Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

2 RADIO DAILY Friday, February 26. 1937 Vol. 1, No. 13 Fri., Feb. 26, 1937 Price 5 Cts. JOHN W. ALICOATE : Publisher DON CARLE GILLETTE : : : Editor MARVIN KIRSCH : : Business Manager Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Radio Daily Corp. J. W. Alicoate. President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Treasurer and General Manager; Chester B. Bahn, Vice-President; Charles A. Alicoate, Secretary; M. H. Shapiro, Associate Editor; John B. English, Advertising Manager. Terms (Post free) United States outside of Greater New York, one year, $5; foreign, year, $10. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications to RADIO DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone Wisconsin 7-6336, 7-6337, 7-6338, 7-6339. Cable address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, Calif.— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone Granite 6607. Copyright, 1937, by Radio iDaily Corp. All rights reserved. Two Sponsors Dickering For Braddock-Louis Bout J. P. Muller and Co., New York, which holds the exclusive radio rights to the Braddock-Louis fight to be staged in Chicago on June 22, has two firms interested in the radio sponsorship of the bout but no papers had been signed up to late yesterday afternoon, according to Jack Adams, vice-president of the agency, Adams also said that there would be no legal difficulties in connection with the broadcast of the event. Remodel Boston Studios Boston — The Kasper-Gordon Studios, Inc., have enlarged and remodeled their studios at 140 Boylston St. In addition to private audition studios, the company offers complete transcription and air check recording service with comprehensive production facilities. FINANCIAL (Thursday, Feb. 25) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE High Low Close Am. Tel. & Tel 176 175'/2 175V2 Crosley Radio 253/8 25'/4 25 'A Gen. Electric 60 59'A 59l/2 North American 30% 30'/8 30% RCA Common 11% 1iy2 11% RCA First Ptd 78 'A 78 78V4 RCA $5 Pfd. B (100 Bid) Stewart Warner 19'A 18% 18% Zenith Radio 37% 37'/8 37% NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp 17'A 17% 17% Majestic 43A 4% 4% Nat. Union Radio 3'A 3% 3% OVER THE COUNTER Bid CBS A 49% CBS B 48% Stromberg Carlson 18 Net Chg. -"% — % + % — % + 1% — % — % — % — "Vb Asked 51 'A 50% 19 The Public Says: IT'S METROPOLITAN MANIA SPONSORS SAY: IT SELLS MERCHANDISE MARTIN BLOCK'S MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM WNEW FEATURE Complete Station List In Wyandotte Campaign The complete station line-up for the J. B. Ford & Son Co., Wyandotte, Mich. (Wyandotte cleaner), show which begins March 2 over the CBS was announced yesterday. The following stations will carry show beginning March 2: WCAU, WJAS, WHK, WJR, WKRC, WADC, WBNS, WHIO, WKBN, WCSH and WWVA. On March 13 the following will commence airing the show: WEEI, WPRO, WDRC, WORC and WMAS. Program will be a script entitled "A Page From Your Life," and will be heard Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 2-2:15 p. m. N. W. Ayer & Son is the agency. A.A.U. Meet on NBC The A. A. U. indoor track and field meet to be held in Madison Square Garden tomorrow will be aired on the NBC-Blue, 10-11 p. m. Bill Slater and George Hicks will do the announcing, with Glenn Morris interviewing the track stars before the microphone instead of meeting them in direct competition as in the past. Early this year Morris was awarded the Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the best all-around amateur athlete in 1936. John H. Hartley will supervise the broadcast. Jack Kennedy Joins WMBH Joplin, Mo. — Jack Kennedy has joined WMBH as staff announcer and entertainer. He was formerly a staff entertainer on KMBC at Kansas City. He has been in show business since he was three years old, in vaudeville, as orchestra leader, and master of ceremonies at different entertainment spots. His specialty has been ad lib announcing, previous to joining WMBH. KTUL Sprucing Up Tulsa, Okla.— Radio station KTUL is doing its spring remodeling early. The addition of another studio has necessitated the shifting of the United Press News quarters and the control room, all of which make for more efficiency. An enlarged script department also has shifted Rod Cupp, program director, into other quarters with his assistant, Vivian Stern. CBS Easter Program West Coast Bureau of THE RADIO DAILY Los Angeles— Otto Klemperer and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, with Francia White of the Fred Astaire program as soloist, will do a one-hour Easter Sunrise broadcast from Forest Lawns. CBS will carry it coast-to-coast, over the Canadian net and short-wave the show to England. Dr. Dafoe Resumes March 1 Dr. Allen Roy Dafoe will resume his Lehn & Fink (Lysol) broadcasts from his home in Callender, Ontario, March 1. Dr. Dafoe, ill in the Toronto General Hospital, has been reading his CBS programs direct from his bed for the past week. Belgian Congo to Get American Radio Plays American radio plays in Kikonga, the native tongue of the Belgian Congo, will be an innovation on the African West Coast this spring and summer, which will be fall and winter there, since the Congo lies south of the Equator. Mary Bonar, head of the Bonza Manteke boarding school conducted by the Women's American Baptist Foreign Missions Society in the Belgian Congo, heard The Sunday Players Bible dramas over Ohio radio stations while home on leave this winter. As a result, she carries the original scripts of twelve of the Sunday Players Bible plays with her when she sails on the Berengaria next Wednesday, and upon reaching Bonza Manteke she will translate these into Kikonga for reproduction by an all-African cast of Sunday Players made up from her students. The Sunday Players Bible dramas are already heard, it is said, over half the earth's surface each Sabbath, but the Belgian Congo is the farthest south to date. The Sunday Players are produced by Mertens & Price, Inc., Los Angeles. Macfadden Adds KSTP Macfadden Publications Inc., New York (True Story magazine), on April 2 will add KSTP, St. Paul, to its "True Story Court of Human Relations" program on the NBC-Red, Fridays, 9:30-10 p. m., with repeat 11:30 p. m. to 12 midnight. Arthur Kudner Inc., New York, has the account. Million Sets for Canada Toronto — Owners of radio receiving sets in Canada are likely to total in excess of a million this year. S. J. Ellis, inspector of radio for the federal government, announces 973,597 licenses to owners of radio sets were issued in Canada in 1936, as compared with 862,109 licenses in 1935. In Toronto alone, 116,721 licenses were issued during the past year. Suggests Protection Bureau That the FCC set up a department where radio scripts, ideas and nom de plumes can be filed for protection of the originator, is suggested in a letter to the FCC by Allen Prescott, "Wifesaver" of the airwaves. Prescott says that, after working years to build himself up as "The Wifesaver", an imitator in Mexico has lifted his idea and is broadcasting to the southern part of the U. S. Lord Suit Up in April Action in which Phillips Lord of radio sues Pathe for breach of contract will go on trial before the New York State Supreme Court sometime in April. Lord's allegation is Pathe did not make all the promised pictures in connection with his round the world trip. He will ask $100,000. commc and Gome BERNIE FOYER is in Philadelphia, returning to New York on Monday. MRS. GRACE WONDERS leaves for Atlantic City this afternoon. Will be away four days. HARLAN EUGENE READ sails Tuesday for England. Will cover the Coronation for the nets. JACK R. POPPELE, WOR chief engineer, leaves tonight for an 18-day trip on tne Statendam to the West Indies and South America. He will be accompanied by MRS. POPPELE and their two daughters, JUNE and LORRAINE. NELSON EDDY arrives in New York to do Sunday snow. SAUL BORNSTEIN of Irving Berlin Music is back in town. ARTHUR BORAN left yesterday for a vaudeville engagement in Philadelphia. ALEXANDER GRAY has left for Miami. JACK WHITE returning today from Florida vacation. ARTHUR KASS of Kass-Tohrner leaves Monday for Chicago. GEORGE RAFT is at the Warwick from Hollywood. MARY LIVINGSTONE arrived in New York yesterday from Hollywood. JACK BENNY leaves the coast Tuesday for New York and will do his Sunday airing here. LOUIS SHURR, theatrical agent, leaves for Hollywood in two weeks to establish offices there. GEORGE JESSEL returns tomorrow afternoon from Miami. He will do Woodbury show on Sunday from Radio City. PHILLIPS H. LORD, author and director of the CBS "Gang Busters" series, is on his way West for a three-week vacation. THOMPSON L. GUERNSEY of WLBZ, Bangor, is expected in town today. NBC Staging Contest For Newsboy Barkers NBC special events department on March 3 will stage a novel program over the NBC-Blue network, 11:30 p.m.-12 midnight, which will bring the best newsboy barkers from newspapers in Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, New York and Chicago to the microphone in a "Newsboys Hawking Contest." A board of judges consisting of Pat Kelly, NBC chief announcer, James Barrett, Press-Radio editor, ANPA officials and other newspapermen will select the best newshawker and award the prize. Each newspaper will be allotted about five minutes to prove that they employ the best newshawker. Papers which have already agreed to participate are Call-Bulletin, News, Chronicle, and Examiner in San Francisco; Times, Herald-Tribune, Sun, News, Mirror, in New York; Examiner, Evening News, Herald and Express in Los Angeles; CitizenNews in Hollywood. Boston and Chicago papers to be entered will be announced later. 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