Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

Eastern Standard Time = K o< <a < K US 8:00 8:00 8:05 8:05 11: 11: 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 9:45 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 10:30 10:45 10:45 11:00 11:00 11:15 11:15 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:15 12:30 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 2:30 2:45 2:45 3:00 3:00 3:15 3:30 3:45 3:45 4:00 4:00 6:00 4:15 4:30 4:30 4:45 5:45 5:15 5:30 6:00 6:00 6:15 6:15 6:30 7:30 6:30 9:30 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 8:00 8:00 9:00 10 9:00 10 9:00 10 NBC-Red: News NBC-Blue: The Wife Saver NBC-Red: Do You Remember NBC-Blue: Norsemen Quartet NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn CBS: Manhattan Mother NBC: News NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB NBC-Red: Happy Jack CBS: School of the Air NBC-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: The Right to Happiness NBC-Red: John's Other Wife CBS: Hilltop House NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill CBS: Stepmother NBC-Blue: Midstream NBC-Red: Woman in White 45 45 00 00 00 15 15 15 30 30 30 45 45 45 00 CBS: Lanny Ross 00 NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family 00 NBC-Red: David Harum 15 CBS: Brenda Curtis 15 NBC-Red: Road of Life 30 CBS: Big Sister 30 NBC-Blue: Jack Berch 30 NBC-Red: Against the Storm 45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories 45 NBC-Blue: Getting the Most Out of Life 45 NBC-Red: The Guiding Light 00 CBS: Kate Smith Speaks 00 NBC-Red: Carters of Elm Street 15 CBS: When a Girl Marries 15 NBC-Red: The O'Neills 30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent 30 NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour 30 NBC-Red: Time for Thought 45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday 00 CBS: The Goldbergs 15 CBS: Life Can be Beautiful 15 NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph 30 CBS: This Day is Ours 30 NBC-Blue: The Chase Twins 45 CBS: Road of Life 45 NBC-Red: Words and Music 00 CBS: Doc Barclay's Daughters 00 NBC-Red: Betty and Bob 15 CBS: Dr. Susan 15 NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter 30 CBS: Your Family and Mine 30 NBC-Red: Valiant Lady 45 CBS: My Son and I 45 NBC-Red: Hymns of All Churches 00 CBS: Girl Interne 00 NBC-Blue: Orphans of Divorce 00 NBC-Red: Mary Marlin 15 CBS: Society Girl 15 NBC-Red: Ma Perkins 30 NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family 45 NBC-Blue: Ted Malone 45 NBC-Red: Vic and Sade 00 NBC-Blue: Club Matinee 00 NBC-Red: Backstage Wife 15 NBC-Red: Stella Dallas 30 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones 45 CBS: Smilin' Ed McConnell 45 NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown 00 CBS: By Kathleen Norris 00 NBC-Red: Girl Alone 15 CBS: Billy and Betty 15 NBC-Red: Midstream 30 CBS: It Happened in Hollywood 30 NBC-Blue: Affairs of Anthony 30 NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong 45 CBS: Scattergood Baines 45 NBC-Blue: Tom Mix 45 NBC-Red: Little Orphan Annie 00 CBS: News 05 CBS: Edwin C. Hill 15 CBS: Hedda Hopper 30 CBS: H. V. Kaltenborn 45 NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas 00 CBS: Amos 'it' Andy 00 NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang 15 CBS: Lum and Abner 15 NBC-Red: I Love a Mystery 30 CBS: Blondie 30 MBS: The Lone Ranger 30 NBC-Blue: One of the Finest 30, NBC-Red: Larry Clinton 00 CBS: Tune-up Time 00 NBC-Blue: Sherlock Holmes 00 NBC-Red: Tommy Riggs 30 CBS: Howard and Shelton 30 NBC-Blue: True or False 30 NBC-Red: Voice of Firestone OO'CBS: LUX THEATER 00 NBC-Red: Doctor I. Q. 30 NBC-Red: Alec Templeton Time 00 CBS: Guy Lombardo 00 MBS: Raymond Gram Swing 00 NBC-Red: The Contented Hour MONDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS ■ Alec Templeton at the piano, with his manager beside him. Tune-In Bulletin for November 27, December 4, 11, 18 and 25! November 27: Jimmy Lunceford and his swell band open at the Southland Cafe, Boston, tonight, and from now on you'll be hearing a lot of them over NBC-Red and Blue. December 4: Good listening for adults as well as kids is the CBS School of the Air program — and to help you pick what you v/ant to hear on it, your Almanac will list the subjects each day. . . . Today's is Tomorrow's Fuel, in the Frontiers of Democracy series. . . . Time is 9:15 E.S.T., 2:30 C.S.T. and P.S.T. December II: Today's School of the Air subject: Mastering the Machine. December 18: The Chase Twins, on NBC-Blue at 1:30 this afternoon, is your old favorite, Peables Takes Charge, under another name. December 25: If you can spare time from opening all those packages, radio has many fine Christmas programs for you — and it doesn't make any difference what network you pick, they'll all be worth hearing. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: Alec Templeton Time, on NBC-Red at 9:30, E.S.T., sponsored by Alka-Seltzer. Alec Templeton, the" British-born pianist who after five years in America is just beginning to be fully appreciated by American listeners, is the hub around which this sparkling half-hour of music revolves. It has a twelve-voice mixed choir directed by William Miller and a seventeen-piece orchestra conducted by Daniel Saidenberg, and each program has a guest star. Other shows have choirs and orchestras and guest stars, but no other show has Templeton — reason enough for lending your ears at 9:30 tonight. Although the fact is never paraded in his publicity, it's no secret that Alec Templeton is blind, and has been so from birth. Despite this handicap, which he insists is no handicap at all, he's a unique sort of musician. He's probably the only legitimate classical pianist who can play jazz and swing and other popular music with such ability and enjoyment that jitterbugs wouldn't think of calling him a "longhair." Alec prepares all the special musical arrangements for the broadcast, working with Eugene Ostergren, music counselor, who sits by with paper and pencil, jotting down the music as Alec works it out on the piano. Alec's own "musical impressions," the extremely funny tricks he plays with his piano, are responsible for most of his popularity. He works them out all by himself, usually practicing and polishing them for two or three weeks before they're ready for the air. Stanley North, Alec's manager, is constantly with him. They travel together on Alec's frequent concert tours, usually going by automobile. On the air, Alec recites all his lines from memory, of course, and this means that they must all be written in short sentences and in a manner easy for him to memorize. North always sits beside him at the piano during a broadcast, keeping his eye on Edward Simmons, the director of the program and conveying Simmons' directions to Alec by a system of signals they've worked out. North puts his hand on Alec's back, and if Simmons wants Alec to hurry because time is getting short, he moves his hand in a circular motion; if Simmons wants Alec to slow down, he moves it horizontally. Alec came to the United States five years ago with Jack Hylton's orchestra. He'd already attained success in England, but he liked this country so much he stayed, and has taken out citizenship papers. SAY HELLO TO CHARLOTTE M ANSON— who plays Bryn Clark Barrington. the Number One Glamour Girl, in the CBS serial. Society Girl, at 3:15 this afternoon. Like her radio character, Charlotte is a New Yorker. Her childhood ambition was to be an actress, but her parents disapproved and wanted her to teach dramatics instead. Just before she graduated from college, though, she went into radio. Complete Programs from November 24 to December 26 JANUARY, 1940 43