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Id jO E <■■■ £<u oi "sE ls 5o "■z < H 8:00 </) 8:05 8:05 2:30 2:30 8:30 8:45 8:45 1:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 1:15 9:15 9:15 9:15 1:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 1:45 9:45 9:45 9:45 10:d5 10:00 10:00 10:00 11:30 10:15 8:15 10:15 10:15 11:00 10:30 10:30 10:30 11:15 10:45 10:45 9:00 11:00 9:15 11:15 9:15 11:15 9:15 11:15 9:30 11:30 9:30 11:30 9:30 11:30 9:45 11:45 10:00 12:00 10:15 12:15 10:15 12:15 10:30 12:30 10:30 12:30 10:45 12:45 12:45 Eastern Standard Time 8:00 CBS: Today In Europe 8:00 NBC-Red: Variety Show 8:15 8:15 9:00 9:00 9:05 9:05 9:15 9:30 9:45 9:45 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:15 10:30 10:30 10:30 10:45 10:45 10:45 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:15 11:15 11:15 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:45 11:45 12:15 12:15 12:15 12:30 12:30 12:30 12:45 1:00 1:15 1:15 1:30 1:30 11:00 11:00 11:45 11:45 12:00 12:00 12:15 12:15 12:15 12:30 12:30 12:45 12:45 1:00 1:00 1:15 1:30 1:45 2:00 2:00 2:15 2:30 2:30 2:45 5:15 3:00 3:00 8:00 4:00 8:00 4:15 8:15 4:30 9:00 8:30 4:00 0:30 9:30 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:00 7:00 1 1 00 7 00 2 00 2 2 2 NBC-Blue: The Wile Saver NBC-Red: Do You Remember CBS: Phil Cook's Almanac -Red: Gene and Glenn CBS: Woman of Courage NBC: News NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB NBC-Red: Happy Jack CBS: School of the Air NBC-Red: Edward Mac Hugh CBS: Bachelor's Children NBC-Red: Life Can be Beautiful CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly NBC-Blue: Story of the Month NBC-Red: The Man I Married CBS: Myrt and Marge NBC-Blue: The Right to Happiness NBC-Red: John's Other Wife CBS: Hilltop House NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill CBS: Stepmother NBC-Blue: Midstream NBC-Red: Woman in White CBS: Mary Lee Taylor NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family NBC-Red: David Harum CBS: Brenda Curtis NBC-Blue: Young Dr. Malone NBC-Red: Road of Life CBS: Big Sister NBC-Blue: Rosa Lee NBC-Red: Against the Storm CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories NBC-Red: The Guiding Light CBS: Kate Smith Speaks CBS: When a Girl Marries NBC-Blue: Southernaires NBC-Red: The O'Neills CBS: Romance of Helen Trent NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour NBC-Red: American Life CBS: Our Gal Sunday CBS: The Goldbergs CBS: Life Can be Beautiful NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph CBS: This Day is Ours NBC-Red: Let's Talk it Over NBC-Red: Words and Music CBS: Road of Life CRS Lannv Ross NBC-Blue: Ideas That Came True NBC-Red: Betty and Bob NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm'j Daughter CBS: Your Family and Mine NBC-Red: Valiant Lady CBS: My Son and I NBC-Red: Hymns of All Churches CBS: Girl Interne NBC-Red: Mary Marlin CBS: Society Girl NBC-Blue: The Chase Twins NBC-Red: Ma Perkins NBC-Blue: Affairs of Anthony 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 30 CBS: Manhattan Mother 30 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones 45 CMS: Smilin' Ed McConnell 45 NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown 00 CBS: By Kathleen Norris 00 NBC-Red: Girl Alone 15 CBS: Billy and Betty 15 NBC-Red: Midstream 30 CBS: It Happened in Hollywood 30 NBC-Blue: Bud Barton 30 NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong 45 CBS: Scattergood Baines 45 NBC-Blue: Tom Mix 00 CBS: News 00 NBC-Red: The Guest Book 05 < US: Edwin C. Hill 30 CBS: H. V. KALTENBORN 45 NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas 00 ( BS: Amos 'n' Andy 00 NBC-Blue: Easy Aces 00 NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang IS NBC-Blue: Mr. Keen 15 NBC-Red: I Love a Mystery 30 CBS: Vox Pop 30 NBC-Blue: Ono of the Finost :00 ( Its Ask it Basket :00 NBC-Blue: Musical Americana uo NBC-Red: George Jossol :30 CBS: Strange at it Seems :30 NBC-Blue: Joe Pennor :30 NBC-Red: Thoso Wo Love 00 CHS: MAJOR BOWES 00 NB( Blue: Rochester Philharmonic 00 NBC Red: GOOD NEWS 00 10 00 10 00 10 NB( I'll" AMERICA'S TOWN MEETING 00 ' I'.S Glonn Miller 00 MBS: Raymond Gram Swing 00 NBC Red: KRAFT MUSIC HALL THURSDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS ■ The Society Girl cast goes to work on a broadcast. Tune-in Bulletin for February 1, 8, 15 and 22! February I: If you live in the Eastern time zone, you can listen to Woman of Courage, a good serial, this morning — in the north at 9:00 and in the south at 10:15. February 8: Jimmy Dorsey closes tonight at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago, so it's your last chance to hear him from 'there on NBC. ■" February 15: For a half hour of unusual 'music — listen to Musical Americana, directed by Raymond Paige on NBC-Blue at 8:00. February 22: We're celebrating the birthday of the Father of His Country today — George Washington — with appropriate programs from CBS, MBS, and NBC. . . . Mutual begins a new series of afternoon programs that sounds interesting — it's called Recent American Short Stories, and it's heard at 2:45, E.S.T. ON THE AIR TODAY: Society Girl, on CBS at 3:15 P.M., E.S.T., sponsored by Linit and Kre-Mel. Most radio serials deal with ordinary folks — the kind who sometimes don't have enough money but never have too much. Society Girl is different. Practically everyone in the story is rich, and glamour is rampart. It's a dramatized "at-home" of Cafe Society, that strange and very modern blend of Park Avenue's wealth, Broadway's brains and Hollywood's beauty. Bryn Clark Barrington, the heroine, is the 1940 Glamour Girl No. I, "fourth richest girl in the world." But if you think even rich glamour girls don't have their trials and tribulations, listen in to Society Girl. The producers of Society Girl planned at first to cast a real member of New York's blue-blooded 400 in the role of Bryn Barrington. Audition calls were noised around at Junior League meetings and within a week Roger White, the director, was being beseiged by would-be talent in the form of mink-coated heiresses. The casting directors almost went crazy, but they couldn't find a suitable Bryn in the lot. Finally they found her, in Charlotte Manson, an eighteen-year-old stage actress who never attended a Junior League meeting in her life. In the picture above you see the cast of Society Girl at a regular broadcast. Left to right, they are Irving Kaufman, who plays Ben Parsons, the typical American grocer who reads the commercial an nouncements, Ted Steele, who plays the theme song and musical bridges on the Novachord, Beatrice Miller as Mrs. Constance Grant, Alexander Kirkland as Russell Barrington, Jackie Coogan as a playboy Broadway producer, Charlotte Manson, and Bernard Zaneville as a Broadway musician. Being in the cast of Society Girl is always interesting because from time to time celebrities are written into the script for a few weeks. Elaine Barrie Barrymore was a villainous Countess for three weeks, and Jackie Coogan did fine as the Broadway producer. The program almost has "Ted-itis," because when someone calls "Ted!" answers come from Ted Cott, the producer, Ted Miller, the engineer, and Ted Steele, the musical director. Steele not only plays the theme song, "Sunrise Serenade," but composes the musical bridges himself. If you're one of the curious listeners who have written in to ask how many pieces there are in the Society Girl orchestra, here's the answer — just one, a Novachord, one of those modern electric instruments that sounds like a whole band. Not shown in the picture is Ed Jerome, who plays Bryn's father, Dwight Barrington. Her "mother" was in Europe when the program first went on the air, and until the present navigation hazards of war are over will stay there, so the part won't be cast until she returns. Another character not in the picture is Jim Backus, who plays Dexter Hayes, the millionaire aviator. 50 SAY HELLO TO . . . HANLEY STAFFORD — the nation's most long-suffering and harassed father. He plays Daddy to Fannie Brice's Baby Snooks on tonight's airing of the Good News program, at 9:00 on NBC-Red. Hanley Stafford isn't his real name — he was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, England, and adapted the name of his birthplace for his own use. A member of the Canadian army in the World War, he was wounded at Ypres, and organized a dramatic group during his convalescence. He's been associated with some branch of the theater ever since. He's a "daddy" away from the mike, too — his 17-year-old son wants to be an actor too. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR