Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

We Pay Our Respects to SENATOR WALLACE WHITE, Jr. WHEN Wallace White, Jr. was a you;h about to enter Bowdoin College back in the nineties, his father, then corporation counsel for the Boston & Maine and the Maine Central railroads, was determined that he should study engineering and that his brother Harold should take up the law. For Wallace, Jr. had a distinct penchant for technical subjects. Exactly the reverse happened. Wallace, Jr. studied law, being graduated first from Bowdoin in 1899 and later taking up his legal studies after several years in Washington. Harold studied engineering, and today is a scientific farmer at Auburn, Me. Nevertheless, Wallace, Jr. maintained his interest in things technical. That is probably why he took so keen an interest in radio when, in 1926 and 1927, as chairman of the House Committee on Marine and Fisheries, he had to divide his activities between shipping and the proposed regulation of radio. It was Chairman Wallace White, who largely framed the Radio Act of 1927 in collaboration with Judge Stephen Davis, former solicitor of the Department of Commerce, at the instance of the then Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover. On the Senate side, Senator C. C. Dill took the most active part in writing the new radio legislation, under which the Federal Radio Commission was established and under which radio is now governed. In the 1930 elections, Wallace White won the Senatorial toga of his state. In December, he enters the upper chamber of Congress for his first term, probably to become very actively identified with the radio legislation to come. He is not new to the Senate side of the Capitol. He served as secretary to his grandfather, the late Senator Frye of Maine, when that statesman was made president pro tern of the Senate upon the assassination of President McKinley, which took Vice President Roosevelt out of the presiding officer's chair. First he served as assistant clerk to the Senate Committee on Commerce, then as secretary to Senator Frye. He studied law in 1903 and began practicing in Lewiston, Me. Politics beckoned. He took his seat in the House of Representatives with the convening of the extra session called by President Wilson in April, 1917, being reelected to Congress six times before becoming candidate for the Senate. He won in the Republican primaries over former Governor Brewster and was elected by a wide margin. One of his most notable assignments in radio was the chairmanship of the American delegation sent by President Hoover to Copenhagen last spring for the conference of the International Consultative Committee on Radio Communications. PERSONAL NOTES LOUIS C. COHN, formerly with the Bott Advertising Agency, Little Rock, Ark., has joined the sales staff of KRLA, Little Rock. EDWARD KLAUBER, executive vice president of CBS, spent three weeks in October on a vacation motor tour in the south. Lawrence Lowman acted in his place. JESSE S. BUTCHER, CBS director of public relations, recently addressed the University Club of Larchmont, N. Y., on "this thing called broadcasting." CALLIE SIMPSON, star woman salesman of the commercial staff of KELW, Burbank, Cal., is in Wichita Falls, Tex., because of illness in the family. THOMAS S. LEE, son of Don Lee, owner of KHJ, KFRC, KGB and other stations on the west coast, has joined the KHJ staff, Los Angeles, in the production department. Young Lee holds 43 cups won in sailboat racing. THOUGH he plays a good trombone, is a Marconi graduate and is commanding officer of the communications section of the 12th naval reserve , Stephen Perkins, of KFI, Los Angeles, is attached neither to the program nor technical departments. Instead he is one of the station's star salesmen. GEORGE TURNER, former public relations man for the Boston Grand Opera, more recently in publicity in Los Angeles, has joined KHJ, Los Angeles, as publicity director. R. L. (ROXY) ROTHAFEL was due to return from his European tour in the interests of gathering talent and ideas for Radio City on Oct. 29. He was accompanied by O. B. Hanson, manager of NBC plant operation and engineering, and Gerald Chatfield, NBC technical art director. J. P. FISHBURN, Jr., president of the Times World Corp., publisher of the Times and World News, Roanoke, Va., and owner of WDBJ, Roanoke, has been elected vice president of the United States Chamber of Commerce for the southeastern area. BENJAMIN SOBY, director of sales promotion of the Westinghouse Radio Stations, has just completed a speaking tour that included talks before advertising and civic groups in Washington, Columbus, Dayton and other cities. DR. BEVERLY 0. SKINNER, former president of Wilmington College, Ohio, has succeeded Dr. John L. Clifton as director of education of Ohio, and in that office is responsible for the Ohio School of the Air. LESLIE S. GORDON, Chicago banker and manufacturer, has succeeded Charles G. Munn as president of the DeForest Radio Co. and Jenkins Television Corp., Passaic, N. J. Mr. Munn becomes chairman of the executive committee of both companies. LEIGH E. ORE, formerly manager of WLBW, Oil City, Pa., and until recently manager of WJSV, Alexandria, Va., has joined the R. D. Wyly agency, Washington, D. C, as radio director. DICK RICKARD, assistant production manager of KFRC, San Francisco, has taken up his new duties as manager of KGB, San Diego. OLIVER MORTON, Chicago commercial representative of Westinghouse stations, has been appointed commercial manager of WBZ-WBZA, BostonSpringfield, to fill the vacancy created by Harold Higgins, resigned to join the staff of WBAL, Baltimore. WESLEY W. WILCOX, baritone soloist, writer, critic, and studio director, has been appointed general manager and director of KFLV, Rockford, 111. Aside from executive duties, Wilcox is heard in three feature daily and nightly programs. MISS CRAIG RICE, until recently with WCLO, Janesville, Wis., and formerly with the Milwaukee Journal and the Chicago American, has joined the staff of the Beacon Syndicate, specializing in continuity scripts for radio stations. W. L. GORMLEY, formerly with the Department of Agriculture, has joined the Continental Broadcasting Corporation as sales manager of the eastern distributors in Washington, D. C. Prior to his government connection, he was associated with WRAW, Reading, Pa. WILLIAM J. WEBER, for several years national advertising manager and radio editor of the Charlotte (N. C.) News, has been appointed director of sales and sales promotion for WBT and the Dixie Network of CBS. C. D. Taylor, commercial manager, has resigned from WBT, effective November 1. DON WITHYCOMB has been named NBC director of station relations, succeeding Glenn W. Payne, who is now assistant to George F. McClelland, vice president and general manager. MARSHALL KRIEGER has been transferred from the news staff of the Louisville Courier-Journal to the sales staff of WHAS, Louisville. JOHN M. OUTLER, JR., advertising manager of the Atlanta Journal's rotogravure section, has been appointed advertising manager of WSB, Atlanta, succeeding the late Fritz R. Hirsch. C. A. GURNEY, commercial representative of WNAX, Yankton, S. D., has been making a tour of advertising agencies in Minneapolis and Chicago and will spend the early part of November in New York City in the interests of the station. RALPH W. NIMMONS, formerly in production work at WBIG, Greensboro, N. C. and at one time with WRUF, Gainesville, Fla., has joined the announcing staff of WHAS, Louisville. STEPHEN CISLER, formerly of WLS, Chicago, and now with WGAR, Cleveland, will join WMBD, Peoria, as program director at the end of November. WILLIAM D. TERRELL, radio chief of the Department of Commerce, took the occasion of his being in Detroit to inspect tests in the Detroit river of a new radio submarine signaling device for which great claims were made by a Boston developmental concern. BEHIND THE MICROPHONE RALPH STEWART, founder of the "Bright Spot" Hour on WSB, Atlanta, and pioneer in the field of radio evangelism, has been engaged by NBC toconduct a morning devotional networkperiod at 7:15 a.m. daily. VINCENT KAY, formerly musical director of WSJS, Winston-Salem, N. C, is supervising a new series of Tuesday night broadcasts over WSB, Atlanta, from the Keith's Georgia Theatre of that city. WILLIAM STOESS, musical director of WLW, Cincinnati, believes he has made a "find" in Mildred Lawler, 19year-old Philadelphia schoolgirl, a blues singer being featured with an orchestra in four weekly late afternoon programs. Her only previous experience was several appearances over WCAU, Philadelphia, and in high school theatricals. WAYNE MACK, young musician and actor of Ashtabula, O., has joined WJAY, Cleveland, as announcer. HAROLD PEAT, the "Private Peat" of Canadian Expeditionary Forces fame, now associated with NBC Artists Service, filled speaking engagements before the N. Y. state teachers convention in Syracuse Oct. 23, the Minnesota state teachers convention in Minneapolis Oct. 30, and is scheduled to talk to the Hannibal, Mo., Rotary Club on Nov. 10 and the Missouri state teachers convention in St. Louis Nov. 13. EDMUND LYTTON, announcer for KTM, Los Angeles, has been promoted to the post of music director. ROY LEFFINGWELL, music publisher and entertainer over KECA, Los Angeles, appears in a 16-millimeter sound film produced by David Horsley Film Laboratories, Hollywood. TED DUNCAN, music arranger in the NBC San Francisco studios, is composer of "In Old Brazil," a tango, to be published early in November by Leffingwell Publications, Los Angeles. TED OSBORNE, gag man for KHJ, Los Angeles, formerly with King Feature Syndicate, New York, has left to join the Walt Disney animated cartoon studios, Hollywood. HENRY BUSSE and orchestra have come under the management of Music Corporation of America, effective at the close of a New Orleans engagement Oct. 26. L. M. FITZGERALD, manager of NBC Artists Service in Chicago, announces the signing of Mildred Bailey, blues crooner heard with Paul Whiteman and orchestra from the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, as an exclusive NBC artist. FRANK WESTPHAL and his 14-piece symphonic jazz orchestra, have been signed to the studio staff of WBBM, Chicago. GENE ROUSE, chief announcer at KYW, Chicago, has joined the Chicago NBC announcing staff. VINTON HAWORTH, leading man in dramatic productions at WMAQ, Chicago, and director of its television station W9XAP, becomes an exclusive CBS performer Nov. 1. He has signed to play the lead in the new Wrigley backstage show opening Nov. 2, and will work on other CBS productions. THE "Two Perfect Heels" of the new Florsheim Frolic, which made its debut over NBC Oct. 16, are Russell Pratt and Ransome Sherman, two of the famous Three Doctors of WMAQ, Chicago, and NBC fame. ELSIE LICHTENSTUL, stylist of KDKA, Pittsburgh, has just returned from a trip to Europe and Africa, and has resumed her weekday morning broadcasts, basing her talks on her recent observations of styles abroad. November I, 1931 . BROADCASTING Page 19