Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

Monday. November 28, 1949 -RADIO DAILY: LOS ANGELES By ALLEN KUSHNER FRANK DeVOL, popular radio maestro, has an offer to guestconduct the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in January, flying to Dallas for the concert between his CBS Oxydol Show broadcasts. Martin and Lewis, comedy act in which NBC has invested some $60,000, are reported to be winding up their radio series soon, with full time and attention devoted to TV. Bob Redd, who currently produces their radio show, will continue to produce their TV effort. Bob Steele, the famous "Sheriff" of Western pictures, is latest to benefit from re-run of old pictures on television. He is negotiating a deal which will bring him to the home screens in person. Marion Morgan this week started cutting the first of 26 half-hour transcribed shows for the War Department, to be scheduled on 1,500 small stations throughout the nation. The series of shows will pitch reserve corps recruiting. All will be musical variety shows. Eddy Howard will broadcast nightly over MBS when he begins his engagement at the DeshlerWallick Hotel in Columbus on Dec. 5th. Connie Haines NBC "Sweet and Lovely" TV program series will originate in Hollywood this winter. Carlton E. Morse has signed Mercedes McCambridge, for the starring role in his next three-week chiller for Mutual's "I Love a Mystery" entitled "Million Dollar Curse." Story will be broadcast coast-to-coast beginning Dec. 19th and will emanate from New York. West coast ballroom operators have voted Frank Veloz "king of dance" in conjunction with National Dance Week. Their "queen" is Betty Grable. Veloz stars on "The Veloz Show" Sundays over KNBH. United Productions of America's first public display of TV, movie and industrial film cartoons was a standout success, drawing capacity crowds during the five-day exhibition at the Burbank studios. Jack Baily, emcee of the "Queen for a Day" program is very busy lining up material on his personal experiences for his starring role in the motion picture version of "Queen for a Day." Reports On Russia Scheduled For ABC (Continued from Page 1) describe fully Soviet labor and police methods. The program, superjU vised by Michael Roshkind, will originate from Paris. Edmund Stevens, staff correspondent for the Christian Science Moni|f tor will report, from London, on Dec. 5, on Soviet internal politics. Stevens was formerly ABC's Moscow correspondent. He has spent more than a decade in Moscow. Man About Manhattan. . . • • • WEEK-END CUFF NOTES: Amazing report from the coast sez that Bob Hope has been oiiered $40,000 weekly by an auto firm to put on a weekly half-hour TV show. So far he's showing no interest whatsoever. ... Ed Gardner planning to return his "Duffy's Tavern" airings to the U. S. (Puerto Rican origination proved to be a first-class aspirin-inducer). . . . "Broadway Revue," bankrolled last year by Admiral, being eyed in a capsule version by an auto outfit. . . . Eddie Cantor doing a dramatic stint on CBS' "Suspense" Dec. 22nd. . . . CBS auditioned two five-minute audience participation shows, "How Do You Rate?" and "Spell a Tune." both emceed by Warren Hull. . . . Web also auditioned a new full-hour simulcast, "The Show Goes On," emceed by Robert Q. Lewis and produced by Lester Gottlieb. Program will showcase vast pool of professional performers lined up through regular auditions with prospective buyers of talent being used as guests. . . . After riding the video dials during Thanksgiving Day, lack Perlis observes that not all the turkeys were on the dinner tables. . . . There'll soon be a loan Davis blouse on the market. Sounds like an interesting role to fill. . . . Virginia Travers, who resigned recently as publicity head of Compton agency, has become managing editor of the Alho and D-A Publishing Companies, which put out a group of monthly mags. . . . Recommended: Those delicious Maine Lobsters served up at Guy Lombardo's East Point House Restaurant in Freeport. Seems like most of Tin Pan Alley moves out there Sunday nites. . . . Herb Shriner puts it this way: In my home town, there's no television. If