Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1930, Page 70

ih | 4 i i on presidential ac- lieved, would not benefit that the Chief B 2 : 1 | Ei5e 4] E s ] i b il 1 4 I i!§ o] is i SEF H B 2 § i i i i i i | E g i i i b : | | f i f g § i i g { | i) L1 i # g | E ; H g g i hile the , all medical ;‘umm at the Army Medical Center. The fol- lowing officers will serve on the Vet- Although the Navy line selection board that will be convened December 8 will be instructed to select approxi- The | mately 6 captains for promotion to rear admiral, 13 commanders to cap- tain and 22 lieutenant commanders to commander to fill vacancies which will occur next year, ending December 1, 1931, it is anticipated that the board will increase selections above this mini- mum and name 7 captains, 18 com- manders and 30 lieutenant commanders for promotion to higher rank to take care of possible vacancies which may occur during the next year. In 1922 the month of June was designated as in which line selection boards would meet. The change from June to December is due to the fact that the number of line officers will, during succeeding years, be at a maxi- mum each June upon commissioning as ensigns in the line the graduates from Annapolis, and it is expected that there will be an excess of graduates each year for some years to come who will have to be discharged from the naval service upon graduation with one year's pay. The names of all officers who were selected by the line selection board last June but have not been promoted to princ | the grade for which selected at the time the new board meets in Decem- ber will be submitted to that board for consideration and must again be selected before the individual officer may be promoted to the next higher grade. Only the names of officers who have served four years in this present grade on November 30 may be sub- 7| mitted to the board for consideration. The law of 1916 also requires that all & higher RADIO 15 CLASSED YOUNG MAN'S GAME Many Listed as Youthful Leaders Are Carried Upon Its Pay Rolls. BY MARTIN CODEL. Radio is essentially a young man’s game. Probably no other industry of major consequence, unless it be aero- nautics, boasts as many very young men in high positions. The reason isn’t hard to find: Radio 1!‘:[1 is relatively young, for broadcast- ing sprang into being only 10 years or| 50 ago, and with its growing popularity there developed the recelving set and assoclated manufacturing industries. Then, too, radio has drawn and is still drawing from the ranks of those youth- ful hobbyists known as amateurs for much of its man power. Small wonder, then, that older heads in this and other businesses have fre- quently paraphrased Greeley’s famous counsel and have advised: “Go into radio, young man.” Outstanding Example Cited. David Sarnoff is probably the in- dustry’s outstanding example of young genius and success. A Russian immi- grant boy when he came to this country in 1900, he had scarcely passed his thirty-ninth birthday last February when the directors of the Radio Corporation of America elevated him from the post of vice president and gen- eral manager, to which he had risen from office boy, to the presidency of that corporation. But there are even younger men in the high places of the industry that m b;irgdof :n idea that fixed :x:e" én of a young experimenter named Guglielmo Marconi some 33 HOSE of you who heard Al Smith on the air durin how_ he years ago, probably gus hadn't changed much in his toward the micro) e in that time. If so, you were rigl He hasn’t. On the occasion of a visit he made to our studios to broadcast just before the end of the campaign, studio execu- tives had been informed that he would have only a small party with him, and that a small studio would be more suitable than a large one. Acting on that tip, a small one was assigned, but just before Smith arrived ‘word went out that he really would like to have a few people in front of him. Seventeen chairs were set up and a small group of staff members hastily assembled to fill them. Smith and his microphone faced them, and from the old campaigner’s manner you might have thought those 17 people were a whole convention hall full. Smith gestured at them, shook his fist under their noses, eyed them severely through his pince-nez, and con- fidentally let them in on the joke when he poked fun at his opponents. ‘The former Governor wasn't distrubed by the fact that there were only 17 ple in his visible audience; three or lour would have done just as well. But he feels the microphone is a cold, me- chanical thing. It gets between him and the people he is trying to reach. when he becomes too conscious of it. He is extremely anxious to get real conviction into his appeals but apparently he isn't yet able to vis- ualize them. Real people must be there beyond his admonitory forefinger to enable him to get steamed up. When he sees them looking up at him, he sees not 17, but a packed auditorfum. And he can forget that merciless micro- phone. ‘The brown derby still is in evidence and he wears it at that cocky, fighting angle. And he still looks as if he en- joyed a good argument as well as ever. * ok kX 8 COLLARS that shrink half a at t= | Paley, president of the Columbia Broad- Centy- ot birtnag e o res y. lce ot ident of Columbia, Sam Pickard, for- mer member of the Federal Radio Com- mission, is 33, and Columbia’s brilliant jons, | Washington executive, Harry Butcher, be assigned to Division 10 of the Battle Fleet. FRATERNITIES ___(Continued From Sixth Page) Soeeper G- 1. Bigks. Thiodore G, Bistey eeper C. 3 of the United States of Labor will speak. ‘The Ditto Club will meet tomorrow evening at the home of Mrs. Ethel Pieresma, 1657 Good Hope road south- Eureka Hive held a card party last Monday evening at the home of Mrs. M. commander, 2120 The Ever Ready Girls of Capitol Court, department der the mvhgh:t Mrs. s-ni H Severe, court director, had & hike through Rock Oreek Park last Saturday. SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY. featured the of mmm fie-m Hotel next Wednesday at 9 o' 3 Past Officers’ Club will hold its annual | mostly 3 coun- | owning to 59, Judge Sykes to 54, Judge | the wl.llhdfllwdmrty:twlmir%‘n Robinson is but 28. McMurdo Silver, president of the Silver-Marshall Radio Co. of Chicago, is only 28. Nathan Chirelstein became president of the Sonatron Tube Co. at 30. Herbert Hoover, jr, son of the President, is_the radio director of Western Air Express at 28. In High Rank at Age of 44. ‘Though he looks much younger, M. H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Co., is 44. As in its parent companies, the N. B, C. is honey- combed with mere youths. George F. McClelland, its general manager, is 36; Mark Wood, its secretary, is 30, and G. W. Johnstone, in charge of press rela- tions, is 30. All its vice presidents are in their thirties, John Elwood being 34, George Engels 39, Niles Trammel 36 and Prank Russell 34. Nor are there any graybeards on the technical or an- nouncerial staffs, where the ages run around 30 and under. fraternity’s real youngsters is Ralph Atlass, who heads ‘WBBM, Chicago, at 26. Broadcasting stations throughout the country reveal a similar array of youthful talent in all only birthday. ‘Youth mingles with maturer years on the scientific and legal side of radio. In Wuh:n.um one of t.:te mlhtut o(nune bright young_ men engineering staff of the Federal Radio Commission C. Gross, who is only 28. Lieut. E. K. ugt, another assistant engineer, is 37. chief engineer, Dr. C. B. Jolliffe, confesses to 36; V. Fo Greaves, assistant chief engineer, to 46, and Andrew D. Ring, assistant, to 31. Lieut. Comdr. T. A. M. Craven, U. 8. N., who is almost invariably included in American delegations to international radio conferences, is 37. Col. Thad Brown, general counsel, is 43, but his | tio three assistants, Ben E. Fisher, Paul D. P. Spearman and Duke M. Patrick, are 40, 32 and 30, respectively. ‘The commissioners themselves are older men, Chairman Saltzman to about 60 and Commissioner Lafount to “around 50.” Commissioner W. D. L. Starbuck is 44. the laundry and collar that part in ittons the middle under stress collar than find myself with nothing but tight collars. If you lose the front button you can always use the back one and hitch the collar to the shirt with a bit or string or wire. Well, almost always. But a tight collar is different. I'll bet even parsons sometimes cuss when they try to put them on. Perhaps not audibly, but I have a hunch the proper words go through their minds. Robert Stevens, second tenor of the Cavallers’ Quartet, was for' the broadcast one PFriday night at Thotel and found he hadn’t a single unshrunk- en collar to his name. He’d tried them all and was afrald he might have to slit & buttonhole—which always spoils the set of a collar. words generally accepted as fit- ting the situation were coming readily to his mind, he admitted the next day, and he repeated them all to himsel with some fervor. He lives so high up in his hotel that you couldn't hear him in the lobby, but all his neighbors were getting the general idea. There was a rustle at the door, one | Wi - |of those where the hotel staff can rush in bundles without disturbing the oc- ““A bell boy!” thought Stevens. “May- be I can send him out for some more collars. He went to the door. No one was in ;| cupant of the room. 1t sight—at least no one in a bell boy’s uniform. Puzzled, he looked in the service compartment of the door. A solid, black book fell out. It was & Bible, bearing the stamp of the Gideo: Soclety. . Just the feel of the book gave Ste- vens an odd sensation. It was almost as if a spoken rebuke come out of nowhere. It made him feel rather ridiculous over his display of temper, but it set him somewhat at peace with the world again. But he was even more surprised when the collar buttoned rd | easily at his first attempt. * K ok * PEAKING of incentives to rectitude, the microphone provides them more trequently than a good many people sus- pect, I imagine. Take the crime-preven- n program, for ‘example. Bill Shel- ley, who plays the detective, and Arthur B. Reeve and Finis Farr, who write the dramatic episodes, have small sheaves of letters from people telling about spe- cific crimes :.r‘luur ':l(l‘.ldeedl which program has prevented. A mother who felt her stripling son had been getting in with bad compan- ions and had been unable to keep him to his radio audiences, | Pres! | STOKOWSKI SEEKS of ceremonies in night clubs, mi‘{ bu“ :’mhilm dy hat e's big an 3 san ir and freckles. Away from the studios he sings mammy W“fl ‘hide- ously off key—when there are profes- sional singers around and carves canes for his friends. McNAMEE'S QUESTION BOX Q. Was it Marjorie Horton who sang on the Recitalists’ program October 247 And is she the same woman who sang on the Wrigley program?—Deborah Stoddard, m&lfllnd City, N. Y. A. Yes. M Horton has returned to the air after an absence of several months. She was one of the featured singers in the Wrigley program and in ;a-wd. good many others of about the same lc?rw of Collier’s hour, born? Does she appear in other programs, and has she been on the stage?—John Smith, Richmond, Va. A. Born in Chicago, but grew up and was educdted in Washington, D. C. After exporience in stock she played with Jane Cowl three years, and later played in “The Ladd " and “Little Accident.” Been on the air about four years. Plays in several programs, but best known, aside from her work in Collier’s, for “Adventures of Polly ton.” Q. Is it true about some men kid- naping Rudy Vallee and burning his feet until he gave them $10,000? Is Victor Herbert dead?—Babs Crawford, Seat Pleasant, Md. even how the rumor started. Rudy says he is utterly unaware of an at- tempt to kidnap him, and as for the extortion story it's utterly fantastic. Herbert is dead. Where was Tucille Wall, the |} A. I have been unable to discover || As for your other question, yes; Victor | RADIO IMPROVEMENT Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra Conductor Wants Better Broad- casting Facilities. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (#).—Leopold Stokowski contends there still is room for vast improvement in the technique of broadcasting symphonic music. ‘This statement, made by the conduc- tor of the Philadelphia Orchestra pre- | poard vious to the presentation of his second concert this season, also included an announcement that he had discarded part of the equipment he used to con- trol the volume of the broadcast in October, which opened his second year on the air. “Continued experimrentation with radio broadcasting,” the conductor said, “convinces me more and more of its IMPROVEMENTS ASKED Annual Congress of Those Who Live Abroad Hears Expressions of Dissatisfaction. PARIS (#).—A broadcast from France to foreign lands of messages which will present the development of French his * thought has been demanded by Prench- was set up within the in- closure, ‘The part of the equipment to be dis- carded was not described by Stokowski. However, it is known that he was not entirely satisfied with the results of the October broadcast, after which he fi deluged by letters and telegrams m listeners expressing wide differ- ences of opinion as to whether his de- ‘WAS & success or a failure. men who live a from home shores, At the Mrt:"munl system so be_sent to America, The congress also provement should be and dramatic productions ramaf transmitted from countries. Open Evenings For Your Convenience | AN INSTANT SUCCESS The Whole Country Acchim} a New Radio It! The Victor Q. What does it mean when the an- nouncer says the program by the Black and Gold Room Orchestra is already in rogram when he introduces it?—Mar- jorie K. Balch, Gelway, N. Y. A. It means that the station to which you are listening isn't broad- casting the first part of the program, which comes to it over a network, but has put something else from its own studios on the air. Certain programs on the network can take certain parts of them without destroying the unity. Q. Does Evangeline Adams herself really go on the air?—Dorothy O'Mara, Trinidad, Calif. A. Yes. Q. Is Anna Case, the ried?—W. R., Omaha, N A. No. Q. Can you tell me where Franklin Baur, tenor, on the Pirestone program last year, is now?—Margaret Milne, Hamilton, Ontario. A. Baur is in New York most of the time, making phonograph records. At f | this 'writing he is not on the air. Q. What is the name of the piece that is played when the Coca-Cola program is eonclgded?—c. Myron West, D. C. A. It is a composition, as yet un- named, Joy, leader of the orchestra. Eventually it will have words and a name. Q. Will Anna Case, soprano, be on the air this Winter?—Carl H. Jensen, Boynton, Fla. A. Yes. She is scheduled to appear in an Atwater Kent program. Q. Where was Paul Whiteman born? —Alf Mecone, Flimaton, Ala. A. Denver, Colo. Q. What has become of Evelyn Her- bert?>—R. D. K., Alexandria, Va. A. She now is playing on Broadway in “Princess Charming.” Q. What with which open and close their program?—Yvette Breaux, Miami, Fla. i A. It is called “Three Little Maids, and is from “The Mikado,” by Gilbert and Sullivan. Q. How old is Ted Husing, and is he married? Where was he born?— “Sally,” Greenfleld, Iowa. A. Born in New Mexico; is now 31 years old, married and 8 years old. is the name of the piece Q. Where is Justin Laurie?—Dan Evans, Baltimore, M A. I believe he but T haven't been able to find out just are built in such a way that stations d. ! still i in New York, There Is Nothing Quite Like Name Is Your Guarantee—PRICE 1318 Complete Before purchasing any low-priced Radio, see and hear this model soprano, mar- | ebr. Victor’s Greatest Achievement ! Electrola/ the “Three-Little Maids” | has a daughter | *° Radio With Five-Circuit Micro-Synchronous Screen-Grid Home Recording SEE WHAT THE NEW VICTOR OFFERS YOU! 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A similar case came up in connection with a surety company’s program. morning following one of these broad- - | casts a man appeared at the offices of - | the surety company and placed in their hands several hundred dollars in cash. He said it represented a loss for which he had been responsible several years before, a loss which the company’s de- tectives had b?u!l‘ prr‘llt:“m to trace to any particular The man explained he was a regular listener to the program and that while he had been for several years behaving himself in another position of trust, ke was impressed with the ingenious ways of tracking down criminals disclosed on the air, and also bothered by his own conscience. He had decided to make restitution. ‘The man was allowed to go, but by reference to its files the surety company identified the case in question and even 1s | the man who had left the money. By further inquiry it also learned the man - . 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