Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

hi 8:05 8:05 8:15 8:15 9:00 9:00 9:15 9:15 9:30 9:30 10:00 00 10:00 00 10:00 Eastern Standard Time 8:00 NBC-Blue: Cloutier's Orch. NBC-Red: Musical Tete-a-tele 9:00 9:00 11:00 11:00 9:30 11:30 9:30 11:30 11:00 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 1:30 2:30 3:00 3:00 3:05 3:05 3:30 3:30 3:30 4:00 4:00 4:00 4:30 4:30 8:30 9:00 5:30 5:30 5:30 9:00 9:00 6:00 7:00 7:00 8:00 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 9:05 9:05 9:15 9:15 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:30 11:30 12:00 12:00 12:30 12:30 12:30 12:30 12:30 1:30 1:30 1:00 2:00 1:00 2:00 1:30 2:30 2:00 3:00 2:30 3:30 3:30 4:30 4:30 5:30 5:00 5:00 6:00 6:00 5:05 5:05 6:05 6:05 5:30 5:30 5:30 6:30 6:30 6:30 6:00 6:00 6:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 6:30 6:30 6:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:00 7:00 8:00 8:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 8:30 8:30 8:30 8:00 8:00 8:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 8:30 9:30 8:45 9:45 9:00 9:00 10:00 10:00 9:30 10:30 NBC-Blue: Dick Liebert NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn NBC-Blue: Harvey and Dell NBC: News NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB NBCRed: Texas Robertson CBS: Fiddler's Fancy NBC-Red: Cloutier's Orch. NBC-Red: The Crackerjacks NBC-Blue: Morin'Sisters NBC-Red: The Wise Man NBC-Blue: Amanda Snow NBC-Red: No School Today NBC-Blue: Barry McKinley NBC-Red: Bright Idea Club NBC-Blue: The Child Grows Up CBS: Young People's Concert NBC-Blue: Charioteers NBC-Red: Ross Trio NBC-Red: Smilin' Ed McConnell NBC-Blue: Our Barn NBC-Red: Hilda Hope, M.D. NBC-Blue: Education Forum NBC-Red: Eastman School of Music AYS HIGHLIGHTS CBS: Country Journal CBS: Let's Pretend NBC-Blue: FARM BUREAU NBC-Red: Call to Youth NBC-Red: Calling Stamp Collectors NBC-Blue: Three Quarter Time NBC-Red: Matinee in Rhythm NBC-Blue: METROPOLITAN OPERA NBC-Red: Ray Kinney Orch. NBC-Red: Golden Melodies NBC-Red: Orchestra NBC-Red: Sonny James Orch NBC-Red: Laval Orchestra NBC-Red: Orchestra CBS: News NBC-Red: Kaltenmeyer Kindergarten CBS: Albert Warner NBC-Blue: Les Brown Orch. CBS: What's Art to Me NBC-Blue: Renfrew of the Mounted NBC-Red: Religion in the News CBS: People's Platform NBC-Blue: Message of Israel NBC-Red: Orchestra CBS: Gay Nineties Revue ■ . I'.' mm ■ Uncle Jim's Question Bee NBC-Red: Art for Your Sake CBS: Gang Busters NBC-Red: Melody and Madness CBS: Wayne King's Orch. MBC-Bluei Youth vs. Age NBC-Red: Stop Me If You've Heard This One CBS: YOUR HIT PARADE . r,' Blue' National Barn Dance NBC-Ked: Hall of Fun NBC-Red: Deatn Valley Days CBS: Saturday Night Serenade NBC-Red: Benny Goodman :< I. ARTUBO TOSCANINI NBC-Rod: Arch Oboler's Plays ■ Milton Berle (center) with gag-busters Hershfield and Flippen. Tune-In Bulletin for November 25. December 2. 9, 16 and 23! November 25: The Melody and Madness program shows up tonight at a new time — 8:00 to 8:30 on NBC-Red, with a repeat broadcast reaching the Pacific Coast at 9:00. But whether Bob Benchley will still be its star wasn't known when your Almanac went to press. . . . Bill Stern describes the Harvard-Yale football game over NBC this afternoon. It's being played at Cambridge. December 2: All the networks are scrambling to be on the spot to tell you about the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia today. It's scheduled on NBC, CBS and Mutual. . . . Music-lovers will tune in NBC-Blue at 2:00 this afternoon to hear the first broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House. . . . And they'll tune in the same stations at 10:00 tonight for Arturo Toscanini's last broadcast until after the first of the year. It's to be a gala occasion, held in Carnegie Hall instead of the NBC studio, and Toscanini will play Beethoven's Choral Fantasy and his famous Choral Symphony, the Ninth. December 9: There's a new conductor for the NBC Symphony Orchestra tonight at 10:00 — Desire de Fauw, a Belgian conductor who is making his American debut tonight. December 16: Arch Oboler's plays are coming from Hollywood now — NBC-Red at 10:30 — and their quality is just as fine as it ever was. December 23: It's fine to be able to hear Wayne King on the air again — tune him in tonight at 8:30 over CBS. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: Stop-Me-lfYou've-Heard-This-One, on NBC-Red at 8:30, E.S.T., sponsored by Ouaker Oats. Have you any favorite jokes? If you have, mail them in to this program, and if they're used on the air you'll get paid good money. Better yet, if they're used and none of the three gag-buster experts on the show can think of the right tag-lines to them, you'll get paid even more. Stop-Me-lf-You've-etc. is a variation on Information Please, only instead of questions, jokes are used. Comedian Milton Berle tells the first part of a joke to a board composed of Harry Hershfield, Jay C. Flippen and a guest star. They're supposed to think of the correct tag-line. If they don't, the person who submitted the joke wins. Cal Tinney (say hello to him below) is the lad who thought up the idea for Stop Me. Not only isn't he on the program, but he's running his own program at the very same time Saturday nights on NBC-Blue — so maybe Cal doesn't really care what people listen to at 8:30 tonight, as long as they don't tune in CBS. He gets a royalty from the Stop Me show for the idea. Not much rehearsal would be needed for this show, if it weren't for the fact that every week a guest band, called the Band of Honor, supplies the music. Since it's a comedy program, and comedy means careful timing of cues, Milton Berle and announcer Dan Seymour have to rehearse with the new band every Saturday. Milton Berle is busier at a rehearsal than any other radio star. He personally supervises every little detail, tells the orchestra leaders how he wants the music played, runs into the control room to listen to it, dashes back to the microphone for his lines — as full of activity as a cat on a hot stove. He wears his hat all the time, and addresses everyone on the program, male or female, as "baby." Because Stop Me goes on the air at 8:30 and lasts until 9:00, a Broadway play has to delay its Saturday-night performance. "See My Lawyer," in which Berle is starred, doesn't raise its curtain until five minutes after nine on Saturday nights. Even at that, he has to do some tall sprinting to get to the theater on time. Naturally, he wears his make-up at the broadcast in Studio 8-G of NBC's Radio City. SAY HELLO TO . . . CAL TINNEY — master of ceremonies on Youth vs. Age, on NBC-Blue at 8:30 tonight. His full name is Calvin Lawrence Tinney, and he got it because a woman who lived on a neighboring ranch in Pontoctoc County, Oklahoma, where he was born, offered his mother a set of diapers for the privilege of naming the new infant. Cal went to the local schools and then enrolled in the University of Oklahoma— but left when authorities discovered he had never finished school. He started newspaper work when he was eleven, as a printer's devil, then advanced until he had a syndicated column and moved on into radio. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR