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 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: Short Short Story NBC-Red: David Harum 11:15 CBS: Martha Webster NBC-Red: Road of Life 11:30 CBS: Big Sister NBC-Blue: Wife Saver NBC-Red: Against the Storm 11:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories NBC-Red: The Guiding Liglit 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 1:00 CBS: The Goldbergs MBS: I'll Never Forget 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 CBS: A Friend in Deed NBC-Blue: Just Plain Bill NBC-Red Vic and Sade 4:00 NBC-Blue NBC-Red 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 CBS Beyond These Valleys NBC-Red Life Can be Beautiful 5:30 NBC-Red Jack Armstrong 5:45 CBS: Scattergood Baines 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: Meet Mr. Meek MBS: The Lone Ranger 7:45 NBC-Red: H. V. Kaltenborn 00 CBS: Uncle Jim's Question Bee NBC-Blue: This, Our America NBC-Red: Hollywood Playhouse 8:30 CBS: Dr. Christian NBC-Blue: Manhattan at Midnight NBC-Red: Plantation Party 9:00 CBS: TEXACO STAR THEATER NBC-Red: Abbott and Costello 9:30 NBC-Red: Mr. District Attorney 10:00 CBS: Glenn Miller MBS: Raymond Gram Swing NBC-Red: KAY KYSER'S KOLLEGE . Club Matinee Backstage Wife WEDNESDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS ■ Uncle Jim (left) fires questions v/hile the balloon gets bigger. Tune-In Bulletin for August 28, September 4, 11 and 181 August 28: Be sure to tune in True Story Magazine's new program, I'll Never Forget, on Mutual stations this afternoon at 1:00, E. D. T. It stars Frank Luther and Pat Barnes, and besides bringing you a quarter hour of entertainment, offers a chance to earn some money. It's on Mondays and Fridays too, at the same time. September 4: NBC broadcasts an all-star football game. . . . Manhattan at Midnight, on NBC-Blue at 8:30, is a half-hour drama of someone's life in the Big City. September II: Listen to Lanny Ross tonight at 7:15 on CBS. . . . Let's hope soon he'll be back on the air five nights a week. September 18: Jean Hersholt's Dr. Christian playlet, on CBS at 8:30 tonight, is always worth listening to. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: Uncle Jim's Question Bee, on CBS at 8:00 P.M., E.D.T., rebroadcost to the West Coast at 8:30. P.S.T., and sponsored by Rinso. Uncle Jim's Question Bee is on old-timer, but you'd never recognize it in its present stream-lined form. It has several new features, culled from suggestions sent in by professional writers, advertising agency executives, and amateurs with ideas. One suggestion to pep up the show was to give everyone in the audience five dollars, but this was rejected as being too radical. Uncle Jim, the third Uncle Jim since the Question Bee first went on the air, is really Bill Slater, as interesting a personality as you could hope to meet. Bill Slater leads a double life. Daytimes he is headmaster of Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn. In radio, besides being Uncle Jim, he is also a wellknown sports broadcaster. Bill is a West Point graduate — entered that famous school at the very young age of sixteen. Since his graduation he has taught, and got into radio nine years ago while he was an instructor at Bloke School, Minneapolis. Since then he has carried along the two careers simultaneously. He picks people to go on the Question Bee by strolling through the audience about twenty minutes before broadcast-time and asking for volunteers. People who raise their hands are asked for their names, their home towns and occupations. While he talks to them Bill looks them over, and if they seem alert and responsive, with eyes that sparkle with good humor, he picks them for the show. Uncle Jim's Question Bee has a system of money awards that is so complicated we won't try to explain it here in print. It's enough to say that if you're lucky and smart you could walk out of a broadcast $69 richer than when you walked in. The contestants who moke the lowest scores have a chance to recoup their losses at the end of the program, when Bill fires questions at them while a man on the sidelines blows up balloons. If a contestant can answer a question before the balloon bursts, he gets a dollar. The saga of the balloon-blower has gone on all summer, and may still be going on. Archibald Brounfeld, the certified accountant who keeps score for the contestants, was first drafted to blow the balloons too. But to tell the truth, Mr. Brounfeld was only an amateur at puffing up balloons, and took so long at it that it slowed the program up and cut into the prize-money bankroll. Besides, he didn't like the job much anyway — had to wear a mask because the balloons bursting in his face were bad for his nerves. So a professional balloon-infloter, probably the only one in the United States, was hired. His name is P. Raymond Warny, and he has been in the balloon-blowing business for fifteen years, first as a streetcorner peddler, later as a salesman for a balloon factory, a job in which he was called upon to demonstrate the strength of his wares. He has blown balloons at Elsa Maxwell parties and at debutantes' coming-out bolls. He scorns the use of a mask — says he can blow balloons so they will burst away from his face. He can also inflate one in 35 seconds flat. 46 SAY HELLO TO . . . FRANK READICK— who plays Mr. Meek tonight at 7:30 on CBS. In contrast to the gentle Mr. Meek, Frank also is The Shadow when that thriller is on the air. Frank has been an actor ever since he made his debut at the age of 2 years and 9 months in his father's touring company. At the age of 7 he played his first big role — that of Little Eva in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." He attended a different school almost every week until high-school age, when he settled down and toured with the actors only in the summer. At 19, he was done with school entirely and busy in vaudeville. He's married and lives in New York. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROB