Broadcasting (July - Dec 1938)

H. A. STEBBINS, Los Angeles manager of Erwin, Wasey & Co., has been appointed executive vice-president of the agency in charge of Pacific Coast operations. He succeeds the late Louis Honig, of San Francisco. Mr. Stebbins, a member of the firm for 20 years, will continue to make Los Angeles his headquarters. PAT O'MALLEY, formerly account executive of KFWB, Hollywood, has joined Allied Adv. Agencies, Los Angeles. MEL ROACH, production manager of Allied Adv. Agencies, Los Angeles, is in New York and Chicago. He returns Aug. 22. FARAON JAY MOSS Inc., Los Angeles agency, has moved to new offices at 1112 Hilldale Ave., Hollywood. Firm, formerly known as Faraon Jay Moss & Associates, was recently reorganized and Ross Marshall elected president and general manager. Madeline Moss heads the radio department. J. H. Critser is in charge of production. C. CHURCH MOORE, formerly general manager of Faraon Jay Moss & Associates, Los Angeles, and D. L. Frick, formerly production manager, have established their own agency under the firm name of Moore & Frick, with headquarters at 815 S. Hill St., that city. LICHTIG & ENGLANDER, Hollywood film talent agency, has added a radio department and placed Sam Kerner in charge as manager. He was formerly on the production staff of Hixson-O'Donnell Adv., Los Angeles. Mr. Kerner is now in St. Louis conferring with executives of Gardner Adv. Co. on a proposed fall network program based on the "Jeeves" stories by P. G. Wodehouse. SMALL Co., Hollywood talent agency, has moved to its own building at 8272 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. Robert Braun heads the radio department. MIKE NIDORF, vice-president of Rockwell-O'Keefe, talent agency, hs.s taken charge of the West Coast offices headquartered in Hollywood. He will supervise radio along with other departments. N. H. PUMPIAN, radio director of Henri, Hurst & McDonald, Chicago, married Miss Bee Weston of Spencer, Ind., Aug. 4. SIDNEY GARFINKEL Adv. Agency, San Francisco, on Aug. 1 moved to larger quarters in the new Central Tower. Ancil Johnson, formerly with the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, has been added to the staff as production manager. KENNETH WEBB, New York radio executive of BBDO, is in Hollywood on a three-week trip. GUESTS of Bing Crosby, John U. Reber (left), executive vice-president in charge of radio, J. Walter Thompson Co., New York, and Thomas H. Mclnnerney president of National Dairies, that city, planed into Hollywood July 29 as guests of the crooner for opening of Del Mar Turf Club of which Bing is owner. National Dairies formerly sponsored the Sealtest Sunday Night Party on NBC. Firm is also the parent organization of Kraft-Phoenix Cheese Corp. which sponsors Kraft Music Hall with Bing on NBC-Red. While in that city Mr. Reber conferred with Danny Danker, manager of the agency's radio production department. Belding Named V-P DON BELDING, for 15 years associated with Lord & Thomas Inc., Los Angeles, has been appointed a vice-president, and also manager of the agency's office in that city. The appointment was announced by Don Francisco, newly-elected president, who on Oct. 1 takes over his new duties with headquarters in New Mr. Belding York. Also appointed a vice-president was John Wheldon, for many years manager of the agency's San Francisco offices, who continues in that capacity. Belding, formerly a newspaper publisher, was first employed by the agency in 1923 and has been active in practically every phase of the business. During the last 10 years he has been particularly active in the Union Oil Co. and California Fruit Growers Exchange accounts. HEVENOR ADV. AGENCY is the new name of DeRouville Adv. Agency, Albany, N. Y., recently bequeathed to Horace L. Hevenor by the late George S. DeRouville. Officers include Horace L. Hevenor, president and treasurer, Veronica N. Hevenor, vice-president, and Anne M. White, secretary. WM. GANSON ROSE, Cleveland, has moved to the Terminal Tower Bldg. BENSON & DALL, Chicago, has moved from 360 N. Michigan to 327 S. Lasalle St. ; telephone Wabash 8435. WILLIAM A. INGOLDSBY Co., Los Angeles, is now located in larger offices at 257 Werdin Place. EDWARD L. SEDGWICK Co., Peoria, 111., has moved its Chicago office to 333 N. Michigan