Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1929, Page 45

TURTIS ORCAESTRA N NEV PROGRAN Work of Tschaikowsky, Men- delssohn and Beethoven Will Be Featured. ‘The Curtis Institute of Music of Philadelphia will open its second season tonight over WMAL and other Columbia Broadcasting System stations. ‘The initial program of the new series Wwill be presented by the Curtis Orches- tra, and Carmela Ippolito, violinist, a student of Efrem Zimbalist. The works of Mendelssohn, Tschaikowsky and Beethoven will be featured. ‘The second program by the Brown- Bilt Footlites, scheduled by WMAL at 8 o'clock, will present Willlam Robyn, tenor, and two newcomers to network broadcasting—Alonzo R. Adams, bass, and Beatrice Herford, monologist. Both are well known, however, in con- cert and theatrical circles. Miss Her- ford is now playing in the comedy “See Naples and Die.” Adams has been a recording artist aside from appearing as & soloist in New York churches. ‘Three other ouilstanding Columbia attractions on WMAL's schedule are the Wahl Penmen, the Bremer-Tully program and the True Story Hour. In addition the station will broadcast sev- eral features of local origin. These in- clude talks by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of the District public schools, and Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. ‘The musical portion of the Penmen's program is made up of a number of popular hits. Among them are “Hello, Baby,” “Dixie Jambore=,” and "Till ‘Your Happiness Happens Along.” The scene for the story hour will be laid in a rambling farmhouse in the foothills of the higher Alleghenies, near Nash- ville, Tenn. The Bremer-Tully broad- cast features a cycle of the sensational hits of Jerome Kern, in which “Old Man River” is included. ‘The Cities Service Hour, one of ‘WRC’'s major attractions tonight, will feature the “Slavonic Dance” of the composer Glazounow, who is to visit the United States this Winter. The program also contains gems from Victor _Herbert's “Babette,” Friml's “Love Everlasting” and “The Chatter- box” of MacKenzie. Harbor Lights, featuring Welcome Lewis, contralto crooner, and Muriel Pollock, pianist-composer; the Schra- dertown music-comedy, and “Mystery House,” the detective story radio serial based on the schemes of underworld thieves, are among WRC's other pres- entations, There also will be another n Trio and a group of prominent Washington vocal and !n- strumental artisis will take part in the program wwm of WJSV. The chief features of WOL are a recital by Mabel Owens, soprano, and a late dance pro- gram. TARIFF -RETALIATION HINTED IN FRANCE Clinister -of Commerce Discusses Possible Restriction in Ameri- ean Importations. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 21—A communique from the ministry of commerce yester- day indicated how deeply France is the American ree cannot sell driven to Trestrictin, rican imports ;}I: formulating hw tariff sched- shipping under t the world is 300,000 tons ter_than DE MoLL Co. TWELFTH & G STS. WE_ARE DISPLAYING LATEST MODEL RaAbios Victor— Majestic— Atwater Kent— Radiola— Sparton— Stromberg-Carlson— and others. $10 Delivers Any of the Above Balance payable in 12 monthly payments — including De Moll's Guaranteed Radio Service. THEEE IS ONLY ONE CHAMPION ETCHED BY CHAMPION ON THE BASE Major “Chain” Features ‘TONIGHT. 8:00—Cities Service Hour—Male quartet and Bourdon Or- chestra—WRC and N. B. 8:30—Wahi Pepnan hol - a ah; graphology and music—WMAL and ©. B. 8. getwork. 8:45—Famousloves, “Marquise de Montespan”; dramatic sketch with musical back- ground — WJZ, WHAM, KDKA, WBZ, WJR, WLW, 10:00—Bremer Tully program; dance_orchestra, trio and vocalifts—WMAL and C. B. 8. network. 10:00—Planters Pickers; Hallelu- jah Singers and Billy Artz's Orchestra — WRC and N. B. C. network. 10:30—Curtis Institute of Music rr m; Carmela Ippo- ito, violinist—WMAL and C. B. 8. network. 10:30—Armour program; Fred Waldner, ~ tenor; mixed chorus of 18 voices and 30-plece orchestra—WJZ, WBZ, KDKA, WRVA, WLW and others, 10:30—"Mystery House,” melo~ drama with musical back- ground—WRC and N. B. POISONED FOOD SENT TO WITNESS Hlinois Prosecutor Bares Alleged Plot and Death Threats in Mur- der Case Against Four. By the Assoclated Press. MONTICELLO, Ill, November 22.— Death threats and an attempt to poi- son a State witness held under guard in jail here during the trial of four men for murder were reported yesterday to State’s Attorney Robert Shonkwiler. ‘The State’s attorney said he was in- formed that food carried to one of the witnesses in his cell had been poisoned. A jury was completed to try the quar- tet for the slaying of Frank Hilligoss, night watchman, during a hold-up at Mansfleld, IIl, in 1925. The defendants are Vincent Moran and George Fuller of Decatur, Albert Phillips of Cham- palgn and Oscar Schoby, a convict in the Chester penitentiary. o Shonkwiler said he received a note from an unnamed witness asking him for a conference and stating that two of the witnesses had recelved letters threatening their lives and property. The witness added that Schoby had given him warning of the tainted food. el Plays by Television Soon. ‘That the German Television Co. will shortly place on the market a cheap recelving apparatus which will show a s moving picture simultaneously with the stage performance, has just been announced in Berlin, Germany. It plans to present, television pla; STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1929. “AMOS N’ ANDY" TWICE NIGHTLY More Than a Hundred Thou>-- “sand Protests Leads to Two Broadcasts. BY MARTIN CODEL. More than 100,000 signatures on nearly as many telegrams and letters protest- ing the change in the time of the broad- casts by “Amos 'n’ Andy,” minstrel team, sufficed to lead the National Broadcast- ing Co. to arrange for their appearance twice nightly, beginning next Monday. An Eastern network will carry their dialogue from 7 to 7:15 p.nt., Eastern standard time, and the Western network will hear them from 10:30 to 10:45 p.m., Central_standard time, every evening except Svmday. Who are “Amos 'n’ Andy” to have stirred up such a fuss over a mere shift in the hour of their radio appear- ance? The owners and operators of the “Fresh Air Taxicab Co., Incorporated,” whose blackface comedy dialogue has made them one of the most popular features on the radio, are Freeman F. Gosden and_ Charles J. Correll. former is the “Amos Jones” of the team and the Ilatter ‘fllsys “Andy Brown.” These two play other parts, too, and they write their own script, never tehearsing any evening's perform- ance for fear of going stale. Salary $100,000. Still in their early thirties, Gosden and Correll were vaudeville actors be- fore they came to radio. Their joint salary was reported to be in six figures when they signed their first network contract last August. It is understood to be $100,000 a year, making them the highest-paid comedians in radio. Gosden is a native of Peoria, Ill, and Correll is a Virginian, They met in Durham, N. C., at a rehearsal for & show in which they were teamed. The Spring of 1925 found them in Chi;::go. where, on a lark, they asked a o station operator to permit them to go on the air as a harmony and dialogue pair. They “took” so well that Station WGN offered them a contract to appear each evening ‘Sam 'n’ Henry.” ‘The brought them an offer from Station WMAQ, Chicago, and they soon reap- | peared as “Amos 'n’ Andy.” So popul was their program, now a nightly f ture, that the station yielded to a de: mand from other stations for recorde? versions. Soon the voices of “Amos 'n’ Andy” were heard from phonograph records over stations throughout the United States. A sponsor offered to place them on the N. B. C. network last Summer. Ac- cordingly, they dropped the recording for personal appearances and moved their imaginary taxicab company to Harlem, which is now the base of their operations and the scene of all their experiences, Special arrangements were made with Station WMAQ, which is still a Chicago outlet for “Amos 'n' Andy,” though a member of the Co- Jumbia chain. In fact, most of the broadcasting is still done from WMAQ “30,00 at stakel” i <8 i &K ¥ Thestory of Phil Klipp, chief wireless operator, S. S. Pres. Harding (1923) “Remember the hor- rors of Russia back in *22? Well, the lives of 30,000 people depended on my Brandes head phones. At that time I was aboard the S. S. Belling- ham, discharging relief cargoes of grain for the city of Theodosia on the Black Sea. Telephone wires— cable wires—the Bolsheviks had de- stroyed them all. Our only means of communication with the American Relief headquarters in The Constanti- nople, 450 miles away, were my wire- less and Brandes head phones. In 12 days, I sent 185,000 words. If my Brandes head phones had gone dead on me—for only a day—! Well—now you know why anything that carries the name of Brandes stands aces high with me. That new set is a wonder —and such a low price!” expiration of their contract | as the “key” station for the network, with the popular Bill Hay of its staff as their announcer. Both comedians go amcng the Ne- groes for their local color and dialect, which is said by authorities to be au- thentic and well conceived. Colored gatherings have often asked them to speak before them. 'As a matter of fact, the pair's repu- tation rests more on the use of lan- guage than on wit. The patter is natu- ral and seldom strained for humorous effect. Their “rebarrassed” for embar- rassed and their “regusted” for disgust- ed are cyglc&l examples of the kind of comedy they employ. Their fun is al- ways clean, wholesome and free from suggestion. Parents Offer Protest. The change from the previous 11 o'clock schedule to 7 o'clock, Eastern standard time, was ordered in effect last Monday because of complaints from parents in the East that their children insisted on staying awake late at night in order to hear “Amos 'n’ Andy.” But 7 o'clock. Eastern standard time, is 6 o'clock Central time, and 5 o'clock Rocky Mountain time, Protests now came from adults throughout the West, | who were found to be as devoted fol- lowers of the pair as the children. As a consequence, the 7 o'clock hour will continue for Stations WJZ, New York; WBZ, Springfield; WBZA, Bos- ton; WHAM. Rochester; WRC, Wash- ington; KDKA, Pittsburgh, and WJR, Detroit. The 10:30 o'clock broadcast from | next Monday on will be heard over WMAR and KYW, Chicago;: KWK, St. Louis; WDAF and WREN, Kansas City; WTMJ, Milwaukee; KSTP, St. Paul; WEBC, Superi is,; KVOO. Tulsa; WKY, Oklahoma City; KTHS, Hot Springs, Ark.: WFAA, Dallas; KPRC, Houston; WOAI, San Antonio; KOA, Denyer; KSL, Salt Lake Cits San Francisco; KFI, Los Angeles; KGW, Portland; KOMO, Seattle, and KHQ, Spokane. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- r Alliance.) RADIO HISTORICAL EXHIBIT TO REMAIN Display Will Be Continued at Lans- burgh & Bro.’s All of Next Week. The Radio Corporation of America's historical exhibit, depicting the evolu- tion of radio from the time the first wireless signal limped across the At- lantic until today, when it is one of the master instruments of the age, is on display at Lansburgh & Bro., where it will remain throughout next week. Nearly every radio device displayed has a definite and important connec- tion with the amazing progress of radio. The apparatus will become a part of a national museum of historical radio apparatus, toward the assembling of which George H. Clark, manager of the exhibition division of the Radio Cor- poration of America, which assembled the exhibit here, is co-operating with representatives of the Smithsonian In- stitution and the Government. In the exhibit there is shcwn a Baden Powell kite, associated in the minds of every one who knows radip with the carrying aloft of the serial at St. John's, Newfoundland, on December 12, 1901. Here is also the apparatus on which Marconi first heard the three-dot sig- nal, the letter “s,” sent from Poldhu, England, while the kite plunged about aloft. They were three dots which changed a world. The Marconi ap- paratus at the show is so crude that it never ceases to amaze spectators that the experiment was successful. Helped by no superheterodynes, no regenera- tion, no amplifiers, and without even a thought of a loud speaker, Marconi heard England. 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LAMONT FELICITATES | Assures Mexican President-Elect By the Associated Press. patch to Excelsior from Puruandiro, Mi~ choacan, said yesterday that President- elcet Pascual Rubio had received a tele- gram from Thomsas Lamont, New York banker, congratulating him on his elec- tion and assuring him of a cordial wel- come if he desires to visit New York be- fore taking office in February. Mr. La- MEN! PASCUAL ORTIZ RUBIO of Cordial Welcome if He : Visits New York. MEXICO CITY, November 22.—A dis- mont is chairman of the international bankers’ committee on Mexico. ! ‘There has been some talk to the ef- fect that the President-elect would take & trip abroad, though, so far as Mexicq knows, he has made no definite plans: ‘Women in Balloon-Chase Clubs. Interest in auto balloon-chasing has wn 8o intense in Prance that bal- loon-chasing clubs, with memberships chiefly composed of women, are spring- ing up in many parts of the country. 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