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COLUMBIA PLANNING TWO KEY STUDIOS IN HOLLYWOOD ' --—---1-♦ - Each to Seat 300 Persons And Cost About $175,000 [Arrangements Wait for Federal Approval of C. B. S. Purchase of Station KNX for $1,300,000. By the Radio Editor. HOLLYWOOD’S own ‘Radio City," established last year when National Broadcasting Co. built commodious new studios In the heart of movieland from which to “key” transcontinental programs, will be augmented within the next few months by that network’s stiff com petitor—Columbia Broadcasting System. Preliminary plans have been made by C. B. S. for the building of two “theater-type” studios, each to seat*;* —— about 300, at a cost of approximately $175,000. That Is in recognition of Holly ^ Wood’s growing importance as a radio talent center. Or perhaps it is the other way around, for many radio stars have been drafted by the movies. Take Jack Benny, for example. More than half of his broadcasts have been from California during the ' last four seasons. And practically all of the "name" bands get to the “city of the whispers and shadows" during the course of a year. Options on land adjacent to the new studios of Station KNX, Los Angeles, have been acquired by C. B. S. The network has made arrangements to purchase this station for $1,300,000, but the sale is subject to approval of the Federal Communications Com mission. Until it gets the Federal “go ahead” Columbia will hold in abeyance its plan for these new studios. Simultaneously, it has been learned, C. B. S. is going to establish Pacific Coast headquarters in San Francisco, perhaps with a new vice president in charge. It has made arrangements ' in that city to lease Station KSFO, which will become its outlet January 1, 1937, whether or not the F. C. C. approves the lease arrangement. And in San Francisco, too, it will have new studios, planning to invest between $75,000 and $100,000 in them. But the main program originating point will be in Los Angeles, where it will trans fer a number of its crack program producers, announcers and staff artists. VLfHEN the Texas Centennial Ex position opens in Dallas, June 6, a radio impulse will circle the earth In 19 seconds, automatically tripping a lock which will officially open the gates. And following this auspicious “radio ^ opening," this newest of the enter tainment arts and sciences will be called upon to carry the story of the exposition to the length and breadth of the land. From a $50,000 radio building on the exposition grounds will be keyed many programs for the national networks, for regional net ' works and for independent broad casting stations in the Southwest area. Actually, according to centennial officials, Dallas will become the radio hub of the Nation during the centen nial. Many of the network programs normally keyed from New York, Chi cago or Los Angeles, will shift foi single performances to the Dallas studio. Many programs featuring name talent, national bands, soloists and choirs will be heard in exposi . tion-origtnated programs throughout the 176 days of the fair. On the opening day five transcon tinental programs will be released from the fair ground studios, includ ing an international pick-up in which speakers from foreign lands will par ticipate to toast the Lone Star- State and the six flags that have flown over her soil in four centuries of history. Speakers will be heard from Madrid, Spain, on Spanish rule; from Paris on French rule; from Mexico City on Mexican dominance; from Washing ' ton on the Brazos, first capital of the Texas Republic; from Richmond, Va., on Texas’ part in the Confederacy, and finally from Washington. Every program broadcast will alsc be heard by fairgoers over an expan sive public address system. There are 20 banks of immense loud speak ers placed at strategic points through out the 180-acre exposition park. In addition there are two main studios, fully fitted out, and a score of remote pick-up points from which programs can be relayed to the main control for feeding to networks or to stations or to the public address system. The public address installation alone cost $150,000. A UNIQUE feature of the studios is the arrangement of an open court between the wings of the U-shaped building. More than 500 persons in the court can view the programs as presented through plate glass windows. Practically all radio presentations will be by artists in full regalia. Placed at strategic points through out the 180-acre exposition park are the 20 reproducing station which carry the service of the system to all areas. Singly or in combinations these units can carry six different programs at the same time or separate programs on any one. Thus, each special event can be furnished with program or music suitable to the theme of the event. Important announcements can be made to cover the entire park There are two sound trucks to give additional coverage wherever desired Programs, both for release to net works and stations and to the gigantic public address system, will originate in three ways—live talent shows from the studios, live talent shows from re mote points and a complete library oi more than 3,000 electrical transcrip tions. These latter will be used tc fill in when live talent shows are not available. A YEAR or so ago when word came that England was about to launcl television in what looked like a bit way, widespread wails went up ir this country about the way Americar scientists were letting the Britisher! walk away with the visual honors. Now the picture has changed anc the electronic scanning race seems t< be on a sort of catch-as-catch-car basis, with America seeming able t( hold its own. In fact, insiders insisi that this country is well ahead of th< rest of the world in its television pro gress. RCA is about to launch tele vision observation servioe in New Yorl and British service is scheduled t( start by mid-Summer. Latest trouble the British govern ment televisionists are meeting is i financial one. Radio in Great Britaii depends on license fees exacted fron the public for its support, and it ap pears that there are slender picking; for television in the British Broad casting Corp. budget. Among sugges tions are the commercializing of tele vision and the assessment of a "look ers" tax to finance visual operations. Adding to the cost of British opera tion is the fact that television cai be transmitted only about 20 mile; from the antenna, with repeater o relay stations necessary if service i to reach over the British Isles. Re ceivers for the visual programs mus include a big and costly cathode ra; tube as well as some 30 smaller trbe* so the cost at first will be no less thai $250, and probably more. F. C. C. Is Preparing for Regulation Of Television, Facsimile Services Ti EGULATOKY preparations ior tne opening of vast new fields for radio development, contemplating the inauguration of such services as tele vision and facsimile (still picture) transmission, have been made by the Federal Communications Commission. After a month of study and analy sis, the F. C. C. Broadcast Division last week adopted new rules and reg ulations governing all future opera tions except those in the regular broadcast band, on which about 630 broadcasting stations now operate. Strict new rules allocating particular brands of W'ave lengths to particular services were adopted to become effec tive July 1. • Today, to the general public, these rules are of no real consequence, since they do not affect programing in any way. or change the assignment of a single station to which the public at large listens. But they are destined to be of great future importance, for they contemplate the orderly use and de velopment of these new1 vistas of radio communications which have been the goal of scientists in the laboratories for many years. Specifically, the F. C. C. allocated • definite waves in the so-called ultra high range for television when it should emerge from the laboratory. • SHORT WAVE FEATURES TODAY MOSCOW—4 p.m.—Review of the week; questions and answers; Soviet opinion of world affairs. RNE, 25 m., 12 meg. PARIS—5:45 p.m. — Concert , from Radio Paris. TPA4, 25.6 m., 11.72 meg. LONDON—6:52 p.m—Recital by Sinclair Logan (baritone) and Edmund Rubbra (pianoforte). GSP, 19.6 m., 15.31 meg., GSD, 25.5 m., 11.75 meg., GSC 31.3 m., 9.58 meg. EINDHOVEN, Netherlands—7 pm.—Special transmission for Central and South America. PCJ, 31.28 m., 9.59 meg. BERLIN—7:30 p.m. — “The world is decked in blossoms”; Whitsuntide Music and Poetry. • DJD, 25.4 m„ 11.77 meg. HALIFAX—8 p.m. — Acadian Serenade—soloists with orchestra. CJRO, Winnipeg, 48.7 m., 6.15 meg., CJRX, Winnipeg, 25.6 m., 11.72 meg. LONDON—9:17 p.m. — Cam bridge Heath Salvation Army Band. GSD 25.5 m., 11,75 meg., GSC, 31.3 m., 9.58 meg. WINNIPEG—11 p.m. — Live, Laugh and Love. Orchestra with , * soloists. CJRO, 48.7 m., 6.15 meg., CJRX, 25.6 m., 11.72 meg. \ * me dozen expcrmrcni/ers wr u those bands, including the R. C. A and Philco companies, will be givei specific assignments. They will b authorized to superimpose “sound" broadcasts upon the visual bands, si that the listener ultimately will ge pictures with his music or voice. In addition, iron-clad rules forbid ding the sale of sponsored program on visual broadcasts were adopted. Bu a broadcasting station which this yeai or next may operate a television sta tion in conjunction with its regula: facility, will be permitted to flasl “trade-marks” or other identity adver tising in his television picture. Ii other words, advertising to a limitei extent will be allowed, but the televi sion operator won’t be able to charg for it. The same sort of regulations agains commercializing experimental opera tions are invoked for such services a facsimile, international broadcasts designed for reception in foreign coun tries and ultra-high frequency broad casting, sometimes called “apex.” Th latter development is one of the mos important of the decade in radio. I has been found that low-power station operating on frequencies above 25,00' kilocycles can cover local areas of 1 to 15 miles with fine signal strength Scouts Television. ^DD to the list of those who say tha television will supplement rathe than supplant radio the name of A. C Hull, radio authority of Australia, wh has just concluded a world tour an study of television. Like the author: ties in this county, Hull, technical ed: tor of Wireless Weekly of Sydney, d( dared in a recent international broac cast to his countrymen from Schenee tady, N. Y., that they should not e> pect television to render obsolete pn ent-day broadcasting. “Television,” he declared, “will n< replace radio broadcasting, but wi supplement it. Undoubtedly it wi prove a novelty to view from one armchair athletic, social and polltici events. Yet the keen concentratio which the onlooker must pay to th television screen is tiring after a cei tain length of time. It is unlike lister ing to a speech or music, which can t absorbed with very little or no effoi Therefore a few hours of ‘looking ii will be sufficient for the average pei son.” New KDKA Aerial. rPHE world's first regular broadcas 1 ing station, which has been ope: a ting without a day’s interruptlc since 1920, will soon sport a new rad K Movie Star Shares Spotlight With Radio Artists Ethel Shutta (left), popular radio singing star, who will be the guest star on Ben Bernie’s program Tuesday on N. B. C. In the center is Marlene Dietrich, glamorous Him star, who will be featured in the Radio Theater’s version of “The Legionnaire and the Lady” over Columbia tomorrow. Vivian Della Chiesa (right) is the 21-year-old soprano who is featured on a number of N. B. C. programs. She came to radio after winning an amateur contest at the age of 16. But she’s not an amateur now. I | CAPITAL’S RADIO PROGRAMS Sunday, May 31. (coDirUht, i836) Eastern Standard Time. A.M.