Radio daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

8 Tuesday, March 29, 1938 PHILADELPHIA The Knickerbockers newest stars to be heard over WCAU, are scheduled to go on the air with Dan Kelly, tenor, every week. O. B. Hanson, NBC vice-president in charge of engineering, is making periodic visits to town to inspect KYW’s new studios. Marie and Burton Piersol, formerly of the Phila. Grand Opera are now being heard with the WDAS Ensemble. Vernon Crawford and Fred Weber are now conducting WFIL’s fastest program the “Ole Time Spelling Bee”. James Tinsdale of the WIP engineering staff is enjoying a Florida vacation and is due back in April. Tommy Smith is now conducting WPEN’s Royal Court of Children. Bill Dyer, WCAU sports commentator is back at the mike after a two week trip through the south where he visited the training camps of the American and National League Clubs. Edythe Rodaye and Jane King are now being heard in their sketches over WHAT and KYW. Flo Donato, WDAS’s director of Italian programs is celebrating his first anniversary with the station. B. S. Mass who conducts the “AdLib” program over WIP in the role of “Dr. Socrates” is a local high school history prof. The Three Marshalls, a new vocal trio will be featured Tuesday over WCAU with Bob Golden’s band. After an absence of three months the “Meistersinser” returns to the airwaves over KYW. The Malloys, vocal and instrumental group heard over WDAS, celebrate their third year of continuous broadcasting over the station. Maxine Bauer and Joe Jenkins make their bow over WIP in a weekly airing of “Moon Indigo Revue”. Charles P. Shoffner, who broadcasts “Topics in Season” weekly over WCAU, will celebrate his 15th anniversary on the air. Allan Scott’s suggestion to City Council on his broadcast over WCAU that they print and use stamps to collect the sales tax has been proposed by one of its members. Mills Spooner, WFIL organist is now on the “Dawn Patrol” with an early morning broadcast for a commercial series. Spring Gets 'Em Charles Hotchkiss of the NBCChicago sales department will be married to Miss Carol Jaquith, of Los Angeles, on Saturday. Greetings from Radio Daily March 29 Joe Cook William H. Ensign Harry Von Tilzer RADIO DAILY KMBC, Kansas City, has inaugurated a new series for the Missouri State Library Association, airing the first of four Friday afternoon quarter-hour sessions in which prominent local persons will speak on books and related subjects in an effort to stimulate interest in local libraries. Jack and Margaret Orrison, “Adam and Eve” of the KDKA boy and girl script act, are scheduled definitely for three weekly airings. Title, which was changed to “The Newlyweds” due to the recent Mae West fracas, has reverted to its original title. The KOIN Klock program, with Ivan Jones, Walter Stewart and Frankie Trevor has entered its seventh year. Fan mail is reported as exceeding 300 letters weekly. Russell C. Comer, president of the agency bearing his name, has announced the sale of the Jimmie Allen transcription series to the Debus Corp., a baking firm in Hastings, Nebr. Series will be heard over KMMJ, Clay Center, Nebr. KXBY, Kansas City, has set their spring schedule to open at 5:30 a.m. with a program directed at rural listeners. The early morning session, conducted by Jack Wood, will feature a farm bulletin devoted to rural news of 4-H clubs, farm activities, county fairs and similar events and will be interspersed with rural music. KCMO, Kansas City, will launch a “Buy Now” campaign on March 30. The plan, prepared by Larry Sherwood, general manager, with the cooperation of various civic and service organizations, is an effort to use free station time to a useful end. Dramatic spots throughout the day will be used. KTMS, Santa Barbara, will air, for the first time, the oldest invitational track meet on the Pacific Coast. Meet, which is held in Carpinteria, Calif., will be entered by fifty teams. Station plans to sell program. KIRO, CBS affiliate in Seattle, has announced the appointment of Tommy Thomas as program director. Thomas, formerly an orchestra leader, has been in Seattle for the past five years. Robert M. Wallace, chief engineer of WSPA, Spartanburg, S. C., has resigned to join WOLS in Florence, S.C., in the same capacity Vernon Bushong is a recent addition to the WOLS announcing staff. Three theaters in Muncie, Ind., are sponsoring a program, “Music for the Family,” over WLBC to promote theater traffic. Program, which is de1 vised so as to include all members of the family, also airs theater and picture gossip of the current and ensuing week. WRNL, Richmond, will air the finals in the eighteenth intercountry spelling bee, sponsored by the Richmond News-Leader. From the 130 contestants picked from the schools of eighteen counties, a winner will be chosen to represent Virginia in the national contest to be held in Washington in May. Having conditioned himself at the local YMCA, Alan Hale, WISN sportscaster, left for the Milwaukee ball club’s spring training camp where he will get a slant on the team’s 1938 chances. Hale will follow the team on their way north stopping in Chicago for the baseball announcers conclave and returns to Milwaukee on April 16 to announce the opening game. Neil Searles, production manager, will pinch-hit for Hale, on the latter’s daily Sports Parade and News Flashes. Arden Byers is the latest addition to the continuity department of KALE, Portland, Ore. BOSTON Marjorie Spriggs, WORL press agent, made her radio debut Thursday morning on Elizabeth Hart’s program “Women of Tomorrow.” The debut was a pretty quiet affair as far as Marjorie was concerned as she was a model for a beautician who applied a beauty mask, the process of which Elizabeth Hart described over the air. WCOP’s Orchestra Hall will be resumed after a brief absence from the airlanes. First broadcast will be Monday at 2 o’clock. In the new series WCOP will conduct a contest. The station will offer a cash prize for the best letter commenting on the program, which is an hour’s broadcast of concert and symphonic music. The judges will be Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops concerts; Dr. Wallace Goodrich, director of the New England Conservatory of Music, and Joseph Wagner, supervisor of Music for the Boston public schools. The Alumni Dinner of the University of Maine during which Arthur A. Hauck, president of the University, will be the principal speaker, will be aired over Colonial network on Wednesday, Mar. 30, at 8:30 p.m. Broadcast will originate from the Boston City Club. Bob Freeman, WEEI production man who has taken his orchestra on a West Indies cruise, will be the guest soloist on the Edison Tea Party broadcast on today, at 4:45 p.m. Bob returns to Boston this week-end. AN OPEN LETTER Film Recording ♦ Commercial and Theatrical Pictures • Transcriptions INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION STUDIOS 33 W. 60th St., N. Y. C. COlumbus 5-7366-7 Mr. Gregory Williamson Pedlar & Ryan, Inc. 250 Park Ave., N. Y. C. My dear Mr. Williamson: According to NBC’s figures, of the 19,400 programs broadcast during 1937, 11,476 were musical. The reason for bringing these figures to your attention is merely to impress upon you the importance of perfect recording of the musical portion of your programs. 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