Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1941)

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By Kathleen Norris NBC-Red: This Small Town CBS. Myrt and Marge NBCBine: Vic and Sade CBS: Stepmother NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin NBC-Red Ellen Randolph CBS Woman of Courage NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family NBC-Red The Guiding Light CBS Mary Lee Taylor NBC-Blue: I Love Linda Dale NBC-Red The Man I Married CBS Martha Webster NBC-Red Against the Storm CBS Big Sister NBC-Blue The Wife Saver NBCRed The Road of Life CBS Aunt Jenny's Stone-. NBC-Red: David Harum CBS: NBC KATE SMITH SPEAKS Red Words and Music BS: When a Girl Marries NBC-Red: The O'Neills CBS Romance of Helen Trent NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour Our Gal Sunday CBS Life Can be Beautiful CBS Woman n White NBC-Red Tony Wons CBS Right to Happiness CBS Road of Life CBS Young Dr. Malone NBC-Red Hymns of Al! Churches CBS Girl Interne NBC-Red Arnold Grimm's Daughter CBS Fletcher Wiley NBC-Red Valiant Lady BS My Son and I NBC-R»d: Light of the World CBS Mary Margaret McBride NBC-Blue: Orphans of Divorce NBC-Red: Mary Marlin C3^: Jan Peerce NBC-Blue: Honeymoon Hill NBC-Red Ma Perkins CBS: A Friend in Deed NBC-Blue John's Other Wife NBC-Red Pepper Young's Family NBC-Blue: Just Plain Bil NBC-Red: 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 NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong Scattergood Baines Blue: Tom Mix Red: Life Can be Beautiful News Red: Lil Abner CBS: NBCNBC CBS: NBCCBS: Edwin C. Hill CBS: Paul Sullivan CBS: NBC CBS: NBCNBCCBS: NBCCBS: NBCCBS: MBS NBCNBC CBS: MBS NBC NBC 9:00 CBS: 9:00 NBC 9:00 NBC 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:00 10:00 9:00 10:00 :00 10:00 9:30 10:30 9:30 10:30 CBS: NBCNBC CBS: MBS NBC The World Today Blue: Lowell Thomas Amos 'n' Andy Blue: EASY ACES Red: Fred Waring's Gang Lanny Ross Blue: Mr. Keen Helen Menken Red: H. V. Kaltenborn Court of Missing Heirs Wythe Williams Blue: Ben Bernie Red: Johnny Presents FIRST NIGHTER La Rosa Concerts Blue: Uncle Jim's Question Bee Red: Horace Heidt We, the People Blue: Grand Central Station Red: Battle of the Sexes Professor Quiz Blue: John B. Kennedy Red: McGee and Molly Glenn Miller Raymond Gram Swing Red: Bob Hope CBS: Invitation to Learning NBC NBC Red. Uncle Walter's Doghouse Blue: Edward Weeks ■ We, The People's director Joe Hill confers with his assistant, David Levy. Tune-In Builefin for December 31, January 7, 14 and 21! December 31: The year comes to an end, and the networks will tell you about the carnival as midnight sweeps across the continent. . . . CBS presents its annual review of 1 940's historic news stories, called "Twelve Crowded Months" — something no one should miss. January 7: Uncle Jim's Question Bee is on NBC-Blue now, tonight at 8:30. . . . followed by Grand Central Station on the same network at 9:00. . . . And at 8:00, you'll enjoy Ben Bernie, the Ol' Maestro, also on NBC-Blue. January 14: A one-man show that has a lot of people listening in is Meet Edward Meeks on NBC-Blue tonight at 10:30. January 21: Tommy Dorsey's orchestra opens tonight at the Meadowbrook Inn, broadcasting over NBC. Listen in for some Sentimental Swing. 9:45 10:45 CBS News of the World 40 ON THE AIR TONIGHT: We, the People, heard on CBS at 9:00, E.S.T., and rebroadcast to the West Coast at 9:00, P.S.T., sponsored by the makers of Sanka Coffee. Offhand, it's pretty safe to say that radio doesn't offer any more nerveracking job than that of putting We, the People on the air every week. You probably hadn't thought of it, but it's not simple to find enough people with interesting stories to fill half an hour of air time, and then get them all together and shepherd them to a microphone. Joe Hill, the boss of the program, doesn't seem to let it worry him. He's a tall (six feet two inches), lanky, goodnatured chap who takes things in his very long stride. The picture above shows him wearing a moustache, but he shaved it off a month or so ago. He cultivated it in the first place to make him look more dignified and mature, but he says that now he has enough gray hairs on his head so he doesn't need any on his face. Joe, with ten assistants, combs the newspapers for stories of interesting people. Then he calls them up on the telephone, no matter where they are, and invites them to appear on the program. If tkey accept — and usually they do — they arrive in New York on Sunday morning. From talking to them on the telephone, writers for the program have already gained enough material to prepare rough scripts. A short rehearsal is held Sunday afternoon, then the scripts are revised, if necessary, to fit the people's personality more exactly, and there are more rehearsals. Almost anything can happen, though, to upset the carefully prepared radio program. Sometimes a guest's voice just isn't good for broadcasting, and he has to be coached. Sometimes a guest appears all right for the first broadcast, but forgets that he has to show up for the second, which goes to the West Coast. Then there's a frantic man-hunt, and if it's unsuccessful someone else has to be hastily summoned to read the script in place of the missing guest. Once a colored taxi driver didn't arrive for the broadcast. It's presumed that he picked up a fare and couldn't get to the playhouse in time. Joe's first assistant, Dave Levy, rushed out into Times Square, grabbed the first taxi-driver he could find, who happened to be white, and the script was hurriedly revised to fit. Joe has been in radio so long he's learned not to let things like that get on his nerves. He was born in West Virginia and studied to be a violinist and pianist, majoring in music at Dartmouth College. He fell in love and was married before he graduated, though, and the problem of making a living switched him into being a newspaper music critic. From there he went to straight reporting, and then into publicity in the early I930's, when radio was just beginning to be important. The advertising agency where he worked set him to writing radio scripts in between publicity releases, and before he knew it he was knee-deep in radio, where he has remained. S^ /Vee&Z ELMIRA ROESSLER — who is Jennifer Davis in Backstage Wife, on NBC-Red this afternoon. Elmira was born in St. Louis, Mo., 22 years ago, and studied to be a dancer before she changed her mind and decided to go in for acting. Betty Grable was a classmate at dancing school. She did her first radio work while she was still going to school, and first went on CBS late in 1939. Once she broadcast a complete fifteen-minute program while a mouse played around her feet on the studio floor — an experience that would have unnerved most women but didn't bother Elmira a bit. She's a blonde, green-eyed, and weighs just 108 pounds. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR