Radio daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

Tuesday, February 1, 1938 5 RADIO DAILY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT got the first disc pressed of the recording made by Bing Crosby, Eddie Cantor, Connie Boswell, Paul Whiteman and pianist Ignatz Hillsberg to be sold for the benefit of the campaign against infantile paralysis. All of the contributing artists autographed the wax. KMPC inaugurates a new service to Los Angeles club women with its “Social Secretary of the Air,” a daily report of club meetings and activities at 10:30 a.m. Mondays through Fridays. Beverly Bennett conducts the program. Jeanette MacDonald will be the guest of Dale Armstrong, Times radio editor, on his new KFI program, "Radiolo,” tonight at 10: 15. KFWB has a new week-day program, “Dr. Friendly,” sponsored by Kruschen Salts. Harry Maizlish brought the contract back from his recent Eastern trip, and the new show will be heard over the entire California Radio System Mondays through Fridays at 2:45-3 p.m. Joe Reichman, currently playing an engagement at the Mark Hopkins in San Francisco, won the valuable stop watch offered by Fox West Coast Theaters in a contest for the best arrangement of the number “Sweet Someone” from the 20th CenturyFox picture “Love and Hisses.” Joe was presented with a watch only a few weeks ago when he completed his Cocoanut Grove engagement here. Reg Douglass Dead Wingham, Ont. — Reg Douglass, 31, for ten years chief announcer of CKNX, died Friday in Wingham General Hospital after falling the length of an elevator shaft in a Wingham factory building. He is survived by his wife, and by his parents in Edinburgh. Complete Fox Disks WOR has just completed the third set of transcriptions for Schillin Advertising Corp., made for the I. J. Fox account. Spot announcements based on outstanding historical events were used, with Louis Tappe producing. Sid Walton was the announcer. Greetings from Radio Daily February 1 Vilma Ebsen Frank Engle Clark Gable Betty Lawford lames P. Johnson F. A. Mills CCChtSTCAS-HtSIC PAUL WHITEMAN is the author of an article on the birth and probable death of the “Big Apple” in the March issue of College Humor. Jan Garber moves into Topsy’s nitery in Hollywood following the current engagement of Red Nichols. It’s Chick Webb and His Savoy Swing Orchestra, with songstress Ella Fitzgerald, who will play for the Yale Prom in New Haven, March 12. Zinn Arthur is offering a $25 prize for the best title for his new song, tentatively labelled “King Arthur .” Irving Berlin will publish it. Larry Clinton’s orchestra, for the past few months strictly a recording and broadcasting combine, will soon begin a series of personal appearances. He is booked for a Princeton Broadcast Engineers Set Columbus Confab Columbus — Plans have been completed for the Conference of Broadcast Engineers to be held Feb. 7-18 at Ohio State University. Engineers from many stations throughout the country will attend. SAN FRANCISCO R. V. (Doc) Howard, KSFO chief engineer, has the new control room and announcer’s studio in the Russ Bldg, studios all ready. Watson Humphreys takes over production of “Dogs and Gold,” KSFO Sunday drama commercial, while Allen Shepherd will announce “My Secret Ambition,” Durkee Foods show moved here from Hollywood. Vicki Vola has won a role in Hal Burdick’s “Dr. Kate” serial for Sperry Flour on NBC. Cornelia Burdick, Montgomery Mohn, Helen Kleeb, Charles MacAlister, Earl Lee and Kenneth Garcia also in it. KSFO has wired the Gold Room of the Palace Hotel for audience jhows. It seats 600. Natalie Park (Martha Murgatroyd of “Bughouse Rhythm”) on NBCRed, also is winning laurels during the Wayfarers’ three-week Shakespeare festival here. Lee Morse Returning Lee Morse, former stage and rej cording star, has been set for a “comeback” on Broadway within the next few weeks. She’s been playing club dates in the west and making ET’s the past couple of years. She’s already set for guestar shots in N. Y. via the major webs. Herrmann Signed by CBS Bernard Herrmann has been signed by Columbia Artists Inc. as staff conductor and musical advisor. He is now in charge of music for the “School of the Air” and Columbia Workshop. affair later this month and may eventually wind up at a New York hotel. An original number called “Crosby Catfight,” actually a jam session, has been orchestrated by Bob Crosby, now playing his Dixieland Swing at the Hotel Pennsylvania. The selection takes 15 minutes and will be played on one of his sustaining hours in the near future. Buddy Rogers’ swing band, now holding forth at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago, will come into New York late in March or early in April for a midtown hotel engagement. Tommy Dorsey, who this week begins a tour of the East and Midwest, during which he will play at a number of leading universities and in vaudeville houses, returns to New York early in March for a date at the Paramount Theater. Flamm Offers Time For Interrupted Talk Donald Flamm, owner of WMCA, yesterday offered the facilities of the outlet to Representative Hamilton Fish so that the congressman could repeat his speech delivered Sunday night at Carnegie Hall, but which was interrupted over the air due to a disturbance in the audience. WMCA, due to a bedlam in the hall, had to cut off the speech. Flamm stated that the line was cut at the request of the Non-Sectarian antiNazi League which asked for the facilities in the first place. Fish was denouncing all totalitarian states when persons in the audience began to hiss and worse. Don Lee's 75-Piece Ork In Weekly Mutual Series Don Lee network will feed the Mutual web a weekly half-hour of dance music by a 75-piece orchestra beginning Feb. 10 at 10-10:30 p.m. Program, “Hollywood Serenade,” will originate at KHJ under direction of Elias Breeskin, former Pittsburgh Symphony orchestra conductor. Guest stars will also be used and the entire production will be supervised by Lewis Allen Weiss, general manager of Don Lee network. Chorus Quest From WBIG Next Saturday’s broadcast of the “Columbia Chorus Quest” over CBS at 6 p.m. will come from WBIG, Greensboro, N. C. Program will include the Sedalia Singers of Palmer Memorial Institute, composer-director Noah F. Ryder of that group, and Dr. Robert Nathaniel Dett, head of Dept, of Music of Bennett College in Greensboro and a member of the Columbia Composers Commission. Biddick as KVOA Rep Tucson, Ariz.— Walter Biddick Co. has been appointed Pacific Coast rep for KVOA. NILES TRAMMELL and wife departed for forthnight’s vacation in Bahamas. Sid Strotz, program manager of NBC, back from visit to affiliate station in St. Paul. A. J. Kendrick, vice-president of World Broadcasting System, has returned from a swing to Des Moines, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis, Topeka and Evansville. Jack Ryan, press agent, is back from a business trip to New York. He is expecting to become a papa any day now. Arthur J. Kemp of Radio Sales Inc. visiting associates at WBBM-CBS. Bill Ray, press chief at NBC, is taking over temporarily on his news desk while Dan Thompson helps on writing end. Department has been one man short ever since NBC personnel cut last fall. Meanwhile local office has added group of new commercials making more work than usual. Hoosier Hot Shots of Uncle Ezra and Barn Dance shows are starting a personal appearance tour at Lansing Feb. 3. 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