Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1931, Page 55

TSON-CARAWAY T0BE HEARD ON AIR Will Deliver Addresses at Dedication of New Home of Woman’s Party. Prominent figures in Government, diplomatic, the music and the popular entertainment worlds will take part in today’s radio programs coming into or originating in Washington. Dusolina Giannini, the dramatic so- prano, who set a new record by singing in 114 concert and opera engagements on three continents in one season, will be heard over WRC and a network of the National Broadcasting Co. at 9:15 tonight. She in a native of Phila- delphia and comes of a family of mu- sicians. Appearing in this classical program also will be the orchestra di- rected by Josef Pasternack. Ceremonies at the dedication of the Alva Belmont House, the new head- quarters of the National Woman's Party, will be broadcast by WRC from | 1:30 to 2 p.m. today, with addresses to be made by Senator Watson of Indiana, Senator Caraway of Arkansas, Doris Stevens, chairman of the Inter-Ameri- can Commission of Women, and Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, member of the Woman's Party. Music will be fur- nished by the National Capitol Choir Behind the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. M-icrophoné BY THE RADIO EDITOR. ; HE radio as an instrument in the spreading of public knowledge and in the exchange of international ideas is making great strides, as indicated by a glance at statistics of the past year and even a notice of the year-end programs, just concluded, which included mes- sages from Benito Mussolini, premier of Italy. Officials of the United States Government have occupied hun- dreds of hours before the micro- Iphone on extensive chain net- works, including the weekly Na- tional Radio Forum over the Columbia Broadcasting System, under arrangements made by The Star, and also over the networks of the National Broadcasting Co. Records of the N. B. C. made public last week show that 328 Government officials, including | President Hoover, made radio ad- dresses during the past year, with the Chief Executive high up in the list with 27 appearances. Now comes the announcement that Dr. Wilhelm Miklas, presi- dent of Austria, is to address America direct from the govern- mental palace in Vienna by radio this month. The WABC network | lof the Columbia Broadcasting and Arthur S. Whitcomb, cornetist of the United States Marine Band. ! Symphonic Program. | G. B. Sammartini ymphony No. 3 ! in G Major” are outstanding works on | the program of the New York Philh: monic Symphony Society to be broad- | cast by WMAL and a network of the Columbia Broadcasting System from | 3:15 to 5 p.m. today. Arturo Toscamml will conduct the program. “The Business Outlook at the Turn of the Year” will be described by Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, in an address in his regu- larly weekly series, 8 to 8:15 p.m. today, over WMAL and the Columbia network. Dr. Leonide Pitamic, Jugoslavian minister to the United States, will be the speaker in the Conclave of Nations program at 1:30 to 2 o'clock this after- noon over WMAL and C. B. 8. stations. A group of native musical selections will open and close the program. Nick Lucas, musical comedy and vaudeville actor, will appear on the choral ore¢hestra program over WRC and the N. B. C. network this evening at 8:30 o'clock, singing popular num- bers. The orchestra of Gustave Haen- schen will offer special arrangements of popular tunes. ‘The variety program over WRC and an N. B. C. network at 7:30 this eve- ning will include solo numbers by Lewis James, member of the Revelers Quartet, and numbers by the Shilkret Orchestra, ‘which will include both comic, operetta and grand opera selections. Berbara Maurel, contralto, will sing a new composition by Roland Farley, “You'll Love Me Yet” during the chamber music recital by the French ‘Trio over WMAL and the Columbia system from 5:30 to 6 p.m. The trio itself will play Schubert and Beethoven numbers among others. “We Rode in a Boat,” one of the most recent songs of the Soviets, will be sung by Mme. Valia Valentinova, contralto, in the “Around the Samovar” progra: broadcast from 10:30 to 11 o'clock to- night by WMAL and the Columbia system. A specially abridged version of the musical interpretation of the life of Paul, the apostle, that is recorded in Mendelssohn's “Paulus,” will be a fea~ ture of an orchestral offering d the Back Home Hour over WMAL and the 0. B hs£ network from 11 o'clock to Carbauh,- baritone, will sing ng a musical program beginning at 10:15 o'clock this over WOL, following which the services of the Church of the Epiphany will be broad- cast. Services of the Frances Asbury Church will be broadcast at 4:30 this afternoon. and at 5 p.m. services at the Church of the Immatulate Conception. Builds “Palace of Broadcasting.” ting administration and studios, Somewhat as in the United States, where a “radio city” will soon spring into being in the heart of New York City to include radio, theater, movies and the opera, the new Danish radio headquarters will adjoin the cld Royal Theater, which will form two large studios with accommodations for public audiences. International Publicity i’hnned. A station devoted to “international &mluf%," broadcasting advertisements attributed to a German company seek- ing control of the new 100-kilowatt sta- tion which will go into operation in the Duchy of Luxembourg early in 1932, ac- cording to & re) in Wirel of Lnsdion, port, reless World by the ours in their cast t0 WJZ stations at 8:30 p.m., January 5. Major Radio Features RELIGIOUS. Washington Cathedral service, sermon . Freeman A review of the hi - e ts of 1930 is to broadt by Right Rev. James E. Bishop of Washington, WMAL, 4 pm.; sermon from Philadelphia by Rev. D. G. Barnhouse, WMAL, 5 p.m.; Catholic hour, WRC, 6 p.m. CLASSICAL. Dusolina Giannini, dramatic soprano, | and Pasternack Concert Orchestra, WRC, 9:15; New York Philtharmonic Symphony Orchestra, WMAL, 3:15; the French Trio, harp, violin and flute, WMAL, 5:30; Back-Home hour, oratorio numbers, WMAL, 11 pm. SPEECHES. Benators Watson and Caraway, at dedi- cation of home of National Women'’s . 1:30; Business Outlook, Dr. Julius Klein, WMAL, 8 p.m.; David Lawrence, on Govern- ment, WRC, 9 p.m. VARIETY. Maj. Bowes' Theatrical Family, WRC, 8:01; Sunday at Seth Parker's, ‘WRC, 10:45 p.m.; Around the Samo- var, soloists and orchestra, WMAL, 10:30 p.m. HIGHLIGHTS ELSEWHERE. 2:00—Roxy Symphony Orchestra— WBZ, WBAL, KDKA, WHAS, WSB, WRVA, WJAX, WFLA, WLW, WJZ. 3:00—Youth Conference — WBAL, KDKA, WRVA, WJAX, WIOD, WFLA, WJZ. 7:30—Josel WBZ, WHAM, WLW, KDKA, | System reported it had completed plans to extend its weekly over- seas rebroadcasts outside of Lon- don to include many of the capi- tals of Europe. The first of sev- eral pickups, that by President Miklas, is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. next Sunday. * % ok K MME. ERNESTINE SCHUMANN- HEINK, 68-year-old contralto, who has been heard each Sunday night since September 7 last on the Melodies Hour of an N. B. C.- WJZ network, will make her final appearance of this series tonight, but will continue to appear oc- casionally on various programs, it is announced. She is operatic counsel of the National Broad- casting Co. Although she was frequently identified with radio before being engaged for the weekly series now ending, Mme. Schumann-Heink never before sang in a stated series of broad- casts. She has made 17 appear- ances during the series, singing one selection on each program. Prior to this series she had ap- peared before the microphone but three or four times a year. Mme. Schumann - Heink gave selections requested by the radio audience. This policy, announced at the beginning of the series, brought a flood of mail. The songs chosen finally were those for which the greatest number of requests had been received. For 53 years Mme. Schumann- Heink has been identified with the musical world. She first tri- umphed on the concert and oper- atic stage in Europe, and then in the United States. During her career she has appeared in virtu- ally every civilized country in the world. * K X % MUSICAL instrument in which the sound is created by fa- miliar radio vacuum tubes will be heard on the air for the first time in the United States on Tuesday, when it will be played by Maurice Martenot, the inventor, in the symphony concert over a WABC network from 9:30 to 10 pm. In the “Musical Soundwaves Instru- ment” vibrations are produced in vacuum tubes and passed through a diffuser to a loud speaker, sub- ject to intermediate modulation by the performer. Outwardly the instrument resembles a spinet, or a small square piano of the last century. There is a five-octave keyboard similar to that of the piano, and inside the body of the instrument are the tubes for gen- erating the vibrations. The loud speaker is separate from the key- board. R ,OMETERS may soon become standard equipment for radio program builders if N. B. C. offi- cials heed the result of a recent survey made by their research division. Statistics kept for a period of months indicate that the musical tastes of the radio audience fluctuate definitely with seasonal changes. Listener demand for classical music, the figures show, increases gradually as the barometer de- scends to Winter levels. And the Summer months, with their lassi- tude and appetite for light enter- tainment, bring a corresponding demand for popular tunes. During the closing month °fi 1930 the combined networks of N. B. C. gave classical music an average percentage of 39.7, and popular music 60.3 per cent. .-Pop- ular tunes, on the other hand, were most dominant during the days of September, the figures show, when the balance was 69.5 per cent for lighter selections, as against oly 30.5 per cent for| heavier music. k% % NOVEL cycle of recitals, illus- trative of the development of violin music from the seventeenth century to the present, will be broadcast by Toscha Seidel over| WABC and the Columbia network | every Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. be- ginning this week. He will be assisted by a symphony orchestra directed by Howard Barlow. For his first program he will play French selections of the seventeenth century depicting the romantic and artistic trend of that period. Three works of Francois Couperin, organist and harpsichordist, are to be featured. They are “Chanson Louis XIII et Pavanne,” “La Precieuse” and “Aubade Provencale.” * o ow o NN ANDREWS and Basil Rath- bone, both of whom were re- | cently seen on Broadway in “A Kiss of Importance,” have been added to the cast of “The Cam- berley Triangle,” the play by A. A. Milne which inaugurates the WJZ. 8:00—Mme. Schumann-Heink—WBZ, WHAM, WJR, WHAS, WsM, KDKA, WLW, WJZ. l:l.’o—aow‘\;;h Sea Islanders—WGAR, 9:30—Floyd_ Gibbons, talk — WBZ, WHAM, KDKA, WJR, WLW. 10:15—uvurveny UrCaesu s KDKA, WJR, WLW, WJIAX, WJZ. 10:30—Slumber music—WBZ, WHAM, KDKA, WJR, WLW, WJZ. 11:00—Radio WJR, KDKA, WiZ, w4, WRVA, series of one-act plays. They will be heard next Sunday evening at 7:30 from WEAF over an N. B. C. network in the support of Otis Skinner, who plays the leading role in the Milne play. ‘B waaiess i Jouelwr Shouse, chairman of the executive committee of the Democratic Na- "I tional Committee, at the Jackson day dinner in Springfield, Mo., will be broadcast over a Natiopal Broadcasting Co. network Thurs- day night from 10 to 10:30 o'clock. * % k % STIMULATION of active musical interest in the home, with the emphasis on possible discovery of latent talent in the family group, is the purpose of a new series of programs which will be presented semi-weekly to a daytime audi- ence over N. B. C. networks from coast to coast. The first of the presentations will be heard next Saturday at 11:30 a.m,, with Carl Friedberg, internationally known pianist, as guest artist. Alois Havrilla, staff announcer, will act as narrator and baritone soloist in a half-hour program also featuring Godfrey O'Hara as guest composer and Paula Hem- minghaus, contralto. The second half hour, which is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, January 13, will present Percy Grainger, emi- nent Australian pianist-composer, as guest artist. o ILLY SUNDAY, evangelist, will be heard during the broadcast of the Back Home Hour from the Churchill Tabernacle, in Buffalo, tonight from 11 to 12 over the WABC-Columbia network. He will be introduced to the radio audi- ence by the Rev. Clinton H. Churchill, who was brought into the church by Rev. Sunday a number of years ago. * * X “THE THRESHOLD,” third of a series of experimental plays sponsored by the Columbia Broad- casting System, will be presented Wednesday from 10 to 10:30 p.m. “The Threshold” was written by Edwin H. Morse originally for the stage. The radio presentation will be under the personal direc- tion of Morse, marking his debut on the air. iR K ITTLE Jack Little, comedian and crooner who has enter- tained radio audiences from coast to coast, will make the N. B. C. New York studios his headquarters beginning today. He will have two programs a week through an N. B. C.-WJZ network beginning at 1:45 p.m. today. His other regular time is Wednesday at 1:45 .m. o * K X X FROM palette to microphone is an unusual transition for any artist, especially for one who in 1929 won a scholarship from the New York division of the National Academy of Art. Andre Baruch, however, has decided to cast his lot with radio. He is one of the newest additions to the list of an- nouncers on the Columbia Broad- casting System—and one of the youngest members of the an- nouncing staff. He was born in Paris August 20, 1906, was edu- cated in the Beaux Arts School and came to America in 1917, where he studied piano technique and art. He enrolled in Pratt Institute, Brogklyn, and in Co- lumbia University. Then, after having concluded these courses, he entered the commercial art field, but found that broadcasting provided still another lure. SHORT VAVES ST UL TOHORRON Decision Expected to Settle Action Taken on Domestic Radio Telegraph Rights. BY ROBERT MACK. The fate of the continental short waves for use in setting up domestic radio telegraph services competitive with the established wire services of the Western Union and Postal com- panies will be determined by the courts next week after two years of litigation. ‘Tomorrow, it is learned on good au- thority, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia will hand Gown its opinion in this vital case, in which the Radio Corporation of America and the Mackay Radio Telegraph Co., a part of the International Telephone & Tele- graph Co., are combating the Federal Radio Commission’s _distribution of these fabulously valuable chanrels. Awarded Forty Channels. The commission in June, 1928, awarded to the Universal Wireless Communica- tions Co., Inc., a newcomer in the com- munications fleld, 40 of the 88 short- wave channels available to the Nation for point-to-point communication. R. C. A. and Mackay also had applied for nation-wide services, as well as two other companies which since have gone into the hands of receivers. Universal has fallen by the wayside, and its 40 channels, with which it was pledged to link 112 cities of the Nation by 1932, are thrown back into the radio hopper. R. C. A, Mackay and Inter- city Radio Telegraph Co., the latter now in financially straitened condition, seek to divide the channels. The court’s opinion will tell this story. Must Be Used Co-operatively. ‘The continental short waves are the channeis lying between 1,500 and 6,000 kilocycles, just beyond the extremity of the broadcast band. Because they have an interference range over the entire continent they must be used co-opera- tively with other North American na- Of the aggregate available to this country 88 were set aside for public point-to-point service by the commis- sion, of which 40 were assigned Uni- versal and 20 to Press Wireless, Inc., for the setting up of a domestic news dis- seminating network to round out its international news radio service. R. C. quest, while Mackay was denied out- t, along with Intercity. yright, 1931, by Consolidated Press.) OLNEY COUNSEL IN SUIT Appointed by Dept. of Justice for Action Against “Radio Trust.” ‘The Department of Justice has ap- pointed Judge Warren Olney, ir., of San Francisco as special counsel for the Government in the “radio trust” suit it recently brought in Federal District Court at Wilmington patent licensing and eemants evisting among thoee comy are legal, is being tesied in this case, which is expected to take to decide and which prob- Court. ultimately go to the Supreme Judge o’lnzy was _ assoclate iun-*lee of the Supreme Court of Cali- {rom 1919 fo 1921, . oy JANUARY 4, 1931—PART FODY Mme. Valia Valentinova, Russian contralto, at left, for merly starred with the Petrograd Grand Opera Co., who will be heard at 10:30 tonight over WMAL in the “Around the Samovar” program. Musical Aviators, dance orchestra, which will appear this week in WMAL programs. At right, Dusolina Giannini, soprane, who will be heard this evening over WRC. Tom Truesdale, center, leader of the RADIO STIMULUS 10 EFFICIENCY Use of Loud Speakers in Factories Proves Aid to Workers. BY MARTIN CODEL. Radio's charm to soothe the frayed nerves of routine factory workers is be- ing enlisted more and more by plant executives. Not only does radio help relieve the monotony of routine tasks, but there is evidence that it stimulates efficiency and production. From Camden comes the report that | radio is effective and popular even where the machinery is noisy; in fact, it is said that radio provides a better nervous aro- dyne when heard by workers above the roar of machinery they are attending than on the quieter jobs. Of course, the radio companies are quite enthusiastic about factory radios, for proof of its effectiveness will soon open up big new markets for receiving apparatus. Just Experiment. The first experiment in factory radio on record was tried some two years ago by a Garden City, Mass., concern, whose workers demanded the installation of loud speakers when asked to work over- time. They wanted to hear the presi- dential cnm&lzn speeches. A trial soon convinced factory heads; they re- ported that production increased 17.5 D:;‘:enb over a given period due to the radio. . “We find,” T Nathan G. Er- wandter, “that the best type of music to speed up work is jazz. Speeches tend to slow up workers when they try to catch every word. Some of the em- ployes, however, say they can work bet- ter when listening to ¢lassical selections. There is no doubt in my mind that the use of broadcast music to increase pro- duction in industry is worth a thorough investigation.” Many cigar factories which formerly employed readers to keep the minds of the workers off their dull routine are now finding radios valuable for tuning in stock market quofations. When he was Secretary of Coinmerce, President Hoover had a receiving set in his office to listen to broadcasts of important events occurring during the daytime. Radio on Trains. In one branch of radio, at least, the Canadians and Europeans are continu- ing to show the way to the United States. That is the use of radio aboard trains, for some years demonstrated as practical by the Canadian National Rail- ways and by certain lines in France, Germany, Poland and Russia. First on the plea of impracticability, and then on fainter pleas of economy, American railroad officials have attempted to ex- cuse that lack on all but a few of the more progressive lines in this country. From France this week comes the re- port that the year 1931 will see at least 500 cars equipped to provide constant telegraphic communication en route be- tween passengers on trains and the post office central station at Pontoise. The Canadian National Railways has proved, by actual everyday installation on its Toronto-Montreal run, with an exten- sion in the service to Chicago projected, that telephone conversations as well can be carried on between moving trains and the connected telephone system of Canada. From London comes a Department of Commerce report that, ,after several years of experimenting, seats in express which leaves Kings Cross for Leeds each morning and returns the same day have been fitted with multiple sockets into which headphones can be plugged. The use of the headphones costs 1 shilling each for the journey. This is England's first train radio. As in Canada and other tountries, the Brit- ish propose to develop broadeast recep- tion aboard trains in such manner as to cause no inconvenience to other passen- gers. Far from proving a nuisance, the radio on Canadian National trains is hooked to loud speskers in club cars and | tained only when all passengers concur, other- headphones are used. 105,000 SETS IN CITY Estimate Gives Maryland 115,000 and Virginia 114,000. ‘There are 105,000 radio sets in use in ‘Washington, accordiug to an estimate 1of the electrical equipment division of the Department of Commerce. Mary- land has 115,000 sets in use and Vir- ginia 114,000. ‘These estimates ere based on the trade figures as of January 1, 1929, and later sales figures obtained from the quarterly dealer surveys, with due al- lowance for trade-ins. Marine Radio Service Extended. Because it requires special uses of radio, particularly when landing expe- ditionary forces on foreign shores, the United States Marine Corps is forming a communications service of its own along the lines of the Naval Communications . Headquarters will be main- in Washington. Heretofore the have used the Navy's radio facllities. iillionl of Words. | used Today on the Radio (All time p.m., unless otherwise indicated.) 315.6 Meters. W-RC 950 Kilocycles. 8:00a—The Melody hour. 9:00a—N. B. C. children’s hour. to 10:30a—Woodwind Ensemble. 12:00m—Miniature recital. 12:15—John Barclay and Dagmar Ryb- ner. 12:30—Neapolitan Days. 1:00—National Oratorio Society. 1:30—Dedicaticn, National Woman's Party headquarters; speakers, Senator Caraway, Senator Wat- son, Doris Stevens and. Mrs. Harvey Wiley. Chorus of wom- en's voices and cornetist of Marine Band. 2:00—Moonshine and Honeysuckle. 2:30—Roxy_Symphony. 3:00—The Pilgrims. 3:30—Southland Sketches. 4:00—Religious services. 5:00—Davey hour. 6:00—Catholic hour. 7:00—Big Brothers Club. 7:30—Variety program. 8:00—Correct_time. 8:01—Music by Maj. Edward Bowes’ Theatrical Family. 8:30—Choral Orchestra. 9:00—"Our Government,” by David Lawrence. 9:15—Dusolina Giannini, dramatic soprano, and Josef Pasternack’s Orchestra. 10:15—The Champlons. 10:45—Sunday at Seth Parker’s. 11:15—Weather Forecast. 11:16—Sam Herman, xylophonist. 11:30-12:00—Russian Cathedral Choir. Early Program Tomorrow. 6:45a—Tower health exercises. . 8:00a—The Early Birds. . 8:15a—Morning devotions. 3008 Storaing Melodies :00a—! el 3 9:45a—G; mmornln( 10:00a—*“Safeguarding Your Food and Drug Supply,” by W. R. M. Wharton. 10:15a—Hits and Bits. 10:30a—Jean Carroll. 10:45a—Hits and Bits, continued. 11:00a—Blue Streaks. 11:15a—Radio Household Institute. 11:30a—Organ melodies. 12:00m—Farm flashes. 12:15—Luncheon_Ensemble. 12:30—National Farm and Home hour. 1:30—Sidney and His Orchestra. 2:00—Organ Recital. 2:30—The Melody Three. 3:00—Current events. 3:15—Musicalities. 3:30—The Sixteen Singers. EXTENSIONS MADE ON RADIOTELEGRAPH Almost Instantaneous Communica- tion With Leading Cities of the World Is Now Possible. Year-end extensions have brought America’s fat-flung radiotelegraph sys- tems into practically instantaneous communication with the capitals and leading cities of nearly every important country on the face of the globe. Coincidently the radiotelegraph serv- ices of both North and South America were being extended apace, with the object in view, as a telephone official recently told the Federal Radio Com- mission, of making it possible for “any- one, anywhere, to pick up a telephone the | and talk to anyone else, anywhere else, cl:nr‘lly and quickly, and at a reasonable London & Southeastern Rallway Co.s| o Close on the heels of the opening late in November of a radiotelegraph circut directly connecting New York and Moscow, the Radio Corporation of America early in December inaugurated its New York-Prague and San Fran- cisco-Shanghai direct circuits. On De- cember 1 the Mackay Radio & Tele- graph Co., unit of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, opened its new stations at Manila for direct contact with San Francisco. Proposed 1931 radiotelegraph exten- slons include circuits to Cape Town and Mukden and possibly various points in Switzerland among the few places not now reached directly by American radio stations. They also include an inter- linking of many erican cities by radio for message traffic between them and for feeding messages into the trans- oceanic circuits. Only last week the telephone people appeared before the Federal Radio Com- mission to seek authority to use radio waves for direct telephone communi- cation with tugboats and small harbor craft through stations to be erccted at Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seat- tle, and later at New York and other Eastern ports. The telephone company already is at work on a new station on the Pacific Coast which, by January, 1932, will con- nect all the connected telephones of North America with the telephone sys- tem of Hawail, and which eventually will connect also with Alaska, the Phil- ippines, Japan and Australia. A short wave station for telephone service to the Bermuda Islands will also be erect- ed as soon as authorized by the Radio ‘Commission. RADIO &=, Any Radio Repaired All Parts in Stock See Grimm Radio Television Co. 716 14th St. N.W. Natl. 81 475.9 Meters. WMAL G54 gioeycics. 12:00m—Jewish art program. 12:30—London broadcast. 12:45—Canadian Grenadier Band. 1:30—Conclave of Nations, Dr. Leo- nide Pitamic, Jugoslavian Min- ister to United States. 2:00—Cathedral hour. 3:15——-{1{9\7 York Philharmonic Orches- a. 4:00—Evensong service from the ‘Washington Cathedral—Sermon by ht Rev. James E. Free- man, Bishop of Washington. 5:00—Sermon by Rev. Donald Grey Barnhouse. 5:30 to 6:00—French Trio. 7:00—Correct. time. 7:00—The Golden Hour of the Little Flower; religious service. 8:00—The World's Business — Dr. Julius Klein. 8:15—United States School of Music. 8:30—Kaltenborn Edits the News. 8:45—New World Symphony. 9:00—Around the Samovar. 9:30—The Gauchos. 10:00—Jesse Crawford at the organ. 10:30—Around the Samovar. 11:00—Back Home Hour from Buffalo. 12:00—Correct time. Early Program Tomorrow. 8:00a—Tony's Scrapbook. 8:15a—Playboys. 8:30a—Morning devotions. 8:45a—Newsy jingles. 9:00a—"“Opening the Morning's Mail.” 9:30a—Navy Band concert. 10:00a—Ida Bailey Allen. 10:30a—"Eighteenth _ Century Furni- ture,” Joan Barrett. 10:45a—Mirrors of Beauty, Cornell. 11:00a—Ida Baily Allen. ll:l&—m Market Basket, Ida Balley n. 11:30a—"The Last Word in Salads,” Ida Bailey Allen. 11:45a—Mr, Pixit. 12:00m—Paul Tremaine and his or- chestra. 12:30—Columbia Revue. 1:00—Musical Aviators’ Orchestra, 1:30—Ambassador Orchestra. 2:00—Columbia Artists Recital. 2:30—"The Cotton Gin.” 3:00—Columbia Salon Orchestra. 3:30—Ann Leaf at the organ. WOL 228.9 Meters. 1,310 Kilocycles. 10:00a—Judge Rutherford, Watchtower Tam. 10:15a—Ear] Carbauh, baritone. 10:30a—Musical program. 11:00a—Services from Church of the Epiphany. 12:00m—Birthdays. 3:30—Orchestra music. 4:30—Frances Asbury Church, Dr. J. J. Rives, pastor; music directed by Louise Munsey. 5:00—Washington Catholic hour, from Church of the Immaculate Con- ception; sermon by Rev. James Smith, pastor of St. Peter's Church, Baltimore. RADIO PRICE CUTTING IN 1929 EXPLAINED Census Bureau Gives Final Figures Outlining Overproduction That Led to Dumping. From the Bureau of the Census last week came final figures showing deliv- eries by manufacturers of radio equip- ment, phonographs, parts and acces- sorles in 1929 and giving some true in- dications of the overproduction that led to dumping and price-cutting early in 1930. Shipments by American manu- facturers were made up as follows: 4,938,099 radio sets of tube type, but not including - tubes, valued at $250,- 602,162; 152,106 radio-phonograph com- binations, $22,193,702; other type re- Carolyn N spite of all the renaissances of poetry in literary circles, nobody, so far as I know, ever suspected the American people of being given to writing it. But after getting 8 peek at some of Jessica Dragonette's letters from her admirers the other day, I have begun to wonder if there aren't at least a couple of poets at every crossroads in the country. On the other hand, maybe it's only Jessica. She must be getting 40 or 50 poems a_ week, dedicated to her, and inspired by her singing over the air. A surprisingly lot of of it is good enough to be taken seriously. But can you get Jessica to tell any one about it? You cannot; she treats it all as private cor- respondence—and answers all the poets (and her other correspondents, t%00,) herself. I don't remember that the fact was ever announced over the air, but Jes- sica is a poetry-lover. She reads great deal of it, and will sometimes ad- mit that she writes it. Only a few of her most intimate friends have seen any of it. None of the poems will ever be published, she says, at least as long as she is before the public. Later she might consider it. She is one of the few people behind the microphone who probably fit rather closely the mental pictures listeners have drawn of them. Jessica is tiny— just a wisp—with taffy-colored hair and big blue eyes. Weil, that sounds like a little Dresden doll, but there's nothing vapid about. her. Her eyes seem to be looking for a lark, but she's remarkably dignified for her size. Sometimes she’s also described as ethereal, but it's not enough to hurt her. She can still get peeved enough if any one tries to interfere with her work. In spite of the fact that she made a hit on Broadway, she leads an ex- tremely quiet life, She has the trouper's -attitude toward her work, and she doesn’t need any one to advise her in her own affairs, but people who meet her for the first time think she must celving sets, $472,803; 600,872 phono- graphs, $20,559,516; 3,301,314 loud- speakers, $30,279,287; 5,204,505 radio transformers, $9,478,8015 radio parts and accessorles, $57,027,008; phonograph cabinets, records, parts and accessories, $43,560,330; 2,243 transmitting sets, $5,~ 788,077, The aggregate value of all at whole- sale was $439,961,776; at retail the e probably should be doubled. The whole- sale value for 1929 comj with & wholesale value of $270,497,270 in 1927, the preceding year for this manufactur- ers’ census. One of the most interesting fact in this report is that phonograph sales declined from 1,015,045, valued at $42,825,708, in 1927, to 600,872, valued at $20,559,516, in 1929, while ndlo—yho- nograph combinations increased from 31,342, valued at $6,416,462, in 1927, to 152,106, valued at $22,193,702, in 1929. Sanderson-Crumit Move. Julia Sanderson and Frank Crumit are to change their radio highway. Starting January 6 at 8 p.m. they will be heard on WEAF stations in- stead of the WABC chain. have been graduated from her convent school only yesterday. She likes radio because “there isn't any fuss about it.” And she says that at the end of & four-hour rehearsal. * ok Kk “PLEASE. Mamma, just 5 minutes more!” It might have been a 10-year-old asking his mother for a few more moments of grace at the toy counter, but as a matter of fact it was Prof. Albert Einstein, the great mathemati- clan, asking his wife to let him remain at the broadcasting studios long enough to survey more completely the intricate layout of apparatus necessary for shoot- ing programs out through the country. Our engineers had expected that the noted visitor might like to take a look at the technical side of things when he came to broadcast, but they had no idea he’d be so delighted. Frau Ein- stein is extremely careful of her hus- band’s health, and when he had come off the air that Saturday afternoon she felt he really ought to rest. And she had her way about it. Both the Einsteins are the simplest people in the world. They can't ses why Americans make so much fuss about them, but they put up with it good naturedly. At the studios, al- though attempts were made to keep them from being mobbed, they shook hands with dozens of admirers, and signed. more autograph books ‘han Nancy Carroll or Ramon Novarro, which, let me assure you, was plenty. On their tour through the studios they came upon a room where a group of children were rehearsing. The pro- fessor stopped, grinned from ear to ear, and waved heartily. The young- sters came running over, and in a moment Frau Einstein had both arms full of gigglers. They all got kisses, including Howard Merrill, who's well into his 'teens and is inclined to blush at_such things, While discussing international broad- casting with several radio engineers who speak German, Prof. Einstein said it was really too bad the world is so small, apparently feeling that with such a resource as international short wave rebroadcasting available there ought to be more material for feeding it than one small earth could contain. And although he hates crowds, and finds our national curiosity about him rather amusing, Einstein intimated that he really had a lot of fun out of his stay in New York. P ACK AT THE time when Jack Smart was playing in stock in Buffalo there weren't very many radio announcers. ‘There weren's, in fact, very many stations, but as luck would have it, a radio an- nouncer became one of Jack’s very best friends. The announcer was Ken Fickett. Jack is now the “Joe” of “Joe and Vi,” and it’s all Pickett's fault. In the intervening years Smart had played a whole lot more stock, had some of the companies, and had had six weeks of vaudeville in and around New York. A year and a half or so ago Jack was pounding the pavements again in New York. Officially he was “resting,” but you know how that is. One day he looked up Fickett, who was by that time announcing at our stu in New York. Ken suggested Smart $Should try out for a part in a new dramatic pro- gram based on underworld life—“Whis- pering Tables” it was called. Smart hadn't seen any underworlds, but he'd try an once. His voice fitted the part exactly and they made a bum out of him. From that part he went on from one thing to another and finally ended up as “Joe,” where he seems permanently estab- lished. Jack's a rotund kind of chap, rather dark, and with a mustache that sug- gests waxing. Sometimes people take him for a bond salesman, and some- times for a musician. Once an adver- tising man mistook him for his boot- legger and tried to buy a case. He'd much prefer, however, to ke taken for an artist. He got thrown out of school and several jobs for drawing caricatures unwisely well, and once he wrote sports and drew cartoons for a paper in New England. Nowadays he tries his hand at portraits in oil, when he isn't working before the mike. As an ex-stock company manager, one of his favorite amusements is standing in front of a big New York theater trying to guess that night’s receipts. He was nearly fired from his first radio job; he brought a pocketful of peanuts, which he ate furtively to up_ his ke courage. o hmmlnded.buthelmwxhlm in the shell, and they sounded like artillery, X ok % Bm! hehl.odt into radio Edwin M. ney tried a good many things in the entertainment world at least once. He had been an actor, a lec- turer, and had even toured the Chautau- qua circuits with his three brothersina quartet. During the Spanish-Ameri- can War he had been a band sergeant. And at one time in his career he had been a bicycle racer. At the broadcasting studios he is marked down on the lists as a produc- tion man, one of those fellows as- signed to see programs safely through Trehearsals and actual “miking.” But every one knows him better as Capt. Jimmy Norton of “Harbor Lights,” and half a dozen other fellows in “Real Folks.” He has played Capt. Jimmy as every- thing from a stripling to a quavering anclent; his Bill Perkins is tongue- tied and his Grandpa Overbrook creaks more in speaking even than Capt. Jimmy. Upon occasion he has portrayed a squalling baby, and he is marked as especially good in imitating the buzzing of files, mosquitoes and bees. For years he has been master of a dozen dialects, and he can work any sound effect machine in the place. But in all his experience in radio he has never been ed to_sing until a recent Monday night. In the early part of the evening they scheduled him to sing on two different programs—in character, of course, and in one case the order was “make it pretty bad.” He capped the evening, though, as Grandpa Overbrook, when he sang, quaveringly, “We're Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Grounds.” So con- vincingly did he sing that a hard- boiled geologist from Pennsylvania who was in the studios, looked as if he were about to weep. And a couple of other men did. One was Al Bach, who announced the program. McNAMEE'S QUESTION BOX Q. Will Johnson and Johnson put on another musical melodrama?—Margaret ‘Wandle Trundle, Baltimore, Md. A. There are no plans for it at present. Q t has become of Ray Perkins? —Doc_Miller, Pittsburgh, Pa. A. Perkins is on daytime programs at present, but there is every indication that he will be heard in the eve: again soon. His particular t of humor is rare and is more in demand than you'd think. The question isn't as to whether he’ll return to evening programs, but which one. Q. Who is tne woman who broad- casts the Lady Next Door?—Mrs. P. G. 8., Washington, D. C. A. Her name is Madge Tucker, and she was an actress in stock in Wash- ington before she got into radio, more than four years ago. First she was at WRC, and later went to WJZ, where she was one of the few woman an- nouncers of the business, and later a writer of scripts. Now she is a direc~ tor of daytime and children’s programs. Q. Will you please tell me if Uncle Abe from the “Uncle Abe and David” program takes the part of Seth Parker in “Real Folks"?—Ethel M. Bullis, Schenectady, N. Y. A. Whoa! You're scrambling them a little. Phil Lord plays Uncle Abe and Seth Parker, but there is no Seth in “Real Folks.” Matt Thompkins in that program is played by George Frame Brown, whom you hear no place else. Q. What_has happened to Will Os- borne?—J. H. Towner, Toronto, Ontario. A. He and his orchestra are now on WOR, New York. Q. Will you please tell me if Zez Confrey and his orchestra are on the networks?—] J. Timmons, Rich- mond, Va. A. ge is not on the net Me. . in Tacoma, Wash., and has lived in California and Washington, D. C. He has never lived in the far South. ©. Who is the highest paid saxo- 5mhln t in the world?—H. G., Cleveland, A. I haven't seen their checks, but some of the Li;hest paid are Rudy Wiedoeft, Rudy Vallee, dy Ross Go! known for their work on steel guitar and clarinet, respectively. € Are Gardiner and Milton J. Cross married?—Mrs. Milton G., Johnson City, Tenn. A. Miss Gardiner is not, but Cross is. Q. Do the Eskimos use real dogs?— Pritchard Hassler, Chicago, Il A. No. I® would be impossible to persuade real dogs to bark at the right moment. The “dogs” are artificial. Q. Are movie stars paid for broad- casting, or do they do it for publicity? —*“Curious,” Pasadena, Calif. A. Not any more they don't. Movie stars, if they cansing, come pretty high. (Copyright, 1931.) Dutch Protest Radio Censorship. In protest against the allegedly un- necessary suppression of politics at the microphone, Dutch radio listeners re- cently formed a 7-mile procession and marched through the streets of Hou- trust, near The Hague. There have been many demonstrations of popular discontent with government radio cen- sorship in Holland. $ Q¢ SMALL AMOUNT OKAY RADIO COMP. A1711th St N.W. 1760 Pa. Ave. N.W. 4 DECATUR 0100 q