Radio daily (July-Sept 1937)

RADIO DAILY: Thursday, September 9, 1937 AGENCIES THOMAS J. CARNESE, manager of the production and traffic departments of Benton & Bowles Inc., has been appointed supervisor and co-ordinator of work in the agency's art department in addition to carrying on his other duties. He assumed his increased responsibility after returning this week from a vacation. Carnese has been with Benton & Bowles for more than five years. ROS METZGER. Ruthrauff & Ryan radio director, Chicago, has gone to St. Louis to look after activities of Hyde Park Brewery account. CHARLES H. EYLES, president of the Richard A. Foley Advertising Agency Inc., Philadelphia, since 1922, is receiving best wishes on his birthday this week. Eyles is former Atlantic Council chairman for the AAA and a past president of the Poor Richard Club, now member of the board of directors of the admen's circle. FRED C. WILLIAMS, who has been with the Detroit staff of CampbellEwald Co. since 1934, has been appointed assistant advertising manager of Nash Motors division of NashKelvinator Corp., Detroit. He will work closely with the new director of advertising and merchandising, A. R. Boscow. Graham-Paige Campaign Detroit — Graham-Paige's fall advertising is being prepared under the newly appointed director of advertising and sales promotion, Storrs J. Case, appointed by Robert C. Graham, exec. v.-p. R. B. Blanchard, acting advertising manager, has been named sales promotion manager. Case comes to Graham from Nash motors. Arthur Harris Dead Louisville — Arthur Harris, 64 managing director and founder of WGRC, New Albany, Ind., died Monday in St. Edward's Hospital, New Albany. OMAHA Elene and Sydney Northcott, local radio script writers, have sold a series of 52 scripts, "The Memory Box of Runjit Singh," to 3UZ in Melbourne, Australia. Each script is a complete story of the Indian secret service. Sally Dee, the "Aunt Sally" of WOW, left Monday on a two-week vacation during which she will visit "shut-ins" in Iowa with whom she has corresponded for two years. Manager John J. Gillin Jr. of WOW entertained 25 members of the staff at a watermelon feed at his home. The melon was sent Gillin by Harold Hough of WBAP, Fort Worth, who grew it on his Shady Oaks farm. Gaylord Avery, formerly with KABR at Aberdeen, S. D., has joined WOW as announcer. Announcer Tom Chase, conductor of WOW's "Uncle Tom's Playhouse" every Saturday morning, is vacationing in Chicago. • • • After two shots on the Vallee Hour, Red Skelton has been selected to replace Milton Berle in the tille role of the dicker. "Having Wonderful Time". Skelton will continue on the Vallee show from the Coast until the deal is consummated for him to head a show of his own .... Bert Parks gets the announcing job from the east with the Benny Goodman show, with Bill Goodwin taking care of Jack Oakie on the Coast .... "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye" may replace Bunny Berigan on the Tim and Irene commercial via MBS. Incidentally. Barry McKinley is set for two guestar shots on this show. . . .Nadine Conner of "Show Boat" has learned to speak lines and will therefore eliminate her "talk-double" on this show hereafter. . . .Boake Carter will make his screen debut in "The Dead March", an indie film to open next week .... Claremont Inn will remain open through the winter with Carl Harte's crew and a wire. . . .Tim Marks of the Earle Ferris crew came home the other nite and found his baby daughter with a fractured collarbone caused by a fall from a window. . . .Walter O'Keefe and the star of "Big Sister", Alice Frost, will team up as a duet for a show. . . .Irving Berlin phoned Harry Link the other a.m. and sang a new tune from "Alexander's Ragtime Band", which is a flicker for Walter Winchell's firm. Harry didn't like the song and said "I'd rather have 'My Cabin of Dreams' to that any day!" To which Berlin replied — "What's THAT?" P.S.: Song is published by IRVING BERLIN! • • • New York City's city-wide hillbilly contest finals last nite on the Mall in Central Park had the "Colonel from Kentucky" Jack Major of CBS and Zeke Manners as judges One of the favorite musical numbers to the listeners of KFRO, Longview, Tex., is "Down Among the Budded Roses" ... .When the announcer of the "All Request Program" became rather piqued at the number of requests received each day for this number, he told the audience he was playing it for the final time — and then, before the open mike, BROKE the record! ... .KFRO was literally flooded with wires, calls and letters of protest, one woman stating that she wouldn't dial the station any more unless the record was replaced. • • • Al Jclson starts work on his autobiography, titled "It's Been A Swell Journey" .... Press agent Dave Alber will write the continuity for Newspaperman Connie Miles' WOR show. .. .Eileen (Jolly Gillette) Barton will appear on a fall show .... Eleanor O'Malley has been signed for "Your Unseen Friend" show.... Ben Piatt Jr. is having his schnozzle altered by Dr. Morton Berson to look like Adolphe Menjou. ... Eddie Garr had a lcng talk with the J. Walter Thompson people yesterday .... Carlton KaDell will do some pigskin wordslinging this fall from the Coast .... Loew Theater exec William Downs turned composer with "Walking Down A Side Street" .... Roger Doulens returns to the N. Y. Scene next week .... Abe Lyman comes east in time for the All-Champ fights at M. Sq. Garden. . . . Nat Brusiloff was visited by his five-year-old kid at WMCA yesterday. He was too busy to take the child home — so he called for a Western Union boy to deliver the infant. Later the W. U. came back crying. . . .Brusiloff Jr. had kicked and scratched — at being held by the hand. • • • Dave Byrn of KARK's "Farmer's Hour", has been swamped with farm products from his listeners throughout Arkansas. Especially is he proud of the buttermilk one tuner-inner has been sending — because of his professed weakness for this product.... Rosser Fowlkes, WBTM's Man on the Street in Danville, Va., was looking for a hole to crawl into after last week's show in which the writer of a letter is given a cash prize — after being selected by a blind-folded spectator each week. The winner of this week's prize — was the same as last week .... Mustachio craze has swept WLBC, Muncie, Ind. Newest hair-raisers-under-the-lip are Ed Pierre deMiller, news editor, and Henry "Harpo" Marx, salesman. Clement X. Castle, engineer, turned traitor with a smooth face. GUEJT-ING HILDEGARDE, on Rudy Vallee program, Sept. 30 (NBC-Red, 8 p.m.) DICK POWELL, on Werner Janssen-Fleischmann Yeast program, Sept. 12 (NBC-Blue, 7:30 p.m.) BETTE DAVIS, on Chase & Sanborn Hour, Sept. 12 (NBC-Red, 8 p.m.) GEORGE BURNS and GRACIE ALLEN, on Packard Hour. Sept. 28 (NBC-Red, 9:30 p.m.) GERTRUDE NIESEN, on Ben Bernie program. Sept. 21. (NBCBlue, 9 p.m.) BENNY MEROFF, interviewed by Powell Clark, on "Grand Stand and Band Stand," today (WMCA, 3 p.m.) . EVE Ve VERKA. on "Hecker's Information Bureau," today (WOR-Mutual. 11:45 a.m.). CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, on Lowell Thomas program, tonight (NBC-Blue. 6:45 p.m.). GERTRUDE LAWRENCE and MARGARET McCRAE. on James Melton oroPram for Sealtest, Sept. 12 (NBC-Red, 10 nm.). JESSICA DRAGONETTE. on "Summer Stars," Sept. 12 (CBS, 7:30 p.m.) . ETHEL MERMAN, on "Hit Parade," Sept. 18 (CBS, 10 p.m.). DETROIT Radio listeners got a better picture of the Gold Cup races on Labor Day than did most of the throng of 100,000odd spectators who gathered on the banks of the Detroit River to see the sDeedboat classic. WWJ, CKLW and WXYZ carried sections of the race, bringing results of the first and third heat to the listening audience. The coverage of WWJ was most elaborate. "Children's Theater of the Air" on Sunday expands to a full hour, moved from the Regent Theater to the Capitol, and will be sent to stations of the Michigan Radio Network under sponsorship of Farmcrest Baking Co. Show has been on WXYZ for over 18 months. James Jewell is dramatic director. Raymond Toyo of "Adventures of the Green Hornet", Mich. Network serial, is back from the coast. NEW ORLEANS WDSU put on the third of its special features at Heineman Park recently when it established Wheaties day, admitting all boys for three box tops of the product. Carrie Marone is singing with Auggie Schellang at Pontchartrain Beach. Tony Almerico may go into the Rose Room for the winter season. Jimmie Wilson sang songs from Gulfport, Miss., last Sunday with Ray McNamara accompanying at New Orleans in a WWL stunt broadcast tieing in with the dedication of the harbor at the Mississippi city. Newest of the radio song birds is Irene Shirley. Clark Alexander is now Farmer Clark on a WWL farm program.