Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1937)

RADIO DAILY: Thursday, October 7, 1937 GLEJT-IN6 HILDA BURKE, Met opera soprano, on "Your Hit Parade," Oct. 16 (CBS, 10 p.m.) DOLORES DEL RIO, GEORGE SANDERS, PETER LORRE, GREGORY RATOFF and SIG RUMANN, on "Hollywood Hotel", Oct. 15 (CBS, 9 p.m.). LAMMONT DU PONT, on "Cavalcade of America", Oct. 13 (CBS, 8 p.m.). NINO MARTINI, Andre Kostelanetz program, Oct. 13 (CBS, 9 p.m.). WILBUR EVANS, baritone, on "Open House", Oct. 10 (CBS, 7 p.m.). LINTON WELLS, on "Commentator Forum", Oct. 10 (WOR-Mutual, 9:30 p.m.). BUNNY BERIGAN and MAXINE SULLIVAN, on "Sunday Swing Concert", Oct. 10 (WNEW, 11 a.m.). JUNE LANG, opposite Tyrone Power in "Ceiling Zero", Oct. 10 (NBC-Blue, 9 p.m.). GENE ARNOLD and NBC Minstrels, on "National Barn Dance", Oct. 9 (NBC-Blue, 9 p.m.). OSCAR STRAUS, guest conductor on General Motors Hour, Oct. 10 (NBC-Blue, 8 p.m.). THOMAS BECK, lead in the Shirley Temple picture, "Heidi," to be on WHN "Movie Club," Friday, 8-9 p.m. Beck was set by 20th Century Fox. FRED MacMURRAY in "The General Died at Dawn", on Lux Radio Theater, Oct. 18 (CBS, 9 p.m.). BUBBLES RICARDO and EDNA BLANCHE, on Raleigh-Kool cigaret program, Friday 10 p.m., NBC-Blue. Talent is trapeze artist and snake charmer, respectively. Former KOMA Owners Sued Oklahoma City— Dr. G. A. Nichols, real estate dealer, has been awarded a $7,392 judgment against four radio companies which at one time operated KOMA. The station at that time was known as KFJF, but upon its sale, plant was moved, thus, according to Dr. Nichols, breaching his contract. KOMA is now owned by the Hearst interests. Conte on Campbell Show John Conte yesterday was named to replace Ronald Drake as announcer on the Burns and Allen broadcasts, effective Oct. 10. Program is sponsored by Campbell Soup, and is heard 8-8:30 p.m. over NBC, Red network. Greetings from Radio Daily October 7 Phil Ohman Ann Pickard Marjorie Carroll Guila Adams • • • Chrysler, in addition to its Major Bowes show, is hunting for a 15-minute vocal network program. CBS is auditioning talent now.... Despite the adverse comment regarding the airing of the Louis Braddock bout, Buick will continue to sponsor leading sport shows — and have made plans to air the Schmeling-Louis fight when it finally does take place .... Blacked Sample-Hummert will establish a European office in London to handle shows abroad .... lames Melton has been signed for the Detroit Expo beginning Jan. 24.... Arthur Kay and Don "Popl kofl" Tannen have been signed to appear in the Ed Wynn musical, "Hooray for What". . . . Bob Carmichael, son of a Chesterfield exec, marries Evelyn Sloan, daughter of the racing commissioner this month .... George Lottman is opening Miami offices due to expansion in business. . . .Walter Tetley, stooge for Fred Allen, will appear with the comic in the flicker, "Sally, Irene and Mary" .... Jimmy P. Davis is peddling a daily column by Phil Baker to newspapers similar to Walter 0'K3efe's and Ken M array's .... As theme for tho MGM's show for Maxwell Coffee — the roar of a lion will be used. • • • Myron Fox, KDYL special events man, was announcing the State Fair horseshow through the station's shortwave mobile unit. .. .Everything was going smoothly, the horses stepping high, Fox's words winging into the ether .... Suddenly the shortwave signals went dead. Studio ops were on the private loop and program director was on the central exchange—with sponsors of the show probably thinking of getting on the phone. . . .However a frantic search for the trouble was instituted by the mobile op and the trouble was discovered: A horse had backed into the truck's antenna, diverting r.f. from a'.r to the ground. • • © Richard Himber succeeds Harry Salter who succeeds Al Goodman on Lucky Strike "Hit Parade" Dec. 25 via CBS. Himber has a new gal vocalist, Alice Marion, who'll be heard from the Essex House via CBS .... Carlton KaDell, Wen Niles, Ted Osborne and Gayne Whitman