Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1924, Page 43

Corcoran Gallery of Art Acquires Notable Marble Group by Daniel Chester French—National Museum Exhibition of Work by Mrs. Nancy Cox McCormack. Ilery past HE Corcoran of Art announced this otable acquisition- p by Daniel ch, the lates pportant of tor's achievements a1 this distin The through the Grand fes of the ation in short time, Painters New Y this impry n exhibition, 1in Wash or 10 Qays will exhibi- Ty Ass ¢ has not arrive another week pass hefore th directe he gal Powcll Minnigerode, will Avice of the sculptor sjermanent placement 11 spend Christmas Tha grot 1 to in this ety of th chapter the f God purely an ima ) s illust “That is f the 5 lowstone Vark, i ip seulpt nt imain e plastie, allego go secured for its per- ction Mr. T < marble Memeory.” The C. ry has not only done well il in cqually important work mporary s ex- RE is much of interest in ‘the tle group culpture by Mrs. Cox MecCormack which is now w in National Museum, National of Art. M npressive Is head, slightly heroic in “nito Mussolini, Premier of of the most commanding gures in cotemporary history. It « powerful piece of work, strongly boldly expres Mrs. Me- s presented the lcad great Romans. M ptor 10 sittings fo when it was completed himself, 1923. 1t first exhibited iennial «xhibition at Rome then the Spring salon A in bronze has 1 Fine Arts Museum at Philadel- by C. C. A. Baldi, editor of nione, Philadelphia. The frst ze is in the possession That on exhibition here collection of Max Fam of the fourth replica is in f Augustus C. Gurnee tined the Petit aller: i ronz aly, one it o Jor - the Palais) In interesting contrast to the M rolini head is that of Senator Giacomo Roni, the celebrated archeologism of Italy, and the Pierre Blanche of the el that name by Anatole France This w modeled the Palatine, in the atelier of the subject it has been placed in the permanent ollection of the Campedoglio of size, it represents the olar an s Aled with nuch more reticence than that of the zreat political leader. Between these *wo stands the terra-cotta life-size iust of Lidia Rismondo, widow of the war hero, who it is affianced to a representative of the great houses of Milan. On the opposite side of the little zallery have been placed the bronze head of Henry P. Fletcher, American Ambassador to Italy, mode Rome during tfie past Summer bronze life-size head of M. A. Bar- thelemy French consul to Chicago, which ates back to 1919, and a bronze life mask of Ezra Pound, the Amerlcan poet, critic and composer, mada in Paris in 1922 and shown in the Spring Salon of 1923, as well as at the 1924 biennlal in Rc and elsewhere. This is an amazing pro- duction, full of -subtlety and expres- sion. The eyes are closed, but the wxpression is fully alert. No obser- vant person could for & moment sup- pose the poet to be asleep or inatten- tive. There are amused litt wrin- es around the eyes, almost a quiver in muscles at the corners of the wouth. Here is all the difference in the world between the life mask and death mask. In this case the pirit has mnot left This ork, furthermore the harm of variety in surface, the deli- te turnings which the skilled sculp or renders through sensitiveness of uch and which ity to the rk. Strength and bigness are good inalities but sculpture must his surface modeling showing seni- of touch as well as sympa- form in order to attain the n. Hereln is yme head of : i ali id, the sculptor’ ® * VECAUSE of the intrinsic interest J of the little porcelain statuettes hy Mrs. George Oakley Totten and of | e small bronzes by the late Edward rge the time of these special exhib- in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, h expired last Sunday, was con- nued for a fortnight or 1 any the piquant charr s. Totten's statuettes, and there a strong feeling that th uld nd their way into sc American aseum. Unfortunatel present is Wiy manufacturing In this country, and it is essen- that the superintend the roduction But since we have suc- ceded in producing porcelain in the nited States which compares in wality with the best produced in rance, it should be possible to over- ome this difficulty. The production { works of such fi nation and ar- istic merit should continue. The Berge bronzes are also of an ngaging order. luced as garden decorations—foun- ains and the like. Only those who .ve put sculpture to such use know how satisfying it is when seen with ppropr andscape setting. A umbe Mr. Berge's life-size pleces lave been cast in reduced size, which nakes the ailable for indoor dec- rative purposes. e the upper atrium of Gdjlery of Art are a series of etchings by Charles Heil, known both as an tcher and painter of birds. The ma jority of the etchings in this collec- “lon_are of birds and will have par- icular attraction for bird lovers; but also show® etchings of animals— lephants, ho pigs—and a land- cape or two. Prin ily Mr. Heil's cork is subjective. In the matter of scuracy he is scientifically correct, ut none the less is he a skillful and ery capable artist. His birds are autifully rendered. His line issen- tive and well controlled. His blacks delightfully velvety, his values icely adjusted. With tha best of our otemporary etchers Mr. Heil takes nhis place, and that he has a love of bird Nfe and Is able to suggest the ird qualities only adds to the charm ¢ his production * ¥ kK ~HE studentsof the Corcoran School l of Art have recently taken part a competition for posters to be :sed by the Citizens' Mllitary Train- ng Camp to elicit Interest on the at en al ist N the cases In the Corcoran now to be seen part the voons 1 securing | of | have | A number were pro- | 4 | Marian BRONZE BUST OF BENITO MUS- SOLINL PREMIER OF ITALY, BY NANCY COX McCORMACK. the country. The War Department offered five prizes and will reproduce | the desigus securing ficst, second and third uwards. The jury consisted of W. Briggs, representing the Military Training Camp Di- the War Department; Clif- Berryman, cartoonist of The Col. Citizens vision of ord K Star: Miss Ada Rainey, art writer of | the Washington Post; Richard Mery- man and Burtis Baker, instructors In the Corcoran School of Art. -The awards were as follows: First prize . G. Smith; second pri Miss Margaret Watt prize of $20, Melicent Watts; fourth prize of §15, Inez Demonet, and fifth prize of $10, Katherine Burr. Competitions of this sort not only give impetus to the student work ‘but opportunity for the development originality’ and the demonstration of The results in this instance very satisfactory. i Arts Club of Washington is now on view an exhibi- sketches and moderate-size by resident members. In | the lower room are 28, in the upper room 44. As a whole, the showing lis colortul, fresh'and attractive. Par- |ticularly notable among the exhibits upstairs are two flower paintings, | “Nasturtiums” and “Zinnias,” by Hat- | tie E. Burdett; a mountain picture, by Annie D. Kelly, which, by the way, | has found a purchaser; four little plo |tures done at Boothbay Harbor, by | Lesley Jackson; “A Street in Glouces- ter, Eleanor Parke Custis; Nan- | tucket "and Marblehead sketches, by | Mathilde M. Leisenring and L. M. | Leisenring; a marine, by Elizabeth T the there |tion of | paintings a | Sawtelle; a California Coast scene, by | Mr: Sleeth, and “Roses,” by Mrs. e | third | of | Sherman. Mention should also be made in this connection of a very| excellent little sketch entitled, “To the Next Street,” the work of Jessie E. Baker, chairman of the art com- mittee. Downstairs there are an interesting |group of iminlatures by Alyn Wil- {liams and several characteristic sunny |outdoor pictures.by Arthur Franklin | Musgrave which directly attract th | visitor's attentton. So even is the merit of the work ( hown that cholce is more & matter of |taste than of worth | ¥ x | A GROUP of Washington 14} nave formed a Women's Land |scape League, similar to the Men's | |Landscape Club, and are holding their | first_exhibition in the rooms of the |Landscape Club, 1221 Fifteenth street, |trom December 14 to 28, inclusive; {®undays, 2 to 6 p.m. week day: 1 ito 6 pm. Among those exhibiting are Lane, Clara R. Saunders, | Emma D. Rice, Antojnette W. Fulton, | sther McCord Chapman, Eleanor A. eason and M. Emille Glennon. It| |must be confessed that the majority of the works shown !ii this exhibition |are still life, flowers and other sub- ects rather than landscapes. % 1 * v | ROM December 26 to January | clusive, there will be an exhibi-| jtlon of water color paintings, wax | | models, landscape drawings and other fllustrative material made by the! artists fn the office of horticultural {investigations, United States Depart- |ment of Agriculture. This exhibit | will be held at 220 Fourteenth street | southwest, room 206, | * K ok K | BRENDA PUTNAM, the daughter of the llbrarfan of Congress, who, through the extraordinary merit of | her work, has attained to high posi- tion as a sculptor, has just received a first prize in a unique competition. It was for a work of sculpture in a dis tinctly new medium—white soap. The competition was Instituted by the Proctor & Gamble Co. to call the at- |tention of sculptors to white soap as a desirable medium for the carving of small sculpture, both in rellef and in the round. It was held under the | auspices of the Art Center in New York and the judges constituting the jury of award were Chester Beach, A. Stirling Calder and Bessle Potter Vonnoh, sculptors, and W. Frank Purdy, head of the School of Ameri- jcan Sculpture. §ix hundred pleces were submitted by sculptors. Miss Putnam's winning piece was entitled “The Vamp.” Miss Putnam also re- celved first honorable mention for another entry, entitled “The Peni-| tent.” Among her previous awards | for sculpture in more durable mate- rials are the Avery prize of the Archi- tectural League, the Helen Foster Barnett prize of the National Academy of Design, the George D. Widener Memorial medal of the Pennsylvania Academy and the sculpture prize of the National Assoclation of Women Painters and Sculptors. LEILA women i | MECHLIN. | i(The A | il BY VICTOR rk of the Covenant A Story of Mystery and Adventure MacCLURE. Harper & Brothers. (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) CHAPTER V. Kirsten. - 3 We had left the Parnassic at about 6 o'clock, New York time, with a flight of nearly twelve hundred kilo- meters before us. Keeping the Merlin at a steady four-sixty per hour, we expected to make the Battery soon after half-past 8. From the bearing which the radio indicator had given us of the West- bury’s position, Dan and I plotted out her reldtion to the Parnasaic at the time of the raid, and found that she had been just over 60 kilometers from the liner. She was probably one of the freighters we had sighted in ap- proaching the Parnassic. Now, the hour given by the West- bury’s skipper as the time when she was brought to—eight bells in the middle watch, or 4 o'clock In_ the | morning—revealed the astonishing fact that the raid on the Parnassic had been pulled off, 60 kilometers yvered, and the oil-tanker stopped, all within an hour. Even at record airship speed, the flight between the two vessels would occupy nearly 25 minutes, which left 35 in which to board the liner, break open the strongroom and specie boxes, and re- move 3,000 kilos of gold before cast- ing off. It seemed incredible that one Eroup of pirates could have eifected the two operations. ]‘ We tried to work out the raids with every conceivable type.of craft, tak- ing into consideration the time fac- tors and the 6,000 kilos welght of gold and oil that had been carried away. We even tried Dick Schuyler's idea of motor-ship, g1ving her the.highest own speed for sea-borne craft, but found the thing impossible, de- we | spite with hy as aux brought When roplane type of power-boats ries. We were inevitably back to our airship. | we came to consider what {kind of machine would have made | possible the whole series of opera- tions—from the gasoline station at Newark, Wall street, thé Parnassic, to the descent on the Westbury—the weight of the evidence was strongly {in favor of a dirigible. of the very |1atest type; and the abstraction of the | gasoline from the Newark station and from the Westbury was an additional | support to the Idea, since. an air- |ship carrying out these operations | would certainly need to'replenish her { fuel. | We imagined the pirates opetating {from a base within a day's fight of INew York and judging from the rald jon the Parnassic, prabably situated {over the Canadian border. The weak- !ness of the ralders’ position in using a dirigible or dirigibles for thelr op- erations lay in the conepicuousness of their craft, and of the sheds neces- {sary for docking them. We did not lose | sight of the possibility that the | pirates might be masquerading as a | corporation engaged in civillan trans- port. A few such companies were in existence, despite the popular prefu- dice agalnst the so-called .‘lighter- | than-air” machines on account of the | structural weaknesses which in _the latter seemed to be past curing. But {every dirigible ‘that took the air, {whether experimental or otherwise, could only do so under permit or license from the Government. It | would present no great difficulty, therefore, for the police to run to eurth unregistered airshlp on American territory. With the help of Lord Almeric and Mise Torrance, and an occasional word from Milllken, Dan and I de- cided on a present plan of action. If | the raiders had used an atrship, they would now be making for their base and could not be far away fyom us in the air. To escape detection: they would probahly get to as high an Iiftud b the fact that we provided her | that, while keeping our coursa for New York, we would go up in search First, we got in touch by radio with Dick Schuyler's headquarters, but while we were asking for him he himself broke in from another di- rection. “I'm just taking a filp out to meet ou, Jimmy,” he explained cheerfully. Look out for me soon.” “Have you heard from nassic?” I asked him. Just got the radio from her cap- tain. The airship notion seems to be all right. Anyhow, we cops are act- ing on the fdea, and are going through our particular sphere with a fine comb. It's a silly question, Jimmy —but you haven't seen any signs of a dirigible, have you?” “No, I'd have fold you—-" “Help us in this. Climb as high as you can without discomfort to your | passengers, and keep a sharp lookout. | If you see anything, tip me the di-| rection, and we'll be after the jokers | like a knife. For the nonce, so-long, | Jimmy! Cheerlo, Dan!" | Dick's request came on the heels of our own decision. We had al- ready turned on extra heaters, and the compressed air, and were climbing g00d and high. We kept up a bright {lookout, but unt{l Dick and his scouts |hove in sight below us to the west, the upper air was clean of aircraft. As we dropped to meet him, Dick began another discussion. He agreed that the likellest direction in which to | look for the raiders was to the north- | ward, and on his order his five scouts | made a sweeping movement under | our bows to starboard which was pretty to watch. He himself came | near enough to us to let us see his {cheery grin and to give us a wave of his hand, before turning to follow {his scouts.” Presently all six were the merest dots on our starboard quarter. | " It was worth while carrying a pas- |senger like Miss Torrance. She was | Ekeenly alive to everything that was, {happening, and, lke her uncle, took | |® ueeful part in the lookout. In fact, she ‘had her eyes 8o steadily fixed on the upper air that we were in good | sight of New York before she realized the landfall. I will say that her first-view of the city was almost worthy of her. I have never seen the old hive look quite 80 splendid. It was one of those ool bright sunny mornings we some- times get in March that make every- thing look so clean. The pale golden lght picked out all the towers and pinnacles of the clty in wonderful definitjon, until they became mere points of light against | the smeary blue of the distance. This blue distance rose up and up till it lost ftself In the tawny base of the | sky, and from that, cloud was piled | on cloud In an arch that curved to- ward us in gold and pale tan end gray, to end in dazzling white against the deep blue right over our heads. | The waters of the bay looked in the sun like a fllmy gray-green gauze carrying countless spangles, except where the tall buildings threw their long shadows, which were deep in- digo with lighter patches of pure cobalt. I think even Lord Almeric Wwas stirred out of his habitual quiet by the sight. “My dear,” he sald to hie niece, Uyou are to be envied. New York has summoned all her charm to greet you. In all the years I have known ' her, she has never scemed so win- ning “Lovely, lovely! See all the build- | ings ltke golden cliffs,” the girl cried. “So tiny! It makes one think of man a8 only a very industrious insect— Itke theé weeny things that build the coral islands.” “Then you have to thank Mr. Boon for glving you a god's-eye view of your kind, Kirsteen,” sald Lord Al- meric with a_smile. She’ turned to me the Par- | and looked uy [Pleased her. ; with those serena very grave. blue eyes of hers god-like in- little active Boon “Do you ever develop difference to th visih creatures below you, M 0,” sald I “I'm ald I'm WAYS 100 condclous that I'm just one of them myself, and that my partic- ular activity sy a part of the human scheine, Miss Torrance. She turncd to Milliken with a smile, and his wide grin about split his| old face “What about you, Mr. Do you ever feel superior “Bless you, miss,” sald Milliken, “J know the old earth’'s pulling at me all the time, and that some time I'l] have to give in and get down. You can't be a god If your job has a string to 1 “The philosophy of flying in a nut- | shell, Kirsteen,” Lord Almeric laugh- | ed. | “I gee T must not become imagina- tive,” said Miss Torrance. “Mr. Mil- | liken {s braver-minded than you are, Mr. Boon. I'm sure there ure mo- | ments when he isn’t earthbound.” ! When Milllken goes red he gets black—if tHe Irishism can be excused 1 have never seen him quite so dusky as he was when he pushed the Merlin into the long drive that would bring us into our hover to the landing- stage at the Battery. It was a marvel to me how quickly he and| Miss Torrance had understood each other, and I was not a little envious of my mechanic. I'd have glven a €00d deal to have sald something that illiken? Well, anyhow, the god'seye view | soon became the ordinar: human view, and we floated gently up to the seaplane jetty just after the quarter My father had already wrrived. | n fact, I had seen the Seven pass far below us as we came dewn over Long Island. He was waiting for us on the landing-stage, and he and Lord Almeric shook hands like old friends. There was a trifle of formality to xo through with the customs, but that was soon over. © Lord Almeric and Mise Torrance poured thanks on Milliken, who was to take the Meglin back to Gardiner Bay, until he was almost ebony color | with embarrassment. Then Dan an [¥ Joined the party to go uptown for|ducted after breakfast. | While we wal 1 Lord Almerle and Miss Torrance to discard their wraps and make themsolves comfort- able after the flight, Dan and I gave my father a full account of the morn- | ing’s doings. He already ad heard the bare particulars, as supplied to the press by the captain of the Par- nassic, for the papers were selling in the streets with the news. The full force of the air police, both the sea | and land divisions, had been mustered at once to sweep the air in a wide radlus round New York. The navy and the river pollce were active | among the shipping at sea and in dack. + Through the night the terri-| torial police had been scouring town | and country, examining garages and | all places whera the thieves might be concealed. and 211 known eriminals | in New York of the safe-breaking persuasion had been rounded up and their haunts thoroughly examined. But no clue to the whereabouts of the | stolen gold was discovered. o (Continued in Tomorrow’s Star.) ferr, MBER 21, Radio fans of the total with the shadow eclipse f the sun| on January 24 wil be asked by | scientists to ald in a checkrup on the the phenomenon on broa cast transmission and reception i Some of the questions which scien- tists will to answer are: Does the shadow path behave like any other varlety of darkness? Does it operate as a reflecting mirror to send back radlo waves toward thelr point of origin, or does it bend them in ope direction, or does it 1 them un- affected? During the eclipse not only will the light from the sun be cut off, but also the stream of electrons that is suppoked (o be fying all the time toward the earth will be altered. | What effe will this have on radio transmisslon? WGR, in Buffalo, and other stations planned to broadcast speclal | gnals during the eclipse and will ask listeners to keep accurately timed records of signal strength, static and | other features of radio reception After the eclipse and the entire mass of information is collected from all} possible sources, a committee of radio engineers and sclentists will delve through it to ascertain the results It has long bee recognized that the sun weakens radio waves, and this has given rise to the theory that day- light radio transmission is affected by waves close to the earth's surface. At night radfo waves move along the “heavy side laver” in the sky, esti- mated to be about 60 miles above the earth. Night transmission on the whole is considered to be far more uniform than that of daylight. offers an oppor- areful check, as the radio waves leave the station directly in the path of shadow and make thelr way toward the region of light path Reradiation Test Results. Tests conducted by Rufus P. Turner. operator of amateur station SLF, M day night showed that the single-circu! regenerator and the Colpitts osclliator are the most troublesome rec t when they radiate. wave band Lender Listens to Own Orchestra. Conductor Moe Bacr of the Wardman Park Orchestra listens in, just like a regular fan, when he is conducting for broadeasting through WCAP, at Wash- ington. He was &0 anxious to know how his selections were going out that he set up a loop, superheterodyne receiver, and, the headphone. ¥ listening to the broadcast rather than to the orchestra itself. This enables him to regulate volume, direct solos and handle his program so that it is broad cast properly for the radio fans. If the piecolo g too high he waves his baton at the player, and if the drum isn't regi: tering on the air he signals the drum mer to brace up and hit a bit harder. This scheme was suggested by Stuart Hayes of WCAP, who believes that a number of broadcasters might put thei stuft over better if they could actually hear themselves on the air. Incidentally, he implied some would probably quit Out of 1,180 Droadcasting statio which have been on the air since September, 1921, years ago, only 550 are active today This means that 630 stations have on, actually leads | a little over three | 1924— PART 1 ceased to broadcast operating funds, Jack either tangible or intung laci of interest. It would scem that they did not pay—nearly & hundred more than exist today have quit It is perhiaps fortunate for the that thay all did not stop at the same time, else the Nation’s popular indoo sport would have ceased quicker than began, but the changes broadcasting 1ists have A few stopped opers more came on the Thers are some fan: dience today who are far too many They seem glad to see some quit belleving that the best will survive, and that about a hundred good, high powered stations would the ideal number. In which event. they point out, each broadcaster could have a separate wave length, and reception would be nearly perfe Practically of stat which started remained on the for some them, of course, In 1 642 new static 94 quit operation: in 1 up, and 268 ceased while this vear, up to 249 more came or signed off. It is belicved that show that only the well finan tions and those maintained & manufact which p programs can exist and preserve their ctirr ion and a ir each month in the radio au m that there ations it fs. opened 249 started ansmitting, for hopul Lower Range Receivers Needed. It is reported from that most com receiving sets do not reglster on_wave lengths below This limit in the lower wave ill have to be extended down- n new sets offered for sale « A Dbroadcasters assigned chan- below weters will have but limited au although set own- assign A sexeral cial bre urces sting very 1r of wave lengths to the Department of Co ready been forced to al nels down as far as 209 meters. The lower limit recom the recent conference was Already wave lengths meters have been assigned being 209 meters, given | WTAC. at Johnstown, Pa. a 100-watt statlon, it fans at any great distar to tune it in satisfactorily. By ad- justing thelr sets, either by decreas- ing the inductance or increasing the s capacity, however, it leved lowcr tuning can be without difficult the ended 5 mete be the lowest to station As this Is ubtful if are able be- effected is Twelve New Stat The Department week issued licen twelve new radio s low: h KFCC, First Congregational Church, | Helena, Mont., 248 meters, 10 watts. KFRY, New Mexico College of Agri- ulture and Mechanic Arts ‘ol \lege, New Mexico, 2 50 watts. KFRZ, the Electr Nebr., 222 meters KFUL, Thomas G ons. of Commerce last to broadeast to ations. They fol- 6 ors, ¢ Shop, Harting- 15 watts. (& | tor RADIO /Z/TUBES Will Make It A Real Radio Christmas .. beating their The Air is a-quiver with the Yule-Tide Music. The carols, the simple songs that carry us back 10 rosc-tinted childhood are beating, . . beating, tattoos at our Hurths‘ toncs. Radio is the Magic Key that translates it all into vibrant, glorious sound. Por the utmost in Radio enchantment you will equip your sct with tubes of the rarest scientific accuracy. Buy them by the box Since 1915 Standard for All Sets - Types C-301A, C-299, C-300, C-11, C-12. In the Orange and Blue Carton, Price $4.00 Each. CHICAGO A NOME OFFICE: 181 SECOND STRESY, SAN FRANCIIOO PATENT NOTICE: Trowe wrs aswered by drwed bl S aR T MEW YORK gz Galveston, Tex., 258 meters, 10 watts. KFUM, W. D. Corley, Colorado Springs, Colo., 242 meters, 100 watts. WFBE, John Van De Walle, Sey- mour, Ind., 226 meters, 20 watts, WEFBY, signal officer, Fort Benja- min Harrison, Ind, 208 meters, 100 Watts. WRHF, Washington Radlo Hospital Fund, Washington, D. C., 266 meters, 50 watt, WSAN, Allentown Call Publishing Allentown, Pr., 2:8 meters, 10 watts. KFIM, Magnolla Petroleum Co., Beaumont, Tex., 806 meters, 500 watts. Concordia Seminary, St. 545 meters, 500 watts KSAC, XKansas State Agriculture College, Manhattan, Kans., 341 meters, 600. watts. Station KJS In Los Angeles was transferred from class C to class A. Its power iz 500 watts. The wave band is 252 meters. Long-Distance Reception. The dongest transoceanic reception during the reg¢ent international broad- casts reported to the Departinent of | Commerce was about 5,000 miles. Dr. Willls Eugene Everett, owner of ex- |perimental station 6XCA, at San | Rafeal, just north of San Franelsco, {Calif, " has written “to Secretary | Hoover that he heard station 2LO, for a period of elght minutes. He has sent his log to the supervisor of the sixth district. Radio in Other Li The native Mexican radio fans are more advanced in the general subject | of radio and the construction of re- celving: sets than most people realize. These fans have established thou- ands DX records. according to local radio experts, which is perhaps partly due to the fi that there are few large steel structures in Mexico to interfere with reception. but there is other interference in plenty. Elec- tric street cars, defective transform- ers and some powerful spark stations use interference just s in Ameri- n elt. If a fan doesn’t bring in such sta- tions as Oakland, San Franclisco, Sehenectady, New York, Springfield and Chicago every night, and occa- slonally a Canadian station, other receiving set owners do not consider /that he has much of a set. . Many ans started out with one, two or threc tube sets, but now most of the |Teul fans won’t have anything but neutrodynes or superheterodynes, ports state. ractically war-seized at the same time the German radlo . patents were released by the Navy Depart- ment to bona 7ide American radio manufacturers, the Telefunken Com- pauy, probably the largest radio concern in Germany, began objecting infringements on number of ompany iz conducting campalgn in the press an effort g protect its patents on refiex hoak- ups. tubes, amplifiers, specific sets, loops and other equipment. .In onc advertisement they state that they Leld a monopoly on the manufacture, male and use of vacuum tubes for broadcasting, and warn against the use of tubes of German, Dutch, ¥rench and Austrian make. they will do when the American Radio Manufacturers begin exporting their products made under the same patents is difficult to anticipate, but lit is believed that they will feel the competition keenly. a Juropean firms, — Amplifies Millionfolr. A mere Vgpor tube designed by two Frenchmen ix eaid to a: plify in- coming radio signals a million times. London, on the second broadcast night | | he eV re- | its patents by | This | vigorous | What | | | | | | | | i | | | | | { | | atton, | WBAP at | average range. | that | ing_more and more “MENU" OF RADID PROGRAMS URGED Owners of Sets Now Have Hard Time .Satisfying : Tastes Every Evening. By Comsolidated Pres GREENVILLE, 8. €., December = —The “radio restaurant” fs lookes forward to by students of the air u the next development in the broad casting problem. This does not mea a place to eat and hear music. I means that various stations ever tually will specializs in certain radir “mennus” eo that the fan with & ro celving set of ordinary selectivit may take himself “shopping” in ti evening to the place where he know. his particular slant of appetits fc the moment will best be appeased The new ‘“restaurant” might called an afr cafeter! for it will be a place where one ms Lelp one's self and pass al Programs Are Unequal. As matters radlo progra the stations throug are a sort of jumble ceive one selection of « next night have an attempt fall. short of exp now is that certain specialize in z classics and =0 on. At radio audience very often find in an evening confronted by nothir but jazz and the next e have to search far and bit of musical divertizement One of the leading spirits in t proposed new development is un e thusiastic student of the radlo sit wno calls himself the “hire hand,” and who presides over statio Fort Worth, Tex. He flects the broadeaster’s point of v and it 1s unquestionably & good thir for the art, or Industry, whatever mey be, to find the man at the broa cast station placing himself in t position of the listener. Th “hired hand” has made a study o the programs offered In various se: tions of the country and has four that they frequently offer a very poor’ selection to man with a met He argues that if° certain stations would speclalize | certalp types of program just as cer tain restaurants speclalize in certai: dishes, the radio audience would never have & jaded appetite. Th proposed arrangement would n mean . that the stations could broa! cast one type of entertainment only.® 1t means they would specialize particular type, varving the! programs from time to time, but has ing the classical or thc jazz num bers predominate. Everywhere radio stations are r of an attem in_direct touch .with thel: Some fans have complain ed re that too much time « the air is taken up by stations acknowledging the receipt of tele grams and telephone calls. Long lst stat} to keep audiences. | of names and addresses often are read. by the annou The men at the-— stations, the receipt or these telegrams not only gives ther 2 llne on the tastes of It is being subjectéd to exhaustive| U 8erves as the same sort of experiments by radlo engineers. ‘WMC Changes Wave Length. WMC has changed its wave length to 506 meters in accordance with De- partment of Commerce instructions. > L Complete 1-Tube RADIO SET Nothing Else to Buy 162 Spring Aerial 9¢ Clearphone Head Set 12¢ Cardwell-King low-loss Eria and Roberts Kit B Batteries 2215 Volts 65c $1.%0 zain. Voltx FITZGERALD TRANSFORMERS $1.75 Baragine at all times. 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