Variety (Dec 1934)

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TuesdayV pecember 11, -1934 VARIEtr omise •V- .■■;•v■•■I>a^la,.■Dw!..3.■^ _^_OUve 'briaijch waa waVea at ecrap-; ping newspaper and radio. iAtereats in Europe by _,the Jntftrnatlpnal Con- ference on New Forms of. Journal- ism (of wlilch^ ^ ^ra^ Is ; one) at Brussels..'■■ Printed: and broadcast news ialiould nbt conflict, but' Bupplifemen^^ each dtheri says resolutloni The printed kind , shpuld supplements the news flashes on the air,. and the air flashes should call attention to the papers, ■ : Conference recomniende dio interests In all coiiiitrlies, should hire trained : newspapermen to biandie all news broadcasts. . Also suggested that-sohools be organized to train radio journalists, cither by broadcasting companies or by news- papermen's assdclatlons/ , • ,: It was resplyiBd that no advertls- -In'g- bf 'al^yr-iBprt rs with nflwsy broadciEiBts. Conference expressed wish that '. newspaper ■ ethics, as applied' to the printed press, should be extended to the ether, particularly as regards com- pleteness aiid lmipartlallty of news ; Ethiccil principles must, be applied, it adds, within .the limitations made necessary by the' facts that the number of radio stations Is limited and . therefore monopolistic, and that radio news stories; must be very shorts . Conference, also asked that pay and conditions of labor of European newspapermen employed In radio work ,(Should, be regulated by , law, and that the standard be high enough for them to keep their self respect. News broadcasting requires special technique, said the conference res olutlohi and it Is therefore edvlsabie that certain . European stations -spe- cialize, In this type pif work. Also recommends that the best radio news brpadcalsts be recordfed. on . disks and preserved In disk libraries ; In all countries, f6r the good of thfl . prpfesslon.-; ;-f .' ; Byrd Filushes Feb, 6 Begular broadcasts of the Byrd $outh i?dle expedition • wind.' u^^^ on CBS Feb. et. Explorers start back for the United States; about that, time, and on their arrival- Grape- nuts will stage an elaborate affair over' the, air; with the proceedings likely to run two hours. . Account Is V passing Up the. expedition's homeward journey because of th^ addiBd uncertainty of reception en- tailed..'.. ■ ■ with the Feb. « broadcast . the series, will have completed a run of 65 weeks, On WGAR Commercial Cleveland, Dec. lOi A Wt skept,lcai about effective ■ «ess 6f ■ department store advertls Ing on air: at firsts the May Com- pany, largest In Ohio, is now fecog nlzing It by Increasing its radio time on WQAB and going Into the legit fleld for talent. Two of leading players in Cleve- land Play House, one pf outstaiid Ing repertory companies In country are being signed' by May's special series of Chrlstmaai dramas. K, Dorothy Paxton opposite him. - - James, Church, former NBC pro ductloii mffn; Is writing and direct ing sketches labeled 'iTlndlng of Dickens' : Christmas Carol' arid' •Beil Founders of Spain.' 'Uncle Harry Hbsford and Jackie Hughes a sustaining fetiture on WGAR, also Joining May CPmpany's .holiday commercial in addition to doubling /In-;store'sjtoy. deipartmenti;:. , WHAM Not Oiviiir Gratis r I i PubUdty; ta Theatres ' . • ' : Ro chee ter, Dec. 10. New policy at WHAM" bir's fur- I ther ' 'airing of--tbeaitire': publicity I gratis. ; 'XJines came puV of""^.tbe" Century and Riviera theatres' organ .iiro- I grams Dec.. J. tPom Grlersbh's dally broadcasts frpin, the RICO" Palace .end t>ec: 15. ■ ' M ASKS IMHIOVED ■ '. St, 'Pa.ul, • Dec. 10. KSTP has .okayed hard liquor but with a string tie«a. Prpgram-billed as ,'Benz Bouquet,'^ plugs the many Benz brands, mentions *wlnes ; and liquors,' but says nary a breath aboiit whiskey or gin—-that Is, by name. All the good old brands with which the tipplers have become acquainted idurtng Benz-s; 75 years I ^9^'^lari^^cki"l^ "D^i^ Washington^ Dec. 16. Scramble for better or new air facilities continues. . New istatlions were proposed by: Hartford Broad casting Cp.i Hartfprd, Conn., 1200 kc, 100 watts; Nashyllle Broadcast Ing Corpi.j. NashvIUei, Tenn;;; 1370. kc, loo watts; Howell Broadcasting C6;, Rochester, N,; T.y," 1210' kco^ 100 watts nights, and 250 days; Robert Lewis Sanders, Palm Beach,: Fla.; 1420 kc., 100 watts; Garden 'C^^^ 3cdadcastlngJcp.rGariien^ity^JCcan.v. "i2ro"Tirc.;^ao"watis7^^ iStrlcker: and Chris Xarsen, Rock Springs, Wyo.,12l0 kc, 100: watts, Attempting; better coverage to icompetiB more efCectlveiy with CBS In the natlbnal caplta.1, NBC ap piled for permission tb up power and relocate the transmitter of WR'C,' its" main' :Wa^ outlet Chain a.sked for permission to boost from 600 watts nights and 1 kw. days to J. kw. nights and. 6 kw. days. :■' Other power-increase appllcatiohs were WAAB,, Boston, from 500' watts to I kw,; KTUIij Tulsa; froni 250 watts night and 600 day tb 1 kwi; WGBI, Scranton, from 260 watts tp 1 kw. In Ilkker biz are recltiedi House ranks high In Its field, do 16 Mi For Wedding of Duke of Kent Rules Out Sante Claus White Plains, Dec. 10. ; Westchester kids are too so^ phisUcated for the Santa Claus gag, sb WFAS, White Plains, has erased any, St. Nick Im- personations from its holiday ptograms^ 'Scrooge' is also put fbr 8!.ir-. ing;v'. TRIES LOCAL diEBS to 6 kw. days; WKBF, Indianapolis, ^, ^ ^ , , from 600 to 1 kw.: nights; "WIND, jng its ; own^bjendlng and cater ng j^.^^^ j j^j^j^^g 2% kw. days to class, . Program, reflects, ,hlgh tone, .trotting out 9, 16-piece orches- to. l . kw., nighty ;.arid. B kw. days; KFRU^ from 600: to 1 ;kW.' days; tra which Is poriippsed entirely: of Uygci^j^ ^ay City, Mifeh., from 500 symphony: niuslclans Stint made Its debut Frldiy . (30) to 1 kw. days; WGR, from. 100 to 260: days; WCAZ, .Carthage, 111., from 10.30 to il p. m. and is in oa fron^ jqO to 260 days, requesting n. 52-week contract.. To date tw:o facilities, of WDZ; and rKGIX. <Lias programs have hit the air waves,] and so far therb have beert rip blue- hose, delegations and not .bne letter ] of protest or .complaint., Canadian Circulation Vegas, NevM from 100 to 250 'days. One station which: previously! asked permission !to shift frequent cles; WAPI^ Blrmingha.m, fli.ed a new application afilcing . unlimited time instead of sharing .with K'VOO. at nlghtr while, another station, KDFN, Casper, ,^Wyo;,. ask<^ for au- thority to shift from the 1440 kc. channel to 630. . V ■ ■ ' Vahbouver, B. C, Dec. 10.; Figures . Issued by the Radio Branch • of the Department-Of Marine I Nine-Year Air .Partnership about 6,000 more British Columbia' *^ radio licenses are necessary to equal the total for the fiscal year 1933-34; Figrures for Vancouver show an Improvement with more licenses taken out to date than last year. In Sah Francis^ Ends : San Francisco, DeCi lO. -, Joiin Wolfe and :Ned TolUnger (John and Ned), patter and har- So fai- the total Is 26,329 compared n»ony team, have broken their nine ■vjlth 26,409. for the whblo of last yeai arid still a few months yet .to ib-erid of thf> flncnl year, year