VARIETY OF SHOWS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, March 4, 2000

CHARLIE MC CARTHY SHOW (9-28-47) Edgar Bergen welcomes guest Betty Hutton. Charlie has a date with Betty, but Bergen won’t let him go out with her because she’s “too wild.” Betty sings “Poppa Don’t Preach to Me.” Chase and Sanborn Coffee, Royal Pud­ding, NBC. (30 min) Those Were The Days listeners have voted CHARLIE MC CARTHY SHOW one of the 20 Best Old Time Radio Shows of the 20th Century.

LUX RADIO THEATRE (2-5-45) “Laura” star­ring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, and Otto Kruger in this radio version of the 1944 film. A detective, investigating the past of a supposedly murdered glamorous woman, finds himself falling in love with her. Lionel Barrymore hosts. Lux Soap, CBS. (60 min in three segments) Those Were The Days listeners have voted LUX RADIO THEATRE one of the 20 Best Old Time Radio Shows of the 20th Century.

SPEAKING OF RADIO The Jack Benny Pro­gram (10-15-94) Program nine in this twelve-part series features recollections by Irving Fein, Jack Benny and George Balzer. Excerpts: Drug Store lunch (4-9-50); Professor LeBlanc (5-19­49); George Burns sings Jack’s song (1-20­52); CBS closed circuit broadcast (12-23-48); CBS Benny promotional announcements (1948-49); First Benny show on CBS (1-2­49). (37 min)

RADIO CITY PLAYHOUSE (2-21-49) “Portrait of Lenore” with Bernard Grant and Jan Minor. After seeing the film “Laura,” a writer falls in love with the painting of a beautiful woman. Sustaining, NBC. (28 min)

YOUR HIT PARADE (6-2-45) The top tunes of the week as presented by Laurence Tibbett, Joan Edwards, Mark Warnow and the orches­tra, and the Hit Paraders. Can you guess what the Number One song will be? AFRS rebroad­cast. (30 min)