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nday 2:00 Magic Key Hour (Radio Corpora- tion of America) NBC Red. Always a worthwhile and noteworthy — program. Frank Black conducting and Clifton Fadi- man as master of ceremonies. 5:30 Ben Bernie (Half-and-Half Smoking Tobacco) CBS. Wonder what he does with his cigar on this program? It’s the same old blarney dispensed with the help of Lew Lehr, 7:00 Jock Benny (Jello) NBC Red. The Jello Kid is on the loose again and still as good as ever. 8:00 Chorlie McCarthy ond Edgor Bergen (Chase & Sanborn Coffee) NBC Red. Aid- ed and abetted by Don Ameche, Dorothy amour, Nelson Eddy and the surprisingly funny Canovas. 9:00 Ford Sunday Evening Hour (Ford Motor Co.) CBS. As nice a way to spend your Sunday evening as we can think of. Listen to it even if you drive a Chevrolet. Monday 7:30 Eddie Contor (Camel Ci CBS, Some like him, some don't. ¥:30 Pick ond Pot (Model Smoking To- bacco) CBS. Black face comedy for them as likes it. 9:30 Eddy Duchin (Pall Mall Cigarettes) NBC Red. Hf nothing else happens, you will be firmly convinced that it isp nounced Pell Mell. “The p worthwhile Tuesday 8:30 Information Please (Canada Dry Gin- ger Ale) NBC Blue. ‘The best of the pe rennial puzzlers, presided over by Clifton Fadiman, and more than aided by John Kieran, FARA. and other experts 10:00 Bob Hope (Pepsodent Tuoth baste) NBC Red. You can’t help but 2 this nonsense, Jerry Colonna and his versauie pipes are awesome and SI y Ennis, the hoy with the perpetual cold, does nicely. Wednestay 8:30 Poul Whiteman (Chesterfiell Cig rettes) CBS. This still rates as one of the best musical items offered. “King of Jazz” still holds. 9:00 Fred Allen (Sal Hepatica and Ipana Toothpaste) NBC Red, Funny but still no. four-alanm fire. 9:30 Texaco Stor Theatre (Texaco Gaso- line) CBS. Adolphe Menjou, Una Merkel, Charlie Ruggles, Jane Frohman, Kenny aker, Max Reinhardt and guests. Well, what else do you want? 10:00 Koy Kyser's Musical Kloss (Lucky Strike Cigarettes) NBC Red. A noble ef- fort by the affable Kay ud is bs a Where they manage to dig up some of the contestants is still a source of amazement but $35 is $35, Thursday 9:00 Good News of 1939 (Maxwell House Coffee) NBC Red. Robert Young taki charge, Frank Morgan for Senator (a land- slide), ng by Phil Regan, and music by Meredith Wilson; also Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks. 10:00 Kroft Music Holl (Kraft Cheese) NBC Red. Name us a better M.C, than Bing Crosby and you get all the cheese you an Robin Burns and Bazooka help out all the way. A swell j nouncing by Ken Carpenter, and notice the no applause angle. Friday 4:30 Burns and Allen (Chesterfield Ciga- rettes) Cl gets our vote for the rettes) no makes it best screwball in the business. Add Burns, Ray Noble and Tony Martin, stir, and have a swell time. Saturday 8:00 Tommy Riggs ond Betty Lou (Qua- ker Oats) NBC Red. More double talk that’s clever. Larry Clinton, Bea Wain and orchestra provide the musical background, #:30 Fred Woring (Bromo-Quinine) NBC Red. After having some of his stars re- moved by Hollywood, the master showman comes back with a new program that can’t be beaten, Cloudy Trophy, The Romance of Victor Hugo, by Leon Daudet, (Morrow, $2.50). Victor Hugo as Don Juan from diapers to the grave. Leon sympathizes acutely with situations. Written carefully and well. Death On the Installment Plon, hy 1. dinand Celine. (Little, Brown, $2.75) . all the writers who torture themselves (but not their readers) Louis the Frenchman has the least pity on himself, In this book ito the sewer and yells at the t's dark, it’s full of dirt, is-Fer- he creeps top of his voice it reeks!” First the Blade, My May Merrill Miller. (Knopf, $3). The life of Amelie McNeil during the Civil War in Missouri and after the Civil War in California, A long, diffuse first novel which shows great patience and re of talent Listen! the Wind, by Anne Morrow Lind bergh. (Harcourt, Brace, $2.50). About the the Lindher je and honest tha wre t0 Sty she writes well also, No Stor is Lost, by James T. Farrell. (Vane guard, $3), ‘The history of the O'Neills the O'Flahertys of the Chicago stu cluding t the Boozer, Al the bite the Bum. ‘The « logue to be heard who mutt Farrell has no pity cin read Roots in the Sky, iy Sidney Melle milan, $3.50). First novel abou migrant Rabbi and his family in America, A fine idea mm: at by too much genutlesion before the R: Sailor on Horseback: the Biography of Jack London, by Ining Stone. (Houghton Mif- flin, $3) . Irving is more concerned with the deeds of Jack London than with his thoughts. It is ana raphy. The Four of Hearts, by Ellery Queen. (Stokes, $2) . Ellery Queen enters the Am Wonderland (Hollywood) and 1 from imbecility by a double murd book starts out red hot but simmers down as it turns to cold le The Joyful Deloneys, by Hugh Walpole. (Doubleday, Doran, $2.50). ‘That man is here again! The Long Volley, by Jolin Steinbeck. (Vik- ing. $2.50). A talented writer who some- times tries 10 fool himself by setting up straw men, In this collection of stories, Steinbeck does much better without the idiots than with them. The Medieval Universities, by Nathan Schachner. (Stokes, $3.50). A well written history in which the medieval u made the papa of all medieval culture. The Spider and the Clock, by S. Funarof). (International, $1). Poems of today writ ten ina satire as sharp as velvet. Funaroff 1s a herce warrior against injustice and op- pression but he will never subdue the en- emy with his poetry. rate Wwo-gun biog ersity is We Married an Englithmon, by Ruth and Helen Hoffman. (Carrick and Evans, $2.75). A pair of American twins deter: mine to civilize Iraq by bringing in plumb- ng, silk stockings and an Englishman, Ruth married the Englishman—or was it Helen? With Malice Toword Some, by Margaret Halsey. (Simon and Schuster, $2). Mar- garet slyly unbuttons all the sacred plati tudes about the British; and a platitude without pants is like a movie star without make-up: it robs you of all illusion. Queen Victoria's Mr. Brown, by E. E. P. Tis- dall. (Stokes, $3). The biography of Queen Victoria's personal servant John Brown. Mr. Brown dictated to the queer he also dictated to the nation, it seems. Speaking From Vermont, by (Gov.) George D. Aiken. (Stokes, $2). Here is a reliable guide through the morass of Republican hoopla and Democratic shenanigans, _ theatre | —. ; Abe Lincoln in Il 5 nois, by Robert E. Sherwood. y mouth Raymond Massey an inspired charac terization of the lanky, lonely ma . him only just before he departs from Springfield 10 become President Dome Nature, ly Patricia Collinge out of the French by Andre Birabeau. (Booth Theatre). “The ‘Theatre Guild rides again, and the cash register tinkles as Jessie Royce Handis, Onslow Stevens and Lois Hall ide this story of adolescent love through 1S various problems Homlet, hy William Shakespeare. ( James Theatre). At last the unpurged, un- cut, fall vigorous grandeur of the great Gxt tragedy, enhanced by the splendid per formance of Maurice Evans, It ttkey all evening, with time out for Hellzopoppin, (46th St Messrs, Olsen and Johnson in Olsen's Johnson's Litest, serewiest funniest musical revue. Stap-happier than Nathan's crack that it “was funnier than the Puliver Prize.” Shucks, than George Jaundice Natl | Hove Been Here Eefore, My J. B. Priestly, who has been everywhere before. Guild Mr, Priestly is fooling around curation, © he isn’t sure t, how can his play be coi Kiss the Boys Goodbye, by Clare Boothe, not Oscar Wilde, (Henry Miller's ‘Thea- tre). Well, well, well, we certainly were pretty foxy to think up a play based on the search for som to play the heroine in Gone With the Wind, weren't we? Lightnin’, by Frank Bacon and Winchell Smith. (John Golden Theatre) . one, always good, ws revived the story of Lightnin’, the old California-Nevada rip who gave the best years of his wile to the hotel industry. Still as funny. ssouri Legend, My £. 8. Ginty (Empi Theatre). Dean Jagger busy as Jesse James, the evangelistical highwayman, good in spite of the fact that it makes out a pretty scurtilons character to be a Sunday-Go-To- Meeting bandit. Oscor Wilde, ry Leslie and Sewell Stokes. (Fulton Theatre). Although Robert Mor- ley’s portrayal of Wilde is good, just the same it seems too bad that someone felt it necessary to rake up every shabby detail of the unsavoury scandal that ended a bril liant life in tragedy. 19 Out the News. (Music Box Theatre), Max Gordon, George S. Kaufman, Mos Hart, Harold Rome, Charles Friedman, Jo Miclzner (see your phone book, for ad ditional assists) and others have gotten to. gether, and produced a musical. Good. The Fobulous Invalid, Uy Moss Hart ¢ George S. Kaufman. (Broadhurst Theatre), Sentimental fantasy-about the theatre and how it never dies and how the show mus go on, etc. Mildl¥ good. er Know, by Cole Porter. (Winter Garden) . In spite of Clifton Webb, Lupe Velez and Libby Holman, you'll never know why the usually excelent Mr. Porter dished up this one, which is now running tor dear life. Drums. In case you've been wondering about whether or not the sun is clouding up a bit here and there over the British Empire. See Sabu in this, Grond Illusion, A superb French war film French prisoners in a German np, and preaching that all men are fréres, ha ha, Hold That Coed. John Barrymore in a com ical approximation of the late Huey Long's Louisiana University antics, Good politi- cal satire plus football, a new combination, If 1 Were King. If we were, we'd blackball ny offering not bringing us Ronald Col man. This time he is acting Francois Vil ton on very swanky medieval sets, Morie Antoinette. Every now and then Norma Shearer gets her lovely head out of the way and you catch glimpses of the French Revolution. Room Service. The Marx Brothers are a litle more organized and hence not quite so funny in this, but even so it 1s a hope less case of hysteria from start to finish, Secrets of An Actress. ‘This is a misnomer since (a) there are no secrets and (b) be cause Kay Francis is required to imper: ean actress. Straight, Place and Show. ‘The Ritz Broth- ery charging onto the screcn every time someone starts to sing some nice songs. Strange Boarders, A good British spy mel- odrama, full of plans and suspicious char- acters Sing You Sinners. Bing Crosby in a new role and a new type of musical, which comes off beautifully. Suez. The story of the building of the Suez Canal, with Tyrone Power as Ferdi nand de Leseps, assisted by Annabella, Loretta Young and no regard whatsoever for the actual story of the Suez Canal. The Sisters. Errol Flynn and Bette Davis ably supported in a fine drama, well di rected and well produced. Miss Davis 1s really a good actress because she knows mood needs more than a different set to change it; Errol Flynn turns in his best characterization to date. There Goes My Heart, Marking the en: trance of Hal Roach into full length pic: tures, this sutlers chiefly from the fact that it has been cribbed almost entirely from “It Happened One Night.” The dashing newspaper man and the runaway heires (Frederic March and Virginia Bruce) are all there, and nothing is lacking but fresh: hess. Too Hot To Handle. A clockwork little melodrama about the hazards of being a wsreel cameraman, But the old Gable: Loy combination seems to need a new mainspring. You Can't Toke It With You, They took it to Hollywood, where Frank Capra did a competent but not brilliant job on the moonstruck Vanderhofs. THE IUDOE, December, 1938. Volume 115. Whole X, Class Matter, July 20, 1938. at the Post O-tee at Mt. 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