Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

5g < 11:30 8:15 Eastern Standard Time CBS: Today In Europe NBC-Red: News NBC-Blue: The Wife Saver NBC-Red: Do You Remember NBC-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: Cadets Quartet CBS: Bachelor's Children NBC-Red: Edward MacHugh CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly NBC-Blue: Story of the Month NBC-Red: The Man I Married CBS: Myrt and Marge NBC-Blue: This Day is Ours 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 Younq's Family NBC-Red: David Harum CBS: Life Begins 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 MBS: Carters of Elm Street CBS: The Goldbergs NBC-Red: Rangers Serenade CBS: Life Can be Beautiful NBC-Blue: The Chase Twins NBC-Red: Ellen Randolph CBS: Right to Happiness NBC-Red: Let's Talk it Over NBC-Red: Words and Music CBS: Road of Life CBS: Lanny Ross NBC-Blue: How Do You Know NBC-Red: Betty and Bob CBS: Girl Interne NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter CBS: Your Family and Mine NBC-Red: Valiant Lady CBS: My Son and I NBC-Red: Hymns of All Churches CBS: Society Girl NBC-Blue: Orphans of Divorce NBC-Red: Mary Marlin CBS: Golden Gate Quartet NBC-Blue: Amanda of Honeymoon Hill 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 CBS: Manhattan Mother NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones CBS: Smilin' Ed McConnell NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown CBS: By Kathleen Norris NBC-Red: Girl Alone CBS: Billy and Betty NBC-Blue: Ireene Wicker NBC-Red: Midstream CBS: It Happened in Hollywood NBC-Blue: Bud Barton NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong CBS: Scattergood Baines MBS: Little Orphan Annie NBC-Blue: Tom Mix NBC-Red: The O'Neills CBS: News NBC-Red: The Guest Book CBS: Edwin C. Hill CBS: H. V. KALTENBORN NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas CBS: Amos 'n' Andy NBC-Blue: Easy Aces NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang NBC-Blue: Mr. Keen NBC-Red: I Love a Mystery CBS: Vo« Pop NBC-Blue: One of the Finest CBS: Ask it Basket NBC-Blue: Musical Americana NBC-Red: George Jessel CBS: Strange as it Seems NBC-Blue: Joe Penner NBC-Red: Those We Love CBS: MAJOR BOWES , hi i '. 1 1 r . Rochester Philharmonic NBC-Red: GOOD NEWS NBC-Blue: TOWN MEETING NBC-Red: Rudy Vallee CBS: Glenn Miller MBS: Raymond Gram Swing NBC-Red: KRAFT MUSIC HALL 1.8:00 8:00 8:00 8:15 8:15 8:30 9:00 9:00 8:05 8:05 9:05 9:05 2:30 9:15 8:30 9:30 8:45 8:45 9:45 9:45 9:00 9:00 9:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 9:15 9:15 9:15 10:15 10:15 10:15 9:30 9:30 9:30 10:30 10:30 10:30 9:45 9:45 9:45 10:45 10:45 10:45 10:00 10:00 10:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 10:15 10:15 10:15 11:15 11:15 11:15 10:30 10:30 10:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 10:45 10:45 11:45 11:45 11:00 12:00 11:15 11:15 11:15 12:15 12:15 12:15 11:30 11:30 11:30 12:30 12:30 12:30 11:45 11:45 12:45 12:45 12:00 12:00 1:00 1:00 12:15 12:15 12:15 1:15 1:15 1:15 12:30 12:30 1:30 1:30 12:45 12:45 1:45 1:45 1:00 1:00 1:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 1:15 1:15 2:15 2:15 1:30 1:30 2:30 2:30 1:45 1:45 2:45 2:45 2:00 2:00 2:00 3:00 3:00 3:00 2:15 2:15 3 ;15 3:15 2:15 3:15 2:30 2:30 3:30 3:30 2:45 2:45 3:45 3:45 3:00 3:00 4:00 4:00 3:15 4:15 3:30 3:30 4:30 4:30 3:45 3:45 4:45 4:45 4:00 4:00 5:00 5:00 6:00 4:15 4:15 5:15 5:15 5:15 4:30 4:30 5:30 5:30 5:30 4:4S 5:45 5:45 4:45 5:45 5:45 5:45 5:45 5:00 5:00 6:00 6:00 6:05 5:30 6:30 6:45 6:00 6:00 6:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 6:15 6:15 7:15 7:15 6:30 6:30 7:30 7:30 7:00 7:00 7:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 8:30 8:30 8:30 8:00 8:00 8:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 8:30 8:30 9:30 9:30 9:00 9:00 9:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 THURSDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS ■ Comedian Jessel, singer Benay Venuta, and announcer Grauer. Tune-In Bulletin for Februaury 29, March 7, 14, and 21 ! February 29: This is the day that makes 1940 a leap year — and Jimmy Dorsey celebrates his birthday today, too, for the first time in four years. ... In honor of the day, the Columbia Workshop relinquishes its time at 10:15 tonight to a special show called Leaping Out of Character. It's a crazy sort of program — different CBS celebrities will impersonate each other. March 7: Rudy Vallee is back, heading a new variety show from Hollywood, at 9:30 tonight on NBC-Red. . . . The new Good News, during the half-hour just before Vallee, stars Dick Powell, Mary Martin, Fannie Brice as Baby Snooks, and Meredith Willson's orchestra — with Connie Boswell and Edward Arnold missing. March 14: Radio's biggest orchestra devoted to light music is playing over NBC-Blue at 8:00 to night, in a program called Musical Americana. Raymond Paige directs and there will be a guest star. March 21: Bad news to Those We Love fans — it's scheduled to leave the air after another couple of broadcasts. You can hear it tonight on NBC-Red at 8:30, though. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: George Jessel's Celebrity Program, on NBC-Red from 8:00 to 8:30, sponsored by Vitalis. Celebrity program is the right name for this one, because it consists of George Jessel interviewing a handful of celebrities each week — interviewing them, and then asking them to do something to entertain the folks. Most of the celebrities, naturally, are from the stage, radio, or movies, but sometimes George gets a chance to have one from a different walk of life — like the Colorado youngster who wrote not long ago: "I want to be on your program for celebrities because I have hit more teachers in our school with spitballs without being caught than anybody else in the whole school. My friends all say I'm a genius. Will you send me carfare? My Pop says he won't give me any. . . ." Reluctantly, George had to refuse the offer. NBC has a rule against spitballs. George Jessel is one of the American stage's famous personalities. Although his experiences in the movies never brought him a great deal of success, he has been active in show business since the days when he and Eddie Cantor and Irving Berlin were kids singing and dancing in a Bowery beerhall. Sam Taub, the NBC sports announcer, lived near that beerhall and knew George and the others — nowadays when he meets George in Radio City he always asks after Eddie and Irving — but he didn't approve of bee. and never heard them perform. Benay Venuta has only recently beer added to the Celebrity program as a permanent soloist, joining the show after having had a variety hour of her own over Mutual. The blonde Benay is an asset to any broadcast, with her lusty, hearty, singing voice and her good humor. Sharing honors as George's comedy stooges, and doing their own jobs well into the bargain, are Peter Van Steeden, the orchestra leader, and Ben Grauer, announcer. The handsome Van Steeden, who also leads the band and cracks wise with Fred Allen, has another side to his activities you probably don't know about, with your ears deafened by the publicity surrounding such band leaders as Benny Goodman or Glenn Miller. During the Junior Prom season in Eastern colleges and prep schools, his band is constantly on the go, because it's the most popular musical group in the business for these affairs. Ben Grauer, whose first name is Bennett, not Benjamin, was a child movie actor back in the days when Theda Bara and Pauline Frederick were stars. Later, he took juvenile roles on the stage. An audition for a dramatic role in radio in 1930 ended his theatrical career and started him on his way to being one of the air's top-flight announcers. SAY HELLO TO . . . VIRGINIA SALE — who is Martha, the cook, on tonight's serial. Those We Love, on NBC-Red at 8:30. She's the youngest sister of the late Chic Sale, comedian, and is herself one of Hollywood's busiest character actresses. On the stage she has appeared in her own one-woman show of sketches she wrote. The characters she plays are usually elderly, but Virginia is young, slender, and pretty. She was born in Urbana, Illinois, is Mrs. Sam Wren in private life, and has a son and a daughter, twins, who were born on Washington's Birthday, 1936. Besides acting, she does solo dancing and has a lovely soprano voice. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR