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I 8:15 r-.BO 9:05 8:05 9:05 Eastern Standard Time K) NBC-Red Gene and Glenn ■^— Ob NBC-Blue BREAKFAST CLUB NBC-Red: Happy Jack 2:00 2:30 9:15 CBS: School of the Air ! 8:45 9:45 8:45J 9:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children NBC-Red: Edward MacHugh 8:45 9:00 10:00 9:00 10:00 CBS: By Kathleen Norris NBC-Red This Small Town 1:15 9:15 1 9:15 10:15 10:15 CBS: Myrt and Marge NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade 1:45 9:30 9:30 9:30 10:30 10:30 10:30 CBS: Stepmother NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph 12:45 2:30 9:45 9:45 4:30 10:45 10:45 10:45 CBS: Woman of Courage NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family NBC-Red The Guidinq Light 10:45 10:00 10:00 10:00 11:00 CBS: Mary Lee Taylor 11:00 NBC-Blue: 1 Love Linda Dale 11:00 NBC-Red The Man 1 Married 12:00 10:15 8:15 10:15 11:15 CBS Martna Webster 11:15 NBC-Red Against the Storm 11:00 10:30 10:30 11:30 CBS: Big Sister 11:30 NBC-Red The Road of Life 11:15 10:45 8:45 10:45 10:45 11:45 CBS Aunt Jenny's Stories 11:45 NBC-Blue: Thunder Over Paradise 11:45 NBC-Red: David Harum 9:00 11:00 9:00 11:00 12:00 CBS: Kate Smith Speaks 12:00 NBC-Red Words and Music 9:15 11:15 9:15 11:15 12:15 CBS: When a Girl Marries 12:15 NBC-Red The O'Neills 9:30 11:30 9:30 11:30 12:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent 12:30 NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour 9:«5 11:45 12:45 CBS Our Gal Sunday 10:00 12:00 1:00 CBS Life Can be Beautiful 10:15 12:15 10:15 12:15 12:15 1:15 CBS: Woman in White 1:15 NBC-Blue: Ted Malone 1:15 NBC-Red Tony Wons 10:30 12:30 1:30 CBS Right to Happiness 12:45 1:45 CBS Road of Life 3:00 1:00 11:00 1:00 2:00 CBS. Young Dr. Malone 2:00 NBC-Red Hymns of All Churches 3:30 11:15 1:15 1:15 2:15 CBS. Girl Interne 2:15 NBC-Red Arnold Grimm's Daughter 11:30 11:30 1:30 1:30 2:30 CBS Fletcher Wiley 2:30 NBC-Red Valiant Lady 11:45 11:45 1:45 1:45 2:45 CBS: Home of the Brave 2:45 NBC-Red: Light of the World 12:00 12:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 3:00 CBS Mary Margaret McBride 3:00 NBC-Blue: Orphans of Divorce 3:00 NBC-Red: Mary Marlin 12:15 12:15 12:15 2:15 2:15 2:15 3:15 CBS. Jan Peerce 3:15 NBC-Blue: Honeymoon Hill 3:15 NBC-Red: Ma Perkins 12:30 12:30 2:30 2:30 2:30 3:30 CBS: A Friend in Deed 3:30 NBC-Blue: John's Other Wife 3:30 NBCRed Pepper Young's Family 12:45 12:45 12:45 2:45 2:45 2:45 3:45 CBS: Adventures in Science 3:45 NBC-Blue Just Plain Bill 3:45; NBCRed Vic and Sade 1:00 1:00 3:00 3:00 3:00 4:00 CBS: Portia Faces Life 4:00 NBC-Blue: Mother of Mine 4:00 NBC-Red: Backstage Wife 4:15 1:15 1:15 3:15 3:15 3:15 4:15 CBS: We, The Abbotts 4:15 NBC-Blue: Club Matinee 4:15 NBC-Red: Stella Dallas 1:30 1:30 3:30 3:30 4:30 CBS: Hilltop House 4:30 NBC-Red Lorenzo Jones 12:30 3:45 3:45 4:45 CBS Kate Hopkins 4:45' NBC-Red Young Widder Brown 8:30 3:00 2:00 4:00 4:00 4:00 5:00 CBS: The Goldbergs 5:00 NBC-Blue: Children's Hour j 5:00 NBC-Red: Girl Alone 2:15 2:15 4:15 4:15 5:15 5:15 CBS. The O'Neills NBCRed: Lone Journey 5:30 NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong 2:45 5:45 4:45 5:45 4:45 5:45 5:45 5:45 CBS Scattergood Baines NBC-Blue: Tom Mix NBC-Red: Life Can be Beautiful 7:55 5:00 6:00 CBS: News 5:05 6:05 CBS: Edwin C. Hill 3:15 5:15 6:15 CBS: Bob Edge 10:00 5:30 6:30 CBS: Paul Sullivan 3:45 3:45 5:45 5:45 6:45 6:45 6:45 CBS: The World Today NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas NBC-Red: Fort Pearson 8:00 9:30 8:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 7:00 CBS: Amos 'n' Andy 7:00 NBC-Blue: Easy Aces 7:00 NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang 8:15 9:45 4:15 6:15 6:15 6:15 7:15 CBS: Lanny Ros. 7:15, NBC-Blue: Mr. Keen 7:15|NB( Red European News 7:00 6:30 6:30 7:30 7:30 CBS: Vox Pop NBC-Red Xavier Cugat 4:45 6:45 7:45 NBC-Blue: Met. Opera Guild 8:30 7:30 5:00 8:30 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 CBS: Ask It Basket MBS: Wythe Williams NBC-Blue: Pot o' Gold NBC-Red: Fannie Brice, Frank Morgan 9:00 7:30 8:30 7:30 9:00 7:30 8:30 8:30 8:30 CBS City Desk NBC-Blue Fame and Fortune NBC-Red The Aldrich Family 5:55! 7:55 8:55 CBS: Elmer Davis 6:00 8:00 6:00 8:00 6:00 8:00 6:00 8:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 CBS MAJOR BOWES MBS: GABRIEL HEATTER NBC-Blue: Rochester Philharmonic NBC-Red KRAFT MUSIC HALL 6:30 8:30 9:30 NBC-Blue: John B. Kennedy 6:35 8:35J 9:35 NBC-Blue: America's Town Meeting /:00 9:00 10:00 CBS. Glenn Miller 7:00 9:00 10.00 MBS: Raymond Gram Swing 9:00 10 00 NBC-Red: Rudy Vallee 7:15 9:15 10:15 CBS Choose Up Sides 7:30 9:30 10:30 NBC-Blue: Ahead of the Headlines 7:45 9:»a 10:45 (US News of the World 7/u(AA ■ Geoffrey Bryant and Gertrude Warner of City Desk visit a real newspaper. Tune-In Bulletin for February 27. March 6, 13 and 20! February 27: A listening "must" for Thursday nights (assuming you can tear yourself away from Bing Crosby or Major Bowes) is the Town Meeting of the Air on NBC-Blue at 9:35. Most nights it's more exciting than a prize-fight. March 6: Young Dr. Malone, on CBS at 2:00, is a serial that's climbing steadily in popularity because of its human, natural characters and situations. Have you formed the good habit of listening to it yet? March 13: Xavier Cugat and his orchestra are scheduled to open tonight in the Hotel Roosevelt, New Orleans, broadcasting sustaining programs over CBS. The same band has its commercial program tonight, too, at 7:30 on NBC-Red. March 20: Fletcher Wiley's matter-of-fact comments on CBS at 2:30 today will leave you with something to think about after the program is over. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: City Desk, an exciting story of newspaper life, on CBS at 8:30 P.M., E.S.T., rebroadcast to the West at 9:00 P.M., P.S.T., and sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and Brushless Shave. City Desk isn't a serial — each episode is complete in itself, and you can enjoy it whether you've ever listened before or not. But the characters are the same every week — Jack Winters, played by James Meighan; Linda Webster, played by Gertrude Warner; Caruso, played by Jimmy McCallion; Mrs. Cameron, played by Ethel Owen, and Dan Tobin, played by Geoffrey Bryant. Jack and Linda are two reporters, and naturally they "scoop the town" on every episode, uncovering crimes that invariably baffle the police. Not too true to life, maybe, but good fun to listen to. Gertrude Warner, who plays Linda, is a pretty girl who has come up fast in radio. She qraduated from high school four years ago, and decided she'd break into radio. Just like that. For six months she haunted the studios, and nothing happened. Then the stroke of luck which is usually at the bottom of anyone's success came along. She was hanging around in a studio reception room one day when an actress fell ill. The despairing director, who had frequently been pestered by the job-hunting Gertrude, thrust the actress' part into her hands and told her to do her best. Her best was very good, and she was started on her career. Gertrude's hobby is fencing, and she takes lessons at Salle Santelli, New York. Weekends she spends with her mother and small brother in Hartford, Conn., where she was born. The picture printed above is a publicity stunt. It shows Gertrude with Geoffrey Bryant, who plays Dan Tobin, managing editor of City Desk's "Chronicle," apparently conferring over a printer's stone. It was taken in a New York newspaper office, and is about as close as Gertrude or her fellow-actor ever came to actually working on a newspaper. But maybe they were getting into character. Bryant is a Texan, and has been an actor ever since he grew up. He's played on the stage in New York and London, and in stock company productions all over the country. The only sport he really likes is boxing, at which he's an expert. You've heard him in Death Valley Days, Aunt Jenny's Stories, Just Plain Bill, and Mr. District Attorney. When you listen to City Desk, pay special attention to the music, which is written for the show by Charles Paul, a CBS staff organist-pianist-composer. Around the studios they consider him one of their most talented men. He's quiet and unassuming, but a demon for work. He never smokes, but during a long session of composing at the piano he manages to eat up a whole pound of peanut brittle. cSV^^ 50 GEORGE PUTNAM — the announcer for Portia Faces Life, on CBS this afternoon. George was born in Deposit, N. Y., but soon went westward with his family, stopping in San Diego, Calif. George studied to be a history teacher, but jilted that profession in favor of a WPA drama group. Later he toured the coast with a Shakespearian troupe headed by Tyrone Power's mother. Then came six months of highly unsuccessful searching for gold before he got a job as announcer on a San Diego station. Three years ago he joined the CBS staff in New York. Last June he married Ruth Carhart, the popular radio songstress. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROB