Radio daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

2 Friday, January 28, 1938 Vol. 3, No. 20 Fri., Jan. 28. 1938 Price 5 Cts. JOHN W. ALICOATE : : : PubUsher 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. 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. Cable address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, Calif. — Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone Granite 6607. Entered as second class matter April 5, 1937, at the postoffice at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL (.Thursday, Jan. 27) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANCE Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Tel & Tel 145 14334 1433/4 — % CBS A 19V2 19 19 — Vi Crosley Radio 9 V? 9'/4 9'/4 — Vs Gen. Electric 407's 38'/2 391/4 — 34 RCA Common 6'.4 6 6 — Vs RCA First Pfd 46 '4 45 '/4 93g 451/4 — 34 Stewart Warner 958 9% — Vs Westinghouse 963-4 91 3/4 93'/2 — 1 Zenith Radio . 131/2 13 13% — Vs NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. 1 5 1 -4 15 15 — % Majestic 1 Vs 1 Vs 1% OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Stromberg Carlson 6% 7!4 Sylvester Gross to KGKO l Vest Coast Bureau, RADIO DAILY Los Angeles — Sylvester Gross, KEHE announcer, has resigned and left for Fort Worth, where he takes over as program director and production head at KGKO, the NBC-Blue outlet moving to that city from Wichita Falls. Jean Clement on CKAC Montreal — Jean Clement, Parisian singing star, arrived here this week to appear over CKAC. Clement was met by an immense crowd of fans at the station. His arrival was aired, with Manager Phil Lalonde and Roger Baulu of CKAC participating. New KFAB-KFOR Announcers Lincoln — New announcers recently pulled into the fold at KFAB-KFOR here include Jack Hitchcock and Earl Williams, formerly of KFEQ, St. Joseph, Mo. Cliff Connaway, staff announcer sometime ago who resigned, is again back at the mikes. MARTIN BLOCK’S “Make-Believe Ballroom” A WNEW FEATURE 1250 Ke. 9:15 TO 11 A. M. 5:30 TO 7 P. M. DAILY 11 More Stations Sign "Freshest Thing" Series cominG and come —RADIO Headliners to Appear At President's Ball Here Celebrities from radio, stage and screen will gather at the WaldorfAstoria Hotel tomorrow night to make the President’s Birthday Ball a gala evening. Proceeds of the affair will be turned over to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Headliners from the entertainment world including Ed Wynn, Robert L. Ripley, Stoopnagle and Budd, Milton Berle. Ben Bernie, Bill Robinson, Sonja Henie, Ethel Merman and George M. Cohan will be present. Also Ruth Gordon, Cab Calloway, Jane Pickens, Jack La Rue, June Clyde, Arthur Tracy, A1 Shean, Kitty Carlisle, Cesar Romero, June Lang, Phil Regan, Avis Andrews, Tony Wons, Jack Whiting, Gabriel Heatter and the Nicholas Bros. Leo Reisman, Ferde Grofe, Carl Hoff, George Hall, Ruby Newman, Russ Morgan, Xavier Cugat, Eddie Rogers, Reggie Childs, Francis X. Dvorak, Nat Harris, Blue Barron, Emil Coleman and Rudolph Friml, Jr., will be on the platforms with their respective bands and will furnish the evening’s music. James E. Sauter is chairman of the entertainment committee. New Transcription Firm Washington — Radioscriptions Inc., new firm to handle recordings and sound reinforcing equipment, also sales, service and engineering, has been formed here with studios at 726 Eleventh St. N.W. E. G. Sharpless is president; Bevan P. Sharpless, secretary treasurer; Marie Fairbairn, vice-president, and R. J. Coar, chief engineer. A director and complete facilities from writing of scripts to delivery of completed disk to station are available. Company has just finished a series of 50-second dramatized spots for the Lafayette Hotel, which has placed them on 37 stations through Romer Adv. Agency. Scripts are now being written for dramatized fairy tales supplemented by phonograph records for sale through department stores. Visiting Bands on WJW Akron — WJW is having a good season with name bands by cooperating with Keith’s Palace to air teaser programs on current stage shows and making pickups from the theater during performances. Vincent Lopez, Ted Lewis, Clyde McCoy and many other units have been carried. Call Letters Assigned Poplar Bluffs, Mo. — Call letters of KWOC (changed from KPBM) have been assigned the local station for which license was obtained from FCC by Don M. Lindenton and A. L. McCarthy, doing business as Fields McCarthy Co. Edward Davies to Speak Philadelphia — Edward A. Davies, WIP sales director, addresses the Philadelphia Newspaper Guild on Tuesday at Temple University on “Radio Advertising.” Cincinnati — Addition of 11 stations to the list already broadcasting the recorded “Freshest Thing in Town” serial is announced by Frederic W. Ziv Inc., advertising agency, originators of the campaign for bakers. Following stations started the series in the past few weeks: WJIM, Lansing, Mich.; KSLM, Salem, Ore.; KUJ, Walla Walla, Wash.; WTAD, Quincy, 111.; KFIZ, Fond Du Lac, Wis.; WSPD, Toledo; WJAX, Jacksonville, Fla.; WIOD, Miami; WDBO, Orlando, Fla.; WFLA, Tampa, and WTOC, Savannah. Arrangements have been completed to record an additional 130 episodes of the radio serial which will bring the series up to a total of 260 recordings. Grose Moves to Coast Clarksburg, W. Va. — John Paul Grose, program director of WBLK, is leaving the station for new fields, heading for Hollywood, where he plans to establish a radio script writing association. Grose, who originally came from the coast, has been with the West Virginia Network for two years, rising from junior announcer to his present status. Carl Noble WLBC Music Head Muncie, Ind. — Carl Noble, formerly of Noble and Donnelly’s Gold-Coasters band and recently on tour with Gloria Grafton as accompanist and arranger, has been appointed musical director of WLBC here by Donald Burton, owner. A number of new programs are being planned under Noble’s guidance. New WINS Kiddie Show A new program titled “Kiddies’ Radio Revue” gets under way tomorrow at 11-12 noon over WINS. Series is under direction of Mrs. Sophia Civoru, long active in children’s work, and a feature of the program will be personal appearances of the kiddies at welfare centers. New juvenile talent also will be given a chance on the show. Taylor Handling Baker Show West Coast Bureau, RADIO DAILY Los Angeles — Glenhall Taylor takes over the Charles Flesher production assignment for Young & Rubicam on the Phil Baker-Gulf Oil show, with Flesher switching to the new Rush Hughes series for Borden, initialing next week. Flesher also has a hand in the Packard show, and Taylor’s previous assignment was the “Silver Theater.” ALBANY, N.Y. m MARTIN SPECTOR leaves for Miami today to spend a few weeks with his family. W. H. STEIN, vice-president of MCA, plans to extend his West Indies cruise to Brazil. He left Wednesday. BILL IRVIN, who writes under the name of Don Foster as radio editor of Chicago Daily Times, expects to leave Sunday for Miami and Cuba. H. R. CARSON, managing director of AllCanada Radio Facilities, Calgary, Alberta, has left Hollywood after his annual buying trip there. He will attend the convention of Canadian broadcasters in Ottawa on Feb. 8, also the NAB meeting in Washington the following week. JOAN BROOKS leaves tonight on the Rex for a 25-day South American cruise. TED HUSING will be in Boston tomorrow to broadcast the track meet at the Carden there for CBS. JERRY BELCHER will air his Sunday “Neighbors” program from Indianapolis. FRANK LANE, manager of WDOD, Chattanooga, is expected in New York over the week-end. CORK O’KEEFE left yesterday for the Coast office of Rockwell-O’Keefe. ARTHUR TRACY leaves tonight for Atlantic City to spend some time with his family there. New WQXR Music Series A new approach to children’s radio programs will be undertaken by WQXR during February, with two series of lecture recitals aimed to simplify classical music for young people. The programs will be presented by Marcella Geon and Hazel Griggs, pianists. A series of programs representing various phases of characteristic Jewish music, both traditional and modern, will be presented on Saturdays at 6-6:25 p.m. in cooperation with Mailamm, the American Palestine Music Association. Frances Shapiro, 18-year-old violinist, returns to the WQXR program schedule in February for a new series of recitals on Fridays at 9 p.m. Weaver Bros, on Pepper Show Dallas — Weaver Brothers and Elviry, famous hillbilly act, will appear Feb. 6 on the “Pepper Uppers” show over the Dr. Pepper-Dixie Network from WFAA here. An interview with Louise Fazenda, featured in Warner’s film, “Swing Your Lady,” in which the Weaver group also appears, is part of the tie-up for the broadcast. THE SONGBIRD OF THE SOUTH KATE SMITH THE KATE SMITH HOUR THURSDAYS CBS NETWORK 8-9 P.M., E.S.T. EXCL. MANAGEMENT TED COLLINS ★ *