Inside facts of stage and screen (September 27, 1930)

PAGE EIGHT INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN SEPT. 27, 1930 REVIEWS COMMENT RADIOLAND CHATTER NEWS Behind The ‘Mike' With The Microphone Ciub By JACK PARKER Back Home and* Broke—but happy. Must say the gang in San Francisco treated me like a brother. ^ * * * The Microphone Club of America, San Francisco division, is now located in the new Wm. Taylor hotel, suite 835, Mc- Allister and Leavenworth streets, and extend a welcome to all San Francisco radio artists to pay a visit to the club rooms. * * * THE RADIO BALL TO BE HELD IN NOVEMBER, IN SAN FRANCISCO BY THE MICROPHONE CLUB OF AMERICA, SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION, WILL BE UNDER THE DIREC- TION OF WILLIAM FOY, WHO HAS BEEN PLACED UNDER CONTRACT TO PROMOTE RADIO BALLS IN ALL THE LARGER CITIES OF THE WEST FOR THE MIKE CLUB. THE BUSINESS PHONE OE THE “RADIO BALL” IN SAN FRAN- CISCO IS DOUGLAS 2213. ASK FOR MR. FOY. * ♦ ♦ Sandy Meek, formerly of Chicago stations and now Announcer for KPO in San Francisco, has been appointed acting assistant vice president of the San, Francisco division of the Mike Club. * * * Mme. Bertice Bowman, formerly of the Opera and concert stage, has been placed in charge of all ‘mike tests’ for the San Francisco Mike Club. TANKS, DANK Thanks to Ernest Drury, general manager of the Wm. Taylor Hotel, we have located in a central location. We want to take this means of thanking the entire staff at the Wm. Taylor for help in opening the club rooms. * * * E. E. Edwards, has been appointed as acting treasurer for the Mike Club, with offices at S44 Market Street, suite 307. Business matters should be referred to Mr. Edwards. He * * SAN FRANCISCO RADIO ARTISTS WHO WISH TO JOIN WITH THE MIKE CLUB IN THE BAY DISTRICT CAN OB- TAIN FULL INFORMATION BY CALLING MARKET 3400 AND ASKING FOR THE MICROPHONE CLUB. ♦ ♦ H= MORE TANKS Boys and girls back home in Chicago seem to be readers of this page each week, for I have had several letters from radio artists in the Windy City. They tell me they enjoy west coast radio news very much. Thanks for the letters. * * ♦ Ray De Guire, radio speaker for the Great Northern Railroad, is a new booster for the Microphone Club in San Francisco, and the great northwest, glad to have you with us Ray. H= * * LISTEN WATCH FOR THE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL LOS ANGELES MEMBERS OF THE MIKE CLUB IN THIS PAPER NEXT WEEK. IN BED BREAKFAST Daphne Pollard begins work this week on “Breakfast in Bed,” first of a series of six two-reel comedies in which she will be featured by Pathe. HAVE YOU HEARD BILLY VAN On K. G. E. R? WITHERS GOES EAST Grant Withers, featured film player under contract to Warner Brothers, will shortly go east with his wife, Loretta Young. Neither of the newlyweds has ever visited New York. STOP and LISTEN to the WESTERNERS MALE QUARTET KFRC San Francisco BROADCASTS OFNBCGET ALLOTMENTS SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25.— It wil cost approximately $10,000,- 000 to provide talent for the spon- sored and sustainng programs, which will be broadcast over Na- tional Broadcasting Company net- works during the year of 1931, M. H. Aylesworth, President of the NBC, has estimated. This is not the major cost in bringing NBC programs to the na- tional radio audence. The cost of operation, exclusive of fees paid to entertainers, will reach $20,000,000. “We plan to make the year 1931 the most interesting and progres- sive in radio broadcasting,” said Aylesworth. “Owners of radio sets can be assured of front seats at a continuous 365-day-and-night per- formance of the world’s finest en- tertainers, together with high-lights of public events, sports and public affairs, with impressve programs in religious, educational and agricul- tural broadcasting. University at Iowa City, Iowa, has opened a school for teaching and improvement of radio an- nouncers. That’s what 1 call a start in the right direction. I won- der if my readers will not help raise a fund to send certain local radio announcers to this announcing class? ♦ ♦ ♦ A certain station seems to sec how many announcements regard- ing the sale of everything from cows to pigs they can put on the air in the course of the day. * ♦ * To the young man who called me the other day and said he was one of the best radio announcers in the country, and that stations here were not the type he wanted to work on, LET ME SAY THIS: COME TO MY OFFICE AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE FARE BACK TO YOUR HOME—WE CAN’T USE YOU. * * ♦ I can’t answer the mail that comes to my office each week re- garding the slams they say I give out, but I will say, I only write the TRUTH about the persons that I have SLAMMED, and if the truth doesn’t sound so good to their ears —well, tune out. SAN FRANCISCO RADIO NOTES SAN Francisco, Sept. 25 —A11 set in its new Mission St. home, KGGG presents a heretofore unannounced personnel and plans, as revealed by S. H. Hables, lessee and manager. Instead of its previous religious backer the station now is spon- sored by the Mission Merchants’ Association. Staff includes Charlie Glenn and George Ross, announcers; Livia Garland, Florence Arvilla and Frank Moore. KGGG comes on the air at 6 a.m. daily, remaining until noon; then on again at 5 p.m., remaining until 11 p.m. Time is split with KFQU, Holy City, During the evening hours it is the official station for the San Francisco Police Dept. * * H= On Monday night’s Jamboree over KFRC, the Westerners and Bob Olsen had a pip of a vocal offering in “Bundle of Old Love Letters,” including Meredith Willson’s “Rhapsody on Women.” Westerners, male quartet, have been completely reorganized and the present members ar Cliff Lockwood, Bill Degen, Roy Sutterly and Don Libby. * * ’Member Hardy Bibson in his vaude act, Doakes and Doakes? Well, they’re on KFRG and doing some clever dialogue. * * * Ralph Brunton has appointed Ronald Smith station manager of KJBS. Ted Berlin leaves as announcer and director of public relations. * * * Ray Parker, Ronald Johnson and Ben Broderick constitute the Three Voices, vocal organization now broadcastinof over KPO. * * * They call Carl Tobin, KTAB tenor, president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Radio Listeners. And listening to his neat vocalizing over that Pickwick station it’s easy to understand why he has been given that monicker. =|! * * NBC coast network has a new program in the Penick and Ford Co. offering that include comedy characterizations, hill- billy songs and gags. Dick Le Grand and Charlie Marshall are the Vermont lumberjacks who handle the lumber company’s hour. * * * After an absence of considerable duration, KFQU at Holy City, in the Santa Cruz mountains, is back on the air. Chet Boone is managing the station. * * * Since Lewis Lacey came in as manager and the station underwent considerable of a shakeup KYA is reported having increased its business approximately 40 per cent. The Pacific Broadcasting Co. station has a flock of new commercial ac- counts and everything looks rosy. * He * Don E. Gilman has gone to the Eastern offices of NBC where he will remain until November conferring with other execs and laying plans for the 1931 season. He =1= Second volume of “Broadcast English,” dedicated entirely to English place names which the British Broadcasting Corp. is determined to have pronounced correctly by American an- nouncers, is just off the press. More than 600 cities and rivers of Great Britain, including Welsh and Cornish names which have stumped better men than radio announcers, are included in the directory. 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