Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1929, Page 31

WRGGHAINOFFERS NEW NETNUNBER “Golden Gems” to Feature Program to Be Given First Time Tonight. “Golden Gems,” a newly weekly radio | musical presentation, will have its pre- miere tonight over WRC and an exten- “sive network of National Broadcasting Co. stations. Elsie Baker, a prominent recording and oratorio contralto, will be the indi- vidual star of the first “Golden Gems” broadcast, assisted by Theodore Webb, baritone, and a string quartet. The works of Mendelssohn, Grieg and Rach- maninoff make up a major portion of the program. Miss Baker’s contribu- tions will be Grieg's “The Princess,” Wekerlin's “Mother, Tell Me,” and De- | bussy’s “The Mandolins.” With Webb she will sing one duet number, “The | Night Hymn at Sea,” by Thomas. The | string quartet’s specialty will be the fascinating “Scherzo” from Mendels- sohn’s “Quartet in E Minor.” | Mobiloil Program. | The compositions of Bizet also domi- | nate the Mobiloil concert, another out- standing WRC attraction. The pro- d by an orchestra includes Albeniz's “Sere; 1 Rice, soprano; . tenor, and Donglas baritone, will be the soloists. The PBalmolive hour, the Happy Bak- | Harold Stanbury, | ers and the Orpheus Trio are among WRC's_remaining attractions that are musical in character. The Bakers have arranged a program featuring songs from Rudolf Priml's operettas. These include “Indian Love Call” “Rose Marie,” “Song of the Vagabonds” and “Glaninna Mia” from “The Firefly.” The Shavers, with the assistance of a male trio, will present a group of old and new songs. Olive Palmer, soprano; + Paul Oliver, tenor, and Elizabeth Len- nox, contralto; the Cavhliers’ Quartet and an orchestra under the direction of | Gustave Haenschen will present the | Palmolive program, { The second of the new Red Seal presentations_tonight over WMAL and other Columbia Broadcasting System | stations will be a dramatic sketch,, The Black Forest” Germany's romantic Schwartzwald. It is a dramatization of happenings during the post-war depres- sion in Germany. Other Musical Offerings. | The La_Palina Smoker, the Kolster | hour and Jesse Crawford's weekly organ | Tecital are among WMAL's other musi- cal offerings. In the Kolster hour a | concert_orchestra will play a group of classical numbers, featuring .the. first movement of Brahm’s “Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Opus 11 Denza’s “Si | Vouz L'Aviez Compriz” and selections from Delibe’'s “Lakme” will be sung. | Crawford’s program includes Suppe's | “Light Cavalry,” “The Meditation" | from Massenet’s “Thais,” and Vickor | Herbert's “Puncinello.” Miss Bessie Craney, secretary of the | home service department of the Ameri- can Red Cross, will speak from WOL tonight on the activities of her depart- ment. The musical portion of the sta- tion’s program consists of a concert by Edith Reed's Entertainers and a re- cital by Lizette Follmer, contralto. Ahlenfeld and Myers, who sing Negro spirituals, will be heard again tonight from WJSV. The station also has| scheduled a number of other musical | features. Prominent among them are | a dance program by Ray Acton's Sere- | naders and harmonica solos by Big Ed. TSR TR = Tropical Durban, South Africa, is to have a blanket manufactory. This Neutrodyne- Plus § TO INVESTIGATE ATLANTA STATION PLANS MUCH STRONGER POWER WSB, Pioneer Broadcasting Unit, to Make Many Improvements Before Fall. ATLANTA (#).—One of the South’s pioneer broadcasting units, WSB, will | speak to the world with ten times its | present effectiveness early in the Fall Announcing _improvements, Lambdin Kay, station director, said that a new transmitter will include a 5-kilowatt power unit in conjunction with a piezo- electric crystal control system and 100 per cent modulation. The result will be an effective modulated power output of 10 kilowatts, or an increase of 9,000 watts. The plant will be housed in a two- story stucco building facing Candler and Glenwood roads and standing be- tween ‘two 200-foot towers spaced 450 feet apart to support the most modern type of cage antenna. Downtown studio quarters also will be expanded to provide two large stu- dios. A third and smaller studio will be provided for addresses, announce- ments and other purposes, Offices, rest rooms and anterooms for artists and the control room will complete the stuglio layout. RADIO HASTEi\IS NEWS OF SAFETY IN BORNEO Short-Wave Station Tells by Relay How Explorers Avoided Natives. CHICAGO (#)—Radio in the jungles "| of Dutch Borneo has been the means | of bringing word of the safety of two explorers two weeks before the news | could have reached civilization by run- ners. Messages from PMZ, short wave sta- tion at Poeroek-Tjahoe, 250 miles up the Barito River, main base of all the All-American Malaysian ‘expedition, which is studying radio in the tropics, to KICY at Manila, owned by Comdr. S. M. Mathes, told of the safe arrival of the two men. ‘The explorers who had penetrated the jungle were Theodore Seelmann of Chicago, head of the expedition, and Harry W. Wells of Chevy Chase, Md., electrical engineer. They carried a small transmitter. Previously word had come to the base by radio from the men that they had been threatened by na- tives. After they decided to push on, nothing was received, as their battery supply had failed. They went to their objective, then hurried back to }h& main base, from where radio sent ‘word of their safe arrival. Now Forming §Philco Club } IT. 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Hence also the proposed introduction of the Paramount Publix radio hour on the Columbia Broadcasting system, beginning Satur- day evening, September 21. Even the Fox and Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer union appears to be eager to find a national radio outlet for its talking picture and theater stars. All sorts of ruun:‘ors about pureh.istllxl)g broadcasting stations or mergers with radio i are still in the air. i Cleverness or Flop. Stories of night-club life, back-s life or life around the movie l(s'-l.t.l'g5 garded by many critics as having been overworked in the talkies and used so freely in the past for the obvious reason that they lend themselves to song quite easily, may next regale the radio audi- ence. It is generally agreed that unless $10 Delivers Philco Radio Store—Main Floor. | TE HEcHT Co. F St. at Seventh ES, we will deliver.this superb Philco Lowboy to your home on absolutely FREE TRIAL. You can then prove for yourself its matchless tone, mar- velous selectivity, and amazing distance range. No obligation Do not LOWBOY, only hesitate to ask ‘for this free trial. It places you under no obligation whatsoever. this of broadcast 1s handled with unusual cleverness by the radio pro- gram directors the cycle of “show folk stuff” will be the season’s radio flop. In any case, stories of theater folks are likely to be short-lived as radio fea- tures, even though this is the day of dialogue on the radio. The reason is that they have outworn their usefulness. Better cues for introducing songs on the air; as in the pictures, must be found. Show peopley of course, will always be in demand as radio enfertainers. But it will bably be theif songs and wit that will keep them on the air, and not the dramatization of theater life. Radio program directors, who are fast | ing developing a technique of their own in their efforts to please the unseen and often inarticulate audience, have a prodigious problem on their hands in the task of properly utilizing stage and screen talent. Technique Different. The techniques of the stage and of the motion picture dio differ from radio technique almost as greatly as they do from each other. Stars of the tage and the films often fail on the radio until they develop that .reculhr quality known as “radio personality.” A notable example of a radio flop was the recent appearance of Al Jolson on & network for the purpose of plugging the songs in his latest picture. Sponsors of the Radio-Keith-Or- pheum hour of last Winter, staged usu- ally in the performers’ dressing rooms at various theaters throughout the coun- trty, admit that their programs were not successful, and the radio people say it was due to the direction of stage people. Paramount Publix has the best of its stars scheduled for its radio premiere two weeks hence. Not only will certain movie stars participate in song and dia- logue, but portions of a highly successful stage play now In talking picture pro- duction will be re-enacted before the microphone. The play is Alfred Sutro’s “The Laughing Lady,” in which the The New Philco Lowboy . - . legitimate stage star, Jeanne Eagels, is taking the lead. The inaugural pro-~ gram will be of diversified character, and will be presented from' studios in New York, Hollywood and several inland cities, Confident of Success. ‘The public_curiosity abos producers confident that radio hours featuring them will succeed with the radio audience. When Gloria Swanson, the movie actress, sang in London last Friday in connection with her debut in sound pictures the National Broadcast- Co. regarded the occasion as suffi;- ciently interesting to radio listeners to have the progmam waves 1vom Eng! 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