VOTING FOR OLD TIME RADIO

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, November 4th, 2000

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (11-5-40) Jim and Marian Jordan star. The Good Govern­ment Club has offered $250 to the election officials who bring out 100 per cent of the voters in their precinct… and the McGees have a polling place in their home at 79 Wistful Vista. Cast includes Harold Peary, Isabel Randolph, Bill Thompson, Harlow Wilcox, King’s Men, Billy Mills and the orchestra. The program is interrupted for the latest election results (Roosevelt vs. Willke) on this Election Night broadcast. Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (30 min)

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (11-7-40) Excerpt. Hugh Conover, Reg Allen and Arthur Godfrey report on the “Presidential Special” which has just arrived at Union Station with President Roosevelt and his party, “returning to Washing­ton from his successful Third Term campaign. All Washington has turned out at a rather early hour… to give the President a welcome…” CBS. (20 min)

GREEN HORNET (10-2-40) “Votes For Sale” starring Al Hodge as Britt Reid, newspaper publisher who fights crime as the Green Hor­net. In this episode, the Hornet smashes a political racket. Cast includes Paul Hughes and Ed Begley. Syndicated. (28 min)

1948 ELECTION RETURNS (11-3-48) From NBC Election Headquarters in New York, on the morning after President Harry Truman de­feated Thomas E. Dewey, newsmen Bob Trout, Morgan Beatty, H. V. Kaltenborn, Ri­chard Harkness, Ray Henley and Ned Brooks (after a sleepless night) try to analyze the rea­sons for the upset. NBC. (30 min).

ROBERT TROUT AND THE NEWS (11-7-48) President Truman gets a victor’s welcome in Key West, Florida after his surprise election. Trout talks about Truman’s plans for the future and his new Cabi­net. Plus other news of the day. Pillsbury, NBC. (5 min)

LIVING, 1948 (11-7-48) “What Happened?” is the jackpot question of the 20th Century: What happened during the 1948 Presidential Election when the Gallup Poll and other polls predicted the defeat of Tru­man by Dewey. Ben Grauer narrates and George Gallup, Director of the Institute of Pub­lic Opinion, is guest. Sustaining, NBC. (25 min)

GREAT GILDERSLEEVE (11-5-44) Harold Peary stars as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, with Lillian Randolph, Walter Tetley, Lurene Tuttle, Earle Ross, Arthur Q. Brian, Richard LeGrand, Bea Benaderet. On the eve of the National Election, the hottest topic of conversation in Summerfield is the Mayoral race. Gildy and Judge Hooker bet on the election. Kraft Foods, NBC. (27 min)

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REMEMBERING SPENCER TRACY

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, November 11th, 2000

LEO IS ON THE AIR (1936) A radio movie promo for MGM’s “Libled Lady,” a romantic comedy starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy. Transcribed. (14 min)

SCREEN GUILD THEATRE (4-21-40) “Ninotchka” starring Spencer Tracy and Rosalind Russell in the radio version of Ernst Lubitch’s 1939 screen comedy about a Russian agent in Paris who falls in love with a Capitalist despite their different polictial backgrounds. Roger Pryor hosts. Os-car Bradley and the orchestra. Gulf Oil Co., CBS. (30 min)

YARNS FOR YANKS (1942) “Extra! Extra! star­ring Spencer Tracy in a story by Robert E. Sherwood. AFRS. (15 min)

CHASE AND SANBORN HOUR (7-24-38) Ed­ward Arnold hosts this variety series starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Dorothy Lamour, Metropolitan Opera singer John Carter, comics Claude and Clarence Stroud, and special guest Spencer Tracy. Music by Robert Armbruster and the orchestra. Wendell Niles announces. Tracy appears with Edward Arnold in a mini-version of the 1931 film “Five Star Final” and later joins Charlie McCarthy for a comedy bit. Chase and Sanborn Coffee, NBC. (15 min & 12 min & 31 min)

COMMAND PERFORMANCE (12-23-44) Ex­cerpt. Spencer Tracy stars in a Christmas drama, “The Small One” featuring Lee J. Cobb, Skippy Homier, Griff Barnett, Howard Duff, Harry Bartell, Elliott Lewis. AFRS. (14 min)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST will be movie historian BOB KOLOSOSKI who will be on hand to talk about the film career of Spencer Tracy who died in 1967 after completing work on the film “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?”