Radio and television mirror (May-Oct 1940)

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NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn 9:00 CBS; Woman of Courage 9:05 NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB NBC-Red: Happy Jack 9:30 NBC-Red: Escorts and Betty 9:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children NBC-Red: Edward MacHugh L0:00 CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly NBC-Red: The Man I Married 10:15 CBS: Myrt and Marge NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade 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: Mary Lee Taylor NBC-Red: David Harum 11:15 CBS: Life Begins NBC-Red: Road of Life 11:30 CBS: Big Sister NBCRed: Against the Storm 11:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories NBC-Red: The Guiding Light 12:00 Noon CES: 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 NBC-Red: Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt 1:30 CBS: Right to Happiness 1:45 CBS: Road of Life 2:00 CBS: Young Dr. Malone NBC-Blue: Margaret C. Banning NBCRed: Light of the World 2:15 CBS: Girl Interne NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter 2:30 CBS: Fletcher Wiley NBC-Red: Valiant Lady 2:45 CBS: My Son and I 3:00 CBS: Society Girl ' " Orphans of Divorce Mary Marlin : Honeymoon Hill Ma Perkins John's Other Wife Pepper Young's Family : Just Plain Bill Vic and Sade 5:15 5:15 6:15 6:15 5:30 6:30 5:45 6:45 6:00 6:00 7:00 7:00 6:30 6:30 6:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:00 7:00 7:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 8:30 9:30 NBC-Bl NBCRed: 3:15 NBC-Blue NBC-Red: 3:30 NBC-Blue NBC-Red: 3:45 NBC-Blue NBC-Red 4:00 NBC-Red; Backstage Wife 4:15 NBC-Red: Stella Dallas 4:30 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones 4:45 NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown 5:00 NBC-Blue; Children's Hour NBC-Red; Girl Alone 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, 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 Ask It Basket Musical Americana THURSDAY't HIGHLIGHTS CBS NUC-Blu 8:30 CBS Strange as it Seems Pot o' Gold The Aldrich Family NBC-Hlu NBC-R. 9:00 CBS: NBC N B( 10:00 CBS: Glenn Miller Mi^S: Raymond Gram Swing NIU Re<l: Rudy Vallee 10:30 ( BS: News of the War MAJOR BOWES Blue: Toronto Symphony Red: KRAFT MUSIC HALL ■ Leads in Life Can Be Beautiful: Holbrook, Reinheart, Locke. Tune-In Bulletin for August 1, 8, 15 and 22! August I: This is the night for fight fans to stay home and listen to the radio — because NBC is broadcasting the scrap between Ceferino Garcia and Steve Belloise. August 8: Bob Burns returns to the Kraft Music Hall program tonight after his vacation — so for some more of those tall Arkansas stories tune in NBC-Red at 9:00. Bing Crosby's leaving, too, now that Bob's back. . . . Woody Herman's band opens at the New Yorker Hotel, broadcasting over CBS. August 15: Just as a reminder — Bob Crosby is heard tonight at 10:00 on all the NBCRed stations that Rudy Vallee isn't occupying. August 22: Novelist Margaret Culkin Banning has some interesting things to say in her weekly program, today at 2:00 on NBC-Blue. ON THE AIR TODAY: Life Con Be Beautiful, the dramatic serial heard today at 1:15 on CBS, sponsored by Ivory Soap. Life Can Be Beautiful is nearing its second anniversary on CBS, and its cast remains the same as when it started. Minor characters have been introduced, but the main theme of the story is woven around Papa David Solomon, Chichi Conrad, Stephen Hamilton, and Toby Nelson plus one important new character, Rita Yates. And the story still teaches the same important message, that "life can be beautiful" if you live it properly. The drama is the work of two prolific radio writers, Don Becker and Carl Bixby, who have collaborated on the series since it first went on the air. The theme song, "Melody in C," was composed by Don. He wrote it in a single afternoon, after he'd done his daily quota of 10,000 words. As Chichi, you hear Alice Reinheart, pert, vivacious, beautiful and talented in writing and music as well as acting. Alice was a child prodigy, and gave piano concerts when she was twelve. By the time she was sixteen she had travelled extensively in Europe. Returning to America, she gave up music for the stage, and acted in San Francisco and New York. Then came another trip abroad, during which she made moving picture shorts in English, German and French. It was after this trip that she entered radio. Alice loves to read, and her own home is practically a library with living-quarters attached. She has a large collection of fine editions, and a four-volume scrap book which she began in 1928, into which she copies in her own handwriting excerpts from the world's greatest literature. Alice is five feet two inches tall, has chestnut hair, and describes her eyes as "green with coffee grounds in them." Ralph Locke, who plays Papa David, is one of radio's best dialect experts, and collecting dialects is his hobby. Armed with a camera, he likes to go into the foreign districts of New York, photograph interesting characters, get acquainted with them and listen to them talk, and then go home and type out everything he remembers about them. When his pictures are printed, he pastes the typewritten slips on the back of the photographs and files them away by nationalities. The file has 35 different classifications, since Ralph has discovered that many nationalities in Manhattan. Stephen Hamilton is played by John Holbrook, a Canadian who has been a ski instructor, an automobile salesman, an actor on the stage, and a radio announcer before reaching his present position as radio actor. Carl Eastman is heard as Toby Nelson, the young newspaper photographer. He'd have been a lawyer instead of an actor, but the 1930 depression forced him out of law school. He says now it was a good thing. Mitzi Gould enacts the other important character in Life Can Be Beautiful — Rita Yates. She speaks English and French fluently, but when she's angry she lapses into Hungarian, which she learned before she could speak English. 50 SAY HELLO TO . . . CECILE EVANS— eighteen-year-old protegee of Mrs. Gertrude Berg, and heard today as the Newlywed. Debby Banner, in The Goldbergs. Cecile, as talented as she is beautiful, was born in Brooklyn and quit high school there because, she says, she was just too interested in acting to pay any attention to studying. It must have been a good move, because besides getting her job on The Goldbergs, she just closed a successful run in the cast of a Broadway play. She joins other actors who have been in The Goldbergs in saying that working under Mrs. Berg's direction is as good as taking a dramatic school course. RADIO AND TELEVISION IVIIRROR