Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

it u< <a < H 8:00 8:00 1:00 11:30 11:15 9:00 9:00 9:15 9:15 11:00 Eastern Standard Time 100 NBC-Red: Variety Program 8:15 8:15 NBC-Blue: The Wile Saver NBC-Red: Do You Remember NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn 8:45 8:45 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:15 9:15 9:15 9:30 9:30 9:45 9:45 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 10:30 11:00 11:00 11:15 11:15 9:00 9:00 9:45 9:45 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 10:45 10:45 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:15 11:15 11:15 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:45 11:45 12:00 12:00 12:15 12:15 12:30 12:30 12:30 12:45 1:00 1:15 1:15 1:30 1:30 1:45 1:45 2:00 2:00 2:15 2:15 2:30 2:30 2:45 2:45 3:00 3:00 3:00 3:15 3:15 CBS: Manhattan Mother NBC: News NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB CBS: School ot the Air NBC-Red: Family Man CBS: Bachelor's Children NBC-Red: Life Can be Beautiful CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly NBC-Blue: Story of the Month NBC-Red: The Man I Married CBS: Myrt and Marge NBC-Blue: Josh Higgins NBC-Red: John's Other Wife CBS: Hilltop House NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill CBS: Stepmother NBC-Red: Woman in White CBS: Mary Lee Taylor NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin NBC-Red: David Harum CBS: Brenda Curtis NBC-Blue: The Right to Happiness 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 NBCRed: 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 NBC-Red: Our Spiritual Life CBS: Our Gal Sunday CBS: The Goldbergs CBS: Life Can be Beautiful NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph CBS: Road of Life NBC-Blue: Peables Takes Charge CBS: This Day is Ours NBC-Red: Fed. Women's Clubs CBS: Doc Barclay's Daughters 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: Hymns of all Churches CBS: Girl Interne NBC-Blue: Orphans of Divorce NBC-Red: Mary Marlin CBS: Society Girl NBC-Red: Ma Perkins NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family 3:45 NBC-Blue: Ted Malone 3:45 NBC-Red: The Guiding Light 4:00 NBC-Blue: Club Matinee 4:00 NBC-Red: Backstage Wife 4:15 NBC-Red: Stella Dallas 4:30 NBC-Red: Vic and Sade 4:45 CBS: Smilin' Ed McConnell 4:45 NBC-Red: Midstream 5:00 CBS: By Kathleen Norris 5:00 NBC-Red: Girl Alone 5:15 CBS: Billy and Betty 5:15 NBC-Red: Against the Storm 5:30 CBS: It Happened in Hollywood 5:30 NBC-Blue. Affairs of Anthony 5:30 NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong 5:45 CBS: Scattergood Baincs 5:45 NBC-Blue: Tom Mix 5:45 NBC-Red: Little Orphan Annie 6:00 CBS: News 6:05 CBS: Edwin C. Hill 6:45 NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas 7:00 CBS: Amos 'n' Andy 7:00 NBC-Blue: Easy Aces 7:00 NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang 7:15 CBS: Jimmlc Fidler 7:15 NBC-Blue: Mr. Keon 7:15 NBC-Red: I Love a Mystery 7:30 <I!S HELEN MENKEN 8:00 CBS: EDWARD G. ROBINSON 8:00 MBS La Rosa Concert 8:00 NBC-Red: Johnny Presents 8:30 < US Walter O'Koolo 8:30 NBC-Blue: INFORMATION PLEASE 8:30 NBC-Red: Horace Heldt 9:00 CBS Wc, The People 9:00 NIK Bin. Artie Shaw, Bob Bcnchloy 9:00 NBC-Red: Battle ol the Sc»cs 9:30 CBS: Bob Crosby 9:30 \ I'.i -Red Fibber McGoe and Molly 10:00 l US: Hal Kemp 10:00 MBS: Raymond Gram Swing 10:00 NB< -Red; Bob Hope 10:30 NBC-Bluei If ■ Had the Chance 10:30 NIK -Red: Uncle Walter's Doqhouso TUESDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS ■ Before a broadcast: Fidler and Charles Vanda, CBS program head. Tune-In Bulletin for October 31, November 7, 14 and 21! October 31: The day's new program is La Rosa Concerts, featuring stars of the Metropolitan Opera Company, on Mutual at 8:00. . . . Phil Levant and his orchestra open at the Hotel Schroeder in Milwaukee, and midwestern listeners can hear his music on CBS. November 7: Horace Heidt's Pot o' Gold program, on NBC-Red tonight at 8:30, is going great guns in popularity. Better listen in and have yourself a good time. And maybe you'll win the program's $1000 prize. November 14: That amiable comedian, Walter O'Keefe, stars on his own program tonight on CBS at 8:30, with Mary Martin singing. November 21: There's a whole hour of good drama on CBS tonight, starting at 7:30 with Helen Menken in Second Husband, and continuing from 8:00 to 8:30 with Edward G. Robinson's Big Town. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: Jimmie Fidler, sponsored by Drene, over CBS from 7:15 to 7:30, Eastern Standard Time. It's 7:10 P.M. on a Tuesday night. Jimmie Fidler is to go on the air in five minutes. The telephone in the CBS control booth rings. Fidler's rewrite man, stationed there for every broadcast, grabs the receiver. "Wait a minute," he shouts to the reporter on the other end of the line. And then to Fidler: "Hey, Jim, here's a hot story — Lombard and Gable just left for Arizona." "Gimmie a hundred words on it. I'll kill a couple of squibs," Fidler says. At 7:15 announcer Carlton KaDell starts the program rolling, while the re-write man and Fidler are still revising the copy. A minute and a half later, Fidler comes on the air. It's the same idea as replating the first page for an "extra" in a newspaper shop. Fidler operates his staff of approximately twenty legmen, rewrite men and editors as if he were a newspaper managing editor. Every day his "beat" men cover certain studios and pick up the Hollywood news items about pictures and stars which he broadcasts to millions of CBS listeners each week. It's rumored that, in addition to his regular staff, Fidler has spies inside each studio who give him hot yarns just as they're starting. The number of exclusive stories he spins over the air may possibly be taken to support this rumor. However, we don't pretend to know. He also maintains correspondents in Chicago and New York, to keep the eye on stars who have "travelitis." Fidler writes all his own radio scripts, because he has found he reads his own copy much more smoothly than that written by anyone else. The day before the broadcast he usually dashes off his editorials and reviews, and Tuesday mornings he writes the news portions. Then comes the check and double-check. Every single item on the program is scrutinized carefully. Of course, it's comparatively easy to check the accuracy of the news collected by Fidler's own men, but the trouble starts when researchers try to track down tips telephoned in from unidentified sources. Unless these "orphan" items can be substantiated, Fidler throws them out — no matter how "hot" they sound or how anxious he may be to broadcast the stories they tell. Jimmie Fidler is deadly serious about his weekly program. He realizes that he takes on a big responsibility when he reviews pictures that cost a fortune or reports incidents in the private lives of people who are idols to their legion of fans. On the other hand, he knows that his listeners expect him to be honest when he reviews a picture, and to tell the truth about the stars. He's bound to get into trouble some times. Who doesn't? 44 SAY HELLO TO . . . ONA MUNSON — who plays Lorelei Kilbourne, the society editor, in Edward G. Robinson's Big Town series on CBS tonight at 8:00. Ona is a former musical comedy star who went from singing on the stage to dramatic roles in pictures. You'll soon see her playing the coveted role of Belle Watling in "Gone With the Wind." She's a Portland, Oregon, girl who came to New York when she was 14, and became one of Gus Edwards' child entertainers. She used to be married to Eddie Buzzell, but they were divorced in 1931. Doesn't smoke, loves to chew gum, and prefers tailored suits to any other kind of clothes. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIHHOR