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Eastern Standard Time
8:30 NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn
05 NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB 9:15 CBS: School of the Air
9:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 9:45 NBC-Red: Edward MacHugh
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
11:30 CBS: Big Sister
11:30 NBC-Blue: The Wife Saver
11:30 NBCRed: 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 NBC-Red: The O'Neills
12:30 CBS. Romance of Helen Trent 12:30 NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour
12:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday
1:00 CBS: Life Can be Beautiful
1:15 CBS: Woman in White
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2:00 CBS: Young Dr. Malone 2:00 NBC-Red: Betty Crocker
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3:00 CBS: Mary Margaret McBride 3:00 NBC-Blue: Orphans of Divorce 3:00 NBC-Red: Mary Marlin
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4:30 CBS: Hilltop House 4:30 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones
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FRIDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS
■ Kate Smith's two comediennes — Nan Rae and Maude Davis. Tune-In Bulletin for November 29, December 6, 13 and 20!
November 29: Nazimova, the great Russian actress, stars tonight in one of those haunting Arch Oboler plays, "The Women Stayed at Home.". Time — 9:30 on NBC-Red. . . . Xavier Cugat and his band open at the Netherland Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati, playing over CBS.
December 6: Arch Oboler's play for tonight is "The Visitor from Hades," starring Helen Mack of the movies. . . . On Mutual, also at 9:30, is "I Want a Divorce," starring Joan Blondell, who doesn't.
December 13: Xavier Cugat's band opens at the Chase Hotel in St. Louis, playing on NBC. Xavier's music is reaching new highs in popularity these days. . . . Arch Oboler's play is "Mr. Ginsberg," with Benny Rubin as guest star.
December 20: Woody Herman and his orchestra open at the Hotel New Yorker, and you can listen to their music on NBC. . . . Arch Oboler's play is "These Are Your Brothers."
ON THE AIR TONIGHT: Nan Rae and Maude Davis, on Kate Smith's Variety Hour, heard over CBS at 8:00, E.S.T., rebroadcast to the West at 9:00, P.S.T.— sponsored by Grape Nuts.
As an answer to the cry that there's nothing new in radio, listen to Nan Rae and Maude Davis, who began their aircareer last season with a guest appearance on Kate Smith's hour, were heard every week for a while with Eddie Cantor this Fall, and have now switched back to Kate Smith to fill what everyone expects to be a regular spot on her program.
Nan is the "straight woman" on this comedy team, the one who is sane. Maude is the zany "Mrs. Waterfall," mother of ten children and loving wife of "Stanislaus," who never appears on the air but whom every listener must feel he knows intimately by the time Mrs. Waterfall finishes telling about him.
In real life, Nan and Maude are sisters, and veterans of a varied career in vaudeville. They were born in San Francisco of a Scotch family named Clark. A third sister, Alice, older than Nan or Maude and now dead, was a professional dancer, and taught Nan to assist her in her stage act. Then Alice married and retired, and Maude joined Nan in the act. They became a song-and-piano team, and toured the country's vaudeville houses for years as the Clark Sisters.
When vaudeville collapsed ten years ago, Nan and Maude retired. Both were
married and widowed by that time, and they thought they'd earned a rest. But resting wasn't as much fun as they'd thought, and they got restless. It occurred to them that radio had plenty of masculine comedy teams, and plenty of mixed teams, but no strictly feminine combinations. They'd fix that lack up, they decided, and so they changed their names, for luck, and created their present comedy characters.
It took them three years to get into radio with their idea, by way of appearances in Broadway shows, but they're on the air now, and doing very well.
The sisters live together in Hollis, Long Island, where they have a comfortable, pleasant home. Nan, who is blonde, has three daughters, and Maude, the brunette, has one son. They're not at all "typical" vaudeville people; in fact, seeing them at home you'd never think they had anything to do with show business. Nan is always working on a crazy quilt, and Maude spends a lot of time fussing over her pet goldfish. They remind you of a pair of small-town widows.
When you listen to them on the air, one of the most striking things is Maude's highpitched, rather flat voice. It's an accident. When she first played the character of Mrs. Waterfall she had a cold, and was forced to raise her voice to this pitch to project it through the auditorium. Its discordant creakiness got so many laughs she kept it as part of the character.
JANUARY, 1941
SAY HELLO TO . . .
CHESTER STRATTON— who plays Monte Kayden in The O'Neills and Mark Scott in Against the Storm. Chester was born of theatrical parents in New Jersey on July 31, 1912. At the age of. ten he fell in love with a bareback rider in a circus and ran away to be with her. He was soon returned to his parents, though, and toured the country with them in Chautauqua and vaudeville. Although he's been in the theatrical profession most of his life, there have been lay-off periods when Chester drove a furniture truck, sold washing machines, and worked his way to Europe on an oil tanker. He has blond hair and blue eyes.
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