Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1924, Page 25

STRELOVA WILL SING FOR RADIO AUDIENCE Soprano to Be Followed by Pianist and Orchestrs on WJZ Pro- P gram Tonight. Two tpetial features will be broad- cast by WJZ in New York tonight as & part of its elaborate Easter Sunday program. The first will be a joint re- cital by Mme. Strelova, celebrated dramatic soprano, and Rose Gabriel- Tabib, noted concert planist. TFollow- ipg this program a spring symphony concert by the Waldorf-Astoria Sym- phonic Orchestra will be sent out by | he broadcast central station Rose Gabriel-Tabib is no stranger | to the radio fans, for WJZ has broad- cast two of her previous concerts di- rectly from the concert halls, but the | Sunday program will be her first | purely radio recital. Mme. Strelova has an international reputation as a dramatic soprano of unusual ability, Few musical organizations are more widely known than the Waldorf-As- toria Symphonic Orchestra, for since | the opening of the hotel itself, atmost thirty-one vears ago, it has enter- tained the visitors from every state | and country with its Sunday evening | concerts, and during recent years it has widened its scope through the broadeasting of those concerts by sta- tion WJZ, The ofchestra, which for the past twelva years has been under the direc- tion of Joseph Knecht, was the particu- tar hobby of the late George C. Boldt, founder of the Waldorf. His hotel was the first in the country to maintain a full symphonic orchestra, and remains unique in this respect today. Tn a recent poil of the radio audience as to which type of broadcast entertain- ment was most popular, symphonic music took first place, and many voters mentioned the work of the Waldorf Symphonic Orchestra as a vital factor in the formation of their decisions. VESPERS BY RADIO. Bt. Patrick's, in ):W York. Have Service Broadcast. aster to | vesper service of St. | trick’s Cathedral, New York, will | broadcast by station WJZ this | afternoon, commencing at 4 o'clock. | The service at St. Patrick’s, the dean | of cathedrals in the United States, is | ©one of the most famous in the coun- try, and the carriage of the service fo the hundreds of thousands of radio listeners is considered one of the hest broadcasts of a religious nature the beginning of radio. JZ will "use the remote control specially installed mi- ophones and amplifiers, whish was d during the broadcasting of the New Year chimes from St. Patrick’ These two occasions are the only times that a service has ever been broadcast from the cathedral Needed a Good Hand. From the Baston Transcript. Jack—Let me hold your hund when I go ask your father for his consent. Ethel—Why? | Jack—Unless I hold a good hand he 0. S. MARI RADIO’S BEST OFFERINGS TONIGHT. “Roxie” and “his gang," WEAF, New York, and WCAP, Washington, 7:20 to 9:15 p.m. Joint concert by Mme. Stre- lova, celebrated dramatic so- prano, and Rose Gabriel- Tabib, noted coucert pianist, WJZ, New York, 7:30 p.m. Sunday evening concert by Waldorf-Astoria Symphonic Orchestra, WJZ, New York, 8:45 pm. Special Easter program, WHB, Kansas City, 9 to 11 pom. Spanish night concert, WHN, New York, 10:05 to 11:30 p.m. RADIO FANS’ FAVORITE TO RETURN TO CITY Wendell Hall, “Red-Headed Music Maker,” Again to Be Feature of WCAP Program. Wendeil Hall, the ‘red-headed music maker” and radio minstrel, who has been on a circuit tour of the principal broadcasting stations of the country, will return to Washington next week with his famous “It Ain't Goin' to Rain No Mo' " song for WCAP's audience of broadcast listeners. He will be on WCAP's program Friday night. The “red-headed music maker’ made his debut to the Washington radio audi- ence several months ago when WCAPe new studio was formally dedicated. He is_now in Atlants, broadcasting from WSB. e NE BAND CONCERT WEDNESDAY Program by Famous Musical Or- ganization Will Be Broadcast by WCAP. The United States Marine Band, under the direction of Willium H. Santelmann, will give a concert in the grand auditorium of the United States marine barracks next Wednes- day, which will be broadcast simul- taneously by WEAF and WCAP. The program is scheduled to start at §:20 p.m. continuing until $:30, nd will include the ballet music, La Source,” by Delibes; the *Peer Gynt” suite, by Grieg, as well as a trombone solo, “Celeste Aida,” rem- dered by Musician Robert E. Clark, known as ome of the most accom- plished masters of that instrument in this countr: At the conclusion of the program the radio audience will hear the marines’ hymn, “The Halls of Monte- zuma,” and as the grand finale, “The may try to bluff me out Star Spangled Banner. Fight Over Wave Lengths Deveiops As New Stations Come Into Field| Six Concerns Seeking Broadcasting Privilege in New York City, Would Bring Confusion in Air Unless Limited in Sending. BY ROBERT SMALL. | NEW YORK, April 19.—No sooner 18 the fight in the air settled in one direction that it breaks out in an- other. The threaténed patent suits over broadcasting apparatus have been abandoned because the stations which were to be sued have agreed to certain royalties or rentals. This settlement has had an unex- pected result here in New York. Al- most immediately there have come applications for the erection of at least half a dozen additional power- ful broadcasting plants. The appli- eations range all the way from the city of New York itself down to a small department store. “Does Broadcasting Pay?” These applications would seem in themselves to dispose, at least tem- porarily, of the question “Does broadcasting pay?’ It certainly must pay in some manner or why would additional concerns be willing to go to the great expense of erecting and maintaining the sending stations? The problem has arisen of provid- ing practical wave lengths for all of the proposed new stations. The rep- resentative here of the Department of Commerce at Washington, which regulates the ether side of the radio, wants at least four of the new broad- casting stations to take the same wave length, despite the fact that all are to be in the same radio zone. This would mean, of course, that the four stations would have to arrange for an exact division of time, because no two of them could operate suc- cessfully at the same hour Fight Over Wave Length. 2 estion that the city of Now® Yotk should share a wave length with three other stations has aroused the city fathers. In the first place they object to such a low wave Mmeasure as 316 meters. They want at least 492, and as this 1139913‘1’:5 to be the wave assigned to the ‘“tele- phone trust,” there are static how fn all directions. The telephone com- pany says it was virtually first in the field, and it thinks it ought to have its own wave length exclusively. ‘The city says it is willing to share 492 on a Afty-fifty basis with the tele- phone company. The government agent has retorted by asking if the iy had the wave first, would it agree to share it with some one elee. heoretically, it would seem there would be plenty of wave lengths to 2o around, even if every station had 4 aifferent one. Some raato work is carried on up in _the 15,000. And there are only about 500 real broadcasting stations in the United States. Receiving Set Limited. s'a matter of fact, however, in the present. state of radio development, there are only between ten and twelve practicable ~wave lengths available In each radio zone. This is “ntirely due to the limited effective- ness of the average receiving set. It Ts necessary to leave wide gaps ‘be- iween the broadcasting waves so as to permit of the tuning out of un- wanted stations. “A5 ‘the recelving sets grow in per- fection, the wave length problem will Selve itself, but at the moment it is an acute one in the thickly settled sections of the country where the broadcasting stations are likely to multiply rather than diminish. It would be an easy matter for the De- partment of Commerce to solve the problem by assigning different lengths to each station, but the re- sult would be a jumble in the air and despair in the radio audience. It is to protect the audience, the radio public, that the department has to proceed with se much caution and discretion. Copyrights Also Problem. In addition to the wave-length nroblem, there is renewed agitation over the question as to whether or not copyrighted music and songs can be broadcast over the radio without the formal consent of the composers and publishers. Some of the combosers. notably Jerome Kern. are threatening-to cut their music off from well known or- chestras if these* orchestras do mnot refrain from broadcasting work. There is a wide divergence of opinion on this score, but from pres- ent indications, there are sufficient composers willlng to “submit” to the distinction of having their stuff broadcust to assure the radio audi- ence of no interruption in its enter- tainment programs. Then, too, there is always the op- tion of returning to the classics, which can be broadcast without re: erencs to any one. Although beset by squabbles, little and big, and by problems more or less complex. radio, considering its youth, seems to be doing fairly well (Copyright, 1924.) Drawing Lessons. From Eversbody's Magazine The fond mether approached teacher anxiously. “Oh, professor, don't you think my dear little Randolph will ever learn to draw “No, madam—that is, harness him to a truc plied the professor. FOLKS Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, who is the member for the twelfth district of Missouri and one of the three resi- dent in the me- tropolis of the Mississippi valley, St. Louis, was born ona farm in War- ren county of his state. Thisis right in the neck of the woods where all the great men of Missouri have either been born or have lived. Pike county is adjoin- ing, and Mark Twain alone would make this section illustrious. In ad- dition, it was the home of the late John B. Henderson, so prominently identified with the development of Wasbington beautiful, and it was from a small hamlet in Pike county that Mr. Henderson was elected to the United States Senate. Champ Clark was from Bowling Green, the county seat of Pike, and nearby is what_all the old-time Missourians dub the “Kingdom of Calloway,” the county of that name pre-eminent in religious importance and in_contro- Vn‘nhl debates, political and othe wise. Mr. Dyer, however, left this region of concentrated greainess in his earl jears and sought his fortune in e uis. He was graduated from Washington University there and all his family are strenuous advocates of the higher n. His older daugh- tes artha Dyer, turned her back on the social pleasures offered (n Washing- ton and at home, and recently has taken her degree in medicine in the University of Michigan and intends to hang out her sign in the parental domicile some time this summer. Miss Catherine Dyer was prominent in Washington until her recent mar- risge to Herman C. Verwoert of Oak- land, Calif. Mr. Dyer cafme to Washington ten ears ago when his neighbor from ke was Speaker of the House. He and Mrs. Dyer always have upheld the hospitable traditions of their state, and have tsken a ial in- terest in those matters which relate to the District. They live in a pleas- ant home on Woodley road and Mrs. Dyer is among the housekeepers of her section who are the envy of their neighbors. Miss Martha Dyer has been spending & few months with hier parents, recuperating after the heavy ordeal of becoming, as her old-time friends in Missouri call it, & "docto! the unless vou calmly re- |call “CQ" coupled with the letter | to communicate with all | perts. The origin of the distress call of ships at sea, familiar o all operators and many fans, has caused considerable curlosity, and in order that a complete report could be made the bureau of navigation of the Department -of. Con- merce asked the international bureau of the Telegraph Union at Berne for a resume of the origin and. history of According to advices just received from M. Etienme, director, the first sug- gestion of distress call for ships was made by the Italian delegates to the preliminary conference 8n wireless teleg- ruphy at Berlin in 1902 They urged the adoption of « univers! signal “S8SSDDD,” to be sent by ships In dls- tress, explaining that all stations and ships should be obliged to receive the following messages, suspanding their other communications and passing tm- mediately to reception. The other dele- gates agreed to the need for such a sig- nul, but left the final decision to a spe- cial conference. Soon arter this suggestion the Marconi Company recognized the need for u dis- tress call, and on Webruary 1, 1504, the famous call “CQD" was Instituted on all their ships by a general order. This signal was a combination of the generul e to signify distress. It wus used only at the order of the captain of a Ship in dls- tress, or 4 station retrunsmitting the signal. All stations were to recognize the urgency of the call and make every affort to establish satisfactory communi: cation without delay. The dismissal of operators was to foilow, the misuse of the call. Several countries, including the United States, adopted “CQD" and used it untll the Bérlin regulations were ratl- e At the radio telegruphic confer- ence in Berlin in 1906 the Germun government submitted the following suggestion lative Lo a standard dis- tress call: “Ships in distress will make use of the following special danger signal: ... — —— .. (SOS)." Previously Gérmun ships desiring vessels ih their proximity without knowing thelr names of calls would send an inquiry signul “SOE." Germany plan- ned to suggest this signal as the international signal, but as the last letter “E." represented by a single dot, was not believed sufliciently ehzracteristic, beiug easily susceptible to loss, especially during atmospheric disturbances or in heavy traffic, or when carelessly trunsmitted, the dele- wales in 1306 suggested the finul let- ter as “S" thereby having the honor to define wi signal, Interpretation : souls” and *Save our ships” given the call, the RBe bureau peints out, shonld be accepted with reserve, The Ttallan proverb: “If it is not true, it is well invented,” they sugwest is ap- plicable to the lteral translations of- fered In a similar manner, reports, the Marconi signal has been interpreted to mean aulek. danger.” e distress signal. “SOS.” w. 2d0pted ofcially and put ints effens by the international radlotelegrapbic convention of Eerlin in July, 1908, It W4s 2 matter of keen regret to the Marconi operators that thelr old sig- nal “CQD" was not adopted, and muny continued to send “CQD” as well an /808" = when uccideats occurred, CQD." howe: was gradually for- Rotten. In 1812 the United States adopted “SOS" when the internat‘onal agreement was nccepted e siznal today is “S8OS" without spaces, the Bern s should not be sent. -0 SXPlins. and But... — — R - Community Amtenna Soen. The “coupling-tube unit,” of which several receiving ::«;n::";’\’- use a single antenna, will be made available to the public seon after June 1. gocording to maval radie ex- s device was inve p Derfected by Dr, A, . Tapier ang L C. Young of the Naval Radio Laboratory st Bellevue, Md., and has been demonstrated on board Sha United States Battleship Celorado, By connecting a coupling-tube anit between Lich receiving set and the single antenna suspended from the masts, several incoming messages on different wave lengths were received simultaneously, while three messages on other wave lengths were trans- mitted from the vessel. Patents on this new radio device, Which makes the operation of several sets independent of each other, even when receiving on a common werial, are pending and consequently the in- ventors do not care to reveal the exact hook-up mnor details of the apparatus’ In general. it is said to include a coupling resistance, so high that the strength of the incoming signals are reduced materially, re- quiring at least a three or four tube set. A radio frequency step in the form of a radio frequency trap, which eliminates any regeneration, is re- quired and, of course, & receiving set with a detector tube. Reception i€ fmproved with two tubes of audio frequency amplification The military value of the coupling unit to the Navy is verv high, since it enables u vessel or station to carry on several times as much business or traffic us has heretofore been possible without interference, and the Navy holds the rights for military unse. It has become a part of battleship standard equipment. To the general public its chief interest will be that it will permit the use of a single aerial on a large apartment house or hotel, wherein each tennant wants te operate his own set independently of othérs. A lead-in can be run into cach apartment or sulte. the owner specifying that each temnant must use a coupler unit and not conect his receiving set directly with the plug in his suite. Many unsightly aerials on housetops can thus be eliminated. Big radio manufacturers are said to have made overtures to Dr. Tavlor for permission to manufacture his units, but to date the name of the manufacturer has not been an- nounced. Suggests Novel Radie Calls. ‘What would you #hy if you had to tune your ear musically befere you could tune your set to a broadcasting station, and if all announcers sang their calls in musical notes? As a substitute for the call letters of different broadeasting stations, which are sometimes confusing and unintelligible, the use of _musical notes sung by the announcer has been suggested to Secretary of Commerce Hoover. Dr. Charles M. Swingle of Cleveland, Ohio, who recommends this practice as an improved method of designating radio stations, says: “These notes should be sung by the brosdcasters; thus, ‘do, me, sol, do, sol. me, d might designate WIAX." The call o this station in announcemenmts would then be: “WJAX, do, me, sol, do, sol. me, do,” he explains, suggesting that later only the notes be used. More than one value would accrue bj’ this method he helleves; more cen- tainty of being understood, training of the broadcasters’ voices @nd en- couragement of vocal music. "It is & psychological fact that one who hears only a tew notes, is almost impelled by the musical instinct to sound them over, whereas this is not true of a complets song,” he write: This old instinet, acoording to Dr. Swingle, can bé encouraged und again made to fungtion tor all. In his reply to Dr. Swingle the commissioner of navigution explained that the government is forced to fol- low the rules of the International Bu- reau st Berne in assigning call let- ters to radic stations and numerical designations for amateurs according to thelr districts. All of which makes the suggested change practically im- possible. Five More Statioan. The Department of Commerce lust week {ssued licenses to five new broadcasting stations. Their loca- tion, owners, call letters, power and Wwave bands on which they will trans- mit tollow: KFPH, Charles Hurold Salt Lake City, Utah, 24% watts. KFPL, C. C Hailander. meters, 50 . Baxter, Dublin, Tex., tional Guard, 242 meters, 10 K Shop, Olympix, Wash.. 235 meters, watts. WCBR, Churles H. Meester ble sta Providence, R meters, Radio Hearimgn Svon. Within about ten days the Federal Trude Cemmission will lssue a call for hearings on the alleged rad monopely and summon witnesses to | testify in connection with the an- swers filed recently, Attorneys of the commiasion are now going through the seven volumi- nous reports filed last Thursday, set- ting forth denials to the charges that the Radfo Corporution of America and its afiliated companies had used unfair methods in competition and that & monopoly in radio communi- cation had been created. The an- swers, practically all alike, deny the charges of the commission, claiming that their agreements were not set forth falrly in the complaint. In one reply it is stated that the Radio Corporatlon was created at the re- quest of the government to develop communication in Amer Replies were filed by the General Electric Radio Cor- Western Elec- Company national Radio Telegraph Company, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. United Fruit Company and Wireless Specially Apparatus Mere Fands Needed. 1t Secretary Hoover is to patrol the ether for fans and commercial and | other interests, he may have to mauke 4 ples to the Senate uppropriations | committee. Appropriations for radio inspection, supervision and experimentation for the fiscal year 1324-25 were cut by over $25,000 by the House appropria- tion committee, even after the figures submitted by the Department of Com- erce had successfully run the ‘gantlet” of the budget Secretary Hoover had the approval of the budget committee for a total | sppropriation of $180, for radio administration, but this amount wus reduced to $15§,778 by the House. The sum allofted is $1 over the ameunt authorized for the current Year. but this includes $17.340 as pay for ‘the naval personnel handling | radio accounts, which it is proposed | to transfer to’ Mr. Hoover's depart- | ment. The only additional money granted for field work, which has in- creased greatly during the past year. is $2.000 instead of $14,200 asked. Six | extru assistant inspectors and three | or four clerks were requested. No | allotment for much needed apparatus | for inspctors is made, although it is| known that field workers have purchase much of their own equip- ment in order to sfliciently police the ether lunes, now congested badly with thousands of transmitters and ap- proximately 20,000,000 fans filing complaints regurding interferen The radio laboratory of the bureau of 34,320 On top of reduced appropriations for radio administration, the Senate finance committee added insult to in- jury, us far as “fans” are conoerned. by declaring a tax of 10 per cent on radio sets ‘and parts in the new revenue bill. At first the plan was to tax only sets which cost more than §15; this was later amended to incinde those costing $50 or more, but finally reported out by the commit- tee as follow “Radio receiving sets, 10 per cen- tum. Parts and accessories for radio receiving sets sold or leased to any person other thun a manufucturer o puroducer of such sets, 10 per cntu “There you are,” as Roxie gay all get taxed, except those of us who have our sets or are skilled enough to make our own. Neither the President; whé Is op- posed to all new or additional taxes nor_Secrtary Hoover is in favor of such & tax, but both apprectate that logislation is in the hands of Con- gress. 'The Secretary of Commerce has always declared himsel? against license fees for receiving set own- ers, but is not in a position to oppose a revenue tax of this sorts as it is outside his jurisdiction A. F. A. N. asks the following ques- | tions: “Can you inform me as to what sta- tion was sending out @ plano recital, entitled ‘Ain't Goin' Rein No Mo' *? “My untenna is forty feet high and fifty feet long, two wires, each fifty feet long. “My lead-in is fifty-five y set is three bulbs What distance should | get" With_three tubes and your aerial you shuld get all eastern and mid- dle western stations, also Havana and Csnada. Of course, it is difficult té answer vour question accurately be- cause of neighboring and other con- ditions, such as hook-up, etc., which would have a considerable bearing on your range. 3 JAMES F. BALL, Bennings Station, Md., asks the following: “Would like to know through your radio news celumn if some one could help me identify a station which was broadcasting between 12:30 and 1 o'clock Wednesday morning. On ae- count of code I did not get the sta- *ion, but heard the announcer say romething about ‘12:45 and a wait of five 1afputes’ He also said they would broadcast on 330 meters and he mentioned Washington, D. C. After this some one talked for some time. A man and woman sang and there were several relactions plaved on a piano, =ounding as if it might have been a player-piano.” B Y The first medical institution in Great Britain to open its dosrs to woman students was the Rowal Free. Houpital of London n 1877. *STAR’S RADIO APPRECIATION CARD WCAP—Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Ce., 723 13th St. N.W. WRC—Radie Corporation of America, 1fth St. end Perk Rd. N.W. Thank_you for the very excellent program readered from your Newspaper man and author, who will bromdcast o sevies of talkx through station WOAP on the American gov- ermment. Mr. Haskin medium of radio to promote a otic _and better understanding of America’s democratic form of govern- | ment. STATIONS’ CONSTANT FREQUENCY TESTED Radio Study by Standards Bureau Gives Favorable Results in Six Instances. As a result of recent measurements the bureau of standards upon the transmitted wave of « number of broad- stations, six 'of them, includ- AP and WRC, have been found to maintain a sufficiently constant fre- quency to be useful as frequenc ards. “The four oth, Detroit: Ws tad Pittsburgh. “There may have been other stations maintaining their frequency just us con- stant as these,” said the bureau. “but these are the only ones which reached the degree of constancy shown among the “stations upon whose frequency measurements were made in the bu- by chenec- | reau’s laboratory.”" As 4 means of maintaining constant frequency, most of the six stations named use frequenty indicators (one- point wave meters) 1 maintain a maximum deflection of the instrument on the frequ indicator throughout transmission. These broadcasting tions, with rare exceptions, it was not more than two kilo- » assigned fraquen mitted signals from can be utilized fo meters and otk sse stand ap- d- | FANATICS SENT TO JAIL Filipinos Were Convicted of Mur der and Sedition. MANILA J.. April 19.— {Famous Sculptor 1 o . e ivionti e | Will Describe seized by ‘customs officers, it became known today, on the ground that | Greatest Work| April 19.—More than 204 1 C religious tanatic convicred there were irregularities in hor clear- ance papers when she attempted to | | il from this po~t for Nasean, Bu- | How one of the greatsst stone- ' of murder and sdition in Suriage pre hamas, carving feats of all history is be- | e thate have Becs The Sohconer. a Lwo-master, sailed | ing accomplished will be told by |ince i oS 3 from Gloucester, Mass, on February [ the sculptor himself before the |brought to Manila by special steamer 26 for Norfolk. A sterm drove her ! Southern. Society on the night of |and sent to Bilibad prison to serve sen into this port and subsequently h*>| May 3 at the New Willard Hot | tences ranging from ten years to iife papers were indorsed ®so that she Gutzon Borglum, who is c | - might continue to Norfolk. ing the memorial fo the South- “Customn officers said she had at-| ern Confederacy on (he perpen- tempted to slip out of South Amboy | dicular wall of Stone Mountain for the West Indian port. She was| near Atlanta, Ga, will give an illustrated leéture on the subject the Ameri ruras, in moder “woman Crusoe” Miss Turner is spending six months small desert irland off | the English o for the purpos ua th seized Thursday night to Port Newark. 7th and H Sts. N.W. Where Values Are Biggest and Prices Lowest Big Event Monday “Spring Dresses —that you can compare the materials with most $10 Frocks—and the styles with much higher grades— 3 419 Dresses for Street, Sports and Afternoon wear. 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