| WRC—950k 7 :00 Melody Hour 7:15 7:30 7:45 " "_ ~8T00 Mexican Orchestra 8:15 8:30 Concert Ensemble 8:45 " ____ 9:00 Sabbath Reveries 9:15 “ “ 9:30 This ’n’ That 9:45 Students’ Orchestra 10:0<T News—Music 10:15 Vogues and Vagaries 10:30 Maj. Bowes’ Family 10:45 "__ 11:00 Maj. Bowes’ Family 11:15 11:30 Chicago Round Table 11:45 “ “_ WMAL—630k Coast to Coast It II 44 M M 44 S. S. Queen Mary <i «« String Quartet II II News—Alice Remsen Peerless Trio Samovar Serenade #4 ee Pageant of Youth it it Music Hall on the Air ee ee WOL—1,310k J S&lutationa H « News—Music Gospel Singer Jungle Jim John Ford, lecturer Music and News Pianologues_ Watch- Tower—Music Male Voices “Washington’s Finest" U «• ’ Berlin Symphony •« ii Church Services II M WJSV—1,460k _ A.M. 7:00 7:15 7:30 7:45 At Aunt Susan’s 8:00 ■ - 8:15 • * 8:30 - _8:45 Church of the Air 9:00 - “ 9:15 News—Romany Trail 9:30 Songs of the Church 9:45 Day Dreams 10:00 “ “ 10:15 Tabernacle Choir 10:30 “10.45 Tabernacle Choir 11:00 - 11:15 Poetic Strings 11:30 News Exchange11:45 P.M. AFTERNOON PROGRAMS _ *! PM. 12:00 Voice of Experience 12:15 12:30 Harold Nagel's Orch. I 12:45 “ _ 1:00 Invitation to the Dance i 1:15 Moods and Modes 1:30 Peter Absolute 1:45 “ _ 2:00 Anne Jamison 2:15 2:30 Davis Cup Matches * 2 *5_ “_ 3:00 Davis Cup Matches 3:15 3:30 “ “ 3:45 M _ 4:00 Davis Cup Matches | 4:15 4:30 Bulletin Board 4:45 Words and Music . 5:00 Catholic Hour 5:15 5:30 Sundown Revue . 5:45 Music Hall on the Air «« •« Sunday Forum M 44 Magic Key 4* 44 44 44 44 44 Gilbert Seldes Cloister Bells Benno Rabinoff, violinist 44 «4 National Vespers 44 44 Fishface and Figsbottle 44 44 Tom Terris 44 44 A Capella Choir #4 #4 Tea Time Canadian Guards Band South Sea Islanders 44 44 Police Flashes—Music News Bulletins Cantor Shapiro Waltz Themes Watch Tower—Music Art Brown, organist ** •• Salon Music Church of the Air M <« Joe Brown's Kiddies •« M Joe Brown's Kiddies M <1 News—Music Concert Favorites Tea Time Tunes m m m m m m Catholic Radio Hour M N « m Church of the Air 12:00 “ “ 12:15 Lucille Pierce Ferguson 12:30 Cardinal O’Connell_12:45 French Trio 1:00 “ “ . 1:15 Theater of Romance 1:30 St Louis Blues 1:45 Nationals vs. Athletics 2:00 •• “ 2:15 - * 2:30 - - 2:45 Nationals vs. Athletics 3:00 •• •• 8:15 - - 3:30 - - 3:45 Ann Leaf, organist 4:00 “ “ 4:15 Tea Time Tunes 4:30 “_4:45 Hour of Charm 5:00 - “ 5:15 Ed McConnell 5:30 Grace Vitality 5:45 | P.M. _EVENING PROGRAMS__ 6:00 Concert Hall of the Air * 6:15 S. S. Queen Mary 6:30 Fireside Recitals 6:45 Sunset Dreams_ 7:00 Bowes’ Amateur Hour ; 7:15 1 7:30 " “ 7:45 “ _ 8 00 Merry Go Round 8:15 8:30 Album of Familiar Music 8:45 “ _ 9:00* Erno Rapee's Orchestra. , 9:15 9:30 ; 9:45 * __ . 10:00 Phil Levant’s Orch. 10:15 , 10:30 Fletcher Henderson’s Or. , 10:45 “ _ 11:00 Duke Ellington’s Orch. ■ 11:15 i 11:30 Carl Ravazza’s Orchestra ; 11:45 “ _ 12:00 Sign Off Jack Benny «1 41 Ozzie Nelson's Orchestra •« 44 Evening Album The Orchestra Pit Jerry Sears’ Orch. 44 44 Continental Revue 44 44 Walter Wlnchell Whiteman's Varieties Whiteman’s Varieties 44 H Dreams of Long Ago 44 44 News Bulletins Shandor S. S. Queen Mary 44 44 Slumber Hour <« «• 44 44 44 44 Sign Off Walkathon Reporter Music—News Broadway Revue Treasure Chest Watch Tower—Music Eventide Echoes Bark and Purr "Five-Star Pinal'* e« «< Sunday Concert Good Will Court Good Will Court M M Gaieties Rev. E. L. Ford Lampin'Hour M 0» Dance Music News—Music _ Art Brown's Varieties M «< Dance Parade •< M Sign Off S. S. Queen Mary 6:oa Arch McDonald 6:15 Phil Baker 6:30 “_6:45 Ghost Stories 7:00 “ - 7:15 Senator Vandenberg 7:30 “ 7:45 Sunday Evening Hour 8:00 “ “ 8:15 - - 8:30 “_8*5 S.S. Queen Mary 8:00 - - 9:15 Community Sing 9:30 « «« 9*5 Vincent Traver’s Orch. 10:00 " - 10:15 Old Timer 10:30 Bob Crosby's Orchestra 10:45 Frank Dailey’s Orch. 11:00 “ “ 11:15 Emory Daugherty’s Orch. 11:30 " " ♦_11:45 News Bulletins 13:00 A.m. early programs tomorrow a.m. I _ i.nn 0. vU , 6:15 6:30 Gordon Hittenmark . 6:45 “ _ : 7:00 Gordon Hittenmark 7:15 ; 7:30 ■ 7:45 - _ s 8:00 Gordon Hlttenmark > 8:15 “ “ • 8:30 • 8:45 “ _ ‘ 9:00 Gordon Hittenmark ; 9:15 Home, Sweet Home 9:30 Air Sweethearts • 9:45 Today’s Children ! 10:00 David. "Harum 10:15 Metropolitan Echoes ‘ 10:30 10:45 Voice of Experience_ 11:00 Happy Jack t 11:15 Honeyboy and Sassafras 11:30 Girl Alone 11:45 Merry Madcaps Morning Devotions Melodies Cheerio 44 Morning Glories Wake Up Club Breakfast Club 44 44 News Bulletins Home, Sweet Home Edward MacHugh Dan and Sylvia Jack and Loretta Charles Sears Walter Blaufuss’ Orch. <4 44 U. S. Navy Band 44 44 44 44 44 44 Musical Clock «< «4 <i «« Art Brown Art Brown <1 II m m m « Art Brown _ Jack Barry Police Flashes—Music News—Music__ Morning Concert Merry-Go-Round •• M H M ’ Merry-Go-Round Ladles of the Air Bud Gilbert W. P. A. Program 6:15 Ssssh! 6:30 “ 6:45 Sun Dial 7:00 “ 7:15 “ 7:30 “ 7:45 Sun Dial 8:00 “ 8:15 " 8:30 _“8:45 Betty and Bob 8:00 Modem Cinderella 9:15 The Reporter 9:30 Betty Crocker 9:45 The Goldbergs 10:00 Helen Trent 10:16 Just Plain BiU 10:30 Rich Man’s Darling 10:45 Your Happiness 11:0C Musical Reveries ll:l£ Mary Marlin 11:3C Sally at the Switchboard 11:45 „ p.M. _AFTERNOON PROGRAMS_RM 3 12:00 Merry-Go-Round 12:15 Contrera’s Orchestra 12:30 Character Building 12:45 “ ** _ 1:00 Dress Parade 1:15 1:30 Mary Mason 1:45 " _ 3:00 Forever Young ,t 2:15 Ma Perkins II 2:30 Vic and Bade II 2:45 The O’Neills_ s 3:00 woman’s Radio Review d 3:15 “ “ n 3:30 Gene Arnold e 3:45 The Buccaneers * 4:00 Let’s”Talk ItTbver - 4:15 e 4:30 Lee Gordon’s Orchestra t; 4:45_ “ _ 1 5:00” Bulletin Board ’ 5:15 5:30 Chasin’ the Blues B.S. queen Mary Curbstone Queries Farm and Home Hour 44 44 Farm and Home Hour 44 44 Music Guild 44 44 Morton Bowe, tenor S. S. Queen Mary 44 44 i V. Josef Hontls’ Orch. N. B. C. Feature Back Stage Wife How to Be Charming Alice Joy_ Sir Edgar T. Britten Evening Star Flashes Singing Lady Orphan Annie U. S. Army Band 44 44 Tea Time Liuncnean concert News Bulletins Walkathon Reporter Dance Music_ Zeke’s Gang M a* Music Only ee aa Music Only as aa If ^wood Brevities *ws Bulletins__ Brooke Steele's Orch. Afternoon concert Vocal Interlude Dance Time Today's Winners ti <4 aa aa aa aa Fantastical Facts aa aa aa aa maunee memories is:oi • “ 12:11 Man in the Street 12:31 Between the Boolcenda 12:41 Afternoon Rhythms l:6i Happy Hollow 1:1! Davis Cup Matches 1:3! _1:4! Davis Cup Match 3:0< “ " 2:11 " “ 2:31 " 2:4! Davis Cup Matches 3:0 " “ 3:1 - “ 3:3 “_3:4 Larry Vincent 4:0 Dorothy Gordon 4:1 Vocals by Verrlll 4:3 Wilderness Road_4:4 The Chicagoans 5:0 “ “ 5:1 News—Rhythms 5:3 a ting system, but that won’t stop Its > endurance record. KDKA, Pittsburgh, soon will acquire n a 710-foot tower to replace its present i- "flat-top" radiator, and promises in t 1 creased signal strength with Its £0,000 watts of power. A slender steel mast having an overall weight of 60 tons will constitute the new radiating sys tem, the first tower of Its kind to be i erected for broadcast service. At tt very top of the tower, to be located t Saxonburg, Pa., will be a powerful re aviation beacon which will be vislb for many miles. t, Major Features and Notes J?RNO RAPEE will conduct the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra during its concert over WRC at 9 p.m, Rosa Ponselle will be the soloist. She wlU sing "Dlvinites du Styx." Schubert's “Ava Marla,” an aria from "Carmen" and "Annie Laurie." The orchestra will feature the prelude to the first act of Wagner’s ‘‘Lohengrin” and the “Viennese Waltzes" of Rich ard Strauss. Joseph Bentonelll, tenor, will be the guest soloist with Victor Kolai 's Sym phony Orchestra on WJSV at 8 He will sing "Where’er You Walk," by Handel: ‘‘Salut Demeure,” from Gou nod's “Faust,” and “Night of Dreams," by Wolfe. The orchestral selections include Elgar’s “Pomp and Circum stance” and “Nocturne” and “Dance of the Dwarfs.” from Greig's "Lyric Suite.” Jean Sablon, France's microphone idol, will make his American radio debut during the “Magic Key” pro gram on WMAL at 1. Virginia Rea, soprano; Jan Peeroe, tenor; Sheila Barrett, personality mimic, and Rich ard Himber's Orchestra also will con tribute to the program. The concluding day of play in the Davis Cup matches at the German town Cricket Club between the United States and Australian teams, to de termine zone finalists, will be de scribed over WRC from 2 to 4:30. “The Republican Calvacade,” fea turing the high lights of Republican conventions since the birth of the party, will be broadcast by WMAL at. *7-30 Patrick. Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York, will extend birthday greetings to Pope Pius XI in a broad cast over WRC at 5. WMAL will broadcast a salute tc the S. S. Queen Mary during the American Pageant of Youth program on WMAL at 11 a.m. Beatrice Hagen, 18-year-old Holly wood “baby” star of 1936, will oe fea tured by Paul Whiteman during hij “Musical Varieties” program on WMAI at 8:45. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan one of the prominent candidates loi the Republican presidential nomina tion, will be interviewed by K. V. Kal tenborn on WJSV at 7:30. New Radio for Italy. gECAUSE Bologna is the birthplaci of the famous radio Inventor, Gug lielmo Marconi, It has been chosen b; Fascist radio authorities as the site fo: a new 50,000-watt broadcasting sta tion to be erected this year. Senatoi Marconi has long been high in th< councils of the Fascist regime. RENOVIZE . . . your homt 60 month* to oar If desired. EBERLY’S SONS 110* K N.W. DISTRICT 655' Dignify your home. Phone •'Bberly's•' TONIGHT Joseph Bentonelli TENOR WITH THE Ford Sunday Evening Hour SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF SEVENTY AND MIXED CHORUS Conducted by VICTOR KOLAR 8 to 9 O’CLOCK, E. S. T. WJSV Coatt-to-Coatt Columbia Network . . ;l"....,. :: ...v.v.v."** ) 5 3 t TONIGHT 1 6:30 to 7:00 WJSV * Old Network Favorites To Return in New Roles Joe Penner to Forsake His Duck in Resuming Air Work October 4 in C. B. S. Sunday Series. By Dorothy Mattison. CHANGE Is In the air—bringing some of your old favorites back to the networks in roles new to them and their listeners. George Oivot, lor one, has resumed on the airlines, but steps out in a master-of-eeremonies port Instead of bearing down on his former “Greek Ambassador” characterizations. And when Joe Penner gets back to the microphone around October 4 for a Sunday 6 pm. series on Columbia Broadcasting System he plans to a leave his duck at home and give a good part of the continuity over to his fellow artists. All of which is pretty good testi mony to the theory that—next to getting hold of an idea—knowing when to turn loose of that same idea is the most difficult job with which the broadcaster is faced. It was a good idea at the time, all right, when Jack Pearl introduced the baron to the air. But it would have been an equally good idea if Mr. Pearl had been willing to recognize the fact that it would have been smart to take the baron off the air and come back to radio in a new guise. you remember that the basic idea A of the baron's show was the fact that we all love a lovable liar. That's what Script-writer Wells made of the baron on paper, and that’s the idea on which he sold the sponsor. He sold him on the idea itself—not on the comedian—not on the dialect. You know the rest of the story. He cabled Pearl, who was abroad; the show went on the air and clicked immediately. But you may also re member that the show folded and Jack Pearl is seldom heard from these days—all because the baron refused to relinquish an idea and give a new radio formula a trial. in the Fall, with the sponsor not only contemplating a shift in networks, but also mulling over possible return of some of the comedian's former hecklers. Mention of Benny’s former assistants reminds that Frank Parker, for one, has his vacation plans all shaken up, what with his new contract for the Paul Whiteman show, not to mention a proposition to make a movie abroad . . . Judy Canova, along with Sister Anne and Brother Zeke, also have a regular Whiteman starring billing . . . Looks right now as if , Johnny Green would link up with the new Fred Astaire show next Fall. rJ'HAT new flour merchant’s stanza on C. B. S. is taking no chances —but plans to please the ladies in one way or another. It bows in to morrow, presenting those “Betty and Bob” domestic dramas, a dialogue and music combine, some church hymns, some tips to housewives and a dash of current events, all well mixed and aired for a whole hour. The same network has just revamped its morning series, retaining Grand Duchess Marie and Ethel Cotton for the new series, which is to be heard noontimes with Novelist Lilian Lauf ertv at the helm. Larry Vincent, who was pounding the ivories in Detroit night clubs not so long ago, has a sprightly new C. B. S. series . . • Bill Hay is vaca tioning while Olan Soule does his announcing job for Amos ‘n* Andy and, meanwhile, there's a bit of com petition afoot for the same assignment when the comedy pair turn around and head for the coast again June 8 . . . Lou Holtz has signed for his first commercial series since the Whiteman broadcasts of last year and will air all Summer by way of WOR and the Mutual chain. John Boles will be the star of a new radio series from the Pacific Coast . . . Rosaline Greene Is back on the radio scene, as M. C. of a WABC Wednesday night show, which will likely get a network spot in the Pall . . . Phil Cook Is due back in a daytime show for the sponsor who was presenting James Melton until the big tenor went to Hollywood . . . Two years’ absence from radio Is not the end of the Yacht Club boys, who very likely will pop back on a big time program this season. I L.S.JULUEN.Iav 144? PSt-N.W. N0.8076 I uivot, Dy tne way, is directing a midnight variety show three nights a week for Columbia out of Chiobgo. And speaking of new roles, Cecil B. De MiUe has one. This veteran pro ducer on the screen turns to radio production, too, to put on the Radio Theater dramas, which he gets oS to a good start tomorrow by teaming Marlene Dietrich and Clark Gable together for the first time. TF, THE last you heard, the villain was still pursuing your favorite heroine and you can't seem to find out whether or not he caught up with her—more than likely it's because your radio serial has suddenly changed networks. “Today’s Chil dren,” for one, has just hopped over to N. B. C.’s red network. "Home, Sweet Home” is now on the blue net work. And, at the risk of chiming in with an "I told you so,” “Girl Alone” gets back on the air tomorrow. You remember this column suggested that you voice your protests about the serial's departure to the network over which you heard it—and sure enough, this proves to be another example of the listeners getting what they want if they speak up and ask for it. N. B. C. resumes the story where it left off early in the month—all because ol the clamor raised by the dialers. B. C. Is still toying with the Idea of letting Claudine Macdonald’s “Woman’s Radio Review” go commer cial—when and if a sponsor is found who is willing to keep the commercial credits in line with the present dignity of this air feature. The mistress ol ceremonies herself is packing up for three weeks’ vacation around June 20. Announcer Don Wilson draws a new role June 28, when he steps into the starring role of the Jack Benny show while the comedian himself goes in for a few weeks’ of movie-making. Up ’til then the show will originate In Hollywood, but returns to Manhattan for the late Summer series. Mean while, Radio Row says the whole Benny show is due for a shake-up FREE LESSONS to each one who purchases a Guitar, Hawaiian Guitar, Ukulele, i Tenor Guitar, Mandolin, or Tenor Banjo. JOHNNY WESTBROOK i —an Eminently Proficient, Modern Teacher and Player, will be your instructor! 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