Radio Digest (Nov 1930-Nov 1931)

54 tation arade Pageant of Personalities and Programs as they Appear Across the Continent for the Biggest Show on Earth ^TlIERE arc about 600 radio broadcasting stations in the United States. There are 96 pages and cover in Radio Digest. Obviously we cannot give a full page to each station and have any space left in which to tell about the popular radio folk zvho are heard alike over all parts of the country. Station Parade aims to give highlights from the individual stations as they are scattered across the continent. All stations are invited to supply us zcith information that would be of interest to Radio Digest readers — especially those readers who reside in the 'vicinity of the station contributing the station notes. Sometimes we hear that material has been sent and we do not use it. Where special material is prepared for Radio Digest that has not been sent to the daily nezvspapers special consideration will be given. We publish syndicated material with great reluctance because it cannot be used until long after the nezvspapers have had a chance to use it. Radio Digest comes out only once a month. Our editorial contents are sent to the printer from six to eight weeks in advance of the date of publication. Mere program listings of local stations require too much space and are uninteresting to the great majority of our readers. But brief notes about personalities and programs are sure to find their zvay into Station Parade. Station managers should not depend on our buying "zuriteups" about their stations from free-lance contributors. Authentic information should come directly from the station representatives. —Editor. Maybe Harry Cant Get a Girl? ALAS for the Three Bachelors of . WAAM, Newark. They were so i-ure they were girl-proof they locked arms in front of an open mike and sang a challenge to all femininity at large. They became known to the listeners as Norman, Harry and Sonny. Gay, happy and free they sang ballads and taunted every girl who listened. Now this couldn't go on forever for all three of the young men were really very nice, good to look at and most excellent material on which to operate to design a first class husband. Sonny was the youngest. More than once he felt feverish impulses as a pair of luscious eyes were leveled at him. Girl proof? Ha! Ha ! A little moonlight, a gentle touch on the hand, murmuring leaves, whispering wavelets — a kiss — and they scattered rice over Sonny's departed bachelorhood. In the meantime Norman had begun to feel the effect of irreparable crevases in his armor. Dan Cupid's darts wedged through. Presto ! Off to the church walked Norman with wedding bells tolling a knell to his bachelor days. And now only Harry remains. "Yer-r-rrp! Yerp! I'm yerping from WNAC, Boston, where I'm a gift artist. Nancy Howe is my girl friend. Yerrrp!" Perhaps Harry is a bit cynical. He is the type of man in appearance that artists love to portray as vigorous hemen, a clean cut square jaw, keen gray eyes, dark wavy hair and altogether presentable. He smiles and says he still can sing. He does sing bravely and sincerely. He declares he will carry on. But there is a certain box of fudge that keeps coming to him through the mail. He's come to look for it with some show of eagerness. After all there's an old saying about the way to a man's heart is through his gastronomic system. And, Harry, you may be a marked A Prolific Radio Script Grinder HOWARD REED, script writer for the Buffalo Broadcasting Company, has probably written more dramatic material in the past seven years than the average author does in a lifetime. Reed began his radio career with WOR with a radio play which showed a natural flair for air productions. He wrote "Black Fear" which went over WGY and the New York State chain in 1926, and continued writing serials for the Schenectady station. At present Reed has written more than three hundred scripts for stations WGR, WKBW and WMAK of the Buffalo Broadcasting Corporation, and he is still going strong with new ideas. Reed has heard his stories over the air from a dozen different stations from coast to coast. He has written scripts for WTIC in Hartford, KOA in Denver, WHAM in Rochester, and WJR in Detroit. His one bit of advice to those who would be writers for the radio is "write the script, cut out the parts you think are good, and you'll have a show." Governor Ely Appoints Official Radio Advisor GOVERNOR JOSEPH B. ELY of Massachusetts has taken active recognition of the census report that Massachusetts ranks as one of the first states in the country in the percentage families owning receiving sets. Something should be done about it. So he officially appointed George A. Harder of WBZ-WBZA as Radio Adviser to