partnership. ' Wolfe , and Ted Maxwell go .to Chicago tb ^bln Max- well's wife. Bobble Dean, In a new - Syracuse^ Diec; 10. . WSTR, local NBC outlet, is going in for Ibcal "names/ : newspaper arid otherwise; 'at the instance - of Fted R. Ripley, program dlrectpf. Joe .Beamish (Joe Cook). Sunday Post Standard columnist,; has' beeri given three weekly spots, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday- nlj^hts, at 10:30, for phllpsophic : himior, and accordingly Beamish will, forego his custoriiary Florida winter Jaunt. William Pitts, Herald staff writ er; Is on Mondays arid Fridays ait 7 p,m. .as the Minute Message. Mah. It's a spoken editorial a stunt be-, ileved here as new to radio. Paul Husber,'former priesldent/of thb Syracusie Technolbgy Club, has been given the 7:20 p.m. spbt Sait- urdays for a topIca,l discussion, the slant belrig coriservatlve. . Hev. C. M. Thompson, pastor of the. Delaware Baptist Chprch, with a mixed quartet In: "Meetln" at the Crossroads,' is heard Saturdays at 7 p;m. Sta,tIon thinks it has a po- tential Seth Parker In. the cleric . Winnipeg, Dec. 10. . Canadian Radio Commission was . freely crltlclised by local radio lis- teners for Its fallute to broadcast the wedding of Princess Marina to the Duke of Kent, while dlal-twlst- ers turned to American stations for a first-hand account of the royal affair.' ' ■'■ . Thousands of fans who rose . at the eerie hour to glue .an ear to « loud speaker -for first information on the wedding of the century,; felt ... their own government-owned broad- casting systeni should have ac- corded them the privilege of hear-, Ing the ceremony without haying to cross the boundary line. . _ Officials of .the C. R- C. riict this, ... criticism by pointing out that radio fans were given the' benefit of a r. steel tape recording, first at 9 a. in., arid then , at 8:30 p. m. They de- fended -their action ^by stating -In-- thelr opinion radio listeners; woi^ld ., much rather listen to the recorded accounts of the wedding at a more suitable time pf the day. Reception from nearly all the American, stations was exceptionally good. ■^,.;..'V^;::.,:.- Minstrel Revival on Raifio; Pubs Scarry For OMtime Tun^ WBBM, WJJI) Grab Off Most of KYW Accounts Chicago, Dec. 10. With the moving of KYW from CW to PhlUy the bulk of thlat sta- tion's accounts was corralled by twp. . transmitters, . WBBM and wjjD._^The former (station got the gravy item," the daily- W^^^ ^Musical Clock' for Marshall Field stores. . i WJJD, the Ralph Atiass station, finished up with a United Remedies account which runs one hoUir daily for six days each week and the Hy- drox account. The. Atiass WIND station in Gary drew .the top ..KYW performer. Uncle Bob. With an .estimate of 40,000 radio script which will combine dialogue sets in Vancouver It is obviouis that L«»d m^ many are still;belrig operated with- out a license. Grace Mbore will come un&er the Doc Voung's 'television ; , St Paul, pec 10 ' Official' opening bf Northwest Teievlsroii Iristilute held Monday (3) iiad plenty of celebs on hiand. Head quarters' In tbe Sexto^ bldt',, MIn neapolls. ':' Broadcast', of opening exercises .Tplllnge'r will, remain- In ■ -Frisco to pilot Carefree Carnival In Its new sponsored spot.. Shift iireaks lip several: combos. Wolfe and Maxwell in Xlfe of Reil- iys' and 'Gentle Liar' with Maxwell and Walker; ' , . v : Oreig, Blair Travel , Sari Antonlp, Dec. 10; : H. Q. Grieg of New York arid John . , . . . ™.T-,^.-o- .•.,„ I Blair of Chlpago, texecs of Grelg. were piped out over WDGY v a re- gj^,^ ^ Sleight^ toured last week mote control. With Instit^^^^^ ^ southwest, open : to the public fof the entire» week, and with demonatratibns and Liooked the situation over. WIP,PliiByiC^e^ Philadelphia, Dec. I6. Murray Arnold, WIP announcer, moves to studio's publicity berth, repiacirig' Jerry drowTej^, effective today (10). Crowley was handling ,the: prbgram -dept.: along with the p.a. task. Rearrangenient gives John Hayes; another spieler, the program directorshop, while Crowley moves to head the sales istaff. "*"■ "' ■ :Replaclng. Arnold in announcing Is Howard Jones, former word- slfnger at WTAR, Norfolk, and WNAC. Boston. .■ ; Spread in pppularlty of the minstrel how on the air has de- veloped a scramble among muslo. publishers for rights to old num- bers pf that genre whose reglstrai^ tion periods are about |o expire. Several ttiajor-publishers are ex- \ tending this quest for re-copyrlghts to the entire field of popular music. Two Pf them each maintain a rep in Washingtpn whose job. is to dlff through the records of the ,regis- trar's" office for cbpyrlghts on the ; - verge of running out., Old numbers ' which these firms se^k particularly to . add to their libraries are those : which are in frequent use over the air. . ■ ■ V •• ■. Uiider the copyright law of, the United States the complete owner- ship: of the manuscript reverts to the writer afteir 28 yecirs. Statute also allows the author to renew the copyright- and assign, it to. any_p.ub?_^. Usher within • one year of the original copyright's expiration date, Household St. L Show So Ed Guest Can Double Chicago, Dec. 10. Charleg^ Daniel .Frey agency )iere Is sending the entire Household Finance program down to St. LoUls tomorrow (Tuesday) for a publlo broadcast from the 3,600-seat Audi- torium there. '.''..'.;,;' Behind the one-time switch Is the request of the St. Louis Globe- Democrat to Edgar Guest, who' syn- dicates Into the paper, to come down to Mlssp,url for a speaking en- gagementt * Cfu'est' didn't thliflc he" could travel to both Chicago for hla radio job. and to St. I^uis for the speaking date, so the agency de- cided ■ to move to St. Louis for the sljigle phot to enable. Guest to m'do- age botb ■ Jan. 1 for a 18-week run on NBC's •blue (WJZ) link. It Will be a Tues- day evening half hour, originating from Hollywood; .. If the program supplementing the eccount's Wil- lard Roblson-Mlldred Bailey combi- nation on the same network and the Freddy Martin stanza on CBS. - J. H. McKee, Cecil, Warwick & Cecil's radio director, leaves New' York Dec. 17 to spend slk weeks on the West Coast getting: the Grace Moore series under way. A.1S0 to riiake 'i>Icturo name con- nections for the resumption of Non- Bpi (Charles R. Warner Co.) on the air. :: exhibitions on riiost bf the time more thari 4,500 curious filed through the portals. can letters are W9XAT. E. F. Sparks is vice prez and actively In charge. Dr. , George W. Young, owner of WDGY, - Is also head of this plant. Daily television program broad- casts are skeded for Dec. 16. Stand- ard motion picture film will be broadcast, with pic going out over W93CAT arid; the sound through WDGY. The two will be synchron-. Ized and sent out over a special de- vice for brpadcastlnig film which is patented by the firm. R El S MAN ON TUESDAY, WEAF, AT 8 P.M. Featured Soloiat CHASE ASANBORN^ —BARITONE OF CHICAGO OPERA CO. WEAP—Coast-to-Coast Network SUNDAYS—8 to 9 P.M. EST Exclusive Management GEORGE E. DILWORTH Hotel Park Ptaza BO West 77th Street " BXndleott 2-3700