are the announcers auditioning for the wordslinging spot on the Edward G. Rcbinson-Claire Trevor, Lever Bros, show which debuts on CBS Oct. 19 — following the Al Jolson show which continues as is. . . ."Let's Go Hollywood," KFWB's show going commercial and coast-to-coast via MBS for six weeks, will sponsor a beauty and personality contest with a weekly winner getting a WB screen-t=st . . . . "Have You Met Mrs. Jones," Rodgers and Hart tune in the Sam Harris-George M. Cohan show, is reported as their best. . . .Eddie Cantor show may not come east Nov. 3 as expected — but later. .. .Gregory Coleman will wed his assistant on "Talent Scout" mag .... "Charles Duval" who opened at the Cafe Martin last nite with his band — is Nick Kenny's songwriting and fiddling brother, Charles .... Chsrtes Day of (he Eton Boys married Betty Robertson of the Gae Foster girls yesterday .... The reason none of the execs at Rockwell-O'Keefe and ether offices failed to answer their phones yesterday — was that they were out to the ball game! O • • A pair of new pants was sacrificed Sunday afternoon by Ray Cox, news editor for WMT, Cedar Rapids — all for the sake of a news beat. Cox, with a news camera in hand, was a spectator at the American Legion Air Show. When Jim Christman took to the air to thrill the crowd and lost control of the plane which killed him instantly at the far end of the field, Cox started over a picket fence, causing a considerable portion of the rear part of his pants to be left behind. He reached the crash and obtained a roll of good shots and a complete story. Everything was forgotten till the story was flashed by radio throughout the middle-west, scooping all newspapers and stations by several hours. After the excitement had died, down, Ray's face turned red! it f» C C. ACTIVITIES SET FOR HEARING Mittelle Franklin Noble, Anniston, Ala. CP for new station. 1420 kc, 100 watts, daytime. Cumberland Broadcasting Co., Fayetteville, N. C. CP for new station. 1340 kc, 250 watts, daytime. Young People's Ass'n for the Propagation of the Gospel, Philadelphia, Pa. CP for new station. 1220 kc, 1 KW., unlimited. Odessa Broadcasting Co., Odessa, Tex. CP for new station. 1310 kc, 100 watts, daytime. William F. Huffman, Wisconsin Rapids. CP for new station. 580 kc, 250 watts, unlimited. APPLICATIONS DISMISSED lames F. Hurley, Jr., Salisbury, N. C. CP for new station. 1500 kc, 100 watts, daytime. W. Va. Broadcasting Corp., Wheeling. CP for new station. 1310 kc, 100 watts, unlimited. KNOW, Austin, Tex. Vol. assignment of license to Hearst Radio Inc. 1500 kc, 100 watts, unlimited. WACO, Waco, Tex. Vol. assignment of license to Hearst Radio, Inc. 1420 kc, 100 watts, unlimited. W. Va. Broadcasting Corp., Charleston. CP for new station. 1500 kc, 100 watts, 250 watts LS., unlimited. KTSA, San Antonio. Vol. assignment of license to Hearst Radio Inc. 550 kc, 1 KW., 5 KW. LS., unlimited. COMING EVENTS Oct. 12: National Ass'n of Broadcasters board of directors meeting, Waldorf-Astoria, New York. Oct. 16: Educational Broadcasting conference called by KSTP, St. Paul. Oct. 21-22: American Ass'n of Advertising Agencies Pdcific Coast Convention, Hotel Del Monte, Del Monte, Cal. Oct. 27-30: Annual meeting of Association of National Advertisers, The Homestead, Hot Springs. Va. Nov. I: Inter-American Radio Conference, Havana. Dec. 8-12: Eighth Annual International Radio Club Party, Havana. Feb. 1, 1938: International Telecommunications Conference, arrangements being made by General Manager of Egyptian State Railways, Telegraphs & Telephones, Cairo, Egypt. Oct. 4-5: Advertising Federation of America district convention, Providence Biltmore Hotel, Providence. Nov. 29-Dec. 1: Second National Conference on Educational Broadcasting, Drake Hotel, Chicago. June 10-15: Seventh International Congress of Radio Inventors, the Sorbonne, Paris. Annuities have saved many a headline!from being a breadliner. INSURANCE — / JOhn 4-2800 BEekman 3-0375 80 JOHN ST., NEW YORK