Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1930, Page 60

TOSGANN WAL FEATURE TODAY Again to Direct New York Philharmonic Orchestra. London Program On. Arturo Toscanini, celebrated Italian eonductor, who made his first appear- ance of the season in New York last week, will again direct the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in its weekly radio concert this afternoon over WMAL and a network of other Columbia Broadcasting System sta- The orchestra will play three selec- tions—the “Anacreon” _ overture of Cherubini, Mozart’s “Haffner” and the “Ein Heldenleben” . Of these three numbers, Toscanini plans to feature the Strauss composition, a symphonic rm which the composer wrote in 1898. Two other outstanding attractions of ‘WMAL this afternoon will be the regu- lar rebroadcast from London and the Conclave of Nations program. The program from London will be a discus- sion of “Science and Religion” by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, Great Britain’s leading astro-physicist and |, . sarmer_president of the Royal Astro- #bmical Soclety. The Netherlands will be honored in the Conclave of Na- tions broadcast. The er will be J. H. Van Royen, Minister of the Neth- erlands to the United States. Repre- sentative Fish of New York will intro- duce him. Usual WMAL Array. In the evening WMAL will broadcast | its usual array of Columbia attractions in addition to a concert by the Gau- chos, a group of South American in- strumentalists. who return after a long absence from the microphone. The cipal _Columbia hgnudnh'.lom mwctg Curiosity Shop, during W ot be i dramatization of & est_side of radio. Radio Regulation” is his topic. Marie Healy, young New Hampshire soprano, assisted by a quartet and Pas- ternack’s Orchestra, will present the Radio Hour musical program at 9:15 o'clock tonight over WRC and a net- y | 11:15 o'clock. He The Brox Sisters (left), specialists in close harmony, who will assist Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees in presenting the Sunshine hour Thursday night over WRC and an N. B. C. net- work. Helen Corbin Heinl (right), preminent Washington concert pianist, who will be the guest soloist in the Melody Moments period the same night WRC and associated stations. Audrey Marsh (lower), who played the leading role for two seasons in “Abie’s Irish Rose,” who will be heard over 'WMAL and associated Columbia Broad- | casting System stations Thursday night. | | “Salome” to Be Played. Alexander Glaxounow’s symphonic poem, “Salome,” will be played by an orchestra as a feature of the Capitol broadcast. The Choral Orchestra will nt a varied program of nine num- rs, ranging from “Nine Little Miles From Tennessee” to “Auf Wiedersehn,” a classic melody. Sam Herman, xylophonist, will ?lny r numbers d\l‘gém his recital at open with “What's the Use?”. The other selec- tions include “Why?” “Sleep” and “The Moon Is Low.” WOL will broadcast the morning service at Calvary Baptist Church, an- other biblical dramatic presentation by A. Winfield Hoeny, and the Washing- ton Catholic radio hour from the Im- maculate Conception Church. WJSV's program contains its regular Sunday night religious features in addition to work of other National Broadcasting Company stations. Miss Healy will a radio revival presentation. “Graham McNamee Speaking-” | before he landed on the air in the program b:‘:rlng that singularly appropriate name. He really existed, for conversational , at least, several months be- fore the mike got him. It's something gfim,buudm‘tmnm “« MBROSE J. WEEMS,” you A might say, was “Cuckoo” long a new one and wear it out on the street it begins to rain. She made me get a new one yester- day. Today I got caught in the storm and now that new hat looks like all the others I've ever had. Its gloss ne, brim droops on one side and on the other. There was ty of soot in the air and it left lack streaks everywhere it landed. As a matter of fact, I can keep & . | isn’t worse than usual until I go to a t secretary to Mr. Knight's fourth I{l‘ln‘ secretary,” and let it everyone who might be know of “Mr. Weems” not to give the Joke away. For several days Dixon found “Weems” had “just gone out the door,” or “wouldn’t be back until 3:30” or was ." Letters and tele- were pouring in from ton, and in one of the letters was g::ge-r alleged insulting message from But there was one slip. Knight l’lfled“hlnuel!.mdl‘:fl . Tecognized the hoax had been everyone in on the —everyone, that is, but Dixon, who was left to stew in his own misery. And when Knight needed a nut character for one of his programs, vAmbrose J. Weems” was ready to e ’l'ONXGHT. with a cold Fall rain beating against the studio win- dows, I am d&bltfi’ whether I ought to wait until my wife has gone to bed before sneaking off home, or whether 1 ought to rush in with a shout of “I told you so” and make her feel sorry for the way she bosses me about. It's about a hat. You see, T have perfectly terrible luck with hats. I'm always managing to sit on them or to drop them in the mud or to swap them in restaurants. And every time I get 2 g 9" Major “Chain” Features TODAY. 12:30—Rebroadeast from _Lon- don, England; talk by Sir ' Arthur Eddington— WMAL and C. B. 8. net- ‘work. 1:30—Conciave of Nations; pro- in honor of the 7:30—Capitol “Family”; variet; e ekl g m~—WRC and . C. network. . Schuman-Heink, Bel WBAL, WJR, WLW and others. 8:30—Choral Orchestra; popu- lar program, with Muriel Mary ontealio lopple, con! WRC and N. B. C. net- work. 9:15—Marie Healy, soprano, and Pasternack’s Orchestra— WRC and N. B. C. work. 11:00—Back Home hour; sacred net- wJz, WBZ, to | particularly an expert on some such foot ball game or a fight. At most manage to lose my hat com- It isn't that I forget it, but to leave I find that I've allowed it to roll off somewhere. If one of those trampled hats beside ring really were mine I wouldn't and shirts. And ht be 8 good idea new hat really » Brad Sutton tells people | he really got his start as an actor | through “barking” for street fairs their jaws drop with astonishment. Usually they think he must have been a lawyer, subject as_corporation law. H’:; a big, dignified fellow. Some- times he is taken for a banker or an executive of a big company. His gray hair is flowing in line, but mnot in length. It would be impossible, as a matter of fact, to spot him as an actor if you met him on the street. Sutton, when he reminisces between broadcasts (you hear him as “Capt. Haft”) admits readily enough that he started his professional career in small- time vaudeville as a ventriloquist-ma- . It went well enough until, dur- ing one of those “rests” so familiar to the theatrical profession, his landlady attached his trunks, containing all his paraphernalia. And so Sutton became a “master of ceremonies” at carnivals and street fairs. He has a hearty voice, and it | stood by him—even when he worked once in a cage of trained animals. That volce never faltered once, says Sutton, even when he himself was ready to call 1t a day after a lion’s paw had missed him by ‘a couple of inches. Thes came a fling at stock and a successful career as a lecturer on the Arctic. He took a very early movie ex- hibition into Canada, with such poor success that he went back to the stage, and remained there, playing vaudeville, burlesque and stock, until about two years ago, when he got into broad- casting. He is an excellent character actor and an unusually hard worker. His voice is so distinctive, however, that it | is séldom he is allowed to work in more | than three or four programs a week. * x ok % THE mysterious announcer, Ward Wil- son, who did so well on a recent program by Peter Van Steeden and his Through factory co-operation e are allowin EXTRAORDINARY TRADE ALLOWANCES OoN i ° SETS ASK OK OKAY RADIO CO. hat looking fairly well if my Iuck |getting | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 23, 1 l STAGE AND CONCERT ARTISTS IN BROADCAST FEATURES orchestra, and then never was heard person, even though readers have suspected e one else in disguise. announcer by profes- to group, which handles all programs orig- g outside the studios. When there’s a big job on he's one of the few men always assigned. | On this night, however, he was as- signed as the sole engineer to handle the pick-up of Van Steeden's orchestra from a Fifth avenue restaurant. An announcer was assigned, too, but he never showed up. That's another story, however. Engineers, it must be admitted, have announced programs before, and not badly, either; but Wilson, I think, wel- comed the chance to do his stuff. He had, you see, been on the air a couple of times from the studios doing imita- tions of well known radio personalities. So he went on the air with all the confidence of a veteran. He even went so far as to pull a few wise cracks about the numbers to be played, and he didn’t have to blush for any of them later. All the time the orchestra was playing is | OF he was making the announcements Wilson was doing his regular job, too. Both his hands were busy with the dials which control the volume of sound that is sent to the studios, and he had to his eyes on the little needle which keep tells just how high that volume is Best of all, he passed muster before a critical audience. Harley Sherris, announcer and night program boss; Pat Kelly, supervisor of announgers; Kelvin Keech, Jimmie Wallington &ind Milt Cross all learned what Wilson was doing in time to listen. They joined in a petition to have him transferred if Wilson had known they were there he might not have done so well. tell the truth, I doubt if he will be transferred. He's a swell engineer, and right noy I can see his boss getting g}xrple al any suggestion of drafting im, MEE’S QUESTION BOX Q. Is A. & P.’s Col. Goodbody Frank Singiser, the announcer? And is Duke Ellington's Band colored? — Carter Batcheller, Alexandria, Va. A. Yes, on both. Singiser may do that job exclusively in the future. Q. Does the Lonesome Co sing any more?—Jeanne Anderson, Wash- ington, D. C. A. Yes. He is on a program known as “Death Valley Days.” Q. Does Frank Knight, who takes part in the Majestic hour on Sun nights, go by his real name?—B. E. Kelly, Hyattsville, Md. A. Yes, Q. Are Harry Browne and Bernard Browne related?—J. B. Stone, Framing- ham, Mass. A. They are brothers and come from North Adams, Mass. Q. Please tell me how much Mme. Schumann-Heink makes singing in the Enna Jettick program Sunday nights.— Mrs. Winfrey, Texas City, Tex. A. I do not know the figure, but I feel perfectly safe in saying that it can't be less than $2,000 a week. Q. Do you think Leonard Joy could send us a copy of the Coco Cola theme song?—Muree and Lillian Mattern, San Francisco, Calif. A. It hasn't been published yet and exists only in manuscript form. I un- derstand it will be published a little later. Q. Does Harry Hays play the part of Prof. Monteagle in the “Mystery g program?—B. N. Anderson, Oklahoma City, Okla. A. He did until he was transferred to Cillledulv and the program was can- celed. Q—Does Ray Knight appear an place else besides “Cuckoo?”—Mrs. ll M, Charlotte, N. C. is also on Ingram ry Hopple, Virginia Gar- diner and Rosalie Wolfe ::ul‘rrled?— “Curious,” Indianapolis, Ind. A—It is really Mrs. Wolfe, but Misses Hopple and Gardiner are single. (Qopyright, 1930.) Because We Sell on Credit We Must Sell the Best Delivers This Radio ® to Your Home ° < Complete. Compact Real Full Tone Dynamic Speaker $ 5 9.50 Complete With Tubes BAILEY TIRE STORES 624 Pennsylvania Ave. S. E. 2250 Sherman Ave. N. W. 417 11th St. N.W. WHAM, WIR, WLW . 1760 Pa. Ave. N.W. 3228 Georgia Ave. N. W. 1234 14th St. N. W. 3001 14th St. N. W. 1930—PART FOUR. Behind the Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. RESIDENT HOOVER has a radio technique all his own. He has a reputation among broadcasting officials as a man “who knows his microphone,” and he never varies from his sys- tem. Broadcasts from the White House always take place in the Lincoln Study. Four minutes be- fore Mr. Hoover is to go on the air he takes his place at a desk on which the microphones are set, and reads a few sentences of his speech so that the engineers may set their controls. This insures perfect reception from the start when he begins in earnest. Once the controls are set they are sel- dom touched, for Mr. Hoover does not indulge in whisperings or shoutings. Whenever the President ad- dresses both a seen and unseen audience, according to Radio Di- gest, he uses a specially con- structed standard, equipped to hold five or six microphones. He reads his speech from a loose leaf To | notebook of pocket size, a method adopted because the audience is not then continually aware of the fact that they are being read to, as they might be if he used a large manuscript. In addition to being an impor- tant radio broadcaster, Mr. Hoover is an enthusiastic radio listener. There are seven or eight radio re- ceiving sets in the White House, and the President uses them fre- quently. His favorite programs are speeches of a political or edu- cational nature, and he also en- joys good music. In addition, he !re¢1uently listens in on news au es from the Washington sta- ons. All in all, he seems t; American in his choice o grams. ically pro- * kX X RADIO engineers have been given something to think about. It is whether such a thing as sidebands to a radio signal ac- tually exist in the ether. This question has been brought up with the appearance in this country of the stenode radiostat, an invention of Dr. James Robin- son, British radio authority, who claims super-selectivity for the device. The generally accepted side- band theory is based on the con- tention that when music or voice is impressed upon a carrier wave of a broadcast station, these su- perimposed signals of audible fre- quency require space in the ether 5,000 cycles on either side of the frequency assigned to a station to permit broadcasting without in- terference. Dr. Robinson contends that such is not the case, and is backed up by Sir Ambrose Fleming, in- ventor of the Fleming valve, which was the first radio tube. Sir Ambrose declares that side- bands do not in fact exist, but are merely an easy way to express a mathematical fiction designed to explain observed phenomena. In seeking to prove this belief, Dr. Robinson has developed the stenode radiostat, a receiver using the superheterodyne principles but containing a s&ecial circujt with a quartz crystal that pro- duces needlepoint selectivity. ‘With this outfit, which has been | Seve: demonstrated in Washin, A Chicago and several other pi in the United States, he has brought in stations through arti- ficlal interference when they could not be logged on the ordi- nary receiver without howls and squeals. Tests in England made possible the reception of stations which were unintelligible on other types of receivers. In seeking to prove this belief that Dr. Robinson believes that it will be ible to increase the number of wavelengths available for radio purposes, broadcasting as well as other services. Stations, he said, can be placed much closer together than the regularly accepted sary. * * x X HERE are some new sidelights on the fiscal operations of some of the leading broadcasting stations in the United States, as compiled by counsel for the Fed- eral Radio Commission following recent hearings on high power, at which all were asked identical questions concerning their finances | foa the purposes of the legal .rec~ ord. Twenty of the 26 stations apply- ing for maximum powers of 50,000 watts were considered for this compilstion, because all are oper- ating on cleared channels with powers of at least 5,000 watts. The statistics are regarded here as fair averages for such stations. Ten of the 20 stations showed an average annual profit each of $29,000. The other 10 showed av- erage losses of $54,000 annually These figures do not charge off the intangible factors of self-ad- vertising, promotion and good will accruing to the owners of the sta- ons. The average total investment in 10,000 cycle | separation now considered neces- | 35 miles, and its “reasonable serv- a l.l)?;-wltt u:uonu mll $189,000 nty per cen! e programs served to listeners is of the sus- taining or non-profit-m: character, the other 30 per cen! being sponsored or advertisers and the only direct income available to stations outside of talent booking. Music comprises about 57 per cent of all programs. e average advertising rate ger hour is $310 for even! ours, and about half that amoun! for the daytime hours. Monthly incomes from advertising average $21,500 per station. The average operating cost of each station per month is $22,000, of which the tal- ent pay roll consumes $12,500 and other employes $6,400. The average area of quality service for a 5,000-watt station is ice area” was estimated at 88 miles. 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