NBCRed: The O'Neiir 12:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent 12:30 NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour 45 45 45 00 05 IS :30 :45 00 00 6:15 30 30 30 00 00 00 :30 :30 :30 30 8:00 8:00 8:30 45 00 15 30 45 00 00 15 15 30 30 30 45 45 00 00 00 15 15 30 30 30 45 45 45 00 00 00 15 15 15 30 30 45 45 00 00 00 15 15 5:30 7:15 CBS: Our Gal Sunday CBS: Life Can be Beautiful CBS: Woman in White CBS: Right to Happiness CBS: Road of Life CBS: Young Dr. Malone CBS-Red: Hymns of All Churches CBS: Girl Interne NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter CBS: Fletcher Wiley NBC-Blue: Rochester Orchestra NBCRed: Valiant Lady CBS: My Son and I NBC-Red: Light of the World CBS: Mary Margaret McBride NBC-Blue: Orphans of Divorce NBC-Red: Mary Marlin NBC-Blue: Honeymoon Hill NBC-Red: Ma Perkins CBS: A Friend in Deed NBC-Blue: John's Other Wife NBCRed: Pepper Young's Family CBS: Lecture Hall NBC-Blue: Just Plain Bill NBCRed: Vic and Sade CBS: Portia Faces Life NBC-Blue: Mother of Mine NBC-Red: Backstage Wife CBS: We, The Abbotts NBC-Blue: Club Matinee NBC-Red: Stella Dallas CBS: Hilltop House NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones CBS: Kate Hopkins NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown CBS: The Goldbergs NBC-Blue: Children's Hour NBC-Red: Girl Alone CBS: The O'Neills NBC-Red: Lone Journey NBCRed: Jack Armstrong CBS: Scattergood Baines NBC-Blue: Tom Mix NBC-Red: Life Can be Beautiful CBS: News, Bob Trout CBS: Edwin C. Hill CBS: Hedda Hopper CBS: Paul Sullivan CBS: The World Today NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas CBS: Amos 'n' Andy NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang CBS: Lanny Ross 7:30 CBS: BLONDIE 7:30 MBS: The Lone Ranger 7:30 NBC-Red: BURNS AND ALLEN :00 CBS: Those We Love 8:00 NBC-Blue: I Love a Mystery 8:00 NBCRed: The Telephone Hour :30 CBS: Howard and Shelton :30 MBS: Boake Carter 3:30 NBC-Blue: True or False 3:30 NBC-Red: Voice of Firestone 9:00 CBS: LUX THEATER 9:00 NBC-Red: Doctor I.Q. 9:30 NBCRed: Show Boat 00 CBS: Guy Lombardo 00 NBC-Red: America Sings MONDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS ■ Mary Margaret McBride interviews the King of Jazz, Paul Whiteman. Tune-In Bulletin for December 2, 9. 16 and 23! December 2: Tonight's Lux Theater play, unless there's a sudden change of plans, is "Knute Rockne, All American," starring Pat O'Brien. December 9: A beautifully written and acted serial is Lone Journey, on NBC-Red this afternoon at 5:15. December 16: Percy Faith, musical director of America Sings, on NBC-Red at 10:00 tonight, is providing some very enticing harmonies. Better listen in. December 23: A clever fifteen-minute play, complete in itself, is the Short Short Story, on CBS this morning at 11:00. ON THE AIR TODAY: Mary Margaret McBride, talking about things that interest all women, on CBS at 3:00 P.M., E.S.T., sponsored by the Florida Citrus Commission. Feminine commentators are rare in radio, compared to the host of masculine ones. But the few women who do make a business of talking into a microphone are outstandingly popular. Like Mary Margaret McBride, who has one of the most friendly radio personalities in the world. Mary Margaret is an unorthodox person. She makes a business of surprising her sponsor as well as her listeners, and never allows herself to be tied down to a script. Up until broadcast time, her scripts usually consist of a couple of pencilled notes, and before she has talked very long even they are crumpled up into a ball and tossed away. Most of all, Mary Margaret likes to find out the interesting things about places and people everyone else takes for granted. For instance, in a talk about the wonders of the New York World's Fair she devoted at least as much time to talking about the manners and ability of the young man who was her guide as she did about the various exhibits. And once she made a whole broadcast about a Broadway flea circus. Mary Margaret is ample of figure, with iron-gray hair worn in a shingle bob. She has hundreds of friends, but never accepts a social engagement unless she's sure that in doing so she will get a story. That's because she knows how valuable time is. She learned that when she was a high-school graduate in her home town of Paris, Missouri. Her great-aunt offered her a free college education, but there was a string attached — if she accepted, she'd have to study to be a dean of women. Mary Margaret wanted to be a newspaper woman instead, so she turned the offer down and worked her way through college. Between classes, she looked after faculty children and worked as reporter, part-time editor, advertising salesman and typesetter on the local newspaper. Several years of newspaper work led to magazine writing, and she would probably never have turned to radio if the stockmarket crash hadn't come along in 1929 and wiped out her savings while at the same time ruining many of her most profitable literary markets. So she auditioned for a local New York station that wanted a woman to be a radio "Grandmother," giving household hints. She got the job, but "Grandmother" lasted only three days. In the middle of a broadcast, Mary Margaret suddenly announced that she couldn't cook very well, didn't like housekeeping, was really only a reporter, and was killing off her radio "family" so she could be herself. She thought then, and still thinks, that women got enough domestic advice from experts, and the best thing she could do was to bring them entertainment and instruction about things that interested her as a reporter. She must have been right. Because she's still going strong. And by the way, she still finds time to write. Her new book, "How Dear to My Heart," is just out. SAY HELLO TO . . . MURIEL BREMNER — once of Hollywood, who now lives in Chicago and plays the role of Fredrika Lang on The Guiding Light over NBC. Muriel began her career on the stage of the Pasadena Playhouse. In a Shakespearean play, she was onstage when a super in the wings fired an arrow. It went through her hat, narrowly missing her head, and Muriel decided radio was a safer place than the stage. Complete Programs from November 27 to December 26 TANUAHY. 1941 39