Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1931, Page 49

Rapee Orchestra to Render Numbers Heralding De- troit Convention. A special program dedicated to the American Legion will be broadcast to- night at.8:15 o'clock by WRC and a network of other National Broadcast- ing Company stations. ‘The program is designed to herald the coming convention of the legion in Detroit, S. L. (Roxy) Rothafel will be master of ceremonies. Erno Rapee 3 his orchestra will play martial and a group of prominent radio soloists will sing the favorite war songs of the American Expeditionary Forces. Frank hy of Dctroit has been invited to extend his grectings to a gala concert from ch,, by the National High and Chorus, The gram will or ite in the auditorium of orchestra’s camp. Four conductors will partici- pate. Ted Weems on Bill. ‘Ted Weems and his orchestra, assisted by Ilo May Bailey, soprano, will pre- sent the Best Sellers program at 9:15. Miss Bailey will sing “Many Happy Re- turns of the Day” and “Mood Indigo.” speciality will be a whistling ver- sion of “Nola” by Elmo Tanner. Ruth Etting will again be heard as the soloist with Rubinoff’s Orchestra in its weekly concert at 7 o'clock She will sing several new songs and a mrp “:1‘:‘1:‘ favorites. The ‘orchum a program of popul melodies. Artists’ Service program this e Austin will flliam Wirges orchestra also will take part. Druten, who at the age most successful London stage, Columbia’s regulas international rebroadeast, which over WMAL at 11:30 o'clock morning. “Youth and the Home” his topic. Phijparmonic at 8:30. An unsusually varied program has been chosen b, Lewisohn 1 § s g H e P 3 i 3 s | 5§ Albert Coates for the lum concert of the New jovelty and diversity will be the t notes of the program by Franco-Italian -time ballads, “Casey “The Cannon Ball “ to be featured in the program of Masters at 8 o'clock. ‘WOL will broadcast the morning service of the New York Avenue Pres- Church, and a popular pro- | wroadeasters, dealers and listeners-in | 6:05—Program Highlights. ‘byterian gram by Bob Garber's Orchestra. The of w.vfsvtu made up of its GOOD TIMES SEEN BY RADIO MAKERS :x Manufacturers Expect Business Upturn Beginning With Sep- tember Show. e ns, hither radio ,shows, were ly. ‘They are intended, to cover the equipment to be displayed. Instead of exhibiting merely the latest radio, the her_electrical manu- nt place 3 elec- household appliances, machines, ters and some of the radio manufacturers have turned during the lean last two years |D! ©or so may be further indicated by the also | stantly on_the alert to find ways and only about one- third of the homes in the whole coun- | | sky wave and intensify the ground wave. try have radios. ‘This means ket for new exists, quite sside from the normally substantial market for lacements, especially tubes. The nited States Census 2uu has Mu:en down the radio census y communities that the distributors have been enabled to know just where their best markets exist. They can concentrate their sales efforts on the areas showing low centages of radios yet having other in- to show that such communities have sufficient purchasing power to bring up the averages. “ merchandising. newspaper nd judiclous sales tactics” | guideposts of the com- s marketing efforts, ac- cording to official word that cor of the industry through G. Clayton Ir. win, jr., general manager of the forth- coming radio expositions The turnover of actual radio receiv- ing sets has maintained its normal level the year, but gross business has fered from the fact that the midget have ed the market. can be bought at about half the oost of onsole receivers, and are con- than radio-phano- graph combinal . This year's radio will feature not only midgets, consoles, u):‘mflflm and home talking picture units, many of the lat- ter combined with radio receivers. Prod. uts will be avallable for every pocket- | book and every taste. REICH TO TAKE CHARGE Post Office Department Will Ac- quire Transradio Corporation. Philippines _rebroadcast poration, transmitted by gfimflmuover G. | wave that a tremendous mar- | | | wide variety of |regional convention of the National As- | | | | | He |ple remson that the broadcasters gen- Radio and Stage Celebrities Featured PROGRAMS TO BE CARRIED ON N. B. C. AND COLUMBIA NETWORKS. HREE of the principal artists in thc Billy Murray and Marcella Shields. i3 Dui.y Minstrels group, on the left. Top to bottom, they are: Walter Scanlon, On the -ight is Dorothy McNulty of musical comedy fame, who will be starred in the Radio Round-up over Columbia Tiursday night at 10:30. PUBLIC SEEN AGOG OVER TELEVISION Commissioner Lafount Deep- ly Impressed by Senti- ment in Nine States. 7 8 11: 11: 11 12:1 BY ROBERT MACK. 1 All the radio world is agog over the| 1: prospect of television. Back at his desk | 1: in Pederal Radio Commission headquar- | 3 ters after a seven-week inspection tour, | 3 Commissioner Harold A. Lafount re-| 4: turns with that fact s the deepest im- | pression of his many contacts with| & in the nine States he visited. Everywhere he went he was asked, “When is television coming and what ‘broadcasf will it do to present-day ting?” Commissioner Lafount says he could only ly that television's progress is hm”lfladt&um-ndmemmer- laboratori les. His own avers, is }hfll tele 6:! 6 opinion, he ‘s early advent is ‘absolutely assured.” While television receivers will be sold in quantities dur- ing the next year. it is Mr. Lafount's conviction, however, that at least three more years must elapse before really satisfactory television pictures will be available. 10 110: 10: | 113 | L | Synchrony Is Necessary. By satisfactory 10: 10:: dealers’ assoclations, including the first | 12 |12 sociation of Broadcasters in San Fran- 1 cisco in July. He met at least 200 listeners with whom he discussed broad- casting problems. Complaints Are Few. “I found very few complaints of in- terference on the wave lengths’” said Mr. Lafount, “though there are still a few spots where that continues to exist. What ought to be most gratifying to the broadcasters, I found little or no | complaint ageinst the quality of the rograms being offered. Broadcasting seems to be in the most satisfactory state I have ever known it, for the sim- | | 8 | { 10: 11 94 3: 57 5 o 7 erally are doing their utmost to please . the public. They know_ that good. well { 1 B! means of fmproving their technicel op- | 1 9 9: 0: 0: 1z 1 9 the effort to eliminate or surpress the What the broadcasters want is to cover their normal circulation areas accord- ing to their povers, rather than to ob- tain reports frum distance-hunting fans that they have been heard afar.” pyright, 1931.) PACIFIC ISLES SEEK U. S RADIO HOOK-UP Hawaii 2nd Philipfines Wish to Join Regular American Network. | 10 | 11 {11 112 | 12: 1 1 Broadcasting stations in Hawaii and the Philippines have been so successful in experimentally rebroadcasting chain and other programs from the United States that they are casting about for a | way 1o join the American networks for 10 1 11: 12 g, the | 1 al heard in the United | 1:. States will soon be offered to America's | territories and possessions—a sort of| 3 cflun!arrlrt to the well developed Dutch Colonial Broadcasting System and the e snmnmm‘.h planned in to carry programs to the British colonies | BStation KGU of the Honolulu Adver- a representative in | with officials of the | Co. for a mnet-| the Manila sta- ; [ 6: tiser recently 74 New York to confer 7 7: " 8 an N. B H uo;“m San E | y good | 10 often possible to | 10: i s o e | 1 lengths. |12 | | Czechs Test Iiltit;n. WRC 9730a—Lew White, organist. ig:oou—)luumun Days. 2:00—Women's Radio Review. WISV 2:00—Modern Melodies WMAL 4:00 to 5:00—Evensong service from | 6:30—Daddy and Ro 6:45— Today on the Radio (All programs scheduled for Eastern Standard Time.) 315.6 Meters. 950 Kilocycles. 00a—Melody hour. :00a—Children’s hour. 00a—Josepe Woodwind Ensemble. g umbia Revue. 12:00m—Ear] Carpenter's Orchestra. 12:30—Harry Tucker's Orchestra. 1:00—The Street Singer. 1:15—Rhythm Kings. 2:00—Columbia Salon Orchestra. Doctors. 2:30—The . 2:45—Columbia Artists’ Recital. 3:00—Gypsy Music Makers. 3:30—The Dictators. 