Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

3 RADIO DAILY Monday, March 22, 1937 HERE & THERE LAMBDEN KAY received congratulations from far and wide last week on the 15th anniversary of WSB, Atlanta Journal station, Atlanta... . WILLIAM McMENAMIN, assistant to Bob Ackerley at KOMOKJR, Seattle, quit to accept a 'Frisco post. . . .LEONARD BROWN has been made chief announcer at WMBH, Joplin, Mo JACK HENRY, studio manager of WBRY, New Haven, out for a few days due to a cold .... MORELAND MURPHY, announcer at KCMO, Kansas City, laid up by sinus trouble. CAMPBELL ARNOUX, g.m. of WTAR (Norfolk), back at desk after a week in New York.... J. L. GRETHER, chief engineer of WTAR, returned from a looksee at the RCA plant in Camden E. H. TAYLOR of Washington named chief engineer of KVOR, Colorado Springs CBS outlet, replacing JACK LOVELL, promoted to WKY, Oklahoma City CHARLIE INGLIS of the KLZ (Denver) news staff interviewed Joe (Brown Bomber) Louis from the lounge room of his private car. . . . KLZ receiving compliments from agencies and sponsors on its novel publicity ideas. MARGIE KNAPP played a return guest date with Zeke Manners and his Gang Friday night and again received a big hand ... the 12-ycar-old singer also has been makin" personal appearances. . . LEE KIRBY. announcer at WBT, Charlotte, is recuperating after several weeks in the hospital.... RAY CONLON's original playlet," The Ring," being aired over WMCA Thursday by the Radio Lab of N. Y. U Another original, "Out of the Hat," by ED CLELAND of WINS, goes over that station Friday, with WBAL, Baltimore, doing it the following eve. WINS baseball team, organized last year by O. H. Tunell, treasurer of Hearst Radio Inc., will have some semi-pros in the lineup this year. . . . ARTHUR RODZINSKI, conductor of N. Y. Philharmonic heard over CBS on Sundays, received the Polish Gov't Legion of Honor medal for his musical work BOB CARTER, HOWARD DOYLE, LARRY NIXON, FRANKIE BASCH and CHARLOTTE BUCHWALD, all of WMCA, spoke before 300 ad men at the Hotel Pennsylvania last week DAVE DRIS COLL has written another original, "The Lady Fights," for Ethel Barrymore's NBC-Blue program Wednesday. "Follow Moon" Adds WHO Effective March 29, WHO, Des Moines, will be added to the list of stations now airing script serial entitled "Follow the Moon," sponsored by Jergens Woodbury Sales Corp. (soap) and is heard Monday through Friday from 4:30-4:45 p.m. over the NBC-Red network. Addition of WHO brings the total number of stations carrying show to 48. Lennen & Mitchell, Inc has the account. NEW EECGEAMS-IEEAE Nut Morning Show Clicks Louisville — WGRC is airing a new morning novelty that rings the bell for program showmanship. It's titled "Git." Bill Sherman, WGRC chief announcer, and Bob Mcintosh, program manager, handle the show. Three alarm clocks are given away each morning to the listeners writing and guessing the correct time the alarm clock pops off. The clock alarms three times during the hour show, which is on the air 7-8 a.m. Swing music is the only tempo used. However, once in a while a hillbilly, slow or classical number is started, but it is almost immediately jerked off the air and the record is broken into bits all of which, including the chatter, goes out on the air. The Boys have all kinds of horns, bells, whistles, chimes, or anything that they can buy at a ten cent store or lay their hands on to make enough noise to "Git" everybody up. The show starts something like this, "Bells ringing, Horns blowing, Bosse mooing, and chatter of this type." "Get up, Get going, you'll be late for work, Git breakfast. Git out, Don't forGIT your wallet, and a lot of other fast clip chatter. Its absolutely a "nut" show with plenty of good music and from the 500 Stations Get M-G-M Film News Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's weekly release of Hollywood news items, including chatter about stars and films, prepared exclusively for radio broadcasting, is now being sent to a total of 500 radio stations. Some of the material is even being aired by short wave to radio-movie fans in foreign countries. Ed Turner Jr. Promoted Knoxville — Edward T. Turner Jr., formerly of WNOX's continuity staff,' has been promoted to publicity director of the station. Turner will continue to devote some of his time to continuity. Other personal additions at the station include James M. Foster to continuity, J. C. Hammond to secretarial staff, Charles McMahon has been promoted to the sales force from announcer staff, and Eugene McGhee has joined the station's program department. Alva DeMarks Married Birmingham — Alva DeMarks known over several southern radio stations as the Dixie Humming Bird has taken the weddding vows. She was married recently to Jim Brooks, non-pro. Molinard Opens N. Y. Office Molinard Inc. (perfumes) has established an office in New York and appointed the United States Advertising Corporation to handle its account. Radio will be used, but probably not until next fall. growing size of the mailbag each day it looks like a sure "natural." If its a rainy day attention is called to the fact to drive slowly and watch the slick streets. Don't forget your raincoat, umbrella and rubbers. If it's a sunshiny day the old pep and ginger is piped all the time. "Family Man" Makes Friends East St. Louis, 111.— "The Family Man," a new type of program combining music, vocal choruses, poetry and the grip of an original continued narrative story, presented by Woody Klose, program director of WTMV, each weekday, 9:30-9:45 a.m., is rapidly adding friends. Klose portrays himself as a successful doctor with three motherless children coming to the microphone each day to chat about his home, the activities of his family, and his experiences as a doctor. He talks, too, about his desire for his children's happiness, about their need for a mother, and also reads the poetry that he discovers in his late-at-night reading. Then, when organist Paul Godt, who supplies background for "The Family Man," happens to play some favorite melody, he may sing or whistle a chorus or two — depending either on the mood of that particular program or on his own feelings at the moment. New Biz at WBT Charlotte, N. C. — Recent newly signed business at WBT includes: Sherwin-Williams Paint, weekly announcements, 52 weeks; Rexall Drugs, five 15-minute programs; American Oil, through Joseph Katz agency, Baltimore, weekly announcements and transcriptions, 52 weeks; Roi Tan Cigar, seven time-signals weekly, 13 weeks; Webster-Eisenlohr ( C i n c o Cigar) , through N. W. Ayer, seven time-signals, 13 weeks. Fur Firm Plans Show Philip A. Singer & Bro., Inc. (fur dyeing ana processing) are now considering a special radio show to be aired in conjunction with its spring and summer advertising campaign. No details of the show are as yet available. Albert Frank-Guenther Law Inc. has the account. Disaster Changes Benny Script School disaster in New London, Texas, resulted in an immediate decision to change the scheduled Jack Benny program script which called for a school day recollections by Benny and the Mayor of Waukeegan. Rewritten script and rehearsals for last night's show, not only changed the Benny program but precluded Benny making a guest visit on the Stoopnagle and Budd program. Rit Starting Disk Series Rit Products Co. (Koolox shaving cream) will launch a series of WBS one-minute dramatized announcements on an unannounced list of stations, beginning March 25. H. W. Kastor & Sons Advertising Co., Chicago, placed the account. GUEJT-ING RICHARD CROOKS will appear on the Ford Sunday Evening hour March 28. Alexander Smallens will conduct the orchestra. EDDIE DOWLING and RAY DOOLEY will appear on Joe Cook's Shell program March 27, having been set by Bernie Foyer. VIENNA CHOIR, in addition to Ethel Barrymore, will be on Lanny Ross, Show Boat March 25. TYRONNE POWER heads the Rudy Vallee Variety Hour this Thursday. JACKIE HELLER will appear with the Pittsburgh Varieties from KDKA tomorrow evening. ZEKE MANNERS and his gang guestar on Al Pearce's show over CBS tomorrow night. ETHEL BARRYMORE will be interviewed by Nellie Revell at 5 p.m. March 30 over the NBC-Red. New Studios of WHBF Have Gala Dedication (Continued from Page 1) on March 9, was attended by hundreds of people. During construction of the Rock Island studios, the station's headquarters were made in the Moline studio, which was opened last July in the Fifth Avenue Building. All equipment and offices originally were in the Harms hotel, Rock Island, but that location was vacated, except for transmitter, when the Moline studios were opened. For some time a studio has been maintained in the Hotel Blackhawk, Davenport, and now WHBF is offering its facilities to all three cities with a maximum of convenience to local speakers and artists. All the station's departments are now housed in the new Rock Island studios, covering 2,000 square feet. The studios are attractively furnished throughout with chromium plated, tubular furniture and so arranged that studio operations and control room are visble from the lobby and reception room. All mechanical equipment is supplied by RCA. WHBF is owned by the Rock Island Broadcasting Company, an affiliate of The Rock Island Argus. Ben H. Potter is president, Marguerite F. Potter, vice-president, and John W. Potter, secretary and treasurer. The chief executives of the WHBF organization are Ivan Streed, production manager, Maurice Corken, sales mnager and Ernest J. Gray, chief engineer. Cervin & Stuhr, Rock Island architects, designed the studio layout. Revive "Story of Song" CBS network will revive the "Story of the Song" series on April 6, presenting the program Thursdays 3:30-4 p.m. Prominent concert artists will be featured, starting with Colette D'Arville and Benjamin De Loache on the first program, followed by Fritz Lechner on April 13, Edith Varley and Eugene Loewenthal on April 20, and Lillian Knowles and Hubert Hendrie on April 27.