Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1925, Page 20

. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 19, 1925—PART 1. COMPOSERS’ GROUP 10°HOLD FESTIVAL Pen Women’s League Offers Program of New Works for Next Week. Because Washington is 3 coming recognized as the logical musi- cal center of the Unitec , the native woman composers have chosen to hold their first music festival in the Capital City, and to have their newest works performed by leading Washington singers and sicians. The wa for this festival has been well prepared by the convention here, last week, of the World Fellowship Through oup, and the re markable rmance for the first time in T of Bach's “B Minor Mass, by the Bach Choir, Similarly, the fes to be held next week, April 28 to inclusive, will prepare the way even further for the festival program of the National Council of Women, which wil! cutline the history of music in America Dorothy De Muth Watson, Wash- ington representative of Musical America, a journal of music, is re- &ponsible for this festival. An ardent Washingtonian, Mrs. Watson or ganized the composers’ group of the Le; e of American Pen Women which included Mr H. A. Beach, H Ha fet Ware, Gena Branscombe, a rner er couple of | nd top all ennouncement s comes the | Edward other fea that MacDowell, widow of i Mac- Dowell, considered by many authori- ties as this country’s greatest_com- e will attend the festival. Mr acDowell herself is well knownyas a pianist and especially' as an inter-| preter of her husband's works She algo is in charge of the famous | MacDowell Coleny, on the large estate | at Peterborough H. ocal soloists and musical organiza tions who will participate in the fes- Tiv to may class; rer of th for * vear. has tival include the Uni‘ed States Navy Band, the Davidson Glee Club, the Washington Choral Society, the Mon- [ day Morning Music Club, the Lewis | dio Choral Group, the Wilson N b | mal Glee Club, Henri Sokoiov. Richard | ak by but i itual ME. WILE. afford broadcast western from the exact center of the nation's population, Station NDU will reach a Men like Herbert Hoover, who were the first to vision the immeasurable possibilities of ra- dio, had its utility for just this sort ons done one thing for me that is simply not expressible in dollars and cents—it friends, visible and invisible, as noth- ing else in a road has ev By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, Radioscribe. otre Dame As a Notre Dame man, T learn with liest interest that my alma matter is about to enter the big league of broadcasting. 1t will be a pioneer, i Takes the Air. shall avail myself of.” Here's a list of recent and impending engagements: T| American Congress on Internal 1 am ot mis| nens b of St Margaret's taken. T recall no Church. university that| Men's Club of the Shyvine of the :‘er:a::nn‘y“ used Banggeciof o wnat B'Ri !;_;[a Rogér C. Sul—’ (”l"l"h;:i.r,?;:‘_w‘) of Georgetown L:‘\‘;arl.‘éfame%elr)el::ti \\‘;2::!_‘;&1“‘1& Lothrop Twenty- gl;:]oeis.“ ‘:hoo:lxif Commencement exercises, Central to possess a $100, power equipment a regularly direct rooms. university listen-in _on from Situated in corner of Indiana, not kable radius. ing conspicuousl® in mind. * ¥ % % A friend rushed up to me in the | ciation. street this week and congratulated me on “'the fine contract™ I'd just signed Well, like | the celebrated advance news of Mark |or | Twain's death, T had to tell him the | news tion from broadcasting, measured in | {terms of money, is exactly nothing a | broadcasting work.” Wwas premature. My remunera But it brings enriching satis in other directions. Radic has widened my circle b y _life at home and done. Money can acquaintances and automobiles, t seldom buys friends and spir- Joy. Those are the big entries The object is that | poor boys unable | education lectures Notre Dame the north- far of High School. If that isn't “playing no favorites,” 000 broadcasting | will some one ‘Rat Sun station of latest| ' i :,:QIL":.? :h'" s design and high Had an experience with the George- town Clinical Society that strength- ens for the thousandth time my be- lief in thought transmission, or tele- pathy, or whatever you choose to |call it. I was late in" leaving <town | the night I spoke before those de- | lightful doctor chaps. In rushing through the swinging doors of my office building to flag a taxi I broke a bamboo cane T have carried for 20 | years—a souvenir of Prussian days. I was much downcast Three hours later, to my unutterable surprise, Dr. Schreiber, chairman of the dinner at which T held forth in the Racquet l(‘luh. arose to ¥ the clinical society wanted to show me a mark of appre- . Whereupon he produced a magnificent walking stick of amber handle and Malacca stock Is that wish for something and you'll get it, is it not? * ok ok X Miss Julia Montgomery Corse, the Ontario, heard me broadcast the other night what she thinks “was a fine dressing down for the despoilers of > |our dogwood.” And now she wants me to “give the most awful wigging | 1o the people who keep this town in |a state of slovenliness that makes any tidy soul who has to see it daily | fairly writhe with righteous indigna. {tion.” Miss Corse -wings a wicked | word. I suggest that she take the {air sofne time and clean up Wash. ington herself. Lorleberg, Gretchen Hood Helz-n:‘:” the profit side of my ledger as I * % %k % Howison, Mildred Larking, Ervine J.|draw up a balance sheet covering two! Ay pr a Btenson,” Harry ~Angelico. Warren (malden years on the air. Perhaps|sexes feil me ite the s, of Poth Terry, Georgia Haslitt, Hazel Arth,|what the workaday world considers |artist's ambition fo 1evd CERL Of an Bernice Randall, Everett Hardell, Har. | the more substantial things of life | tan " debur. 1 ‘s, metropoll Jan Randall, Raymond Moore *and [ Will come along in due course. You|seems to be L& m;‘;:xr‘l‘:finf“’:g”;[-:? John Marville. never can tell. | aspiration. April 21 may bring me T D * %k ¥ * i nlnul'm”(,\' I'm going to be on the PHILIP L. RODIER, FORMER | Invitations to speak are some of| 5%, €12d: bad Isle of Manhattan for CONTRACTOR HERE, DIES| Grandson of Engineer of the Chesa- | peake and Ohio Canal Ex- pires at Hospital. | Thilip L. Rodier. 65 vears old. grand son of the engineer for the old Chesa- | peake and Ohio Canal. and whose an cestors settled in Georzetown more | an 100 years ago, died in Emergency | Hospital Friday | Mr. Rodier was for many years the contracting business in Wash- | fngton. until retiring in 1915 a member of the local carapenters’| union | He is survived by his widow Philip L. Rodier, jr., who In direct line of descent to | name: -two daughters, Mrs. Albert Kushner of Topeka, Kans.. and Mrs. W Albey of this city: two brother: J. A. Rodier, private telegrapher to President Coolidge, and L Rodier of Baltimore, and two sisters, Mrs. W. Boughton of New York and Mrs. arker C. Palmer of California Funeral services will be conducted at Gawler's undertaking parlors tomor row afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment | will be in Oak Hill Cemetery { a son, he fourth ) Sedans. 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They charge that objectionable matter i creeping into radio broadcasting. To be sure, only about a dozen of the 563 stations have been attacked. The chief offenders among these ‘“black sheep™ of iloover's broadeasting fold are located in or near Chicago, New York. Boston and Los Angeles. It is naturally from these quarters that most of the complaints come, but there are a few from every important radio center. On a percentage basis broadcasting is pretty clean; only a little over 2 per cent of the stations are “bad” the rest providing wholesome, entertaining and popular programs. The question of what is . L been out of our slightly quotation. chase price. great sale. PLAYER PIANOS This group includes practically every fine used piano in our stock, together with a few players which have never store, shopworn possibly be told from brand new. realize that this price is sensational on such quality merchandise as is handled by Kitt, but we must make room for the builders—hence this extremely low Every instrument may be traded back within one year at full pur- 245 Othen'at $195, $235, $295 7he wonderful response to the opening an- nouncement of our great sale music-loving people of thi ate values such as we are offering during thi Come—buy now—SAVE! bad is, of course, relative. Only three stations are reported as obscene, al- though several are said to put on vulgar programs or ones which verge on vulgarity, while others offend by what is termed direct advertising. Must Define “Vulgar.” Considering alone the first com: plaint—objectional matter—the fans must decide what vulgarity is, and there they strike the snag which the Government seeks to avold by de- clining to establish a censorship un- less it is enacted into law. And then the Secretary of Commerce would be in exceedingly hot water most of the time. Many people would not regard as vulgar what others would insist fell in that category. However, there are many who be- lieve some sort of censorship is neces. sary along with a few who demand it, and some who oppose anything like censorship. A number of the com- plaining letters on file in the depart- ment are undoubtedly far fetched. Sifting those out. there are left a mass of more reasonable complaints to con- sider. One writer asserts that a sta tion has put on “sacrilegious and vile matter” and demands censorship. An other protests in interest of intelligent againat vocally ragging and “The Star Spangled Banner.” insists a Chicago station i3 a ulzance for five hours an evening. A ew York lawyer objects to the.char acter of the programs of a hotel, citing a_specific example; he asserts it is “poliution of the air of a danger- ous type.” Another describes material broadeast by a New York station as “becoming more disgusting day—vulgar and at times obscene. This particular broadcaster is cited advertising doubtful resorts, cheap dance halls and all-night restaurants where salacious matter gets on the air. Declaring he is not a prude and that he does not believe in undue cen sorship, one complainant asks that this station be made to keep ‘“rotten stuft” off the air. A letter signed by several listeners requests a certain station curtall its pernicious programs, which are de scribed further as including jazz of every Some are so they cannot We that proves that the city really Complete Player Outfit The Last Word Newest Model—Standard mechanical perfection. b4 r out-of-style Upright ial down payment. —SAVE! PAY $10 DOWN lower form, approaching the indecent, cheap entertainment and bad English. These fans say that broadcasting should not be prostituted to the dis Busting uses to which it is put. They further characterize certain broadcast ing as an “insulting monopoly of the local air.” At one time a Pacific station was charged with misuse of the air in broadcasting, but it is believed to have mended its ways; a Seattle station was once belleved to be co-operating with the bootleggers, and so on from @ dozen centers complaints of varied nature come in. Some fans cite the postal laws and regulations which prevent the mail- ing of objectionable matter to a sin- gle addressee, stating that in broad casting the uncensored and unad dressed programs go to every one who owns a set and should be supervised more rigidly than mail. But the Gov ernment operates the mail and there is a specific law, whereas it does not operate radio broadcasting and there is no law. Law May Not Hold. There is merely a regulation which might apply broadly to all transmis- sfon. It provides that, “No person shall transmit or make a signal con taining profane or obscene words or language.” This some hold would apply to radio phone transmission. but others are doubtful if it wouid hold in a court of law. However, it was originally intended to cover code| transmission which like mall is sent| to one person. uch messages are only understood by operators skilled in Morse, whereas, since radio-phone messages carry speech inteliigible to all listeners who know the language of the speaker, they believe requires regulation all the more. I anything is to be done it remains for the listeners to instigate a move. ment for a new law of the air to cover all radio transmission, specifying in detail regulations and penalties. They must not leave the administration to| the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce, who doesn't want to be come @ censor, and who couldn’t han- in Player Pianocs!— —the very newest and latest feature i We will accept Come—buy now $345 dle such work without a large force ATTEND NOW Soon the builders will be tak- ing away our store front will have to sacrifice space for them. Come—while the tion is still large. musical merchandise— AT SACRIFICE PRICES See These . Piano Bargains Arranged in Groups for Your Easy Selection GROUP ONE Used pianos $38 suitable for be- ginners. GROUP TWO Pianos for $68 your country GROUP THREE group to go at =44 $145 homes. pianos in our home. Six fine $ 9 5 from shing- GROUP FIVE stock—some pianos in this GROUP FOUR ton’s best like new. 88.note Player Piane a your We offer you your unrestricted choice of our world-famous, nationally-known { of tried and true judges of radio pro- priety. What is claimed direct advertising is also in for a, hiding by radio fans near and far. They claim some sta- tions should be shut down, but here again the laws. undar which radio is operated and aontrolled fail to give the commerce yad necessary author- ity. The only vemedy I8 a revised law. The first radio conference re ommended in 1922 that direct adver- tising in radio broadcasting be abso- lutely prohibited and that indirect ad vertising be limited to a statement of the call letters of the station and of the name of tiye concern responsible for the matter broadcast, subject to such regulatione as the Secretary of Commerce mighs. impose. No regula- tions, other then the citing of the above resolution, have been forthcom- ing, under the Welief that it would be censorship, whirh is unauthorized by law. Most of the stations live up to this early agroement chiefly because they value the good will of the public and others wiich broadcast what might be termed legimate radio ad- vertiseing—that s, indirect—label it and see to it that it is composed chiefly of high-class entertainment 1d_educationml features. Such pro- ms, department officials believe, are acceptable o an extensive audi- ence of fans who find this indirect advertising undbjectionable. { Object to Sales Talks. What fans seem to object to is the | selling of appartus and goods over the | air, such as seeds, eveglasses, books | and other matten, in a mail-order man- | ner; the advertising of corsets, shoes, | breakfast foods, spices, etc. The serv ices of performers and orchestras have | been offered vig the ether by some | stations, to the objection of booki agencies. When criticized, one tion | has adopted the “‘public-be-hanged” at- | titude, althougk it is the public upon | which its verv life depends. A let- ter from Illinois states it presents the | views of 150 fans and files a bill of | complaint against a local station’s ad vertisements. | Actual ads intended for insertion in publications have been sent via broad- | We selec- WILL DO! ! ! Perfect in every re- spect. Very latest style cases, Fully gua These Low Prices and Easy Terms Make Piano Buying Easy Don’t Put Off Another Day! Act Now! - GhHe KNABE 1330'G'STREET — Headquarters for Everything M NP\ A few left at _115: Homer L.Kitt Co: cast: one paper, which failed to pick it up, objected seriously to the plan. Some are charged with soliciting ads for broadcasting, others sell space openly to advertisers, who giv sales talks on anything from nutomobiles to spectacles. Once an oculist broad- caster offered to fit his auditors with glasses for any ailment of the eye, over the air, for $3,98, but the Society of Optometrists objected to such prae- tice. Ads in the press are labeled, writers pointed out, calling attention to the fact that a number of advers tising experts claim radio is a good medium for publicity, but practically useless as a means of direct advers tising. They believe that forcing ad. vertising on one is impractical and objectionable. The commerce radio officials believe that as soon as a station engages in direct advertising it will lose prestige, its listeners will protest or tune it out, and that the result would be to discourage the advertising policy in a short time. Good will is the broad casters only real asset it seems, and as such should be preserved. Secretary Hoover has said: “I be lieve the quickest way to kill broad casting would be to use it for direct advertising. The reader of the news: paper has an option whether he will read an ad or not, but if 2 speech by the President is to be used as the meat in a sandwich of two patent medicine advertisements there will be no radio left. To what extent it may be employed for what we now cail indirect advertising, I do not know, and only experience with the reactions of the listeners can tell. The listen ers will finally decide in any event.” Spanish Financier Dies. MADRID, April 18.—The Marquis Comillas, financier, died here today of pneumonia. He was president of the Trans Atlantic Spanish Co. and a_director of the Industrial Credit Bank of Madrid, the International Telegraph and Telephone Corporation and other enterprises. S AR Z PN > . N dR » NS D L] o */ 5N S PA ran- ‘g, o . » . N RN A D BN 2 NP S . usical —OPEN NIGHTS— B 2