VARIETY OF SOUNDS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, January 20th, 1990

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (3-5-40) Jim and Marian Jordan star in what is now a milestone program from the long-running series. When Molly goes to the hall closet to get the dictionary, an avalanche of junk hits her. This is the first time the hall closet gag was used on the air. Cast includes Bill Thompson, Hal Peary, Isabel Randolph, Harlow Wilcox, the King’s Men, Billy Mills and the orchestra. Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (6:45; 10:40; 9:00)

LUX RADIO THEATRE (12-15-52) “African Queen” starring Humphrey Bogart and Greer Garson in a radio adaptation of the 1951 motion picture. Bogey recreates his Academy Award winning role in this story of a souse and spinster traveling up the Congo during the First World War. Irving Cummings is the producer. Lux Soap, CBS. (16:30; 14:45; 21:05)

HALLS OF IVY (1950) Ronald and Benita Colman star, as a bruiser of a football player brings a personal prob­lem to Dr. Hall. Cast includes Robert Easton, Alan Reed, Gloria McMillan. Schlitz Beer, NBC. (17:09; 11:38)

FRONTIER GENTLEMAN (5-25-58) John Dehner is J.B. Kendall, reporter for the London Times, who helps a cowboy searching for a woman kidnapped by Indians. Cast includes Jack Moyles and Lawrence Dobkin. Sustaining, CBS. (11:20; 11:50)

INNER SANCTUM (5-24-45) “Musical Score” starring Barry Kroeger in a drama about a man who is haunted by a symphony. Lipton Tea and Soup, CBS. (14:45; 14:25)