Variety radio directory (1940)

PROFESSIONAL RECORDS— Continued Played with the Ben Greet troupe for six weeks at a cost of $18 per week for the experience. Several months later, she answered an ad and obtained a beginner's job with the Woodward Stock Players, where she spent several years learning acting, (R) Maxwell House Show Boat (General Foods Corp., NBC Red); Log Cabin Dude Ranch (General Foods Corp., NBC Blue); Home, Sweet Home (Proctor & Gamble, NBC Red and Blue); Sunday Night Party (Sealtest, Inc., NBC Red); Hilltop House (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co., CBS); John's Other Wife (Louis Philippe, Edna Wallace Hopper, NBC Red); Our Gal Sunday (Kolynos Toothpaste, CBS); Your Family and Mine (Sealtest, Inc, successively NBC Red and CBS); Death Valley Days (Pacific Coast Borax, NBC Red. (L) Madame X, Meet the Wife; stock. HUDSON, HOWARD. See Six Hits and a Miss. HUFSMITH, FRED (Armchair Quartet). Tenor. (R) Highlights from the Sport News of the Day, 1939-40 (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, NBC Blue); programs for Firestone, General Motors, McKesson & Robbins, Elgin Watch, Golden Blossom Honey, Maxwell House Coffee, Kirkman Soap, Jack Frost Sugar; also transcriptions. (F) Shorts. (L) (f). (V) Theatre appearances. HUGHES, ARTHUR. Actor. Born Chicago, 111. Began acting at the age of seven, when a friend of the family, a stage manager, began taking him to the theatre whenever there were child parts to fill. After his return from the war, where he served three years with the infantry, he gave up his plan to be a lawyer and turned to the stage. First radio appearance in 1929 as substitute member of the Collier Hour on NBC. (R) Just Plain Bill (Anacin, Kolynos, NBC Red); Stella Dallas, 1938-40 (Chas. H. Phillips Chemical Co.. NBC Red). (L) An American Tragedy, Mourning Becomes Electra, Subway Express, The Queen's Husband, Elizabeth the Queen (all Broadway productions). HUGHES, JOHN B. News (commentator, writer), KFRC, San Francisco. Born Cozad, Nebr., July 17, 1904; h. 5 ft. 11 in.; w. 190; dark brown hair, blue eyes; e. Long Beach Polytechnic High School and University of Southern California; m. Ariel Fike; three children, Glenna J., 15, Saandra, 5, Harry J., 2. Started radio career writing, producing and announcing at KVI, Tacoma. Later was announcer at KMTR, Hollywood. Started as news commentator in 1935 at KFRC, San Francisco. Has also done considerable lecturing. (R) News and Views by John B. Hughes, 1937-40 (General Motors Acceptance Corp.. 1937-38, Mutual & Don Lee; Philip Morris, 1938, Mutual & Don Lee; Brown & Williamson, April to Oct., 1939, CBS; Brown & Williamson, since Oct. 1, 1939, Mutual & Don Lee); Last Minute News, 1937 40 (KFRC, San Francisco). (L) Dramatic stock, repertory, 1922-30. HUGHES, RUSH. Commentator, M.C. Born Jamaica, N. Y., May 14, 1902; h. 6 ft. 1 in.; w. 190; black hair, brown eyes; son of Rupert Hughes, novelist, and Adelaide Hughes, former actress; e. Saint John's Manlius Military Academy, Mercersburg Academy; not married. After finishing school in the East, he joined his family in Los Angeles and worked in pictures; in 1927 he became a clerk in the Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, and there made his first radio appearance pinch-hitting for the regular announcer on the Anson Weeks' orchestra broadcasts. Has also been manager of programs and production, WABC, New York, radio manager of United Advertising, executive with the Don Lee Broadcasting System, and operations manager for the United Broadcasting System on the Pacific Coast. (R) Signal Carnival, 1936-39 (Signal Oil Co., NBC Red); Hughesreel, 1938 (Borden Co., NBC Red); Rush Hughes, 1939 (Langendorf United Bakeries, NBC Red); Johnny Presents, 1940 (Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., NBC Red); General Electric Hour of Charm, since June, 1940 (General Electric, NBC Red); others locally and regionally. (F) 1922-38; also commercial films. (L) Getting Together, 1918. HULICK, BUDD. M.C, comedians. Born in Asbury Park, N. J., and played in many amateur productions while attending high school. At Georgetown University he enrolled for a music course and devoted much attention to the glee and instrumental clubs, singing and playing the saxophone. Later organized a band, which he took to Europe. Back in the U. S., he landed a job as soda clerk in a Buffalo drug store. His capers there attracted the attention of a local broadcasting official who gave him an audition; three months later he was a member of the staff as actor, announcer and continuity writer. For many years he teamed on the air with Col. Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle (F. Chase Taylor), and all programs listed with the exception of What's My Name, Show of the Week and the Philip Morris programs were as 965