Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

6 RADIO DAILY Wednesday. February 10, 1937 MANAGERS and management bureaus are getting busy. Harry Bestry has picked on Patti Pickens. Contract is exclusive. Consolidated Artists will handle Don Bestor who has left Music Corporations of America, and Columbia Artists Bureau has taken on "The Debonairs", radio trio and West Coast's soprano sensation, Hollace Shaw. Calumet Baking Powder trying to move "We the People" show from its present Sunday, 5 p.m. spot to an evening hour on a week-day. Placed an order to this effect with NBC. Mutual, through CKLW brought the first eyewitness account of the sitdowners in Flint to the mike with Joe Gentile doing the announcing. Broadcast held between Chevrolet plants one and two with national guard protecting mikester of strikers. New additions to the NBC press department include Don Glassman formerly free-lance radio writer; Thomas Riley, transferred from the news division, and Frank C. Lepore, former editor of NBC Transmitter. Tom C. Davis, Guest Relations staff succeeds Lepore on Transmitter. Norman Boggs, former director of sales at WAAF, has left that position to join WGN's sales force. Boggs had been connected with WAAF for the past five years. Radio stars will entertain the Press Photographers' Assn. of New York at their annual dance and entertainment to be held at the Hotel Commodore April 9. Mastercraft on WJZ Harvey Whipple, Inc., Springfield, O. (Mastercraft oil burner) will start a musical program on WJZ beginning Tuesday, 6:35-6:45 p.m. Al & Lee Reiser, George Griffin comprises the talent. Series set for eight weeks through Willard G. Myers, New York. Mary Marlin Signing Off "The Story of Mary Marlin" sponsored by International Cellucotton Products Co., Chicago (Kleenex) signs off the air Feb. 26. Program is heard Mondays through Fridays, on the NBC-Red, 12:15-12:30 p. m. For Adults Only WHN believes that they have solved the problem of presenting programs for adults, without the children being present. "Parents' Forum" conducted by Mrs. Stella Kaye. child consultant, will be aired via the station Sunday nights at 9 p.m., the time all good children ought to be asleep. Will answer the parents' woos pertaining to the kiddies. * WITH THE WOMEN * — By ADELE ALLERHAND A DD Kay Reed music librarian at WNEW to the male vs. female announcer controversy Assistant to Musical Director Pitt the Reed gal reigns over recordings could in the proverbial pinch pinch-hit for her superior She plays four instruments harp, cello, .piano, .organ and is "aired" on four programs a week one over WOR So far as she knows Kay's the only female music librarian in town once played Ophelia and was one of the first femme announcers but never let it interefer with her musical activities According to Kay the coddled contingent can deliver commercials as convincingly as the more savage sex She believes men don't think so. Also that it's a matter of opinion. Three M.C.s in u week and a half is the record of the all-gal "Hour of Charm" deserted by Arlene Francis presided over byhack in the "Linit" days took it over again yesterday Manned back in the "init" days took it over aguin yesterday Manned ahem by thirty dumsels M.C.'d by another managed by still another this program is authored by a mule Alton Alexander. T T Alice Frost Rinso's "Big Sister" won her bout with "ole debbil" grippe and is back from the land of the big Loaf i.e Florida big sistering again Little Sister Haila Stoddard of the same program will divide her time between the family circle and the dress circle She'll go "theater" in a new Sidney Kingsley play shortly The Lillian Lauferty who authors the program used to be "Beatrice Fairfax" of "Lovelorn" fame. Mary Eastman warbler on the "Saturday Night Serenaders" Pet Milk program flew Floridaward yesterday for a week's sun-tan She'll return to a change in tempo she's to go "Waltztime" replacing Bernice Claire on the program of that name Gertrude Berg ex "Mrs. Goldberg" of the Clan "Goldberg" returns to the ether within the month new idea new script new sponsor. Back from the barbarous coast Bernice Judis will resume managerial duties over al WNEJF Monday Her secretary Janet Ross goes altar ward March 19 Best wishes, Janet Rita Hudson newspaper lass of "Rita Hudson Recommends" interviews Jessica Ogilvie of the hair specialist Ogilvies today Friday she puts Rita Cowles scribe of "Neiv York Woman" to the question microphonically speaking Effective Monday the program goes commercial a half-dozen times a week Perfumes by Rinelli sponsoring three of the weekly broadcasts The Clemenses Jack and Loretta W ABC go network at the end of about seven more weeks Bostvelliana Connie on the coast will have another seven weeks of "California Hour" effective Feb. 15 with Conrad Nagel screenie scion announcing. Agnes Moorehead took the air for the first broadcast of "The Girl Interne" WHN series then vanished into it to be heard no more on that program Another unsolved mystery of the air Lady-maestro Miriam Hoffman and her all-femme orchestra leave the Areola Inn, New Jersey this Friday Myrtle Vail has 1,500,000 words for it it being the "Myrt & Marge" program According to the radio actress and script writer she has penned that many words for the 775 scripts she has authored since the program's premiere in 1930. * STATION > THE F.C.C. has authorized the transfer of the control of WCOP, Boston, from the estate of the late Joseph M. Kirby to Arde Bulova, New York watch manufacturer. Former Federal Radio Commissioner H. A. Lafount is a minority stockholder and is associated with Mr. Bulova in the deal. WOW, Omaha, has started a new sustaining Sunday afternoon program, a 30-minute weekly feature at 1 p. m., and called the Sunday Magazine. Foster May, WOW's news editor, will present the news of the week interpretatively, a surprise interview with some personage and an electrical transcription of some important local stunt program presented during the preceding week. John K. Chapel is announcing the program. Connecticut Junior Federation of Music inaugurates a program of music featuring young talent from WICC, New Haven, on alternate Saturdays at 10:45, beginning Feb. 13. Arrow Beer Co., Baltimore, has inaugurated a news program over station WCAO, using four periods daily. C. D. Kenny Co., Baltimore, producers of Norwood coffee, has inaugurated a half-hour transcribed program on Sunday evenings over WBAL. The local program, "The Crime Clinic," conducted by Samuel Kling over WBAL, was taken by the Mutual Network on Sunday. Charlotte's two radio stations, WBT and WSOC, usually in sharp competition for business and popularity, united their forces and facilities in raising flood relief funds, and are credited with having had a large part in aiding the local chapter of the Red Cross in raising approximately $30,000 in cash and nearly $10,000 worth of clothing and food, although its final quota was only $10,000. KCMO, Kansas City, has signed contracts with the following: Colby Candy Co., Lawrence, Kans., for three 15-minute spots daily for 15 weeks E. J. Brach Candy Co., for 52 spot announcements handled through Needham, Louis, and Brorby of Chicago; Bunte Bros. Candy Co., for 1 spot a day for 100 days handled through Fred A. Robbins of Chicago; Curtiss Candy Co., for 546 spots, six each day, handled through McJunkin's Agency of Chicago; Premier Pabst Co., for 75 half-hours during the next twelve months; and F. W. Fitch Co., for fifteen 15-minute spots. Defer "Court" Trial The examination before trial scheduled for yesterday between Judge Nathan Sweedler and Standard Brands, NBC, WMCA, J. Walter Thompson and A. L. Alexander, was postponed until next week. Court action is relative to the use of the name "Good Will Court."