VARIETY OF SHOWS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, March 3, 2001

SUSPENSE (10-4-55) “Good-bye Miss Lizzie Borden” starring Paula Winslowe, Virginia Gregg and Irene Tedrow. A reporter tries to interview Lizzie Borden who supposedly killed family members with an axe. Sustaining, CBS. (29 min)

SPEAKING OF RADIO (6-17-88) Paula Win­slowe recalls her broad­cast career in a conver­sation with Chuck Schaden in Miss Winslowe’s Los Angeles, California home. (26 min)

LIFE OF RILEY (3-22-47) William Bendix stars as Chester A. Riley with Paula Winslowe as his wife, Peg. A flashback ells how the Riley’s lived with Peg’s parents when they were first married. Cast includes John Brown, Lou Merrill, Gil Stratton Jr., Herb Vigran. Dreft, NBC. (30 min)

KRAFT MUSIC HALL (5-27-37) Bing Crosby with Bob Burns, Jimmy Dorsey and the or­chestra, Ken Carpenter, and guests comedi­enne Zasu Pitts, actress Gail Patrick and pia­nist Rudolph Ganz. Burns tells stories about his family in Arkansas and plays his Bazooka. Bing, Bob, and Zasu do a “Christopher Colum­bus” sketch. Kraft Foods, NBC. (16 min & 15 min & 29 min)

JIMMY DURANTE SHOW (2-18-48) The Schnozz cuts up with guest Victor Moore, Peggy Lee, Candy Candido, announcer Howard Petrie, Roy Bargy and the orchestra. Rexall, NBC. (28 min)

VIC AND SADE (1942) Art Van Harvey is Vic, Bernardine Flynn is Sade, Billy Idleson is Rush. Sade has a petition to tear down the Bright Kentucky Hotel. (10 min)

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VARIETY OF SHOWS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, March 10, 2001

GRAND CENTRAL STATION (7-1-41) “We Want to Get Married” with Frances Chaney, Paul Stewart, Tom Tully, Karl Swenson, and Bennet Kilpack. A newlywed couple get their marriage off to a bad start when the husband loses his job. Tom Shirley announces. Rinso, NBC. (29 min)

SPEAKING OF RADIO (8-27-75) Karl Swenson and Joan Tompkins talk about their radio careers in a conversation re­corded in Hollywood, California. Karl Swenson died in 1978 at age 70. (26 min & 20 min)

THIS IS NORA DRAKE (7­26-48) Joan Tompkins stars as Nora Drake, a nurse on the staff of Page Memorial Hospital, who falls in love with Dr. Ken Martinson, a married man. Isolated episode of the long-run­ning (1947-1959) day­  time serial. Toni Creme Shampoo, NBC. (14 min)

CAVALCADE OF AMERICA (7-21-41) “0. Henry” starring Karl Swenson as “America’s greatest short story writer.” DuPont, NBC. (29 min)

STEVE ALLEN SHOW (10-26-49) Al Jolson, promoting his film “Jolson Sings Again” is Steve Allen’s guest in this broadcast before a large audience in Studio B at Columbia Square in Hollywood. This is Allen before the Tonight Show on TV and Jolson after the great suc­cess of “The Jolson Story.” KNX, Los Ange­les. (52 min) Steve Allen died Oct. 30, 2000 at age 78.

MOON RIVER (1930s) Bob Brown narrates a program of mood music and poetry. Southern Cross Mattresses, WLW, Cincinnatti. (15 min)