Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

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Just to round up the day's sports news, Ed Thorgersen, the news reel man, starts a new program on Mutual tonight — every Saturday at 5:45. October 7: Hilda Hope, M.D., is another of those serials about lady doctors — it starts today on NBC-Red at 11:30, and will be heard every Saturday 6t that time from now on. . . . Easterners hear Death Valley Days, beginning tonight, at 9:30. ... Or course there are football games today, but they hadn't been scheduled when Radio Mirror went to press. October 14: County Seat, that friendly serial by Milton Geiger, is on CBS at 8:00 tonight — the last time at that hour. October 21: Welcome two old friends back to your living room tonight. . . . Gang Busters at 8:00, and Wayne King's orchestra at 8:30 . . . both on CBS. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: Avalon Time, on NBC's Red network at 8:30, Eastern Standard Time, 7:30 Central Time, 9:00 Rocky Mountain Time and 8:00 Pacific Coast Time, sponsored by Avalon Cigarettes. Because he's been in every branch of show business except opera (and he's just crazy enough to take a crack at it one of these days too) Red Skelton entertains people who watch him in the studio just as much as he does those who listen to him in their homes. He's a natural-born clown, to begin with, and he got his start as barker with an old-fashioned medicine show, going on from that to alternate black-face and Indian roles in traveling minstrel shows. He graduated from that to being a clown in the HagenbeckWallace circus, then to vaudeville, to burlesque, to musical comedy, to drama, to the movies and finally to radio. Red's comedy foil, pretty Edna Stillwell, is also Mrs. Skelton in private life, and besides appearing with him on the air she helps him to whip his comedy routines into shape every week. Usually each Avalon Time program has three Skelton comedy spots. Two of them are written by Red and Edna, while the third is developed by a team of gag writers, with Red cooperating on the final editing job. Getting Avalon Time ready for the ai is like putting a car together on an assembly line. Each section of the broadcast— the comedy, vocal solos, instrumental numbers, and announcements — is prepared separately, without paying any attention to any of the other elements. Saturday-afternoon rehearsal is the first chance anybody in the show has to get an over-all look at the program. The sponsor, of course, is a cigarette maker, and Red Skelton doesn't smoke. He does make a concession to the tobacco industry, though. You'll never find him without a big fat brown cigar, poked into one corner of his mobile mouth or twirled between his fingers like a drum-major's baton. It's one of Red's constant props, whether he's eating dinner, shaving himself, or putting on his broadcast. It's never lighted, though. Avalon Time first went on the air in Cincinnati, a year ago this October i. but it moved some time later to its present stamping-ground in the Chicago NBC studios. Besides Red and Edna, its cast includes Tom, Dick and Harry, the song team; Jeanette Davis, torrid songstress; Bob Strong's orchestra; baritone Curt Massey; "Mile. Levy," played by Martin Hurt; and "Prof." Tommy Mack, comedian. 54 SAY HELLO TO . . . VIRGINIA VASS— the next-to-the-oldest girl in the Vass Family, heard tonight on the National Barn Dance, NBCBlue at 9:00. She was born on August 20, 1917, and has blonde hair and hazel eyes. Her family call her "Jitchy," and she plays the ukulele and guitar, and never went to college because at college age she was already too busy on the air. The other members of Jitchy's family are brother Frank and sisters Sally, Louisa and Emily — all of them heard on the Barn Dance. Another brother, Leland. is more interested in the technical side of radio, and another sister, Harriet, works as a hostess in a tea room. BADIO ANT) TELEVISION MIRHOE