Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1937)

MOTION PICTURE RADIO DAILY RADIO National Poll Grades Benny As Radio Top {Continued from page 10) Ruth Etting Kirsten Flagstad Harriet Hilliard Loretta Lee Jeanette MacDonald Leah Raye Ethel Shutta Virginia Verrill Comedians Jack Benny Fred Allen Bob Burns Eddie Cantor Ken Murray Milton Berle Fred Astaire Phil Baker Chas. Butterworth Fibber McGee and Molly Comedy Teams Bums and Allen Stoopnagle and Budd Amos 'n' Andy Fibber McGee and Molly Jack Benny-Mary Livingstone Pick and Pat Baker and Bottle Cantor and Parkyakarkus Easy Aces Lum and Abner Fred AllenPortland Hoffa Tim and Irene Tom Howard-Geo. Shelton Musical Programs General Motors Concerts — Guest conductors Ford Sunday Evening Hour — Guest conductors N. Y. Philharmonic — John Barbirolli Chesterfield — Andre Kostelanetz Fred Waring Cities Service — Rosario Bourdon Paul Whiteman Musical Varieties Lady Esther Serenades — Wayne King Lucky Strike Hit Parade — Guest conductors Philadelphia Orchestra — -Leopold Stokowski Kraft Music Hall — Bing Crosby Magic Key of RCA— Frank Black Voice of Firestone — Guest conductors American Album of Familiar Music — Gus Haenchen Horace Heidt's Brigadiers Packard — Johnny Green Vick's Open House — Josef Pasternack Metropolitan Auditions — Wilfred Pel letier Musical Camera — Josef Cherniovsky Radio City Music Hall Royal Variety Hour — Rudy Vallee Cesare Sodero Standard Symphony Hour Meredith Willson Concerts Drama Programs Lux Radio Theatre One Man's Family Helen Hayes— "Bambi" First Nighter March of Time Grand Hotel NBC Radio Guild Cavalcade of America Gangbusters Lights Out Amos 'n' Andy Columbia Workshop Drums Phonetics Win Omaha, Jan. 5. — Foster May, W O W s newscaster, stated on the air that, in the future, he will follow the practice of pronouncing geographical names and proper names of foreigners phonetically. He said his listeners can't recognize who or what is being discussed if the proper pronunciation is used. Famous Jury Trials Good Will Court Hollywood Hotel Lum and Abner Radio City Music Hall 20,000 Years in Sing Sing Vic and Sade Witch's Tale Your Unseen Friend Radio Bands Andre Kostelanetz Guy Lombardo Fred Waring Wayne King Shep Fields Paul Whiteman Benny Goodman Horace Heidt Richard Himber Glen Gray Hal Kemp Jan Garber Ted Weems Armco Lon Blake Eddie Duchin Phil Harris Henry King Little Jack Little Abe Lyman Ozzie Nelson Ray Noble George Olsen Joe Sanders Phil Spitalny Rudy Vallee Mark Warnow Meredith Willson Comedy Programs Jack Benny — Jello Town Hall Tonight— (Fred Allen) — Ipana, Sal Hepatica Burns and Allen — Campbell's Soups Stoopnagle and Budd — Minute Tapioca Phil Baker — Gulf Gas Texaco Town — (Eddie Cantor) — Texaco Amos 'n' Andy — Pepsodent Community Sing— (Milton Berle) — Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Easy Aces — -Anacin Fibber McGee and Molly — Johnson's Wax Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten — Quaker Oats National Barn Dance — Alka-Seltser Saturday Night Party — (Walter O'Keefe)— Sealtest Vic and Sade — Crisco Announcers Don Wilson Harry Von Zell Milton Cross David Ross James Wallington Ted Husing Hugh Conrad Ben Grauer Graham McNamee Jean Paul King Howard Claney Alois Havrilla Harlow Wilcox Truman Bradley Paul Douglas John S. Young Ken Carpenter John B. Kennedy Tiny Ruffner Andre Barouch Ford Bond Norman Brokenshire Don Brown Boake Carter Bill Goodwin Peter Grant Bill Hays Charles Jennings Carleton Kadell Kelvin Keech Everett Mitchell Ken Niles Ken Roberts Gayne Whitman Commentators Boake Carter Edwin C. Hill Lowell Thomas H. V. Kaltenborn Paul Sullivan Gabrielle Heatter John B. Kennedy Walter Winchell John Nesbit Gilbert Seldes John K. Watkins Hugh Conrad Alistair Cooke Milton Cross Jimmy Fidler Wm. Hard Glen Hardy Donald McGibney Bob Trout Deems Taylor (music) Film Programs Lux Radio Theatre Hollywood Hotel Packard — Fred Astaire Kraft Music Hall— Bing Crosby CBS Radio Theatre Hollywood Gossip — Jimmy Fidler F. C. C. Grants Three New Station Permits Washington, Jan. 5. — The Broadcasting Division of the Federal Communications Commission today ordered the granting of construction permits for three new broadcasting stations at the division's first 1937 meeting. The new stations will be located in Superior, Wis., Bridgeton, N. J., and Visalia, Cal. The first two will have 100 watts power and the third 250 watts. The commission also revealed that oral arguments will be heard Feb. 4 on the examiner's report recommending the revocation of the license of Station KVOS, Bellingham, Wash. The station recently was freed by the U. S. Supreme Court of charges of news "piracy" brought by the Associated Press, but the examiner's report held it to have violated the regulations of the commission in other ways. ■ Experiments in synchronizing a booster broadcasting station without the use of wire lines will be undertaken at College Park, Md., under a construction permit for a new experimental station to operate between midnight and 6 A.M. only, granted to University of Maryland investigators. Only one new station was licensed today, KPLT, Paris, Tex., to operate daytime only on 1,500 kilocycles with 100 watts power. Increases in power were granted as follows : WNEL, San Juan, P. R., to {Continued on pane 12) I I Last Night On the Air "Watch the Fun Go By" Fred Waring left a large pair of brogans to be filled when he vacated the Ford program a week ago. Rex Chandler only half filled the Waring shoes when he took over the NBC portion of the Ford series. Al Pearce and His Gang could do no better last night in the CBS session, now known as "Watch the Fun Go By." We're still watching and waiting, after listening. The program was as spotty as the Dalmatian puppy in your neighborhood fire house. Alternately it was good, indifferent and finally bad. The best feature of the program was a gabby monologue by Arlene Harris, the "Human Chatterbox." A moronic character introduced as "Elmer Blurt" offered a routine that was as moronic as its depictor. Jimmie Brierley's singing was good ; Arthur Boran's imitations of Lionel Barrymore, Ed Wynn and Eddie Cantor were alternately poor, good and excellent in the order and delineation named, while the singing of the juvenile De Marco Sisters was average. Which just about spells the sum total of the program: Average. Larry Marsh's orchestral performance was the only consistent feature on the program. "Watch the Fun Go By" is presented each Tuesday at 9 P. M., E.S.T., over the CBS network. Ford Motor Co. sponsors. "Listen to This" By listening to "Listen to This," a Mutual-Don Lee program presented weekly at 8:30 P. M., E.S.T., we discovered how to secure a recorded transcription of former King Edward VIII's farewell to his Empire. How? Simply by contributing 50c together with a box top of a Murine eyewash package and addressing it to the sponsor. The 50c in itself will not do the trick. One must enclose the box top. And so, skipping from the ridiculous to the program, we find that "Listen to This" is one of those trite little offerings that fill the same spot in radio that "B" films do in motion picture theatres. The program offers a band, Lou Diamond's ; a pair of songsters named Johnny and Dotty; a dramatization of "The Lie of the Week" and a guest of the week. Between patter Johnny and Dotty offer harmony songs more or less acceptably. "The Lie of the Week" as offered last night was a nonsensical dramatization of a crippled ball player who scored a home run by using a crutch instead of a bat. A trio introduced as "The Little Women," the guests of the evening, scored with a close harmony offering. Banner On Air Anyway With a strike practically paralyzing the entire production output of the General Motors Corp., the company still is carrying on with its five network shows. Moreover, several recently were re-signed for additional periods.