Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

MOTION PICTURE RADIO DAI LY ► Radio Personals < JOAN arid Gloria Blondell will appear as guests on Feg Murray's "Seein' Stars in Hollywood" on Sunday. . . . Tim and Irene, who will headline the "Royal Crown Revue" on the NBC-Blue, March 11, are filling vaudeville dates in Pittsburgh and Cleveland and are expected to return Feb. 26. + Mark Hawley, narrator on Mutual's "Famous Fortunes," is planning a lecture tour of the east on radio and modern news dissemination. . . . Les White, script writer, left yesterday for a 10-day vacation in Havana. . . . Ralph Edwards, on CBS only a year, is announcing for nine programs. . . . Morton Downey has started his second year of broadcasts for Drene Shampoo. He is making a new series of discs at WOR. . . . Santa Barbara's masculine choir will be heard in a special NBC-Blue program tomorrow night. . . . Joy Hodges, featured in "I'd Rather Be Right," will be the guest on the "Hammerstein Music Hall" program over WABC tonight. + Dave Driscoll and Jerry Danzig have received 3,000 requests, more than the total circulation of The Lookout, Seamen's Institute magazine, as a result of a recent Mutual broadcast. . . . There is an Oliver Wendell Holmes in the WMCA dramatic company. NBC to Start New Play Series NBC on Saturday, Feb. 26, will inaugurate a new series, "Great Plays," from 5 to 6 P.M. over the Red network. The first will be "The Birds," satiric comedy by Aristophanes. The presentations are the work of Belvins Davis and will be directed by Albert Williams. The great plays of the world will be offered each Saturday at the same time. Don Searle Completes Changes Omaha, Feb. 17. — Don Searle, Central States general manager, has placed Don Kelley, KOIL, Omaha, and Jack Hanssen, KFAB and KFOR, Lincoln, in charge of special events in their respective cities. Lyle DeMoss will continue as program director of KFAB and John Schafer will hold the same post at KFOR, to complete a new setup started Jan. 1. Kelly, Benchley Are Guests Tommy Kelly, Bronx boy who has the title role in the film, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," and Robert Benchley, screen writer and comedian, will be guests on Kate Smith's program, Feb. 24 over WABC. Mary Boland Whiteman Guest Mary Boland will make a special trip from Hollywood for a guest appearance on Paul Whiteman's program Friday, Feb. 25, over WABC from 8 :30 to 9 :00 P. M. Longines-Wittnauer Renews Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co. has renewed its announcements of time signals on WOR for another year. The Arthur Rosenberg Co. is the agency in charge. British Television In Color Is Blurred By AUBREY FLANAGAN London, Feb. 17. — Color television was previewed in a theatre today by Baird. The old 120-line definition was used. The pictures were sent from the Crystal Palace, seven miles distant. The subjects were the Union Jack, millinery, mannequins and a portrait of the King. The colors were not vivid. They seemed to interfere with definition and were distracting. Stokes To Succeed Garrett with KEHE Los Angeles, Feb. 17. — Warren Stokes was signed today by KEHE to replace Bob Garrett, film gossiper, who was ousted from the "Pick of the Pictures" program as a result of the cancellation of his Hays office studio credentials. Garrett had succeeded Stokes on the "Pick of the Pictures" program several months ago when Stokes had a disagreement with Bob LeMond, producer of the show. Jack Gross, station manager, signed Stokes. He will start Feb. 27. WLW Has Mclntyre Tribute Cincinnati, Feb. 17. — WLW carried a tribute to the late O. O. Mclntyre on its "Press Review" program, a daily feature conducted by Peter Grant, chief announcer. H. Lee MacEwen, editor of the WLW newsroom, recalled his early newspaper work when he was given his first assignments as a cub reporter by Mclntyre, then city editor of the Cincinnati Post. Grant also read messages from Robert C. Harris, city editor of the Cincinnati TimesStar and Al Segal, Cincinnati Post columnist, both of whom worked with Mclntyre here. "Follies" Music on "Key" Show A tabloid version of the film "The Goldwyn Follies," containing the musical highlights from the production sung by Helen Jepson and Charles Kullmann, will be presented on the Magic Key program over WJZ and the Blue network Sunday at 2 :00 P. M. The program will consist of six selections, three from the pen of the late George Gershwin and three from Verdi's opera, "La Traviata." Boake Carter To Vacation Boake Carter, who will finish his Philco series today, will leave on a vacation to an unannounced destination prior to the starting of his new General Foods assignment on Monday, Feb. 28, over WABC from 6:30 to 6 :45. Carter will broadcast the General Foods program from a special studio which he has built as a wing to his home in a Philadelphia suburb. Raoul Mario in New Series Raoul Mario will begin a new series on WMCA on Feb. 22 called "Ports of Romance." It will be heard on Tuesdays only from 7 :45 to 8 P. M. Schulman House on WMCA The Schulman House, Lakewood, N. J., has been signed for one-half minute spot announcements on Fridays at 8 P. M. over WMCA. New Station Sought For Florence, S. C. Washington, Feb. 17. — Application for authority to construct a new station at Florence, S. C, to operate on 1,200 kilocycles with 100 watts power night, 250 watts day, has been filed with the Federal Communications Commission by the Pee Dee Broadcasting Co. Other applications are from Larry Rhine, San Francisco, to amend a request for an 1,150-kilocycle station to provide for day operation only with 250 watts, and a request from the Sentinel Broadcasting Corp., Salina, N. Y., to amend its application for a construction permit for a 620-kilocycle station to use 1,000 instead of 500 watts power. The commission has approved issuance of a license to KVSO, Ardmore, Okla., to increase day power from 100 to 250 watts. Examiners' hearings will be held March 18 on the applications of Orrin A. Senzel for a 1,500-kilocycle station at Rochester, N. Y., with 100 watts night, 250 watts day; Edward J. Doyle for a 1,500-kilocycle station at Rochester, with 100 watts night, 250 watts day ; WIP, Philadelphia, for increase of day power from 1,000 to 5,000 watts, and WBAA, Lafayette, Ind., for increase of power from 500 watts night, 1,000 watts day, to 1,000 watts night, 5,000 watts day. WNEW Signs Philip Morris The Philip Morris 'Co. has signed with WNEW for six quarter-hours a week for Paul Jones Cigarettes beginning with the Feb. 21 broadcast of John Jaeger's INS news comment. "The Make Believe Ballroom" will include the Hamnden Sales Association starting Feb. 22 for six weeks. The Biow Co. placed the contract. Nu-Life Hair Restorer Co. has contracted for three spot announcements weekly on the station for 26 weeks starting Feb. 22. Santa Fe on Air Feb. 22 WOR-Mutual will offer a one-shot program on Feb. 22 sponsored by the Sante Fe Railroad originating at KHJ, Los Angeles. Walter Huston will act as narrator in a number of short dramatic sketches depicting the history of the railroad. The period will be heard from 6 to 6:30 P. M. Uncle Don's broadcast which is scheduled for that time will be cancelled. Camay to Start New Series Camay soap will start a twice weekly quarter-hour series on the coastto-coast networks of Mutual and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. next Monday. The programs will go on Mondays and Fridays, with WOR as the local outlet and with Joe Nash the singer. WMCA Gets "Elmer and Axel" A new series titled "Elmer and Axel" will begin on WMCA on Feb. 20. It is a script show written by Allen Lampe and will be heard from 1:30 to 1:45 P. M. Frank Graham to Start Series Frank Graham, sporting columnist of The Sun, will begin a new sustainer on WHN Feb. 21 called "Setting the Pace." The series will be heard from 6:45 to 7 P. M. Friday, February 18, 19; Omaha Church Pays For an Hour on WOV Omaha, Feb. 17.— WOW is no airing what is believed to be the fir commercial program sponsored ojj cially by a church group. The program, a 30-minute sho aired Sunday afternoons, consists i recorded choir music and features 12-minute talk by Dr. G. Bromli Oxnam, resident bishop of the Oafi area of the Methodist Epi^j] ' Church. "It's strictly a commercial prop sition," Bishop Oxnam told a Motic Picture Daily representative. "I a using radio to reach the 323,000 mer bers of 1,500 M.E. churches Nebraska and Iowa. For that reasi we are paying for time on the aii The contract for 26 weeks was plac direct. Bock Heads NBC's Western Divisio Hollywood, Feb. 17. — Harold Bock, for three years manager of t NBC Hollywood press departme today was appointed press manager i the NBC western division by Don Gilman, vice-president in charge of t division. Bock will continue to ma his headquarters in Hollywood a will replace Loyd E. Yoder, who i cently became manager of KOP-KG NBC outlets in San Francisco. Bock, who joined NBC in 1933 head of the San Francisco news 1 reau, is not yet 30. He is the n work's youngest division executive Omaha Stations-Union Sign Omaha, Feb. 17. — D. J. Dunlop Chicago, Association of Broadcast' Technicians, business agent, s; agreements have been reached betwi technicians and owners of KMA ; KFNF, both in Shenandoah, la. Di lop and Ray McGrath, Omaha torney, have been handling negot tions for A.B.T. members at varii stations in the Omaha area. The agreements call for starting l of $25 per week for technicians, creasing yearly to a top of $35 a w I for five-year men. Supervisors \ j be guaranteed starting pay of $4/ a week to a top of $60 for a five-y I man. The agreements also include I hour, six-day week ; paid vacati and 'dismissal notices. When fori contracts are signed they will be | fective as of Feb. 1, Dunlop said. Close Deal for Omaha Music Omaha, Feb. 17. — Central Sfc Broadcasting System has selected studio orchestras under a conti which will total $13,000 a year v the Omaha musicians' union. Madge West will head a four-p studio group for KOIL, Omaha, Irma Perry Cartright and Milan L; bert will direct an eight-piece orcl tra for KFAB and KFOR, Lincoli, New Sponsors for "Grandstan New "Grandstand and Bandsts sponsors on WMCA are New Skin Act Four and Man O'War Publisl Co. for Act Nine. The former is three and the latter for four weel< "Hatterfields" Goes to WMC "Mad Hatterfields," script si . will change time and station begin' ! next Monday, when it will be hi 1 over WMCA, from 3 :15 to 3 :30 I •