Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1930, Page 60

BASS T0 BE HEARD ON WRC PROGRAM Wilfred Glenn 40 Be Soloist of Atwater Kent Radio Hour Tonight. Wilfred Glenn, bass of the famous Revelers Quartet, will be the soloist of the Atwater Kent concert tonight over WRC and a network of other National Broadcasting Co. Glenn’s chief contribution will be Mosssorgsky's “Song of the Flea.” He also will sing Sanderson’s “Captain Mac,” and the “Im Tiefen Keller” of D’Alquen. Another feature of the pro gram will be an orchestral interpreta- tion of an arrangement by J,»ry ternack of the well known “Siren #n from Jerome Kern's ve T ne.” Walter Donaldson's song-friting reer will be sketched in rfelody a chronological arrangement of h Jections by the Chase and Sanh Choral Orchestra. Donaldsor which have been wov sical pattern include tucky Home,” “My Home i “Carolina in the Morning, Home"” and “Lazy Louisian; Cosentino To Sing. Nicolo Cosentino, Canadian tener. will sing the operatic improvisation “Di Chenler” as a feature of the Capitol Family broadcast; Louise Bave, soprano Hannah Klein, pianist, and Westell Gordon, tenor, are am the other soloists, “Let Me Call popular waltz of played by S His other numbers i Spanish Town,” “Th and “Me and the Man in the Moor ‘The Russian Cathedral Choir will feature the “Chorus of Cardplayers from Tschaikowsky's “Dame Pigue.” As the opening number the choir will | sing Rachmaninoff’s “Bless the Lord, | ©O My Soul.” Sir Oliver Lodge, British scientist and leader in psychological research, will from London in a special re- broacast at 11:30 o'clock this morning over WMAL and a network of other Columbia Broadcasting Company st tions. His topic is “The Reality of a Spiritual World.” To Tell of Storm. ‘The Conclave of Nations will honni the Dominican Republic. The speaker, Senor Persio Franco, charge d'affaires of the Dominican Le- gation, will describe the reconstruction work in the hurricane stricken city of Santo Domingo. Mayhew Lake and his band will offer & program of seven numbers, opening with one of the director’s own marches, | “American Tiumpeter.” The other numbers include Offenbach’s “Orpheus | Overture,” and “Beauties of Erin.” Claude MacArthur and his orchestra, Redferne Hollinshead, tenor, and a male | quartet will present the Majestic Hour ‘The Choral Islanders have arranged another program having a tropical at- mosphere. Mabel Owens, Ethel West, and Roland Wheeler will be the principal soloists on the program tonight of WJSV. The station also has scheduled its usual religious features. stations. You Sweetheart” a will b Little program ON ADS FORESEEN Commissioner Robinson Criticizes Greed of Broadcaster for Returns. Too much advertising over the radio is going to cause a revolt of the listen- .ing public, it is predicted by Commis- sioner Ira E. Robinson of the Federal Radio Commission. Criticizing the “ex- cesses of the broadcaster in his greed for commercial return,” Commissioner Robinson concurs in the oft-expressed views of Dr. Lee De Forest, the ven- erated radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube. They will “assuredly bring the revolution that De Forest pre- dicts,” he states. Commissioner Robinson's latest blast against the “overdose of advertising on | the radio” is contained in g memo- randum to his colleagues'on the com- mission. Hé calls attention to the editorials being published in all parts| of the country supporting Dr. De For- est's expressions before the annual meeting of the Institute of Radio Engi- neers at Toronto last month. Always opposed to commercialization of radio, Judge Robinson believes that unless broadcasters divert their program material to more cultured types and - | pressive ' | United States greater public serv- {ice through .ra’duz Eroadcasting"‘ ‘ BROADCAST TOGETH ER ‘ . | again utilize the National Orches- | will be four different series, Behind the Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. ALENT for the sponsored|watt station; later it increased its | and sustaining programs to | power to 10,000 watts, and in the | be broadcast in 1931 over 1928 reallocation it was officially | the networks of the Na- recognized by the Federal Radio tional Broadcasting Co. will reach | Commission as one of the 53 the stupendous sum of $10,000,000, | major broadcasting stations in the according to an estimate of M. H. country. Aylesworth, president. This is not the major cost of bringing the programs to the na- gzinnal radio audience, Mr. Ayles- | work for one man, me particu- worth points out, as the cost of |larly,” Ray Perkins has retired as operation, exclusive of fees paid|a member of the production staff to cntertainers, will reach $20,- | of N. B. C. However, that doesn't 1000,000. mean his status on the air has | . “We plan to make the year 1931 | changed. He is still appearing the most interesting and progres- | with Wendell Hall and His Crew i.<xve in radio broadcasting,” said on Tuesday nights | Mr. Aylesworth. “Owners of radio| The “Shadow,” that mysterious | sets can be assured of front seats | personality who introduces and at a continuous 365-day-and-|closes the Thursday night detec- .. he emphatically de- clared there was “too much ECAUSE finest entertainers, together with | with high lights of public sports and public affairs, with im- programs in religious, i educational and agricultural broadcasting “In other words, the year 1931 will bring to the people of the “Your Announcer is,” ete, say. According to the dope, he s to the studio in disguise and rides the freight elevator. WALTER DAMROSCH, who re-| | turned from Europe recently, | is now making preparations for the opening of the 1930-31 series {of the music appreciation hour| | October 10. This will be the third | | season of these radio concerts for| | school children, and the second in | which they have been given under 1 of the National asting Co. Damrosch will Proves Feasible After Tests Through Summer. DAVENPORT chroniza- tion of two brc stations send- ing out identical programs on a single wave length has proven feasible after an all-Summer test Success of experiments conducted by [the Central Broadcasting Co. with | WoC, Davenport, and WHO, Des Moines, has led Frank W. Elliott, vice president, to predict that by using this method the country's 600 broadcasting Entire new programs have been |stations could be easily accommodated prepared by Damrosch for the|in the available 89 wave channels season’s concerts. Following the | e es apart, have been operating general plan of last year, there|y " o, hionization, so well locked in {3 e each | gtep that the variation of their emitted including 12 programs. The pro- | signals is so small as to be hardly no- grams for the two younger groups | ticeable, Mr. Elliott said. of children will be presented on — the same Friday: Series A, for Will Link Cities of East. grades 3 and 4, at 11 o'clock, and | | BERLIN (#)—Radio telephone com- sc.”sso%mt&r grades 5 and 6, at| punication with Bangkok, Siam, and the two advanced courses|rated soon by the German Postal Min- will be given: Series C, for grades ,‘ istry. 7, 8 and 9, at 11 o'clock, and| Series D, for high schools, col-| leges and music clubs, at 11:30 o’clock. The new instructors’ manual, prepared by Damrosch in collabo- | ration with his assistant, Ernest| La Prade, is radically different| from that of last year. Instead of the series of questions and an- swers on each program, there are full descriptive notes covering every composition played, with the suggestion that the teachers| utilize these notes in preparing their own weekly tests. The manual offers numerous suggestions for follow-up activi- ties in connection with the music appreciation hour. These sugges- | tions were made by the radio re- search department of Teachers’ College, Columbia University, | which has been carrying on ex-| periments to ascertain the edu- cational value of such radio pro- | grams as the Damrosch concerts. | Among other things, it is sug- gested that the younger children retell the stories of the composi- tions and write about the lives of the composers; that whenever possible the teacher will read to the children a story which will explain the subject of the com- position; that the pupils give dramatizations of the stories of | such compositions as “Beauty and “A Midsummer Night's Dream.” It is also sug- gested that the children make drawings and clay models of the various instruments, and that there be a sand table display of a symbhony orchestra. ! This first series is largely de- voted to a study of the make-up of a symphony orchestra. Series B emphasizes the different Towa deast s {tra in presenting his programs It is anticipated that fully 8,000,000 will listen during the| coming season. The concerts will be available to all communities east of the Rocky Mountains and will be broadcast over the com- bined networks of the National Broadcasting Co. Any Extra eliminate direct and biatant advertis- ing, the listeners will unite in the de- mand that something be done | rhythms and tempos of music and | carries the suggestion that the children write poems and stories suggested by the mood or idea of the music. The more complicated forms of symphonic music, such | night performance of the world’s| tive mystery dramas on C. B. S.| events, | keeps his identity secret, so thel| IDENTICAL PROGRAMS| Synchronization of Two Stations | On alternate Fri-| ceveral Japanese cities will be inaugu- | SEPTEMBER 21 1 EDDIE CANTOR- 3ncf/ Two members of the “Radio Follies” Eddie Cantor and two members of his “Whoopee” company who will en- liven the premiere of the “Radio Fol- lies” over the Columbia network Friday night at 9 o'clock. Phil Cook is the versatile funster heard twice a day over the N. B. C. network. TELEVISION TO BE TRIED BY THEATER IN LONDON Use o Basis Invention Commercial First Effort of Kind in Europe. LONDON (#).—A television broadcast legitimate stage plays is being installed by a theater here, the first in Europe to adopt the new invention on a commercial basis Should the venture be successful, the possibility of installations in other the- aters is seen by certain British stage interests The first play to be broadeast is one with only three charact PriL. Coow- GOVERNMENT ON AIR | | Department of Commerce Radio at Houston. | HOUSTON, Tex. (@) ive Minutes | with Uncle Sam” has become a regular | Thursday evening feature over KTRH | here. Ernest L. Tutt, district manager of | the United States Department of Com- | merce, is in charge of the programs, | giving information about the Govern- ment or discussing some available serv- ice_he considers valuable to business Other Government offices in Housto expect to take over the broadcast from time to time. Using Americans Given Concession. Brazil has granted its radio telegraph d concession to an associat of the American I yea: American techn: |at once to install equ nections with the United Sta and other South American c Offers the Utmost in Radio Service 11 The HUB Sells Radios Deferred Payments Without Charge for the Privilege of CREDIT. That is a Bona Fide SAVING The HUB SMALLER RECEIVER RETURNS T0 STYLE More Compact Radio Sets to Succeed Larger Console in Popularity. 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