August 19, 1939
Lulu Belle and Scotty, Uncle Ezra, the Hoosier Hotshots and the entire Hayloft crew will open the Wisconsin State fair Saturday with a four and one-half hour broadcast of the famous WLS National Barn Dance, including the hour long Alka Seltzer portion on a coast to coast NBC network, WTMJ . . . Nearly 100 radio artists make up the cast of the WLS Barn Dance, including such stars as Joe Kelly, Henry Burr, the Rangers, the Prairie Ramblers, Pat Buttram, Grace Wilson, Georgie Goebel, the Dezurik Sisters and scores of others . . . WLS will broadcast the full WLS Barn Dance from the stage in front of the fair Grandstand, starting at 6:30 p.m. and running to 11 p.m. central standard time—four and one-half hours . . . Gov. Julius Heil will also have a part in the WLS Barn Dance from the Wisconsin State fair. He will personally present the governor’s trophy to the state winner of the Prairie Farmer-WLS tall corn contest.
Bea Wain, popular radio singer, joins “Your Hit Parade” Saturday over CBS-WISN at 7 p.m. . . Bea collaborates with tenor Lanny Ross and the Merry Macs quartet in singing the nation’s song hits, compiled weekly.
The first annual Coney Island midsummer song festival which, according to estimates, will have a one million voice chorus led by Fred Waring, will be broadcast Saturday from 6 to 6:15 p.m. over NBC-WMAQ . . . While Waring leads the song festival, believed to be the largest ever attempted, members of his glee club will be stationed along the beach “to give the pitch and get everyone started.”
The industrial scene of the future will be treated in realistic dramatic fashion in “Efficiency Island,” next in the series of Arch Oboler’s plays, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. over NBC-WTMJ . . . Betty Caine, wife of NBC actor Raymond Edward Johnson, will have the lead . . . The drama will attempt to forecast the working conditions in the days when straightline factory production methods will have been carried to perfection.
Daisy Dean (Cecile Roy) has penned another dramatic masterpiece and has persuaded old Professor Kaltenmeyer (Bruce Kamman) to let her present it with the assistance of the other Kindergarten pupils on Saturday at 4 p.m. over NBC-WMAQ . . . It’s Daisy’s own adaptation of “The Wizard of Oz” and she’s dedicating it to Judy Garland and Bert Lahr.
Karolian Melodies, Tartar folk songs, and music of the Don Cossacks will be brought to American listeners on Saturday in a program broadcast from Russia over NBC-WMAQ from 10 to 10:30 a.m. . . . The program will originate in Moscow, and will present folk music by the best singers and musicians of those sections.
Always willing to help when he has a chance to bewilder someone and confuse the issue, Red Skelton, comedy star of “Avalon Time,” inaugurates his “Send Out Skelton Service” with the broadcast of Saturday at 6:30 p.m. over NBC-WIMJ . . . The new feature takes its place alongside those other Skelton specialties, “Comedy in the News” and “A Slice of Life.” . . . Skelton will be assisted in his new venture by Edna Stillwell, Herky and Gypsie Rose Levy.
The Milwaukee Sentinel
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