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D--EIGHT SUNDAY JOURNAL AND STAR ItJlSE 20. LERE'S the way Barry Wood looks and feels after warming up for Father's day with his two little daughters, Beverly, 4 (left), and Bonnie, 7. His duties as singing emcee of "The Million Dollar Band" Saturdays, 9 p. m. are small compared to the workout he gets at "child's play" on his Connecticut farm.

(WOW.) G. riorris 1 Treatise Is Reviewed On 'fllen and Books' Program VIA NATIONAL NETWORK A book by former Senator George W. Morris of Nebraska will be reviewed on Professor John Frederick's national radio program, "Of Men and Books," Saturday, June 26, at 2:00 p. m. (KFORJ.

Entitled "Peace Without Kate," the book will be featred on the part of the program known as "America and the Future." Senator 'Norris gave the subject matter in this book before a University of Nebraska convocation. The elderly statesman gave a plea for a sound and lasting place following ths war, in which dictator nations must be disarmed and policed by men of good will, but without vengeance or cruelty. The book lays down a forcible argument for establishment of a world in which peoples may live without fear. The book was edited by Emily Schossberger, University of Nebraska editor, who also designed the book. Prof.

Frederick, of Northwestern university, conducts the Columbia network program from Chicago. On yesterday's program, Prof. Frederick continued the theme of his united nations broadcasts by presenting the authors of two current best sellers. They were Betty Wason, former CBS correspondent and author of "Miracle in Hellas," and Lorna Lindsley, author of "War Is People." ANE and Goodman Ace enjoy their program, "Easy Aces," as much as their listeners. They broadcast at a special card table with a microphone sunk in the center.

The Aces feel that the program is more realistic when they talk to each other rather than Jo either side of a standing mike. Kern 9 New Russian Music Is Premiered On 9 When Conductor Andre Kostelanetz plays Jerome Kern's new "And Russia Is Her Name" on "The Pause That Refreshes On the Air," via KFAB Sunday afternoon at 3:30, it will be the third Kern premiere on that show in the last year. Kern's "Musical Portrait of Mark Twain," written in Kostelanetz' commission, was introduced to radio listeners by the maestro last June and the composer's scores for the film, "You Were Never Lovelier," were introduced in July. Jan Peerce, top tenor of the Metropolitan opera, will sing the new number. Written in tribute to the fighting sons and heroic mothers of the soviet, the composition, according, to a few critics privileged to hear it ahead of the public introduction, has been hailed as a number that will live long after the current war has ended.

"People To People" A stirring radio picture of Duluth, typical melting pot of persons of United States parentage, is given listeners on "Transatlantic Call: People to People" Sunday, June 20. (KFAB, 11:30 p. The program, another in the current BBC-CBS exchange series, originating alternately in America and England, pictures Duluth as a city moulded by fundamental Americanism--where persons of different nationalities live without hatred and prejudice. Among the Duluthans to be heard are Mrs. Anna Fuhr, editor of the local Norwegian paper, "The Duluth John Crocker, a Cornish miner; and Captain Clifford Polkinghorne, marine superintendent, British ministry ol war transport, Superior, Wis.

War Profiteering Five representatives of government, congress, and industry will air their respective views on means of lowering the cost of war when they discuss "Taking Profiteering Out of War" on the "American Forum of the Air" to be heard over KFOR Sunday at 7. Johnny Mercer Has Show Famed Songwriter Johnny Mercer, pal of Crosby and Hope and a recording artist in his own right (remember "Strip will have his own program via WOW starting Tuesday, June 22. Titled "Johnny Mercer's Music Shop," the half hour musical will be heard weekly, from 9:00 to 9:30 p. m. (C.

W. replacing Bob Hope for the summer. Suporting the singing lyrist of such all- time hit paraders as "Lazyones," "Dearly "That Old Black Majic," "Blues in the Night" and "Skylark," will be Ella Mae Morse, whose recordings of "Cow Cow Boogie" and "Mr. Five By Five" with Freddie Slack's orchestra made juke box history, and Jo Stafford and her Pied Pipers. Good Listening.

This UJeek Journal Star Radio Programs KFOR and Columbia 1240 Kilocycles KOIL Columbia and Mutual 1290 Kilocycles KFAB Columbia Basic 780 Kilocycles WOW NBC RED Network 590 Kilocycles SUNDAY MORNING 8:00 Robert Bellalre Lincoln Church 8:30 Lincoln Churcb 8:45 Funny Papers 9:00 Bible Class 9:15 Bible Class Aud. of Air 9:45 Southernalres 10:00 Rev. Zoller 10:15 I Rev. Zoller 10:30 African Trek 10:45 African Trek 11:00 i War Journal 11:15 I War Journal 11:30 Transatlantic 11:45 Transatlantic News of World Power Biggs E. Power Biggs English Melodies Church ol Air Church ot Air Bible Auditorium Morning Melodies Warren Sweeney Star Review Star Review StaT Review Salt L.

Tabernacle Salt L. Tabernacle Transatlantic Call Transatlantic Call News of World Morning Roundup Morning Roundup Morning Roundup Morning Roundup dick McEntire Wings Over Jordan Wings Over Jordan News Happen This Week Rev. G. E. Lowman Rev.

G. E. Lowman First Plymouth First Plymouth First Plymouth First Plymouth News Commando Mary Chapel Service Chapel Service Chapel Service Chapel Service Art of Living Mus. Meditations News Tower Rocky Rhapsody Musical Dinning Sisters Vjfar Front War Front Red Cross Prog. Red Cross Prog.

bUNDAY AFTERNOON 12:00 This Is Official 12:15 I This Is Official 12:30 Civilian Defense 12:45 Utlsy Mitchell 1:00 Pilgrim Hour 1: 15 Pilgrim Hour 1:30 I Pilgrim Hour 1:45 Pilgrim Hour 2:00 Three Romeos 2:15 Wake np Amer. 2:30 Wake Up Amer 2:43 Wake Up Amer. 3:00 Concert Contr'st 3:15 Concert Contr'st 3:30 Churcb of Air 3:45 I Church ot Air 4:00 Where We St'nri 4:15 Where We St'nd 4:30 Lutheran Hour 4:45 Lutheran Hour News Sunday Concert War Effort Prog. Utlcy Mitchel Stradivari! Orch. Stradivari! Orch.

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Philharmonic N. Y. Philharmonic pause That Refresh Pause That Refresh Family Hour Family Hour Family Hour Wm. L. Shirer KFAB Entertains News Civilian Defense Bob Burlingame Yager Prog.

Defense Prog. With Roberts Stradivari! Orch. Stradivari! Orch. Lutheran Hour Lutheran Hour N. Y.

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Philharmonic Pause That Refrest Pause That Refresl Family Hour Family Hour Family Hour John Quinn Foster May Foster May John C. Thomas John C. Thomas Rationing Report Upton close Army Hour Army Hour Army Hour Army Hour News Listen to Liebert Summer Symphony Summer Symphony Summer Symphony Summer Symphony Record Department Sammy Kaye has just added some new record he doesn't like 'em! It seems the nazis are using his records on their shortwave a a nda broadcasts. Sammy learned about it from a member of the Sammy Kaye Overseas Club, north Africa, who wrote the maestro that he heard Sammy's hits "Daddy" and "This Is No Laughing Matter" while tuning in shortwave stations on his radio recently. However, when the music ended, a German announcer went into his usual song and dance.

The enraged Sammy says the only Consolation is that the Yanks will soon show Hitler and Company that "This Is No Laughing Matter." And then, oh "Daddy!" 5:00 Murder Clinic 5:15 Murder Clinic 5:30 World Theatet 5:45 World Theater Edward Murrow Irene Rich Sgt. Gene Autry Sgt. Gene Autry Ed R. Murrow Irene Rich Sgt. Gene Autry Sst.

Gens Autry Catholic Hour Catholic Hour 3reat Great Gildersleeve. SUNDAY EVENING 6:00 Prophecy 6:151 Prophecy In Britain 6:45 In Britain 1:00 Forum of Air 7:15 Forum of Air 7:30 Forum of Air Gabriel Heatter 8:00 Green Hornet 8:15 Green Hornet 8:30 Rhythmic Age 8:45 I D. Thompson 9:00 1 Revival I Rex-ival Revival 9:45 Revival 10:00 News Les Brown 10:30 Johnny Messner 10:45 Johnny Messner Freddie Martin Freddie Martin Russ Morgan 11:45 Russ Morgan 12:00 Sign Off News Evening Mglqdies Evening Melodies Evening Melodies Calling America Calling America Crime Doctor Crime Doctor Readers Digest Readers Digest Fred Allen Fred Allen Take Or Leave It Take Or Leave It Man Behind Gun Man Behind Gun News Revival Revival Revival Revival Singing Strings Music You Want Music You Want Dance Music News Washington Reports Across Footlights Matty Malneck Calling 1 America Calling America Crime Doctor Crime Doctor Readers Digest Readers Digest Fred Allen Fred Allen Take Or Leave It Take Or Leave It Man Bouind Man tid Gun Pros, from WBBM Prog, from WBBM Prog, from WBBM Prog. from. WBBM Woody Herman Woody Herman Ray Pearl Ray Pearl Dance Music Those We LQve Those We Love Alex Dreier Alex Dreier Paul Whlteman Paul One Man's Family Man's Family Merry-Go-Round Merry -Go-Round, Familiar Music Familiar Music Hour of Charm Hour of Charm Walter Winchell Chamber Music News This Week of War This We Know This We Know News Lands of the Down In Dixie Down In Dixla Beverly Mahr MONDAY MORNING 6:00 Silent 6:15 Silent 6:30 I Musical Clock 6:45 Musical Clock "7:00 M.

Agronsky 7:15 Musical Clock 7:301 Wife-Saver Musical Clock 8:00 I News 8:151 Breakfast Club 8:30 I Breakfast Club 8:45 Breakfast Club 9-00 I Today's Best Choir Loft 9:30 Tdcquls 9:451 Garden Club 10:00 I At Sardl's 10:15 1 At Sardi's 10:30 Jack Baker 10:45 LIvliiR is Pun News 11:15 Bill Hay 11:30 i a a 1 NebraskaTM News Musical Clbct Waltz Time Reveille News Coffee Club Coffee Club Coffee Club News Liberty Bell Hebrew-Christian Hebrew-Christian Valiant Lady American. Stories Honeymoon Hill Bachelor children i SmiiniR Ed Mcconnell Second Husband News Polly the Shojipfr Kate Smith Beautiful Lifo Hflon Trent Our Gal Sunday News Farm Service Lois Joe Lois Cook News Eette Verda Morning Roundup Poultry Talks Rushing Family Gordon Betty Back to Bible Back to Bible News Lois Honeymoon Hill Jessie Young Jessie Young Second Husband BriRht Horizon Aunt Jenny Kale Smith Bijt Sister Helen Trcnl Billy Dean News Aunt Sally Markets Time Tunes Alex Dreier Dr. Preston Bradley News Roundup Symphony, Melody Ideal Melodies Uncle Sam Robert St. John Lora Lawton The O'Neills Help Mate Long Journey Road of Life Vic Snde" Snow Villas' David a A. to a Melody Foursome News Melody Tlmt iSroadcast A discussion on accident prevention in Lancaster county will be featured on the St.

Leger Cowley D. A. R. broadcast Wednesday, June 23, over KFOR Marvin Hersey, field representative of the American Red Cross for first aid, water safety and accident prevention, and Lloyd Jenkins, local Red Cross chairman of the same committee, will speak. Test Your Musical I.

Q. How many of the following nusical questions can you an-, wer? A score of 7 right is exceptional; 6, super-duper; 5, dandy; 4, 3, not so good; 2, no hope for you; 1, a dead pigeon. (1) Name five bandleaders with colors in their names. (2) Name ten men who once played for Benny Goodman and are now bandleaders themselves. (3) What instruments in a swing band would you be playing if the music called for a (a) paradiddle, (b), a tongue, (c) (d) plunger, (e) arco passage? (4) Give three names by which music was previously known.

(5) Name three cities that have given their names to different styles of jazz playing, and 1 give an example of who plays each style. (6) Name 3 currently active bands composed of girl instrumentalists. (7) Name 4 men whose names or nicknames put them in the royalty, or nobility of jazz. ANSWERS: (I) Iti Brown, Johnny Green, Frank Black, Red Norro, Blue Barren. (2) Bunny Berigan, Fee-Wee Eroin, Bud Freeman, Frankle Froeba, Lionel Hampton, Harry lames.

Gene Krupa, Claude Thornhill. Cootie Williams, Teddy Wilson. (3) (a) drums. (b)saxophone (c) clerinet (d) trumpet or trombone (e) mtrlng base. (4) Ragtime, )azz, syncopation.

(5) Chicago Russell; Kansas City style--Andy Kirk's band; New Oilcans style--Muqgiy Spanier's band. (6) The International Sweethearts of Rhythm: Ada Leonard's Orchestra; Phil Spitalny's All-Girl Orchestra. (7) Duke Ellington, Count Baiie, Xing Cole. Earl COLMAN costars with Edna Best in "In Which We Serve" on the KFAB "Radio Theater" Monday, at 8 p. m.

This picture won an Academy swarc as the best foreign film of the year. 1 HE distinguished conductor, Eugene Ormandy, presides over the New York Philharmonic symphony on June 20 and 27. He is conductor of the Philadelphia orchestra. Listen Sunday afternoon at 2:00 over KFAB. Stack Company Technique Is Being Revived by Radio Surely no better model could have been chosen than the vanishing stock company which has contributed so much to the development of the American theater.

A hard and exacting school, the stock company taught end demanded perfection. Many of the best known actors and actresses are quick to admit how much of their success they owa to years spent in stock. A Bit of History At the end of the nineteenth theaters throughout the country were employing stock companies. Dusting ORIGADIER GENERAL C. L.

STURDEVANT, chief of the troops division, of the engineer corps' is guest on KFAB "Death Valley Days," Thursday (7:30 p. The program deals with the new Alcan highway to Alaska. K-UDY VALLEE took over the "Comedy Caravan" last week and is due to present another laugh filled variety show Friday, June 25, over KFAB at 9 p. m. JuATEST of a parade of top entertainers to appear as guest on the celebrated "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street" is Bea Wain, vocalist extraordinary.

Bea will be heard with Paul Lavalle's madcap musicians, Milt Cross and Professor Giacomo McCarthy on the Sunday, June 27th edition of the program. (WOW, 9:45 p. Police Censor Music Linel Hampton's theme number, "Flying Home," is noted for the almost hypnotic effect it a i Home" from the show. Next on audiences. The other day, day a lieutenant from Hie police during the first performance on a department kept official watcli Ml theater date, hi.s 11-minute version of it roused the audience to By DOTTY DOTY This is the beginning article in a series designed to relate what the radio stars and per- 1 sonalities "might have been" if I they had followed their first or early ambitions.

In reply to a letter asking for such informa- tion, Bing Crosby sent the loll lowing telegram: Radio Edi- I tor. "It's Haltering to say the leas 1 for anyone to associate me with anything as lofly as ambition. I 'Excelsior' is a -word no man ever wrote on the Crosby banner, as witness the performance ir.y heroes. However, if you'll bend an ear and let me whisper it, I'll make an exception in your case and make a confession. If I hadn't found something as easy as singing to earn me a living, I'm afraid the name of Crosby would be adding I to the clutter of the stalls that ped- die learning the American public I at two fifty a volume.

In short, ever i since Mother Crosby lent me a hand with my first grammar school composition on why a fly can -walk a ceiling, a phenomenon that has I always fascinated me. I've cher- ished a yen to hunt and peck my into the charmed circle of I literati. However, the lure of the open road, a topless flivver and a set of second hand drums -were my i undoing. The gypsy got the best of the bard and the Shakespeare in I me has been groaning with frus- tration ever since. Your letter kindles old ambitions, and don't be I surprised if your favorite publisher i conies out within a fortnight of i years with a who dunit called "Murder In Swing Time" or "The Mystery Of The Musical Clue." I I might add that had I received your letter twenty years ago you would have found me swinging off the i next train to Lincoln and camping on the doorstep 'or I a staff job.

Warmest regards, I "RING CROSBY." Bing as one of the literati! That is a hard one to take. However, with such a versatile man in our ranks, we can expect almost anything. How about it, can you imagine Bing i best as a lawyer, a writer, a i drummer, or a singer? He did have these other occupations very much in mind in. his col- lege days and even before that. 1 Stacks of legal files, distin- guished lawyers, important pal pers, court scenes, and clients were in Bing's mind as he i started off to college and took his first course in law.

There was no doubt in his mind but that he would be a and a good one, for he had excep- tional speaking ability. This i talent can easily be recognized by anyone who has ever heard i him on the radio Music Hall. While he was partially re; alizing his dreams by clerking in a law office, Bing first met Al Rinker, pianist and leader i of the "Musicaladers," and he began making installment pay- the structure wtih their jumping and stamping. i. began making installment pay- Later, a building inspector a mcrt a set of drums--and and told Hampton to take "Fly- with tllat voice, too.

i Finally, after many escapades with the high school such a frenzy that the 600 people in the balcony wera imperilling department kept a watc day. w.tt i i ins ructions a "Flying Home' was to be elimm- atcd in the interests ol keeping the theater intact ran i White man a i i got When Bob Nolan and Bill Rousseau, producers of the CBS "Radio Reader's Digest," were faced with the pioblem of casting two and some times three dramas on each week's program, they caught up with a vanishing American technique--the theatrical stock company--and quickly revived it. They gathered together a highly experienced group of radio and formed them into a permanent company to suport the Hollywood and Broadway stars signed to headline -the "Digest" weekly dramatizations. This departure in the presentation of radio drama was an instant success and, undoubtedly, will lead to the formation of many more such stock companies. Some developed their own stars, but for the most part these companies of actors were maintained for the purpose of supporting traveling stars.

