8 The Billboard RADIO November 14, 1942 Charles Vanda in his War Department WJR Adds Early show, Your Broadway and Mine, which Blackouts Fail To Affect is shortwaved to servicemen overseas.. , , Advertisers Bill Fuller has been added to the KNX- New York Listening Habits CBS announcing A.I. Shows for staff. NEW YORK, Nov, 7.-Test blackouts Agencies PHILADELPHIA: in New York have caused no radical change in listening SAMUEL R. ROSENBAUM, WFIL prexy, habits, according to Third War Shift carried on his custom in previous WOR's "Continuing Study of Radio Lis- D] I'ROIT, Nov, 7.-Demands of defense Stations election years and handled the mike him- tening in Greater New York." Surveys workers for new hours on entertainment self in giving the last-minute election taken during three trial blackouts show have at last reached into the radio field NEW YORK: returns on station for Spatola Wines. Norman Jay brings back his With that the number of sets turned on in- here: Three daily shifts in most local Five half-hour programs a week on creased slightly during the lights -out factories mean Detroit has more WLIB have been purchased by the Hotel Plenty To Say air chatter of news and that gossip, this time on WCAU, far a nightly period, then fell sharply during the 15 round-the-clock workers than any other St. George to advertise its swimming minutes following blackouts. pool and banquet facilities. Account late -evening ride. ... Mae Desmond, who city in the country, and theaters and headed her own stock company for the- Because the tests were held between other amusement branches have begun handled by E. T. Howard Company. , , The first week in November marked the atricals here, now doing a solo shot on 9:30 and 10:30 p.m., this rise and fall a gradual readjustment of schedules. WDAS, an inspirational Mothers dra- of sets in use follows the normal trend Move to capture the air time was made first anniversary of Irene Beasley's trail- matic stanza. by WJR, addition and ers for Procter & Gamble's Ivory Flakes for midevening periods. Monday by of four and a half extra hours daily, 1 to 5:30 a.m., Crisco products. Compton is the giving the station a full 24 -hour program. agency.... Stella Unger, Your Hollywood New programs will be designed pri- News Girl, will be heard on WEAF at marily for defense workers, and are ex- 11:30 p.m. starting Tuesday, November pected to prove good commercial pros- 10. This is in addition to her spot on pects for sponsors for that reason. Hourly the NBC net, excluding New York, at Radio IaIcnl 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays. J. E. (Dinty) news broadcasts will be used, probably Doyle, a former member of CBS's pub- proving exceptionally effective inasmuch licity department, has been appointed as no newspaper editions are normally director of WABC publicity. on the streets during these hours. Regu- 9 V By JERRY LESSER lar programs on the new hours are 72ew tL divided between CBS programs available, of daytime programs and CHICAGO: rebroadcasts IN CASE you missed it: WOR began would identify them as they dashed up transcription shows. SEVERAL members of the engineering a new religious program called the and down the aisles at the broadcast, staffs of Gene T. Dyer radio stations Cradle Tabernacle last week; RALPH ED - inviting individuals to be contestants on have recently entered the armed forces. WARDS conducted a condensed version the program. HAWK solved the problem COMMENT George L. McClanathan, of WAIT, has of his Truth or Consequences on OBS's and helped the government at the same (Continued from page 7) been made a second lieutenant in the Stage Door Canteen November 5; time-he provided all four announcers he'd be kicked off a country weekly for Army Signal Corps; Howard M. Zile, also GEORGE JESSEL and LEONARD SUES with identification boutonnieres made this sort of stuff. It's fashion -hint tech- of WAIT, is a private in the Signal Corps; appeared on the Kate Smith Hour Friday out of War Stamps. ALAN REED is nique applied to war news. Marshall Seacrist, of WGES, is a chief night; HERBERT MARSHALL starred on the only actor in radio who employs A couple of plugs for Bond's Clothes petty officer in the navy, and Roy Rob- CHARLES MARTINS adaptation of Re- twb stand-ins, one for radio and another are much too long. Eugene Burr. erts, of WSBC, an ensign in the navy. becca on the Philip Morris Playhouse; for stage roles. REED plays the title * * . Roy C. Witwer, NBC v. -p. in charge on the 7th, TED HUSING broadcast his role in the LUNT-FONTANNE