Radio daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

4 Tuesday, February 1, 1938 RADIO DAILY AGENCIES ELEANOR LARSEN has been appointed to serve as acting director of radio for Geyer, Cornell & Newell Inc. Agency currently has the CBS Prof. Quiz show for Nash and some spot business on the air for its clients. Radio director post has been vacant since Gordon Cooke resigned last November to join the H. W. Kastor agency in Chicago. EDWARD LASKER, Lord & Thomas executive from Chicago, is in Hollywood for conferences with Tom MacAvity, producer of the Lucky Strike “Your Hollywood Parade” for the local L&T office. WINSLOW LEIGHTON of Leightion & Nelson, Schenectady, and Mrs. Leighton, have returned from a three-week cruise to Bermuda. The Leightons stayed over in New York for the week-end. W1P Seeks NAPA License For Playing ol Records Philadelphia — WIP is negotiating with National Ass’n of Performing Artists for a license to play phonograph records. Decision to acquire an NAPA license is reported as being due to pressure from advertisers who have been switched to transcriptions. Contract under way is said to call for six hours weekly, the NAPA minimum time, which will cost about $500 a year. Station has refrained from using records since the recent decision in the high court of the state and the subsequent demand for license fees. WDAS and WPEN signed some time ago. The network outlets do not use recordings unless ETs, and WHAT and WTEL remain unsigned. WCKY in New Zealand Cincinnati— WCKY has received a letter from J. W. P. Bulger, a DX fan of 59 Galloway St., Dunedin, New Zealand, stating that he hears the station clearly down his way. New Don Dunphy Series Don Dunphy will start a sport series over WINS today, 6: 30-6: 45 p.m. Program will be heard Monday through Friday. DAILY SCOOPS Suggested Listening Tonight! • • • HOWARD PHILLIPS WABC, 10:30 P.M., E.S.T. doing “GOOD NIGHT, SWEET DREAMS, GOOD NIGHT” SHAPIRO BERNSTEIN, INC. Music Publishers . . . RKO Bldg., N. Y. C. Jonie Taps, General Manager • • • Frank Parker replaces Frank Munn on the Bayer show for three weeks while the latter recuperates .... Schaefer Beer program will be revamped within three weeks, leaving Leo Reisman's crew with new talent. .. .Bob Trout is laid up with a bad case of laryngitis .... Lou HoltzBrewers Ass'n show is off for the time being. .. .Vocalist Beatrice Wain and CBSlinger Andre Baruch will be married May 29.... Dewey Bergman, arranger for Doris Rhodes, Barry Wood, etc., opens at the Book-Cadillac in Detroit within four weeks. .. .Tommy Dorsey, who opens the Penn Roof this summer, will do his Kool-Raleigh show from Louisville on the 16th and from Cincy on the 23rd. • • • B. Charles-Dean of the B. Charles-Dean Co., who recent ly created something oj a furore with his teaser-ad campaign to introduce his new radio series, “The Dream World,” which he calls a series of “twilight dramas” and “new and provocative,” is a combination of artist and business man. He has a vast background that runs from acting on the stage in the Antipodes, appearing in films and theaters in England, radio writing, acting and production, selling almost everything from French and Italian oils to timber and hardware, authoring many published songs, studying and preparing himself for television, serving as manufacturers’ representative and importer, and whatnot. All of which gave Charles-Dean the showmanship and merchandising qualifications that he displayed in the aforementioned “Dream World” stunt After doing many other things, Charles-Dean now plans to concentrate on radio. And for the moment, he is busy dickering with interested parties on his “Dream World” series. • • • Jack Pearl returns to the airlanes March 15 from Hollywood under the sponsorship of a baking co Sealtest show is now slated to return to the variety make-up in March .... "Beetle" will shortly invade the MGM show Spencer Tracy and Joan Crawford will appear on Radio Theater next week — a concession from Metro. .. .Edith Dick will be given a few CBSpots. .. .Robert Benchley will do a turn for Kate Smith. . . .Milton Pickman will remain in the coast MCA office permanently .... Maureen O'Connor returns to the Eddie Cantor show after illness .... CBS is planning a half-hour Sunday show for Richard Maxwell .... Bob Crosby will be feted at Leon & Eddie's Sunday. • • • Robert E. Lee is becoming more and more popular as a name. RADIO DAILY carried a story about an announcer of that name recently and NBC issued a story about a Madeline Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee, who is appearing on a current network show. Cleveland’s WHK-WCLE’s Robert E. Lee denies knowledge of the other two Lees, and denies that he assumed the monicker. . . . Manager Dale L. Taylor of WESG, Elmira, N. Y., has “W-850” for his 1938 license plates — the “W” for the first letter in the station’s call letters and the numerals denoting WESG’s frequency. The station’s sports announcer, Bill Pope, is tagged “W 7-11” formerly assigned to Jimmy Wallington when he was east. .. .Other staff members have followed suit with a consecutive run of “W” numerals. Another KDKA Show on Net Pittsburgh — A third KDKA program goes NBC network Friday at 6-6:30 p.m. when a musical show directed by Maurice Spitalny, with Billy Sherman as vocalist, steps out. Mosley at Kingsport Studio Bristol, Tenn. — Ralph Mosley, prominent business executive of Kingsport, has been made manager of WOPI’s studios there, replacing Ray Adkins. GWEJT-ING EUGENE LYONS, author, on “Book of the Month Club Concert,” today (WQXR, 10 p.m.). HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON, tomorrow night. HAROLD J. ROME, songwriter, guest of Doris Smith on “Encores and Epitaphs,” postponed to Feb. 4 (WNEW, 4:30 p.m.). MARTIN W. LITTLETON, on Brooklyn Bar Ass’n program, Feb. 7 (WNYC, 3:15 p.m.). OUR GANG COMEDY KIDS, GUS EDWARDS and JOHNNY DOWNS on “30 Minutes in Hollywood,” Feb. 6 (MBS, 6 p.m.). 15 KFI-KECA Musicians West Coast Bureau, RADIO DAILY Los Angeles— The Earle C. Anthony twin stations, KFI-KECA, are signing 15 staff musicians under the new agreement effective between broadcasters and the union, but evidently plan to get their money’s worth, since auditions are being held and berths given to men who can qualify as soloists and double in vocal numbers as well as on instruments. 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