Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1929, Page 51

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY. MARCH 29, 1929. SPECIAL PROGRANS FOR EOOD FRDAY Wagner’s Opera, “Parsifal,” to Be WRC Radio Fea- ture Tonight. Special Good Friday programs sched- | uled by Washington's radio stations will deoluge the aiv tonight with sacred music. Neatly every attraction has an appro- | priate touch of Good Friday music. but the outstanding feature will be a pres- entation of Wagner’'s opera, “Parsifal.” WRC will broadcast the opera locally and another Good Friday specialty. condensed version Passion” according thew. The latter wil be presented by the Salon Singers and a concert orches- tra WMAL's major Good Friday offering wlil be the Lenten Choir’s presentation of Dubois’ cantata, “Seven Last Words.” It will be this choir’s third and con- cluding broadcast. Aside from the Good Priday features, | ‘WRC's prcgram includes its usual va- riety of regular atiractions, principal among them being the Evening in Paris episode, the Schradertown Brass Band, the Cities Service Concert Orchestra and Cavaliers and the period known as Half Hours with the Senate, which will bring before the microphone Secretary of Interior Wilbur and Senator Cara- way of Arkansas. WRC also has sched- uled two new attractions, Musicians and the String Quartet. A program of a concert nature will be broadeast during the Evening in Paris period. It will close with a tribute to the late Marshal Foch. The Milady's Musicians will honor two generations of Scarlitti. They will be assisted by Hans Barth, concert pianist, and Erva Giles, soprano. The Cities Service program contains a new composition, “Moon of the Fallen Leaves,” and gems from Vic- tor Herbert's “Serenade.” The Kodak Hour, one of WMAL'S outstanding attractions, will feature Richard Crooks. the prominent operatic and concert tenor. He will sing Flo- tow’s “It Is As In & Dream.” Metcalf's “Absent,” and Herbert's “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life.” The orchestral por- tion of the program includes Kreisler's “Londonderry Air,” Chabrier’s pana Rhapsody” “Parsifal.” Night Club Romances, the Veedol Hour and the Paramount and Club Plaza Orchestras are among WMAL'S other leading attractions. Elsie Baker, the popular recording artist, will be the star of the Veedol broadcast. Night Club Romances will introduce a popular movie star. Both WOL and WJSV will be active tonight. The major portion of the lat- ter’s program will be provided by its regular staff artists. WOL is featuring a dinner concert. STATIONS ‘PLANNED Five Pacific Coast Plants Are Basis of New Network. A third national chain of broadcast- ing stations, originating with five Pacific Coast stations as a nucleus and plan- ning to extend eastward as fast as land line connections are made available, is being organized by Adolph S. Linden, a Seattle banker. Mr. Linden was in ‘Washington this week working out the s. ‘The network will be an extension of the American Broadcasting Co., con- trolled by Mr. Linden, whose five far- “western stations are now frequently hooked up with the Columbia Broad- casting System. It will be known by that name in its nation-wide operations. The five stations of the present ABC group are KJR, Seattle; KEX, Portland; KGA, Spokane; KYA, San Francisco, KMTR, Los Angeles. This group of stations is regularly hooked up for ‘broadcasting identical programs. The new national system is expected to em- phasize programs originating in West- ern cities. Studios will be maintained also in New York, Chicago and the other important centers of talent, Opening Is Uncertain. ‘The time fixed for the inauguration of the new national chain and the ad- ditional stations it intends to link re- main undisclosed. Mr. Linden is known to have enlisted adequate capital and there has been some discussion of a possible affliation with Wired Radio, Inc., the subsidiary of the North Amer- ican public utility group, which is preparing to institute a system of send- ing radio programs into homes via power lines. The tle-up with “wired radio,” if there is any, will probably be undertak- en for an exchange of artists and copy- righted music. Informal assurances from reliable sources of information are to the effect that the new national net- work will be strong enough to com- pete with the present national chains, the Columbia Broadcasting System and National Broadcasting Co. The prospective advent of a network backed by western interests forecasts offerings to the radio listeners of the Middlewest and East of more enter- tainment originating in Pacific Coast centers like Los Angeles and San Fran- cisco. Californians constantly boast that the talent on hand there is quite as good as that available in the East, and often superior. . Some objection has been voiced from time to time to the fact that only occasionally do the pres- ent chains put on programs featuring artists who are in Hollywood for the “talkles,” or of a symphony orchestra Lke the one in Portland, Oreg., led by Mengelberg. Network: Attract Attention. Developments in the United States naturally attract interest to the prog- Milady’s | and excerpts from | ress of chain broadeasing in Canada, | where the radio public is awaiting the return from Europs of the | Royal Commission investigating broa casting and its recommendations con- | cerning a future policy of either private | or governmental operation. | A sccond Canadian network known jas the trans-Canada Broadcasting Co. | | was recently formed with 16 stations | ranging from Montreal to Vancouver. The other chain links the nine stations | of the Canadian National Railways, It is not unlikely that the development of chain broadcasting will see some kind of arrangement between American and | Canadian chain organization for the | exchange of programs that are free | from the element of advertising. | (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- | paper Alliance.) |U. S. DISTRICT ATTORNEY | IN PHILADELPHIA QUITS | G. W. Coles Criticized by Law En-| forcement League and Pro- hibition Officials. By the Associated Press | PHILADELPHIA, March 20.—George | W. Coles last night ennounced that he | had resigned as United States District | Attorney for this district, in order to | devote his time to private business. | Coles was appointed Federal District Attorney here in August, 1921. Much criticism recently had been directed at | him by the Law Enforcement League and prohibition officials. Samuel O. | Wynne, prohibition administrator for | eastern Pennsylvania, carried his com- | plaint direct to the Attorney General. | Mr. Coles, however, denied that this | criticism had anything to do with his | | action. ! Japanese Empress Expects Stork. TOKIO, March 29 (#).—Official an- nouncement was made today that thzli Empress Nagako expected the birth of | {a third child in September. There is |one child in the imperial family, a | datighter. A second daughter die SAFETY | that would legalize the fixing of “resale” | | 1S CLEANING HOUSE Adopts Code of Ethics, Better Trade Practices and Prod- uct Improvement. LY MARTIN CODEL. Inside its own house, the radio in- dustry is engaged in a Spring cleaning task that is not all confined to a code of ethics for broadcasting stations. It is also concentrated upon preparations for continued program _excellence | throughout the Summer months. Among | the manufacturers and distributors the Spring activity is mainly on product vement and better trade practices. he ethics code adopted by the Na- tional Association of Broadcasters at its Chicago meeting this week was & mani- festation of the determination of that | branch of the industry to keep its own | house in order before pressure is ex- | erted from governmental sources. The | code fixes high standards of taste and | of conduct toward the radio public and is designed to raise the plane of radio | advertising integrity. Within _the radio trade the chief | abuse against which the manufacturers | are complaining is the so-called “preda- | tory price cutting” With the end in view of enabling the makers of sets, tubes and parts to fix the retail pric of their products, Representative Kelly | of Pennsylvania has agreed to introduce | in the next Congress a “fair-price act” | prices. The object, the National Electrical | Manufacturers’ Assoc’ation explains, is | not to hold up prices, but to maintain fair competition and rid the public of “fire and casualty hazards due to the | manufacture of merchandise below the accepted standards of the industry.” The legislation would authorize con- IS WORTH A FEW very the danger of having bad equipment dumped upon the public, says the Na- tional Electrical Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation. “‘Cease and desist orders” on “resale prices” are frequently issued by the Federal Trade Commission against re- sale price fixing, and the broader as- pects of this legislative proposal in the interests of the radio trade assure it hard sledding in Congress. The argu- ment will be advanced that the harm done to competition in many lines of trade will more than offset the stabiliz- ing benefits the radio people hope to achieve. ‘That the radio trade must occas- fonally be held in check by the Gov- ernment authority is evidenced by the ral instances of complaints against adio manufacturers and jobbers that have had to be acted upon by the Fed- eral Trade Com ion. Latest of such cases is one in wi week was obliged to stop describing its radio cabinets as mahogany and wal- nut when in fact they were made of other woods. With broadcasters assu good Spring and Summer programs, the set tube business continues to be good. It is estimated that sales of electric cur- rent sets last year increased 456 per cent over 1927 and the dealers expect to maintain a continued high level for this year by getting a good start on sales during the present season. The latest figures by the N. E. M. 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