play, The So you take a topic, let's say duck of sales, was in from New York on busi- 19th consecutive Army -Notre Dame foot- Pirate, which is in Boston. He can't hunting; you figure out all the ludicrous ness for a couple of days.... Russell E. ball game; ORSON WELLS debuted his make his Abie's Irish Rose rehearsals, situations that shouldn't happen to a Hunt, NBC engineer, has enlisted in the series for Lockheed and Vega November so uses a stand-in for those. When he duck; you get a lot of folks to talk about Army Air Corps.... Glenn Snyder, man- 9; ELLA LOGAN made her 1,500th radio flies in from Boston for the Saturday the ducks; then, unless the script is too ager of WLS, has left for the Southwest. appearance Sunday when she appeared broadcast of Abie, he has to hire a stand- quick, you make sure to duck. He will spend three weeks in Arizona on on the FRED ALLEN program. in for his Pirate role. Ellery Queen The Fibber McGee and Molly session business at WLS's sister stations, KOY, will have ANN CORIO for its guest - TIMMY MONKS detective November 14 Tuesday night, tho, makes you forget Phoenix, and KTUC, Tucson. Jim has been appearing and BERT LY- about ducking; the script moves too fast Poole, veteran agriculture and livestock J regularly on Readers' Digest over CBS TELL on the 21st.... Announcer LARRY for even a negligible nod. It's funny, and analyst, began a new five -a -week series and turning in some top-notch perform- ELLIOTT returned from three weeks on it is as ever. The McGees' half-hour on on WGN Monday (9), sponsored by the formances. ... LES BROWN will intro- the Coast to find that he had three new NBC retains its position on the top -most Arcady Farm Milling Company.... Clif- duce his new vocal quartet, the Town - commercials on ADELAIDE HAWLEY'S Women's . comic plane. ton M. Utley, newscaster, is now heard Criers, on his CBS program next week Page of the Air. JOANNA Fibber, of course, is the duck hunter on the Quaker Oats news program, Mon- from Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, N. J. ROOS of the Abie's Irish Rose cast will HENRY HULL portrays the role of co-star with MARTHA SCOTT in the new who promised everybody ducks. Le Trivia days thru Saturdays. Broadway discovers that Fibber is a good bill SERGEANT JIMMIE HULBURT in Com- play, The Willow and I. ducker, but quite ignorant about a duck's bat Correspondent on WOR-Mutual. bill. Abigail delights in cracking about RALPH DUMKE'S new participation show e LOS ANGELES: has big things brewing for it. Program ARNOLD MOSS played his first gang- "What the mayor said concerning Mr. is McGee." Mr. Whimple still despairs of BOB GREEN has been assigned to an- a combination of Sons o' Fun, Truth ster role on The Shadow Sunday.... strong-arm Susy, and "little girl" leaves nounce the Hollywood Shdwcase pro- or Consequences and Go Get It, plus a BETTY GARDE has been signed for a lot of original ideas.... Twelve -year -old role in the forthcoming film version of her own impression on impressionist Fib- gram over CPN, replacing Bob Lemond, LISS, ber. You can't help liking the program; who has left for service with the army air RONNY Johnny Quizzer on Vic- GYPSY ROSE LEE'S The G -String Mur- tory Is Our Business, is now an ensign. der. Two picture companies are bid- the humor's clad in trim white ducks. force. , Production staff switches at NBC RONNY received a certificate from the ding for PETER DONALD'S services... Joseph. R. Carlton, recently include Ned Tollinger to U. S. Navy conferring upon the Bob Hope show, Archie Scott him the HERB POLESIE, who formerly -directed to the "honorary rank of ensign craftsman" in the BING CROSBY program, has been Red Skelton program, and Dave Elton to recognition of three model planes the Fibber McGee and Molly broadcasts. he appointed producer of the AL JOLSON completed in accordance with specifica- show Tuesday nights over CBS. DORO- Ruth Holloway has been named as- tions approved by the Bureau of Aero- sistant to music librarian R. A (Steep) THY ANDREWS will assist him. , Shepherd at KHJ, replacing nautics of the U. S. Navy. WILLIAM SHIRER, CBS newscaster and Patti Boyd, author of Berlin Diary, has turned play- who left for San Francisco to be married. THE BOB Ann Cameron takes over Miss Holloway's four announcers on HAWK'S wright. He's putting the finishing former duties in the continuity depart- new Thanks to the Yanks program touches to a drama about a foreign cor- EVA a LI SE te I ment. Helen Brough replaces Miss were worried about how the audience respondent.