Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

NIEL SEARIES, formerly with WISN, Milwaukee, and WDGY, Minneapolis, is now with KFJB, Marshalltown, la., as production manager. GENE QUAW, who used to direct the Hotel Maryland orchestra over KPSN (not deleted) has been heard lately via KGB, San Diego, with dinner hour music and later with dance tunes from El Cortez hotel. The program late at night also goes over the coast chain for Columbia. EVERETT GLASS will direct the Eight O'Clock Players over KLX, Oakland, in Sunday night drama productions. ROBERT NOBLE, known in the west as the "ambassador of the air," and heard from KELW, Burbank, Cal., for many months, has made a schedule with KMTR, Hollywood, calling for a Sunday noonday 15-minute program of poems. FINIS FARR, now a staff member at WLW, Cincinnati, but known for his many crime serials over NBC transcontinentals, has created another thriller in the form of "Without Warning," heard over WLW at 9:30 p.m. each Monday for 13 weeks, starting. Jan. 4. TOM MITCHELL, baritone, will be heard over KEX, Portland, Ore., on its 9 o'clock evening program this month. He had previously been with NBC in San Francisco and at one time was program manager of KTM, Los Angeles. DR. LAURANCE L. CROSS, who directs the NBC-Pacific Coast network's morning program, called "Cross Cuts from the Log o' the Day," was away from the microphone early this month when he and Mrs. Cross celebrated their eleventh wedding anniversary in Yosemite. JOHN D. BARRY, lecturer, started a series of thrice weekly lectures via KFWI, San Francisco, early this month on current world wide topics. He had been a feature of KGO for many years, though more recently at KYA, San Francisco. JOHN P. MEDBURY, known nationally as a professional humorist, has become master of ceremonies for the M-J-G demi-tasse revue over an NBCPacific Coast network on Monday and Friday nights, with Jimmy Grier's orchestra and soloists from the Cocoanut Grove, Los Angeles. HARRY HOLCOMB, assistant production manager for WLW, Cincinnati, and a member of the Crosley Theater Players over the same station, was guest director for the Maysville, Ky., Little Theater recently. BUD ERNEST, former commercial manager of KMPC, Beverly Hills, has been acting as master of ceremonies for the station's daily afternoon frolic program for two-hour periods this month. C. EDWARD GUNDAKER, chief announcer of WGAL, Lancaster, Pa., is the father of a seven-pound son, Edward Deen. "HARMONICA BILL" RUSSELL, who four years ago made his debut over WEBR, Buffalo, and who later appeared over WGR, Buffalo; WTAM, Cleveland; WENR, Chicago, and KMBC, Kansas City, has joined the staff of WLW, Cincinnati. ARTHUR THOMPSON and Ernest Capobianco, artists, have been added to the staff of Harry F. O'Brien, art director of the CBS sales promotion department. WILLIAM H. FINESCHRIBER, Jr., who recently joined the public relations unit of the CBS is the author of "Stendahl, the Romantic Rationalist," which the Princeton University Press is bringing out this month. Fineschriber won a $250 gold prize and publication in book form with the manuscript when he was a senior at Princeton last year. BARON KEYES, known to child audiences in the West as "the storyman," has gone to KFWB, Hollywood, for a thrice-weekly program. Creator of "Pip," "Clickity Clack" and other radio characters for the kids, he had previously done similar programs from KHJ, Los Angeles, to the Don Lee coast chain, from KPO over the Pacific coast NBC stations, and on transcrpitions for Union Oil Co. FRANK SCHIVO and Earnest Hesketh comprise the new piano team of Frank and Earnest at KFRC, San Francisco. Aged 18 and former students of Mission High School in the same city, they were "discovered" by the audition staff a few weeks ago. EDWARD LYTTON, music director of KTM, Los Angeles, who has a poetry period over the air several times each week, has compiled the best poems of the past year or so into a 40-page mimeographed leaflet. The collec'ion includes standard verses, bits of verse sent in by fans and a few of Lytton's. CHARLES BULLOTI, Jr., son of a staff singer at KFRC, San Francisco, has