Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

Thursday, February 11. 1937 RADIO DAILY 7 0iicaqt CHANGES in radio casts here puts June Meredith back in title role of NBC's Mary Marlin show. In replacing Joan Blaine, Meredith resumes part she originated in production. June also steps into "Wives Vs. Secretary" show and in the "Behind the Camera Lines" broadcast. Marjorie Hannon replaces Connie Osgood in "We Are Four," while Alice Hill takes over for Eleanor Harriet in same show. Both Osgood and Harriet leave for the coast. Harriet to join Amos and Andy, and Osgood to free lance. Bret Morrison assumes the new male lead in "Behind the Camera Lines." The event of Chicago's Jubilee Charter celebration will be marked with a special broadcast over the NBC blue network on March 4 from 10 to 10:30 p.m., with an outstanding array of radio talent to help commemorate. Kings Jesters ork have some sort of record here in having been featured concurrently now in three downtown hostelries— Bismarck. Morrison and present La Salle. Unit has set a band precedent in playing one hotel room subsequent to the other without playing out of town engagements in interim. Group currently spotted on NBC wire from La Salle. When Andre Kostelanetz mounts the podium oi the CBS Playhouse and raises his baton 16 musicians tuck $155,525 worth of instruments under their respective chins. The violins, cellos, et al. played on this broadcast represent the finest instruments ever made. KADI*' PERSONALITIES • • • Who's Who in the Industry • • • JUAN deJARA ALMONTE, frequently referred to as the Grover Whalen of radio — at least of NBC's segment of Rockefeller Center. Officially, the night executive of NBC's establishment. Personification of tact and a one-man welcoming committee. Once staged an entire "broadcast" so that a studio audience would not be disappointed; visitors never knew etherizing had been cancelled and so never reached the transmitter. Genial, energetic. A diplomat by birth and an internationalist by choice. Born in Paris of Spanish parents, he grew up on the continent. Visited America, became a newspaperman, subsequently joined the Marconi Company, becoming South American representative. Next with the NBC sales department (in 1927). Later made night general manager. Been keeping everybody happy ever since. One man who insists he never met a temperamental artist. A compliment he unwittingly paid himself. Finds time at night to supervise and broadcast good-will programs to South American countries. He never met a tempera mental artist T . H. BOWMAN. Western Division *^ Engineer for Columbia, with E. K. Cohan of Columbia's New Yoik office, left for San Francisco, working on problems connected with the new Columbia Los Angeles studio, under construction. Roth Agency Signs Up Six French Stations The newly-formed Roth Agency of New York, headed by Bud Roth, former newspaper man and advertising exec, closed a deal with six of the largest broadcasting outlets in France. Roth, reached in his N. Y. office, said that he sent his agent, Lou Burston, to Paris last fall and all necessary arrangements were made. Burston set up a European bureau in Paris with Georges Briquet in charge. Under the terms of the agreement all commercial business transacted for the stations must go through Roth's hands. "Should any American advertiser be in Paris and desire to buy time on any of the stations we have, he must cable us here in New York, and request rate cards. This does not mean we will ask higher prices for time," Roth added. Stations signed by the agency are: Post Parisien, located in Paris, and has the most complete coverage of the continent, reaching into England, Italy, Belgium and Luxemburg. Radio Cite, in Paris, covers the city, and is believed to be the most popular station in France. Radio Toulouse, in Toulouse, covers city only. Radio Conte D'Azur, continent coverage. Radio Bordeaux, city coverage; and He de France, in Paris and national coverage. Plans are being formulated by Roth to make French transcriptions here for commercial announcements, and send wax to Europe. Pat Bishop, announcer and newscaster, has been added to the publicity staff of the Earl C. Anthony stations, KFI and KECA. Rosewell Rogers, former continuity chief for KMTR has been added to continuity staff of KNX. Don Lee network put microphones in at Matson and Hawaiian American piers, broadcast the end of the Pacific Coast shipping strike, and sent half hour of it out, nationwide, over Mutual chain, Sunday. JOHN EBERSON STUDIO ARCHITECT □ ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT 1560 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY