Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

RADIO DAILY Wednesday, October 19, 1949 CHICAGO By HAL TATE FRANK H. FORD, president of KENT, Mutual affiliate in Shreveport, La., is a Chicago visitor. Bill Dooley has left the sales staff of radio station WAIT, to join the Chicago office of Weed and Co. Bill succeeds Don Pontius who left Weed to become Chicago manager for the Meeker rep firm. A WBBM salesman for 15 years, Dooley was also sales manager of WTTH, Port Huron, Mich., and KLX, Lexington, Ky. "I Wish I Had A Sweetheart," newly recorded by Al Morgan on a London label, has been a lucky song for its publisher, Pete Durane, who picked it up in 1941 for his last $15. It was recorded by several name bands, and made over $25,000 for Pete. Al Morgan's revival promises to repeat its original success. Studs Terkel, disc jockey, will appear in the local company of "Detective Story" which opens soon at the Blackstone Theater. Visiting Radio Sales here this week is Jules Dundes, director of sales and advertising at KCBS, San Francisco. Sy Stern, formerly associated with Mercury Records, has opened offices at 203 N. Wabash Avenue where he will handle publicity and record promotion. ABC's publicity department beaming as a result of the national breaks received in the October 25 issue of "Look" on "Super Circus," in the November issue of "True Story" with an article on "The Breakfast Club," and in the October 10th issue of "Quick" with a personality profile sketch of Don McNeil. Honeymooning at the Northernaire in Three Lakes, Wisconsin is Anthony J. Koelker, manager of ABC's station relations department in Chicago, who was married to Patricia Peebles of Omaha on Saturday, October 1. A recent addition to the WBBM sales staff is Pat Wendling. Enjoying a late vacation is Trudee Marlin of the WBBM Publicity Department. Louise Massey, formerly a member of the Westerners, made a guest appearance on the ABC-TV Barn Dance program, Monday, October 10. Doc Blanchard emcees the show which features Kay Brewer, Lulu Belle and Scotty, Don White, the Sage Riders, Cousin Tilford, and John Dolce and his Ail-American square dancers. Mainly About Manhattan. . . ! • • • SO THEY TELL ME: Television set retailers now being hit by consumer rumors of drastic price cuts after Christmas. ... A radio producer who's been huffing and puffing about his success lately is trying to forget an $85 check of his that bounced. . . . Roger Kay, in addition to his soon-due Mady Christians show and the Lionel Stander series, is working on a suspense series to star Paul Lukas. The two juve leads on the Mady Christians show, incidentally, are Carlton Forbes and Patricia Gaye, who nosed out B'way names for the roles. Producer Kay discovered the 19-year-old Gaye gal working behind a Macy counter. . . . Lyle Stuart, whose first tome, "God Wears a Bow Tie," just hit the book stalls, is putting the finishing touches to his next one already. New book is fashioned around a well-known syndicated columnist. . . . Radio actresses climb the ladder to success, notes Walter T. Shirley, but TV gals are using the stare-way. . . . Ted Green has readied a new series, "Washington Story," for both radio and video. . . . Herb Stein reports that when Groucho Marx resigned from the Friars he sent them the following note: "I don't want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members." it it it ft • • • Talk about your details on television, Bay Nelson had to get a special permit from the Dep't of Public Assembly of the New York Fire Dep't to burn down a model railroad station six inches square! It all has to do with his new show, "Roar of the Rails," which kicks off Monday p.m. via CBS-TV, and which is gonna 'go in for a lot of destruction, all in miniature, natch. All Ray's got to worry about for the first few weeks is one avalanche, three train wrecks, an exploding railroad station, plus the problems connected with doing the Johnstown flood and burning down the city of Baltimore. And how've you been! it it it it • • • AROUND TOWN: Sam Geison, long regarded by this pillar as one of the brighter and more articulate press agents, will moderate a series of AVC forums starting with a debate tonight on National Health Insurance between Congressman Andrew Biemiller, of Wisconsin, and Dr. Irving Leinwind. of th* AMA. (Personally, we'd much rather hear him do the debating himself than merely referee). . . . Gene Hamilton, director and musical commentator of the Carnegie Hall radio series, has grown a luscious Van Dyke. Not because he favors the new adornment, but as a prop for a forthcoming video audition of "The Chamber Society of Lower Basin St.", which he now controls. . . . The Mariners have recorded a catchy tune for Columbia — "Be The Good Lord Willin' " — dedicated to Arturo Godfrey's famed sign-off line. . . . Plenty of TV film activity going on at the Mannon Sound Stages being operated by Geo. Orth, veteran film producer. They just iinished a film on housing narrated by Fredric March. . . . Opening gun of WWRL's campaign to combat juvenile delinquency is a nonsectarian religious program slanted exclusively for children. it it it -fr • • • The video version lof "One Man's Family," written and produced by Carlton E. Morse, will tee off on NBC-TV starting Nov. 4th at 8-8:30. To handle this assignment, Morse has decided to abandon his other TV series on that station, "Mixed Doubles," which bows out Oct. 29th. The casting on "One Man's Family" will include Marjorie Gateson, Russell Thorson, Nancy Franklin, Pat Robbins, Billy Idelson 'and Arthur Cassell. In contrast to the radio version, now in its 18th year, the video version will have only the original members lof the family, starting where it did 18 years ago. Only change will be that the time will be the present. sun fRflncisco By NOEL CORBETT KCBS is beginning a $25,000 audio equipment construction project. Existing studio and engineering equipment will be completely replaced with the most modern audio equipment available, according to Arthur Hull Hayes, CBS veepee and general manager. Alan Cormack, director of engineering is in charge of the project. KJBS sales manager Stanley Breyer and his wife have decided to name their baby Joan. Youngster made debut at the Children's Hospital October 5. John Elwood, KNBC general manager, chairman of the Hoover Report for Northern California talked at the Rotary Club this week. The current cover of the Argonaut magazine carries a photo taken by Paul Smith, KCBS engineer. It's a shot of the San Francisco Civic Center. The Chronicle's television station, KRON-TV takes to the air November 15. NBC's dedication ceremonies opening the new building on Television Peak in the San Bruno Mountain range were held October 12. The building also houses KNBC's new FM transmitting equipment. The services were attended by George T. Cameron, publisher of the Chronicle; Charles Theriot, assistant business manager of the Chronicle; John W. Elwood; George Greaves, KNBC assistant manager; Curtis Peck, engineer-in-charge and Joseph Baker, station engineer. Carroll Hansen, KCBS sportscaster, whose "Lookin' 'Em Over" is a Friday 10: 15 p.m. feature, is batting 1,000 per cent in his "picks." He compiles his predictions from information gathered from Columbia Broadcasting System sportscasters on the coast. Reference List A list of 733 radio commentators and other programs, has just been published by Radio Reports, Inc. The list covers seven major metropolitan areas, in which the firm monitors programs. 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