Golden Age of Radio

FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY JOIN “PARADE OF STARS” ADD OF GREATEST ARRAY OF TOP RADIO ENTERTAINMENT EVER HEARD IN SOUTH FLORIDA; OPEN TUESDAY Mrs. Uppington, Wally Wimple, Harlow Wilcox, Included In Cast The WIOD-NBC “Parade of Stars” is just about complete— FibberMcGee and Molly are back! The famed comedy team, long at the top of any list of America’s favorite entertainers, have returned to Wistful Vista for another season of homey, hilarious fun. STARS RETURN— Fibber McGee and Molly open another great radio season Tuesday night in their old familiar spot at 9:30 p. m. preceding the Bob Hope program. They’ll be heard every Tuesday night in their familiar spot at 9:30 p. m. beginning this week. With them will be their program “regulars.” Including Mrs. Abigail Uppington, Mayor LaTrivia, Wallace Wimple, Old Timer, and Nick De Populous. Announcer Harlow Wilcox resumes his duties in the show for the sponsor, while Billy Mills and his orchestra and the King’s Men quartet ...

THE MILKWAUKEE JOURNAL—SCREEN and RADIO Sunday, December 30, 1945 The McGees Are Just Folks By Carlton Cheney ON A RECENT trip to New York, Jim Jordan, better known as Fibber McGee, of Fibber and Molly , was standing in the main corridor of the NBC studios when a little crowd of sightseers approached. Led by a uniformed guide, they nore down on Jordan, elbowed him out of the way and continued their hunt for glimpses of stars. That no one paid him the least attention did not surprise Fibber’s other self. Even after some eight years of life in Hollywood, where stars rarely pass unrecognized, Jim and Marion Jordan, though tops among radio teams, can usually walk down a crowded Vine st. without being mobbed by autograph hunters. The fact that they remain relatively inconspicuous once they get away from the microphones does not disturb or displease the Jordans. Plain folk from country and small town, the one the son of a farmer, the other the daughter of a coal miner, they ...

SAY HELLO TO . . . BEN ALEXANDER –the announcer on tonight’s Chase and Sanborn program on NBC. This expert master of ceremonies is the same Ben Alexander who was a child actor when the movies were young. He’s 29 now, and still appears in pictures occasionally, but devotes most of his time to radio. You’ll hear him on his own program, Little Ol’ Hollywood, at 9:30 tomorrow night over NBC-Blue.

Introducing JOAN ALEXANDER Equal to any role -versatile is the word for Joan JOAN ALEXANDER, lovely, brown-haired with deep, brown eyes, is all things to plays. She’s the versatile actress who plays Lynn Alexander, the proprietor of a music school in Lewiston on the Lone Journey, and has portrayed Lois Lane, the girl friend of Superman , for years. To meet her, Joan is poised, alert, interested in the world and what goes on in it. That she has this cosmopolitan air is not surprising. In her young life she has been to a lot of far flung places in the world. When Joan was eight years old, her father, who owned a linen factory in Madeira, took her on her first trip to Europe. By the time Joan was through with a part of her schooling, she had made up her mind to become an actress. She studied with the fabulous European actor, director and coach, Benno Schneider. And, as part of her training, she toured the leading cities of Europe, North Africa and Latin America. In 1938...

1950 Biography Steve ALLEN If her stays in character, a busy summer faces Steve Allen, the guiding comedy light of the “ STEVE ALLEN SHOW ”, summer replacement for “ OUR MISS BROOKS ”, heard over CKTS on Sundays at 6:30 p.m. ERT. Allen, already an established comedian on the west Coast, will continue his midnight Columbia Pacific Network show each night as well as assuming the key spot in his new entertaining audience participation program. Steve’s Rangy 6’3’’ frame will come in handy to shoulder the added workload for a quick loot at his background reveals a host of theatrical and non-theatrical accomplishments and interests.    For example, don’t be surprised to credit for a song include: “Written by Steve Allen”, I he personable young comedian already can point to his recently-published song. “Let’s Go to Church Next Sunday”. Other tunes he has penned include “Little Man”, and “An Old Piano Plays the Blues”. No wonder musical-minded Allen likes to va...

Louise Arthur __the New Orleans redhead, was a dancer at thirteen but had to conquer a syrupy Southern accent before she could become an actress. She currently combines work in the theater and movies with her radio career and is Annie Marie Templeton on NBC’s Woman in White, Mondays through Fridays at 2:15 P.M., EDT. Her work in a full length 16 mm film. The People’s Choice, is bringing her fan mail from South Africa, India, Hawaii and the Philippine Islands.