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VARIETY Radio Chatter New York Doesn't look now aa though Wil- liam S. iPaloy will make that cort- templatefd trip to: Holljrw'ood and other points oh the West Coast; Kjetworks didn't eVen. toss a New Tear's party for .the. New York , radio eds. They passed up giving: either a shindig or presents t<j this element Christmas'. CBS and NBC agreed last year to: lay off the f>ar- ' ties and giveaways during the holi- days hecause ot exchequer condl-, tions at the time.. Stoopnagle and Budd .are making their second twO-jreeler for Educa- tional under Al Christie's, dlx'ection. Charles Carlile played his first stage date at 'the Paradise, Bronx, F*riday (5). .. He wfeiit back to.CBS isustalnihg;-two days later.- Max Baer is asiii^ig $2;600 for.'a sinprlcton on tlie Camel show. Got $750 for, his last .CDrhmerclal, the . Rucly. Vanee-Pleischmahn wljirl, but that was before lie became a chan;i- io-nshlp contender. Wili .Osborhe stays on the Corn products Gorp.'s • a.m, stanzas cleared th^oiiglx. CBS. ; . Jack Beiiny" is dickering.. with 'MGil on a picture .makingr call. .Mary . Barclay,. CJhicago . £ioclalite with WOR, Newark, her.: last .con- nection, is going both . netXvork. and, conjtnercial. Joe Orlando, barytone,' is. set, for; ah NBC audition Jan. 18. WMCA, TjieW York, has returned, to its schedule Charles Martin's 'Five Star Final' ' 'Criminal Courti'. . Leonard Joy wtU do the batoning for Smith. Bros.' session on CBS with Scrappy Lambert and Billy HiUpot. Joy has also the Ciinard Line show on WJZ. • Charles Fleischer, news commen- tator; formerly bri WBNX, has transferred to WMCA, New York. Benjamin JDavid fixed Old Gold auditions for Charles Previn, Rube Goldbefg, Saxon Sisters, Rollickers and Three GraceSi . Jack Lavih got a slave bracelet from Paul Whlteman as a holiday fflft. . . .. Goddma^ Ace presented ia copy of. ^iltithony ^Adverse' to Jack Haley's month-old baby. Metro Is going: oh the air three times current week over WOR as a buUd-up for 'Fugitive tibvers.' Film opens at the CapUol Friday (12). Company has fifteen-minute periods at 6,l6 WEonday. Wednesday and Fri day and will send out .a sierlalized synopsis-'o£ the. story-on those days .First - time for Metro. . ^ CBS is gi-obmlng Ruth Cambridge, Walter Winchell's air.proxy, for a commercial. NBC'S Don IJall trio like to play around with goo'sdneck mikes. Sydney Mann got her ether start on WOR*s 'Vltaplibne Hour' servlcei, ■Harry Reser is tuning up for an- other commercial. Columbia's, execs are getting sen- sitive about references to. their b6- ciety proclivities. Spencer Dean, Crime Club actor, down to Baltlijnore to o, o. alma mater,> Johns Hopkins IT. Beality expert on the Pond's Cretfm show (NBC) can't have her pen name cited because it-s con trolled by a magazine. Maud Adams steps info the program for a dra- maitic series this Friday (7). Audition, that Rutb Etting arrives for tomorrow (Wednesday.) ' was okayed by the songress after the commercial concerned agreed to pay all her expenseis from Hollywood. Colgate is still auditioning for Its rpposed night time variety show. East Dick. McLughry has resigned from the local NBC continuity staff. V " . Ireehe Wicker plt^yed to turn- away mobs on her personal. Invite to the kids to^ come upi and see the 'Singing Lady/ . Ralph Atlass planning a tour to Alaska next summer. ' Art LlnicU away oh a. vacation . Clyde Lucas and Jiiles Stein bands 'will get NBC wires. ■ Jim Cook still dreams of raising walnuts... Ed .Bailey of NBC is a member of the Uptown Players. Holly Shlvely and Hal Burnett added to the CBS-WBBM p. a. stait, Joe.Koestner last week topped his 2,0poth broadcast as baton-waver. Ed Voynow and John Ashenhurst scrammed for a flock of Bermuda sunshine. George Kercher's frau in the cast 6t 'T oj)jy__a.iidi_Eya/_ ^ ,_,.^„__ Frank Wilson, AdeTe Starr and J^rry - Marlowe start a trl-weekly series for* Evans Fur over WMAQ. Phil Porterfleld back on the Red Star Yeast session after parking the appendix. Mar-O OIl Show back to WBBM with Norm Sherr, Eddie Hoiise Dorothy Shidler and Val Sherman Kate Smith and her Swancc vaude units hitting the- midwest theatres, Nlles Trammel and Sidney Strotz Into Radio City for conferences. It's okay for Tom Leiwls, Robert RissHhg and Chester Vedder Of WGY's annbuncing staff to receive mash hoties from, femme listeners, but no dice for Billy Rose and .Jim Cornell, the married men, ■ .Norman: Hapgood IS back on .a commercial over WGY • after a lec- turiB trip to the Middle W;e.st. . In Milwaukee lie broadcast over the 'Jourriar station, WTMJ. Antoinette Halstead, contralto, doing the announcing ; on her pro-^ grains of sacred-songs over WGY.: Peeping .George and Tom, come- dians, are.the latest additions to the group of theatre acts. broadcasting over WGY, Heard on an early- nlorning.shot. Fans of Stamford dance marthdh broadcasts, remoted through W.ICC, Bridgeport, sent Iry ;Friedberg, ra.e., case . df rye and gin. Pleasure Beach, Bridgeport, dwell- ing of Jimmy Milne, WICC announ- cer, and. Ferd Le Jeuriia, band m*"^- stro, burned down.. Park burlesquerle, Bridgeport, one-timing on WICC to boost biz. Joan Lee, WOKO,. Alba,ny, torch ;iihger, :appearlng at Capitol, tlieatre in that towh, . Central Vermont -. Boston - Maine Airways, are a new account on the books of WDEV, Waterburjr, Vt Dinny Winn and; his Vermont Wo6dchopperS( Vermont radio fav- orites! are jnaking personal appeiEif- ances In'theatres. Kathleen (Solng,. threie years bid, recently broadcast two. piano solos over WDEV; Waterbury, Yt., the youngest Vermonteip ever heard oh. the air. Playhouse, Montpelleie, . ; the tenth theatrfe to Join the Iheatrlcial account on WDEV, Waterbiiry, vt. The Sizzlers into- the; Eiarfe, Washington,. after completing a WB Short this week,, opening Jan. B, . Improvements haye been com- pleted at CHNS In Halifax, N. S^, where the transmitter has been re- built including the Installation of crystal control ppwer amplifier circuit and the ^ transformation of the old equipment Into a jpower amplifier. CHNS Is now 1,050 kllbcycles and BOO watts. William. C. Borrett is directbt' of CHNS, and under him are John Redmond, as. ia,ssistant director; Lionel Shatford, as program director; Cecil Landry, as chief operator. Morton B. Havey has Joined the executive staff of StMlon WABI, at iSangor^ Fbr-merly on editorial staff of a 'Bangor-dally. Later spent four years as secretary to the former governor of state. Permission is being asked of the Canadian Radio Commission by Yai-mouth, N. S., parties, for the establishment of a 100 watts broad- casting statioii in Yarmouth. Bob Cragin, . associate editor of W(5Y's -Far-m Paper' of the air is the big man of the studio staff, standing six feet, three Inches. Was a Q.E. accountant before he went radio In 1931. Warren Munsoh, former an- nouncer-actor at WGY, said 'hello' to the boys and girls on a. recent visit to Schenectady. Now an an- nouncer for WTAM, Cleveland, Waldo Pooler plays two of the four principal characters in, and also works on the script of, 'Joe and Eddie', WGY sketch and theatre ^"jack Tlerney has recovered and Is back announcing for WCAX, Bur- lington, yt. . WDEV, Waterbury, Vt., did a larger volume of business than any other station In the State last year^ Kimball Bros., manufacturing chemists, Enesburg Falls, Vt., have signed -with WDEV» Waterbury, Vt,, f qr a series of daily announcements. Brad Biraley,- pianist at WCAX, Burllhgton, Vt., doesn't ■ annouhce the name of male, singer on his prp- gram. . Extreme cold- wisather caused the Bar-X Cowboys to miss their reg- ular broadcast over WDEV, Water- bury, Vt. Phonograph records were used to fill. gap. Pitt Players, dramatic brganiza- tibn of University of Pittsburgh, airing play excferpts regularly Over WWSW, Pittsburgh. : Charlie Danver, Plttsburghesque columnist of Post-Gazette,, declined to audition for a Pittsburgh brew-. Ing. company seeking an kir pro- gram, • Dick Cook, of WGAB, Pittsburgh, town's best-drbssed announcer. It's the English influence, Cook having spent sevei'al years abroad. . Ernie Hoist's band leaves William Penn hotel and Its KDKA, Pitts- burgh, wire with no successor named yet. . . Paul- Benton. -aS sociat eJedltor ^of trusting a Teataurant «leifc and missing a standby* announcemefat by three mlnuten. Helen Ankner. ataff organist at WHAM, Rochester, is wrlttauBT own script on Village Cbolr Behearsal' after getting f>ackgTOund every morning for years, EI Oary» tenor out . of vaiide, signed by WBAI^ Balto, for iserles of 1& afternoon broadcasta Danny Saks, Baltimorean , retu rpfl to home town as adjunct to WFBB's Mississippi-MinstreUk . . Fred Huber^ WBAXi director, guest of Roxy during latter's Gang NBC hour last Sunday. . " w;CAO, Baltlmbrei^ running, wires Into Green Room of Century Thea- tre, preparatbry to forthcomlnjg backstage pick-ups, Leon MaxweU'B ork's -half-hour WCBM, Baltimore, last Thurs. .(4) occasioned Initial' Instance Monu- mental City iaired over CBS. id-West the Rochester Tlmes-Unibn, goes on Gannett station WHEC with twicer a-weok broadcast,. Front Page Peo-. pie,' as .competition for Meyer jao- obstcin, Hearst publisher's 'Behind the Headlines,' over'WHAM. Music lesisons for radio control operators conducted at WHAM^ Rochester, by Charles W. Slverspn, staff musical director. Coffee and toait cost Prank Kelly, WHAM'S i>. a., f6.70. Twenty cents for the lunch and $6.60 fine for WKBBi Dubuque, Iowa, lhdej>end:- ent ether outlet,' studios . in. Hotel Jullen, Dubuque, and transmitter , in East Dubuque, III., 1,600 kUocyles, goes off test and on r^uiar.'broad- pasting Schedule, 7 to 10.16 mom" Ings, midday 11.45 to 1.30, and eve- nings 5.30 to 9, with Sunday limited from 9 to'2, jnbming start... 'Plug*- Kendrick, manager Of WKBF, Indianapolis, to. Nashville; Tenn., to visit the old folks over holidays. Earl Lewis leaves, the engineering staff of WFBM, Indianapolis, for greenbr pastures. Ralph Cohen out as publicity chief at WKBF, IndiahapoUs. Harriet Cruise at WFBM, Inr dianapolls^ every evening In con- nection with her stage appearance at tiyrlc theatre^ Roy E. Blossom, station hiahager at WFBM/ Indianapolis, to Wash- ington, D> C., to angle for full time operating license. Program director lPi*ank' .Shan> and announcer John Holtman on the slok lis t at W^FBM, Indianapolis. Staff of WFBM gets 17 cases of Coca Cola for Xinas gift from James Yuncker, pres. of -local bottling company.. Bill Behrman, manager of. WB QW,. "ierre Haute^ inV Indianapolis pn business^^ . woe-WHO, Des Moines,, got a letter from an Alaskan listener 38 miles from the Arctic Circle who said that after listening to he Mor ton Salt broadcast by the Barn Dance Frolic over that station, he had ordered Morton's salt'to use on a shipment of 1,800 reindeer he was sending to the United States. Herbie Koch,-widely known, the atre feature organist, lately. at the Paramount;*" Des Moines, will be organist for station WHAS, Louis- ville, after Jan. 16. - , '.Mickey and Ollvbr' are back with WOC-WHO, Dps Moines. 