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PAGE 6 THE BATTALION FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 18, 1944 RADIO STATION W T A W 11:<3€ DILCCrLC/ BLOC NETWCDB- FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1944 A. M. 6:00 Si«n on. 6:02 Texas Farm & Home Pro*. WTAW 6 :16 Sunup Club WTAW 7:00 Martin Agronsky— Daily War Journal. BN 7:15 Your Life Today BN 7 :30 Blue Correspondents BN 7:45 The Humbard Family BN 8:00 The Breakfast Club BN 9 :00 My True Story BN 9 :25 Aunt Jemima BN 9 :30 Between the Lines WTAW 9:45 The Listening Post BN 10:00 Breakfast at Sardi's. BN 10:30 Gil Martyn BN 7:15 Your Life Today BN 11:00 Glamour Manor BN 11:16 Meet Your Neighbor BN 11:30 Farm and Home Makers BN P. M. 12 :00 Baukhage Talking BN 12:15 WTAW Noonday News... WTAW 12 :30 A Farm Fair „WTAW 12:45 Little Jack Little BN 1:00 Kiernan’s Corner BN 1:15 The Mystery Chef— BN 1:30 Ladies Be Seated BN 2:00 Songs by Morton Downey.... BN 2:15 Hollywood Star Time—RKO BN 2:30 Appointment with Life BN 3 :00 Ethel and Albert BN 3 :15 Music for Moderns WTAW 3:30 Time Views the News BN 3 :45 Treasury Star Salute. WTAW 4 :00 Something to Read WTAW 4:16 Children’s Story Hour—1..WTAW 4:30 The Sea Hound BN 4:45 Dick Tracy.— BN 6:00 Terry and the Pirates BN 6:15 Hop Harrigan BN 6:80 Jack Armstrong BN 5:45 Captain Midnight BN 6:00 Kelly’s Courthouse BN 6:80 Coast Guard Dance Band.... BN 7:00 Watch the World Go By BN 7:15 Lum 'n’ Abner BN 7:30 Wake Up America.... BN 8:00 Wake Up America.... WTAW 8:30 Sign Off. SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1944 A. M. 6:00 Sign on. 6:02 Texas Farm & Home Prog. WTAW 6 :16 Sunup Club WTAW 7:00 News Summary BN 7:15 Arlo at the Organ •' BN 7:30 United Nations News BN 7 :45 Off the Record WTAW 8:00 The Breakfast Club BN 9:00 Fannie Hurst Presents BN 9:30 Andrini Continentales BN 9:45 Songs by Jean Tighe BN 10:00 On Stage Everybody BN 10:30 Land of the Lost BN 11:00 News Summary WTAW 11:05 WTAW News WTAW 11:30 National Farm & Home Hr. BN P. M. 12:00 Report From London BN 12:15 Trans-Atlantic Quiz BN 12 :30 Swing Shift Frolic BN 12:45 Bunkhouse Roundup BN 1:00 Headline News BN 1:02 Women in Blue BN 1:30 Sez You BN 2 :00 Headline News BN 2:02 Twenty One Stars BN 2:30 Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concert BN 3:00 Headline News BN 3:02 Saturday Afternoon Review BN 4:00 Headline News BN 4 :02 'Saturday Concert BN 4 :45 Hello, Sweetheart BN 5:00 Service Serenade— BN 5 :16 Story land Theatre BN 5 :30 Harry Wismer—Sports... BN 5:45 To Be Announced 6:00 Blue Correspondents Abroad BN 6:15 Leland Stowe—1 BN 6 :30 Music America Loves Best— 7:00 Early Amer. Dance Music.. BN 7:16 Edward Tomlinson BN 7:30 Gilbert & Sullivan Festival BN 8:15 Sign Off SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1944 8:00 Blue Correspondents BN 8:16 Coast to Coast on a Bus BN 9 :00 The Lutheran Hour WTAW 9 :30 The Southernaires BN 10 :00 Music by Master Composers WTAW 11:00 Weekly War Journal BN 11:80 College Ave. Baptist Church WTAW P. M. 12 :00 John B. Kennedy BN 12:15 Music by Marais BN 12:30 Sammy Kaye’s Tangee Serenade - BN 12 :55 News Summary BN 1:00 Old Fash. Revival Hour WTAW 2:00 Listen, the* Women BN 2 :30 Democratic Convention Preview BN 3 :00 Darts for Dough BN 3:80 World of Song BN 4:00 Mary Small Revue BN 4 :30 Hot Copy—O’Cedar BN 5:00 Philco Summer Hour BN 6 :00 Drew Pearson BN 6 :15 Don Gardiner—News BN 6:30 Quiz Kids BN 7:00 Greenfield Village Chapel— BN 7 :15 The Week in Review— Dr. Ralph Steen WTAW 7:80 Keepsakes BN 8:0O Walter Winchell BN 8:15 Sign off. MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1944 A. M. 6:00 Sign on. 6 :02 Texas Farm & Home Prog. WTAW 6 :16 Sunup Club WTAW 7 :00 Martin Agronsky— Daily War Journal — BN 7:15 Your Life Today BN 7 :S0 Blue Correspondents BN 7:45 The Humbard Family BN 8 :00 The Breakfast Club BN 9 :00 My True Story— 9 :25 Aunt Jemima BN 9 :30 Between the Lines WTAW 9 :45 Air Lane Trio BN 10:00 Breakfast at Sardi’s BN 10:30 Gil Martyn BN 10:45 Songs by Cliff Edwards BN 11:00 Glamour Manor BN 11:16 Meet Your Neighbor - BN 11:30 Farm and Home Makers BN P. M. 12:00 Baukhage Talking BN 12 :15 WTAW Noonday News WTAW 12 :30 Farm Fair WTAW 12 :45 Tips, Topics and Tunes WTAW 1:00 Kiernan’s Corner BN 1:15 Mystery Chef BN 1 :30 Ladies, Be Seated BN 2:00 Songs by Morton Downey.... BN 2:15 Hollywood Star Time BN 2:30 Appointment with Life BN 3:00 Ethel and Albert BN 3 :15 Music for Moderns WTAW 3:30 Time Views the News BN 3 :45 Economic Problems— Dr. F. B. Clark WTAW 4 :00 Brazos Valley Farm & Home WTAW 4:15 The Vagabonds BN 4:30 Our Singing Stars BN 4 :45 Dick Tracy BN 5:00 Terry and the Pirates BN 6:15 Hop Harrigan BN 5 :30 Jack Armstrong BN 5:45 Sea Hound BN 6:00 Horace Heidt. BN 6:80 The Lone Ranger BN 7:0O Watch the World Go By BN 7 :15 . Lum ’n’ Abner BN 7:30 Blind Date BN 8 :00 Speaking of Sports WTAW 8:16 Sign off. TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1944 A. M. 6:00 Sign on. 6 :02 Texas Farm & Home Prog. WTAW 6:15 Sunup Club WTAW 7:00 Martin Agronsky— Daily War Journal BN 7:15 Your Life Today BN 7 :30 Blue Correspondents BN 7:45 The Humbard Family BN % 8:00 The Breakfast Club BN 9:00 My True Story BN 9:25 Aunt Jemima BN 9 :30 Between the Lines WTAW 9:45 The Listening Post BN 10:00 Breakfast at Sardi's BN 10:30 Gil Martyn BN 10:45 Songs by Cliff Edwards BN 11:00 Glamour Manor BN 11:15 Mid-Morning Melodies WTAW 11:30 Farm and Home Makers BN P. M. 12:00 Baukhage Talking BN 12:15 WTAW Noonday News WTAW 12:30 Farm Fair WTAW 12 :40 Bunhouse Roundup WTAW 1:00 Kiernan’s Corner BN 1:15 The Mystery Chef BN 1:30 Ladies Be Seated BN 2:00 Songs by Morton Downey.... BN 2:15 Hollywood Star Time—RKO BN 2 :30 Appointment with Life BN 3:00 Ethel and Albert BN * 3 :16 Music for Moderns WTAW 3:30 Time Views the News BN 3 :46 Know Your State— Dr. Ralph Steen WTAW 4 :00 Brazos Valley F.S.A WTAW 4:15 Three Romeos BN 4:30 Something for the Girls WTAW 4:45 Dick Tracy BN 5:00 Terry and the Pirates BN 5:15 Hop Harrigan BN 6:30 Jack Armstrong BN 5:46 Captain Midnight BN 5:45 Sea Hound BN 6 :00 Land of the Lost BN 6:30 The Green Hornet BN 7:00 Watch the World Go By BN 7 :15 Lum ’n’ Abner BN -c WTAW Batt Chat Anna Kaskas, a soprano born in Connecticut who achieved Met ropolitan fame by starting at, of all places, Kovno, Lithuania, and Martial Singher, baritone, who has been acclaimed on three continents, will appear on the World of Song program over WTAW, Sunday; August 20, at 3:00 p. m., CWT. Miss Kaska’s solos will be “On Wings of Song” and “Stride la Bampa”; Singher will sing “Until” and “Oh, Dry Those Tears.” They will duet in “Look For The Silver Lining” and “Song of Love.” Wil fred Pelletiers orchestra will play Sgt. Dave Rose^ “Holiday for Strings.” * * * The bubbly sparkle of the music and lyrics of seven of Gilbert and Sullivan’s best-known operettas, played by Joseph Stopak’s concert orchestra and sung by Regina Res- nik, Muriel. Wilson, Celia Branz, Fred Hufsmith, Paul Reid and Earl Wrightson, will be presented over WTAW in a weekly full- hour series beginning Saturday, August 19, at 7:30 p.m., CWT. * * * Felix Knight, tenor and RCA- Victor recording artist, will be the featured guest star on the RCA program, The Music America Loves Best, Saturday, August 19, at 6:30 p.m., CWT, over WTAW. Other vis iting artists will be Milena Mil ler, popular songstress, and Adele Girard, swing harpist. Knight’s offerings will be Franz Lehar’s “Yours Is My Heart Alone” and Stephen 'Foster’s “Beautiful Dreamer.” In a medley for harp and orchestra, Adele Gir ard and the RCA-Victor orches tra, directed by Jay Blackton will play “Swingin’ on a Star,” “I’ll LOUPOT’S A Little Place • . . ... A Big Saving! Be Seeing You” and “I Know That You Know.” The chorus will sing “Take It Easy” by Vic Mizzy, and with Adele Girard, “Little David Play on Your Harp.” The orchestra will offer “Three o’clock in the Morn ing,” followed by “Amor,” featur ing Milena Miller. In the finale, the orchestra will play “Old Folks at Home” and Felix Knight will sing <r Camptown Races.” * * * . Because the faithful, friendly little animals that adopt companies of soldiers as their masters are seldom celebrated, the chorus of the Blue Network Keepsakes pro gram will salute them musically with “The Mascot of the Troops,” Sunday, August 20, at 7:30 p.m., CWT. On the same broadcast Dorothy Kirsten will be heard in “Romance” from the “Desert Song” and “In the Time of Roses.” Solos by Mack Harrell, baritone, will be “Because I Love You,” and “Bedouin Love Song.” The pair also will make duets of “Neapolitan Nights” and “Deep In My Heart,” and the chorus will sing, as its second se lection, “Long, Long Ago.” Tom Jones directs the Keepsakes orchestra. * * * “Hattie Turner vs. Hattie Tur ner,” the famous Fannie Hurst story in which a woman suspects herself of murder, will be drama tized on the WTAW broadcast of Fannie Hurst Presents, Saturday, August 19, at 9:00 a.m., CWT. In the story, Hattie Turner lives with a cruel, self-centered hus band, whom she has not the will power to leave. When the hus band’s murder provides the wom an’s only path to freedom, she wonders if the man suspected of the murder is really the guilty one. Miss Hurst herself is narrator of the radio adaptation, done by Ruth Adams Knight. Original or gan music for the program has been composed and will be played by Abe Goldman. ♦ * * Mrs. Vincent Sheean, wife of the famed war correspondent, and Mrs. Franklin P. Adams, wife of witty “F.P.A.,” will be guests on FEATURED ON WTAW Maintaining the high standard set by her predecessors Is lovely llene Woods, now currently heard on the BLUE Net's Sunday “Sum mer Hour.” llene, a sultry-voiced songstress of considerable talent, is backed by the superb orchestra led by Paul Whiteman. Listen, The Women, Sunday, Au gust 20, at 2:00 p.m., CWT over WTAW. Miss Janet Planner, after guest ing on the two previous programs, will resume her usual post as fem- cee of the show on this date. Also appearing on this Sunday’s session of the unrehearsed broad cast will be Dr. C. Mildred Thomp son, Dean of Vassar College, and Mrs. Thyra Samter Winslow, fic tion writer. * m m A Whiteman “Now and Then- ner” which was so good then that it can’t be improved by contrasting the old version with a new ar rangement will be included on the Philco Summer Hour when Paul Whiteman and his Radio Hall of Fame orchestra play “Together” over WTAW Sunday, August 20 at 5:00 p.m., ^WT. Jack Fulton, who sang the orig inal vocal of “Together” more than fifteen years ago, will come from Chicago to New York, where the program originates, so that the tune can be presented exactly as heard the first time. Four of the many selections arid specialties to be heard on the full- hour show, and sung by Hi, Lo, Jack and the Dame, Bob Johnston and llene Woods, are: “Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t,”' “I’ll Walk Alone,” “Don’t Take Your Love ‘From Me” and a duet by Miss Woods and Johnston of “Two Sleepy People.” * * * Lt. Col. Evans F. Carlson, lead er of the famed Carlson Raiders, who recently was wounded while carrying an injured private beyond range of Jap fire on Saipan, will be heard via a pickup from the West Coast on the WTAW broad cast of Meet Your Navy Friday, August 18, at 7:30 p.m., CWT. Organized and trained by Colonel Carlson, his rugged Raiders, offi cially known as the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, havf spearhead ed the assaults on Makin, Guadal canal, the Marshalls, Tarawa, nd Saipan. Their courage and skill as jungle fighters are vividly depict ed in the film, “Gung Ho.” Highlights in Colonel Carlson’s career—a career that thus far has been marked by three awards of the Navy Cross—will be present ed in the dramatized portion of the broadcast. Harvey Crawford will sing “Time Waits for No One,” Chuck For sythe will unlimber his voice and trumpet in “Singing on a Star,” and the a cappella choir of 200 voices will chant “Church in the Wildwood.” Melodies of the mo ment and martial music will be played by the all-bluejacket band and orchestra. Meet Your Navy, a weekly pre sentation of the Blue Network, originates at the U. S. Naval Train ing Center, Great Lakes, 111. * * * Maj. Gen. John J. Lewis, com manding officer of the Military District of Washington, Army Service Forces, will be guest speak er on the WTAW broadcast of Twenty-One Stars, Saturday, Au gust 19, at 2:02-2:30 p.m., CWT. G'.I.’s in the solo spotlight will be Privates Buddy Clark, Bob Eb- erle and Henry Rose, all of whom were topnotch entertainers in ci vilian life. Eberle will sing “Fel low on a Furlough” and “I’ll Walk Alone,” Rose will play piano ex cerpts from Rachmaninoff’s “Con certo in C Minor,” and Clark will intone “Beautiful Love” and “Time Waits for No One.” The reconditioning program whereby wounded soldiers are put in tiptop physical shape for their return to the Army or to civilian life will be described in the drama tized portion of the program. Musical interludes will be pro vided by the 344th Army Service Forces’ band and orchestra. Twenty-One Stars is produced under the supervision of Major Wayne King. He * * How Mr. Parker almost loses the contract for the new hospital wing makes for fun with The Park er Family, over WTAW Friday, August 18, at 7:15 p.m., CWT. This week’s comedy, titled “Every Dog Has His Day,” cen ters around a mad mixup of boxes. Grandpop and Richard, setting out to bury the effects of Jo Jo, the Boy-Faced Dog, select a fancy gift box as the proper casket. In the meantime, Mrs. Parker brings home the same kind of box. It contains an important gift which Mr. Parker plans to use for pub lic relations purposes. In the re sultant confusion Grandpop and Richard bury the gift, and off goes unsuspecting Mr. Parker with the box of bones and dog collars. In 1943, American housewives turned in 100,000,000 pounds of waste fats. VICTORY BUY UNITED STATES .WAR BONDS AND STAMPS