Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

Tuesday, March 30, 1937 RADIO DAILY 5 WITH THE ft WCMEN ft By ADELE ALLERHAND — y^ND now there's to be a Caroline MaCarthy Edgar Bergen has drawn up plans and specifications, and Charlie MaCarthy, the original dummy, is being groomed lor his broadcast, in about two weeks, with the expected bundle from the carpenter. . . Barbara La Marr flies home to New Bedford for weekends.... Marion Martin has just added her signature to a document which arranges for her to replace Gypsy Rose Lee. according to Jack Eigen's Broadway Newsreel over WMCA tonight. . . When Lady Wilkins. chanteuse wife of the explorer, goes Australia-ward, come this May, she'll be accompanied by Greek chanteur Jean Fardulli. . . He has papers to prove he was protege of Basil Zaharoff for seven years .... Dorothy Crane to be succeeded by the "Sophisticates", a femme trio, with the Bernie Cummins ork. . . . The Rainbow Room will gild the Park Avenue lily when Countess Olga Albani adds her nightingale 'activities to the perfumed swankiness on June 2. . . .Cornelia Otis Skinner goes militaristic with a collection of Coronation uniform suits for her appearance at the Royal Haymarket in London during the royal festivities . . . Carmen Castillo, wife to Xavier Cugat, and who adds vocalizing with the Cugat musical outfit to her other duties, will be guest of honor at a party at the Waldorf this week.... It's to celebrate their return from South America ... .Wonder if niece, Margo. will be there! George Hicks, NBC announcing lad who makes the trek with the "7,000 miles for 15 minutes broadcast" eclipse expedition, had to use rhetoric to get his wife's nod on the idea.. . Last night's Cooking Show at the Grand Central Palace had for its M.C. none other than Frankie Basch. WMCA's "Roving Reporter".... Marion Cole will talk music with Met star Mario Chamlee today Celia Branz, NBC contralto, to debut on the Philly concert stage, April 20 . . . then, perhaps, Town Hall .... Charlotte Buchwald, the "Playgoer", has as her reparteeing guest today, Dorothy Hall of "Behind Red Lghts" .... CADI© PEC/CNALITIC/ • No. 19 in the Scries of Who's Who in the Industry ' EDGAR THOMPSON BELL, secretary-treasurer of the Oklahoma Publishing Co. and general manager of its newspapers and radio station WKY as well as a substantial stockholder in KLZ, Denver, and KVOR, Colorado Springs. Twenty-two years ago Edgar Bell came to the Oklahoma Publishing Co. as advertising manager of the Farmer-Stockman. The success with which he handled that job, as he calls it, is reflected in the fact that he is now business manager of the Oklahoma Publishing Co. activities and that all three of its publications and radio stations are in the forefront in their respective fields. About a year ago WKY dedicated new studios. This culminated eight years of radio effort by Bell, who nourished WKY from meagre beginnings as a non-network local to an NBC affiliate that now boasts the best in radio for a regional station. In speaking of the future of radio. Bell says: "No one could view its future more optimistically than I. I feel there is a great future for this medium and, not being able to pierce the future to know what effect it may have on the printed medium, I am one newspaper man who will insist on our organization having a firm foothold in radio and keeping as nearly as possible abreast of this fast developing industry." Preparedness is his motto DON KNEASS. back in Portland. Ore., after an absence of six months during which he served KIRO, Seattle, and more recently as production manager of KMJ, Fresno, has signed with KOIN specializing on news broadcasts. He succeeds Richard Rand, who steps over to KALE to replace Allan Shepard, resigned. Ernie Smith, sportcaster, is back at the KYA-CRS mikes in San Francisco after a three-week vacation in Mexico during which Dick Wynne filled in. William A. Schudt. Jr., manager, and Dewey H. Long, sales manager, of WBT, Charlotte, are back from Atlanta. William H. Voeller left Conquest Alliance Co. on March 11. according to C. H. Venner, president. Charles "Whitey" Wallace, the young singing sensation of WJIM, Lansing, who recently scored on Al Pearce's Ford show in New York, has been taken to Hollywood by CBS artists Bureau. George Frame Brown has written a play about a summer artists' colony. Tommy Dunkelberger, who officiates at the organ for WHIO, Dayton, O., at 8:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, was invited to take a couple of bows in one of the institutional ads being run by the station in the Dayton News. The station's Annual Spelling Bee was the subject of another ad. Carlton Weidenhammer, who is leaving WICC, New Haven, to join WOR as an announcer, will be given a farewell dinner tomorrow evening at the Hotel Stratfield, Bridgeport. Amanda H. Barnes, dramatic director of WWL, New Orleans, is recuperating from an illness in Atlanta. Bob Keneflick, Jr., son of the sports editor on a Syracuse daily, made his radio debut Sunday over WFBL, pinch-hitting for Leo Bolley's Veedol-Tydol sports program. Bolley is taking a two-week vacation visiting the baseball camps in the south. Thomas L. Stix, co-producer of Pontiac's Varsity Shows, found the Girls" Glee Club at the University of Texas, Austin, where next Friday's program emanates, as attractive as a Ziegfeld Follies chorus. And talented besides. The April 9 broadcast will come from Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Mimi Oppenheimer, the Girl Reporter of WOAI, San Antonio, is recovering from an illness. Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, who has been appointed honorary director general of the Greater Texas and Pan-American Exposition, will fly to Dallas for the opening on June 12. Alex Buchan, sports announcer at WTMV, East St. Louis, has started a new sports program. "Sportshots." MUSIC EDDIE DUCHIN will resume his broadcasts over the Mutual network the week of April 4. He'll have two spots weekly. Arnold Johnson initiates his vaudeville tour with an appearance at the Fox theater in Philadelphia, April 16. Jos Venuti and his Ork broadcast twice daily over WWL and WPSU from the Blue Room of the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans. Jimmy Joy and his musical aggregation to succeed Frankie Masters' band at the Continental Room of the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, effective April 1. They'll be aired via NBC. Vincent Lopez has acquired a new vocalist. Grena Sloan, of "Stage Door." "Jubilee" and 'Life Begins at 8:40." The "Happy Sisters," NBC trio of vocalizing gals, appear nightly at Boston's Hotel Brunswick Casino. Bob Crosby's recently signed contract with the West-Coast Palomar gives him considerable latitude. He's permitted to appear there at any time he chooses between the date of signing and March, 1938. Columbia Concert Orchestra will be conducted by Leith Stevens during the "Musical Americana," allnegro program over the W ABC-Columbia network Tuesday April 13. from 10:30 to 11:00 p.m." Eddie Weaver's Friday eve dance music airings from the Hotel Taft. New Haven, will give way to a Thursday program at 11:20 p.m. Henry King and Ork established a speed record while filling a movie assignment recently. They flew by United Mainliner from San Francisco, where they make music nightly at the Fairmount Hotel, to Los Angeles, umere they plattered the scores of the new Grace Moore and Bing Crosby pictures, then returned to Frisco the same day. ONE MINUTE INTERVIEW MARK WARNOW "Tastes change because of economic conditions which control the sentiments of individuals. Thus wars and depressions produce entirely different demands for music. Radio has improved dance music because, since the application of the new microphone technique, instruments blend better, over-noisy rhythms are avoided and this good balance makes more pleasant listening."