Radio daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

Monday, February 14, 1938 7 RADIO DAILY NEW PCCGCAMS IDEAI PROGRflm REVIEWS “ Hollywood Serenade ” Mutual’s new “Hollywood Serenade” via KHJ, Los Angeles, Thursday at 10-10:30 p.m., presents popular music with symphonic treatment in a manner that makes for very pleasant listening. Orchestra is a 75-piece affair directed by Elias Breeski, and in the vocal end is the Frank Hubbell Choir plus a femme soloist who registered nicely on the opening broadcast. Things moved along so smoothly and entertainingly that the halfhour was over in no time. Cavan O’Connor Making his radio debut here, Thursday at 12:15 over NBC-Blue, Cavan O’Connor, vocalist from England, displayed a tenor voice with possibilities. In the short time allotted him on this occasion, however, he hardly had a chance to make a good showing for himself. He sang “Lolita” and another number, with the Sears Orchestra supplying musical background. Bob Brenner Personal facts, hobbies, superstitions and other notes on radio stars are handed out by Bob Brenner in this new WNEW program, Thursday at 9:15-9:30 p.m. Mary Small appeared and sang as guest on the opening broadcast. Brenner talks with a southern accent that doesn’t sound too genuine, and practically all the personalities he talked about are heard on major network stations. On the whole, this type of program should have generous listener interest. Gertrude Berg as Instructor Voted “Dean of Radio Script Writers” by the class in radio writing conducted by Erik Barnouw, at Columbia University, Gertrude Berg of “The Goldbergs” will appear before them as guest instructor and lecturer on Feb. 28. KARK StafI Orchestra Little Rock, Ark. — Appointment of Thomas Morrisey, director critic composer, as musical director to head newly added staff orchestra at KARK is announced by G. F. Zimmerman. "Musical Memory Contest" A “Musical Memory Contest”, offering $45 in cash prizes at each broadcast for correct answers to questions about music, composers and instruments, is a new WQXR feature on Wednesdays, 9-9:30 p.m. Program is conducted by Norman MacKay. Contestants in the studio will compete for prizes by answering factual questions about all phases of music, by identifying musical themes, and by naming instruments played behind a screen. Listeners will participate by contributing questions to be used on future programs, for which they will also receive cash awards. G-Man Interview Series The story of the G-men and Uncle Sam’s war on crime will be the subject of a series of Saturday evening interviews over KOIN, Portland, j Ore., with a local representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The official is C. C. Spears, special agent in charge. Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice. With Stanley Church in the role of interviewer, Spears talked during the first broadcast on “The FBI and Organized Crime.” Titles of interviews on three succeeding Saturdays will be “Recruiting the G-Men,” “Science Stops The Criminal” and “The FBI’s Who’s Who In Crime.” WBT Audition Laboratory A new program, “WBT’s Audition Laboratory,” made its bow Friday night, 11:05-11:15 o’clock, on WBT, Charlotte. The program features talent discovered by the weekly auditions conducted by WBT. Jack Phipps, organist and pianist, and Pete Martin, xylophonist and vibraphonist, will accompany the singers. Audience reaction to the singers will Traffic Trials on WMAL Washington Bureau, RADIO DAILY Washington — WMAL, as well as WJSV, is carrying the proceedings from Traffic Court. Series started last Friday 10:45 a.m. spot. determine whether or not they will stay on the air. "Great Sea Stories" “Great Sea Stories,” derived from the literature of all time and all countries, is a new series to be presented by the WPA Federal Theater Radio Division beginning the first week in March. This program will be heard over one of the coast-tocoast netwoi'ks to be specified with the definite date and time within a fortnight. Adventures of the sea from the time and pen of Homer to H. M. Tomlinson’s will be dramatized and presented by the writers and actors of the WPA Federal Theater Radio Division which has in the past year and a half made an enviable reputaj tion for high quality productions of radio dramas. Sea-tales from writers as widely separated in time and style as Boccaccio on the one hand and Joseph Conrad on the other, or from a chapter in the Bible to a yarn by a modern Chinese, will be heard in this new radio series. 0'iuninff Events Feb. 14-16: National Association of Broadcasters annual convention, Hotel Willard, Washington. March 3-5: Hearst International Radio Sales meeting, Chicago. March 15-20: Philco Radio Dealers of Chicago convention, Miami. April 5: RCA annual stockholders meeting, New York. April 4-14: World Radio Convention, Sydney, Australia. O. F. Mingay, convention secretary, 30 Carrington St., Sydney. April 20-23: American Association of Advertising Agencies annual meeting, Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. "Pickwick Papers" “Pickwick Papers” by Charles Dickens, will be dramatized and presented in a new series of broadcasts by the WPA Federal Theater Radio Division over WQXR, beginning the first week in March. KMMJ "The Old Trusty Station" Clay Center, Nebraska RANDY RYAN, Manager Represented by GENE FURGASON & CO. vV0F /% y '<£, NATIONAL REPRESENTATION BY if MTERnnTionnL radio shies