Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

2 Vol. 1, No. 4 Thurs., Feb. 11, 1937 Price 5 Cts. JOHN W. ALICOATE : : : Publisher DON CARLE GILLETTE : : Editor MARVIN KIRSCH : : Business Manager Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Radio Daily Corp. J. W. Alicoate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Treasurer and General Manager; Chester B. Bahn, Vice-President; Charles A. Alicoate, Secretary; M. H. Shapiro, Associate Editor; John B. English, Advertising Manager. Terms (Post free) United States outside of Greater New York, one year, $5 ; six months, $3 ; three months, $2; foreign, year, $10. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications to RADIO DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone Wisconsin 7-6336, 7-6337, 7-6338, 7-6339. Cable Address : Filmday, New York. Hollywood, Calif.— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone Granite 6607. Copyright, 1937, by Radio Daily Corp. All rights reserved. Guizar Pinch-Hitting For Pick and Pat Model Tobacco Co. has selected Tito Guizar to pinch-hit for Pick and Pat on Feb. 15. Blackface comedians will vacation in Florida. Sponsors will use different act each week until regular talent returns. Start New WSMB Tower New Orleans — Work on the new broadcasting tower for WSMB here will begin within 30 days, Harold Wheelahan, the station's manager, announced. The new tower will be located across the river in Algiers, about a mile from the present tower at the naval station, and will cost approximately $45,000. WSMB has applied to the FCC for 5,000 wattage. Mueller Series on NBC C. E. Mueller Co. (macaroni and spaghetti) to air a five-a-week series over the NBC-Blue network beginning Feb. 22. Broadcast time is 10:45 to 11 a.m. and will consist of dramatic serial. Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc., is agency. FINANCIAL Thursday, Feb. 11 NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Tel. & Tel 1823/4 181 1/2 181 % Croslcy Radio . 25'/2 251/2 25V2 Gen. Electric • 62% 613/8 61% — % North American . . . 32 3H/2 313/4 + 1% Stewart Warner . . . 203/8 19i/4 20% + % Zenith Radio • 371/2 36% 36% — % NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltinc Corp. • 173/4 17l/4 171/4 + Va Nat. Union Radio 25/g 2'/2 2% + % OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked CBS A .... 49% 511/2 CBS B 49 51 Stromberg Carlson .... 19% 20% — RADIO All WNEW Equipment Transferred to New York WNEW has severed all connections with Newark and their studios there. All equipment has been moved to the present site at 501 Madison Ave. and the Newark building is permanently closed. The change, has necessitated an increase in the present budget for the Dance Parade broadcasts. There are a number of spots now airing from the Jersey side of the river and new lines must be connected to the New York studios. Standby announcers are used on the show making it imperative that programs be piped from the originating spot to the studio, and then to the transmitter. Construction Started On New Calif. Station San Francisco — Tulare-Kings Counties Radio Associates, composed of four daily newspaper publishers of Tulare and Kings counties, have begun construction on a radio transmission station near Visalia. Station will cost at least $30,000. FCC granted builders permission to erect station Feb. 2 with the stipulation that it would be finished in six months. Heinz 13-Weeks Spot Heinz going on the air with a new series of 13 weeks of transcribed programs, advertising Baby Food. Angelo Patri will talk on child welfare. Melton for Sealtest Sealtest Laboratories have signed James Melton to emcee their Saturday Night Party Feb. 13. This marks Melton's first broadcast since last fall, when he stepped in the Hollywood Hotel spot vacated by Dick Powell while the latter was ill. In addition to his duties as emcee, Melton will sing three songs. Program airs from 8 to 9 p.m. over NBS-Red net. Warble for Farley Helen Jepson and Lawrence Tibbett have been selected as soloists for the testimonial dinner to be given James A. Farley Feb. 15. A portion of festivities will be aired over NBC from 10 to 11 p.m. Speakers will include, among others, President Roosevelt, Vice-president Garner and Mr. Farley. Cutting Up Eddy Kansas City — Nelson Eddy, star of Vicks program underwent his third minor operation in two days yesterday. First two operations were on nose and throat, with yesterday's surgery removing additional follicular matter at the back of singer's throat. Pinky Lee Renewed Tastyeast has renewed Pinky Lee on the Joe Rines' Dress Rehearsal program for an additional thirteen weeks. Lee is comic relief on show. DAILY Ramona Asks Release From Whiteman Pact Ramona. with Paul Whiteman's band for many years, filed an affidavit yesterday in New York Supreme Court, asking that she be released from fulfilling a contract with Whiteman. Action was filed under her name, Ramona Davies, calling on Whiteman, Artists Management Bureau, Inc., and Jack Lavin, head of the agency, to call off all bets on meeting future contract obligations. Utah Radio Products Files Registration Wash. Bureau, RADIO DAILY Washington — Utah Radio Products Co., of Chicago, yesterday filed registration statements with Securities and Exchange Commission, listing 155,000 shares of no par value common stock. Subscription warrants evidencing right to purchase 98,190 shares common stock at $2.25 per share were issued to stockholders. Proceeds to be used as working capital and to discharge indebtedness for improvements and replacements of machinery and equipment. Thomas Troy Dead Thomas Troy, 82-year-old veteran of the stage, and of late heard on the NBC Echoes of New York Town show Sunday nights, died of pneumonia yesterday in the French hospital. Vera Van Back West Coast Bureau, RADIO DAILY Hollywood — Vera Van, who "retired" from radio singing two months ago for a domestic career, is back on the air, returning for "Sing Time" on KHJ. Vicks Show from East With Nelson Eddy, Nadine Conner and Joseph Pasternack arriving in New York on Feb. 22 from Chicago, balance of Vick's Open House broadcasts will be aired from this city. Program fades from the air March 21. Cherniavsky Renewed Josef Cherniavsky's "Musical Camera" has been renewed for an additional 13 weeks on the NBC Red network, Sunday afternoons, by the International Silver Co. (Rogers Bros. 1847). N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., is the agency. Uncle Sam Program National Broadcasting Co. and U. S. office of Education to co-operate in new series to begin Feb. 19. Show will be called Uncle Sam at Work and will be aired from 7 to 7:15 p.m. weekly. Roosevelt on 3 Webs President Roosevelt to broadcast over the three coast-to-coast networks next Monday night when he speaks at the James Farley dinner. Speech will be aired at 10 p.m. Thursday, February 11, 1937 cominc and Gome DONALD FLAMM, president of WMCA, and WILLIAM WISEMAN, vice-president and counsel, sail today for a southern cruise. NELSON EDDY, NADINE CONNER and JOSEPH PASTERNACK arrive in New York on Feb. 22. ROBERT W. ORR, v.p. in charge of radio at Lennen & Mitchell, left yesterday for Cincinnati to confer with Woodbury officials. Will return Sunday. PHILLIPS LORD leaves Dec. 22 on that vacation. The "We, the People" and "Gangbusters" star will be gone three weeks. JOSEPH K. MASON, NBC merchandising department, back from Wilmington, Del., where he attended funeral services for his father Delaware Mason, killed by an automobile. MARTIN BLOCK, WNEW, leaves for Pinehurst, N. C, today, returning Tuesday. MORTON DOWNEY arrived on the West Coast yesterday from Miami, where he appeared for General Motors at their auto show. Pulled 70,000 people into the place. EDDY DUCHIN in N. Y. from road. Leaves in a day. JOE HAYMES leaves the Roseland for a series of one-nighters. BOB CROSBY in town; so are ART SHAW and LOU BRING. BILL GREEN, RubinofFs drum-beater, off for Havana today as guest of the Yale Drama Dept. HARRIET HILLIARD leaves for picture work in Hollywood next week. BERNICE CLAIRE leaves Feb. 19 for Miami. Humphreys Renewing Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine Co., New York (packaged medicines) will renew "Sweethearts of the Air" on a split NBC-Blue network on March 2. Renewal is on a week to week basis, subject to a 30 day cancellation clause. Program is heard Tuesdays, Thursdays, 5:45-6 p.m. on WJZ, WBZ-WBZA, WFIL, WBAL, WSYR, WHAM, and Sundays 10:1510:30 a.m. on the same stations, plus WEBR. May Singhi Breen, Andy Sanella, and Peter de Rose make up the talent end. The Biow Co. Inc., the agency. Disks of Film Songs Fifteen-minute radio transcriptions, made directly from the new Jessie Matthews musical film, "Head Over Heels in Love," will be made available to radio stations throughout the country, according to Arthur A. Lee, Vice-President of GB Pictures. Coming Events June 1-10: Radio-television exposition, Moscow. Feb. 28-March 8: Spring Fair of radio and television, Leipzig. Feb. 11: General Electric Supply Corp. sales convention, Charlotte, N. C. Feb. 17-25: National Education Association Convention, Civic Auditorium, New Orleans.