Radio daily (Apr-June 1937)

:*^ADIO DAILY: Thursday. April 1, 1937 PCCMCTICN Book for Radio Listeners Atlanta — Van Nostrand Radio Engineering Service is releasing a 50page book, "Radio and How It Works", for edification of the listener on matters of music, voice, transmission processes, etc. Booklet is designed for distribution in a tieup with stations. Back cover has space for a station plug. WQXR Listener Response According to the new promotion brochure about to be launched by WQXR, that station proves its coverage by dimes. It boasts 8,975,340 listeners in 2,719,800 radio homes, figures computed on the basis of the number of requests received for programs, which are sold at 10 cents a copy or $1 for a year's subscription. The number of requests for programs per month is 4,000. KANSAS CITY Ending of the bone-dry era in Kansas is expected to bring some beer advertising to stations h\ this area, although the Capper-owned network will refuse such business. Wilfred G. Moore, co-author of the Jimmie Allen series, back to Chicago after conferring with his agent, Don D. Davis. Arthur B. Church, pres. of KMBC, returns today from Hot Springs, Ark. George Halley, director of national sales, back from Chi. Carter Ringlep, regional sales director, back from Cincy and St. Louis. Fran Heyzer and Barbara Winthrope are on the west coast. Les Fox, sales director, in Detroit on business. Walt Lochman, KXBY sports announcer, is back from McAllen, Tex. Ward Keith is playing four of the seven parts in "Homespun David & Sons", sponsored by Davidson Furniture over KCKN on the Kansas side. Kay Dipson, Ruth Royal and Karl Willis also are in the cast. Jack Grogan, WHB announcer, and Margaret Hillias are cast in "Bury the Dead", being presented April 12 at the Center Theater. Frank Barhydt, WHB publicity director, is back from a St. Louis weekend. John Schilling, g.m., Dick Smith, announcer, and John Wahlstedt, tenor, back from an Ozarks fishing trip. More than 47.000 amateur radio station licenses hold licenses from the FCC. • • • Countess Olga Albani makes her last appearance on the Ford show tomorrow night with Rex Chandler's band .... Richard Bonelli, operatic baritone, Alex Templeton, blind violinist, and the Landt Trio will have the job permanently starting with the 10th. . . .Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy will lake over the Rudy Vallee show April 29, while Rudy and the boys are crossing the high seas for the coronation airings .... David Broekman and his orchestra auditioned in Hollywood for the Hit Parade job and contracts may be signed shortly .... Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians ball team will make his radio debut April 17 on the Joe Cook show .... Everett Marshall opens Friday at Jack Dempsey's Vanderbilt in Florida prior to the Versailles debut .... Broadway's much publicized show girl, Joan English, now at the Park Central, has been taking singing lessons on the q.t. and plans to audition shortly .... Major Bowes' poems read by him on his Capitol Family hour during the past 12 years will be published under the title of "Verse I Like" by Garden City. . . .CBSlinger David Ross is building a home in lersey to get away from it all. . . .England has been secretly testing television units which will sell for $99.50. Until recently the range reached was 40 miles, but has now been extended to 400 miles. • • • Tip to Phyllis Kenny, vocalist with Jerry Blaine's Streamlined Rhythm hand You're on your own tonight A talent scout for 20th. Century-Fox will tune in on your NBC-Red program at midnight, considering you for pictures. .. .Radio Editor Ben Gross rushed to his home in Birmingham to his ailing mother . . . .Dramatist Charles Martin is considering using separate studios for band and actors, thereby getting better sound. . . .It has just been made public that Lester Lee wrote tJie "Laughton, Lorre and Karloff" number for the Ritz Brothers "One In A Million" flicker. . . .WMCA's vice-president, Bill Weisman, will act as chairman on a Supreme Court debate slated for tonight. . . .Zeke Manners has been signed to do two records monthly for Master. Deal is for a year. • • • "It's The Law", adapted from Dick Hyman's hilarious anthology of obsolete and ridiculous laws now on statue books throughout the country, will be aired as a comedy show in which a trial will take place in the studios — (people being accused of disobeying these laws) and the audience acting as judges, writing in to say whether the law should be abolished .... Zeppo Marx, handling the idea, has five sponsors doing handsprings! .... Leon Belasco's ticket at the New Yorker will be extended for a week after the 7th .... Wrestling matches will be added to boxing bouts there Tuesday night. • • • Frank Dailey, orchestra leader, owns the Meadowbrook over in Jersey but can't play in his own place because of union difficulty and therefore must pay "name bands" big money! .... Seems that he's a member of the Jersey local and employs 802 men which the localites won't tolerate ... .Joey Nash will get a shot on the Hammerstein Music Hall sometime this month.... Al Donahue's opening date at the Rainbow Room (it appeared here two weeks ago that he's booked there) is June 2.... Clem McCarthy will do Paul Gallico's current story in Cosmopolitan on the air. . . .The score written by Lew Brown and Sammy Fain for the picture the former was to produce at RKO (Paul Yawitz's first story) and which was shelved, will be the one used for Milton Berle's picture, "New Faces" ....Johnny Johnstone of Mutual has been out all week with an infected molar. GLC/T-ING DAVID GUION, composer, on George Griffin's program, April (i (NBC-Blue, 6:35 p.m.). THOMAS L. THOMAS, winner of a Metropolitan Opera contract in the Met auditions, on Lanny Ross' Show Boat, tonight, (NBC-Red, 9 p.m.). Gertrude Lawrence and Dale Carnegie also on the program. Ford Frick, due to illness, postponed to April 8. JEANNE CAGNEY, sister of James Cagney, In Hunter College students' broadcast over WBNX, Saturday, 11:30 a.m. ANN SEYMOUR added to guests on Rudy Vallee show tonight, 'NBC-Red, 8 p.m.). BURGESS MEREDITH and PEGGY ASHCROFT in scenes from "High Tor," Saturday, (WOR, 10:1.5 a.m.). SAM HEARN on All-Star Varieties, Saturday (WOR, 11:30 a.m.). PAUL WHITEMAN ORCHESTRA, on RCA Magic Key Hour, Sunday, pickup from Cleveland (WJZ, 2 p.m.). LOIS WILSON, on the Bide Dudley program, tomorrow, (WOR, 1:15 p.m.) . CONRAD NAGEL. on Hit Parade, Saturday (CBS, 10 p.m.). RUDOLF FRIML, JR., on "Musical Portraits," tonight, (WNEW, 1:15 p.m.) . DORIS NOLAN, on Radie Harris WHN Movie Club, tomorrow, 8 p.m. CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER, on Sealtest Saturday Night Party, April 3 (NBC-Red, 8 p.m.) LILLIAN GISH, ARTHUR CARRON of the Met, RED McKENZIE and His Mound City Blues Blowers, and CARL KRESS, yodeler, on Shell Show, Saturday (NBC-Red, 9:30 p.m.) RUDOLF FRIML, JR., on Bob Walsh's "Musical Portraits," today (WNEW, 1:15 p.m.) JOE PENNER, on Camel Caravan, April 6. (CBS, 9:30 p.m.) AGENCIES DAVID ROSEN and Associates have merged with Zinn & Meyer, Inc. New firm will be identified as Zinn & Meyer, Inc., and will maintain executive offices at 535 Fifth Ave. Richard A. Zinn remains as president, David Rosen has been elected a director and chairman of the board and Jerome S. Meyer will act as secretary. Present offices at 1819 Broadway will also be used. GEORGE VANDEL, formerly of WMCA and WHN, has joined the stafl" of the BBD&O advertising agency. GARDNER ADVERTISING CO. has moved to 9 Rockefeller Plaza in Radio Center.