VARIETY OF SHOWS

Originally broadcast on WDCB
Saturday, June 23, 2007

GANG BUSTERS (6-12-48) “Case of the Park Avenue Pilferers,” the burglar king and queen who looted New York City’s most luxu­rious apartments. Cast includes Don Gard­ner, Arnold Moss, Les Damon. Sustaining, CBS. (24 min)

CAVALCADE OF AMERICA (5-19-37) “Thomas A. Edison, the Man” offers several little-known episodes in the life of the man, rather than Edison, the inventor. In addition, Don Voorhees and the orchestra present a selection from Irving Berlin’s Music Box Revue “Crinoline Days.” DuPont, CBS. (28 min)

MAIL CALL #135 (3-7-45) Jack Benny stars with guests Paulette Goddard, Claudette Colbert, Jeanne Crain, Jinx Falkenberg, the Andrews Sisters, Eddie “Rochester” Ander­son, Frank Nelson, John Brown. Jack is planning to attend the premiere of his film “The Horn Blows at Midnight” and tries to get a date for the occasion. Ken Niles announ­ces. AFRS. (30 min)

KRAFT MUSIC HALL (10-21-48) Al Jolson, with no guest star scheduled for this broad­cast, decides to take requests from the studio audience. Oscar Levant, Ken Carpenter, Lou Bring and the orchestra. Kraft Foods, NBC. (30 min)

LIFE WITH LUIGI (1-9-49) J. Carroll Naish stars as Luigi Basco, who has his first date with an American girl. Alan Reed as Pasquale. Sustaining, CBS. (29 min)

THE SHADOW (1-19-41) “The Shadow Challenged” stars Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston and Marjorie Anderson as the love­ly Margo Lane. When a scholar is murdered for an ancient manuscript, the Shadow gets the blame. Blue Coal, MBS. (27 min).