Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1928, Page 42

L3 D. €. DECEMBER 2. 192%8_PART T. [AMERICAN TO START ‘ RADIO IN FUKIEN THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Crosley 1928 success sets the pace for ing was the perfect accompaniment of | by harsh, intrusive or disturbing visual | artistic performance.” effects of any kind. On the whole, the less self conscious-| It is, of course, possible that co-re- { ness and the less concern with details | lation of the arts, to which I previous-| = =77 of environment, the better the per-|jy referred, will be carried forward by |BY 'he fAssociated Press. o formances of the musicians and the | some person having the attributes of | FOOCHOW, China—An American 1]m~nkm ,f”'; :hfid "a“&\ t:l}tl'relh;i: both esthete and a psychologist, f;n a|radio gngineer has won his fight to been no_effort to dramatize the light | point when vastly hightened effects | Bccompaniments of the studio perform- | o be Tatines oy sramtiened wiccle | introduce radio to this backward pro- ances. Changing light impulses are | or accompanying symphonics of sound, | vince of Fukien. B eased-in quictly and most of the per-| Science is contributing richly to| As a result of tests he conducted, formers are probably entirely uncon-|esthetics in every way, and what has, the government is expected to begin the scious of the watchful light control, heen done in radio Studio lighting is| cxtentsive use of radio in carrying on which follows their efforts. 1|uu.<tmmc of this, rather than ate- | its work, especially of an educational Py | ment of a final attainmen®. nature. ing Moods. (Copyright, 1928.) More difficulty is said to have been Just “on a natural,” in the colloquial experienced in perfecting radio appa- ¢ | phirase, we dish out more or less ratus that had a range covering the | theatrical light trimmings for some of Byrd Group Sends Applause. | entire province, but this the American our performers. Italian singers, par- | has accomplished. It is the plan of tic y, respond to changing lighting. 1 From somewhere in the South Seas | the government to broadcast educa- v ing with the mood of the song.|came an applause card to KFI, Los | tional speeches of a wide variety from However, this is ostentatiously done |Angeles, from the Byrd Antarctic ex- | the headquarters here. and the main objective is a natural | pedition. It was in praise of the broad- ‘The province is made up of hundreds | blending of all details of environment | cast of the Southern California-Stan- | of villages and each will be supplied so that the artist will be undisturbed ! ford foot ball game. with a receiver. Speakmg— AST week, I missed my first|the company gave earnest attention to| icrophone appointment in six | this problem. Through the co-opera- vears of radio announcing. 1I|tion of M. Lucklesh of the Lighting Diad ‘appeared at & song recitar | Research Laboratory of nd; Ray- 3 at Columbus, Ohio, and was to|mond M. Hood, archit the studio fit to Towa City the next day from |was planned in such a way that light- CHicago, to broadcast the Iowa-Wis- |ing. architecture and decoration wer copsin foot ball game. R,,Mh,m\\mrkcd out as a joint problem. Chicago by train, and driving out to the | Mobility and flexibility were fixed as fiving field, I learned that it was ex- ements of the lighting tr@mely © doubtful whether, with a| Light sources were to be con-| sniothering fog closing in, the plane | cealed and details of color and dist wduld be able to make the flight to |buticn were to be scientifically deter- Jowa City. It was, in one sense, aunlnfd fostunate event, as I had the rare| There is a floor arca of 2,500 squarc pléasure of listening to other announc- | feet in the largest studio. In this er§, and. sitting on the edge of the |studio there were placed 757 lamj , waiting. hopelessly, as it | all concealed, 21l equipped with adjus tutned out, for a chance to fly. | able color screens. and with switches | an: opportunity to picce together a few |and dimmers making possible an exact he isolated facts and events which [and instantaneous control. I iln\r in, the rush of personal expe- |been informed by lighting engir dhce—1I ain speaking now, of course, of | that this is the most claborate li penings in the radio world. ing system of the in the w s dusk came on, with the ceiling at | all_subordinate to no time more than 100 feet above the ' service of artistic veritics. ground, I saw what at first appeared toble to subdue the lights to the “sf' be a soft, pinkish glow suffused through | glow of moonlizht or starlight, or bxm" the fog, which I later identified as a | them out witn a crescendo like tho Neon searchlight, serving as a beacon | crash and roll of drums. for belated flyers. Rambling and| In the main studio there are vagrant associations are inevitable when | cially designed ceiling fixtures. you are waiting for a train, or an acro- | ting back the wall a few inche: ane, especially in the fog, and I was | architeci made a _continuous trougl suddenly reminded that the pinkish | extending around the room, where 452/ hue was reminiscent of a wave of soft | lights are hidden, with flame-red and t which I had seen released in our \ royal blue color caps. The color cir- broadcasting studio, in experimental re- | cuits are separately controlled. search in environmental lighting. One| Eight huge hollow pylons are could not escape the reminder that | cated a few inches frcm the wall. there are no walled bounderies in mod- | the head of each a flame tint ern scientific research. The scientist | concealed, and each bears turns from guiding an aviator over a | row of 13 blue la jagged mountain range, through night | 112 lamps used in t and fog, to serving the delicately pitch- | Concealed behind a ed emotions of an artist by providing | curtain behind the the proper light stimulus. 16 red and 16 green lamps. These also St : are controlled, as to color, by separate Old-Time Problems Revived. |civeuits. I’ addition, there are threc I had previously noted some details | large spotlights. of the studies of the latter problem | which ha\‘le been made at our studios | for several years, which I have later Very o . supplemented_with some additional ob- | ro 1" t2%, Afhitectural and decorative ef- rvations. Going back a long way. it | Gesigned as a detail of the composite had been my experience, even before | ot ail vizual effect, including light, de- .taking up_radio announcing. that a|dreq to reinforce’ every mood of the glaring white light, or some inept com- | aryice G “the most. effective way pos biaation, of light “and interior colors, e eflective way pos- could all but paralyze a singer. I re- T o G | member, at one of my first concert ex- |, T have i be ekl periences, a big chandelier, hung with | yo SoHC0 WO “hm et “"‘r ;“;15” unprotected white lights, was suddenly | Ry S ces of light | flashed on during my number. 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