Radio daily (Apr-June 1937)

Friday, May 21, 1937 RADIO DAILY 5 OCCUCSTKASMUSIC WITH THE ^ By ADEIE ALLEBHAND =^ TT^REDDYE GIBSON, the latter-day "Gibson girl", will be introduced by brother Bob, the CBS page boy who's gone sustaining, when she appears on Saturday's "Hit Parade" The Kay Thompson outiit are ganging up on the great god Hymen these days Kay herself married two months ago. . . .Helen Jackson and Art Millett entered double harness 6 weeks ago .... John Smedbury wos hitched sometime during the past few months .... Daisy Eaton plans to join the great marrying majority in a couple of weeks with a likely young Wall Streeter .... Helen Hover, the scribbling lass who knows more about the private lives of radio stars than they suspect themselves, contributes an illuminafing morsel 'titled, "How the Women Won this Battle of Wits" to the mag section of the Eve. Journal, May 29 ... . with sidelights on gal gagsters like Mabel Albertson and Beatrice Freedman .... T T T Madeline Ensign of WOL, Mutual's Washington affiliate, appears to he the only femme on a network station doubling in executive brass. .. .she's publicity chief and head of program department in that outfit ... ."News Through a Woman's Eyes", the Kathryn Cravens program, will continue to be heard over CBS through the dog days. . . .Pontiac has just renewed that contract. . . .Diane Dillaire of the KLZ players is being speeded on her way by the rest of the cast on account of she's been signed for 12 weeks of stock at Ramona Park, Grand Rapids, Mich....Vido Musso, tenor sax of the Benny Goodman band, is dejected 'cause he can't see his new 8-lb. daughter until he goes coastward June 28 ... . Band commitments prevent .... V T ▼ Marguerite Otto, hostess at KYA, has resigned in favor of government employment at the San Francisco presidio. . . . Mrs. Pennyfeather Princewhistle has been announcing the disappearance of two teeth, one by virtue of Christian Science, t'other by force of forceps E. R. Hampton, the "Wise Man", is a duck roaster of the first water .... According to Arthur Boran and his informant, the Piccadilly barkeep. the ether elite take lemonade . . . When Helen (contests) King's typing stand collapsed two days back, all the Escort Service employees who'd been enjoying anonymity on her rtoor stampeded to the rescue. . . .It was so overwhelming La King says she plans to stay rescued .... HARRY ROSENTHAL and his society ork are scheduled to open at the Versailles on May 27. They succeed the Meadowbrook Boys, a feature of that spot for a year and a half. Enoch Light and his band of Melody Magicians, a current attraction over WOR from the McAlpin Grill, open today on the stage of Loew's State Theater in N. Y. Eliseo Grenet, whose Yumuri ork is heard over WMCA, is the composer of more than 400 Cuban melodies. Batonist Harold Nagel together with his Continental Orchestra will be aired on 2 sustainers a week over the NBC network. The Sunday broadcast is 9-9:30 a.m. over the Red network; the Friday one is 9-9:30 p.m. over the Blue. Deal was set by CRA. Joe Haymes and his band play the Woodland Country Club, Auburndale, Mass., June 9. On the 18th they play a date at Baltimore. Ferde Grofe and his musical contingent will make a transcription for NBC June 1. Ed Kirkeby of CRA made the arrangements. Five CRA orks have recording dates arranged with Master records. They are Rita Rio, Frank Dailey, Harry Reser, Stan Myers, Blue Barron. Charlie Barnet is in process of creating a new series of platters for Victor. The Oxford Ensemble under the direction of Milton Wittgenstein, offers an unusual program of esoteric music by Couperin, Halvorsen, Caix de Hervellois, Orlando de Lassus and Leclair, for viola da gamba, flute and piano. Instruments are from the Bilstin collection. The Ensemble is heard every Sunday over station WQXR. Effective today, KDKA will carry ^ ClU C "We believe that before many radio years have passed, script shows will be featured on a double scale. Listeners have found that a cleverly written script can provide equally as much entertainment as the more pretentious variety and musical shows. We have been on the air in a script show for six years, and have noticed a gradual turn toward our kind of entertainment. Now we have a listening audience which extends into the millions. Other script shows have reported similar increases, so the future is a bright one." — LUM AND ABNER. "Commentators were not particularly successful when radio began its upward climb for a very simple reason— there was little or no events of world-wide interest. It was in the midst of our depression period that commentators began taking on importance. Important events hap a daily program from The Willows at Oakmont, near Pittsburgh. The Art Show Orchestra will be heard at 12 midnight Mondays through Fridays and 12:30 a.m. Saturdays. Two new musical aggregations will be heard over WHN, originating in Cincinnati, effective tomorrow. Ross Pierce and his hand will be ethered from 9:15-9:30 p.m. and Bert Block and his hand from 10:15-10:30 p.m. George Eisold, staff pianist at WHBL, Sheboygan, Wis., veteran theater pianist and organist, contributes 15 minutes of old favorites daily, via that station. Lee Elliott with his Romantic Rhythm will be heard in Atlantic City on May 22, 23 and 24. He begins a two-week engagement at Palisades Park, N. J., on the 31st. Bookings were made through Bert Salter and Harry Moss. Irving Berlin plans to release "Gone With the Wind", by Allie Wrubel and Herb Magidson, on June 1. Guy Lombardo will introduce the number this Sunday on his 5:30 p.m. commercial. Rubinoff will play his own composition, "Dance Russe", in "You Can't Have Everything", 20th Century-Fox production. A special spot was provided for the number and if arrangements can be completed he may go into a second picture immediately after his present assignment. Louis Panico and ork play the Avalon, La Crosse, Wis., June 2, and the Surf Ballroom, Clear Lake, Iowa, June 15. Wayne King and his orchestra will be heard from the grounds of the Great Lakes Exposition May 29. Bobby Grayson's ork has taken over at the Gunter Roof, San Antonio, for the summer. T C X ^ 1^ ^ pened with surprising regularity, and there became a demand for radio spielers. Now the world is caught in civil wars, coronations, and recovery to provide commentators like myself with excellent material." — JOHN NESBITT. "There has been a lot of talk about all the popular songs following the same pattern, the same amount of bars and the same old love angles. May I suggest that tunesmiths follow the policy employed by the old masters. Let them put some of great poems to music. The idea worked out nicely in the cases of such greats as Johnson, Keats, Kipling and Shakespeare. Today we have our Guests, St. Vincent Millays and the recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize, White. Their masterpieces would make great material for songs that would really be different." — ERNIE WATSON. NEW PATENTS Radio and Television Compiled by John B. Brady. Attorney Washington, D. C. 2,080,4U — Thermionic Oscillator. Keith B. Eller, Metuchen, N. J., assignor to The Western Union Telegraph Co. 2,080,423 — Monitoring System. James M. Kane, Los Banos, P. I. 2,080,429— Aneroid Condenser. James A. McNally, United States Navy. 2.080.448 — Direction Finder. Arthur L. Thurston, Wantagh, N. J., assignor to Airplane & Marine Direction Finder Corp. 2.080.449— Cathode Ray Tube. Manfred von Ardenne, Berlin, Germany, assignor by mesne assignments, to RCA. 2,080,459 — Modulating System. Robert S. Caruthers, Wenatchee, Wash. 2,080,511 — Device for Locating the Position of a Movable Body. Hlalmar E. 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