Variety (Dec 1946)

32 RADIO Wednesday, December 4, 1946 »■♦♦ ♦ ♦ * ♦-■♦-♦■♦-«•■»♦♦♦ » ♦ »■« From the Production Centres IIS ISEW YORK CITY . . . I,{app.Y Felton colebratcd 39tli. bivlhday witli backstage shwidig at Lons- acro theatre iQllowing Salui-day. (301 "Guess Who?'' :bVoadeasl;:'«pori!ior Slicflield Farms pitched in with the eggnogs... .Mort Green, scdijler for "Judy, JiU and Johnny," takes on announcer and emcee chores for the program replacing Bert Parks, out of town tor two weeks Baby ooy tor the Tony Le^dei'S,: born Sunday;;.1 hosp., . .Elaine Rost has become a cast member ot the NBC Saturday sustainer, "Frank Merriwell" Jean Colbert, WJZ's \vriman sports comment at.or,'guest shots on for- mer tennis champ, Sarah ,'Palfrey Coolie program, WHN, Dec. 6,. ..Jack (Fat Man) Smart birlhdaycd last Wednesday Joe Maosfield, NBC di- rector, passing cigars on arrival of son ...Jack Hill to take over direc- tion of NBC's "Serenade to America".;. .Paul Crabtree, of the Theatre Guild, doing the auditions for the Guild air show,- Al Kantorowitz, former head CBS shortwave listening station, en route to Berlin to head Univ. of Berlin history dept Lee Strahorn, producer ol Foote, Cone & Belding's "Hit Parade," tiow located in Hollywood, to supervise Coajit-originating shows Arthur Hanne.s rejoined CBS news staff and leaves end of month to cover Admiral Byrd's Antarctic expedition ..,.Hubbell Robinson. Jr., back from. Coast ...Ernest M, Walker to Coast . for three .weeks in Jan. to set up his comedy show measurement system there . . .Eloise Kummer, Michael Fitzmatirice and Roland Winters join cast of "Lora Lawton" John McGovcrn and Helen Carevve to "Just Plain Bill" players. . , eiaesterfield Supper Club will originate from the Coast beginning next week (10), whilp Jo Stafiord' doe.s a pic... .Third of the "Fociis on the Futiire" discussions sponsored by Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences & Professions, tonight (Wed.), at ACA Galleries, will be led by radio scripter Ira Marion on subject "Radio As a Progressive -Force,"' ' ■■ : Sandy Strouse cast as Flip Corkin on "Terry and The Pirates.". . . .Bill Harding, assistant to Tom Harrington at Bates Agency, moving to the Coast,. . ,Maxine.lieith conducted torum on radio as teacher and student aid at Weekend convention of Nat'i Council of Engli^ Teachers at Atlan- tic City Walt Framer offering ABC his "Hi, Neighbor" show audi- tioned atop Empire State Bldg. tower., .- .Jocko Maxwell's "Sportscope" on WWRL now sponsored by Heirloom. Inc.. distribs for a Kentucky beer. .. .Scripter-narrator Lydia Perora of NBC's "Story to Order" wrap- ping up 40 of heii tales , for publication ,, , .Murray Winant's "It's Fun to Eat" moppet disks plugged when Winant gue.sted last weak on Dorothy Day's show on WINS.. . .Nancy Moore, story ed for new ABC VHoUywood Story" for Kellogg, searching for scripters through Keayon & Ecfchardt agency.., .BarbasoJ's full-hour on WNEW's "Milkman's Matinee," skedded for preem this ayeni (4i, inked by Erwin Wasey & Co....Ann Harding, who played the femme lead on Cavalcadc's"Mother of Freedom" show, eyed for same role in-possible film of the book. .. .Arlene Francis' forth- coming. legiter, to be produced on Broadway by her husband, Martin Gabel, will lay off Wednesday nights so Mi-ss Francis can play in her airer, '"Affaius of Ann Scotland.". ■. . .Radio gabbers to be- shown preview of Bill Nets Holiday ^ Contimied from page 29 ^ wired that it would ask all clients to get UN messages into their Christ- mas and New Year's shows; this agency places many live shows in North California,. Cross will have a number of radio features; ready oh transcriptions. He will have a 15-minute platter re- coi'ding messages from the "Big Five" foreign ministers, as well as 30-second and l-minute spots. In addition, there Will be individual greetings from various' UN delega- tions, and volcings will be furnished from any specific delegates desired by any of the stations or nets. - WQXR, N. Y., will tie at least three special musical Shows on Christmas day. Clailmor's first pic ed'ort. "The Great Betrayal.".., .Frank Elkins, New- York Times winter-sports expert, back on the air next week (J2), foi; WHN at 8 every Thursday iiifihl, with skiing talks, through the winter..., Joseph Wershba, CBS news writer for the past two years, named news editor of WCBS, assuming the duties of late J. E. "Dinty" Doyle who died i in"October.. :'-'-v V. ■■; ;\.:^ ■ . Dave Taylor, CBS programming veepee, taking two-week vacation now 1 that the AFRA tcmpo.'-t has simmered down. Bill Fincshriber will run lilO shop. '/..:/■:/; ■ ■ /■''■-■ •■ 'v-' . .'