Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1941)

h 8:45 1:45 12:45 2:30 8:00 12:00 8:15 11:00 ■ Francia White, red-headed songstress of The Telephone Hour. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: The Telephone Hour, starring James Melton and Francia White, on NBC-Red at 8:00 P. M., E.S.T. The music war which has kept so many well-known songs off the air since the first of the year also has done some very strange and unexpected things. For instance, it turned Francia White into a song-writer, and she certainly never expected that, although she's been singing songs written by other people since she was in her teens. The vivacious, red-headed Miss White collaborates with her singing partner, James Melton, in selecting the musical numbers that are done on the program, and when ASCAP songs were barred from the air she discovered that many beautiful tunes could be used if they were provided with new and original lyrics. In other words, the tunes belonged to anyone that wanted to use them; only the lyrics were by members of ASCAP. So ever since making this discovery Francia has been spending much of her time chewing a pencil and gazing off into space, trying to think of a rhyme for "June" that isn't "moon." Francia, who is as friendly as your oldest school chum, lives alone — she isn't married, and some man is going to be lucky someday — in an apartment on the East River in New York, and has a lot of fun watching Dead End kids defy the cops and go swimming in the summer. She likes the neighborhood, which is typically New York because it consists of expensive apartment houses next door to poor sections, because everyone in it is so informal and neighborly. But she won't sign a longterm lease on her apartment because she's superstitious and doesn't want to tie herself down anywhere. Next fall you may get a chance to see Francia and Melton in person, because they're planning an extensive joint concert tour. Meanwhile, their songs on the Telephone Hour make up about as pleasant a musical program as you can find anywhere. TUNE-IN BULLETINS March 31: Gasoline Alley, on NBC-Red at 6:45, is just as entertaining on the air as it is in the funnies. April 7: On the Lux Theater tonight, CBS at 9: Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery in an air version of their movie hit, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." April 14: Mutual presents its annual "Play Ball!" show which travels to all the cities having major league teams to interview players and managers. April 21: Dick Jurgens' band goes into the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York, broadcasting on NBC and CBS. 11:15 8:45 9:00 9:00 9:15 9:15 8:15 8:30 9:00 9:15 h U 8:00 12:30 8:45 9:00 10:00 9:00 10:00 9:00 10:00 9:15 10:15 9:15 10:15 9:15 10:15 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 10:45 11:00 11:00 11:15 11:15 Eastern Standard Time 9:30 11:30 9:30 11:30 9:45 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 10:45 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 12:15 12:30 12:30 12:45 12:45 9:15 1:00 4:15 1:15 1:15 1:30 1:30 12:30 8:30 3:00 2:00 11:45 12:00 12:00 12:15 12:15 12:15 12:30 12:30 12:45 12:45 1:00 1:00 1:15 1:15 1:30 1:30 1:30 1:45 1:45 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:15 2:15 2:15 2:30 2:30 2:30 2:45 2:45 2:45 3:00 3:00 3:00 3:15 3:15 3:15 3:30 3:30 3:45 3:45 4:00 4:00 4:00 NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn NBC-Blue: Ray Perkins NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB CBS: School of the Air NBC-Red Edward MacHugh CBS: By Kathleen Norris NBC-Blue: Josh Higgins NBC-Red: This Small Town CBS: Myrt and Marge NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade NBC-Red: Bachelor's Children 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: Treat Time 11:00 NBC-Blue: The Munro's 11:00 NBC-Red: The Man I Married 11:15 CBS: Martha Webster 11:15 NBC-Red: Against the Storm 11:30 CBS: Big Sister 11:30 NBC-Blue: The Wife Saver 11:30 NBCRed. 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Allen Prescott, who calls himself The Wife Saver, is a husky, handsome chap who doesn't fit in at all with one's mental picture of a man who presents household hints on the air. He's a graduate of the New York Military Academy and of the University of Pennsylvania, in both of which institutions he played soccer and squash and starred on the track teams. But even if he doesn't look or act the part, he does offer you some interesting and very unusual tips on cooking and home-making on every program. A great many of his wife-saving hints come to him in the mail, from interested women listeners. He gets about 500 letters a week, and most of them contain something he can use on the air. Others he gets by talking to home economics experts, reading books on cooking and home making, and even experimenting in his own home, which is a pent house on top of a New York office building. He lives there with a Scottie dog and an aquarium full of tropical fish. Allen was born in 1904 in St. Louis, and wanted to become an actor, but his parents objected — as parents often do — and instead, when he got out of college he worked as an advertising salesman and newspaper reporter for a while before finally achieving his dramatic ambition by joining a theatrical stock company. He first went on the air in 1929 with Walter Winchell and Mark Hellinger over a local station, then started a radio career by commenting on the news. When news items gave out he filled in the gaps with household hints, and gradually people began to show more interest in the latter than in the news — so he became The Wife Saver. He has written two books, and their titles are "The Wife Saver's Candy Recipes" and "Aunt Harriet's Household Hints." He has never said who Aunt Harriet is. TUNE-IN BULLETINS April I: On NBC, 10:00 P.M., listen to the National A.A.U. Boxing Championships from Boston . . . Count Basie and his band open in Boston too — at the Tunetown Ballroom, broadcasting over CBS. April 8: For delightful mid-afternoon music: Frank Parker on CBS at 3:15. April 15: If the newscasters insist on giving you too much gloomy news tonight, switch to Fibber McGee and Molly on NBC-Red at 9:30 — they'll cheer you up. April 22: For a quick bird's-eye view of America, listen to We, the People, on CBS at 9:00. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR