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4/30/35
COLUMBIA PUTS ON FINE SHOW FOR WHITE HOUSE NEWSMEN
There was high praise for the vaudeville show which Columbia staged in connection with the White House Newspaper Correspondents' Dinner last Saturday night, attended by President Roosevelt, Vice-President Garner and most every high official in Washington. As a result of this, Harry C. Butcher, Columbia's Washington representative, found himself seated at the head table between the President's close friends and advisors,
Secretary of Commerce Roper and Administrator Harry L. Hopkins. Anning S. Prall, Chairman of the Communications Commission was also slated to sit with this distinguished group but was prevent¬ ed from doing so on account of illness.
A large group of stars which Columbia brought to Washington included Col. Stoopnagle and Bud; James Melton, tenor; the Revelers, quartet; Virginia Rea, soprano; Gertrude Niessen, exotic singer; Benay Venuta, new star; Mqy Eastman, soprano; Norman Gordan, barytone; Carson Robison and his Buckaroos; Virginia Verrill; Paul Duke, magician; Minor and Root, dancers; Everett Marshall, Broadway star; Cookie Bowers, comedian; Arthur Boran, mimic; Pat Casey, pianist, and Enoch Light and his orchestra.
A sound picture satirizing the first two years of the New Deal was thrown on the screen as a part of the entertainment. It was put together by Lawrence Stallings and Lowell Thomas.
There was a funny takeoff on President Roosevelt' s "panning" the different members of his Cabinet, but the thing which will probably be talked about the longest was the sound picture of General Johnson talking about the "termites, Huey Coughlin and Father Long". The General was so badly mixed up in what he said that a question was raised as to whether or not he had posed for the picture or it had been taken as he really talked.
Those from the Communications industry who attended the dinner were:'
K. H. Berkeley, National Broadcasting Co. , Washington,
D. C. ; Col. Thad C. Brown, Federal Communications Commissioner; Harry C. Butcher, Columbia Broadcasting System, Washington;
Vincent Callahan, NBC, Washington; Wells Church, Program Director Station WJSV, Washington; J. G. Gude, General Press Representa¬ tive of CBS; Gerald Gross, Federal Communications Commission;
John W. Guider, Radio Counsel; F. P. Guthrie, Washington Manager, R.C.A. Communications, Inc.; Robert D. Heinl, Heinl Radio News Service, Washington; C. G. Jolllffe, Chief Engineer, Federal Communications Commission; Paul Kesten, Vice-President of CBS; Lynne M. Lamm, radio news writer; Philip Loucks, Managing Director of the National Association of Broadcasters; G. W. Johnstone, Chief of Press Relations, WOR;
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