Radio daily (July-Sept 1937)

RADIO DAILY: Friday. September 10, 1937 Vol. 2, No. 50 Fri., Sept. 10, 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; M. H. Shapiro, Associate Editor. Terms (Post free) United States outside of 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. Phone Wisconsin 7-6336. 7-6337, 7-6338. Cable address: Film, lay. New York. Hollywood, Calif.— Ra'.ph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone Granite 6607. Entered as second class matter April 5, 1937, at the postorfice at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL (Thursday, Sept. 9) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Tel. & Tel 163?i 162V2 163 + '/4 CBS A 26 25'/2 25 V2 CBS B 25'/8 25V4 25'/2 Gen. Electric 49"8 4858 49 + 1 North American 23V4 22% 23'/4 + 1 RCA Common lO'/g 10 10'/4 -f 14 RCA First Pfd 69'/2 675/8 67% — 1 V8 Stewart Warner .... 16 15'/8 15% + % Zenith Radio 39% 385'8 38% + 1 NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp 15% 15% 15% Majestic 2V2 2>/2 2'/2 Nat. Union Radio . . \3/8 1% 13/8 + l/8 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Stromberg Carlson 12 13Vz Cudahy Adds 8 Stations Cudahy Packing Co., sponsor of "Bachelor's Children," script show heard Monday through Friday over CBS at 9:45-10 a.m., will add eight stations to the network Sept. 27, when program celebrates its first anniversary on the network. Stations to be added are WOKO, KNOW, WCHS, KRNT, KMBC, KFAB, WHAS and WCCO. Invitation TODAY WALDORF-ASTORIA SUITE 8, R-S STEPHEN SLESINGER, INC. Exclusive Representatives Commercial Programs Being Adopted by WEW (Continued from page 1) has been placed in charge of WEW. He also brought Foster from WWL. Entire program structure of WEW will be changed. Downtown studios will be opened, with temporary quarters in Hotel Mayfair. Station is a 1,000-watter on 760 kc. operating from 6 a.m. to sundown. Lucky Strike Program Changes Policy Sept. 27 (Continued from page 1) repeat broadcast will be dropped, and a network of 75 stations will be used on the 12: 15 p.m. broadcast. Honolulu stations now carrying the shows will be dropped after the Sept. 24 airing. Program has been renewed until Dec. 31, 1937. WCOA Starting Work On 1,000-Watt Plant Pensacola, Fla. — Having received final approval of its request to double power, making it 1,000 watts, WCOA is immediately starting construction of its new plant. Henry G. Wells, general manager, states that plans for the new broadcasting plant, which will be located on the west side of the north approach to the Pensacola bay bridge, include a scientificallybuilt reinforced concrete building which can be hermetically sealed in high water or storms. It will be of modernistic design and of a new type of construction approved by expert radio engineers. Mutual Schedule Changed Mutual programs from the coast will undergo a shakeup tomorrow, with Frederick Stark's "Ecstasy" and David Broekman's "Music of the Stars" being cancelled, while The Hancock Ensemble makes its debut at 8:30-9 p.m.. followed by "Louisiana Hayride" for a half-hour, another musical group at 9:30 and George Fischer's "Hollywood Whispers" at 9:45-10. Samuel C. Fuller to WLW Pittsburgh — Samuel C. Fuller (Uncle Sammy) , director of the Kid dies Klub and other KDKA programs, has resigned to join the production department of WLW, Cincinnati, on Sept. 27. He has been with KDKA for five years. Archie Hall Joins KVOD Archie Hall resigned a position as program director at KOBH in Rapid City and has moved into the production department of KVOD, NBCBlue outlet, Denver. MARTIN BLOCK'S "MakeBelieve Ballroom" A WNEW FEATURE 1250 Kc. 10 TO 11 A. M. 6 TO 7:30 P. M. More Restrictions Placed On Canada Broadcasting (Continued from Page 1) hours of 7:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. unless special permission is obtained from the CBC. Recording ban is aimed to encourage "live" talent in the Dominion. CBC believes that growing use of recorded broadcasts is discouraging newcomers to the radio ranks. Stock market ban was decided upon when CBC received numerous complaints from listeners who had taken advice of commentators and claimed to lose large sums of money as a result. KIUN in New Quarters (Continued from page 1) mitter remaining at the old location a mile north of the city of Pecos. KIUN has an enviable reputation among smaller stations in West Texas, because of its success in developing community programs. At present seven daily programs for neighboring towns are being carried over the station. Jack Hawkins, manager of KIUN. Pecos, and also of KLAH, Carlsbad, has