Radio showmanship (Jan-Dec 1949)

WEW Plans Educational Shows Boys and girls in the St. Louis school system will be getting a variety of educational programs with the six new weekly shows just started by WEW in cooperation with the St. Louis Board of Education. Created and produced for use in grades one through eight, they are: Monday — "Books Through Adventure" — dramatization of books for children, transcribed by Junior League of America; Tuesday — "Science For You" — directions for actual science experiments; Wednesday — "Constitution of Missouri" — dramas, discussions and queries on constitution making; Thursday — "Stories, Old and New" — stories presented in cooperation with Public Library; Friday — "Music For You," lives and compositions of widely-known composers; and Tuesday — "Your United Nations" — meaning and workings of United Nations. WSB Program Stars French Celebrities "Two Americans in Paris" is the title of the new transcribed series which has started weekly over WSB, Atlanta. Recorded in the French Broadcasting Studios in Paris, the show features Bob Pollack, former WSB announcer and his wife, Mike. In their first presentation the couple introduced the noted designer Christian Dior, originator of the "new look." Other French personalities will be interviewed on future shows. Career Clinic Aired To Help Students Originating from WKBN, Youngstown, is a new series which is designed to help students decide upon a suitable career. "Career Clinic" is aired each Saturday morning at 10:30 and features a guest speaker who summarizes the highspots in his profession to the student body of the school where the program originates. Students cooperate with program director Baldwin Harper and sportscaster Don Gardner of WKBN to produce the program. Choral Groups Get Spotlight Outstanding choral groups of the Midwest are making guest appearances on a new series of Saturday afternoon musical program being broadcast each week from 1:30 to 2 P.M. over WGN, Chicago. "Chicagoland Sings" has already spotlighted Southern Illinois University a capella choir and madrigal singers under the direction of F. V. Wakeland, associate professor of music at Southern Illinois. Among other educational institutions to appear are Illinois Wesleyans, Bradley University, North Park College, Grinnell College and Concordia College. Lewis James, director of WGN vocal auditions, will direct the "Chicagoland Sings" series. Training Camp News Using a novel twist to bring capital baseball fans latest news of the Washington Senators, spring-training in Orlando, Fla., WOL, Washington sports director Bill Brundige is featuring two-way telephone conversations with coaches and players on his nightly 6 o'clock sportscasts. The two-way long-distance interviews are tape-recorded just before air-time so that Washington fans really get on-the-spot training camp news. KMPC Contracts for New Show Initial sponsor on the "Lois January Show" broadcast over KMPC, Los Angeles, is the Automatic Laundry Association. Scheduled for Monday through Friday airing from the 2:30 to 3 P.M. period, the advertiser's contract was handled by the C. B. Juneau agency. WFIL Offers "Musical Cocktail" "Musical Cocktail" is the new show being served listeners to WFIL, Philadelphia. Program, aired Mondays through Satur^ days from 11:15 to 11:30 P.M. under sponsorship of Spatola Wines, features recorded South American and string band music. M A y , 1 949 35