Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

|| AIR-CONDITIONING ON THE AIR = — = WITH THE GEORGE WASHINGTON The Most Wonderful Train in the World Completely AirConditioned Every Car All the Time Chesapeake and Ohio believes in radio. Recognizing the vital part which radio plays in American life, C. 8i O. has equipped the lounge cars of its finest train — The George Washington— with radio receiving sets. This constitutes one of the exclusive advantages which The George Washington offers travelers to and from Washington and the East. Recognizing, too, the power and penetration of broadcast advertising, C. & O. uses radio in the three key cities of its main line — Washington, Louisville, and Cincinnati — to tell the wonderful story of The George Washington — the genuinely air-conditioned train. Travelers are hearing that a train can be clean — free from dust, dirt, cinders — with air-conditioning. They are learning that sleep can be sound — refreshing . . . that day travel can be completely comfortable! Air-conditioning is "on the air." Growing C. 8C O. patronage testifies to its worth in bringing travelers the advantages of The George Washington. Westward Eastward ( Read down) ( Read up ) 6:01 PM Lv. Washington (EST) Ar. 8:30 AM 8 :45 AM Ar. Cincinnati Lv. 6 :01 PM 10:50 AM Ar. Louisville (CST) Lv. 1 :30 PM 10 :45 AM Ar. Indianapolis __Lv. 2:10 PM (Big Four Ry.) 3 :00 PM Ar. Chicago Lv. 10 :05 AM 4:45 PM Ar. St. Louis Lv. 9:04 AM J. B. EDMUNDS, Asst. Gen'l Passenger Agent, 714 14th St., N. W. Wash., D. C. Telephone: NAtional 0748 BEHIND THE MICROPHONE LEWIS LACEY, former manager of KYA, and Dresser Dahlstead have been added to the announcing staff of NBC, San Francisco. Network staff, headed by Jennings Pierce, now numbers seventeen. LILLIAN FRASER, announcer, has joined the Chicago staff of WGN, to take charge of the "Good Morning" program sponsored by the French Lick Springs Hotel of Indiana. ADOLF E. KRATZ, formerly a Chicago announcer, has moved to Los Angeles. He intends to give a daily program with German music and announcements. Trial broadcast was on KMTR, Hollywood, early in October. JAY BEARD has been transferred from KBTM, Paragould, Ark., to its newly established studio in Jonesboro, Ark. JENNINGS PIERCE, chief announcer of the Pacific division of NBC, has announced the appointment of William Andrews as his assistant. Andrews replaces Cecil Underwood, who was named production manager of the Pacific division recently. ROBERT BOWMAN, program manager of KGB, San Diego, is father of an 8-pound boy, born to Mrs. Bowman late in September. DAVE MARSHALL, baritone at KHJ, Los Angeles, late in September went to New York to join George Olsen's orchestra as vocalist. NORMAN HARTFORD, who announces a sports feature from KGFJ, Los Angeles, is the father of a boy, born to Mrs. Hartford late in September in an ambulance en route to the California Lutheran Hospital. JOHN GANTT, announcer and control man of WOL, Washington, has written his first play for the air, an adaptation of Pagliacci, which will be performed by a local dramatic group in November. SCOTTY MORTLAND is now doing his philosophy chatter on KJBS, San Francisco, in addition to his daily columning for the Chronicle. CARLYLE STEVENS, CBS announcer, and Ruth Ronald, of Mitchell, S. D., were married Sept. 25 at the Barbizon, New York. LEE SIMS, pianist, and his wife, Ilomay Bailey, singer, have signed an exclusive contract with the NBC Artists Service for performances over NBC and in RKO vaudeville. ALBERT HAY MALLOTTE, one of the outstanding theatre organists in the west, has joined the staff of KHJ, Los Angeles. He will give a nightly organ recital and will play the piano for other broadcasts. J. ALBERT ERICKSON, onetime music director of KMPC, Beverly Hills, Cal., but more recently in theatre work, has gone with KFAC, Los Angeles, as first violinist and assistant conductor of the concert ensemble. WINS, New York, claims a find in the Four Rascals, instrumental and vocal harmony team, heard each Saturday at 11:30 a.m. They are Italian boys from 22 to 23 years old, who live in the neighborhood of 110th Street and Second Avenue. BILL GOULD, formerly continuity man and announcer at KFOX, Long Beach, Cal., and Henry Sherr, also from the California station, have embarked on a tour of Fox-West Coast Theatres with "School Days." It is similar to their former radio skit. NEWELL McMAHAN, former newspaperman, has joined the staff of KTAB, San Francisco, as staff "news reporter." Presidential Microphone THIS SPECIAL master microphone was constructed by NBC engineers to serve at the White House or anywhere else that the President broadcasts. Obviating the need of great banks of microphones, it has 16 connections which enables it to be used alike for broadcasting, motion picture recording or disk recording. Standing back of the device in this photograph is Herluf Provensen, NBC's chief Washington announcer assigned to all presidential broadcasts. LINDA PARKER, who sings with the Cumberland Ridge Runners on WLS, Chicago, is now Mrs. Arthur Janes, wife of the baritone of the Maple City Four, on the same station. A secret marriage was performed in Valpariaso, Ind., last June. THE HAPPY CHAPPIES, (Vincent and Howard), staff artists of KMPC, Beverly Hills, Cal., have written a new waltz called "On a Sapphire Sea." MISS PHOEBE ELKINS, at one time heard over CBS in the east, will conduct a "Woman's Hour" program over KFAC, Los Angeles, week days. J. C. LEWIS, Jr., staff song writer at KHJ, Los Angeles, has written "A Million Dreams." It was given its radio premiere over the CBS on the "California Melodies" program of Raymond Paige and then published. JUNE PARKER, onetime blues singer with several Los Angeles stations, was appointed publicity manager of KFACKFVD, Los Angeles, early in October. DALE SPARKS, 1930 graduate of the University of California, lately in charge of radio activity of the institution in Los Angeles via KMTR, has moved to Berkeley, where the lectures are now given from KPO. JAMES WILKINSON has resigned from the announcing staff of WRC, Washington, to publish the local Daily Legal Record. WARREN SWEENEY, announcer and concert pianist of WMAL, Washington, and Mrs. Sweeney are parents of a girl, born Oct. 6. JOHN WOLF, of John and Ned, NBC (San Francisco) harmony team, has purchased an interest in a tract at Clear Lake, Cal., a summer resort. TED WHITE, Eva de Vol, Marsden Argall, Rodney Johnson and Harvey Orr have left NBC, San Francisco. DICK LE GRAND has left his announcer's post at KYA, San Francisco, to join KGW, Portland. JOHN T. SIEFERT is now directing the dramatic presentations broadcast by KJBS, San Francisco. THE QUAKER OATS contract expiring late in October, Van and Don (Fleming and McNeil) "The Two Professors" will leave NBC, San Francisco, for the east, where a sponsored program awaits them. DOROTHY O'BRIEN, head of the NBC audience mail department, Chicago studios, was married recently to William Morgenstern, director of public relations, University of Chicago. DOROTHY MASTERS, who formerly conducted the "Ramona Watson" radio critic column of the Chicago American, has joined the Chicago NBC publicity staff as secretary to Ben Pratt, director of public relations. JOHN AND NED (Wolfe and Tollinger) have been granted leave of absence by NBC, San Francisco, to go to KFI, Los Angeles, for a series of programs for Vitab bread. ALLAN WILSON has left the San Francisco studios of NBC on a leave of absence during which he will visit his native heath, Scotland. IN THE CONTROL ROOM ACCOMPANYING President Hoover to Des Moines for his campaign speech of Oct. 4, besides Herluf Provensen, special presidential announcer for NBC, were Albert E. Johnson, NBC Washington division engineer, and Keith Williams and William Chew, field operators. J. R. BURRELL, formerly with the Bell Laboratories, New York, has joined KJBS, San Francisco, as technician and operator. R. A. LIMBERG and Harold Royston, field engineers of NBC, Chicago, recently joined the ranks of benedicts. JOHN LARSON and James Thornbury, field engineers of NBC, Chicago, recently went by airplane and train to McCook, Nebr., to set up equipment for the broadcasting of an address by Senator George Norris. HOWARD C. LUTTGENS, engineer in charge of the Chicago NBC division, was host recently to A. H. Saxton and A. E. Johnson, NBC division engineers for the Pacific Coast division and at Washington, D. C, respectively. JOHN SCALES, of KTM, Los Angeles, claims to be the youngest radio technician on the Pacific coast. He is 17 years old and started in radio at the age of 12 as an announcer on KGFJ, Los Angeles. EDDIE RUGGLES, formerly technician at KMTR, Hollywood, has been added to the operating force of KMPC, Beverly Hills, Cal. He will also announce the midnight recording broadcast. ANTONIO ANCHINNI, technician of KFWI, San Francisco, recently suffered a fractured skull in an auto accident. His mishap and subsequent absence from the station caused KFWI to close down for 90 minutes before station executives found someone to handle the controls. CARL MEYERS, chief engineer of WGN, Chicago, and George Lang, his chief operator, are carrying on experiments with ultra-high frequencies, on the 5-meter band. HERBERT WYERS (pronounced "wires") has joined the operating staff of WLS, Chicago. 3-Year Licenses ALL CLASSES of radio operators' licenses are now being issued for three-year periods by the Federal Radio Commission. Instructions regarding application forms have been sent to all district supervisors by James W. Baldwin, Commission secretary. BROADCASTING • October 15, 1932 Chesapeake and Qhio