Radio daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

Tuesday. February 8, 1938 RADIO DAILY Vol. 3. No. 27 Tues., Feb. 8, 1938 Price 5 Cts. JOHN W. ALICOATE : : Publisher 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. Merser eau. 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. Holly wood, 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 ( Monday , Feb. 7) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANCE Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Tel. Cx Tel 13334 1321/2 1331/8 — % Gen. Electric 39% 381/2 381/2 — 3/4 RCA Common 6% 57/g 6 — % RCA First Pfd 45% 45 45% — % Westinghouse 921/4 901/4 90% — 1% Zenith Radio 13 12% 127/g ’A NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Nat. Union Radio 3/4 % 3/4 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Stromberg Carlson 53A Asked 63/4 Central States System Signs With Technicians (Continued from Page 1) year man; senior supervisors, starting at $238.33 to $260 top. Agreement also gives time and a half pay for overtime, six holidays a year, paid vacations and dismissal notice of two weeks. Ray McGrath, Omaha attorney, and D. J. Dunlop, ABT business manager from Chicago, handled negotiations for the technicians who are ABT members 100 per cent. Technicians at WAAW, Omaha, will be negotiated for during the week. WOW technicians have no wage-hour grievances and are organizing an independent union. CSBS technicians said they would walk out unless demands were met. Searle agreed to demands just in time to avert a strike. Searle and union representatives will meet this week to prepare a formal contract. MORE for your RADIO DOLLAR INTERSTATE BROADCASTING CO. 730 Fifth Ave., New York NF/T WORK SONG FAVORITES Following is an accurate list of performances for the week ending Feb. 5 covering songs played from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. on CBS and two NBC networks. Only compositions played 15 times or more are included. This listing is a regular Tuesday feature in RADIO DAILY. Selection Publisher Times Played You're A Sweetheart (Robbins Music Corp.) 36 Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen (Harms Inc.) 33 I Double Dare You (Shapiro-Bemstein Inc.) 32 Dipsy Doodle (Lincoln Music Corp.) 29 Whistle While You Work (Irving Berlin Inc.) 24 Sweet Someone (Leo Feist Inc.) 23 I See Your Face Before Me (Crawford Music Corp.) 21 True Confession (Famous Music Corp.) 21 Two Dreams Got Together (Remick Music Corp.) 21 Bob White (Remick Music Corp.) 20 Thanks for the Memory (Paramount Music Corp.) 20 I Can Dream Can't I (Mario Music Corp.) 19 Rosalie (Chappell and Co.) 19 You Took The Words Right Out of My Heart (Paramount Music Corp.) 19 More Than Ever (Miller Music Inc.) 18 Nice Work If You Can Get It (Chappell and Co.) 18 Mama That Moon Is Here Again (Paramount Music Corp.) 17 Moon of Manakoora (Kalmar-Ruby Music Corp.) 17 Outside of Paradise (Santly Bros.-Joy Inc.) 17 Silhouetted In the Moonlight (Harms Inc.) 17 In the Still of the Night (Chappell and Co.) 16 I've Hitched My Wagon to A Star (Harms Inc.) 16 I Live the Life I Love (Words and Music Inc.) 15 Just A Simple Melody (Witmark and Son) 15 Once In A While (Miller Music Inc.) 15 comma and gomg FRED WEBER, general manager of MBS, is in Chicago. He is expected back in New York on Thursday. THEODORE STREIBERT, executive vice-president of WOR, has returned from his Jamaica vacation. ED CURTIN. NBC press department news editor, has returned to his desk after a twoweek vacation. WILLIAM ROBSON, director of the CBS Columbia Workshop, has left for a two-week vacation in Mexico. During his absence, George Zachary will have charge of the Workshop. WM. SILBERBERC of WJEJ, Hagerstown, Md., is in New York for a few days on station business. He is stopping at the Hotel Edison. ALLEN T. SIMMONS, manager of WADC Akron, and HERBERT V. AKERBERG, CBS vicepresident in charge of station relations, have returned to Miami after a Havana trek. Both are expected to be at the NAB convention next week. KARL O. WYLER, manager of KTSM, El Paso, is in New York. BEVERLY T. WHITMIRE, manager of WFBC. Greenville, S. C., is visiting in town. DON CORDRAY, WMCA announcer, made a week-end trip by plane for a family visit at Canton, 0., where he got his start at WHBC Two New Script Classes At University of Minn. Minneapolis— Two new classes for radio script writers open in the extension division of the University of Minnesota here this week. Each will run 17 weeks. One is for beginners, with considerable time spent in writing announcements and shorter script programs. The second class, a radio workshop for advanced scripters, gives them opportunity to get dramatizations and character sketches whipped into shape under the direct criticism of class members and visiting professionals from the radio studios. This procedure has made the course directly helpful in the three years it has been running. The instructor, who established the course, is Luther Weaver, Twin Cities radio advertising man. Andre Baruch Taking Step Andre Baruch, announcer on Kate Smith show, has filed intentions to marry Beatrice Wayne, singer. McKay Morris in "Ma Perkins" Chicago — McKay Morris, prominent stage actor now appearing here in “Tovarich,” has been signed for role of Gregor in “Ma Perkins,” according to Kirby Hawkes of BlackettSample-Hummert agency. Hartoney Disk Series For Eastern Stations Philadelphia — Hartoney Co., makers of Nico cigarets and nicotine stain remover, is having a series disked by WPEN, with Angelo Palange featured in a program of music and comments, to be placed on stations in Southern Penna., New York and New England. AVAILABLE ON — WXYZ— MICHIGAN RADIO NETWORK Mack Millar to Coast Mack Millar, who handles publicity for Abe Lyman, Ozzie Nelson, Shep Fields, Bob Hope, George Olsen and others, leaves about March 1 for Hollywood, where he will center I operations in future. DISTINGUISHED FOR EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE AS A SALES BUILDER FOR A PRODUCT THAT WAS FIRST MARKETED IN DETROIT AND MICHIGAN. A THREE YEAR DRIVE. A BIG JOB — A BIG SUCCESS. 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