Twelve on Shell: The Way It Was, 26 October

1935: ---Judy Garland's old-time radio credentials would come to include a guest spot with Clark Gable on Good News Maxwell House, and four appearances at least on Lux Radio Theater, among other vintages.

But tonight MGM's tragic girl wonder appears with Wallace Beery on NBC's Shell Chateau . . . when she is a mere twelve years old, and Beery is installed freshly as the program's host after Al Jolson had to withdraw due to a film commitment.

AIRWAVES . . .

1957: THE POPE IS ON THE AIR---Twenty-six years after Pope Pius XI becomes the first Roman Catholic pontiff to deliver a radio address---and with Guglielmo Marconi himself among those present---Vatican Radio goes on the air as a radio station in its own right.

CHANNEL SURFING . . .

1943: ARCHIE'S LIFE STORY---Just about the last thing guest star Ida Lupino needs is Archie (Ed Gardner) hectoring her to put on a film of his life story, on tonight's edition of Duffy's Tavern. (The Blue Network.)

Eddie: Eddie Green. Finnegan: Charles Cantor. Miss Duffy: Shirley Booth. Writers: Ed Gardner, Abe Burrows, possibly Larry Marks.