Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1930, Page 57

T HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHI -~ D € NE 22, 1930—PART FOUR. TWO WASHINGTON SINGERS COME BACK TO RADIO LONDON ADDRESS 10 BE HEARD HERE Rebroadcast of Bishop Free- man’s Words Scheduled This Morning. From London Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Episcopal Bishop of the Dio- | cese of Washington, will speak to the! American radio audience today through 2 metwork of Columbia Broadcasting System stations, in which WMAL is to be linked. The rebroadeast is sched- | uled from 11:30 to 11:45 o'clock this morning. Bishop Freeman went to London to preach in the Canterbury Cathedral June 15 in connection with the ce tion of the 800th anniversary Norman Chapel of that cathedral Two other outstanding will be broadcast by W will be made by Cha - poulos, Greek Minister to the United States, who will speak in the Conclave of Nations' series, and the other by Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary, | who will discuss “The Flexible Tariff | &,{Ause" in the series known as “The| orld’s Business.” The Conclave of Nations’ program will be dedicated to Greece, and in addition to Minister Simopoulos’ talk there will be selec-| tions by the Byzantine Chorus of male | voices. | Pianist to Be Heard. Mayhew Lake and his band will have as the soloist in the third of its series of concerts Frank Banta, famous pian- ist, who will play “Liebestraum.” The | band’s_program contains “The Golli- | wog’s Cakewalk™ of Bebussy and Tosti's “Good-bye.” Redferne Hollinshead, tenor, and Grace LaMar, contralto, will be th featured soloists in the Majestic Thea- ter hour, The program is made up of & variety of popular music and hymns. Will Rogers will continue his series of thumbnail biographies of famous | folk during the Squibb program. The musical background for the program, furnished by Freddie Rich's Orchest: will feature a medley of DeSulvia, Brown and Henderson songs. Emerich Kalman, the Hungarian composer, whose operettas are regarded as keeping up the tradition of the old great central empire as the center of | exquisite musical filigree, is the com- | er whose works will be interpreted vy Elliott Shaw, baritone, and Paster-| nack's Orchestra in the Atwater Kent| half hour. Arrangements of several of the Kalman operettas will be heard from the orchestra, with interludes by Shaw. He also will sing two of the composer's most famous _ songs—| “Dances” from “The Riviera Girl” and “Song of the Whip” from “The Golden Dawn.” Fight to Be Dramatized. ‘The naval fight at the Battle of Erie| after the American victory will be dra- matized in the Iodent Big Brother Club | rogram. Summer scenes in Eastern| urope will be sketched by the Russian Cathedral Choir, while Sam Herman, | xylophonist. will interpret varied light melodies. The Chase & Sanborn Choral Orchestra will blaze a musical pathway through four decades by contrasting the favorites of the “gay nineties” with| lively modern tunes. An hour's musical program and a| broadcast of the morning service of the | Church of the Epiphany are WOL's| only attractions today. WJSV, however, will be on the air this afternoon with 8 broadcast of the services of the Pa-| triotic Protestant Evengelical Associa- tion, and also at night with its regular program of Sunday features. GREEK BROADCASTING AIDED BY AMERICANS £5,000-Watt Station at Athens to: Be Erected and Operated by Natives of U. S. American genius has been enll.!ud‘ by the government of Greece to install | and te its entire broadcasting sys- tem, the nucleus of which will be a new 25,00 vatt station at Athens. Al- though_American factories have ship- ped full equipment for broadcasting stations to various foreign countries, | often sending engineers along to make the installations, this is the first con-| cession on record granting authority to an American concern both to erect and | operate the entire broadcasting system | ©f a foreign nation D. P. Gullette, chief engineer for Durham & Co. of Philadelphia, is now | in Athens completing plans for the sta- tion there, which is expected to be heard all over Greece and under favor- able conditions in a large part of Eu-| rope. The amount involved in the con- | eession, which runs for 20 vears, two ars of which will require an all-Amer- | can personnel, was not divulged to the | Department of Commerce. Taxes im- posed on receiving sets will pay for the | system. | EIGHT PATENTS ISSUED Marcus C. Hopkins of Washington Furthers Loud Speakers. Eight patents covering radio loud speakers have just been issued by the| United States Patent Office to Marcus | ©. Hopkins of Washington. They have been assigned to the Titanafram and the Hopkins corporations, both of Jer- sey City. Four patents covering radio cabinet | designs were issued to Worth- ington of Chicago, and rights assigned to the Stromberg-Carlson Co., Roch- ester, N. Y. Dance Orchestra Sans Crooner. Station WGBS, New York, is claim- tng the unique distinction of having & dance orchestra without a crooner Major “Chain” Features TODAY. 2:30—Conelave of Nations: pro- gram in honor of Greece —WMAL and C. B. 8. network. 7:00—Enna Jettick melodies; Betsy Avres, soprano’ mixed quartet and in- strumental _ensembles— WJZ, WBZ, WBAL, WJR, WLW and others. ‘horal Orchestra; popu- lar program with Gitla Erstinn, soprano, and Elizabeth Davenport, con- tralto— WRC and N.'B. C. network 7:48—"Chic” Sale, comedian— WMAL and C. B. S. net- work 8:00—Majestic Theater; variety program—WMAL and C. B. S. network. 8:15—Atwater Kent hour: El- liott Shaw, baritone— WRC asnd N. B. C. net- ‘work. 8:15—Ballad operas: “Gather Ye Rosebuds” WBZ, WBZA, KDKA snd CKGW. 8:45—An hout with Shake- speare; ‘“Twelfth Night” 74 program; Will ‘WMAL and C. . 8. netwoik. 9:45—Sunday Parkers'. Tt Seth rura! sketch— N. B. C. net- | the Neapolitan > e DOLORES CASSINELLI- Fred East and Wiliiam F. Raymond, two of Washington's best known | singers, who have returned to the air aft; new Happy Bakers' program, which WRC is broadcasting Tuesdays and Thurs- days. Dolores € Today on (All time p.m., unless otherwise indicated.) LOCAL STATIONS. 475.9 Meters. 630 Kilocycles. | 9:00 to 10:00a—Watch tower services. | 11:30 to 11:45a—Rebroadcast from Lon- | don—Talk by Rev. James E.| Freeman, Bishop of the Epis- copal Diocese of Washington. :00—Ballad hour. :00—Organ recital by Ann Leaf. 30—Conclave of Nations. :00—Cathedral hour, :00—Toscha Seidel, violinist, Theo Karle, tenor. :30 to 5:00—Sermon by Rev. Donald Grey Barnhouse of Philadelphia. :30—Columbia String Symphony. :00—The Globe Trotter. :30—Jesse Crawford, organist. :45—"The World's Business,” by Dr. Julius Klein, :00—Correct time. :01—Mayhew Lake and his band. :30—"Kaltenborn Edits the News.” 45—"Chic” Sale. humorist. 00—Majestice Theater of the Air, :00—Will Rogers 30—Around the Samovar. 00—Back-home hour. 00—Coral Islanders. :30 to 12:00—Nocturne. Early Program Tomorrow. 00a—Something for every one. 30a—Blue Monday Gloom Chasers. :00a—Radio Home Makers. 30a—"Opening_the Morning Mail" 00a—Ben and Helen talk it over. and | 10:15a—"Our Government,” by Senator | i Capper of Kansas. 10:30a—Mr. and Mrs. Coburn. 40a—Cutting the food bill. 45a—Radio Home Makers. :00a—Columbia Review. :15a—"Your Neighbor Next Door.” 20a—Columbia Revue. 30a—Happy Felton’s Orchestra, 12:30—Ambassador Orchestra. :00—The Honolulans. :30—Orgar recital by Ann Leaf. :00—Columbia Ensemble. :30—Women's forum. :00—United States Navy Band. 00 to 4:30—Dancing Troubadours. “'JSV 2054 Meters. 1,460 Kilocycles. 2:15 to 3:45—Patriotic Protestant Evan- | gelical Association. 5:45—Gospel Spreading Association. 6:45—Musical interlude, 7:30—Time signal. 7:31—Studio program. | 7:55—Service of First Church of Christ | Scientist, 9:05—Gretta Ludwig, contralto. 9:30—Chic Godfrey, tenor. 10:00 to 11:00—Clark’s home hour. OUT-OF-TOWN STATIONS. Programs prepared by the Associated Press. Scheduled for Eastern Standard time. (Meters on left of call letters, kilocycles on right.) . B. C. Chal 454.3—WEAF New York—660. (N, . in.) 7:00a—Melody Hour. 8:00a-— Balladeers, 8:30a—Recitalists, 1:30a—String Quartet. 2:00m.—Pilgrims. 2:30—Spanish Dreams. 2:45—The Fusilliers 00—Metropolitan Echoes. :30—Artists' Program 00—Sterling Singers. 30—The Nomads. 00—Sunday Forum. 00—Vocal and Organ Hour. 00—Catholic Hour 00—Big Brother Club. 30—Scores: Maj. Bowes' Family. 30—Choral Orchestra. 00—"Our Government.” 15—Half Hour Concert. 5—1In the Time of Roses, Women's | Octet 15—Champion’s Orchestra. 45—Seth Pa 15—Russia 45—Sam Herman min.) 348.6—WABC New Yo (C. B. §. Chain. 00a—Heroes of the Church. :00a—Morning Musicale. 00a—Land o' Make Believe. 0a—Dr. Fleischer. 00a—West End Presbyterian Church. 30a—London Broadcast. Jewish Program. Aztecs Ballad Hour Ann Leaf at the Organ. Conclave of Nations. Cathedral Hour loscha Seidel, Violinist, Sermon by Dr. Barnhouse. 00—Fur Trappers' Orchestra. 5:30—String Symphony. 00—Orchestra; the Globe Trotter. 30—Jesse Crawford. :45—Dr. Julius Klein 00—Mayhew Lake’s Band. 30—H. V. Kaltenborn. 45—Chick Sale 00—Theater of Afr, 00—Will Rogers. 30—Around the Samovar. 00—Back Home Hour. 00—Choral Islanders; Midnight Mel- odies. 272.6—WPG Atlantic City—1,100. 30—~WABC (30 min.); Concert Or-| chestra 45—Same as WABC (15 min.). 15—WABC (45 min.); Poet. 30—WABC (30 min.); Studio. 10:15—Atlantic City Parade (134 hours) 282.3—WBAL Baltimore—1,060. 80 —Evening Revercs 30—Elsa Baklor and 00—WJZ (15 min.); Ball 1 1 1 1 | | 53500 smsaaacawismt - xylophonist (15 rk—860. ) program over WRC and other N. B. C. stations. Lawnhurst, pianist and vocalist, will be heard Tuesday in a new series of pro- grams over WMAL and other Columbia stations, 112:30—] F. RAYMON er a long absence as the soloists in the the Radio 315.6 Meters. WRC 950 Kilocycles. 7:00a—The melody hour. 8:00 to 9:00a—Children’s hour. 11:30a—Works of Great Composers, 12:30—Neapolitan Nights. 00—Roxy_symphony concert. 00—The’ Sterling Singers, :30—The Nomads. :00—National Sunday Forum, featur- ing Dr. Ralph W. Sockman. 00—Service from the Washington| Cathedral—Sermon by Right Rev. Irving P. Johnson, Bishop of Colorade. 00—Catholic_hour. :00—Iodent Big Brother Club, :30—Capitol Theater “Family. :30—Chase & Sanborn Orchestra. :00—"Our Government,” by David Lawrence. i :15—Atwater Kent hour, featuring Elliott Shaw, baritone. :45—In the Time of Roses. :15—Studebaker Champions. 45—Sunday at Seth Parker's, :15-——Russian Cathedral Choir. 45—8Sam Herman, xylophonist. 00 to 11:02—Weather forecast. ly Program Tomorrow. 45a—Tower health exercises. 15a—Morning devotions, :30a—Cheerio. 00a—The Crackles Mam. 15a—Morning melodies. 00a—Hits and Bits. :00a—Old Company program. 15a—Radio Household Institute, :30a—Studio feature. 45a—"Canny Cook,” Wishard. 00a—"On Wings of Song.” 00m—Farm flashes. 10—Palais d'Or Orchestra. 45—National farm and home hour. 30—Organ recifal from Kitt studios. :30—Studio feature. 3:00—The Moxie Hostess. 3:15—United States Army Band. 228.9 Meters. WOL 1,310 Kilocyeles. 10:00a—Musical program. 11:00a—Service from Church of Epiph- by Winifred | 12 13 12 any. | 12:00m—Birthday: Early Program Tomorrow. 7:30a—Revellle and musical clock. 8:00a—Birthdays. 8:15a—Breakfast brevities. 10:00a-~Talk by Peggy Clarke. 10:30a—Today'’s bright spots 11:00a—Helpful hints to parents. 11:30a—Half hour with great com- posers, 12:00m—Ruth Rooney, soprano. usical program. Christening,” by Grace | 394.5—WJZ New York—760, (N. B. C. Chain.) :00a—Tone Pletures. :00—Children’s Hour (until 9). :30a—Works of Great Composers. 30—Neapolitan Nights. 00—Roxy Siymphony Orchestra. 00—Friendly Hour. :00—Southland Sketches. 3:30—Don Carlos’ Marimba Band. 00—Twilight Reveries, 5:00—Echoes of Orient. 15—Silver Masked Tenor. 30—Lew White Organ Recital. :55—Scores; El Tango, 30—Josef Koestuer Orchestra. 00—Melodies by Mixed Quartet. 15—Spanish Melodies. 30—Goldman Band. 15—“Gather Ye Rosebuds. :45—Shakespearean Hour, Night.” 9:45—South Sea Islanders. 15—Nocturne, Intrumental Trin 30--Reminiscences by Male Quartet (30 min.) # “Twelfth 422.3—WOR Newark—710, 5:15—Maids; Orchestra; Cholr. 00—8tring Quartet Hour 00—Variety, Organ Recital, 00—Life Stories: Playhouse, :30—Moonbeams. 282.8—WTIC Hartford—1,060, 00—Orchestra Gems; 30—Wizard (15 min); WEAPFP (1 hour) 45—8ongs Without Words. 00—The Merry Madcaps. 8 8 9 10 256.3—WCAU Philadelphia—1,1 5:00—Hour from WABC. :00—Music; Pioneers 00—Three Hours from WABC. 00—Styles (15 min.); Musiec. 305.9—KDKA Pittsburgh—980. :00—Hour from WJZ. 00—Trio; Orchestra. 00—Same as WJZ (3'{ hours), 15—Sports; WJZ Program. 260.7—WHAM Rochester—1,150, :00—Sax Smith Cavaliers. 30—Same as WJZ (3% hours). 302.8—WBZ Springfield—990. 30—Same as WJZ (134 hours). 15—~WJZ and Music (1’5 hours). 8:45—Serenaders; Sports; Players, CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN STATIONS, 428.3—WLW Cincinnati—700. 5 9 | disk. o D= S VEE:LAWNHURST- HAMS T0 HASTEN Much Depends on Tinkerers, Who Have Done So Much for Radio. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 21—To amateurs is given much of the credit for the radio of today. A great deal of it is deserved, for it was the young tinkerer who devised, approved or disapproved many of the innovations that make up the modern | broadcast receivers. Now, with television declared to be in the offing, these self-same amateurs and their successors are being given an op- portunity to hasten the day of the pro- posed radio broadcasts of scenes at a distance—the radio movie, as it were. Experimental radio receivers have been available for some time, but trans- mitting apparatus was not to be con- sidered because of the expense involved. Those who desired to play with tele- vision had to resort to the sometimes difficult feat of copying pictures from the air lanes. Stations Not Numerous. Besides, television transmitting sta- tions are not very numerous, and “look- ers” at a distance cannot depend, as a rule, upon the signals for satisfactory experimentation. Taking into consideration the esti- mate that there are 100,000 amateurs and experimenters as well as uncounted others who are vitally interested in tele- vision, engineers have devised appara- tus which may be set up and operated at a comparatively small outlay. It consists of & transmitter designed to send reproductions of moving picture film of the silhoueite type, and is the result of research work by Alexander G. Heller, chief engineer of the Insuline Laboratories, The transmitter contains a motion | picture projector using a standard film. There is a synchronous motor to oper- ate the projector and turn the scanning An optical focusing system is mounted in front of the projector and | Just back of the scanning disk. Condensing Lens Used. Between the scanning disk and photo- electric cell is a condensing lens which focuses the scanned rays of light com- ing from the film upon the photocell. The light source in the projector is a 500-watt stereopticon lamp. _From the photocell wires convay the signals to the receiver, which consists of a four-stage amplifier, mounted at one side of the transmitter. The ampli- fler feeds the neon lamp of the repro- ducer. 1In front of the lamp is & con- densing lens which focuses the neon rays upon a 16-inch scanning dise. The received image is enlarged by a magnifying glass mounted in front of the disc, which is turned by a motor similar to that in the transmitter. ‘While this equipment is designed en- tirely for film transmission, it can be arranged to televise a living image, thus giving the amateur a chanee to study television from both the trans- mitting and receiving angles. “STEPPING-UP” POWER IS UNDER CLOSE CURB Radio Issues Order Discouraging Applications for Increases. Commission An order designed to prevent broad- cast stations from “stepping-up” power beyond that licensed and to discourage applications for | been issued by the Federal Radio Com- mission. The order, definitely limiting the maximum rated power of transmitters used by stations, also prescribes a stand- ardized methods of determining operat- ing power. Types of equipment are specified as well as the maximum power output which will be allowed each class of sta- tions in the future. | China Building Stations. | radio transmitting stations at various | centers in Mongolia and Tibet is being planned by the ministry of communi- cations 398.8—WJR Detroit—150, 6:00—Entestainers 8:16—8ame as WJZ (1 hour). 7:18—Meditations (15 min.); (1% hours). 8:45—Ed MoConnell; Mummers, 9:45—WJZ (30 min); Happy N 11:00—Quartet; Dance (1% hm 405.2—WSB Atlanta—740, 7:00—~WJZ and WEAF ms. 8:45—Concert; Serenaders. 9:15—Studio (30 min.); WEAF (30 wIz min,). | 10:15—Journal Orchestra. 277.6—WBT Charlotte—I1,080, 6:00—WJZ (30 min. 7:00—~WJZ (15 min. E 7:30—Half Hour from WEAF, 8:00—Pirst Baptist Church, 9:00—Violinist; Organ. 10:00—WBT Concert Orchestra. 365.6—WHAS Louisville—820, 7:00—WJZ (15 min.); Secores. 7:30—WEAF and Music (2% hours). 10:15—Two Marthas; Reporters. 10:40—The Homing Hour. 461.3—WSM Nashville—650. 7:00—WJZ (15 min.); Sacred Concert. 7:45—Orchestra (30 min.); WEAF (30 min.). 8:45—Church Service (1 hour). 9:45—Half Hour from WEAF. 270.1—WRVA Richmond—1,110. DAY OF TELEVISION increased power has| | casting, engineers and others have | SHANGHAI (#).—Construction of 10 | |the Cathedral by the Bethlehem | | identical wave lengths through its { the dial, they will be concentrated Behind the Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. ORCED to abandon broad- casting of the Sunday after- noon services at Washing- ton Cathedral by a newly adopted policy of the National Broadcasting Co.,, WRC will turn the programs over to WMAL, be- ginning July 6. Under the new N. B. C. policy, | its religious broadcasts will be confined entirely to those spon- | sored by national groups. These programs also will have to origi- nate in the broadcasting studio, for the N. B. C. does not propose | to make any more pickups from | individual churches or cathedrals. Continuation of the broadcast-| ing of the Cathedral services was | made possible by the co-operation | of M. A. Leese, owner of WMAL, | and the Columbia Broadcasting | System, and the Cathedral offi- cials already have expressed their appreciation. The services will replace the regular cathedral/ hour on WMAL's Sunday pro-| grams. | Washington Cathedral is be- lieved to be the first cathedral In, the world to utilize radio regu- larly for the dissemination of Christian teachings. Its services | have been broadcast every Sun-| day since the Fall of 1923. The| first broadcasts were carried by WCAP, and after it ceased opera- tion WRC took over the broad- casting and has been doing it ever since. WMAL's audience is familiar with the Cathedral services, as this station has been the origi- nating point during the W® year for a number of special ceremon- ies broadcast from Mount St. Al- ban and distributed over the Co- lumbia network. One of the most notable was the three-hour serv- ice on Good Friday, said to be the longest religious service ever broadcast by a Nation-wide chain. In contrast to many church broadcasts which consist merely of the sermon, the Sunday after- noon services from Washington Cathedral are on the air in their entirety. Beginning with the pro- | cessional and continuing with | prayers, responsive readings,| Scripture lessons, hymns, an-| thems and sermon, the Protestant | Episcopal prayer book service for | evensong is followed to the final| note of the processional. | Musizal elements of the services | are hvided by tre Cathedral| choir of men and boys, under t,he‘ direction of Edgar Priest, organist and choirmaster, accompanied in Chapel organ and at the Peace Cross by an instrumental quartet. | The choir 1s noted throughout the | country for the excellence of its church music. * * X % 'OMMERCIAL television sets have had their coming-out party for the trade. Whether that means anything in the effort be- ing made by radio sight to obtain a position in the home alongside of that now occupied by sound broadcasts cannot be,forecast. Nevertheless, it is regarded as important in view of the fact that the annual trade show of the Ra- dio Manufacturers’ Association at Atlantic City gave it sufficient recognition to assign places to two manufacturers to demonstrate what they have. Television has| had opportunities to appear at public shows, but this was the | first time that the trade has had | a peep at it at the annual private exhibition, * X % % ADIO engineers are patting themselves on the back these days. They feel they have licked quite a few problems involved in | synchronized broadcasting—that is, operating two stations with the same program on the same wave length without a lot of interfer- ence. The engineers have done it suc- cessfully with WHO in Des Moines and WOC in Davenport on 1,000 kilocycles, and they believe that what has been done in this case can be duplicated In others. Synchronized broadcasting car- ries with it the hope of operating more than one station on a single wave length without creating a mess in the air. The task so successfully accom- plished with WHO and WOC brings to light a method of syn- chronization somewhat different than that tried heretofore. Briefly, it consisted of placing a receiver half way between the two stations and keeping the transmitters on use. Since the early days of broad- thought it would be possible some day to operate stations transmit- ting the same program on a sin- gle wave length. Various systems have been tried, but none, how- ever, brought as good results as those obtained in Iowa. Yrxe NOW that some real progress has been made toward syn- chronization, the day may not be | far off when, instead of chain programs. being scattered all over | in a few places. Even though only two stations have been operated together, en- gineers believe the number can be increased to three or five, giving rise to the belief that the units of an individual chain eould be assigned to not more than a dozen wave lengths, leaving the other channels free for greater program varlety. * * k¥ AMERICAN microphone tech- nique has advanced by leaps and bounds, but there is one field in which the British excel by far | —the technique of radio drnma.i Only a smattering of real radio| drama has been offered to the au- diences of this country thus far, presumably on the theory that American radio listeners are too preoccupied with other thoughts and activities while their radios are playing to lend an undiverted ear to pure dialogue. Lately the Columbia chain has essayed “Hamlet” and Theodore Dreiser’s “The Blue Sphere,” while the N. B. C. has offered Joseph C. | Lincoln’s comedy, “Shavings,” and a dramatization of Edna Ferber's | “Show Boat.” | With rare exceptions, however, the dramatic offerings staged in the American broadcast studios, e of the coated with plenty of music be- tween ghe snatches of dialogue. British broadcasters, on the other hand, are concentrating on the difficult technical problem of presenting high-class plays on the radio, with the result that more and more good plays and novels are being adapted for microphone treatment. A high-water mark of radio dramatic achievement, says the Yearbook of the British | Broadeasting Corporation, was reached last year with the broad- casting of a radio version of ComPLon Mackenzie's novel, “Car- nival.” George Bernard BShaw's “St. Joan" was produced for the radio with great success by Cecil Lewis, who was an American visitor last Winter, while George Kaufman and Marc Connelly achieved a success on the British radio with “Beggar on Horseback,” which the stage play had been denied by the London theater audience sev- eral years earlier. Modern poetic drama was rep- resented in the B. B. C. repertory of radio plays by “Good Friday,” whose author is England’'s new poet laureate, John Masefield. John Drinkwater also did a poetic drama for the radio. Then there | were melodramatic thrillers, com- edy drama and farce comedies. This year’s plans include experi- ments with such subjects as Con- rad's “Typhoon Sergt. Grisch “Greenman Not all the Pritish radio dra- matic presentations were suc- cesses, however. On the contrary, most of them were either indif- ferently received or total failures, causing the British directors to say that this branch of broadcast- ing is still in an “adolescent con- dition.” For example, “The Cherry Orchard” and other heavy plays were found “simply unsuit- able for broadcasting,” while an attempt to radioize Anthony Hope's “Prisoner of Zenda” left something to be desired. But the fact remains that con- tinual activity and experiment have gone on despite a 1929 record that showed as many flops as successes. “Indubitable hope and promise for the future” is seen by the British radio impresarios. In this country, although Mr. Lewis demonstrated that it could be done when he staged a half-hour radio version of a Shaw play, “How He Lied to Her Husband,” over an N. B. C. network last Winter, it seems that little or no attention is being paid to this side of program radio. TELEVISION PATENT HOLDS BIG PROMISE Karolus Valve Expected to Result in Early Use in Some Theaters. | and Euchan's BY MARTIN CODEL. While Broadway and Tin Pan alley are buzzing about the possibility of an early introduction of television into a few select theaters of the country, pro- tection of the American patent rights to the Karolus light valve, described as the heart of the remarkable television sys- tem demonstrated a few weeks ago at Schenectady, has been insured by the issuance a few days ago of letters patent to Dr. August Karolus of Leipzig, Ger- many. To the Karolus valve Dr. E. F. W, Alexanderson has attributed the latest advance in television, which makes pos- sible the projection of clear, life-size figures on a screen 6 feet square. Dr. Alexanders brought the valve back from Germany, where he visited last year with the inventor. Displaces Neon Tube, Displacing the neon tube as the light source, the Karolus valve is employed in the center of an intricate lens sys- tem at the receiving end to control the light impulses and make it possible to project them at the rate of 40,000 per second to form images of lifelike char- acter. The projection is not unlike that of the ordinary motion picture camera except that it is done from be- hind the screen. Letters patent No. 1,762,231 were issued a few days ago to Dr. Karolus, with the announcement that rights have been assigned to the Radio Corporation of America. The major claim in the patent, which is described as a ‘“re- celver arrangement for electric tele- vision app us,” is stated in the United States Patent Office record as follows: “A light receiver for electric tele- vision apparatus, including a light re- lay of the Kerr type, comprising & light screen, a source of illuminous rays, means for projecting said luminous rays as a position-controlled point source of light upon said screen, whereby said observer, when looking through said light relay toward said screen, may view a series of position- controlled light spots and visually con- struct a moving image upon said screen.” Observers Are Impressed. Those who witnessed the Alexander- son demonstration in a Schenectady theater professed themselves to be more deeply impressed by it than by any previous television exhibition. The re- markable clarity of the images repro- duced on the silver soreen, which was ¥heeled into position on the stage of the theater, led many of the observers to believe that television, at least for the theater, is at hand. The electrical impulses were transmitted from studios and transmitters several miles away, one short wave carrying the television impulses and another broadcasting the speech of the televised figures in abso- lute synchronism. Though radio frequencies were em- ployed for the transmission, it can be done even more effectively via wires. The bellef is growing that this system of television will soon be introduced in some of the R-K-O theaters as a fea- ture act. Radio Corporation of Amer- ica, now holder of the Karolus patent and closely allied with the General Electric Co., for which Dr, Alexander- son does his research, has a large in- terest in the R-K-O chain of theaters. Whether it comes this year or next, it now appears to be a practical cer- tainty that television will find its first popular use in theaters. Commission to Move. Headquarters of the Federal Radio Commission will be established in the National Press Building July 1, when the commission and its staff of 100 will remember the old after-the. war song “I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now'? Berlin wrote it, and the title was | [ ‘WONDER how many of my readers test of whether or not a ir personality has a following. A good example of this is the hullae Irving baloo that was raised late in April when Slumber Music was scheduled an hour pretty close to the facts in the case.|later than usual. The program has been But the situation had a sequel. Ray Perkins, of whom 1 have spoken before—he's the Old Topper, you'll re~ member—was a captain in’the Army | during the war, and in the same outfit was Irving Berlin, a buck private and Iater a sergeant. Both had been in the popular music business, but Berlin had been a partner in a big company and | Perkins had just been writing songs. In uniform, though, Perkins took the salutes, | After the war Perkins went to work for Berlint T imagine Berlin must have | chortled with glee as he pounded out | that tune, which took the country by storm. You can hear delight in the music as well as the words. Later— much later, in fact—Perkins went to Hollywood to take over the music de- partment of a motion picture company when sound came along and every pic- ture had to have its theme song and two or three other tunes. It was inevitable that Berlin should write theme songs, and it fell to the lot of Perkins to accept or reject them for his company; to tell Berlin, if he felt like it, that his chorus was bum and his verse terrible. Even though Berlin was writing songs for big money, it was the | old Army stuff all over again, with Perkins back in his old job as captain. That's the sequel to the song of| which I was thinking particularly, but the story isn't ended. Now that Perkins is on the air, he often works a Berlin song into his pro- grams. 1 don't know whether Berlin has any of Perkins' songs that he is about to publish, but if that were so, it would seem rather fitting, 1If the inci- aants in wee were properly worked out, with tle leading characters por- trayed by the two men who actuallyt took part, it might make a rather amus- | ing bit of drama. But, after all, the story hasn't really come to an end yet, | and perhaps we'd better wait. | * ek The second award of the medal for| good diction on the radio went to a| veteran, just as it did last year. Milton | J. Cross, winner of the first medal, be- gan broadcasting in 1921, and Alwyn E. W. Bach, who gets it this year, has been on the air since 1922, Both men are singers, both do their best work in announcing programs of classical music, and probably no two announcers so closely resemble each other in quality of voice and manner | of delivery. The similarity is a coinci- | dence, for Bach’s style hasn't changed, | 0 far as I can see, since the first time I ever heard him announce. That was several years ago, when I happened to pick him up when he was announcing & program of the Boston Symphony Orchest It was this series of Erolflml, inei- dentally, which brought him into prom- | inence in the radio world. His work was first rate, and it wasn't long before he began to be spoken of favorably in New York. From that point his ar- rival on the networks was more or less assured, and it took place about two years ago. | Bach, who was born in Worcester, Mass., and was educated in the high school there, set out in life to be a| printer, but he had a fine baritone voice and studied singing on the side. A magnetic personality made it possi- ble for him in the very ning to lead choruses which sometimes con- tained singers whose musical training far exceeded his. He never lost that trick of leadership, and after the war, during which he saw action in Prance, he very soon got out of the printing business and spent all his time singing in concerts and conducting choirs and community choruses. It was this which first brought him into contact with broadcasting, and very shortly after his microphone debut 85 a singer he was hired by WB2, in Springfield, Mass., as an announcer. Four years later, in 1926, he was shifted to the station's Boston studios, and | there he came into prominence through- | out the East. Bach has never been and has never | tried to be a spectacular performer, but the uniform excellence of his work has built for him an extremely wide fol- lowing. He is 6 feet tall, weighs 170 | pounds, d has black hair, brown eyes | and a dark complexion. He is married | and has a daughter 7 years old. * X ok % Now that Mary McCoy is back in the studios, the pages, who, incidentally, " don't dare sit down these days, for fear of getting the white linen trousers of their Summer uniforms wrinkled before the end of the day, are constantly on the lookout for stray kittens. Some- how or other, they seem to follow her wherever she goes. All the time Miss McCoy was in Chi- cago, playing in Wonderful Night,"” not a kitten was seen about the studios, but now that she's back therd's almost | always one aroynd which has followed | her into the building. | During the New York run of that piece a photographer decided to take a picture of her, surrounded by kittens, Animals, as any one who has ever tried to take a snapshot of them knows, sel- dom stay put long enough to allow a snapshot, but this time a whole basket- ful of kittens stayed contentedly where they were placed and hardly twitched a whisker. Miss McCoy has been caught several times trying to smuggle a kitten she had picked up somewhere into the studios. The other night at the mau-‘ gural of an_important new program | John Young heard a faint mewing just before they were to go on the air. In spite of the reproachful looks from Miss | McCoy, the kitten went out into the| corridor, Cats don't seem to be especially pop- ular as pets among the broadcasters. Kathleen Stewart, the pianist, has about half a dozen of them, but she also has about the same number of | duckg swimming around in a her home in Palisades, N. Singhi Breen has all kinds of china | cats, but her live pets are a family of | snails and a bowl of goldfish. Reinald | Werrenrath has a couple of cats, but he balances it with two dogs. Dogs seem to be most popular. Al Bernard has a bull pup, Walter Damrosch has a couple of dachshunds, Virginia Gardiner has| an Irish wolfhound, Mary Hopple leads a spitz, Olive Kline owns two police dogs—one of them saved her drowning up in Maine last Summer— and Judson House has & Rose Marie, of course, - rabbits. It wouldn't be quite right to call Dickie and Blus Boy, the canaries of the “Cheerio” , pets, as they are broadcasting in their own right; but Marcella Shields, the come- dienne, has one which is a real pet. It won't sing when she 1is out of the room, * ok Frequently these days I am asked if | Amos 'n' Andy aren't losing" their pop- ularity. People think that since the boys have been on the networks all| Winter long, six nights a week, the| novelty must have worn off. ing to them nowadays? me the other night, “I myself, but I don't hear folks ulk!ng about them on the street corners as did a few months ago.” | Well, as I see it, there are really two | answers to that. As a sensation, it is| afe to say that Amos 'n’ Andy may | ave reached their peak. A great many people, however, have reached the stage where they are taking them for granted. They don't talk much about them, but they are as much-a. part of the dally| routing &s the breakfast eoffee. | same thing vacate their present quarters in the Department of the Interior Bullding It was just two years ago that the com- mission and its staff, then numberin; it of the De- to the to him ¥ Pty Just m '&'.?' Thy I of Rudy Vallee, He is fact. Just as many pe; more-—listen 't ove What would heppen, a3 on the air for more than two yea: and a haif, and at one time or ano in its career many bouquets have bee: toased at it. But this Spring it seemed Just something to be taken for gran When the broadcasting day was lengt ened because of daylight saving, he program was moved to put it at the and of the day. Immediately an awful howl went up. The telephone operators couldn’t handle all the calls that came in, and the letters of protests swamped the place. Newspapers took up the cudgels, and program executives were forced to bow to the public will, The same would be true if Amos 'n* Andy, Rudy Vallee or Floyd Gibbons were to go off the air or move to an hour when most people couldn't hear them easily, except that the protest would be magnified many times No, just because you don't hear so many ‘people talking about a thing doesn’t mean that it isn't popular. McNAMEE'S QUESTION BOX. Q. Can you tell me something about Kelvin Keech, the announcer?—Dora | Klimas, Houston Heights, Tex. A. Kelvin Kirkwood Keech was born in Honolulu, and was graduated from Franklin and Marshall College, in Lan- caster, Pa. as a chemical engineer. In college he learned to sing. and in Hawait he had learned to play the ukulele, He spent his first year out of college on the vaudeville stage, and when the wir came along he enlisted in a radio cofre pany of the United States Army Signa$ Corps. After the war he decided to re- main in Europe. He organized an or- chestra that played in Parls, Monte Carlo, Nice and Constantinople. H made his microphone debut in Lond A8 an entertainer for the British Broad- casting Corporation. Q. Is the "‘mvenmm of Polly Pres« ton” still on the air, and, if so, when is it broadcast?—John Herbert, South Richmond, Va. A. Tuesdays, at 6:45 p.m. standard time. It is at present being broadcast only through WJZz. Q. Are Gene and Glenn and Jake and Lena the same people?—Mrs, O. L. Hight, Hickory, N. C. A. Yes. The t .m used to be Ford and Glenn, and originated at WTAM, in Cleveland. “Jake and Lena” is an- other act put on by the present team of Gene and Glenn. Q. Is Phil Cook married?—Mrs, John R,ANegd. Taylor Island, Md. . Yes., Q. What are the real names of John and Ned?—K. L. Sacramento, Calif, A. John Wolfe and Ned Tollinger. They appear twice a week over Pacifio Coast stations. Q. I understand that Amos 'n’ Andy are now in New York. Is Bill Hay with them?—Peter Genz, Newark, N. J. A. No. Bill Hay's voice and the music always come from Chicago, no matter where Correll and Gosden may be. 'The title of the theme which several readers have asked is “The Perfect Son, and from the score for Nation.” “The Family in_the pro- ?—S. 8. B, Omaha, Nebr. A. No. Katherine Seymour, the au- thor, who is a veteran in writing d: logue for the air—she also is the author of “Famous Loves of History”—has been before the microphone only two or three times. She is present in the studio, however, practically every time one of her shows is broadcast. Q. Is Jessica Dragonette a graduate of Vassar?—Mary Prisbie, Hartford, Conn. A. No. Miss Dragonette was edu- cated at Georgian Court, a convent wood, N. J. . school at Lake Q. Has Reinald Werrenrath given up concert work for the radio?—P. D, Watertown, N. Y. A. No. He still makes concert ap- pearances whenever his broadcasting engagements, which are increasing lately, permit. Q. What is the meaning of short- wave broadcasts?—M. H. Sundin, Oak Park, Il A. Bhort waves are those with s wave length shorter than 200 met: TS, although the point of division between them and the waves of the regular broadcast band is an arbitrary one, Short-wave transmissions carry well over long distances, and therefore are especially useful in relaying ms Aacross either ocean, for direct reception or for rebroadcasting. Short waves sent out on low power are also used for re- aying programs from points to which wire lines cannot be stretched, such as an airplane in flight or a ship at sea. Only where wire lines cannot be used for the pick-up are short waves eme ployed, for that means the prograny must make two leaps through the ether; thus increasing the chance for distore tion and static to enter before it reaches the listener's receiving set. Q. I have just recently caught the Yoice of an announcer named Frank Singiser. Hasn't he been on the air be- fore, and where has he been in the mmeantime?—Gerald Costello, Fort Worth, X. A. Yes. 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