Radio daily (Apr-June 1937)

8 RADIO DAILY Thursday, April 1, 1937< JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY, through Lisle Sheldon, agency, has placed a series of 13 Friday evening 15-minute educational talks on KHJ and ten Don Lee net stations, starting this week. Raymond R. Morgan, head of the Morgan agency, is on a three-week business trip to New York. W. Glen Ebersole of the same firm, is back from a selling trip through the midwest. National Biscuit Twin Stars show's Sunday broadcast from the new KFWB studio theater was so successful and everybody was so pleased with the facilities that show will be broadcast indefinitely from this spot, with the report that perhaps other CBS net shows will use same facilities pending completion of their own new plant. George Tyson, manager of KMPC, spent the weekend with his family in San Diego. Haven MacQuarrie ("Do You Want to be an Actor?") taking a short vacation in San Francisco. Back tomorrow. John A. Driscoll, of Driscoll agency, will m. c. his client's two-hour Sunday afternoon pro — 'm. conducting a prize guessing ^o^^est as a part of an all-request reco ■ ' neriod. Pacific States Loan Co. ponsoring, on KRKD. Oscar and Elmer, (Ed Piatt and Lou Felton) , veteran entertainers on KFWB, have signed a five-year picture contract with Republic. Bob Swan's poetry, song, organ program. Weaver of Dreams, returns to the air next week as a 15-minute nightly sustaining program for KFAC, It's been off for five months. Not sponsored, to start. KEHE has added Robert C. Harnack, of WCAE, Pittsburgh, to its staff, as office assistant. University of Southern California has installed a Universal Microphone Co. recording outfit for use of classes in applied psychology. Cornell University's school of electrical engineering put in a similar machine for experimental laboratory and classroom use. Lewis Allen Weiss, general manager for Don Lee chain, will tell Women's Advertising Club about Radio Showmanship at April 8 meeting. Ben Sweetland, who does National Life & Accident's "Your Friendly Counsellor" on KHJ, will record his Friday's program and fly to Nashville, Tennessee to address his sponsors' national reps at the same hour his canned talk will be on the air here. Disk gags the stunt, going on without announcing that it is a transcription until the end, when he tells audience the lowdown. Paramount on Parade, for Sunday April 4, will do scenes from "Make Way for Tomorrow," with Leo McCarey, director, and members of the cast. L. A. BENSON, president of WIL, St. Louis, together with C. W. Benson, vice-president and general manager, and E. P. Shutz, commercial manager, were among the rooters at all the recent playoff games of the St. Louis Flyers hockey team. Lee Chadwick of the staff of WTAR Norfolk, will handle script and production of the special Booker T. Washington commemoratory program scheduled from Hampton Institute on Saturday riight in the school's regular NBC-Red network spot pumped by WTAR. J. L. Grether, also of WTAR. will hayidle technical end. Ketcham announces the Hampton broadcasts weekly. "Lights On," KDKA (Pittsburgh) program, switched from Thursday to Wednesday 7:45 p.m. starting this week. Carl Eddy's orchestra pick-up, from the Show Boat, also comes Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., while Sammy Fuller's Starlets will be on at 11 a.m. Saturdays. Tool Hanes, managing editor of the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and commentator in the BC Sports Review over WTAR. and Charlie Reilly, Ledger-Dispatch sports editor who also subs at the mike on occasion. 'rTi to make sport converts of all *heir listeners. Bill Durney. interview arranger, and Neil Norman, sportscaster, at WIL. St. Louis, put on some interesting orograms under the title of "Today's Winners." Allister Wylie and his Winners Orchestra and a variety of entertainment also take part in the shows. WTNJ. Trenton, on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. will air a debate between Princeton University and the Emory & Henry College debating teams on the question of minimum wages and inaximum hours. Ruth Brink and Alba Ritter are recent additions to the vocal staff of WIL, St. Louis. Miss Ritter, from the stage, is appearing with Jerre Cammack, staff organist. Miss Brink is in "H'wood Whispers" Nationwide George Fisher's "Hollywood Whispers" will go nationwide over Mutual chain, starting 6:15 p.m. PST, April 17, originating in Don Lee's KHJ studios. Because of conflict in time, program will go every other week only until after April 24 and end of Chicago Symphony concerts. Whispers will be sustaining at first. Started four years ago on KFWB, been on KHJ for past three months. On Hollywood Hotel Program Miriam Hopkins and Louis Haywood will do scenes from "A Woman Is Born" on Hollywood Hotel. "Console Capers," sponsored by Downtown Norge Appliance Co. John Carl Morgan returns to the early ryiorning shift at the WTAR (Norfolk) viicrophone, allowing Jeff Baker to sleep late these mornings and appeal to station's night audience. Garry Morfit, former WBAL artist and writer, has returned to Baltimore from New York where he spent several weeks in radio and has re.ioined WBAL's staff. He is taking part in commercials, serving as a member of the WBAL Dramatic Players. Bergen county Police Chief Peter Siccardi will be the first guest on the new series "The Police Call," which WNEW inaugurates today, 8:30-8:45 p.m. George K. Arthur, brought as his guest star on WQXR, last night, 6:457, Lois Wilson, star of the new comedy, "Farewell Summer", playing at the Fulton Theater, in addition to his weekly first nighter's impression of Broadway Fare. Glenn Penrose, for some time a member of the WBAL staff, Baltimore, has left that station. LUM and ABNER'S prize contest|| to find a name for their railroad \ luncheon car wil continue through April 25. The pair incidentally are | so enthused over California that they ; have moved their households to the I west coast. j Thor Erickson, the "Yonny Yonson" in Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten, has ' written a song, "It's Time to Love Again." The Rivalaires, four piece musical unit, now spotted with Whistler and ' His Dog show over WMAQ each Tues ' day at 9:45 p.m. CST. | It took two page boys, an engineer i and several interested spectators to free Bill Amsdell, 250-lb. WBBM actor, when he got himself jammed up in a studio phone booth the other day. Paul Dowty and Henry Whitaker arise now at 4 a.m. to get to the stockyards at 6 a.m. for Art Kahn's warehouse program. Phone operators at CBS are getting jittery from radio listeners wanting to know if Edwin C. Hill, Truman Bradley and Gabriel Heatter are one and the same! JOHN EBERSON STUDIO ARCHITECT □ ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT 1560 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY