Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1929, Page 74

| FAMOUS ARTISTS OPEN ST WEEK Atwater Kent Hour to Pre- sent Many Stars on Pro- gram Tonight. The Atwater Kent hour will present a gala program tonight to mark the <close of its Winter season of radio con- certs and to inaugurate National Music | week, Eleven famous artists of the concert and operatic world, together | with a quartet and orchestra, will par- ticipate. In addition there will be brief talks by A. Atwater Kent and Charles M. Tremaine, secretary of the National Music week committee. Reinald Werrenrath, distinguished American baritone, who sang in the first Atwater Kent hour, will head the galaxy | of artists to take part in the program. The others include Louise Homer, | famous American contralto; ~Maria Kurenko, Russian soprano: Kathryn Meisle, opera contralto: Nina Mor- gana, contralto; William Simmons, bari- tone; Toscha Seidel, internationally known violinist; Arthur Hackett, tenor, | and Hazel Arth, contralto. The quartet is composed of Victor Edmunds, first | tenor; George Rsaeley, second tenor; | Mutch, baritone, and James | Davies, bass. Because of the added features, the rogram will start at 7:45 o'clock, a | Faif an hour earlier than usual. It will end at the regular time, however. Amphitheater Services. Another outstanding feature of WRC's ; program today will be the broadcast of | the conference of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers in the Amphi- theater in Arlington Cemetery. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Washington,/ will be the principal speaker. The} musical portion of the program will be provided by Gretchen Hood, concert and light opera star, and the United States Marine Band. The remainder of WRC's program is made up of its regular Sunday attrac- tions. Outstanding among them are the Roxy symphony concert, the Old Company songologue, the Capital The- ater “family,” the Studebaker Cham- pions, the Russian Cathedral Choir, Godfrey Ludlow, violinist, and Sam Herman, xylophone virtuoso. Ludlow's program contains the works of the leading composers of six nations, all selected by the radio audience. A medley of old songs will be presented during the songalogue, while the Rus- sian Choir will feature the religious and folk music of the halcyon days of Rus- sia. Clyde Doerr, saxophonist, will be the star of the Capital “family” pro- gram, and the Studebaker entertainers will introduce as their guest soloist Fred Waldmer, tenor, formerly of the WDAF “nighthawks.” Aileen Stanley Star. ‘The Majestic Theater of the Air, star- ring Aileen Stanley, leading lady of the musical show, “Pleasure Bound,” and the De Forest hour, featuring the West Point Quartet, are among WMAL's main attractions tonight, both of which will come Into Washington over the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System. Besides Miss Stanley, the Majestic program includes a talk by Mr. Tremaine, who also is scheduled to speak during the Atwater Kent hour over WRC. The %.\,xlrm will sing songs of the World ar. S 2 The La Palina hour, the Sonatfon program and the Russian “Around the Samovar” broadcast are WMAL's other Columbia attractions tonight. The af- ternoon program includes the ballad and cathedral hours and the regular services of the Tenth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. In the Russian program Peter Biljo's lalaika Orchestra will play a novelty number, “A Song About a Dog.” The La Palina hour features several com- positions of Victor Herbert. Romantic music ranging from classic to modern numbers will be the offering of the Ballad hour, while in the Cathedral hour Helen Oelheim, contralto, will be | the principal soloist. 1 ‘WJSV has scheduled its regular Sun- day night attractions. WOL will fea- ture a recital by Howard R. Green, baritone, in addition to Amos 'n Andy. GREATER PER STAGE GAIN IS ATTAINED| Uniform Amplification Also Re-| sults From Experiments With New Development. ST. CHARLES, I 4?».