Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1930, Page 24

;w those familiar with their classics, is | do credit to the theme is a question | There are bits of them, one of the most stirring in legendary Whether John Banim's lines however, | splendidly suited to dramatic declama. | tion, such as Damon's speech ending | with “Better death with honor than life | | with dishonor.” Certainly the sacrifice with which ve his Pythias tries to s | friend is one of the most noble situa- | tions_in the classics and one which Public Found to Be Spending| Mr. Downing and Mr. Belmore handled | last night with reverence. The cast that supported the star was Billion Dollars Annually =h-m1y What it should have been. Helen for Reception. | Raymond Barrett convincing enough as BY MARTIN CODEL. “Distress” radio receiving sets, dumped on the market in large quantities in recent months, have about disappeared | from dealers’ stocks, and the radio busi- ness is returning to normal. Surveylng the maiket, Radio Retail- | ing finds that the period of instability €ue to overproduction and the closing ont of certain lines has passed. Many unusual values were offered the buying public while they lasted, but price-cut- ting was raising havoc with manufac- turers and distributors of established lines. With $3,500,000,000 invested in radio receiving equipment during the eight years from 1922 through 1920, the American people are now spending at the rate of nearly $3,000.000,000 a year on their radios. Last year's retail sales aggregate was placed at $842,548,000. 11,800,000 Active Sets. It is estimated by Radio Retailing | that 11,800,000 sets were in use in this| country January 1, 1930. Counting re- placement. the market was reckoned as | about 53 per cent unsold. At least 16,000,000 prospects for initial and re- placement sales remain During 1929 some 4.200.000 factory- built radio sets were sold for $525.000.- 000, or at ar average retail cost of $125 per set. P wddition 238,000 radio- phonograph combinations and 69.020.000 tubes were sold, together with large| quantities of speakers, batteries and accessories. ‘This year it is estimated that 4.500.- | 000 new sets, requiring 32,000,000 tubes | as initial equipment. will be sold, to-| gether with 51,000,000 replacement Subes. All this indicates a rather healthy eondition in the radio industry, in spite of the difficulties through which some | of the old-line companies recently passed and the Spring doldrums that are about to set in. Balmier weather invariably reduces radio sales, although the industry seeks to offset this sea- =opal factor with an increased volu & newspaper advertising and a contin ance of broadcasts of a high order. Trade Show Awaited. Whether anything startlingly new will be offered on the market this vear re- mains to be seen when the annual radio trade show convenes at Atlantic City in June. Thus far very few new wrinkles and practically nothing of a radical nature have cropped out. One company is pushing a newly developed tube, called the Pentobe, which is said to be more powerful than the screen grid and which reduces the number of tubes required in a set. One Chicago dealer is understood to bave introduced a Pentode set last week. It remains to be seen whether new type sets with circuits designed for the Pentode will be much in evidence at Atlantic City. (Copyright, 1930. by North American News- paper Alliance.) AMUSEMENTS ROBERT DOWNING in “Damon and Pythias.” The return to the stage of Robert Downing, formerly Washington's most notable tragedian, was the occasion last night for a large and enthusiastic gath- ering at the gnditorium. Choosing one of the plays With which he was thor- oughly familiar, Mr. Downing present- ed “Damon and Pythias” which, as he said in a short curtain speech, “is 8 classical play of merit and one which teaches a lescon—the brotherhood of man." Introduced briefly by Isaac Gans, who told of Mr. Downing’s plans for a classical revival of some of the more worth-while plays, the veteran actor strode upon the stage and spoke his lines as though he had never been away from thespian fields. His voice— always one of the most pleasing fea- tures of his art—has lost none of the old fire, and his wWords came with a clarity and conviction that the actors of the present day and age would do well to emulate. 2 ‘The story of “Damon and Pythias" T ——— A¢ FRANKLIN -“M® O= <wnam | Dionysius. The costumes and the y were simple but adequate. The the minor characters. 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