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Eastern Standard Time u S <a < l/l gin 8:00 8:00 8:15 8:15 8:15 8:30 CBS: Today in Europe NBC-Red: Variety Program CBS: Phil Cook's Almanac NBC-Blue: The Wife Saver NBC-Red: Do You Remember NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn 8:00 8:00 9:00 9:00 CBS: Manhattan Mother NBC: News 8:05 8:05 9:05 9:05 NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB NBC-Red: Happy Jack 2:30 2:30 9:15 CBS: School of the Air 8:30 9:30 NBC-Red: Family Man 8:45 8:45 9:45 9:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children NBC-Red: Life Can be Beautiful 1:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly NBC-Blue: Story of the Month NBC-Red: The Man 1 Married 1:15 9:15 9:15 9:15 10:15 10:15 10:15 CBS: Myrt and Marge NBC-Blue: The Right to Happiness NBC-Red: John's Other Wife 1:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 10:30 10:30 10:30 CBS: Hilltop House NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill 1:45 9:45 9:45 9:45 10:45 10:45 10:45 CBS: Stepmother NBC-Blue: Midstream NBC-Red: Woman in White 10:45 10:00 10:00 10:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 CBS: Mary Lee Taylor NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family NBC-Red: David Harum 11:30 8:15 10:15 10:15 10:15 11:15 11:15 11:15 CBS: Brenda Curtis NBC-Blue: Young Dr. Malone NBC-Red: Road of Life 11:00 10:30 10:30 10:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 CBS: Big Sister NBC-Blue: The Traveling Chef NBC-Red: Against the Storm 11:15 10:45 10:45 11:45 11:45 11:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories NBC-Blue: Getting the Most Out of Life NBC-Red: The Guiding Light 9:00 9:00 11:00 11:00 12:00 12:00 CBS: Kate Smith Speaks NBC-Red: Carterslof Elm Street 9:15 9:15 11:15 11:15 12:15 12:15 CBS: When a Girl Marries NBC-Red: The O'Neills 9:30 9:30 9:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 12:30 12:30 12:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour NBC-Red: Our Spiritual Life 9:45 10:00 11:45 12:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday 12:00 1:00 CBS: The Goldbergs 10:15 10:15 12:15 12:15 1:15 1:15 CBS: Life Can be Beautiful NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph 10:30 10:30 12:30 12:30 1:30 1:30 CBS: This Day is Ours NBC-Red: Words and Music 12:45 1:45 CBS: Road of Life 11:00 1:00 1:00 2:00 2:00 CBS: Doc Barclay's Daughters NBC-Red: Betty and Bob 11:15 1:15 2:15 NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter 11:30 1:30 1:30 2:30 2:30 CBS: Your Family and Mine NBC-Red: Valiant Lady 11:45 11:45 1:45 1:45 2:45 2:45 CBS: My Son and 1 NBC-Red: Hymns of all Churches 12:00 12:00 12:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 3:00 3:00 3:00 CBS: Girl Interne NBC-Blue: Orphans of Divorce NBC-Red: Mary Marlin 12:15 12:15 12:15 2:15 2:15 2:15 3:15 3:15 3:15 CBS: Society Girl NBC-Blue: The Chase Twins NBC-Red: Ma Perkins 12:30 2:30 3:30 NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family 12:45 12:45 2:45 2:45 3:45 3:45 NBC-Blue: Ted Malone NBC-Red: Vic and Sade 1:00 1:00 3:00 3:00 4:00 4:00 NBC-Blue: Club Matinee NBC-Red: Backstage Wife 1:15 3:15 4:15 NBC-Red: Stella Dallas 1:30 3:30 4:30 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones 1:45 3:45 3:45 4:45 4:45 CBS: Smilln' Ed McConnell NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown 2:00 2:00 4:00 4:00 5:00 5:00 CBS: By Kathleen Norris NBC-Red: Girl Alone 2:15 6:00 4:15 5:15 5:15 CBS: Billy and Betty NBC-Red: Midstream 2:30 2:30 4:30 4:30 5:30 5:30 5:30 CBS: It Happened in Hollywood NBC-Blue: Affairs of Anthony NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong 2:45 5:15 4:45 5:45 5:45 5:45 5:45 CBS: Scattergood Baines NBC-Blue: Tom Mix NBC-Red: Little Orphan Annie 3:00 5:00 6:00 CBS: News 6:05 CBS: Edwin C. Hill 5:30 6:30 CBS: H. V. KALTENBORN 6:45 NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas 8:00 4:00 8:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 CBS: AMOS 'N' ANDY NBC-Blue: Easy Aces NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang 8:15 4:15 8:15 6:15 6:15 6:15 7:15 7:15 7:15 CBS: Jlmmie Fldler NBC-Blue: Mr. Keen NBC-Red: • Love a Mystery 4:30 6:30 7:30 CBS: HELEN MENKEN 8:30 5:00 8:30 8:30 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 CBS: EDWARD G. ROBINSON M IIS La Rosa Concert NBC-Blue: The Aldrich Family NBC-Red: Johnny Prosents 9:00 5:30 7:30 7:30 8:30 8:30 NBC-Blue: INFORMATION PLEASE NBC-Red: Horace Hoidt 9:30 9:30 8:00 8:00 9:00 9:00 CBS: We, The People NBC-Red: Battle of the Sexes 6:30 6:30 8:30 8:30 9:30 9:30 NBC-Blue: Meet Mr. Woeks