Radio dial (May-Dec 1931)

RADIO DIAL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1931. Bill Schudt to Introduce Time's Editor A glimpse into the editorial office of magazines will be given radio listeners when Roy E. Larsen, vice-president and general manager of "Time" and "Fortune" magazines, spuak^ as a guest in "Bill Schudt's Going to Press" over WKRC at 5 p. m, on Wednesday (August 12). «« PROGRAM JOTTINGS »» WHAS Has New Frigidarians The Landt Trio and White ; Sam Hermann, xylophonist ; Frank Pinero, violinist; Harvey Hindermyer and Earl Tuckerman, comedy duo, and Necl Enslen, master of ceremonies, are appearing as the Frigidarians in a new program broadcast on Monday, Tuesday at 10:30 a. m. and Wednesday at 7 p. m. through WHAS (820 kc.) and other NBC stations. Hindermyer and Tuckerman made their radio reputations first some years ago as "Goldy and Dusty," the Goldust Twins. WSAI Has Scout Reporter from National Chain The Boy Scout Reporter, a national Boy Scout program, is being broadcast by WSAI from the NBC network every Wednesday afternoon at 3 :45. The program includes Scout songs, Scout news, and an interview by Dr. George J. Fisher, Deputy Chief Scout Executive, with some character in the public eye. Hitch Hikers The Hitch Hikers of WCKY are Arthur Simmons and Fred Gnssey, good-looking youngsters, who take their name from their wanderings. Former cabaret entertainers, they sing harmony and play guitar. WJR, Detroit, saw them last. Albert Coates is Lewisohn Conductor Next Albert Coates, famous AngloRussian conductor, will begin on August 11 a three weeks en gagement as conductor of th_ Lewisohn Stadium concerts oi the New York Philharmonic! orchestra. WKRC will relay hi., first concert August 13 (Tues day a week). Coates has just returned to America from a season in Moscow and a vacation on Lake Maggiore. FRIDAY, AUGUST 7 Jessie Peters, concert pianist, will be guest artist on the WLW Encores p r o^^^ gram Friday "^ night at 10 j p. m. She will play Bach's "C h o r a 1," "W a 1 t 7. in A Flat" by Brahms, a n d "The Real Princess" by Komg rove. She has played at WLW before in. a concert for the Ohio School of the Air. Encores is a program of classic music the repetition of which has been requested by the station's audience. * * * Colonel George D. Gaw, Chicago's official greeter and the Midwest equivalent of New York's celebrated Grover Whalen, will be presented to WKRC and Columbia listeners by The Three Doctors at 2:30 Friday afternoon. "Colonel Gaw has greeted sc many people that we have decided it is time someone greeted Colonel Gaw," The Three Doi tors explained. Serving Chicago without pay, Gaw provides with his own funds the white limousine and the white motorcycles for the police escort that meets celebrities on their arrival Chicago. * * * SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 As a change from their usual brand of heart-throb melodramas, Hank Simmons' Show Boat Dramatic Company will present an old-time farce comedy, "A Family Affair" or "Confusion," on Saturday night at 9 o'clock, through WKRC. * * * Two seldom-heard excerpts from Richard Strauss' operas will be played in the Lewisohn Stadium concert through WKRC at 8:30 p. m. Fritz Reiner will conduct the orchestra of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society. After an "Interlude" from the opera "Intermezzo" the music from which is rarely played at symphony concerts, the program will continue with the "Dance of the Seven Veils." from "Salome." * * * Jack Saatkamp, pianist with Henry Thies' orchestra, directs the King Edward Cigar Band at WLW at 9 p. m. * * * Billy Huber. musical comedy player who has appeared in George White's Scandals, will sing "One More Time" in the Club Sohio broadcast at WLW at 10 p. m. Club Sohio is going around the world, spending a night in each country for atmosphere. * * * Put through their paces by Sydney ("'Old Pop") Ten Fyck. the Doodlesockers at WLW at 11 :30 p. m. will include Ramona, the Mills Brothers, Tern' Fov, Larry Greuter and his accordion, and an orchestra. SUNDAY, AUGUST 9 Margaret and Patricia Conway, pianist and violinist, will play the College of Music student concert at WCKY at 7 :30 p. m. Miss Margaret's piano solo will be "Barcarolle" by Liaboff. Miss Patricia will play "Barcarolle" by McMillan, and "From the Canebrake" by Gardner. * * * Variations on a theme of Haydn, and the "Second Symphony in D" by Brahms will be played by the New York Philharmonic orchestra in the Lewisohn Stadium concert which WKRC will broadcast from 8 :30 to 9:30 p. m. Fritz Reiner will conduct. * * * Maurice Thompson, returned from two weeks in central Kentucky, has resumed his duties as chief announcer at WCKY. At 6:45 p. m. he will sing a 15minute program of baritone solos. * * * Ralph Briggs, concert pianist, just returned from two years abroad at the Paris Conservatory, will play a recital at WCKY every Sunday at 6 p. m. Before going to Europe he was a faculty member at the Cincinnati Conservatory. * * ■# Have you played Musical Roulette yet with WCKY at 8:15 p. m. Sunday? Entertainers (The Three Musketeers, Happy Harmony Boys, Magdalena Hein, Frank Fay and Francis Catalino) are each designated by a color. Each selection has a number. . For instance, call for Blue 1 and you'll hear Francis Catalino sing "My Blue Heaven." * * * Dangers attendant on the publicity given to alleged cures for common diseases will be discussed by Dr. Howard W. Haggard during his talk under the title "Devils, Drugs and Doctors" at 7 p. m. over WKRC and the WABC-Columbia network. You Should Know --— The Crinoline Girl of WCKY MONDAY, AUGUST 10 The sixth and concluding episode of the radio mystery drama. "The Man Who Could Not Die," at WCKY at 8:15 p. m., will clear up the baffling mysteries and find the murderer. The cast includes Jerry Akers, Maurice T h o m p s o n, Ellis Frakes, George Case, Odas Mattox, Mollie Moore, Jetta Crane and Alma Ashcraft. * * * The Chime Reveries concert at WLW at 11 p. m. will include the "Polvetzian Dances" from Borodin's "Prince Igor," "Carnival Turc" by Luigini, Dvorak's "Humoresque" and "Songs My Mother Taught Me" and "Henry VII Dances" by German. * * * A thriller concerning the encounter of "The Saint" and The Tiger" will be enacted by the Eno Crime Club over WKRC and the Columbia Broad asting System, beginning Monday night at 8 o'clock. "Meet the Tiger," by Leslie Charteris, tells how a gentleman adventurer, nicknamed the Saint, goes fter five million pounds of gold The Crinoline Girl who steps out of the frame of her daguerrotype at 7 :45 every Tuesday night to read to WCKY listeners from "her diary written long ago when ladies swooned and blushed and sighed," is Alma Ashcraft, blonde, comely, enthusiastic about the hundred and one things she does for the Kentucky radio station. Not only is the Crinoline Girl her creation as to continuity — the clever reminiscent lines she reads between songs in the voice of a 17-year old who might have written just such secrets in her diary long ago — the soprano voice that sings the dear old songs is also Miss Ashcraft s, for she's the versatile kind of a person who thrives on the busy life of a radio station. In person. Alma Ashcraft is attractive to the eye as well as to the ear. She's a tall girl — five feet seven to be exact, although the men who write her fan letters invariably think of her as tiny, she says. Her hair is red gold blond. Her eyes are blue-green, a color that changes with her moods or with the color of her hats. Her complexion is as fair as a baby s and as pink and white. Young men write the Crinoline Girl many letters, but she likes best the letters that come to her from old ladies to whom the Crinoline Girl's diary recalls their childhoods and sweet memories of long ago. At WCKY, Miss Ashcraft does many things besides the one radio program. She's one of the WCKY Players, for instance, and appears in many of their radio dramas. Unfortunately for her public, however, she was "killed" in the third installment of the current Mystery Drama and hasn't been heard since in the series. She didn't mind "dying" so much, however, because the fatal instrument was a jeweled dagger, she says. Musical Roulette, a new Sunday night program at the station, is her idea and she writes the continuity. She also prepares the program of the Ederman Serenaders, and the Cross Roads Quartet. Most important of all, perhaps, she is secretary to Jerry Akers, manager of the station, and must be able to do for him "most anything at any time. Strangely enough, six years ago while studying voice at the College of Music, Miss Ashcraft had a chance to smg on another radio station. She was too frightened to attempt it. Now, however, she knows no fear of the microphone. She likes horseback riding and reading for her leisure hours. lifted from a Chicago bank. He encounters a murderous oppo nent who is as dangerous as his feline namesake. The conclud ing act of the drama will be heard on Wednesday (August 13) from 8:30 to 9:30 p. m. TUESDAY, AUGUST 11 The Werk Bubble Blowers' two-piano team will play "Elizabeth" from "The Wonder Bar" in the program at WLW at 8:30 p. m. Tunes from "Apple Blossoms" will be played and sung. A fourteen-year-old prodigy, Charles Jaffe, attracted such acclaim with a violin solo on a recent Bristoleers program over the Columbia network that he will be featured in the broadcast at 8 :30 p. m. Tuesday. He will play Pablo de Sarasate's "Zigeunerweisen" on a program devoted to study of Hungarian musical styles. The Finale from Act III of Ponchielli's opera, "La Gioconda," will be the closing selection of the Savino Tone Pictures to be broadcast over WKRC .at 10:30 p. m. THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 Ted Husing, sports announcer, who has interviewed numerous celebrities during his Sportslants series, will himself be interviewed by Bob Taplinger, Columbia writer, when "Meet the Artist" is broadcast over WKRC Thursday at 4:45 p. m. * * * John Charles Thomas, baritone, will resort to hydroplane Thursday in order to get himself from a golf tournament in Massachusetts to New York in time to sing on the Maxwell House concert from New York at 8 :30 p. m. (WHAS. 820 kc). * * * Station WFIW (940 kilocycles), in Hopkinsville, Ky., has been added to the Columbia Broadcasting System. It may carry some Columbia programs not booked by WKRC. If We Had Our Own Radio Station By Jack Snow Announcer: Ladies and Gentlemen, you are listening to the program of the Komfy Fit Korset Kompany, opening with their identifying theme song: "Tight Like That."