Radio and television mirror (May-Oct 1940)

t-' h Eastern Standard Time lA in a.' 2:00 u 8:0? 2:30 8:30 9:05 9:15 NBC-Red:Gene and Glenn NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB CBS: School of the Air 8:45 8:45 9:45 9:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children NBC-Red: Edward MacHugh 8:45 9:00 9:00 10:00 10:00 CBS: By Kathleen Norris NBC-Red: This Small Town 1:15 10:30 9:15 9:15 9:15 10:15 10:15 10:15 CBS: tWyrt and Marge NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade NBC-Red: By Kathleen Norris 1:45 9:30 9:30 9:30 10:30 10:30 10:30 CBS: Stepmother NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph 2:30 9:45 9:45 4:30 10:45 10:45 10:45 CBS: Woman of Courage NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family NBC-Red: The Guiding Light 10:45 10:00 10:00 10:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 CBS: Mary Lee Taylor NBC-Blue: 1 Love Linda Dale NBC-Red: The Man 1 Married 17:00 8:15 10:15 10:15 11:15 11:15 CBS: Martha Webster NBC-Red: Against the Storm 11:00 10:30 10:30 10:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 CBS: Big Sister NBC-Blue: The Wife Saver NBCRed: The Road of Life 11:15 10:45 10:45 11:45 11:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories NBC-Red: David Harum 9:00 9:00 11:00 11:00 12:00 12:00 CBS: KATE SMITH SPEAKS NBC-Red: Words and Music 9:15 9:15 11:15 11:15 12:15 12:15 CBS: When a Girl Marries NBC-Red: The O'Neills 9:30 9:30 11:30 11:30 12:30 12:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour 9:45 11:45 12:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday 10:00 12:00 1:00 CBS: Life Can be Beautiful 10:15 10:15 12:15 12:15 1:15 1:15 CBS: Woman in White NBC-Red: Tony Wons 10:30 12:30 1:30 CBS: Right to Happiness 12:45 1:45 CBS: Road of Life 3:00 11:00 1:00 1:00 2:00 2:00 CBS: Young Dr. Malone NBC-Red: Light of the World 3:30 11:15 1:15 1:15 2:15 2:15 CBS: Girl Interne NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter 11:30 11:30 1:30 1:30 2:30 2:30 CBS: Fletcher Wiley NBCRed: Valiant Lady 11:45 11:45 1:45 1:45 2:45 2:45 CBS: My Son and 1 NBC-Red: Hymns of all Churches 12:00 12:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 3:00 3:00 3:00 CBS: Mary Margaret McBrlde NBC-Blue: Orphans of Divorce NBC-Red: Mary Marlin 12:15 12:15 2:15 2:15 3:15 3:15 NBC-Blue: Honeymoon Hill NBC-Red: Ma Perkins 12:30 12:30 2:30 2:30 2:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 CBS: A Friend in Deed NBC-Blue: John's Other Wife NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family 12:45 12:45 2:45 2:45 3:45 3:45 NBC-Blue: Just Plain Bill NBCRed: Vic and Sade 1:00 1:00 3:00 3:00 3:00 4:00 4:00 4:00 CBS: Portia Faces Life NBC-Blue: Mother of Mine NBC-Red: Backstage Wife 4:15 1:15 1:15 3:15 3:15 3:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 CBS: We, The Abbotts NBC-Blue: Club Matinee NBC-Red: Stella Dallas 1:30 1:30 3:30 3:30 4:30 4:30 CBS: Hilltop House NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones 12:30 3:45 3:45 4:45 4:45 CBS: Kate Hopkins NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown 8:30 2:00 2:00 4:00 4:00 4:00 5:00 5:00 5:00 CBS: The Goldbergs NBC-Blue: Children's Hour NBC-Red: Girl Alone 2:15 4:15 4:15 5:15 5:15 CBS: The O'Neills NBC-Red: Life Can be Beautiful 5:30 NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong 2:45 5:45 2:45 4:45 5:45 4:45 5:45 5:45 5:45 CBS: Scattergood Baines NBC-Blue: Tom Mix NBC-Red: The O'Neills 7:55 3:00 5:00 5:00 6:90 6:00 CBS: News NBCRed: Lil Abner 5:05 6:05 CBS: Edwin C. Hill 10:00 5:30 6:30 CBS: Paul Sullivan 3:45 5:45 6:45 6:45 CBS: The World Today NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas 8:00 4:00 8:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 CBS: Amos 'n' Andy NBC-Blue: EASY ACES NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang 8:15 4:15 6:15 6:15 7:15 7:15 CBS: Lanny Ross NBC-Blue: Mr. Keen 4:30 6:30 7:30 CBS: Helen Menken 6:45 7:45 NBC-Red: H. V. Kaltenborn 5:00 8:30 8:30 7:00 7:00 7:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 CBS: Court of Missing Heirs NBC-Blue: Ben Bernie NBC-Red: Johnny Presents 5:30 5:30 5:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 8:30 8:30 8:30 CBS: FIRST NIGHTER MBS: La Rosa Concerts NBC-Red: Horace Heidt 9:00 9:30 8:00 8:00 9:00 9:00 ( BS: We, the People NBC-Red: Battle of the Sexes 6:30 6:30 6:30 8:30 8:30 8:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 CBS: Professor Quiz NBC-Blue: Meet Mr. Weeks NBC-Red: McGee and Molly 7:00 7:00 7:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 CBS: Glenn Miller MBS: Raymond Gram Swing NBC-Red: Bob Hope 7:30 9:30 10:30 NBC-Rod: Uncle Walter's Doghouse 7:45 9:45 10:45 CBS: News