Radio daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

8 Friday, January 28. 1938 PHILADELPHIA Dave Mann, formerly heard over WFIL in the piano team of Mann and Irwin, is now in Miami, playing with a southern band. Herbert Stockton is now heard on WPEN with a new organ program. Carolyn Ann Cross, head of WIP ■'Homemakers Club,” leaves the station for other fields Feb. 1. Fred Weber is back in harness on WFIL announcing staff after a long illness. Fern Scull is singing over WIP. Jean Shaw and Dan Kelly are nowheard on the “Cosmopolitans” show weekly over WCAU. KYW’s Jim Aull, p.a., now has two assistants. Robert Ellmore returns to the console of the WFIL organ. Eleanor Starkey being heard over WPEN in rhythmic songs. Piano ramblings of Carol Cramer being aired over WIP. Peggy Morgan is now vocalizing with the WPEN studio band. Joe Connelly now heads a staff of six, in WFIL’s news bureau. Norman J. Hasbe assigned the em,cee job on “Get Going” at WCAU. *Will also do a Hollywood gossip spot on same program. Milt Laughlin of WHAT is now doubling as production chief as well as p.a. Bill Dyer, WCAU baseball announcer, may go south with the Phillies this spring. Anthony Candelori, WFIL maestro, auditioning for songstress. Charles Tindel. WCAU engineer, has been assigned the regular job as engineer on the Boake Carter originations at the commentators home. George Lasker, g.m. of WPEN, has finally moved his family to town. WDOD, Chattanooga Alan Ford is the newest addition to announcing staff. He was formerly connected with the Pasadena, Cal., Playhouse. Lou Kemper, versatile singing announcer, is taking a week off to visit pappy and mammy in Kansas City. Earl Winger and Norman Thomas, owners of WDOD, have returned from a short vacation to Miami. Frank Lane, genial station manager, has his other suit pressed and is all ready for one of his business trips. This time it’s Manhattan. Station has been granted rights to air Golden Gloves tournament. Tom Dailey will be at the mike. CNE MINUTE INTERVIEW FRANK W. PURKETT "Transcribed productions must not only have a good story, well rounded production, technical perfection and showmanship, but they must in addition be created around an outstanding personality able to Impart to the radio audience a warmth and friendliness of manner coupled with the colorful atmosphere of fictionalized entertainment." RADIO DAILY THE RADIO RUBES, early morning balladeers, mark their first anniversary as the cheery “Good Morning” broadcasters over WEAF in their program on Tuesday at 7:308 a.m. The vocal and instrumental quintet is composed of Harry Duncan. Eddie Smith, Zeb Turney, Luke Davis and Bert Conte. WHO’s news periods now total 51 per week with the addition of a new broadcast at 12: 15 p.m. Sundays, is conducted by H. R. Gross, news editor of the Des Moines station. News on WHBF is practically sold out. Of 11 five and 15 minute newscasts between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m., only one is open. Five firms have sponsored WHBF news continuously for over two years. Ralph Childs is chief newscaster. WRBL, Columbus, Ga., has inaugurated a five-minute daily broadcast of news from Fort Benning, largest infantry school in the world. The program is sponsored for 52 weeks by the Howard Bus Co., which has exclusive rights to transport the personnel at the Fort. NBC officials have completed arrangements for exclusive American broadcasts with the Pitcairn Island Expedition, which leaves New York within the next two weeks for the sole purpose of erecting and establishing a modern radio broadcasting station on the island. The expedition is sponsored by radio and other manufacturers, headed by F. C. Henrikson, president of the Coto-Coil Co. Inc., Providence. Two Rhode Islanders, L. S. Bellem, Jr., of Providence, and Granville P. Lindley, of Barrington, will make the trip to the island and install the new transmitter. Bellem, chief engineer of the Coto-Coil Company, who has been closely associated with radio since 1919, will serve as radio engineer. Lindley, who was chief electrician of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition II, will act as construction engineer and photographer. Following the recent Massachusetts McIntosh Apple Week celebration, which included a series of 15-minute programs over WSAR, Fall River, stores in that area already “feel an j increased demand for Massachusetts grown Mclntoshes,” according to Gru \ now O. Oleson, extension editor of the Mass. State College, Amherst. Continuing its policy of presenting headliners of stage presentations in Memphis in informal interviews over WMC, the station recently brought before the microphone three members of the Shakespearean company of Maurice Evans, who gave “Richard II” at the Municipal Auditorium. Ellen Phelps, Irene Tedrow and Lee Baker participated. Genevieve Rowe, the soprano featured on four network shows, who last year was singing in a chorus, will join the list of artists eligible for the Sealtest cash award when she appears as the guest star of Alexander Smallens on his “Rising Musical Stars” program Feb. 6. Miss Rowe is currently featured on both Philip Morris programs, the Consolidated Edison show and WOR’s “Musical Impressions” with Alfred Wallenstein’s orchestra. Johnny O’Brien, high scoring captain of the Columbia University basketball team, and Fresco Thompson, manager of the Birmingham Barons of the Southern Ass’n, will be the guests of Jocko Maxwell, sports commentator over WLTH, at 6 p.m. tomorrow. Duncan Moore of WJR, Detroit, will present a radio picture of the Michigan Home and Training School at Lapeer in the second of the series titled “The People’s Business” at 8 tomorrow night. Four thousand mentally deficient children are housed at the Home. Recordings were made by WJR’s mobile recording truck. James Eberle, announcer at WWJ, Detroit, has run all kinds of risks in connection with remote control assignments that have taken him thousands of miles by air and land. But his first accident came a few days ago while visiting Buffalo. A pavement suddenly collapsed in front of him, pitching Mr. and Mrs. Eberle and their car six feet into the ground. WRJN, Racine, Wis. Doris Barnes is the newest addition to the staff of singers. Her forte is popular songs. “The Classified Page of the Air” is now being aired daily except Sundays, 8-8:30 a.m. CST. New broadcast includes time signals, temperature forecasts, music, information regarding articles and merchandise offered for sale by merchants and a dollar bill to some lucky listener each day. WKRC, Cincinnati Dick Bray, sports commentator, is vacationing in Miami. “Timely Tempos”, new quarterhour each Monday and Wednesday night, features Gladys Lee, organ and piano melodies; John Fielden, accordionist; Bob Keys, guitarist, and Joe Binder, tenor. Marsha Wheeler presents Col. Victor Alexander Rule, lecturer, on her “Personalities on Parade” program tomorrow eve. OKLAHOMA Neal Barrett, Hearst Radio exec, back in offices at KOMA from business trip to Houston and Austin. Geneva Jones, blues singer, has joined the Tee Berry Orchestra, KGFF (Shawnee) staff band. Formerly on KADA (Ada). Fred Branson, former Chief Justice Oklahoma State Supreme Court, has purchased one hour on full Oklahoma Network for address through KBIX (Muskogee) on constitutional limitations. WRVA, Richmond With permanent facilities for several years in the state capitol, station is airing special proceedings such as governor’s addresses and public committee hearings. WRVA even feeds programs on request to other stations. Further evidence of WRVA’s neighborly spirit toward other stations here is reflected in the fact that it has never opposed another’s application for additional facilities. An unusually interesting broadcast was aired recently from the historic old home of Virginia governors. Announcer Ira Avery and Director of Public Relations Walter Bishop handled the program. A series from Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is now on the schedule. KRLD, Dallas Gene Heard, formerly of the Gulf Radio Facilities at the Pan American Exposition, recently joined the staff as announcer, and lately has assumed the duties of program director, substituting for Ruth Clem, who is ill. “Captains of Industry,” ET series sponsored by Servel, has started a 52-week run. WSPR, Springfield John J. Broderick has resigned from the sales staff. He is succeeded by Max Ehrlich, local playwright. Francis LaPierre and his Banjo Jubileers now heard Saturdays at 5:15 p.m. A Son for Jap Gude John (Jap) Gude, CBS station relations manager, is the father of a son born last Monday afternoon. The Gudes also have a two-year-old daughter. Victor Arden used to make piano rolls under more than 30 pseudonyms.