Radio and television mirror (May-Oct 1940)

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Hill 6:15 FRIDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS 6:30 6:45 6:45 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 8:00 8:00 8:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:30 9:30 10:00 10:00 10:00 CBS: Hedda Hopper CBS: Paul Sullivan CBS: The World Today NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas CBS: Amos 'n' Andy NBC-Blue: JOSEF MARAIS NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang CBS: Lanny Ross CBS: Al Pearce MBS: The Lone Ranger NBC-Red: Alec Templeton CBS: KATE SMITH NBC-Blue: Bishop and the Gargoyle NBC-Red: Cities Service Concert NBC-Blue: INFORMATION PLEASE (Nov. 15) CBS: Johnny Presents NBC-Blue: Gangbusters NBC-Red: Waltz Time MBS: I Want a Divorce NBC-Red: ARCH OBOLER'S PLAYS CBS: Bob Ripley MBS: Raymond Gram Swing NBC-Red: Wings of Destiny Richard Maxwell with Friend in Deed Mrs. Ida Cash. Tune-In Bulletin for October 25, November 1, 8, 15 and 22! October 25: This is your last chance to hear Johnny Green's swell piano solos on the Johnny Presents program, CBS at 9:00. After tonight Ray Block will be leading the orchestra. . . . Gene Krupa's orchestra opens at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, broadcasting over CBS. November I: NBC brings you the description of a horse race from the Plmlico track in Baltimore this afternoon. . . . November 8: You can't keep an exciting program down — and the proof is that Gangbusters is back on the air now. Listen to it tonight at 9:00 on NBC-Blue. November 15: Information Please starts in its new time tonight — 8:30 on NBC-Blue, sponsored by American Tobacco Company. November 22: A "must-listen" if you like unusual stories and excellent acting is Everyman's theater, which Arch Oboler writes and directs. NBC-Red tonight at 9:30. ON THE AIR TODAY: A Friend in Deed, starring Richard Maxwell, the tenorphilosopher, on CBS at 3:30, E.S.T., this afternoon. Are you disgusted with the way the world is going? Do you hate to tune in a news broadcast or glance at a newspaper because of the new horrors you will hear or read? Here's an antidote — an inspiring program that proves there is still good in human beings, that they are still capable of self-sacrifice and kindness. On each one of these fifteen-minute programs, broadcast Monday through Friday, Americans whose kindness has resulted in local or widespread good are honored by having their stories dramatized and being presented with a specially designed medal. You can't possibly listen to A Friend in Deed without feeling a glow of happiness and inspiration. Richard Maxwell, who has been bringing "Cheer and Comfort" to CBS listeners since 1936, originated the idea of A Friend in Deed. In a way, it grew out of his Good Neighbor Club, which he started in 1938, and which became so popular that 79 member chapters of the Club were started in eighteen states. Good-looking, cheerful Dick Maxwell makes a specialty of inspirational programs. In fact, there are four things he'd rather do than eat — go fishing, fly an airplane, sing and help other people. A Friend in Deed takes care of the last two hobbies; fishing and plane-flying are accomplished away from the microphone. He's been singing practically all his life — got off to a flying start by doing solo work in a church choir in his home town of Mansfield, Ohio, when he was two. He worked his way through college by singing and trapping animals for their furs. About the time he got his college degree he was first bitten by the aviation bug, and enrolled at Ohio State Aviation School. Galli-Curci, in Mansfield for a concert engagement, heard Dick sing and advised him to give up aviation and make music his profession. He followed her advice and came to New York, where for a while he worked in Broadway musical-show choruses. This was a precarious way of earning a living, and Dick eventually had to give it up and become sales manager for an electric company, studying music on the side. In 1928 he tackled radio, and this time was successful with his singing. Dick was married last April to Miss Cecelia Thelma Dowd, and they live in a country home near Westfield, N. J. — handy to the fields and streams for Dick's fishing. Most of radio's actors and actresses have worked on A Friend in Deed since it first went on the air last July. Of course all the dramatized stories are acted by professionals, although the actual people of the stories occasionally come to the mikes to receive their medals — like Mrs. Ida Cash of Brooklyn in the picture above. Her good deed was originating free toy centers in different parts of the country, where poor children can come and borrow playthings. DECEMBER, 1940 SAY HELLO TO . . . CLARENCE HARTZELL— the only actor who has ever had the distinction of appearing regularly with Vic, Sade and Rush on NBC's Vic and Sade series. Clarence won the coveted role of Uncle Fletcher after a stiff competition with Chicago's outstanding character actors. He was born in Huntington, W. Va., and attended the Cincinnati College of Music, but on graduation turned to writing and acting for radio. You heard him as one of the principal players in Waterloo Junction, which he also wrote, until it went ofF -the air, and he also plays Pappy in the radio version of Li'l Abner. He's younger than he looks here. 45