Radio daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

8 Thursday, March 24, 1938 -RADIO DAILY * Co-a&t-io-C&ast > SAN FRANCISCO New Musical Director Walter Kelsey, NBC, started new Sat. night series called “Design for Music” on Red net using Betty Kelley, soprano, and "Four Pages,” male quartet. Aired via NBC, Sid Hoff has replaced Everett Hoagland at El Patio ballroom, booked by CRA. Ernie Gill’s t. c. “California Concert” Sunday on KGO-Blue featured works of staff organist Charles Runyan. Dude Martin holding yodeling tryouts at KSFO with more than 150 “callers” applying, from Oregon to Fresno. “Housewarming,” emceed by Sam Moore and sponsored by SpreckelsRussell Dairy Co., through Lyon Advertising Agency renewed for another 13 weeks on KFRC. NBC actors Eileen Piggott, Ted Maxwell, Montgomery Mohn and Eddie Firestone, Jr. revived “Memory Lane,” one-time fave serial here, for night with Oakland Masons. Agatha Turley, former KYA featured soprano, seriously ill at French Hospital, as aftermath of nervous breakdown she suffered in Hollywood last fall after singing in several pix. KLS, Oakland, has Zanol Products Co. “Poet and Palates” thrice-weekly which invites amateur Shelleys to submit verse. Announcer Niles Kinney is voice. With Gyula Ormany, “Good Morning Tonite” maestro, as piano accompanist, Myrtle Claire Donnelly, NBC soprano on that show, did concert at Notre Dame College at Belmont. “Red” Nichols band was first to play a one-nighter at El Patio ballroom here for newly-formed “Esquire Club” of swing fans who plan to bring Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmie Grier and Glen Gray. Sweet’s ballroom, Oakland, has been only one-night sanctum for years. KSFO airs the Mills College Glee Club of 40 voices on at t. c. Sat., March 26, in Columbia’s “Choral Quest.” Dean Maddox, “Sidewalk Reporter” thrice-weekly on KSFO for Holsum Division ("Bread) of Langendorf Bakeries, places mike in front of store featuring bread and talks under large polka dotted umbrella patterned after the bread wrapper. “Musical Moments” ET’s for Chevrolet renewed by Campbell-Ewald for once-a-week instead of twice as formerly. STAFF changes and new assignments at WHBF, Rock Island: Walter Chambers resigned managership of Rock Island Brewing Company to join local sales staff of station. Marvin Rosene, formerly on sports desks of Davenport newspaper and recently head continuity man at WHBF, has moved to local sales staff. Francis Kennedy, who has been producing special shows for station, becomes continuity chief with Ted Randall, former announcer, as assistant. Martin Bouhan of Galesburg, Illinois joins announcing staff. Frank Silva, WHAM sportscaster, was recently appointed by Grover Whalen to the National Advisory Committee on Radio for the World’s Fair. In addition to his radio activities Silva is a commissoner of semipro baseball for New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. Airing from the Deseret Gymnasium in Salt Lake City, KSL sports department had a busy remote control week. Tom Axelson and Glenn Shaw handled play by play descriptions as well as player interviews of the Utah State Basketball Tourney under the sponsorship of the Boyle Furniture Co. Tommy Dorsey, spearhead of the swing controversy now being waged on all fronts, and vocalist Edith Wright dropped in to wish Charles Daly of WJSV well on his initial broadcast of the Saturday Night Swing Party, and found themselves guest artists on the program. Dorsey and troupe were appearing at the Earle Theater in Washington. Hazel Scott, swing vocalist-pianist, heard daily on Alan Kent’s WNEW noonday show, is now making a guest appearance at the Famous Door. Radio Editor Si Steinhauser of the Pittsburgh Press takes the air via KDKA tomorrow at 4:30 p.m., at which time he will present his theory on exactly how to put on a radio program and what to put on it. Members of the dramatic staff of KSL, Salt Lake City, journeyed to Ogden, Utah in a Salute to Rotary. “Good News of 1938,” the Maxwell House M-G-M radio show, will be re-broadcast to England next Thursday night as a salute to the opening of “A Yank at Oxford,” in London. Several members of the cast will be introduced by Louis B. Mayer from Hollywood over the transatlantic hook-up, with the program going directly into the theater at the conclusion of the picture. Louis K. Sidney arranged the broadcast. Lynn McKinlay, a recent addition to the announcing staff, narrated as the Voice of Rotary. Jack Draughon, owner of WSIX, Nashville, has been confined to his home for the past week on account of illness. Action of Phil Hoffman of WNBX, Springfield, Vt. in taking out UP ticker as an economy move spurred station salesmen to more and better news sales. Result: UP machine is now back in operation with nine of station’s eleven news periods sold. . . . WNBX has been added to Chesterfield station list. Programs are being plugged in a screen tie-up in a dozen New Hampshire and Vermont theaters. The jointly sponsored “Your Amusement Hour”, which folds on WLAC, Nashville, this week will be replaced by “Paramount on the Air”, a half-hour Sunday afternoon program featuring staff artists and Mary Elizabeth Hicks at the console of the Paramount Theater organ. Clemintine Allen, Birmingham playground supervisor, who received a Kate Smith “Command Appearance” for holding a mad dog until her pupils could reach the school building safely, made her actual radio debut on WAPI, Birmingham. Sportscaster Hal Johnson interviewed her as well as the man who later was nominated for the Kate Smith airing. WKY, Oklahoma City will air a weekly program for the local Better Business Bureau which is designed to aid the public in ferreting out rackets before any money is spent. Programs are dramatized skits prepared by NBC for re-broadcast throughout the country. Aladdin’s Kitchen, daily program heard over WJSV, Washington will have Eileen Scott Williams as a regular Friday feature, it was announced by Larry Elliott, producer and emcee of the show. Miss Williams is well known to Washington women as an expert on beauty culture and kindred subjects. The Chesterfield sports program on the split NBC-Red and Blue networks get under way Apr. 18. Paul Douglas, (CBS) announcer, will be the spieler, Mon. through Sat., 6:30-6:45 p.m. Blue stations, which are a part of network, include WBZ-WBZA, KDKA, WXYZ and WENR-WLS. KGKO, Fort Worth, and KTOK, Oklahoma City, new NBC affiliates, will start to take series on May 2. Contract is signed for 24 weeks through NewellEmmett, Inc. i 17 18 19 ! 20 ; 21 22 23 1 [q, I 25 ; 26 1 27 1 28 29 | 30 IV :[S1 Greetings from Radio Daily March 24th Arthur Boran Maurice Coleman Ted Webbe M-G-M Maxwell Program Chesterfield Sports Set Short waved to London on Split Webs Apr. 18 SAN ANTONIO A new air show along the musical lanes at KABC is titled “SwingCopation.” Tommy Hudson, formerly on the KTSA spieling staff, has returned to Houston, the old home town. Godfrey (“Fritz”) Kuler, has left KTSA as announcer to work for KTAT, Fort Worth, Tex. Starke Bros, music store is sponsoring the “Heidelberg Grenadiers” thrice weekly over KMAC as a studio program. Boots and His Buddies, colored recording artists, have returned to KONO for a series of studio broadcasts. “Get Acquainted With The Browns” is the name of Sports-commentator Tee Casper's Sports Parade series now running on KMAC. Frank Stewart, KMAC spieler, is slated to handle the Negro amateur show to be held soon in the Colored Auditorium. WOAItems: Miss Alma Chambers, expert culinary artist was interviewed by Woman’s News Editor Leona Bender on her “Women’s Page of the Air” recently. Miss Chambers has traveled extensively and cooked in many lands, really gave the listeners many interesting and helpful hints . . . President Hugh A. L. Halff and General Manager Beeman Fisher are back after attending a Texas Quality Network confab in Fort Worth . . . Publicity Department has gotten out a one-page dodger plugging Lew Valentine’s “Dial A Smile,” a daily except Sunday morning studio program. LINCOLN Jack Hanssen has spotted Fletcher Henderson on KFOR for a talkfest, no music, when the colored swinger plays his scheduled ballroom date here. Bill Miller has a new program on KFAB called “Chapel Musings.” Consists of hymns and philosophical chatter. Hilton Hodges, WIBW, Topeka, Kan., aired all the Kansas high school tournament (basketball) last week. Incidentally, WIBW’s Kansas roundup broadcast is now handled from the stage of the Fox Theater in Topeka. Because of the difference between the speeds of radio and sound waves, a broadcast listener in California or a short-wave listener on the opposite side of the world, can hear a program broadcast from a N. Y. stage of a large studio before a spectator seated in the last rows hears it.