Radio daily (Apr-June 1937)

6 RADIO DAILY Monday. April 5, 1937 PLANS for the new CBS Coast studios have been placed with Los Angeles Building Commission for approval, and William Simpson Co., contractor, started takings bids for sub contracting. Studios to be completed by December. Street floor front will be let to a bank, advertising agencies and other tenants, with studios and offices entered from a patio off the street. Mertens & Price announce sale of 52 Sunday Players disks to KLO, Ogden. Orange network will do an exclusive broadcast from Governor Merriam Tuesday on "The State of the State," originating in Sacramento. Irma Phillips, author of Chicago's Today's Children: Carl Wester, Chicago sales staff, and Emmons Carlson, production department, are vacationing from NBC's Chicago offices. Associated Cinema has started a Special Events department to service sound truck, P. A. systems and radio installation for theater premieres and civic meetings. Also has taken option on adjacent property which, if exercised, will see an addition that will double present floor space. Roi Tan cigars' "Man to Man." local on KNX, starts this week as a CBS Coast net Monday evening program. Gary Breckner and Clary Settell, "the Old Observer," do it. NBC Artist Bureau has farmed Walter Cassell, baritone, for four guest appearances on Chevrolet's RubinofT program when it starts airing from the Coast, over CBS. Tommy Harris and his Moonglow Melodies (Moonglow Nail Polish, Aubrey, Moore & Wallace agency) renewed for 13 weeks. E. C. Uhlhorn, formerly with Frank Wright & Associates, agency, San Francisco, has switched to the selling end, joined sales staff of KEHE and Orange net. Guaranty Union Life Insurance Co. will sponsor a daily 15-minute news period on KMPC, to run four weeks. Stodel Advertising Co. is agency. Pat O'Toole Joining CBS F. Patrick (Pat) O'Toole, contact and promotion man for United Air lines, is resigning to join CBS publicity department on April 12. He will be an idea and personal contact man on the press staff, under Don Higgins. 14 NBC Eclipse Broadcasts NBC will present a series of 14 broadcasts from the National Geographic Society-U. S. Navy total eclipse expedition, April 10 to June 8. Schlepperman Auditioning Sam (Schlepperman.) Hearn is in town auditioning a show called "Schlepperman Enterprises" for Jello. • • • Willie and Eugene Howard are off Manhattan Merry-Go-Round before they even started! Bert Lahr gets the spot permanently Sunday!.... Don't be surprised to learn that the NBC-Ford show which switches to Saturday night will be heard via CBS instead .... Seems they can't get a clear channel across the country .... The deal for Kool-Raleigh ciggies to send Tommy Dorsey-Jack Pearl, et al. to Louisville for the derby is off.... lack Pearl, Cliff Hall and Paul Stewart, however, may be the only ones to go, provided plane accommodations are made. . . .Morton Bowe has an optional contract during the summer series .... Tommy remains at the Commodore until May 1, but has already signed contracts opening Sept. 30 ... . Paul Tremaine (with the greatest instrumentational band of his career) follows lack Denny into the Merry-Go-Round. Jack opens there Friday .... Lennie Hayton opens at the New Yorker Thursday .... Alan Kent will be the announcer on the balance of the Gladys Swarthout series. . . .Zeppo Marx had three advertising execs view Joe Besser in Philly last week as a possible bet for the air — and he clicked big with them ....Sam Carlton is off the Mickey Alperl-Brewster Morgan-CBShow. . . . Ted Lewis' sensational performance on Kate Smith's Band Wagon last Thursday may get him the job during Kate's leave this summer. • • • Young & Rubicam auditioned 45 people the other day — voices jor comviercials . . . Harry von Zell will remain on his shows until the end of July, when the new talent replaces the present lineup, and then vacation in Hollywood for a month. .. .Martha Mears with Vic Arden's band start a series of 26 weeks of transcriptions today for a lubricating concern . . .Parks Johnson is mourning the death of his father-in-law, who passed on in Texas on Friday.... Aside to the Broadioay crowd: Edward J. Fishman is doing great things for Rockwell-O'Keefe on the coast ... .Jack Bertall joins Lou Irwin. • • • "We're all Pixilated" .... Everyone has some mannerism or idiosyncrasy which is so typical of him that many times this pecularily takes the place of his name. . . .We, for instance, will every now and then clinch the nose with the thumb and index finger, whereas Ralph Wonders does this constantly between the placing of a match to an already lit cigar. ... Donald Flamm, while talking to a person, will cock his head over to a side. ... Oscar Shaw will jingle coins as he talks, not intending to be bored or impolite, while Harry Leedy continuously swings his watch chain around his finger, and Bill Burton, having seen distinguished men in the movies clean their pince-nez glasses, does the same. . . .When you're talking to K. K. Hansen on the phone and you hear a thud over the wire, rest assured that K. K. is up to his old tricks of cleaning his desk while talking .... Don't know what loe Glaser's going to do when we'll have television units attached to our phones, because the party on the other end will view the nude women he draws consistently. • • • Tiny Rujfner may easily be recognized by his height, though if you should see him sitting, he's tying his shoe laces and adjusting his garter .... Another garter-picker-upper is Jack Whittemore, who will bow down during an important conversation to attend to this task.... Ted Collins, when he isn't smiling from ear to ear, will be noticed brushing the tip of his turned-up nose across the back of his hand. .. .Harry Squires is in Lester Lee's class as a lobe-puller . . . .David Ross just brushes his hair with his fingers, whereas Mike Nidorf will use a comb when he isn't biting a pencil. Gertrude Niesen will appear in person at the Chicago theater for week beginning April 9. Willard Waterman, NBC actor, has announced his engagement to Mary Anna Theleen of Kenosha. Laurette Fillbrandt, NBC actress, minus her appendix. Charles Lyons, announcer, back from Hollywood. C. L. Menser, NBC Central Division production manager, piloted his own airship to Bloomington, Ind., to address the national convention of Theta Alpha Phi, honorary dramatic fraternity on Friday. Russell Sturgis, engineer in the control room for Vic and Sade for the last two and a half years, is sporting a 21-jewel watch from Art Van Harvey, Bernadine Flynn, Billy Idelson and Announcer Bob Brown. Sturgis has been transferred to new duties in the network's master control room. Ford Pearson, NBC announcer, has gained such a considerable nautical rep around these parts that they are calling him "Captain Bligh." National Barn Dance is aired in Germany on Sundays from 3-4 a.m., a short wave fan writes WLS. Music Restrictions Lifted by Publishers (Coniiniicd from Paijc 1) with all sustaining and remote control broadcasting of any mention of film titles. Pressure on the New York local finally resulted in forcing the issue, or at least notice to that effect going out to networks and all others concerned. By lifting virtually all of the restrictions from film songs, publishers believe that they have forestalled discontinuance of these songs from the air, especially from the hotel and night club dance floors which originate nearly all of the late evening and night sustaining plugs. NBC has already ordered all restricted numbers taken out of the books of orchestras originating sustaining programs in its studios. Move by the music men, it is believed, will result in these tunes being put back to great extent. Officially, the ban on the sustainings mentioning movie sources of songs, is scheduled to go into effect today and it is understood that CBS is thinking the matter over. Thomas Belviso, NBC music head, has just returned from an illness of a few weeks and hasn't had much time to look into the matter. Program department (John Royal), however, has already made a conciliatory move in the direction of Local 802 by doing its share on banning restricted tunes from its own studio sustainings. This situation was met by the music men.