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SHORT WAVE RADIO KEEPS U. S. POSTED ON WAR
■ 1
Officials in Washington
Receive Secret Reports
New Member of I. C. C. Opens Fight on
Sameness of Programs on Air.
Investigation May Develop.
By the Radio Editor.
FROM a small portable radio communications station, set up in the
American legation grounds in Addis Ababa. Secretary of State Hull
and maybe even President Roosevelt, together with many lesser
State Department and Army and Navy officials, have been learning
about the progress of the It&lian-Ethiopian war and any events directly
affecting the position of the United States in the conflict.
The oortable short-wave station, manned bv four naval enlisted radio
operators, was sent recently by the*;
State Department to the Ethiopian
capital to give the American Govern
ment a direct and secret communica
tions link with that warring nation,
and during the past week daily con
tact for two or three hours has been
maintained between the giant Arling
ton and Annapolis stations of the
Navy and the tiny portable 7,500
miles away, in Africa. So far the con
nection between Addis Ababa and
Washington has been made every aft
ernoon with little atmospheric in
terference and comparatively little
garbling of transmission.
For a time the United States Naval
station at Cavite, in the Philippines,
and the amateur radio operators in
the Naval Reserve were used to relay
the Addis Ababa transmissions, but
this was later not found necessary,
because of the clarity of reception.
Special directive antenna is used at
the Arlington naval station to aid the
communication.
^THE establishment of the portable
1A station at Addis Ababa was the
second time that the United States
has invoked the right of extra-ter
ritoriality to maintain radio com
munication between its diplomatic
posts in foreign nations and its own
country.
In the first case, a portable short
wave radio station was built on the
roof of the American embassy in Ha
vana during the 1934 Cuban revolu
tion, so the Ambassador could main
tain contact with the American bat
tle fleet in the harbor. The United
States asked the permission of Ethiop
ian Emperor Haile Selassie for the
placing of the station in Addis Ababa
during the outset of the war. The
Addis Ababa station’s use will only
be confined to Government business,
as it is not deemed dependable enough
for either press telegraph transmis
sion or the relaying of broadcasts
from the Ethiopian capital, apparent
ly only being highly efficient during
the afternoon, because of its low
power.
DIAL twisters who find cause for
complaint over too much same
ness of programs because so many big
stations are on the chains and dupli
cate the offerings of their own home
town stations have acquired a new
champion in Federal Communications
Commissioner Irvin Stewart.
Dr. Stewart, “baby” member of the
F. C. C., whose main duties relate to
the telegraph division of that agency,
stepped forward the other day with a
protest against chain program dupli
cation, along with a motion asking the
broadcast division to inquire and see
what, if anything, can be done about
It. Said the 35-year-old member:
“Duplication of programs on clear
channel stations reduces the value of
clear channels to persons dependent
on secondary service (for whom the
channels were set apart) and tends to
defeat the announced purpose in the
establishment of clear channels.”
T\R. STEWART brought out that
back in 1928 when the radio com
mission (predecessor of the F. C. C.)
set aside 40 clear channels it did so
with the idea of placing high-powered
stations on them so that distant listen,
ers, on farms and in remote areas,
might get good reception. He brought
out that 35 per cent of the people of
the country, who reside in 76 per cent
of the territory, are dependent upon
distant or clear channel stations for
their reception. Yet. he declared, on
the 40 clear channels there are 26
National Broadcasting Co. stations,
12 Columbia Broadcasting System
stations and three stations of the new
Mutual Broadcasting System. Thus,
he said, only one of the 40 clear chan
nels happens to have an independent
station on it. That channel is the j
one occupied by Station KNX, Los j
Angeles.
Tlie plaint of too much sameness
of programs has been heard for sev
eral years. In the earlier days of
network broadcasting there were all
sorts of criticisms of this. The reason,
obviously, was that the DX hunting
fad was at its height, whereas now
most listeners in cities are content to
tune in their local stations rather
than fish all around the dial.
The Stewart motion suggests that
the broadcast division look into the
chain station situation and decide
whether it wants to have the full
Commission adopt special regulations
governing network broadcasting. Net
works have never been subjected to
Federal regulation per se. The com
munications act, however, carries a
clause that the F. C. C. may adopt
such regulations.
\/TORE than ordinary significance
1 1 attaches to the Stewart proposal
at this time because the F. C. C. is in
an upheaval over engineering matters
involving broadcasting. First, Dr. C.
B. Jolliffe. for the last six years chief
engineer over radio for Uncle Sam, re
signed as of November 12 to become
engineering chief of the Radio Corpo
ration of America. Secondly, the F.
C. C. is now engrossed in the task of
working out a reallocation of broad
casting station assignments, with the
object of making station assignments
and power allocations accord with
modern engineering technique.
In the case of the chief engineer’s
post, it is considered highly probable
that Lieut. E. K. Jett, retired naval
officer, will be elevated to it from his
present post of assistant chief engineer.
He has been named acting engineer
head. A veteran of 20 years in the
naval service, Lieut. Jett has been in
charge of all F. C. C. services other
than broadcasting, having joined the
old Radio Commission in 1929. He
assumed the assistant chief’s post in
1931 and kept the same assignment
when the F. C. C. was created in
July, 1934.
A LOIS HAVRILLA, veteran N. B. C.
^ announcer who last week was
awarded the 1935 diction medal of the
American Academy of Arts and Let
ters. could not speak a word of Eng
lish until after he was 5 years old.
Born June 7, 1891, In Pressov,
Czechoslovakia, then Austria-Hungary,
he came to the United States with his
parents when he was 4 years old, but
lived in a Slovakian community in
Bridgeport, Conn., where classes were
conducted in his native tongue.
It was not until he was taken under
the wing of an English music teacher
that he really began to talk the lan
guage of his adopted country. Hav
rillo had a remarkable alto voice with
a range of three octaves, and when
his teacher, John Baker, heard him
sing, he immediately became inter
ested in the young immigrant.
DAKER not only gave him voice les
sons, but speech lessons as well,
and Havrilla traces his perfect diction
of today to what he learned then.
After one year under Baker, who
was director of the Bridgeport Trinity
choir, Havrilla sang the alto role in
Handel's “Messiah,” starting a singing
career that was to continue almost
uninterruptedly until he w'as 16 and
his voice changed to baritone.
Opera on Radio Assured.
(APERA lovers remote from New
York are again assured radio re
ception of the Metropolitan Opera di
rect from the Metropolitan Opera
House this season, with the unofficial
announcement last week that the Na
tional Broadcasting Co. has entered
into another arrangement with the
opera managers for Saturday after
noon broadcast performances.
FOREIGN SHORT-WAVE STATIONS
CITY. STATION. MEGACYCLES. HOURS.
Barranquilla _HJ1ABB 6.45 6 to 10 p.m.
Berlin ___._DJA 9.57 5:05 to 9:15 p.m.
Berlin _DJB 15.20 8 to 11:30 a.m.
Berlin -DJC 6.02 5:05 to 10:45 p.m.
: Berlin -DJE 17.76 8 to 11:30 am.
Berlin -DJN 9.54 5:05 to 10:45 pm.
Brussels -ORK 10.33 1:30 to 3 pm.
Caracas -YV2RC 5.80 5:15 to 10 p.m.
Caracas -YV3RC 6.15 5 to 9:30 pm.
Eindhoven -PCJ 15.22 8 to 11:30 am. Sunday.
1- Geneva -HBP 7.80 5:30 to 6:15 pm. Sat.
Geneva -HBL 9.59 5:30 to 6:15 pm. Sat.
Guayaquil-HC2RL 6.67 5:45 to 8 pm. Sun.; 9:15
to 11:15 pm. Tuesday.
Havana .COCO 6.01 4 to 7 p.m. and 8 to 10
p.m. daily; 11:30 pm.
Saturday only.
Havana .COCH 9.43 4 to 6:30 p.m., 8 to 10 pm.
Huizen -PHI 11.73 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. except
Tuesday & Wednesday.
Jeloy_....- LKJ1 9.57 Noon to 6 pm.
Lisbon --CT1AA 9.60 3:30 to 6 pm. Tues.,
Thurs. and Sat.
London _GSA 6.05 6 to 8 p.m.
London ——GSB 9.51 4:15 to 5:45 pm.
London .....--......-.-GSC 9.58 4:15 to 5:45 p.m., 6 to 8
p.m., 10 to 11 pm.
: London -—-GSD 11.75 2:30 to 4 pm.
London_ GSP 15.13 6 to 10:30 a.m.
London _GSG 17.79 6 to 8;45 am.
London_...__GSL 6.11 10 to 11 pm.
Madrid _ EAQ 9.87 5:15 to 7:30 pm.
Melbourne_VK3ME 9.51 5 to 6:30 am. Wed.; 5 to
7 am. Sat.
MOSCOW__RNE 12.00 Broadcasts in English: 6
a.m., 10 am., 4 pm.,
Sundays; 4 pm., Mon
day; 6 am. & 4 pm.,
Wednesday; 4 pm.,
Friday.
Paris _(Pontoise) 11.90 Noon to 6 p.m.
Paris _(Pontoise) 11.71 7 to 10 p.m., 11 p.m. to
1 am.
Paris...(Pontoise) 15.25 7 to 11 am.
Riobamba.PRADO 6.62 9 to 11 pm. Thursday.
Rio de Janeiro_PRF5 9.50 5:30 to 6:15 pm.
Rome _2RO 9.64 6 to 9 pm. Monday,
Wednesday & Friday.
Rome _2RO 1131 8:15 to 10:15 a.m.; noon
to 1 pm., 1:45 to 2:30
pm.
Sydney__ VK2ME 9.59 5 to 9 a.m„ 9:30 to 11:30
am. Sunday.
I Valencia_YV6RV 632 6 to 10 pm.
(1-‘-H—-i
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Singers Headlined in Major Broadcast Features
James Melton and Jane Froman (left), who will be heard together in
a condensed version of "Stars Over Broadway” in the Beauty Box Theater
Friday on N. B. C. In the center is Sally Vass, who hasn’t lost her Southern
drawl after three years in New York. She broadcasts every Saturday with
other members of the Vass family, the non-professional group, who tried
"radio just for the fun of it" and became a regular N. B. C. feature.
Maxine Gray (right), who is heard with Phil Baker and Hal Kemp's Or
chestra on Columbia every Sunday.
CAPITAL’S RADIO PROGRAMS
Sunday, November 17, <copyri«ht, 1935) Eastern Standard Time.
A.M.
8:00
8:15
, 8:30
8:45_
I "9:00
| 9:15
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10:00
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11:00
, 11:15
11:30
11:45
WRC—950k
Melody Hour
(4 44
44 44
Marimba Orchestra
This ’n’ That
Goldwaithe Ensemble
Radio Pulpit
44 44
American Youth
Vogues and Vagaries
44 44
Maj. Bowes' Family
44 44
WMAL—630k
William Meeder, organist
44 44
Tone Pictures
44 44
On a Bus
44 44
44 44
44 44
Southernaires
44 44
The Funnies
44 44
Listening Post
Neighbor Nell
Musical Moments
Samovar Serenade
VOL—UlOk 1
Meditation In Psalms
Dixie Hannonies
News Bulletins
Gospel Singer
Wayne King's Orch.
Knights oi Columbus
Mystery Girl
Piano Moods
j Paul Robeson
Church Services
M ««
WJSV—1.460k I
Elder Mlchaux
•« •«
M M
M M
At Aunt Susan's
44 44
M M
Songs of the Church
Church of the Air
•« ««
Morning Melodies
Capt. F. G. Chiapparelli
Reflections
<«
Tabernacle Choir
«• •«
A.M.
8:00
8:15
8:30
8:45
9:00
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9:45
10:00
10:15
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10:45
11:00
11:15
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11:45
P.M. _ AFTERNOON PROGRAMS_ P.M.
12:00
112:15
i 12:30
12:45
1:00
1:15
1:30
1:45
2:00
2:15
2:30
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3:45
4:0(T
4:15
4:30
4:45
5:00
5:15
5:30
5:45
Maj. Bowes’ Family
li M
Chicago Round Table
M M
Road to Romany
: Moods and Modes
u u
Bible Dramas
Vox Pop
Levitow Ensemble
The Widow's Sons
M «•
Sundown Revue
. “ “
Voice of Washington
H »•
Penthouse Serenade —
u u
Dream Drama
A1 Goodman's Orchestra
Pageant of Youth
Music Hall '
t« M
i
Music Hall
Youth Conference
44 «•
The Magic Key
«4 44
M 44
44 44
Your English
Mountain Merrymaker*
44 44
Rep. Jenckes of Ind.
National Vespers
44 U
Tea Time
Design for Listening
Roses" ancTbrums
44 44
Chats About Dogs
Gabriel Heatter
Concert Gems
News Bulletins
Police Flashes—Music
Violin Concert
Watch Tower
Italian Trio
Dance Themes
M *4
Church of the Air
it ti
Radio Kiddies
M M
RadioKiddies
M 4m
Borowsky Gypsies
Melody Moments_
Rev. Charles E. Coughlin
*? »*
w n
A. B C.
Catholic Hour
«« «<
M *4
M 44
Tabernacle Choir
Lucille Pierce Ferguson
International Broadcast
Church of the Air
M ••
Musical Footnotes
Sisters of the Skillet
Spires of Melody
Columbia Orch.
Johnny Augustine’s Orch.
i " '*
N. Y. Philharmonic
M <«
m m
m m
Nfy. Philharmonic
«l •«
I
M M
M M
Abe Lyman's Orch.
U «<
Crumit and Sanderson
M M
12:00
12:15
12:30
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1:00
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1:30
-1:45
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P.M.__.EVENING PROGRAMS 'P.M.
o .uu
6:15
6:30
6:45
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1:00 |
i^auiuuu rxuur
«• ««
Aerial Columnist
Sports Review—Music
K-7 Drama
44 «•
Fireside Recitals
Sunset Dreams
Bowes’ Amateur Hour
14 44
•4 44
44 44
Merry-Go-’Round
44 44
Album of Familiar Music
44 44
Erno Rapee’s Orch.
44 44
44 44
44 44
The Melody Master
News—Night Owl
Night Owl
Willie Bryant’s Orchestra
Sammy Kaye’s Orchestra
44 44
—Sign Off —:—
r~uii&u riu^iaiu
Jolly Coburn’s Orch.
Grand Hotel
M <•
Jack Benny
«< «•
Ozzie Nelson’s Orch.
H *«
Musical Comedy Revue
ti M
u it
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Life Is a Song
it ti
Walter WincheU
Niela Goodelle
Seth Parker
ti ti
News Bulletins
Velvetone Music
Slumber Hour
«« a
it M
it m
Sign Off —
i’lr
After Sundown
Ave Maria
I* M
Dance Music
Mooseheart Program
Robert Carbaugh
Philharmonic Symphony
Arthur Reilly
Cubanettes
A Harlem Family
American Legion_
Five-Star Final
N ««
Fata Waller
Good-Will Court
Good Will Court
«« M
Family Circle
M 14
News Bulletins
Beautiful Music
Slumber Serenade
News Bulletins
—Sign Off —
rnaaic ui
Smilin’ Ed McConnell
Arch McDonald
Alexander Woollcott
M •«
Headliners
M M
Eddie Cantor
m e«
Leslie Howard
«« ••
Sunday~Evening Hour
14 M
M M
M M
--
Wayne King's Orchestra
«« «•
The Old Timer
Penthouse Party
Carl Hoff s Orchestra
«« ««
Prank Dailey’s Orch.
