Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

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Hill 6:15 CBS: Hedda Hopper 6:30 CBS: H. V. KALTENBORN 6:30 NBC-Blue: Gulden Serenaders NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas WEDNESDAYS HIGHLIGHTS :00 00 N B( CBS: Amos 'n' Andy Blue EASY ACES 7 7 7 7:15 7:15 7:15 7:30 7:301 MBS: The Lone Ranger 8:00 (its Al Pearco 8:00 NBC-Blue: Johnny Presents NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang CBS: Lum an' Abnor Mil Blue: Mr. Keen NBC-Red: I Love a Mystery CBS: BURNS AND ALLEN '.in Kiel Hollywood Playhouse CBS: Glenn Miller NBC-Blue: Quick Silver Quiz NBC-Red: Avalon Time CBS: TEXACO STAR THEATER Nisi -111, I. Radio Guild '. I'.i K..I. FRED ALLEN i lis Dr. Christian MI1S Raymond Gram Swing 7:00 9:00 10:00 NDC-Reii: KAY KYSER'S COLLEGE ■ Effle Palmer and Richard Gordon of Orphans of Divorce. Tune-In Bulletin for December 27, January 3, 10, 17 and 24! December 27: Tonight at 8:30 on CBS is your last chance to hear Paul Whiteman on the Chesterfield program. His place will be taken next week by Glenn Miller and his orchestra. . . . Doesn't seem possible, but Pop Whiteman just passed the twentieth anniversary of his start as an orchestra leader. January 3: It's a big night for Glenn Miller and his band — they get their first commercial program, the Chesterfield show at 8:30 on CBS (the Andrews Sisters are on it too), and they open at the Meadowbrook Inn, playing over NBC. January 10: The winter horse racing season opens today at Hialeah Park in Florida. It's the Inaugural Handicap, and you'll hear it over CBS. January 17: Have you heard the new Johnny Presents show on NBC-Blue at 8:00 tonight? It stars Johnny Green and his orchestra, and Beverly, a very sweet singer. January 24: Is Charles Boyer back on the Hollywood Playhouse — NBC-Red at 8:00 tonight? ON THE AIR TODAY: Orphans of Divorce, on NBC-Blue at 3:00 P.M., E.S.T., sponsored by the R. L. Watkins Company. It's time this continued drama were brought to your attention, because it hasn't had much ballyhoo and maybe you've missed it — which would be too bad, because the acting performance of Effie Palmer as Nora Kelly Worthington is something that shouldn't be missed. Effie Palmer has been working in radio for seventeen full years, and knows everything there is about acting in front of a microphone — but this is her first starring role. She didn't have it originally, either, because when Orphans of Divorce first went on the air as a once-weekly nighttime serial, Margaret Anglin had the part. But when it changed into a daily show Effie took over and did a grand job. Effie was born on a little farm near Albany, New York, but later moved to Boston, where she studied acting. After her graduation she came to New York for a stage career that was soon interrupted by radio. Since then she's been on the air almost every day, except for brief vacations, and has played every kind of part. She's married and lives in Brooklyn. Besides Orphans of Divorce, her most important radio role just now is that of Mrs. Eeps in Just Plain Bill. Playing opposite Effie in the role of Cyril Worthington is another radio veteran, Richard Gordon, who gained fame as Sherlock Holmes when the adventures of that master-detective first hit the air. Before that, though, he'd played in scores of New York dramatic successes with such actresses as Ethel Barrymore, Gertrude Lawrence, and Judith Anderson. He's married to the woman who wrote one of the plays he acted in, and they have a grown son. On Orphans of Divorce you hear one of radio's most unique actresses — Madeline Pierce, who makes a very good living by crying, howling, gurgling and cooing. She's a baby specialist, although she also is able to do other parts with skill. Madeline got her unusual talent by imitating her four younger brothers and sisters, but she certainly never thought it would be anything but a parlor trick. She came to New York to study dress designing, gave that up to get married and have a baby of her own, and three years ago was persuaded by her friends to get a radio audition. Only a week after the audition — at which she squealed, chuckled and bawled in a way the audition committee had nevei heard before — she was called to work on an Al Jolson program. On Orphans of Divorce, of course, she plays Baby Sandy. The other members of the cast are Claire Wilson, Pat Peardon and Warren Bryan as Juliet, Joan and Dick Worthington; Geraldine Kay and James Krieger as Barbara and Alex Pratt, and Vivia Ogden as Annie. SAY HELLO TO . . MARVIN MUELLER — whom you hear as Dr. Lee Markham in The Woman in White, NBC-Red at 10:45. Marvin is also a poet, a fact that's proved by the listing of his name in the "Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Poets." He began his radio work in St. Louis eight years ago, and now lives in Chicago. Marvin's married, is five feet eleven inches tall, weighs 195 pounds and has dark brown hair and eyes. He also plays the role of Howard Andrews in Midstream, but since that's on the Blue network at the same time Woman in White is on the Red, he can only be in one show when the action of the other doesn't need him. 46 RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR