Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

4 RADIO DAILY Thursday, February 25, 1937 SILVER WOODS, pioneer local men's store, has signed with KFI for a weekly half-hour live talent dramatic program, with cast headed by Lila Lee. Probable starting date is March 10. Production will be in charge of KFFs own staff. Account placed by Landsdale & Cruikshank agency. Dan Thomas has checked in at the Bob Taplinger agency and started organizing the new motion picture branch of this organization which has heretofore been all radio. Mutual Don Lee has signed, for immediate start, a Monday-WednesdayFriday series of 15-minute live talent dramatic episodes for Sylmar Olives, through Swartz Agency. True Boardman will do the script, probably play some of the parts. Serial will be titled "Casandra" and will use episodes in early California history. Full 10 stations of the Don Lee group will carry it, with KHJ originating. Through John Driscoll agency, Hilton Clothes has signed for hour and 15 minutes seven nights a week on KFVD. for all request record program. March 4 announced as the new starting date for Eddie Peabody and his show on KFWB, with the opening show including Gus Edwards and gang as guest artists. The show will be participating sponsorship, and will have audiences. Vera Marsh has been added to the Joe Penner cast to play the girl friend. Paul McClure, assistant sales manager for CBS central division, is in Hollywood from Chicago for a short business stay. Marion Talley, whose Ry Krisp option is expected to be taken up for another 13 weeks, has sold her Kansas City home and is moving her family west. "Welcome Valley" for WABY Household Finance Corp., Chicago (personal loans) , on March 23 will add WABY, Albany, to its "Welcome Valley" program on NBC-Blue network, Tuesdays, 8:30-9 p. m. Hillbillies to Record Pappy, Zeke and Ezra, have been signed by Ralph Wentworth, head of Langlois and Wentworth, and will start at once on a recorded series which will become a part of the Lang-Worth planned program library. RCA Gets Patent Camden, N. J. — Patent for an automatic gain control circuit awarded to Winfield R. Kock of Camden has been assigned to Radio Corp. of America. Would Bar Court Airings Trenton, N. J. — News-camera men and broadcasting will be prohibited from court rooms in New Jersey if Senate 117 is enacted into law. • • • George Jessel recalled from Florida jaunt to do a repeat airing for Woodbury's Sunday night .... After clicking big at the F.D.R. Ball in Washington. Ann Lester has been booked into the Loew house there March 11... There's a "whispering campaign" going on at CBS to make Mark Warnow musical director of the chain, similar to Frank Black's job at NBC .... Polly Moran comes east shortly to take a fling at radio.... There are three production men working the John Held, Jr.. Varsity Show; Paul White's ass't. Jack Rocke. is one ... Men set up colleges and wait three weeks for their turn to go on ... . Irving Reis. CBS staff director, having his scripts peddled to the movies Budd Hulick of Col. Stoopnagle and Budd and Dorothy Jeffers on WMCA Monday night as guestars .... Fred Allen. Portland Hoffa. Jimmie Johnson and Reg. Gardiner in the Tavern last night. • • • George M. Cohan in "Fulton of Oak Falls" may be on next week's Kate Smith show Walter Hampden will do Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" on Smith show tonight. "You Can't Take It With You" off because the male lead had "mike fright" and A. & P. wouldn't accept the understudy ... .That's right, Youngman's in again. .. .Songwriter Lew Brown entertaining the Mad Ritz freres and Frances Carroll of the sister-act. . . .Paul Whiteman will conduct the National Symphony ork of 100 men in Baltimore, March 17 and on the 18th do a repeat in Washington. .. ."Vox Pop" will change their Tuesday night repeat show to Mondays from 12:30-1 a.m., beginning the 8th. • • • Zeke Manners and his Gang (of Hillbillies) go on the Ford show within the next two or three weeks .... Buddy Hasselt's audition clicked .... He will etherize as a singer during the ball season .... Joe Besser. the "Oh, You're Crazy" fellow from the vaude era, being peddled for radio .... Curtis and Allen have acquired the radio dramatization rights for the Broadway stage success "Yes, My Darling Daughter", featuring Lucille Watson and Peggy Conklin .... Jerry Blaine introduces "Music Publishers Mondays" at the Cocoanut Grove. Idea is to have the boys sing and play the numbers that they believe the public should be hearing. . . . Miff Mole made a few recordings for Brunswick last week with his own band. .. .Rodney McLennen being held over in Florida. .. .James Melton has been signed to be the permanent m.c. of the Saturday Night Party .... John S. Young returned to the Gold Medal hour after attending the funeral of his father, who passed away Monday in Springfield, Mass. • • • Major Anthony Fianlo, the Arctic explorer, doing transcriptions for Edgeworth . . . .Fields and Hall start Monday on a series of NBC Thesaurus recordings with hill-billy songs, to be called "OV Man of the Mountain" ... .WMCA will carry the presentation of the deed to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital by Will H. Hays, Jesse H. Jones, Major L. E. Thompson of RKO and Harold Rodner of Warner Brothers. .. .Program will come this afternoon from the Fox Movietone studios. .. .NBC-Red web will carry "Income Tax Blankouts" tomorrow night .... Prepared by Edmund Birnbryer, staff writer, program will feature the comedy and drama of incometax filing ... .The characters who will discuss their tax problems will range from a man in the lowest income bracket to a multimillionaire, and the dramatizations will include sceries from a country club where four wealthy men are teeing off ... .Backstage in a theater where chorus girls are dressing. T>UTH HANNA McCORMICK deal It in which she hoped to reorganize Affiliated Broadcasting Co. (now dead) into a net of her own is now also dead. Nelson Eddy still in Presbyterian Hospital waiting for throat to heal so he can resume concert tour with his next appearance scheduled for New York on Sunday. WLS Barn Dance begins its sixth year next week. Jerry Ellis, head local Columbia recording, to N. Y. WHO, Des Moines, looking for half hour dramatic shows to play sustaining. Prefers dramatized biographies. Cherry Preisser, dancing star of the Follies, will make her radio debut as songstress here Sunday. Cherry and her sister June will appear on "Melodies from the Skies" program over WGN and the Mutual net along with Harold Stokes and his ork and galaxy of regular performers featured each Sunday on this musical production. New member of the WLS continuity staff is Vic Taylor, formerly director of the University of Wisconsin "College of the Air" on WHA, Madison. John Baker of the WLS special events department is the father of a three-pound son. Service Men Meet Manchester, N. H. — A representative group of radio service men gathered here from this city, Nashua, Wilton and surrounding towns to form the Manchester chapter of the Institute of Radio Service Men, Inc. Coming Events Today: National Education Association Convention, Civic Auditorium, New Orleans. Today: Associated Radio Technicians of Connecticut annual banquet, Hotel Bond, Hartford, Conn. Feb. 28-March 8: Spring Fair of radio and television, Leipzig. April 9: Press Photographers' Ass'n of New York Eighth Annual Dance and Entertainment, Hotel Commodore, New York. June 1-10: Radio-television exposition, Moscow. June 21-24: Summer Convention of the Canadian Electrical Convention, Banff, Alberta. June 21-24: Seventh Credit Congress of Industry, Chicago. June 20-23: Advertising Federation of America's 33rd annual convention. Hotel Pennsylvania, New York.