—Unflol'm‘ amplification and greater gain per stage have resulted from experiments involv- ing & new radio frequency circuit de- | velopment. | The improvement, which has a RF transformer with a double primary as | its principal feature, has made possible | an amplification of 12 to 14 per stage compared with 6 to 8 obtainable when 227 tubes were used as RF amplifiers. ‘The double primary also produces even amplification on all broadcast fre- quencies. Previously the best amplification was at the lower end of the wave band, with a gradual dropping off as the higher channels were reached. Evening of the amplification also has made neutraliza- tion easier, in that it permits a 10 per cent variation without causing oscilla- tion. The improvement, announced by, Dr. Fred W. Kranz, chief engineer of the United Reproducers, came after two years' work in the Hazletine labora- tories in New York. Dr. Kranz said the double primary is in two sections, con- nected in series, One is on the outside of the secondary and the other on the inside. The outside coil amplifies the high frequencies and the inside winding the low. He said that it was possible to get | down to the noise level, and that there was an improvement in sclectivity, He emphasized that more careful shielding was necessary to prevent stray feed- | backs, each stage requiring an indi- | vidual shield. In a circuit with four tuned stages— three 227's as the RF tubes—followed by detector and two stages of audio, Dr. Kranz said that the overall gain in | volume on both distance and local | signals was considerable. Burlesques Produced. Under the leadership of Byron Schermerhorn, WJR, Detroit, is pro- ducing a series of Saturday night bur- lesques on the old 10-20-30 thrillers, Major “Chain” Features TODAY. 3:00—Godfrey Ludlow, violin- {st—WRC and N. B. C. network. 5:30—Anglo-Persians; interna- tional melodies—WJZ, WBZ, | MaRTHA ATwo0oD- Group of outstanding operatic and concert artists to be featured in this week’s principal broadeasts. Olive Kline, concert soprano, will be the guest soloist with the Wonder Bakers over WRC Wednesday night. Mme. Louise Homer is one of the 11 stars in the Atwater Kent hour tonight over the same sta- tion. Martha Atwood, prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera Co., will share honors with John Philip Sousa and his band in the “famSy party” another WRC attraction tomorro night. Frank Crumit is the musical comedy star heard through WMAL with Julla® Sanderson every Monday night in the Panatela Pageant. Today on otherwise 315.6—WRC—950. (National Broadcasting Co.) 11:00a—Service of the Memorial Lu- theran Church. Sermon by Rev. George M. Diffenderfer, pastor. 12:15—Concert artists’ hour. 1:00—Roxy symphony concert. 1:45—Bagby-Romilll moments. 2:00—Parent-Teacher National Con- gress, broadcast from Arlington Cemetery Amphitheater. 3:00—Godfrey Ludlow, violinist. 4:00—Service from Washington C thedral. Sermon by Right Rev. Irving P. Johnson, Bishop ot‘ Colorado. 5:30—Capitol Ensemble. 6:00—Old Company’s Songalogue. 6:30—Correct time. 6:31—Motion Picture Guide and base ball scores. 6:35—Musical program from the Capi- tol Theater, New York. 7:45—Atwater Kent Radio hour, fea- turing 11 famous artists of the concert and operatic world. 9:15—Studebaker program. 9:45—Sunday at Seth Parker’s. 10:15—Sam Herman, xylophonist. 10:30—Russian Cathedral Choir. 11:00—Weather forecast. Early Program Tomorrow. 6:45a—Tower health exercises. 7:15a—Federation morning devotions. 7:30a—Cheerio. 7:50a—Parnassus Trio. 8:00a—Milt Coleman, songs. 8:15a—Harry Merker and his orches- tra. 9:00a—Dr. Royal S. Copeland. 9:30a—Studio program. 10:00a—Parnassus String Trio. 10:15a—Radio Household Institute. 10:30a—Studio program. 10:45a—"Spring Gardens,” by Leonard Barron. 11:00a—Parnassus String Trio. 11:30a—"Bridge for Beginners,” by Mrs. John Munce, jr. 11:45a—Rolfe’s Palais d'Or Orchestra. 12:45—Organ recital. 1:15—"“Farm and Home Facts,” by the | Department of Agriculture. 1:30—Madrillon Trio. 2:00—Studio program. RZSO—B‘lnd of One Thousand Melo- di 3:00—Play-by-play account of the| ‘Washington-Cleveland base ball game, 348.6—~WABC New York—860 2:00—Hour of ballads. 3:00—Cathedral hour. 4:30—Sermon by the Rev. Donald G. Barnhouse. 6:00—Fashion Plates; songs. 7:00—Musicians on tour. 7:30—Broadway stars. 8:00—Theater of the air. 9:00—West. Point Quartet and band. 9:30—Around the Samovar. 454.3—WEAF New York—860 2:00—Parent-Teachers' Congress. 3:00—Dr. S. Parkes Cadman. 4:30—Twilight voices; mixed quartet. 5:00—The Continentals. 6:00—Songalogue. 6:30—Scores. 8:00—Discussion of “Our Government,” by David Lawrence. 8:15—A. K. hour of music. 9:15—Champlons. 9:45—Sunday at Seth Parker’s. 10:15—Sam Herman. 394.5—WJZ New York—760 2:00—Young People’s Conference; Dr. Poling. 8. 3:00—Godfrey Ludlow; musicians. 4:00—Salon melodies, Erva Giles. 4:30—National religious services. 5:30—Anglo_Persians. 6:00—Base ball scores; the Nomads. 6:30—At the piano. 7:00—Melodies in voice; mixed quartet and orchestra. 7:15—Uncle Henry magazine. 8:45—Utica Jubilee Singers. 9:15—Light opera; vibrant melodies. 422.3—WOR Newark—710 1:30—Lawyer's Air Magazine, 2:00—Bamberger Little Symphony. 3:00—Sunday Afternoon Salon. 4:00—Dr. Payne; forum. 5:00—Great Cathedrals. 6:00—Hour and half of orchestras. "7:30—Choir Invisible. 8:30—Market Street Playhouse. 272.6—WPG Atlantic City—1,100 3:30—Community recital. 6:00—Sunday evening concert. 8:15—Concert orchestra. 9:00—News; studio concert. 9:30—Special musicale. { 10:00—Vocal ensemble hour. 282.8—WBAL Baltimore—1,060 WBAL, KDKA, WLW, WJR and | others. { 7:15—Collier’s hour — WJZ, | WBZ, WBAL, WLW, WHAM and others. 8:00—Majestic Theater: music week feature—WMAL and C. B. 8. network. 8:15—Atwater Kent hour: eleven famous artists—WRC and N. B. C. network. 9:00—DeForest _hour; West Point Quartet—WMAL and C. B. S. network 10:30—Russian Cathedral Choir —WRC and N. B. C. network. 4:00—Uncle Ed and His Children. ! 4:30—WJZ programs (4% hours). 8:45—Concert orchestra. | 9:45—Evening reveries (45 minutes) 256.3—WCAU Philadelphia—1,170 4:30—WABC program (30 minutes). 5:00—Hour of orchestras. 6:00—Booth Family; Ploneers. 7:00—WABC programs (4 hours). 305.9—KDKA Pittsburgh—980 4:00—Vesper service. 5:00—Scores: hotel orchestrs. 5:30—W.JZ program. 6:00—Calvaqy Episcopal Church. 7:00—WJZ program (4 hours); sc.i1.5. ! THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. MAY l VOCALISTS DOMINATE. MAJOR RADIO PROGRAMS l CRUMIT- the Radio - PROGRAM FOR 'SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1929. (Meters on left of call letters, kfloc,;:;e‘:a ‘t’e"d l’-wn!. All time p.m. unless LOCAL STATIONS 475.9—WMAL—630. (Washington Radio Forum.) 9:00 to 10:00a—Watch tower service. 2:00—Ballad hour. 3:00—Cathedral hour. 4:00—Vesper song service. 4:30 to 5:00—Service of the Tenth Presbyterian Church of Phila- delphia. 7:00—La Palina hour. 7:30—Sonatron program. 8:00—Majestic Theater 9:00—DeForest hour. 9:30 to 10:00—Around the Samovar. Early Program Tomorrow. 10:00a—Brunswick concert. 10:30a—Topaz Ensemble. 11:00a—Agricultural program. 11:30 to 12:00a—Luncheon concert. 3:00—Play-by-play account of the ‘Washington-Cleveland base ball game, by Denman Thompson, sports editor, The Star. 205.4—WJISV—1,460. (Independent Publishing Co.) 7:00—Ladies’ Choir of Fairfax, Va. 7:45—Kathryn Crowley, pianist. 8:00—L. Z. Phillips, trombonist. 8:15—Vocal solos by Roland Wheeler. 8:30—Sermonette by Dr. Martin. 9:00—Studio program. 10:00—Chick Godfrey, tenor. 228.9—WOL—1,310. (American Broadcasting Co.) 9:00a—Watch tower service. 10:00a—Christian Endeavor Union. 11:00a—Service of the Pirst Congrega- tional Church. 12:15 to 1:15—Meditation hour. 5:00—Program by Christian Science Parent Church. 5:30—Vesper concert. 6:30—Howard R. Green, baritone. 7:11—“Amos 'n_Andy.” 8:00 k: 9:15—Wardman Park Orches- ra. Early Program Tomorrow. 7:30a—Musical clock. 7:55a—Birthdays. 8:00a—Musical clock. 9:00a—Musical program. 10:00a—Household chat Clarke. 10:30a—Advertisers period. 11:00a—Helpful hints to parents. 434.5—NAA—690. (Washington Navy Yard.) 10:05a—Weather Bureau reports. 9:55—Arlington time signals. 