Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

E :a -a y« <Q < -•2 «5li hii 8:00 8:00 2:30 8:30 8:45 8:45 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:15 9:15 9:15 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:45 9:45 10:00 10:00 Eastern Standard Time NBC-Red: Variety Show 8:15 NBC-Blue: The Wife Saver 8:15 NBC-Red: Do You Remember NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn 9:00 CBS: Manhattan Mother 9:00 NBC: News 11:30 10:15 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 10:30 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 11:00 11:00 2:15 11:15 11:45 11:45 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:15 12:15 12:45 12:45 1:00 1:00 1:15 1:30 2:00 2:00 11:00 11:00 11:15 11:15 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:45 12:00 9:05 9:15 9:30 9:45 9:45 FRIDAYS HIGHLIGHTS NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUE CBS: School of the Air NBC-Red: The Family Man CBS: Bachelor's Children NBC-Red: Life Can be Beautiful 10:00 CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly 10:00 NBC-Blue: Story of the Month 10:00 NBC-Red: The Man I Married 10:15 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 10:30 10:45 10:45 CBS: Myrt and Marge NBC-Blue: Josh Higgins NBC-Red: John's Other Wife CBS: Hilltop House NBC-Blue: Jack Berch NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill CBS: Stepmother NBC-Red: Woman in White 11:00 NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin 11:00 NBC-Red: David Harum 11:15 CBS: Brenda Curtis 11:15 NBC-Blue: The Right to Happiness 11:15 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones 11:30 CBS: Big Sister 11:30 NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family 11:30 NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown 11:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories 11:45 NBC-Blue: Getting the Most Out of Life 11:45 NBC-Red: Road of Life 12:00 CBS: Kate Smith Speaks 12:00 NBC-Red: Carters of Elm Street 12:15 CBS: When a Girl Marries 12:15 NBC-Red: The O'Neills 12:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent 12:30 NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour 12:30 NBC-Red: Dr. Daniel A. Poling 12:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday 1:00 CBS: The Goldbergs 12:15 1:15 CBS: Life Can be Beautiful 12:15 1:15 NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph 12:30 1:30 CBS Road of Life 12:30 1:30 NBC-Blue: Peables Takes Charge 12:45 1:45 CBS: This Day is Ours 12:45 1:45 NBC-Red: Words and Music 1:00 2:00 CBS: Doc Barclay's Daughters 1:00 2:00 NBC-Blue: Revue Program 1:00 2:00 NBC-Red: Betty and Bob 1:15 2:15 CBS: Dr. Susan 1:15 2:15 NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter 1:30 2:30 CBS: Your Family and Mine 1:30 2:30 NBC-Red: Valiant Lady 1:45 2:45 CBS: My Son and I 1:45 2:45 NBC-Red: Betty Crocker 2:00; 3:00 (US Girl Interne 2:00] 3:00 NBC-Blue: Orphans of Divorce NUC-Ki-d Mary Marlin 2:00 2:30 2:30 2:45 5:15 3:15 3:30 8:00 8:00 8:15 8:15 6:00 7:30 9:30 8:00 8:30 6:00 6:00 6:30 6:30 2:15 2:15 2:45 2:45 3:00 3:00 3:15 3:30 3:45 3:45 4:00 4:00 6:00 4:30 4:30 4:45 5:45 5:30 5:30 6:00 6:00 6:15 6:15 6:30 7:30 7:00 7:00 8:00 8:00 8:30 8:30 9:00 3:00 3:15 3:15 3:45 3:45 4:00 4:00 4:15 4:30 4:45 4:45 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 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 5:30 5:30 5:45 5:45 5:45 6:00 6:05 6:15 6:30 6:30 7:00 7:00 7:15 7:15 7:30 7:30 8:00 8:00 9:00 9:00 CHS: It Happened In Hollywood NBC-Blue: Affairs of Anthony NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong CBS: Scattergood Baines -. Bl Blue: Tom Mix NBC-Red: Little Orphan Annie CBS News CBS: Edwin C. Hill CBS: Hedda Hopper i BS H Bl Bl V. Kaltcnborn le: Gulden Scrcnadcrs NB< -Blue: Lowell Thomas CMS Amot 'n' Andy Bl Red Fred Waring't Gang ( BS Lum and Abnor NBC-Red: I Love a Mystery CBS Professor Quii MBS: The Lone Ranger ens MK Kate Smith Red Citioi Sorvice Concert '.!'.< Blue Carton Roblson's Buckaroos I lis Johnny Protonts . I'.' Blui Plantation Party NB< Red Walt* Time 9:30 ' BS 9:30 NB( FIRST NIGHTER Red: George Jotsol /:00 9:00 10:00 ' Its Grand Central Station 7:00 9:00 10:00 MBS: Raymond Gram Swing 7:00l 9:00 10:00 NBC-Red Lady Esther Serenade 7:30 9:30 10:30 ' IIS Young Man With a Band 50 9 Producer Al Rinker — first star Horace Heidt — announcer Dan Seymour Tune-!ii Bulletin for October 27, November 3, 10 and 17! October 27: Matty Malneclt and his band are featured tonight on the new program, Young Man With a Band, on CBS at 10:30. . . . Sammy Kaye's orchestra opens for another season at the Commodore Hotel in New York, playing over both CBS and Mutual . . . Buddy Rogers' band comes into the Ansley Hotel in Atlanta, playing over NBC. November 3: Kay Kyser is the star of this week's Young Man With a Band program, on CBS at 10:30. . . . From Sioux Falls, South Dakota, comes a novelty — a corn-husking bee, to be described over NBC this afternoon. November 10: Tonight's Young Man With a Band star is Duke Ellington — CBS at 10:30 . . . Bill Bardo and his band end an engagement at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, playing over CBS. November 17: Bill Stern broadcasts a prizefight from Madison Square Garden tonight — NBC-Blue at 10:00. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: Young Man With a Band, on CBS at 10:30, Eastern Standard Time, sponsored by the Columbia Recording Corporation and starring famous dance band leaders. Young Man With a Band is put on the air to honor those young American band leaders who are "at least as popular as movie stars or congressmen, and who have followings as large and enthusiastic as those of Mickey Mouse." A different young man with a band is presented each week, and dramatic episodes re-create his life story while the band plays music as he played it at different times in the past. Also, by means of a lucky number, somebody in the studio audience gets the chance to make a record of his or her own voice, singing with the band of the week. The whole idea grew out of the desire of the Columbia Recording Corporation, o CBS affiliate, to present its most popular recording bands on the air. Al Rinker, producer of the show, and Annemarie Ewing, who writes the script, selected the title and developed the idea of telling the leaders' life stories in dramatic episodes. Conferences with the band leader himself always supply the material for Miss Ewing to build her script around. For instance, Harry James told her about his childhood experiences playing with a circus band, and even sent home to his father in Texas for some of the music he played then. One of the biggest jobs in rehearsal is to get the musicians to imitate various styles in music — circus, minstrel, brass band, and all the different styles of dance music up through the nineteen-twenties and 'thirties. The whole program is a delight for anybody who is interested in dance music. Besides getting the musical background of your favorites, you'll hear John Hammond, well-known authority on dance music and Associate Recording Director for the record company. Every week he devotes a few minutes of the program to telling what's new in the popular-music world. Hammond has one of the largest collections of records in the country, and it was he who recently discovered Charlie Christian, the sensational new guitar player in Benny Goodman's band. Most fun for the studio audience at Young Man with a Band, of course, is watching the "lucky" amateur sing a song with the band. The amateur is chosen by drawing from a hatfull of seat stubs, but of course he doesn't have to sing with the band unless he wants to. He — or she — is given a choice from about six standard popular songs to sing, and when the broadcast is over is presented with a record of his performance. Only one record is made, so it's a real collector's item. SAY HELLO TO . . . JOHNNIE JOHNSTON — NBC's handsome singer-guitarist, heard on Club Matinee this afternoon at 4:00, and on other NBC programs out of Chicago. Johnnie could sing 17 popular songs when he was only two and a half years old in St. Louis, and was on the stage with his sister in a child act by the time he was five. He never went to college, but began radio work instead. He also sang in night clubs, but quit because it was ruining his voice and his health. In 1933 he went to Hollywood, but forgot the beauties of the climate when the 1933 earthquake struck, and returned to Chicago. He was married in 1936. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR