The Fresno Bee du lieu suivant : Fresno, California • 27

THE FRESNO BEE AUGUST 171941 Radio Offers Fine Summer Shows MAGAZINE SECTION The PidQres Small World Is Correct Subs May Rise To Veterans Star In 'Thin Man' Stardom Come Jhe Summer and radio undergoes a minor revolution which bring forth new much of It with new talent and new ideas and more with old namea and familiar althoui re-furhiaheri format Down of auch programs are offered during the Summer and If the producer get one or two that wore aucrexaea they consider their time well spent During the past few year there hare been many that have weathered the rrltlral attention of the listening public among them such headlinera as The Aldrich Family Hobby Lobby Mr Dls-" trirt Attorney What's My Name and others The program What's My Name is bark on the air this Summer as replacement for etie Edgar Bergen-Charlie McCarthy show and conducted by Arlene Francis and John Reed King Also Hated among the substitute programs heard over KMJ are Reg'lar Fellers substituting for the Benny program also on Sunday evening Hap Hazard subbing for Fibber McGee and Molly A Date With Judy holding forth in Bob Hope's spot both on Tuesdays and the Quizzer Baseball program which occupies Eddie customary place on the air Wednesday nights Fellers a dramatization of the popular comic strip of the lie same title brings to the listening audienre the antirs of the gang of small boys and their girl pu (or 1s she) Aggie Riley Their espers on the air parallel those of the funnies and they are a sure cure for the blues Ransom Sherman long one of radio's popular and best known comedians appears as Hap Has ard He is aided and abetted by Durward Kirby announcer ana stooge Edna Odell Hoosler songbird Elmira Roessler another stooge Billy Mills' Orchestra and others One of Bob Hope's verbal Jokes resulted in radio stardom for 14 year old Ann Gillis who is heard ns Judy Foster in a Date With Judy Hope met Ann on a movie lot and jestingly remat ked over to NBC sometime and I'll make you a radio star" She took Bob at his word -and was his fare red He Introduced the titian haired girl to radio producer Bill Lawrence who recalling her screen work gave her an audition and hired her for the role of Judy Budd Hullrk who achieved radio fame as Bud in the team of Stoopnagle and Bud share the chore of conducting the Quizzer Baseball programs with beauteous Benny Venuta who first came to radio a a singer Hullrk appeared with Arlene Frani'i In the first edition of What's My Name three yrais ago and has been In radio for ten years Miss venuta came to radio about three years ago from the stage where she was featured in some musical productions Search the record of radio stage and screen and you will find no busier people than Claudia Morgan and Lester Damon stars of the current series of Dashiell Hammett's stories of the Thin Man Although they have received comparatively little publicity for their previous radio appearanres the star known on the air as Mr and Mrs Nirk Charles have had scores of roles In various radio progiams and on the stage Miss Morgan daughter of the Illustrious Ralph Morgan and niece of Frank Morgan of the movies and radio la credited with appearing In more Broadway plays than any other person In history Despite her youth she has appeared In thirty two plays and currently Is starred In the Broadway success The Man Who Came oDinner She also has been featured in many dramatic programs on the air and made numeroua guest appearances on variety programs She was 17 when she made her dramatic debut in a play with her father and Margaret Anglin She appeared in Strange Interlude in London and opposite Alex-andei Woollcott In Wine Of Choice and in addition bad the leading roles In Dancing Partner and Storm Over Patsy and played in Accent On Youth and Masque Of Kings She has appeared In three feature movies and has been a member of the rast of such radio seriafs as David Harum Big Sister and Lone Journey and guest starred on several of the transcontinental network feature productions She Is a blond 5 feet Inches tall goes In for athletics but spends much of her spare time If any painting designing clothes or at her piano The Thin Man Is her first starring role In a major network feature Damon an actor little known In New York but with a background of eight years on the stage and In radio was chosen lor the role of Nirk Charles after exhaustive tests of a larga group of candidates He entered the theatrical profession eight years rgo and three years ago made his first radio sp- S-arance in a guest spot in the ackatage Wife serial Subsequently he has had the male lead or featured roles in thirteen network serials originating in Chicago and New York Numbered among the program! In which he has appeared are Arnold Grimm's Daughter Ma Perkins Girl Alone Knickerbocker Playhouse Lone Journey Road Of Life Against The Storm Houseboat Hanna Bud Barton Helen Trent First Nighter and Women In White Two of hia most notable successes on the stage were achieved In the roles of Babyface Martin In the Broadway hit Dead End and as Curley In John Steinbeck's play Of Mice And Men He also played Shaw And Shakespeare In London during the seaaon of 1933-34 after winning his spurs as an actor In stock in Slockbridge Mass For up fo the minute announce and schedules of the com-ing week's programs consult the index on Page I and turn to the Radio Program Page Featured in some of the Sum mer programs heard over KMJ are the radio entertainers pictured here In the upper view are the members of the Foster Family appearing in A Date With Judy Judy is portrayed by Ann Gillis teen age movie actress her mother by Margaret Bray ton her father by Paul McGrath and her brother Randolph by Dix Davis They are heard Tuesdays at 6 In the center group are Hap Hazard Ransom Sherman) pro- rietor of Crestfallen Manor and is aides Edna Odell the Hoo-sier Songbird center and Elmira Roessler (Miss Mink) They are on the air at 5:30 Tu days When John Reed King master of ceremonies of What's My Name went to the zoo recently for a broadcast Irene Francis (lower right) went along but was backward about entering the cage with Koki the baby chim- Eanzee Arlene is the feminine alf of the quiz team heard Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock TROTTER FEUDS John Scott Trotter Is a lover of trees but he wishes nature would regulate the matter of dropping leaves a little better out here in the West Trotter's swimming pool Is nicely shaded by a neighbor's tree but the tree persist in dropping leaves Into the water Trotter who believed that trees shed their leaves only In the Fall has discovered It Is a year around proposition In California requiring dally fishing with a net to keep the pool clean Claudia Morgan And laster Damon migf Ransom Sherman and Elmira Roessler admit It is a small world and all stuff like that there Several years ago Sherman aa one of the Three Doctors was featured In a zany comedy program on a St Louis station A child actress named Elmira Roessler played the role of secretary-stooge Radio fortunes Sherman to Chicago as a solo comedian and finally to the role of Hap Hazard In the fun show heard Tuesdays on KMJ and the NBC Red Network One of the stooges Is Miss Mink by £lmira I -if Musician-Painter Radio Lullaby Lady Radio Log Fanny Brice no longer has a corner on the' artistic talent on the Coffee Time show Meredith Willson's concert master Willie Stahl has opened an Impressive showing of his water colors at the Wllahire Art Gallery and proudly displays the favorable comment! of newspaper art critics Adventuresome Couple had not one but two girls for every flier Although Ezra Stone radio's Henry Aldrich is in the army at Camp Upton he does not plan to abandon all his interest in radio and the theater Hs plans to devote his spare time to reading'plays in search for suitable productions for George Abbott Iina Romay vho I making a hit on the air in the ttigat Rhirnihn Revue does all right for herself In water wares also She Is a skillful swimmer and a former diving champion Tiny Patsy O'Shea the 7 year 1 1 Dia' old who plays Aggie Riley in Reg'lar Fellers is radio's youngest playwright Her latest a'r opus which she tossed off between her many acting assignments was pre-ented recently over a local New York station Roy Shield music direr tor of Ihe NBC Crntinl Division In Chi-men declare Johann Se'insilne Hnch knew al the hot licks modern suing hands rnn produce Shield sayr Barb whs niri1 call on the cm pet bv rnunh board because of "vindry perplex-Irg variation In I lie choiHlct and Intel mixing divers sirunze bn-mould so ilai the mn xrrfiit ion confined" FAN-FARE Chips From The Aleen Leslie ro author of the Date Wild Judy program cannot get away from her Bethnal creation Mr Leslie Is the mother of a six weeks old daughter who we a christened Pfhne hut her friend Immediately nicknamed the child Judy Now the mother If becoming fearful the name Diane nsy be the even cnlrhi'i herself referring to the tm by a Judy Odd Statistics Department There is not a single freckle to be found on any of the boys in the cast of the comedy series Reg'lar Fellers Jack Shook of the Grand Ole Opry cast plays guitar left handed using customary stringing but playing It harkward He says it Is a lot easier than standing on hia head Sybil Chism organist for Lum and Abner collects mugs literally and figuratively Recently she received from Canada a collection of six unique mugs fashioned in the form of human faces Ed cor Hrnen seems tr 1e ns popular with lliill fnlr sex nx Chsrlle M'-Cirihv Mould Ilk-everyone In believe he i After a repen rilnn-r which he w-sa host in six flrill-h ho who nre training in Glrniliilc Tor the IWF Bergen ssns inked it he mu Id provide them with ilnlr Out mme Iti'isren's mile hlnrls bn nml Ir less titan on hour he sn FOMem i The little Ames girl" Evelyn who sang neighbors1 babies to sleep not many years ago has several years of operatic and concert experience to her credit and is heard each Monday evening at 6 clock as the Lullaby Lady of the Contented Program 3.