Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

:RADiO DAILY: Monday. March 15. 1937 AIYNOUKCEIIS RAY ADKINS, formerly WROL, Knoxville, has been added to the announcing staff of WSIX, Nashville. BOB ELSON, sports commentator for WGN, Chicago, will interview Jimmy Dykes, White Sox manager, and Charlie Grimm, manager of the Cubs, from the west coast this week. DON DUNPHY, WINS announcer, will cover all angles of the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York on Wednesday. TOM STEWART, WSM announcer, Nashville, has been absent from mike duties because of laryngitis and influenza. He is recuperating. RED BARBER, ace sports announcer of WLW-WSAI, Cincinnati, is in Florida with the Cincinnati Reds gathering material for his annual series of baseball broadcasts. JOHN K. CHAPEL, WOW (Omaha) announcer, soon will appear in the movies. Along with Sports Editor Ralph Wagner of The Omaha Bee-News and Former Cornhusker Star Harold Hutchinson, Chapel assisted in filming a screen series which will bring to Nebraska film audiences the big Husker football games of 1936. JOHN W. HARRISON, former professional football player, U. S. Park Ranger, movie and stock player, has joined the announcing staff of KTUL, Tulsa. Harrison has been announcer for KYW, KSTP and KTRH. He was last with the special event department of the Texas Centennial at Dallas. CHUCK MILLER, new announcer with KFAB-KFOR, Lincoln, won on the five announcer eliminations staged by KFOR to get a man on the street for Wendelin Baking Co. Announcers were given different days before the mike and the decision made by mail response. GLENN RIGGS, chief announcer at KDKA, Pittsburgh has made another discovery. The "find," scheduled for his radio debut on the Strollers Matinee from KDKA at 1:45 p.m. tomorrow, is Dick Warren, a department store stock boy. RICHARD FEATHERSTONE GLOYNE, KFAB (Lincoln, Nebr.) announcer who hailed from England shortly after birth and hung onto the accent, is being pushed on the KFAB news listeners from the British angle. Program is titled "Englishman Looks at the News" and is aired in the higher class style. Is catching on. New WKRC Transmitter . Being Dedicated Mar. 27 Cincinnati — WKRC will officially dedicate its new 5000-watt Western Electric transmitter and studios on March 27. Prominent officials including the Mayor Wilson of Cincinnati, City Manager Dykstra, Timothy S. Goodman, WKRC general manager, and governors from three states will partake in the dedication ceremonies. • • • Texaco is the one after "Bingo" (instead of Bank Night) for an air show and have set a price of $3,500 per airing .... Mails wouldn't be used, but service stations throughout the country .... Aaron Solomon is the attorney checking the legality .... Benny Leonard and Lew Tendler are preparing a dramatization of their famous bout at Boyle's 30 Acres in Jersey. Both will participate and give their versions of the fracas .... Jack Adams of J. P. Muller is interested .... "Final Edition," the show with Heatter, Chapman, Fisher and the comic strip, auditioned for Borden's last week is set, the only hold-up being time-purchase .... Nat Brandwynne leaves the Essex House in two weeks and goes to the Pierre. Was booked for the Mark Hopkins in Frisco but cancelled because of the teething-trouble of his vocalist. Maxine Tappen. . . .Hal Gordon gets an NBC sustain er and build-up starting tomorrow. . . .Jimmy Brierly, with Lyn Murray's choir, returns to CBS as a single on sustaining .... Andre Kostelanetz and a 37-piece ork have been signed to Brunswick for a series of records called "20 Minutes with Kostelanetz" in which he'll do two rhumbas, two fox-trots and one tango. • • • St. Patrick's Cathedral Choir is spotted for Kate Smith's Bandwagon during Easter week. . . .Curtis & Allen have "Boy Meets Girl," "Having A Wonderful Time" and "Storm Over Patsy" for the airwaves ... .Professional Music Men (songpluggers, etc., around the country) hold their annual benefit show at the Alvin on the 11th. . . . Bobby Hayes returns to the air from the Edison Green Room when Gypsy Lee, his accordionist, recovers from a recent accident ... Ed Farley ("Music Goes Round") opens this week in Bloomfield, N. J. . . . .Lang Thompson goes into the Peabody hotel in Memphis. . . .Ted Black opens the first at the Embassy Club in Atlanta. .. .Charles Boulanger opens at Newark's Robert Trent ... .Wingy Manone will bring a jam band back from the Chez Paree in New Orleans. . . .Happy Felton is mourning the death of his mother. • • • What did they do in B.R. (before radio)? .... Ralph Wonders was the male half of a dance team .... Paul Whiteman was a cabbie just like Abe Lyman .... Announcer Ed Herlihy was a railroad conductor.... Lucille Manners and Carol Deis pushed pencils across blank steno pads .... Graham McNamee was a meat salesman, while Major Bowes enjoyed his stable of horses and the real estate business .... Agents: Lou Irwin sold stocks, while Arthur and Sam Lyons were clerks in drug stores .... Walter Batchelor was manager of a burlesque house and Taps ran amateur shows .... Paul Small was a stooge for Ken Murray .... Charlie Allen wasn't as good an actor as he's an agent. . . .Harry Bestry was with the team of Bisset and Bestry, with the former now head of a brassiere firm .... George Woods was with his father's act, "Nine Crazy Kids" . . . . Bernie Foyer was a songplugger for Berlin .... Jack Bertell managed his dad's dept' store in Brooklyn and Lester Lee wrote songs. • • © Kate Smith was a nurse, while Ted Collins sold records ....Henny Youngman was a Catskill Mts. social director ... .Martin Block sold women's underwear and Stan Shaw was a prof, at Duke U Ted Husing was a mid-western knife salesman, while Bernice Judis helped her dad get rid of some real estate "peaches" ... .Voice of Experience was the corner medicine-man, while NBC v.p. Phil Carlin was announcing ... .CBS's Zack Becker taught school, while Prexy Bill Paley sold cigars .... Advertising exec Roy Wilson was a bandleader ... Jack Adams ran a concert artists bureau and Harold Frazee was a professional aviator after the war. . . Coming Miventn March 15-22: North American Radio Conference, Havana, Cuba. March 18-20: Hotel Business Promotion Conference, French Lick Springs Hotel, French Lick, Ind. March 24: Columbia Broadcasting System stockholders' meeting, New York. March 31: Women's National Radio Committee annual awards luncheon, Hotel St. Regis, New York. April 6: Radio Corp. of America annual stockholders meeting. April 9: Press Photographers' Ass'n of New York Eighth Annual Dance and Entertainment, Hotel Commodore, New York. April 26-28: Association of National Advertisers, semi-annual meeting, Hot Springs, May 2-9: National Music Week; David Sarnoff, chairman. May 14-30: Syndicate Professionel des Industries Radioelectriques 14th Annual Salon, Palais Neo-Parnasse, Paris. May 15-18: Second Annual Congress of Colonial Broadcasting of National Federation of Radio Mfrs. of England, Paris. May 15-31: Radio and Television Fair, International Exposition Grounds, Paris. June 1-10: Radio-television exposition, Moscow. June 14: American Federation of Musicians annual convention, Louisville, Ky. June 20-23: Advertising Federation of America's 33rd annual convention, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. June 21-24: American Institute of Electrical Engineers' convention, Milwaukee. June 21-24: Summer Convention of the Canadian Electrical Convention, Banff, Alberta. Bowes Show Continues Despite Chrysler Strike Last minute advices from CBS and the agencies declared that Chrysler Corp., Detroit, has no intentions of cancelling or suspending the Major Bowes Amateur Hour on CBS, due to strikes in the Detroit plants. The starting date of the new Dodge transcription series, not released yet, will be deferred pending the outcome of the strike, it is understood. No spot announcements are now being used by Dodge. For Chrysler cars, Lee Anderson Advertising Co., Detroit, announced that they would use spots in 48 cities in a special Easter Drive March 18-22. Craig & Hollingbery Open Detroit Office Craig & Hollingbery, Inc., radio station representatives, announce today the opening of a branch office in Detroit, located at Park and Adams. Fred Hague, account executive in the Chicago office, has been named Detroit manager. Lou Holtz Engaged Lou Holtz, radio and stage comedian, has announced his engagement to Phyllis Gilman, model. Holtz is at present in New York preparing a new script for a radio program while Miss Gilman is enroute to Hollywood to fulfill movie obligations.