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Y. Philharmonic (Oct. 15) NBC-Red: Electronic Orchestra NBC-Blue: Bookman's Notebook NBC-Blue: Allen Roth Presents NBC-Red: Concert Orchestra NBC-Red: Bob Becker Dog Chats NBC-Blue: National Vespers NBC-Red: Ranger's Serenade NBC-Red: The World is Yours MBS: Musical Steelmakers NBC-Red: Enna Jettick Melodies NBC-Blue: Paul Martin's Music NBC-Blue: Four Star News CBS: Ben Bernie NBC-Blue: Met Opera Auditions NBC-Red: The Spelling Bee 6:00 CBS: Silver Theater 6:00 NBC-Red: Catholic Hour CBS: Gateway to Hollywood NBC-Red: Grouch Club CBS: People's Platform NBC-Red: Jack Benny (Its Screen Guild Theater NBC-Blue: Radio Guild NBC-Red: Fitch Bandwagon CBS: Orson Welles NBC-Blue: NBC Symphony NBC-Red: DON AMECHE, EDGAR BERGEN CBS: Ford Symphony Nisi -Blue: Walter Winchell NBC-Red: Manhattan Merry-GoRound NBC-Blue: The Parker Family NBC-Blue: Irone Rich NBC-Red: American Album of Familiar Music NBC-Blue: Bill Stern Sports Review 45 00 MBS: Goodwill Hour 00. CDS Alibi Club 00 NIK -Red: Hour of Charm 9:30 10:30, NBC HI in : Cheerio 10:00 11 10:00 11 00 CHS Dance Orchestra 00 NBC: Dance Orchestra SUNDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS ■ From the Album — Jean Dickenson and Gus+ave Haenschen Tune-In Bulletin for October 1, 8, 15 and 22! October I: The new season's in full swing now, with Jack Benny returning to NBC-Red at 7:00 tonight. . . . The Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the air starting on NBC-Blue at 5:30. ... Bob Becker's Dog Chats on NBC-Red at 3:45. . . . Walter Winchell changing to a new time — 9:00 on NBC-Blue. . . . Irene Rich moving to 9:30 on NBC-Blue. . . . The Parker Family, which you used to hear on CBS, slipping into the quarter-hour right after Winchell, 9:15 on NBC-Blue. October 8: More new programs, and old favorites returning. . . . The American Radio Warblers on Mutual at I 1 :45 A.M. . . . The Lutheran Hour, also on Mutual, at 4:30. . . . The Musical Steelmakers back on Mutual at 5:00. . . . The Silver Theater, with Hollywood stars, back on CBS at 6:00. . . . Milton Berle may be starting his new program on NBC-Blue at 7:30 tonight, too. . . . and Bill Stern begins a weekly sports review on NBC-Blue at 9:45 P.M. ... Ben Bernie's back on CBS at 5:30. October 15: Just one new entry today, but a famous one — the New York Philharmonic Concerts, directed by John Barbirolli, on CBS at 3:00. October 22: Don't forget the Screen Guild Theater, on CBS at 7:30 tonight. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: The American Album of Familiar Music, on NBC's Red network at 9:30, Eastern Standard Time, sponsored by Bayer's Aspirin. No comedians, no dramas, no Hollywood stars, just the music that everybody knows and loves, sung by Frank Munn, Jean Dickenson, Elizabeth Lennox and the Buckingham Choir, make up this long-running half-hour program. And back of it are two of radio's canniest people, Frank and Anne Hummert. They're heads of the Blackett-Sample-Hummert advert is ing agency, which produces a score of your favorite daytime serials and several evening musical programs like this one; and they seem to have an unerring knack for predicting what the average person likes. Not a song is sung or a melody played on The American Album of Familiar Music that hasn't first been selected and okayed by Mr. and Mrs. Hummert. Singers Munn, Dickenson and Lennox, orchestra-director Gustave Haenschen, piano duo Arden and Arden, or violinist Bertrand Hirsch — all sing and play the music that's handed to them; they never pick it out for themselves. The Hummerts have only one rule for the music they select, but that's a good one — it must be full of melody. The American Album is old-fashioned radio, without ballyhoo or studio audiences. The large orchestra and the singers gather in one of NBC's medium-sized studios (in New York) about five o'clock on Sunday afternoon and rehearse right up to the nine-thirty broadcast time. They used to have an audience, but about eight months ago it was decided that the music sounded better if it came from a room that wasn't filled with a lot of people. When an audience was present Jean Dickenson and Elizabeth Lennox both wore evening clothes; they still wear them, because nobody has told them to stop. All the Album stars live outside of New York — Frank Munn on Long Island and Gus Haenschen, Jean Dickenson and Elizabeth Lennox in Connecticut — coming to town only for their broadcasts. Jean's mother likes this arrangement; she's a movie fan and the only chance she gets to catch up on the new pictures is when she accompanies her daughter to town and goes to the movies during rehearsals. Listen in on the American Album some time, if you're not one of its fans already You'll like it. SAY HELLO TO . . . LEON JANNEY — who plays Richard the Great in The Parker Family, on NBC-Blue tonight at 9:15. Leon's been an actor since he was two years old. At nine he went into the movies and became famous as the boy in "Courage" with Belle Bennett. Then he came to New York for stage work and soon after that went on the air. Leon's a rabid baseball fan, is engaged but not married, and hates little guest towels, neckties, and swing music. INSIDE RADIO-The New Radio Mirror Almanac 44 RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR