Variety (Jul 1943)

82 ORCHESTRAS Wednesday, July 14, 1943 irector (On Commercial Programs — Summer Listing) PROGEAM 'Meet Your Navy' Mary. Ann'. Mercer . James Melton Johnny ■ Mercer's 'Musle ". Box' •alary Martin' Moylan Sisters Carry • Moore, Jimmy Durante District Attorney •Mr. Keen' •Mr. and Mrs. .North* •Musical Steelmakers' •Million Dollar Band' 'National Barn. Dance' 'Old Cold' : •Open Door' 'One. Man's Family' •Our Gal Sunday' •Parker Family' •Pause That Kef rennet' 'Passing-' Parade' •Pays to Be Ignorant* •People. Are Funny' . •Pepper Young' 'Playhouse' 'Portia Faces Life' ■N. Y. Philharmonic •Qule Kids' •Radio Readers' 1 1 •Red Ryder' •Reveille Roundup* Tommv "Right to Happiness' •Road of Life' SPONSOB Hall Bros. Quaker. Oats, Texaco Pepsodcnt Continued from pnge 48 « AGENCY Henri, Hurst 4 . McDonald •'/ Shcrmin K. Ellis . Buchanan. . Footo.Cbne 4Bclding DIBECTOK Al Boyd Palmer Clark Jack Wyatt Arnold Maguire Procter 4 Gamble •Benton 4 Bowies : KLrby Hawks Hccker Camel Bristol Myers Koly.'ios Jeryens Wheeling Sled Palmoiive Alka Seltzer.: Lorillard Pedlar St Ryan B-S-H (N. Y.V Lonnen Mitchell Critchfleid Bates Wade Thompson: Allen Ward. Phil" Cohan Jerry Devine . Martha At.well James Andrews J. L. Grimes - Don Cope Ed. Simmons Maurice Hollan Standard Brands' Standard Brands ■ Anacin Bristol Myers Coca-Cola Johnson's iel's Beer':.;: Brown 4' WilliainsonSeeds Procter & •'Gamble. Pedlar Si Ry Bates: . Keny'on & Eckhiirdl B-S-H (N Y.) Pedlar 4: Ryan D'Arcy . .. Necdhain, Louis- 4 • .: Brorby. ■ V- Shermon K. Ellis Philip Morris General Foods U. S. Rubber Alka Seltzer Campbell Lahgendorf : Bromo Quinine Biow Benton Si Bowles Campbell Ewald.. Wade Wheclock Ruthrauff 4 Ryan Seeds .'-''- , ,./■ Young 4-Rubicam Procter Si Gamble Procter 4 Gamble •Romance of Helen Trent' Bisbdol ' 'Rumor Detective' Ollvlo Santoro "Salute to Youth* Roma Wine Grove Pills Thrivo Goodyear ♦Saturday Night Serenade' Pet Milk. •Screen Guild Theatre' •Noah Webster Says' •Second Husband' Kale Smith Speaks Spotlight Bands Lady Esther Mini! Rub Bayer Genera) Foods. Cbca-Qola Compton Compton' B-S-H (N. Y.) McCann rickson Seeds; ■ Clements Kudner .. Gardner .' Pedlar 4 Ryan Young Si Rubicam B-S-H (N. Y.) Young. & Rubicam D'Arcy ... •Something to Talk About' Cndahy Packing Co.Grant 'Stage Door Canteen' Corn Products' Miller 'Stars Over Hollywood' 'Stella Dallas' -*SnoM—Villag e' — 'Storles America Loves' •Silver Theatre' 'Superman' •Take It or Leave If Telephone Hour Thanks to the Yanks' That Brewster Boy' •This Is the Air Force* Theatre of Today" -inree King lime Thin Man' Alec Templetan Lowell Thomas Those We Love'. Today at the Duncans' Take a Card' 'Valiant Lady' •Vie and Sade' 'Voice of Firestone' •Vox Pop' •Walts Time* Paul Whlteman-Dlnah ■ Shore o Fred Waring 'We Love and Learn' •Nero Wolfe* •We, the People' Dari ith Phillips -Procter 4 Gamble- General Mills : International Silver •Kellogg. ' Evcrsrmrp Bell Telephone Camel Quaker Oats . < Wrigley. Armstrong Cork Baiientnie Jcrgens Schcnley Sun Oil Hinds General Mills Procler i4 Gamble Firestone Bromo-Seilzer . Phillips Sorchson B-S-H (NY.) Compton— '— — Reeves Y 4 R Kehyon 4 .'Eckhardt Biow Ayer Esty Ruthrauff & Ryan (Chicago > Thompson ' B.B.D.&O, Axel Grucnberg Carlton E. Morse Stcph.-in Gross- Oliver Barbour . -George- Zacliary ; Cecil Undcfvvood" Roger Bower John Guedel Chick Vincent: Charles Martin : ; Kjrby Hawks Earle MeGill "Ed Simmons Bob Nolan (Basil Loughrane• Paul Franklin Dick Pbsl Dorothy Collonlin Glenhall Taylor •Axel Gruenbeig' Guilbert Gibbons -Les Mitchell uss Johnston Troman Harper Joe Daly G. Bennett Larson Alan Ward Roland Martini Bill Lawrence Walter Bunker . Martha At well Ted Collins Walter Gorman - James Burton '■ Newt Stammer Bob Salter James. Whipple Ira Ashley Paul Pierce Richard Leonard -HaTold^McGee Rikel Kent Hank Booraem George Lowthcr- John Rider * ' Wallace Ma ill Al Rinker Owen yincent Thompson . : ~ Benton 4: Bowie's Weintraub Roche,: Williams 4 Cunnyngham Young 4 Rubicam Foote, Cone 4 Bolding Esty Reeves Compton S\ve6ney 4 James Ruthrauff 4 Rvan ■ B-S-H tN; Y.>: Standard Brands- . Thompson •When, a Girl Marries* - "Woman of \merica' 'Young Widder Brown' "Yoor Hit Parade' Liggett. 4.Myers General Foods Williams Gull /Prudential General Foods Procter 4 Gamble Bayer American Tobacco- Tour All Time Hit Parade* American Tobacco •Your Home Front Owen GlW Keperler' Newell Emmetl Yoiing 4 Rubicam . Thompson Young 4 Rubicam Benton A Bowles Benton 4 Bowles Benton 4 Bowlei B-P-H fN. Y.) Foote, Cone St Belding Foote, Cone 4c Beldtng D'Arcy Kenneth' Webb Harry Herman Hi Brown. Hubert Chain Tony Hart Ted Wick Al Ritiker Rikel Kent • Frahk Tclfor Homer Heck Edwin' Dunhum. Bob Ballin ' Frank Hummert Bruce Kamnion Tony Stanford Fred. Warm Basil Lou Hi rown Dave Levy Theodora Vales Theodora Yates Lillian Steinfeld Martha Atwell Jack Meakin WHITER ■ Rita Ascot' .Talmer Clark Don Johnson Jane Ci usinberry, born Follietf Nancy Ford Allen Lipscolt Ed Davis Garry Moore Jerry Devine Lawrence Klee'. Freelance Bernard Dug. Jack Trost . Ed Ettinger Ted Kay Bob Coriedella Sandra Michael Carlton E.'Morse Ruth Borden Prisciila. Kent Gilbert Seldes. John Ncsbitt John Guedel Elaine'.- Sterne Car- lihgton Freelance . Mona Kent Ben Hyanis . John Lewellyn Freelance Paul Franklin Dick Post Sam Pei-riiv Jack Douglas George Balver ■■ John S. Young Irna Phillips Mary Walkins Reeves Everett Toiniinspn Paul West John Duhkol Troman Harper Freelance Freelance. Freelance . Charles Gussman - Jane Tompkins : tidley Chuck Acree . Frank Wilson Ed Forman ' ■1 Freelance Helen Walpole —WmrrFord-*ir;iirley AI Barker Freelance George Lowther Edith Oliver . Norman Rosten Pauline Hopkins Dave Harmon Freelance Ogden Nash Freelance Hubert Chain Prosper Buranelll Lewis Sherwin Allies Ridgeway . Fred Runyan. . Howard Teiclimann Paul Rhymer"; Bob Mosher Joe Connelly Joe Bigelow Latabce Hopkiiu Various Ted Adams Cecil Carnes Dick Dana Vivian Skinner Paul Adaiha. Julia .Dome ■ Elaine. Sterne.. Car- • rington John Pickard' ' Frank Provo ' Mona Kent Elizabeth Todd Bob Smith Jack Meakin Jacques Finke^ Gordon Auchinclos* Gordon Auchinctose Wash. Leans to Opinion WLB Continued from page 81 ciah, not even "a piano, player, to ords, Mr, Whitcman and the gang, sit around and help the station scabbing our own people. Now] manager talk things over. That's] gentlemen, that is hot a healthy eon' i't dilIon. You may think so, but w don't, like 'if.* : Transcription Cos.' The argument foy the (ranscripiioh need yini.'. Why don't they need him, and \yhy don't (hey need a-flve- piece orchestra and a- 10-piece or- chestra'.' .'. Because .' the • American Federation of . Musicians has deliv- ered their; finest niusicians in the can. We say, There you are. We are going to make the instrument while you 'fellows' sit down and get rich.' And what happens'.'. 'Now they ;comc. along, and say, 'We are going to lose the war if w:e don't get -canned music' As Mr. Pad way - told you definitely and truthfully, it is all Pepsi Cola; it Is all Lucky Strike; . and. brother, these people—the last statement just came, out here last week.. The four chains only took in a gross of $130,- 000,000. More power to them. But, out of this, gross of $130,000,000, the payroll : -for musicians is $13,000,000, I would say a .