Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

RADIO DAILY: Monday, October 24, 1949 LOS ANGELES By ALLEN KUSHNER WALTER McCRERRY, president of Walter McCrerry, Inc., left on October 19th for Chicago to discuss national advertising and promotional campaign with the producers of Shipstads & Johnson Ice Follies of 1950. McCrerry retained his affiliation with the Ice Follies when he recently purchased controlling interest in the firm of Smith, Bull & McCrerry. He has been associated with Ice Follies for past 14 years. Dr. Lyman Bryson, CBS counselor on public affairs, has been named chairman of the technical committee on communications for the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth, to be held the week of Dec. 3, 1950 at the Executive Mansion in Washington. Dr. Bryson also was named to the executive committee for the conference. Guy della Cioppa, who's associate director of network programs here for CBS, tells me that Phil Cochran (basis for the wartime "Terry and the Pirates" Air Force colonel) cut an excellent audition of "Air Commando" here over the weekend, della Cioppa says all hands, including writers Gil Doud and aul Dudley and producer Norman MacDonnell, earned bows for a good platter. Bruce Dodge after almost ten years as Biow producer on "Take It Or Leave It," severed ties with the program last week to open a television packaging office in partnership with Bob Hawk. Edward Feldman, newly-assigned producer, is now editing the two Eddie Cantor shows which were taped at NBC Sunday, Oct. 16. In New York, Feldman worked on the "Counter Spy," "Big Sister," Milton Berle and Henry Morgan shows. Lever Brothers, N. Y., through the Ruthrauff and Ryan Agency, New York, has contracted to sponsor the last half of the Monday thru Friday "Breakfast in Hollywood" show starring Jack McElroy as emcee over the entire coast to coast network of the Canadian Dominion network starting Monday, Oct. 31. WANT TO BOOST YOUR HOOPER? Reach by mail a new complete list of TELEVISION OWNERS in all important TV markets. $18.75 per M names, addressed on your envelopes DUNHILL INTERNATIONAL LIST CO. S6S Fifth Avenue, N. Y., PLaza 3-0833 Mainly About Manhattan. . . / • • • WEEK-END CUFF NOTES: Faye Emerson replaces Diana Barrymore tonight on latter's scheduled TV debut via CBS. Series is sponsored by Ansonia Shoes and produced by Hardie Frieberg. . . . Elsa Maxwell readying her own TV session. . . . Roger Kay Enterprises, new video producing unit, signed with Gen'l Artists Corp. . . . Earl Wilson who seems to get better with every air appearance, guests on Roberta Quinlan's stanza on the 27th. . . . With Aly Kahn reported buying into a network. Peter Donald imagines he'll wind up sponsoring "Pasha Faces Life." . . . Danny Hollywood now associated with Frank Cooper. . . . Opportunity doesn't knock these days, contends lack Pedis. It rings the phone and asks silly questions. . . . Manhattan Seen-ery: At the Town House, two larks giving each other a friendy "Pat" — Patricia Morrison and Patrice Munsel. . . . Leo DeLyon wonders if "Touch and Go" is a story about a B'way panhandler. . . . Gene Schoor drops the col'm a line to remind us that he's with the new Joe DiMaggio show as sports director. Will Rowland has secured the rights to the famed Jimmy Dale mystery stories. ft ft ft ft • • • Radio can be mighty proud of Arnold Moss. Last week Brooks Atkinson, of the Times, described his portrayal of the stuffy fop in "Twelfth Night" as "the greatest Malvolio of our time." Arid Photoplay crowns Moss with "Best Performance of the Month" for his villianous role in Eagle-Lion's film, "The Black Book." ft ft ft ft • • • PASSING BY: Martin Begley. NBC-TV casting director — one guy who's never too busy to see all comers. A rare quality for any TV exec, as any performer knows only too well. . . . Jackie Jordan (Miss TV of Calif.) who's not only a looker but has plenty of dramatic talent as well. . . . Gene Pope. Jr.. at 22, one of the youngest station managers in the country, if not the youngest. An MIT grad, he's also editor of U Progresso. biggest Italian language daily in the U. S. . . . Jeff Clark, new Hit Parade singing star, who lost his luggage while at the Tobacco Festival in Richmond, Va.. and hadda borrow tux, shoes, etc., from visiting newspapermen. (Danton Walker loaned him his tux). ft ft ft it • • • OUR HAT'S OFF DEP'T: Monica Lewis' Decca platter of "My Own, My Only, My All," the big plug tune from "My Friend Irma." . . . Sonny Howard's song impressions. . . . Ruth Duncan's keyboard magic at the Town House. . . . Arthur Van Horn's Sunday night "Heart Beats in the News" sessions via WOR — loaded with vitamins. . . . Tony Bavaar's singing on WJZ's "Moods in Melody." . . . Nellie Lutoher at the Paramount. . . . Morton Downey's crooning over WCBS-TV during the Al Smith memorial dinner. ft ft ft ft • • • Sammy Kaye is holding daily rehearsals whipping his "So You Want To Lead A Band" series into shape for television. Three ad agencies have shown interest in the stanza and Kaye is readying a 'dry run.' The bandsman would prefer putting the show on film, but if Petrillo delays his okay on the use of music on filmed TV shows, he's prepared to do the program live out of N. Y.. or any other city connected with the cable. ft ft ft ft • • • SMALL TALK: Maurice Dreicer in San Francisco lining up a new video series. . . . Xavier Cugat topped Vaughn Monroe's all-time attendance record at Philly's Click .club. . . . WWRL sports caster, Jocko Maxwell, rounding out his 20th year in radio. CHICAGO By HAL TATE IT'S a baby girl for the Bill Putnams. He's prexy of the Universal Recording Corp. Their first child was a boy and the new Putnam offspring, born Monday night at Ravenswood Hospital, will now be able to join her older brother in boyand-girl duets for Universal Record release. Bernie Lewis was in town this week to arrange for the appearance of Father James Keller on Don McNeill's "Breakfast Club." Founder of the Christophers, Father Keller is the author of "Three Minutes a Day" and the recently published "You Can Change the World," both published by Doubleday. Howard Stebbins, WAIT engineer, is recording leading Chicago sporting events at the request of various eastern stations. Hugh E. Davis, executive v-p at Foote, Cone and Belding, revealed at the Chicago Radio Management Club at the Tavern Club Wednesday, that he was one of the partners with Bob Hope on the deal last winter to buy WHAS. 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