Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1929, Page 79

THE SUNDAY WRG 0 BROADCAST CONGERT PROGRAM N. B. C. Stations to Carry! Philadelphia Orchestra’s’ Music Gver Air. | WRC has been added to the network of National Broadcasting Co. stations which will broadcast the series of three | concerts by the Philadelphia Orchestra, gdirected by Leopold Stokowski. The initial concert will go on the air next Sunday, October 6. The broadcasts by the Philadelphia Orchestra, which has never before been heard on the air, are expected to take rank among the world's greatest radio programs. The concerts will be spon- sored by tbe Philadelphia Storage Bat- tery Co., makers of the Philco radio. Three Types of Music. Stokowski, who steadfastly refuséd to f permit his orchestra to broadcast until | radio transmitters and receiving sets had been_perfected, has arranged a Gert Russian and a French pro- gram for the radio concerts. The open- ing program will be German. featuring the compositions of Bach, Mozart and Wagner. 3 “Always, since the advent of radio,” said Stokowski, “I have belleved that one day the Philadelphia Orchestra would go on the air. Indeed, I have looked for that day when radio trans- mission and receiving sets would be so well perfected that such a musical o ganization as ours would do itself ju: tice over so large a hook-up as we have undertaken this year. Salutes “Agency for Good.” “But I wish to do what I do well, and until now T have not felt that radio had reached the point where a broad- | cast of 110 musicians in an orchestra | A Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra (center), greeted on his return to Amcrica for a series of radlo programs, to begin October 6. The orchestra has never before been heard on the air. On Stokowski's left is J. E. Skinner, general manager of Philco. Henry M. Neely, stager of “Theater | Memories,” is on the right. Behind the Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. NEW school of playwrights!on the legitimate stage today. is springing up around the | Through the ages the drama has microphone. They are ad- |been at various places, sometimes venturous spir hese in the inns, other times in the yeuths, pioneers in a new, untried | courts of royalty, and again in field. Behind them is the tech- the theater. There is no drama to nique, the traditions and the me- chanics of the old stage. Before|vival of drama will be by the ra- peak of today, but the next re- | was best. Mow that the time has come. | them is a technique, as yet unper- | there is no one happier about it than|fected, and rewards that no man ! dio. Iam. | “It is wonderful to know that T have | at last an agency whereby I can reach | millions instead of a few thousandg. believe in the musickl appreciation of almost every human being, and when radio inates to a large extent the financial barrier which has kept music from the masses in the past I can do no less than salute this wonderful new agency for good. e LEADERS TO BE HEARD. | “Our Famous Contemporaries” to Bitimate theater offers. | Be WBZ and WBZA Feature. BOSTON (#).—Listeners of WBZ and WBZA of Springfield, Mass., and Bos- ton are to hear men and women dis- tinguished in arts. letters, science, poli- tics and religion th i Every Sunday aftemoon at 4 pm local time, P — RADIO IN NEW FIELD. Japanese Premier Employs Broad- cast Chain in Thrift Campaign. TOKIO (#) guchi has e Brodcasting system of Japan in his campaign for thrift and retrenchment in national and private life. It is the first time this has been done by a rank- ing official in Japan. Premier Yuko Hama- ed the National Radio can possibly measure. In the few years radio broad casting has existed on a large Ilscale, the dramatic program has; slowly evolved from the short skit presented between music, to thf.‘“ longer plays, offering situation, | plot and characterization. In the | y to come, according to those now devoting themselves to radi df natics, tk ple radio ' drama are discussed. | iVemon Radcliffe, for years an actor and stage director, and now | a production director for the Na- tional Broadcasting Co.; Raymond {Knight, Edward Hale Bierstadt, yce, Finis Farr, | Alcorn, Stewart Ayres and Ka | Seymour rate special attention Henry Fiske Carleton, William| Ford, William Ford Manley and Burr Cook also deserve places in! the inward circle of radio dramatic pioneers. Radcliffe is best known as di- | rector of the weekly melodrama | | staged for the microphone of the | Burke Bo John National Broadcasting Co. Somé term his a visionary, yet there is |not a technician associated with Iradio in any capacity who| | couldn't be accused of the same | thing with justice. From Station JOAK. Tokio, the talks were relayed to JOBM. Asaka: JOCK. Nagoya; JODR, Seoul, Kore and smaller stations at Hiroshima, Sapporo and Kumamot daa.i “Radio will develop its own| | technique, a technique of sound,” Radcliffe declared.. “I firmly be- lieve that the drama doesn't exist | cessful radio artist is as ye “The radio station of the future will have a dramatic laboratory. Sound is infinitely the most dr: matic of all things. Words spoken to a background of suggestive sound are dramatic when the same words, without the back- ground are flat. In this labora- tory radio will develop the sound effects to create its drama.” The rewards of the radio play- Broadway hit. The author of a $500, while the author of a radio play usually receives $50. %k ‘The secret of what makes a suc- some- what difficult to analyze. Its key lies perhaps in a combination of qualities that might be termed air personality. Audition committees, trained in listening to thousands of would-be radio stars, know instinctively | which ones will be a success over | the air. Novice applicants may commit every crime against micre phone technique at their initial trial. That does not matter. Technique may be acquired later STAR, WASHINGT D. C., SEPTEMBER 29, 1929—PART 4. no means the only essential. One may be the finest of stage per- formers, holding and thrilling the last row in the balcony, and yet leave a radio audience cold and |uninterested. The greatest artists sometimes do not broadcast as well las a lesser colleague who never faced a real audience and whe | might be a flat failure if he did. | Good radio artists invariably | possess two qualities that seem to | be directly opposed to each other, namely, tension and repose. In order to get across the air there must be a dynamic concentration —an intense absorption in what one is broadcasting. At the same time there must be a calm control that overrides the inevitable dis- turbances of a radio studio. The relentless minute hand on the clock may demand some extempo- raneous cutting of a musical num- ber on the part of a studio direc- tor in the very midst of a per- formance. Engineers and contrcl men may issue innumerable in- structions. In the face of every- thing, the artist must go on. maintaining his poise no matter what happens. Temperament has no place in a broadcasting studio. The slightest sign of discomposure registers over a loudspeaker. Another quality that radio art- ists must possess is sincerity. In this lies the power of holding an invisible audience. Tricks of man- ner, beauty of face, clever little distractions that catch the eye of a visible audience are of little avail. The radio audience can be impressed only through what if hears. So the only thing that counts is the quality of sound |which penetrates the microphone. | A charming, beautifully gowned | woman who is not a particularly distinguished artist may create an illusion of art to an audience that sits directly before her. But the smile, the gesture, the radiant ap pearance that are such an impor- tant asset on the sage are of nc value before the microphone. There personality and beauty of artistry must make themselves felt without extraneous aids. Emotion may be faked on the stage, but not over the air. Cer- tain actors have found that they | have a more moving effect on their audiences when they do not ac- tually feel the emotion they are radio will evolve | wright in the present stage of de- | portraying, but simply project it! s which will take the.drama to | velopment are not to be compared | Eumm 2 i a higher level than the current le- | to the rewards of the author of a|own performance with as cool a cally, watching their | detachment as though they them- There are a dozen or so names |play for the legitimate stage that |selves were part of the audience. which already mean much when |is produced may expect at least|This, however. cannot be done fover the air. One cannot pretend { successfully befere a microphone. In some mysterious manner air lwaves register not what the per- | former tries to convey, but what |he actually feels. There must be | fundamental sinceritv. Artifices jare aldly exposed. The same is | Radio Service Phone ! 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