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Bergen, McCarthy On Snyder Show; Collectors Society Thriving NOSTALGIA mm Sperdvac is your best contact. Active yearly memberships are $15; family memberships $20. To enroll, write Sperdvac at Post Office Box 1587, Hollywood 90028. Sperdvac. by (he way, is the word coined to describe the phrase to preserve and encourage radio drama, variety and the vast pool of early radio to attract not only profession-imidnight Monday and a live-Miller in 1942; Friday, the car sees Golden Davs of Radio.

A renaissance in radio drama is near. Armed with increased funds, KUSC 91,5 FM plans to talent available in this area. lals, says Smith, but young pec-, remote from Anaheim Stadium Station changes will occur in pie from college and little thea several phases, beginning in ter groups who would learn March when KUSC relocates its! what the of the transmitting tower, making Its is all about, signal available to an estimated 10 million persons: moves to larger studios; doubles the size of its record library; and develops a program guide. Wally Smith, general manager of the USC-licensed station, outlined plans to broadcasting By GAR? LYCAN Edgar Bergen accompanied by his friends Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd will discuss career with Tom Snv der on Tomorrow at 1 a next Monday on Channel 4 Bergen is a real show busi ness trooper and apparently a favorite as the at banquets where the main course is nostalgia. Two recent such occausions were Pacific Pioneer salute to Meredith Willson amd this month's KCET tnlnite to the first 50 years of radio.

He drew a packed house when be spoke at UC Irvine's early radio series in 1974 and when he brought out Mortimer, be had the audience well as Snerd in the palm of his hand, Bergen is expected to tell Snyder how he created the personalities of Charlie and Mortimer If you haven't heard it. tune in. It's quite a story. Sficrdvao, the radio collectors society, looks healthy as it moves into its second year of operation. There are some 175 members; its tape library contains more than 425 reels totaling some 1.200 hours, blank tape orders are filled: and members looking for programs, equipment, publicatioas or information can exchange requests through the monthly club newsletter edited bv Joe and Sue Crawford in Placentia.

is NOT necessary to at tend the monthly meetings in Reseda when you join Sperdvac The group realizes either the time or may be inconvenient for some members, thus activities and nostalgia news are carried in the monthly bulletin A Sperdvac goal, however, is to encourage a wider turnout by meeting in locations closer to its many memtiers in Orange County. If you are a beginning collector. or want to shows. create original documentary executives earlier this month and dramatic programming us- The radio dramas are expected AIR CHECKS: happening at KRLA? Program director Roy Elwefl has replaced Doc Frail in the morning and Paul Compton is on evenings at 1110 AM. KNAC 105.5 FM devotes March 7-6 to eer and music of drummer-jjj jo p.m.

Sunday on KGfL 1200 bandleader Buddy Rich; top ten features Danny Kaye. The Bick-I records in 1946; Saturday. rvJersons, and timely niowups- words and music from 1941. On 6:50 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday Schwartz Spotlight onj edition.

Lionel Hampton's All- a Star, 9 p.m Sundays on KCSN Stars piay 0947). 88.5 FM, presents film compos-1 By popular demand. Fred er Leonard Rosenman and the: Nichols, as reported here, buti Big Band Scene en- music from his movies James an examination oi fm I record I cores a show- aired two weeks Dean" and Lyndon A when the group performs there. Jazz Revisited. p.m.

Saturday with repeats at 6:30 p.m. the following Friday on KIX)N 88,1 FM. features Red Nichols Last show, to be aired again this Friday, was ings of and James Chuck Cecil's Years, The Who. presenting a Sunday; 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.

on KGIL 1260 special, a profile from 8 to! AM: today, air checks of Glenn ago featuring Harry Roche and the music of Johnny Mercer. KLON 88.1 FM broadcasts the big hand program airs the following Martindaie alters his usual format next show at 4 pm. Saturday andiWednesday to incorporate tele- 6:30 p.m. Frank Bre- phoned questions from listeners into his interview with the Captain and Tenniile, show is noon to 3 on KM PC 710. Charlie McCarthy and Fred Allen will be saluted at Cal State Los Angeles next week.

9:30 a and 6 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays in the university union's music-browsing room. Edgar Bergen and Charlie guest on Allen's show (1945); and on McCarthy's show Nov. 2. 1947), Charlie goes to Hell where he meets Fred Allen.

Please Tnm To Page Bt SADri CBS Mystery Theater, 9.06 p.m. Sunday through Saturday. KNX 10TB AM. a y. Providential Ghost," starring Beatrice Straight, with E.

G. Marshall, host. A precocious eight-year- old girl who has long talks with her dead grandfather is a suspect in the murder of her aunt. Friday, Feb. 27, a starring Tammy Grimes.

Still unmarried at 40. a woman PhD meets at a singles bar an man who immediately proposes, but neglects to tell her why. Saturday, Feb. 28, "The Man Who Ran starring Mercedes McCambridge rebroadcast). A distraught hus band leaves his unfaithful wife and embarks on a trip that leads to a beautiful woman and an old mansion shrouded in mystery.

Sunday. Feb. 29. Ghostly starring Robert Dryden and Court Benson (rebroadcast). A professor is haunted and pursued by an Indian spirit seeking revenge for six murders committed over 300 years ago.

Monday, March 1 starring Robert Kaliban and Robert Dryden. The Gunnysack Gang rides again, this time after 200,000 in coins, bills and notes, in a rousing story of the Old West. Tuesday, March 2. starring Celeste Holm. An adaptation of an Edith Wharton short story in which a couple purcnases a decayed English Tudor house with the idea of restoring its every detail including its ghost.

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