Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1930, Page 67

| % BOFR WAR GENERAL TOTALKOVER WAL Radio Fans Offered Varied Program Over Washing- ton Stations. The entire proceedings of the mass meeting in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York this afternoon in observance of the tenth anniversary of the formation of the League of Na- tions will be broadcast by WMAL and associated Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tem stations. Gen. Jan Christian Smuts, noted Boer war leader, former secretary of state and prime minister of South Africa and later one of the pricipal fig- ures at the Paris peace conference, will be the chief speaker. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia Univer- sity, and former Secretary of War New- ton D, Baker also are scheduled to speak. Former Attorney ~ General George W. Wickersham will act as master of ceremonies. Billy Sunday, the evangelist, also will be heard over WMAL during the Back Home hour, to be broadcast to- night from the Churchill Tabernacle in Buffalo, which was built by & man he converted 13 years ago. Sunday will talk for about 20 minutes. The musical portion of the program will be provided by a symphony orchestra, directed by Herbert Straub. Buddy Doyle Guest Star. Aside from these two special fea- tures, WMAL has scheduled its usual array of Columbia attractions, which include the La Palina Rhapsodizers, the Majestic Theater of the Air and the romantic serial, “Arabesque.” Buddy Doyle, monologist, comedian and singer, who has played Eddie Can- tor's role in the musical show, “Whoopee,” will be the guest star of the Majestic hour. The song hits which featured his stage career will be sung. Muriel La France, Redferne Hollins- head and the Majestic Orchestra also ‘will take part in the program. A readjustment of the WRC broad- casting_schedule brings two new Na- tional Broadcasting Co. attractions to ‘Washington. One of them will be a tabloid version of “The Geisha," the two-act musical play, by the National Light Opera Co. The other will be the fer presentation of the Davey g:ur under the direction of Chandler Goldwaite, internationally known or- genist. A vocal sextet and a group of prominent radio soloists also will par- ticipate in this program, which is de- ed as a review of the favorite mel- odles of this and past generations. Folk melodies of all lands will be woven into the program. Aida Doninelli to Participate. Atwater Kent hour, another ‘WRC attraction, will intro- duce as guest soloist Aida Doni- nelli, Italian-American soprano, who will share honors with Enrique Fer- nandez Arbos, conductor of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, who will direct the Atwater Kent Orchestra. Miss Do- ninelli will sing the famous aria, “De- puis le Jour,” from the opera “Louise”; Chaminade’s “Madrigal.” Sibella’'s “La Girometta” and Oil':lh'etflnl! l;y_l:mer- ican compesers of the verse of Tagore, the famous East Indian poet and phi- Josopher. l:flnter songs lfl!domlnlm; ?'nwtk.hé Company's songalogue, wWhic] efll bn;..ng.e-.st at 6:30 o'clock, while the Chase & Sanborn broadcast at 8:30 in- cludes a medley of Richard Robert’s compositions selected from prominent Broadway musical shows, Mary Mc- Coy. soprano; Frank Luther, tenor, and ‘Welcome Lewis, contralto, will be the soloists. The program also contains an entirely: new and original interpreta- tion of “Nina Rosa,” to be played by Ohman and Arden, the piano duo. WJSV's program is chiefly religious in character. It contains two religious services .and another old-time hymn lnlvby the Ladies’ Choir of Fair- a. rano, and one of lo artitsts, ing over WOL. The station also will broadcast the service of the New York Avenue yterian Church. PARIS STYLE EXPERT WILL BROADCAST HERE Will Explain Why French Capital | Controls the World's Fashions Trend. How Paris launches the style trends which influence the dress of women all over the world will be recounted by Pauline Smith, fashion authority of the ‘Women’s Radio In- stitute, who will visit Washington to speak over WMAL Tuesday morning. Every woman, ac- cording to Miss Smith, may develop that fascinating chic distinctive of ed at little cost. Miss Smith's talk will be the first of & series to be given over WMAL every ‘Tuesday morning, between 11:30 and 12 o'clock by the = Pauline Smith. Women's Radio Institute, a new idea in broadeasting sponsored by Congoleum- Nairn, Inc, The programs will include 20 minutes of music and entertainment and 10-minute practical chats on beauty, style, food, hygiene and interior dec: ration by experts of the institute. Miss Smith is one of the eight staff repre- sentatives of the institute, one of whom will visit Washington each week to broadcast. For the last five years Miss Smith has been writing about fashions and cosmetics In Paris, this work bringing her in personal contact with leading | Parisian _fashion interests—couturiers, | their fashion shows and styles from the | moment fabrics left the manufacturer, or the finished gown was paraded in the salon to its first acceptance at tae races or smart Parisian rendezvous as well as its final adaptation to American needs and demands. 4 PART-TIME STATIONS ASK CLEARED CHANNELS' Ten more channels will be made | interference-free if the Foderal Radio Commission adopts a plan submitted by four broadcast stations. WAPI, Birmingham; WBAL. Balti- more; WTIC, Hartford, l:.I'Afl ‘:IOC Dl:'- enport, jointly ask the increase in cleared channels as a way “to remove severe restrictions on their hours of operation which curtail their usefulness to the listening public.” ‘These stations, which now divide time, contend that at least 50 cleared channels are necessary to serve the maximum public interest. In the present setup there are 40 cleared chan- nels. As a temporary expedient they sug- gest a decrease from 10 to 7': kilo- cycles in the separation between chan- nels in part of the breadcast band and the grouping of the regional and local channels in that part. This would provide room for 50 cleared channels con s 10 kilocycle tion and 33 re- and 6 local channels on the 7% le separation. 475.9—WMAL—630. (Washington Radio Forum.) 10:00 to 11:00a—Watch tower service. 2:00—Ballad hour. 3:00—Mass meeting in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the formation of the League of Nations. 5:00—News reel of the air. 5:30 to_6:00—Sermon by Rev. Donald Grey Barnhouse of Philadelphia. 6:30—Acousticon program. 7:00—Our Romantic Ancestors. 7:30—French trio. 7:45—"The World's Business,” by Dr. Julius Klein, 8:00—Correct time. 01—La Palina Rhapsodizers. 8:30—Sonatron program. 9:00—Majestic Theater of the Air. 10:00—The Royal program, with Jesse Crawford, organist. 10:30—Arabesque; dramatic sketch. 11:00 to 12:00—Back Home hour. Early Program Tomorrow. 9:00a—"Opening the morning mail.” 9:30a—Blue Monday Gloom Chase 10:00a—"Radio Home Makers,” by I Bailey Allen. 10:30a—Harmonies and contrasts. 10:45a—High gear. 11:00a—The Love Birds, 11:15a—Ben and Helen talk it over. 11:30a—The Children's Corner, 11 —The Mixing Bowl. 12:00—Columbia Revue. 12:30—Piano Syncopations. 12:45—Yoeng's Orchestra. 1:30—Ambassador Orchestrs, 2:00—The Honolulans. 2:30—Organ recital by Ann Leaf. 3:00 to 3:30—Columbia Ensemble. 315.6—WRC—960. (Nationat Broadcasting Co.) 00a—The Sunday Symphonet. 00 to 10:00a—Children’s hour. 11:00a—Service from St. John's Epis- copal Church; sermon by Rev. Robert Johnston, pastor. 12:30—The Nomads. 1:00—"The Geisha Girl,” by National Light Opera Co. 2:00—Roxy symphony concert. 3:00—Jewish hour. 4:00—Service from the Washington Cathedral; sermon by Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington. 5:00—Davey hour. 8:00—Echoes of the Orient. 6:15—Countess Olga Mendolago Al- bani, soprano. 6:30—O01d Comrlny Songalogue. 7:00—Heroes of the World. 7:30—Correct time. 7:31—Musical program ;by Maj. Ed- ward Bowes' family, from the Capitol Theater, New York. . 454.3—WEAF—New York—660. WGR, ‘WFJC, WSAIL 6:00—Echoes of the Orient—Also WRC, WGY, WCAE, WWJ; Countess Olga Albini, soprano— Also WRC, WGY, WCAE, WWJ. 6:30—Songalogue—Also WEEI, WCSH, WTAG, WJAR, WRC, WGY, WGR, WFL 7:00—Heroes of World—Also WJAR, WTAG, WCSH, WRC, WGY, WCAE, WFJC, WWJ, WSAI, WRVA, WBT, WJAX, WIOD, WHAS, WSM, WSB, WGR. 7:30—%:1& Bowes' Family — Also ‘WHAS, WSB, WTAM. 8:30—Choral Orchestra—Also WTIC, WJAR, WTAG, WCSH, WRC, G’ WGR, WCAE, WFJC, WWJ, WSAI, WIOD, WHAS, WSB, WBT. 9:00—"Our Government,” by David Lawrence—Also WJAR, WCSH, WHAS, WS ‘WSB, WBT, WWJ. 9:15—A. K. hour, Aida Doninelli— Also WEEI, WRC, ‘WHAS, WAPI, WBAI 10:15—Champions’ Orchestra—Also WTIC, WTAG, WCSH, WLIT, WRC, WGY, WGR, WCAE, WTAM, WWJ, WGN, WJAR. 10:45—Seth Parker's—Also WCSH, WHAS, V{gyAX. WWJ, WFJC, ‘WIOD, 5 11:16—Choir (30 minutes)—Also WWJ, WGY, C: Sam Herman (15 minutes)—Also WWJ, WRC. 348.6—WABC, New York—860. 5:30—Sermon by Dr. Barnhouse—Also WMAL, WKBW, WEAN, WNAC, WKRC, WJAS, WFBL, WLBW, WCAU, WCAO, WADC, WHP. 6:00—The Fur Trappers' Orchestra— Also WCAU, WNAC, WHK. 6:30—Joe Howard—Also WJASB, WNAC, WEAN, WHK, WSPD, WCAU, WFBL, WKBW, WADC, ‘WKRC, WGHP, WLBW, WMAL, WMA 2 7:00—Vocal and Orchestra — WABC only: Ancestors—Only to WHP, WFBL, WMAL, WDBJ, WKBN, WDOD, WLBW, WWNC, WJAS, WGHP, WCAO. T7:30—French Trio— Also WMAL, WFBL, WDBJ, WKBN, WDOD, WLBW, WWNC, WJAS, WGHP, WSPD, WHP. 7:45—Dr. Klein—Also 'WMAL, WHP, WFBL, WDBJ, WKBN, WDOD, WKRC, WEAN, WLBW, WWNC, WJAS, WNAC. 8:00—Rhapsodizers — Also WNAC, WCAU, WEAN, WFBL, WCAO, WJAS, WADC, WKRC, WLBW, gvvgél‘. WMAK, WGHP, WSPD, 8:30—Wayne King's Orchestra—Also WADC, WCAO, WNAC, WMAK, WKRC, WHK, WGHP, WLBW, WCAU, WJAS, WEAN, WFBL, * WSPD, WMAL. 9:00—Theater of the Air—Also WADC, WCAO, WNAC, WMAK, WKRC, WHK, WGHP, WLBW, WCAU, WJAS, WEAN, WFBL, WSPD, WDEL, WWMC, WTAR, WDBJ, WBRC, WDOD, WLAC. 10:00—Poet of the Organ—Also WADC, WCAO, WNAC, WKBW, WKRC, ‘WHK, WGHP, WLBW, WCAU, WJAS, WEAN, WFBL, WSPD, WMAL. 10:30—Arabesque—Also WMAL, WHP, WDBJ, WKBN, WDOD, WLAC, WSPD. 11:00—Back Home Hour—Also WMAL, WHP. WDBJ. WDOD, WLBW, WGHP, WSPD, WCAU, WADC. 12:00—Brokenshire’s Coral Islanders; midnight organ melodies— 394.5—~WJZ New York—760. 5:00—National Religious Service—Also WBZ, WBAL, WHAM, WLW, WAPI. 6:00—To be announced—WJZ. 7:00—Travel descriptive mono- WJIR, » WSB, WSM. 8:00—Melodies—Also WBZ, WHAM. | WJR, WLW, WHAS, WSM, WSB. KDKA. 8:15—Uncle Henry's Magazine—Also WBZ, WHAM, KDKA, WJR, WLW, KYW. 9:15—Penrod, dramatic sketch—Also KDKA, WJR. WMAL, CFRB, CKAC, WSAZ, | I only. 7:30—AC plano-Also WBZ, WBAL, | gifts, WHAM, 'WHAS, | country, ranging from cards to THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Today on the Radio PROGRAM FOR SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1030. (Melers on left of call letters, kilocycles on right. All time p.m., unless otherwise indicated.) LOCAL STATIONS. 8:30—Chase & Sanborn Choral Or- chestra. 9:00—"Our Government,” by David Lawrence. 9:15—Atwater Kent hour, featuring Alda Doninelli, soprano. 10:15—Studebaker Champion: 10:45—Sunday at Seth Parker's. 15—Russian Cathedral Choir. 11:45—Sam Herman, xylophonist. 11:57 to 11:58—Weather Early Program Tomorrow. 6:45a—Tower health exercises. 8:00a—The Aunt Jemima Man. 8:15a—Morning devotions. 8:30a—Cheerio. 9:00a—Morning Melodies. 10:00a—Hits and Bits. 11:00a—Three Little Maids. 11:15a—Radio Household Institute. 11:30a—Songs by Pauline Hi L 11:45a—Bridge talk by Mrs. John Munce, jr. 12:00m—Farm flashes. 12:10—Lotus Orchestra. 1:00—National Farm and Home hour. 1:45—Palais d'Or Orchestra. 2:30—Government Club meeting. 4:00 to 5:00—U. S, Marine Band. 228.9—WOL—1,310, (American Broadcasting Co.) 10:00a—Musical program. 10:30a—Gretchen Hood, soprano. 11:00a—Services of the New York Ave- nue Presbyterian Church. 12:15—Birthdays. 12:18 to 12:20—Public Service Men. Early Program Tomorrow. 7:30a—Reveille, clock. vs. 8:15a—Breakfast brevities, 10:00a—Household chat Clarke. 10:15a—Music. 205.4—WJISVam] (Independent Publishing Co.) 10:30 to 12:30 — Evangelistic service; sermon by Rev. Willlam Mc- Dougall. 7:30—Ladies’ Choir of Fairfax, Va. 7:55—Services of First Church of Christ, Scientist. 9:00—L. Z. Phillips, trombonist. 9:15—Gretta Ludwig, contralto. 9:30—Gospel Melody Trio. 9:45—Chick Godfrey, tenor. 10:10 to 11:00—Clark and Gourley, ‘Gospel singers. Early Program Tomorrow. 8:00 to 10:00a—Helpful hints to house- 11:30a"Nationsl Fai :30a—National Farm program. 11:45a—Current _events, 12:00m—Time signals. 3:00 to 5:30—Midafternoon musicale, orecast. by Peggy OUT-OF-TOWN STATIONS. Programs prepared by the Associated Press. Scheduled for Eastern standard time. 11:00—Caliope and_Katherine ‘Tift- lones—Also KDKA. 11:15—8South Sea Islanders (30 m.); quartet (15 m.)—Also KDKA. 272.6—WPG Atlantic City—1100, 5:15—Religious services. 7:00—Special Sunday concert, 9:15—Hotel Concert Orchestra. 10:00—Lutheran Church Quartet. 10:30—Galen Hall Trio. 11:00—Organ concert. 282.8—WBAL Baltimore—1060. 5:00—Two hours from WJZ. 7:00—Reveries (30m.); WJZ (30m). 282.8—WTIC Hartford—1060, 8:30—Same as WEAF (45m.) 9:15—The enchanted hour. 10:15—WEAF (30 m.); musical. 11:00—Continentals; orgniast (1 hour). 422.3—WOR Newark—710, 6:00—Cathedral Echoes, 7:00—Hotel Concert Orchestra, 8:00—Choir Invisible. 9:00—Symphony orchestra. 10:30—Halsey Street Playhouse. 11:30—Moonbeams. 256.3—WCAU Philadelphia—1170. 5:30—Same as WABC (1% hours). 7:00—H. and F.; pioneers, 8:00—WABC programs (2% hrs.), 10:30—Feature program. 11:00—Hour from WABC. 305.9—KDKA Pittsburgh—980, 6:00—Shadyside Presbyterian. 6:00—Musical (30 m.) WJZ (30 m.). 7:00—Calvary Episcopal Church. 8:00—Same as WJZ (21/ hrs.). 10:15—Pipes O Pan (45 m.). 11:00—Hour from WJZ. 260.7—WHAM Rochester—1150. 5:30—Same as WJZ (1% hours). 7:00—Fireside Forum. 7:30—WJZ programs (3% hours). 379.5—WGY Schenectady—790. 5:00—8ame as WEAF (6% hours), 302.8—WBZ Springfield—990. 5:30—Same as WJZ (1 hour). 6:30—Canadian Pipe Band. 00—Around the Campfire. 7:30—WJZ programs (13, ). 15—Choir (30 m.); WJZ (30 m.). 10:15—Sports; WBZ Players; news. CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN STATIONS. 428.3—WLW Cincinnati—700, 6:30—Story of an opera. 1:33:%3&1 orchestra. PR Z programs (1% hrs.). 15—Kernels. :30—Symphony hour. 10:30—Great adventurers. 11:00—Musical Novelesque (1 hour). 12:00—Little Jack Little (30 m.). 398.8—WJR Detroit—150, 8:00—Entertainers; features; WJZ. 7:00—Corn Poppers; ensemble, 7:30—Same as WJZ. 9:45—WJZ programs. 10:45—Quartet; orchestra. 11:30—Organ Requests. 12:00—Dance music hour. 405.2—WSB Atlanta—740, 7:00—WEAF and WJZ (3% hours), 10:15—Bright spot hour. 277.6—~WBT Charlotte—1080, 6:30—Twilight program. 7:00—8ame as WEAF (30 minutes). 7:30—First Baptist Church. 8:30—8ame as WEAF (1% hours), 10:15—Organ recital. 365.6—~WHAS Louisville—8§20. 7:00—WEAF and WJZ (3% hours), 10:15—Kentucky program. 10:45—Same as WEAF (30 minutes). 11:15—Reporters; Hungarians (45 m.). 461.3—WSM Nashville—650, 7:00—WEAF and WJZ (1% hours). 8:15+Vine Street Church, 9:15—Hour trom WEAF. 10:15—WSM Rhythm Symphony. 270.1—WRVA Richmond—1110, 7:00—~WEAF (30 m.): organist. 00—8t. Mark’s service. Gifts Flood “Amos 'n’ Andy.” Amos 'n’ Andy, otherwise Correll Gosden, were flooded with chm'-::‘l ‘They came from all over the articles of personal apparel and plum pudding. Test Programs Sent Out. Just under the 200-meter limit of the average broadcast receiver, a new station, W2XCD, is sending out test programs. Power used by the sta- tion, which is owned by the De Forest 9:45—The m“_wnm, KDKA, WJR, KYW.“ " orchestra—Also WM. Brush Man—Also WBZ, Radio Co., is now 50 watts, by be increased 10 5,000. The wave tergin 18 187 meters. = Ultima used for Jenkins’ radiovision signals, D. C., JANUARY 5, 1930—PART FOUR. uDDY oYLl LOPEZ WOULD PLAY “SOENTIC MU Plans Tunes That “Create a Mood” Rather Than " Fit One. NEW YORK (#).—Music that creates & mood rather than music that fits a mood—such s the expressed hope of Vincent Lopez, ploneer radio orchestra leader, ‘The moods of music are & pet sub- Ject with Lopesz, who has been telling radio audiences this is “Lopez speaking” since the early days of WJZ,in 1922 In almost any conversation he enters the talk ultimately swings around to the scientific treatment of tene presenta- tion. According to Lopez, music has done much toward keeping the eity dweller and others leading hectic lives from bursting mentally. Undergoing Greatest Boom. Through radio, he points out, music is unde: its greatest boom. Its tunes, the most strenuous jazz not ex- cepted, he feels, have brought many & day of cares to & pleasing climax. If music ean have that effect on the human mechanism through what might be termed the “vibratory effect,” Lopes ‘would go further, “Science has made a study of the effect of music on animate and inani- mate objects,” he explained. ‘“Certain notes sei. up vibrations in foreign ob- Jects, as can be tested by placing a thin metal object near a loud 8} er. Prob- ably there is a similar reaction in the human brain. That may be the reason ‘why some are pleased by jazz and others like only symphonies. Hopes to Play Scientific Musie. “It is my hope to be able to play, let us say, scientific music. By study, it could be determined just what type is best suited to bring a feeling of ease and relaxation. Going a little further, some day it may be possible to listen to cer- tain radio programs bullt to fit the pecular condition the day's tasks de- velop, and thus remove mental de- pression.” Lopez, whose short, sturdy body seems particularly fitted to carry him through the long day required of the modern orchestra conductor, has a background of seven years of playing before the microphone and a longer period before visible audiences. He is heard weekly on both the N, B. C. and C. B. 8. chains. ‘Whether he ver will have the oppor- tunity to try out his theories he would not say, but his study has led him to hope he at least can make a start some day. Major “Chain” Features TODAY. 1:00—National Light Opera Co., “The Geisha"—WRC an N. B. C. network. 4:00—Cathedral _hour—WMAL and C. B. 8. network. 5:00—Davey hour; music_and talk—WRC and N. B. C. network. 7:00—Heroes of the world dra- matic sketeh of an im- portant incident in the life of Robert E. Lee with musical background— WRC and N. B. C. net- work., 8:00—Enna_ Jettick melodies; * mixed quartet and instru- mental _ensemble — WJZ, WBZ, WBAL, WJR, WLW and others. 8:15—Collier's radio hour; dra- matization with musical interlude—WJZ, KDKA, WBZ, WLW, WJR and others. 8:30—Choral Orchastra; popu- lar program with Phil Oh- man and Vietor Arden— WRC and N. B. C. net- work. 9:00—Majestic Theater; Buddy Doyle, comedian and singer—WMAL and C. B. 8. network. rod”—WJZ, WHAM, WBZ, WCKY, WJR, KDKA and WREN. 9:15—Atwater Kent hour; Aida Doninelli, soprano—WRC and N. B. C. network. 10:46—Sunday at Seth Parker's; rural sketch—WRC and N. B, C. network. 11:00—Back-home hour from Churchill Taberuacle, at, Buffalo, featuring Bil Sunday—WMAL and C. B. B. BorDoNI Five outstanding stars of the theater, concert and radio world, who are “featured in the out- standing broadcasts this week. Aida Doninelli, Ttalian-Ameri- can soprano, will be the guest artist in the Atwater Kent hour tonight over WRC. Joan Craw- ford, who, with other motion picture stars, opens a new series of radio programs to be known as “Voices from Filmland” to- morrow night over the Colum- bia network. Harry Reser, ban- Joist extraordinary, who is to continue to lead the Clicquot Eskimos in their 1930 broad- casts over the N. B. C. network. Irene Bordoni, star of the stage and screen, will assist Rudy Vallee in presenting the Sun- shine hour Thursday night over an N. B. C. chain, Buddy Doyle, comedian and singer, . will be the prineipal contributor to -the Majestic hour tonight over WMAL and the Columbia system. McNamee EVER yet have I gone to the to announce a Rose Bowl foot ball game without some- what mixed feelings, I have never been wholly in sympathy with the idea of post-season games, and it doesn’t matter that I know I shall enjoy a game after I get to it. The Tournament of Roses and the game it- self form a_magnificent spectacle, of course, and I, like thousands of others, wouldn't want to miss it. Yet I think the idea of such a game is a bad one. I don't believe it does the players any good to be keyed up to a high pitch of excitement from September until January — certainly their studies must suffer, no matter what their marks mai be—and pro- longed interest in the foot ball season, artificially heightened as it is today, can’t help but disturb the orderly prog- ress of all college work. I am sure it would be much better if the foot ball season were limited to 8 or 10 weeks, and I am equally sure that some method should be found for making foot ball more of & sport and less of a serious business. realize that if this should happen it might very well do me out of a job—or part of my job—but I know I'd have just as much fun watching a game between teams that hadn't been subject to such high-pressure training. I know, be- cause I've had a perfectly swell time watching games that drew only three | or four thousand spectators. Grand Time in Pasadena. But I can’t deny that I had a grand time in Pasadena. There's something electric in the atmosphere that gets me the minute I step off the train, and as soon as I began to look the teams over so as to become familiar with the men and the plans before the game itself, I forgot all my ideas about the wisdom of it. It was just the same this year as it has been before, and if I do another Rose Bowl game I'll bet it will be the same next year. As long as that game is played I confess I want to be there to see it. And anybody who's been there knows why. It's one of the country's greatest annual spec- tacles. There is one photographer in New York who doesn’t think much of sing ers, or probably any one else in radi;, for that matter. And I don't blame him. I guess it was rather a mean trick we all played on him. It ned that A. Atwater Kent wanted cture of the group that was to present his radio hour December 22. Willem van Hoogstraten, the eminent Dutch con- ductor, had come all the way from the Pacific Coast to conduct the first half of the program, and a fine cast of sing- ers had been assembled to present Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” as the second half. And so all of us trouped to the studio to be photo- graphed. For a wonder, every one was on time. When all had arrived the photogra- pher asked if every one was there, “Yes,” replied Fred Patton, the bari- tone, “everybody but Humperdinck. “Oh, well, we'll wait a bit,” the pho. (og her replied. Fifteen minutes Iat ?r he asked, “Is Humperdinck here o By that time no one, not even Van Hoogstraten, whose time in New York was limited, wanted to spoll the fun, and sol one gravely informed the cameraman that Humperdinck was still absent. In another 15 minutes the hotographer was in a stew, and finally e called a New York representative of Mr. Kent on the telephone. “I have another appointment and I can't wait any longer for Humperdinck. Shall I take the rest of them, or do you want to postpone the picture?” he asked. “Listen,” said the man at the other end of the wire, “If you want t- take Humperdinck you'll have to dig him up. He's been dead for years.” Photograph Was Taken. Well, the photograph was taken, but I haven't seen the proofs. And I can't help wondering if that negative was re- touched to give us all crooked noses and | crossed eyes. I couldn't blame the pho- tographer much if he had. Still, it's something like the old factory trick of | sending a green man after a left- handed file, or like the trick they have on shipboard of sending land lubbers in the crew to the chief engineer for a bucket of steam. I don't suppose there is anybody in broadcasting who can be so engagingly cantankerous at the most inopportune times as Phil Cook, who, in own person, is half the funny characters you have heard on the air in the last two or three years. Phil also is the man who causes pro- gram directors to get purple in the face trying to tell him things and end by letting him have his own way. And every now and then Phil puts one over on the program directors for which he really ought to be fired. But you couldn’t fire him, at that. When he does something he “hadn’t orter” he's 50 nalvely frank about it that not even Speaking—" | & program director could stay angry. it Summer Phil got away with something over which members of the studio staff are still chuckling. It hap- ned that his brother-in-law, Vic leming, who plays the Wing of “Buck and Wing,” became ill. Cook was faced with the problem of finding a substi- tute, but he couldn’t-think of any one else who was used to working with him. Finally, since he played half a dogen other character parts in the sketch be- sides his own portrayal of Buck, Cook decided he might as well be Wing, too. And he was—for six weeks. During all that time he continued to collect the same total from the cashier's office. Of course, the production man and the announcer of the program knew Phil was working alone, but they took it for granted that the program executives had approved. But it just happened that none of the officials had looked in on Phil's program, although several had heard it at home. It was two months later before an official heard what Cook had done, and | K Phil was called on the carpet. “Well, you couldn't tell the differ- ence, could you?” he demanded. o > Th.o programs were good, weren't thegfl “Better than ever.” “Then, what's the argument?"” There wasn't any, the official ad- mitted, but before he got out of that office Phil nearly had to agree to con- tinue doing two men's work. Test of Voice Guessing. Listen to his program some time and see if you can recognize the same voice behind the Irish cop, the negro porter, the Italian bootblack, the Yankee and | a couple of other fellows that Cook often plays, all within a half hour on the air. Characters who have their only exist- ence in the minds of radio listeners| nevertheless enter into the daily lives of people everywhere. John B. Ken- nedy met with an example of this the other day. When he was driving down to his office a traffic cop stopped the car ahead, whose driver had attempted to make another block by dashing through cross traffic. “Hey! Who do you think you are— Prof. Butts?” yelled the cop. Kennedy grinned. He had been in- troducing Prof. Butts, the nutty inven- tor, over the air every week or so for months, but he got a kick out of learn- ing how well the “professor” had caught on with the public. Beveral other characters have be- just as well known. “I'se re- gusted” has sneaked into hundreds of vocabularies since “Amos 'n‘ Andy” got on the networks—so much so, in fact, that they tell me at the studios that at least half the complaints they get these days contain the phrase somewhere or other. And just the other day I spotted a new singer about to do his stuff before & microphone, I asked the announcer handling the program who he was, whereupon I learned that the young man was about “to do a Rudy.” Well, I didn’t know what that meant, either, but the announcer—it was John Young —explained that he borrowed the phrase from his elevator man, and that it covers anything from singing love songs to getting sappy over a young person of the opposite sex. Probably Rudy Vallee wouldn't be| flattered to hear it, but that's the way | he has affected more than one sniffish | man in these parts. Matt Thompkins, Luke Higgins, Gus and Louis, Jolly Bill, Seth Parker and a dozen other well known radio characters have come to | | mean definite things in everyday speech. McNAMEE'S QUESTION BOX Q. Can you tell if “The Family Goes Abroad” and “Rapid Transit” are go- ing to be on the radio any more?—Iris Wilson, Takoma Park, Md. A. “The Family Goes Abroad” is to be off the air only two weeks, in order to give Katharine Seymour, its author, & short vacation. It will probably be back again before this is printed. As for “Rapid Transit” these thumbnail sketches of life in New York are not at present scheduled for revival. Half & dozen writers contributed the sketches and all of them are hard at work on other programs. But I won't say the program never will be revived. Q. Will you please tell me if the part of Kingfish is played by either Mr. Cor- rell or Mr. Gosden f so. which one, Mass. A. Freeman Gosden, who is “Amos,” plays the “Kingfish" of the lodge. Gios- den and Charles J. Correll play all the characters in their programs. Did you ever notice that the woman character: never actually get before the micro- ’h&uxnwmmumm Behind the Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. HERE are the Shake- eares, the Molnars, the O'Neills, the Pineros and the Shaws of the air? Where are the writers of radio dramas who will be remem- bered 10 years from now? These questions are ones asked frequently in the broadcasting studios. They are questions which have been given many answers. Some radio executives believe the writers who today are turning out 15 and 30 minute dramatic sketches will be the world-famous radio playwrights of tomorrow. Others hold that for today and for the next few years the contest for supremacy in the ranks of ra- dio writers will be open to scrib- blers who have yet to enter the radio studios. All agree, however, that the demands of radio will eventually produce a new form of dramatic art, a form so highly perfected that all the senses of the listener will be stimulated through an approach by the lim- :led channel of the sense of hear- ng. Burke Boyce, editor of the Na- tional Broadcasting Co. continu- ity department and the author of a number of successful radio dramas, should be in a ition to know what to expect of the radio drama. Yet he hesitates to fore- cast the future. “Radio drama has a technique of its own,” sald Boyce. “It is & technique which works solely through the ear. To master this technique and to write dialogue that will hold the attention of the listener for a half hour or longer is a matter of time and experi- ence, even for the best stage and screen playwrights. But the strides we have made in this technique in the last year lead me to believe that we have only scratched the surface of radio drama, and that the dramatic program will some day be a major field of entertainment. “We have been forced to feel our way slowly in the new medi- um. At the same time, we have tried to keep pace with the tre- mendous technical progress of broadcasting. But we are laying a 500& foundation of experience and gradual development. Some day, and I think the day is not far, the radio dramatists will be able, with the capable assistance of trained microphone actors and | directors, to reach this goal of an art standing by itself. “Whether the men and women who are writing the continuities and radio dramas today will be the Ibsens and the Shaws of the future I cannot tell. They are learning a new craft in the one way a new craft can be learned— through experience and through experiments.” EE R The recent announcement of Merlin H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Co., that the newly formed Radio Mu- | sic Co. would initiate a campaign to lead the public away from jazz has drawn the fire of B. A. Rolfe, | famous orchestra conductor, who directs the Lucky Strike dance program each week over a net- work of Mr. Aylesworth's own sta- tions. Rolfe described the announce- ment as ‘“ridiculous.” “There is no such thing as jazz,” he de- clared. “Music is.one of the first great expressions of the spirit of any people,” according to the noted leader. “With the close of the war came great interest in jazz. From lowly jazz has come a natu- ral, youthful expression of our spirit. We call it rhythm or dance music. To it has come the con- tributions of all nationalities in our great melting pot. Each coun- try has presented its emotions from different angles. From the continent has come the pessimism of Russia, the fire of the Balkans and the beating rhythms of Spain. From our own Negroes has come the gayety, the humor to balance this. At first, in its plain, unembellished form, we call this jazz. Then Gershwin and others took it and raised it to a place with great music. It is no longer jazz. It has become the musical expression of a rapidly emerging race—the Americans. “The develofpmenz has not been unlike that of the movies. From little slapstick comedies in which custard-ple throwing played a hlfhly important part, have de- veloped the talking picture ver- sions of the highest and most subtle type of comedy. Our dance music today is rhythmic, melodi- ous, and it has real musical hu- mor, but it has risen far above the mud of jazz. “Since, in my opinion, there is no such thing as jazz, the an- nouncement that the Radio Mu- sic Co. will carry on a campaign to lead people away from jazz to more refined music strikes me as being ridiculous.” R Radio singing and concert sing- ing are not the twins they are supposed to be, according to Frederick R. Huber, director of WBAL, Baltimore's municipal broadcasting station. In fact, Hu- ber declares that singing for the radio audience requires entirely different technique from that usually employed by singers ap- pearing on the concert stage. “Singers before the micro- phone,” he said, “must seek even- ness of tone and be non-explosive to get best results. The concert singer, like the tennis player who puts the force of his whole body into his strokes, steps into his song, becomes dramatic and puts his entire power into his voice to attain his climaxes. It is just these things which the radio singer must avoid, “The bombastic tones, so desir- able on the stage, merely blast the ‘mike’ and so prevent the very effect which the radio singer de- sires to give. Take Caruso, for in- stance. It is not generally known, but when the great singer was to makeé a record for the talking machines, he practiced hours daily for many days before he de- veloped into what is regarded as one of the best voices ever record- ed. The technique of the radio singer is grnctlcnlly identical with that of the singer whose voice is to be recorded, and it is safe to say that those accustomed to singing on the air would experi- ence little difficulty in having their voices recorded. “However, I think concert sing- ers are more likely become good radio singers than radio singers are to succeed in concert work, just as.the pianist is mu¢h more likely to become a good or- ganist than the organist an ef- fective pianist, because the latter must depend solely on his fingers and on himself for his climaxes, while the organist can get many of his dramatic effects mechani- cally. The range of the voice is not so important to a radio singer as are evenness and delicacy of tone. For this reason, a lyric voice is usually ve&much more apt to b;?nedcnt better than a dramatic voice.” who acted in a stock company in De- troit several years ago?—L. L. R., Dear born, Mich. A. Probab) Arthur Allen was born in Gowanda.N. Y., went to high school there and to college in Oberlin, Ohio. Attended a conservatory and was a church organist five years. Entered stock in 1913 and played in Buffalo, De- troit, Northampton and Toronto. From there he went into road companies and later into Broadway productions. t into radio at the insistence of Gerald Stopp, who has directed him in prac- tically all of his radio appearances. Best known for his portrayal of New England characters. He is married and lives at Hempstead, Long Island. Q. Is it true that the National Broad- casting Co. and the Columbia Broad- casting System are owned by the same people?—Gerald Ash, Wichi Kans. A. No. The National Broadcasting Co. was organized and is owned by dio Corporation of America, General Elec- | tric and Westinghouse. The Columbia Broadcasting System was organized by | the Columbia Phonograph Co., and was later sold to private individuals. Re- cently Paramount-Publix bought a sub- stantial interest in it. Q. Are the stories about Vaughn de Leath’s earrings true?—Norah Lassen, Houston, Tex. A. Yes. Miss de Leath has a really remarkable collection of earrings. They match every costu and every mood, Some of them have histories, but most | of them were given to her by friends. ot she bought them because she liked them. T can't remember ever seeing her without a pair. She prefers red. Q. I have sometimes thought that Henry Hurbig was Irving Kaufman in disguise. Is this true?—John Scales, Huntington, W. Va. A. No. Although they both do Jewish monologues they are different person: NOLAN MOTOR CO. Sales Service Always Open 1109-15 18th N.W. 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