Long Wa,'c 5 SlaortWaTC Cents Ncws Spots tlae Copy 4: PicfuI"cs SJ..iO Year Vol. III, No. 21 WEEK BEGINNING MAY 26, 1934 Published \"'eekly tb., This and That British Progress In Television And ByMorris.Hastings RADIO kills more than popu· Broadcast Dancing~ Musical Shows lar songs. It has fairly well done for a number of cOffit"dians - good ones, too. ED WYNN and JACK Two Services Supply News News to Be PEARL are famous examples. Many former WYNN and PEARL enthusi· Televised asts are so To Many Radio Stations ] weary of their For Public ,erstwhile J heroes' r a d i 0 Blulio Perso,,,dities A,oe Press Should While the United States won. I goings-on that they would not "'People.,"" A IJi,oecto,- ders what, if anything, is going bother to go Permit News I to happen in connection with see them on Of P"blicity Becl,lls televiSIon, the British are going the stage. ahead with it. And yet, Broadcasting The British Broadcasting Cor. when these two By JOHN McART , poration already has broadcast an . beg a n their The press should do radio a be· ARE RADIO stars people?" , ambitious baJJel by television. airy career, lated favor by abandoning the Boston studio and theatre "During the last 18 months they were loud· radio-press program "in the in- officials, whose work brings them a new technique has belD ly c h e ere d. terest of fair play -and constitu- into close contact with the darl­ devdoped," according to Mr. HASl1"GS And rightly so. tional freedom." ings of rhe microphone, alter- Eustace Robb, head of the They brought Such was the suggestion made natdy scowl and smile as they television section of the Brie· something new to radio which by HERBERT MOORE, president of ponder their memories of hours ish Broadcasting Corpora... badly needed something of the the Transradio Press Service, spent with the stars and try to tion. kind. which supplies world news to 23 answer this question. "In this ~hof( time:' con... The trouble is now that radio radio stations, in an interview JACK GOU)STElN, RKO pub- tinued Mr, Robb, "the tech.. still needs flew comic material; with [dito,. & P"bliJher. licity dirt::ctor, whose ticklish job nique of program presenta· but the Messrs. WYNN and PEARL ~fOORr d,cI:ueu that the Press- . i~ to inveigle radio-stage stars into cion has progressed rapidly are not supplying it. They con­ Radio Bureau. e~tabJishcd by gratutitous th<atre broadcasts and and anists now ha\-c more tinue on their same boisterous agreem(;nt between radio and who has presented some 1000 latitude for movement, They v,,"J.)'S, making use of the same otwspaptrs, is a conspiracy to re- greatu or less luminaries over the can appear in what is called ~hot,' Sort of joke with ,,·hich ther strict n(:ws broadcasting. air in this capacity, hands the a 'long which shows s act(;J, inJulging in the same ~Ioorc [he enlire figure, though rough-hou~e ~ituation. 'But radio," statcd, gOQd-fe-lIov." blue ribbon to sort of "is fighting back. And ir is rour old pals, AM"s 'n' A"oY. wirh unrecognizable ftanlres, and be foeu'ed up to the The public, or a large part of winning, not in any ancmpt "They're regular guys all dose-up, when their features it, is desperatelj' tirc.:d of all this to compete with the ne\\s- the "ay," reminbced Jack, become clearly recogn·zable. S,;l,meness. papers, but for the right of with a dreamy look in his It is list<.ning nowadays to the free utterance. eye. "Black c10lh can be used AI.I_I~S for scenery, and caprions, as FR.J n and JACK BE="l\:YS "Newspapers were driven AMOS 'n' ANDY, however, are in cinema work, can be used who arc not so noisy but arc fully to the ·conspiracy' regarding sticklc:rs for rules. ('Specially the J ~=::.:...:=:::.. either in leGer form or in lls funny. news broadcasting because one which excludes \ isitors from ____ I designs:' Another point in the latters' thcy were punch-drunk from the studio during their broadcasts, fayor is th'at you don't have to ha'ing lost so much ad'·er~ as SAM Ross, former NBC head GRAHAM Me AMEE, announcer, Mr. ROBB 'poke of the primary, ac~ see them lo laugh. WYI-;N and ti~ing to [adio stations. in Boston, discovered. u..ho has the borrowing habit, appeal tc.:kvision will hayc for the P~ARL relied on trick hats and tiThe solution to the whole cording /0 the accompanJing .ftory. public. SA~f. presuming upon his ac- flJnny suits for a great share of problem," Moore f urther "l\fuch remains to be quaintance with the blackface their laughs. These never seemed stated, "is that the whole done," he said, "(0 make the huo(:s through the pion<:er days Co.• confidently lingered in the o funny to the radio audience. business of supplying news whfn radio centered in the Amer. WBZ studio as AMOS 'n' A!'DY new science one of unhersal (ColI/in1led on Page /3) (Co/1/i/1//ed 011 Page '51 ican Telephone and ~'elegraph (Co/1/i/1l1ed 0/1 Page 7) (Continued 011 Pase 15) " ,Bol... .New I World FI,ir Pidures I,,,, Contents HeadolWBZ Broallcasts ~ 7.IS \\~SAC ~ ALLEN. Wlee On Saturday, May 26, the Cen· fRED NBC comedian, a J. A. HOLMAN. official of the 8.00 wMB 'XTA~ WORC WMAS NelL'S Flashes Box Page z clJri(atllre Front Cot'er New York Telephone company, 10.4S WBZ tury of Progress Exhibition will 10.30 W£AF Nelwork (Tuu_, Thurs. Great Britaill males progreJI ill GRAHAM McNAMEF, amlOJmcer has been appointed manager of be open(;d for its s<:cond consecu· 10AS) 1 the Bo~ton branch of the ational lO.4S W jZ ~etwork tivc year by an electrical impulse /elel ilioll Page Page 1 flashed from Admiral llyrd from Radio Jlars are "people" I MARY AueE COLUNS, Broadcasting Company. Me. HOL· ,.P.M. Little America. The radio aud· Pagel 1 alldz actreIJ Page 2 MAN takes the place of W ALTEl{ 12.01 WBZ E. MYERS. who has bten manager 12.20 WNAC _I ience will hear the attendant cere· TbiJ and Tbat BENJAMIN KAl.MAN, piani1/ 0f of WBZ since 1932. 1.30 WEAN \'('ICC \'(.'FEA WORe monies be:ween 10 and 10.30 by MORRiS HASn"GS Page I I W'LOZ WNOH W.MAS /he Rhymes and CadenCe] I At the same timt Mr. I\[VJ:RS 2.4S \'('MB P. M. over the CBS·WAllC net· A progralll oj rh)lIIti and program Page 3 f 6.00 WNAC WICC WFEA WORC IRVL'\G BERLIN poplllar com~ was appointed to the pos~ 0 na­ WMAS WL8Z work. I cadences Proge 3 J 6.}O WEAJ\rJ WNRII WTAG At 10.30 P. M. listeners ",ill S/a/io/1 UlIwory Page 4 poftr Page 4 tional sales representative of the I 7.00 \\'AAB \xlHZ gAS WAAB hear o\u the. NBC'WEAF net· Radio !.AIle CHARLFS CARLILE, CBS tellor NBC in Boston. Both appoint- 11.00 "-"'NAC WEAN WICC WFEA Page 5 ments" ere made by RICHARD C. WORC \X'MAS \x·LHZ ~BH ".ork a descnptl~n of the new bJ jtMMY J. Lro"ARD Page 5 WTAG hlgh·spots of the laIC. LES TRO\ EO\\'IN C. HILL, 7leu's rom- PATIERSON, Jr., NBC executive I 11.00 \X'BZ S/lIdioJi/) b) Page 5 -g- 5 "ice·president. il.lS \X I:AF Xel.... ork; \'('ABC Net. At the same time O\'er the Editorials Page .5 7IU']//a or P.. '" ~mk TED HCSING. amlOlmcn Page 7 HOLMAN has long beEn asso- \\ JZ 1'\et...... ork (Wed. liAS, Sar. NBC· \1(' jZ network, during the WEU Page Page II. 1I.}D) na~lOnal Danc~ BEN BERI"IE "the o/d maestro" ciated with radio. He was radio Barn program, an Police RadiO Box Page J 2 J SUNDAYS Page 7 representati"e of the Bell Tele· A.M. unl~ue broadcast ...111 be put on. Shorl Ware Direrlory hge 13 EOotE CANTOR. rOllledian Page 7 phone company in Ohio. In 1923 . GRACE \X'ILSOl'. ~prano, In an The Romanre of Audition 'AS WNAC WEAN WICC WFEA ..rplane o,er the I aCr Grounds, 111-.1.l:N CHOATE Page 8 he was transferred to New York WMAS WLBZ WNOH Day Page 13 l\lILDRED WINDLLL, 'l-'oc,dht of and became manager of WEAF. 11.00 WBZ WEAF.WJZ Network \nll sIng to the accompaniment Reflections ~f /he PBe sJftem Page 10 \'(TAlTI"R E. MYERS is president P.M. a plano being played at the by DIANA HERBERT Page 15, JOHN S. YOUNG, NBC an· of The Advertising Club of Boston. EIghth SI reet Theatre far below Killlbfe",i/J 6.00 \VNAC WEA~ '«'TCC WfEA 1101mCe1' PaKe 12 He has betn on the staffs of The WLBZ WMAS \XOR<.: W;\;BH in Chicago. by EVERETT SMITH P.'ge 15 6AS WMB The synchronizel.! voice and Q. and aho A. PaKe 1.5 MAX BAER Page 1.J Associated Pres<, the lloston Her· 9.45 WAAB ED\\.ARD DAVIES, baritone Page 1.51 aid and the Boston Traz.elu and 10.45 WBZ accompaniment will then be re- Defe/o} Yo"r OrOl Photos by 11.15 WNAC 'WICC WnA WORC COt.. LEMLEl. Q. STOOPNAGl.E entered radio at WEEI in 1924.