Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

RADIO DAILY: Wednesday. March 10, 1937 ANNOUNCERS HAROLD NORMAN, announcer at KVSO, Ardmore, Okla., is celebrating. It's a girl. The staff dedicated a program to him recently. It opened with a baby cry sound effect and included such numbers as "Ol Pappy" and "Rocking Chair's Got Me." MURILLO SCHOFIELD, WDAF (Kansas City) announcer, last week made a short visit to Tulsa, Okla., where he formerly was connected with KVOO. ALAN HALE, sports announcer at WISN, Milwaukee, has started a new series of sports casts at 5:30 p.m. The late morning news flashes on this station have been extended to 15 minutes, starting at 11 a.m. EDWARD TACY, chief announcer at WSPR, Springfield, Mass., is confined to his bed by the grippe. JAMES (Jim) EBERLE, WWJ (Detroit) announcer, will marry Marian Payment of Buffalo, April 3, he disclosed this week. BOB STANTON, ex of WMCA and WNEW, New York, and KSD, St. Louis, has joined WWJ's announcing staff in Detroit. KEN HOUSEMAN has left WXYZ, Detroit, and is now writing continuity, advertising, and other chores at WJIM, Lansing, Mich. BILL SLATER will describe the final events in the I. C. A. A. A. A. Field Meet at Madison quare Garden, Saturday, 10:30-11:00 over the WJZ Blue Network. W. HOBBIS and R. C. LYLE will be the British announcers on the March 19 NBC broadcast of the "Grand National" from Aintree. OLLIE O'TOOLE, Pittsburgh emsee, has joined WWSW as staff announcer. New WOR Disk Series A new weekly disk series, sponsored by Rolls Razor Inc., will make its debut Sunday 3:15-3:30 p.m. over WOR. It is titled "Let's Get Together", produced by B. Charles-Dean, with artists including Doris Hare, Jean Ellington, Al and Lee Reiser, Glenn Darwin, Three Marshalls, Peggy, Kay and Jack, and Ernest Chappell as m.c. Lire talent programs on national non-networki last year cost $11,041.980) transcriptions. $9,271,545; record*. 1108.660; announcements, tUMMS. • • • Kenny Baker left the Jack Benny program and returned to the coast because of picture commitments .... No replacement .... Mary Livingstone will sing a song instead .... Lennie Hayton's successor for the Hollywood-spot not yet selected but he leaves next week. . . .Mike Reilly is out of the Hickory House with Clarinet-tootin' Joe Marcella coming in with a WOR-Mutual wire .... Cleveland's Les Brown opens at the Meadowbrook tonite and will be aired via CBS .... Gordon Graham, formerly a member of the "Funnyboners", has replaced CBSlinger Glenn Parker Mark Warnow auditioned at 2 p.m. yesterday for Lord & Thomas .... Arthur Boran wired Sir Ronald Linsdale, British consul, for permission to imitate King George VI. who has never been heard in this country, and the likelihood is that he'll never be. • • • Swing enthusiast Tommy Dorsey has been trying for the past five days to get into the Paramount and see Benny Goodman but couldn't because of the tremendous biz. . . .Tommy's hope is that Benny will have the same trouble in April when the former Paramounts-it David Ross, the ace announcer, went to Minsky's Oriental Theater the other night and was recognized by Manager Dave Rosen, who sent an usher over to ask Ross to sign the celebritybook.... Ross hesitated, then said, "After I see the picture", and continued on his way. . . .Frank Parker does a spot for Nellie Revell on Tuesday . . . .Ted Fio Rito has done "Seventh Heaven" three times on his etherizer ... .Drop a word of condolence to Robbins' general manager, Jack Bregman, on the loss of his sister. • • • Worthy of network recognition .... Zeke Manners and his Gang are heard only locally via WMCA, yet we're told they receive an average of 2.500 fan letters weekly .... Irving Mills signed them yesterday to a year's contract for Master records .... Jane Froman has signed with hillbillybooker Bill Miller, who will handle vaudeville dates .... Moe Gale's secretary, Claire Ulam, leaves Saturday for Matrimony, Preferred Shep Fieds introduces a novelty this week when every member of the band will play accordion solos (two weeks ago they never had touched a keyboard!). . . .The Vox Pop boys guestar on WMCA Tuesday night. . . .Edward MacHugh. the Gospel Singer, has just purchased a new home in Westport. Conn Andre Kostelanetz has been renewed for another year on the ciggie show .... Nino Martini leaves for picture work, with Lily Pons starring . . . . Al Goodman. NBC and CBS ork leader, down with the grippe, but he won't miss any of his shows. • • • Gabriel Heatter last night turned down a 5-day-26-week contract via Mutual which would start in four months because it meant doing a "repeat" one hour after his eastern airing ... .J. Fred Coots telling everyone about his latest song, "The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos", which he wrote with Charley Newman and placed with Harms.... How to select hit songs: Listen to the tunes the page boys and hostesses hum while around the studio.... At NBC this week it's "You're Laughing At Me" and at CBS it's "This Year's Kisses" ... .Herbert Marshall has set a record of guestar shots on Lux He's on Monday with Marlene Dietrich in "Desire", making it his fourth appearance ... .Jack Ingersoll via WINS starts today broadcasting the 31th Annual Bowling Congress and will continue the daily reports until May 4. Coming Events March 15-22: North American Radio Conference, Havana, Cuba. March 18-20: Hotel Business Promotion Conference, French Lick Springs Hotel, French Lick, Ind. March 24: Columbia Broadcasting System stockholders' meeting, New York. March 31: Women's National Radio Committee annual awards luncheon, Hotel St. Regis, New York. April 6: Radio Corp. of America annual stockholders meeting. April 9: Press Photographers' Ass'n of New York Eighth Annual Dance and Entertainment, Hotel Commodore, New York. May 2-9: National Music Week; David Sarnoff, chairman. May 14-30: Syndicat Professionel des Industries Radioelectriques 14th Annual Salon, Palais Neo-Parnasse, Paris. May 15-18: Second Annual Congress of Colonial Broadcasting of National Federation of Radio Mfrs. of England, Paris. May 15-31: Radio and Television Fair, International Exposition Grounds, Paris. June 1-10: Radio-television exposition, Moscow. June 14: American Federation of Musicians annual convention, Louisville, Ky. June 20-23: Advertising Federation of America's 33rd annual convention, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. June 21-24: American Institute of Electrical Engineers' convention, Milwaukee. June 21-24: Summer Convention of the Canadian Electrical Convention, Banff, Alberta. Boissevain in Series Eugene Boissevain, commentator recently discovered by NBC, will be presented in a weekly series of Wednesday discussions under the title of "Micrologue" starting today at 4: 15 p.m. over the NBC-Red net. Boissevain is the husband of Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet. He clicked in a recent NBC broadcast discussion. CNE MINUTE INTERVIEW JAMES D. SHOUSE "It is rather paradoxical that in one case you find a reliance upon radio to do everything and radio does it. and in the other case there is an advertiser who has supported radio with every conceivable aid and has equal success. This doesn't prove anything except to emphasize again our inability to harness radio with rules and regulations to insure its successful