Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

Eastern Standard Time 2:30 1:00 1:15 1:45 hs "ft 8:00 8:05 8:05 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 9:45 10:00 10:00 10:00 11:30 10:15 11:15 CBS: Brenda Curtis 10:15 11:15 NBC-Red: Road of Life 11:00 11:15 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 10:30 11:00 11:00 2:15 11:15 11:30 11:45 11:45 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:15 12:15 12:30 12:45 12:45 1:00 1:00 1:15 1:30 1:45 2:00 2:00 2:15 2:30 2:30 2:45 5:15 3:00 3:15 8:00 4:00 8:00 8:15 4:15 8:15 7:30 7:30 9:00 6:30 8:30 8:30 8:30 8:00 9:30 7:00 7:00 7:00 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 12:30 12:45 12:45 1:00 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 6:00 6:15 6:15 6:15 6:30 7:30 7:00 7:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 8:00 8:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 NBC-Red: Variety Show NBC-Blue: The Wife Saver NBC-Red: Do You Remember NBC-Blue: Four Showmen NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn CBS: Manhattan Mother 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 CBS. Stepmother NBC-Blue: Midstream NBC-Red: Woman in White CBS: Lanny Ross K5S=r5lue: PePPer Voung's Family NBC-Red: David Harum BC-Blue:~Mary Marlin BC-Red: Just Plain Bill CBS: Big Sister NBC-Blue: Jack Berch NBC-Red: Against the Storm CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories NBC-Blue: Getting the Most Out o" Life NBC-Red: The Guiding Light CBS: Kate Smith Speaks NBCRed: 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: Homespun CBS: Our Gal Sunday CBS: The Goldbergs CBS: Life Can be Beautiful NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph CBS: This Day is Ours NBC-Blue: The Chase Twins NBC-Red: Let's Talk it Over CBS: Road of Life NBC-Red: Words and Music CBS: Doc Barclay's Daughters NBC-Blue: Roy Shield Revue 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: Betty Crocker 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 NBC-Blue: Ted Malone NBC-Red: Vic and Sade NBC-Blue: Club Matinee NBC-Red: Backstage Wife NBC-Red: Stella Dallas NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones CBS: Smilin' Ed McConnell NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown CBS: By Kathleen Norris NBC-Red: Girl Alone CBS: Billy and Betty NBC-Red: Midstream CBS: It Happened in Hollywood NBC-Blue: Affairs of Anthony NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong CBS: Scattergood Baines NBC-Blue: Tom Mix NBC-Red: LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE CBS: News CBS: Edwin C. Hill CBS: Hedda Hopper CBS: H. V. Kaltenborn NBC-Blue: Gulden Serenaders NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas CBS: Amos 'n' Andy NBC-Blue: Easy Aces NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang CBS: Lum and Abner NBC-Blue: Mr. Keen NBC-Red: I Love a Mystery CBS: BURNS AND ALLEN MBS: The Lone Ranger CBS: Al Pearce NBC-Red: Herbert Marshall CBS: PAUL WHITEMAN NBC-Blue: Quick Silver Quiz NBC-Red: Avalon Time CBS: TEXACO STAR THEATER NBC-Red: FRED ALLEN CBS: Dr. Christian MBS: Raymond Gram Swing NBC-Red: KAY KYSER'S COLLEGE WEDNESDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS ■ The Woman !n Love cast stops rehearsal for a cup of tea. Tune-In Bulletin for November 29, December 6, 13 and 20! November 29: Woody Herman and his band open tonight at The Famous Door, New York swing night spot. Listen to them on NBC. . . . Canada Joins the Map is the subject for today's School of the Air story, on CBS at 9:15. December 6: Here's your last chance to hear Glenn Miller's orchestra playing from the Meadowbrook Country Club in New Jersey. . . . The School of the Air presents Down the Mississippi to the Sea. December 13: William Hiram Foulkes talks today at 12:30 over NBC-Red, starring in his program called Homespun. . . . The School of the Air story is about the discovery and purchase of Alaska. December 20: Your Almanac's tip for a present to give that youngster you particularly like: a small radio set for his or her own room. . . . There's a prizefight being broadcast tonight from Madison Square Garden over NBC-Blue at 10:00. Bill Stern will do the announcing. ON THE AIR TODAY: By Kathleen Norris, on CBS at 5:00 P.M., E.S.T., sponsored by Wheaties. The serial you're hearing now is Woman in Love, adapted for radio from one of Mrs. Norris' best-selling novels, and when it's finished the program will go right on with another story. The idea of putting radio versions of the works of famous authors on the air originated in the fertile brain of Phillips Lord, who used to be Seth Parker but abandoned that for the job of thinking up and producing programs. He persuaded Kathleen Norris to let him adapt her novels first, and since they've been on the air has signed up Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, and the literary executors of the late S S. Van Dine. The authors of the original books don't do any actual work on the radio scripts; their books are adapted in the Lord office. You who have been following the serial, Woman in Love, in Radio Mirror will find added pleasure in listening to the air show. Arline Blackburn plays Tamara, and the rest of the cast is: House Jameson as Mayne, Lawson Zerbe as Lance, Effie Palmer as Mother Lawrence, Mildred Baker as Dolores CPuinn, Eleanor Audley as Coral, Mary Cecil as Ivy Lippinger, Carl Frank as Joe Halloway, Betty Garde as Mrs. Wiley and Frank Lovejoy as Frank Feeney. You'll notice, probably, that although the story has been changed very little in its transition to radio, a few of the characters have been made more important. The picture above shows one reason radio actors like to work in By Kathleen Norris. It just happens that most of the members of the cast have very busy days in radio, and Brice Disque, the director, thought it would refresh them and make them give better performances if tea were served in the middle of rehearsal. So every afternoon at 4:00 (they rehearse from 3:00 until air-time at 5:00) a restaurant sends up a big tray of tea and cookies, and the entire cast knocks off work for ten or fifteen minutes, while Phillips Lord pays the bill. Shown in the picture above are (seated) Lawson Zerbe, Arline Blackburn, Mildred Baker and Frank Lovejoy; (standing) announcer Dwight Weist, the sound-effects man, and Elsie Thompson, the organist. The soliloquy comes into its own in Woman in Love as it's presented on the air. Every now and then one of the characters steps up to the microphone and whispers his or her thoughts, so the listening audience will know just how that character feels about a certain situation. Another innovation is having the characters repeat, at the start of each instalment, a few lines from the preceding day's script, in order to set the scene. JANUARY, 1940 SAY HELLO TO . . . ANN SHEPHERD— who has replaced Elspeth Eric as Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne, in the CBS serial of the same name, heard at 3:00 this afternoon. Ann isn't new to the program, since she's played other roles in it before now. She was born in Chicago, and began her dramatic career there when she was sixteen. Later she went to Hollywood, was featured in several pictures, and then came East to enter radio and continue her stage work. She stepped into the Joyce Jordan role when Elspeth Eric left the cast to be in the stage play, "Margin for Error." Ann's dark-haired, dark-eyed, tiny, and enjoys cooking. 45