Radio daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

4 Tuesday, March 22, 1938 RADIO DAILY PATRICIA KAY and the Three Sweethearts are waxing a series of musical disks for the Thomas Lee Artists Service and a local transcription concern, with the deal being handled by Carrol Tornroth, who recently joined the agency under Max Schall, recently appointed manager by Tommy Lee. Paul Keast, one time Broadway musical comedy star, will do a guest appearance with Knox Manning on the KNX “Headlines on Parade” Tuesday at 5:30-5:45 p.m. Keast will sing a new number paying vocal tribute to Hollywood as “The Crossroads of the World.” Ann Cook returns to KFAC with a new weekday morning program at 10 a.m. logged as “Ann Cook’s Book.” The advisor to women on home-making should attract an audience for the initialer, on which she will tell the ladies: “How to get your first thousand dollars.” The auditorium at Los Angeles Junior College will be used as a “Radio Listening Room” by students for the CBS “American School of the Air” and the KNX-Board of Education series, under maturing plans of John L. Putnam, Chairman of J.C’s Faculty Radio Committee. Faith Hyers of the Los Angeles Public Library now has a book reviewing program, “Looks at Books” on KFAC Sundays at 5:45 p.m., and another KFAC Sunday program, “Living Portraits from the Bible,” gets a change in time to 12 noon. Option on Feg Murray for Bakers’ has been picked up by the J. Walter Thompson office, insuring continuance of the cartoonist microphonist for another 13 weeks. Harry Giles, who has been office manager for Rockwell-O’Keefe here, has left that organization to manage Jimmy Grier and the barnstorming tour upon which the maestro is embarking this week. Carl Haverlin, commercial manager of KFI, recently dug up a station log book covering the period of March to May, 1926, filed away by some now-forgotten technician, which reveals the fact that there were no sponsored programs, and the entertainment highlights consisted of news periods, piano-song recitals, hour-long dramatic sketches and dance bands. The KFI staff consisted of an announcer, a technician and a jazz piano player, and the average time on the air was 4 and % hours daily, spotted between 5 and 11 p.m. One of the I tragic and historical entries in the log is dated August 8, 1928, and reads: “Station off the air two hours . . . President Harding died.” YOUNG MAIN . with ten years’ experience selling advertising, mostly radio, seeks change. Executive ability. Sales last year over $.'50,000 on small station. Would lease or buy small station. Box A-157, Radio Daily, 1501 Broadway, New York City. • • • From Our Little Red Book! .... Because oi the European crisis many sponsors contemplating debuting air series are standing by!.. . . . Raymond-Whitcomb, travel bureau, were set to start a MBSeries featuring lack Arthur and Sylvia Froos (which would take the vacant 6:30 Sunday spot) are laying off because travel abroad has fallen way down!....Lud Gluskin has been given a year's contract renewal as western musical director for CBS .... Ben Bernie is booked for Catalina Island in May — which will bring his U. S. Rubber show from the west? .... David Ross will emcee the Griffin-Hal Kemp series which starts on CBS April 19th and carries 40 stations on the web .... Steinie Bottle Boys show on NBC. Mon. and Thurs. will feature guestars on the Thurs. shows. Gene Krupa inaugurates the policy Thurs .... After tonite's show the entire A1 Jolson cast will be notified that they've been renewed for one year. . . . W. C. Handy, the "St. Louis Bluesman" will be Ripley's first guest on the Tues. nite series April 26. Last Sat. show will be the 23rd. . . .Helen Gahagan replaces Ann Jamison on "Hollywood Hotel" this Fri. while the latter goes on tour. . . .Shirley Temple comes east next week — and guest shots are being lined up for her. . . . A small-time agent just took a six-month option on a lumber plant — hoping that he may find another Charlie McCarthy!. . . .The price of a penny postcard will bring you his name. • • • Carshon’s Kosher Delicatessen sponsored a special St. Patrick’s Day program last week on