you wuz caught lookin' in a window you wuz a Peeping Tom. ft ft ft ft • • • Dick Rubin, the demon MCA salesman, just came back from an extended tour of Calif, and Texas. During the trip he stopped in San Antonio, had a beer or two, changed a dollar bill and received a half buck in exchange dated 1824. Just out of curiosity, Dick had the coin appraised and found it to be worth four bucks. At that rate of exchange, it's better than selling radio shows. ft ft ft ft • • • WASHINGTON ROUND-UP: Walter Compton, who used to be well-known hereabouts as quizmaster on "Double or Nothing," is now doing a superlative job managing DuMont's Washington outlet, WTTG. Having worked on both sides of the microphone, Walter knows what the viewers want and what's more gives it to them. . . . Another former localite who's made the grade in the Capital City is Nancy Osgood, now Washington's top femme gabber. . . . Still another former New Yorker down there is Jeanne Warner, whose nitely TV Journal is high on the list of local favorites. ft ft ft ft • • • THE MORNING MAIL: "Things aren't tough enough at a TV preem," writes our old pal, Herb Polesie, "but this hadda happen on 'Twenty Questions' Sat. nite. We had a new make-up man and he made me lie down on the couch. Said he couldn't make me up sitting or standing. I asked him if he knew what he was doing and he assured me he was top man in his last job. 'In H'wood?' I asked him. 'No,' he sneered. 'At the Walter B. Cooke Funeral Parlor in N. YV ft ft ft ft • • • A holiday mood prevailed in studio A at WEVD Friday for the cast of "My Mother & L" the Yiddish soap opera, .which was celebrating its 2000th performance in seven years of broadcasting. Lou J. Gumpert. veepee of B. T. Babbitt, Inc., makers of Bab-o, was there and congratulated Harry Kalmanowitz. scripter of the five-a-week. Molly Picon, whose program precedes the soaper, added her congrats. AGENCIES THREE assistant advertising managers of Bristol-Meyers Co., have been promoted to advertising managers for certain products, radio and television shows, it was announced last Tuesday. In his new post, Wallace T. Drew will handle the Break the Bank radio show, Sal Hepatica, Benex Brushless ShaveCream, Ingram Ammonium Tooth Powder, and Ingram Shave-Cream. Donald S. Frost will have the Trushay, Ammen's Antiseptic Powder, and Vitalis accounts. Roger C. Whitman will supervise the Mr. District Attorney radio and television shows, the Lucky Pup television show and the Ipana, Bufferin, Mum, and Minute Rub accounts. NORMAN WEXLER is a new member of the research division of Brooke, Smith, French and Dorrance, Inc., in Detroit. JAMES F. ROCHE, director of public relations and advertising of Moore-McCormack Lines, has been elected a director of the New York Kiwanis Club. RALPH E. de CASTRO has been elected a vice-president of C. J. LaRoche and Company. Crawford Paton, vice-president in charge of copy research for the agency, has been made manager of the research department. M. James Manning has been made assistant treasurer of the company. RADIO PROGRAMAS CONTINENTAL network of the Republic of Panama has appointed Melchor Guzman Company, Inc., as its United States and Canadian representatives. RADIO PROGRAMAS CONTINENTAL network is the first and only broadcasting system covering the entire Republic of Panama, with 13 transmitters in the eight most important cities of the country. FORJOE & COMPANY, INC., national representatives for radio and television stations, announces the removal of their Los Angeles office to larger quarters at 1127 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, under the management of Lawrence Krasner. To Merchandise Novelties On ABC Web Programs Radio Offers Co. is sponsoring a pair of ABC shows for two performances to plug their novelties before Christmas. The Shoppers Special Special was carried by the company on Saturday and will be presented again this week. Tonight's and Friday night's presentation of Pick A Date With Buddy Rogers will also be sponsored by Radio Offers. The four broadcasts will be heard over the same 55-ABC station line-up as usual. Huber Hoge and Sons is handling the account. (