Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1936)

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MOTION PICTURE RADIO DAILY RADIO Morton New Division Head At NBC Succeeding Hedges 4 National Biscuit to Coast; New Show Set Hollywood, Dec. 9. — National Biscuit Company will switch its program from the east to Hollywood on January 1 when it will inaugurate an entirely new show. The company today approved contracts with RKO for the use of Victor Moore and Helen Broderick to star as a comedy team on the new program. It is understood that Phil Ohman's orchestra will be with the new show at the opening and that Buddy Rogers will succeed him shortly thereafter. Broadcasting will extend from 6:30 to 7:00 P.M., over the NBC-Blue network every Friday. FCC Renews Licenses Washington, Dec. 9.— The Broadcast Division of the Federal Communications Commission has granted renewal of licenses for the regular period of these stations : KAST, Astoria, Ore; KBPS, Portland, Ore. ; KELD, El Dorado, Ark. ; KERN, Bakersfield, Cal.; KNOW, Austin, Tex. ; KONO, San Antonio, Tex.; KOTN, Pine Bluff, Ark.; KSLN, Midland, Tex.; KSLM, Salem, Ore.; KWBG, Hutchinson, Kans.; KXO, El Centro, Cal.; WACO, Waco, Tex.; WAGM, Presque Isle, Maine ; WATL, Atlanta, Ga.; WBNY, Buffalo, N. Y.; WCNW, Brooklyn, N. Y.; WDNC, Durham, N. C. ; WELL, Battle Creek, Mich.; WEOA, Evansville, Ind. ; WGAL, Lancaster, Pa.; WGL, Fort Wayne, Ind. ; WHBB, Edgewood, Selma, Ala.; WHBQ, Memphis, Tenn. ; WHDF, Calumet, Mich.; WHDL, Olean, N. Y. ; WHEF, Kosciusko, Miss. ; WHFC, Cicero, 111. ; WKBZ, Muskegon, Mich.; WOPI, Bristol, Tenn. Evans Recouping from Stroke Houston, Dec. 9. — "Smilin' " Al Evans, organist for Loew's State Theatre and master of ceremonies for a daily KPRC feature, suffered a stroke of paralysis while on a program at the theatre, and is slowly recuperating. Evans was in charge of the morning "Tune Finders" broadcast, and also presented a 15-minute organ program daily. WFTC Goes on Air Soon Kinston, N. C, Dec. 9. — Station WFTC, a new enterprise, will begin broadcasting by Christmas, according to Jonas Weiland, who will be in charge. It will be a 1,200-kilocycle station and test programs will be started during the next days. Seattle Station to Move Seattle, Dec. 9. — KOL will have new quarters in 1937. The local CBS outlet is at present occupying studios in the basement of the Northern Life Tower. The station has purchased the former Town Hall Theatre. Asks Falls City Permit Falls City, Neb. Dec. 9.— O. C. Johnson has a petition pending before the Federal Communications Commission seeking permission to build this town's first radio station. Faith Broadcasting Formed Wichita Falls, Tex., Dec. 9. — Faith Broadcasting Co., capitalized at $75,000 has been incorporated by Tarlton Morrow, O. T. Kimbrough and H. S. Ford. Alfred H. Morton, manager of NBC's program department since 1934, has been appointed head of the NBC managed and operated stations division to succeed William S. Hedges, who resigned the post several days ago to become vice-president of the Crosley Corp. Morton's appointment becomes effective on Jan. 1. Morton came to NBC from RCA. As manager of the Washington office of RCA in 1921, he supervised the building of WRC, now NBC's key station in the Capital, and the first station built and operated by RCA. Subsequently, Morton was sent to Europe as foreign head of the RCA enterprises. His successor as head of the program department has not been set. Gen'l Foods Head to Talk Clarence Francis, president of General Foods, Inc., one of radio's big four time buyers — the other three are Procter and Gamble — Standard Brands & Sterling Products — will broadcast a Christmas message to the nation, in general, and to General Foods employees, in particular, on his company's "Showboat" broadcast Dec. 17, from 9 to 10 P.M., E.S.T. over the NBC-Red. While General Foods will not confirm, it is expected that Francis will announce a bonus grant to company employees during the broadcast. General Foods sponsors seven important radio programs, including the "Log Cabin Dude Ranch," Maxwell House "Showboat," the Jello program starring Jack Benny, Helen Hayes in "Bambi" for Sanka Coffee, Stoopnagle & Budd for Minute Tapioca, Phil Lord's "We the People" for Calumet Baking Powder, and the "Adventures of Capt. Diamond" for Diamond Crystal Salt. All programs are carried over NBC. Winchell Re-Signed With the renewal of Walter Winchell's contract, the John H. Woodbury Co. will have three network programs going at one time, and all on the NBC chain. The other two include the Frank Parker-Shep Fields program, and the new dramatic series starring Nick Dawson and Elsie Hitz which begins Monday, Jan. 4. Lennen & Mitchell is the agency for the account. Winchell, incidentally, transfers his broadcasting activities to Hollywood on Dec. 20. Extending "Town Meetings" NBC is planning an important extension of the "Town Meeting of the Air" program, the series which last year was nominated as being the best educational program on the air by the Women's National Radio Committee. In the near future listeners from various parts of the country will be able to participate in the open forum discussions, _ according to arrangements now nearing completion. Groups for regular listening to the "Town Meetings" have been organized in various key cities, including Rochester, Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles and as soon as broadcasting equipment has been installed the local groups will be linked to the New York Allen Goes Pro Having presented amateurs on his program for the past two years, Fred Allen last night turned a portion of his show over to unemployed professional artists. The result was that an always enjoyable program was made even more enjoyable than usual. Those given an opportunity to perform again included The Sweet and Low Trio, Tommy Hyde and His Honey Boys, Jim Kelso, Marion Berman and Harold Brinkman. Tommy Hyde and His Honey Boys won the first prize of $100; the girl trio took second prize of $50. All acts were far superior to the usual run of amateur offerings. Tommy Hyde and His Honey Boys without question were entitled to the first award. However, this reviewer thought that Jim Kelso's offering should not have placed worse than second. Kelso's version of "Gunga Din" as it might be recited by an inebriate suffering with a cold was tops in entertainment. At any rate, some years ago Kelso's act was considered good enough to rate a featured spot in a Ziegfeld Follies. The prize winners are oldtime minstrel men who started in the show business way back in Lou Dockstader's days. Not so long ago they were appearing in vaudeville with a fair-to-middling juggler named Fred Allen. Allen's "Town Hall Tonight" is heard on the NBCRed network each Wednesday at 9 P.M., E.S.T. BristolMyers sponsor. BANNER point of broadcasts via remote control. Refused Court Enjoiner Municipal Court Justice Sweedler of Brooklyn, who has been seeking to restrain the sponsors of the "Good-Will Court" from broadcasting the program, yesterday was refused the enjoiner by Supreme Court Justice Conway, who ruled that no restriction would be granted until the case came to> trial. To Interview Deanna Deanna Dufbin will be Radie Harris' screen guest on Friday's "Radio Movie Club" broadcast over WHN at 8 P.M., E.S.T. The broadcast will mark Deanna's first screen interview and the first time she has ever been heard on any broadcast other than Eddie Cantor's. Cancel Cantor Special Plans for Eddie Cantor to make a personal appearance on WFAB on Dec. 19 and deliver a greeting in Yiddish in the dramatization of his life in the weekly series of "Great Jewish Thursday, December 10, 1936 Artists" were canceled yesterday when Cantor, shocked by the sudden death of Dave Freedman, decided to return immediately to the coast. If arrangements can be made before his departure, a transcription will be cut in Cantor's hotel suite and played on the program. Book Seeley and Fields Blossom Seeley and her husband, Benny Fields, will guest-star on the Amos 'n' Andy minstrel program on Friday. Miss Seeley and Fields were signed hastily when negotiations to secure Eddie Cantor for the program collapsed due to the death of Dave Freedman. Manners, Clark, Et Al Short Shots: Lucille Manners has withdrawn from the cast of "Frederika," the Shubert operetta now in rehearsal . . . Sylvia Clark, NBC singer and comic monologist, starts her first starring series on Dec. 15 over the NBC-Red . . . Stars who will be heard on WHN this Sunday at 9 P.M., E.S.T. from the Actor's Synagogue benefit at the Alvin Theatre include Jay C. Flippen, Jerry Cooper, Milton Berle, Phil Baker, Block and Sully, Phil Regan, Harry Richman, and many others . . . WHN, incidentally, begins its day's broadcasts a quarter-hour earlier than the scheduled time, effective immediately. Hereafter the station will open at 6:45 A.M. each morning . . . Ken Murray embarks on a seven-week vaudeville tour after the demise of his current program . . . Despite the switch in agencies, Lyn Murray and his vocal chorus have been signed for an additional 13-week period on the Sealtest "Saturday Night Party" program . . . Walter Cassel this week was screen tested by Warners . . . Laurence Stallings will be heard on the Dec. 18 broadcast of the CBS "Magazine of the Air" program . . . Bill Conselman, newspaper cartoonist, will be interviewed by Cecil B. De Mille on the Lux Radio Theatre Monday night . . . The dance bands of Freddie Martin and Red Norvo have been renewed for Mutual dance broadcasts . . . Fannie Hurst will speak in behalf of the Cooperative Big Sisters League over WOR tomorrow at 5 :45 P.M., E.S.T. . . . Gene Byron, of Mutual's "Mollie of the Movies" program, has been screen tested by Paramount . . . Lea Ray and Anthony Martin, who formerly appeared on the networks together, have been re-united again, this time in pictures. Both have been assigned principal roles in Jane Wither's new picture, "Holy Terror." . . . Morton Downey will act the role of comedian and Ed Wynn will sing on the latter's Spud cigarette program next Thursday. And in Hollywood Short Shots — George H. Field, New York representative for Transco, Hollywood recording firm, reported severely injured in a motor accident in Pennsylvania. . . . Harry O'Neill, manager of United Drug Products, home after several days visiting here. . . . Ed Rice of J. Walter Thompson agency in New York to work on Shell programs. . . . Bill Royale, Margaret MacDonald, Charles Frederick Lindsley and Thomas FreebairnSmith doing another 26 transcriptions at Associated Cinema. . . . Salvatore Santaella's orchestra is also doing "Lucky Tigers" series of transcriptions for same sponsor who backs a live program of the same title weekly from KHJ.