The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 22, 1944, Image 6
PAGE 6 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. LOUPOT’S Trade With Lon — 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. LOUPOT’S Watch Dog of the Aggies KEEP COOL - - - On a hot day- drop in for a refreshing drink that’s really cooling GEORGE’S DO YOUR PART * BUY WAR BONDS