"Free World Theatre" debuted on the Blue network (now ABC). The 
series of radio plays was produced, directed, and adapted by Arch
Oboler (above). 

Shown from left, Arch Oboler and actor Ronald Colman

                           
                             Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky)

                       (February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974)

Jack Benny Show skit with Mel Blanc

Benny had been a vaudeville performer before becoming
a national figure with The Jack Benny Program, a weekly
radio show that ran from 1932 to 1948 on NBC and from
1949 to 1955 on CBS.

Mrs. Wiggs of The Cabbage Patch was radio soap that aired
originally on CBS and ended on the NBC network in Dec. 30,
1938. It starred Betty Garde in the leading role of a woman
living in a shantytown known as Cabbage Patch. The series
was based on the novel by Alice Rice.

Betty Garde

The Andrews Sisters from left: Maxene, Patty, and LaVern

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of the singing
Andrews Sisters trio whose hits such as the rollicking "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
of Company B" and the poignant "I Can Dream, Can’t I?" captured the home-front
spirit of World War II, died Wednesday of natural causes at her home in a suburb
of Los Angeles.

Brace Beemer (center) and the cast during the first Lone Ranger program
from the studios of WXYZ radio in Detroit, Michigan.