VARIETY OF PROGRAMS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, March 15, 1997

HOLLYWOOD STAR PLAYHOUSE (9-27-51) “The Professor Stays at Home” starring Edmund Gwenn as a man who devises a perfect plan to murder his nagging wife just before she leaves to travel alone in Europe.

PAUL GIBSON (Chicago’s five-times married, ultimate male chauvinist tears into wives –as usual—saying paying alimony is better than being married!

(LUX) RADIO THEATRE (9-16-46) “Madame Curie” starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. A love story set in the drama of scientific research done by Pierre and Marie Curie whose monumental discovery of radius wom them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903.

PLEASE STAND BY – A History of Radio (1986) Lesson 23: The Melody Lingers On, tracing the history of music on radio, its origin, its variations, some programs which increased its popularity, and the problems music has faced over the years.