Radio daily (July-Sept 1937)

8 RADIO DAILY Monday, August 16. 1937 GET BETTER WOR TERNS Caasi-U-Coasl {Continued from Page 1) with Frank Knight as alternate, the AGRAP bargaining committee, have been going on for the past six weeks. Wage increase clause contains provisions for graduated increases in scale for the future. Terms also call for a 40-hour elapsed week, plus increased benefits for its members in respect to vacations, leaves of absence and preferential re-employment. Other terms of contract are: two weeks' notice of discharge; all disputes between WOR and its AGRAP men must be arbitrated; management must classify its producer section so that senior directors will build and direct the more important shows and receive the highest salary. WOR is the third New York station to sign with the AGRAP in the past few months. WMCA and WABC are the other chapters. Bower is president of the AGRAP-WOR group; Barnes, vice-president, and Ray Winters, secretary and treasurer. Roy Langham, AGRAP president, refused to say what the union's next move would be. Union is said to have a large membership in other stations around the country. "Universal Rhythm" Spot Is Relinquished by Ford (Continued from Page 1) its fall series that gets under way in October. Pet formerly had signed for the 8-8:30 period the same night. "Universal Rhythm" is now being heard at 9 p.m. on Sundays, but will have to move out of the spot when the "Ford Sunday Evening Hour" returns Sept. 12. Whether Ford intends to cancel the "Rhythm" show entirely or switch it to another CBS spot is not announced. Network has a contract with Ford covering three shows, the two mentioned and the Al Pearce and his gang half-hour. LEO BOLLEY, Tydol aircaster over WGY, Schenectady, has quite a schedule. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday he has the 6:45-7 p.m. sports program over WGY, and then hops a train back to Syracuse for a late night airing over WSYR. Leo has just returned from his vacation in New England and a turn at tjie races in Saratoga. Al Poska, chief announcer of KEHE, Los Angeles, is in Lincoln, Neb., vi-iting his parents this week. Poska was formerly chief announcer of KFAB. WOW, Omaha: Manager and Mrs. John J. Gillin, Jr. are vacationing at Lake Tanacomah in the Missouri Ozarks, being guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Shary of Texas at the latter's summer home . . . News Editor Foster May has returned from a short vacation in Colorado . . . Helen Lewis vacationed at Excelsior Springs, Mo., while Betty Bauer and Lois Green went to Lake Okoboji, la. . . . The program of the Rev. R. R. Brown, radio pastor, was broadcast from Lake Okoboji during the World Radio Congregation's annual convention . . . Evelyn Mason, recently resigned day hostess, and her husband. Fred Gilmore of Omaha, are honeymooning in the west. Joe Hasel, WNYC's tennis sports commentator, will be at the mike Aug. 20-21 for the airing of the Wightman Cup Tennis Matches from Forest Hills, L. I. WICC, Bridgeport: Garo Ray, chief operator, began vacationing yesterday . . . Anne-Marie Rowe and Mack Parker have birthdays this month. Star Radio Programs, at a meeting last week presided over by Burke Joyce, discussed plans for new fall programs. "Adventures of Dexter Randolph," serial, is now ready, arranged for one-man production. Herbert Mertz and his orchestra and string ensemble of WJBK, Detroit, are out of the city on threeweek vacations. Organist Fred Fenton of the station also is away on vacations. They return early in September. WCAE, Pittsburgh: Dorothy Devlin, star on many programs, leaves this week for New York with high hopes . . . Cliff Daniel will visit his old boss Ed Harvey in New York while on vacation . . . Norman Twigger is bound for Marblehead, Mar:s., and some deepsea fishing with former WCAE Chief Engineer Harry Bixbee Sr. . . . Jimmy Murray will sub for Twigger on the writing end, with Carl Dozer as the voice . . . Dorothy Yellig and Vera Neding are new staff additions. Stanley Altschuler, foreign program director of WHK-WJAY, Cleveland, scored another laugh. last week, at the expense of Don Dewhirst, WHK-WJAY baritone. He asked Dewhirst to sing Gounod's "Song of the Golden Calf" on a nationality program. Dewhirst refused. He is very sensitive about his curly golden hair. Bob Hope, the golf bug, hit the pill around plenty last week to come in third in the 10th. annual Green Meadow Invitation Tourney at Harrison, N. Y. He feels grand, not so much because he came in third, but because he beat Babe Ruth and collected a sizable bet. KFRU, Columbia, Mo.: Margaret King. Musical Clock Girl, will spend two weeks in Chicago vacationing . . . Also on recess list the last half of August are Dave Frederick, continuity writer, and Foster Browne, accordionist. Steve Douglas, Joe Gentile and Art Sutton of CKLW will be at the mike for the Detroit Gold Cup Regatta, Sept. 4-6, airing over Mutual. Charles Scanlon, former Broadway tenor and now a Bridgeport nitery owner, is readying a WICC sustaining series. WMCA programs are now being included on the radio channel of Hotel Lincoln, giving the station five midtown hotel connections. INS claims it was two minutes ahead of the other press services in flashing the news that President Roosevelt had named Senator Black for the Supreme Court. George R. Holmes handled the INS story on Black. Walter Howard, announcer at WBRY, Waterbury, is on the sick list. Jack Henry, WBRY's New Haven super, starts vacation this week. BiH Treadwell, who writes the Uncle Don Radio program, has been signed for two shorts to go into production shortly. Clyde Burke, young baritone featured with Nat Brusiloff's orchestra on WMCA Sunday nights, is going places this fall. He is already scheduled for a series of appearances on "Hammerstein Music Hall" in September and is auditioning for "Hit Parade" as well as making screen tests for Hollywood. Joan Irving has resigned from the WOR engineering department as a result of her marriage to Edgar S. Hassard. NEA PROGRAM SERVICE BEING STARTED SEPT. 27 (Continued from Page 1) cessed for radio use, for every type of program, commercial or sustaining. As per policy recently announced, service will be exclusive in each market area and the features will be offered only as a group, according to Stephen Slesinger Inc., exclusive NEA radio representatives. Maxwell Hage, who has been supervising production, will henceforth devote all his time to sales and promotion. Cost of service will be gauged according to outlet power and market area. E. R. (Jerry) McGill, producer and writer, will be radio editorial supervisor. McGill recently wrote the "Bambi" radio continuity for Helen Hayes, "The Cavalcade of America," the Packard show and other network productions. Fidler as Film Producer West Coast Bureau. RAiDIO DAILY Los Angeles — Jimmy Fidler branches out as a film producer as well as chatterer. His "Hollywood Parade," compilation of slips from good and bad ones of another decade, was previewed the other night and was good for many laughs, as always. Dead and gone stars passed in review, but the subject was sympathetically and capably handled by Ralph Staub. producer and long in charge of short subjects production for Columbia, and a series of three or four is planned. Merchants' Co-op Program Portland, Ore. — Merchants and business men of Vancouver, Wash., will cooperatively sponsor shows from the Castle Theater of that city by remote control over KXL. Kenneth Higgins to Marry West Coast Bur., RADIO DAILY Hollywood — Kenneth Higgins, radio producer, and Lucille Lund, film actress, will be married late this month. Corinna Mura at Saratoga Corinna Mura, WOR-Mutual vocalist, has been signed for the rest of the season at Arrowhead Inn. Saratoga. Frank Moore Studio Players presented a 90-minute airing of "Romeo and Juliet" via KFAB, Lincoln, ten years ago. Moore is now ace cameraman for Chicago Tribune. CNC MINUTE INTERVIEW JOHN J. ANTHONY "Radio is raising the cultural level of America at a faster rate than ever before in the history of our nation. As a means of doing 'good,' radio is supreme. We who are alive today are indeed a fortunate people for having at our command an instrument through which we have been able to bring nations and peoples closer to each other than ever before. The world's mind is being improved and because of this the world's actions will be bettered. All this is directly due to the lasting influence of radio."