The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-13


o'clock, Mr. Robinson is to DO
leader, in a role comparable to his
on the screen. 1t is to be his first
On the same program, the air
lanes will bid farewell to Lillian
Emerson, the first dramatic actress
to be drafted for career in Holly
wood. 1t was Clark Gable who
found" Miss Emerson when they
appeared together on one of the
Radio Theater hours. A promi-
nent member of New York So
ciety and listee of the distir-
guished social register, Miss En-
erson is to portray true life role
opposite Mr.. Robinson tonight.
Yes, the music is still going
round and round, and Americans
who enjoy 1t have been chided
for such travesty of good music.
But, look here! It's contagious.
WINK broadcasts many pro-
grams in foreign languages, and
has been harassed with so many
requests for the swingy tune that
an entire Commute period j!
to be devoted to that one song
Thursday night at 6.
1t is to be sung in Yiddish,
Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Ger
man, Polish, Ukranian and
Greek. Just for good measure
there is to be a chorus in Negro
dialect, Irish brogue and pig
Latin.
TINE Goldberg family program,
Il one of the radios best-known
serials is to be brought back to
the air by request. Gertrude Berg
has assembled her old cast for the
daily feature to be carried by CHS
starting today at 4:45. The Gold
bergs are not to be found in the
same affluent circumstances as
when the series was discontinued,
but in humble surroundings.
The Buck Rogers in the 25th
Century program is heard on CHS
stations each Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday afternoon at 5.
Untold tales of radios pictur-
esque beginning and the part
played in the those pioneer days
by President Roosevelt as Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy are to
be broadcast on Ted HuSing's sec
Ond program of his series over
CHS at 6:15 tonight. The Chariot
GERS are to enliven the broadcast
with rythm selections.
Guy LOMBARDO, who each
" week features the theme song
of leading radio performer, is
to feature Ben Bernie's Its a
Lonesome Old Town" tonight on
the Lombardo Road program over
CHS at 7.
Truth may be stranger than
fiction, but there are 10000 peo-
pie waiting for studio tickets to
watch Fibber MCGEE uphold his
title as the worlds greatest liar.
His program is heard each Mon
day night at via the NBC-WJz
nationwide hookup. O. c. Hulett,
president of the Liars Club is to
be guest tonight.
Mary McCormic, operate So
pran0 is to be the guest star on
Ted HammerStein's Music Hall of
the Air feature tonight at on
the NBC-WEAF network.
Richard Crooks, Metropolitan
tenor, is to be heard in the first
of four appearances tonight at
7:30 on the NBC-WJz network. He
will sing Toselli's "Serenade,"
Bartlett's "A Dream and Isa-
belle Firestone's In My Garden"
II y u
T ESLIE HOWARD is to combine
IL his film and broadcasting ac-
tivities soon by presenting on his
Sunday CHS matinee adaptations
from The Petrified Forest" and
Romeo and Juliet"
Another radio protege is to en-
terrain the person that gave him
his start tomorrow at AIS on the
CHS when Jimmy Farrell marks
his anniversary on the air with
Kate Smith as guest. Miss Smith
also is to be heard on the same
network at $50 in her regular
quarter-hour broadcast.