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Tomorrow" and "Kashmiri Love
Song" round out the program.

Maestro Don Bryan Is taxing a
tip from the musicmakerS Of years
gone by. In his spare time, the busy
conductor is composing a suite from
background music he's written for
"RadiO Readers Digest" Surpris-
ingIy enough, according to Don,
some Of our finest mel0dic MASTER
pieces were written in a similar
manner. The maestro cites Bizet's
'T'Arlesienne, "HaSSan" by De-
Illus and Grieg's "Peer Gynt' suite
all composed originally as back
ground to some drama.
The romance of Maytime finds
expression on Blind Date" over the
Blue network Monday, May IS, at
$3.50 p. m, e. W t., when six hopeful
srevice men compete for dates with
three glamour girls. In the pull
chritude department will be Candy
Jones of the Broadway hit, "Mexi-
can Hayride," Elizabeth 1ngliss,
Chicago fashion model, and May
belle Prindaville, popular New York
model. The three winning service
men will take the girls to the famed
Stork Club at the sponsors expense,
Arlene Francis is mistress Of cere-
monies.
"Stars Light the Way" a program
to acquaint listeners with the work
Of the Greater New York Fund, will
be presented Saturday, May IL
(WEAF, 900 p. m.) The show will
include dramatic pieces by Gyen
Anderson and John DeShay, stars
Of the Broadway hit, Decision"
and talk by Arthur A. Ballentine,
president of the fund :. In a re-
cent issue of News Digest, national
radio magazine, Robert st. Johns
story on Finland was chosen as the
broadcast Of the month d. Mary
Margaret Mcbride, radios foremost
woman personality, will celebrate
her 10th anniversary on the air
May 81. NBC and WEAF, realizing
there will be a tremendous demand
for tickets for Miss McBride's birth
day broadcast, will hold 1t in Madi-
son Square Garden. The program
will be one Of the most elaborate
ever heard in radio and the usual
air time will be extended fifteen
minutes to 100000 p. m. Much Of
the show will be devoted to seek
ing enlistment Of WACS, WAVES,
SPARS, Women Marines and Army
and Navy nurses. Adelaide
Hawley certainly has variety on her
morning WEAF programs. Her guest
for May 9 will be Henrietta Add.
ton, superintendent of the Westfield
State Farm for Women, and two
DAYS later she will have Victor
Borge, Danish pianist and comedian
on her show. Glen Mccarthy
not only will describe the running
Of the Preakness Saturday, May IL,
exclusively over WEAF, but Bob
Stanton will give some straight
from-the info. from. the
paddock before post time. Bill Stern
will set the scene for the race.
Guest stars occupy the spotlight
for a good portion Of the Grand
Ole Opry" when 1t broadcasts on
Saturday, May 10, at 1890 p. m,
EWT., over NBC. Curly Fox, the
one-nan show, returns after an abb
sence of seven years to take one OF
the guest spots. f1ddling Whoa,
Mule, Whoa" Becky Barfield, IT.
year-old yodeler, and the Golden
West Cowboys offer II Want To Be
A Cowboys Sweetheart" Whitley
Ford, the Duke of Paducah, who
adds another gray har when he
celebrates his birthday, May IL,
talks on that subject, declaring,
when a man has birthday, he
takes day of. When woman has
a birthday, she takes year off,"
Roy Acuff and his Smoky Noun
tain Boys offer trio Of favorites'
their railroad song, 'Fireball Mali;
the love ballad, "Pine and Needles;
and song with moral, "A Picture
from Lies Other side" Minnie
Pearl reports from Grinders Switch
and departs singing I'm Thinking
Tonight of My Blue Eyes" after
which Mack McGar' strums his
mandolin through "Darktown
Shutters Ball" The Old Hickory
Singers harmonic that favorite
quartet song You Tell Me Your
Dream and I'll Tell You Mine" and
Rachel and Oswald offer Roll On,
Buddy. Roll On"
"LOve me love my pet" could be
the title of a theme song for NBC
stars, many of whom are owned
by wide variety and assortment
Of tail waggers and other pets.
Vic and SADIE Announcer Ed RO-
berts, large fellow who stretches
to six feet two inches and tips the
scales at 1876, surprises new ac-
quaintances by his fondness for one
Of the smaller types Of pups a
Pekinese. On the other end Of the
scale, Announcer Ed Allen dOtes ON
Omar Khayyam, an diversified St.
Bernard, who at six months eats
more at a meal than Ed does in .
day.
Beryl Vaughan, Faith Richards
In "ROad Of Life" dances attend
ance on scOtty named TrOuper.
Another admirer Of the Scotch ter
rier is Eric Lord, Jimmie Cullen in
"Halpmate." BasSO ReinhOld
Schmidt. Of the "CarnatiOn Con-
tented Program" is another large
sized gentleman who favOrs an un-
dersized pup, a cocker.
Then there are the folks who like
mans best friend SO well they don't
hold to singletons. Josef KOestner,
your America" maestro, owns
Dachshund and a West Highland
Terrier. Bob Becker, Of his own pet
Parade" has Sealyham, a Labor
adOr Retriever and a Clumber
| Spaniel.
And there's Gabe Ward, Of the
'.NatiOnal Barn Dance" Hoosier Hot
Shots, who Is misguided enough