Radio dial (May-Dec 1931)

RADIO DIAL. FRIDAY. JULY 17, 1931. Pat Gillick is Now Heard Through WKRC Pat Gillick, long associated with the noon organ programs at WLW, has opened his own organ studio in the Wurlitzer building and is broadcasting two 15-niinute programs every day except Sunday through WKRC. The periods are at 5:1") p. m. and 11 :^"> p. m. Music from "Band Wagon" Makes Up Next Pond's Dance Music by Arthur Schwartz, from "The Band Wagon," current Broadway musical show, will make up tiie whole of Pond's Dance Friday night (July 17) at 8:30 through WSAl, with Schwartz at the piano. The tunes include "I Love Louisa," "Dancing in the Dark," 1 New Sun in the Sky," and "Beggar Waltz" and others. Although a lawyer by profession, and unable to read music except with difficulty, the 30-year-old Schwartz has turned a threemonth course in harmony to writing such successes as "Give Me Something To Remember You By." "Song of the Riveter," "Lucky Seven" from the "Second Little Show" and other hits from the first edition of that re Singers Known Here Make Chain Debut Friday The premiere performance of the Ptllsbury Pageant, featuring Toscha Seidel. noted concert violinist ; Theo. Karle, tenor who was the star of "Fioretta ;" the Songbirds Mixed Quartet and a thirty-two-piece string orchestra directed by Sam Lanin, will be broadcast over WKRC and a coast-to-coast Columbia network Friday (July 17) at !) p. m. The Songbirds who will sing "Croon a Tune" as their principal part in this gala opening broadcast, include Mabel Jackson, soprano, and Mary Alice Cheney, contralto, former WLW soloists; Royal Halee. tenor, featured in the Greenwich village Follies in l!>2(i-2? ; and Vernon Jay son, baritone, who has appeared extensively in musical comedy, opera, having served SO weeks in the "Student Prince." "Through the Opera Glass," a series of grand opera broadcasts on the NBS network, are on WS.-U's Sunday schedule at 7 p. ni. Cesare Sodero directs the concert orchestra with vocal soloists. Molly Moore, Maurice Thompson and Tommy Olt, the Classic Trio of WCKY, will present an all-MacDowell concert Friday night (July 17) at 9:30. Till' Coral, a young Spanish baritone discovered by Guy Lomhardo. will sing in the Robert Bums Panatela h a 1 f h o u r through WKRC at 9 o'clock Monday night (July '^<0. Coral began his singing in the Seville Cathedral. His voice has been likened to that of John Charle: Thomas. Letter Box Helen Board is the latest radio songster to win popularity among listeners. She is a soprano and is featured on Hits and Bits" broadcast each Monday and Thursday morning at 9:15 o'clock over an NBC network which sometimes includes WSAl. Winnie Mae Will Make National Tour Under NBC A nation-wide tour by the Winnie Mac, plane in which Wiley Post and Harold Gatty recently smashed all world circumnavigating records, will be made under contract with the NBC Artists Service. The tour will last six vveeks or longer. Post and Gatty will cover the east, south, middle west and Pacific coast. Most of the principal airports will be visited and the two fliers will be feted by aviation enthusiasts, municipal and state officials in many states and towns. Local Orchestras Do Jumping Bean Stunt On Radio Earl Fuller's orchestra now is broadcasting through stations WLW and WSAl instead of through WFBE where Fuller was for some time managing director. Harry Wilsey's orchestra at the Cincinnati Zoo also is being put on the air from WLW and WSAl. The XetherlandPlaza has discontinued its supper dance session so the stations get no late music there. An orchestra of WLW musicians under Virginio Marucci is playing the luncheon and dinner concerts. William C. Stoess, musical director of WLW, has gone to New York to hire a trvosy orchestra that will play at the hotel and the radio station. The Jewish Community Program, inaugurated last Sunday at WKRC, under the direction of Samuel M. Schmidt, editor of Every Friday, will be continued every Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock. The Stromberg-Carlson pro gram has been shifted to 7:30 p. ni. to 9 o'clock on Mondays. WCKY still broadcasts the con cert. Al and Pete Are On WSAl Daily Al and Pete ( Cameron and Bontsema), who four years ago ,ang through WSAl and WLW, vill be heard this week in the Ward Radio Research program WSAl is broadcasting al 8:30 every morning except Sunday. The feature this week is a revival of the minstrel shows of 25 years ago. The audience has olready been tested with an orchestra and a series of dramatic shows to see what kind of radio entertainment is most favored. One more experiment will be tried. What Peter Zorn describes as the first popular moving picture theme song "dot vas efer wrote" —"On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine" by John Fox, Jr.— will be featured during the Dutch Masters Musicale on WKRC and the Columbia Broadcasting System Friday night (July 17) at 7:30. It will be played by the orchestra directed by Eugene Ormandv. The Crosley Theater at WLW has been taken off the air at least until some time in August. It is announced that its return to the air will be somewhat influenced by public interest. The bill this week is a corking good railroad play by Robert Brown with Walter Maher and Harry Holcomb in the leading roles. Last chance to hear it is 7 o'clock Saturday night (July IS). Radio Dial is interested in the opinions of its readers. It will endeavor to answer questions. Unsigned letters will not be considered but signatures will be withheld when the request is made. Dear Editor: We'll probably be slapped in the face for this! BUT! Slap in the face or no slap in the face, I think the "VALLEE KRUSADERS" is without a doubt the silliest thing that has happened in this decade. I just can't imagine Rudy liking this sort of thing, because from what I've heard, he's a regular fellow! It seems the purpose of this club is to keep Rudy's admirers informed of all his activities and to kill false publicity about him. How inane! Doesn't the "Vallee Krusaders" know the minute one becomes as popular and famous as "The Rudy" that false statements spring up over night? Look at Michael Angelo! If this "Vallee Krusaders" can point out to us why an Orchestra Leader and "Crooner" (and a good one at that!) should be put in the same light at "The Holy Grail," by having an army of Crusaders watching over him, we'll give up, and hasten to the Holy See to effect the canonization of Saints Amos and Andy! Don Becker. Dear Sir: If you, Mr. Radio Dial, are not circumscribed by any commercial or other limitations, we wouldn't mind having your unbiased opinion as to the all-around best radio on the market. We read everything we can get to that end. We covet distant and near stations, tone and all else for efficiency. C. S., Loveland, O. Mr. Radio Dial is not circumscribed by commercial limitations but also is not determined upon the best all-around radio; suggest; trial of many. * * * Radio Dial: Does the Chicago Serenade (NBC) at 2:30 p. m. on WLW originate at WENR, and isn't same announced by Bill Kephart? Mr. and Mrs. G. C. T. WENR studios have been aban doned since NBC took charge of the station recently. Its programs all come from NBC studios in Men chandise Mart, Chicago. An nouncers are shifted about on pro^ grams so frequently one can be sure of their identity only by catching the closing announcement of the program. Ida Blackson, soprano, who ha been singing for the oast year on die Gruen programs al WKRC. will start on her vaca lion next week tn he gone three weeks. She will visit hir sister at Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey. This sextet sings every Sunday at 2 o'clock through WKRC in the Gruen Old Fashioned Garden of Melodies, a program now in its second year as a regular weekly feature. This week (July 19) their program includes the Bridal Chorus from "The Rose Maiden,"' and the old ballad, "Ever of Thee I m Fondly Dreaming. Howard Hafford, left, musical director of WKRC also directs the sextet. The other members, reading left to right, are Howard Chaffee, Nadelle Schuping, Wilma Schuping, Milton Sachs, and Herbert Schatz. We alto. :ome Lewis, cont Harry Salter's orchestra are to appear each week in a program called "The Coty Melody Girl" which WKRC will broadcast from the Columbia network every Thursday at 8:15 p.m. The sponsors promise an innovation in the fact that commercial announcements will b e limited to the mention of Miss Lewis as "The Cotv Melodv Girl. Miss Lewis, billed in vaudeville as a "female baritone" and whose deep voice belies her diminutive stature, was last featured in the Radiotron Varieties over NBC stations. Salter conducts the Tompkins Carners band in Real Folks, another NBC program, but is not to be misjudged by the "sour notes that program calls for. Chopin Waltz is to Be Heard in College Concert Alberta Goff, Thomasville (Ga.) sopranu, and Lydia Grant, pianist, will present the College of Music student program at WCKY Sunday nighl I July ID | at 50. Mi' ( IT will sing "Little Star" (La Forge), "The Blue Pigeon" CHadley), 'To a Hill-top" (Cox), "A Spirit Flower" ( Campbell T i p t o n ) , "Spring's a Lovable Lady" (Elliott), and "The Rosy Morn" (Ronald). Miss Grant's piano solos will include Chopin's "Waltz E Minor." the Rachmaninoff "Humoresque," and the Brahms "Rhapsody B Minor." Mrs. Hoover Will Christen Navy Dirigible Aug. 8 Mrs. Herbert Hoover will christen the U. S. Navy dirigible "Akron" on August 8 with ceremonies that will be broadcast On nation-wide hook-ups. The ceremony will he signalized when Mrs. Hoover opens a cage to release white pigeons. At previous ceremonies bottles of compressed air have been broken over the craft with the sponsors heavily gloved to prevent freezing of their hands. The pigeons were substituted to avoid the remote possibility of injury to the President's wife. Radio Dial will carry details in a future issue.