Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

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6 RADIO DAILY Monday. March 15, 1937 Chaitet KFI and KECA have clamped down on "missing persons" broadcasts unless requests come from police or sheriff's office. Reason, too many "sorrowing mothers" have turned out to be collection agencies trying to trace debtors. Farley Outfitting's "Gold Star Rangers" has moved its hour-a-day, every day hill billy program from KFWB to KMTR, with Jimmy McMasters replacing Gus Mack as emcee. Don Bernard, production manager for Don Lee-Mutual, has resigned, and leaves today to freelance. Successor not yet picked. Sam Siegel, publicity for KFWB. resigned last week and left by plane for Seattle to do special exploitation for United Artists in Seattle and Portland. Jimmy Tolson, who started in movies as boy singing prodigy and has been in movies and radio for past ten years, takes his first fling at running a show when he will run a half-hour variety program on KFAC, weekly, sponsored by Superior Macaroni, through Advertising Arts agency. Marie Osborne, once famous child star known as Baby Marie, now 23, is going to try for a break on KFI's Hollywood Extra program, for which she auditioned last week. Sam Pierce, who writes "Calling All Cars" for KHJ and Don Lee chain, married Georgiana Parker last week, and is off at Laguna Beach honeymooning. Electric Range Dealers and Iris Food Products are sponsoring a combination audience and air show to be broadcast from the Paramount Ballroom over Don Lee's KHJ "Tuesdays at Two". One hour will go on the air, with hour of cooking demonstrations following. Scott Clyde of Dan Miner agency is producing. KMPC is putting on a real Bev Hills socialite, under name of Miss X, to do a daily 15-minute society gossip, feminine interest program. Jean Keeler, formerly with British Broadcasting, now featured singer at Trocodero cafe, will be featured guest on California chain with KEHE's Listen Ladies program today. Radio Division of Federal Theater Project premiered "Three Men and a Girl" Saturday night on KFWB in a new series. BIRTH 17 j 181 19 1 20 j 21 22 23 '5, 1 25 1 26 | 27 | 28 I 29 j 30 March 15 Greetings from Radio Daily to Charles Pease MAJOR EDNEY RIDGE, the hustling manager of WBIG, Greensboro, N. C, displayed some of his typical enterprise when Postmaster General Jim Farley visited his city last week to fill a dinner-speaking engagement. Major Ridge is a personal friend of Farley's and predicts he will be the next President. Aware of the General's Irish ancestry, Major Ridge had Eddie Robbins, singing mailcarrier, appear at the dinner in his regular postman's uniform. At the end of the meal, Eddie crooned "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling", and after that it was merely another walk for the mailcarrier. Farley thanked Eddie. Shook hands with Eddie. Posed for a picture with Eddie. Eddie is on the air! Grady Cole, WBT's inimitable news commentator and Comet Rice philosopher, has been assigned an office in the WBT suite. Senora Milla Dominquez, soprano with the "Courteous Colonels" program which Barnsdall Refining Co. has just renewed for another 13 weeks over KTUL, Tulsa, and 10 CBS stations in that region, is the wife of the Mexican Consul in Dallas. She commutes to Tulsa every week for the broadcasts. The Tulsans (60 male voices) , heard on the program, include some of the petroleum industry's big names. The show is produced by the KTUL staff and is placed by the Co-Operative Advertising Agency of Tulsa. WCAE, Pittsburgh: Ed Sprague is slated for a late sports broadcast.... Ed Harvey, program director, who has been ailing, expects to be mended within the week.... Pat Patterson, former publicity man, is now working in New York, having been transferred there from Washington. Dick Fishell, WMCA sports commentator, has enlisted a group of outstanding sports celebrities to fill his program periods for two weeks while he vacations in Florida. The programs, sponsored by General Mills, are aired at 6:30 p.m., weekdays and 7:30 Sundays. Henry Poole, Trans-radio operator in charge of Transmission of News at Trans-radio's Minneapolis headquarters in the WDGY Building, is featured on two news broadcasts over the air daily. Station Manager John Gillin of WOW, Omaha, has been enlisted by the Omaha Variety club, of which he is a member, to help them try to persuade Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone to appear on the program of the national convention of Variety here April 17-18. Mary Alkus, whose morning radio feature, "Pertinent Paragraphs," was recently launched over the California Radio System and KYA, San Frayicisco, is a former San Francisco radio commentator. She is heard over the network from Los Angeles every weekday morning except Saturday at 11 a.m. Saunders and Shepard For Sobol WHN Series WHN, which has signed Sobol Brothers Service Station Inc. for six 15-minute evening programs a week and six 5-minute evening spots per week, will feature Ray Saunders and Bill Shepard on the 15-minute shows with news reports and recordings, while the 5-minute spots will be devoted entirely to news broadcasts and will be handled by Shepard exclusively. Series starts today. Contract is for 52 weeks. J. Stirling Getchell Inc. has the account. New WDNC Accounts Durham, N. C. — New national and local accounts on WDNC include Ruma-Ban Products, Belk-Legget Co.'s Poll Parrot Shoes, Carolina Furniture Co.'s Stewart Warner Save-A-Step Refrigerators, Dubs Sandwich Co.'s Weston Crackerettes, Christian-Harward's Kroehler's Furniture, Murdock Ice & Coal Co.'s Conditionaire Refrigerators, Home Building & Loan's Installment Thrift, Hibberd Florist's Easter Flowers Account, and Southern Used Car Corp. Show Girls Comprise Dennis Vocal Group Jay Dennis, radio artist and producer, has formed a group of 12 of the most beautiful show girls and professional models, and after months of preparation has created a unique vocal group. Dennis was the originator of the Blue Flames, producer of "Afternoon Recess' and author and MC of "Manhattan Matinee" all on WABC. Hudnut on KYW Philadelphia — Hudnut Sales Co., New York (cosmetics) has started a quarter-hour program on KYW Fridays, 6:45-7 p.m. Program features Jan Savitt's orchestra and soloists. Series will run through May 28. Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Inc., New York, placed the account. WBT to Feed Network WBT, Charlotte, will feed a coastto-coast CBS network on March 30, j when Mrs. W. A. Becker, president of the general national society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, addresses a convention of the society in Charlotte. The 15-minute speech will be broadcast 2:15-2:30, j with Reginald Allen announcing. LULU BELLE and SCOTTY of the Barn Dance have just completed a book of 50 mountain tunes which will hit the bookstands April 1. Mora Martin and Fred Marcus are the latest additions to the cast of "Backstage Wife." Don McNeill and Ed McConnell are exchanging guest appearances. Hal Totten, vet NBC sports announcer, will handle the mike for the six-day bike races that begin today at the Chicago Stadium. Mercedes McCambridge, star of "Guiding Light" NBC serial drama, has been honored with the highest award of the Laetare players, dramatic group from Mundelin College here. Dave Gothard of "Romance of Helen Trent" out of hospital after a siege of bronchitis. Bill Hampton, who clicked in a hurry as a writer and lyricist with the King's Jesters, taking a new job with Kay Kyser. Plans for a Tuesday night Variety show are under way at NBC here. Proposed program to be a sustaining full hour with talent being scouted at present. Joan Blaine, flying to Palm Springs with her mother on April 1. Tom, Dick and Harry will guest star on the Barn Dance show next Saturday. Quin Ryan of WGN is to feature a number of University of Illinois sports coaches beginning Wednesday at 8:50 p.m. when he interviews "GaGa" Mills, basketball coach of the college. Tom Shirley taking place of Dick Welles, seriously injured in autosmash here last week. Elinor Harriet is the name of the pretty young lady who is heard as Mrs. Kingfish with Amos 'n' Andy. Finney Briggs who plays Dan the Milkman in NBC's ' The Adventures of Dari-Dan" was a former cartoonist on a local newspaper. A recent checkup at WHK, Cleveland, showed that 16 2/3 per cent of the station's broadcasts were educational in nature.