added Transradio News at Pecos. News is being flashed five times daily at present. Earnshaw Adds Subscribers West Coast Bureau, RADIO DAILY Los Angeles — Earnshaw Radio Productions, Earnshaw-Young. Inc., reports daily additions to the list of subscribers for their "Hollywood Nite Letter." In script form, this daily airmail service includes fashion hints, recipes, personal experiences intimate glimpses into the homes of stars and news of studio production activities, all written by Dorothy West in a chatty informal style and so constructed that a paragraph or two may be lifted for insertion in any program, or the letter material used "as is" to form the basis of a 15-minute spot. WNEW's Football First First football score period of the season will be aired by WNEW on Sept. 18 at 8:45 p.m., with Richard Brooks giving results of a dozen or so daytime games. Night games will be reported by Stan Shaw at 2:45 the following a.m. The official foot ball broadcasts on WNEW start Sept. 25 with a three-hour session beginning 2:45 p.m. WNEW will air play-off games in the International League (baseball) from Newark starting Sept. 14 at 3 p.m. with Earl Harper at the mike. Campana's Chatterer Chicago — Sheilah Graham, London actress and movie columnist for NANA, will be film commentator on Campana's "Vanitv Fair." starting Sept. 20 on NBC-Blue, with Cal Tin ney as pilot and Bob Trendler's or chestra. Arthur Boran Booked Arthur Boran, CBS mimic-corned an, opens a personal appearance engagement today at the Hippodrome Theater. Baltimore. cominG and come SIDNEY LYPTON, orchestra leader at Grosvenor House, London, is in town here for a week, sails back aboard the Berengaria on Sept. 11. JAMES SAPHIER leaves for Hollywood today on business and will be away for two weeks. BILL BACHER left New York en route to Hollywood last night after completing a deal for a new air series in co-operation with M-G-M. DINTY DOYLE left for Hollywood last night and will be gone three months. VIRGINIA BAKER left for Buffalo yesterday with her husband, NORMAN WALTERS. JACK OSTERMAN leaves for Cleveland after his appearance on the "Hammerstein Music Hall" program tonight. RUDY VALLEE leaves for Maine within a few days. MONTE PROSER leaves for Hollywood on Monday to transact some business there. GUY LOMBARDO returns from Toronto in time for his Sunday program. DOROTHEA LAWRENCE entrains for two weeks in Montreal this morning. ARTHUR BORAN is in Baltimore for a week ARTHUR VERNON JONES, who has done comedy in West Coast programs and recently completed his contract with Hal Roach-M-G-M, is in New York to talk about radio shows. He is being handled by Kass-Tohrner, Inc. RALPH TURNER, business manager for NEA Service, Inc., is in New York from the Cleveland office and will be at the Waldorf-Astoria, where Stephen Slesinger, Inc., representatives for NEA Radio News Features, has taken a suite for today. PAULINE SWANSON, manager of the Robert Taplinger West Coast office, leaves Monday for a two-week vacation at Malibu. JOHN D. McTIGUE of NBC night press department, off on a two-week vacation. GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON will be in town Monday to confer with NBC officials over his forthcoming Bromo-Quinine series. LESLIE JOY, manager of KYW, is in town. FRANK R. McNINCH, new chairman of the FCC, was in Hyde Park, N. Y., yesterday conferring with President Roosevelt on plans for the pending reorganization of the FCC. JAMES W. BALDWIN, managing director of NAB in New York to attend the associations board of directors meeting to be held here. Sept. 10. 2 Stage Plans on NBC "Virginia", new operetta at the Center Theater, will be given an excerpt airing Sunday over NBCBlue at 12:30-1:30 p.m. Principals of the show, including Ann Booth, Nigel Bruce, Gene Lockhart, Buck and Bubbles, Mona Barrie, Ronald Graham, Lansing Hatfield, Dennis Hoey, Bertha Belmore, Avis Andrews and Will Vodery's Negro choir will appear. Another NBC Blue presentation Sunday will be "Dr. Faustus", by Christopher Marlowe, adapted for radio by Lester O'Keefe, to be aired at 8-9 p.m. with cast including Alfred Shirley, Charles Webster, Richard Gordon, Arthur Maitland, Barbara Weeks, Peggy Allenby, William Shelley, Eric Dressier, John McGovern, William Podmore, Joseph Granby, Bennett Kilpack, Thomas Coffin, Jane Hamilton and Junius Mathews. Lombardo Anniversary Guy Lombardo on Sunday celebrates his first anniversary on the Bond Bread program. AL DONAHUE Now Appearing ROOSEVELT HOTEL, New Orleans Opens at the Rainbow Room Oct. 6th For Fall and Winter Season Fourth Return Engagement