Variety (Mar 1934)

Tvetdaf, Blurch 6, 1934 New York Sisters of Skillet and Joe Penner did cuflo gueatins for Paul White- man at Biltmorcs Herbert Kerlcow off 'Sates Man- agement' and now in Petrolt. George Jessel returns from Ploir- tda March 12. NBC points out that President RADIO CHATTER I 1 I II II II I l.l M 1 I I 1 I I M I n Ml I II IIH Mil II !■! I I M I I C II I n 1 I I II I II H II II n Roosevelt in his first year In office spoke 26 times over the air» or once every fbrntight. Gertrude Berg played her l»000th script for Pepsodent and NBO on March 2i George Jessel raised $2,000 for his pet charity with a Florida benefit performance. Frank NoVak and Prank Banta form a piano team under the title •Octopus of the Piano', • Ahthoiiy .Frome plays that post- poned Paramount N.Y. daite Mfirch ?. Charles Pfevin goes to Chicago for a commercial after eight months leading Paramount theatre or« chestra. Whitney Bolton's reaction to his first broadcast over WNEJW In"*- spired him to an imaginative article comparing the experience to Sing Sing with Announcer Ted Webbe as his executioner. GrOucho Mane family Is motoring in from California to join the oomlo who Is now a radlolte. Vera Vaji goes back With the George Jessel CBS sustalner on March 17. , . CBS has added & Wednesday night spot to Edith Murray's sched- ule making It two a week in alL JIMMY KEMPER THE MEXICAN MINSTREL TITO 6UIZAR Managemsnt-COLUMBIA ARTI8T8 BUREAU Colonel Stoopnagte afflicted with laryngitis «U last w«ek but did both his Camel showa. Moll* hands Mnewals as of this week to tha Jeaters and Shirley Howard. Colgate's Arthur Boran, dialect comlo, goes Into Boxy, New York, week of March II. A year's incumbency at the St. Moritz hotel appropriately cele- brated Tuesday («) by Leon Be- lasco. Phil Spltalny has lost social standing since becoming a Ken- tucky coIoneL John Boyal Went along with NBC^s contingent of talent for the White House Correspondents' din- neir In Washington. ^ . Niela Godelle. Buddy Roger's warb standby, stays on In New York for a mike contract. Jack Davidson, Ruthraufl & Ryan's network program contact, may switch to Brtscoo & Gold- smith, talent and literary booking office. . _ . ^ . Modern Screen Review a ffair on WMCA, New York, and WPRO, Providence, has been renewed, with Robert LiaAdrum, Sam Taylor and Conrad and Tremont retained. Jack Denny wouldn't take a . cut on the American Oil . whirl on CBS unless It was for 21 weeks. Katz agency offered eight at a clip or the stretch stipulated by the bandman if bis services became exclusive. Proposition no go either way and Freddie Martin replaced Denny. Maicwell House no want Annette Hanshaw to take elocution lessons. .Tom liuckenblU. J. Walter Thompson producer recently moved in from Chicago, liaa been, assigned to the Royal Gelatino, Jergena and the New Toric end of ° the Chase & Sanbon ahowa. ^ ^ , ^ Bddle Paabody haa been added to Pure Oira flatordaj night sessions over WJZ. ^ ^ John J. ftomi*-leader for book pubUshers^ told »enfc- ♦vef KNEW ast Tuesday <27) something about the inside of the publlshUiff busi- ness. . liOo Relsman has Thelma Nevins. who halls from Washington, D. C* back on his Philip Morris show* DON LEE BROADCASTING SYSTEM WESTERN UNIT Pbiladelpliia Irv Strassman, WDAS Chief engi- neer, left the station last week to connect with. RCA as microphone technician. Tr ue story about Jerry Crowley, WiP program manager, la that Crowley really had that offer to go into the Russian Embassy, but turned . It down. Jerry studied at the Foreign Service School while at Georgetown, before coming to Phllly. John Hays subbed for Andy Stan- ton, WiP sports alrcaster, while the latter Journeyed to Florida for the heavyweight go, with Ray Fablani, dean of Philly's wrestling promoters. WCAU cooking school receiving a temporary setback While Its con- ductor, Elsie' Caroll, takes time out for a bad case of mumps. Comely Doris' Chalfonte, WCAU blonde hostess, leaves the studio for an advertising connection with the McKee Albright Agency. WIP aired the 61st annual ban- quet of the class of 1888 of phlla. Central High School—one of the oldest schools in America. Ellis Gimbel, of the department .store family, who Is president of the class, acted as tiie program's master of ce remo nies. WFI planning local build-up for Anthony Cuoda's act, Tony and Dandelion*. Show Is town's only comedy, recently Imported from Chicago. Three Roberts Brothers : in town for a night olub s how. Kirst got their start on WIP* Mrs. George Strawbrldge^ spouse of partner In StraWbrldge and Clothier store—which owns WFI, never went on the air nntll asked to do so recently by Haiea <3rey, the outlet's press agent. Adams Chiclets making promotton tie-up for newspaper advartislng m PhiUy and New York hj Ceatur'— pictures of ether stara. lioaala il ^ wero Helen Warwick. Carlotta Dale and Larry Tate—^who each got a box of gum for the pose! All Phllly newspapers, alwaya down on space for radio, may ba loosening up. Most sheets viewing prospective short-wave feature with kindly eyes.. Only columns In dis- trict are Dot Ijovo's on the Wewsr, and 'By Gosht' in the Courier-Post Sammr Kaye'a orchestra, playing at the Hendrlck Hudson Hotel, Troy, N. Y., broadcast over WOT a program dedicated to Ohio State University and Its president Ohio U is the alma mater of every mem- ber of the band. WGLC, Hudson Falls, N. Y., has Increased Its use of Golumbia pro- grams after havlnc( curtailed them for the last two months. Dick Os- (Cohtlnued on page 62) OF THE Cohmibia Broadcasting System Cteffently being released from our California Studios to the entirt jQolumbia network are the following programs] General Cigar Company.. Woodbury Soap Co....>.. Old Gold Cigarettes ^ Pontiae Antomobiles ..w. Charis Company.• Califorriia Melodies, ^.a Catherine the Great. ...^ «.Guy Lombardo—Bums and Alton . .Bing Crosby—Gkis Arnheim- ..Ted Fio R'lto—4)ick Powell .."Surprise Party"—Raymond Palgs . .Louella Parsons—Raymond Paigs ..Raymond Paige and Movio Celebrities ..Historical Drama HEAD OFFICE LOS ANGELES ROGER WHITE ORGANIZATION RKb Building Radio City, New York Cmrtni Productions UNIT 7-STAR REVUE OHI^BACH PROGRAM KARO SYRUP KREMEL MAZOLA LITTMAN PROGRAM Artlats Featured: »ep<iB I Oraife MMttal IMmiM n»Bk Pwlter PedM de Cordoba Bea Aller Bettr Bay YasaboBda. Leaden Tito Bd. Oaatamaa Mid-West Hamr Shaw ba> heeh elected chairman of the Iowa state advls ory board to the naUonal emer gency council to assist In the affairs ot the national recovery adminis- tration In lows- He is president of the Waterloo Broadcasting Co, WMT^ and one of three members of the national code clariflcatlon commission under the federal radio commission. ^D1 a n a DuQuard, Chatterbox dancer on Lester Spencer's 'Ques- tion Box* hour Over WQI, Fort Wayne, and telling of her experi- ences as LTtra in some of those big Hollywood extravaganzas. Bob McGrew and Hotel Fort Des Moines orchestra started a new 6:30 p.m. series March 4, every Sun day witb guest artists from all sec- tions of the state to feature pro- grams, bolstered by vocal team and Garnette Arrick, harpist, over Cen- tral Broadcasting company outlet WHO-WOC. KSO, Register-Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa, -outlet, clicked on a musical potpourri Sunday night feature 8 to 8:80 and will continue indef. Features Bernie Lowe's orchestra, Brooksi and Piersort, the Happiness Lads; the Three Jays-^ Jean, Joan and Jerry—Harmony trio, and Lloyd Hundlihg, tenor. Wife of Bdwin J. Ellig, auditor of the Crosley Radio Corp., Cincinnati, died March 1 at their home, follow ing a brief illness. Listen! ^ivi^v'^ Are Yott Listenin' ? When I spend money for an Ad I want It to do good. So I hope this one will encourage some artist who Is panned by would-be critics and is discour- aged about it. . 1933, 'Variety' handed Tony Wons this bouquet: *When TMijr Wons was red hot as a radlO BAiae there was a bet- ter reason flor a stage tuiii by him than now. He's no longer the star that he was in radio, where he belongs, which lessens his value for the stage, where he doesn't belong.' let's look at the reo- i^OW» ord.' Since that brU- llant observation Tony Wons has> Landed a year's commercial on 60 CBS stations', broadcast 150 times; played in leading theatres throughout America; received 200,000 letters; sold thousands of ScrapboOks; made money for radio stations, his sponsors, the- atres and himself—the best year of his careier; and is at present rehearsing a new show. All of which* my fellow ar- '^^^ tlsts, proves that some of the critics may be wrong most of the time. GOOD LUCK Tony Wons CBS A RECORD BROADWAY ENGAGEMENT—THREE YEARS SOLIDLY AT THE HOTEL TAFT. NEW YORK GE HALL and hh COLUMBIA BROADCASTING ORCHESTRA Exclusive Management COLUMBIA ARTISTS* BUREAU MYRT an E 3rd Year Columbia Broadcasting System; Chicago