Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1929, Page 66

12 SINGERS T0 SHARE HONORS TONIGHT Richard Bonelli and Alice Mock to Appear in Opera Excerpt on WRC. Richard Bonelli, barione, and Alice Mock, soprano, both of the Chicago Civic Opera Co., will share honors to- night in the Atwater Kent radio hour, which headlines the program of WRC and associated stations. A concert orchestra under the direction of Josef Pasternack, former Metropolitan Opera eonductor, will support the artists. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FEBRUARY' 3, 1929_PART 4. I FAMOUS ARTI TO FACE MICROPHO! Miss Mock and Eonelli, both of whom are scoring new trumphs in the current season of Chicago opera, will be heard | together in two duets—the oasis sr(‘m‘i from Massenet's opera and | “The Garden of Tomorrow," | position by Walter Golde, who will play the piano accompaniment for this se- Jection. Miss Mock's solos will be the bell song from e,” “Shepherd, | Thy Demeanor Vary,” “Wings of Night,” | “O del mio Amato Ben” and “Chant | Venitien.” The solos of Bonelli include the “Gypsy Love Song,” “On the Road to Mandalay,” “Querida,” “Il Gitano Re,” and the prologue from Leonca- valio's “Pagliacci.” Another outstanding attraction sched- | wled by WRC tonight is the first| @t a series of programs by the Stude- | baker Champions, a 30-piece orchestra led by Jean Goldkette. Their specialty | will be modern symphonic interpreta- | tions of popular songs. The Twin Pian- | 4a¢s also will take part in this broadcast. Washington Speaker. | The remainder of WRC's program is | made up of 1its usual Sunday attractions. | Of particular interest to Washington, however, 1s the announcement that President Johnson of Howard Univer- sity will speak during the synagogue | service in the afternoon. | The Peerless Reproducers, who start | the afternoon program, have scheduled | a number of distinctive compositions by classic composers. In the Roxy sym- phony concert to follow, Peter Strano, | oboist, will be the individual star. i The Wilson Brothers, last of the great German comeay teams, who have con- vulsed vaudeville audiences for 34 years, | will provide the Acousticon program. | The Stetson Parade will recreate ne | famous New Year pageant of the Mummers in Philadelphia. Instead of Reinald Werrenrath, the Old Company | broadeast will present Sidmund Spaeth, pianist, composer and lecturer, and the | International Singers. The principal | artist of the Capitol Theater program be Hannah Klein, pianist of Maj. wes' “family.” Majestic Hour. The Majestic Hor, one of WMAL's outstanding _attractions tonight, will present J. Berni Barbour, composer- pianist, and his Negro mixed octet; Arnold Johnson and his orchestra and Redferne Hollinshead, tenor. ‘WMAL's other leading attractions in- . clude the La Palina Hour, Around the Samovar, the Deforest Audions and venir. The afternoon schedule con- ms the usual features with the Sym- phonic and Cathedral Hours heading the musical portion of the program. Beethoven's “Fifth Symphony” will be the main contribution to the Symphonic Hour, while the Cathedral Hour will in- toduce for the first time over the air Pietro A Yon's mass “Regina Pacis.” Yon is the organist and choir master of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Around the Samovar will be devoted to Russian music, played by Peter Biljo and his balalaika orchestra. Naples will be the scene of the La Palina pro- | gram, which features a potpourri of Neapolitan songs. Arthur Pryor and his famous band wili again provide the DeForest broadcast. “The Lamplit Hour” and “When Day is Done” are in- cluded in the Souvenir . ‘The Christian Endeavor ‘Washington will contribute to the pro- tonight of WJSV. WOL has mhd its usual Sunday attractions. ORI AR JENKINS INTENDS TO SEND PICTURES New Station Near Capital City| Plans to Start Opera- tions Soon. With the erection of a special radio picture broadcasting station five miles | north of Washington, C. Francis| Jenkins, pioneer radio inventor, plans | to transmit pictures every night of the week except Sunday. ‘The new station will start operating within two or three weeks, Mr. Jenkins says, and it is hoped with an increase in power to serve “lookers” throughout the United States. The band in the short wave field recently set aside by the Federal Radio Commission for tele- vision and picture broadcasting is bet- ter adapted for clear transmission than the channels on which he is now operat- ing and should eliminate much of the fading which is the bane of good pic- ture reception, he says. ‘The new transmitter under construc- tion at the Jenkins laboratories will be adjusted for the sending of half-tones and images of living persons. Jenkins | has been giving a silhouette movie pro- | gram. Picture stories also will be broad- cast from the new station. Mr. Jenkins says the radio picture art passed the stage of early experi- mentation and is already bringing en- tertainment to hundreds of enthusiastic “lookers.” Picture transmission, he de- clares, is at a point comparable to the ition of KDKA of Pittsburgh when | t inaugurated aural programs. Most of his lookers are amateurs in the United States and Canada. Bona fide Teports of reception of his pictures have been received, he says, from ama- teurs in California, Porto Rico, Mon- treal, Bismarck, N. D.; Texas, Northern Michigan, Florida, Colorado and Iowa #s well as nearby States. Particularly reception has been reported by ton amateurs. Until the commission designates the | rticular channels to be used under Ke new allocation, the Jenkins labora- tories will continue to broadcast on 46 | snd 186 meters. The pictures are broad- cast Monday and Wednesday nights from 8 until 9 o'clock eastern time. The house was selected, Mr. Jenkins ex- plains, upon recommendation of most | ot the “lookers” T spgresat oy WRVA on “Amos and Andy” Chain | “Amos and Andy,” blackface co- medians, have another station on their string. It is WRVA, Richmond. Radio Announcer ‘Writes Songs—Snap —Just Like That CHICAGO (#).—Charles Gar- land can do everything to a song from writing it to announcing it to his radio audience. Since he was 14, Garland has written gongs as a hobby. His regular job is announcer for WBBM. Frequently he announces popular numbers written by him- self, such as “Withered Roses,” “True Blue” and “Who Do You Miss?” Sobby, sentimental songs are most popular today, Garland be- lieves, He composes his songs Group of concert and theatrical stars who have principal parts in the major radio programs this week. Upper: Gene Ausiin, popular recording tenor, who will be heard in the La Palina broadeast Wednesday, and Julia Sanderson, the dainty musical comedy artist, featured in the “family party” tomorrow night. Lower: Richard Bonelli, baritone, and Alice Mock. soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera Co. co-starred in the Atwater Kent hour tonight. U.S. Experts to Get Chance to Study How Europe Handles Broadcast Claims Radio officals and engineering ex-Is In charge of matters relating to the s " by " | international convention until the con- perts of this country will have an 0P| foronce scheduled to be held at Madrid pertunity to make a close-up study of | jn 1932 It is likely that representa- Europe’s methods of handling the prob- | tives of the State Department and the lem of confiicting claims to broadcasting | Federal Radio Commission and experts | facilities. | will be sent to the Prague conference. ‘The Department of State has been | advised by the American legation at| Prague, Czechoslovakia, that the United | States will be invited to send non-voting | observers to the European radio broad- | casting conference to be held in Prague | April 4 to 13. Questions to be deter-, mined are the allocation of wave lengths | for European broadcasting, the assign- ment of waves for radio telegraphy and | matters pertaining to international reg- | ulation of radio and the prevention of interference. | The following governments will be | represented: Germany, Austria, Bel- gium, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, France, SERVICE on all kinds of RADIO RECEIVERS Intelligent Experienced Men Await Your Call. Adams 18th & Col. Rd. s Fastest and Best Radio Service in Town > , Sweden, Switzerland, | Czechoslovakia and Russia. | Because the last world conference on | | listeners all of the time and all of |the listeners part of the time, you | tional Broadcasting Co., based on | do show the company is trying to| | ment. radio was held here, the United States CLOSE OUT SALE MODEL All-Electric Radio COMPLETE Price ncludes Everything! I in perfect ce and pro- n. Table Model Philco (Regularly $115) Seven RCA Tubes (Regularly $20) Philco Speaker (Regularly $25) TOTAL VALUE.............5$160 Now $ 1 39.75 $10 DOWN PAYMENT Call—See—Hear—At The Hub spontaneously whenever he feels in the mood to devise new melo- dies. His last two songs were written' in two days. Behind the Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. HERE