Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1931, Page 55

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE 7. 1931—PART FOUR. 1 MARTHA ATTWOOD RETURNS T0 AR Metropolitan Prima Donna Will Sing Six Numbers Over N. B. C. Network. Martha Attwood, prima donna so- prano of the Metropolitan Opera Co., returns to the microphone tonight to be the guest soloist in the Kent hour, a National Broadcaesting Co. atiraction, coming into Washington over WRC. Supported by Josef Pasternack's Or- ehestra, Miss Attwood will sing numbers—*1 Love a Little Cottag “Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Tlme,” “The Moon and 1" “Country Garden, “Indian Love Call” and “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny.” Unusual and distinctive orchestral ar- rangements will feature the program of dance music by Nathaniel Shilkret's Or- chestra, to be broadcast at 6:30 o'clock. The program contains eight numbers, the principal ones being “A Lonely Gon- dolier,” “Are You Sincere?” and a med- ley from “Wonder Bar.” “The Prophet Without Honor” is an- nounced as the biblical drama to be broadcast at 11:30 o'clock this morning. rAfimcm program by Deems Taylor will ollow. Regular Attractions Listed. In the afternoon WRC will broad- east the regular array of National Broadcasting Co. attractions. These in- clude a “pop” concert by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and & concert by the Manhattan Guardsmen Band. ‘The Duchess of Atholl will discuss Russia's five-year program in the regu- lar Sunday international program which WMAL and other Columbia stations will rebroadcast from London. The Cathedral hour in the afternoon will feature the oratorio “Festival Te Deum in E Flat” of Dudley Buck, or- ganist and composer. The high light of the Symphonic hour will be the can- sonetta and finale from Tschalkowsky's *Concerto.” The regular weekly concert by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and a program by the Continental String Quartet are among the outstanding Co- lumbia attractions on WMAL's program tonight. The Detroit Orchestra will play Liszst’s “Polonaise, “I Love Thee" of Grieg and the scherzo from Men- delssohn’s “Midsummer Night's Dream.” D. C. Artists to Be Heard. Two Washington artists also are to be heard over WMAL—Arsenio Ralon, violinist, who will broadcast at 12:15 o'clock, and Howard Moore, barlmn!,‘ who will give a recital in the Wash- ington Musical Art Gallery program a 9:45 o'clock. Elizabeth Gardner Coombs, pianist, will be Ralon’s accompanist. WOL will broadcast the morning service of Calvary Baptist Church and several musical features. These include programs by Jack Ralston’s Orchestra and the Ramblers. o L. Z. Phillips, prominent Washington trombonist, and Margaret Ringrose, so- prano, will contribute to the program of WISV. This station also will broad- :uu'. its regular Sunday religious fea- res. | Major Radio Features SPEECHES. “Russia's Five-Year Program,” by the Duchess of Atholl, WMAL, 11:30a; “The World’s Business,” Julius Klein, WMAL, 6:00; Drugs and Doctors,” by Dr. How- ard W. Haggard, WMAL, 7:00; “Our Government,” by David Lawrence, ‘WRC, 8:00. CLASSICAL. Deems Taylor Musical Serles, WRC, 12:00; Kent Hour, with Martha Att- wood, soprano, WRC, 8:15; Detroit Symphony Orchestra, WMAL, 8:30; fiu;!hn Cathedral Choir, WRC, :30. VARIETY. Jack Ralston's Orchestra, WOL, 1:00; Choral Orchestra, with Maurice Chevalier, WRC, 7:00; The Gauchos, WMAL, 9:00; Muriel and Vee, in- strumental duo, WRC, 10:15; South Bea Islanders, WRC, 11:00. DRAMA. Moonshine and Honeysuckle, WRC, 2:00; Daddy and Rollo, WMAL, i 6:30; Big Brother Club, WRC, HIGH LIGATS ELSEWHERE. 8:00—The Fur Trappers; musical pro- gram—WABC, WNAC, WCAU and WHK. 8:30—The Dandies; Betty Smart, con- tralto: Ben Alley, tenor, and Freddie Rich's Orchestra — WABC, WFBL, WEAN, WNAC and WCAU. €:30—Theatrical Scrapbook, “Minstrel Memories"—WJZ, KDKA, WGN, WRVA and WSR. ¥:00—Melodies; Betsy Ayres, Mary Hopple and Wilworth’s Ensem- ble—WJZ, WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, v WJR, KDKA and KYW. * W:18—Magazine Hour, talk by Arthur Somers Roche, novelist, and dramatic sketch—WJZ, WBZ, ‘WHAM, KDKA, WJR and WMC. 8:16—The Stag Party; Raymond Knight, comedian — WEAL, WJZ, WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, KDKA, WJR and WLW. 8:45—Salute to Richmond, Va.; Zoel Parenteau’s Orchestra—WJZ, WBZ, WBAL, KDKA and WJR. 15—"“World Adventures” by Floyd Gibbons—WJZ, KDKA, WBAL, KWK and WBZ. 30—Slumber Music; Ludwig Lau- rier's String Ensemble—WJZ, WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, KDKA, WJR and WLW. $0:00—Clyde Doerr’s Saxophone Octet —-W‘.!)Z. WBAL, WHAM and WGR. 10:30—Los Argentinos: tan, WJIZ, , WBZ, & orchestra The Dial Log. Stations Heard in Washington Regularty. Kceys. Kcys. WABG 860 WLW ......., T WBAL S0o00711000 WMAG manel? 630 WBZ lnnees WCOAQ 0 1110 740 1070 920 1020 Flgshes from The lmiummr, s @ resume of world new: -oad~ . east daily by WMAL at 5 o'clock. “Polly”” Is Taught To Speak by Radio In “Parrot School” By the Associated Press. BROWNSVILLE, Tex—Radio teaches parrcts to talk at W. A. International _‘“parrot here on the Mexican King, glving a demonstration with his best “pupils,” tuned in & station. The parrots, which had been jabbering loudly, first became calm and then started muttering and mimicking the & great help.” WJR, KDKA, WBAL ' Featured in Regular Radio Programs POPULAR STARS WHOSE BROADCASTS COME INTO WASHINGTON. Folks Behind The Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. AULA HEMMINGHAUS, contral- to of the National Broadcasting Co., comes from a distinguished and musical family. Her father, of German descent, was a well known educator. At one time he oc- cupied the chair of languages at Cap- ital University, in Columbus, Ohio, and at the time of his death was presi- dent of the Luther College, at St. Paul, Her mother, s French woman, was & singer. Born in Colum- her musical train- ing early, and at the age of nine was making public_ap- pearances. he came to radio about three years ago, and has taken part in .a number of outstanding broadcast programs. She is & member of the National Grand Opera Co., the National Light Opera Co., and is now singing in the Summer series of Gilbert & Sullivan gems. Paula Hemminghaus * ook x ORTON DOWNEY, popular tenor, has found time to compose another song, despite the demand on his time by radio, the theater, re- cording and other activities. “My Melody of Love” is the title. Downey | thinks it will become as popular as his “Wabash Moon.” * * ok % NROLLMENT in ‘N. B. C's. two piano playing classes — Music in the Alr and Keys to Happiness— has passed the 140,000 mark. . . . School children of Arlington County, Va., will present a special radio program over WJSV Wednesday night at 7 o'clock. . . . Lee Morse, blues singer, has returned from a vacation in Allen, Okla., and comes back to the micro- phone Wednesday night in the Person- alities program on Columbla. — e GIRL RADIO STAR WILL GET DIPLOMA 5 | Sylvia Altman Will Graduate From New York University at Age of 17. NEW YORK (#).—Seventeen years old, yet & member of a 1931 eollege graduating class and a radio entertainer since 1925, Sylvia Altman has bullt an unusual foundation for her career. 8ylvia, born in Buffalo, N. Y., was 10 when her public school days were over, and at 13 she had finished high school. Now, at 17, she is to be graduated this year from New York University, having majored in psychology, music and Eng- lish. She held a merit scholarship and has been awarded a Phi Beta Kappa key. Her first radio_experience came via station WCAP at Washington, D. C., six years ago, and she has made regular ap- pearances since then in dramatic and musical programs. Her voice has been heard in both NBC and CBS network features as well as over several local stations in New York. For the last three and one-half years she has been plano ac- companist and & member of the trio on Madge Tucker's NBC programs. Besides her microphone presentations she has played in vaudeville and on the concert stage. | “My dearest friend is my mother,” Sylvia said. “If it hadn't been for her I probably would not have progressed so fast. She taught me to read when I was two and a half years old, and ever since I was a_baby she has seen that I did all that I could to help my- self.” Among her fondest recoliections is this comment from Roxy: “You have everything necessary— personality and talent.” Will Contact With Rum Rowu A regular radio program sponsor is planning to forego its usual weekly symphonic broadcast on the Columbia network to carry the microphone out to sea Tuesday night, to contact with a vessel off Rum Row, where Ford Frick, announcer, will describe his ob- servations and regale the audience with tales of ilicit liquor running. . New Stations Authorized. In spite of its general pol licensing new broadcast ta the Federal Radio Commf n has su- thorized the construction of & new 100- ‘watt station at Presque Isle, Me, and & new 50-watt station at Waterbury, Vt. Both are to operate on 1420 kilocycles, s local channel. The grants were made without hearings in both instances, it was explained, because Maine and Vermont are underquota in their radio facilities and the new stations will not cause additional interference. beauty expert.” feature over WRC and other N. B. J nting & new daily series over Today on 475.9 Meters. WNIAL 630 Kilocycles. —Watch Tower Service. am. om London— “Russia’s Pive-Year Program,” by the Duchess of Atholl. 11:45a—French Trio. 12:15—Arsenio Ralon, violinist, and Elizabeth Gardner Coombs, planist. 12:30—Gypsy Trail. 00—Poet's Gold. 0—Ballad hour. 00—Symphonic_hour. 0—Cathedral Hour. 4:00 to 5:00 — Evensong service from ‘Washington Cathedral. 6:00—"The World's _Business,” Dr. Julius H. Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. 6:15—Piano Pals, with Harriet Lee, contralto. 6:30—Daddy and Rollo. 6:45—Theo Karle, tenor. 7:00—"Devils, Drugs and Doctors,” by Dr. Howard W. Haggard. 7:15—Kate Smith, crooner. 7 8:00—Grand Opera Miniature. 8:30—Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Edgar Guest, poet-philosopher. 00—The Gauchos. 0—Fortune Builders, featuring Douglas Gilbert. 9:45—Howard Moore, baritone. 10:00—Continental String Quartet. 10:30—Around the Samovar. 11:00—Quiet Harmonies, featuring Vin- cent Sorey’s Orchestra. 11:30—Ann Leaf at the organ. 12:00—Weather forecast. Early Program Tomeorrow, 0a—The Commuters. 0a—Tony’s Scrap Book. 5a—The Dutch Girl. 0a—Opening the Morning Mafl. 0a—Mr. Fixit. 9 10: are Anthony Wons, Jacques Renard and Morton Do Mrs. John 8. Sheppard. 10:15a—The Looking-Glass. 11:30a—Columbia Revue. 12:00m—Park Central Orchestra. 3:00_United ‘States Army Band. 3:30 to 4:00—Roosevelt Orchestra. szv 205.4 Meters. ; 4% 1.460 Kilocycles. s 11:00 to 12:30—Services of the Fourth Presbyterian Chureh, g::s_orns-—mrch ot] o':'.m Alr. 5 n Mel . 6:00—Gospel Spreading Association. 7:00—Twilight hour. 17:30—Roland Wheeler, tenor. 7:55—Service at PFirst Church of Christ Scientist. eam Boat. 10:15—L. Z. Phillips, trombonist. 10:30—Broadcast from the Free Meth- odist Church of Alexandria. 11:00—The Quality Four. 12:00—Weather report. Early Program Tomorrow, 9:00a—O0ld King Tut. 10:00a—Elizabeth Chamblin, soprano. 10:15a—Hints to Housewives. ‘Down in Sleepy Valley.” —Abilio Martin'’s Orchestra. :30—O0ld King Tut. 2:30—Preston Gauldman; baritone. 3:00—Musical program arranged by Edith V. Smith, 3:30—Sunshine hour. TIME OF TESTS EXTENDED N. B. C. Synchronisation Experi- ment Will Continue Until Sept. B, Synchronization tests being conducted by the N. B. C, with WTIC operating half time on the WEAF wave length and WBAL on the WJZ channel, will continue until September 5, under re- | newal authorizations by the Federal| Radio Commission. This experimental | operation is for three-month periods, but extensions will be granted from time to time in order to determine with finality whether this new 'system of enabling stations the same programs to operate in synchroniam on the same frequencies is entirely praoc- tory, to O. W. Horn, general engineer of the N. B. C, in charge of development of the system. Seek to Transfer Ownership. Another educational station has ap- lied to the Federal Radio Commission for authority to transfer ownershi, l ni- The tests so far have been satisfec- | o s newnp;fer. It is WOAX of the versity of Vermont, which for voluntary nt to the Ir- lington (Vt.) Dally News. Recently the University of Arkansas ls:od to_dis- pose of its KUOA to the East St. Louls (1) Journal. SALES SERVICE ATWATER KENT RCA, VICTOR MAJESTIC PHILCO BOSCH Gonvenient Terms SALES—SERVICE i EAN CARROLL, left, one of the first radio artists to qualify as a “television Her beauty hints are now a regular Monday morning In the group, left to right, , who are pre- lumbia stations. C. stations. WMAL and other the_Radio (All programs scheduled for Eastern Standard Time.) 315.6 Meters. WRC 950 Kilocycles. 7:00a—Melody hour. 8:00a—Children's hour. 9:00a—Jospe Woodwind Ensemble, 9:30a—Lew White, organist. 10:00a—Neapolitan 'Days. 10:30a—Jewels of Destiny. 11:00a—"Debunking Big-Game Hunt- ing,” by Carveth Wells. 11:15a—Rochester Concert Orchestra, 11:30a—Biblical drama. 12:00—Deems Taylor Musical Serles. 1:00—Alexander Heas and his Buda- pest Orchestra. 1:30—Artists’ Service program. 2:00—Moonshine and Honeysuckle. 2:30—Manhattan Guardsmen, 3:00—Religious service by Dr. 8. Parkes Cadman. 4:00—"Pop” Concert. 4:59—Correct time. 5:00—Catholic hour. 6:00—Old Stager's Memories. 6:27—Mme. Lolita Cabrera Gainsborg, planist. 6:30—Nathanial Shilkret's Orchestra. 7:00—Choral Orchestra, featuring Maurice Chevaller. 8:00—"Our Government,” by David featuring Martha Lawrence. 8:15—Kent Hour, Attwood, soprano, and Josef Pasternack Orchestra. 8:45—Big Brothers' Club. 9:15—Deep River Orchestra. 9:45—Sunday at Seth Parker's. 10:15—Muriel and Vee, vocal and in- strumental duo. 10:30—Russian Cathedral Chotr. 11:00—Weather forecast. 11:01—South Sea Islanders. 11:30 to 12:00—Palais d'Or Orchestra. Early Program Tomorrow. 6:30a—Tower health exercises. 7:00a—Gene and Glenn. 7:15a—Morning devotions. 7:30a—Cheerio. 8:00a—Parnassus Trio. 8:15a—Andy Sannella’s Orchestra. 8:45a—Food program. 9:00a—College Capers. 9:15a—Hits and Bits. 9:30a—"Please Tell Carroll. 9:45a—Hits and Bits. 10:00a—The Blue Streaks. 10:15a—Radio Household Institute. 10:30a—Singing Strings. 10:45a—Al and Pete. 11:00a—8weet and Low Down. 11:15a—“Moods and Memories,” Capt. R. Henderson Bland. 11;30a—On Wings of Song. 12:00m—Palais d'Or Orchestra. 12:30—National farm and home hour. 1:30—Organ recital and dental talk. 2:00—Women's Radio Review. 3:00—Broadcast of a concert by the Revellers' Quartet from Lelprig, Germany. 3:30—Dancing melodies. 4:00—The Lady Next Door. 228.9 Meters. [ WOI“ 1,310 Kilocycles, 10:00a—Organ melodies. 10:15a—Stephen Foster melodies. 10:30a—Light opera J‘enu 11:00a—Services of the Calvary Baptist Church. 12:25—Birthdays. 12:30 u; 1%:15—011:1& Jerry in FPunny- and. 1:00—Ralston’s Orchestra. 1:30—The Rose Orchestra., 1:45—The Ramblers. 2:00—Sign-Off. Early Program Tomorrow. 7:00a—Musical Clock, 8:00a—Birthdays. 8:05a—Musical Clock. 10:00a—Talk by P Clarke. 10:15a—Organ melodies. 10:45a—Novelettes. 11:00a—The Parents’ Forum. 11:15a—March of Music. 11:30a—With the Composers. 12:00—Luncheon music. 12:30 to 1:00—Dance music. Me,” by Jean by Columbia to Gi;e Me;hh. Columbia Broadcasting System h&s] had a symbolic medal struck for pres- entation to distinguished speakers and musicians appearing before the micro- phone, the first of which will be pre- sented to Sir John Reith, director - eral of the British Broadcas or- tion, when he speaks over the Co- umbia network from Chicago Tuesday. gl it i Britons Hear “Bootleg” Broadecast. Sports, jazz and other broadcasts of | the lighter sort are taboo on the British radio on Sundays at the dictate of Sir John Reith, director general of the B. now visiting the United States. One was put over on Bir John shortly after he left England for the United #o & British the Kentuoky Derhy from the States until nearly 12:15 am. Sunday. The time difference between England and the United States expiaius the iate broadcast. We Never Offer Any Used Cars but “Better Used Cars” MOTT MOTORS, Inc. 1520 14th St. N.W, Deec. 4341 0 IMIDGET RADID SETS | . TODOMINATE SHOW New, Powerful Tubes Reduc-, ing Static and Television Also to Be Features. BY MARTIN CODEL. CHICAGO, I, June 6.—What's new in radio? Here, on the eve of the annual Radio Manufacturers’ Associa- tion trade show, one hears much talk of midgets, television, the variable-mu and pentode tubes, new long-life bat- tery -sels, the Stenode radiostat, home taikies and many other things. All of these developments in radio and its allied arts will be on display during the forthcoming week. Thou- sands of radio dealers are gathering from all parts of the country to pre- view the latest the radio industry has to offer—the offerings these . same dealers will be making to the buying public from this time forth. Follows Engineer Meeting. The R. M. A. trade show is following close upon the annual convention here of the Institute of Radio Engineers, a meeting which this week brought the engineering minds of radio out of laboratory and factory for a mutual exchange of views and information. These men. who discussed not only what they have perfected for the en- | suing year's market but that which may | be expected in the future, closed their | sessions today. Doors of the radio exhibit halls are not yet opened, but enough information has seeped out to give some general ideas of the new development and trends. Foremost, perhaps, is the emphasis bemE placed upon the production of the small, compact, low-priced receiving sets generally called midgets. They will be evident on all hands and for the most part they, like the larger sets, are em- ploying the superheterodyne circuit. They are exceedingly light weight and in all shapes. They may or may not be the product of the demand for cheaper radios, due to the depression, but the fact remains that they now dominate the market. Large Sets Continue. The larger sets, of course, will con- tinue in great evidence, for much more can be dons with them in ihe way of engineering true tone values. The super- heterodyne dominates all classes of sets, hardly a major rer today ignoring that circuit. Then, too, with a wide market still prevailing for battery sets, especially among the nonelectrified rural regions, the new low-voitage bat- terles, one with a life of about 1,000 hours, will be considerably in evidence. ‘The two new tubes, the variable-mu and pentode, are scheduled to be very important features of the Autumn and Winter markets. The variable-mu is a screen-grid which permits stronger signals to be fed into the radio fre- quency amplifier without causing cross- talk and which eliminates hissing back- ground noises and does away with the need for various controlling devices to | compensate for the different intensities of distant and local signals. It reduces manufacturing costs and makes possible more compact cabinet designs at lower cost to the consumer. The ordinary radio receiver cannot use the variable-mu. Neither can it use ithe power pentode, which is a tube with | many times the usual amplification of the power tube and, therefore, does the work of two or three ordinary nmpll-\ flers. It takes speciai circuits for both these tubes, and the special circuits are incorporated in many of the sets being offered to the public this year, Television Foremost. ‘Television is a foremost topic of dis- cussion, and every shade of opinion pre- vails about its imminency. This much is certaln, that the television experi- menters are a zealous lot who have at- | tracted thousands of experimentally- minded persons to look-in with them on | the pictures now offered over 20 or more stations east of the Mississippi. Com- mert television receivers are available today for those minded to dabble with an art that is just about st the stage of perfection that ordinary radio was seven or eight years ago. Advance reports have it that Dr. James Robinson's stenode radiostat will be a stellar attraction at the trade show next week, with several manufacturers showing models of the British scientist's new system of exceedingly sharp tuning. The models to be displayed by several manufacturers, it is said, will incorpo~ rate the pentode and variable-mu tubes. ‘The broad claims made for the stenode, | especially for its reduction of back- | ground noises and static in receivers, as well as its reputed potentiality for nar- rowing the channels of radio transmis- sion and thus making more wave lengths available, will merit considerable atten- tion from the radio world. BShip clocks being made in England BY THE RADIO EDITOR. | Behind the Microphone ] | HOUGH the radio industry | has not escaped the effects of the current business de- | pression, there is no ca- lamity howling among the manu- facturers and a decided feeling of optimism prevails. The condition of the industry, now fairly well stabilized through conservative | operation, is much more secure | than the times and the decreased | purchasing power of the populace would seem to indicate. These are the conclusions of | Kenneth A. Hathaway, technical | radio adviser of the Chicago Daily | News, upon the completion of his | annual survey tour of the district | lying between Chicago and the East Coast, where by far the greater portion of American manufacture and research in| radio apparatus is located. Not only commercial factories and laboratories, but governmental and experimental centers of radiol research, 50 of them in all, were visited. ‘The radio industry is not flour- ishing as it did until the indus-| trial depression began, declnred‘ | Mr. Hathaway. But it is going forward with such high hopes| that even the complications of| such new developments of the| general adoption of superhetero- dyne circuits, the introduction of new tubes and the advances in television are stimulating rather than dimming the initiative of the men who are making radio. | Laboratories and factories alike have not let up in the least in| their pursuit of the new, the more | efficient and the more economical | to offer to the radio public. That fact alone, said Mr. Hathaway, 151 best indicative of the spirit that pervades radio. This is not slm—‘ ply “Pollyanna stuff,” Mr. Hath- away adds; the industry has good reason to be hopeful of a revived‘ market, for the Census Bureau figures released thus far indicate | that not many more than 30 per | cent of the homes of the country | at large are radio equipped. “Radio manufacturers,” Mr.| Hathaway said, “have been sub- jected to a consistent uphill pull guring the last 18 months. Afleri a period of abnormal buying on the part of the public, the pro- ducers were suddenly confronted with an era of financial depres- sion that has continued with un- told frenzy. Nevertheless, mem- bers of the radio industry have/ strengthened their sition by overcoming obstacles that have! arisen and the Spring of 1931 finds them individually and col lectively better fitted to maintain radio as one of the world's largest | and most important industries.” * % x % Y its fallure to sustain the validity of the Langmuir high vacuum tube patent, one of | the key devices in the radio and allied arts, the Genreal Electric Co. lost one of its most important | contributions to the patent pool | of the Radio Corporation of America. The Supreme Court de- cision, written by Associate Jus- tice Stone, a former professor of physics, also means that the hold of R. C. A. on tube patents has been considerably weakened. | Inside the radio industry the| Supreme Court decision is being | construed as a definite blow at the R. C. patent-licensing ar- rangement, whereby 15 or mort companies have been licensed to | manufacture radio tubes upon| payment of 7!, per cent royalty.| The Langmuir patent hitherto has been regarded as basic in that | of all the industries which depend it was deemed to cover the| evacuation of gas from all tubes— | an application of science which Justice Stone held was not an in. vention. | With numerous new types of | tubes appearing on the radio! market this year from other sources as well as from R. C. A, informed opinion in radio circles was to the effect that R. C. A. will have difficulty in imposing a| royalty of 7/ per cent on all radio | tube production hereafter. fact, some opinion has it that| many tube makers, especially | those with important develop- | ments and inventions of their| own, will now escape paying tube | | royalties altogether. O. S. Schairer, R. C. A. vice| president, explains that the de- cision does not affect the right of the R. C. A. to make and sell tubes, adding that the decision deals “only with the Langmuir patent and has no relation to the other patents under which the Radio Corporation has rights and has granted licenses.” William J. Barkley, vice presi- dent of the De Forest Radio Co. which was sued for infringment | and which carried the case to the high court, explains that the de- cision. “definitely circumscribes the licensing field of the G. E.- R. C. A. group, since, if held valid. the high vacuum patent would have created a virtual monopoly for their operation on vacuum tubes.” * % x * ARISIAN newspaper men re- | ferred to John W. Elwood, one of National Broadcasting Co.’s | several vice presidents, as “The| Ambassador of American radio in Europe” during Mr. Elwood's re- cent honeymoon trip to Europe. Among other things, Mr. Elwood arranged for more internatiopal exchanges of radio programs with | British, German and Italian radio officials and in Paris he was quoted as striving “to employ radio to enable all peoples to know each other and the attractions of their respective countries.” | All of which led Wireless World of London, leading European radio periodical, to make this comment: “If this is his sole idea | we encourage it whole-heartedly; | but if, as has been uncharitably suggested, there is even the re- | motest intention of swamping Eu- rope with American advertising, we shall not be alone in making | an early protest.” * x & % ADIO artists from all of the| Washington broadcasting sta- tions are going to the Naval| Hospital tomorrow night to assist | in the dedication of a new amply- fying system. The idea is to givei the patients an opportunity to see| and.hear in petson their favorites on_the air. Peggy Clarke of WOL has ar- ranged the program at the request | of the hospital patients. 0se | already booked to take part in- clude Strickland Gillilan, Arthur Godfrey, Joe Turner, Stanley Bell, Les Colvin, David Martin, Hook | Kennedy and some of the talented | children who broadcast under the colors of Edith Reed RAYMOND 1 K NIGHT| comedy ennouncer of *.." LU, mut station of the matloi.,” will amuse you tonight, & o'clock “BAYUK STAG PARTY” WiZ, WLW, KYV, KWK, WBAL, WGAR, WREN, WiR SCHOOL STATIONS FIND ROAD ROUGH 53 Have Becn Stricken From List, 23 Transferring to- Commercial Enterprises. BY ROBERT MACK. Educational radio stations are find- ng the road to radio fame a tortuou ne, with many shifting their licenses to commercial enterprises. In the face of.the demand of one educational group for 15 per cent of all broadcasting chanhels to be employed in bringing education into the home, many educational stations have been forced out of the radio picture. Unsta- ble financial situations and inability to meet the rigorous competition of com- mercial stations largely are held re- sponsible for the condition, together with the recent regulations promulgated by the Federal Radio Commission re- quiring drastic improvements in sta- tion apparatus, ¥ A survey of official records of tre Federa] Radio Commission made recente ly discloses that 53 educational stations have abandoned their enterprises since the commission’s establishment in Now approximately 50 such st:tion: licensed. 23 Now Commercial Projects. Of the 53 stations stricken from the lists as affiliated with institutions of learning. 23 were transferred by the schools themselves to commercial en- terprises, which now are operating the stations as business rather tcan purely educational enterprises. Ten of the total were deleted by the commission in August, 1928. as a part of its general reallocation in which it sought to im- prove radio conditions. The other score, for sundry reasons, either were dropped by the commission or forfeited their iicenses. A half dozen applications now are be- fore the commission from educational statlons seeking transfer of _their licenses to commercial enterprises. With the broadcast spectrum crammed full, station licenses of any character are at a premium. The sentiment is prevalent that many educational sta- tions feel it is futile to compete with commercial outlets and that educa- tional programs can be given the pub- lic more effectively over these commer- cial stations, most of which have been eager to obtain educational features, provided they are properly arranged and not dull and uninteresting. Middle West Suffers Most. During ths commission's four: tenure, the Middle West has suffered most heavily in educational station losses. In the fourth radio zone 22 such stations have relinquished their licenses, and the East-Central States the educa- tional station losses have been 10 each. The Bouth lost nine and the Eastern tier of States only two. A survey made last March by Federal Radio Commissioner Harold A. Lafount showed that 6 minutes out of every 60 on the air are devoted to educational programs. The surprising part of the survey, broadcast by stations operated by educational institutions actually was educational. Of 51 stations then licensed to educa- tional institutions, 42 responded to the commissioner's questionnaire. ‘These devoted 286 hours and 9 minutes to what they described as educational pro= grams, while they were on the air dure ing the week under survey for a total of 1,027 hours and 10 minutes. Th same survey showed that those educa- tional stations were silent during many of the hours assigned them for regular operation. (Conyright. 1931) Authorized Service Leece-Neville, Dyneto, Westinghouse, Starters & Generator Repairs MILLER-DUDLEY CO. 1716 14th Bt. N.W. 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