gone to Los Angeles to conduct the "Sunnyside Up" program at KFAC each week-day afternoon in the form of a hodge-podge of melody and mir:h with staff artists assisting . ARTHUR GODFREY, announcer at WRC, Washington, is back on the job after a serious automobile accident several months ago, but he will have an afternoon schedule until he feels better. WILLIAM ROSS, announcer and vocalist, has joined the announcing staff of WJSV, Alexandria, Va. He was formerly at the Hotel New Yorker and the Hotel Roosevelt in New York and with Herb Gordon at Wardman Park, Washington. PHIL COOK, will head a group of "Radio Personalities," which will open an indefinite engagement at Broadway's Hollywood Theater, New York, on Jan. 18. The sketch was written by Cook and Tom Johnstone. Personalities include: H. Warden (Hack) Wilson, NBC impersonator; Lowell Thomas; Landt Trio and White; Bonnie Laddies; Col. Stoopnagle and Bud; Funnyboners; Singin' Sam; Teddy Black's Orchestra, and Eddie Dowling. CHARLES TAZEWELL, member of the CBS continuity staff, wrote the book for "Sugar Hill," the new musical comedy starring the negro comedians, Miller and Lyles. Tazewell began his radio career as continuity writer at WQAM, Miami, two years ago. He was later at WHO, Des Moines, before going to New York. NANCY TURNER, who left the advertising and fashion fields for radio, is now broadcasting style talks in the "Shopping Service" of WBAL, Baltimore, thrice weekly. She recently returned from abroad after visiting various style salons to gather material for her broadcasts. CLARENCE MUSE, colored radio and talkie actor, composer of "When It's Sleepytime Down South," has just written "Alleyway of My Dreams" which was recently given its premiere over KNX, Hollywood. He appears nearly every week-day morning on the breakfast program of KNX. MONROE UPTON, versatile member of the staff of KFRC, San Francisco, will give a series of current book reviews Thursday afternoons this year. He also appears at "Lord Bilgewater," on jamboree programs, as station publicity scribe and in various other capacities. JOHN M. WOODBURN, who wrote continuity for the Eveready NBC program several years ago, has joined the NBC San Francisco staff in a continuity capacity. The last two years he had been free lancing for magazines and publishing houses in New York. ANNOUNCEMENT has been made of the engagement of Miss Kathleen Stewart, concert pianist of NBC, to Everett Martine, of Nyack, N. Y. The wedding will take place in May. Mr. Martine is an executive of the Chase National Bank. TOM RICHLEY, of the staff of WLW, Cincinnati, has composed "Dancing to the Music in Our Hearts." He has been heard lately in xylophone solo work, in addition to his duties with the percussion instruments. GEORGE JESSEL will be starred on three Sunday night Chase and Sanborn programs over NBC following an appearance with Eddie Cantor from Chicago on Jan. 17. Cantor, who is leaving the hour temporarily to do some motion picture work, will be on the program from New York Jan. 24 and 31. Jessel will be starred for three broadcasts thereafter, through Feb. 21 . H. V. KALTENBORN was scheduled to return to the "Newspaper of the Air" program on Jan. 12 following his recovery from an operation. The program, which is sponsored by S. W. Straus & Co., is heard over WABC, New York, and the CBS network at 7:45 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Robert E. MacAlarney has been taking Kaltenborn's place during his illness. EDWARD LYNN, who went from KHJ to KTM, Los Angeles, in continuity capacity several weeks ago, this month began production of a thrice-weekly mystery serial called "At the Stroke of Twelve." Though he has written lyrics for Charles Wakefield Cadman songs and produced radio playlets, this was his first attempt at the serial type of presentation. B. A. ROLFE, NBC orchestra leader, returned to New York on Dec. 30 after a tour with Mrs. Rolfe to Honolulu. He said he had no definite plans for the future until he had conferred with NBC executives. CAPT. JOHN CARNAHAN, globetrotter and British radio personality, has joined the staff of WCAO, Baltimore. In addition to announcing, he is handling public relations for the station. FREDERICK LANDIS, former Congressman and a brother of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, has opened a twice-a-week feature on WBBM, Chicago. In his role as "The Hoosier Editor," Mr. Landis on Mondays and Saturdays at 8:15 p.m. gives a humorous series of homely comments on the affairs and events of the day. FREDERICK START, assistant conductor at KHJ, Los Angeles, and an ardent golf addict, became a member of the Hole-in-One Club late in December at Santa Monica links. IN THE CONTROL ROOM QUINTON ADAMS, formerly wMi the RCA Victor Co., Camden, N. J., has joined the New York staff of NBC. H. M. SMITH, formerly with the Westinghouse Company at East Pittsburgh, has joined Doolittle and Falknor, Inc., Chicago consulting engineers, as a staff engineer. C. F. HARRINGTON, formerly with KFUL, Galveston, Tex., has resigned to enter consulting work at Little Rock, Ark. JIMMY SHUMM has joined the technical staff of KTM, Los Angeles, and will be stationed at the main studio. ERNEST UNDERWOOD, chief engineer of KHJ, Los Angeles, recently addressed several local organizations on technical radio developments. MEL LeMON, technician-announcer at KMTR, Hollywoood, has returned to the air on some of the frolic programs this month but will continue to oper ate many of the remote control loca ! tions. EDWARD GOVE, chief engineer oil WHK, Cleveland, and members of hi:1 staff have put in their spare time lately fabricating all gain contro knobs from wood in such a way as t' display the WHK monogram. This i: done by glueing together pieces o: black walnut and white maple an<then turning them into knob form or a lathe. C. E. McNESS, inspector of the radit division of the Honolulu public utili ties commission, recently completed i' survey of radio interference sources on the island of Oahu. The survej was financed by the Honolulu Radic Association, membership in which costs listeners $5. All funds are applied tc eliminating the interference. BILL MILLER, technician at KELW Burbank, Cal., commencing this month will also announce the DX prograir from 1 to 6 a.m., PST. CBS ANNOUNCES that Dunham Gilbert, field engineer, has been transferred to its construction department; Roy Briean, television engineer of W2XAB, has been transferred to the studio engineering division; Perry W. Esten, engineer, has been transferred from the WABC transmitter at Wayne Township to the television department; E. Eichwald has been added to the transmitting staff at Wayne Township. LAWRENCE E. McDONOUGH, for-j merly with WHP, Harrisburg, Pa., I and with the NBC in New York, has. joined the field engineering staff of CBS. HAROLD A. FORRY, formerly with WBBM, Chicago, is now a studio engineer with CBS in New York. Engineer-Artist THIS IS Coolid g e McNamee Chevalier Parker V a 1 1 e e Wilson, better known as H . Warden (Hack) Wilson, radio's man of a thousand voices. An engineer with NBC, Hack has become r a d i o 's first "ghost announcer," and is able to imitate virtually any voice of the air after hearing it only once. Wilson recently jumped from engineer's control panel to prominence as an entertainer unique in radio. On Christmas he became master of ceremonies for the Royal Vagabonds, sponsored by Standard Brands, Inc., heard thrice weekly over the Blue network. H. W. Wilson Public Affairs Institute UNDER the title of "Columbia Public Affairs Institute," CBS on Jan. 15 inaugurated a regular, nation-wide series of half-hour addresses and discussions by outstanding men and women of national ff and international problems of the J government. Once a week during j 1932, except during the summer, and over a network of 61 stations, [, the Public Affairs Institute will I bring to listeners prompt and authoritative analysis and argument rin every field of politics, domestic and foreign. The series was |( opened with an address by Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, on "The Two Billion Dollar Reconstruction Finance Corporation." The series succeeds the National Radio Forum formerly conducted on CBS by the Washington Evening Star. Page 18 BROADCASTING • January 15, 1932 ,