are four classes of radio listeners, according to the people who do their best to please those radio listen- ers. These groups are classified, as follows: Listeners who think there is too much jazz music on the air. Listeners who think there is too | much classical music on the air. Listeners who think there are L?o many educational talks on the air. Listeners who think there is either not enough of anything or too much of everything. But the radio people have para- phrased a certain bit of Lincolnian philosophy and point out that while you can please part of the cannot please all of the listeners | all of the time. | Statistics compiled by the Na-| programs broadcast from early morning to midnight over stations associated with its coast-to-coast system, may not satisfy any of the groups of listeners, but they provide every type of entertain- * ok ok X Programs _emanating from WEAF and WJZ, key stations of the N. B. C. system, were taken as | examples of what goes on the air from first-class transmitters. In one week WEAF and WJZ are on the air a total of 225 hours, or an average of more than 16 hours a day from each station. Broadcast jazz music takes up 15 per cent of the program time. An analysis of a week’s programs from WJZ and WEAF revealed that only 36 hours were given over to this form of entertain- ment, or less than three hours a day from both transmitters. Classical music, the type that has the stamp of approval of the most austere musical educators, takes up 28 per cent of program time. This group includes oper- atic broadcasts, oratorios, vocal and instrumental soloists, cham- concerts by small instrumental groups featuring the best known and most appealing selections of the better music. Midway between jazz and clas- sical music one finds sentimental melcdies, old favorites and folk songs. Music of this type often is found in what is classed as the novelty program. Negro spirituals —and some insist they are classics —songs of the Mauve decade, se- lections arranged especially for quartets, octets and male and fe- male choruses and other numbers hard to define but pleasing to the majority, fall in this group. It takes up approximately 10 per cent of the time on the air. * K K K Radio drama, which has its very ardent admirers and its equally ardent critics, absorbed five hours of the total, or slightly more than 2 per cent. Radio drama, however, really has more time on the air, because it fre- quently is a part of elaborate ra- dio presentations. The radio presentation may be a classical concert featuring stars of the Metropolitan Opera or a melange of comedy, dance tunes and what not. It is the name given to the balanced radio show, and the fact that many of the best known sponsors of radio en- tertainment use this type of pro- gram attests to its popularity. Presentations—and most of them are on the air in the evening— total 25 hours a week on N. B. C. stations. This is slightly more than 14 per cent of the program time. Religious programs take up eight hours a week of the time of both stations and networks. Pro- grams of an_inspirational type take up an additional two hours. Time devoted to “national in- terests” broadcasts vary from 5 hours a week to 25 or more. Pres- idential speeches, descriptive re- ports of events of national impor- tance, political broadcasts and speeches by public men come in this classification. * k% ok ber music, symphony orchestras, salon orchestras and many short Children are not forgotten. At least six hours a week are devot- ed to programs designed especial- ly for youngsters. Educational programs, sugar- coated as a rule, take up 15 hours, or more than 6 per cent of the total available time. Travel talks, literary comment and discussion of current events come in this classification. Programs of special interest to women and pertaining to house- hold economics, clothes, beauty and care of children take up an- other 15 hours a week or 6 per cent of the broadcasting time. Broadcasts of physical exercises, talks on physical hygiene and other things relating to health re- ceive 10 hours of the available time, or slightly more than 4 per cent. While humor is sprinkled in programs of various types when- ever fitting, at least five hours of the week are devoted to broad- casts for laugh-provoking pur- poses only. In addition to the programs that are subject to classification the N. B. C. also presents many more programs that defy rigid classification. For instance, th2 correct time is announced several times a day. There are dramatic readings, book reviews, discussions of current developments in art and talks by sport celebrities, all of which are skillfully blended into the panorama of radio entertain- ment. * ok ok ok Radio programs originating on the Pacific Coast will be available regularly to listeners in the East through the N. B. C. network be- ginning Wednesday. The introduction of this latest development in transcontinental broadcasting will bring two of the best orchestras of the Far West to the receiving sets of Eastern lis- teners. The orchestras are the Pacific_Vagabonds, to be heard regularly every Wednesday after- noon in a program of symphonic jazz, and the Pacific Little Sym- phony Orchestra, which will pre- sent each Friday afternoon a pro- gram of classical selections. These two orchestras are ex- pected to be the forerunners of a host of N. B. C. units on the Pa- cific Coast. The recent installa- tion of a permanent transconti- nental line linking New York with |San Francisco has made possible this stride forward in the develop- ment of radio broadcasting. Here- tofore only programs of national Blackboard to End Whispers in Radio Broadcast Studios KANSAS CITY (#)—Another use for the old schoolroom black- board has been found. ‘The whisper often heard by radio fans as they listen to a pro- gram will be eliminated at the new studio of WDAF, the Kansas City Star’s station. On a blackboard, visible to all musicians and soloists, the musi- cal director will write the pro- gram and instructions. A soundproof room is now un- der construction on the third floor of the Star building. It will be the Star’s second studio, and a signal between it and the old one will enable announcers to switch from one to the other without delay. importance, requiring special wire | facilities, have been brought East by the N. B. C. While reversal of a broadcasting circuit appears to be a compara- tively simple feat to the layman, radio engineers claim it is real| achievement in engineering. Be- | fore the circuit can be reversed in order that Western programs may flow East, approximately more than an hour’s effort in rerouting circuits is required. Changes must be made in circuits and the reversed lines must be thoroughiy tested before the program is transmitted. Between New York and San Francisco, a distance of 3,000 miles over the N. B. C. leased line, there are 26 repeater stations or relay points. The coast-to- coast circuit must be tested be- tween each of these relay points as well as over the entire circuit fore each program. There are two radio engineers at each relay point as well as a half dozen at each end of the line. Thus more than 60 engineers are busy during the hour preceding a transcontinental broadcast. The same staff of engineers is con- stantly alert during the actual broadcast. In addition to this staff more than 100 experts, placed at different points along the line, are available in the event of an emergency. * Kok % The radio listener may now look forward to the day, not far dis- tant, when he will get programs designed to lift his cultural stand- For the first time . . . CLASSIC AR'T deliberately utilized in motor car design - NOTE how the fender contours dynamic symmetry of Chrysler and wheels expresses the very essence of life and motion, just asdo their counter- paris in the “‘wave border” of the classic master- pisces of architecture and design. 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Hazeltine’s an- nouncement of she neutrodyne theory was made public in a paper read before the club. A large number of the club members were radio operators in the country's service during the World War. FPirst successful transatlantic tests were car- ried on py members in 1920 with a rep- resentative in Europe using American- made equipment. Mr. Clement has been a director of the club for 10 years. He has taken a leading part in the development of the radio and recently became head of the Kolster research laboratories. Radio Revives 0ld Melodramas. Radio is being given some credit for reviving the melodramas of yesterday. Such plays as “Camille,” “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” “Ten Nights in a Barroom” and “David Harum” have been heard on several occasions, mostly without the modern embellishments. ard and to educate him in vari- ous and sundry ways. This is the next step in program development, for musical programs have reached their ultimate. The N. B. 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