VARIETY OF SHOWS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, April 3rd 1999

OUR MISS BROOKS (1952) Eve Arden stars as the Madison High School English teacher who must work through the Easter Week va­cation to get funds to purchase a new dress for the holiday. Colgate-Palmolive, CBS. (30 min)

RECOLLECTIONS AT THIRTY (8-1-56) Pro­gram 8 in the 33-part series marking the 30th anniversary of the National Broadcasting Com­pany. Host Ed Herlihy presents the Happi­ness Boys; Herb Morrison and the Hindenberg crash; Frank Crumit and Julia Sanderson; Phil Baker; Snow Village Sketches; Tommy Dorsey. Sustaining, NBC. (25 min)

SPEAKING OF RADIO (1-31-75) Actress Eve Arden recalls her career in a conversation with Chuck Schaden re­corded at the Drury Lane Theatre in Ever­green Park, Illinois. She died in 1990 at the age of 78. (23 min)

OUR MISS BROOKS (1­30-49) Eve Arden is Miss Brooks who has been entrusted by principal Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon) with $25 of high school stu­dents’ money. Cast includes Jeff Chandler, Richard Crenna, Frank Nelson. Colgate, Lus­tre Creme, CBS. (29 min)

PARADE COVERAGE (8-20-38) Announcer Durward Kirby covers the activities in Chicago in honor of Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan, who set out to fly from New York to Califor­nia but “made a wrong turn over Long Island” and landed in Ireland. He is welcomed at Chi­cago Municipal Airport by Mayor Edward J. Kelly. Kirby follows the Parade to City Hall. NBC. (8 min and 15 min)

RED SKELTON SHOW (4-9-50) Red appears as Willy Lump-Lump, Cauliflour McPugg, and Junior, the mean little kid. It’s Easter Sunday and the day of the Skunk Patrol’s Benefit Show. Cast includes Lurene Tuttle, Pat McGeehan, Martha Wentworth, Rod O’Connor, Four Knights, David Rose and the orchestra. Red sings “Scarlet Ribbons.” Tide, CBS. (30 min)