Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

RADIO DAILY: Wednesday, March 24, 1937 Cfiicaqcr "Springtime in Paris," written by Lora Standish of New York, will be Friday's drama of the week on the "Behind the Camera Lines" program over WGN, Chicago. Teamed with Milton Charles, veteran theater organist, Kaye Brinker, stage actress and monologist, makes her radio debut as star of her own program, "A Lady Lives," over WBBM, Monday, 6:30-6:45 p.m. CST. They will be heard Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Russell Pyle, tenor on "Hymns of All Churches," a WBBM-CBS chain broadcast, was operated on for appendicitis. Jack Baker, NBC Breakfast Club tenor, doing a personal appearance at the Chicago Theater this week. Fibber McGee and Molly will do p. a. in Kankakee and Streator, 111. on April 3 and 10, respectively. Edgar A. Guest, who with Frankie Masters ork, will headline a new series "It Can Be Done," starting April 6 at 7:30 p.m. CST over the NBC-Blue net, will continue commuting between Detroit and Chicago for the shot. New show replaces "Welcome Valley" series and will be heard at the same time over same stations with Household Finance as sponsor. Chicago Symphonic Hour for March 26 edition will feature Ruth Lyon, Lucille Hudiberg, Charles Sears and Reinold Schmidt. Lucille Long, contralto warbler of the Alka-Seltzer Barn Dance, to Florida for vacash. Glen Welty, Barn Dance maestro, off to Biloxi fishing waters. Kay Chase, who writes WGN and MBS "Painted Dreams" and CBS "Romance of Helen Trent", off to Florida for well earned respite. Al Williamson, NBC press head, off to Texas for a fortnight. Tyrone Power Jr. in town looking over radio studios. "Smiling" Ed McConnel started something when he flew a number of Chi radio writers up to Royal Oak, Michigan, last Sunday for a parlor broadcast from the Charlevoi home. Most of the air scribes were to be in Waukegan yesterday for the Jack Benny celebration. 'Sfs 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 March 24 Greetings from Radio Daily to Ted Webbe • • • Louis Armstrong signed a contract yesterday afternoon to head a musical-variety show with his band.... Carl Hoii. who fades on "Hit Parade" Saturday night and immediately thereafter opens at the Biltmore replacing Horace Heidt, also is set for the Standard Oil of Indiana series starting in May in the midwest, with McCann-Erickson as the agency. . . . Nick Lucas has also been renewed for 1 3 weeks on the Ford show .... Gertrude Berg's option has been picked up for another picture for Bobby Breen. Besides writing the original story, she'll assist in the direction. "Make A Wish" is her first .... Mary Eastman is also set for the Rubinoff transcriptions .... Songwriters Fred Coots and Benny Davis have been set for Universal pictures The Marx freres won't take to the air until next fall After two and a half years of sustaining. Singer Larry Taylor is finally being considered by the agencies. • • • Wes Hingley, CBSlinger for Boston's WEEl, was in town and had a "busman's holiday" appearing on NBC's "Vox Pop" airwaver. . . .Dick Ballau will shortly bow with "whispering swing". . . . Tommy Dorsey will be aired from Louisville during the Kentucky Derby. . . .Jimmy Lunceford will go to the Meadowbrook shortly. . . . Harlan Eugene Read will be aired via BBC, May 5.... Bob Wells, radio press agent and songwriter, is the new managing editor of "Police Gazette" ... .Phil Duey, after being renewed on the Phillip Morris show 14 times, is seriously considering a vacation. • • • Ralph Wonders will do the radio bookings for the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland this year.... Jane From an has been hearing the call of the Holly-wilds and may return to do another picture .... Earle Ferris claims that he's losing friends because they have been swiping Dale Carnegie's book "How To Make Friends" from his office .... Phil Cook is auditioning two shows for the nets .... Jerry Blaine's vocalist. Phyllis Kenny and his brass-man, Joe Livingston, sit around between numbers figuring if two could possibly live as cheaply as one!.. El is e a Grenet, composer of "Mama-Inez" which gave him the title of being the "Irving Berlin of Cuba" is now at the Yumuri club .... Billy Glason can't figure out why people are panning his programme inasmuch as he threw a script into a fire and the flames roared! • • • Victor records are going into an extensive exploitation and advertising campaign after signing Countess Olga Albani for the first of the new series. .. .Carlton Morse has written more than 1,900,000 words in the story of "One Man's Family" Swing sessions will be held Sunday afternoons at the Hickory House with Joe Marsala and his band also guest swingers. .. .Ernie Hoist has been offered a job in Paris for the summer WOR has so many "Jerrys" that Dave Driscoll, one of the two announcer-interviewers, has no end of trouble convincing people that his name's still Dave and definitely not JERRY ... .Vincent Richards will be at mike for the Tilden-Perry tennis matches aired from Madison Sq. Garden over WHN tonight and sponsored by Adam Hats. • • • Lois Bennett replaces Natalie Bodanya on Frank Munn's Monday night show! Listerine bought time but no show as yet!. . . .Frances Longford will be off the Hollywood Hotel show Friday and Shirley Ross will pinch-hit. . . HEAVY and unseasonable rains washed away a lot of the Easter season radio campaigns which have been a single-station revenue, as milliners, clothing business and others who habitually put on programs this year saw slim chances of selling white hats, summery spring outfits. Mary Garvin, assistant to Paul Rickenbacker at CBS, will join the Robert Taplinger organization as office manager this week, taking the place of Virginia Lindsey, who joins the staff of Dave Carter, CBS publicity chief on the Coast. Funeral services were held yesterday for Ben Crose, 60, West Coast manager the past five years for Radio Transcriptions Co. of America. Crose died suddenly in Portland, Ore., Friday, while on a month's trip through the Northwest, contacting stations. C. C. Pyle, president of the company, has been on the west coast for the past year, and will take over on Crose's place until decision is reached as to successor. Manhattan Soap Co., through Milton Weinberg agency, is contracting for a series of quarter hour spots on NBC red net on the coast for a Sweethearts Soap campaign. Nature of the program, and whether it will go weekly or twice weekly, not decided. Starting date, April 16. Charley Hamp, on Orange net for Dr. Straska's Toothpaste, is dramatising his long time theme song, "Me and My Shadow," engaging a real live shadow, to play banjo with his program. Banjoist is colored. Dick Foran, Warners' cowboy star, will be vocalist with Burns and Allen when their new NBC-Red show starts April 12, with Ray Noble's ork. ANNOUNCERS JACK PARR, 19 years old, is the latest addition to the announcing staff of WCAE, Pittsburgh. He previously served at WIBM, Jackson, Mich., WIRE, Indianapolis, and WKBN, Youngstown. CARLTON KaDELL, announcer for Amos 'n' Andy, will be the narrator of a forthcoming travelogue to be released by General Studios of Hollywood. It's a four-reeler dealing with Boulder Dam. ED WHEELAHAN who has been announcing for WSMB, New Orleans, comes very nearly getting the distinction of being the oldest radio announcer in the city from a steady service angle. Wheelahan opened with the station 12 years ago, announcing and singing an inaugural program of songs. CHARLES NEVADA, veteran sports newspaper man who recently switched from the printed page to radio announcing on WTMJ, the Milwaukee Journal station, is creating quite a following. His broadcasts are titled "The Last Word in Sports," aired between 10 and 11 p.m.