Radio daily (July-Sept 1937)

8 RADIO DAILY Friday. September 10, 1937 BOSTON Hecker's "Advice to the Lovelorn" starring Beatrice Fairfax scheduled to start on WNAC, WEAN, WTIC and WTAG of the Yankee network on Sept. 7, postponed until Sept. 14. A. H. "Doc" Morton, manager of NBC managed and operated stations, visiting the WBZ studios. Charlie Phelan, Yankee network sales manager, has added a new horse to his stable. The Yale-Army game on Oct. 16 and the Princeton-Yale game on Nov. 13 will be fed to Mutual by Colonial net on a sustaining basis. NBC Boston staff plans a clam-bake at Ipswich, Sept. 18. Jack Marshard and his orchestra have opened a repeat engagement at The Ritz Roof. He will have 20 musicians under his baton. Band will be heard three times weekly from WEEI. Charles Masse, WAAB salesman, is the father of a boy. Frank Gallup, former WEEI announcer, has been chosen to announce the new CBS Pet Milk Show. John A. Holman, general manager, and Frank Bowes, salesman at WBZWBZA, back at their desks after their vacations. WBT Auditor Switch Charlotte — H. H. Holtshouser, auditor for WBT, has been transferred by Columbia to WAPI, Birmingham, and made treasurer and business manager of that station — known as "The Voice of Alabama." Robert W. Carpenter of the New York accounting staff of CBS has been sent to Charlotte to take over the WBT books and accounting department. Shep Fields Sets Record Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra, appearing in person at the New York Paramount Theater, set something of a record last week, the house playing to 152,000 admissions for a gross of $64,000. This is the third appearance for Fields at the N. Y. Paramount. Following the run, he goes to the coast for his screen assignment. David Carter in New Post David Carter, formerly west coast director of publicity for CBS, yesterday was appointed general representative on the Pacific Coast for H. A. Bruno & Associates, public relations counsel. WCNW, Brooklyn, has created considerable interest and goodwill in its area, the Flatbush section, as a result of its "Voice of the Unemployed." Three times daily, jobless of both sexes are brought to the mike and asked to tell their qualifications to prospective employers. All prospects are canvassed in advance. Another popular WCNW feature is the daily sports resume aired by Chris St. James, veteran Brooklyn newspaperman, at 5:45 p.m. Station also has a two-hour variety program on Wednesday nights, 10-12, that has created some discussion. Walter Dale, former legit actor and now an art collector and merchant in Ocean City, N. J., will be heard throughout the winter over WPG, Atlantic City, from the Steel Pier Boardwalk Studio in a series of pianologues. WOKO, Albany: Harold E. Smith, g.m., back at his desk fully recovered from plane smashup . . . Doc Rand, WOKO-WABY ballcaster, led all Wheaties announcers in ad lib prize money in August. WGY, Schenectady: Leo Bolley celebrates first anniversary on Tydol program Sept. 21; he also does a hitch for Tydol over WFBL, Syracuse . . . Robert Wilbur has joined the WGY, staff, coming from WSUN, St. Petersburg, Fla. . . . Gene O'Hare, sportcaster, had R. J. Conners, correspondent, as guest last night on his Kentucky Club Tobacco program. Harvey Olson is handling the new "Star Gazing in Hollywood," fiveminute shot of movie material, over WDRC, Hartford. Another Twist on News In order to liven up a 30-minute news broadcast, in which special events have been used daily at 11 o'clock, KADA of Ada, Okla., has made a novel change in the program three days a week. The broadcast is now broken into alternate periods of news and "The Man on the Street". Timely questions, pertaining to news of the day, are being asked by the announcer on a street corner only a block from the downtown studios of the station in five minute periods, with the news service broadcast taking five minute periods in between. Station Manager Jack Whitney gives the news flashes, then Program Director Bob Kniseley takes the mike for "The Man on the Street". Possibilities of sponsorship of "The Man on the Street" five-minute periods will pay almost full time rates for the whole 30-minute program, WICC, Bridgeport: Elise Menn has sailed for a concert trip to Germany . . . Flu has cancelled Lucy Yeaton's programs . . . Dan Murphy and his Musical Skippers into Pleasure Beach Ballroom and a WICC wire at 11:30 p.m. on the 12th . . . Dick Kelly has been shifted to the field remote group. KOL, Seattle: Dudley E. Williamson, new production and public relations director, and Rita Lane, singer, are now Mr. and Mrs. . . . Clarence H. Talbot, formerly with KHQ and KGA, has joined KOL as announcer and producer. Eddie Wise, staff announcer and manager of the Artists Service Bureau at WEBQ, Harrisburg, III., while roaming the "wilds" of Tennessee recently, discovered a new attraction. The result is a daily broadcast on WEBQ with "Wild Bill" Wesbrooks and his Arizona Trail Riders, unit featured for several years on WTJS, Jackson, Tenn. Also on the program are Angelina and her accordian; Smilin' Ed Arnold, vocalistguitarist; Arizona Lou, yodeling cowgirl, and Mac McNatt and his 15-cent fiddle. Woods Dreyfus, WISN's (Milwaukee) singing announcer, has returned from his vacation. He spent his idle hours driving his family through the state of Wisconsin and Minnesota; they visited the Wisconsin Dells, Devil's Lake and spent several days at Twin Lakes in northern Wisconsin. BiU Lundigan, former WFBL chief announcer, now playing in Universal films, acted as representative of Whitney believes. The theater ticket reward is being worked out, and local sponsors are being lined up for the three five-minute periods. The broadcasts from the remote on the street are made thrice weekly, on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Bowling Matches Bowling matches will be aired twice weekly by WOKO, Albany, starting late this month, with Royden H. (Doc) Rand at the mike. Women's bowling will be broadcast in the afternoon, and men at night. Albany Diners Inc., sponsor, will give a free hamburger to each bowler making a strike. Church Calendar WCOP, Boston, on Sunday starts a new service for churchgoers by broadcasting the time of church services to be held in various churches. Titled the Church Calendar, program will be heard at 9:40 a.m. Sundays. PHILADELPHIA Mirian Y. Birrell is writing a new series, "The Billings Family," for a tri-weekly airing on WIP, starting Sept. 20. Program director Harold Davis is back at WDAS after a New York sojourn. Dave Gerberg and Mildred Cohen handling the John Kohler Jewish language show on WDAS. "The Troubador of Melody" is Don Bovay, WCAU's recent addition to its daily programs at 8 a.m. Bob Gill, WCAU announcer, is week vacationing in Chicago. Norris West and Horace Feyhl of WCAU program and production staffs have returned from Avalon and Wildwood, vacations. Gene Morgan, WFIL's Tydol News Reporter, has resigned to take an announcing post in New York. Fred Weber, WFIL announcer, back from vacation. Joseph Morrow, WCAU field engineer, receiving congratulations on the birth of a 7-pound son. Mayor Rolland B. Marvin of Syracuse in presenting a gold badge to Deanna Durbin, making her a member of the mayor's staff, in Hollywood this week. Ward Adams, announcer, WRVA, is back from a vacation which took him into Canada. William Winter, Charlotte attorney and Little Theater enthusiast, has developed into an overnight sensation as a news commentator on WBT. As a result of fewer broadcasts than you can count on your fingers, Winter has several prospective clients standing in a row. With uncanny accuracy he has made some predictions that have come as true as if he were working an old man current event with loaded dice. Winter has a nice voice and in a style all his own, but perhaps more closely resembling Carter than any of the other commentators. Burke Boyce, supervisor of Star Radio, has a radio story in the current issue of Liberty. Boyce was formerly continuity editor of NBC. James E. Sauter of Airfeatures Inc. has been appointed secretary of General Entertainment Committee for the American Legion convention by Major General James G. Harbord. Alan Slratton. WOV announcer. Is 6 ft. 4 in. tall — and if that doesn't make him the tallest mikeman in radio, he'd like to know. ONE MINUTE INTERVIEW JERRY MANN "Studio audiences are a boon to the radio comic. The day will never come when a comedian fails to gauge the success of his humor by audience reaction, which can't be gotten from the dialers. Delivery, timing and voltage are all Improved when a group of people the performer can see, laugh, smile, chuckle, or even fall silent as he does his stuif." NEW