Herman Kenin filled

many hours of ABC

airtime both from

the San Francisco

KYA studios as well

as in remote

broadcasts from San

Francisco locations

where his orchestra

was performing.

Franceso Longo conducted the American Philharmonic

Orchestra from San Francisco. It was not until 1937

that another network launched its own symphony

orchestra (the NBC Symphony) bearing that network’s

name.

“Harper’s Corner”, written

by Mitchell Sutherland,

was set in a small rural

community (a program that

perhaps anticipated the later soap opera, Ma Perkins).

The cast included Burton James as the Barber, John

Pearson as the constable, Albert Ottenheimer as

“Grandpa Prouty” and Robert Reef as “Budge Talbot.”

After leaving radio Mitchell was a long-time writer on the staff of the “Seattle

Times”. (Harper's Corner

promotional cast photo at left)

Vic Meyers orchestra filled

hours of each ABC broadcast

day. Meyers and his orchestra

were also often heard on the

late night “Club Ether”

program.

The “Histories of Paul Bunyan”

was written by James Stevens

and was

sometimes set

in the Haywire

Logging

Company

(shown in the

publicity photo

below).

Harry Colwell

wrote “The

Great American

Appleburys” on

which Dorothy

Cannon starred as Flora

Applebury.

John Pearson, who was an ABC

announcer (and continued on at

KJR for many years) also acted on

ABC shows such as “Harper’s

Corner”.