Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

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Wednesday, February 17. 1937 RADIO DAILY: BIG DELEGATION FOR DIGKSTEIN BILL HEARING (Continued from Page 1) Robert Rubin of M-G-M, Joseph Seidelman of Columbia Pictures, Charles C. Pettijohn of the Hays Office, and President Ed Kuykendall of the M.P.T.O.A. will represent the movie people. Hearings are to begin at 10 a. m. in the old House office building. New Device Will Enable Audience to "Talk Back" (Continued from Page 1) manufacturers for the installation of the device on new sets now in construction. Acheson stated that the price of the gadget is so small that it could be installed on new sets without effecting the retail price appreciably. The present apparatus is on outgrowth of several years' work by Dr. Hopkins. In 1934 he carried out some practical, but comparatively crude experiments with the aid of station WOR and the Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. 19 Accounts Are Signed By Station KFEL, Denver (Continued from Page 1) Ford Motors half-hour with Rex Chandler orchestra and the Standard Brands show with Ripley. From Mutual, the station is getting Father Coughlin, "Morning Matinee," Murine, Martin Bros, (coffee) and Lutheran Hour. Air Song to be Published "Melody Treasure Hunt," on the Mutual Broadcasting System, has brought to light another tune which is to be published. E. B. Marks is taking over "You're Precious," by Bert Pellish and Nat Brusiloff. Song was first heard on the program two weeks ago, and sung by Larry Taylor. Makes the fifth tune originally played on the program to be published. Satterday Joins WOR E. E. Scatterday has joined the engineering staff of station WOR. Scatterday for five years was with WCAE, Pittsburgh, also a similar length of time with the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., in that city. Also was with WFIL, Philadelphia. February 17 Greetings from Radio Daily to lames F. Hanley John McLaughlin ol' scm • • • "You Can't Take It With You", George Kaufman's Broadway success, will be aired on the Kate Smith hour a week from tomorrow .... Major Russell, famed crime detector, will be featured on this week's Phillip Morris show .... Jerry Cooper down with the grippe after Monday's coastto-coaster .... Ben Gross, radio editor of the Daily News, in a plaster cast from his neck to his feet, after bathtub mishap. . . .Fractured his arm and his shoulder in three places .... Ed Reynolds, CBS copywriter, back at his desk after a five-week illness .... So is Peggy Stone of the station relations office, after a grippe siege. • • • Many changes planned at CBS. . . .A battery of sound experts leave jor the west coast to establish an effect dept. there ... .Also, producers tvill be called into the picture to stage shows.... A vice-prexy will go west to handle details of these operations. .. .Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience" will be aired Sunday via CBS. Howard Barlow's band will be along. .. .Next Monday's Jack Pearl etherizing, will feature the biggest lies yet conceived by the Baron.... All because it's the birthday of Washington. .. .Les Quailey, formerly with Ted Husing as ass't., and now ivith N. W . Ayer us contact man, in N. Y. for a feiv hours between cities. • • • Union trouble is said to be the reason for the closing of Harold Stern's Merry -Go-Round in Brooklyn last week .... Ed Herlihy is off the announcing job for Grossman's .... Arnold Johnson goes to his Connecticut farm today to look over his turkey mob. Is bringing them to the incubators .... Ward's program of "Scoop" Ward, will begin coming through in serial form shortly, instead of its present form of complete dramatizations .... Billy K. Wells is grooming Frank Gaby in a new air technique .... Gaby does a Vallee shot .... James Melton returns to Sealtest Saturday Night Party .... This is the first time a repeat took place on this show. . . .John Gordon, Ruthrauff & Ryan radio production man, married Nan Goldsmith last week. • • • Details in connection with the Pro-Ker (hair tonic) series of recordings, which the Bioiv agency will place, have not been fully completed though the shotv will deal with exposing fraud rackets, the Better Business Bureau will not be affiliated. .. .number of outlets, scripting and the recording firm are also to be determined. .. .Buddy Cantor, WMCA pix reviewer, returns to that web next week .... Arthur Cass of Cass-Tohrner will air the musical "Cross Word Puzzle" via a major net soon. It will be a thirty minute show.... Ben Lipset has been made casting director for Pathescope, recording for screen slides company ... .Frank Black tvill air his new composition dedicated to Omar Khayyam this Sunday via NBC... Alan Kent, NBC announcer, back from a vaude date in Camden. .. .Connie Gates will get a twoyear contract with Educational filling in for Niela Goodelle, ivho goes west. . . .Casa Loma crew goes to the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles on March 9. • • • A song plugger wanted Dick Himber to hear a song, so a record was run off for him. He didn't like the tune — but thought the singer swell. He inquired and learned that she had sung on a small station out of town. Her name was Gibson. He sent for her, had her on his Studebaker show Monday .... She clicked and will be billed as the "Gibson Girl" hereafter . . . . ' NBC PLANNING TO BUILD NEW STATION FACILITIES (Continued from Page 1) City Star station, has a 425 foot vertical antenna under construction with March 15 set as a completion date. In Detroit, WXYZ, is constructing its antenna on top of the Maccabee Bldg. The tower will be 474 feet above the street and 283 feet above the building. Antenna will be completed and in operation sometime next month. The vertical type of radiator reduces fading and gives an equivalent increase in power. Healey, Dunham to Cover New Orleans Convention Francis Healey, NBC press department, and Franklin Dunham, NBC educational director, left for New Orleans last night to cover the annual convention of the Department of Superintendence, a division of the National Education Association, which will be held from Feb. 17-25. Helen Johnson, CBS director of the American School of the Air, is already in New Orleans with Edward Murrow, CBS director of talks, scheduled to leave town tomorrow. Miss Judith Waller, NBC Chicago educational director, will also attend the conclave. Both NBC and CBS will have several programs emanate from the convention site. RCA and NBC has a joint exhibition set-up meeting place. WOR Sells Sunday Show WOR has sold a new Sunday ayem show to Levitt & Sons, Long Island real estate company. Program will start next Sunday 11-11:15 a. m., with Bert Roggen, baritone and John Mundy's orchestra. Show to be billed as "Morning Serenade." Dorsey vs. Dorsey MBS network is playing both Dorsey brothers on its Coast to Coast sustainings. Jimmy is heard from Culver City night spot and Tommy from the Commodore Hotel. Later this week they will be on within 15 minutes of each other. The Nethsrland Indies tax on radio sets vary according to their number. Current yearly tax la $9.60 paid by an estimated 30,000 regular tuner-inners. Past year cost 18.000 listeners $12 apiece, while In 1934 listeners paid $14.40 to tune in to their favorite station.