Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

Monday, March 29, 1937 RADIO DAILY s WITH THE WOMEN * By ADELE ALLERHAND " II ILLTOP HOUSE", with Selena Royle. Cameron Young. Janice Gilbert and Jimmy Donnelly in the cast, auditioned ior Compton. also Young & Rubicam. and Rufhrauff & Ryan .... was piped to Procter & Gamble, and reaches the air any day now. . . .The Le Maire "Fashion Show" making its ether adieus this week .... Fay Marbe. back from across the "Big Pond" and British Broadcasting, to go native on the U. S. ether Louise Massey's summer show plans at the hush-hush stage .... they'll jell soon .... Mary Small's calendar shows April 2 and 5 as dates for Rubinoii recordings .... If her scheduled commercial with Jackie Coogan emceeing doesn't hit the air ior the hot spell they'll head a group of juveniles on tour .... Atlantic City's Steel Pier will probably feature her for three weeks with three separate gangs of youngsters in tow .... Sardi's Renee Carroll's tome. "Take My Tip", is ready for the jacket .... Elena Jiminez. WHN's Carmen-eyed receptionist has perfected plans for sometime-in-spring nuptials with Charles Redlick of Frisco, former WHN production man, via the U. S. mails. . . . Judy Canova's going-away party, intended to celebrate her co-starring with Jack Benny in flicker tentatively 'titled "Artists and Models", served as a birthday fiesta for Durelle Alexander, and a farewell racket for Virginia Verrill, who'll go screenie with Goldwyn, and Sylvia Froos, who leaves for London Eve Love and Connie Gates were hostesses, aided and abetted by "Fanny" the educated goose ... .Wilson Brown of Radio Guide, Lester Grady of Radio Stars, and his wife, Fred Samis of Radio Mirror, and his, Bill Roller and Mrs. Roller, Vaughn de Leath, Meri Bell and spouse, Del Scharbert, Irene Beasley, Ray Lee Jackson, and Archie Blyer and Clyde McCoy, representing the musical contingent, cheek-by -jowled it. . . .Touching reunion ... .Chester Hale saluting Virginia Verrill. . . .Give this your credence or don't .... Ripley arrived after everybody had left.... At The Rainbow Room GLEN GRAY and the Casa Loma Orchestra Management Rockwell-O'Keefe, Inc. Radio City, N. Y. and Hollywood ORCHESTRAS -MUSIC DUKE ELLINGTON, whose Congo blues brought about a Park Avenue Harlem merger, made a guest appearance on the WINS Matinee Frolic on Saturday. The "Saturday Morning Musicale" with Helen Hunter, soprano, William Appel, baritone and Henry Silvern at the organ, was resumed on Saturday at 11 a.m. over WINS. Marion Melton, WHN swingstress, will vocalize with the Irving Aaronson Orchestra, effective tomorrow evening at 9: 15. Maestro Paul Whiteman, who left New York on Saturday, will do a series of one-night concerts and dance engagements before he fulfills his "Windy City" commitments. Abner Silver takes a leaf out of the Milton Berle volume with his new ditty, "Today I Am A Man", published by Mills, Inc. Silver and co-author Al Sherman travesty the Berle effervescence throughout the lyric. Charlie Barnet, the collegiate maestro, supplemented recordings of his own music on the "WINS Matinee Frolic" with a personal appearance on Friday. The Charles Verna outfit, newest band on the WIP-Intercity dance remote parade, will succeed Leo Zollo at the Hotel Walton in Philly. Fred Brandt replaces Jack Harris as the Philadelphia manager for Crawford Music Co. Harris will function in the same capacity for Harms. Radio bands scheduled for the Trianon in Cleveland are: Art Kassel, Trianon in Cleveland following Art Kassel are: Glen Gray, April 11, and Clyde McCoy, April 18. The Cleveland spot has a WTAM wire. Al Dubin and Harry Warren who are jointly responsible for the score of "Singing Marine", film starring Dick Powell, have just arrived from the coast. Charles Stenross' ork will be aired as a KDKA (Pittsburgh) pick-up from Webster Hall in a new series which started on Saturday. Effective April 3rd, the Stenross band will be fed regularly to the NBC-Blue network via KDKA. On that date they will have 15 minutes at 5 p.m. On subsequent Saturdays they will present a 30-minute show to the chain, via the Pittsburgh station. Maestro Bing Crosby tried his hand at slogan-writing in a west-coast Safety Slogan Contest and won a $10 prize. The city's crippled children were the recipients of the money. Out of 100,000 requests received by Guy Lombardo for popular favorites, 15 per cent demand the ditty, "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm". Emil Coleman will make a guest appearance on Walter King's "Memory Song Contest" tomorrow at 12:30. Lee Elliott and Her Romantic Rhythm opened Saturday at the Four Towers, Cedar Grove, N. J. The ork also appears on WNEW's "Dance Parade." Bert Salter is representative. Charlie Borrelli, former director of Italian programs at WDAS. Pliiladelphia, back in the Tin Pan Alley fold with three tunes ready for marketing: "Mexican Bean," "Hiding A Tear," and "You're The One." Irving Rose on April 2 will be at society's Knights of Rhythm ball at the Warwick, in Philadelphia. Jan Savitt, musical director at KYW, Philadelphia, and who is responsible for the NBC Top Hatters, organizes another combo at the studio, the Escorts. Johnny Lewis and his band, whose 21 -consecutiveweeks record at the Hotel Netherland Plaza, Cincinnati, stills stands, moved into the Hotel Hayward, Rochester, N. Y. on Saturday. In May, at the termination of his present engagement, Lewis goes into New York to talk over Summer plans with NBC officials about a West Coast musical program. Before they left Cincy last week, the Lewis band was partied by Dick Abbott and Jack Gaulke at Louie DeSantos' Silver Shell. Dot Seaberg and her lads get their first crack at electrical transcriptions in April, when the band moves into Chicago. Nye Mayhew, formerly featured with his band at the Statler Hotel in Boston, will take over the bandstand at the Glen Island Casino tonight. Mayhew will have a Mutual net wire in the new spot. KANSAS CITY H. Dean Fitzer, general manager of WDAF, is back from Washington and New York, where he went on business connected with the proposed purchase of WREN. Barrett King, formerly with KANS, Wichita, has joined the KCMO sales staff. At the Rainbow Grill Emery Deutsch and His Orchestra Unusual, Romantic Music Management Rockwell-O'Keefe, Inc. Radio City, New York and Hollywood CCEJT-INC DOROTHY HALL, leading lady of Broadway's "Behind Red Lights," on Charlotte Buchwald's Playgoer program, tomorrow (WMCA, 1:45 p.m.). CLAUDIA MORGAN of the Theater Guild's "Storm Over Patsy," on Crosby Gaige's Kitchen Cavalcade, today (NBC-Blue, 10:45 a.m.). VRONSKY and BRABIN, piano team, on Ed Wynn's program, April 10 (NBC-Blue, 8 p.m.). NIELA GOODELLE, on Ed Wynn program, April 24. JEANETTE MacDONALD in "Maytime' on Hollywood Hotel, April 2 (CBS, 9 p.m.) KATHERINE LOCKE and JULES GARFIELD of "Having Wonderful Time," Broadway hit; and MARC CONNELLY, producer of the play, and RYAN and LEE, on Rudy Vallee's Varieties, April 1 (NBC-Red, 8 p.m.) MIRIAM HOPKINS, on "Hit Parade," April 10 (CBS, 10 p.m.) FRANCES FARMER, on "Hit Parade," April 24. JUNE TRAVIS and Manager CHARLES GRIMM of Chicago Cubs on Kraft Music Hall, April 1 (NBCRed, 10 p.m.). LILY PONS and JOHN BROWNLEE, on General Motors show, April 4 (NBC-Blue, 8 p.m.) Guizar for Mich. Expo Tito Guizar, tenor, has been set for the Detroit and Michigan Exposition for the week of April 2-8. Guizar will appear at Convention Hall, Detroit. Paul Ross of Columbia Artists, Inc. set deal. For Electrical Lighting Equipment of Any Kind MOTION PICTURE LIGHTING AND EQUIPMENT CORP. 244-250 West 49th St. New York Tel. CHic. 4-2074