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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.
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