Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

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Poling CBS: Our Gal Sunday CBS: The Goldbergs CBS: Life Can be Beautiful NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph CBS: This Day is Ours CBS: Road of Life NBC-Red: Fed. Women's Clubs CBS: Doc Barclay's Daughters NBC-Blue: Music Appreciation NBC-Red: Betty and Bob 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-Blue: The Chase Twins 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-Blue: Name It and Take It 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. HIM CBS: Hedda Hopper CBS: H. V. Kaltenborn NBC-Blue: Guidon Serenaders NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas CHS: Amos 'n' Andy NBC-Blue: Josef Marals NBC-Red: Fred Waring'. Gang CBS: Lum an' Abner NBC-Red: I Love a Mystery CBS: PROFESSOR QUIZ MBS: Tho Lono Ranger NBC-Blue: Yesterday's Children ( BS KATE SMITH NBC-Red: Cities Service Concert NBC-Blue. Carson Roblson's Buckaroos CBS: Johnny Presents NBC-Blue: Plantation Party NBC-Red Waltz Time < BS FIRST NIGHTER Mil -Red: Goorge Jessel ' BS Grand Central Station MBS: Raymond Gram Swing NBC-Red Lady Esther Soronade CBS Young Man With a Band NBC-Kid Behind the Hoadllnes FRIDAYS HIGHLIGHTS ■ Stella Dallas and Laurel — Anne Elstner and Vivian Smolen. Tune-En Bulletin for December 29, January 5, 12 and 19! December 29: It's getting near to 1940, and Colonel Stoopnagle solemnly observes the fact by broadcasting his New Year resolutions tonight on Mutual's Quixie Doodle show, 8 o'clock. . . . And Mutual celebrates its third anniversary of being a coastto-coast network with some special gala programs . . . Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra opens at the College Inn of the Hotel Sherman in Chicago tonight — you can listen over CSS. January 5: There's a championship prizefight coming to you tonight over NBC-Blue from Madison Square Garden in New York — between Melio Bettina and Fred Apostoli for the light heavyweight championship. Bill Stern does the announcing. January 12: Xavier Cugat's orchestra goes into the Colony Club, veddy-veddy swank Chicago night spot. It will broadcast over NBC. January 19: Benay Venuta's back on Mutual these Friday nights — listen to her at 9:30. I ON THE AIR TODAY: Stella Dallas, on NBC-Red at 4:15 this afternoon, E.S.T., sponsored by the Charles H. Phillips Chemical Company. Remember the heart-tugging movie that Barbara Stanwyck starred in a few years back — or the previous one with Belle Bennett as Stella? Well, here are the further adventures of Stella and Laurel and Steven. Anne Elstner plays Stella, bringing to the part all the experience and ability gained in a radio career that goes back to 1923, when she appeared in a radio version of her stage success, "Sun-Up." Old-time radio listeners will remember her as "Cracker" in the long-run series, Moonshine and Honeysuckle. She's a Southern girl — born at Lake Charles, Louisiana — and came to New York to go on the stage. Anne has brown hair, likes to ride, hunt and swim, and hopes to travel when she retires from radio work. She's married, and likes to putter around the house, cook and sew. In the role of Steven Dallas you hear Arthur Hughes. Talk to him away from the microphone and you'll find that his voice is the same in real life as it is over the air — deep and resonant, and warm with human understanding. He can change it, though, to play villains — and does, every now and then, for a part on some other program. Like Anne, he likes to travel, but his idea is to see America first — and always has been, even before the war. He's fond of plain American cooking, doesn't go in for night clubs, and spends many evenings in the theater. As Laurel, their daughter, Vivian Smolen has her first important radio job. She's a petite New York girl, unmarried and so far not even interested in marriage — in spite of the fact that her love-interest in the serial, Dick Grosvenor, is played by Macdonald Carey, one of radio's handsomest leading men. Carey is a comparative newcomer to radio, but he's gone a long way in a short time. Stella Dallas has two theme songs for your enjoyment — the haunting "Old Refrain," and "Memories," which is one more than most day-time serials use. The other folks in the cast are Jane Huston as Mrs. Grosvenor, Julie Benell as Helen Dallas, Richard Keith as Arthur Mason, and Arnold Moss as Ahmed. Like all the NBC serials which originate in New York, Stella Dallas is broadcast from one of the tiny studios in Radio City. Sound-proofed and windowless, these small studios honeycomb the third and fourth floors of the big RCA Building, and if you tried to find your way around without a guide you'd probably get lost. The big third-floor foyer, though, is a friendly place, where all the actors and actresses congregate before and after rehearsals. Gossip flies thick and fast there, because, with its roominess and comfortable chairs, the foyer is the nearest thing to a club New York radio actors have. 50 SAY HELLO TO . . . ETHEL OWEN— another of the Valiant Lady cast, who plays Abby Trowbridge. You also hear her regularly in character parts on Mr. District Attorney, Sunday evenings on NBC-Blue. Ethel only recently came to New York from Chicago, where she was doing all right on various programs. She just packed up and left, thinking she'd like to see how things were in New York. Now she's doing just as well there as in Chicago. Tall and blonde, Ethel is one of radio's best-dressed women. At rehearsals, when she's not actually at the mike, she sits in one corner of the studio, chatting and crocheting, which she says relaxes her. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR