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: Isabel Manning Hewson 9:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children NBC-Red: Edward MacHugh 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 Martin 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: Martha Webster NBC-Red: Road of Life 11:30 CBS: Big Sister 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 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-Blue: Margaret C. Banning NBC-Red: 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 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: Club Matinee 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 NBC-Red 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 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 NBC-Red: Bob Crosby 7:45 NBC-Red: H. V. Kaltenborn 8:00 CBS: Ask It Basket NBC-Blue: Canadian Holiday NBC-Red: Good News 8:30 CBS: Strange as it Seems NBC-Blue: Pot o' Gold NBC-Red: The Aldrich Family 9:00 CBS: MAJOR BOWES NBC-Red: KRAFT MUSIC HALL 10:00 CBS: Glenn Miller [VI BS: Raymond Gram Swing NBC-Red: Rudy Vallee 10:30 CBS: News of the War THURSDAYS HIGHLIGHTS Children's Hour Girl Alone ■ Bess Johnson and two Glendale "orphans," Jean and Jerry. Tune-In Bulletin for August 29, September 5, 12 and 19! August 29: The P.G.A. Golf Tournament is on CBS today, being broadcast by Ted Husing. . . . And Mutual has an all-star football game, with Bob Elson at the mike. For instruction, tune in the Adventures in Science program on CBS at 4:00, and hear Dr. Cassius Way, guest speaker. September 5: Good News, with Mary Martin and Dick Powell, comes back tonight — listen at 8:00 on NBC-Red. ... On the same network, at 9:00, Ida Lupine, the actress who is suddenly going places in the movies, is Bob Burns' guest star on the Kraft Music Hall. September 12: To many a listener, Thursday night wouldn't be complete without The Aldrich Family, on NBC-Red at 8:30. September 19: More and more people are appreciating the message of The Guiding Light, on NBC-Red at 11:45 this morning — and that's why RADIO MIRROR is publishing the complete story of this program, starting on page 10. ON THE AIR TODAY: Hilltop House, starring Bess Johnson, on CBS at 10:30 A.M., E.D.T., rebroodcost to the West Coast at 12:30 P.M., P.S.T., and sponsored by Palmolive Soap. Hilltop House is one daytime serial which has dared to be commonplace, and has proved that commonplaceness isn't a mistake, by climbing to the top brackets of listener popularity. It simply tells the daily occurrences at Glendale orphanage, where Bess Johnson is the matron. Of course, there's love too. Bess is in love with Captain John Barry, and now, after a long separation, they are re-united. But whether or not they'll be married is another question — even though some seven million listeners keep bombarding the sponsors with mail saying that Bess has martyred herself long enough and ought to find happiness for a change. Bess Johnson, whose name is the same in real life as it is in the radio serial, is a beautiful, stately blonde woman with a mature charm. She looks upon her radio career as a fulltime job, and always sees to it that she gets to bed at night by eleven in order to wake up with a clear, strong voice. Her biggest interest, outside of work, is her daughter Jane (nickname "Jop"), twelve years old, who goes to private school in New York and lives with her mother in a modest Manhattan apartment. They invariably spend weekends together, riding horseback or driving into the country in Bess' cor. Bess is very easy to work with, everyone connected with Hilltop House agrees, but there is one thing she won't allow, and that's a clash of personalities or temperaments. If an actor's voice is suited to his role and he does a good job, it doesn't matter to Bess whether or not she likes him personally — she'll work with him in perfect amiability, and expect him to do the same for her. Most of the Hilltop House actors have been with the program ever since it started. There's Janice Gilbert and Jimmie Donnelly, as Jean and Jerry, who have practically grown up with the show. Jay Jostyn and Irene Hubbard hove been Frank Klabber and Thelma Gidley from the beginning. A comparative newcomer is young Jerry Tucker, 14 years old, who plays Roy Barry. Jerry is a veteran actor, though. He was in Hollywood for nine years, appearing in Our Gang comedies, with Marie Dressier and Polly Moron, and in fact in pictures mode by every major studio. Roy Barry is his only radio role now, since he's devoting most of his time to getting an education. David Gothard and Joe Curtin, as John Barry and Steve Courtland, are the two leading men who vie for Bess' love — but as every listener knows, John has the inside track. Hilltop House has one of the largest casts in daytime radio, with about forty characters who come into the story from time to time. 48 SAY HELLO TO . . . EVELYN LYNNE — the pretty and youthful little singer who brings melody to NBC's Club Matinee. Evelyn is difFerent from most singers, who take music lessons and then get on the air. She did just the opposite. Only 18 years old, she's been singing, without lessons, as long as she can remember. In 1934 an amateur contest landed her a job on a Dallas station; then in 1938 she went with Eddie Fitzpatrick's orchestra as vocalist, joining NBC in 1939, about the time she started to take lessons. She's unmarried, 5 feet 3V2 inches tall, has dark brown hair and eyes, and likes tennis, horseback riding, and bowling. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRBOR