Variety (Aug 1932)

Taesdajr, Aogiut 23, 1932 R A • I • rAttmr READYING dOf . AR PROPAGANDA IN WEST ^ Chicago, 22. ° John Blwood, NBC v.-p. -in charge pi operations, was In Chicago last yietSk. -with Ted Allen of the NBC pales department to confer with Re- fmbllcan politicians' on pending liroadcastB. Senator Henry J. Allen^ head of the publicity committee of the Na- tional Republican organization, will headquarter throijgh the campaign itt the Palmer bouse, here. Ben ]Pratt,_recently given the. title of director of public relations for'NBC fn Chicago, will probably establish an office at the Paimer House to contact the Q.. O. P. Chans AH Set ■Charis Musical Revue returns to CBS Sept.' 6 with Helen Nugent and Ben Alley on the warbling end, and the instrumental background fur- nished, by Ann Le^f at the organ puid a stiMng trio. New hookup gives the quarter-. Iionr show a link of 62 stations. A. T. GRABS MOLUSON FOR $2,000 AR SCOOP Enterprise of a commercial on ra- dio scooping the world was . wit- nessed Saturday night (20) when Lucky Strike picked up Capt. James A, Mollison,. the lone Scott trans- '-AtUuitlb' flier, from the Admiral Beatty hotel, .St John's. New Bruns- wick, Canada. Aviator short waved to England and with the; Carabeill orchestra from Buenos Aires al- ready hooKefl up. It gave the doughty Scott a world-wide cover- age.. Stunt cost liucky Strike only |2,- 000 for the land wire to the aviator's room in the hotel and he received no remuneration from Lucky Strike, according to the report^ American Tobacco Co.'s agent in New Bruns- wick arranged the stunt. No advance publicity on the Cap- tain's talk, it having been pranged on-short notice,, but, it managed tp scoop the world with an Impressive explanation of aii epochal flight, as the Captain is not only making 'his flr^t visit to New York but he is planning an Immediate return with- in the week.. J ABE L LYMAN AN1> HIS CAUFORNIA.. ORCHESTRA (MnaM» Biasilfrtlwg Britem PHILLIP'S DENTAL MAGNESIA VMD., nur., B*t. S:M (But) COAST-TO-COAST : IVESTlNGHOrSE KLXCTBIO . Presents ALWPETE (Have You Had. Yowr Iron Today?) 12:46 P, M.- n.3.T.' Monday, Wednesday, Friday— WJZ Taeiday & Thnnday—WEAf . DUMB . CRACKERS ROBERT BURNS PANETELA WABC Every Wednesday Bvenlnc at 0 BURNS^ ALLEN Dir.: tVM.. MORBIS AGENCY RAYMOND PAIBE Hoslesl Director KHJ, Zxta Ansetes OUKST COS'DCCTOR HOLLTWOOD BOWX BTMPHONT July 29tlJ Directing Gershwin's "American In Paris" and the Belcher Ballet Standing By All out,of town stage book- ings for Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd are oft until another sponsor has been found for the pair. Columbia wants them dose at hand,, so that they can be available for a,uditlons. 3oys leave the Ivory Soap progpram this Friday (26). 4 for NBC' New business tally for NBC last week took in a coffee account, a food canning outfit, and a petroleum reflper. Same time Edgewortb To- bacco came through with a renewal for pother 13 weeks eCrectlve with Sept. 14. Continental - Oil brings Caryeth Wells back to the network Dec. 7 for a weekly adventure spiel over stations. Other two new ac- counts will originate out of Chicago. They .are Folger's Coffee, starting Sept. 26 over a special midwest and southwest hookup, and' Monarch Braiid Food Products, set to embark on the basic blue network Oct. 2. Former has obligated itself for 20 weeks, while the canner has con- tracted for 13 weeks. Coffee roaster will use the same script show, 'Jane and'Judy.' it had on CBS last season, on'a flve-day- a-week basis. For Its entertainment draw*. Monarch brands has picked On a mystery tenor and a string trio* ' - Chicago, Aug. 22. Irene Wloker and Marge Evans will be 'Judy and Jane*^- In a new program of that name which Folger Coffee will launch Se^tt. 26. Sched- uled dally for 2:16 p. m. Blacket-Sample & Hummert Is the agency; NBC network. Insidious Oriental Plugr for Italian Balm Chicago, Aug. 22. Jack Bailey will Impersonate the Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu in the radio materialization of the clever Chinese. * Fred Ibbett of McCahn-Krickson agency is now . casting the thriller which starts over the Columbia net- work through WBBM Sept. 29 for Campagna Italian Balm. RADIO HAZABDS m TEXAS Houston, Aug. 22. With several miles of power lines down between the downtown- studio and the transmission plant at Deep Water, KTRH, made a quick switch of programs, when the tropical hur- ricane struck. CBS programs were put on the air over KXYZ, where Manager Tilford Jon*s, Program Director Hayne Hall, Hal Norfleet ^nd the staff stood by all night to relay re- ports of the progress of the hurri- cane through South Texas. K U Z N E TZ O F F N I C OL I N A and 24th C(VN8ECrTIVE WEEK ''STEERO" Program, Wednesdays, 10:15 a.m., WEAF 'SEKATARY HAWKINS' HIMSELF ON IHE AR Chicago, Aug. 22. Robert Franc Schulkerts, origina- tor of the cartoon strip, 'Sekatary Hawkins,' wlU perform all the char- acters therein when the strip 1b broadcast for Kalstonis Purina, starting Oct 4 from Ciiilcago over NBC. . Schulkerts will carry an average of five impersonations per program. He. win broadcast tw^ce daily, once for eastern stations at . 6:45 and again at 6:46 for the western hook- up. Strictly c, kid program, 'Sekatary Hawkins' Is not new to the air. Schulkerts performed a radio ver- sion previously oyer WI*W, • Clnclh- niati, and leased out the script to WTMJ, Milwaukee, and to one or two other spots, notably Bu^alo, where the radio tied. In with the newf^paper carryInis the strip. Agency is Batten, Barton, Diurs- tlne & Osborne. IQFJF Resumes Oct 1 > Oklahoma City, Aug*. 22. Station-KFJF, off the air for sev- eral weeks, will resume broadcast- ing in the Biltmore hotel about Oct. 1, with a new W, five-kilowatt transmitting set. Dudley ShaW, president of the National Radio Mfg. Co.; which operates the 'sta- tion. - KFJF recently was purchased by the . Southwest Broadcasting Co.,., which afterwards merged with Pan- American Broadcasting, which owns four stations outright and controls 15 additional, all in Oklahoma and Texas. CBS-NRC Sab Lake Mi Sail Francisco, Aug. 22; NBC^ha» dropped Kstt, Salt Lake, with that station going CBS. The town's former Columbia station, KDTIi, has switched to 'NBC. S. S. Fox and Philip G. LASky, owners and operators of KDTL, Were here this week.ironing but de- tails of their NBC affiiation with Don K. Giman and other western execs of the network. NBC claims no co-operation from KSLt on chain programs, station having been. unwilTing to accept network sustalners or chain com- niercials Instead of local commer- cials. Shift'gives NBC with a local out- let shooting 1,000 watts, while the CBS ally Is slated to go from 5,000 to 50,000 vratts around Oct. 1. It's Leo or Ted ^ Chicago, Aug. 22. ^ Schaeffer Pen anticipates a re- turn to the wavelengths this' fall via NBC. Now trying to decide between Leopold Spltalny and Ted Weems to head a once weekly musical pro- gram. . Music-Radio Interests In Hnddle On Compromise for Ether Rights strong possibility of the music men and the broadcasters getting together on a compromise contract within' the next two weeks now looms, despite the rejection by Tin Pan Alley of radio's latest proposi- tion. That both sides are ahxions to arrive a;t a settlement by Sept. 1, when the current license fee con- tract expires. Is clearly Indicated by the fact that, regardless of the re- jection, reps from the contending camps are meeting today (23> to resume discussions across the table. After three. weeks of total aulet as far as thie mnsic'men were, con- cerned, the Jbroadcasters suddenly met In Atlantic City and drew up a revised proposition for considera- tion by the American Society of Composers,-Authors and Publishers. Among those who attended the AC con^b were^&rry Sha.w, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, Philip Louck^ the NAB managing director,, and A. L. Ashby, NBC's chief counsel and a network y.p. Deal that came out of thlis gathering asked the society for a five-year contract, with s grad- uating sciBle to apply on the gross commercial business donft by the stfitlons. Proposal set a 2% tax on each of the first tWo yeatis, a tilt to Z% for the year 1936 and « fee of 4% tor both 1936 and 1937. Onty For TTiree Yeara Broadcasters yesterday . (22) were verbally notified that this proposi- tion was not acceptable to the so- ciety. To begin with,'the radio men were advised, any contract entered Into with the'society would have to be limited to three years. Latter Info came as a distinct surprise to the broeidcasters, for It had always been the society Itself that bad In- sisted .upon a long term agreement What caused the change of mind on the term angle, it develops, was the discovery by the society that the contract It holds with thd comr posers, authors and publishers ex- pires Dee. 81, 1935, and that any deal made by the .organization for beyond this period would be invalid. To give thei broadcasters a flve-year. contract would entail getting the so- ciety's members to extend their present agreements with ASCAF. Outside of the labors involved and the time it would take to get these signatures; the ASCAP directors concede that the rank and file of the-organization would oppose any KFWB's Chatter Tipoff Hollywood, Aug. 22. Sara Langman, former fan mag writer, has Joined KFWB staff as writer. Slie will also be spotted on a pro- gram to tell of her experiences In- terviewing Hollywood celebs. Beaucoup, Jawing ♦ Chicago, Aug. 22. Wrigley's Jawrexerciser goes badk on the cosmos Aug. 29 with five weekly gobs of 'Myrt and'. Marge' and three weekly gobs of 'Indian Lore.' . Columbia networks for both. Sax Player Called Cruel San Francisco,: Aug. 22. ■Divorce proceedings were filed this week by Georgia Eastmond, against her husband, Earl East- mond, radio sax player, on grounds of cruelty. Mrs. Eastmond . was- formerly cashier- at several downtown the- atres. They haye, one child. ort's 13 San Francisco, Aug. 22. Arzen Nasal Oil begins a once' weekly quarts hour program over Orange network of NBC on Nov. 16. Thirteen-week contract. RKO PROGRAM IS CHI'S RADIO ORPHAN ON NBC Chicago, Aug. 22. , Chicago BI^O program which had been from 8-8:30 Wednesdays will- be tossed around for the next sev- eral weeks until NBC gets set on Its new commercials for the falL A new permanent time will then be arranged. Meanwhile last week (17) the wiring of .the College Inn cut the RKO program to 16 minutes. Bobble Meeker orchestra took 8-8:16 and RKO the balance of the half hour. Eiistem Air Studios Now Want Plenty of Leg Art Los Angefes, Aug. 22. Chain press agents, realizing fu- tility of peddling straight artist's pictures to the papers, have turned sexy. Calls from thie cast to local p. a.'s is now for plenty of leg art. Rc- ciuests are also for drawing room type of soprano to wear abbreviated costumes and show the gams if they expect to hit the magazines and dailies. such extensions of their tickets al this time. Counter proposal how made by the society Is for a downward r»< adjustment of the sustaining pro>i gram music fees, with the broads- casters frefe to choose either a year's or three years' contract. If' radW. prefers to sign for a singleton annom the society's demand calls for a flat 5%. On a three-year basis it's to be 8% for 1933, 4% for 1934, and 5% for 1935. Meeting toda.y (23) is the first time the music and radio men faced, each other across the table since the blow-np of negotiations three weeks ago. "Tin Pan Alley had agreed, to accept a compromise offer of n,260,000, that would have given It $260,000 more than received ta fees the past year from radio, but the NAB reps underwent a change oif mind dnd declared the Increase excessive. - Pourparlers reached an. Impasse when the society refused to accept a substantial reduction from .this figure and the broadcasters, folr* lowed this up with, an announc»^. ment that all dliscusslons were off. 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