Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

RADIO DAILY Monday, March 29, 1937 Vol. 1, No. 34 Mon., Mar. 29, 1937 Price 5 Cts. JOHN W. ALICOATE : : : Publisher DON CARLE GILLETTE : : : Editor MARVIN KIRSCH : : Business Manager Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Radio Daily Corp. J. W. Alicoate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau. Treasurer and General Manager; Chester B. Bahn, Vice-President; Charles A. Alicoate, Secretary; M. H. Shapiro, Associate Editor; Tohn B. English, Advertising Manager. Terms (Post free) United States outside of Greater New York, one year, $5; foreign, year, $10. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications to RADIO DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone Wisconsin 7-6336, 7-6337, 7-6338, 7-6339. Cable address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, Calif.— Ralph Wilk and Verne Bailey. 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone Granite 6607. Copyright, 1937, by Radio Daily Corp. All i ights reserved. FINANCIAL. (Saturday, Mar. 27) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Tel. & Tel 1695/8 169'/2 169'/2 ...... Crosley Radio 24 24 24 — % Gen. Electric 577/8 573/8 57% + % North American 54 54 54 — y8 RCA Common HV4 ll'/s ll'A + Vs RCA First Pfd 76% 76V4 76% ..... Stewart Warner .... 19y8 18% 19'/8 + Vs NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Majestic 4l/4 4V4 4% + /« Nat. Union Radio.. 3Vs 3 3'/8 + Vs Spot Series, Kid Club For Wesson Oil on Wor Wesson Oil & Snowdrift Sales Co., New Orleans, will start a spot program in the WOR-Uncle Don participation hour on March 31, with announcements Mondays through Saturdays, 6:30-7 p.m. Beginning April 7 the sponsor will start the "Veg-Eat-Ers" children's club which will encourage children to cat vegetables prepared with Wesson Oil. All entrants in the club will receive membership cards and a recipe book for their mothers. Later a premium will be announced on the program. Calkins & Holden Inc., has the account. Hugh Shields to Stump Bridgeport — Hugh Shields will take a leave of absence from WICC during April to fill speaking engagements in various eastern cities. March 29 Greetings from Radio Daily to William H. Ensign Joe Cook A THE WEEK IN I 4111 . . . Transamerican and WLW Wire (Continued from Page 1) — — — — — ^ less in radio himself, one connection being none other than WHIO. Revised music code for the pop music industry was okayed by the music men and forwarded to the Federal Trade Commission . . . radio is concerned with the fair trade practice clause therein . . . Resale of station licenses was attacked in Congress, by Wigglesworth (Rp., Mass.) who again harped on the over-worked monopoly cry . . . bill calling for state radio control and for the acquisition of WGST in Atlanta, was Georgia's legislative move . . . both houses in Washington passed the bill providing that actual operation of all transmitting apparatus in any station for which a license is required, shall be carried on only by persons holding an operator's license . . measure went to the White House . . . Jesse Butcher joined the station relations staff of NBC . . . NBC incidentally took on three additional outlets in WLEU, Erie; WRTD, in Richmond, and KANS, Wichita . . . giving the web a total of 121 . . . contest statistics revealed 217 contests and offers were used on CBS in 1936 . . . eign radio is showing signs of going commercial to a greater extent than the limited spots now active in France, Spain, and Luxembourg . . . Scandinavian countries and Austria are beginning to see the light ... at least an opening wedge is being made . . . CBS annual stockholders' meeting voted for a two-for-one stock splitup .. . 1,500,000 shares of $5 par value will be increased to 3,000,000 shares of $2.50 par value . . . Frank White was elected treasurer, succeeding Mefford R. Runyon, who is to devote all of his time to general executive work. New WISN Transmitter In Operation by June 1 Milwaukee— WISN, the CBS affiliate here, expects to have its new 1000 watt RCA transmitter with its new vertical antenna in operation by June 1, the station announces. Construction of a new transmitter house atop the Public Service Bldg., is scheduled for completion about April 15, dovetailing with the arrival of the transmitter from Camden where it is now being built. When completed the building will include all modern conveniences for the comfort of the engineers such as air conditioning, modern lighting, and shower bath. Blaw-Knox is constructing a 254foot vertical antenna with a 100 watt airway beacon with flasher on top as an aid to aviation. Plans for the dedication program will be announced soon. G. W. Grignon is manager of WISN. which is owned by Hearst Radio Inc. Mutual System to Air Two Shows from Coast Mutual Instant Reversal Goes Into Effect May 15 Mutual Broadcasting System on May 15 will have in effect an instant reversal line to the Coast and Don Lee web. Complete switch now takes 15 minutes to put through, unless there is a split feed in effect with each half of the chain already hooked up. Bing Crosby Real-Estater Wrst Coast Bureau of THE RADIO DAILY Hollywood — Bing Crosby has enlarged his field of activity to include the real estate business. A new office building, now under construction in Hollywood, is being built by him. The Rockwell-O'Keefe offices will occupy the penthouse. (Continued from Page 1) be none other than "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight." Former movie stars of the silent era who will be heard on the show include: William Desmond, Clara Kimball Young. Maurice Costello. Minta Durfee Arbuckle. William Farnum, Lionel Atwill and others. First show is scheduled for Saturday, April 3 at 9:30-10 p.m. Until April 24, this program will alternate (on WOR) with the Chicago Symphony, after which the meller will be a regular feature. Later in the month, Tuesdays 1011 p.m., Don Lee studios will also feed the coast program called "Sing Time," a community sing with comedy, now heard over KHJ in cooperation with the Fox West Coast Theaters. Although a commercial on the Coast it will arrive in the East as a sustaining. Talent includes Ed Lowry, Harry Savoy, Joe Marks, Milton Watson, Peggy Bernier and the Bryant Sisters. Bert Phillips Starting Transcription Service West Coast Bureau of THE RADIO DAILY Los Angeles — Bert A. Phillips, former sales manager for MacGreggor & Sollie, and before that sales chief for Don Lee Columbia office, is launching into the transcription business, which will build up a library exclusively of dramatic transcriptions. Library expected to go into service April 15, under name of Consolidated Transcriptions Co. Offices at 553 South Western Ave. • cominc and come DONALD FLAMM, president of the Inter-City network, left Saturday for a seven-day cruise to Havana and Nassau. DON SHAW, radio head of McCann-Erickson, Inc., is back in town after a trek through the west. DEANNA DURBIN arrived in Philadelphia on Saturday for recording on her new picture. JAMES BEGLEY and AL WOTTEN of KYW's program department and J. F. M PROULX office manager, and their wives, spent Easter Sunday in Magog, Canada. MABEL ALBERTSON. who writes and acts in Joe Rines' NBC show, will leave within a month for a honeymoon with her husband. KEN ENGLUND, comedy script writer. They will tour California for three months and then a cruise to Hawaii. MICKEY ALPERT returned today from a holiday trek to Boston. HENRY PHELPS, chairman of the board of the American Can Co., sailed Saturday on the Santa Paula for southern ports. HERBERT PETTY, WHN associate director, to Washington, D. C , on business. CONRAD THIBAULT leaves the coast after his April 13 Fred Astaire show date and flies east to keep a Lehigh University concert engagement, after which he hops back to Hollywood for the April 20 show. KIRBY CUSHING, sports commentator for KYW, Philadelphia, leaves for Florida today to cover the training camps. Will return on April 10. A. W. DANNENBAUM, president of WDAS. Philadelphia, back at his desk after a trip to the West Indies. DAVE RUBINOFF leaves today for a concert tonight at Bristol, Conn. Rippling Rhythm Revue Undergoing Cast Changes Rippling Rhythm Revue, heard over the NBC-Blue net on Sunday, 9-9:30 p.m., is undergoing a change in personnel. The Canovas, scheduled to make a movie, leave for Hollywood today. With six weeks remaining on their present contract, the comedians are attempting to drop amiably from the show. Next Sunday they will be piped in via special wires from the west coast. The following week will probably see a new comedy act stepping in and the Canovas absent. At present sponsors are attempting to sign a comedian who will effectively emcee the show. George Jessel, who did some guest shots on the program recently, definitely will not be signed. Frank Parker and Shep Fields' orchestra remain. Lennen & Mitchell is the agency. KANS Boosting Power Wichita, Kas. — KANS, which has just affiliated with NBC, is applying to the FCC for an increase in power and a change of frequency. Furgason & Aston are the station's national reps.