NIK Red: McGEE AND MOLLY 7:00 7:00 9:00 9:00 10:00 10:00 MBS: Raymond Gram Swing NBC-Red: BOB HOPE 7:30 7:30 9:30 9:30 10:30 10:30 NBC-Blue: Brent House NBC-Kcd: Uncle Walter's Doghouse TUESDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS ■ Kingsley Colton and Betty Garde co-star in My Son and I. Tune-In Bulletin for January 2, 9, 16 and 23! January 2: The Travelling Chef Richard Kent, will give you some kitchen pointers on his new program, NBC-Blue at 11:30 this morning. January 9: That weekly serial, Brent House, is on tonight now, at 10:30 on NBC-Blue . . . with Kathleen Fitz in the role of Portia Brent. January 16: Better stay close to home tonight, so you can answer the telephone if Horace Heidt's Pot 0' Gold program draws your name. If you're there to answer when the phone rings, you'll get a thousand dollars — if you aren't you'll only get a hundred. . . . But of course if your name isn't drawn you won't get anything. January 23: Information Please is well into its second year of sponsorship tonight — and just as witty as ever. Have you seen one of those movie shorts they've made out of this clever program? ON THE AIR TODAY: My Son and I, starring Betty Garde and Kingsley Colton, on CBS at 2:45, E.S.T., and sponsored by Calumet Baking Powder and Swans Down Flour. This is just what it sounds like — the story of a mother and her son, and the love between them. Its appearance as a radio serial grew out of two one-act plays which author Frank Provo wrote especially for Betty Garde and Kingsley Colton to act in on the Kate Smith program. That was last year, and Betty and Kingsley gave such good accounts of themselves that it was decided to put the characters and their adventures into a long-run serial. As Connie Vance, the stage mother who struggles to provide for her ten-year-old son, Betty Garde has a part that's exactly suited to her. Betty won laurels for her stage work last year in "The Primrose Path," but she might never have been an actress if her father hadn't been a newspaper editor. In Philadelphia, where she grew up and appeared in amateur plays, the dramatic critic on her father's paper always wrote about her performances in very complimentary terms. Her father was skeptical — he thought the reviewers were just being nice because they were his coworkers— so to prove that she really could act, Betty left Philadelphia as soon as she was old enough and came to New York to get a stage job. It was a long pull, but she finally got the job and proved that the reviewers were right, after all. Kingsley Colton, who plays Buddy, is twelve years old, and studio workers like him because, they say, "he isn't the kind of kid that gets in your hair." He's as well-poised and self-assured as an adult, whether he's at the mike, diving off an eight-foot board or putting on the third green at golf. He got into radio a little more than two years ago, when an enthusiastic uncle brought him to Nila Mack, CBS children's program director. Before that he'd been a sucessful model for commercial photographers. He's been in a few movie shorts, but his principal interests are radio and school. Also in the cast of My Son and I are Gladys Thornton, playing Aunt Addie, Agnes Young as Aunt Minta, and John Picard as Bruce Barrett. Looking at Agnes Young, you'd never guess that she could be the elderly spinster you hear on the air. As a matter of fact, she's unusual in that she plays young roles on the stage and character parts — old ladies, immigrant women, embittered villainesses and the like — on the air. Gladys Thornton, the Aunt Addie, has been in radio for ten years, starting with a daily serial over WOR in which she played all the characters as well as writing it herself. She has the distinction of being one of the few women who have ever appeared on the Amos 'n' Andy broadcasts — and under her own name, too — though it was only on one night's program. SAY HELLO TO . . . LEE C. MILLAR — the austere judge of Big Town, on CBS at 8 tonight. He's the husband, in private life, of Verna Felton, whom you can read about on page 42. Besides being one of Hollywood's busiest radio character actors, he has a wide range of animal impersonations, and is proud because once he won out over twenty-five dogs in an audition for the movie version of "The Voice of Bugle Ann." His is also the voice of Pluto, the dog in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoons — but his face hasn't appeared on a movie screen since 1914, when he was Dorothy Dalton's leading man in one called "Across the Pacific." 44 RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR