Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1930, Page 66

MARTINELL SINGS “ON KENT PROGRAN Metropolitan Opera Star to Render Three Love Songs Tonight. Gigvanni’ Martinelll, ténor of the Metropolitan Opera Co., will be the guest artist in the Atwater Kent radio hour tonight over WRC and the usual metwork of National Broadeasting Co. stations. ‘Three love songs will be among $inelli’s contributions—" from ." Josef Pasternack’s Orches- tra will round out the program with a variety of selections, including a spe- clal arrangement of the famous “Moon and r"m"h\vm Gilbert and Sulli- van's “ e “Gentle Annie,” a fireside favorite of rs, will be interpreted by the Singers as a feature of the Chase & Sanborn presentation. Phil Ohman and Victor Arden, the piano duo, will ve & a:echl version of “Sweetheart of Student Days.” Xylophonist on Program. “Two selections from musical comedies last season and the ever popular “A Kiss in the Dark,” from “Orange Blossoms,” will be played by Sam Her- man, xylophonist. The Russian Ca- thedral Choir will feature “Italian 8alnd,” a humorous song imitative of a fiinale in the ‘older style of Italian opera. Maj. Edward Bowes and his Capitol Theater ~family” will present as their ity a new arrangement of Hon- negar’s symphony, “Pacific 231,” a mod- ernistic tone poem portraying the power of a glant locomotive. The selection will be by the Capitol Orchestra, by Yasha Bunchuck. Mary Hamilton, Labor member the Brif Parliament, will be heard over WMAL and the Columbia Broad- in weekly rebroad- . “Women in Politics” of Nations program Free State. Michael te, Irish Free State Minister to will discuss “The Joseph Sgzigeti, violinist, will be the soloist in the weekly concert of the Phi] Symphony Orchestra. He will play the “Violin Concerto” of Brahms. The orchestral selections will be Weber’s “Freischutz Overture,” “The Enchanted Isle” of Gruenberg and Strauss’ “Till Eulensplegel's Merry Mayhew Lake and his band will play as their speciality a romantic version of Waltz.” The from “The by the Winfleld Hoeny, a noted inter- of biblical drama, will THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, STAGE AND CONCERT STARS FEATURED IN BROADCASTS ALICE DouLDEN- Alice Boulden, prima donna of the musical comedy “Fine and Dandy,’ blers’ program Wednesday night over the Columbia network. Joseph Sszigeti, ist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in its prominent part in the Tetley hour broadcast over an N. m cert today over the JAMES SZIGETI- ” will be the guest artist on the Rhythm Ram- famous Hungarian violinist, will be the sol . C. network on Frida; LoTA LAHIRI- Columbia system. Lota Lahiri takes a ys. “Graham McNamee Speaking-" OR years Floyd Gibbons and Lowell Thomas, Gibbons’ suc- cessor on the daily news broad- casts, have been crossing each. other’s trall, yet, up to the mo- ment at which I am writipg, they have never met. Years ago Thomas was working on Chicago evening newspapers while Gibbons confined himself to the morn- ing fleld. Each slept while the other was working. As the years went on both became wandering adventurers of the news world. They'd cross each other’s trall in Europe, Africa, the East, but they never met. And then a short time %Tmu was picked to succeed G on one of the latter’s programs. Gibbons gave Thomas a great send-off on his last program, and Thomas calied him up at the studios to thank him for the bouquet. They didn't meet, but they have a definite engagement to meet t | and swap yarns as soon as the pressure of their work before the microphone allows them the same leisure moments. I suppose it was Gibbons’ dynamic personality as much as anything else that won him his tremendous popu- larity. Although it doesn’t show to the same degree on the air, Thomas urch | really has just as much innate drive lour. Coyle, tenor, and Edwin Mc- , planist, will be among the con- tributors to the musical of tonight. station also will c its usual array of re- ligious fea 3 1. 8.0.8.8.9.¢ ¢ 13th at G as Gibbons. Let him smell the kind of story he likes and nothing will stop him until he gets it. The “discovery” of Col. T. E. Law- rence—“Lawrence of Arabia”—is a case in point. In & group of Arabs in Jerusalem a white 0 man dressed in native costume. Within 2 ddy he found out who that white man’ was, got an inkling of his plans, .and ‘succeeded in meeting him. But Lawrence, Thomas saw immedi- ately, was diffident and unwilling to talk about his mission. For three days Thomas talked archeology with Law- rence, and at the end of that time Lawrence gained confidence enough in him to tell all there was to be told until :lm‘,!on in the fleld completed the narra- ve. Thomas is unexpectedly slight, but you never notice it until he stands up. He's married, but for the first 11 years he and his wife never stayed in one place long enough to have a home. * ok x x IN'-hIlbulywofldlehebroldun- ing studios there are singularly few persons for whom the pace becomes too hot—so wearing that they break up and are heard of no more. But it happened the other day. ‘Walter Kolomoku, leader of the Coral Islanders, has had a breakdown, and those who know him well say that if he lives radio will know him no more. ‘There will be plenty of to say that it was all the ge: Hawalian's fault. He never paid any attention to his health. In fact, he seemed to go out of his way to ruin it. I think the story is a little different. True, for years he subsisted almost en- tirely on ‘soup and beer, a villainous diet, if there ever was one. But the diet itself, I think, was the result of the ner- vous excites t of long stays in the Ll AN Bigger and Better Trade Allowances Radios TRADE IN YOUR RADIO—PHONOGRAPH—PIANO To those people who have always wanted a MA- JESTIC Radio but did not wish to sacrifice their old broadcasting and recording studios, with new compositions to be inspected, strange new effects to be devised, and the odd- ities of the microphone studled to see if perhaps it couldn’t be made to help give the world beautiful sounds it hadn't heard before. The doctors told Kolomoku he couldn’t keep it up. They said haid have to go on a more normal diet, and above all take plenty of exercise. They warned him that if he didn’t become a physical wreck he'd be & nervous one at least, and that would be just as bad. ‘Kolomoku took their advice. He didn’t change his diet a great deal, but he went to a gymnasium. For several days he exercised until he dropped. The at- tendants tried to stop him, but he wanted to keep fit for his music and the studios. One day he fainted. They took him to a hospital, and among & dozen other things the doctor found he had cancer of the stomach. David Ross, the an- nouncer, has been to see him, and says Kolomoku wants to go before the mi- crophone and feel the hushed tenseness of a studio about to go on the air just once more. But most of his friends say he's signed off for good. McNAMEE'S QUESTION BOX . Who is the singer in the Coca co?n program?—Dot Fillmore, Wash- , D. C. A. Chester Gaylord. He sings only on that program. Q. Was “Pomp and Circumstance,” by Sir Edward Elgar, played on the General Electric program September 6, or was it “Land of Hope and Glory”?— Marie Garry and Charlotte Carpenter, Des Moines, Iowa. A. Words have been set to a part of Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance,” d 1. 0. 8.8.2.8 4 X * OCTOBER 19, 1930—PART FOUR. Behind the Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. OES broadcasting _pay? Consider these figures submitted to the Federal Radio Commission by the leading Chicago broadcasters, each according to his own way of keep- ing books, during the commis- sion’s hearings on high power. These stations are among the 25 or more throughout the country seeking authority to build new transmitters of 50,000-watt power, which would entail additional c;pltll expenditures of up 50,000. Station WGN—From 1924 to Au- gust 31, 1930, the total cost of og- erating this station, owned by the Chicago Tribune, was given as $2,078,186, of which $187,275 is de- preciation. Accepting advertising accounts during the last two years only, its total revenue has amount- ed to $652,333. Its net operating loss, therefore, has been $1,425,853. During the first eight months of 1930, operating expenses have been $354,895, and revenues, $244,- 559, or a net operating loss of $110,336. Its manager, Henry Sel- linger, estimates that losses this year will be about $164,000. WMAQ Making Money. Station WMAQ—Since 1922 this station has represented an invest- ment of $1,750,244. Its revenues have amounted to $722,093. Al- though the Chicago Daily News has more than $1,000,000 sunk into this station, its income has, by dint of good management, reached a point where it is ex- ceeding its operating costs. Wil- liam 8. Hedges, president of the station, estimates its present in- come to be about $43,000 a month and its operating costs about $40,000 a month. Station WENR—Established in this when played or sung sepa- rately,, is usually known as “Land of d Glory,” after the first line of the words. Q. Can you tell me if Willard Robi- son, who broadcasts on the Maxwell House hour, wes formerly from Salina, Kans?—J. R. Yoakam, Houston, Tex. A. He was born in Shelbina, Mo. He may have lived in Kansas, but I can find no record of it. Q. Did Rudy Vallee compose “The Song Without a Name”?—M. A. B, Charlotte, N. C. A. No. The words and music are by Bennee Russell. Q. Does the man who plays the de- tective in National Surety’s Secre! a good many dramatic programs. may hear him often in Radio Guild g::lammm, but perhaps he became t known for his work as interlocutor in the Dutch Master Minstrels. Q. Is the Camel hour broadcast from the studios or from outside?—Henry R. Hurley, Oneida, N. Y. A. Sometimes it come from the main N. B_ C. studio on Fifth avenue and somefimes from the Times Square studio, where a large audience can be accommodated. Q. Are the Pickards really all one family?—F. H. D,, S8t. Joseph, Mo. A. That is correct. They are patives of Tennessee. (Copyright, 1930.) 1927, the capital investment in this station has exceeded $1,000,- 000 and the operating loss has been about $750,000. Owned by combined public utility interests, this station’s losses during the first eight months of 1930 have averaged about $30,000 per month, according to its counsel, John Wing. It is the only Chicago sta- tion which already has 50,000 watts. Station WLS—Established in to| 1924, this station represents ex- penditures during its first four years of operating of $959,650. It began accepting sponsored broad- casts only two years ago, so that in the last two years its expenses have totaled $675836. The net loss in the operations during these two years.has been only $3,732, ac- cording to Edgar Bill, its manager. Owned by the farm periodical, Prairie Farmer, this station al- ready has a construction permit authorizing it to build to 50,000 watts. Station WBBM—This station’s capital stock, two-thirds of which is now owned by the Columbia Broadcasting System, is $150,000. Its net assets were given by its manager, Ralph Atlass, as $329,- 731. During hz fiscal year end- ing July 31, 1930, it earned a net profit of $142,892—the only Chi- cago station to show such a profit and one of the few major stations in the country to reveal real rofits. This despite the fact that t operates only four-sevenths time on its cleared channel. Labor Unions Subscribe Losses. Station WCFL—This station has had operating losses consistently, according to Hope Thompson, its counsel. He gave no figures. Losses, however, are made up by subscriptions among labor unions, the Chicago Federation of Labor owning the station. Then there is WTMJ of the Mil- waukee Journal, which since 1927 has represented a cash investment of $331,496, and up to August 30, 1930, has shown a net operating loss of $162,281, exclusive of execu- tive supervision, studio rent, gen- eral building overhead, etc., which would amount to about $25,000 a year, but which are not charged to radio operation because the newspaper conducts the station as part of its general promotion ac- tivities, according to Walter Damm, manager. . Why, then, are these broad- casters and so many others eager to spend still more on equipment and operation? Have Faith in Broadcasting. The answer is simply that they have great faith in the future of broadcasting, both as a self-sus- taining enterprise and as an in- valuable adjunct to their news- gaper or other activities. It will e noted that the losses suffered during the early years of opera- tion have gorie down lately most cases; in fact, with the es- tablishment of “audible advertis- ing” on a firmer basis, there is now no good reason why any full- time station should suffer large losses if properly managed. More- over, for some of the owners a ra- dio station represents certain in- tangible assets and good-will rev- enues that cannot be measured in dollars and cents. How firmly established broad- casting is becoming is well indi- cated by the fact that the short- wave relay auxiliaries of the Gen- eral Electric’'s WGY of Schenec- tady and Westinghouse's KDKA at Pittsburgh have applied to the Federal Radio Commission for re- moval of the experimental provi- sion of their licenses so as to ger- mit the broadcasting by short waves of their commercial pro- grams to foreign countries, where they would be picked up and re- broadcast by local stations. “The state of the art,” writes W. J. Purcell, operating engineer of WGY, in making this request progressed to the point where re- ception in foreign countries is al- most 100 per cent reliable, and the time has arrived when the high cost of operation and pro- grams for such transmissions mifht well be shared by commer- clal interests desiring to use them for advertising purposes.” * % % % Portable Station Added TATION 10-XAC is the latest addition to the Columbia Broadcasting System. It is a por- table short-wave station which will be used by Columbia an- nouncers in reporting special news and sporting events. The station will succeed the knapsack transmitter Ted Husing used at the golf matches last Summer. Although the first portable was successful, it had several defi- ciencies which have been elimi- nated in the new highly efficient set. The new transmitter is con- tained in an aluminum case, 121 by 15 by 11 inches. Beneath its aluminum cover are the tuning dials and instruments. Inside the metal case itself, 200 volts of aero- plane “B” batteries, three tiny 2- volt storage batteries and the transmitting instruments are compactly stored, each separated by thiék aluminum shields. The power rating of the transmitter is seven and one-half watts. It em- ploys one 171-type tube as a mod- ulator, one 112-type as oscillator and as a speech amplifier an or- dinary 201-A receiving tube. The antenna is built like a fish- ing rod. It comes in three sec- tions, is made of copper tubing and is 4 feet in length. When in operation it is set into a socket placed in the top of the trans- mitter. When not in use it may be taken apart and placed inside the metal container. Has 4 to 6 Mile Range. Edwin K. Cohan, technical di- rector of Columbia and one of the designers of the set, says that it will have an effective range of from 4 to 6 miles. It is particu- larly effective when used in the open country where there is no interference from steel buildings. Station 10-XAC is licensed by the Federal Radio Commission to in | operate on a frequency of 2,476 kilocycles, equivalent to 121.2 me- | ters. It is crystal controlled. The transmitter is used in con- on behalf of General Electric, “has T junction with an structed receiver, m up in the main control booth at the scene of broadcasting. The re- ceiver is coupled, through .& speech input amplifier, to the ar wire lines running to the $hY Hreauency of ‘the transmitter e uency of the T, so that it is unnecessary for the operator to waste time tuning in. The tiny broadcaster is attached to the announcer’s back with heavy straps. With batteries and equipment included, Station 10- XAC weighs 25 pounds. Ordinary studio-type condenser or carbos mlcroghones may be used, but probably with have the g;mble microphone which using developed and which used with the first knapsat transmitter. e e Travels 21,820 Miles to Broadcast. HUSING, Columbia an~ nouncer, has traveled 21,820 miles by air and rail to broadcast 53 news and sports events since January 1, 1930. Statistics were once bug-bears of Husing’s existence. Today he keeps a log book in which he re- cords everything that happens while out on a broadcast or “re- mote control” job. He records mileage traveled, time for each broadcast, unusual conditions and other items. During his 53 excursions so far this year Husing enuemrates some of the following as of major im- portance: Pacific Coast foot ball, Beaux Arts ball (first time), basket ball (first time), airplane broadcast, with two-way eonversation from land to plane and between planes (fitst time); Taft funeral, arrival of the S. 8. 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