Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

BEHIND THE MICROPHONE WILLIS O. COOPER, continuity writer for CBS, has been appointed assistant to Walter J. Preston, director of WBBM, Chicago, and program director of the midwest for CBS. Marigold Cassin has been moved up to head the continuity department of WBBM and CBS. WILLIAM ORR, formerly continuity writer at WJR, Detroit, and several Toronto stations, has joined the WLS, Chicago, continuity staff. EVANS PLUMMER, former radio editor of the Chicago Herald & Examiner, has been added to the staff of Radio Guide as columnist. TWO SONS have been born to members of the WLS, Chicago, staff. Paul Harman, tenor of the Melody Men, and William Anderson, operator, are the fathers. STAN LEE BROZA, program director of WCAU, Philadelphia, and founder of the "WCAU Kiddies Hour," has just completed a week's engagement on the Atlantic City Steel Pier with 20 of his leading juvenile entertainers. Stewart Sisters and Parker, WCAU harmony team, are playing New Jersey vaudeville houses and will return to the station in the fall. GEORGE SHACKLEY, music director of WOR, Newark, is recovering from a foot infection suffered while bathing in a lake near his home at West Milford, N. J. AT LEAST 37 acts regularly featured over CBS within the year from August 1931, to August 1932, made vaudeville appearances, aggregating a total of 379 weeks, according to figures compiled by Ralph Winters, head of the CBS Artists Bureau, which booked 25 of them. Among these were the Mills Brothers, Arthur Tracy ("The Street Singer,") Bing Crosby, the Boswell Sisters, Kate Smith, Morton Downey, Vaughn de Leath, Shapiro and Shefter, Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd, Ben Alley, Little Jack Little, Art Jarrett, COMMERCIAL MAN WHO CAN TAKE CHARGE OF NEW TERRITORY Popular 5 kw. station in East opening new territory in city of one million, due to relocation of transmitter. Top notch commercial man wanted who can handle sales and salesmen in this rich field. Straight commission with reasonable draw to reputable man. Address Box 43, c/o Broadcasting. the Funnyboners, Reis and Dunn, Cliff ("Ukulele Ike") Edwards, Alex Gray, Sandra Phillips and Peggy Keenan, Jack Miller, the Four Eton Boys, and the Fletcher Henderson, George Olsen, Harold Stern, Noble Sissle, Paul Tremaine, Leon Belasco, and Don Redman orchestras. WOR, Newark, claims to have discovered an Italian Amos 'n' Andy in William Edmunds and Bruce Carter, now appearing Tuesday and Thursday at 5:45 p.m. as Tony and Angelo, two sons of Italy whose pilgrimage to America to further their musical talents, has met with disappointments and who have turned to the ice, coal and wood business for a livelihood. JOSEPH A. BOLEY and J. Herbert Angell have joined the announcing staff of KQV, Pittsburgh. Roy Verret, formerly engaged in publicity work, has been appointed day program manager of KQV. THE HAL ROACH Happy-Go-Lucky trio, formerly at KFVD, Culver City, Cal., has moved to KFI, Los Angeles, and has been rechristened the "Corn Huskers," with a new instrumentalist added. JACK BALDWIN, pianist at KTM, KFWB and other southern California stations, has moved up to the coast to be with KDB, Santa Barbara. DR. GOTTFRED SEEGARD, CBS Chicago music arranger, and Margaret Stafford, of WLS Three Contraltos, were married Aug. 1. in Wilmette, 111. BORN, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Harman (WLS staff quartet baritone) a daughter, July 29. JOHN O'HARA, who for the last six years has been announcer of White Sox baseball games on various Chicago stations, including WCFL and WJKS, was given a diamond ring by a group of White Sox fans early this month. TOMMIE MALIE, Chicago armless songwriter and radio singer, who achieved considerable success with his songs, "Looking at the World Through Rose-Colored Glasses," "Knee Deep in Daisies" and "Tie Me to Your Apron Strings," died in the Cook County Hospital Aug. 2. NATALIE GIDDINGS, formerly publicity director for WLW and WSAI, Cincinnati, and later editor of Radio Dial, is now doing radio continuity writing and announcing. At present she has two quarter-hour programs on WCKY, Covington, Ky., for Mabley and Carew, Cincinnati department store, and a weekly talk for Radio Guide. MISS HELEN SPEARS, of Evanston, 111., has been added to the Chicago NBC hostess staff. She is a graduate of the Chicago Latin School for Girls and the Evanston National College of Education. JAMES WHIPPLE, of New York, has been added to the Chicago NBC production department staff. IRMA GLEN, Chicago NBC organist, claims to be on more radio programs in a week than any other artist on the air. She does 19 commercial programs and 18 straight organ recitals — a total of 37 programs each week. JACK PLUMELET, announcer at KMED, Medfield, Ore., has joined Radio Features, Inc., San Francisco, in a sales capacity. BILL GOODWIN is the newest announcer at KHJ, Los Angeles. He was formerly heard over KFRC, San Francisco, notably in the Feminine Fancies program. PAUL RICKENBACHER, studio manager of KHJ, Los Angeles, has announced his engagement to Winnie Parker. Miss Parker, known in radio as Mona Lowe, is with NBC studios in San Francisco. BILL HOGAN and his band, formerly