Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

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NBC-Red: The Crackerjacks CBS: Bull Session NBC-Blue: Ross Trio NBC-Red The Wise Man NBC-Blue: Rakov Orchestra NBC-Red: No School Today CBS: Hill Billy Champions NBC-Blue: Charioteers NBC-Red: Bright Idea Club NBC-Blue: The Child Grows Up CBS: Young People's Concert NBC-Blue: Cloutier Orch. NBCRed: 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 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: Del Courtney Orchestra CBS: News NBC-Red: Kaltenmeyer Kindergarten CBS: Albert Warner NBC-Blue: Let 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: What's My Name CBS: Sky Blazers NBC-Hlue: Uncle Jim's Question Bee NBC-Red: Art for Your Sake CHS. Gang Busters IBI i:in. Tin Green Hornet NIK Red: Glenn Miller Orchestra CBS: Wayne King's Orch. NHC-Blue: Youth vs. Age . I : < 1 •■ ■ • 1 Stop Me If You've Heard This On* < BS YOUR HIT PARADE i:' k.i.i. National Barn Dance NBC-Red: ARCH OBOLER'S PLAYS '. IK Red: Daatn Vallev Days CBS. Saturday Night Serenade NBC-Red Bob Crosby NBC-Blue: NBC symphony ( MS Cay Nineties Review NBC-Red: Dance Music SATURDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS ■ Joe Howard and Beatrice Kay in a Gay Nineties number. Tune-In Bulletin for December 30, January 6, 13 and 20! December 30: This isn't really New Year's Eve, but you can start celebrating — and your Studio Snooper bets you will — if you like. . . . From I 1:30 A.M. to noon, CBS puts on a program from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Bob Trout announcing. This is the first time in the history of the Exchange a microphone has been allowed there. . . . Desire de Fauw, Belgian conductor, directs the NBC Symphony orchestra for the last time tonight, NBC-Blue at 10:00. . . . CBS presents Twelve Crowded Months, reviewing the news highlights of the last year, from 10:15 to 11:15 tonight. January 6: Bernardino Molinari, famous Italian conductor, starts a month's series of concerts with the NBC Symphony tonight — NBC-Blue at 10:00 . . . Bob Crosby and his orchestra take over the Camel Caravans — tonight at 10:00, NBC-Red. January 13: One of the quiz shows that has proved its popularity over a long period of months has moved to NBC-Red. It is called What's My Name — tonight at 7.00. January 20: There's a rip-roaring aviation-adventure program on CBS at 7:30 tonight, called Sky Blazers, and starring Colonel Roscoe Turner. ON THE AIR TONGHT: The Gay Nineties Revue, on CBS from 10:15 to 10:45, starring Joe Howard and Beatrice Kay. Here's a rambunctious show that kids the living daylights out of the Good Old Days and gives everybody listening in a lot of fun in the process. Everybody in the CBS playhouse where it originates has a lot of fun too, because all the singers and actors appear on the stage wearing Gay Nineties costumes. As its master of ceremonies you hear Joe E. Howard, who is 73 years old this January. Quite a character, Joe is. He's been in the entertainment business sixty years, has made and lost $1,500,000 in that time, has written more than five hundred songs, some of them international hits, once claimed the bantomweight boxing championship of the world, has been married seven times and now is the proud father of a nine-year-old son, and is still going very strong. You've sung or whistled many of his songs — one you must remember is "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?" which sold three million copies. Another big success was "Somewhere in France is the Lily," for which he received $50,000 for the recording rights alone. The songs Joe sings on the Gay Nineties Revue are all those he has written himself, and he's nowhere near the end of the iist, though he's been with the show ever since a few weeks after it first went on the air last July. The Revue's "soubrette" or comedienne is Beatrice Kay, of the high and squeaky voice. Beatrice was a successful stage and night club singer before she came to radio. The other members of the company, with Ray Bloch's orchestra, are the Elm City Four — Philip Reep, first tenor, Claude Reese, second tenor, Hubie Hendry, baritone, and Darrel Woodyard, bass — the Floradora Girls, who are Elizabeth Newberger, Marjorie Bullard and Ann Seaton; Billie Green, who appears with Beatrice in comedy skits, soprano Genevieve Rowe, and Broadway Harry, who is played by Frank Lovejoy. It's not as much of a job as you might think to dig up old costumes for every broadcast. Different costumes are used each week, but Beatrice has a large collection of them, left to her by her mother, a famous modiste, and two great-aunts who were noted costumers back in the nineties. She even has a pair of red cotton stockings with lace inserts in the insteps, which belonged to her grandmother but were never worn because Grandma's family considered them too naughty. Other old-time clothes, for Beatrice and the rest of the cast, come from professional costumers. SAY HELLO TO . . . BERNARDINO MOLINARI— The present conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, heard tonight on the Blue network at 10:00. While not as famous as his countryman Toscanini, Molinari is one of Italy's best-known conductors, internationally as well as in his own country. He's tall and rather stern-looking, but the musicians who work with him say he isn't as forbidding as he looks. In music, he likes modern composers almost as well as the classical ones, and you'll probably hear him leading the NBC men in at least one or two new compositions. He's scheduled to continue directing the orchestra through February 3. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR