Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1930, Page 69

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 2, 1930—PART FOUR, EGYPTIAN TENOR GALAXY OF STARS TO PARADE BEFORE MICROPHONE T0°SING OVER WRC Armand Tokatyan to Join Genevieve Irene Rowe in Broadcast. ‘The musical culture of the Near East and West will meet in joint recital in the Atwater Kent hour tonight over WRC and other National Broadcasting Co. stations with Genevieve Irene Rowe, soprano, of Wooster, Ohio, and Armand Tokatyan, tenor, of Alexandria, Egypt, as the guest sololsts. Miss Rowe is the winner of the re- cent national radio audition of the Atwater Kent Foundation and Tokat- yan is singing in the Metropolitan Opera Co. “The Shadow Song” from the Meyerbeer opera “Dinorah,” which won the audition for Miss Rowe, will be repeated by her in the joint recital with Tokatyan, who will demonstrate his ability to put the poetry and pas- sion of music into songs. One of his contributions will be the so-called “Flower Song” of Done Jose in Bizet's opera “Carmen.” Aside from the Atwater Kent hour. ‘WRC’s other musical attractions in- clude the weekly broadcast of the Chase & Sanborn Choral Orchestra, the pop- ular program of the Studebaker Cham- plons and the presentation of the Capi- tol Theater “family.” In addition theie will be the usual program by the Old Company Male Quartet and the rural sketch “Sunday at Seth Parker's.” Te Contrast Dance Numbers. Popular selections of the first 10 years of the century dominate the Old Com- pany _songalogue, Wl the Capitol “family” will feature the works of ‘Tschalkowsky. The Champions will contrast the latest dance melodies with those which caught the popular fancy in the last two or three years. In the afternoon WRC will broadcast its regular features.” These include a production by the National Light Opera Co., which is to be a tabloid version of Planquette’s “Rip Van Winkle,” and the service at the Washington Cat dral. Right Rev. James E. Freeman. Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of ‘Washington, will preach the sermon. WMAL's special Sunday feature will be a rebroadcast of a message from llx:ndon by l’re‘derlc William WI;: m} the progress of the five-power Naval Conference. Wile’s voice will cross the Atlantic via short waves. His message will be picked up in New York and distributed over the Columbia Broad- casting System metwork. The mum'stg;lncsp-l attractions to- night include Majestic Theater of the Alr, the Sonatron program, the La Palina’ Rhapsodizers and Jesse Craw- ford's weekly organ recital. There also will be the regular resume by Dr. Julius Kilein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, on “The World's Business,” and the Arabesque dramatic sketch. “Three Aristocrats” Featured. “The Three Aristocrats,” an instru- mental and vocal trio, who have just completed a long and successful vaude- ville tour, will be the principal con- tributors to the Majestic program. Mu- riel La France, Redferne Hollinshead and Arnold Johnson-also will take part in this program by contributing a group of the most popular compositions of Victor Herbert. Zinaida' Nicolina will sing the beauti- ful aria “Connaid-tu-le-Pays,” from ‘Thomas’ opera “Mignon,” as a feature of the La"Palina program. orches- tra will present a medley of Civil War tunes. Mrs, Jesse Crawford will assist her husband in the Royal program, which opens with a medley of the out- standing hits of the day. ‘The Arabesque ntation will be the musical playlet “The Gypsy,” which depicts lord and & gypsy girl. 9 ‘WOL will be on the air tonight witih s special Franz Schubert memorial in which the stars of e 4 ominent part directed by Robert How- | ard, father of “Bobby” Howard, former ‘WOL announcer, will provide special numbers. ‘WJSV has added variety to its pro- gram tonight: by scheduling several new tures. ‘These include a concert by the senior choir of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church and a broadcast of the evhtalol:: service of the P. P. E. Asso- ¢ 3 —_— ROUND-WORLI FHONING ON SHORT WAVE TRIED French Ministry Finds Cost of Mes- sage From New York “Cut to $8. PARIS (#).—Telephoning around the ‘world at bargain rates on short wave is considered commercially practicable by the French ministry of posts, telegraphs and telephones. It is estimated that the cost of a three-minute talk between Paris and New York could be cut from the present $50 to something like $8. Short wave experiments by govern- ment engineers early last year showed it ‘was possible to hook up Paris with Al-| m&x,ldmmmfleep-ynulm-j ‘;nn n. Show Boat Drama Wednesday. A comedy drama is to be given Wednesday night by Hank Simmons’ Show Boat over WMAL. It is “The Buckeye.” Major “Chain” Features TODAY. 1:00—National Light Opera Co., “Rip Van Winkle"—WRC and N. B. C. network. 4:00—Cathedral hour; vocal and instrumental fea- tures—WMAL and C. B. 8. network. 5:00—Davey hour; Walter Pres- ton, baritone, and other soloists—WRC and N. B. C. network. 7:00—Heroes of the world dra- matic sketch of an im- portant incident in the life of Daniel Boone, with musical background —WRC and N. B. C. net- work. 8:00—Enna Jettick melodies; mixed quartet and instru- metnal _ensemble—WJZ, ‘WBZ, AL, 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 Orchestra; popu- lar program with Phil Ohman and Victor Arden —WRC and N. B. C. net- work. 9:00—Majestic Theater; “The ‘Three Aristocrats,” vocal and instrumental trio— ‘WMAL and C. B. 8. net- work. 9:15—Atwater Kent hour; Gene- vieve Irene Rowe, SOPrano and Armand Tokatyan, tian tenor—WRC and N. B. C. network. 9:45—Dramatic sketch based on Booth Tarkington's “Pen- rod"—WJZ, WBZ, WJR, WHAM, WCKY, KDKA, REN. and W] A 10:45—"Sunday at Seth Park- er's”; rural sketch—WRC and N. B. C. network. 11:00—Back-home from Churchill Tabernacle, at WMAL and Buffalo — C. B. 8. network. hour | & LiLLIAN GUISEPPE ge LucA- Lois BENNETT- Lillian Roth of motion picture fame will assist Paul Whiteman's Orchestra in presenting the Old Gold hour over WMAL Thesday. Fanny Brice, stage and screen star, and Henry Burbig, radio comedian, are to take part in the Philco hour over the same station Wednesday. The General Motors “family party” over WRC tomorrow night will have Gluseppe De Luca, baritone, as its guest soloist. Lois Bennett, charming radio soprano, will be heard several times this week over the Columbia network. Genevieve Irene Rowe, no, winner of the 1929 sopra; national radio audition, will share honors in the Atwater Kent hour tonight over WRC with Armand Tokatyan, Metropolitan Opera tenor. Behind the Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. adverse effect on the radio market by the recent an- nouncement of the coming of the five-element pentode tube, the Radio Manufacturers’ Associ- ation, which comprises virtually all the important radio set mak- ers in the country, has been quick to answer the claims of what the tube will do. A few days after the newspa- pers of the country had heralded the advent of the pentode and outlined its advantages over the present three and four element tubes as claimed by the manufac- turer, the association issued a statement denying that the tube is new or revolutionary or that it will give better service. The state- ment was prepared by Walter E. Holland, a Philadelphia radio en- gineer, who is serving as director of the engineering division of the Radio Manufacturers’ Association. “There is nothing new or revo- lutionary about pentodes,” de- clared the statement. “No im- provement in performance can now be obtained with pentodes that ¢annot be had with present tubes. A given result is possible with less tubes, using pentodes, but it is unlikely that the cost of a complete radio receiver would be any less. “The pentode tube has long been known abroad and has| found limited commercial use there, especially in England. Many radio-receiver and vacuum-tube engineers in this country have experimented with this type of vacuum tube and are thoroughly familiar with its characteristics and possible applications. “The pentode power tubes used abroad have greater sensitivity and, therefore, provide higher amplification per stage than our triode power tubes. This makes it possible to eliminate a state of audio amplification and work from the detector directly into a single power stage without over- loading the detector or the radio frequency amplifier tubes. An- other advantage is that it is pos- sible with pentodes to obtain greater undistorted output where the plate voltage is limited, as in battery receivers and receivers for operation on the 110-volt di- rect current supply used in cer- tain sections of a few cities. “Against these advantages the pentode has a number of disad- vantages. It is a most difficult tube to manufacture with uni- formity, owing to its complexity and to the fact that it must be exhausted to an extremely high degree of vacuum. Non-uniform- ity of pentodes. will make greater differences in the operation of a radio receiver than with tubes of the present type. It is inherently a high-cost tube.” * * Kk All precincts have been heard from, and the National Broad- casting Co. has analyzed the re- turns commenting on the memo- rable exchange of rad® programs with Europe on Christmas day and the day after. The results throw an interesting light on America’s taste in radio enter- tainment and provide valuable information which can now be used in designing similar fea- tures. Among the thousands of letters which arrived in every mail since Christmas, there were many bit- ter complaints. As these were read by program experts, they re- gretted temporarily the predomi- nance of popular music in Ameri- ca’s contribution to Europe's ra- dio Christmas. But now the final comparison has been made, and the N. B. C. discovers that an overwhelming majority approved its selection of program material for the international exchange. Actual count reveals that 11 per- sons considered the program an excellent representation of Amer- ican music for every single one who resents the intrusion of jazz. Returns from abroad, from England, Holland and German where the American program: were broadcast clearly over na- tional networks, are unanimously enthusiastic in praise of the ma- | terial selected. Foreign listeners urge that such exchanges of entertainment be made more frequent, and specifi- cally ask to hear more of such noted American radio stars as nette, the Revelers Quartet, beth mnox and the BSalon Singers. ey aiso liked the orchestras led by Na- ! PPARENTLY fearful of an thaniel Shilkret and Andy San- nela, who gave them typical American works such.as Gersh- win’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” various Foster airs and the jazz classic, “St. Louis Blues.” Listeners of the European Con- tinent point out that American jazz there is all the rage and or- chestras playing it are in great demand, but that they are seldom privileged to hear such elaborate symphonic jazz as American lis- teners enjoy by the twist of a dial any night. They further emphasize that even genuine American orches- tras abroad, except in the most important capitals, are unable to keep their music abreast of the latest developments on Broadway, and hence consider an authentic the shows “as good as a trip to New York.” By far the greatest number of comments, however, was received from American listeners. ;A Na- tion-wide audience here" over- heard the programs addressed to Europe, as well as those sent here from London, Berlin and Amster- dam. Some of those who com- mflned disliked certain parts of ese foreign relays, and took oc- of American programs over the general run abroad, judging by such samples. But the majority of listeners re- alized the difficult problem fac- ing program builders on both sides of the Atlantic and recog- nized the impossibility of con- densing a real cross-section of any nation’s programs into the time available. Those who dis- liked any part of the programs, however, expressed themselves in no uncertain terms. * ok ok E When Judge Ira E. Robinson, chairman of the Federal Radio Commission, introduces the first broadcast of the American School of the Air over 48 stations of the Columbia Broadcasting System Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, millions of school children, teach- ers, educators and parents are ex- pected to be tuned in on one of the most significant events in ra- dio broadcasting’s brief but spec- tacular history. In less than a year’s time the attitude of the public and the éd- ucational world toward the par- ticipation of broadcasting in edu- cation has changed from compar- ative apathy to intense interest and active co-operation in fur- thering radio’s newest function. Leaders of the educational field have thrown their support whole- Thousands of schools throughout the Nation have purchased or borrowed radio receivers in order to hear the broadcast lessons. Parent-teacher associations and women'’s clubs in every State have lanned special meetings to tune ?n for the broadcasts. program of the American School will be & dramatitzation built on the life and deeds of Christopher Columbus. The story of his in- terest in the sea as a youth, his eager attention to the stories of seafarers who told strange tales of new lands far to the west, his growing conviction that he could discover a new passage to India by sailing west and how he over- came the enormous difficulties surmounting his task of securing ships and men, all will be graphi- cally portrayed in a radio drama written by Henry Fisk Carlton and William ‘Fgrg Manley, famous radio playwrights. OWIRg to the fact that the pro- grams are designed primarily for reception in school rooms, the ut- most care is being exercised to assure the educational correct- ness of each program before it is broadcast. Dr. William C. Bagley. noted educational authority ot Teachers’ College, Columbia Uni- versity, heads as dean an advi- sory faculty of 15 distinguished educators, each of whom has been selected as a authority in his particular field. These faculty members will criticize and edit the programs to assure their au- thenticity. Nearly 5,000 schools have been selected from every State in the country to serve as official obser- vation posts for the purpose of evaluating the programs present- ed. Questionn: .m‘ne being pre- pared covering of the broad- casts, and these will be filled out || by the teachers of the evaluating program of current favorites from | casion to point out the superiority | heartedly behind the movement.| gunshin Appropriately enough, the first || posts, indicating the efficaccy of the type of presentation used, the adaptability of each subject pre- sented to broadcasting, construc- tive criticisms and comment for improvement of the broadcast lessons. “MIKE” TO ENTER SHRINE FOR LINCOLN PROGRAM Columbia Broadcasting System to Commemorate Birthday From Museum. ‘Through the eyes of a “mike” placed in the Lincoln Museum, the one-time boarding house in which Abraham Lin- coln died, on Tenth street, the Colum- bia Broadcasting System will take its listeners on & word-picture tour of in- spection of this national shrine as a Rl’t of its Lincoln birthday program, bruary 12. In Washington this his- toric feature will be broadcast by Sta- tion WMAL, This will be the first time a micro- phone has been fltced in this tourist mecca. Since 1927 it has been owned and maintalned by the Government and is under the supervision of Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks of the Na- tional Capital. Listeners will be conducted through the museum by a man who has devoted most of his life to a study of Lincoln. He is Lewis G. Reynolds, custodian of the museum. Reynold’s father and mother were at Ford's Theater Friday evening, April 14, 1865, the night of the assassination. BRAZILIAN AMBASSADOR AIDS GOOD-WILL SERIES | Senor Gurgel de Amaral to Be In- troduced to WMAL Listeners by Senator Tasker L..Oddie. Senor Gurgel do Amaral, Ambassador of Brazil, will be the speaker in the third of the international good-will series car- ried by the Columbia Broadcasting Sys- fem over its coast-to-coast network Tuesday. This program will be broad- cast locally by station WMAL and will be transmitted to ships at sea and lis- teners in foreign lands by Columbia’s syhorkt-'a: transmitter, W2XE, New orl y, and the rebroadcaster, W3XAE, Philadelphia. * The Brasilian Ambassador will be in- troduced by Senator Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada, who recently has returned from an extended business tour of Brazil. The Ambassador is expected to tell of the contribution of Brazil to interna- tional law and diplomacy, and thus to the democratic civilization of the New World. He will explain interesting and little-known contents of the constitution of Brazil, one of which is that wars of conquest are specifically forbidden and that arbitration and settlement of inter- national difficulties by pacific means are required. As in the two preceding “Conclave of Nations” programs, the music will be typical of the country and is being se- bassador. The music will be rendered by Columbia artists in the New York studios. The Ambassador and Senator Oddie will speak from Washington, NBC to Give Radio Plays. A new series of rad to be known as the “Sketch loolql,w will be presented over N. B. C. beginning Friday. The program originates at Chicago and goes to both coasts. Duet on WRC Friday. A duet by Jessica Dragonette, so- prano, and Leo O'Rourke, tenor, will be one of the highlights’ of the or- Cchestra and Cavaliers program on WRC Friday. . McNamee Is Guest iioloilt. Graham McNamee, baritone an- e on WRC Thursday, Will Portray Kansas History. A story of the early history of Eansas and will be portrayed over WJZ Hons Thursda, Direct Current EARL RADIOS Demonstrators Few Only Guaranteed Genuine and Manufactured by the Original Factory Specifications Complete With R. C. A. Tube Equipment 1$10.00 ,,,w,ssgig | This Set Was $111.00 and Is Worth It! Okay Radio Co. 417 11th St. N.W. 1760 Pa. Ave. N.W. lected with the co-operation of the Am- | HENEVER I hear a call for a strait-jacket around the studios, T know that an- other program builder has been assigned the job of producing a funny program. The cas- ualty rate on program directors is heavy. Broadcasting isn't very old, but I suspect that all the program di- rectors there are will either die young or end up picking buttercups off the walls of their cells. And those that are ordered to dig up something funny are the quickest to go. The man wh can write real comedy, and keep it funny week after week, has a job—even a couple of jobs—waiting for him in every broadcasting studio in the country. I don't know many professional funny men, and those I do know I usually want to choke. The weekly funny men who deliver their stuff on schedule and whose average of laughs outweighs the groans are scarcer than live rabbits in Harlem. ‘The most successful I know go in for a kind of burlesque, and probably Raymond Knight is the master of these, Knight began with the ambition to be a writer of serious drama, and when he was studying under George Plerce Baker he did a number of very fine things. His one-act play, “Strings,” was produced at the Lyric Theater in New York. But he couldn't stay seri- ous very long, d when he took to writing for the air almost every other thing he did was a comedy sketch. Broad burlesques, very concisely writ- ten. most of them were. Probably his greatest asset is the ability to make a pun intellectually respectable. Knight finally was given a chance to do several series of comedy programs. His “Hello, Mars!™ is best described as cock-eye sclence, and titles of indi- vidual skits in other series are rather descriptive. Here are some of them: “Cleopatra Makes Her Mark,” “Diog- enes See the Light,” “The Pilgrims Make Plymouth Rock” and “Ten Knights Under a Round Table.” But if you ever have a chance, don't read a Knight script; listen to it. Young Announcer’s Experience. Once upon a time there was an an- nouncer, young, bright and ambitious, who had' yet to make his mark on the networks. He had a good voice, a pleas- ant personality and plenty of general ability, but for weeks he had been an- nouncing daytime and early evening programs. He had been allowed so far to handle only small networks, and his great desire, to thrill the Nation with the sweep of his emotions, remained unfilled. Finally he got his chance. ‘The great Senator Whoosis was ill, air a page thrust a copy of -his speech into the young announcer’s hand. “You are to read it,” he said. At last his chance had come. The young an- nouncer stepped to the control box, cleared his throat and threw the switch. “Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to hear, etc,” he began. With the in- troduction over, he stepped back from Colorful Tone Made and just before he was to go on the | soni the microphone, dropped his voice & couple of tones and began to read the speech. It was a swell speech, I'll say that for. it, and the young announcer made the most of it. You couldnt’ see them, but he even put in the gestures. It was Jjust plumb thrilling. But in the mean- time, in other parts of the building, several officials who knew the Senator was not going to be present heard the opening of the program through their loud speakers. There was a concerted plunge upstairs and down corridors. Into the studio they filed and formed & menacing circle behind the young an- nouncer. Their hands almost reached for his throat. One of them got be- tween the announcer and the control box, so he couldn't throw the switch when he finished. As the young an- nouncer tossed off the last sentence wth all the fire of his soul and turned beaming to receive the plaudits he ex- pected, some one hissed into his ear, “Listen, when you say ‘Senator Whoosis’ it’s got to be Senator Whoosis. Get on that mike and tell the audience you read the speech.” That's the saddest young announcer I've even seen, but today he’s one of the best. He dropped his histrionics for sincerity, but the force of personality is still there. U. S. Duty to Foreign Listeners. There has been a merry little tempest here in New York radio circles over what kind of program the United States should put on for the benefit of foreign listeners, now that international broadcasting seems here to stay. Some seem to think we should put on our best symphonies, the best work of our radio playwrights (for English con- sumption only, of course) and the most important speeches of our public men. Others think we ought to give them jazz, blues singers, negro spirituals, the. work of Stephen Foster and of Victor Herbert. The classicists say that we do an injustice to the intelligence of our foreign listeners when we give them the popular music of the day, and their opponents say there isn't any point in transmitting symphonies, as they have ones in Euroue. Better, they say, to send over things typically American, expertly done, of course, but somethi they couldn’t hear over there. T am personally inclined to favor the latter group, although our country has been so badly misrepresented in Eu- rope that I'd like to have our fine sym- phonies and great operas put on the transatlantic short waves, too. But out- side of a few big cities, Europe has no good dance music. The best of our folk have found their way into Eng- land, but only to a small degree, and quite without their native flavor. No one but the Negroes should attempt spirituals, and as for drama, I am thor- oughly convinced that the difference in accent makes it impossible for one country to enjoy the plays of the other over the air. On the stage, yes, for the burden of creating the {llusion off the sense of hearing. No, I feel sure our foreign cousins would much prefer to hear “Turkey in the Straw, “St. Louis Blues,” “Swanee River,” “Ebenezer Frye,” “Go Down, Moses” and “Mean to Me” than the best offerings of our greatest sym- phonies. And I do hope we shan't talk each other to death. Power of Music Illustrated. Florida might inever have been dis- covered if Ponce de Leon had not set| out to find the fountain of youth, but if the doughty Spaniard had been a ‘Walter Damrosch or a John Philip tentedly at home, safe in the assurance that he had eternal youth within him- self. Often when I have watched these two great men conducting I have mar- veled at the power of music to rejuve- nate those who have given their lives to .t. I have seen Sousa, tired, half sick, pick up the baton and become in a moment the vibrant young conductor of the United States Marinc Band. I have seen Damrosch almost haggard, wondering, perhaps, if the task of in- stilling a love for good music in the children of the Nation were mnot too heavy a one for his old shoulders, climb stifly to his pedium, and then, by the very force of his personality and his love for the great music, weave a spell over musicians and listeners alike. An elderly musician is really too men. There is the one you meet on the street or in his home, gray, probably a little world weary, and with only a shred of his youthful enthusiasm. And there is the one you see, alert, baton raised, inspired by the music he is about to draw from the men assembled before him. The arms may droop a little, the shoulders and elbows may be a little stiff, but after one has mastered great orchestras or great bands for two gen- erations, what need for arms? There is still the eye. And no matter how old they grow, they will always have their wusic, and music never grows old. It is forever as living as the day when its composer first heard it in his mind and set it down on paper. Whoever has it in him must remain young, too. I rather pity old Ponce de Leon. He went tramping off through the Florida swamps after something that didn’t ex- ist, but if he could have known Walter Damrosch and John Philip Sousa as we know them in the studios he would have set out to follow their example. ‘Well, anyway, he would have learned to play the plano with at least a couple of fingers. McNAMEE'S QUESTION BOX Q. Is John Young married?—“Wini- fred,” Larchmont, N. Y. A. Still single. Incidentally, Young is also an alumnus of WBZ-WBZA. He got his start, however, through direrting and acting in plays before the micro- phone. He studled playwriting under George Plerce Baker at Yale. Q. Was Alwyn E. W. Bach a Chicago announcer before he went to New York? —J. B. W., Chicago, Til. A. No. He announced for WBZ- WBZA before he went on the network. Sousa he might have remained con- | his 13 was later transferred to the Boston studios of .the twin stations. Before that he was in the printing and publish- ing business but he spent his spare time singing and conducting choruses. He made his radio debut as a soloist and it was several months before he took up announcing. Q. Has Rudy Vallee ever played in nn‘omon in person?—M. M. Roxbury, ass. A. I haven't been able to catch up * with Rudy to have him answer this question personally, but it is my im- ression that he has not. I am sure e has not played there since he made I in radio. It is quite possible that he played in Boston as a saxophonist before he had his own or- chestra, Q. Would you tell me if Margsret Solley is the eorrect name of the solo- ist who sings over WJZ-—Virginia Sol- ley, Glen Barnie, Md. A. Yes. Margaret Solley, contralto, has been 7inging over that station, but she recencly requested leave of absence for a rost. Her father, Dr. Fred P. Solley, a physician, lives in New York. Q. Does Vaughn de Leath sing in any other program but Firestone?—Mrs, T. P. Haase, Baltimore, Md. A. No. Vaughn de Leath has signed a contract to appear in that program exclusively. I understand that it has about a year to run. Q. Will you contract to make talking newsreels keep you IW;’ from the microphone?—Robert. lllen, Sacra- mento, Calif. A. Nothing could keep me away from the microphone for any length of time. No contract that I shall ever make will tie me up in such a manner that I cannot go out to cover a big event with a microphone before me. What- ever else I may do, I shall always con- sider myself first of all a broadcaster. Q. Has Comdr. Byrd ever been on the air?—F. B. B, Kansas City, Kans, A. Yes, several times. Several weeks ago I commented on his self-possession before the microphone. There are a g0od many of us who wish it might be possible to put his voice on the air from his base at Little America in the Ant- arctic. Perhaps some future explorer will carry apparatus which will make it possible for to speak to us from one of the Poles. The idea is fanciful at present, but my faith in engineers is so g;en that I wouldn't put it beyond em. Q. Who else beside Milton J. Cross has received the medal for good diction on the air?>—M. L., South Bend, Ind. A. No-one else has received the medal. It was awarded for the first time on April 23, 1929. 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