'Mickey' Gibbons is kiiown as Iowa's Kate Smith/ and Oliver Scott IS from the concert stage although he has been In radio work since 1921. Do a piano and song act. Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Cb. has local show over WOC-WHO, Des Moines. . Consists of recordings, weather reports, short , local news- flashes furnished by A, & P. and called 'The Musical Biiirrage.' Market broadcasts by WOC- WHO, Des Mplnes, had Stanley Wldney, formerly In dramatic stock companies, as special market an- npuncer. Sponsored by Kester Solder Co., Chicago, and Ohsman Fur Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa.' Standard Oil of Indiana has re- newed Its contract with WOC- WHO, Des l«folnes> fbr two half- hour studio shows weekly, and to feature Al, Mprey's 'old time' trio of Al Fenogllp, accordionist;: Fred Jeske, guitar and " Edgar 'Pop' Fawcett,^ vlollh< . 'Pop* was for many years director of the RKO 'Oprheum orchestra in Des Moines and. Al Mbrey was m. c. at the Parietmount theatre, . Des Moines, for over two years. Vocal- ists are Dorothy Fay and Lon Saxon. , Qene. Loffler assumes the part of .'cheerful Stan.' . WOCJ-WHO, Des Mblnes, has closed an account With United Remedies fbr seven full hours each week, with, local shows. Utilizing. 'The Four Novelty Abes' on the Acidino. show, 'Four Aces bt Harmony' oh the Kolor-bak show and Fred Jeske on the Peruna .shbwsi Arrangements completed. between WOW, Omaha, and Department of Agriculture for dally broadc^ist of the" department'^s official market re ports via that station. Schedule calls for four dally broadcasts. KOIL, Omaha, weht personality hunting and brought Babe Dldrlk son, Beverly West and Duke El- lington to the mike In a space of .t5K0.:=day8..i=JU.-^Namen^.wa8=chaser. WOWs around the town party now Includes four bands—^Art Ran- dall, Freddie Ebener, Hairy Fisher and travelling bands at. the Cher mot. Champ hard-luck etory of the sudden cold sbell tbld by Hart Jenks, KOHi studio director. Bitter cold came overnight and Jenks fig ured something always happens, so got up early:-. Plenty happened House water plpea froia up^ and director worked oot on them be- fbre breakfast. Setting dt to work, radiator wasn't frosen, hut stltt cyl- inders wouldn't let oar atart A half hour conquered thiis, but a rear flat tire held up tho pare4ek By the time tire was fixed motor was cold again and Jenks hiad to push car half mile to nearest hlU. At the bottom, with silent motor, he found ho oil In crankcase. Oil replenished, director dragged Into studlp at 11 a.in. Frost bitten toes didn't worry much, but last straw came when he found studio running peacefully without him^ WOWO, Fort Wayne, has started a Barnyard Jamboree for Friday nights from 10 to 10:30 o'clock^ HI" don Baker .Is m.o.'lng . the show^ which includes' around 80 entertain- ers.- Fred Zleg is back in Fort Wayne from a holiday vacation to'^ Lake Placid, N. Y. Father Coughlln has added WOWOi, Fort Wayiie* to his list of Statlbns fbr the regular Sunday afternoon . prografh. Johnny Yuhasa, Mlchig:an local, has composed two numbers, 'Through the Nlghf. and 'Nothing a:t AH,' which have been plugged over WFDF, Flint. Bert Stock, for the past two years niiuslcat director and announcer , at Sts^tlon WKBJi, Youngstown, leav- ing January 1 to. enter anpther linC; of . the amusement business. Long-expected .consolidation of: offices between KOIL and KFAB be- came .effective JTan. 3, Executive and commercial staff of, KOIL, Omaha studio .waS moved from its residence of more than two years. In: tlie Brandeis Store building into the KFAB offices atop the Omaha National Bank b.uildihg. Moving personnel Includes John Henry- Omaha manager for. the. Uhlpn Holding cbmpany, Isabel Dlckason," manager's secretary, Walter Heald. bobkkeeper, Al Namen, production, and I'hontelle Jones. Eventually, complete staff of KOIL as well as equipment will be moved into the KFAB suite, but for . jpresent an- nouncing and production staff and equipment will remain In the KOIL. studlb as. lease does not expire until 1936. This leaves Hart Jenks, pro- duction manager, Grace Pool Stein-^ berg, -program, director,, and Ray Suber, Duane -Gaither, and Walter Vogt, announcers lK:the Brandpls studios. — > - Art Ryherg, who has been chief operator: at KOIL for th© past five years, goes to WHO, Des Mbinea, -whef"e he-will do transmitter work. He has been engaged on the tech-. hical end of radio, almost since tlie beginning of the broadcasting busi- ness. He came to KOIL from KFNF, Shenandoah, Iowa* Succes- sor has riot yet been named. Martin Wickett, formerly of WAAW and KPAlB's Omaha studio, left December 29 to become staff arranger at KMOX, St. Louis. 'Cheerful Charlie'. Flagler now di- viding his week between KSO and WOC-WHO, D6s Moines, for Zino- master's bread.' Formerly exclusive with KSO. for a year. Pete MacArthur, program direc-. tor, WOC-WHO, Des Moines, back to the studio after a serious hos- pitalization. KSO, Des Moines, lists its radio program in the daily paper in old Vaude .style, with headliners listed at the top. Artists and Models company, at the Paramomjt, Des Moines, last week, gave a 30-minute program over KSO with Don Santo m. c. and Zelaya, Darling Twins and Chick Kennedy before the rnike. Woody Wooas has joined the sales staff of station KSO, Des Moines. Announcers interviewing each other is new at WOWO, Ft, Wayne. Lester SpencCr had Harry Flannery of same staff on the Question Box prpgram to tell, about the higher- Ulps he has met. .Vice versa within near future, too. Almee Semple McPherson had the entire WOWO staff orchestra on Shrine-stage with her during the Ft. Wayne engagement.. Frank Carleton Nelson, 'The Hoosler Poet,' Sunday nighting over WOWO In Ft, Waynci Milp Utterback, WAAW Omaha operator, off duty a week fighting flu.. Tuesdajt January 9* 1934 Hollywood, for a naornlng 15-mlnut* austalner of singing and chatter. Tacoma radip guild presented epi. sode tn High Hat Harry series over KMO 7.30 p, XQ. Play concerned various experiences of liondon scriv* ener and columnist in LImehousa district. . Tacoma Shopping News Carries editorial from Carl Haymond, man« aging director of KMO, who aska the civic and cultural organizations to participate in broadcasts in their advancement and will help publiclza the work they have set out to doi; Shopper Is. only publication to carry complete programs of local stations.' Tacoma KMO signs off each night at 9 while KVI (CB$)^ other ipcaL sticks tin 12; Vernon puke, engineer at KOA, Denver, has returned frbm a . two weeks' business trip tp New York, where he went as representative of the employees bf KOA in the husl- hess bf forming a unlbh. He.ln- spebted Riadib City headquarters bf NBC and several stations en route. Walter N. Campbell, publicity and program director KOA, Den- ver, spent a week, touring the mid- dle west and south as far as Nash- ville. President Deorbecher of Puget ^.Qund.^oadcaatlng^jC!.bmpany^ JCVI. (CBS), Tacoma," In Sah Francisco to spend holidays' with his daugh- ters. To be gone two weeks. Mary March, KVI, Tacoma, pop. soprano, was a visitor In Portland and guest at Portland CBS station KOIN. .Erik Barnoun of Erwln-Wasey, New York, Is on the coast for tal- ent for the,H-0 Rangers, CBS kid serial. Adele Burlah, formerly at KPO, teams with Pat Nlelsoa at KMTR, South WKBC, Birmingham, has takea World Broadcasting discs, say* Steve Cisler, manager. Tom Daily, WAPI, Blrminghara, is back in towiv alter hls.hpneymooa to Chicago. Charles Gpdwlrt, WKY, O^klahoma City staff anhpuncer, becoming authority bn Women's' attire ;since he began , those Thursday morning tours of Rorabaugh-^Brown's de« partment store with Marilyn Arbee* Brown's personal shopper. Pearl Reece, WKY, Oklahoma City, humorously estimates that her fingers havp traveled 10.751 miles over the keybbard while Thelma Brown estlniates her mileage at 3 331. , A, S. Hatch, pf New York, auditor for the. Columbia Broadcasting System, in Charlotte, N. 'C.< on his annual tbur. checking the books bf statibn WBT. Conference on ^the use of radio, for educational and cultural pur- poses has been called to meet at the Charles hotel, Shelby, N. C. The* conference Is sponsored Jointly by the National Cbmmlttee bn Edu- cation and the. American Listeners Spciety. Bo Norris and Boots Downing, piano-vocal duo with WSOC, Char- lotte, N. C, are running an all-re- quest. prPgram.of pop tunes under a temporary arrangement with Eckerk's Drug Store. They are to be sighed . for .a continuous, pro- gram if returns Justify. Paul Norris. publicitlr" director for WSOC, Charlotte; N. C*. broadcast- ing radib chatter program. Announces 'Half-Pint' Kimmell transferred to KOMA, Oklahoma City. Hollywood Impressipns, a transr Cription with Lu Tobin, has been sold to the Imperial theatre in Ashe- vllle, N, C., fbr'.a twice-weekly series over station. WWNC. These discs are manufactured by MacGregor & Solliei Inc., in San - Francisco, and include impersonations, gOsslp, and hit tunes of the. week, played by a nuniber of leading orchestras and sung by a varied assortment of vocalists. Although Bohemian and German communities are comparatively few in Oklahoma, the programs of tho 'Bohemian Knights' over KOMA Oklahoma! City, each Sunday at 12;30 p^ m. are among the most pop- ular on the broadcast schedule. Di- rected by J. Belsky.. • Homer and Walter Callahan, whose ' programs from Station WWNC have been, quite popular* especially from the 'Saturday. Night Shindig,' which consisted entirely o£ mountain music and square dances, have been signed by the American Record Company (New Yprk) for ten records. News Parade, transcription of re- cent news events, sponsored by the AsheviUe Citizen and the Ashevi'lle Times, daily newspapers, has been changed from 10 a. m. to a. late spot Thursday evening. Broadcasts are weekly affairs on WWNC, Asheville, N. C. Records are made by Marvin Advertising Company. Francis Craig and his orchestra reefularly aired over statibn WSM. Are playing the Hermitage hotels ;Nashville, Tenn.> for the tenth con- secutive month, Tom Dailey, of WAPI, Birming- ham, took his bride to. Chi bn thpir honeymoon Just in time to get. in the big Village for the cold Weather, Franklyn Ferguson has just been niade program director for KTAT, Fort Worth, Succeeding E^irl Melby, who has not annpuncGd plans for the future, Ferguson has been a program director'at WPAA, Dallas, for the last two years. Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies are dPawing crowds- to their daily hour and a half broad- cast bver KTAT, Fort Worth, The station hag jii.st opened a new studlb and fans .«;it in the dead end of it, • Harry HoxworLh, former «toik. director, is expected to direct for Fort Worth Little Theatre, in addi- tion to being commercial manager QLKPJ2,.^_EiMjjQrth.. Richard T. Grinaldg, Jr., who took on announcing at WMAZ, Macon, to fill out their NRA requirements, has transferred his affections and chat- ter to WRDW, Augusta. Prank Crbwther is versatile an- nouncer, pianist and soloist: for MWAZ having come to the Macou station from WSB, Atlanta. Gold Leaf Flour, on the air dally Since April I, 1929, plans nn in- crease in the use of WMAZ. Macon In 1934.