Radio and television mirror (May-Oct 1940)

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NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn 9:00 8:00 CBS: Woman of Courage 9:05 8:05 NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB 8:05 NBC-Red: Happy Jack 9:30 8:30 NBC-Red: Escorts and Betty 9:45 8:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 8:45 NBC-Red: Edward MacHugh 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 Norris 11:00 10:00 CBS: Mary Lee Taylor 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-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 11:30 NBC-Red: Art of Living 12:45 11:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday 11:45 MBS: Carters of Elm Street 1:00 12:00 CBS: The Goldbergs 1:15 12:15 CBS: Life Can be Beautiful 12:15 NBC-Red: Mrs. F. 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Roosevelt 1:30 12:30 CBS: Right to Happiness 1:45 12:45 CBS: Road of Life 2:00 1:00 CBS: Young Dr. Malone 1:00 NBC-Red: Light of the World 2:15 12:15 1:15 CBS: Girl Interne 12:15 1:15 NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter 2:30 1:30 CBS: Fletcher Wiley 1:30 NBC-Red: Valiant Lady 2:45 CBS: My Son and 3:00 1:00 2:00 CBS: Society Girl 1:00 2:00 NBC-Blue: Orphans of Divorce 1:00 2:00 NBC-Red: Mary Marlin 3:15 1:15 2:15 CBS: It Happened in Hollywood 1:15 2:15 NBC-Blue: Honeymoon Hill 1:15 2:15 NBC-Red: Ma Perkins 3:30 1:30 2:30 NBC-Blue: John's Other Wife 1:30 2:30 NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family 3:45 1:45 2:45 NBC-Blue: Just Plain Bill 1:45 2:45 NBC-Red: Vic and Sade Q <5 £<ioi 8:00 8:00 8:15 8:15 8:15 8:30 8:30 8:30 8:45 8:45 8:45 9:00 9:00 9:15 9:15 9:30 9:30 9:45 9:45 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 10:30 10:45 10:45 11:15 11:15 11:45 12:00 12:00 12:30 12:30 2:15 2:30 3:30 3:45 4:45 3:45 3:45 8:55 4:00 5:00 5:00 5:00 5:15 5:15 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:30 6:30 6:30 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:30 7:30 8:00 8:00 8:00 3:45 THURSDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS 4:30 4:45 4:45 4:45 4:45 5:00 5:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:15 6:15 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:30 8:30 NBC-Blue: NBC-Red: 4:00 NBC-Red: Backstage Wife 4:15 NBCRed: Stella Dallas 4:30 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones 4:45 NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown 5:00 iNBC-Red: Girl Alone 5:15 NBCRed: Life Can be Beautiful 5:30 NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong 5:45 CBS: Scattergood Baines MBS: Little Orphan Annie NBC-Blue: Bud Barton NBC-Red: The O'Neills 6:00 CBS: News NBC-Red: Lil Abner 6:05 CBS: Edwin C. Hill 6:30 CBS: Paul Sullivan 6:45 NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas 7:00 CBS: Amos 'n' Andy NBC-Blue: Easy Aces NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang 7:15 CBS: Lanny Ross NBC-Blue: Mr. Keen 7:30 CBS: Vox Pop 7:45 NBC-Red: H. V. Kaltenborn 8:00 CBS: Ask It Basket NBC-Blue: Musical Americana NBC-Red: Mr. District Attorney 8:30 CBS; Stranqe as it Seems NBC-Blue: Pot o' Gold NBC-Red: I Love a Mystery 9:00 C BS: MAJOR BOWES NBC-Blui NBC-Red: 9:30 NBC-Blue: NBCRed: 10:00 BS: Glei Rochester Phil GOOD NEWS Toronto Symphe Rudy Vallee B Parks Johnson interviews Paul Revere's great-great-great-granddcughter. Tune-!n Bulletin for June 27, July 4, 11, 18 and 25! June 27: Mutual broadcasts the Diamond Stakes race from Delaware Park at 5:15 this afternoon. July 4: Of course you'll all be out celebrating Independence Day today (and it's something to celebrate thankfully, this year) but don't forget radio has its entertainment to offer you too. All the networks have special holiday broadcasts. July II: Woody Herman and his orchestra close their engagement at the Westwood Garden tonight. You've been hearing them over NBC. July 18: There's not a great deal of classical music on the air in summer, so it might be a good idea to catch tonight's concert of the Toronto Symphony, on NBC-Blue. July 25: For a program that will keep you excited and guessing — listen to I Love a Mystery, on NBC-Red at 8:30. Mil er 9:00'MBS Raymoid Gram Swing 9:00 NBC-Red: KRAFT MUSIC HALL ON THE AIR TONIGHT: Vox Pop, starring Parks Johnson and Wally Butterworth, on CBS at 7:30, E.D.S.T., sponsored by Kentucky Club Smoking Tobacco. Parks and Wally don't much like to have Vox Pop referred to as a "quiz" program, and you can hardly blame them, there are so many quizzes on the air. On Vox Pop it doesn't matter whether an interviewee answers a question correctly or not; he or she still gets a package of pipe tobacco or cigarettes. As a matter of fact, Parks and Wally don't know, themselves, the answers to half the questions they ask. For some time Parks has been waiting to find a stenographer who can tell him the longest word that can be formed from the letters on the top letter row of the typewriter. He isn't sure, but he thinks the word is typewriter or proprietor. Vox Pop (it must be the only program on the air with a Latin name: short for vox populi, "the voice of the people") got its start a long time ago — 1932, at KTRH, Houston, Texas. It got along right well down there, and was brought to New York as a summer replacement show in 1935. Parks Johnson, one of the originators, came with it, and still shivers when he remembers the first New York broadcast. "We were just a couple of country boys," he says, "and we were scared of what some of these smart New Yorkers might soy to us. So we broadcast the first time from Columbus Circle, keeping the site of the show a strict secret in advance. We thought the safest bet was taking people as they came without drawing any who came ready to stump us." They were comforted by the way New Yorkers answered the question, "Where is Singapore?" It took seven weeks to find someone who knew the correct answer. Parks and Wally together dig up the questions they ask. Parks gets his by reading newspopers and magazines, and claims that just the ads in one magazine will give him enough questions to lost several weeks. Occasionally they have trouble with the people they bring to the microphone. Once a bright young man asked to go on the air, and Porks brought him up to the mike. But just as the interview began, something warned Porks, and he shoved the young man away, clapping a hand over the microphone. While Wally took over with the next interview the young man started to laugh. "How did you catch on?" he asked. "I'm a Communist and I was just going to spill a load of it on the air." Another time, when Wally finished an interview and handed the interviewee a package of tobacco, the man remarked, "I'm a Mormon missionary and I don't smoke — but I'll take it anyway. I hear this kind of tobacco is very good for sick cattle." Wally hustled him away from the mike in a hurry. Parks and Wally are both married, and live practically next door to each other in Great Neck, Long Island. Parks, who is the elder of the two, has two children, Betty, 18, and Bill, 16. 48 SAY HELLO TO . . . KEN GRIFFIN — the actor you've all been wanting to hear about, fudging from your letters. Ken plays Larry Noble in Backstage Wife and Dr. Jim Brent in Road of Life — two of radio's drama's fattest roles. He landed in Chicago a few years ago without any previous dramatic experience and with only one dollar in his pocket, and secured a $15a-week job as an actor at the Chicago Fair. Later he took an audition that started him on his radio career. Ken's one extravagance, now that he's a success, is his sloop, Revenge, one of the finest racing boats on the Great Lakes. He's 29 years old, weighs 180 pounds and is six feet talL RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR