Radio and television mirror (May-Oct 1940)

ill s Eg < lA 1 "Si 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:30 8:30 8:30 tastern Standard Time CBS: News NBC-Blue: Peerless Trio NBCRe' : Organ Recital CBS: Mattinata NBC-Blue: Tone Pictures NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn 8:00 9:00 CBS News of Europr 8:15 8:15 9:15 9:15 NBC-Blue: White Rabbit Line NBCRed: Four Showmen Quartet 8:30 8:30 9:30 9:30 CBS: Wings Over Jordan NBC-Red: Sunday Drivers 9:00 9:00 9:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 CBS Church o« the Air NBC-Blue: Melodic Moods NBC-Red: Radio Pulpit 9:30 10:30 NBC-Blue: Southernaires 11:35 8:05 10:05 10:05 11:05 11:05 CBS: News and Rhythm NBC-Blue: Alice Remsen 8:30 8:30 10:30 10:30 11:30 11:30 CBS: MAJOR BOWES FAMILY NBC-Red: Music and American Youth (Nov. 3) 11:45 11:45 11:45 NBC-Blue: Ahead of the Headlines 9:00 9:00 11:00 11:00 12:00 12:00 NBC-Blue: RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL NBC-Red: Bonnie Stewart 9:30 9:30 11:30 11:30 12:30 12:30 CBS: Salt Lake City Tabernacle NBC-Red: Wings Over America 10:00 10:00 12:00 12:00 1:00 1:00 CBS: Church of the Air NBC-Red: Lee Gordon Orch. 10:15 12:15 1:15 NBC-Blue: Vass Family 10:30 10:30 10:30 12:30 12:30 12:30 1:30 1:30 1:30 CBS: March of Games NBC-Blue: Al and Lee Reiser NBC-Red: On Your Job 11:00 11:00 1:00 1:00 1:00 2:00 2:00 CBS: United We Stand NBC-Blue:American Pilgrimage NBC-Red Smoke Dreams 11:30 1:30 1:30 2:30 2:30 CBS: Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm NBC-Red: University of Chicago Round Table 12:00 12:00 2:00 2:00 3:00 3:00 CBS: N. Y. PHILHARMONIC NBC-Blue: Great Plays 12:30 2:30 3:30 NBC-Red: H. V. Kaltenborn 12:45 2:45 3:45 NBC-Red: Bob Becker Dog Chats 1:00 1:00 3:00 3:00 4:00 4:00 NBC-Blue: National Vespers NBCRed Orchestra 1:15 3:15 4:15 NBC-Red :Tony Wons 1:30 1:30 1:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 4:30 4:30 4:30 CBS: Invitation to Learning NBC-Blue: The Revuers NBCRed: The World is Yours 2:00 2:00 2:00 4:00 4:00 4:00 5:00 5:00 5:00 5:00 CBS: Design for Happiness MBS: Musical Steelmakers NBC-Blue: Moylan Sisters NBC-Red: Met. Opera Auditions 5:15 NBC-Blue: Olivio Santoro 2:39 2:30 2:30 4:30 4:30 4:30 4:30 5:30 5:30 5:30 5:30 CBS: Col. Stoopnagle MBS: The Shadow NBC-Blue: Behind the Mike NBC-Red: Quaker Variety Show 3:00 3:00 3:00 5:00 5:00 5:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 CBS: SILVER THEATER NBCBlue: Gordon Orchestra NBCRed: Catholic Hour 3:30 3:30 3:30 5:30 5:30 5:30 6:30 6:30 6:30 CBS: Gene Autry MBS: Show of The Week NBC-Red: Beat the Band 4:00 4:00 8:30 6:00 6:00 6:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 CBS: News of the World NBC-Blue: News from Europe NBC-Red: JACK BENNY 4:30 4:30 6:30 6:30 6:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 CBS: Screen Actors Guild NBC-Blue: Speak Up America NBC-Red: Fitch Bandwagon 4:45 6:45 7:45 MBS: Wythe Williams 7:30 5:00 7:00 7:00 8:00 8:00 CBS: HELEN HAYES NBC-Red: CHARLIE McCARTHY 8:00 9:30 5:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 8:30 8:30 8:30 CBS: Crime Doctor NBC-Blue: Sherlock Holmes NBC-Red: ONE MAN'S FAMILY 5:45 7:45 8:45 MBS: Dorothy Thompson 5:55 7:55 8:55 CBS: Elmer Davis 6:00 9:00 6:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 CBS: FORD HOUR NBC-Blue: Walter Winchell NBC-Red: Manhattan Merry-GoRound 9:15 8:15 9:15 NBC-Blue: The Parker Family 8:15 6:30 8:30 8:30 9:30 9:30 NBC-Blue: Irene Rich NBC-Red: American Album of Familiar Music 8:00 8:45 9:45 NBC-Blue: Bill Stern Sports Review 7:00 7:00 7:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 CBS: Take It or Leave It NBC-Blue: Goodwill Hour NBC-Red: Hour of Charm 7:30 9:00 9:30 9:30 10:30 CBS: Columbia Workshop NBC-Red: Lovely Lady 7:45 9:45 10:45 NBC-Red: Voice That Walks Beside You 8:00 8:00 10:00 10:00 11:00 11:00 CBS: Headlines and Bylines NBC: Dance Orchestra SUNDAY S HIGHLIGHTS Bandleader John Kirby — and his singer-wife, Maxine Sullivan. Tune-In Bulletin for October 27, November 3, 10, 17 and 24! October 27: There's a new variety program starting this afternoon on NBC-Red at 5:30, sponsored by Quaker Oats. . . . Bert Gordon, the Mad Russian, is the comedy guest star on Vincent Lopez' Show of the Week, MBS at 6:30. . . . And Jane Fromon, who isn't heard often enough lately, is guest on the CBS Design for Happiness show at 5:00. November 3: You can listen to Nino Martini sing this afternoon — by tuning In Design for Happiness on CBS at 5:00. November 10: A new program for Chicago and the territory west of It is the Chamberlain Lovely Lady show at 9:30, C.S.T. It's a musical half-hour. . . . Dorothy Maynjor, sensational colored soprano, sings on the Ford Sunday Evening Hour, CBS at 9: . . . and Hope Manning, also a soprano, on Design for Happiness. November 17: You can listen to Oscar Levant playing the piano instead of wisecracking on Design for Happiness. . . . Helen Jepson sings on the Ford Hour. November 24: Lily Pons is the Design for Happiness guest star today. . . . Ted Malone and his interesting visits to the homes of American poets are bock on NBC-Blue at 2:00. ON THE AIR TODAY: Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm, with John KIrby's orchestra, Maxine Sullivan, and the Golden Gate Quartet, on CBS at 2:30, E.S.T. Sunday's a busy day on the air, but you really ought to find time to hear this unusual musical program. Maybe you think you don't like swing music — but you never heard this kind. It lives up to the title of the program — it does flow gently, and it is sweet rhythm. The man responsible for this new and delightful kind of swing music is John Kirby, a shy, chubby, light-complected Negro who knows exactly how he wants music to sound and works like the dickens to make it sound that way. His orchestra is small, consisting of only five men besides himself, and its personnel is the same as when John started it five years ago: Billy Kyle at the piano; Charlie Shavers, trumpet; Buster Bailey, clarinet; Russell Procope, saxophone; and O'Neill Spencer, drums. John himself plays the bull fiddle. John has four arrangers, in addition, who take popular or classical rr>usic and re-phrase it so it sounds the way the boss likes it, melodic and beautiful, not noisy, but with a strong rhythm. The Kirby success story is something to make you sit up and take notice. He was born in Baltimore, and always loved music. When he was ten he bought a second hand trombone with four dollars he'd saved. After high school, he did odd jobs for the president of Johns Hopkins University, and saved enough to come to New York in the summer vacation. Bewildered by the big city, he slept in a Harlem warehouse— and in the morning his trombone was gone. He only hod a few dollars, and was saved from starvation by getting a job washing dishes on a dining cor. Later, he worked up to being a waiter, and saved his money until he had $500 with which to buy a tuba. He spent all his spare time studying this and trying to pick up jobs in Harlem bands. When he was broke he'd go back to the dining car work. Eventually he got a steady job with Fletcher Henderson, and stayed there five years, switching from the tuba to string bass. In 1937 he formed his own band — the one you hear today — and It opened at the Onyx Club in New York. One day a shy little colored girl came in and asked if she could sing with the band. Her name was Maxine Sullivan, and one of the songs she did was "Loch Lomond." In March, 1938, John and Maxine were married, and now Maxine confines her professional work pretty much to radio and recording dates with her husband's band. SAY HELLO TO . . . BEN ALEXANDER — the announcer on tonight's Chase and Sanborn program on NBC. This expert master of ceremonies is the same Ben Alexander who was a child actor when the movies were young. He's 29 now, and still appears in pictures occasionally, but devotes most of his time to radio. You'll hear him on his own program. Little or Hollywood, at 9:35 tomorrow night over NBC-Blue. INSIDE RADIO-The Radio Mirror Almanac 38 RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROB