Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

Wednesday. March 17. 1937 RADIO DAILY 5 WITH THE By ADELE ALLERHAND ^UCCESS STORY Margaret Lenhart, KOL's "Lovely Lady of Song", wanled to study music .... She raised the wherewithal by singing other people's children to sleep.... Don Isham. Musical Director of KOL heard her lullabying his offspring ....auditioned her.... and she got the job ... . The Axis Business and Professional Women's Club of Lincoln think Jettabee Ann Hopkins, femme scribe of two KFAB shows, is one of the city's ten outstanding business women .... Pat Rourke, 1 8-yearold Seattle blues warbling colleen, is the only fairsex member of "The Stag Party", a program for the sterner sex over KOL, Seattle, on Thursdays Gay Lee of Daytime Programs, one-time director of Farm Programs at KMOX, once broadcast the actual rattle of a rattlesnake .... Her most prized possession is a letter from Mrs. Roosevelt, complimenting her on program inaugurated by her as Director of Women's Programs over WINS.... Lucille Manners, City Service diva, was flicker-tested by Warners They say the gal's good.... On matinee days Betty Wragge is written out of the "Pepper Young's Family" script .... she leaves the family circle for "Dead End" whose cast she adorns Chantress Benay Venuta to work on recordings with Rubinoff on Friday when she deserts Chi.... Grace Moore is irrevocably anti"Frankie and Johnnie" . . . .Thursday's "Talk About Books" program deals with Maxine Davis' "They Shall Not Want" . . . .Grace Campbell, Ann Jackson, and soprano Milla Dominguez, who's married to the Mexican consul in Dallas, all to appear on "Courteous Colonels" over a WBBM-Columbia network, March 20.... Yoichi Hiraoka to "I Do" Shizuko Yam a guchi on Sunday at the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church He's NBC's Japanese xylophonist who not-too-longago concertized at Town Hall .... Jerry Belcher of "Our Neighbors" has a new gal-child Studio addenda Amelia Umnitz is the moniker of NBC's Betty Goodwin's new assistant .... WQXR has taken unto itself a lass in charge of Public Relations .... She's Dorothea Beckman, once of the Herald-Tribune's Promotion Department. I Al H I I I M SVC llll I R No. 15 in the Series of Who's Who in the Industry • OY C. WITMER. NBC vice-president in charge of sales. Joined the network as an advertising salesman in 1927. For 16 years prior to that time he served as general manager of machine manufacturing plants in the East. He was made an assistant sales manager in 1929 and a few years later became vice-president. Business career began in California following his study of mechanical engineering at Leland Stanford University, starting as an accountant for the First National Bank of Los Angeles and the Southern California Edison Co. Later hopped to Fitchburg, Mass., to become general manager of a pumping engine factory and from there to a similar post with Norwalk (Conn.) Iron Works. Born in Lockport, N. Y., and turned the sod as a plough boy on the farm. Sits Tight, Keeps Coo], Kindly disposition and does not get unduly and Sells Biz ruffled. Just sits tight. KSTP Program Finds Backers for Inventors St. Paul— KSTP's new "I've Got An Idea" program, aired for 30 minutes each week and during which embryo inventors explain their newest brainstorms, is proving a real boon to the inventors themselves. On the air only three weeks now, the program has brought at least three inventors to the attention of possible backers. One of the inventions is a device for shaving in bed, particularly adaptable to convalescents; the second concerns a furnace-door incinerator, and the third is a rope-jumping doll. The program is going over big, bringing in about eight inventors at each broadcast. Give in to Radio Cedar Rapids, la. — The Amana colonies, religious group of Iowa, and one of the few spots in the civilized portions of the earth which have never had radios, will now get them. An electric power line into the colonies has been arranged. New Disk Series on WMCA Jonas Schainuck & Son, clothing manufacturers, started new series of hillbilly music, via disks, over WMCA yesterday. Programs are heard over the station Monday through Saturday, 8-8:15 a.m. Joins NBC Press Dep't Amelia Umnitz has joined the NBC press