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731 PlYMOlJTH CT. RADIO GUIDE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

RELIGION (^) AND RADIO

A GUEST EDIT OR I A L

By The R ev. Henr y Scott Rubel

(WHO WRITES FOR PICTURES AND RADIO UNDER THE NAME OF HAL RAYNOR)

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INCE J was eight years old I have been inter·

ested in radio. I had my first commercial wire- less.operator's license the first year they were issued by the Government, in 1912. The progress that has been made in radio has been very close to miraculous. Little did any 01 us think when we we re toss ing about on the broad expanse of the Atlantic Oce an listening to the faint buzzes from Cape Cod thai some day a little child would flip a switch and turn on music hom London, speeches from Praque. and instantaneous reports born all parts 01 the world. Belore we speak more of radio, let us define religion. Christ defined religion as a Way. a Truth, and a Lile, or material. intell ec tual and spir- itual, and the purpose of this religion wa s to bring about the fatherhood of God and the bro therhood

of man. This is the Kingdom 01 Heave n as far as

this world is concerned. There ca n be no higher ideal than that complete love 01 God and love of neighbor, and this ideal is the common ground on which Jew and Gentile agree and unite. If re- ligion is to bring about an international unity of humanity - materially. intelJectually and spiritu. ally - then radio is a divine agent. Radio is lighl haveling al the rate of 300,000, meters a second (186,000 miles). Thai means radio has placed Tokyo, Moscow. Berlin, London, Rome, Washington and Paris splil seconds apart. In abort, radio has shrunk the world to the point when Washington is closer to London today than New York was to Philadelphia a hundred and fifty years ago. Millions of people all over the world listened to the speeches of Benes. Hitler, Mussolini and Chamberlain in the recent war scare. Millions of people, speak. ing many dilferent languages, had II deep interest in the welfare 01 the people in a small, distant republic in southeastern Europe. As we understand our neigh.

Jigious force. Thai is why I feel that radio is a powerfu l agent of religion, and if, through radio, the fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man is brought about, then the two words will become synonymous and radio will have fulfilled its great- est destiny. The atonement for the sins of greed and selfish· ness becom e the al-one-ment 01 all races and na· tions knit together for the primary purpose of making this word a heavenly habitation for every human creature,

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bors. our sympathy and interest in them grows. We see in Ihe Chinese and Ethiopian a br other with the same virtues and faults as the members of our own house- hold.

Who Is Your Star of Stilrs? The Radio Newsreel Airiatto Lowdown Hollywood Showdow n L et's Look Back s tage Lilitening to Learn Th is Week', Programs On Short Waves Birthdays

With the advent of television, we shall look in upon the people of Ihe world as well as hear their words. We shall be, Visually and

auditorily. a fraction 01 a second

from every man, woman and child in the world. It will be very diffi· cult then 10 preach doctrines of race haired and nationalistic prow-

Proud and Proud of It Easter F ashion_Then and Now

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4 Musical Giant: Tschalkowlky 5 Coming Event. Insid e "The In side Story" Atom·Smasher The March of Playbill: " T he L ight"

M ualc Guiding

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Crossword Punle Mr. Fairfax Repllea

M. L ANNEN BERG. Publisher CURTIS M ITCHEL L, Editor

Cover Picture It 's jusl a hunch, of course, but we believe that many of our readers must be as tired as we are of seeing s tars. Fo r all the years of RADIO GUIDE'S life, we have published nothing but famous faces on our covers. Herewith we present for your approval a new policy which will, in effect, mix in with our parade 01 familiar and celebrat ed phy si og· nomies, s ome of which you have never se en. In brief, instead of glorifying the stars we hope to glorify the radio li s tener. This week, for instance, we submit two grand old folk whose end-of·life is made rich and full because of their love for each other and their appreci a ti on of broadcasting. They are the couple everyone kn ows, the couple down the block; and they are foremost among those millions to wh om radio is an ev erlasting blessing,

The Circle It is time, finally, for us to report further on The Circle, that S30,000 package of talent which we anticipated with a rousing two·page slory inviting our readers to get an earful of the nalion's most expensive entertainment. You know the result. The Circle has been the biggest disappointment of the year, according to the radio trade-press. The man who produced it has had a nervous breakdown, the big stars have pulled out, the public hasn't accepted it. We pause now to wonder why. and we do not think we are going oul of our way to be nasty to Hollywood when we say it was because too much dependence was placed in untrained peop le. Ron- ald Colman, Carole Lombard, Cary

Grant, the Marx Brothers- none 01

these were radio names, None 01

these had enough mike experi- ence. For example, Colman had

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been on the air on two previ o us oc casions, Lombard had done a half-dozen guesl appearan ces, Cary Grant had done no more , the Marx Brothers had done a short radio series several years ago and a few gues t appearances since. Altogeth. er, they had less radio experience

than anyone of a hundred Wile·

known character · actresses in a script.show. We think this is a shining ex · ample of how not to build a radio show. We think the public ha s re- alized. at long last, thai movie ess. It will be difficult to get men to deslroy the lives and property they have been so very close 10.

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glamour does not come out of a loudspeaker. Radio lalent which is that quality which makes for good radio entertainment cannot be counterfeited. and substitule talents will not suffice.

Radio is light and religion is the force 01 enlightenment. The light 01 the world. The light of love, faith II.nd hope shining in Ihe dark· ness 01 fear, suspicion and despair, Any force which draws mankind more closely together is a re-

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V. KALTENBORN. dean 01 the air's news commenlatOf8 and

• the ma n 01 the minute when sober judgmen t is needed in radio re- porting. says thai if he lived in Ge r· many, where his folks came from, he would be Baron Hans von Kaltenborn. Thai is one of the lew errors of re- porting thai can be charged to Mr. Kaltenborn's account. II he lived in Germany. he would be Baron Hans von Kaltenbom only in an epitaph. For his head would bave been lopped off long before now. The crime would have been talking too much and telling the truth. Mr. Kaltenborn, nee Baron. loves to eat goose grease on while bread. to drink beer and to talk. Neither hell, h igh water nor II crisis can shut him up. And that's what's made him fa- mous after sixteen years of plugging along 88 a reporter wi th pencil and pronunciation. Mr. Kaltenbom enjoys the BOund 01 his own voice. So do

PROLJD

BY JAMES STREET

H. V. KALTENBORN LIKES TO HEAR

KAL T ENBORN TALK ; SO DO MILLIONS

OF OT H ER INDIVIDUAL AMERI CANS

millions 01 other persona, and we can forgive him il he's proud and proud 01 it. But th ere's an inspiring charac- teristic about the man - he doesn't give a whoop whether we forgive him or not. He leads his own Iile, and you, and you and the world can take it or lump it. He is suly yean old and too old to

change his ways, even if he wanted to, which he doesn't. And he's just about the most individuallstic man ever to hold aloft the banne r 01 reason while so many men are waving the bloody shirt. His people came from a l and where individualism is supposed to bave died, But it hasn'!. Thank God there'll always be Burkes

In Ireland, Pitts in England, Burnses in Scolland, Lalayett es in France and Kal· tenborns in Germany, His father, Baron Rudolph von Kal- l enborn, was a two-lis ted individualist, an officer of the H essian Guards_ Many years ago when Prussia reached out and snatc h ed Hesse (it's an old Eu- ropean and Ame r ican custom), BaTon Rudolph von Kaltenborn couldn ' t stomach the steal. so he chucked h is title out 01 the window and came to America, where, even in that I)r a of robber barons and land larceny , a man could enjoy a measure of liberty. He settled in Milwaukee. There were many Germans in Milwaukee and they called Kaltenborn by his titled name. It was one of the oldest names in Germany. A Kaltenborn had been minister of war and, as a boy, Rudolph Kaltenborn was a page at court. The family still is listed as Von Kaltenborn- St ac han in the Almanach de Gotha, wh ich ranks with Burke'. Peerage as

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the Who's Who of nobility. It also is an excellent reference for the study of has·beeIl5. But gradually in Milwaukee, the folks began calling the baron just plain Rudolph Kaltenborn. He was a dealer in building supplies and was a writer and poet of sorts, and a top-hand pub- lic speaker. His wile formerly was Belly Wessels, and their son, HaIl5, was born on July 9, 1878. His mother was a New York school·teacher and had been to Germany to study when she met his father on shipboard. They were married in New York, and lit out for the West, where the bridegroom had a job and not much else. Back in Germany, Rudolph Kalten· born would have been al least II. middle-size shot, but in the new land he was just another German immigrant trying to get along, and It was tough going, Hans got in the habit of work· ing hard as a boy, and he never has gotten out of it. He attended Milwaukee public schools until 1891, when his family moved to the little town of Merrill, Wis.. where his father entered the building.supplies business. There the boy aUended high school and learned to juggle balls and balance a straw on his nose. That's not very much to learn at high school, but the tricks probably saved his life in the 1927 Chinese revolution. He was a good student. even in high school. English was hi, favorite sub- ject, and he disliked physics. "The fondest memories 01 my early days are the times I caught trout in the Prairie River," he recalled, "the winters I spent in the woods, the swim· ming in the Wisconsin River and the time I smoked corn·tassels. I've never smoked since. The saddest memory 01 my early days is the time my lirst girl went back on me."

SOME men are born lor adventure,

and Kaltenborn is one 01 them. He

looks and acts as though he were a college professor, a cousin about lour limes removed to Casper Milquetoast. His Harvard accents, his pince ·nez, his enthusiasm for living-they don't make lor the Richard Harding Davis type of vagabond journalist, but few, if any, writers or lecturers of the last decade have had the adventures 01 the proper and proud Mr. Kaltenborn. He has talked with the mighty. He didn't re- alize recognition until he was a middle- aged man. He aaw flamboyant and

childhood hero was Robinson Crusoe and in real Iile, Dana of the New York Sun. "My own experiences were Ihe chief influences of my childhood. The neces· sity 01 fighting my way against pov· erty and small·town IimitatioIl5 also in· fluenced me, as did Shakespeare and books of newspaper adventure." In the Milwaukee schools he was selected several times lor declamation contests and was a natural publiC speaker. He liked the theater, but at Merrill he had little or no opportunity to enjoy good shows. However, al Milwaukee he saw a performance he never has forgotten. It was his first show. Kaltenborn said, "It was 'The Private Secretary' - a marvelous performance seen from the paan\lt gallery of the Bijou Theater at a Sunday matinee. My parents didn't know I attended the per· lormance." In MerrilL the boys called Kalten· born "Spiderleqs." He could never adapt himself to the small town. He worked in his lather's supply house a bit, then ran away to a lumber camp and worked as waterboy. Back home

spite 01 hi. lather'. warning that it was a precarious way to earn bread and b\lUer. America truly was the land 01 oppor· tunity and platitudes in those mauve days. Preachers and editors insisted, and perhaps correctly so, that all men are created equal, including peons; that everything comes 10 him who works and waits, including sharecroppers: and Kaltenborn believed it. He apparently still doe.. He believed any man could get what he wanted if he worked for it. He has every reason to believe so. Adventure began calling him in 1899, and he hung \lp his scissors and left the city desk 01 the Advocate to the cockroaches and rats and hied aWillY to a lumber camp. He sant sto· rles back to the paper and kept in good with the boss. Then one day, reading his favorite paper. the iI·you· see·jt·in·the·Sun·irs·so New York Sun, he got a yen to see the Paris Exposition, which was all set. so he lelt his ax and headed eas!. Some say he rode a freight trillin. Others say, being a re.- porter, he got a pass. Railroads used to give reporters passes. Of course. in those days reporters never called rail·

and PROUD OF IT

spectacular commentator. flhoot up the ladder while he plodded along. But last year, when the world stag· gered to the brink 01 war, tottered drunkenly on the ramparts and stag· gered away again, radio looked around tor the best man to tell the world about it, and Kaltenhorn was the man. He was ready. He was ready because everything he has done since child· hood helped equip him to know the world and the ways 01 men who run and ruin it. Yet, at twenty-one he'd never seen a great painting or heard a great symphony. He was a city editor 01 a small newspaper, and every day he sat at his desk, the rim 01 the world, and watched news How under his eyes. but he never helped make it and re- ported only the doings 01 the sewing· circles and rowl of the town meetings. "When t was a boy I wanted to be a newspaperman," he said. "My father urged me to preler business as afford· ing a more certain livelihood. My

he returned to his father's employ and worked for him until the Spanish .Am· erican War was declared. Hans was nineteen when that comic· opera war broke out, and, like his own country, was sulfering with growing pains and wanted 10 light somethlng- not particular what it was, just some· thing. He reckoned hi.s parents would lor · bid his enlistment because he was under age. So he lied about his age, stuffed himself on bananas and water to make the weight·limit. and joined the Fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He fought the war in an Alabama train· ing-camp as a top sergeant, and his memories of conflict are concerned mostly with boredom and spoiled food. Mustered out. he rode a Misaissippi River sidewheeler back north and got a job as city editor 01 the Merrill Advo- cate. Previously, he had reported a bit lor the Merrill DaUy News and was determined to be a newspaperman in

roads the steel ribs 01 the robber barons and other bad names. In New York, young Hans slept in ten-cent flophouses and saved his pen· nies. His only extravagance was a daily investment in the Sun (Yes, Vir· ginia. there is a Santa Claus). He read all about the Paris lair and hung around the docks waiting to hitch a ride to Europe. Finally he got a berth on a cattle-boat and headed for Liverpool. He', never been headed since. He got paid for crossing the Atlantic. He 's crossed it scores of times since, and always gets paid. He saw Paris and, liking France, de.- cided to tour the country. 11 was one of the wisest decisions a man ever made. He was a level·headed fellow even then. He knew German perfectly. having learned it from his people. And he elected to learn French. A man who can speak several languages never will slarve. Some day schools will con· vince students that a man is ignorant

until he knows at leut two languages. and then our horizons will not be the end 01 the block where we live. HaIl5 gol a job peddling stereo- scopes. He bought ill bike and really saw Europe, knocking on doors, ring· ing bells and mingling with the folks. And he learned French. And he learned the heartl and minds 01 the people. Two years later, in 1902, he returned to New York, wililked across the Brook· lyn bridge iIInd wrote a poem about it. The editor of the Brooklyn E:agle was so impressed with the poem that he bought it iIInd gave the lanky poet ill job handling the stock·tables at S8 a week. There is no poetry in high, low and bid. but Hans stuck. He even had the great privilege of covering night assignments for his paper. He got no money, but he got his stuff printed -and think 01 the interesting people he met. Those were the days when reo porters worked lor nothing. and little 01 that. It took the ambitious reporter only a few years to realize he was not edu· cated. He prepared himself lor Har· vard and in 1905 entered. During his

DurLng the European crisis lut ynr that skyrocketed him to fame. H. V. KaLtenborn literally lived In the ItudLo. Above: Resting

freshman summer vacation, he says he "swallowed lour years 01 Latin while act!ng as a tutor." He was an excellent student. a Phi Beta Kappa and winner 01 two prizes in oratory and debat!ng. It was in Harvard that he learned he was an extemporaneous speaker. He was slated to speak a piece from "Gentlemen: The King!" And he forgot his lines, but made up new sentences and ad·Jibbed his way to lame In Harvard. The judges awarded him a prIze, and he hasn't stopped talking yet. He earned extra money in colleqe by writing lor New York papers. Hi s favorite sport was cross-country run· ning. but he had to give it up lor lack of time. Deepite the lacthe had 10 eam his way, Hans won the Coolidge prize as Harvard', bast debater. the Boylston Prize as the best public speak· er, and was one of the organizers and business manager 01 the Harvard (Continued on Paqe 37}

TSCHAIKOWSKY:

CRYING GENllJS

M us i c al G i a nt S e ri e s N o.

BY LEONARD LIEBLING

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N A blowy afternoon in April.

1991. a small and nervous group stood on a New York pier wail- ing lor a boat born Europe. "What do you think he'll be like?" "Well, I've heard he's very excitable. but then most Russians are. He'll prob- ably be eccentric, too."

"It's thriIHng ... imagine. rachai-

kowsky is the first gTeat composer ever to come to America," "I wonder if he'll like us as much ilB we like hi. music." Sighs of relief as the live welcomers watched the gangplank lowered. All 01 them recognized the slim, gray- bearded man with the deep. sensilive dark eyes, the full soil mouth with its hinl 01 weakness. However, he looked distraught, completely miserable and

ready to bursl into lears. He was

homesick and wished himself thou- slInds 01 miles away in Moscow. "I regretted ever having undertaken this insane voyage," he wIOte later to his brother Modeste. "I was met by four very amiable gentlemen and a lady, who took me to the Hotel Nonnandie. Alter all these people had gone. I walked up and down my room and shed many tears ... I dressed and went lor a stroll on Broadway. An extraordinary street. Houses of one and two stories alternate with some nine· storied buildings (l). Most original. When I got back I began crying again." wter in the week, Tschaikowsky stopped crying long enough to receive a tremendous ovation at the inaugura. tion 01 Carneqie Hall, when he con· ducted some 01 his music at its open· ing concert. He shared the program with a young. highly talented conduc· tor named Walter Damlosch. In an· other JeICer to Modeste, Tschaikowsky marveled, "I am ten times more lamous in America than I am in Eu- rope .. I am a much more impor- tant person here than in Russia. Is not that curious?" However, the whole American trip was an agony to him, despite ovations, Jare sights€9ing and the lavish hos- pitality 01 the Americans, whose gen- uine kindness impressed him pro- foundly. But a throbbing ache 01 homesickness never 1elt him, and the happiest day 01 the American adven- ture was when he boarded the boat to go home. All these people who were so kind and meant so well-how could they know or understand his morbid dread 01 meeting strangers. his path. ological dislike of any social contacts? Only one person had ever really un- derstood that. And the thought of her

brought a.a many tears to his eyea ill!

his nostalqia. For it was more than

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eight months since word bad come from her ... alter fourteen years of the strangest relationship in musical history. Fourteen years during which Nadejda von Meck. wealthy Russian widow, and Peter Tschaikowsky ex- changed the most companionable and intimate kind of letters. And yet they never met! Left a widow in her early forties, with eleven children, Nadejda von Meek had retired from the social world. Rul- ing over ber little kingdom 01 children and grandchildren. she believed her life's purpose fulfilled. (In those days a woman of forty was considered well on in years.) She rarely went out and saw almost no one, admitting only a Jew outsiders to her home circle. among them Nicholas Rubinstein. di- rector 01 the Moscow Conservatory 01 Music_ Recoqnizing in Nadejda a sym· pathetic audlence. he liked to gossip about his students and faculty. Among the latter. he said, WII.8 one who had quite extraordinary talent for compos-

The great AUilian composer, Peter Tschaikowsky (left), suffered from a psychological malady that made him shun social contacts. For fourteen year. he corrtlponded with Nadejda von Meek (above), without meeting her

ing, although he had not started his musical studies until the age of twen- ty-one. "He's a gentleman, you understand," Nicholas assured Nadejda, "but he hasn't much money except what he earns at the conservatory. It's hard go- ing for him. but he gave up a good job as clerk in the Ministry of Justice 10 study music:' Nadejda listened symp<lthetically. She liked music with a tndy Russian fervor. and admired men who can· quered handicape and achieved things. "Shall I play you something of Tschaikowsky?" Nadejda nodded as· sent. Nicholas went to the piano and per· formed the music from "The Tempest," symphonic lantasy composed several years belore. Its ellect on Ihe widow was instantaneous and complete. It lost Rubinstein's conservatory an excellent professor 01 musical theory. It started a new life for Nadejda. And it paved Tschaikows1cy's way lor the creation

of some of the world's greatest arl. For NilIdejda von Meck had fallen literally head over heels in love ... with Tschaikowsky's music! Immediately she commiuioned. a work from him and wrole him. "For several days alter hearing your 'Tem- pest' I was in a delirium from which I could not emerge:' She begged. for his photograph. But never did she propose a meeting. She understood his morbid aversion to meeting people and sensed. his need for one person in whom he could have complete confidence. Early in their relationship she wrote: ''There was a time when I was very anxious to make your personal acquaintanC9; but now the more you lascinate me. Ihe more I fear your presence; I pre{er 10 think of you from afar; to hear you speak in your musk and through it to share your feelings." Tschaikowsky answered in kind: "That we both suffer Irom one and the SlIme malady would alone hrinq tiS (Continued on Page 38)

COMING EVENTS

Previews o f so m e o f th i s wee k 's b ette r (^) pr og ra ms

THE WEEK'S BEST DRAM A

Sunday, NBC In contrast to the whimsical, imagi - native plays 01 Barrie and Maelerlinck heard recenlly on "Great Plays," this week we have stark realism .' Bul it is dramatic realism and it was aimed. when writlen, al the greatest goal a writer can hold, the improvement 01 social conditions. Galsworthy's "Jus - lice" is said to have inspired Winston Churchill to make drastic changes in the English penal system. John Bar- rymore scored his first great triumph when he played the lead in "Justice" in New York. Luttm ;()()p.m.

Sunday, CBS

Pu ;f;c 10 :OO ~. m.

Bob Montgomery, who used to be one of the movie public's lair-haired boys and then somehow got lost in the Hollywood shulfle, is treading securely the comeback trail. He will appear this week and next week in one of "Silver Theater's" two.part dramas. Ct nt,, 5:00 p,m.

Wednesday, C BS

Pu iiie 3:00 p.m.

Ranking <!Ilmost with the Barrymores as a famous family of drama is that of the Bennetts- Richard Bennell and his two daughters, Constance and Joan. The third daughter. Barbara, renounced an acting career 10 become the happy wile of tenor Morton Downey. Connie and Joan contlnue to carry the banner prominently in the Hollywood parade. Joan has won new renown as <!I screen siren rather than <!I sweetie. The tern· perament long associated with Connie is said to be calming down. She is flying high again as the star in the popular "Topper" series. Connie will be heard on the air Ihis week in a spe· ci<!ll dama to be enacted on the "Tex· aco Star Theater." Eut.rn 9:00 p.m.

C.nt'~ 8:00 p.m.

Friday, C8S

Puitic 6:00 p.m.

Pearl Buck won international recogni' tion for her superbly human novels of Chinese lile, especially "Good Earth." Some of her admirers have been disap- pointed in the past few years that she has set her stories in the American scene, feeling that her sympathetic de· lineation of Chinese lile is her true realm. Such admirers are delighted wilh her latest novel, "The Palriot," presenting a young Chinese liberal during the present Sino.Jap<!lnese war. Orson Welles thinks "The Patriot" is one of the finest novels he has read in years, and he'll do it on his "Campbell Playhouse" Friday. Anna May Wong, Chinese movie star, will play opposite Welles as "The Palriot's" Japanese wife. Mrs. Buck will be a guest on the show, Eistern 9:00 p.m.

Central 8:00 p.m.

P~ciUc 6:00 p.m.

Soturdoy, MBS Many listeners will be glad to hear that two movie idols of not long ago, who have long been a devoted and popular married couple, will be heard again in this country via one of the regular broadcasts of the BBC "Music

not the body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass as they were much per· plexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. And as they were afraid .. they said unto them. 'Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but

A typical American indu$try and ",n import",nt one is that represented by the Chicago stockyard,. a sect i on of which i$ shown above. The meat· packing industry will be described on "Americans At Work," Saturday over CBS

Hall" from London. The couple is Ben Lyon and Mrs. Lyon, the former siren and comedienne of American films, Bebe Oolniels. The Lyons now reside in England, making pictures and plays there. E~~t.rn ~:OO p.m.

Ccnt' ~ 1 2:00 p. m.

PUili< 12:00noon

EASTER SERVICES

"Now upon the lirst day of the week very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre. .. And they found the stone rolled away hom the sepul. chre. And they en tered in, and found

is risen.''' Thus does St. Luke describe the grealest miracle Ihat has ever hap- pened in the knowledge 01 man. This week the millions commemorate that momentous miracle in devout humility. Radio joins the pilgrimage with lar· flung services from Coast to Coast.

Sunday, M8S From the famous Hollywood Bowl, where motion· picture celebrities and visitors from everywhere gather annu· aUy to allend the traditional sunrise ser· vices ... From atop storied MI. Rubi· doux in Riverside, Calif., scene of the

As the rising sun chases the shadows from the Ho l lywood Bowl, an i mmense t hrong in the huge amphitheater in the hi lls w il l join in an impressive East e r sunr i se service. to be broadcast Oller MBS Sunday morning

nation's oldest outdoor Easter ceremo. nies ... From the steps 01 the state capitol in Olympia. Wash .... And from the studios of Mutual's Los An· geles' KHr. Listeners will hear this cav· alcade 01 ceremonies exclusively over the Mutual network. at the foll owing respective times: [utun 8 :00~.m. 9:00~.m. 9:30~,m. 10;30~.m.

(~nt' li t 7:00 ~ _m. 8:00 ~ m. 8:30ll.m. 9:30 ~ .m.

Sund"y, N 8C

Pu il;c 5:00 ~.m. 6:00 ~. m. 6:10 ~ .m. 7:30 i.m.

On tha combined NBC networks the customary series of impressive Easter morning services will ba presented from various Significant spots ranging across the country. Prior to this se r ies of broadcasts, NBC will ca rry an inter· national broadcast from Vatican City. The Vatican program will be a de· scription of the recessional following pontllical high mass at historical 51. Peter's, with a papal benediction by Pope Pius XII. Entun 6:10a.m.

Ctntril 5:301l.m.

Pad!ie 3:30 •. m.

The series 01 NBC sunrise services will open from Temple University Sta· dium in Philadelphia in a program lea· tured by the singing of Edward Mac· Hugh, radio gospel singer. An hour later. the Colorado Springs High School choir of three hundred voices will be heard from Will Rogers Memorial Shrine, Manitou. Colo. Next will be a colorful atmospheric broadcast from dawn·painted Grand Canyon. Finally. the series will conclude with services from Mt. Davidson. Calif. E~stun 1:00i.m. 8:00 a.m. 8:30 a. m, 9:00 a.m.

Centrllt 6:00 a.m. 1:oo~.m. 1 : 30 ~ m. 8:00 ~,m.

Sunday, C 8S

F'uilic 4:00 a.m. S:OO '.m. S :30 I.m. 6:00 ~.m.

Columbia will also carry the broad- cast from Vatican City. with an English commentator translating a portion of the mass for American listeners. [~stern 6:00 a.m,

Central 5:00 ~ .m,

Pacific 3:00 a.m.

CBS too will carryon the Iradition of presenting a kaleidoscopic broadcast 01 services from Coast to Coast. The first spot will be New York's Cenlral Park, where the Greater New York Federation of Churches will hold its sunrise ceremonies. St. Louis follows, and then Brigham Young University in Provo. Ulah. The climax will be the third annual Easter sunrise service from Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. CaHi. Otlo Klemperer will lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, wilh Anne Jamison, soprano, as soloist, and William Farnum. old·time film star. as the reader. [listern 1:00ll.m. 7JO~.m. 8:00 i.m. 8:30 i .m.

C""t,~t 6:00 I,m. 6:30a.m. 7:00 '.m. 7:301l.m.

Pat"ic 1:00 lI.m. 1:30a.m, S:oo a.m. S :30 I.m.

INSIDE "T^ HE^ INSIDE STORY"

P

eOPLE li~. to be "in the ~now." Curiosity is one of the nearly uni.,e"al

attributes. Words like "lowdown" and "revelation" and "the dope"

intrigue us immen sel y. The eheraderistic has made Walter Winchell e

lot of money. It also helped make II cavemen discover fire and Edison give

electricity to the world. It is making II large and appreciative audience for e

program comparatively new to the networh. "Inside Story," heard over

NBC Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. EST; for the Midwest and West, 9:30 p.m. CST,

8:30 p.m. MST. 7:30 p.m. PST. The show is based on the premise that behind

innumerable events and personalities lie interesting hidden stories. It is the

purpose of "Inside Story," by dr"matizetions and intervie .... s with personali.

ties, to ferret out these hidden storiei for the benefit 08nd enteri08inment of

liiteners, Fred Sullivan, master of ceremonies; Glenn Weltv, music director

JIMMY YOUNG, head of the Interna- tional New l Service In the Orient, ap_ purlng on "Inlide Story ," laid: "In my opinion Japan II In China to gain control of it_ She II rully aiming at England to prevent Engllnd getting a Itrong economic hold on China, Whoever can hold out longelt flnanclaUy will win , _. They let me lend out all the neWI I want to-but try and get newII The government pro- vldn me with bodyguard_to keep away anybody who might have information I"

E LSA MAXWELL, Internationally known society-party fileer, gavo thil lowdown: "Edgar Bergen haunted my door until I engaged him to entertain at ono of my partin. He and Charlie McCarthy were a riot and I made up my mind they had to go on the air. I w .. to appear with Rudy Vallee and I in,l,ted that Bergen appear with me. He w .. a .enuUon. He', a geniu, and mOlt deserving wit. I'm very proud to have been able to offer him the flr.t rung one the ladder of hi. Immediate lucce... "

THEOS BERNARD, American lawyer, flnt white man to become a Lama in TIbet, told thll Inlide _tory: "I went to India to Itudy the tuchlng of Guru Rimpilhay, a n ancient leholar, laid to have found whit I WII leeklng-happlnell and peace. The trill drew me into Tibet. I be· gin to fee l thlt I mYlelf w .. Guru Rlmpi- shay. The prlettl called me Guru, lIying he promi,ed to come back In 1200 yean, which had palled. A my'torlou, l ight In their temple retted on my ,houlder •• ,"

ROY POST, noted .clentiflc crime ·i nvnti· gator, revealed: "They could balance the naUonal budget by finger-printing Americal The Government could lay Its hand, on billion. of dollar. worth of gold and currency. It'l In safe-depollt vault. in bankl all over the country, nored Iway by gang.ten and crook .. They could be conflleated If the Government could prove who the depolltor. were. If everybody were finger' printed, bankl could check the finge r. prints and ,llInature, of depollton."

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR" noted flnlncler , put , team ., hovel watching on a plane with other ,portl, according to GUI Perklnl of Chic ago, hlmlelf a top· ranking "watcher": "John D. Rockefeller, Jr., hal been a ,team-Ihovel Witcher for yearl. Ono dly lome one chaled him IWIY from an eXCIvatlon for the New Holland Build- ing at Rockefeller Center. So he put up a gra n d_Und, had an opening day, organized the Sidewalk Superintendentl' Club. Motto: 'The best pilotl 'tand on the Ihore.'''

M RS. JOHN LARSON , one of the lur- vlvorl of the iII · fated Titanic, whOle photograph (above) il the only thing that Itill connectl her to her mother country. Sweden, laId: "Those '~17 humanl mlllht have been .. ved. The S. S. California Will eight miles away. Whe", the TitanIc sent out Itl SOS there w .. no anlwer. In thOle daYI twenty-four-hour duty for r eceiving setll w .. not required by the IIW, and the operator had put In hll full day. Since t he n thll weakne .. hal been corN;cted."

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IIU P 'N' ATOM, BOYS!"

That's the battle-cry today of the army of intrepid scien- lists who fight all comers lor the prog- less of mankind. They don', always pick on opponents their own size. At the risk of seeming to be bullies, often they attack very small enemies-germs. for instance. One of their latest and fiercest battles is being waged against the smallest material thing that man knows about or thinks he knows about -the atom. The scientists select or invent their own weapons. An unusual radio broad- cast this week-over CBS, Saturday, at 6:15 p.m. EST, 5:15 p.m. CST, 4:15 p.m. MST, 3:15 p.m. PST-will introduce to you one 01 the newest and most dia- bolically efficient of those weapons. You'll meel the cyclotron. It's an atom-smasher, and it will he making its r..dio debut. Unusual? Words like "sensational" and "momentous" would

not be extravagant. You'll be a first·

nighter althe only show of its kind ever yel performed. It could be a flop, but it has all the earmarks 01 a "smash hit," lor when one hunched thousand billion atomic bullets, each one loaded with super-energy, are fired each second, then whatever happens shouldn't be a surprise. There are intriguing possi· bilities. Does an atom make a noise when it explodes? Does it hiss, crackle, or go "bilng"? When the atomic bullets hit the tar· get. whilt will happen? Will they blow the sunny shores of California into the briny deep? Will they ring a bell? Or (' I/lIt

will there simply be an instant of silent import? Will this air premiere present a pre· view of staggering potentialities for the future? Such as the driving of motors, the creation of new substances, new forms of energy, the destruction of mailer long considered impossible, the prolonging of human lives-or the sud· den shortening? The future course of the world and humanity may be locked up in one 01 those mighty mites that will go whiz· zing around in the cyclotron.

LEST you cringe in fearful consterna· tion at the prospect of taking a ring· side seat at this battle royal between the flyweight atom and the heavyweight cyclotron, let us pClve the Wily lor the encounter with a few intimate facts about the opponents. We speak of the atom as an enemy- not because of ilny specific harm it hilS done but because of its stubborn re- fusal to be caught and broken and har· nessed to man's uses, as other more spectacular· appearing elements have been harnessed. It is ironicill that. ac· cording to the atomic theory, the atom

ATOM

SMASHER

WILL IT BLOW CALIfORNIA

TO BITS-OR RING A BELL?

LISTEN ON CBS. SATURDAY

Left: Professor Ernest O. Lawrence, of the Univer. sity of California, stands beside the cyclotron ;1' his radiation laboratory

Below: Winfield W. Salis· bury poll'lts out features of the cyclotrol'l'S oscil· lator chamber and COI'I· den&er, which he desigl'led

is the smallest and most fundamental particle in all substances. It's smaller and more indispensable than Charlie McCarthy, tougher than Edward G. Robinson and more aloof than Greta Garbo. It's the inlinitesimal unit that has through the centuries delied all man's attempts to blow it to bits. You're full of atoms yourself, billions of them. Everything that exists is com· posed of them. It would tilke all the people in the world thousands of years to count the aloms in a single drop of water! But why is the atom on the spot? Why are the scientists bent on smash· int; it? Not because it's a goblin to get us, a spook to haunt us, or a man from Mars to destroy us. Maybe you've been reading H. G. Wells or Edgar Rice Bur· roughs or Buck Rogers. Or Hearstian newspaper stories. Maybe you think you and the world are doomed by the insidious potency of the atom. Perhaps !ou have wild nightmares of explosive cataclysms that would rend the uni· verse asunder. Don't worry. You're safe for a long while yet. They want to tame and train the

atom. That's why they're after it. It does have tremendous potentialities of energy. Enough atomic energy is con· tained in a few spoonfuls of water to drive a ship ilcross the Atlantic. When an atom is broken into fragments, incal· culable forces can be released. Some day those forces may be put to work at useful tasks in commerce and indus· try. II is quite possible that the per· petual dream of alchemists of changing base metals to gold may be realized through atomic bombardment. More important to the present is the possible significance to the treatment of cancer. Through the atomic reaction to splintering force. radioactive sub· stances can be created. They explod spontaneously, and the atomic frag· ments they emit may curb cancer by zipping into tissues and killing dis· eased cells. Numerous atom· smashing machines have been invented involving differing principles. Dr. Merle A. Tuve of the Carnegie Institute perfected a rna· chine for generating a 6,000,000· volt Iightning·bolt that cracks like a cannon. It simply fires electrically charged pro· tons at each other to see how much force is required to make them collide and stick. You can understand the prin· ciple better if you perform the old trick of running a comb through your hair and then holding the comb near your fingers to make the artificial electricity crackle. Cornell University developed an atomic gun in the shape of a glass tube, with a radio short·wave generator as the impelling force to accelerate the speed of the atoms enough 10 tear them apart. Most gigantic and most generally used of the "atomizers" is the cyclo- tron, perfected by Prof. Ernest O. Law· rence, thirly·seven·year-old University of California scientist. There ale more than thirty cyclotrons in use or under construction. The largest of all will be the one now being completed at the University of California, weighing 440,·

000 pounds and measuring twenty by

thirty by forty feel. II an instrument that big can't smash the modest atom to smithereens, it is hard to imagine one that can. It is this colossus with which the forthcoming radio broadcast will be concerned. A cyclotron is a modern version of the Biblical story involVing David, Go· Iiath, and a sling.shot. In this case tiny atomic nuclei represent the stone mis· siles, and the sling of the weapon con· sists of a powerful magnetic field which keeps the particles whirling around while picking up the colossal speeds that mean super·energy. The power source of the cyclotron is high.fre. quency, alternating-current voltage in place of David's good right ann. Now, if a sample of a chemical element is (Continued Oll Page 39)

MONDAY, APRil 10

The Rochester Civic Orehestra, NBC. Guy Fras~r Harrison, conductor. Bal - lel .'Iusie from "Le Cid" (Masscnet), Audantino from Concerto for Flute alld Harp (Mozart), Joseph Mari(uio, ftulist; Eileen Malone, harpist. Ro-

maJitic Poem (Wynn York). "Lac De.

ellyn!"S" (Tschalkowsky). h.,•• ~ 3 ......... 0200_~..,,"" The Curtis I nstitute of MUlle, CBS. Vera Rcsnikoff, soprano: Frederick Vogelgesang, violinist. Songs by Car- penter. Blech, Cimara, Guarnieri. Sad- ero, Obradors, Rachmaninoff, Glaz- ounow, Tschaikowsky, Gretchaninow, i\loussorgsky. Violin pieces by Bach- Kreisler, Paradis-Dushkin, Paganini - Kreisler, Paganini-Wilhelmj-Zimbalist. ....... 3'00 ..... 2.00Co.""^ ...... Music of the Georgian Period. CBS. The Columbia String Orchestra, Ber· nard Hcrrmann, conductor, .,.,.," S'OO p,"'. c••,,., .. ,00 •. "'. T he Voice of Fir estone, NBC. Alfred Wallenstein. co n due tor: Richard Crooks, tenor. From Los Angeles. Overture "Russlall and Ludmilla" (Glinka). the Orchestra: Lindl.l Lou (Strickland), Richard Crooks: Spanish Dauce Jronl "La Vida Breve" (De Falla), the Orchestra: Open the Gates of the Temple (Knapp), Drink to Me Only wilh Thine Eyes (Pochon). Rich· ard Crooks; Hall of file Mountaill Kina from "Peer Glint" (Grieg), the Or· chestra; Gain' Home (Dvorak), Rich- ard Crooks. 7,'0.,,,,.""^ ....., "M.",....,,.. T he WOA Symphony Orchestra, M BS. Eric DeLamarter, conductor. Suite I fr01l1 "Hyppolyte et Aride·' (Rameau), Marcil oj tile Little Fauns (Massenet), Suite 11 from "HYPpo[lIle 1.'1 Aricie" (Rameau). With Lully, Rameau was the founder or French opera. In addition, Ill.' is credited with being the creato r of the science of modern harmony.

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TUESDAY, APRIL II

Violin Series, MBS. Bob Stanley, con- ductor: Benno RabinofI, violinist. Violi" COIICerto No.4 in D Major (Mozart), Romallce in G Major (Beethoven). •........ »0 ..... , ••<10 :to^ ... ....... , .,~..... .......

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12

Story of the Song, CBS.

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THURSDAY, APRil 13

Sinfonletla. M BS. Alfred Wallenstein,

Aia Gin.tu , .oprano, ..... ill be heard ..... Ith the Ne ..... York Phl1. harmonic· Symphony, Sunday, CBS

" ~,u

-0...",. Sag! Vela, Spanish baritone .• Ing. l ig ht cl assics and ope ratic arln ov er M as , Saturday. 8:00 p.m. EST

conductor. SymphollY No.6 (Haydn), Dance (Glinka), Suite English Folk- Songs (Williams). ......^ u.~ , ... , (^) J,<IO~' ....^ •• "'.^ , Library of Congress Chamber Mu.le Program, NBC. The Coolidge Founda· lion presents the Coolidge Quartet and the Nadia Boulanger Singers.

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FRIDAY , APRil 14

Keyboard Concert., CBS. Helen Schat· meister, Frederico Longas, duo-pian- ists. Dallce Jrom "La Vida Breve·' (De Falla), Un Sueno ill Granada (Longas), Rilmo (Infante), Gitanerias (Lecuona), Santo Domingo (H. Murray Jacoby); AragOIl. Bolero Ritmico (Longas). Frederico Longas. of Barcelona. Spain, Is a gUted young pianist and composer, and for many years was the accom· panlst of Tito Schlpa. Listen especially to his "Aragon:· ....... ) , ..... "'. ~,C.n"01^ .....^ ",.

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SATURDAY, APRil 15

N ational F ederation of Mu .lc Club. P rogram, N Be. Musical Arts Chams of Easton, Pa. Ninety mixed voices. Dr. J. W. Erb, conductor. Alexander Grey, baritone.

• o,~<10.".1.. .. , .,)0.-~ ..... Sagi Vela, baritone, M BS. Concert orchestra. .,<10........^ ...^ ,..

T he NBC Symphony Orchntra, NBC. Hans Lange. conductor. COllcerto jor Slrillgs alld Piallo (Bloch), SymphOny No.4 (Beethoven), In a Summer GaT· den (Delius). DOli Juall (Strauss). Sensitive. fanciful. warmly colored, Is this score by the English composer, Frederick Delius (1863-1934) who died blind and paralyzed. No better descrip- tion Of his style can be given than is found in the tribute of A. Eagleneld Hull, noted English musical theorist: "The art of Del1us looks backward, not forward. It belongs to the evenln~ of a great period. It is resplendent with Irl· descent chromatic rays and aureoles which sometimes appeal· immediately after sunset. He is the last great repre- sentative of Impressionism." Beetho\·en·s fourth symphony sho",""! how a composer·s inner emotion oteen remains Unaffected by outward events surrounding him. He wrote the ..... ork while Napoleon·s anny occupied Vienna, but the music Is gracious. happy. radl· ant. The reason? He ..... as betrothed to Therese, his "Immortal Beloved." As biographer Nohl observes: ''The lion was in lo\·e and drew in his claws.'· The slow mo,·emcnt Is as sublimely tender and beautiful as any Beetho'cn ever created. -_.

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Something About Shorter

Orchestral Works

By Leonard Liebling

H

AVING disposed of the symphony and the symphonic poem in this series, we can turn our attention to the shorter examples of orchestral compositions. The word "snorler" is a relative term, however, {or some of the fantasias, variations, overtures, rhapsodies, ensemble concertos and the like are not exactly of striking brevity and terseness. The concertos came before the sym · phonies, and gave the latter their earliest inspiration in form, content and treatment. Vivaldi, Corelli, Bach and Handel were the best of the or · cilestral concerto composers, and at least outwardly their scores all have the same character, consisting of dis· play episodes for solo and grouped in- struments. with a general background ensemble of orchestra. Bach's Bran· den burg Concertos are the most widely played and familiar of that type of composition. The form has interested later writ- ers also, and even in our time arches · tral concertos have come to creation, in purpose and construction based on the Bach and Handel models. but of course enriched with modern harmony and instrumentation. (As to counter· point, the earlier masterpieces still re· tain eDSY sup l1~macy.) The general scheme 01 the form remains un- changed. "Concerto" still has its orig- inal meaning, derived from the Latin COIICCIHU!, the sounding together of separate parts. Ludovico Viadana is the first one who used the term, in 1602-03, for motets which he wrote for voices and organ and called "Concerto ecclisiastici" (concerti is the Italian plural). Then came church concertos, chamber concertos, and concerto, grono. The Brandenburg set of six belongs to the last·named category. Present·day composers who have ex· perimented successfully in the ron- certo grosso fOfm and style arc Ernest Bloch, Arnold Schoenberg and Albert Stoessel. The title fantasia almost describes it· self. for it means an instrumental com· position in tree fonn, with the fancy allowed untrammeled play, sometimes resembling extemporization. That is why Berlioz captioned his famous work ;'Symphony Fantastique," for it roamed through emotions and incidents with· out any thought of following classic principles in symphonic construction. Symphonic poems are often sub- titled "Fantasia," like Glinka's "Kam- arinskaya," Moussorgsky's '·Night on Bald M 0 u n t a in," Tschaikowsky's "Francesca da Rimini" and "The Tem· pest," and ScheUing·s "A Victory 8all." Fantasias sometimes take on the aspect of variations, written on one or more themes. Variatlons, at flrst confined to solo in,truments, soon found their way into orchestra v.'Orks, tempting composers through the wide opportunities for the

exercise ot imagination and ingenuity.

In Beethoven's time, the finest iet of

orchestral variations were the last movement of his "Eroica." His most effective successors in the form have been Brahms, with "Variations on a Theme" by Haydn: d'!ndy, variations depicting the story of Istar and her veils; and Elgar with his lovely opus, "Enigma." Tschaikowsky also has an appealing series of variations in one or his suites. Overtures and pre lud es are self · evident. Usually they are introductory to an opera, but often represent de · tached compositions telling their own story. By the way, Tschaikowsky pe. culiarly calls his "Romeo and Juliet" an overture-fantasia, but of course it is not based on an opera. Of operatic overtures, the towering ones are those by Weber, Mozart, Gluck and Wagner. My own favorites continue to be Bee · thoven's "Leonore" No.3, "Coriolanus" (no opera), Weber's "Freischuetz." Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and "Mar- riage of Figaro," and Wagner's "Tann · haeuser," "Meistersinger," "Lohen· grin," "Tristan and Isolde" and "Par· sifal." The "Tannhaeuser" excerpt is an overture; the other Wagner excerpts he calls preludes. I also love the over- tUres to Smetana's "Bartered Bride," Nicolai's "Merry Wives of Windsor," Glinka·s "Life for the Czar," Gold· mark's "Sakuntala," Hadley's "In 80· hernia," Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night·s Dream" and "Fingal's Cave," Rossini's "William Tell," Woll·Fer- rari's "Secret of Suzanne" and-don·t smile-the perennial and delighUul "Poet and Peasant," Much orchestra l music has been written as incidental to stage plays and to be performed during the dia· log or between the acts. Examples are so well known they need no listing. Rhapsodies are among the most pop· ular pieces in the orchestral reper· toire. I believe that the title was first used by Liszt for his fifteen piano solos based on national Hungarian airs. (Some of them were later orchestrated by him.) The word rhapsody is ot Greek origin; a rhapsody was a ballad, several of which combined together constituted an epic, such as Homer'S "Iliad." The musical rhal)sody allows large scope ot imagination, is not al· ways purely passionate or ecstatic, and frequently cmbodles also other moods, for instance, DeJius' "Brigg Fair" and Victor Hel'bert's "Irish Rhapsody." Legends for orchestra al·e many. Also poems, sketches. dances, valses, serenades, marches. Especially marches. Come to mind immediately Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance," Tschaikow · sky's "Slave," Berlioz' "Rakoczy," Gounod·s "Marionette's Funeral," Men· delssohn's "Wedding." I am icono- clastic enough to think, too, that Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever" i; a classic march in its way, and espe- cially in these days might profitably be put on every symphonic program in P.'llCrica together with "The Star- Spangled Banner,"

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THE RADIO PLAYBILL: (^) THIS WEEK-"THE

GUIDING UGHT"

DR. JOHN RUTH LEDGE (played by Arthur Peterson) is the kind of min- ister that people prefer as a leader and an auoeiate. He'a a man with a strong and definite phitosophy of life, both thl, life and the next. He's a believer in justice and a superb example of toleranee. He translates into human and soeial action every word of Ihc Spirit in which he believes. Dr. Ruthledge has that rare virtue, even among understanding people, of being able to guide not only the simple in heart but also those Who have become bitter through Dversophistication. He 's a man among mlnistera and men

THE REVEREND TOM BANNION (played by Frank Behrens) ia Dr. Ruth- ledg e'. recentll( appointed a"istant in his church In Five Points. At first there were differences of opinion between Dr. Ruthledge and the Rev. Ban- nion. Howev er, the latter has come around to Dr. Ruthledge's way of think- ing on most points, and they are now In complete agreement. A romance is rapldly.growlng up between the Rev. Bannion and Dr. Ruthledge's daughter, Mary. Their relationship. however, cannot seem to release itself from the shadow of the man whom Mary first loved and c;m.not forget, ~e.d Holden

NED HOLDEN (played by Ed Prentiss) was reared from childhood by Dr. Ruthledge when the boy was deserted by his mother. De eply in love with Mary Ruthledge, Ned suddenly en- countered a ,pi ritual eri,is which caused him to break down completely. He left and married Torchy Reynolds, but returning to Five Points he realized that it I, still Mary he really loves

liTHE GUIDING LIGHT" is the light

of tolerance. It is the light that

guides the life of Dr. John Ruthledge,

a minister of the gospel. With the cosmo-

politan community of Five Points as its

locale, "The Guiding Light" traces through

the dramatic and spiritual histories of a

group of distinctly varied character-types.

Cynics and saints, aggressor!. and media-

tors, soul-builders and soul-destroyers-

these are only a few of the strange array

of human types which are shepherded by

Dr. Ruthledge. His profound sympathy,

sound philosophy and reassuring voice

assert themselves for good in aU the con-

flicts of life in Five Points. Another impor-

tant character is Ellis Smith ("Mr. Nobody

from Nowhere"), a strange mixture of cynic

and sentimentalist who. though disillusioned

with nearly everything about him, has a

deeply generous spirit for those who are

penetrating enough to see_ "The Guiding

Light," with its dramatic spiritual theme,

ranh as one of the most popular serials on

the air. The writer is the prolific Chicago

authoress, Irna Phillips. "The Gui~ing Light"

may be heard Monday through Friday

over an NBC net at 3:45 p.m. EST, 2:

p.m. CST 1:45 p.m. MST, 12:45 p.m. PST.

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NEXT WEEK:

"DOC BARCLAY'S

DAUGHTERS"

MARY RUTH LEDGE (played by Sarah Jane Wells) has all the deep humanity and un_ derstanding of her father. but there are times when even these traits seem to be of no avail in helping h er. Despite her admiration for the Rev. Bannion, life has somehow narrow ed its scope for her. She cannot seem to forget that sh~ and Ned Holden were once in love Bi n p

THE RADIO NEWSREEL

Kate Smith, radio songstress and favorite perlon. ality, Will firal private citiZen to receive Legion of Valor medal for "outstandlng Americaniam"

News to Radio Guide readers this week I, that a new cover idea makes its bow. It's an idea that humanizes the cover appeal and identifies it with you, the reader •. Rather than continue the conventional cus- tom of plastering celebrities on covers, we'll present, from time to time, pictures of everyday folk that everyone knows. This week we glorify a grand old couple whose lives have been made richer and fuller through the medium of broadcasting

Dorothy I..amour, radio singer and film beauty, gave New York audiencl!$ a thrill recently when she ap- peared on Paramount Theater stage in movie earong

For the fint time in air-transportation history, an airplane has been named in honor of a radio program. An American Airlines flagship was christened CBS "Howie Wing". for the serial sketch of the same name

Four radio actresses were chosen by Chicago Vassar College Alumni Club as candidates for "Miss Television of 1939." Above, L.. to A.: Joan Winters. Louise Fitch. Fran Carlon. Ernest Newman. couturier. Betty Lou Gerson

......... Father Coughlin makes n ews often. Because station WMCA in New York barred his program when he refused to submit advance script, loyal fOl- lowers swarm the station every Sunday carrying banners of protest

~. Four society girls presented their demands, with banners and speech. to Glen Gray. leader of Casa Loma band. but he refused; will keep playing with. out socialite vocalists during his stay at New York's Waldorf· Astoria Hotel

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Experts J Severl Adams crophon.

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NEW YORK. - President Roosevelt, Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York and Mayor La - Guardia of New York, will speak from the New York World's Fair grounds on Sunday, April 30, in honor of the official opening ot the Fair ... James Melton and Frank Black's orchestra auditioned lor a potential sponsor last week. Hope it isn't trus what they say about the RCA Magic Key leaving the air in a couple 01 weeks. It's one of the bright ~I)()ts on the early Sunday dialing ... Another story making the rounds is that Paul Whiteman will take over the Burns and Ailen spot In addition to his

Wednesday night airing at the completio n ot the

team'S current series. Lum and Abner will not shirt to the spot vacated by Amos 'n' Andy on NBC. They stay right where they are, and before they left New York, they tucked away a one - year re- newal contract which allows them an eight-week vacation during the summer season ... Gabriel HeaUer isn't so lucky: he will have just three weeks vacation Irom "We, the People" this swnmer. The program goes off the air the latter part at August and returns in September.. I hear tell "The Circle" will get a permanent vacation after the thirteen weeks are up, which is just as well ... The Lyn Murray Singers on the Fred Allen show have become the Town Hall Quartet, which means

Paul and Minneapolis. For the next lew days the mailman brought sacks of mail from listeners in the Twin Cities area mentioning the lact that the above statement was an error. The sponsor was greatly pleased at aU the mail, because he didn't realize the program had so many listeners in that sector. Just for the records, the reason fol' the huge mall response was due to a suggestion in Cedric Adam's popular colwnn in the Minneapolis Star for all his readers to write FPA and inform him that Lake Minnetonka is not between St. Paul and Minneapolis.

To I •• or Not to ••• Studio 3B(ee) at NBC had to be quarantined for almost two days after a handful of bees went off on a rampage at the end of Dave Elman's "Hobby Lobby" program on March 22. Elman had presented a hobbyist who trains bees to do tricks (escaping is not one of them) and this tellow had gone into a net-enclosed cage to do his act. The excitement started when he stepped out of the cage and, despite precautionary measures, permitted a squadron of bees to step out with him. It was a great sight to watch from the enclosed control-room, but to the studio audience it was as frightening as an air raid. Fortunately, all this took place after Hobby Lobby that the Mullin Sisters trio has been dropped. The new AFRA wage - scale is responsible (or the cutting down.

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was off the air, and the people that were lett in the studio got out in a big hurry. The hobbyist-

You won't be hearing "Tizzie Lish" on the AI Pearce p r ograms any more, but Al won't be able to torget Bill Com- stock, who portrayed "Tizzie," for quite a while. Bill's personal manager has filed suit against Pearce for alleged breach of contract ... When Lum and Abner stopped off in Chicago for one broadcast en route to the Coast, they paid off announcer Carl- ton Brickert by handing him a bag full 01 pennies.

LOWDOWN

owner was the only one to stay behind and he set about capturing his bees with a net. Bright and

BY MARTIN LEWIS

early the fo l lowing morn- ing. the Radio Rogues, ready to broadcast from 3B, scampered like mad out of the studio shouting, "Bees!" It seems that not all of the insects had been captured. Thereafter the doors were locked and a quarantine was estab- lished. More than twenty- four hours later, the quar - antine was lifted, the doors were opened, jani-

When Jack Benny was their guest a few weeks ago, he received his salary in the same manner. Oh yes, I musn't forget to mention that the aforementioned Mr. Brickert for- got all about L and A having to do a repeat broad- cast for the West Coast listeners, so he forgot to show up at the studio-and he is the same fellow who announced their show (or several years when the boys broadcast [rom the Windy City .. Houston, Texas, is proud of the fact that for the second time a local quiz program was promoted to the networks. Parks Johnson's Vox Pop was the first to get na- tional recognition, and now Dr. 1. Q., a question- and-answer show which originates in a theater, gets the honors .. Which reminds me that there are a few firms in the business of selling questions and answers to radio stations for their quiz shows. The pay-off is that Parks Johnson was offered a set of questions by one of the outfits, which he used on the Vox Pop show months before.

Abe Schechter, who is in charge of all special broadcasts at NBC, received the following cable trom Max Jordan, the network's European repre - sC'lltative: "Don't urgtnt me tonight am dead tired." This came after a week-end of many trans:lllantic broadcasts which brought listeners in America the reports ot Hitler's advances into Czechoslovakia. A later cable informed Schechter that Jordan hadn't been to bed lor thirty-nine hours, which gi'es you an idea of what work is entailed in order to get these special broadcasts 10 you.

Exp.rtl N•• d More J"formatJa". ,.'.a •• Several broadcasts ago the expert Adams stated into the "I nformation, crophone that Lake Minnetonka was

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tors gave the valiant bees 1 dustpan fune ral, and declared closed.

Last Wednesday night I went over to the CBS Playhouse to watch Jim McWilllams put on his Ask-It-Basket program. I don't remember when r laughed so much, so long or so loud. The big howl did not take place while the program was on the air; it happened during the after-broadcast enter_ tainment which McWilliams puts on each week. Ie you're in the audience and have talent, you cnn feel free to step upon the stage to do your stuff. Several of the ushers got up and sang and did quite weU. Two of Columbia's early morning entertainers, Charles Stark and the network's pianist-whistler, Bob Byron, put on a hilarious act that got a great hand, but the big laugh was yet to come. While McWilliams was on the stage announcing the next act, a middle-aged gent in tuxedo came staggering down the aisle-but I mean staggedng. Jim saw him and immediately gave the ushers the signal by yelling "Gendarme--one stew." The man fell into a seat and it was quite apparent that he didn't know where he was. Jim went on to tell a story while the inebriated gentleman gazed about his unfamiliar surroundings. The story related how he got into the wrong theater many years ago because two theaters were right next to one another and he imagined that is what happened to the unex- pected visitor. Sure enough, he guessed right; the man had a ticket for "Leave It to Me," which was playing next door. So McWilliams, feeling that the gent might have missed some of the nwnbers lrom the show, went into a fast routine of aU the h it songs, including an impersonation of Mary Martin singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and Sophie (Continued on Page 38)

IN NEW YORK

Phil B .ke r, L.anny Ro.-, and Ben Ber nie chat with D.v e E lm. n after rehearalng for all.celeb- r ity appearance an Elman '. "Hobby L.obb y"

L.eft to right: Edmond Abel , Jer i Anne Raphael, J ackie Grimes. B etty Jane Tyler. of NUa Mack'. "Let', Pretend," exhibit Eatter finery

Lo adI ng th e 125-year-o ld coach in which MBS announcers and celebritiet will r i de down 5th Avenue. describing the 1939 Easter Parade

CHICAGO.-Up unti l 1932 every show that played at the Eighth Street Theater at Eighth and Wabash here in Chicago had the curtain at half·mast before it started. It was a jinx theater. Practically every show that braved its curse was a ftop, lasting only a few days or several weeks. The record run was, significantly, thirteen weeks. Then in that dark year of 1932 the "National Barn Dance," with the cocki· ness born of eight years of su~ess as a radio show. moved into the jinx theater with all its yodels and cowbells. At the same time a shabby, haU- wild cat strayed into the playhouse. Nobody knew the why, the whence, nor the how of its coming. It just appeared. And the jinx disappeared. The cat and the "Barn Dance" chased the hoodoo right out the rear exit, and the show has been a per· petual success ever since. The cat is a female, and some maintain she's the mother of the kittens who were martyred to make strings for Arkie's fiddle. She's a very unfriendly cat, except to the stage· manager of the theater, who is somewhat of a guardian. She comes around the cast only when they gather for the Saturday night post·broadcast feed, but she never des erts the theater. She used to be known only as the "Phantom of the Eighth Stt'eet Theater," but now she has a real name, "Kitty Kilocycles," thanks to a contcst conducted by

Suite" he's composing ... What a change of pace! Catherine McCUne has taken up chess to furnish a balance for her fast-talking role of Clara Potts in "Scattergood Baines." That reminds me that back fn the days of Rex Maupin's Aces of the Air on KYW here in Chicago there was a saxophonist in the orchestra who took my measure consistently in correspondence chess. Wonder if Eddie Swan can play the game as good as ever? ... Smiling, singing WLS announcer Hal Culver is thinking of moving into a big house this summer to allow more oppor- tunity to follow his hobby, raising Kerry Blue tef- riel's ... If your eyes get bloodshot when you listen to Cincinnati's "Avalon Time," it's because this show on the NBC·Red network features not only "Red" Foley and "Red" Skelton but also a vocalist, Janette, who has flaming-red hair ... Skip Farrell and Emily Vass, who sing duets 011 the "Barn Dance," make a fine-looking young couple at the microphone, and maybe they're beginning to think they'd look all right together in other surroundings ... It's almost the "Inside Story" of Omaha. Three important men connectc(! with the NBC "Inside Story" show, engineer Bob Jensen, announcer Paul Luther and character actor Ray Suber got their start at Omaha, Nebr.

Hewl Hotes the WLS "Smile-a-While" program and participated in by listeners from forty- one states. To heighten the mystery of it all, K. K. just spits out a vindic- tive "plflft" when inter-

LET'S LOOK

It was shocking news to their associates and friends, as well as listen- ers, that young CBS an- nouncer Don Hancock and his wife, with their two children, were involved in an automobile accident while returning from a trip into Indiana. At the present writing, Don's eld- est son, eight years old, appears to be the only one seriously injured, al- though aU were battered. Dick Post did the pinch- hitting on the air for Don.

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'eNoeality 'arade Anne Seymour, who plays the title role in "The Story or Mary Marlin," celebrated her second an- niversary in that part March 29. In those two years a lot of ether has blown over the bridge, and Mary's life has been erammed with evenllul- ness. Her husband (play- ed by Bob GrIffin), a United States Senator, has

BY DON MOORE

The curtain has rung down on the series of dramas enacted by Bert Lytell over NBC-Blue on Friday nights; it is suc-

disappeared and Mary has taken his place in the Senate. Her son Davey (Do - lores Gillen), who was an infant when the story be- gan, is now walking and talking. Miss Seymour, who has been in radio since 1932, made her stage debut at the age of twelve, when she took part in a banquet scene in Helen Hayes' "To the Ladies." She joined NBC in 1933 to play the lead in "Grand HoteL" She is now one of the best-known and most popular actresses in radio. Inside story about the recent signing of the Chi- cago City Opera Co. with AGMA, the union for opera artists, is that a radio actor was the guiding hand in the n!!gotiations. Leo Curley, who plays Uncle Ed in "Backstage Wife" and Mr. Boswell in "Those Happy Gilmans," and has been a regular performer on many of radio's biggest dramatic shows, has also long been an official of Actors Equity and active in entertainment· union work. The Chicago Opera was the last important opera company in the country to sign with AGMA. The now oldest team in radio celebrated their seventeenth anniversary on the air recently. Since Ernie Hare died, Eddie and Fannie Cavanaugh rate the "oldest team" title. They started in 1922 on KYW, then in Chicago. The gossip·and-information- with-music pair have conducted about 5,000 broad · casts and interviewed some 3,000 entertainment celebs. Congrats, E. and F., tor a real record of con.>islency.

Tlr.I_, a e th SJdeU,IIt "Contented Hour" maestro Marek Weber believes in ftrst-hand information, so he donned a sandhog's helmet and descended forty-five feet below the

surface of Chicago's streets to get some atmosphere

from the new subway construction for a "Subway

ceeded by a third "Vocal Varieties" show, spon- sored by the same company and featuring Jerry Cooper, popular baritone. It's a big tribute to a local program and to Tom- my Dorsey's new magat.ine, "Bandstand," that WCFL reee:ived almost 25,000 replies in five days to an offer on Eddie Chase's "Make-Believe Dance· land" of a subscription to Dorsey's new publication. Mail was received from 1,250 towns in nineteen states and Canada.

WlIy- Does Don McNeill's "Breakfast Club" have such a loyal and tremendous audience-unless one big reason is that it's clean as well as jolly? Have I neglected until recently giving you more news and pictures of the lesser· publicized sustain- ing artists, if it isn't because you're just now be- ginning to make your wish!!s known? Isn't MBS' "Curtain Time" given more recogni- tion as an excellent dramatic program? Do so may people listen regularly to Mutual's "Your Sunday Date" and "Pageant of Melody" un- less it's because they're outstanding musical pro· grams?

Crouroad. Callrt 0' HOllar Nominating this week for recognition for out· standing radio achievement NBC's versatile man- of-all-roles Art Kohl. You don't hear his real name often, but he turns out ftne performances in many regular and special parts. His work includes "Girl

Alone," "Mary Marlin," "Lights Out," "Story ot the

Month," "Inside Story," and many others. Art is slightly over torty, got his dramatic start in the

A. E. F., and he's a mighty nice guy. A toast to

Art and his art.

IN CHICAGO

Year. ago a tenor Idol, now " D ean of B .llad Singers," Henry Burr Itlll h ... ability to please listenerl on "National Blrn Dance," NBC. Sat.

Don McNeill. m.c .. and Jack Baker, tenor Itar. of NBC "Breakfast Club," alwaYI have a good time at the mike with their good· natured banter

George Sherman, g·year·old Ion of NBC come· dl.n, R anlom Sherman, hal hobby of miniature 8Ound·effecla, wal recently an "Hobby Lobby "

LISTENING TO LEARN

LISTENING AIDS

Unknown to many a serious listener are the numerous pamphlets, work- sheets, transcripts, etc., that have been prepared to supplement specific series of educational broadcasts and are available at little or no cost. This printed material should prove to be very helpful to those who are unable

to hear all ot their favorite broadcasts

or who do not have U-,e time to make the necessary advance preparation for those they do hear. Following is a list of the various listening aids that have come to the attention of this depart- ment: AMERICA'S TOWN MEETING- Word - by _ word transcripts of the broadcasts; published w~kly by Co- lumbia University Press, 2960 Broad- way, New York; price, ten cents a copy or $2_50 a year. UNIVERSITY 010 CHICAGO ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS- Word - by - word transcripts of the broadcasts; published weekly by the University of Chicago, Chicago, ilL; price, ten cents a copy or 51 for series of twenty-six. TALKS - Digest ot addresses over CBS; published q;.mrterly by the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System, 485 Mad- ison Ave., New York; price, ten cents a copy. THE WORLD IS YOURS-Leaflets for each broadcast containing perti- nent, interesting facts about the sub- ject; distributed free by the U. S. Of- fice of Education, Radio Division, Washington, D. C. IDEAS THAT CAME TRUE-Work- sheets and teacher's manual containing valuable material to supplement the weekly broadcasts; distributed by the National Broadcasting Company, Ra- dio City, New York: price (worksheets in sets of twelve), ten cents; (teacher's manual) ten cents. AMERICAN SCHOOL OF THE AIR

• Teacher's manual and classroom guide containing supplementary facts for the entire semester's schedule; distributed free to teachers by the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System, 485 Mad- ison Ave., Ncw York. Also a special booklet containing supplementary data for the Tales FTom Far and Near pro- grams; published by the Association (or Arts in Childhood, 70 Fifth Ave., New York; price, ten cents. NAT ION'S SCHOOL OF THE AIR -Teacher's manual of supplementary facts fOI" the entire schedule; distrib- uted free to teachers in the Midwest by station WLW, Cincinnati, Ohio; price to others, fifty cents a copy. SCIENCE EVERYWHERE - Work- sheets to supplement weekly programs; distributed by the American Associa- tion (or the Advancement of Science (address Science Everywhere, Wash- ington, D. C.); price for series of twelve leaflets and one book, ten cents. SCIENCE ON THE MARCH-Maga_ z.ine containing scripts ot the programs, article on science, illustrations and book noles; distributed twice a month by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (address Sci- ence on the Mar<:h, Washington. D. C.); price, 51 a year

Educational Program Classifier

GREAT PLAYS-Study manual for the entire series of programs; dhitrib- uted by the National Broadcasting Company, Radio City, New York; price, ten cents. MUSIC MAKERS - Students' man- uals, giving lessons for various instru- ments; distributed by Dr. Maddy, Uni- versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; price, ten cents. MUSIC APPRECIATION HOUR- Student workbook and teacher's man- ual; distributed by the National Broadcasting Comp;.ny, Radio City, New York; price, (workbooks) ten cents, (manual) twenty-five cents. WINGS FOR THE MARTINS- Leafiets for each program; distributed free by the U. S. Office of Education, Radio Division, Washington, D. C. STORY BEHIND THE HEADLINES -Word-by-word transcripts of Cesar Saerchinger's weekly talks; distributed by the Columbia University Press, 2960 Broadway, New York; price, ten cents each or $1 for series of thirteen. YOUR HEALTH-Student work- books for entire series; distributed by the American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill.; price, ten cents. ADVENTURES IN SCIENCE-Mag- az.ine containing articles about the current progress of science, illustra- tions, book reviews; published weekly by Science Service, 2101 Constitution Street, Washington, D. C. Price, $5. a year or special eighteen-week in- troductory offer at $1.00. And, last but not least, our own- RADIO DIGEST _ Monthly maga- zine presenting the best broadcasts in brief-not only the outstanding net- work programs but also many of the best local programs that have been presented; published monthly by Ra- dio Digest, 731 Plymouth Court, Chi- cago, Ill.; price, twenty-five cents a copy or $2.00 for a twelve-month sub- scription.

CURRENT EVENTS

Commentary. ••

Sundays Hendrik Willem Vln Loon, NBC. World _ renowned author, illustrator and world traveler comments on any- thing and everything from the recent death of his pet dachshund "Noodle" to the international politics troubling the world. 0"^ h" .......^ ••^ ~ )," ........•'", .,~^ ........I... H. V. Klltenborn, CBS. Veteran news analyst and dean of radio com- mentators, Kaltenborn interprets news ot the day, word-paints its background, predicts its future. .,""^ c..to.' ~.m. Tuesdays Current QUeitionl Before the Senlte, CBS. A "must" for all who wish to keep up with latest developments in the nation's capital. In this series

Senators come to the microphone to

explain what they are doing, why they are doing iL

E... ent. and CircumltlnCei. NBC. A

noted author and journalist held in high esteen at the capital for his thorough knowledge and keen judg- ment in matters of national economy, John T. Flynn comments on outstand- in, events of the week, reviews their backiround. .,^ c."tr.' ........

Wednesdays

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Mark Sulll .... n and J ly Franktln. NBC. Nationally known Washington correspondents, Sullivan a "conserva- tive" and Franklin a "liberal," present opposing viewpoints and interpreta-

tions ot the country's problems, sug-

,est solutions.

Thursdays Current QUeitlonl Before the HOUle. cas. In this sister series to the Tues- day Senate programs, we find Repre- sentatives offering their "whats," "whys" and "wherefores" on current legislation in the House. c-.... 0 .... ~.". Fridays The Story Behind the Headlinel, NBC. Close association with great men and sigmficant events in Europe endow Cesar Saerchinger with an uncanny ability to analyze current happenings across the Atlantic and pepper his dis- cussions freely with accounts of his observations. 'D,^ ........ •• ,.",.

Forums.

Sundays The Re ... lewlng Stand, MBS. Ideal tor the person who uses Sunday morn- ing leisure to keep abreast of impor- tant issues. Authorities on current problems "hash over" outstandmg events that affect the common weal. .. ~-" ....."'. c ......, ."'n ..... Unl ... erllty of Chicago Round Table Discunlon, NBC. Lively treatment of timely topics characteriz.es this half- hour. Experts and prominent ftgures in both national and international affairs are matched to defend divergent view- points on subjects 0.1 momentous con- cern in spontaneous, straightforward, uncensored discussion. ..^ c.~ : .......^ ....^. .:~^ .......^ ...,.... The People'l Platform, CBS. Citiz.ens chosen from all walks of life join with authorities and persons defending op- posite viewpoints on a given subject to exchange ideas on problems of the day in the atmosphere of the dinner- table. ,,00u^ ... ........ ., e ........ ......'. Amerlc.n Forum of the Air, M BS. Free discussion 01 controversial issues by distinguished statesmen [rom the new Department of the Interior audi- torium in Washington, D. C. After the discussions by t he main speakers, a forum panel of four statesmen com- ment extemporaneously on the re- marks and statements. ....... •. 00 '."'. Mondays N.Uonll R.dlo Forum , NBC. Men who make and administer our laws in Washington, D. C., come to the micro-

phone to explain them and their ott-

confusing appliC'ations. Unequaled {or

those who wish to keep posted on leg- islative measure!'l before Congress.

Thursday, America'i Town Meeting of the Air. NBC. In this most popular forum for

the discussion ot vital public affairs.

authorities present opmion and inter- pretation of the proposed question. then submit to query by the audwnc('. No censorship is imposed on either Iher than that they keep on the subject and within good taste.

HISTORY

Arts and Sciences Sundays Great prlyl. NBC. A panorama of the theater from the days of early Greek tragedies to the newest hils on Broadway that should be a sure-fire hit with drama enthusiasts. ~ ...... '0. .. .. The World II You". NBC. Dramati- wlions, mspired by exhibits in the Smithsonian InstItution and prepared

by the U. S. Office ot Educ'ltion, treat

history, the arts and sciences.

• .....:00 ......^ ," Mondays Science on the March. NBC. See "Astronomy" under Science (Page 19). Clvalude of America. CBS. See "Government."

Wednesdays New Ho rh:on. , CBS. See "American School of the AIr" under Classroom Aids (Page 19). Our Amerle.n School .. NBC. See "Parent Aids" under Personal-Social Problem.t (Page 19).

Thursdays Parlde of ProgreA In Foodl, NBC. Dramatiz.ing legends and facts about food drawn from the whole history of man, from the era of the caveman down to the present. c ......, '. ..... Fridays Men Behind the Starl, CBS. See "Astronomy" under Science (Page 19).

Saturdays Men Agalnlt Death. CBS. Dramatiz· ing science's fight against a multitude of scourges, this series is made to order tor the leisure of the person who would like to learn or man's momentous sac- riflces in the interest ot humanity. (This sel"ies is a Federal Theatre Radio Division production). ....... .'...... ",

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• 00 .. .. (^) .........~..,^ ....", LI ... e. of Grut Men, NBC. D'stlll- guished as lecturer, author, critic. Dr. Griggs discusses the lives of great men describes their work and its value to mankind. ....... 7' .......

Government. •• Sundays AmerlClnl All - Immlgrlntl All, (Con!inued on Page 19)

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