Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

Eastern Standard Time a St 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:30 8:30 8:30 8:30 8:30 ' 8:45 9:00 9:00 9:30 9:30 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:30 10:30 10:30 11:00 11:00 11:30 11:30 12:00 12:00 1:00 12:30 12:30 1:00 1:00 1:30 1:30 1:30 8:00 2:00 2:00 9:00 2:30 2:30 3:00 3:00 3:00 3:00 3:30 3:30 4:00 4:00 8:30 4:30 4:30 4:30 7:00 5:00 5:00 6:30 6:00 9:00 6:00 8:15 6:30 6:45 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:30 7:30 1:00 1:00 1:00 1:30 1:30 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:30 2:30 3:00 3:00 3:30 3:30 3:30 4:00 4:00 4:00 4:15 4:30 4:30 4:30 4:30 5:00 5:00 5:00 5:00 5:30 5:30 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:30 6:30 6:30 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:30 8:30 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:30 8:30 8:30 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:30 9:30 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:30 2:30 3:00 3:00 3:00 3:30 3:30 4:00 4:00 4:30 4:30 4:30 5:00 5:00 5:00 5:15 5:15 CBS: News NBC-Blue: Peerless Trio NBC-Ked: Organ Recital CBS: Morning Moods NBC-Blue: Tone Pictures NBC-Red: Four Showmen NBC-Red: Animal News CBS: Today in Europe NBC-Blue: White Rabbit Line NBC-Red: Turn Back the Clock NBC-Red: Tom Teriss CBS: Wings Over Jordan NBC-Red: Sunday Drivers CBS: Church of the Air NBC-Blue: Morning Musicale NBC-Red: Radio Pulpit CBS: March of Games NBC-Blue: Four Belles NBC-Red: Children's Hour NBC-Blue: Alice Remsen NBC-Blue: Neighbor Nell CBS: MAJOR BOWES FAMILY NBC-Blue: Southernaires NBC-Red: News NBC-Red: Music and Youth BC-Blue: RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL N BC-Red : Vernon Crane's Story Book CBS: Salt Lake City Tabernacle NBC-Red: On the Job CBS: Church of the Air NBC-Blue: Ted Malone NBC-Red: Music for Moderns NBC-Blue: Ted Malone CBS: Grand Hotel NBC-Blue: Metropolitan Moods NBC-Red: From Hollywood Today CBS: Democracy in Action NBC-Blue: Great Plays NBC-Red: Smoke Dreams CBS: So You Think You Know Music N BC-Red: University of Chicago Round Table CBS: N. Y. PHILHARMONIC NBC-Blue: Norman Cloutier's Orch. NBC-Red: I Want a Divorce NBC-Blue: H. Leopold Spitalny NBC-Red: News from Europe NBC-Blue: National Vespers NBC-Red: Glenn Miller Orch. CBS: Pursuit of Happiness NBC-Blue: Richard Himber Orch. NBC-Red: The World is Yours CBS: Hobby Lobby MBS: Musical Steelmakers NBC-Blue: Moylan Sisters NBC-Blue: News NBC-Red: Bob Becker Dog Chats SUNDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS 10:00 10:30 8:00 10:00 5:30 CBS. Uen Bernie 5:30 MBS: The Shadow 5:30 NBC-Blue: Met Opera Auditions 5:30 NBC-Red: The Spelling Bee 6:00 CBS: SILVER THEATER 6:00 MBS: Listen America 6:00 NBC-Blue: New Friends of Music 6:00 NBC-Red: Catholic Hour 6:30 CBS: Gateway to Hollywood 6:30 NBC-Red: Grouch Club 7:00 CBS: European News Roundup 7:00 NBC-Blue: Dinah Shore 7:00 NBC-Red: JACK BENNY CBS: SCREEN GUILD THEATER 7:30 NBC-Blue: Mr. District Attorney 7:30 NBC-Red: Fitch Bandwagon 00 CBS: ORSON WELLES 8:00 NBC-Blue: Festival of Musir «:00 NBC-Red: CHARLIE MCCARTHY 8:30 NBC-Red: ONE MAN'S FAMILY (Jan. 7) 9:00 CBS: rORD SYMPHONY 9:00 NBC-Blue: Walter Winchell 9:00 NBC-Red: Manhattan Merry-Go Round NBC-Blue: The Parker Family 9:30 NBC-Blue: Irene Rich 9:30 NBC-Red: American Album of Familiar Music NBC-Blue: Bill Stern Sports Review 9-00 10:00 MBS: Goodwill Hour 9-00 10:00 CBS: Ellery Queen 9:00 10:00 NBC-Red: Hour of Charm 10 10:30 NBC-Blue: Cheerio 9:30 10:30 NBC-Red: NBC String Quartet 11:00 CBS: Paul Sullivan 11:00 NBC: Dance Orchestra ■ Benny's Dennis Day . . . and Dennis' talkative "Mother." Tune-In Bulletin for December 31, January 7, 14 and 21! December 31: Here it is the last day of 1939, and nobody's sorry to see it go. The networks are doing their bit to send it on its way, with all-night dance programs chasing 1939 across the continent and clear out to Honolulu. . . . From 2:00 to 3:00 this afternoon, E.S.T., NBC-Blue broadcasts Headlines of 1939, a review of the year's news events. . . . The Rose Bowl Pageant in Pasadena is to be described on Mutual tonight. . . . Grace Moore is the guest star on the Ford Hour. January 7: One of your old favorites returns today when Grand Hotel begins on CBS at 1:35 this afternoon. . . . And the Chase and Sanborn show, NBC-Red at 8:00, is cut to a half-hour beginning tonight — with One Man's Family in the other thirty minutes. January 14: Today's your last chance to hear Paul Wing's Spelling Bee program over NBC-Red at 5:30. . . . Ted Malone makes a pilgrimage to Oliver Wendell Holmes' home in Boston at 1:15 over NBC-Blue. . . . Gladys Swarthout is the guest star on the Ford Hour. January 21: Helen Traubel, soprano, is the Ford Hour's guest tonight. . . . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's home is visited by Ted Malone at 1:15. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: A new singer and a new comedienne — in fact, you might agree with lots of folks and call them the new singer and the new comedienne of the current radio season. They're Dennis Day and his "mother," heard on Jack Benny's Jell-O show on NBC at 7:00, E.S.T. and 8:30, P.S.T. "Mother," Mrs. Lucretia Day, of course isn't really Dennis' mother at all. In real life she's Verna Felton, a veteran radio actress who has appeared frequently on the Benny show in the last three years. In fact, at one time or another, she has played mother to everyone in the gang. Besides her radio experience, she has a long and honorable stage career behind her too, for she made her theatrical debut in 1901, when she was nine. Verna is married to Lee Millar, a former stage director who is now a radio actor too, and they have one son, fifteen years old. Young Millar followed in his mother's footsteps by appearing on the stage when he was nine, but since then he's decided that he likes music better than acting, and now is studying piano. The Millars live on a ranch in San Fernando Valley, where, in spite of her heavy radio schedule, Verna manages to do most of the cooking for her family, and a good deal of the sewing besides. She and her husband always criticize each other's radio performances, and wouldn't think of going on the air without first rehearsing at home and getting suggestions from the other. "Mother" is Verna's favorite role at all time. Her "son," Dennis Day, after three months of amazing success on the Benny show, is the same self-assured but unassuming kid he was when he first stepped up to its mike. He's entirely given up his early notion of being a lawyer, and is so definitely committed to a singing career the! he refuses to drink or smoke because such things are bad for the voice. He lives with his real mother in a small North Hollywood house surrounded by flower beds. This garden, next to his second-hand coupe, is Dennis' greatest joy, since he was born and brought up in New York City, where he never had a chance to cultivate anything more extensive than a window-box. He's no night-clubber, and his idea of a really good time is driving his car all over Southern California. He hasn't any "steady girl." *3F| *** "*&*?' SAY HELLO TO . . . BILL JOHNSTONE— who plays "The Shadow" on the mystery thriller of that name this afternoon at 5:30 on MBS. Bill was born in Scotland in 1908 and came to America as a boy, where he was first a reporter, then switched to acting. He owns a farm in Connecticut and spends his summers on it, living in a New York apartment in winter. His eyes are hazel, his hair prematurely gray. INSIDE RADIO-The New Radio Mirror Almanac 42 RAD"0 AND TELEVISION MIRROR