Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

6 RADIO DAILY Tuesday, February 16. 1937 M.P.P.A. Off-the-Air License Following is the text oi the Music Publishers Protective Ass'n olf-the-air licensing agreement, which was inadvertently omitted from yesterday's issue oi RADIO DAILY: AGREEMENT of license entered into this day of by and between JOHN G. PAINE, AGENT AND TRUSTEE, whose principal place of business is in the City of New York, State of New York, hereinafter referred to as the Agent and Trustee, party of the first part; and whose principal place of business is hereinafter referred to as the Licensee, party of the second part; WHEREAS, the Licensee is engaged in the business of transcribing from radio broadcasts a record from which the thought of the author may be read or from which it may be reproduced and desires to continue in the conduct of such business; and, WHEREAS, the Agent and Trustee is agreeable to extending to the Licensee a license which will enable the Licensee to transcribe such records embodying copyrighted musical compositions controlled by the principals whom the Agent and Trustee represents; NOW, THEREFORE, THIS AGREEMENT, WITNESSETH: For and in consideration of the sum of $1.00 by each of the parties to the other in hand duly paid, the respective receipts whereof and hereby reciprocally acknowledged, and for the further consideration of the license and the payment set out hereinbelow, the parties hereto do covenant and agree as follows: 1. Subject to the limitations hereinafter set out the Agent and Trustee hereby gives to the Licensee the right, license, privilege and authority to make use of the copyrighted musical compositions controlled by the principals represented by the Agent and Trustee set out on Schedule "A" hereof, which said Schedule is made a part of this Agreement, in the making of recordings or transcriptions of radio broadcast programs at the time of the broadcast trom which said recordings or transcriptions the work of the author may be read or reproduced. 2. No rights other than the right to make use of the musical composition in connection with the purposes of paragraph number one are intended to be conveyed by this license or are in fact conveyed by this license. 3. In consideration of the license set out in paragraphs one and two hereof, the licensee hereby agrees to pay to the Agent and Trustee the sum of dollars, payable as follows: 50 per cent upon the signing of the Agreement and the balance of SO per cent on July 1, 1937. 4. The period of this Agreement shall be from the 1st day of January, 1937, up to and including the 31st day of December of the same year. 5. The right to transcribe and/or to record the said musical compositions set out hereinabove shall be limited strictly to transcription or recording, and no right of performance nor of manufacturing nor of any other right under the copyright than that specifically hereinabove mentioned is hereby conveyed. All rights not herein specifically conveyed are reserved to the copyright proprietor of the musical composition broadcasted, transcribed or recorded. 6. The licensee agrees to furnish to the Agent and Trustee weekly reports showing the name of each musical composition recorded, and the composer where ever available. 7. In the event of any licensee having made use of any of the copyrighted musical compositions controlled by the publishers set out in the schedule hereto attached, in the making of recordings or transcriptions of radio broadcast programs, the Agent and Trustee agrees to give such Licensee a release to the extent of the license hereinabove set out for such uses made upon the consideration being paid to the Agent and Trustee of an annual sum equal to one-half of the amount shown in the schedule of rates hereinabove set out for each year of past, unlicensed uses, providing, however, that the present license is entered into as of Jan. 1, 1937. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have hereunto set their hands as of the day and year first above written. JELLING THE ETATICN . . . Merchandising * Showmanship * Exploitation LEWIS ALLEN WEISS, general manager, Don Lee System, will go to San Francisco in the next few days to be principal speaker before the San Francisco Ad Club on Thursday. He will talk on "Big Names in Radio." Mark Larkin, veteran movie and radio publicity man, has opened new offices in the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce building. Associated with him is Lynn Boyd. Bert Rovere, cafe man, and his 15 singing waiters, most of them with an operatic past, go coast-to-coast as a Columbia sustaining feature. The show starts 2 p. m. PST from Rovere's Paris Inn dance floor, through KNX. The show, on the air for six years here, was tried out nationwide last week, clicked, and was signed. Buddy Rogers will do his final Nat. Biscuit broadcast from Hollywood, before his trip to England, this Friday. On the 26th, he will cut into the program, via NBC's New York office, from the dock just before sailing, and will use the ship's orchestra and the Captain with him. While he's in England making a movie for B. I. P., the show will use guest stars. Dr. Strasskas Toothpaste has signed with KNX, with the possibility of a chain tie-up later, for a weekly, "Happy Family" dramatic show, which has been on the air in Seattle for the past two years. The feature starts in March, and is being preceded by a series of five minute plugs, working up a contest to pick players for the cast. Eddie Peabody, who recently signed a long term contract with Warner Bros., arrived in Los Angeles in time for his scheduled appearance on the four-hour talent parade which will go on the air today, celebrating the opening of the new KFWB studios. Two hour show will go on the air from KFWB's own new studios, and two hours more by remote from Warner's Burbank studios. American Tobacco Co. in behalf of Roi Tan, has signed a contract with KNX, for release, Monday, Tuesday and Friday nights, of "The Old Observer", sport commentator program with occasional interviews. The program has been released locally over KFI, and starts on KNX tomorrow. Jack Votion, former head of Paramount's talent department, recently vice-pres. of Selznick & Joyce, and before that with RKO, has been named associate in NBC's Artists' Bureau. He will work with Miss Dema Harshbarger, Artists' Bureau head. Radio-Press Co-op A FULL-PAGE display ad, illustrating and explaining the fact that radio and the newspapers supplement each other, appeared in a recent issue of the Durham Morning Herald, Durham, N. C, on behalf of WDNC, which is affiliated with the Herald. The ad pointed out what the station had done in the way of expanding personnel and facilities, bettering its programs and service, and otherwise making the radio an excellent medium for advertisers because of its listener-interest. Incidentally, a 55 per cent increase in sales, including 30 per cent national advertising, is reported by the station. Remotes from Store During the Hudson Bay Clearance Sale which is now in progress, KDYL of Salt Lake City, has carried four remotes from the main floor of the Hudson Bay Fur Company store each day. In each remote broadcast, the KDYL announcers, in a roving reported style, interviewed customers concerning values and prices. The broadcasts are two minutes in length allowing time for two questions during each remote. This type of broadcast is supplemented by evening periods on the air with the result that his store has made an amazing success of the sale. This is the first time that remote broadcasts have played a part in sale merchandising in Salt Lake City. KDYL announcers report that customers are happy to comply with the request that they answer a few questions on the air. Exploit New Program Station WMBG, Richmond, did a neat promotional job on the premier broadcast of Phillip Morris Cigarettes over the Columbia Chain, when they CHARLES GREEN, chief of Consolidated Radio Artists, spent last week in Chicago getting things lined up with newly acquired spots for orks and artists. Understood that Green plans to bring Don Bestor here in near future. Roessler & Howard, one of the few foreign language station representatives, doing large volume of business in servicing program material to stations that are identified with exotic tongued programs. "Won't You Be My Valentine?" was the theme song this week at NBC's Chicago studios as news spread through the organization that Marge Morin, youngest of the Morin Sisters, had announced her engagement to Bob Casey, strapping bass viol player of the King's Jesters, while Murray Forbes, recently returned to the role of Willie Fitts in the Ma Perkins cast, announced his engagement to Mildred Tatz, Chicago girl. WLS Barn Dance, which has been a big hit in theaters, is quitting show business. Unit will continue to tour, however, for their rural fans but under regular variety of commercial radio sponsors in playing a forthcoming series of one night auditorium engagements. Morris Jacobs, of Buzzell & Jacobs Agency, in town to personally handle extension of number of the firm's air accounts. Betty Jaynes, sensational 16-yearold opera star, will be heard on the Barn Dance program of Feb. 20 over station WLS. Studio stuff . . . Tommie Bartlett, WBBM announcer, flying to Boston and back over week-end to visit sister . . . Louise Fitch, actress on the Mortimer Gooch show over CBS, is being ogled by the movies scouts . . . Busy men of the nets press divisions here are Al Williamson, who presides over the NBC public relations, Frank Rand of CBS and Frank Schreiber of WGN and Mutual . . . Bill Hampton, author of "Sit Down Strike for Love" and writer of lyrics and radio material for the Kings Jesters, getting off some noteworthy cleverness. gathered together some 75 tobacco jobbers at the Jefferson Hotel to hear the initial program and immediately following transcribed the opinions of the Richmond Tobacconist as to their reaction to the program. The portable transcribing equipment of WMBG was used in the meeting room at the hotel. After those who voiced opinions heard their own voices played back for them, WMBG forwarded the completed records to the agency in New York handling the account.