Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

4 RADIO DAILY Friday, March 12, 1937 Radio and Television IP A T IE N T I Granted March 9, 1937 Compiled by JOHN B. BRADY, Attorney Washington, D. C. 2,072,897— TONE CONTROL APPARATUS. Henry J. Marschalk, Jr., East Orange, N. J. 2,072,945— AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT. Paul 0. Farnham, Boonton, N. J., assignor, by mesne assignments, to RCA. 2.072.952— MOUNTING FOR ELECTRICAL DEVICES. Edward H. Jones, Summit, N. J., assignor to Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc. 2.072.953— CASCADED ELECTRON TUBE SYSTEM. Gerard J. Kelley, New York, N. Y., assignor, by mesne assignments, to RCA. 2,072,957— ELECTRON TUBE. James Dwyer McGee, London, England, assignor to Electric b Musical Industries Ltd. 2,072,962— RADIO SYSTEM. Joseph Piebanski, Warsaw, Poland, assignor to Radio Patents Corp. 2,072,964— SELF-CONTROLLED AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL CIRCUIT. Walter Van B. Roberts, Princeton, N. J., assignor to RCA. 2,072,973— QUIET AUTOMATIC VOLUME CONTROL SYSTEM. Karl Wilhelm, Berlin, Germany, assignor to Telefunken Gesellschaft fur Drahtlose Telegraphie, m.b.H. 2,072,993— ELECTRONIC SWITCH. Clayton E. Ulrey, East Orange, N. J., assignor by mesne assignments, to Westinghouse Electric Cr Manufacturing Co. 2,073,034— RADIO BROADCASTING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM. Nimmo C. Thyson, Miami, Fla. 2,073,038— RADIO RECEIVING SYSTEM. Harold A. Wheeler, Great Neck, N. Y.. assignor to Hazeltine Corp. 2,073,078— ELECTRON DISCHARGE DEVICE. Jerom C. Smith, Merchantville, N. J., assignor to RCA. 2,073,117— THERMONIC OSCILLATION GENERATOR. Thomas D. Parkin, Broomfield, near Chelmsford, England, assignor to RCA. 2,073,190— RADIO TUBE REJUVENATION. William Bartlett and Ralph Carpenter, Spencer, W. Va., assignors of one-third to Wm. S. Ryan, Spencer, W. Va. 2,073,234— ELECTRIC AMPLIFIER. Lai C. Verman, Bangalore, India, and Lorenzo A. Richards, Ithaca, N. Y., assignors, by mesne assignments, to RCA. 2,073,336— RADIO GROUND COUNTERPOISE. Judson A. Cook, Haledon, N. J., assignor to Raybestos-Manhattan Inc. 2.073.344— SUPERHETERODYNE RECEIVER. John K. Johnson, Rye, N. Y., assignor to Hazeltine Corp. 2.073.345— SUPERHETERODYNE RECEIVER. John K. Johnson, Rye, N. Y., assignor to Hazeltine Corp. , 2,073,370— TELEVISION SYSTEM. Alfred N. Goldsmith, New York, N. Y., and Thaddeus R. Goldsborough, Merchantville, N. J., assignor to RCA. 2,073,409— SIGNALING SYSTEM. John P. Shanklin, Riverhead, N. Y., assignor to RCA. 2,073,417— SELECTIVE CONTROL DEVICE. Richard T. Fox and Vernon L. Hullett, Louisville, Ky. 2.073.453— PHOTOTUBE. Herbert Nelson, Bloomfield, N. J., assignor to RCA. 2.073.454— PENTODE HETERODYNE DETECTOR. Harold O. Peterson and Elmer F. Bond, Riverhead, N. Y., assignors to RCA. 2,073,477— ELECTRIC WAVE AMPLIFICATION. Charles W. Green, Millburn, N. J., assignor, by mesne assignments, to Western Electric Co. Inc. 2.073.482— VACUUM TUBE INSULATOR SHIELD. Peter Kniepen, Finkenkrug, near Beriin, Germany, assignor to Allgemeine Elektricitats Gesellschaft. 2,073,486— DELAYED AUTOMATIC VOLUME CONTROL CIRCUIT. Winfield R. Koch, Camden, N. J., assignor to RCA. 2,073,504— AUTOMATIC TONE CONTROL CIRCUIT. Charles Travis, Philadelphia, Pa., assignor to RCA. 2,073,522— PHOTOELECTRIC TUBE. Kenneth H. Kingdon and Hugh E. Thomson, Schenectady, N. Y., assignors to General Electric Co. 2,073,598— ELECTRON TUBE. Samuel B. Rubenstein, New York. 2^073^599 — ELECTRIC DISCHARGE DEVICE. Louis Malter, Camden, N. J., assignor to RCA. 2.073.483— ELECTRON DISCHARGE DEVICE. Heinrich Kniepkamp, Berlin-Pankow, Germany, assignor to Siemens & Halske, A. G. RAYMOND TOMPKINS is winning a steadily increasing circle of listeners over WFBR, Baltimore, broadcasting "Light on the News" program for the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power Co. He broadcasts 6:45-7 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, answering news questions submitted by listeners. Prizes of from $2 to $5 are given for the questions selected. Tompkins, for years one of the leading newspaper men of the city, appeared last year for the May Oil Burner. His program is getting much praise. KFAB's (Lincoln, Neb.) children's theater program, authored and directed by Katherine Stone, is still a big Saturday morning draw after celebrating its 3rd anniversary. Cast is drawn from school children and the show is a half hour long. "The First Offender," which has been a Sunday afternoon feature from WELI for the past 24 weeks at 1 o'clock, will in the future be heard at 5:30 p.m., to enable WNBC, New Britain, and WATR, Waterbury, to carry the show. "Charlie Wright Presents," half hour variety show featuring Vera Cruse, Frank Gargiulo, The Bon Bons and The Swingsters, will be rescheduled from 5:30 to 1 p.m. For 15 minutes on weekdays, Milady is honored over WMBH, Joplin, Mo., with a special program featuring Women in the News and Fashion Chatter, material gathered by the United Press. The program is dramatized as far as fashion goes, with two women alternating in the descriptions of the various costumes. Charles J. Mclntire, veteran WMBH announcer, is in charge of the program. A theme song, with a flash opening and close, are the complements. The women Number of licensed radio sets in Norway has increased to 251,171, close to 10 per cent of the population. announcers are Helen Crouch and Vivien Rue of the WMBH staff. "Silver Serenade," new series of programs sponsored by Oneida Ltd. on behalf of Tudor Plate Silverware, began yesterday at 9:15 a.m. over WHK, Cleveland. Former President Herbert Hoover's one-time executive secretary, George Aubrey Hastings, will talk on "Transportation Tomorrow" over WQXR on Monday at 6:30 p.m. On March 18 Norman Thomas speaks over the same station and same time on "Social Legislation and the Constitution." "Eastchester Progress," Tuckahoe, N. Y., newspaper, is sponsoring two talks being broadcast March 14 and 15 at 6:30 p.m. over WFAS, White Plains. First program will be on the subject of "The Supreme Court and Our Citizens," and the other on "Our Duty at Home and the Importance of It." DUKE ELLINGTON is to succeed Cab Calloway at the Cotton Club on March 21 when the Calloway outfit takes to the road. The spot has a WOR-Mutual wire. Ted Lewis concludes his run at the Arcadia International House in Philly on March 21, to be followed by Happy Felton. Spot has a WFILMutual wire. Isaac Stern, 16 year old San Francisco violinist, makes his ether debut with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra on the orchestra's Silver Jubilee broadcast over the NBC Blue Network, March 19, 5:45 to 6:30 p.m. Franklyn Roberts and the Men of Song will guest-play on the "Callin' on the Neighbors" program, WCAE, Sunday at 12:15 p.m. The Princeton University Glee Club offers a program of folk songs, a choral number by Grieg and three choruses from Gilbert & Sullivan operetta "Patience" March 12 7:007:15 over the NBC-Blue Network. Conductor is James Giddings. Barry Wood and his ork have just completed two records for Mills Master Recording, to be released April 1. The vocals are by Barry. Barry will be listed directly above brother, Barney Rapp, in the new Mills catalogue. The wearing of the green will be commemorated by an international broadcast of a concert in Dublin, featuring the Dublin Metropolitan Garda Ceilidhe Band, Patrick Kirwan, tenor, and Irish radio orchestra, Michael O'Higgins, baritone, and a Gaelic instrumental quartette consisting of harp, violin, flute and cello, over the NBC-Blue from 3:15 to 3:45, Wednesday, March 17. Richard Crooks and Helen Jepson, both American-trained operatic singers, will have leading roles in the Met opera performance of Faust, Saturday at 1:55 p.m., to be aired over the NBC-Blue Network. Semi-finalists of the "Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air" will appear on the March 14 and 21 programs. Evelyn Case, Maxine Stellman and Robert W. Steel will be heard on the March 14 broadcast; Anna Mary Dickey, Arturo Cheltri and Sylvia Cyde, on the March 21 program. On the final March 28 broadcast, the best of these six, together with the other six who appeared as the first group of semifinalists, will be awarded Met contracts. Shep Fields and Ork do a week at the Philly Fox, starting today.