-very small sum be- cause the musicians as you people well know when you listen to the radios-eight niiniues put of 10 is music; so thai.we are growing all the time. 'These people don't understand that the party is. over; You cannot take , our musicians and sell them and sell them, and sell -them.-Without the musicians receiving some com- pensation. Gentlemen, we won't do it- :'■'•■ :. N''' - Pelrlllo's Offer to Soldiers 'We haven't up until this time denied any governmental agency ; a record or a- transcription free. Only last week I sent a communication to Elmer Davis that there has -been so much holler . about the jukeboxe}:^-and every one of the employers iii- that the soldiers around the camp don't hear'music, in the jukeboxes, and that they can't fight: that we have now 16M. them to pick, up all the bands they please, make all the, records they want for jukeboxes—, but no-nickel.in the jukebox. If we play for free—and we are willing to give the soldiers pur music for free —then Mr. Jukebox Guy isn't going to get a nickel. • But he won't even lake the music for nothing. He wants the nickel.' PetrilloWas questioned by Almon Roth, an industry ineniber of WLB. toward the end ol" the hearing. 'How 'many of those local stations.', asked Roth,, 'have employed jnusir cians in the past during the period of their program devoted to tran- scription?' ~ Petrillo: 't believe we had' some 292' stations who employ musicians out of 900 stations.' Roth: 'the balance of them have never had rhtisiciahs'.'' Petrillo: 'Maybe here and there, how and then.'.'.' Rqth: 'Thtise ,slatinhs-are-not-beinR- deprived of any en\ployment they ever had?:' Petrillo: 'What we are fighting for —if the can wasn't there, the sta- tion would employ musicians.' Roth: "Have you ever heard of the Government's problem of manpower shortage? They can't make bullets while they are listening to Paul Whiteman's records.'- Cites Singling Circus Petrillo: 'That's all right, but he's got to. live. He ain't going to live if he don't stand by his own records- In. Other words, we are not going to play our own. funeral any- more. That's what it amounts to! We lis- ten to it being played while we stay home, you see. We - wi 11 take a con- crete case which would be very simple for everyone to understand. 'We ; have the Ringling Bros, circus. We .asked for $2.50 a week increase.' Roth: 'You don't ciiarge for those fellows playing, do you? I went to the. circus.' Petrillo: They're not so hot. But let's not forget they play , on horse- back. "So Mr. Ringling says to me—I don't know what's the matter with - me. Everybody seems to think I'm lough; I'm not tough—he says, 'We are not going to give you $2.50 a week increase:' I says, There will be no- music June 1," so he says, 'There will be po music,' and there's no music. 'Forty men walking the streets for $2.50 a week ihcrease, and a very low scale—I believe it's $47.50 a week and room and board. You know what room arid board, in the circus is. Tonight you sleep on the train, tomorrow night you sleep under the train. • , 'Now what happened? Who went In and took the Jobs of. those 40 nien? Our beloved brothers, our own members who made the rec- companies, as offered by Socblow: 'There, are two kinds, bx tran'- scriptlon. They would have you believe the transcription we :' re talking about here is the hickel- nickel-nickel variety. We have a library, .transcription and a cominef- cial transcription. The connection with the War ef- fort which these, products have, it'. has been established clearly, .contiii-i uonsly, since this strike by the ort)- cers of our Government/ is with the system- of communications of this country and. with the maintenance of .national morale. It is not a laugh- ing matter to say if a radio, station in a small town in Iowa is un'uble to- obtain a program service, unable to obtain live musicians—and I con- tend there is an actual shortage of musicians—that the station . will go out of business and will be unable to serve the people of its community. : 'Mr. Petrillo said this morning , ' . answer to a question, "Wc didn't ■want . to destroy this business. You ask me if I want to destroy this- business. I hav*> a proposition how." It definitely indicates and confirii'i.f that they are willing to go back to work if certain advantages can be obtained by them, and that by its very structure, is a labor dispiite. 'When the unipn "sent this- letter announcing its . termination of em- ployment to the Industry; no demand was made by the union. I can tell you of my own knowledge that each volvcd called on the union from August 1. and right up to last week, in an attempt, to negotiate and Tin a solution.. \ . . ' . 'I recall very clearly it w*as in Mi-. Peti-illo's office late on Saturday, af- tcrnoon. Mr, Weber, the ex-presi- dent of this union, said that he and everybody else wore overjoyed at the attitude that' we. manifested in our proposal • to . pay more inoiicy. He thought wc.' were getting some- where. Then he asked for certain figures. He wanted to know what kind of business we \vcre doing, what Ave were making, so he could see how. much, this formula would yield lo. them. When he.got those figures, he said, "You fellows are small peanilfs 7-nbt.jti'st peanuts, but small pea- nuts. You only take in $4,000,000 a - year, ..and you make only » quarter of a. million in net profits: I want $35,000,000 a year. My board wants me to take $10,000,000 or $12,000,000. Your entire gross. income wouldn't, be enough for me." ' ■ Petrlllo's Prop os ition _ •He said, !T11 tell you wha'l.. fil make you a proposal. Y6u give nie W'hat I call contract, control. You agree not to deliver your products Jo your customers if I declare some of those customers .'to be unfair at. any time." I asked him how many stations" were unfair at that 'tint*.. "Not many," he said, "one or two.. But it is only fair to inform you that if you sign this contract, there may be 50 or more declared unfair the day after the. contract is signed." 'We were obliged to refuse to. ac- cept that demand. On - practical grounds as well as on legal grounds. We thought of it as a secondary boy-- colt. 'Mr. Pad way: this morning made this statement that the members of the Musicians Union were working free'for the War agencies. The facts arc that the musicians are being, pa i for their work. Whenever a musi- . cian goes into a studio and makes electrical transcriptions for a Gov- ernment agency, he is paid the scale for that service. 'It seems to me that Mr. Padway, in defiance of this board, has really changed: the position of Jiis own ■ client. Mr. Petrillo, as recently as .June 23, has said. "We don't null any John L.,Lewis stuff here; When we call a strike, we call a strike. He calls, a strike every two weeks.: Look what he gets. We will do everything the Government tells us;-- Two weeks ago the union said, that they would d<5 everything" the Gov- ernment tells them to do. Today they .say. "Well; you haven't got aiiy authority; you'haven't got any iuris- dietion." : ,- 'I, think It Is high time we found out - what, the no-strike pledge , means,' M. K. Jerome and Kim Gannon writing tunea for 'Shine On Harvest Moon* at Warner*