Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1937)

Thursday. October 21. 1937 RADIO DAILY 7 ©ECU EST CAS MUSIC BOB CROSBY, brother of the illustrious Bing, is making his Southern California debut at the Palomar in Los Angeles. CBS carries the orchestra network on opening night, Wednesday, but KNX does not release opening stanza, initialing the following night at 10:45-11:15 and continuing throughout the engagement. Lou Breese and his French Casino orchestra have been given additional time along with a partial change of schedule on NBC. They will be heard hereafter on Tuesdays at 1111:30 p.m. and Sundays at 11:15-11:30 p.m. over WEAF-NBC Red. Martha Perry and Mark Balsom continue to handle vocal assignments. Al Goodman is featuring the oboe in his "Hit Parade" orchestra over CBS. This instrument is rarely used in dance orchestras. Ray Herbeck and his orchestra have opened an indefinite engagement at Blossom Heath, Oklahoma City, coming from Salt Lake City. Ork will air locally. Screen tests seem to have hit Ernie Hoist's band full force. Not only has his vocalist Vince Calendo been screen-tested, but Ernie himself is being tested. Ernie bears a resemblance to Gene Raymond. Phil Boudini, who plays the accordion over WDRC, Hartford, Conn., every Wednesday morning at 9:45, is a one-man band. He is one of the first accordionists to appear with a dance orchestra, and played with Rudy Vallee when the latter was in New Haven with Eddy Wittstein. The orchestra took it "on the downbeat" in more ways than one at Ciro's in war-torn Shanghai, according to an interesting and exciting interview on the second of Ruth Royal's new KCKN "Down Beat" programs. Royal had Frank Sherman, a Kansas City, Kan., boy who has just returned from a four-year engagement at the 3-million-dollar C i r o International Night Club, tell all about it on her weekly quarter-hour devoted to news and gossip about modern music and "name" musicians. Ray Herbeck and his orchestra have opened an engagement at Blossom Heath, Oklahoma City, and are casting through KTOK every night and to KTOK and the Oklahoma Network Sunday afternoons. COMING EVENTS Oct. 19-23: Eighth International Congress and Exhibition of Electrical Radio, Palais de la Radio, Paris. Oct. 21-22: American Ass'n of Advertising Agencies Pacific Coast Convention. Hotel Del Monte, Del Monte, Cal. Oct. 25-31: Exposition of Radio-Television, People's Amphitheater, Moscow. Oct. 27-30: Annual meeting of Association of National Advertisers, The Homestead, Hot Springs. Va. Nov. 1: Inter-American Radio Conference. Havana. Nov. 29-Dec. 1: Second National Conference on Educational Broadcasting, Drake Hotel, Chicago. 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. June 10-15: Seventh International Congress of Radio Inventors, the Sorbonne, Paris. HOOVER ON NBC TUESDAY Former president Herbert Hoover, speaking Tuesday in Mechanic's Hall, Boston, under auspices of the Republican Club of Massachusetts, will be heard over NBC-Blue network at 9-9:30 p.m. Baxter Handling Publicity John Holt Baxter has been assigned to handle publicity of the stars under the management of the NBC Artists Service. House Sales Program A 15-minute house sales program, with music, highlighting true-life incidents of those who have built houses on FHA plan, bowed in Tuesday over KDYL, Salt Lake City, sponsored on a 52-week contract by Capson-Bowman Realtors. DON KERR Master of Ceremonies WMCA Fox-Fabian Amateur Hour General Mills Sports Parade Fox-Fabian Professional Parade Lord Strabolgi on CBS Lord Strabolgi, chairman of the England and Irish radio commission, will speak over CBS today, 6-6:15 p.m., via short wave from London. His topic will be "The Full Dress Debate in Parliament." Dalton Boys for Disks Dalton Brothers have been signed for three Alka-Seltzer electrical transcriptions to be made by World Broadcasting. Arthur Kass of KassTohrner set the deal. The waxing will be done November 8. There are 700 Stations 3,000 Sponsors 1,500 Advertising Agents 200 Program Makers 5,000 Artists an d only ONE Radio Daily . . . and they meet every day in RADIO DAILY to talk things over.