Radio daily (July-Sept 1937)

2 RADIO DAILY Tuesday. August 17. 1937 Vol. 2, No. 33 Tues , Aug. 17, 1937 Price 5 Cts. JOHN W. ALICOATE : : : Publisher DON CARLE GILLETTE : : : Editor MARVIN KIRSCH : : Business Manager Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Radio Daily Corp. J. W. Alicoate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, treasurer and General Manager; Chester B. Bahn, Vice-President; Charles A. Alicoate, Secretary; K. H. Shapiro, Associate Editor. Terms (Post free) United States outside ol Greater New York, one year, $5; foreign, year, $10. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications to RADIO DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. ?hone Wisconsin 7-6336, 7-6337, 7-6338. Cable address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, Calif.— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone Granite 6607. Entered as second class matter April 5, 1937, at the postoffice at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL ^^^^ (Monday, Aug. 16) ___ NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE High Low Am. Tel. & Tel 171 170V2 CBS A 29 29 Crosley Radio 21 10Vi Gen. Electric 58 57 '/2 North American 273/g 26% No. American Pfd. 54 53% RCA Common 1 1 Vi 11 1/2 RCA Pfd 731/4 731/4 Stewart Warner .... 18% \sy2 Zenith Radio 40% 40 OVER THE COUNTER Stromberg Carlson Close 170i/2 29 20i/2 571/2 27 53% IH/4 731/4 18 % 40 Bid 13 Net Chg. — % + Vi — 1/4 — % — % — % — % — iy2 — y4 — % Asked 14 GUEST-ING LUPE VELEZ, BRIAN AHERNE and FRED JAGEL, on "Kraft Music Hall," Aug. 19 (NBC-Red, 10 p.m.). JACKIE COOPER, on Al Pearce program, Aug. 31 (CBS, 9 p.m.). ALLAN JONES, third guest appearance with Werner Janssen, Aug. 22 (NBC-Blue, 7:30 p.m.). MARJORIE RAMBEAU, interviewed by Elza Schallert, Aug. 18 (NBC-Blue, 10 p.m.). CHICK YORK and ROSE KING, celebrating 30th year in show business, interviewed by Bide Dudley, today (WOR, 2:45 p. m.). VIRGINIA REA, on "Hit Parade" Oct. 30 (CBS, 10 p.m.). Radio Newsfeatures Available to only one radio station in each city Details, on Request Represented exclusively by Stephen Slesinger, Inc. 250 Park Avenue New York NETWOIKK SONG FAVORITES Following is an accurate list of performances for the week ending Aug. 14, covering songs played from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. on CBS and two NBC networks. Only compositions played 15 times or more are included. This listing is a regular Tuesday feature in RADIO DAILY. Selection Publisher Times Played I Know Now (Remick Music Corp.) 33 Sailboat in the Moonlight (Crawford Music Corp.) 32 My Cabin of Dreams (Irving Berlin Inc.) 31 Stardust on the Moon (E. B. Marks Music Co.) 26 Where or When (Chappell and Co.) 26 First Time I Saw You (Santly Bros. — Joy Inc.) 25 Satan Takes A Holiday (Lincoln Music Co.) 24 It Looks Like Rain (Jos Morris Music Co.) 23 Stop You're Breaking My Heart (Famous Music Co.) 23 Can I Forget You (Chappell and Co.) 21 I'm Feelin' Like a Million (Robbins Music Corp.) 21 Whispers In The Dark (Famous Music Corp.) 21 That Old Feeling (Leo Feist Inc.) 20 Have You Got Any Castles, Baby (Harms, Inc.) 19 Gone With The Wind (Irving Berlin Inc.) 18 Me, Myself and I (Words and Music Inc.) 18 Merry Go Round Broke Down (Harms Inc.) 17 So Rare (Robbins Music Corp.) 17 Yours and Mine bobbins Music Corp.) 17 You're My Desire (Mills Music Inc.) 16 Afraid to Dream (Miller Music Inc.) 15 Remember Me (Witmark and Son) 15 Places AFM ET Case Before Adv'g Agencies Because radio departments of advertising agencies hire a large percentage of the regularly employed members of the American Federation of Musicians, E. V. Brinckerhoff & Co. Inc., transcription firm, has published the AFM's radio demands in booklet form for mailing to all members of the American Ass'n of Advertising Agencies. Brinckerhoff points out that, despite the huge sums spent by agencies for music, they were not invited to attend the recent sessions of the AFM executive board at which the ultimatums to broadcastesr and ET manufacturers were presented. Booklet contains, beside the AFM demands, copies of communications sent by NAB to stations regarding the situation. Atl. Refining Network For U. of P. Games (Continued from Page 1) as key station for the net, carrying the Penn games for the second consecutive year for the oil company. Station will pump the plays to WPG, Atlantic City, and a web of Pennsylvania stations. WHP, Harrisburg, WCBA, Allentown; WKOK, Sunbury; WBRE, Wilkes Barre, and WGBI, Scranton. Big Turkey Day classic with Cornell will add four more stations to the home made net— WOR, Newark; WTIC, Hartford; WTAG, Worcester, and WJAR, Providence. Eugene Ford Joins WHN Eugene Ford, managing director of Loew's Capitol Theater, Washington, yesterday was appointed assistant to Louis K. Sidney of WHN, effective Aug. 30, and will work in production at that station. Tom Terriss is Starting New "Adventures" on NBC A new series of "Vagabond Adventures" will be started Saturday at 5-5:50 p.m. over WEAF-NBC-Red by Tom Terriss, who for years made movie travelogues under this title. Terriss plans something new in the way of presentation, the vivid flashes of his colorful past being made stronger by the addition of an orchestral accompaniment and singers. Instead of the ordinary introduction, he plans to make this a part of his reminiscences. Pinkham Campaign Is Starting Sept. 27 (Continued from Page 1) ber of years. Disks will be made by RCA-Victor. Present plans call for five quarterhours weekly. WLW is all set to take the program at 1:30-1:45 p.m. Other stations have refused the program because of "copy difficulties." KEHE, Los Angeles, and three other Hearst stations are a part of the disk schedule. There is some talk of extending the WLW Line to the west coast and include the HearstMcClatchy network, but this is uncertain. Erwin, Wasey & Co. has the account. KDAL, Duluth, Joins CBS Family on Sept. 5 (Continued from Page 1) as KDAL. Phil Napoleon's orchestra will salute the station on Sept. 5, 11:05-11:30 p.m. Both stations will be listed on the CBS rate card at $125. Network now totals 106 stations. cominG and GOinG HARRY VON ZELL is taking a three-week vacation on the coast, with Jay C. Flippen subbing for him starting next Sunday on the Gulf summer show over CBS. BOB TROUT, CBS special events announcer, has left for Roanoke Island to handle his network's end of the President's speech at the Virginia Dare celebration today. NBC also is airing the talk. DON SEARLES of WIBW, Topeka, is in town for several days. JIM WADE of New York office of Furgason & Aston, station reps, back from vacation in Maine. ETHEL EVERETT has returned from an eightweek vacation abroad. FRANCES PALEY, otherwise Lee Francis, vocalist on WBBM, Chicago, is at the Ambassador in Los Angeles for two weeks. BLOCK and SULLY are en route to New York, where they will finish some unfinished business and return to Hollywood. PAUL W. WHITE, head of CBS department of public affairs, is due in Hollywood on Thursday to confer with Fox Case, who has the same portfolio on the Coast. CLARK LUTHER of WOC, Davenport, Iowa, is in New York. TOM GOOCH of KRLD, Dallas, is expected in New York before the end of the week. LESTER SANTLY of Santly-Joy Music returned yesterday from a week-end at Saratoga. BING CROSBY is expected east this week. JONIE TAPS and MACK MILLAR are scheduled to fly to Hollywood the first of next week. RAY SAUNDERS, WHN announcer sailed yesterday for Nova Scotia. GEORGE NOBBS, production man for WHN, flies to the Ozarks next Friday, on vacation two weeks. LANNY ROSS leaves for Hollywood on Aug. DICK INGRAM of Rockwell-O'Keefe arrived in New York yesterday from Washington. LOU MINDLING has left his MCA New York office to make a week's tour of all MCA offices and the Coast. RAY GORRELL and DELL DELBRIDGE returned yesterday to their Detroit CRA offices. CHARLES E. GREEN, president of CRA, left yesterday for Ft. Worth to visit Paul Whiteman and the Dallas CRA office. H. L. McCLINTON, account executive on the Ford account for N. W. Ayer & Son, returned to his desk yesterday after a month's vacation. He is in Detroit today conferring with Ford executives. Station executives in town today to discuss AFM terms with CBS station relations heads are: EDNEY RIDGE, WBIG; JOHN C. McCORMACK, KWKH; N. L. O'NEIL, WSJS; DALE ROBERTSON, WIBX; LUTHER L. HILL, KRNT; CLARK A. LUTHER, WOC, and C. T. LUCY, WRVA. F. C. EIGHMEY, manager of KGLO, Mason City, is in town for the remainder of the week. Issue Book on Magic Thomas J. Webb Coffee Co., sponsors of Bob Hawk's Foolish Questions on WAAF, Chicago, is giving listeners a book on magic tricks and how to do them. Promotion job wanted by experienced advertising and promotion man. Five years with leading network on network and local station promotion. Available September 1. Write Box A-105, RADIO DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York City.