NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1938)

JULY, 1938 5 Miss Bethany Mather, secretary to Attorney Robert P. Myers of the Legal Department, and George Schuster, a security analyst well-known in downtown financial circles, were married in the chapel of the Friends’ Meeting House in New York, on Friday, June 24. The couple went to the Berkshires on their honeymoon, and have now taken up their residence in New York City. i i i With two weddings to its credit, the Accounting Department more than balanced Cupid’s books for the month of June. Wedding bells rang out twice as two brides of the department were feted by their friends. On June 11, Miss Marjorie Thomson, of Montclair, New Jersey, was married to Harry Lee Barton, Jr., in the rectory of St. Cassian’s Church, Upper Montclair, by the Rev. John T. Brown. Before the wedding. Miss Thomson was tendered a luncheon by her NBC associates. Following the ceremony and a reception at Marlboro Inn, Mr. and Mrs. Barton left for a honeymoon at Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania. Upon their return they will reside at Forrest Hills, N. Y. Mr. Barton is associated with the General Electric Company in New York. Joan Fitzgerald was the other bride of the month and she walked to the altar on June 26. She, too, was given a luncheon before the ceremony, by the girls of her department. She was married to Gerald A. De Mott, who is associated with United Features, Inc. The nuptials took place at the Ascension Church in Elmhurst, N. Y. After a honeymoon at Virginia Beach the newlyweds will make their home at Rego Park, Long Island. Stork News: James V. McConnell, assistant to the vice president in charge of sales, became the father of a nine-pound boy on June 22. It is fhe McConnell’s first child. i i i A baby girl was born to the Harry Mallens on June 14. Mr. Mallen, who is a member of the studio patrol force, is now the father of three children. ill Soundman Agnew Horine can now put to practical use what he learned a few weeks ago at the School for Prospective Fathers at the Maternity Center Association. It’s an eight-pound girl, Frances Jane, and they say she can make more noise than papa can when she wants to. Evening Press Representative John D. McTigue’s most prideful story for visiting reporters on June 8, and for nights afterward, was the birth of his second child, a girl. The elder one is a boy. i i i Mrs. Robert Sharpe presented her husband, who is a supervisor in the Guest Relations Division, with a baby boy on June 9. Miscellaneous: Miss Mary Draxwell, who is in charge of the stenographic staff at WTAM, Cleveland, visited Radio City during her vacation last month and had a busman’s holiday inspecting the Central Stenographic and Audience Mail sections in New York. CRITIC APPOINTED NBC MUSIC CONSULTANT Samuel Chotzinoff, well-known music critic, was appointed music consultant for the National Broadcasting Company on June 14. As music consultant, Mr. Chotzinoff will be available to all departments of the Company for advice and conference on matters of interest in the field of music. Mr. Chotzinoff’s long experience as a musician, music critic and journalist will enable him to render advice on matters concerning serious music and the Company’s press relations concerning musical programs of a classic nature. Mr. Chotzinoff who is now music critic for the New York Post was a noted pianist and accompanist before he turned to journalism. He was also music critic for the New York World for five years before he joined the Post. He was born in Vitebsk, Russia, and came to America with his parents at the age of seven. He attended New York schools and Columbia University; and studied piano with Oscar Skach and Daniel Gregory Mason. Samuel Chotzinoff NBC Music Consultant John D. McGhie, former NBC guide and staff photographer of the NBC Transmitter, married Miss Lillian M. Archer of Norwalk, Connecticut, on June 5. Mr. McGhie is now staff photographer of the Greenwich Times, in his home town, Greenwich, Connecticut. i i i 0. 0. Bottorff, vice president and general manager of Civic Concert Service, sailed on the Georgic, June 25, for a vacation trip abroad. Mrs. Bottorff accompanied him. They plan an extensive trip through England, France, Belgium. Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Greece. i i i Marks Levine, head of the Concert Division of Artists Service, is accompanying Kirsten Flagstad as her manager on a four-month trip to Hawaii and Australia. During the voyage Mr. Levine will plan trips abroad for other NBC artists. 1 1 i Juan de Jara Almonte represented President Lohr at the formal ground-breaking ceremonies for the RCA exhibit building in the New York World’s Fair of 1939. Major Lohr is director of RCA’s exhibit at the Fair. i i i Several members of the Electrical Transcription Service Department recently went on a piscatorial expedition off the coast of Freeport, Long Island, and hooked ten good-sized weaks, two flounders, a blackfish and three eels. The NBC Izaac Waltons were Reginald Thomas. Hubert Chain, Ranald MacDougall and Danny Schmidt. Charles Facer, of Artists Service, and Bill Wirges, conductor of the Rainbow Rhythm Orchestra, also had a hand in the catch. Being zealous workers in radio, they even had a receiving set aboard; and they almost forgot the fish when someone tuned in an Electrical Transcription production with music by Bill Wirges. i i i Charles H. Thurman, manager of Guest Relations, has returned from his vacation in Sawyer, Michigan, where he maintains a summer home. He was accompanied bv Mrs. Thurman. AAA PARKER & BATTERSBY, Radio City camera shop, is donating another Argus Candid Camera to be awarded to the NBC employe submitting the best picture to the next Photo Contest of the NBC Transmitter. Read the rules on page 12.