Radio doings (Dec 1930-Jun1932)

in This Studio ind That**** around and found a couple who were nearly exact images of the real John and Mary, and the appearance was made — but so was the broadcast. • When Al Pearee and his sixteen HappyCo-Lucky Hour artists took a northbound train for the auditorium show in Seattle, western listeners held their breaths when the Happy-Go-Lucky Hour was announced as usual. But with all due respect to Al and the absentees, Dick Riekard, who took Al's place as master of ceremonies, carried on remarkably. In fact, it was almost worth having the gang away on the trip just to listen to the comic bulletins they sent to Dick on the journev north. • A new augmented concert group is now heard from the KHQ studios in Spokane twice weekly in some fine concert programs. It is under the dierction of Marian Boyle, with Vivian Brown, soprano as assisting soloist, rhe hours are from 9:00 to 10:00 p. m. Mondays, and from 8:30 to 9:30 p. m. Wednesdays. • King Nesseneff, tenor, is billed over at KELW these days as singing a half hour program three or four times a week at 2:30 in the morning. Just back from a successful vaudeville tour, Nesseneff has been anxious to break into Southern California radio, even though insomnia patients and night-workers would be his onlv audience at first. • Liborius Hauptman, former music director it KGW, Portland, has joined the KTM staff as leader of the concert ensemble and pianist for the miniature symphony. He is well known up and down the coast and at one time was KYA in San Francisco. • Twenty-five years ago Roy Leffingwell wrote his first tune, "Every Girl's a Flirt." Now he comes out with his latest song, "I'm Afraid That I'm Falling in Love." In earlier days women wore bustles, derbies and puff sleeves. The cycle seems to swing around and now that Roy is writing his latest the women are reverting to former styles. He does the 10:30 a. m. broadcast six days each week at KECA as the station's musicphUosopher. • The "Sky-Dwellers" have been meeting for the past twenty years on both sides of the Atlantic. They are actors and now that the talkies are in our midst most of them are now living out in Hollywood. But, instead of confining their impromptu gatherings to some member's abode, they are now on KTM at 10 o'clock each Sunday night with Haven MacQuarrie, veteran actor, as master of ceremonies. Some of the members to appear at KTM — Lew Kelly, Broadway comedy star; May Beatty, internationally known comedienne; Clarence Muse, colored star of stage and radio; Snub Pollard, of RKO fame; Rodney McLennan, two years Marilyn Miller's male lead in "Rosalie." Ziegfeld production; Forrester Harvey, "Trotter," in the original Lon 'Boy, this will be a successful broadcast! Can they sing? don "Journey's End" company ; Leyland Hodgson, playing opposite Lowell Sherman in "High Stakes; Nellie Nichols, high salaried character comedienne, and lots of others. Enric Madriguera, conductor of the Spanish Cadets who broadcast from the Biltmore Hotel Supper Room, New York City, was born in Madriguera, Spain. Was a child prodigy violinist, gave his first concert at 15 before King Alfonso, Enric's cousin on his mother's side. Is dark and slender, looks like Ramon Novarro and fences like Cyrano de Bergerac. Is in his middb twenties. KHJ, in changing its news period from 10 p. m. daily to 9:50 p. m., has set aside the 9:45 p. m. five minute period daily for the next year for the new Life Savers transcription. It is built around the "success reporter" who interviews, for forty-five seconds only, some person who has done something out of the ordinary. The new transcription series is being spotted throughout the country. • Fred Hartley, he of Hartley's Novelty Orchestra heard nightly over KHG, Spokane, appears to have another talent besides that he displays with the baton or at the xylophone ... he has blossomed out as an expert wielder of the cement-mixer's spatula, or whatever a good cement-mixer uses to mix and apply cement with. "Concrete" evidence of this newly discovered talent is seen in the very attractive lily pool he has recently added to his gardens. Contributions to the "Garden Shower" the KHQ staff is considering for Fred should be appropriate. • Northern California communities are busily engaged in selecting their best young singers for the coming California State Audition of the Atwater Kent Foundation to be held over KPO, October 25 and 26. Many of the local auditions have already been completed, and many are still in progress. Whatever the outcome, if they turn out such beautiful voices as those of Don Novis and Irene Kilgore, we'll be satisfied. • Robert Bowman, KHJ announcer, has been made program manager of KGB, the Don Lee station at San Diego. Bob is the polished, youthful voice which, for the past six months, has announced the dance programs from the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel. He is an electrical engineer from the University of Dayton, a fiddler from WLW, Cincinnati, and expert from the research department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and came to KHJ as a technician. He was given a chance to announce one night, and his silky voice was instantly pleasing. • Helen Stone, late of KHJ. is working in a picture with Greta Garbo on the M-G-M lot. The picture is "Mali Ilari." Helen enacts the part of Garbo's little sister; she has a song to sing, an aeroplane to pilot and some close-ups with her favorite actor, Lewis Stone. RADIO DOINGS Page Twenty-nine