Variety (May 1935)

52 VARIETY BASIC WednesdAjt Maj 8, 1933 Radio Chatter New York Lloyd Hinitley. broadcasting fi-om the statler, Buffalo, with an occa- siiinsil XJ-5C spot, will move into the Ambassador at Atlantic City for the summer. Jack McLean has left the WEBR, Biirialo, announcing- staff and joined ■\\ CU-WKBW. Cliff Jones. WGR-WKBW dra- matic staff member, doublinET be- tuten studio and stage, playing lead )!i local Playhouse drama.-Negotiat- ing' to do local air version of 'Stevc- do. e' in which he trouped. Kobort Ripley came to town and \v;'.s ballyhooed by the News which own.s station WBEN here. Sche4- U (.-d to go on WBEX with Ben IS: ;-nie in the evening, he was heard thi-ough the WGR transmitter in tlK' iifiernoon at an Ad Club 111 jhcon. i:va Taylor, NBC warbler just out of bed from a siege of the flu, had w^rse luck, when her mink cape w:i-5 snatched from her shoulders by a fellow subway passenger just be- fyr:> the doors slammed shut. Train inilled into Times Square station, 0:-. the man did a turnabout and g: '.bbrd the nock-piece. Cope was a i-^cent wedding anniversary pres- e:'. from her husband. Clarence V.' liamr. music publisher. "With the addition of the Chipso •J'ome Sweet Home' sketch, five til >cs weekly, to the list of pro- gr;\ ns Procter & Gamble is spon- soring over the NBC red vfcb, and th-j changes in starting hour of the pt'.ier skits, the, Camay 'Dreanis Come True' swing, feat-urlng Barry McKinley, baritone, and Ray Slna- ti-,-.'s orchestra, Is now looped on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, In :tead of Monday, Wednesday and Tbursday. 'Home' leads the parade ai 3 p.m.. followed by the Crisco 'Vic and Sade,' and then Oxydol's Ma Perkins (latter feature orlg- ln:ite.<i In Chicago), on the flve-a- wook basis. 'Dreams' comes on the at 3:45. Among other things being fitting fo.- Music Week, Kay Foster has started a series of special 15-minute broadcasts over WEAP dedicated to fiimouH composers. Her first was Thursday (2), dedicated to Jerome Kern. Edward Tomllnson, authority on South America, Is en route to Busnos Aires, to report proceedings on the Pan-American Economic Cc-.iference for rebroadcast over Nr'c. . 00 Reichniann to nil in at Wal- do .-Astoria between Henry King's ex;r and Guy Lombardo's re-entry, Bt--ang May 27. .'FAS, White Plains broadcost- lr> - Westchester Music Festival. i:enay Venuta,, CBS -warbler, gets .he first club date here by appear- In at LaRue's swank spot. .-■-■•.ul Whiteman goes to Detroit Mry 24 for a five-day engagement at Paradlse-on-the-Lake summer pi- ;:e. I-argest local account ever sold at "Wl^'BL, Syracuse, was sold by •KIngsley Horton at that station to Tidewater Oil .Company. Leo Bol- lej-. station sports reporter, does 15 minutes every night as the 'Sports Reporter.' giving news of all sports for the day and occasional inte'"- vi'.->vs with persons of note In the Biv !-ts world i usicians' tax wrangle In New Tt.:-;; has upped WSYR's weekly or; -;nations to the' NBC blue net- W(.!-U considerably, including Dick Fir.i'.'r's band from the Hotel Syra- cu: Ken Sparhon's string orches- tr;- jLUd Dudley Brothers, quartet. mouncer Philli)) Brooks taking th.- place of Robert Rissling as ques- tic:isr-kld4er of Frank Oliver In lat- ter .-5 munchausenllkc 'Limey Bill,' cv .- WGY, Schenectady. ndrew Kelly's 'Horse Sense Phl- lo. ()i)hy' is now being sponsored by a ;!chcnectady furniture store cn a Si; iday supper-hour swing over W.; Y. •'ri rents of Dick I,eibert, Radio Ci.;.- organist, broadcasting over NJ-C, are musician.';. Lcibcrt re- cently played a march announced as the composition of his father, who w<:'< vislling him. Nat Fleischer, editor of Ring m- will bro:uloa.st ■ flsdcuffs on i :w. Utah Ontario ^ i^rn.imd Stt-inbcrg Birectlng the 'Mold y Weavers' proceedings on era: Toronto. AVinnci-.s of a recent amateur con- tesi over CFRB, the 'Tune Tinkers,' have been snared for a new series hy rival CKCL, Toronto. .Vewest of the Canadian Commis- sion network prcsenlutions will be the 'Sweet Music' series with Percy Pasternack conducting. Roland Todd to produce 'The Road to Yesterday' programs (16- piece orchestra and 1^ voices in old- time pops), over CRCT. Gary Moore is the scrivener re- si)onsible for the dramatization of 'Canadian Cavalcade,' a retrospect of significant events in the Dominion during the past 25 years, for the conimission's special Jubilee trans- Cpnada broadcast. More than - 4,000 pieces of mall received by KSL after their all- night DX program. Gene Halliday, organist, and Harry Clarke, baritone, new on KSL, Salt Lake. 'Original Happy Chappies' ap- pearing at the Orpheum, F&M house on nightly for local department store over KSjL, Myron Fox, KDYL spieler, back from coast cities. A vacash. Local advertising medics pulled off both stations, KDYL and ICSL. Recent legislature squashed the molar-yankers and walk-up-and- save MD's. KSL has a new kids program daily, Called 'Knighthood of Youth Radio Club/ 15 minute period. Juvenile tdlent. Lagoon and Saltair, suburban dance and playground resorts, will be wired for remote control broad- ca.sts. East high school, Salt Lake City, petitioned F.C.C. for a 60 watt transmitter. Dr. Leo Loeb. secretary and public relations director of KDY'L ..as finally acclimated himself to the western climate. Halls from Min- neapolis. Wendell Snow Gibbs, ex guide at NBC, now American representative of Radloiffuslon Europeenne of Paris, is a local boy. Appeared of- ten in KSL stock productions. Robert Provol. KDYL tralfic mgr. off to Los Angeles. Johnny Morris, Jr., Philip Morris midget, in town for personals. Ap- peared before civic bodies, stores and KDYL had him on for a five minute program. Interest In silver soaring daily, KDYL presents Important mining men for comments. Earl J. Glade, KSL manager ',-ack- from biz tour in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Leonard Strong newest addition to KSL announcing staff. Formerly stock player from .LA. Chester Dowse, KSL gag man oft for Yellowstone Park, where he will be entertainment director. Sid Olson, also a KSL funnyman, landed a job with the Washington Post. Pennsylyania Mrs. Al tcvens (WPIL) moving to town, Lowell Broomall, former Temple. U. dramatic composer, now studio piano pounder at WFIL. Mannle Sacks, Ike and Leon Levy back from a jaunt to White Sulphur Springs with red beaks. Vincent Travers, after a wow date for General Motors at Atlantic City la.st week, may snare a shore hotel spot as result. Ruth Lefferty has been upped to the main WCAU headquarters as secretary to prexy Leon Levy. Harold Davis, WDAS program emir, Is now spotting himself as studio newscaster, making it a quintet of chores that include am.a- teur m.c. Geoffrey GUI, former PhlUy war- bler, is back, in town yodeling in behalf of Philadelphia On Parade bally. Chas. H. Ingersoll, pappy of that one-buck ticker, commutes from N. Y. weekly for talks on taxes via WDAS. . Manny La Porte and Leo ZoUo bands scheduled to scram from their NBC web dansapatlon spots out of WFIL. Rumors of a split Ijotween WPEN and WDAS at Radio Centre may. have the latter outfit leaving by next month, to build now studio quarters. Betty Swenson, who had the Roxy notation job at the now-closed thea- tre, is 'handling a ditto task at WFIL. All' the New York music men In town for Leo Relsin.an's opener at the Arcadia I.nst Friday eve. Minnesota WTCN talent. Including the Frank Zdarsky ork, headlining the General Motors show which opened Satur- day (4) for eight days at the St. Paul auditorium. Jacquclyn Banning, 4 - year - old entertainer on Uncle Tom's KSTP program, en route to Hollywood, where Lupe Velcz Is said to have promised her a career. Thomas Dunning Rlsh-worth, KSTP educational director, to de- liver the commencement talk for the graduating class at Baldwin (Wis.) high Bciiool next month. George Collier, WCCO transmitter engineer, playing discs at the sta- tion's Anoka transmitter during the May l.«l .snow-storm, told his listen- ers he'll have to make the next seloi'tioil a Ion'.; one, because lie had to slip out :ind trinrago his car for the night. AVhcn Gf orge came back, platter was almosl run out. 'Nice fella. Tsi hnik'iusUy." a-.ud George to his air audience, lo compose such long n\inilw r.=. .niid lot me p.nrk my cn r ' Iowa Broadcaatlnff Co. starting baseball on KRNT with Western League night games reported and out-of-town gumes by ticker—Sat- and holiday games IB-mln. resumes only. Handled by Al Parks. Davidson's furniture co. starting an amateur with their 'Hunt for Talent' half-hour shows every Mon. night from the stage of the Des Moln2s theatre—amateur programs not new for KRNT since Iowa Broadcasting Co. had a like pro- gram way back In December, 1932. Bankers Trust Co. the first Dos Moines bank to use radio advertisr ing. They are using Metropolitan Slngera-guest star transcriptions for one-half hour every week over KSO. Peter MaoArtliur, director of the lowft Barn Dance productions of WHO, discovered the doorman at the President theatre where the barn dance is held every Saturday night, had a swell voice, so he l.t now a part of the sho-w as 'The Singing Doorman,' Tex Owens, director of the or- chestra oh the Life on the Red Hoi-so Ranch series, a brother of Texas Ruby of WHO. Dutch Reagan handles 'Today's Winners,' 16-mln. sports review daily on WHO for Kentucky Winners cigarettes. With two announcers still to be added to the staff of WKBB, the personnel was hard put last week when two of the staff went down, Don Norman being laid out -with flu, Ed Palen an absentee, John Price, woozy v,:Mi a cold 'and Lay- man Cameron, a new addltlo)i to the staff, working like a trojan. Most of the difficulties were solved when Walter Klauer, station owner, jumped into the breach and went cn the air with news flashes and handled most of the timely splurges, in addition. to taking care of the business o:nd. Western Canada Maids and Middles, a new show from vSaskatoon, Sask., now Tues- day-lng on Canadian Radio Com- mission network directed by Mrs. F. B. Morrison; male quartet, girls' sextet and Harry Jones at the piano. CFQC's studios emanate it. CFQC, Saskatoon, tied in with Board of Trade for a weekly pro- gram featuring home-town talent. Vespej Hour, Radio Commission Sunday aft church program from Winnipeg, Man., finished April 21. Radio (i^bmmlsslon's winter series lo-minute agriculture talks also University Lecture series (15 mins.) has wound up. Famous Hambourg Trio, brought together for first time In 25 years after European concert engagements, All latter spot May 2, from Toronto. Sam Hillyer,. organist, CHWC, Regina, Sask., now on office staff as ■^\'ell, replacing Lois Caldwell, re- signed. Roy Dunlop, program director, CHAB, Moose Jaw, Sask., addressed Rotary Club on 'Behind the Micro- phone.' Bob Anderson, former announcer of CFQC, Saskatoon, Sask., now with Canadian Radio Commission at Ottawa, Ont. CHWC, Regina, Sask., owners, R. H. Williams and Sons Dept. Stores, started new bi-weekly a.m. and p.m. half-hour show. Dave Mills, pianist; Jack Kemp, announcer; .audience getter—six pairs hosiery given away for best last line to a jingle. New England (I'harlie Burton, station manager of W.I':V":i, Boston, just sold a; short story, '.via.gie Flower,' to a news- paper syndicate. ■\Villie Morris, former WEEI, Bos- ton, singer, has signed for 13 weeks with the 'Home on the Range' hour with John Charles Thomas. Clears through WBZ, Boston. "WMRX, Boston, cleared time for Sophie '.fucker's 'Music Hall,' start- ing May 2. •Itty.-Bitty Kiddle Hour' clicking around Hub, if word-of-mouth meanii anything, Vic Whitman of W^EEI, Boston, shaping up .a unit for personal ap- liearances of 'The Tattler.' AVEBI, Boston, transmitter crew don't have to go home In the dark now. Weymouth, Mass., where the transmitter is located, has stopped economizing on street lighting. Helen Barr, Robert Burlen, Rus- sell Dorr, Ethel Greriier and Del Castillo, nil of WEEI, Boston, did their stuff at the performances of 'Something You Ate, No Doubt,' Monday (6) and Tuesday at the Wilbur. Show by Edison Electric employoos, written and directed by .lames Lawrence Caddlgan. Proceeds went to the Emergency Planning Bureau fundi 'Uncle' J. B. Groceof WEKI, Bos- ton, at Radio City on biz. Distinguished service citation from Connecticut American Legion and au.xlUar.v now on wall of Suiiervisor Joe Lopez' ofUce at WICC, Bridgeport. Station,.-only one in XT. S. to receive such honor, h.is steadily carried state A. L. pro- grams. Off WICO, Bridgeport, Hats for summer: Ann-Marge Havllla, Do- lores Hanford, Clarence Sherwood, Chawles Abbott. Doris Oswald, Bridgeport aong- and-dancer, doing Loew stage rounds with Ed Ijowry. Louis A. Wltten In Itist week to talk to General Eleptric clubmen in Bridgeport, Connecticut tercentenary celebra- tion opened Sunday in Bridgeport with FERA concert. Will and Gladys Ahern oft to Chi- cago after stay at Fairfield, Conn., home. Vaudevilllans guestarred during visit with Harry Neigher, Bridgeport 'Herald' colyumer, on WICC. Manufacture of new G. E. re- ceivers began last week at Bridge- port plant. P.ayroll tops 6,500, al most double year a.go. Kentucky Louisiana The amateur contestants In the recent WSMB competition spon -sored by Malson Blanche were rounded up last week and presented on the stage of the Municipal audi- torium nightly at the spring show- ing of the General Motors products, Simon pures competed for prizes, Creole Serenadcrs, Negro orches- tra, given two weekly afternoon .spots on WWL. Bill Brengel, WSMB program di- rector. Is m.c. of special broadcasts from motor show over station, Sam Bonart, clothier, has added another sport period under his spon- sorship over WSMB. Slated for Sundays at 8:05 p. m., and includes ball scores in all leagues, leading hitters, and highllRhts of the day's games. Beverly Brown, "WWL continuity man, is directing 'Surprise Box' progra;ms over station. | ' Jimmy McGowan Is calling the plays during the baseball broad- casts of Southern Association games over WDSU. Program sponsored by Union Products Company, New Or- leans brewery. Roy Aultman's orchestra is back on the air after several months' ab- sence and filling half-hour period on WSMB at 6 p. m., Tuesdays. Bill Brengel and Temple Black are polishing up their golf clubs preparatory to making an assault on the trophy to be awai'ded for the newspaper-radio tourney In connec- tion with the Louisiana Golf cham- pionships in New Orleans from June 6 to 9. Irving Viktor, WWL announcer, assigned to film gossip period over station under commercial sponsor- ship. WJBW, smallest New Orleans broadcaster, has largest staff of an- nouncers. Station has five and operates on all-night schedule. Jules' Baduc and orchestra take over a 15-m1nute period on Satur- day night for Jax beer, thus total- ing seven programs a week over W'^SMB for brewery account. Hits air at 9 p. m. Fritzl Robblns, contestant In the recent WSMB amateur series, got her first break when she signed to sing with Gordon Klrst and his or- chestra during the General Motors Auto Show at the New Orleans Mu- nicipal Auditorium, Plans are under way for organi- zation of a luncheon club composed of radio announcers, station execs, artists and radio editors In New Orleans. Ray McNamara, WS.MB staff pianist, has new series of afternoon sustainers. Richard Davis, winner of WSMB amateur contest, opened a week's engagement at Blue Room of The Roosevelt. WSMB observed a mlnuteot silence recently out of respect to Mrs. CJiarles Fontolieu, mother of Ted J. Fontelieu, WSMB sales executive. Tony Eacigalupi, WWL, New Or- leans, Italian comedian, is burned up over Mario Chamlce's sponsors dubbln.g him the same name In series over NEC sponsored by General Foods. Eacigalupi, whose real name is Joe Bbrrello, has used the mon- icker on radio in southern broad- cast circles for past 10 years and In vaudeville since 1911. Roy Halpcrn added to announcer sUff at KWKHj Shroveport. Josephine Butler added to secre- tarial staff at KTBS, Shi'eveport. Jack Kessler doubling in solicit- ing and announcing nowadays at KTBS. Jax beer, Louisiana owned cor- poration, has started series of spot announcements over KRMD. Loftin Hendricks, KRMD, Shreve- port, commercial manager, was ab- sent two days last week because of the death of his father. Convalescents' Hour is being built into an attractive feature at KRMD by Bill Rowcns, Jr., and Brlce Dlck- .son. During that period of the dally programs special request numbers are played and dedicated to shut-ins in the hospitals and their homes. Alex White and his orchestra at Club Castle, 12 miles from Shreve- port , being piped over KRMD nightly. Red Nichols and his orchestra are being aired over KTBS twice night- ly from Cafe LaBorde. B. G. Rob- ertson, KTBS's program dlrortor. Is emseelng the programs. With beginning of Daylig ht S av- Ing Time on network, WHAS Louisville, going on air at 6:30 a.m., half hour earlier. Devotional Pro- gram from Afibury College, WIN more, ICy., Is opener. Helen Mitchell, pianist, and Peter Rlccardl, accordion and vocalist, of WHAS, appeared before Exchange Club luncheon meeting Thursday (2d). Karl Schmidt, Al Marzlan, and Mr. Watawa were judges who se- lected official Derby Festival March, from list of entries. Incidentally, judges and others all wondering why the marc^ was not played by any bands marching In Festival Parade. Dell Coon, Johnny Hamp and Mil- burn Stone, airing nightly over WHAS. Louisville, from local night spots. Eddie Contl, with Tiny Harris, opens on Casa Madrid, Louisville, with WHAS wire. Frankle Masters' orchestra on WAVE, Louisville, from Brown Hotel Crystal Ballroom. WAVE has two new pickups from across the river In Indiana—Chic Scoggin ork from Club Greyhound and Frank Furneau from Log Cabin. Rose Ann Sherman, WAVE blues singer, joining Artie Collins' ork In Rochester, N. Y. Broadcasts of Derby Festival Pa- rade In a spot, due to jamming of crowd at principal intersection. After staining for some time, gave up as hopeless and returned to stu- dios. Ralph Nimmons, WHAS an- nouncer, handled pre-Derbv airings from Churchill Downs for CBS. Pre- sented ex-governors and other no- tables. Maude Ballilngton Booth, Com- mander Volunteers of America, ap- peared on Jail Service program from .Teftcrson County .Tall, over WHAS. Louisville. Ohio Jeannle Macy, bluea singer, and Tom Rlchley, xylophonlst, of WLW staff, Clncy, dodged a rice and old shoes shower Saturday (4). Cupid first-sighted 'em five months since, when the bride joined the station after two years at WHAM. Roches- ter, and WJR and WXTZ. Detroit. Rlchley, a grad of Ohio .State, has been with Crosley since '29. Robert DeHart has been advanced to operator on the engineering staff of WKRC, Cincinnati. Mother of Harry Hartman, sports- caster for WFBE. Cincinnati, died May 1 at her home after brief Ill- ness. Dodge Showdown Revue. Sunday evening 30-mInute program, which originated several months since at WLW, Is now being piped to WGAR, Cleveland, and "WJR, De- troit, of the Mutual web. Includes concert ork directed by Fred Jacky, John Barker, Mary Elizabeth Woods andi Bob Albright, singers, and Gene Perazzo, pianist. Maryland Bolj Maslin spends so much time In N. Y. he virtually lives there. Stewart Kennard on deep-sea fishing fiesta off Ocean City, Md. Clem McCarthy due In Baltimore (Sat. (11) to spiel running of Preakness at Plmllco over NBC blue hookup. Max Weinberg, asst. mgr. of the Little, arty pic house. In N. T. try- ing to Interest either one of the chains In fostering national hookup along lines of a chatter column he has created in Balto Jewish Times. 'Jack Randolph' who warbles weekly on the 'Drene' commercial over WFBR Is Philip Crist. Donald Flamm down to Balto from N. T. a day last week hud- dling with John Elmer and George Boeder of WCB^^. Jules Daniel has a new motor- car. Major Vincent Callahan, NBC's contacteer In Washington, chape- roned over the week end the Little Congress, consisting of 250 sectd to senators and reps, while they vis- ited the NBC layout and the Radio City Music Hall. Elizabeth Black, spot time booker for Ruthrauff-& Ryan, Is. recovering from Injuries received in a fall downstairs. She expects to be back at the office by the end of this week. Jim and Marion Jordon are now originating their 'Fl.bher McGee and Molly' stanza from Chicago. Verno Biirke has quit her isus- talner on NBC Tuesdays for an RKO tour. Dave Vine begins a '45-MinuteB on Broadway' series over WMCA, New York next Sunday (12), Don Bestor doubling between SI. Francis hotel, Frisco and Para- mount theatre, Los Angeles. James Rich has been namotl director of musical bureau rI W.N'F.-n-, New York.