Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1928, Page 40

%0 WRC 70 PROVIDE FEATURES TODAY Efrem Zimbalist and Nanette Guilford Will Be Leading Radio Artists. An extraordinary array of rodia at-| &eactions make up the Sunday pro- gom ot WRC. Aside from the regular st of features, the station has arranged # broadcast the ceremonies incident to the dedication of the Crafk Monument In_Alexandria, Va. The outitanding musical cvent will Be provided by the Atwater Kent hour, | in which Efrem Zimbalist, famous vio- linis?, ard Nanette Guilford, soprano of the Metronclitan Opera Co.. will be precented as the principal artists. Zim- balist will play the andante movement | from the Mendelssohn “Concerto in E | Minor,” “Berccuse” and “Impromptu. Miss Gnilford's _contributions will be | “Dich, Toture Halle.” “The Hail of Bong.” and the arua from Verdi’s opera, | “Ernani,” “Ernani, Fly With Me.” | The Peerless Reproducers, as usual will start the afternoon program with | a half-an-hour concert. featuring “The Bells of St. Mary's.” There will be the | customary vocal solos by Walter Pres- ten, baritone A program woven around the great | peace jubilee in Boston in 1869 will ba offered by the Stetson Serenaders at 6 o'clock. and in the period to follow | WRC will introduce a new concert or- chectra under direction of Samuel Kor- | man, concert master at the Fox Thea- | ter. The Capital Furriers is the name | given the new orchestra ! The period devoted to “old songs and those who made them” will tonight feature the Barrere Ensemble instead | of Reinald Werrenrath. This ensemble i& composed of wind instruments en- | tirely. and its leader, George Barrere, enjoys the distinction of being the world's greatest virtuoso on the flute The Capitol Theater program will feature Clyde Dosrr. popular saxophon- ist. The weekly presentation of the Nationa! Light Op°ra Co.. which will cloze WRC's program, is o be Offen- bach's “Taies of Hoffman." WRHF's Sundav program _in~ludes THE SUNDAY l FEATURED IN OUTSTANDING RADIO PROGRAM Nanette Guilford, dramatic soprano famed Russian violinist, who share honors tonight in the At- Efrer: Bimbali water Kent radio hour to be broadcast by WRC. LONG RANGE RADIO ENTERTAINMENT SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1928, Programs prepared by the Associated Press. Meters on the left of call letters. kilocycles on right. standard tine. 491.5—WEAF New York—610 - Why Boo! 20 wertenrah concert 0—Capitol Theater Family. 0—David Lawrence. 5—Atwater Kent hour. 5—National Light Opera WIZ New York—660 00a—-C 00—Roxy Stroll 00—Young people’s conference. 4:00—Continent §:00—Soutn se 6:30—An 3 vm‘s;mmehv “hour 00—Songs: Collier 5 Jubliee Singers 2:45_El Tanzo Romantico. “Coricert._orchestra 122.3—WOR Newark—i10 Hour. Scheduled for Eastern 33.1—WBZ Sorinzfleld—990 Shurch services. 5—Symphonic hour. S16.9—WTAG Worcester—380 heur of hospitality. 0—David Lawrence. 134.5—CFCA Toronto—690 3:00--Organ 1ecital SOUTHERN. 435.0—WSB Atlanta—630 A% Church servic 00— Vesper service: rm..rmw Theater Famil D Lawrence: Atwater Kent hour. B8 Radioner e pers 340.3—WIAX Jackennville—880 of the Metropolitan Opera Co., and | STAR, TWASHINGTOX. WIDE TELEVISION USE HELD DISTANT rExperlments Made to Re- | move Obstacles to Com- mercial Equipment. NEW YORK (P)—Television, now | being given a front place in radio, has | | opened wide vistas for experimentation. | The obstacles to satisfactory trans- mission and reception of instantaneous | | light are many. and until they have | been overcome, there will be few if any | commercial television receivers, engi- | neers say. It is only the scientist and the experimenter with a wide knowledge of radio who can obtain results with the present equipment. How long the public must wait for television reception in the home on a par_with sound radio the engineers are | unable to indicate. But they see great | possibilities for those radin fans who are never satisfied unless they are con- ducting some experfments. Rapid Progress Made. Progress so far has been compara- tively rapid. and as light transmission is taken up by more and more broadcast stations, greater development is expect- ed. Transmitters now sending out “tele- vision programs” are few and are cen- tered in the larger communities, such as New York, Chicago, Boston and Wash- ington. The season ahead is expected to fea- ture the offering of many television components for the experimenter, who. like the engineer, is faced with such problems as improvement in photoelec- tric cells, more sensitive relays, better amplifiers and neon tubes, micrometer speed control of the scanning disc motor and others. Stndied by Manufacturers, Any discussion of teievision seems to emphasize the fact that its appearance in the form of a commercial receiver or reproducer is some distance away, and to give the public a picture of the situa- tion, the Radio Manufacturers’ Associa- tion' is studying the subject. Data on | having some one talk into it is by no D. €., OCTOBER H, 1928—PART T1.° continued, “Grahain McNamee Speaking—" | BY GRAHAM McNAMEE. As 1 write about the world series which, with Phil Carlin, I have just finiched broadcasting, I have a r-elmx‘ that my typewriter is going to begin | stuttering with excitement. I never could keep emotion altogether out of my listeners noticed that I was con- | siderably steamed up several times they will recall the old corner-lot days and realize that no American lad ever really grows up. so far as this base ball mania goes. This is my seventh season in broadeasting the world series. and the last one was just as exciting to me as the first. You want to yell like an Indian. but there's that mike, ready to swallow the slightest whisper. Sometimes I feel as if I had swallowed my Adam’s apple in holding myself in. But, at that, one can’t help getting a “bit of a dHhPr"‘ into his voice, as the English say. A man who wasn't sensitive to moments like these wouldn't be much good as a broadcaster. In checking up on the work of broad- | casting this series it seems to me that there has been great progress in thi technique. Placing a microphone an means the whole story. As far back as 1923, when I had my first turn at a world series, we bagan to realize that this invisible drama required careful staging. This roar of the crowd is just as important as, say, the wood winds in an orchestra or the leading heavy in a play. Furthermore, these noises must be carefully orchestrated. They must not drown out the voice of the broai- caster: they must not be allowed to be- come monotonous, and yet must come in sufficient. frequency and volume to get the real crowd feeling on the air, 5o that the listener will be infected. The mechanics of all this are more or less elementary radio technique. but the shadings must be the work of a vir. tuoso in the control room who know: just how to manage the required cre- scendo and diminuendo. We had four microphones exposed to the crowd noises in 1923. Since then we have been add- ing more and placing them more scien- tifically and regulating them with more n the score card. light. on with paint. whether Judge Landi: but he seemed those blazing red uniforms of the 7th| Regiment Band scattered through the stands when the men were not plaving and Thers was Jack Dempsey casually and nodding to a few friends. Trying to get all this into a microphone at once is comparable only to the Good Book's reference to getting the camel through the eye of a needle. roaring rush of confused impressiens. the interpretation of which requires not only a quick eye and a quick ear, buf, a constant alertness to the details of the being played. And maybe in the midst juggling all these impressions at once, you would trade your new Fall Swrcoat for a hottle of pop and a hot 0g. great, of it all, is that every having better, in number and less noise volume, and | there is a more sportsmanlike attitude toward the other side. was the big hand hoth New York and St. Louis gave the visiting team. 1 always enjoy seeing the press erew unlimber There are many bril- these veteran base ball writers, and the way they keep this even flow of clever stuff going in the midst of all this hullabaloo seems as- tounding. erackers” come heir typewriters. liant men among | watching who's up and keeping one eye When somebody is sent to the bench and a new player| appears the megaphone announcement | of the name of the substitute is often | |lost in the roar of the crowd. of | tmes it's like driving a six-harse team with one hand and rolling a cigarette my voice or my finger tips. and If some | withy the other, Inoking after so many incoming and outgoing impressions at | onee. I remember how T wished I could gt to my hearers the picture-book quality of that opening game in the clear sun- with the green playing field as sharply outlined as if it had been laid 1 also wanied to find out had a new hat, and nobody was out to know. of view Then there stpE the picture with big, big drama One thing I have noticed si began broadeasting world series. vear the crowds are be- the maniacs are What 1 into their stand and One «f the best Some- strolling in It is all a that among them fs a_sad-looking | man, who unpacks his tools and goes ! |into the bottle.” | next day. It | best, writing in America toda; | tures. veloping a new art of reporting. other. the development opens the way for endles in the mastery of swift of be conveyed in any other way. that they will actually achieve climactic ‘moments of a great play | opportunity it tion of individual personality. My first experience big “sportina events Wilson-Greb fight, were, began with color 1923. At in of an event and I was badly seared as I got into action. It was at beween language. “print” language and Of course, a is but here the dividing line begins. nce 1 ‘That fewer liked all radios delivered by us. “ywise- | good will, “Pennock pours him back | 1 read his story the as a_clever, humorous | yarn, tossed off play by play. and con- | stituted one of the most brilliant pieces | of writing which the series produced. | It has seemed to me that some of the | is appear- ing on sperts pages, always written in | terms of action and swift-changing pic- And I want to venture here that | in my opinion radio broadcasting is de- While the supreme ort of writing good Eng- lish can never be supplanted by any the radio possibilities erbal deserip- tion of exciting or important events. Even the mechanized voice of the air WAaves can carry emotion which eannot prediction is that as the vears go ]\g: radio will recruit gifted men who will b> able so to dramatize what they see the in broad-asting the that time we had not worked out any par- ticular technique for reporting this kind | wrote out a lot of description before the fight, but T threw it away just as soon this | fight that T had my first realization of the fact that there 15 a big difference °T2.0 in this broa “talk” b broadcaster falls. naturally into curvent expressions, | Just as in written cxpres‘lons. there are questions of taste, and, as in good writ- ing. there is always the matter of em- phasis. What is interesting. significant, informing or exciting? The differencs is that on the air the choice must be swift and unerring: there is no time for reconsidering. You have just one shot, a flashing moment. T get around 50,000 or 60.000 letters after broadcasting a world series. The returns are not yet in from this one, and, as usual. T am apprehensive. On the whole. the fans are generous. but some of them, of course, are criticel. Some take me to task for being ton excited and others for not being excited enough. As the years go. it appears to me that radio audiences are becoming more discerning. more intelligently critical and less captious about insiz nificant matters. That seems to me one of the most encouraging things about radio broadcasting—the continu- ally improving taste and discernment 1| among great masses of people. do not think we have vet realized the full significance of this single human 1 contact with millions of persons and the gives for a new asser- started out yesterday on the Fail foot ball circuit to broadeast games i different parts of the country. It is rath- confusinz, thus getting into a new | excitement before vou get rid of the hangover of the old one. In our spare time Phil Carlin and I are still at work on the post-mortem of this world series, |and I can't seem to gat it out of mind. Please be indulgent if in a week or 0 you should hear me say that the left | end singled to right field. or something like that, You have to have a lot of different thins sifting through your deasting business. 1 The Winter programs of the Reese Popular Trio have been resumed over KOA. Denver, DE MOLL'S Radio Department Ts managed by one of the best informed radio experts. who gives his personal ar'emmn to the installation of |This means complete satisfac- tion to our customers and the best kind of a builder of SPECIAL NOTICE No matter what set yon confemplate huving. vou awe it ta yourself tn hear the New Radiola Snner Hetorodyne, the latest Atwater Kent or the Ma- expert control. The pick-up crew makes | an easy job of tapping onto the butt of a telephone circuit, rigging the con- trol room and connecting up the “speak- fte usual attractions, while WTFF has acheduled a varied gram of musie, talks end a song serviee, to work as calmly and methodically as a carpenter. Frequently he dictates to a man at his press wire. Last year when one of the Waners came to the | Ma—Church services, its exact stage and progress is to be issued. On the other hand. the possibilities 30—Concert_ensemble. LocalRadio Entertainment Sunday, October 14, 1928 NAA—Washington Navy Yard (1345 Meters—639 Kilocycles). | am.—Weather Bureau reports. | 5 p.m.—Arlingien time signals. 10:05 p.m.—Wzathar Burcau reports. | | 10: TWRHF—American Breadcasting Co. (322.4 Meters—939 Kilecycles). p.m.—Program by ! Christian | !riencz Parent Church. 5:30 pm.—Wat~h tower half hour— | ure by E. L. Beaulisu of Brooklyn, | 6 to 7 p.m.—Sacred song s: Early Program Tomorrow. —Musical clock. rk. 10:30 a.m.—Advertisers’ period. VWTFF—The Fellowship Forum Meters—1,480 Kilocycles). :30 p.m —Ladies’ choir. p.m.—Violin recital :30 p.m.—Song service. :45 p.m.—Sermon. p.m.—David Martin, baritone, 15 p.m.—Lecture by Dr. John O. Enott. | 30 p.m.—Trombone solos. 9:45 pm.—H. H. Godfrey, tenor. (202.6 VRC—National Broadceasting Co. Metors—540 Kiloeyeles). 11 am. to 12 noon—Service from hany Baptist Church. Rev. Hugh T. 'enson, pastor, will preach. 1:30 p.m.—Pecrless Reproducers. 2 p.m.—Roxy Stroll. 3 p.m.—Dedicaticn of the monument | to Dr. James Craik, chisf physician and | surgeon of the Continental Army. Speak- | ers, Bishop James Craik Morris, Maj. | Gen. W. M. Ireland, Surgeon General of the United States Army, and Repre- s:ntative Walton Moore of Vi Soloist, Mrs. Evelyn Howard Sheridan, soprano. Broadcast from th> old Pres- byterian meeting house, Alexandria, Va. 4 p.m.—Service from the amphithea- | ter, Washington Cathedral. Convention | service. Speaker, Right Rev. Thomas| Frank Gailor, Bishop of Tennessee. | 5 p.m.—String orchestra. 5:27 p.m.—Motion picture guide. 5:30 p.m.—Acousticon hour. 6 p.m.—Stetson parads with the Sum- Serenaders. 6:30 p.m.—Capitol Furriers. 7 pm—“Famous Songs and Those Who Made Them,” with the Barrere | Enszemble. 7:30 p.m.—Musical program by Maj. Fdward Bowes' Family. 9 p.m.—"“Our Government,” by David Lawrence. 2:15 p.m.—Atwater-Kent hour, turing Nanette Guilford. soprano, Efram Zimbalist, violinist. 10:15 p.m.—Correct time. 10:15 p.m. —National Light Opera Co. *Tales of Hoffman.” 11:15 p.m.—Weather forecast. (168.3 | fea- and Early Program Tomorrow. 6:45 a.m.—Tower heaith exercises. 8 a.m.—Federation morniny devotions. 815 a.m.—Parnassus Trio. 8:30 1o 8:50 a.m.—Cheerio. 10 am.—Dr. Royal S. 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