Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

4 RADIO DAILY Tuesday, February 16. 1937 BOARD WILL TAKE UP BAN ON RECORDINGS (.Continued from Page 1) recordings, is a member of the executive board and is believed likely to make the proposal. He is expected to have strong support from musicians' representatives from New York, where a group of prominent band leaders recently met and approved a resolution to have Local 802, musicians' union, request the national executive board to take action or recordings. Copyright Bill Action Pushed on Two Fronts (Continued from Page 1) of both Senate Foreign Relations and Patent Committees, pointed out he is also pressing for early hearings on the bill before both committees. He expects Foreign Relations sub-committee to start hearings on international aspects on the bill designed to give America membership in the Berne Convention, within the next fortnight, while other technicalities will be heard before the Senate Patent Committee shortly afterward. Usual delegations of "pros" and "antis" are expected to attend all hearings. Current History via WHN Another questionnaire program makes its debut via WHN Wednesday night, conducted by Current History magazine. Idea is for four undergrads of N. Y. U. to match their knowledge of current history with four grads of Teachers' College. Each week two groups will be crossquestioned by M. E. Tracy, editor. Plan is to give the correct answer immediately should the reply be wrong. Mag is not buying time; merely an exchange of time for publicity. Nature Friend on WMCA Nature Friend, Inc., bird seed sellers, has bought 13 15-minute programs on WMCA. They will be piped to Inter-City's Boston and Philly outlets. Show will be a women's club idea, with Anice Ives conducting Friday mornings. Account handled by Frank Presbrey agency. ONE MINUTE INTERVIEW CHARLES TOBIAS "Radio has placed a premium on composing talent and on the ability to create intelligent, clever and novel lyrics. Never before have songwriters had to be so good to earn so little. Many of the song hits of years ago would be "corny" today, while the tunes of 1935 would be tabbed too highbrow a decade ago." • • • Nash Motors is angling for Kate Smith's abandoned "Command Performance" idea .... Notre Dame Glee Club gets Shell airing March 27 ... . George Ogle, advertising exec, for A. & P. preparing series of articles on Home Necessities and Radio Advertising .... Neal Hopkins, of the CBS "Your Unseen Friend" show, now with Cass-Tohrner agency, doing radio productions .... Louis Shun opens coast offices in two weeks. His brother, Lester, will handle the radio end from here .... Adam Hats will present the "Passion Play" via WHN Sunday on a two-hour show. . . .Arthur Kay, radio mimic, opens Wednesday night at the Rainbow Room, atop the RCA building. . . . Charles Martin, head of the radio department of The Biow Co., gave a talk last night to the students of the Jane Manners dramatic school. He spoke on "Radio as a Career", but did not over-encourage the hopefuls. • • • What with many bandleaders speaking and being part of the show, Vincent Trovers, French Casino Maestro ivith an NBC wire, is taking diction lessons. .. .Zeke Manners and his Gang of Hillbillies open at the Roxy theater on the 26//i ... .Mickey Alpert, singer of songs and m. c, signed by Lester Lee, Matty Rosen and Bill Miller, for radio. Scripts are being looked over. The idea is to build Mickey into the Berle-Y oungman class — which shouldn't be difficult with his ability!.... Lanny Ross does a concert tomorrow at Carnegie Hall.... Jan Peerce opens his concert tour in Pittsburgh March 7. . . .Mary Small does a Ford starring role next week.... Nick Lucas will remain on that show — with the possibility of Mary becoming a standard feature. • • • The James J. Braddock show, formerly sponsored for Tastyeast, will be aired again shortly for another time-buyer. Negotiations are now in progress .... Jack Kof oed will script, with Stella Unger doing the commercials .... "Magic Key" considering the following: Tom Brown, Eric Linden, Phil Regan, Mary Boland, Ralph Morgan and Leo Carrillo, for their shows. . . . Radio Row is sad on learning the news of the Edward Davidow passing . . . .Though not directly affiliated with the industry, he helped many reach the top. • • • He came East, did two commercials, and five benefits. . . .Now George Jessel is in Floridu for a week's rest. .. .Fairbanks Morse bought 52 weeks on WNEW sponsoring R. Brooks, "Little Things in Life" and also 108 .spot announcements on the station plugging the show's debut! Ray Midgley will present Lawrence Menkin's production of "The Hostess", a chorine's story with a ring of dope smugglers via WMCA tonite on "Through the Stage Door" series. .. .Met opera singers insist that their voices be recorded when doing an airing. .. .Teddy Powell, Leonard Whitcup and Walter Samuels placed "Sailing Home" with Words & Music, Inc., and "Spring Cleaning" with Berlin. .. .Jascha Heifetz and Efrem Zimbalist will play the Bach double violin concerto together Saturday night at their Carnegie Hall benefit for the Red Cross. • • • If you want to know anything about announcers, ask Bettie Glenn of Publicity Associates. She knows them all ... . Ford Bond threw this month's get-together cocktail party for announcers the other nite .... Louis Reid, former radio editor of the New York American, joined the Schillin agency .... Milton Berle received no end of ribbing during the Lindy noon hour last week. Everyone charged him with "stealing" Henny Youngman's material and Milton counter-charging that Henny swiped his!.... It was all very entertaining! .... Sid Gary will make a series of shorts for Columbia. He was seen at the fights with Jack Cohn, head of Columbia pix. WEBS SEEK TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS Conferences are under way between NBC and CBS for the purpose of finding ways and means to improve the educational program features, or at least learn if the many on the air are meeting with approval and if anything is being left undone along these lines. Talks are expected to result in improved educational programs and a research method of getting proper reaction to programs. Audiences for Burns-Allen West Coast Bureau, THE RADIO DAILY Los Angeles — When Burns and Allen go from soup to nuts on April 1, Grape Nuts succeeding Campbell's Soups as their sponsor, the new show probably will have broadcast audiences. It will go over the NBC network, with Ray Noble directing the orchestra. Young & Rubicam is the producer. Adam Hats Renews on WAAB Adam Hat Stores have renewed for a series of 15 feature bouts to be broadcast via WAAB to the New England fight fans from the New York Hippodrome starting tomorrow with the Sollie Krieger-Fred Apostoli bout. Account is handled through Glicksman Advertising Co., New York. Airing Ball Games Kellogg Co., Battle Creek, Mich., (cereals will sponsor a series of St. Louis Cardinal exhibition games from the training camp, Daytona Beach, Fla. Broadcasts will start late in March and will be heard over WMFJ, Daytona. N. W. Ayer & Son Inc., New York, placed the account. Boston Series Go National Boston — WAAB Colonial's weekly lecture series by prominent educators and authors presented by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts every Thursday, 7.30 p.m., will go coast-to-coast on the Mutual system starting March 4. Installs WMCA Wire "Show Bar," glitter-spot of Forest Hills, has just installed WMCA wire. According to Bill Sharkey, ork leader there, it will go NBC coast-to-coast in the near future. New Cantor Discovery Eddie Cantor will present his latest discovery, Robert Parish, negro baritone, on the Texaco broadcast Sunday. know yctc INDU/TCy "HARMONIC" is a stage of periodic wave having a frequency which is an intergral multiple of the fundamental frequency. A stage which is three times the fundamental frequency is termed the "third harmonic".