Radio Digest (June 1932-Mar 1933)

40 WE CAN'T TURN YOUR RADIO DIAL FOR YOU We're too busy getting you grocery bargains to run from house to house tuning good programs in on your radio set. However, we do this much tor you — we offer you a variety of programs — a program to suit your taste — and make the job of twisting your dial a pleasant one. IF YOU LIKE Concert music; dance music; tenor solos; two piano novelties; gypsy songs— tune in the A & P GYPSIES Harry Horlick conducting. (Monday 8 PM EST WEAF and NBC network). (Thursday 9 PM EST WJZ and NBC network) IF YOU LIKE Honest-to-goodness food information; a male quartette; travel stories; anecdotes about famous people and the Broadway of the "Say '90's" tune in "OUR DAILY FObD" with Colonel Soodbody; George Rector; Judge Gordon; "The 4 singing Grocers". (Daily except Sunday over dual NBC networks— WEAF, 8:45 AM EST; WJZ, 9:30 AM EST) A & P has your kind of program THE Great Atlantic &PacificTeaCo. Tacific Co^st £choes By W. L. Gleeson HERBERT WITHERSPOON, until recently a member of the KHJ commercial staff, has just been appointed Manager of KDB, the Don Lee station at Santa Barbara. Since Dick Rickard, down at KGB, San Diego, sponsored the Easter Egg Hunt in Balboa Park, involving 20,000 eggs and 5000 school kids, the San Diego punsters have been enjoying a boom season in references to "hard-boiled eggs," "good eggs" and so on. Eddie Holden, KNX, creator of the lovable character of "Frank Watanabe," the Japanese houseboy, is a good cook. Eddie says he takes his hat off to no girl when it comes to preparing a meal in a hurry. Billy Evans Highlights Review is growing better every day. With the coming of Spring, all the amateur talent that has been hibernating during the winter months has come to life and is trying out over at KELW, Burbank, California. Mr. Evans presents a splendid program each morning at 11:00 and even if these performers are new in the business, they are well worth listening to. Billy Evans has had years of experience before the mike and is competent to train those youngsters "in the way they should go." Hazel Warner (KFRC) has a varied schedule, but the one program on which you are certain to hear her is "Musical Forget-Me-Nots" each Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. "California Melodies" released over nationwide network of CBS from KHJ, presented none other than Zeppo Marx, of the Four Marx Brothers. Something very funny? Not exactly, for young Zeppo — he's the "straight" one, you know — has been discovered as possessor of a very nice singing voice indeed, and this marked his debut in the world of popular song. A big event, in other words. Lou Gordon, the tenor whose melodious tones are heard over KFI, was born in Russ.ia and came to America after the revolution. The terse accounts he gives of his wanderings over China and Siberia with the festive Bolshevik on his trail, are exciting as any Actionized adventure story. Telling about "The Drama and It's People," Lloyd S. Thompson, dramatic critic of The Examiner, presents an interesting and entertaining lS-minute talk on KYA, San Francisco, at 6:30 Tuesday evenings. Radio stars from KHJ, The Don Lee station, helped to enliven the day at the Motor Show in the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. One of the most popular air features in the country was presented in the day's entertainment, when Ken Niles and his "Hallelujah Hour" appeared in person at the show. Included in the roster of stars under Niles' direction was Dave Marshall, popular Southland baritone; Elvia Altaian, stellar comedienne of the air; petite Vera Van, whose melodic voice has won her a place in the radio firmament; the craziest man on the air — Charlie Leland; Bobby Gross, and the Hallelujah orchestra directed by Ray Canfield. San Francisco may have grabbed off the Druids' Convention, but Los Angeles supplied the music picked out of the air in the Bay City auditorium where the fraternal organization staged its initiations. The eighty-piece symphony orchestra of the Hollywood Grove, of the Druids organization, broadcast from KHJ studios over the Don Lee chain, 7:45.8:15 P.M. Alexis Coroshansky directed the orchestra in numbers rarely heard in the United States. Meredith Wilson's "Home Sweet Home" concerts from KFRC and Don Lee network 9-11 A.M. provides two hours of comfortable music for Sunday morning consumption. This program has been a popular one for several years. It requires skill to keep a two hour show popular — if you don't think so, ask Meredith. He knows! This writer listened in on the Spanish Gardens program over KELW from 7:00 to 8:00 P.M. and received a pleasant surprise. Not being able to speak Spanish, this program had always been passed up, but it isn't necessary to speak Spanish at all to enjoy the really remarkable entertainment that is offered at this time. Appealing music that carries with it all the charm of old Mexico; senoritas, whose soft voices transport the listener to a land of tinkling castanets and swaying, elusive forms; dreamy, alluring, entrancing, this music from the land of Manana. Listen to it yourself and you will enjoy it. Known as "the most distinctive program on the air," the KDYL, KDYK, and KOYL, Friday evening 8:00 to 9:00 vis* its with the boys at "Hank's General Store" in "Sears Center" provides entertainment for thousands of listeners who enjoy old-time music. The program brings in person the man who occupies the week's lime-light. Heard on these broadcasts are Mickey Walker, light heavyweight boxing champion of the world; Eugene Jackson, negro star of "Cimarron," "Sporting Blood," "Our Gang Comedies" and others; Sherman "Red" Clark, captain of the University of Utah basketball team, and Charles Foley, golf professional of the Salt Lake Bonneville Golf Club. 1.