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U NBC-Blue: Ray Perkins NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn 9:00 8:00 CBS: Woman of Courage 9:05 8:05 NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB 9:45 8:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 10:00 9:00 CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly 9:00 NBC-Red: The Man I Married 10:15 9:15 CBS: Myrt and Marge 9:15 NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade 9:15 NBC-Red: Midstream 10:30 9:30 CBS: Hilltop House 9:30 NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin 9:30 NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph 10:45 9:45 CBS: Stepmother 9:45 NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family 9:45 NBC-Red: By Kathleen Norrls 11:00 10:00 CBS: Short Short Story 10:00 NBC-Red: David Harum 11:15 10:15 CBS: Life Begins 10:15 NBC-Red: Road of Life 11:30 10:30 CBS: Big Sister 10:30 NBC-Blue: Jack Berch 10:30 NBC-Red: Against the Storm 11:45 10:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories 10:45 NBC-Red: The Guiding Light 12:00 Noon 11:00 CBS: KATE SMITH SPEAKS 11:00 NBC-Red: Woman in White 12:15 P.M. 11:15 CBS: When a Girl Marries 11:15 NBC-Red: The O'Neills 12:30 11:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent 11:30 NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour 12:45 11:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday 11:45 MBS: Carters of Elm Street 1:00 .2:00 CBS: The Goldbergs 1:15 .2:15 CBS: Life Can be Beautiful 1:30 .2:30 CBS: Right to Happiness 1:45 .2:45 CBS: Road of Life 2:00 1:00 CBS: Young Dr. Malone 1:00 NBC-Red: Light of the World 2:15 1:15 CBS: Girl Interne 1:15 NBC-Blue: Quilting Bee 1:15 NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter 2:30 1:30 CBS: Fletcher Wiley 1:30 NBC-Red: Valiant Lady 2:45 1:45 CBS: My Son and I 1:45 MBS: George Fisher 1:45 NBC-Red: Betty Crocker 3:00 2:00 CBS: Society Girl 2:00 NBC-Blue: Orphans of Divorce 2:00 NBC-Red: Mary Marlin 3:15 2:15 CBS: It Happened in Hollywood 2:15 NBC-Blue: Honeymoon Hill 2:15 NBC-Red: Ma Perkins 3:30 2:30 NBC-Blue: John's Other Wife 2:30 NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family 3:45 2:45 NBC-Blue: Just Plain Bill 2:45 NBC-Red: Vic and Sade 4:00 3:00 NBC-Blue: Club Matinee 3:00 NBC-Red: Backstage Wife 4:15 3:15 NBC-Red: Stella Dallas 4:30 3:30 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones 4:45 3:45 NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown 5:00 4:00 NBC-Red: Girl Alone 5:15 4:15 NBC-Red: Life Can be Beautiful 5:30 4:30 NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong 5:45 4:45 CBS: Scattergood Baines 4:45 MBS: Little Orphan Annie 4:45 NBC-Blue: Bud Barton 4:45 NBC-Red: The O'Neills 6:00 5:00 CBS: News, Bob Trout 5:00 NBC-Red: Lil Abner 6:05 5:05 CBS: Edwin C. Hill 6:15 5:15 CBS: Hedda Hopper 6:30 5:30 CBS: Paul Sullivan 6:45 5:45 CBS: The World Today 5:45 NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas 7:00 6:00 CBS: Amos 'n' Andy 6:00 NBC-Blue: Easy Aces 6:00 NBC-Rcd: Fred Waring's Gang 7:15 6:15 CBS: Lanny Ross 6:15 NBC-Blue: Mr. Keen 7:30 6:30 MBS: The Lone Ranger 8:00 7:00 CBS: Ben Bernie 7:00 NBC-Blue: Prairie Folks 7:00 NBC-Red: Hollywood Playnouse 8:30 7:30 CBS: Dr. Christian 7:30 NUC-Bhie: What Would You Have Done 7:30 NBC-Red: Plantation Party 9:00 8:00 CBS: TEXACO STAR THEATER 8:00 NBC-Rcd: Abbott and Costello 10:00 9:00 CBS: Glenn Miller 9:00 MBS: Raymond Gram Swing 9:00 NBC-Red: KAY KYSER'S KOLLEGE WEDNESDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS ■ Helen Waren, Erik Rolf and Parker Fennelly of Prairie Folks Tufie-ln Bulletin for June 26, July 3, 10, 17 and 24! June 26: If's goodbye for the summer to two top programs tonight: Fred Allen and Charles Boyer on NBC-Red. July 3: Lou Abbott and Bud Costello, comedians, take over Fred Allen's time tonight — NBC-Red at 9:00. Also on the program is Benay Venuto, one of the better songstresses. . . . Gail Page and Jim Ameche are the stars of the Hollywood Playhouse, NBC-Red at 8:00, beginning tonight. July 10: CBS has an interesting sustaining program on at 4:00 this afternoon. It's called Lecture Hall, and presents experts talking on various subjects. July 17: Not a fight fan in the country will miss listening to NBC and Bill Stern tonight, for together they're broadcasting the meeting of Lou Jenkins, lightweight champ, and Henry Armstrong, welterweight chomp. July 24: For fifteen minutes of the best kind of vocal music, you can't beat Lanny Ross, CBS at 7:15. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: Prairie Folks, a new kind of serial drama, on NBC-Blue tonight at 8:00, E.D.S.T. Every now and then this department likes to point out a program to you that you might miss if you weren't told about it. Prairie Folks is that kind of a show. It doesn't get much ballyhoo, because it isn't sponsored and it hasn't been on the air very long — but you'll find it's very much worth listening to. It's about settlers in Minnesota in the I870's. Lynne Thompson, the young Minnesota woman who writes the scripts, says that all the characters ore fictional, but the events of the story are based on fact. Actually, Linden, the town of the radio serial, is patterned after Miss Thompson's own home town of Windom, Cottonwood County, Minnesota; and Willow Lake Farm, also mentioned in the script, Is really an old form at Fish Lake, near Windom. This curious mixture of fact and fiction keeps the people of the real Cottonwood County listening and arguing, trying to think what real persons Miss Thompson had in mind when she created her characters. The cast of Prairie Folks is one of radio's best. Erik Rolf, who plays the leading role of Torwald Nielson, head of the Danish family which settles in Linden, is a Minnesoton himself. He's not Danish, though, but Norwegian, and his real name Is Rolf Magelssen Ylvisaker. You can see why he changed it for radio. The distinguished stage star, Morris Carnovsky, plays Adam Bassett, the banker whose hobby is opening up new tracts of land in the West. You've seen him in the movies, in "The Life of Emile Zola" and other films. One of radio's best dialect experts is in Prairie Folks — Parker Fennelly, who plays Smiley. You know Parker best as one of the "down-Easters" in the Snow Village Sketches. His specialty is rural dialect. Helen Waren, who is Mrs. Nielson, won this leading port in competition with many of radio's established actresses. It's her very first radio job, and gets her career off to a flying start. The other regular members of the cast are Cliff Carpenter as Curtis Bassett, Kingsley Colton as the Nielson's son, Hansi, Nell Converse as Eldora Wilkins, Joe Helgesen (another native Minnsotan) and Josephine Fox as Mr. and Mrs. Arne Anders, and Peter Murphy and Frances Cheney as the comical settlers, the Jacksons. NBC is giving Prairie Folks all the good things it con in the way of production and background. An Arch Oboler-troined man, Joseph Thompson (no relation to the author of the program), is the director, and he's incorporating many of Arch's Ideas into his present assignment. A full-sized orchestra under the direction of Josef HontI plays background music that has been specially composed for the program by Tom Bennett. 46 SAY HELLO TO . . . MARY JANE HIGBY— who was a child star in Hollywood and plays Joan Davis on the CBS serial. When a Girl Marries. Mary Jane was born in St. Louis, Mo., but at the age of five was taken to Hollywood by her father, who was an actor. She played in the films for three years before she decided she wanted to become a concert pianist. This ambition lasted until she was sixteen, when she changed her mind again and went back to acting. In 1937 she came to New York, was idle for just two days, and got a job on a CBS unsponsored program, going from that to the lead in today's serial show. She's blonde and unmarried. BADIO AND TELEVISION 3VIIBB0H