Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

RADIO DAILY: Wednesday. March 31. 1937 CLARK DENNIS, NBC Chi tenor, flies to New York on Saturday to do Chevrolet recording with Rubinofl ork. Dennis is heard here in his own programs and also on the CocaCola Breakfast club disks. He will return April 6. Ken Robinson, author of NBC's "Dan Harding's Wife," back in the local studios after several days in St. Joseph, Mo. Hal Totten, vet sports announcer of NBC, doing series of airings for the makers of Twenty Grands, over WMAQ. six-a-week. Howard Neumiller, pianist, began his seventh year with CBS network here this week. Paul White, CBS New York special events chief; Harry Harvey, chief engineer of KFBA-KOIL-KFOR, and Paul D. P. Spearman, Washington attorney, visiting CBS here. John Harrington, WBBM sportscaster, off to Arizona for a preview of the Cubs and White Sox. While away announcers George Watson, Ken Ellington and Paul Luther will sub for Harrington's "Train Time" show broadcast daily from a railroad station here. Edith Adams, wife of CBS announcer Paul Dowty, and Ruth Delmar, well-known Chi songstress, are latest additions to the cast of "Modern Cinderella." John Weigel, WBBM announcer, sidelines with a dairy store. Bess Johnson's little girl, Jane Orr, suffered broken arm last week. Latest reports on Scattergood Baines are that if show still shows any signs of west coast success it may be brought back here with a local cast next fall. Jimmy Joy and his dance ork will be aired over the NBC webs from the Stevens Hotel beginning Thursday. Eddie Duchin slated for the summer season of the Empire Room of Palmer House here with WGN air. WAIR Starts Operation Winston-Salem, N. C— WAIR, new station here, went on the air for the first time last week and is operating daily, 6 a.m. to sunset, on a frequency Of 1250 kilocycles and 250 watts power. WBBM-Cubs Series Chicago — The Chicago Cubs have signed with WBBM to broadcast "Dugout Dope" interviews for 10 minutes preceding each home game of the season and the preseason games here. George Sutherland, recently imported from Buffalo to assist Pat Flanagan in baseball broadcasts, will handle the interviews. • • • Ina Claire's signature on a 13week contract to head her own radio show a la Helen Hayes is being held up because an amiable compromise can't be made with the star regarding ten-week advance on dramatic scripts .... NBCaster Don Wilson has been signed by Paramount pictures and will be featured in the Victor Moore-Helen Broderick flicker. "Mrs. America". . . .The Astaire-Butterworth Packard show fades in May. ....Harry Hershfield's "Laugh Parade" quit Friday because of Harry's physical condition. He is under strict medical care at the moment. . . . Director Brewster Morgan starts this morning on the Mickey Alpert-CBShow. The other writer, Sam Carlton, wrote for George Jessel. • • • Fats Waller follows Jack Denny into the Meadowbrook The spelling bee via WMCA, sponsored by Chase & Sanborn when Good Will Court faded, will remain as a sustainer on the station when the sponsor's commitments are up....L. Wolfe Gilbert will publish "Greatest Enemy of Love", which Anatole Friedland and he wrote over the week-end in Atlantic City ... .Ray Saunders, WHN announcer , has moved from Passaic to the city so as to make his morning airings on time hereafter ... .Jay Freeman on Sunday celebrates his 15th year as a bandleader, second year at the Paradise and his 35th birthday ... Ted Hammerstein scouted the hills of Connecticut yesterday for a suitable spot to operate a summer playhouse as a "grazing ground" for radio ideas to present this fall. • • • Make-up of the Oscar Shaw-Carmela Ponselle show will undergo a complete change this summer when the stars will present condensed musical shows .... WBNX will present Morris Watson, managing producer of the WPA "Living Newspaper", on Tuesday, provided Watson's case before the Supreme Court is met with an unfavorable decision .... Ted Church is