Variety (Sep 1942)

94 RADIO Near^ly AU Clucagd St^^ In On Super-Whopper War Benefit Chicago. Sept. 22. One of the first all-stalion broad- ca.sli to originate in the Chicago area will climax the Amusem-^nt and Recreation Division's September War Bond Drive, when a mammoth ether show will be staged Monday night, Sept. 28, featuring a miniature army of stage, screen, and radio celebri- ties, gathered to sell bonds over the air Ben Bernie has been set as m.c. of the fhow which will include Gracie Fields, Buddy Ebsen, Skeets Gallagher, Dolly Kay, Joy Hodges, Marie Nash, Jane Pickens, Jan Mur- ray, Gloria Panico, Laura Kellogg, 'hine Price. Billie Holiday, Lola Hill, and many, many more. Band leaders who have signified intention of participating include Jimmy Dorsey, Jimmy Joy, Art Jarrett, Russ Morgan, Buddy Frank- lin, Lawrence Welk, Eddie Howard and Eddie Oliver. Every station will carry the broad- cast, among them WMAQ, WBBM, WON, WENR, WIND, WCFL, WAIT, • WJJD, and WJ\yC, Listeners will be urged to phone in their bond pledges to the station to which they are listening. There will be ap- peals scattered throughout the sev- eral hour program. Present plan is to present the shew in the flesh on the stage of the Auditorium theatre in the Loop, with bond purchases as admission to the house. Show will start at 11:15 p.m. and continue until'1 a.m. or longer. It represents a smash effort on part of executive committee of Amusement and Recreation Div. to finish up September Drive with a bang, exceeding expected grosses. Feine in WMAS Post Springfield, Mass., Sept. 22. H. M. 'Bill' Feine, copy and ac- count executive with the William B. Remington agency, has become the new program director at WMAS- CBS station. Feine succeeds Herb Edman, who has returned to his home city, Worcester, to work at WTAG. Basic CBS Since 1930 than, million peopl'l" our Primary »:'•*•"'"■ Area. Given th.. cov.r. •ga and topflight pro-1 .gram ocheduly, you e«n ,0 attractlwo. U«« | WDRC to sell tho rich Hartford Market. WISN Buys WEMP Time To Accommodate Sponsor In CBS Priority Jam Milwaukee, Sept. 22. With WISN holding the broadcast- ing privileges for Marquette univer- sity football games, the station sud- denly found itself on a spot when three of the contests were scheduled for Sundays—^Nov, 8, 15, and 22, on which day the broadcaster has earl- ier CBS committments with inviol- able priority rights. So WISN had had to go to its rival station WEMP and buy time from It in order to air the games as per its season's con- tract with the sponsor, Wadhams Oil Co. Gaston Grignon, manager of WISN, wanted his station to broad- cast at least part of the Sunday games where the CBS schedule per- mitted, with WEMP picking up the game where WISN left o(T. How- ever, C. J. Lanphier, manager of WEMP, wouldn't go for this kind of a deal, declaring he woul<f take on the games in their entirety or not at all. Grignon had no alternative'but to accept so a Wadhams Oil sponsored broadcast will be heard on WEMP for the first lime when November rolls around. WHISKEY FIRM GIVEN 25G AWARD VS. CBC Toronto, Sept. 22. Gooderham & Worts, distillers, won a judgment for $25,000 and costs against the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in Court of Appeals here. Plaintiff alleged breach of cove- nant by the CBC regarding a lease on the former CKGW, Toronto, when the station, located in the King Ed- ward hotel, was leased to the CBS at $12,000 a year. Motor Coach Line's News San Antonio, Sept. 22. The Bowen Motor Coach Lines of Fort Worth will air a Sunday quar- ter hour newscast over the Lone Star Chain each week. Series will originate in the studios of station KGKO and will be heard over KTSA here; KXYZ, Houston; KRIS, Corpus Chrlsti; KRCV, Weslaco; KGNC, Amarillo and KFDM, Beaumont. John Hicks will be the newscaster. New Mexican Station Mexico City, Sept. 22. Northwestern Mexico, ot current strategic and farming importance, will have a new station, XEHQ, at Hermosillo, capital of Sonora state. Station, which is to b« of 300 watts and 590 kcs.. Is being readied for inauguration in October. Foresighted KFRQ Longview, Texas, Sept. 22. T. R. Putman, station man- ager of KFHO and in the com- mercial side of broadcasting for the past 15 years has turned to the opposite side of the field. He has received his third class radio operator's license with broadcast endorsement which qualifies him to operate the station. Several months ago radio op's license was also received by Mrs. James R, Curtis, wife of the prez of the station. Station is fortifying itself against the possible shortage of station op- erators. FlY IS TFFir IN ASSURANCES ON TUBES Washington, Sept. 22. Silencing of any radio station for want of tubes is not an immediate prospect but the need for conserva- tion is immediate and urgent, be- cause there Is a question of whether the War Production Board can go on (Continued on page 39) CBC SHORTENS HOURS TO SAVE EQUIPMENT Montreal, Sept. 22. Canadian Broadcasting Corp. will sign off the air at 11:30 p.m. local time in all regions, beginning Sun- day next (27). Gladstone Murray, CBC g.m., stated that such a reduc- tion of broadcast operations in each time zone across the Dominion would lengthen the life of a large amount of equipment, some of which cannot be replaced. Stations to be affected by the earlier network signoff will be: CBM and CBF, Montreal: CBL and CBY, Toronto: CBO, Ottawa; CBV. Quebec; CBJ, ChicoutimI: CBR. Vancouver: and CBK, Watrous, Saskatchewan. The announcement added that it will be necessary on some nights to operate for the extra half-hour to midnight on CBA, the 50-kilowatt station at Sackville, N. B. UP ARTHUR KIRKHAM He's Now Vice-President of KOIN, Portbuid, Ore. Portland, Ore., Sept. 22. Arthur Kirkham, formerly Direc- tor of Public Relations for KOIN, has been named that station's vice- president following the death a few months ago ot C. Roy Hunt, Clarence Talbot, night operations manager of KOIN, has joined the Naval Reserve. Ivan Jones succeeds him in the night spot. Pat Neal, formerly with copy de- partment of town's largest depart- ment store, is now a script writer lor KOIN-KALE. Alpha's New Stock Set-Up Albany, N. Y., Sept. 22. Alpha Recording Se Transcription Corp, of New York, has increased its capital stock from 1,000 shares, no par value, to 1,250 shares. Under the new setup, 250 shares are pre- ferred, with a par value of SlOO each, and 1,000 are common, with no par value. Lord, Day & Lord, New York City, filed papers on the change with the Secretary of State in Albany. Brewer Renews San Antonio, Sept. 22. The Gulf Brewing Co. has re- newed its daily quarter-hour pro- gram, Monday through Friday, for another year over the Texas Qual- ity network and station WOAI here. Series features the Headliners, which includes Bert Sloan and his orches- tra; Steve Wilhelm, commentator; Bill Bryant, announcer, and the vo- cals of the Headliners' Quartet. Series, aired from special studios of the brewery in Houston, originate through KPRC there. Broadcasts carried by KPRC; WOAI; WFAA, Dallas, and WBAP, Fort Worth. Wednesday, September 23, 1942 From the Production Centres Continued from page 33 ; Tucker's band Add to WBBM's sales force, Ed Furman, former commer- cial manager WMFF, Plattsburg, N, Y., and Cy Howard, KTRH. Houston. Dr. Preston Bradley resumes his series of commentaries over WON, Mon. through Fri. at 6 p.m. IN HOLLYWOOD Tilt Radio Trade Is Discussing: The Coca-Cola sequel at Mutual— That crap game that followed the dinner to Ed Cashman —bets pot up near five figures a couple oj times —The growmg scarcity of male stars for all those Treasury programs on account of the Army grabbing same. War's drain on radio manpower was felt in two places at KHJ last week, with another in the immediate offing. J. C. Lewis, Jr., longtime producer at the Don Lee station, and Robert Wagner, new editor, will be in Khaki before another week. Wib Eickelberg, commercial manager, got an okay from the Marines with a captain's commission due to arrive any day. He officered in the last war Norman Morrell, the only veepee out here actually producing a program (Bob Hope for Lord & Thomas) took no chances on the season opener in Seattle and had a standby ready in the event Hope encountered any difficulty in getting back from Alaska where he entertained the jap-shellackers There'll be a wedding in the Lewis Allen Weiss family Oct. 3 when daughter Patricia takes the vows with Ensign Albert Hart. Papa is headman of the Don Lee network... .Sam Moore and John Whedon are putting the words into Pal Peary's mouth for 'Great Gildersleeve' program... .Within a week after Marjorie Davies put in from the east she was working on three shows, to wit, 'Mayor of the Town,' "Red Ryder' and The Second Mrs. Burton.' Capt. Charles Vanda of Army Special Servipes around for a coupla weeks Joe Stauffer goes back to West Point as an instructor next week after, cleaning up his affairs at Kenyon & Eckhardt, where he is the radio director. He graduated from the academy in 1920 and rates as a major Jack Burton will handle the three Coca Cola band originations here. Lieut. John Canady of Naval Reserve public relations staff got the necessary permish to handle Clete Roberts' new periods on the Coast Blue network. Latter is now serving with Office of War Information in Frisco Keith McLeod again producing the Red Skelton show. He pre- sided for a few weeks last season but got mixed up in a Russel Seeds shuffle... .George. Wells, who has been doing the Lux adaptations single- handed for the past nine years, now has a helper in Ben Pearson.... Jim Moran, who specializes in crackpot and screwball antics, caught on* at KFI for a twice-weekly airing... .Day after Harrison HoUiway whacked off his 17-year growth of lip stubble he had to take to bed with a cold due to exposure. Steve Healey joined NBC publicity staff when Matt Barr moved over to head up the department at KFI-KECA Stanley Resor, prexy of J. Wal- ter Thompson, stopped over enroute-back to New York from his summer retreat at Jackson Hole, Wyo., long enough to break bread with Denny Danker's radio staff First guestar on the Abbott and Costello show will be Veronica Lake Victor Borge got together with JWT on another quarterly extension on Kraft Music Hall. Agency also gave Mary Martin another option lift... .Chase & Sajiborn gang shoves off Sept. 20 for four eastern originations, namely, Fort Monmouth, N. J., Annapolis, West Point and Quantico, Va, Making the trip will be Edgar Bergen, Don Ameche, Dale Evans, Ray Noble, Producer Antony Stanford, Scripter Joe Bigelow and his secretary, I}orothy Brown',.. .Hal Burdick's 'Night Editor' was bought by General Foods for Post Toasties and is niched on NBC just ahead of Maxwell House Time. Armbrister Takes Over Direction of Hound' Cyril Armbrister, of the Blue pro- duction staff, is now directing the network's sustainer serial, 'The Sea Hound,' succeeding Fred Weihe, who went to Chicago to direct 'Lone Journey' for Procter & Gamble. There's also a possibility that Fran Stryker, scripter of 'The Sea Hound,' may be replaced. Stryker also writes 'Lone Ranger' on the Blue. Ken Burton, who was directing 'Those Good Old Days' on the Blue, has gone into the Army and the program is now being handled by Keith McLeod. Soup Co. Buys News Chicago, Sept. 22. John Holbrook, midwest news- caster, has been Signed by Wyler & Co., dehydrated soups and buiUlon cubes, to a 52-week contract for the 1:45 to 2 p.m. news period, Mon., Wed., and Fri., over WGN, Deal was set through Goodkind, Joice Sc Morgan agency, Chicago. CBS DX-ING 3 SHOWS TO S. A. PER REQUESTS CBS' shortwave facilities will broadcast to South America three weekly programs suggested by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter- American Affairs. One is Lucky Strike's 'Hit Parade,* but with mes- sages in Spanish substituted for the plugs, and the others are an origi- nal English script, 'The Twenty- fifth Letter,' by Ranald MacDougal, and 'Their Words Burn.' The third series will deal with noted European writers whose books were burned by the Nazis. Apologies to Old Gold My brather's barlrngos nhow ha* doabled Ita bndiMM. Somethlns ■ad* hM bMB added. JaniM Madima, (ac writer and 'Idea" man. Aim gnbltaher JAMES MADISON'S OAO HRST, tl. P. O. Hoe lit, Orand Central Annex, New York. The Coca-Cola Company presents Mmeriea's leading btais^ pliyiag from War Camps aai War Plants ^ BLUE 0*30 f-M- EVERY NIGHT NETWORK Z!Sfjf«!:!!±EXCEPT SUNDAY