A little later the "combination" system was adopted in which a star and a supporting group of actors made up the traveling company. This type stock company quickly became popular because so many theaters had found it impractical, and in many cases financially impossible, to maintain their own company of actors. It had the added advantage of giving playgoers even in the smaller towns well trained and perfectly equipped companies acting plays which had already been thoroughly tested. Versatility Required WlfiMPS The actors in these companies had to be versatile for they would frequently be called upon to play the king in Hamlet one night and the villain cf a French farce the next. Not every member of the company was seen, ol in every play, but they were always familiar with all the parts for they had to be ready for whatever assignment might be given them.

In just the' same way, the members of the "Radio Reader's Digest" all report each week when the parts are assigned and attend all rehearsals. One week an actor may be given a leading role, the next only few lines, and some weeks, perhaps, no part at all. But he is on hand, ready at all times to tackle any part Bob Nolan and Bill Rousseau may have for him. Like the old stock company actor, he must be versatile. By working week in and week out with the same actors, the director has an opportunity to become thoroughly familiar with every member of the cast--to know his every mannerism and to know how to get the very best performance possible from him.

During rehearsals should some actor prove not quite up to standard or not exactly right for the part, he is quickly taken out of the cast and another member of the group substituted. Each of these actors must be able to play many different roles. Nagcl Heads Troupers Heading the "Digest" regulars is that experienced trouper, Conrad Nagel, veteran of stage, screen and radio. Conrad's first acting was done in a summer stock company playing the Chautauqua circuit while he was still in college. In fact, the money he earned that summer helped defray his school expenses.

The day he was "BLURRED" HEARING Helped by New Method Cnnsnllation ard Scirnllfic' Test of your Hearing FREE-- and without oliiiKation. For Home Tosl. or Booklet i Sonotonc or "27 World-Herald a a Nrw low prirrs on haltrrirs. fit all a ot Ilcarlnit graduated, he took a job at $5 a week wiih a company in which Fay Bainter was leading lady. Although has spent 14 years in Hollywood and many more on.

Broadway, he still looks upon his stock company days as the iinesj and most exhilarating experience he has had. On the "Radio Reader's Digest," Conrad acts as narrator each week, weaving the several acts together and giving the program its continuity. Another member of troupe is that well-known actor, James Monks, heard regularly over CBS in "Our Gal Sunday" and frequently on "The School of the Air," programs. He is currently playing in the Broadway hit, "Evg of St. Mark," and is recognized by moviegoers for his "Jimmy" in "How Green Was My Valley" and for his able performance in "Joan of Paris." Peter Donald, another "Digest regular, was J.u announcer on CbS' "Uncla Olie and His Krie-Mel Gang" at the age of eleven.

His acting days preceded even that tender age for his parents were vaudeville artists and he was practically born on the stage. He has played in theaters throughout the United States and has appeared in the British Isles, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to "Radio Reader's Digest," ha plays supporting roles on. many other CBS programs, notably "Stage Door Canteen" and "We, the People." Other Regulars Claire Niesen, who is a familiar figure on the Smith program, "Joyce Jordan, M. is often cast in the romantic lead of "Digest" dramatizations, although such, parts may be played by Vicki Vola, a regular of tha CBS "Aunt Jenny" series.

Playing a variety of parts is no new experience for Barry Kroeger, who received his early, training under no less a master than the famous Max Rheinhardt. On the radio he portrays King Solomon in "Light of the World," and his is the rich! voice of the narrator in the "Inter-American University of the Air" series. When the stories selected for dramatization call for older men, they are usually played by either Craig MacDonald, familiar to thousands of radio listeners as "David Harum," or by Ed Latimer, radio oldtimer who is frequently referred to as the most "murdered" man of the airwaves. Foul play finishes off most of Ed's character portrayals. GOVERNMENT DEAFNESS Important discoveries make possible the greatest help ever offered to the hard of hearing.

Write for free booklet tnd learn how you can benefit from these Government findings. OF LINCOLN Slliart Bide. want a copy of the PR EH Rook on the U. S. Gocfrnmenl National Deafness Survey.

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