Broadcasting (July - Dec 1938)

Hollywood Hotel Returns Sept. 9 With New Cast WITH William Powell, film actor, signed as master of ceremonies, and other talent lineup virtually completed, Hollywood Hotel will return to CBS on Sept. 9 under continued sponsorship of Campbell Soup Co., to be heard Friday, 5-6 p. m. (PST). Powell will also service as headliner in the dramatic series to be featured on the weekly program. Victor Young is to direct the orchestra and be in charge of music. He conducted for the Al Jolson program last season. Vocalists contracted are Frances Langford and Jean Sablon. John McClain, Hollywood scenarist, has been signed as writer on the series. Ken Niles will announce. Brewster Morgan, who produced the series last season, will continue in that capacity, under supervision of Diana Bourbon, West Coast manager of Ward Wheelock Co., agency servicing the account. Ward Wheelock, head of the agency, was in Hollywood during early August. Miller's Radio Debut WHEN Neville Miller addressed the Wichita Rotary Club Aug. 8, it was his first appearance before the business side of a microphone since assuming the NAB presidency July 1, and resulted in something of a "scoop" for KANS, Herb Hollister's 100-watter in Wichita. KANS broadcast the address, which dealt almost entirely with the Louisville flood of last year, when Mr. Miller, as Mayor, was the generalissimo of the relief and rehabilitation forces — an undei'taking which won him national acclaim. Mr. Miller makes his first formal radio address Aug. 19 when he will deliver the commencement address at the P e a b o d y Teachers College in Nashville, with at least one nationwide network to carry it. NAB District Meetings {Continued from Page 15) paid tribute to the part radio played in it. One resolution was adopted at the Wichita session — to oppose the FCC rule requiring reexamination of operators whose licenses expire while still engaged in active engineering pursuits at broadcasting stations. It was offered by Kay Pyle, KFBI, Abilene, Kan. Present at the New York meeting, in addition to those mentioned, were Edgar H. Twamley, and Clifford M. Taylor, WBEN, Buffalo; William I. Moore, WBNX, New York City; Dale Taylor, WESGWENX, Elmira; Samuel Woodworth, Samuel Cook, Robert Soule, Charles Phillips, WFBL, Syracuse; I. R. Lounsberry, WGR-WKBW, Buffalo; Lee B. Wailes, WGY, Schenectady; William Fay, J. W. Kennedy Jr., WHAM, Rochester; Clarence Wheeler and LeMoine C. Wheeler, WHEC, Rochester; Scott Howe Bowen, WIBX, Utica; Charles Denny, WJTM, Jamestown; Richard E. O'Dea, WNEW, New York; Norbert O'Brien, WTHT, Hartford; H. V. Akerberg, WABC-CBS, New York; Keith Kiggins, NBC, New York; Fred R. Ripley, WSYR. Present at the Wichita meeting Aug. 8, in addition to those mentioned, were Gene O'Fallon, KFEL, Denver, NAB director; Jack Whitney, KADA, Ada, Okla.; Ellis Atteberry and Owen H. Balch, KCKN, Kansas City, Kan.; Marcellus Murdock, E. F. Scraper, Milton M. Mendelsohn and P. S. Clark, KFH, Wichita; Karl Troeglen, WIBW, Topeka; E. E. Ruehlen, KVEB, Great Bend, Kans.; N. E. Vance Jr., and Merle H. Tucker, KSAL, Salina, Kan.; R. K. Lindsley and K. W. Pyle, KFBI, Abilene, Kan.; Phil McKnight and Jack Todd, KANS, Wichita; Hugh Powell, KGGF, Coffeyville; Adelaide L. Carrell, and W. E. Robitsek, WBBS, Ponca City; Milton B. Garber, Enid. At Kansas City Meet In attendance at the Kansas City meeting were: NAB President Miller, Mr. Loucks, Mr. Kirby, Director Gillin, Arthur B. Church, Karl Koerper, Mark Smith and Chick Allison, KMBC, Kansas City; Don Davis, John T. Schilling, M. H. Straight, and Al Stine, WHB, Kansas City; Harry Kaufman, Gardner Reames and V. S. Batton, WDAF, Kansas City; William Ruess and Howard Peterson, WOW, Omaha; W. I. LeBarron, KGNF, North Platte, Neb.; Wiley D. Wenger, KFNF, Shenandoah, la.; Herb Hollister, KANS, Wichita, Kan.; D. J. Poyner, WMBH, Joplin, Mo.; Paul A. Loyet, Harold Fair and Fred A. Reed, WHO, Des Moines; Rev. W. A. Burk, S. J. and A. S. Foster, WEW, St. Louis; Ken Church, KMOX, St. Louis; Chet Thomas, KFRU-KXOK, Columbia-St. Louis; Jesse E. Randall, A. L. McCarthy and W. A. Bates, KWOS, Jefferson City, Mo.; Art Thomas, W JAG, Norfolk, Neb.; R. T. Convey, KWK, St. Louis; J. C. Rapp, KMA, Shenandoah; Don Searle, KOIL-KFABKFOR, Omaha-Lincoln; William B. Quarton, WMT, Cedar Rapids; Craig Lawrence, KSO-KRNT, Des Moines; Gene O'Fallon, KFEL, Denver; Ed Cunniff, KFAB, Lincoln; R. L. Rose, KWOS, Jefferson City; Jack Neil, Larry Sherwood, T. L. Evans and Lester E. Cox, KCMO, Kansas City; C. W. Benson, E. P. Shutz and Paul Buck, WIL, St. Louis; Walter Myers and F. E. Shapen, WAAW, Omaha; Gene Wyatt, KITE, Kansas City. Coffee Series in East S. A. SCHONBRUNN Co., New York (Medaglia d'Oro coffee), has started Stars in the Making, a quarter-hour musical program on WOV, New York, from which it is fed to WPEN, Philadelphia; WELI, New Haven, and WCOP, Boston. The company also sponsors a 15-minute show five nights a week on WBIL, New York. Panorella Agency, New York, is in charge. NATIONAL Dog Week, Sept. 18-24, will be observed by programs on these stations according to Robert Logan, national secretary of the movement : KLZ KTSM KVRS KSTP KFSD KFRO WDWS WCFL WMAQ XERA. SPEAKS FOR ITSELF/ 77 17 PERSON TO PERSON . INTERVIEWS fARH AND TOWN ■ ROOMS IN JUlCH SETS ARE LOCATED $ROUf>s This new 1938 "Kansas Radio Facts" is the answer to your problems of time, program, station, market and economic data for Kansas. Facts, figures and breakdowns, never before available in any survey, cram this new second edition. This living, breathing, cross-section of Kansas is yours for the asking. Write or phone for your free copy. Ben Ludy, Manager Represented by CAPPER PUBLICATIONS, INC. New York — Detroit — Chicago Kansas City, Mo. — San Francisco Represented by WALTER BIDDICK COMPANY Los Angeles — San Francisco Seattle Page 38 • August 15, 1938 BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising