Variety radio directory (1940)

PROFESSIONAL RECORDS— Continued 1921, while doing monologues and acting in stock, she took an NBC audition and made her first radio appearance within a few days. Has given more than 1,000 radio performances. (R) Dog Heroes (Thrivo Dog Food, NBC Blue); ROad of Life (P & G, NBC Red); Manhattan Mother (P & G, CBS); Orphans of Divorce (R. L. Watkins, NBC Blue); This Day Is Ours (P & G, NBC Blue); others. (L). PANAMA, NORMAN. Comedy script writer. Born Chicago, 111., April 21, 1914; e. University of Chicago and University of Chicago Law School; m. Marcia Engel. Started radio work writing for Bob Hope in 1938. (R) Pepsodent Program Starring Bob Hope, 1938-39 (Pepsodent Co., NBC Red); Honolulu Bound, 1939 (Hawaiian Pineapple Co., CBS); Rudy Vallee Sealtest Program, 1940 (Sealtest, Inc., NBC Red). (L) Sketches for New York reviews produced by the Shuberts; sketches for Keep Off the Grass, 1940. PARKER, FRANK. Tenor. Born New York City, April 29, 1906; e. public and high schools in Manhattan, and Conservatory of Music in Milan, Italy. After returning from studies abroad, he became chorus boy in the Greenwich Village Follies, and for the next eight years appeared in musical comedies and vaudeville. First radio appearance in 1926 when, substituting for a tenor, he sang a role opposite Hope Hampton. (R) Burns & Allen, Sept. to Oct., 1938 (Liggett & Myers, CBS); Burns & Allen, 1939-40 (Hinds Honey & Almond, CBS); A & P Gypsies (A & P Tea Co., NBC Red); Cities Service Concert (Cities Service, NBC Red). (F). (L) Concert and musical comedies. (V). *PARKER, JACK. Singer (soloist and with the Men About Town). (R) Believe It or Not, 1939-40 (Royal Crown Cola, CBS); Manhattan Merry-Go-Round, currently (Dr. Lyon's Toothpowder, NBC Red). PARKER, PHYLLIS (MRS.). Script writer. Born Detroit, Mich., March 23, 1897; h. 5 ft. 5V2 in.; w. 126; gray-brown hair, blue eyes; e. University of Michigan; one son, Bryden Bender, 23. Entered the radio field in the fall of 1938 after 20 years of writing copy for national advertisers, onetime executive for J. Stirling Getchell, Milton Biow and various film companies. (R) Originator (but not currently writer) of Meet Miss Julia (Stanco Products, transcriptions); Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories, 1939-40 (Lever Bros., CBS); dramatic sketches for Consolidated Edison, 1939-40 (WEAF, New York). (F) Paramount, First National and Universal, 4 years. *PARKS, BERT. Announcer. (R) Renfrew of the Mounted (Continental Baking Co., CBS); Bobby Benson (Hecker H-O Products, CBS); Hammerstein Music Hall (Anacin and Kolynos, CBS); Eddie Cantor's Camel Caravan, 1938-39 (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., CBS); Benny Goodman's Camel Caravan, 1939 (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., NBC Red); Luncheon at the Waldorf, 1940 (R. J. Reynolds, NBC Blue); Adventures of Ellery Queen, 1940 (Gulf Oil Corp., CBS); others. (F). PARRILLO, JEANNIE. Juvenile dramatic actress, singer. Born New York State; age 10; h. 45 in.; w. 60; brown hair and eyes; e. Oceanside (Long Island, N. Y.) junior high school. First radio appearance at age of three via WGBB, Freeport, N. Y. (R) Horn & Hardart Children's Hour, 1934-38 (Horn & Hardart Baking Co., WABC); March of Time, 1936 (Time, Inc., CBS); Paul Whiteman, 1937 (Jergens-Woodbury Sales Corp., NBC Blue); Kate Smith, 1936-38 (Swans Down, Calumet, CBS); American Pageant of Youth, 1937 (Tastyeast, NBC Blue); Dog Heroes, 1937-39 (Modern Food Process for Thrivo Dog Food, NBC Blue); Good News, 1939 (General Foods, NBC Red); Ben Bernie and All the Lads, 1939 (American Tobacco for Half and Half, CBS); Strange As It Seems, 1940 (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet for Shave Cream, CBS); Myrt & Marge, 1940 (ColgatePalmolive-Peet, CBS); Pretty Kitty Kelly, 1940 (Continental Baking, CBS). (F) Shorts. (V) Theatre appearances. PARRISH, JOHN. Actor (characters, heavies). Born Lindenhurst, Long Island, N. Y., Feb. 25, 1896; h. 5 ft. 11% in.; w. 170; brown hair and eyes; e. Esty Business College and Columbia University Extension; m. Agnes Craven; two children, Lex, 13 (child actor), and Lovann, 9. First radio appearance in 1930 as result of an audition. (R) Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons (Kolynos, NBC Blue); Billy & Betty (General Mills, successively NBC Red and CBS); Alias Jimmy Valentine (Dr. Lyon's Toothpcwder, NBC Blue); Just Plain Bill (Anacin, successively NBC Red and Blue); Life Can Be Beautiful (P & G, CBS); Grand Central Station (Lambert Pharmacal, CBS); others. (F) Shorts. (L) Journey's End, Trial of Mary Dugan, Holmes of Baker Street and many others. (V) Max Gordon sketch, about 1930. 1012