Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

Wednesday, March 10, 1937 RADIO DAILY 7 Chaibu THE two-part weekly crime show, "Robin Hood Minute Mysteries," sponsored by the Fontennelle Brewing Co. of Omaha and broadcast each Saturday night from KXBY, Kansas City, and KOIL, Omaha, carries a $50 award to the persons wiring in the first and shortest correct solution of the crime to the two stations, and free cartons of beer to the next fifty solvers of the crime. The cash prize is delivered to the winner by telegraph messenger immediately after the broadcasting of the crime's unraveling. Claiborne Mangum, tenor, returns to WPTF, Raleigh, N. C, on March 16 and will be featured Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 8: 15 a.m. under sponsorship of North Carolina Fisheries Inc. Mrs. Lucy Biebl, pianistcomposer, will be on the program with him. WHB's Musical Clock, Kansas City's oldest morning time signal program, is now sponsored by Mace-Ryer Jewelry Co., and recently was rearranged to include an employment service and a merchandise giveaway. Levitt & Sons (real estate) are changing their Sunday morning WOR program. Series, heard from 11-11:30 a.m., will feature Barry McKinley, the Charioteers and a 15piece band in the future. Kieran Balfe has started a morning news broadcast over WWSW, Pittsburgh. The "Chandu" feature also is back on this station, with sponsorship by a local store. Denver Chevrolet dealers are sponsoring one game a day and a five-minute resume of the day's play of the A.A.U. national basketball tournament in Denver, March 14-20, over KLZ. A new Sunday afternoon series featuring the songs of Gene Austin, accompanied by Candy and Coco, began Sunday on WDNC, the Herald-Sun station in Durham. For some time, Austin has been a regular feature of WDNC, being heard on a number of transcribed shows, and for at least one other sponsor. The trio will appear under the ban MOTION PICTURE LIGHTING AND EQUIPMENT CORP. WE FURNISH Electrical Lighting hqmpment of Any Kind FOR RADIO STATIONS 244-250 WEST 49th STREET New York City Tel. CHic. 4-2074 ED TURNER, who graduated from dramatic stock to radio, is doing a good job down in Knoxville, Tenn., where he directs the productions of the WNOX Mystery Club. Jim Foster, WNOX continuity writer, does the scripting of the dramas, all originals. Audience interest is said to be considerable. WNOX is the ScrippsHoward station in Knoxville. William Huggins has joined the staff of WNOX. Knoxville, Tennessee, Scripps-Howard station as secretary to O. L. Smith, commercial manager. Earl O'Fallon has been named WNOX house manager. Duty will be to keep 800 seat auditorium running smoothly. WNOX charges admissions for all auditorium broadcasts, of which station averages 20 weekly. Nelson Eddy's personal appearance at the Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, has been changed to May 6. Vincent Layton has been added to the musical staff of KABC, San Antonio, as pianist. Raymond Bryant of Atlanta and Helen Fleckenstein of Zelienople, Pa., will middle-aisle it next month, according to word from KDKA, Pittsburgh, where Bryant is a member of a hillbilly gang. Dorothy Whitehead of WICC, Bridgeport, was on the sick list last week. Reed Snyder, WHO engineer, supervisor of studio operation, was elected president of the Y. M. C. A. Movie and Camera Club of Des Moines last week. Ed Harvey, program director at WCAE, Pittsburgh, reveals that he got the idea for his favorite feature, "Our Family," while vacationing at a lake resort near Chicago. A family in a neighboring cottage supplied the inspiration. Another WCAE program, "Future All-Americans Club," written by Jimmy Murray, origi ner of Montgomery & Aldridge (tire dealers) . Returning to WDNC, Durham, after making transcriptions in Hollywood, the Kaybee Songstress (Cleo Brown) appears three times weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 6 p.m. Her new series of five minute broadcasts is sponsored by the Kaybee Stores. Strange scenes and stranger happenings in little-known parts of the Argentine will be described by Ben Adams, lecturer and traveller, in two international broadcasts from Buenos nated from Murray's annoyance at a wailing youngster in the duplex dwelling where he lives. Lillian Malone's "Sunshine House" program on the same station is a result of loads of questions from listeners asking household advice after hearing her "Polly's Party Line" series. "The Four Showmen," who have been auditioning for several commercials, have completed a short with Rudolf Friml, Jr.'s, Orchestra. Several of the elder Friml's songs were used. Jake Rachman is now writing the radio news in the Omaha Bee-News, taking over the duties from Bill Wiseman, whose work as promotion manager keeps him too busy. Rachman also does the paper's movie columns. Milton Berle's Sunday night WABC commercial will emanate from the Coast for at least another month because revision in the script of the comedian's new picture for RKO has delayed the production schedule. Mrs. Alice Gorham of the publicity department of WXYZ, Detroit, gave a talk Friday before the Greater Detroit Motion Picture Council. Gene O'Fallon, manager of KFEL. Denver, together with Sportscaster Bill Welsh and Engineer Paden Veatch went to Bozeman, Mont., with the station's mobile unit and remote control equipment for the two-game play-off series of the Denver University Basketball Team vs. Colorado University. Jerry Lester, comedian, who succeeded Henny Youngman at the Yacht Club when the latter joined the Kate Smith programs, has been breaking in a series of broadcasts on a Brooklyn station, under an assumed name, before presenting the show for network auditioning. Lester has appeared on the Carefree Carnival and Shell Chateau. Tommie Johnson, advertising manager for KOMA, Oklahoma City, is in a local hospital for couple of weeks undergoina an operation. Aires, to be heard tomorrow and March 18 at 7:15 p.m., EST over the NBC-Blue network. * "Quotes"* JOE COOK: "A great comedian is one who amuses all who see and hear his performances — kids and grown-ups alike. Real humor must be simple. Unclean comedy appeals only to 'classes'. Many do not understand risque jokes, especially chil ZINN ARTHUR will be aired on Thursdays, 10:30-11 p.m., over WHN, in addition to his Wednesday and Friday airings. Red Nichols celebrates his premiere as a baton waver in Chi by playing waxed version of his first recording "Chicago" when he opens in the city of that name, with a CBS wire, March 19. The Braun Organization, Chicago music publishers, will open an office in the Brill Building, New York, with William Ortmann taking charge. With "Coronation Waltz" launched, Major Music Inc. goes to town with "Words Fail Me," by Sylvan (Bob's brother) Taplinger and Bob Dale. "There's Nothing So Lovely As Love," introduced by Vincent Lopez is the joint product of the labors of Marion Cooper, Jr., ex-Annapolis man, and his mother Pauline Learnard. Mills, Inc., are the publishers. Rudy Vallee will do a repeat on the Social Security Song, "I'm in Love With 2340-567," with new and additional choruses on his Thursday broadcast. With him on the program will be Milton Douglas, Mary Boland and the Hamilton College Choir. dren, and the laughs provoked by risque jokes are not 'genuine laughs'. They are brought on more by the comedian's boldness than by the entertainment he gives." ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT: "All the town criers in France have formed a union. There are 20,000 of them. It seems they're tired of patrolling the streets. They want a microphone set up in each town hall so they can broadcast their announcements without going out into the rain and snow." GRADY COLE (WBT, Charlotte): "Trouble and fame affects some people much as soaking a bean in water affects the bean. The bean swells and, by cracky, it soon bursts, which purifies into bust." "BARON MUNCHAUSEN" JACK PEARL RALEIGH and KOOL CIGARETTES WJZ-9J0 P. M. E.S.T.— Mondays NBC Network Dir.: A. & S. LYONS, Inc.