Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

Tuesday, February 23, 1937 RADIO DAILY: 5 WITH THE ft WOMEN — By ADELE ALLEB.HAND LIELEN MORGAN of the celebrated "curl in the middle of her forehead" and the voice that's good when it's torrid ....takes her initial 1937 airing via the Hammerstein "Music Hall" program .... March 2 . . . . Liane Carew .... famous offspring of the Anna Held who charmed the Nineties hies her north from Quinby, Va.. to visit on George Rector's program .... She'll talk about her glamorous mother Women in government will be the subject of NBC's "Round Table Discussion", Feb. 26. . . .with Mary Beard, historian, scribe Inez Haynes Irwin, and Anne Hard, lady of the Fourth Estate .... doing most of the talking .... The Eugen Boissevain who created a furore among the femmes on "But Women Have Brains" will air-wave once a week for NBC .... Garbo-voiced Hildegarde will be the only American song-gal to adorn the Coronation festivities .... "Backstage Wife's" Donna Creade, a Canadian lass, takes stage center next week in Chi when she assumes her American allegiance .... When, as and if Mary Livingstone writes to lack (husband) Benny .... during her East-coast vacation .... she'll expect him to air her letters .... via his script. T T New vocal vogue for lady-birds seems to be high-pitched rather than low in the throat voices.... as of yesterday Take "The Symphon ettes" . . . .as compared with the Boswells . . . . Anice Ives who conducted "social club of air" over a Philly station. .. .now responsible for Anice Ives' "Everywoman's Hour" over WMCA goes Philly again, effective this week.... When Benay Venuta called a number in response to a message .... a male voice said, "I wish you hadn't" . . . .Benay gasped .... and he explained .... He'd lost a bet that radio songstresses were too tall-millinery to reply to messages ....Tilted "Mon Paris" songbird, Lady Suzanne Wilkins (her husband's Sir Hubert) was Rita Hudson's airguest yesterday. T T Martha Deane's manager, Estella Kara, is fit as the famous fiddle and brown as the proverbial berry .... reason being, she's just back from a Southern cruise Louis (Met. Baritone) D'Angelo's little gal Louise .... who debuted at Met at age of 22 months .... was heard on last Sunday's "Metropolitan Auditions of the Air." 13 A DIC DEDSDNALITIES • No. 6 in the Series of Who's Who in the Industry • WILLIAM S. PALEY, president of Columbia Broadcasting System. On* of the youngest chief executives in the industry. Has progressive ideas, but admits that radio has far exceeded his wildest predictions. Had expected to succeed his father in the cigar business and when graduated from University of Pennsylvania entered the factory as head of advertising and production. One year later became vice-president. Later assumed duties of secretary. Is still one of the company directors. First saw possibilities of radio as sponsor, having bought time on the Columbia network to advertise La Palina cigars. One year later a friend of family and owner of CBS confided that he was ready to unload his interests in the network. Bought most of his holdings and took three months' leave from the cigar business. Never returned. While no expansion in radio history is more sensational than that of the CBS web, Paley has the knack of surrounding himself with executives of the first water and he took the growth of CBS in his stride. Immediate interests and problems in development of the network are international broadcasts. With this in mind, and possibility of international television on horizon, recently opened a London branch. He put CBS map — literally on the * * Sat* TiOHtUta * * Cliff Engle left for the South to confer with Owl Drug Co. officials regarding their new NBC program, "Treasure Island.". Lewis Allen Weiss, Southern chief with Don Lee stations, on his way here to address the Advertising Club. Weiss will travel to Eureka, Chico, and Redding regarding the annexing of stations through that area. Grant Pollock is emsee on the "Travelling Mike" program, which KPO sponsors. Clifford Souze added to the musical staff of KSFO as pianist. Howard Eastwood joins the MarinDell hour with Buddha as piano accompanist. Buddy Moreno, featured vocalist with Griff William's orchestra, and Music Hour for Japan Viscount Hidemaro Konoye, Japanese diplomat, announces that he will institute a new series of broadcasts in his native land patterned after the NBC Music Appreciation Hour. Viscount Konoye appeared on the Music Appreciation hour last Friday as a guest of Dr. Walter Damrosch. He has made an extensive study of the program during his stay in this country. Roy Marks Promoted Boston — Roy Marks, veteran radio salesman and former agency contact man at WEEI, has been appointed local sales manager. The inner routine will continue to be supervised by Helen Lee. well known over the ether waves, back from a trip to Hollywood where he had a movie test. Friends are speculating if wedding bells will ring shortly for Buddy and Kay Griffith. John Notley Nichols at his desk again at KYA. Cliff Anderson of NBC program department is passing around cigars. It is a six-pound girl. Mary Ellen-Herrick, who made her debut in radio as an ingenue with the Lucy Cuddy players on KSFO, is now with National Broadcasting. Meredith Willson's protege, Oliver Edwards, called back for a repeat performance with Carefree Carnival. MIKE RILEY and his Round and Rounders started yesterday on a coast-to-coast twice weekly over the NBC Red network. His new "Hey Hey!" outdoes the "Music Goes 'Round and Round" in musical insanity, according to report. Lotus Prima, who swings a hot trumpet, is back at the Hollywood Famous Door with his New Orleans boys. They're aired over west coast networks but will soon be heard in the east and mid-west. Red Nichols is planning to take the air via an airplane. He's negotiating with an airplane company to secure a plane large enough to carry his entire personnel, instruments and all, from engagement to engagement. Zinn Arthur, whose new "cooperative band" is now being readied for ork. Zinn offered bonus to first of his lads to become engaged and four musicians announced engagements, while two mentioned planned elopements. Victor Arden gave his baton to a boy who asked for advice as to how to become an orchestra leader. Arden once played the calliope on a Mississippi River Showboat. Jaimie Ericson's music of the gay nineties is remoted nightly at 8 from the Diamond Horseshoe Theater via KABC in San Antonio, Tex. Vivian Vorden and her all-gal Ork heard on KONO, San Antonio, now swinging it at the Gleam, nitery. Lloyd Snyder, billed as the original Buddy Rogers' Band, is tooting out at the Olmos, swanky nite club, in San Antonio. Verret Managing WHJB Greensburg, Pa. — Roy H. Verret, Edwards sang for the first time over ; prominent in Pittsburgh radio circles, the radio recently with Signal Oil. ! was named manager of WHJB here. TOM TERRISS Known as THE VAGABOND ADVENTURER" Available for GUEST APPEARANCES MASTER OF CEREMONIES RECORDINGS OR TRANSCRIPTIONS RADIO PROGRAMS Address: — LAMBS CLUB