^ '■IN HOLLYWOOD . . . ' Pi'octer & Gamble reported withdrawing from co-sponsorship of "Qlicon I For a Day" due to shortaue of .soap ingredients. Allca-Seltzer reported ! ready and willing tO tote the full load.. . .Carroll Carroll, who .likes those j hii;h Hoopers as wftll as the next one. was called by^thc checkers the other I ni,a;ht when his set was polder than a ditcK digger's nethers. He co.«it some ' show" a fraction.., ..Bud Ernst, producer of "Queen For a Day," beat the I pneumonia rap, and next day Don Lee's Syd Gay nor took the flu count,.,, . Tom Lewis heading east tor talks with Young & Rubicam brassies..,. , They'd have you know that if it weren't for Columbia's William S. Paley, j Texaco Would have dropped Eddie Bracken and bought Tony Martin, I that's how close Mique Kirk finally came to a .sale. Comedy is wUiat i Paley wants more of on his network..Dave Green, who affects the I garish toggery of the gay chiematic, didn't want to spoil the efl'ect when I he parked in his new offices on the Sunset Strip so the N. Y. p.a. com- 1 missioned Don Loper,, one of the town's fancy interior decorators, to doll up his joint with the proper pastels. .. .Floyd flolm parked here perma- nently by Compton agency to aid Murray Bolen on the firm's shows.... Charles Vanda will be at the controls when the Borge-Goodman sliow returns Dec. 16. His predecessor was Vick Knight, who just didn't like the way things were going and he also had too many other jobs awaiting his personal .touch. Bill Rousseau, who used to boss the Hollywood office for Milton Blow, picked to direct (iraig Rice's "Time For Crime," from the portfolio; of Bernie Schubert, .. .G. Washington instant java dropping "Surprise Party" and tunneling the coin into space. Account also moved from Ruthraufl & Ryan to the Bothwell agency. . . . Ray BulVum tagged to script "Gregory Hood"... .Hugh Daniels cheeked out of C. P. MacGregor's wax works.... George Wells, onetime adapter of the Lux dramatics and now ensconed in Metro's writers annex, suggested to Producer Arthur Hornblow, that the romantic femme in "The Hucksters" be a widow instead of an Army pllieer's wife. So it'll be on the screen... .Thomas Freebairn-Smith named successor to Nat Wolff as contact for the; Buchanan agency on the.Eddie Praeken program. Wolff has the more important.duty of producing the comedy piece in addition to a like function With Abbott and Costello ... Cy Howard's audition record of "My Friend Irma," with Marie Wilson of Ken Murray's "Blackouts" and Cathy Lewis. AFRA stocker, has the CBS .sales staff excited... .CBS and Chet Huntley drew a vote of thanks frorri Marine Engineers Ass'n for their part in helping to settle the Coast ship- ping strike... .Bill Goodwin being auditioned again as a small town big shot... .Jay Sommers and Jesse Goldstein renewed for 30 weeks as script- ers of the Borge-Goodman show.;. .Elmer Davis and Raymond Swing bought by Broadvvray dep't store to; comment (via wax) on the news.... Joe Rines and Ed Cash man take th*ir sunning at Palm Springs between shows... .University of Southern California dedicates its frequency modu- lation station this week. /\ CHICAGO . . . Kate Smith visits Chi next week and airs from WBBM studio.... Reynolds pen signing Gcorgie Price for waxed radio show..Prank Faukner, WBBM manager, in N. Y. for AFRA huddle, . .Howard Ketting to Coast to confer on Gene Autry show ., John S. Wiggins, son, John; Jr., Chicago, Nov. 31. Father head of CBS Midwest Division Sales promotion ...Warren Tingdale. newly appointed account exec, at .Foote, Cone & Beiding, on Armour account, currently dickering for five half-hour shots on the networks for daytime soapers . . .Franci.s \yeigle and Gloria La- Bad ie hitched Nov. 30. He is'WAIT announcer,. ABC news reporters utilizing two-way telephone-equipped station vvagons. Trial phone call to New York came, through clearly.. ..Paul AJillen back at NBC as night supervisor of announcers.',. .Roy McLaughlin, WENR manager, out of Mercy hospital after surgery... .NBC renewed contract for "Kraft Music Hall" for a 26^station Trans-Canadian network, effective Jan, 2, for 52 weeks "Great Gildersleeye" brintfs Hal Peary back to Chi for his show on Jan. 15.. . .WLS hosts its annual Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium Xmas party. Dec. 19.. . .Bruce Mayer, WBBM sound effecter, came through with a realistic touch last week when he broke his leg in a sandlot football game Norman Felton, NBC Central Division program director, vacationing in Hollywood Mr. and Mrs. George