NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1935)

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2 RECEPTION STAFF REVIEW Editorial RECEPTION STAFF REVIEW Published monthly by the members of the Reception Division of the National Broadcasting Company, in The RCA Building, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Radio City Vol . 1 August 1935 No. 6 F, C. Lepore -Editor Associate Editors F. M. Kirkland A. R. Moll -Mtus -Explostation Fred Wesche A. B. Fort -Make-up -Feature s Staff Correspondents Don Gardiner Walter Clark Contributors Alwin Foster F.Tilden Brown Montague Miller Ken Cronin • SUCCESS REWARDS THE LEARNED On the Pages' and Guides’ Bulletin Boards a significant suggestion 'sas published. Mr. Carey, affirming Mr. Tart's suggestion, made the following statement. Quote: "Confirming my conversation with you, may I suggest that you post a notice to Pages and Guides to the affect that their opportunities for promotions in our company would be greatly improved if they were to study and master shorthand writing. ’ Mother Nature has ways and means of forwarding all living things before the storm so that preparations may be made to weather the outburst when it comes. The parallelism in this case is obvious. We’ve a chance to hit hard and now is the chance. The interviews will come. Slowly but surely. When we find ourselves seated before some department head, stating our qualifications for the job, we’ve got to have something to sell. For every person who can take shorthand, twenty cannot. What modern business demands is men who are I of service. The work must be done and done well. : Therefore, the natural thing to do is to underscore the significant passages, 'learn shorthand^! • RESURRECTION It is timely news to hear of the formation of a male glee club which will be a permanent part of Reception's extracurricular activities. This has been one of our greatest needs to date a chorus wherein those on the Staff who have had good vocal training (as many of them have) nay have an opportunity to increase their abilities in this branch of musical expression. The comments received of the work of the chorus during the last "Brass Buttons Revue" was an excellent indication of its popularity. Let us hope that this will be a forerunner of another bigger and better and more attractive "Brass Buttons Revue" sometime in the near future. • ^^OLD NAMELESS^^ Dame Rumor stalked into the RECEPTION STAFF REVIEW'S office the other day and left a dropcopy report which hinted of conspiracy. The report read as follows: "Massa John R. Carey is a-plantin' flowers and a-figurin’. More figurin’ than plantin' flowers. He done figured that if Massa Kobak does not find a name for "Old Nameless", de Sales Dept’s., new mouthpiece, all guides and pages are going to be turned loose on the project. It says so in the cards. So Massa Kobak yo' all better get a-goin' or else !" All joking aside, though, if you can get a copy of the current issue of "OLD NAMELESS", you'll find a lot of meat in it about Sales. This is a tip-off to those who have an eye cocked toward this department. It’s a swell sheet and very intimate. PERSONALS Miss Ruth Kaufer "middleaisled"it out of the Guest Tours Department on July 20 with Mr Hinderling, culminating a seven year romance during which time they saw each other but once. Ary Mol 1 , A1 Peterson and Jack Richard of Guides changed their blue togs for the drab brown of the U S Army while rifles replaced swagger sticks at Camp Smith where the famous 7th Regiment spent its annual two-week sojourn. Al Peterson distinguished himself by winning the "Co. L" Lieutenant's Trophy for making the highest rookie score in rifle marksmanship with 225 out of a possible 250 shots. Ary came through with a rifle marksmanship rating. "Commander" Jim Borst rested far from the Mezzanine and spent part of his vacation painting his Gloucester, Mass, cottage. Sal Malta betook himself to Greenwood Lake for a week to "forget it all" by swimming, boating and fishing. Ray Ryan and James Fitzpatrick the "2-in-l" inseparables are spending their long-awaited two weeks trying to get away from Ocean Grove's (N J) blue laws. Imagine justice’s embarassment when it tries to tell these two they can't dance on Sunday. RECEPTION GOING HOLLYWOOD Four of the members of the Reception Staff can now be classed as bona-fide motion picture actors. When the Paramount Pictures Corporation decided to make "Sweet Surrender", a picture woven around broadcasting, they sent a call for some real NBC pages. Ted Thompson, Ray Sullivan, Bert Petterson and Ernest Clark were the fortunate choices. Mr Kemp of the NBC Artist Service knew the pages would be used in some advisory capacities besides appearing as extras, so he managed to obtain from Monty , Brice, the Hollywood director, a stipend double the usual extra’s salary for the boys. Besides creating atmosphere by walking about the set built in the style of NBC's 8G studio, the boys were always answering questions regarding broadcasting routine. Our dashing Ernie Clark in addition had some close-ups taken after the make-up man had clipped off a very persistent curl which spoiled his beautiful coiffure. The boys are now back again hard at work after the three day interlude which may have perhaps caused them to dream of that glamorous mythical city, HollyJilSfiSLi ^j^OTHING WaL EVH^ BBArrE^ffTED IF ALL POSSIBLE OBJEGnOI^ MUST BE FIRST OVKCOME Dr. Johnson • • . chdikr GO AHEAD AND SUE ME BUT There are a couple of budding romances in our midst again or is it yet. Anyway, have you noticed a certain young announcer’s interest in one of our cashiers at the Main Hall ticket booth? And it has also been noted that a certain well-known Count spends considerable time among the fairer sex of NBC. Question— Who will be the lucky Countess? And there's the Night Page Officer who has already popped the eternal question but has not received a definite answer yet Unless you want to call “five years" definite. Kid Cupid is also at work on a few others, but you'll have to wait until the next edition to read about Cupid's progress.. ....After all, this column is for chatter and not advice to the lovelorn. "Speed" Cockburn has been reading. Anthony Adverse for the past six weeks and hasn't finished yet-but then who has finished it in such a short time "Brown-eyes Brennan", the only one who ever requested to be posted in the Main Hall, is busy working on a new idea which will "wow" the radio audiencepg^g Finnerty and Jerry Daly had a date with some girls recently, but. all they spent was the evening. One of the girls. was a relative of Paul Rittenhouse Here's a hot one That tall blonde page on the Night Staff went to Southampton recently to attend his loved one's nineteenth birthday party. Imagine his surprise when, qu-ite by accjdent, he discovered that she was only fifteen years old The officers on the Day Page staff were instructed to pick out two tall good-looking pages and send them to the Paramount Studios in Astoria to take part in the filming of "Sweet Surrender". Ernie Clark and Bertil Peterson, those two great big Page Officers, agreed that they were quite good-looking if compared to Frankenstein's monster and really quite tall if they stood next to a Singer's midget P.S. They took the jobs without considering anyone else Mr. Tart is always anxious to take up collections for employees when they get married Methinks there's method in his madness Paul Ritten house walked into 8 H and saw what he thought was a lady's scarf lying on the floor beside him. He picked it up when much to his surprise he discovered that it was not her scarf but rather the train to her evening gown "Horsey" Heerdt tried to get a few days off to visit a sick relative at Saratoga Honest, Heerdt, I didn't think you had four-legg.ed thoroughbreds in your family Gome-bye, now! • APPRECIATION Mr and Mrs Bill Coll i ns of the Main Hall Collins wish to take this opportunity of thanking each member of the Reception Staff for the thoughtful gifts received commemorating their marriage. This kind expression was appreciated more than words can say. GPoier PEooo (m dailV (?ooTiAje of TART