the recipient of the "Saturday Morning Off" prize, the weekly award for the best publicity written by the members of the NBC press dept Frank Black's "Contented" program, which emanates from Chicago on Mondays, will shortly be aired from Radio City because of the maestro's difficulty in flying to the Windy City after his Sunday "Magic Key" show .... Arthur Boran is set for three Rubinoff transcriptions ... Joe Cook, who made his Saturday airing with a high temperature and was rushed to a hotel bed immediately thereafter, is much better today. • • • Glen Island Casino opens May 27 with Nye Mayhew . . . . Carl Ravell of California follows Ozzie Nelson into the Lexington May 1.... Eddie Marr of the "Junior G-Men" show will visit his relatives on the coast shortly — the beloved Perry Charles. .. .Bob Freda in Don Fredi's band at the Stratford has changed his moniker to Lido.... Ed Sullivan's "Dawn Patrol" loith radio names opens in Stamford April 15 for three days .... Stanley Field, WLTH program director, can't get over the kidding about his hair, since WOR's Ed Fitzgerald asked if it was natural .... Brooklyn Eagle's radio editor, Jo Ransom, has a book due in the summer called "Crime on the Air" which will include stories by Phil Lord and Charlie Martin . . . .Don Voorhees and band will be the pit orchestra for the Howard Deitz-Artliur Schwartz musical "Between the Devil", starring Jack Buchanan and Evelyn Laye....Zeke Manners will do a repeat on Hie network shov) witfiin a month. FRED WARING's Pennsylvanians will be in Los Angeles this week. John Dolph, new assistant to vice pres. Thornburgh, CBS, with Mrs. Fred Waring, motored to San Francisco over the week end to meet Waring while he plays a short engagement, will return with him and his band for a theater appearance here. Mertens & Price have sold the Sunday Players disk series for 52 weeks for Minneapolis, where MinnesotaAcacia cemetery association will sponsor the series for the city's church federation. WTCN will put them on air. Sunday Players also sold for 52 weeks on WKZO, Kalamazoo. Locustwood Memorial Park Ass'n, Camden, N. J., also will use the disks over WCAM. Thomas Conrad Sawyer, commentator on the new Sweetheart Soap series that goes out on NBC's coast red net starting April 16, has added Margaret MacDonald to the program, to do fashions. "In-Laws," live talent dramatic sustaining on Don Lee California chain, will have a sponsor starting April 19, when Purex pays the freight. Lord & Thomas is agency. William Queale, chairman of the board of 5DN, Adelaide, and George Sutherland, 3AW, Melbourne, director, with J. S. Larkin, sales manager for 3UZ, Melbourne, are Australian radio execs visiting here. Dave Carter, publicity chief for CBS on the coast, in a move to bring the trade into closer contact with his chain, announced a weekly press conference for trade publication reps. Donald W. Thornburgh, v.p. in charge, will meet with trade press every Wednesday afternoon, talk shop and answer questions. Burns and Allen heading for Palm Springs to take their first holiday in three years. They will be gone for two weeks. Chesterfield's Kostalanetz broadcast will be aired from the coast for an indefinite period to start sometime the end of June. Kostalanetz will be on the coast to work in pictures. While he is doing Owl Drug's "Treasure Island" airings from Los Angeles, Cliff Engle will use guest stars to add variety. First star on series is Maurice Costello. Howard R. Bell, who recently sold his KRKD in Los Angeles, last week disposed of his part interest in KFKA, Greeley, Colo., to H. E. Green, the station's manager. While Rush Hughes vacations in San Francisco for two weeks, Buddy Twist will be narrator on Langendorf Pictorial, NBC coast red. NBC's coast sales department is enlarging to the extent of adding a secretary, Helen Aldrich, to work with Tracy Moore in Syd Dixon's office. Jack Burroughs, Oakland Tribune radio ed, visiting studio folk in Hollywood and Los Angeles.