Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1937)

2 RADIO DAILY Friday, October 22, 1937 Vol. 2, No. 80 Fri., Oct. 22, 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: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, Calif— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone Granite 6607. Entered as second class matter April 5, 1937, at the postoffice at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINANCIAL === (Thursday, Oct. 21) ■ NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Tel. & Tel 155'/2 15U/2 1551/2 + 3 CBS A 211/4 20 2OI/4 19 203<4 19 + 1% CBS B Crosley Radio 12 IOV2 11 + lVz Gen. Electric .... 42% 40 1/8 413/4 + V4 North American 191/4 17% 185/s V4 RCA Common 73/4 7 7 5/8 + % Stewart Warner . . . 103/4 101/8 105/s + % Zenith Radio 23 207/g 223A + 23/4 NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Hazeltine Corp. . 13 12 12 + 1 Majestic 1% H/4 iy2 IV2 TVs Nat. Union Radio + Vb OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Stromberg Carlson 7'/4 8 1/4 Buddy Clark on "Hit Parade" Buddy Clark, baritone, yesterday signed a contract to appear as soloist on the Lucky Strike "Hit Parade" over both NBC and CBS. Clark, formerly heard on these programs, dropped radio to appear in motion pictures earlier this year. First appearance for Clark will be on the Saturday CBS airing, 10-10:45 p.m. Lord & Thomas is the agency. Stiefel Signs Tremaine Paul Tremaine has signed an exclusive management contract with Sam H. Stiefel Enterprises Inc. Fred Robbins, SSE sales manager, is back from a weeks' trip to Canada and New England states, where he lined up eight colored cafes for rotating revues, and also booked several night clubs. Shows start Nov. 5. Robbins also has appointed Tyler Mason to head the new film and theater division of SSE. MARTIN BLOCK'S "MakeBelieve Ballroom" A WNEW FEATURE 1250 Kc. 10 TO 11 A. M. 6 TO 7:30 P. M. Gene Inge Auditions First Radio "Revue" West Coast Bureau, RADIO DAILY Los Angeles — Gene Inge, former radio editor of the Hearst Herald-Express and generally acknowledged dean of L. A. radio editors, who resigned recently to become a program producer on his own, auditioned his first brain child for a group of agency representatives and newspapermen on Tuesday. Disk was an intelligently compiled commentary on radio programs of the past week, with Inge's personal comments augmented by a "digest" of opinions of radio editors nationally and "cut ins" of Bob Hall, San Francisco and "Dinty" Doyle of the Hearst New York papers. The voice of "Mr. Average Listener" also was heard in queries and squawks, which Inge plans to have answered the following week by producers of the program involved. Harry Maizlish, KFWB general manager, is spotting the program on a sustaining basis and it will be surprising indeed if some network sponsor does not grab it shortly, since it has novelty and merit and is built along constructive lines. New Guest Star Angle Drawing SRO at WTMJ Milwaukee — A new vogue in guest starring has been set bjy Eddie Thompson, radio editor of The Milwaukee Journal, and George Comte, announcer, who conduct a "Behind the Mike" series over WTMJ. Thompson and Comte are featuring personal appearances of celebrities imported specially from Chicago to Milwaukee. The first star to appear was the young heroine of Campana's "First Nighter" series, Barbara Luddy. The next was Bruce Kamman, NBC producer and the German professor on the perennial "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten," which Kamman originated six years ago. Among others who will make the trek from Chicago will be the noted bandmaster, Ted Weems, Rubinoff and his fiddle, Franklyn McCormick and Jack Fulton of "Poetic Melodies," Joe Emerson of "Hymns of All Churches," Betty Caine and Raymond Johnson of "Tale of Today," and Don McNeil, emcee of NBC's "Jamboree." The broadcasts are staged in the furniture store of Nelson Brothers before audiences. Since the guest star plan was started the SRO sign has been hung out at each performance. "Behind the Mike" feature is a daily presentation. Richard Crooks Back Richard Crooks, Metropolitan Opera tenor, returns to the "Voice of Firestone" program as leading tenor on Nov. 1 at 8:30-9 p.m. after an absence of five months. Margaret Speaks is the program's prima donna, with Alfred Wallenstein conducting the symphony orchestra. New NBC Football Series Lynn Waldorf, football coach at Northwestern University, and Francis Powers, Consolidated Press Ass'n sports writer, will be heard over the NBC-Blue network in their Sunday football discussion program, "Second Guessers," which has been airing over WMAQ, Chicago, since the season started. Program is broadcast at 11:30-11:45 a.m. E.S.T. University Students Pick Air Favorites In a radio poll just taken by the New York University "Varieties", most widely circulated publication for college students in the country, 3,376 students voted the following programs and radio personalities as their favorites: Comedian: (1) Jack Benny, (2) Fred Allen. Singer: (1) Bing Crosby, (2) Kenny Baker. Announcer: (1) Harry Von Zell, (2) Martin Block. Orchestra Leader: (1) Mark Warnow, (2) Horace Heidt, (3) Benny Goodman. Children's Program: (1) "Funny Things," (2) "Uncle Don." Actor: (1) Don Ameche, (2) Edward Robinson. Actress: (1) Helen Hayes, (2) Claudette Colbert. Script Writer: (1) Harry Conn, (2) Fred Allen, (3) Jack Benny. The most unusual result of the poll was the number of votes cast for Mark Warnow and Horace Heidt, showing the students' change in attitude toward popular music. Swing music, apparently, is losing many of its former adherents. Grace Moore to Entertain Grace Moore will be hostess at a cocktail party to be given at her house on Sunday evening following her General Motors broadcast at 8 p.m. over NBC-Blue network. Jackie Heller Booked Jackie Heller opens Oct. 29 for a week at the Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh, after which he plays two weeks at the Capitol, Washington, starting Nov. 5, followed by Loew's State, New York, Nov. 25. All bookings set by the Herman Bernie office. TRANSCRIPTION & RECORDING SPECIALISTS INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION STUDIOS 33 W. 60th St., N.Y.C COI. 5-7366-7 COmiHG and GOMG JOHNNY HYDE, executive of the William Morris office, leaves for Hollywood tomorrow. S. J. DIEFENDORF, of the CBS sales staff in New York, is in Hollywood for conferences with sales executives there. JUDY STARR goes to Hartford, Conn., for a personal appearance beginning Tuesday. EDDIE CARRON, at one time with Jack Hylton and lately in Hollywood, has come east, with a stopover in Chicago for a guest appearance over WCFL. FRED ROBBINS, sales manager of Stiefel Enterprises Inc., orchestra and artists representatives, is back from Canada and New England. CEORCE BOLLINC of John Blair & Co. is out of town for the week. JOE WEED of Weed & Co. arrives back in New York today after New England trip. Forrest Joins Mutual Arthur L. Forrest, formerly of NBC Survey Analysis department, has joined the sales promotion division of Mutual. His duties include coverage information on all MBS stations, listings, surveys and special mail and industry studies. Appointment of Forrest creates a new service for MBS clients in the statistical department. Joan Merrill on MBS Shows Joan Merrill, WOR singer, has been signed for the Norman Brokenshire programs aired over WOR-Mutual on Monday and Wednesday at 12-12:30 p.m. GUEST-ING FRANK HORNADAY, tenor, JOSEPHA CHEKOVA, soprano, and LEONARD WARREN, baritone, on "Metropolitan Opera Auditions," Oct. 31 (NBC-Blue, 5 p.m.). JIGGS CARUNA SWING TRIO, on "Saturday Night Swing Session," tomorrow (CBS, 7 p.m.). JOHN LODER, GB film star, and his wife, MICHELINE CHEIREL, on "Movie Club," tonight (WHN, 8 p.m.) FAY WRAY, opposite Spencer Tracy in "Arrowsmith," on Lux Theater, Oct. 25 (CBS, 9 p.m.). GEORGE RAFT, on Feg Murray's "Seein' Stars," Oct. 24 (NBC-Blue, 7:30 p.m.). ELLA FITZGERALD and CHICK WEBB, added to "Swing Club," Oct. 23 (CBS, 7 p.m.). BETTY COOPER, with Tim and Irene, Oct. 23 (MBS, 6:30 p.m.). GLENDA FARRELL and BARTON McLANE, on "30 Minutes in Hollywood", Oct. 24 (MBS, 6 p.m.). barry Mckinley IN "CHEVROLET MUSICAL MOMENTS" SUNDAY 6:30-7 P.M. EST WABC-CBS Network GRIFFIN "TIME TO SHINE" MONDAY 7-7:30 P.M. EST WEAF-NBC Network