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Hill (US H. V. Kaltenborn NBC-Blue: Gulden Serenades NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas CBS: Amos 'n' Andy NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang ( US Lum and Abner CBS: Professor Quiz VI US: The Lone Ranger (Its Kato Smith NBC-Red: Cities Sorvicc Concert NBC-Blue Carson Robison's Buckaroos (IIS Johnny Presents NBC-Blue-: Plantation Party \ li< Red: Waltz Time I Bl FIRST NIGHTER i II i< .1 Horace Heldt • US Grand Central Station NBC-Red: Lady Eithor Serenade FRIDAYS HIGHLIGHTS -m Q%/E ■ Lucille Manners sings a solo at the Cities Service piano Tune-In Bulletin for September 29, October 6, 13 and 20! September 29: When you listen to Johnny Presents on CBS tonight, it will be at a new time, half-an-hour later than before — that is, at 9:00. . . . On Mutual, there's a new program at 10:00, called Let's Go Hollywood. Warner Brothers are helping produce it, and their stars will be on it. ... A couple of bond changes — Will Osborne goes into the Chase Hotel, St. Louis, to be heard on CBS, and Leighton Noble goes into the Statler, Boston, broadcasting on Mutual. October 6: Kate Smith's Variety program is back on the air tonight, at 8:00 on CBS, with a rebroadcast to the west, but when Radio Mirror went to press the exact time of the rebroadcast hadn't been set. . . . Just on the Pacific Coast, Death Valley Days is heard tonight at 8:30 on NBC-Red. Easterners will hear the program tomorrow night. October 13: Carson Robison's Buckaroos, those wild western hill-billies, open a new series tonight on NBC-Blue, from 8:30 until 9:00. October 20: Colonel Stoopnagle is master of ceremonies on the new Quixie Doodle 0"i* which starts tonight on NBC at 8:00. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: The Cities Service Concert, on NBC-Red at 8:00, Eastern Standard Time, sponsored by the Cities Service Company. In all the years since it first went on the air on February 18, 1927, the Cities Service Concert has never changed its time — Friday night at 8:00 — its network or its formula. It has always been a pleasant hour of good music well performed. It has had two different orchestra leaders, Rosario Bourdon and the present one, Dr. Frank Black; two soprano soloists, Jessica Dragonette and the current Lucille Manners; two baritone soloists, Robert Simmons and now Ross Graham; and three groups of singers, the Cavaliers, the , Revelers, and the present group, the Cities Service Singers. It has always been dignified, shying away from comedy or toomodern music — shying away, too, from all except the most familiar foreign-language songs or operatic arias. Lately, though, it's gone in for somewhat lighter numbers. Dr. Frank Black selects all the music for the show, and selects it well in advance. At all times there are at least four and sometimes five complete programs planned out. And the commercial announcements that Ford Bond reads are written a month in advance too, while their subjects are all mopped out for a full six months ahead. No last-minute rushes to change a page of script on this program. Rehearsals, on the other hand, don't take much time. The Romance of Oil series, which is a ten-minute dramatization on each program, is rehearsed for about on hour on Friday afternoon, and the musical numbers for about two hours. Soloists and orchestra members know their jobs and their music, so they don't require much brushing-up. Lucille Manners, the singing star, got her job after a long time when she sang on sustaining programs, first on a local station and later on the network. It began to look as if she never would get real recognition, when a Cities Service official happened to hear one of her programs and without even knowing her name called up NBC and said he wanted her for his program. Like all the singers on the program, Lucille still takes music lessons to keep her performances up to standard. As befits people who have been working together so long, everyone on the program colls everyone else by his or her first name and chats informally between rehearsol numbers. The dignified Dr. Black is the undisputed boss of the cast — someone they oil look up to for help. 52 SAY HELLO TO . . . SAM WANAMAKER— who is called "Mr. Nobody from Nowhere" on The Guiding Light, NBC-Red at 3:45, and Dr. Miller on The Road of Life, NBC-Red at 11:45 A.M. and CBS at 1:30 P.M. In real life. Sam is a handsome six-footer who was born in 1919, attended Drake University, and had a job on the stage of the Goodman Theater in Chicago before he landed his first radio role in The Story of Mary Marlin in January, 1939. He is single, prefers tall, brunette girls, weighs 180 pounds and has gray eyes and brown hair. His hobby is collecting the scripts of the radio shows in which he has appeared. 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