KTAT, Ft. Worth, Texas. . . . Response was terrific and Ft. Worth Irish Folk have replaced corned beef with salami in the famed dish of Erin — corned beef and cabbage. . . J. Howard Ackley is a real radio veteran, having been with WOWO and WGL, Ft. Wayne, Ind., for a period of more than ten years. One of his main attributes is his versatility before the microphone— as he has announced practically every type of program ever presented by the two stations ... .Conservatively speaking, Howard has announced a total of 15,000 programs during his ten-year connection with WOWO and WGL. At present he is Traffic Manager. • • • Deanna Durbin will be on one Camel show only! She must go back to the coast for flicker commitments .... Fred Allen's last show will be lune 29! .Merrymacs go out of the guestar class by their contract for this show which runs until Allen vacations — with options for the summer.... Ken Murray and Oswald have been renewed on "H. H." for 13 weeks.... Jack Pearl arrived from a two-month coast vacation yesterday to discuss a summer series .... Confirming our report that the CBS "Hit Parade" won't fade this summer. G. W. Hill renewed starting May 7. Harry Salter will follow Mark Warnow on the series .... Jack Fulton has been signed by WB! No shooting date set nor the disposition of his Wrigley series .... Ben Pollack is auditioning singers on the coast to succeed Julie Gibson on the Penner show.... Lee Sims and Ilomay Bailey open at the Glass Hat in NY tonite . . . Ted Pearson, wordslinger on the "Good News" show will be absent for two weeks to come to NY for commercial pictures .... Ramona, former Paul Whiteman, pianist-singer, is forming an all-male band and will call herself the "Female Eddy Duchin". ANN COOPER is playing lead role in Mutual’s Painted Dreams while Bess Flynn is recovering from collapse in hospital. WJJD has launched a new series of Joe Louis training camp broadcasts. Heavyweight champ and other principals in coming bout with Thomas are featured daily at 3 p.m. Tom Foy, WGN continuity writer, home from Florida with a boiled lobster effect. Russ Young has taken over Bob Elson’s Man on the Street broadcasts for Salerno Megowen Biscuits while latter is in California scouting the Cubs and White Sox. Ed Prentiss, young free lance actor, sporting a new Packard. Hugh Studebaker (Silly Watson of Fibber McGee) has installed a home recording outfit. Mayor Edward S. Kelly has a new home recorder, too, and recently surprised Attorney General Homer Cummings by presenting him with discs of an address he made which was broadcast here. Dick Holland, Chicago boy actor who has been featured in pictures (with Bobby Breen in “Make A Wish”) has returned home and joined the Ma Perkins cast. Visiting WBBM — Harold Fellows, manager WEEI, Boston; Merle S. Jones, Manager KMOX, St. Louis: W. J. Williamson, commercial manager WKRC, Cincinnati and Wendell J. Campbell of same station. Todd Hunter, WBBM news commentator, addressed the Van Steuben High School Parent-Teacher association. WBBM is electrically transcribing CBS Friday night Public Discussion for local rebroadcast at 10:45 p.m. Arch Oboler due here yesterday from coast with Boris Karloff for new “Lights Out” series. Betty Winkler, who will play femme leads with Karloff, will be in this weekend from vacation on Arizona dude ranch. Virginia Sims, Kay Kyser songstress, to be joined by her mother for the summer shortly. Mrs. Sims lives in Fresno, Calif. Maxine Gray has shaken the measles and rejoined Hal Kemp crew at Drake Hotel. • • • Gene Pack, chief engineer for KSL, Salt Lake City, became a pappy the other day — a boy. "I don’t know what wavelength he’s broadcasting on, but it sounds like a 100 kilowatter,” was all Gene had to say about the auspicious event. .. .Hillard Hamblin's little broadcasting station at Warsaw, Ontario, from which he occasionally amused residents of Peterboro, district, has been clo ed by police. Inspector Marborough, of the Department of Transport, accompanied by Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized the equipment. Hamblin built the station himself and used local talent. P. S. Police said Hamblin had been operating without a license.