L. Morris, son, George, Jr., Chicago, Nov. 23.' Father with NBC Central Division sales promotion staff.. Record number of Christmas cocktail parties scheduled here by radioites row.,. .Tony Martin in for confab on new radio deal. CLEVELAHD*S STATION REACHES AN "L" OF A BIG MARKET WJW's Local programming means Leadership in d Locale where Listenership is a strong Link between the nation's 5th great market and Lasting sales. CIRCLING THE KILOCYCLES Kansas City—Sam Molen, direc- tor of sports for KMBC, has been given the nod by Sporting News as the No.' 1 sports commentator of the year in the middle west. Other awards went to Harry Wismer, of, ABC, in the East, and Sam Bailer, KLAC, Hollywood, MBS, in the West, Molen does two nightly I sportscasts over KMBC and airs the Big Six highlight grid game weekly. Cleveland—WJW has come out I with "The Listener," a glossy 12- I ijage booklet giving station high- i lights and propaganda along with I network pictures and blurb.s. Bob I.Manby, station flack, is editor. Kansas City—WDAF. outlet of the Kansas City Star-Times, has re- ceived a plaque from NBC attesting the station's 20 years of affiiiation with the net. Station was one of SIX which joined the net in Novem- ber, 1926, all being recogn'iz&d by the bronze plaques signed by Nilos Trammel, NBC prexy. live music unit in several years for a month's run, program five eve- nings weekly from 4:50 to 5 Saluting a different local civic organization nightly as a public service feature. Seven-piece outfit was planted there by Maurice Spitalny and is directed by Jack Walton, violinist, and fea- tures Harry Walton on the piano and Al, DiLernia on the accordion. Spitalny has his own weekly half- hour musical for a local brewery, Tap Time, which has been on KDKA every Tuesday evening for the last seven years. Minneapolis'—Illness of Ted Col- lins, forced Kate Smith to cancel a visit here scheduled for this week. Miss Smith, general chairman of the national Sister Kenny Foundation fund, was to have met with Sister Kenny and officers of the Foundation in regard to the fund appeal. Beaumont, Tex.—llalph Maddox has been named manager of KRIC here. He comes here from KFAA- KGKO Dallas, Fort Worth, wherq he was program director. He replaces Jack Neil. Pittsbnreh---Town's only indie station, WWSW, has installed first Dallas—"Your Life at Stake," new program in keeping with the cur- rent traffic safety campaign, will be aired over WFAA each Tuesday. Tro.v—Dick Hollander has resigned from WTRY announcing staff to be- come program manager of WBRK, Pittsfield, Mass. Minneapolis WTCN here is the second station to have its PM tower installed, the other being KSTP. Both are NBC outlets. Casey Allen's Course In Racial Dialects To Erase Radio Stereotype Stigma • Tying in w'ith trade reaction that has increased recently against racial stereotypes that give radio a black eye, radio actor Casey Allen has organized a new outfit, already en- dorsed by several universities, and dramatic schools, to teach genuine racial dialects to talent in need ol such instruction. Under the labal' "Dialocton," pro actors as well as students aspiring either to legit or radio careers, will be taught the use of vai-ious dilects in an authentic manner, so that the dialects will not be. caricatures or offend the races or nationalities be- ing imperSohated. Two albums arc projected, with one—including European tongues— alre,ad.v . waxed. Second album will lake in Amei-ican dialects of both North and South America. For first album, Leon Janney plat- tcred the Russian disk; Raymond Johnson, Swedish; Stefan Schnabel, German; Robert Dryden, French; Athena Lorde, Greek, Joe De Santis, Italian; Luis Van Rooten, Spanish; and Louis Meistat, Yiddish. CARPENTER'S CHI SETUP Chicago, Dec. 3. Latest addition to George Boiling's station rep outfit 1.'= Ken Carpenter (not the announcer;, who will head Boiling's Chicago and midwestern operation. George Boiling branched out on his own several months ago, after many years as the head- of John Blair's New York office. Caj'penter, who had been the sales manager for NBC's Central Division for many years prior to World War II was, during the war years, the Di- rector of Information for the War Finance Division of the U. S. Treas- ury, promoting sales of all war boncLs in the midwest. WHY WAS THE PHONE IN THE MUTUAL CONTROL ROOM Swamped wHh calls immediately after last Sunday's Broadcast of mRRIED FOR LIFE" Memo. Ok! MYRON WALLACE NARRATING "FACT AMD FICTION" FLAMOND IN - "CRIME FILES OF FI.AMOND' Prats RcprexeMotlvei DUTTON-LIPPOLD ABC Network wlf nl lllf 5000 Watfs B E B B i ? !