Ave., tel. Franklin 0951, under management of Douglas M. Smith. R. C. CAPLES, president of Caples Co., New York, was in Los Angeles in early August with E. F. Bader. West Coast manager of the agency. He also conferred with W. M. Jeffers, president of Union Pacific Railroad Co., in Sun Valley, Idaho. The railroad sponsors the weekly quarterhour Strange as It Seems disc on 15 stations. PATRICK SHANNON, former production director of KVOO, Tulsa, and later with Don Watts Adv. Agency, that city, has joined Caples Co., Chicago, as account executive. JAMES FONDA, Lord & Thomas, Hollywood producer, married Margaret Brayton, radio actress, July 29 in Santa Ana, Cal. ROBERT CORENTHAL has resigned as assistant to Mr. B. M. Reiss, Reiss Advertising Inc., New York, effective Aug. 15, to become advertising manager of the Terminal Radio Corporation, 80 Cortlandt St., New York. TOM REVERE, New York vicepresident of Benton & Bowles in charge of radio, is in Hollywood to line up fall network shows for the agency's clients. He will confer with William Baker, West Coast manager, who was to return to Hollywood Aug. 15 after a fortnight in New York. MRS. FLORENCE BRUCE, former partner of Bruce & Paine Adv. Agency, New York, has joined the Wright Personnel Service Agency to specialize in radio, advertising, publicity and editorial placements. EASTERN STATES Adv. Agency has been formed at 71 W. 45th St., New York, with Edward B. Gotthelf, formerly head of his own agency, as president, and Jack Rauch, who was president of Vox Co. of Advertising, as secretary and treasurer. WILLIAM L. O'BRION, for two years time and space buyer of Kimball, Hubbard & Powel, New York, on Aug. 1 assumed a similar position with Bowman & Columbia, New York. ROBERT C. WILSON Jr., formerly radio director of Maxon Inc., New York, has joined Wilson, Powell & Hayward, New York talent and production agency, as manager of the radio department. Robert Allison Jr. succeeds him at Maxon. KENNETH B. CARNEY, for several years program manager of NBC, San Francisco, sailed Aug. 4 for Honolulu where he has been named radio director for Bowman-Holt-McFarlane-Richardson Ltd. MAJ. EDWARD C. FLEMING, formerly with several railroads and at one time in the U. S. diplomatic corps, has been elected vice-president of Grace & Bement Inc., Detroit agency, and will serve as . consultant on organization procedure and on public and industrial relations. EDWARD DUKOFF Associates, New York, has been appointed to handle all trade paper publicity for the Yankee and Colonial networks. Jay Goldsen, formerly with M. B. Zwerick. political publicity firm, has joined Dukoff as copy chief. B-S-H Staff Changes PERSONNEL changes of Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Chicago, include the following: John C. Jensen has resigned from the radio department to join New York Export Agency; Marvin Harms, formerly of Young & Rubicam, has been named account executive of Procter & Gamble (Dreft) replacing Gene Bannvart who has not announced his plans; George McGivern has been promoted as assistant to Tom Milligan on the Procter & Gamble account; Jack Loucks has been named chief space buyer with George Stanton as his assistant. Tribute to history, No. 1 . . .We thought we'd show you here a picture of our first studios, 'way back in 1925, but we couldn't find one. Maybe it's just as well. Tribute to history, No. 2. ..This is a composite photograph of all our other studios since that time. All pictures were taken at night without lighting effects. Maybe that's just as well, too. Tribute to history, No. 3 . . . Our new studios in the Palace Hotel are pretty swell, but they weren't finished in time to get pictures in this advertisement, so we posed pretty Patty Norman, late of Eddy Duchin's band, and now with KSFO's Jack Meakin, as his wife, on our new master control console. It's a very slick master control console ... or have you noticed? See next month's KSFOcus for what goes with it. KSFO "THE AUDIENCE STATION" SAN FRANCISCO KSFO Russ Building, San Francisco 560 KC . . . 5000W day . . . 1000W night PHILIP G. LASKY, General Manager National Representative: FREE & PETERS, Incorporated COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYfTEM Page 54 • August 15, 1938 BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising