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FEBRUARY, 1939 11 RCA-NBC TELEVISION SHOWN IN WASHINGTON (■ Continued from page 1 ) Mullen, manager of the RCA Department of Information, with Frank M. Russell, vice-president in charge of NBC Washington, and Kenneth Id. Berkeley, general manager of WRC and WMAL. The latter managed the general arrangements and the smoothness with which everything ran was widely commented upon. Among the many RCA and NBC officials who attended the demonstrations were Edward F. McGrady, RCA vice-president; 0. B. Hanson, NBC vice-president and chief engineer; Thomas F. Joyce, RCA vice-president and director of advertising; Frank W. Wozencraft, RCA general solicitor; Charles B. Jolliffe, engineer in charge of the RCA Frequency Bureau; Chester Davis, RCA division patent attorney in Washington; C. W. Farrier, NBC co-ordinator of television activities; Clay Morgan, NBC director of public relations; R. M. Morris, NBC Speaker of the House of Representatives, William B. Bankhead (left), and NBC Announcer Gordon Hittenmark pose for the RCA-NBC television camera. development engineer; Robert E. Shelby, assistant to Mr. Morris, and N. E. Kersta, assistant to C. W. Farrier. The television equipment was manned by RCA and NBC engineers, assisted by A. E. Johnson, engineer in charge of NBC Washington, and his staff. Harold See was in charge of the telemobile unit crew composed of NBC Engineers Stanley L. Peck, Edwin C. Wilbur, R. W. Pickard, Ross Plaisted, G. F. Hettich and Alfred Jackson. RCA Engineers E. 0. Johnson, J. E. Heney and E. F. Gerry were in charge of the receivers. NBC Engineers Howard Gronberg and Thomas J. Buzalski assisted both groups. Th omas H. Hutchinson, manager of the Television Program Division, and two members of his staff, Thelma Prescott and Warren Wade, assisted by members of the NBC Program Depart KOA D by MACK “Silver Heels” On the Stage Silver Heels, one of the Light on the West dramas heard weekly over KOA was presented visually for the attendees at the recent Western Mining Congress in Denver. Louise Morgan took the title role and the cast was directed by KOA’s production manager, Roscoe Stockton. Old-time costumes and the sparkling chorus added the finishing touch to the production. KOA’s Duncan McCall of the Men of the West program was master of ceremonies for the entire entertainment. “Chief Prom Trotter” Announcer Jim Campbell has gained for himself the title of “Chief Prom Trotter” since he and his partner walked aw'ay with the first prize at the Cosmopolitan Hotel’s w'eekly “Champagne Interlude,” in which the best dancers on the floor are picked and judged by no less than Miss Delice Hazen and George Wriston, Jr., of the Arthur Murray School. Jim and his lady, whose name we could not discover, were awarded a bottle of champagne. Campbell says he didn’t even taste the champagne, though, because Sterling Young’s orchestra got hold of it first. They Co Skiing Berthoud Pass, about sixty miles west of Denver, is an ideal skiing location and KOA people weekly fasten the bindings and go merrily slaloming on their way. Chief Engineer Peregrine somehow returns week after week with no bones broken. Announcer Jim Campbell, Engineers Joe Rohrer and Stan Neal and Pages Clyde Hoyt and Bill Anderson are other ardent devotees of the ski trails. On the top of the pass are a refreshment in Washington, produced the television shows. J. Vance Babb, manager of the N. Y. Press Division; Leif Eid, Press, and Robert Pritchard, of the RCA Department of Information, were in charge of publicity. Pictures wrere taken by William Haussler and Sydney Desfor, under the supervision of Burke Crotty, all of the N. Y. Press Division of NBC. Carl Cannon and George Olenslager, of the Guest Relations staff in Radio City, also went to Washington to assist the pages there in handling the traffic at the Press Club. ENVER SWITZER ment house, overnight sleeping accommodations and ample parking space. The city maintains a 600-foot ski tow for the journey back up the slope. The scene is laid in the 11,000-foot altitude of the Rockies and its beauty is breath-taking — not only on account of the rarified air. KOA Covers the Stock Show The National Western Stock Show7 held in the Denver Stockyards Stadium from January 28 to February 4 was well covered by KOA, with the stadium being wired for microphones to cover nearly all positions; and, for spots not near an outlet, the mobile unit was used, broadcasts from the truck being picked up by the ultra short-wave antenna atop the building and carried thence over direct wire to the station. Broadcasts were made frequently, during the day and evening performances of the rodeo and other events. The Stock Show is always a five-star feature in this region and the broadcasts were of great public interest. Lehman Leaves KOA Announcer Jim Lehman has left KOA to live in New York City. The fact that Mrs. Lehman is now7 in New York studying at the Juilliard Institute may have had something to do with Jimmy’s leaving, but all we could get from him was a wink. Colored Movies The much-talked-of California honeymoon of Louise Wadsworth Morgan and groom Lucian has reared its head again. This time in the form of colored motion pictures taken by the two along the route. Some of the shots, especially those taken at Grand Canyon and HolR wood’s Radio City are certainlv of professional calibre. The KOA staff has long been home-movie conscious, but these color shots have inspired such fans as Engineers Bill Williams, Joe Rohrer, A1 Isberg and Stan Neal and Accordionist Dick LaSalle to aspire to heights attained by Lou and Lu. Auditor Gets Sick Dale Newbold, Auditor, is confined to Mercy Hospital in Denver and probably will be released by the time this is out in print. After visting him. Announcer Gil Verba reported that, still unable to escape his accounting, Dale is keeping track of how7 many glasses of wrater he drinks.