Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

Eastern Standard Time oils < r<fl 1:15 1:30 1:45 a 8:00 8:00 8:45 8:45 5:00 9:00 9:00 9:15 9:15 9:15 9:30 9:30 9:45 9:45 10:45 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:15 8:15 8:15 9:00 9:00 9:05 9:15 9:30 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 NBC-Red: Variety Show NBC-Blue: The Wife Saver NBC-Red: Do You Remember NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn CBS: NBC: 10:30 11:30 10:30 11:30 10:30 11:30 11:45 11:45 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:15 9:15 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:45 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 2:15 11:15 11:45 11:45 12:00 12:00 li:00 12:15 12:1 12:45 12:45 1:00 1:00 1:15 1:30 2:00 .■ uu 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:15 11:15 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:45 L2:00 12:20 12:30 12:45 12:45 1:00 1:00 1:15 1:15 1:30 1:30 1:45 1:45 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:15 2:15 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:15 12:15 12:30 12:30 12:30 12:45 1:00 1 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 Manhattan Mother News NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB CBS: ! NBC : School of the Air -Red: The 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: Pepoer 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-Blue Southernaires NBC-Red Carters of Elm Street CBS: When a Girl Marries NBC-R.il' The O'Neills CBS: Romance ol Helen Trent NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour NBC-Red American Life THURSDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS 2:30 2:30 2:45 5:15 8:00 4:00 8:00 4:15 8:15 4:30 9:00 9:30 9:30 6:00 0:00 i. :o 7:00 7:00 2:45 2:45 3:00 3:00 3:15 3:30 3:45 3:45 4:00 moil 4:30 4:30 4:45 5:45 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:15 6:15 6:30 6:30 7:00 7:00 7:30 7:10 7:30 8:00 8:00 0:30 9:00 9:00 3:45 3:45 4:00 4:00 4:15 4:30 4:45 4:45 5:00 '. on CBS: Our Gal Sunday CBS The Goldbergs CBS Life Can be Beautiful NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph CBS: Road of Lite NBC-Blue: Peables Takes Charge NBC-Red: Words and Music CBS: This Day is Ours 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 CRS: Girl ln*erne NBC-Blue: Orphans of Divorce NBC-Red: Mary Marlin CBS: Society Girl NBC-Red: Ma Perkins NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family NBC-Blue: Ted Malone NBCRed The Guiding Light NBC-Blue: Club Matinee NBC-Red: Backstage Wife NBC-Red Stella Dallas NBC-Red: Vic and Sade CHS NBC Smilin' Ed McConnell ■Red: Midstream (IIS: By Kathleen Norris \ IK Red Girl Alone 5:15(1'. Billy and Betty 5:15 5:30 5:30 5:30 5:45 5:45 5:45 6:00 6:05 6:45 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:15 7:15 7:30 7:30 8:00 8:00 8:30 8:30 8:30 9:00 9:00 9:30 10:00 0:00 \ IK Red Against the Storm CBS: It Happonod in Hollywood NBC-Blue Affairs of Anthony : I d Jack Armstrong ( Its Scattergood Baincft NBC-Bli \i!( Red i it ■ ( lis N B< CBS NIK NIK NIK -Hln MK .Rei ( lis Vox Pop MK -lllii. Ono of the Finest Tom Mix Little Orphan Annie Newt Edwin C. Hill ■Blue Lowoll Thomas Amos 'n' Andy ■Blue: Easy Aces -Kill. Fred Warlng't Gang Mr. Keen I Love a Mystory | l: NBC Ask It Batkot Kid Ono Man's Family 7:30 9:30 10:30 48 ( Its Strange at It Soomi MK -Blue Joe Pennor MK .Red Thoie Wo Love ( lis MAJOR BOWES '. IK Red GOOD NEWS MK B AMERICA'S TOWN MEETINC MB Raymond Gram Swing Bl Red KRAFT MUSIC HALL i Its Americans at Work ■ Good News' stars — Roland Young, Fannie Brice and Walter Huston. Tune-In Bulletin for October 26, November 2, 9, 16 and 23! October 26: The United States Forest Ranger is the subject of tonight's Americans at Work broadcast, on CBS at 10:30. His life will be dramatized, and a real forest ranger will be at the microphone to talk. November 2: Gene Krupa and his hot band open at the College Inn of the Hotel Sherman in Chicago tonight. You'll hear their music over CBS. . . . All too timely is tonight's Americans at Work program, CBS at 10:30. It deals with the war correspondent's profession. November 9: That exciting debate program, America's Town Meeting of the Air, is back on NBC-Blue at 9:30 these Thursday nights. Listen in, and you'll want to argue too. November 16: Glenn Miller's band opens tonight at the Meadowbrook Inn, to broadcast' over NBC every night except Sunday. November 23: This is Thanksgiving Day or it isn't Thanksgiving Day, depending on which state you live in. It will be a holiday in most states, however, and on the networks. CBS, NBC, and MBS will all carry special Thanksgiving programs, and probably a speech by President Roosevelt. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: Good News of 1940, on NBC-Red tonight from 9:00 to 10:00, Eastern Standard Time, sponsored by Maxwell House Coffee. Nobody worries much about clothes in Hollywood, and little groups of visitors touring NBC's Hollywood Radio City, and getting a peek into the studio where Good News is rehearsing, probably go home with impressions something like this: Walter Huston, meticulously dressed in blue, looks like a bank president. Connie Boswell, light and airy in a creamy gown, has just arrived from a lawn party. Meredith Willson, minus his coat, with loosened tie and shirt-collar, looks like a harassed broker trying to keep up with his ticker-tape, instead of a distinguished musician and orchestra conductor. Fannie Brice's red, white and blue sports outfit would be in place in a swank beach club. And Roland Young, in tweeds, with a gay scarf, could easily be a country squire. Because Hollywood is all showmanship, Good News is presented as a regular theatrical production, on a stage with a curtain, and with special lighting effects. These lighting effects have to be rehearsed too. For instance, when Walter Huston and his guest star go through their act together, all the lights are dimmed except a bright spot where they're standing. Bit players step out of the gloom, speak their parts into the mike, then disappear. By five-thirty of a Thursday afternoon, a transformation has taken place in the studio. Everybody is back on the stage of Studio D dressed for the broadcast. The banker has left his office — and now, in white tie and tails, he looks as if he could easily fit into the foyer of the opera. The little lady of the lawn party is now in a stunning evening gown. The broker has lost his harassed expression. The country gentleman is still at ease, even in a boiled shirt. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture studio is no longer connected with the Good News program, although there ace rumors it may be back in there pitching before so very many more weeks roll past. Even without it, Good News is one of the biggest programs to come out of Hollywood. Getting it on the air takes a full week's work on the part of scores of people, it requires so much planning. Donald Cope, the agency producer, and writers Sam Moore and Phil Rapp work together to select scripts and write and cast dramatic spots. Meredith Willson and three arrangers take care of selecting and producing the musical score. Fannie Brice and her own writer do the Baby Snooks episodes. (£1 SAY HELLO TO . . . DAVID GOTHARD — new character in The O'Neills, on NBC-Red at 12:15 and NBC-Blue at 5:15 this afternoon. David plays Bruce Kingsley, who was known simply as The Stranger when he first entered the story of The O'Neills. He's no stranger to NBC audiences, though, for since 1934 he's been playing leading roles in many a serial originating in Chicago. Last summer he came to New York and immediately began to repeat his Chicago success. He's had two offers of screen tests but turned them both down — though he says if a third one should come along he'd be too superstitious to refuse it. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR