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PAGE 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 12, 1944 W T A W Batt Chat The head of Mucho Grande, the great buffalo bull of the Texas plains and secret symbol of peace between the white man and the Indians, serves as a savidr for Dan Reid in the Wednesday, Sep tember 13, WTAW broadcast of the Lone Ranger, aired at 6:30 p. m., CWT. The plot for the 30-minute dra ma, entitled “The Angelus,” cen ters around the capture of Reid by notorious gunn-runners, the killing of the Mission Padre and the at tempt to place the blame for the murder on the Lone Ranger. Cli max comes when the Lone Ranger and Tonto engage in a furious gun LISTEN TO WTAW 1150 kc — B (Blue Network) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 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 7:16 Your Life Today BN 7:30 Blue Correspondents BN 7 :45 Morning Melodies WTAW 7:56 Hollywood Headliners WTAW 8:00 The Breakfast Club BN 9:00 My True Story BN 9 :25 Aunt Jemima BN 9 :30 Between the Lines WTAW 9 :46 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 11:16 Meet Your Neighbor BN 11:30 Farm and Home Makers BN P. M. 12:00 Baukhage Talking BN 12:16 WTAW Noonday News WTAW 12:30 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 8:30 Time Views the News BN 8 :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 6:16 Hop Harrigan BN 6:30 Jack Armstrong BN 6:00 Pages Of Melody BN 6:30 The Lone Ranger BN 7:00 Watch the World Go By BN 7:16 Lum ’n’ Abner - BN 7:30 Sign < Off THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 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 7:16 Toast and Coffee WTAW 7:30 Blue Correspondents BN 7:45 The Hum bard 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 10:80 Gil Martyn BN 10:46 Songs by Cliff Edwards BN 11:00 Glamour Manor — - BN 11:16 Meet Your Neighbor BN 11:80 Farm and Home Makers BN P. M 12:00 Baukhage Talking BN 12:16 WTAW Noonday News WTAW 12 :S0 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 8:00 Ethel and Albert BN 8:16 Music for Moderns WTAW 8:80 Time Views the News BN 8 :45 Something to Read— Dr. T. F. Mayo WTAW 4 :00 Student tersonnell—George Wilcox WTAW 4 :15 Three Romeos BN 4:80 Something for the Girls WTAW 4:45 Dick Tracy BN 6:00 Terry and the Pirates BN 6:16 Hop Harrigan . BN 6:80 Jack Armstrong BN 6:45 Sea Hound BN 6:00 Fred Waring- BN 6:80 It’s Murder BN 6:45 Chester Bowles BN 7:00 Watch the World Go By BN 7:16 The Parker Family BN 7:30 Sign Off battle with the gun runners who are subsequently captured. Not until he had appeared in twelve Broadway plays in 18 months—all failures—did West brook Van Voorhis, whose voice is heard on Time Views the News over WTAW Monday through Fri day at 3:30 p. m., CWT, turn to radio. Van auditioned for two major networks. Both rejected him, so the slim newscaster tried a small local station. Hns unusual delivery wonn him a trial and quick pro motion with the March of Time, then making its air debut. Today—^twelve years later— Van’s tag line has become a house hold phrase, and it is believed his voice is heard by more people than any other figure in America ex cept President Roosevelt. *** The orchestra under the direc tion of Harry Kogen will take the spotlight on the Wednesday, Sep tember 13, broadcast over WTAW of the BLUE Network’s Farm and Home Makers, at 11:30 a. m., CWT, with a “home” medley which includes “Just a Cottage Small,” “My Little Grass Shack,” and “A Little White House.” Two old-timers from Tin Pan Alley, “Yes, We Have No Banan- nas” and “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover” have been dust ed off to compete with several of the more popular current tunes. Curley Bradley, m. c., will lend his baritone talents to “My Shepherd” and “I Want to Ride in the Sky.” Robert B. White is producer-di rector of the Farm and Home series. *** Because of an over supply of blackface acts at radio station KTHS, Hot Springs, Arkansas, back in 1931, the comedy team of Lum and Abner was bom. In the spring of that year a show was. organized by Chet Lauck and Norris Goff—creators and stars of Lum and Abner—to raise funds for those persons made homeless by a recent flood. The campaign went over with a bang and the boys settled back into the routine of business. Somebody at radio sta tion KTHS heard about the act, however, and invited them to ap pear on the station. When the lads arrived at the studio, they found the air was dark with blackface acts. Norris (known familiarly as Tuffy) and Chet sat down to figure things out. They thought a show about people in the Ozarks might go over. Five minutes before they were to go on the air, an announ cer rushed in to ask them the name of their act. “I guess I’ll call myself Lum,” said Chet, because he didn’t know anyone by that name. Tuffy paused a moment, then remarked he knew an old man named Abner. So Lum and Abner came to be. Today, thirteen years later, Lum Edwards and Abner Peabody are household names. They are real people to millions who listen to them four days a week, at 7:15 p. m., CWT, over WTAW, under the sponsorship of Miles Labora tories. *** Business associates of Fannie Hurst have plenty of the Hurst signatures in their files, but not the noted author’s friends. For at the ned of every informal note FEATURED ON WTAW America’s First Lady of the The atre, Ethel Barrymore, has waited a long time before offering her own radio program. Now she Is to be starred in “Ethel Barrymore as Miss Hattie”, a distinguished Sunday afternoon dramatic fea ture over the BLUE Network be* ginning Sunday, Sept. 17. and letter, Miss Hurst signs her self with a red ink sketch of her favorite flower, the calla lily. Churchill has his cigar. With Fannie Hurst it’s a calla lily. Wher ever she appears, whether it be on a lecture platform, at a party, or before a BLUE Network mike for her weekly program, Miss Hurst is wearing a gem-bedecked facsi mile of the blossom. The story be hind it?—she just likes calla lilies. Miss Hurst might have gotten the inspiration for her never, “Five and Ten,” from the corner Wool- worth’s but not the ornament. The flower itself is white-enameled, the stamen is an amythist topaz, and the stem is plugged with a shy relative of the Hope diamond. Equipped with a clasp, the ar tificial flower is worn effectively with a black or black-and-white wardrobe that also is always as sociated wifh Fannie Hurst. It was given to her, she says, by a friend who tired of seeing her wear wax flowers, that always “looked weary.” Miss Hurst serves as narrator on dramatizations of her stories, heard in the Fannie Hurst Pre sents program, Saturdays, at 9:00 a. m., CWT, over WTAW. *** Pretty Peg Lynch who writes the Ethel and Albert show, a BLUE Network series, not only owns the show but always plays the part of “Ethel” and even looks the way you know Ethel would look. She smiles as Ethel would and in rehearsals darts to and fro with quick little motions even as the character she has created. Miss Lynch first wrote Ethel and Albert as a five-minute sketch on a half-hour show for station KAT in Albert Lea, Minnesotta. From this town she named the Albert part of her show. The Ethel she decided on “because it sounded good.” Her first experience in acting came when she was writing half- hour shows for KAT and was told she’d have to go on the air with the sketch the next afternoon. Ter rified, she stayed up all night al ternately writing and shaking in her boots. When the time came she didn’t even have mike fright. Peg’s biggest worry was that her “Alberts” kept turning into G. I. Joes and it was hard to get re placements. The present Albert, played by Dick Widmark, has been repected by the armed forces be cause of a physical disability. Miss. Lynch has always played Ethel. When she came to the BLUE with her show, Bob Cotton, pro ducer and director, auditioned twenty other girls for the part but Peg was Ethel and that was all there was to it. Peg started writing profession ally while attending the University of Minnesota. For fifteen years she has been unable to make up her mind which she wanted to do more, act or write. Since she still can’t decide, she does both. Peg is twenty-seven years old and unmarried. She has an apart ment in New York City where she does much of her writing. It takes her two hours to write a script; just as long as it takes her to type it with two fingers—Ethel— wise again, one might add. ♦ —Attend San Antonio Ag-gie Dance— Work Supervisors “Supervisors of student em- , ployment are urgently request ed to turn in assignment cards for students now employed with your department. The cards may be turned in at anytime between’ now and September 15th. Please be sure to give a rating of the ~ student’s performance.” Texas representative of both socie ties. Papers which were to have been delivered will be abstracted for publication and distribution. This" will be the first year since organi zation that the societies have not met. Texas ranks high in the number of members of both organi zations and many foreign countries^ are represented in the member ship. Agronomy and Soil Societies Cancel Cincinnatti Meeting Due to war time difficulties of travel the American Society of Agronomy and the Soils Science Society of America have cancelled plans for the meeting planned in Cincinnatti November 15-17, ac cording to word just received by Dr. Ide P. Trotter, head of the A. &M. agronomy department and Dentistry is the most admirable w of all professions. Dentists do their crowning work every day. HELP BRING VICTORY BUY WAR BONDS LOUPOT’S A Little Place . . . ... A Big Saving! SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BATTALION For Next Semester Keep Informed on College and College Station Affairs Subscribe to the Battalion for that Ex-Aggie in the armed service. As members of the “Greatest Fraternity on Earth” they want to know what is hap pening at A. & M. in the way of classes, administra tion and sports. The Battalion offers the best means of keeping the army of exes informed on the progress of A. & M. 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