at the Los Angeles Biltmore and heard over the NBC-KGO network, have gone over to the Frolics, Culver City night club. FRANK NELSON, announcer and drama man at KFAC, Los Angeles, has joined the announcing staff of KMTR, Hollywood. NAT VINCENT, co-writer of "When the Bloom is on the Sage" and other song hits, was married July 30 to Miss Charlotte Y. Sinclair. He is a staff artist at KGFJ, Los Angeles. KFRC, San Francisco, has added Ellis Levey, former vaudeville booker, to handle theatre dates for the Blue Monday Jamboree. The two hour program is already set for a series of personal appearances in small town theatres of the Golden State circuit, with others to follow. JEAN CAMPBELL CROWE, former program director of KPO, San Francisco, has been given the job of casting for NBC in San Francisco, working with the NBC Artists' Bureau in hiring talent. TOM AND DUD, harmony team, Margaret O'Dea, contralto, and George Nyklicek, organist, have been dropped from the payroll of NBC in San Francisco. All were with KPO when NBC took over that station from Hale Bros, and the Chronicle. MURRAY AND HARRIS, Nora Schiller and possibly Tommy Harris will leave KFRC soon to join NBC in San Francisco. RITA LANE and Marjorie Young, singer and character delineator, respectively, are out of NBC in San Francisco. IN THE CONTROL ROOM CLARK LONIE, formerly assigned to the television staff of WMAQ, Chicago, has been transferred to the transmitter, and Willard Aldrich, remote control operator, has moved over to the television staff. WMAQ and W9XAP, Chicago, will enter the third year of television operation August 25. Western Television Corporation equipment has been used. BORN, to William Anderson, WLS operator, and Mrs. Anderson, a son, July 29. ED LUDES, sound effects man in the NBC San Francisco studios, branched out as a dramatist recently when he wrote "Mystery at Breakfast," broadcast as the Story Teller hour's drama Aug. 9. JOHN G. LEITCH, technical supervisor of WCAU, Philadelphia, has been placed in charge of the engineering department of the WCAU amplifying division. MARTIN L. MATHIOT, chief studio engineer for WORK, York, Pa., and Miss Josephine Englert, of Lancaster, Pa., were married on July 21. HARRY E. LAWRENCE, of the WEAF transmitter staff at Bellmore, L. I., and Miss Margaret Holdredge, of Cleveland, were married at Bellmore July 5. The wedding culminated a romance which began while both were attending the same college. FRED R. THOMAS, Jr., plant manager of KQV, Pittsburgh, is busily engaged in revising and enlarging the speech-input facilities of the station. Additional program amplifiers, a new monitoring amplifier, interlocking studio controls, and other revisions combine to occupy an entire additional equipment rack in the studio control room. WDAG, Amarillo, Tex., boasts the youngest licensed broadcast operator in Aubrey Brown, 14 years old, who has just been employed as assistant operator. He has been actively interested in radio since he was 10 years old. HOWARD C. LUTTGENS, Chicago NBC division engineer, was host to Tetsuro Yoshido of the Tokio, Japan, Department of Communication on July 1, and Yoshikiko Takata, chief engineer for the Broadcasting Corporation of Japan, on July 18 and 19 at the studios. HAROLD JACKSON, NBC engineer, and Edna Cunningham, of the Chicagoettes radio team, were recently married. REDA STRAUSS, of the Strauss Radio Program Producers and Radio Advertising of Des Moines, la., stopped recently at the Chicago NBC studios to discuss radio sound effects with Chief Sound Technician H. G. Ashbaucher. M. O. SMITH, previously with RCA Photophone, has joined the engineering staff of NBC at San Francisco. A. C. WOOLDRIDGE, formerly with Wird Radio, is now an engineer for American Radio News. G. E. WEBSTER has joined the engineering staff of NBC at Chicago. NBC Names Advisors For Radio City Studios AN ADVISORY committee to aid 0. B. Hanson, NBC manager of plant operating and engineering, in designing of the network's studios in the Radio City unit of Rockefeller Center has been announced by M. H. Aylesworth, president of NBC. It comprises Leopold Stokowski, Dr. Walter Damrosch, S. L. Rothafel and Erno Rapee. The committee will recommend practical innovations in the studios to add to their efficiency from the point of view of artists, producers and musicians. "Hams" the World Over TWENTY countries, representing a membership of nearly 50,000 amateurs, now comprise the International Amateur Radio Union. The American Radio Relay League, national amateur organization with a membership of nearly 25,000 itself, announced this week with the admission of Finland to the Union. Besides the United States and Canada, the Union has amateur organizations as members in Spain, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Holland, New Zealand, Norway, Great Britain, Portugal, Belgium, France, South Africa, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia and the Irish Free State. FOR SALE 10 KW. AND 5 KW. BROADCASTING EQUIPMENT Formerly Used By: STATION WHAS— Ten kilowatt RCA Type 1010A transmitter complete with speech input. STATION KSL — Five kilowatt RCA Type 5A transmitter complete. 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