Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

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Hilltop House NBC-Blue: Jack Berch NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill CBS Stepmother NBC-Red: Woman in White CBS: It Happened in Hollywood NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin NBC-Red: David Harum CBS: Brenda Curtis NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones CBS: Big Sister NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories NBC-Blue: Getting the Most Out of Life NBC-Red: Road of Life CBS: Kate Smith Speaks NBC-Red: Carters of Elm Street CBS: When a Girl Marries NBC-Red: The O'Neills CBS: Romance of Helen Trent NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour CBS: Our Gal Sunday CBS: The Goldbergs CBS: Life Can be Beautiful NBC-Red: Let's Talk it Over CBS: Road of Life NBC-Blue: Peables Takes Charge CBS: This Day is Ours NBC-Red: Words and Music CBS: Doc Barclay's Daughters NBC-Blue: Roy Shield Revue NBC-Red: Betty and Bob CBS: Dr. Susan NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter CBS: Your Family and Mine NBC-Red: Valiant Lady CBS: My Son and I NBC-Red: Betty Crocker CBS: Girl Interne NBC-Red: Mary Marlin CBS: Society Girl NBC-Red: Ma Perkins NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family NBC-Blue: Ted Malone NBC-Red: The Guiding Light NBC-Blue: Club Matinee NBC-Red: Backstage Wife NBC-Red: Stella Dallas NBC-Red: Vic and Sade CBS: Smilin' Ed McConnell NBC-Red: Midstream NBC-Red: Girl Alone CBS: It Happened in Hollywood NBC-Blue: Affairs of Anthony NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong ( I'.s Scattergood Baines NBO-Blue: Tom Mix NBC-Red: LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE CBS: New* CBS: Edwin C. Hill CBS: H. V. Kaltenborn NBC-Illue: Gulden Serenaders (Oct. 18) NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas CBS: Amos 'n' Andy NBC-Blue: Easy Acos NBI Red: Frod Warlng's Gang (Its Lum and Abner Mi( Blue: Mr. Koon CBS BURNS AND ALLEN MBS The Lone Ranger (HS Phil Bakor Mi. Red CHARLES BO YER (IIS PAUL WHITEMAN NB< Blue Hobby Lobby Nil' Red Tommy Dortey CHS TEXACO STAR THEATER \IS( Red: FRED ALLEN 10:00 Mil Red KAY KYSER'S COLLEGE WEDNESDAYS HIGHLIGHTS ■ A Myrt and Marge broadcast: Myrt, Betty Jane Tyler, and Marge Tune-In Bulletin for September 27, October 4, 11 and 18! September 27: Eddy Duchin and his piano and his orchestra are at the Plaza Hotel in New York, starting tonight, broadcasting on NBC. October 4: Three big-time programs return to the air tonight — and you can hear all three of them because their times don't conflict. . . . First, Burns and Allen at 7:30 on CBS. . . . Next, Charles Boyer in the Woodbury Playhouse, at 8:00 on NBC-Red. . . . Next, Fred Allen on NBC-Red at 9:00. . . . Baseball fans will have their ears glued to their radios this afternoon, when Mutual broadcasts the first game of the World's Baseball Series. Mutual gets this feature exclusively. October I I : Today's the birthday of America's most influential woman, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. She's fifty-five years old, and doesn't mind a bit if you know. . . . Xavier Cugat's band opens tonight at the Statler Hotel in Detroit, broadcasting on NBC. October 18: The Gulden Serenaders offer you a new show today, on NBC-Blue at 6:30 P. M. ON THE AIR TODAY: Myrt and Marge, on CBS at 10:15 A.M., Eastern Standard Time, 9:15 A.M. Central Standard Time, 2:15 P.M. Mountain Time and 1:15 P.M. Pacific Time. Sponsored by Concentrated Super Suds. In another month or so Myrtle Vail and Donna Damerel will be celebrating their eighth radio birthday. Myrt, Donna's mother in real life as well as on the air, was born in Joliet, Illinois. At fifteen she showed her theatrical spirit by running away to join the chorus of a musical comedy. Just one year later she met and married George Damerel, the original "Prince Danilo" in the famous operetta, "The Merry Widow." Together they spent years touring in vaudeville, and as soon as daughter Donna was old enough — in other words, fifteen, she was taken into their act. A few years before 1929 the Damerels decided to quit the stage and Mr. Damerel went into the real-estate business in Chicago. He was getting along fine when 1929 brought with it the collapse of the real-estate market. 1931 found the family in a Chicago suburb, with Myrt trying to figure out a way of getting some money to pay the bills. Vaudeville was dead, and she turned to the only other field of entertainment she could think of — radio. Digging into the romance and excitement of her own backstage life, she wrote the first ten scripts of Myrt and Marge in longhand, and drafted Donna for the Marge role. Then she pawned her ring, the last piece of jewelry she owned, and bought a smart new fall outfit with the money, just to impress her prospective sponsor. The new outfit worked — anyway, she got the job of advertising his wares on the air, and Myrt and Marge made their radio debut three weeks later. Myrt writes all her own scripts, usually working at night. Rehearsals and the two broadcasts take up most of the rest of her day. Since 1937, when they were taken over by their present sponsor, Myrt and Marge have broadcast out of New York, and except for Myrt and Marge themselves the only original member of the cast still with them is Ray Hedge, who plays Clarence Tiffingtuffer. Santos Ortega was with them for a long time, as Lee Kirby, but a month or so ago he was replaced by Dick Janaver, radio newcomer. Other current regulars in the cast are Betty Jane Tyler, as Marge's child by her late husband, Jack Arnold; Michael Fitzmaurice, as Jimmie Kent, one of Marge's friends; Frances Woodbury and Charles Webster, as Mr. and Mrs. Arnold; and Allen Devitt, as Mr. Brellerton White. SAY HELLO TO . . . VICKI VOLA — who was doing only fairly well as a radio actress in Hollywood when she suddenly decided to pack up and try to make a name for herself in New York. She's succeeded, too, because now she has the title role in Brenda Curtis, the new serial on CBS this morning at 11:15. Vicki was born in Denver and hopped off to the West Coast with a radio troupe when she was only sixteen. Since coming to New York she has had supporting parts in Grand Central Station, Howie Wing and the Alibi Club, but Brenda Curtis is her first really important role. She's brown-haired and brown-eyed. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR