Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1927, Page 40

HOW “FAUST” WAS SENT OVER COUNTRY Sketch shows arrangement of micro- phones in Chicago pera House Fri- day night for broadcast of production. RADIO BRINGS OPERA BACK TO BIRTHPLACE Recalled by Eroadcast, Which Brings “Faust” story National From Stage Into Homes. Affer three and a quarter centuries of glowing history, marked by extr dinary advances, opera returned to \place, the home, Friday night de i of the * rden from t from the during a production by the Chi- Civic Opera Co., by 27 statio he National Broadcasting Co. nd blue networks, completed the and brought opera back to its -aor- oy atic performance oc- curred late in the sixteenth century at the Bardi Palace in Florence, the home of Count Giovanni Bardi. Since ihat epoch-making event, opera has ar in its attempts to reach 1o gain for itself constantl, Following the fi vate performance: in | palaces of Italy, presenta- tions were made in public in halls and theaters, with a growth in popu- Jarity which culminated in the erec- tion of the famous opera houses of history—L'Opera in Paris, La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera House In New York, the Auditorium in Chi- cago and many others. Openp-air productions in Europe and | America were further attempts to carry opera to the people, especially | b i ters to those residing outside the cen of population. Notable among them have been the various Wagnerian Festivals, inspired by the belief of the great German composer that his | music would appeal to all classes of le. Operatic performances have been | radio to invisible smitted by transmitte iy audiences prior roadeast. r :mtions have broadcast single oper- ic productions and on several occa- :”sf stations in the United States have accomplished —similar trans- missions. Condensed versions of many operas, moreover, have been heard by radio listeners of stations of the National Broadcasting Co.s red network on regular weekly sched- ule for nearly two years. However, the transmission ) Gounod’s masterpiece from the Audi- torium in Chicago marked a definite and important achievement in o‘p‘ep atic history. The Chicago Civic Opera Co. performed scene from “Faust” for the larges gingle audience which has ever heard an operatic presentation—an | audience extending from Portland, Me., south to Atlanta and west to Kansas City. Thereby, opera swung Jast arc and returned to its place of origin, the home, and, in complet- ing the cvcle, radio broadcasting ac- complished to a greater degree than ever before the result for which operatic patrons, composers and musicians have labored for centuries —to carry opera to all the people. around the DAYLIGHT BROADCASTING. Committee to Design Program as Aid to Radio Retailers. ite action was taken yesterd fn New York, designed to prov radio dealers with a daylight broad ting of high-grade music and entertainment during each business day of the week. The board of gov ernors of the National Electrical Man- ufactt sciation appointed and autho committee to investigate the entire situation and draw up A, . Ryp! needs immediately study of also concern our table method of aking through the ; companies that dio division of su d to em. ies of the conside SLEUTHS WEAR SPATS. Ti Plain- clothes Men in Rumania. AREST, January 22 (®).—The the title given spondents, who the return of detectives the Footwear nguishes BUC big feet in America France. consis oné cams kened eyes uttested SIGNS ARE AMUSING. English Tradesmen Add to Joy of Life in Paris. RIS, January (P).—English in Paris add something to the of lite One of the who holds out in t flippantly termed announces him A “wigs maker” of Ladies and Two ambitious spent good mone spanning their entranc: thelr establishments A cpfe sign unnounces ©O'Clock Tea at Any Hour.” vaman highest-priced Vendome Specialty night's | German and Austrian radio | the famous | hour’s newspaper- tailors, s, to designate s “Toilet-Club.” | said, would not go RADIO GOSSI P xed rigidly by means o 1 control; simultaneous on from two or more sta- tions in regions where fading is noticeable or where atmospheric and conditions d signals— in brief, is the formuia of C. W superintendent of radio opera- »f the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing _Company, for 1jor problem confronting ers today. s participated actively broadcasting the operation KYW, Chicago; nd KFKX, Hast- Horn tions and solving the radio broadc: Mr. Horn in development of and_is responsible for | of KDKA, Pittsburg |we ringfield, | ings, Nebr. He cites the snychronization of two transmitting stations 100 miles apart in order to broadcast the same pro- gram on exactly the same wave | length as one of the outstanding ac- complishments of radio engineers of the past vear. These two stations, | WBZ, Springfield, and WBZA, Boston, are kept absolutely in step without any deviation from their fixed wave length of 333.1 meters. To the listener the program apparently comes from only one transmitter, though in reality the incoming waves originate from two stations and travel different paths Thus at a stroke two things were ac- complished—heterodyning or whistling was averted by keeping the two trans- mitters at exactly the same rate of vibration, and the fading effect was reduced to a minimum. The problem of snychronizing these | stations called for designing apparatus to fix and control the two waves at a frequency of 900,000 cycles per sec- {ond. The starting point was an oscil- lator of fairly low frequency, con- trolled by means of a tuning fork or | quartz_crystal. These reasonably slow vibrations were conducted over a | specially compensated land line from | Springfield to Boston. At each station | harmonics, or multiples of the funda- mental frequency of the oscillator | were separated and amplified for | broadcast modulation. | | Variations of Static. Static is not always just what that term seems to imply. There are sur- prisingly interesting variations. As a |PROFIT ON PRISON FOOD k ELIMINATED BY COURT, §0hio Tribunal Rules Sheriffs May i Not Demand More Than Is | Actually Expended. | By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, January | The Ohio Supreme Court has lopped the profit from one of the fattest fee jobs in State politics. Sheriffs are not | entitled, it holds, to make a profit from feeding prisoners, Legislators tried unsuceessfully for vears to keep sheriffs from collecting more than they spent for feeding prisoners. The Supreme Court de- cision came on an appeal from | Sheriff Fred Kohler of Cleveland, |who resisted a Cuyvahoga County Court decision dictating a county jail menu. Prisoners had charged they were underfed sherif’s job, hecause of the no longer will be sought as ty pelitical plum. State law P sheriff: cents a day for feeding each prisoner. The actual daily cost in some jails was estimated at 12 to 15 cents a day. The sheriff pocketed the difference, and in a county of 400,000 the office was held to be worth $20,000 to $25,000 a The salary, in counties of such GUARDS SAVé JAPANESE NOBILITY FROM INSANE By the Associa TOKIO, 1 Press. nuary —Bodyguards always accompany members of |Japan's imperial family when they journey on the public highways. High wovernment officials also have their police protectors at all times. The reason is not that the princes nd government functionaries are t with murderous en: but the streets of Tokio d other Japanese citles, contain many iles and half-wits, who are liable enes or attempt an assas- has her asytums for the in it only the most dangerous and deranged persons, who have no relatives to care for them e taken The Japanese t families must look feeble-minded, and this ously followed, with the result that they roam the streets {at will. PARIS, January P).—Millions will make even a duke get out of the | way *of progress and sell the family | home to store. | The Duke of Massa, long entrenched in his fine home on the Champs: | El s, resisted the temptation of money until the sum reached 44,000, 1 000 francs. He refused three-fourths +| that amount las| year but surrend- ered to the ches k\»nuk of a big depart- { ment store, whicl| wishes to install a | have | “de luxe” branch vn the show avenue of Paris. The real Parisiepne, the manager \hrough the heavy traffic to get to the big stores so one of them, at least, is going to her. 22— | THE SUNDAY e Lebinde wingds eested/aroy “Bot/ights P AND NEWS ; matter of fact, static can come in so| many different forms that a great many radioists are forever suspecting | | their batteries, tubes or connections.| One is apt to be led astray when | buying a new loud speaker of another | make or type, becau: ic does not | sound the same on all speakers. Where | a_speaker is designed for emphasis of the base notes, static is likely to | sound mushy. When the speaker fea- | tures the treble, static may be sharper | |and more crackling in sound, or it may | | be toned down considerably. Often after making a change of speakers and being unfamiliar with| the new interpretations of the ether | noises, the set operator will mistake | his old foe for some new type of in- terference, or set trouble. A way to| be sure the new speaker is just in- terpreting static in its own way is to| hook up the old speaker for com-| parison. | | Canadian Listeners Increase. Canadian listeners are now esti- mated at nearly a million, based upon the fact that there are 300,000 re- ceivers licensed and that at least| three individuals are believed to listen | in on each set. This compares with about 5,000,000 sets thought to be in| |use in the United States, with an esti- | | mated listening public placed at 20, | 000,000 or four to a receiver. During a recent eight-month period | the Canadian Radio Department issued 146,186 listeners’ licenses, registering ! a gain of 11,700 permits compared with | | the number issued in a prior period. | | The growth of interest in the Do- | minion "is_reported by Trade Com- missioner Meekin to the Department of Commerce to be causing an increase in production by Canadian manufac- turers who anticipate that a million more sets will be sold within the next few years. Certain other observers of the broadcast situation across our northern border, which is little_dif- ferent than it is south of the line, | |fear an adverse reaction due to the| increasing station interference, blam- ing chiefly the moving of stations in | the States into the channels allocated to Canadian broadcasters exclusively, and the constant shifting about in the | ether routes by numerous other south- | ern stations. The Canadian broadcasters are with- out doubt being imposed upon by cer- tain greedy and selfish stations in the States which have broken the gentle. | | men’s agreement by using the Cana- | dian channels. However, it is prob- | able that Congress will soon enact a | law placing radio regulation, and | | | broadcasting particularly, under the direction of a Federal department or commission. One of the first actions | of such an authorized body would no | | doubt be to order all our stations on | Canadian wave lengths to cease broad- | casting or return to their old author- | ized ether lanes. 'CLEAN SYSTEM | KEY TO SUCCESS ‘Why Thousands of People Fail | | and Never Know the l{enonl i 1 The Collins Case an Example! Arthur T Collins was a failure at 45. For years he had felt always tired —lacked ambition — was seemin]slywom out. He was cranky, easily | trritated! Yet he was not sick to | thepointof seeing & doctor. 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He soon got | rid of the poison wastes in his sys- | tem, and now at the age of 60, is | well and strong, energetic, successful | and head of a large store, making | plenty of money. He has proved that | a clean system is the real key to | continual good health and success in business. Partola, beinE antiseptic and laxa- tive, cleanses the system quickly and gently, ends constipation and pre- vents oncoming TOXEMIA. All good druggi)sts sell regular box 30¢, double size 60¢. If you are lagging, gettin, behind, going back,— get a box o Partola and see what a difference its occasional use makes in your health and life. PO ™ ANTISEPTIC & LAXATIVE GThe Doctor in Candy Form STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 23, 1927—-PART 1. OHIC SOCIETY PLANS M’KINLEY TRIBUTE Noted Persons to Take Part in Birthday Celebration Sat- urday Night. The Ohio Soclety of Washington will celebrate the birthday of William McKinley next Saturday night with a | program at Rauscher’s. Representa- | AMERICAN FU | clude an address by | fet tive Theodore E. Burton, president of the soclety, and D. R. Crissinger, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and chairman of the board of governors of the society, are in charge of the event, which, in addition to an address by Willlam T. Kuhns, presl- dent of the Chamber of Commerce of Canton, Ohio, home of the former President, an intimate friend, will in- Mr. Burton, spe- 1 orchestral and voeal music, a buf- supper and dancing. Chief Justice William H, Taft of the United St Supreme Court is the honorary pre | dent of the society. At the same time the society will celebrate the seventeenth annive y of its founding by the late William R. Day, associate justice of the Su- preme Court, who was Secretary of State in the McKinley cabinet. ~Mr. Day was president of the society for many years, being succeeded by Mr. Taft. During their terms of office noted men from,all over the country came to Washington to address. the soclety on some phase of the official life of President McKinley. President Coolidge, Vice Presidents Fairbanks nd Dawes and members of the.cabi- net and of Congress have participated in this symposium. Last year the by former Gov, on the v was addressed Cornwell of West Vir- relations of President McKinley with the South. Mr. Kuhns a boyhood friend of McKinley, who knew his home life and ‘his private life in Canton intimately, will be the first speaker to address the society on that subject. . The celebration this year will be preceded by a short business meeting of the members at 8:15 p.m. Admis- sion cards have been limited to 600 and are procurable from Clyde B Asher, treasurer of the society . | ching travelers drive to | the next town to spend the night, the citizens of Alva, Okla., community hotel. have RNITURE COMPANY, 512 9TH ST. N. 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