Radio: Programs Previewed: Jan. 9, 1939

For seven days beginning Friday, January 6. All times are EST. All programs subject to change without notice.

Lotte Lehmann (Sat. 1:55 p. m. NBC-Red) heads the Metropolitan cast in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier.

President Roosevelt (Sat. 9:30 p. m. NBC-Red, CBS, MBS) addresses the Jackson Day Dinner in Washington.

Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) returns to conduct the NBC Symphony in Mozart's "Haffner" Symphony, Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Loeffler's Memories of My Childhood, Wagner's prelude to Die Meister singer.

Fables in Verse (Sun. 2:45 p. m. NBC-Red) written about animals specially for radio by Poet Alfred Kreymborg. First of a series of ten.

Joan Crawford (Sun. 7:30 p. m. CBS), Jack Benny, Judy Garland, Reginald Gardiner, Ralph Morgan, Mitchell Leisen, Morrie Ryskind contribute their services to the first program of Gulf Oil Corp.'s series of Screen Actors' Guild benefits.

Do We Have a Free Press? (Thurs. 9:30 p. m. NBC-Blue) debated by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, Publisher Frank E. Gannett before America's Town Meeting of the Air.