of the War TUESDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Professor Quii and announcer Bob Trout start another year on the air. Tune-In Bulletin for October 29, November 5, 12, 19 and 26! October 29: For a program that's a fine mixture of comedy and human-interest drama, tune in We, The People, on CBS tonight at 9:00. November 5: Don't forget to vote today . . . and tonight you can listen in to practically any station and learn how the whole nation voted. . . . Information Please has its last broadcast tonight before moving to Friday night for a new sponsor. November 12: A program that made many friends last season returns tonight. It's Meet Mr. Weeks (not to be confused with Meet Mr. Meek), in which Edward Weeks, editor and writer, speaks his mind. Listen at 9:35 on NBC-Blue. . . . Another returning program is the La Rosa Concert series, at 8:30 on Mutual. November 19: Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra open tonight at Meadowbrook Country Club, broadcasting over NBC. November 26: That's an amusing game Ben Bernie plays on his program tonight at 8:00 over NBC-Blue — and in addition you hear the voice of lovely Carol Bruce. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: Professor Quiz, on CBS at 9:30, E.S.T., sponsored by Velvet Smoking Tobacco. Just four years ago this month, Professor Quiz first went on the air, which makes him the grandaddy of all question-ondanswer men. Of course you might argue that Vox Pop was ahead of him, but on the other hand. Vox Pop isn't strictly a quiz program, and doesn't give prizes to the contestants who have the most knowledge. If you're coming to New York on a visit, why don't you make arrangements to compete on Professor Quiz' program? It's easy enough. All you have to do is write to the Professor, in care of CBS, telling him when you expect to be in New York and asking to be on his show. If you give him plenty of notice in advance, the chances ore you'll receive a wire telling you you're elected for the program. Except on one program a year, or when he's on tour, the Professor likes to have out-of-towners on his show, with only one New Yorker. The exception is at Christmas-time, when he picks as contestants people who are unable to leave New York for their homes. He thinks it's the next best thing for them to appear on his show, so that at least their relatives at home can listen. In the four years he's been on the air. Quiz figures he — or rather his sponsors — have given away $65,000 in prizes to contestants and people who send in questions for use on the program. First and second prizes of 25 and 15 silver dollars are given away on each program to the two highestscoring contestants, and checks for $25 are mailed each week to the six people who send in the best lists of six questions. The silver-dollar business used to be a big problem, and sometimes still is. One of the duties of Lee Little, the director of the program, is to supply the 40 silver dollars every week. In the first year Quiz was on the air Lee used to hunt silver dollars in every bank in New York. Now he has an arrangement with one bank to supply the silver, but when Quiz is on tour, as he frequently is, Lee must carry around a bagful of silver all the time, in order not to be caught in a town where the coins aren't available. Quiz is really Dr. Craig Earl, a former vaudeville trouper. He doesn't tell very much about the years before he went on the air, but a good guess is that he used to be a professional magician. He still practices magic tricks as a hobby, and likes nothing better when he's traveling around the country than to visit orphanages and hospitals and put on impromptu shows. Mrs. Quiz helps the Professor on the program and acts as one of the scorekeepers. She's a little blonde woman, very sweet-faced and pleasant. They have a son, Arthur, who is a student at Stockbridge Agricultural College, and has no intention of going into radio or doing anything else which would make him live in a city. 40 SAY HELLO TO . . . GEORGE BARNES — the 19-year-ol(i guitarist you're likely to hear doing solos on almost any NBC musical show originating in Chicago — Club Matinee, Breakfast Club, Plantation Party, Show Boat, to name a few. He plays an amplified guitar, which has a more resonant tone than an ordinary guitar and works with electricity. Because he loved music too much to waste time at anything else, he left high school at the end of his sophomore year and has been playing in bands ever since. He looks like a very calm person, but really has terrible stage fright at the mike. He was married last March to singer Adrienne Guy. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIBROB