Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1925, Page 3

STAGE CRISIS FELT AS MILLIONS HEAR McCORMACK RADIO SONGS (Continued from First Page.) ‘Was no way of definitely determining the number. One radio official said that every one who had a radio set within the area reached by the sta- tions must have been listening. Affair Strictly Formal, The reception crowded. Ever s nd Miss Bori ar arly s arsed for nearly an hour b > ert. Mr. Mc- Cormack i He opened with and “Ber- from Miss “When Love ato,” from ollowed the * from the After two orchestra numbers A concluded part experience mak- “but this b to be able to er in broad- to them di- hang of it - | Landis divine Dblessing listening to him. Seated in a room with a group of | people, and, as he put it, enjoying a | free musical program over the radio that could only be described as gorgeous, Mr. Brady said Why in the world should we to the theater and pay mone should any one be so foolish? upon the millions go Why The | home and hear McCormack and Bori, | it is entirely the fault of the men who ontrol the theater.” Adding that “we of the headed straight for ruin,” theater ar among theatrical manager,s and trouble is not with the people who sit | Mr. Brady | - | made caustic comments about squab- | THE EVENING tirade against the new “menace” of this thing of air and ether which takes entertainment into the homes of the people and stops them from venturing forth at night, New Alliance Seen. A new alllance is to be attempted against the radio, but apparently no one knows just how to go about it The consensus of opinion shows a general bellef that it is up- to the Government to do something. But the Government cannot act. Secretary Hoover, who presides over the destiny | of the radio as much as any Govern- | ment officlal can, says it is not feas- ible, nor is it desirable that the Gov- ernment should attempt to influence, much less to regulate, the programs | that are broadcast free to all who | care to listen in. The actors of the country are to be appealed to once more to band themselves against the radio by referred to motion pictures Will Hays and base ball Judge to look out for their inter- ests, while the theater, “because it is controlled by a lot of conceited igno- as well quit illmore, speakin fquity Association, of which he is executive secretary, agreed with | Mr. Brady that the theater is f crisis, and said that the Equity was doing all in its power to combat it. for the OFFICIALS SEE APPEAL. | Expect Interest Fighting Radio to Ask United States Curb. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Government officials were expecting today that new appeals would be made for them to “do something about the radio.” It seems that since John A and Lucrezia Bori, Metropolitan Opers | having | ing | | amusement swearing never, never, never to face a microphone with the idea of giving entertainment Aaway for nothing Vaudeville artists have particularly been adjured to keep clear of all radio entanglements, They have been warned that the radio is plan- | ning to take the bread and meat from their mouths. The tremendous impetus g1 the radio by the McCormack-Bori pearance of New Year night, through a serles of statlons in the Eastern half of the country, has caused theatrical managers and officlals of actors’ organizations to declare anew that a serious crisis is faced by the industry Dispatches from New York say that during the McCormick-Bori _ ra concert the theaters of New York City were all but empty—even the big hits of the sea- son fa g rows of vacant seats. The managers said that while there always was a falliig off in attend- ance from ew Year eve, the slump this year w greater than ever, and | unqllrullnn.\bl\ was due to the strong ‘STAR, WASHINGTON, | counter attraction of the radio pro- Year eve, and did not take into con- sideration the fact that the paying public might be a little resentful of such treatment. - At the Department of Commerce, which is a sort of clearing house for ¢omplaints against the radjo, it was sald today that the array of radlo “enemies” is now a most Imposing one. It includes theatrical’ managers, concert managers, actors and artists, including the National Vaudeville As- soclation ard the Actors’ Equity As- sociation; song writers, prize fight promoters, base ball magnates, gen- eral sports promoters, moving pieture palaces and actors, street car com- parles and phonograph manufac- turers (except those who are trying to combine the two arts of reproduc- tion), and other scattering interests, including one of the big press asso- ciations of the country. Yet, despite this comuating phalanx the radio seems to be making steady headway, and officials here are thor- oughly conscious of the fact that there must be a new appraisal made of the effect of this free entartain- ment every night of the year upon the big amusement enterprises of the country he Metropolitan Opera Co. i ns won over to the idea of radio performances by the singers under contract with if, although at- tendance at the opera thus far has been in nowise affected by the broad- cast programs. The Metropolitan has agreed tentatively to the experiments now being made with performances by grand opera stars, because it has been represented that since radio broadcasting began the ties of some of the opera singers have been is by Go See :fiUR]ElTH At 36th and R Sts. N.W. Nearly 200 Homes Already Sold D. C, serfously cut down by a falling off in the sale of their phonograph records. The new concert, are ex- pected to stimulate interest in the singers and to result in a new demand for their records. If the new broad- castings do not accomplish this end, the concerts like that of New Year's night may cease. Mr. McCormack, Miss Bori and their associates, who have agreed to “appear” in the mear future, certainly have started the whole amusement pot to boiling again—and the Government i3 ex- pected to be asked to do something about it. Just what, however, it does not know. (Copyright, 1925.) ALLIES’ MEETING DELAYED PARIS, Januiry 2—It was’ an-| nounced today that the meeting of. the allied finance ministers, to consider division of the German reparation payments, has been postponed a day. It will begin January 7, instead of January 6, as previously intended. FLAT TIRE? 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