10:05—Weather Bureau reports. of the Air. OUT-OF-TOWN STATIONS. Programs prepared by the Associated Press. Scheduled for Eastern standard time. 272.6—WLWL New York—1,100 7:00—Paulist Fathers’ Church. 260.7—WHAM Rochester—1,150 4:30—WJZ programs (114 hours). 6:00—Twilight hour. 6:30—WJZ programs (3% hours). 379.5—WGY Schenectady—790 4:30—Out of the Past. 5:00—Operatic artists. 6:00—WEAF programs (3% hours). 302.8—WBZ Springfield—990 4:30—WJZ programs (132 hours). 6:00—Scores; news; Twins. 6:30—WJZ programs (2%, hours). 8:45—Fashionators; entertainers. 9:45—Assumption Drum Corps. 10:00—Scores; theater organ. CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN. 428.3—WLW Cincinnati—700 2:30—Base ball game. 4:30—WJZ programs (114 hours). 6:00—Songs at Twilight. 6425—Scores; WJZ (1% hours). 8:15—Mendelssohn’s “St. Paul.” —Hymn time. 9:15—Concert orchestra. 10:15—Cino Singers; cello recital. 11:00—Musical Novelesque (1 hour). 280.2—WTAM-WEAR Cleveland—1,070 5:00—WEAF (30 minutes); scores. 6:00—Ginger Ale Gnomes. 6:30—WEAF programs (14 hours). 7:45—Inspiration Boys. 8:15—WEAF programs (2 hours). 10:15—Dance music. 398.8—WCX-WJR Detroit—750 5:30—WJZ (30 minutes); vespers. 6:30—WJZ programs (2% hours). 9:15—Studio; salon group. 10:00—Happy half hour, 10:30—Amos-Andy; orchestra; news. 11:00—Dance and organ. 4052—WSB Atlanta—740 7:00—WJZ and WEAF (2% hours). 9:15—Baptist Tabernacle. 263—WAPI Birmingham—1,1¢ 0—Pirst Baptist Church. pi's Orchestra; tenor. Come in for demonstration of the Stewart-Warner RADIO RAY EL AUTO SUPPLY CO. Potomac, Va. Alex. 72 by Peggy| ME. . i LOUISE HOMER= Two Families Use One Set by Means of Two Speakers BELFAST, Me. (#)—Two fam- ilies here have been discovered that having two loud speakers hooked to one radio set may turn into a means for overhearing what is going on in the neigh- bor’s household. Under the arrangement carried out, one family has the set and one speaker, and other family, by using an extension line has a loudspeaker attached to the same set. The set was shut off one recent Sunday afternoon when the family in whose home the set is located heard music issuing from the loudspeaker. The sound was a cornet playing scales, After puzzling a while the other family was asked if any one there might be practicing on a cornet. ‘The head of the house was doing Jjust that. Investigation showed that the two loadspeakers formed a telephone circuit and that when members of one family spoke into | | their speaker the other family | | could hear. | 277.6—WBT Charlotte—1,080 :00—Studio program; quartet. :30—Musical program. :00—WJZ (15 minutes); musicale, :00—First Baptist Church. :00—Organ recital. 365.6—WHAS Loulsville—820 :30—WJZ and WEAF (13 hours). :15—Studio concert. :15—WEAF programs (1 hour). {15—News and sports. 461.3—WSM Nashville—650 :15—Sacred concert and talk. :15—WEAF program (1 hour). :15—First Presbyterian Church. :15—Conservatory of music. 270.1—WRVA Richmond—1,110 9—W.JZ program (15 minutes). 7:45—St. Mark's Episcopal Churc’s. 258.5~WWVA Wheeling—1.160 1:00—Bible students’ program. 4:00—Church services. - AUTHORITY SOUGHT TOEND SO S LIMIT Commission Asked to Determine ‘When Stations May Re- sume Sending. Capt. S. C. Hooper, director of naval | communications, has suggested to the Federal Radio Commission that some for determining when shore stations | may or may not transmit after the | sending of a distress signal. i In New York a local agreement exists, Capt. Hooper says, between the radio supervisor and the navy district _com- mandant whereby the New York Naval Station guards the distress frequency | and notifies broadcasting and other shore stations when service is to be suspended and resumed because of dis- tress messages. arrangement resulted in broadcast sta- tions at New York being inoperative | for about 50 minutes,” he sald. “On the | other hand stations in Washington, Baltimore and Norfolk were silent for several hours due to indefinite control in these cities.” The international radio telegraph con- vention provides that when distress communications are ended and silence no longer is necessary the station which has controlled these communications | shall send a message on the distress | wave addressed to CQ, indicating that | the SOS signals are ended — e Robert P. Lamont, Secretary of Com- | merce, will speak in the safety series on |an N. B. C. coast-to-coast chain Sat- urday night. His subject is “Safety— | A National Problem. e reatest set we've ever handled Ao e NEW Stewart-Warner Radio ELIABLE ADIO CO. 2445 18th St. N.W. E WILL | BE PLEASED to : Demonstrate the New STEWART- WARNER RADIO {2ENN ELECTRIC CO. 911 7th St. N.W. Main 512 Adams 3216 authority in each locality be responsible | § | “In a recent case this definite control | INDOOR AERIAL AIDS APARTMENT FANS | Sensitive Receiver Neces-| sary, However, in Order to | Obtain Loud Signals. H BY JOHN F. RIDER. i Special Dispatch to The Star. | NEW YORK, May 4—Dwellers in | the larger and newer types of modern | apartment buildings are usually at a disadvantage for home radio reception,) | particularly those living on the lower | floors. It is quite a difficult job to erect | {an outdoor antenna of the Tight char- { actertistics from the third or fourth| fioors of a 15-story steel building. Most of the antenna would be lead-in. The | novice would be justly puzzled to deter- !mine where the antenna left off and the lead-in began. And when the job is completed it does not always work s0 well. What, then, is the solution? | What 1f the owners of the building do |not allow the erection of outdoor an- | tennas at all? Some interesting obscrvations with | receivers so situated were made during | the course of experimental work carried iout in several large apartment build- |ings. The subject of the experiment was the determination of radio receiver response with indoor antenna, dispens- ing completely with outdoor aerials. Several Types Tried. Several different indoor aerials of other than the loop type were first placed into position. These varied in length from 15 to 40 feet, and in physi- cal Igeation from the molding near the room’ceiling to the base of the wall and beneath the rug. It was found that the main concern regarding the type of receiver to be used for this purpose was that it should be of extreme sensitivity. It had to have a large amount of radio frequency amplification, plenty of gain, and a | number of stages. With an indoor antenna in a steel building and a receiver with four stages |of radio frequency amplification, of which three stages were tuned, a de- tector and three stages of audio fre- | queney amplificaticn, local reception was satisfactory at all times, with very little directional characteristics. As to | sensitivity, a sufficient number of dis- tant stations were received to justify the use of the indoor aerials. The di- rectional qualities of the indoor an- tennas were more prominent when re- ceiving distant stations than when the locals were coming through. This char- | acteristic, however, is also noted with many outdoor aerials. Steel Shell Is Pierced. One is very likely to imagine that an i indoor antenna will be ineffective in a large steel building, inasmuch as a steel building is usually considered as a shielded structure that radio waves will not penetrate. The experiments in a number of large steel buildings dis- proved this idea, but it must be ad- mitted that a sensitive receiver must be used if the indoor aerial is to be ef- fective. This fact was conclusively demonstrated during the test when the eight-tube receiver was replaced by a five-valve receiver with two stages of radio frequency amplification. The re- ceiver signal response was very unsat- isfactory. Considering the conditions existing in such houses, reception with an in- door antenna is practical. It is possi- ble when necessary to satisfactorily dis- pense with the outdoor aerial. One need not imagine when he moves into a large apartment structure, where out- side aerials are impossible, that satis- factory radio reception, too, is banned. 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