Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

8 RADIO DAILY Wednesday, March 17, 1937 GUEJT-ING MARGARET SULLA VAN has been signed to appear on the Hit Parade broadcast over CBS March 27. Mark Warnow will take over the show on that date. BETTE DAVIS and HUMPHREY BOGART will do scenes from "Marked Woman" on the Hollywood Hotel CBS broadcast March 26. FATS WALLER, ART SHAW and the RAYMOND SCOTT quintet will perform on the Saturday Night Swing Session over CBS next Saturday. IRENE DELROY, musical comedy star, will guest star on the Major Bowes Capitol Family broadcast March 21. FRANK BRENNAN, in charge of the K. of C. track meet to be held this evening at Madison Square Garden, will be guest of Larry Robertson, sports columnist of the N. Y. World-Telegram, who is one of the guest commentators for vacationing Dick Fishell, over WMCA at 6:30 p.m. today. WALTER ABEL of "Wingless Victory," Broadway play, will be guest of George K. Arthur this evening. 6:45-7, over WQXR. Arthur does a weekly program giving a first nighter's impressions of Broadway Fair. STUART ERWIN and JUNE COLLYER (Mrs. Erwin) will appear with Jimmy Melton and Tom Howard in Saturday's Sealtest show over the NBC-Red network at 8 p.m. FIBBER McGEE and MOLLY, along with ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE, MAJOR JAMES H. DOOLITTLE and others, are listed for Joe Cook's Shell Show over the NBC-Red network at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday. STEVE KENNEDY, lyric baritone, appears with Louis Katzman and his ork at 11:45 a.m. today over WINS. COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT makes his first radio appearance since his return to America when he speaks over WHN on "Books Made to Measure" and "Authors I Have Known" as guest of Ida Bailey Allen on the Homemakers program at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. CANTOR DAVID PUTTERMAN of the Park Ave. Synagogue will be on the Hammerstein Music Hall Program over CBS at 8 p.m. on March 30. FREDRIC MARCH and FLORENCE ELDRIDGE (Mrs. March) will appear in a radio version of "Death Takes A Holiday" on the Lux Radio Theater program March 22 over CBS. 9-10 p.m. B March 17 Greetings from Radio Daily to Jimmy Grier m,mm in ttvtw "THE ANSWER MAN" Provident Loan Society of N. Y. W OR, Tuesday and Thursday, 7:30-7:45 p.m. McCann-Erickson, Inc. ENCYCLOPEDIC TYPE OF SHOW, WITH COMMERCIAL INDIRECTLY WOVEN IN, MAKES GOOD LISTENING. Anything the listener wishes to know is answered either through the medium of the program or the mail, the various questions and answers injecting the quality of both "Things I Never Knew 'Til Now" and "Believe-it-or-not-Ripley." For the most part, however, the questions and answers are seemingly ordinary items which everyone should know, yet doesn't. Albert Mitchell, who started this program on an out-of-town station as a sustaining, makes his debut in New York with the same program as a commercial, sponsor going on the air for the first time. Edward Longstreth, author, acts as assistant to Mitchell, reading the questions and otherwise drawing additional info out of Mitchell. First question touched on the timely subject of income tax returns. Going into metal . alloys, diamonds and such, Mitchell wove a short commercial plug into the talk by answering why people have diamonds although they don't always wear them. Answer was that the jewels were held as assets and could be borrowed upon, for instance at the Provident Loan's low rates, etc. Only other credit was at the close. On occasion source of information is given by Mitchell who has a good matter of fact style of delivery. Other items included Supreme Court, sterling and traffic. Foreign Music Society After Licenses in Texas Longview, Tex. — Society of European Stage Authors and Composers is making a drive to license Texas stations for use of the SESAC catalog. James R. Curtis, secretary-treasurer of Texas Broadcasters Association, has informed members that the NAB has made no special recommendation about such licenses, but he has written to James W. Baldwin, managing director of the NAB, for additional information. Curtis, in his communication to stations, also reminds the members that such procedure as that of SESAC is within the copyright owner's rights according to the present copyright laws. Texas outlets, he states, pay an average of $1,000 annually for music licenses covering public performances for profit. M. M. Silberman is representing SESAC in his efforts to have stations take out the licenses. "DINNER AT NINE" Sustaining NBC-Blue Network, Mon., March 15, 9-9:30 p.m., and monthly thereafter. DIFFERENT, BUT DOESN'T CLASS AS ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE BULK OF DIALERS. Broadcast from the dining room of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Goddard Leach's private home in New York, with mikes hid among the room's floral decorations to pick up the conversation as it would occur informally after a dinner party, this first program of its kind did not quite get across. The topic of discussion was, "Is bridge destroying good conversation?" and some very distinguished persons took part, among them Fannie Hurst, Ford Madox Ford, Sidney S. Lenz, Eugen Boissevain, J. George Frederick and Natalie Sedgwick Colby. The conversation was a bit rambling, starting out with a debate on French vs. American cooking, then getting around to bridge. There was some clear talk, some incoherent mumbling, and some jumbling of voices, all of which arrived at pretty much nowhere. KAY PARSONS Sustaining WNEW, Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30-9 p.m. MILDLY ENTERTAINING REPERTOIRE OF SONGS OF YESTERDAY. Kay Parsons in her opener on this new radio spot did pretty much the same routine that she has done time and again in vaudeville and on the air, from the "minstrel days" introduction to reviving old songs one after another. She has a likeable style and her numbers should please the reminiscing fraternity, but generally speaking it's rather tame stuff for today's tempo. WMCA Essay Contest An essay contest on "How Advertising Benefits the Consumer," with first prize of $250 and various other awards down to ten cash prizes of $10 each, is being conducted by WMCA's High School Reporter in collaboration with Advertising Age. Contest, open to students, closes May 1. Favor Government Station Washington Bureau of THE RADIO DAILY Washington — Interest is growing here in the measure introduced by Congressman Celler to erect a government owned and operated radio station to put the U. S. on a par with other foreign nations. No hearing date has been set yet on the bill. A.P.M.MINUTEX TRANSCRIBED minutes of the Mid-Winter Meeting of the International Executive Board of the American Federation of Musicians reveals, among other items, that Ramona Davies is no longer a member of Local 802 in New York. Complaint filed with the AFM by Paul Whiteman is upheld and her contract is binding, inasmuch as the New York State Supreme Court ruled that it cannot be broken. In this respect the AFM finds, in part: "The President's office advised Ramona to refrain from taking legal action until the Executive Board had decided the complaint of member Whiteman. The Board holds that inasmuch as Ramona Davies has taken recourse to the courts before exhausting her prerogatives in the Federation, she has resigned her membership and the case cannot be further considered." The Executive Board also upheld the action of Local 802 in collecting the 50 per cent national tax on traveling bands making electrical transcriptions, on the ground that the disks are being used for radio. Request by the Atlantic City local for the prohibition of Hollywood recordings, failed to receive favorable consideration as it did not appear to be in the interests of the Federation that it be agreed to. Protests from locals that chain broadcasts of commercials were at times using amateur bands will be taken up with network officials by President Weber. Another item of importance was the law allowing a member to terminate his contract with an agency that did not supply work within six weeks. 66 Stations for Twin Stars National Biscuit's "Twin Stars" program which begins on CBS March 28 at 8-8:30 p.m., will have 66 stations in its network. Program is switching from NBC and stars Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, and Lou Kosloff and orchestra. Buddy Rogers rejoins the show at a later date. Program will originate from Hollywood. McCannErickson, Inc., New York, is the agency. Frank and Ernest Split Detroit — After five years together on WWJ, the team of "Frank and Ernest" has been split, owing to the illnes of Arnold Tiemann, who played "Ernest." However, Franklyn Greenwood, the "Frank" of the show, will carry on for his sponsor, the Illinois Meat Co., with the aid of Morgan Gareau at the organ and piano. The "Frank and Ernest" tag will be dropped in favor of the title, "Golden Dawn." WPA Program Fading WPA Professional Parade program will give its last broadcast on the NBC-Blue, Wednesdays, 9-10 p.m., on March. The following week, April 7, Frank Black and his NBC Symphony orchestra will take over the spot.