Variety (May 1946)

44 BAM* Wednesday, May 1, 1946 From the Production Centres ♦ HH I MMM I MMIMH MM MM «♦♦♦♦♦ IJY NEW YORK CITY . . . Top beauty-brain trust o£ the radio roundtable season was the "Leave It to the Girls" contrib at last Thursday's (25) Radio Execs Club-NAB lunch- eon at Hotel Roosevelt, with Paula Stone, Anita Colby. Maggi McNeills, et al., combo pitching it at Henry Morgan... .Martha Scott has been signed for Carringlon Playhouse May 9 and Helen. Hayes May 10 m line with Mutual"s new policy to hypo interest in shows with guestars... .Jack Barry emceeins a new man-on-the-street program tor WOR Saturdays at 5:30.... Milton Cross signed with Musicraft for a series ot children's albums*... Kaye Sullivan of CBS promotion dept. resigning May 1 to join newly- formed O'Brien and Dorrance (ex-CBSers) promotion service office. She- moves in as account exec and asst. copy chief... .Gene Kelly will do his first guest shot since,his discharge from the Navy. June 6, on Suspense ....Bobby Sanford. ot MCA radio dept., bought a farm in Orange county, N. Y. Mary Palton. just back from vacation in Minnesota, takes over "Joyce Jordan'' role for next two weeks, during vacation absence ot Betty Winkler Alec Tcmpleton and Harry Babbitt, ex-Kay Kyser vocalist, set for Carnation Milk May 20.. . .Narrator Bess Johnson and organist Hank Syl- vein, only regulars on "True Confessions" program, were inadvertently omitted from credits in Variety's review ot the show last week. So, at Thursday's (25) rehearsal, 1 when director Bill Sweets threw cues at them, duo refused to answer; on ground they didn't "belong". ./.NBC's Clarence L. Monser to receive doctor of letters degree from Heidelberg College, BMI Up, SHEET Hit Tunes for May (On Transcriptions) A STORY BOOK ROMANCE (akxti) ITANDAtD-Hal MfIMyra flN UT-lMfk Uftrt MSOCIAT»-0«M SbUn THUAlMUf-NmffeM lit* Oaarf* WrffM UtM-WMTM-OuKk Ntfw MatOMOOft-Ma* A U Cwtw ALL THE CATS JOIN IN (t*g«m) THl»AU*Ui-J«in»WJ««lii lANO-WO«rri-fr.^» Carla ATLANTA, G. A. 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(run PAIABRAS) "(!>••>> 'iHESAURUS-Muilc of Manhattan IANG-WORTH—D'Arlega PIN UP-Enach light ASSOCIATEO-Vittoria (Taiwaui MbcOREGOR—Aaron Ganialn STANDARD—Carlo* M.Una » AW HIT TUNf $ ARE AVAIlASiF, TOO, ON MAJOR PHONOGRAPH RfCORM t-W&W& 'lbViSII<M6> Mrtf WEE It, H*,Y* Tlfflin, 0„ June 3... .Georg« Wettllng, Paid ^MUman «rummt,r orj ABC programs, flew to New Orleans last Sunday to pla> tot National Jazz Foundation concert with Kddie Condon. .„■'». •> The Larry Hammond-Millard Faught "Care and Feeding of Executives tome being turned into a text tor business administration courses m col- leges... ."Break the Bank" bought by Bristol-Myers as summer replace- mcnt for Alan Young show on ABC...Norman Barasch. brother of Lou Barasch, United Artists trade press contact, teaming with Joe Stein as writers on Hildegarde show to replace Lou Meltzer, who's gone over to the Fred Allen program.. . .Ernest Lehman's recent Collier's short short, Great- er Love Hath No Man," wilt be mike-dramatized via Cresta Blanca Thl6 Is My Best" stanza on May 21... .Nelson A. Rockefeller will be host to reps of local and independent stations al a luncheon next Tuesday (7) at BHt- more hotel. He will discuss the organization ot the Community Committee of New York on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal. Sixteen ABC execs, eight from N. Y. and the others representing affil- iates throughout the country, arc holding a two-day station advisory council meeting, beginning Tluus. (2) at St. Catherine's Island, Ga. Isle is the home of ABC board chairman Ed Noble,..,So large is the N. Y. emigra- tion torColumbus this year that radioiles say 1946 will be known as the Year of the Great Hegira... .Mutual now. plugging itself on the air as the "world's largest network." what with its 300 affiliates. IN HOLLYWOOD ... Bud Ernst lost 51 pounds producing "Queen For a Day" so the doc ordered him to take a long rest. He's six fool-four but the deficit is show- ing in the .wrong places. Jim Morgan takes over unlil Ernest recovers some of the lost poundage There must be picture deals cooking for Jack Smith or why would the agency sound but KNX! on studio space Betty Rhodes, original Television Girl and now vocalizing on "Meet Me at Parky's," gets a star buildup by .RCA-Victor as its No. 1 frin'me singer to replace Dinah Shore, who moved over to Columbia,. . .Rudy Vallee is packaging his own 15-niinulc strip called "So You Want to Be a Star?" He'll narrate and guide the youngsters along the royal road lo stardom. It's a summer deal for ABC or Mutual....Al Kabaker doubling over from his operation of the Dancer. Sample &'Fitzgerald Hollywood office iofr-ep? resent radio writers for William Morris... .Sheila Graham, syndicate col- umnist, replaced Lois January on Rayve shampoo program over Don Lee Joe. Rincs waxed half-hour show built around Mel Blanc, who could 1 take most of the parts himself. It's situash comedy piece tagged "Laugh and Let. Laugh".... .Brewster Morgan around in pursuit of his duties with Campton as director of program development. Walter Craig installed Ted Steele as v.p. in charge of Coast radio for Benton & Bowles. Al Kaye continues as director of Coast radio for the agency... .Carlton Alsop will take time out from his produclion duties at Metro to direct Don Ameche in the new Procter & Gamble series replac- ing Rudy Vallee. Holding over from the Vallee opus will be Pinky Lee, comic Gil Ralston wound up two weeks oC intensive parleying with Jim Wright on P&G biz and hiked home to Cincy... .Irna Phillips back in town and this lime to stay Los Gottlieb getting wised up on program development by Tdm Lewis and his produclion crew at Young & Rubicam ....Larry White and Al Levy in from New York bent on wrapping up packages... .Zeke Manners in an outdoor opus called "Hitching Post" was put on wax by Bert; Praeger. .. .Arch Oboler slapped down the report given out by an agent that he'll direct an audition ot "Lights Out." with Boris Karloff for.Biow. As far as he's concerned the light went out for good when he shelved 1 it. Both Niles Trammell and Milton Biow agreed it's not a healthy program for the network or a sponsor.... Ronald. Colman will do "If I Were King" on Academy Award Theatre May 11. ....Ed Gardner was snapped lip for a sixth season by Bristol-Myers,... .Don Lee was all set to. televise the Ike Williams-Enrique Bolanos tille scrap when managers of the fighters demanded some scratch. It was no go. so the 300 or so set owners in southern California will have to do without it..,. Andy Russell reported to be in line for the singing berth on Hit Parade. Offered' was Dennis Day, but his asking price was loo high so he wasn't sold American. WHB Promotion Piece on Stands Kanm City, April 30. "Swing," the WHB promotion di- gest which began as a contact piece for mailing to agencies, makes a bid for its heaviest newsstand sale with the May issue, running over 8.004 copies. Of the pocket-sized, digest format, "Swing" is setting the pilch for all WHB publicity, in local ads, on sta- tion plugs, and in tradepapcrs. Originally intended for a controlled circulation list, including the sta- tion's friends, agencies and adver- tisers, a circulation of less than 5.000 was planned on inauguration of the mag 17 months ago. IN CHICAGO ... Herb Futran, Radio Writers Guild head here and scriptcr for "Woman in White," in Passavant hospital recovering from operation and soon to be released... .Ed Horstman, top engineer in ABC central division, awarded certificate of appreciation by Army 6th Service Command, for work as civilian radio liaison engineer, in wJhich capacily.he set up air-raid warning system* for this area....John Pearson, radio reps, have added three new California outlets to their string: KPRO, San Bernardino and Riverside 1000-watter; KROP. Brawley and El Centro 1000-waller; and KREO. Indio and Palm Springs 250-watter, all of them ABC stations.., .Ade Hult, Mil- tual's midwest veepee back from New York biz trip and home to bed with bad sinus infection... ,Carl Oswald, MBS New York publicity, in Chi with Morton Downey for the Drake hotel Coca-Cola convention... .Mutual's Rock Island outlet, WHBF, added Carl Slraub as farm service director, after serving similar post at KORN, Fremont, Neb., KDRO, Sedalia, Mo., and KSRO, Santa Rosa, Cal "Tennesee Jim" teake, hillbilly comedian, signed by WBBM as staff artist.. ..Ed Borroff and Jim Stii ton. local ABC toppers, back from trips to New.York and Minneapolis, respectively.... Ralph Howard Peterson, NBC Chicago news commentator representing the web at the Bikini A-Bomb tests leaving from San Francisco May 8, with Clifton Utley substituting during his absence. Jim Gray, WAIT chief announcer,' weighing offer lo move lo new Hawaiian station in same capacity Elliott Robertson. NBC central divi- sion production director heading to Mexico and Central America for vaca- tion Dee Mower. MBS midwestem sales manager, back home after ex- tended biz junket to Cincinnati and 1 Detroit Harvey Cary, WBBM start announcer, off to vacation at his Iowa home Na/.arenc Gentile resigning from NBC sales promotion here for west coast move, replaced by'Barbara Albright....WBBM announcers, GUorge Watson and Art Mcrcier. to Land- O'Lakes with group of station and agency people for Ashing.weekend and back without much success WMAQ has taken over the Ziv e.t, "Easy Aces" show which moved from WGN and was replaced by North Central s "Joe Palooka." JOAN EDWARDS CURRENTLY APPEARING AT THE WEDGWOOD ROOM OF THK WACDORF-ASTORIA "Joan Kdwards alriprH. pltiys piano anil convulses with her loincdy rtll- tii's. I'd IninK us one of the best night Hub ads In yearu." GENE KNIGHT, New York Journal-American. Chi Trib Continued from pace 43 ; ministration critics, .and in what small measure it affords those critics a chance to present the opposite side of i he story to the American people." Pointed out was the kick that, al- though the FCC cannot censor pro- gram material, it can refuse to li- cense stations on the basis of pro- gram standards, and all this without threat of legal redress. McCormick right-hooked the- commission itself with: "Radio broadcasters may suc- ceed or fail according to' their own methods. They are. almost certain to fail if they are coerced into op- erating under other people's meth- ods, especially those prescribed by people not skillful enough to engage m the business themselves." Edict concluded with: "Broadcast- ing will have to suffer , . ..as news- papers suffered lo establish freedom of the press. Eventually that freer dom must take the form ot an ownership as nearly absolute as the ownership ot a hotel or theatre. . , . This, of course, is on the assumption that radio broadcasting is lo be de- veloped as the Communications Act intended it to be. a vehicle for com- munication of public information and entertainment, free rrom Govern- ment censorship and not, as the Communications Commission has been trying to make it,.a propaganda institution for the political party in power." HARRY BOTCHER GETS OKAY Washington, April 30. Harry G. Butcher, former CBS vice-prexy and more recently an aide to Gen.' Dwight D. Eisenhower, yes- terduy (Mondjiy) won a construction, permit from the FCC for a standard broadcast station at Santa Barbara, Calif. Outlet will be a 250-watlcr, unlim- ited lime, on 1340 kc. ONI OF AMPICA-S OUTSTANDING MEN OF MUSIC LATEST 80NQ HIT "YOU 8T0LC MY HEART" PUBLISHED BY HARMS, INC. Out of 56. ... night-time, 4iatt-hour periods week »m«ne the four Wnrceitcr *rea •tatfeHt, Helper Survey (JanMry-Fehrwtrr, IW gives WTAG the highest rating in 51. 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