Radio and television mirror (May-Oct 1940)

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NBC-Blue: Ray Perkins NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn 9:00 CBS: Woman of Courage 9:05 NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB 9:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 10:00 CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly NBC-Red: The Man I Married 10:15 CBS: Myrt and Marge NBC-Blue: Vic and Sado NBC-Red: Midstream 10:30 CBS: Hilltop House NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph 10:45 CBS: Stepmother NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family NBC-Red: By Kathleen Norris 11:00 CBS: Short Short Story NBC-Red: David Harum 11:15 CBS: Life Begins NBC-Red: Road of Life 11:30 CBS: Big Sister NBC-Blue: Jack Berch NBC-Red: Against the Storm 11:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories NBC-Red: The Guiding Light 12:00 Noon CBS: KATE SMITH SPEAKS NBC-Red: Woman in White 12:15 P.M. CBS: When a Girl Marries NBC-Red: The O'Neills 12:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour 12:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday MBS: Carters of Elm Street 1:00 CBS: The Goldbergs 1:15 CBS: Life Can be Beautiful 1:30 CBS: Right to Happiness 1:45 CBS: Road of Life 2:00 CBS: Young Dr. Malone NBC-Red: Light of the World 2:15 CBS: Girl Interne NBC-Blue: Quilting Bee NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter 2:30 CBS: Fletcher Wiley NBC-Red: Valiant Lady 2:45 CBS: My Son and I MBS: George Fisher NBC-Red: Betty Crocker 3:00 CBS: Society Girl NBC-Blue: Orphans of Divorce NBC-Red: Mary Marlin 3:15 NBC-Blue: Honeymoon Hill NBC-Red: Ma Perkins 3:30 NBC-Blue: John's Other Wife NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family 3:45 NBC-Blue: Just Plain Bill NBC-Red: Vic and Sade 4:00 CBS: Columbia's Lecture Hall NBC-Blue: Club Matinee NBC-Red: Backstage Wife 4:15 NBC-Red: Stella Dallas 4:30 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones 4:45 Young Widder Brown 7:00 3:00 7:00 7:15 3:15 8:00 7:30 8:30 4:00 7:00 7:30 4:30 7:30 5:00 8:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 5:00 5:00 5:00 5:15 5:15 5:30 7:30 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:30 6:30 6:30 7:00 7:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 48 4:00 4:00 4:45 4:45 4:45 5:00 5:00 5:45 5:45 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:15 6:15 6:30 6:30 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 8:00 8:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 Children's Hour Girl Alone NBC-Red: 5:00 NBC-Blue: NBC-Red: 5:15 NBC-Red: Life Can be Beautiful 5:30 NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong 5:45 CBS: Scattergood Baines MBS: Little Orphan Annie NBC-Red: The O'Neills 6:00 CBS: News, Bob Trout NBC-Red: Lil Abner 6:05 CBS: Edwin C. Hill 6:15 CBS: Hedda Hopper 6:30 CBS: Paul Sullivan 6:45 CBS: The World Today 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: Adventures of Mr. Meek MBS: The Lone Ranger 7:45 NBC-Red: H. V. Kaltenborn 8:00 CBS: Uncle Jim's Question Bee NBC-Blue: This, Our America NBC-Red: Hollywood Playhouse 8:30 ( BS: Dr. Christian NBC-Blue: Metropolitan Airport NBC-Red: Plantation Party 9:00 CBS: TEXACO STAR THEATER NBC-Red: Abbott and Costello j 9:30 NBCRed Mr. District Attorney 10:00 CBS: Glenn Miller MliS: Raymond Gram Swing NBC-Red: KAY KYSER'S KOLLEGE mmmsBmimm w^^'W'7 ^T'~n'''~'\ ■ Bud AbboH, Lou Cosfello, and Louis "double"-7-Mciyor La Guardia. Tune-In Bulletin for July 31, August 7, 14 and 21 I July 31: There are two new dramatic programs on tonight — Adventures of Mr. Meeic, on CBS at 7:30, and Metropolitan Airport on NBC-Blue at 8:30. . . . Also an old favorite quiz show is back, Uncle Jim's Question Bee on CBS at 8:00. August 7: Larry Clinton's band closes tonight at the Hotel New Yorker. You've been hearing it over CBS. August 14: NBC-Blue has a whole hour of children's programs from 5:00 to 6:00 this afternoon and every afternoon except Saturday and Sunday, in it are Rocky Gordon, Malcolm Claire, Ireene Wicker, and Bud Barton. August 21: Something to stir every patriotic American is This Our America, on NBC-Blue tonight at 8:00. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: The Hour of Smiles, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, comedians, and Benay Venuta, soprano, with Peter Van Steeden's orchestra —on NBC-red at 9:00, E.D.S.T., rebroadcast to the West at 8:00, P.S.T., and sponsored by Ipana and Sai-Hepatica. It's a funny thing about Bud Abbott and Lou Costello — they're celebrating their tenth anniversary as partners, but only their second as partners with cash in the bank. It took them eight years of smalltime vaudeville to work up to their present very successful position in the world. Lou is the funny one — the short, pudgy little man who works himself up to heights of insane hysteria under Bud's heckling. He looks a lot like New York's Mayor LaGuardia, as you can see from the picture above; and he's a carbon-copy of His Honor in height and weight, 5 feet 4 inches and 183 pounds. His real name is Critello, and he was born in Paterson, N. J. After a year or so at military school, he set out on foot for Hollywood, where he first got a job as a scene shifter, then worked up to being in mob scenes, doubling for Dolores Del Rio in a two-story jump from a Klondike gambling joint, and making himself generally useful as a stunt man. He was on his way to comedy success when the talkies came along and eliminated him and his squeaky voice from the Hollywood scene. Heading back home, Lou joined a vaudeville troup in St. Joseph, Mo., as a Dutch comedian, and toured with it for a while. In Brooklyn, his "straight man" fell ill and Bud Abbott was called in from the box office to pinch hit. That began an association between the two which has lasted ever since. Bud had done a good deal of knocking around too — he'd been born under a circus tent at Coney Island, and had worked as a peanut vendor, an apprentice lion-tamer, and a chute-thechutes operator before turning to the theater management. Their partnership didn't do either of them much good until they got an engagement at Loew's State Theater in New York. Ted Collins, Kate Smith's manager, happened to be in the audience one night, liked their act, and booked them for a guest spot on Kate's program. That one guest spot led to others, and before long they were regular features on the show. That in turn led to an engagement in the Broadway revue, "Streets of Paris," to movie offers, and this summer to their own program, replacing Fred Allen. Both Bud and Lou are married, to chorus girls they met in a show when they were playing Washington, D.C., in 1929. The two girls were having a little quarrel backstage. Bud and Lou suggested that all four of them get together over a friendly sandwich at a hamburger stand across the street. Romance was born and blossomed into matrimony. Lou is never separated from his twobit cigar, and memorizes all his radio scripts. Bud is tall, slender, gray-haired, and was christened William. He's one of radio's most immaculate dressers, and would rather play cards than eat. SAY HELLO TO . . . JOAN TETZEL— who is Sylvia Field on the CBS serial. When a Girl Marries. And Joan recently did get married — to Jack Mosman, CBS radio engineer. She's back from her Bermuda honeymoon now, busy again in the studios, where she's much in demand. You hear her also in Woman of Courage every morning at 9:00 on CBS, and in various other dramatic roles. Joan was born in New York City and has been acting professionally since she was five. On the stage she was in "The Little Foxes" with Tallulah Bankhead, in "Susan and Go^" with Gertrude Lawrence,^nd Burgess Meredith in the revival of "Liliom." RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR