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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 22, 1944
W T A W
Batt Chat
Fifteen minutes isn’t much time
in which to tell a story. On the
radio, at least four of these min
utes are consumed by commercials
and other trimmings, so the best
you can hope for is eleven minutes
of music or drama.
LISTEN TO
WT AW
1150 kc — B (Blue Network)
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 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
7:30 Blue Correspondents BN
7 :45 The* Humbard Family BN
8:00 The Breakfast Club BN
9:00 My True Story BN
9:26 Aunt Jemima BN
9:30 Between the Lines WTAW
9 :45 The Listening Post. BN
10:00 Breakfast at Sardi’s BN
10:80 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
12:16 WTAW Noonday News WTAW
12 :S0 Farm Fair WTAW
12:46 Tips, Topics and Tunes... WTAW
1:00 Kiernan’s Corner BN
1:16 The Mystery Chef BN
1:30 Ladies Be Seated BN
2:00 Songs by Morton Downey— BN
2:16 Hollywood Star Time—RKO BN
2:30 Appointment with Life. BN
3:00 Ethel and Albert BN
3:16 Music for Moderns WTAW
3:80 Time Views the News BN
3:46 Our Neighbor Mexico—
Dr. A. B. Nelson WTAW
4:00 Rev. Hartmann (Lutheran)..WTAW
4 :16 The Vagabonds BN
4:30 Marie Baldwin, Organist BN
4:46 Dick Tracy... BN
6:00 Terry and the Pirates BN
6:15 Hop Harrigan BN
6:30 Jack Armstrong BN
6:00 Scramby Amby BN
6:80 The Lone Ranger BN
7:00 Watch the World Go By BN
7:16 Lum ’n’ Abner BN
7:80 My Best Girls BN
7:46 Andrini Continentales BN
8:00 Speaking of Sports WTAW
8:15 Sign off.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1944
A. M.
6:00 Sign on.
• :02 Texas Farm ft Home Prog. WTAW
6:15 Sunup Club WTAW
7:00 Martin Agronsky—
Daily War Journal BN
7:16 Toast and Coffee. WTAW
7:80 Blue Correspondents BN
7:46 The Humbard Family BN
8:00 The Breakfast Club BN
9:00 My True Story BN
9:26 Aunt Jemima. BN
9:30 Between the Lines. WTAW
9:46 The Listening Post. — BN
10:00 Breakfast at Sardi’s BN
10:80 Gil Martyn BN
10:45 Songs by Cliff Edwards BN
11:00 Glamour Manor BN
11:15 Meet Your Neighbor BN
11:80 Farm and Home Makers BN
P. M.
12:00 Baukhage Talking BN
12:15 WTAW Noonday News WTAW
12:80 Farm Fair WTAW
12:40 Bunhouse Roundup WTAW
1:00 Kiernan’s Corner BN
1:16 The Mystery Chef BN
1:80 Ladies Be Seated BN
2:00 Songs by Morton Downey BN
2:15 Hollywood Star Time—RKO BN
2:80 Appointment with Life BN
3:00 Ethel and Albert BN
8:15 Music for Moderns WTAW
1:80 Time Views the News BN
8:45 Something to Read—
Dr. T. F. Mayo WTAW
4:00 Student Personnell—George
Wilcox WTAW
4:15 Three Romeos BN
4:30 Something for the Girls. WTAW
4:45 Dick Tracy BN
6:00 Terry and the Pirates BN
5:15 Hop Harrigan BN
5:80 Jack Armstrong BN
6:45 Sea Hound BN
6:00 Musical Mysteries BN
6:80 It’s Murder BN
6:45 Chester Bowles BN
7:00 Watch the World Go By BN
7:15 The Parker Family BN
7:80 America’s Town Meeting of
the Air— BN
8:60 Speaking of Sports WTAW
8:80 Sign Off.
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He’s Right With You!
But one WTAW program, The
Listening Post, manages to pack
more punch into its fifteen-minute
slot than most half-hour shows.
Minute for minute, day in and day
out—considering that it is present
ed four days a week—The Listen
ing Post is among the most solid
hunks of entertainment on the air.
The dramas have to be good, be
cause each fifteen-minute program
is an adaptation of a current piece
in the ^Saturday Evening Post.”
And the Post combs the country
for the best in reading matter, ar
ticles and fiction.
Noel Gerson, who does many of
the scripts, is a former Chicago
newspaperman. He condenses a
magazine piece of from five to ten
thousand words into a radio drama
that retains the feeling and flavor
of the original. Sometimes his ma
terial can be converted easily. But
often he must read the piece nu
merous times before he hits on the
right formula for radio.
Henry Clay Klein, who produces
and directs the program, has a
ballet dancer’s genius for timing.
That’s vital, because a short drama
is a series of what in the theatre
are called blackouts — concise
scenes that cram minutes of story
significance into seconds. To bridge
these blackouts, Ted Steel, at the
organ, wheedles a nostalgic sigh
or thumps a throbbing crescendo,
depending upon the mood of the
moment.
★ * *
“Judge” Ransom Sherman will
build and occupy his own “dog
house” when he brings up the
problem of unpunctual wives dur
ing the Nitwit Court broadcast of
Tuesday, August 22, over WTAW
at 7:30 p.m., CWT.
The fact that wives have been
known to keep their husbands wait
ing for appointments will not only
mix up the metaphors but also the
unbalanced Jury, composed of
“Waymond Wadcliffe,” played by
Arthur Q. Bryan, “Bubbles Low-
bridge,” played by Sara Berner,
and Mel Blanc as “Bigelow Horn-
blower.”
The Jack Rose Trio will accom
pany Jimmy Dodd in one of his
original ballads.
* * *
Baritone Curley Bradley will
sing that spectacular ballad of non
spectacular existence, “I’ll Get By,”
on the WTAW broadcast of Farm
and Home Makers, Thursday, Au
gust 24, at 11:30 a.m., CWT. Brad
ley, m.c. of the program, also will
give his versions of “Sweet Sue”
and the hymn, “Over the Hills to
Heaven.”
The orchestra, directed by Har
ry Kogen, will play, “I Should
Worry,” “We Shall Be Free” and
a medley of “The Bowery,” “Yip-I-
Addy-I-Ay” and “Come Josephine
in My Flying Machine.” The Har-
monizers, instrumental sextet, will
contribute a red-hot arrangement
of “China Boy.”
Bradley will provide a last-min
ute summary of farm news, and
Kay Baxter, Blue Network home
maker, will supply household hints.
Robert B. White is producer-di
rector of Farm and Home Makers.
* * *
Dan Reid, the Masked Horse
man’s genial young nephew, be
friends Tricky, the wayward son
of Gunman Jeff Thompson, and
thereby sets the stage for exciting
events that will be unfolded dur
ing the WTAW broadcast of the
Lone Ranger drama titled “Tricky,”
FEATURED ON WTAW
Genial, likable Tom Breneman,
emcee on the BLUE’s immensely
popular “Breakfast at Sardi's”
program is the pivot around
which this week-day feature re
volves. Tom knows the trick of ,
ke&plno things moving.
on Wednesday, August 23, at 6:30
p.m., CWT.
Learning that Dan is related to
the crusading Lone Ranger, Jeff
Thompson assigns several outlaws
to “liquidate” the lad. The outlaws
accidentally shoot Tricky, where
upon Jeff has a change of heart
and, at the cost of his life, aids in
smashing his own gang.
¥ * *
The Three Romeos will intone
the sage of “Prairie Pete” on the
WTAW program of songs, Wednes
day, August 23, at 4:15-4:30 p.m.,
CWT. The threesome also will trill
“Oh, By Jingo”, “I Love You
Truly,” “Thanks for the Buggy
Ride” and “Don’t Believe Every
thing You Dream.”
* * *
Another episode in the private
lives of Ethel and Albert, in which
Albert disastrously attempts to
portray the “successful man,’* will
take place on Wednesday, August
23, at 3:00 p.m., CWT, on WTAW.
On this particular day Albert
arrives home in a dither over a
book that he just can’t bear to
put down. It is called “The Suc
cessful Man” and the prerequisite
for success seems to involve lots
of charm of the “sticky-sweet va
riety. Albert attempts to follow
this model under some pretty ad
verse conditions to which Ethel
contributes in her own fashion.
The Ethel and Albert series is
heard Mondays through Fridays
via the Blue at 3:00 p.m., CWT.
* * *
A diary that was kept right up
to date helps Rex Starr, retired
actor and amateur criminologist,
to solve a crime in the National
Safety Council’s mystery drama,
It’s Murder, Thursday, August 24,
at 10:15 p.m., CWT, over the Blue
Network.
Rex and his Broadway-columnist
niece, Joan Adams, stop for a
drink at the Seabreeze Beach Club ;
and run into several interesting |
people, among them Jenkins, who j
owns the club, Ted Lessing, star j
reporter, and Lucille Page, blues
singer. All of these characters, it |
later develops, are involved in the j
murder case.
Another $50 war bond and ten j
other prizes. of $5 each will be |
given on the program’s National
Safety limerick contest.
# * *
A new collection of daffy defini
tions will be presented on the
Marine Aggie-Ex
Visits Campus
Lt. Col. Raymond L. Murray,
’35, U. S. M. C., with Mrs. Murray
and their son, Bill, spent Friday
and Saturday on the campus, re
newing old acquaintances and
enjoying the sights, the first visit
to the campus in 9 years.
Col. Murray served though the
Guadalcanal and Tarawa cam
paigns, from which he received the
silver and gold stars because of
his bravery and leadership. Land
ing with the first invasion wave
on Saipan, he received shrapnel
wounds, for which he was returned
to the United States for treatment.
Upon complete recovery he is to
Scramby Amby comedy quiz pro
gram, Wednesday, August 23, over
WTAW at 6:00 p.m., CWT.
Musical clues to be sung by
“Host” Perry Ward, Announcer
Larry Keating and Songstress
Lynn Martin include “We’re the
Sunday Drivers,” “On A Sunday
Afternoon,” and “Are You Spoken
For?” Charles Dant’s orchestra
provides the musical background.
* * *
Guerilla Gertie, female wrestler,
a guest at Glamour Manor, be
comes romantically interested in
Cliff Arquette during the broad
cast, Wednesday, August 23, at
11:00 a.m., CWT, over WTAW.
Cliff’s attempts to get her out of
the hotel prove hilarious.
Musical interludes will include
a Charlie Hale band arrangement
of “String of Pearls” and Hal
Stevens’ vocal offering of “It Had
To Be You.”
FEATURED ON WTAW
Jack Owens, radio’s only cruising ^
crooner, is a recent addition to
the BLUE’s famous “Breakfast
Club” program. No' mlke-hugger
is Jack, he prefers to circulatt
among the studio audience croon
ing heart-throb ballads Into the *
ears of delighted feminine fans. 1
be stationed for a time at Quantico^
as an instructor.
While a student on the campus,
Col. Murray was Lt. Col. of the
Infantry Regiment., He was a reg-^
ular player on the football team,
was named an all-conference end,
and during the season of 1935 was
an assistant freshman coach.
During their visit here, the Mur
rays were guests of Dr. and Mrs. *
C. B. Campbell.
Debts are the only things which
expand when contracted.
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