« —
Sky Ride
«• 4«
44 44
«« 41
—Sign Off —~
6:15
6:30
6:45
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A.M.__EARLY PROGRAMS TOMORROWAM.
6:00
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Gordon Hittenmark
M 44
•__
Gordon Hittenmark
M 44
M M
M M
Gordon Hittenmark
44 44
44 44
44 44
Gordon Hittenmark
Rosa Lee
Fields and Hall
Faye and Cleo
Talk—Pioneers
Home, sweet Home
Air Sweethearts
Joe White _ _
”The~Gondoliers”
44 44
M M
44 44
The Grab Bag
Sons of Pioneers
Yodeling Philosopher
Morning Glories
Morning Devotions
20 Fingers of Harmony
Cheerio
<4
News Bulletins
Breakfast Club
4* 44
•4 ««
City Voices
Edward MacHugh
Today’s Children
Herman and Banta
TJ. s7 Navy Band
44 44
44 44
•4 44
Musical Clock
14 44
44 44
44 44
Musical Clock
44 44
44 44
44 44
Helpful Harry
Police Flashes—Music
Organ Recital
News Bulletins
Varieties
<4 44
Tune Time
Wesley and Romey
Morning Concert
Lawrence Gould
Greenwood Songsters
Views of the News
Ciiaer jvucuaux
»» *•
JR. P. D.
M
Sun Dial
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Sun Dial
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Sun Dial"""
Metropolitan Parade
Sally at the Switchboard
Music—News _
Josephine Gibson
Harmonies in Contrast
Agnes Lou
Poetic Strings
Poetic Strings
Margaret McCrae
Morning Melodies
Just Plain Bill
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6:15
6:30
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P.M. AFTERNOON PROGRAMS P.M.
12:00
12:15
12:30
12:45
1:00
1:15
1:30
1:45
2:00
2:15
2:30
2:45
3:00
3:15
3:30
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4:15
4:30
4:45
5:00
5:15
6:30
Jerry Joy
Honeyboy and Sassafras
Merry-Qo-’Round
Merry Madcaps
Silverberg Ensemble
Two Hearts In Song
Kay Kayser’s Orchestra
M S4
Education Forum
M II
South Sea Islanders
M •«
Pat Kennedy
Ma Perkins
Vic and Bade
The O’Neils
Woman’s Radio Review
M S«
Sundown Revue
H M
A1 Pearce’s Gang
« u " -**
Tom Mix
Simpson Boys
Curbstone Queries
Farm and Home Hour
4* «•
Farm and Home Hour
44 44
Latvian Independence
Dot and Will
Bavarian Orchestra
44 M
Music Guild
«• H
Campbell’s Royalists
The Wise Man
Tern La Franconi
The King’s Jesters
Betty and Bob
Songs and Stories
Tea Time
Mixing Bowl
Evening Star Flashes
Aunt Sue and Folly
The Singing Lady
Luncheon Concert
News Bulletins
Luncheon Concert
String Trio
Balladeers
Piano Moods
Musical Comedy
44 **
Marimba Band
Organ Recital
44 ii
News Bulletins
Symphonic Gems
44 <4
Don Redman’s Orch.
Will Osborne’s Orch.
Today’s Winners
4s 44
H «
m m
One-time Opportunities
M 44
Vocal Interlude
Voice of Experience
Blanche Sweet
Mary Marlin
How to Be Charming
Afternoon Rhythms
Chest Luncheon
M M
News—Music_
Between Bookends
Happy Hollow
School of the Air
«« H
The Dictators
n («
Hoosier Hop
Music—News
Chansonette
Latvian Program
Chicago Varieties
Clyde Barrie
Evening Rhythms
Ted and Jerry .
Jack Armstrong 4|
12:00
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Major Features
and Notes
QYRENA VAN GORDON, contralto,
will be the guest soloist with Vic
tor Kolar's Symphony Orchestra dur
ing the Sunday Evening Hour on
WJSV at 9. She will sing Gounod's
"Cavatina" from “The Queen of
Sheba.” Jensen's "Murmuring Zeph
yrs” and a group of American songs.
The orchestra will feature "March of
the Peers,” and the prelude to Wag
ner's "Die Meistersinger.”
The guest soloist with Erno Rapee
and his orchestra, on WRC at 10, will
be Rose Bampton, contralto of the
Metropolitan Opera Co. Her pro
gram includes arias from Gluck's
“Orpheus and Euridice” and Thomas'
"Mignon.”
Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliaccl” will
be the high light of the Radio City
Music Hall of the Air program on
WMAL at 12:30.
Two symphonies—Schumann's “No
3 in E Flat Major,” and Beethoven’s
I “No. 7 in A Major”—will be featured
by the New York Philharmonic Sym
phony Orchestra on WJSV at S.
“Special Delivery” will be the
; Grand Hotel presentation bn WMAL
at 6:30.
Albert' Spalding. Conrad' Thibault,
j Lauritz Melchoir. Carlos Salzedo and
' the Victor Light Opera Chorus, will
contribute to the Magic Key program
on WMAL at 2.
! “Tramp Steamer” will be presented
! as the K-7 dramatization on WRC at
i 7. Martha Sleeper, stage and screen
star, will have the leading' role:
-.-i
I •
New Mikes for Campaign.
'T'HE next time Mr. and Mrs. America
hear that cheery Presidential salu
tation. "My friends" over their radios,
it will be over an entirely new micro
phone arrangement at the sending end.
Two brand-new microphone stands,
one a portable for rear-end train
broadcasting, and the other a perma
nent arrangement, are being built for
President Roosevelt. Both will be de
livered before Thanksgiving day. The
portable outfit will be carried to At
lanta for use by the Chief Executive
when he makes his address there at
the Democratic rally November 29.
Columbia Broadcasting System of
fered the two new microphone stands
to the President some weeks ago, and
they are now being built by Its en
gineers at a local shop. The permanent
stand will replace a two-year-old desk
stand arrangement which has under
gone the rigors of more than 100
Presidential speeches and is becoming
wobbly. Moreover, it is so heavy and
cumbersome that it cannot be conveyed
from place to place easily.
Both of the new stands will have
microphone racks sticking right up
front. The old stand had hidden mike
receptacles, mainly because Former
President Hoover didn't like to have
them showing, and it was thought
President Roosevelt might feel the
same way. Instead, he has given the
go-ahead for exposed mikes, so that
the banners or emblems of the net
works and stations wdiich pick up pres
idential speeches in the future will
be plainly visible to the "flesh” audi
ence. All networks will be "fed" from
this rack.
The portable mike stand is designed
for quick attachment to the rear end
of train platform, and, like the perma
nent stand, is arranged to afford the
Chief Executive maximum comfort
while speaking. With a campaign
year beginning, It is believed that
valuable service will be put in by the
portable mike stand.
During the President’s recent trip
to the Coast much inconvenience was
experienced in the rear-end platform
broadcasting. Since there was no
reading desk upon which the President
could place his manuscripts, attend
ants either held up the microphones
from the ground, or strapped them to
the railing of the platform with ad
hesive tape—both unwleldly and un
satisfactory arrangements. The port
able stand will cure all that, it is felt,
and also facilitate the handling of
such remote broadcasts by networks
and stations.
2,000,000 More Radios.
VITITH practically all of the new
” season’s automobile models mak
ing provision for radio installations,
it is estimated in trade circles that
2.000. 000 auto radios will have been
sold by the end of 1935 as compared to
1.000. 000 during 1934.
I No. 1 17th and .L Sts. M.wTl
Women Top
New Talent
Men Who Get Chance
Outnumbered 10 to 1.
Foot Ball Protested.
By Dorothy Mattison.
T*0 THE LADIES: That’s where
, most of the contracts are
going this season on the rare
occasions when a sponsor
proves willing to take a chance and
let a radio newcomer help sell his
wares. And It’s a wise sponsor indeed
who knows when to take a chance
and get away from the tried and
true big-name stars.
Certainly no sponsor consciously
adopts the role of a philanthropist
playing angel to an entertainer who
wants to get started on a radio career
He is, first of all, a business man—or
he wouldn’t have the bankroll it takes
to put a show on ths networks. But
when a sponsor does pick wisely,
there’s nothing like a new voice to
brighten up a show that's been heard
on the air year after year.
In the season’s parade of new talent
to the microphone, the ladies out
number the menfolk ten to one.
Actually, there have been only four
outstanding new masculine personali
ties on the air this season—one of
whom, Michael Bartlett, has already
returned to the movie studios from
whence he came. Another is appar
ently on the way out, also. He is
Marty May, vaudeville comedian
whose build-up Columbia has re
nounced after several months’ cam
paign to catch a sponsor's eye for
him. Who do you have left? Only
Wallace Beery, whose folksy drawl in
troduces guests of the Chateau va
riety bill these Saturday evenings—
and Bob Bums, the biggest radio find
of the season.
Right here let’s enter a prediction
that Bums is bound for the top,
| with his first definite step being a
j contract for Paul Whiteman's present
1 sponsor.
VOU know, of course, that Bing
Crosby and Jimmy Dorsey's band
: are due to take over Whiteman's
1 Music Hall hour. It looks right now
; as if they will move in on the pro
gram next month instead of waiting
until January, when the Whiteman
contract expires. Right here is where
our prediction enters the picture—
Bob Bums will very likely get a reg
ular contract on the Crosby program
shortly after the first of the year.
Don't think for a minute that any
sponsor is taking a chance when he
signs up Bob Burns. He’s just plain
good, with a gift for seeing hilarious
comedy in commonplace things. He
‘ clicked right away when Rudy Vailee
and Paul Whiteman first introduced
‘him as guest star early this season
' And then, all of a sudden Vailee
ceased to aid the new eomedfan in
the radio career upon which he had
helped launch him. Why, after all
' Vailee probably reasons, should he
go on giving a boost to the Bazooka
. tootin’ comedian from Arkansas when
it looks as if he is about to sign up
. with another program?
Burns, of course, has the advan
tage of any comedian over a singer
or dramatic artist who hopes for radio
success. Just the fact that he is a
comedian brings an early verdict on
whether or not he is good enough for
I the big time—comedy being an in
stantaneous thing in which a per
former clicks immediately or not at all,
because a joke is either funny or it
isn't. There may be many a singer
heard on the air for the first time
this year who will have rolled up
a following and a sponsor by next
season. But time alone will tell. Radio
is like that.
TF YOU are a radio fan but not a
foot ball enthusiast too. heaven
help you on a Saturday afternoon.
Every major station carries a foot
ball game—Respite the fact that not
more than 15 per cent of the popu
lation think November is synonymous
with gridiron. I happen to be a foot
ball fan—but that doesn’t alter the
theme of the letters, which pour in
to register disgust of many listener?
because they can’t dig up some other
l good program for three solid hours
t on Saturday afternoon. Surely, if
one of the networks dared to be dif
! ferent and present a good musical
program it ought to draw thousands
and thousands of listeners.
Meanwhile, if it's radio athletics
you want to escape, W'OR's airing of
the hockey games from Chicago won’t
help much.
OEND up another lament—this time
^ bewailing the fact that Hal
Kemp's scintillating rhythms are be
ing cut to the bone on the Phil Baker
programs. True, it is supposed to
be Baker's program, but somewhere
between gags and accordion solos,
there ought to be more room for
Kemp’s tunes. And if the sponsors
are wise they will realize that Kemp
has a lot to do with the popularity
of this program.
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