department as assistant to Betty Goodwin, NBC fashion editor. Miss Umnitz was formerly with Pathe News, Erie, Pa., DispatchHerald, and Macfadden Publications. Bristol-Myers Adding Spots Bristol Myers Co., New York, (Minit-Rub) through Young & Rubicam, Inc., is planning to add at least two more stations to its spot radio schedule. Feldman Handling Events Boston — Arthur S. Feldman has been appointed manager of special event programs originating at WBZ and WBZA, according to John A. Holman, general manager of NBC in Boston and Springfield. KSTP Is Broadcasting From Legislative Arena St. Paul — With Minnesota's legislature nearing the last-minute rush of important developments, KSTP, Twin Cities station, has moved in for a series of on-the-scene broadcasts right from the capitol. One program took listeners directly into a committee room to hear legislation being processed. Another, "The Capitol Speaks," goes on five days a week, immediately after the morning sessions at 12:20 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, bringing to the microphone each day various senators, representatives and committee heads, to explain the work that has been accomplished for a day. A special broadcast room has been set up at the capitol, where Val Bjornson, the stations editorial commentator, interviews the solons on their work. Harlem Symposium on WQXR "Harlem, A Symbol of Race Conflict" is the subject of the symposium to be held by the Institute on Human Relations of the New York Society for Ethical Culture at the Hotel Astor on Saturday and broadcast from 2 to 3 p.m. over WQXR. Speakers will be E. Franklin Frazier, professor of sociology at Howard University, Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Otto Klineberg, professor of psychology at Columbia University. Algernon D. Black will be chairman. Revive "Story of Songs" "Story of Songs," a CBS sustaining feature, will return to the air April 6 over the same network. Program will be aired weekly 3:30-4 p.m. First program will feature Collette D'Arville and Benjamin De Loache. On the following program Fritz Lechner will be heard. April 20 Edith Varley and Eugene Loewenthal will be featured. Lillian Knowles and Hubert Hendry have been booked for April 27. , STATION * * FLASHES w C. A. ROWLEY, publisher of the Star-Beacon, Ashtabula, O., announces that WICA will be the call letters of the station he is establishing here. KFYR, Bismarck, N. D., added new remote equipment and it was inaugurated by Governor William Langer as he talked from statehouse gubernatorial office. Later the new equipment visited the Elks Winter Circus, where Dick Burris and his inquiring microphone interviewed the customers. WJBW, New Orleans, is operating over its own transmitter again. The station had been using other facilities during the interlude of silence caused by a fire. WSGN, Birmingham, has contracted for the features of the World Broadcasting System, according to Henry Johnson, director. New Biz for WHO Des Moines — Murphy Products Inc. of Burlington, Wis., has bought the 8-8:30 p.m. period on WHO'S Iowa Barn Dance Frolic, three-hour Saturday night show aired from the 4,500seat Shrine Auditorium. Earl E. May Seed Co., Shenandoah, la., owner of KMA, is supplementing its own station with five-a-week quarter hours by remote over WHO. Coronation Lead-Off First of the CBS international broadcasts on the Coronation will be heard Sunday, 1:30-1:45 p.m., when Lawrence Tanner, keeper of the archives and vestments at Westminster Abbey, discusses the symbols and ceremonies of the event. NBC Washington Promotions Washington Bureau of THE RADIO DAILY Washington — Coincident with the transfer of Philip I. Merryman to the NBC station relations department in New York and the promotion of Donald Cooper, NBC control supervisor, to succeed him as operations chief here, Robert L. Terrell becomes senior control supervisor and Dawson A. Ullman is made junior control supervisor. ONE MINUTE INTERVIEW HARRY BLUESTONE "A good orchestra should be run like a good bank. It should have stability of assets (a thoroughly equipped musical library), integrity of character (its musicians should be competent to do their job well), and a keen knowledge of finance (to know how to dicker to give the public what it wants)."