4:00 to 4:45—Dancing by the Sea. .9 Meters. WOL 1,310 Kilocycles. 10:00a—Organ melodies. 10:30a—Symphony orchestra. 11 of the New York Ave- + nue Presbyterian Church. 12:25— ys. 12:30—In Funnyland With Uncle Jerry. 1:00 to 2:00—Bob Garber's Orchestra. 06—The Russian Singers. Early Program Tomorrow. am. 7:00a—Musical Clock. 8:00a—Birthdays, 8:05a—Mausical Clock. 30a—Jewels of Destiny. 00a—Sparklets. 15a—Echoes of the Orient. 30a—Biblical drama. o Demurking - Big G g ame o Carveth Wells. ans. 00—*Debus in Africa, 15—The C 30—Artists’ Service program. 00—Moonshine and Honeysuckle. 30—Balkan Mountain Men. 00—National Sunday Forum. 00—National High School Orchestra Band. « and L 00—Catholic hour. 00—Base ball scores. 11:00a—Parents’ Forum. 11:15a-~March of Music. 11:30a—With the 12:00m—Luncheon music. 12:30 to 1:00—Dance music. llers. 5—Sunday at Seth Parker’s. 5—Ralph Kirby, baritone. 30—Correct time. 31—South Sea Islanders. 00—Weather forecast. 01 to 12:00—Palais d’Or Orchestra. Early Program Tomorrow. SPORTS. Base ball scores, WRC, 6:00. SPEECHES. “Debunking Big Game in Africa” by Carveth Wells, explorer, WRC, 1:00; “Devils, Drugs and Doctors.’ Howard W. “Our 5a— 30a—Cheerio. 00a—The Minute Men. Tom Waring’s Troubadours. program. 90a—Mrs. Blake's Radio Column. Me,” by Jean 00a—The Blue Streaks. 30a—June Meredith, pianist. nd P e Symphonic Beur with Toscha Seidel, violinist, WMAL, 2:00; Lewisohn Stadium Concert, WMAL, 8°29, VARIETY, Rubinofl’s Orchestra, WRC, 7:00; Tony Parent! his s SAX0) ., 7:30; American Legion m‘m. WRC, 8:15; South Ses ders, WRC, -10:30. DRAMA. and Honeysuckle, 00m—Midday musicale. 30—National farm and home hour. 30—Classic gems. 00—Garden melodies. 205.4 Meters. 1460 Kilocyeles. 30a—Salon music 002 - 12:15—Services of the Fourth | ~sbyterian_Church. 00—Chursh of the Air 00—Base ball game description. 00—Gospel *wilight hour 30—Bible training school 00—Gospel Spreading Assoclation. R Sour WLW, WSM. | 8:30—Radio luminaries 30—Roland Wheeler, tenor. | vl B Tt i o Sam Herman, xylophonist | Rose, —WJZ, WREN, WBAL. Christ Scientist. | @ - ) S 6:00—“Over Jordan,” Negro Bible 30—Temple Baptist Church pro- Moonshine 6:30; Big Brof Club, WRC, 6:30. HIGH LIGHTS ELSEWHERE. 4:00—Sabbath Reveries—Dr. Charles L. Grcodell, orga quartet; szcred music, WJZ, WBAL, Breen and de stories dramatized—WJZ, WSM, ‘WIR. 6:30—Candlelight Musicale;: Mme. Prances Pelton-Jones — W, WBAL and WJR. 7:00—Melodies; Betsy Ayres, Mary Hopple and ensemble—WJZ, WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, WJR, KDKA and KYW. 7:15—Sea Chantles; male cctet lndl esecordion soloist—WJZ, WBZ, WHAM, KDKA, WJR and WMC. 7:30—Harbor Lights; tales of an old | sea captain—WJZ, WBZ, WBAL, | WLW, WJR and KDKA. 8:15—The Stag Party: Nat Brusiloff's Orchestra—WBAL, WJZ, WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, KDKA, WJR and WLW. | 9:15—The Ponce Sisters — WJZ, Kg!Z(A, WBAL, KWK and 00—8ongs by Sammy Brown. 15—Evangelical Church of the Alr. 00—Good-night. Early Program Tomorrow. 002—Good morning | :05a—Weather report and Grand- father's Clock. 10a—Dance music 45a—Hints to Talk :30a—Program Women’s Clubs. 00a—Sacred hour 30a—Gospel Choir 00m—Correct time 01—Lucheon music 00—Orchestra_program 30—Sunshine Hour. sewives by Federation of W 9:30—Sympl Du; hony Concert by Adolphe nts_ Orchestra — WJZ, Z, WBZA, WHAM, KDKA, VIR and WLW. j Pilgrims, mixed _sextet— WEBAL, WHAM and WGR. | 11:00—Henry Theis and his orchestra— WJZ, WBZ,__WJR, KDKA, WBAL and WREN. 475.9 Meters. 630 Kilocycles Land O' Make Believe.” Julia Mahoney and The Lady Prom 30a—"The Voice of Classical concert 30a—Rebroadcast from London— | “Youth and the Home,” by John | Von Druten. 45a—Watch Tower Service. St. Louis."~ Monaco to Erect Radio. Burope's tiniest independency, Mon- aco, home of Monte Carlo, is pianning to erect a powerful new station. ic Mel 30—Columbia Little Symphony. 00—Ann Lea! at the orzgn. 30—Instrumental and vocal music. Folks Behind The Microphone Washington Cathedral. { 00—New World Symphons | ay and ar-gl,:nu‘ plano duo. | BY THE RADIO EDITOR. Boswell Sisters. 00—"“Devils, Drugs and Doctors,” by Dr. Howard W. Haggard. 15—Kate Smith, crooner. 30—Tony Parenti and his saxophones. 45—Modern ale Chorus. 00—The Masters 0—Lewisohn Stadium Concert. 00—Continental String Quartet. Red Nichols and his orchestra.! 00—Hollywood Orchestra. 30—Ann Leaf at the organ. 00—Weather forecast. EO O'ROURKE, tenor, heard on National Broadcast Company pro- grams, worked hard for the suc- singing cess he enjoys today. | Born in 9:30—The Gauchos. Dr- | majority of cases. Language ent RADIO AUDIENCES ARE SUPERCRITICAL Announcer’s Position Speaking Thousands of Words Defended. BY DR. FRANK H. VIZETELLY. As the infant art or industry—radio ~—grows up, the general public is be- coming more keenly critical of what it hears on the air, and in the case of the spoken word It is no exaggera- tlon to say that people are super- critical. It is easy enough to under- stand how this comes to be. We have in the United States so many educationists, ranging all the way from college presidents to grade school teachers, authors, newspaper men, dramatists, scenario writers, pub- lishers and others associated with t! in of modern life, that it is impossible for us not to have millions of people acutely conscious of the mechanics of speech and writing. Whenever these students of English turn on the radio they naturally listen with an air trained to catch details of the announcers’ diction, enunciation and pronunciation. The moment they hear something which happens not to accord with their preconceived views they write a letter to the local paper about it, or else write to the radio station direct States /nnouncer's Position. ‘Thus, whenever the announcer on a network pre st before the microphone, he is confronting an un- ut highly critical audience, wait- for the slightest believe to an seen, _|had charge of international radio tive pronunciations into account—al those half million words? I hope not. But even if he is, I want to emphasize that it does mot end with half & million. The radio prosnm schedules contain musical names s many as 20 different languages. The Columbia network recently carried ms in- troducing the diplomatic representatives of over 40 countries accredited to the United States. Few Errors Found. ‘Obviously, it is impossible for any one man to attain perfection in so enor- All this is not to say that there are not many gross and blatant m nunciations heard on the radio. uo—bul'-heymmlhdlflw speaker: d guest , in the s and gu e great who take such pl n at the mhhkumrm are hear, on the all broadcast by independent speakers and artists who, if educated at all, have been ill-educated or have forgotten what they were taught. ‘The work done by the announcers on the Eastern networks has been done WRC, 2:00. Daddy and Rollo, WMAL, | tongue nouncers, and the self-appointed crifics of radio pronunciation take too little care in J’mm; their poisoned arrows. Faults Are Defended. Some time ago I had occasion to tell a man who had devoted years to hing that there was no need of in Bosporus or Reims. He in- sisted he knew better, and was told to go and look them up. He did so and corrected the error of his ways. That is but one example of many I could quote where the people who should authorities have been at fault. There is no need for me to name cases in which some demagogic litician has_referred to the “cruci- tion” of his party, or its “tre- mendous success,” and when corrected b{ some well meaning friend, has re- plied, “Oh, my pronounciation is goodl enough for people to understand me.” I have been attacked myself for putting the stress on the first syllable of n;«;-;:n lndmmmh:?fl.’ :.lhlny )ro. ple, bly about o 08¢ use the words, prefer to stress the second. But the change from the lat- ter to the former, in the case of abdo- men, has been going on for decades, and gradually the form which I use is replacing the older one. Eighteen out of 25 advisers to the new standard dictionary on disputed pronunciations voted for com'munal rather than com- mun’al Considering that sponso services of a qualified ann knows the rudiments of nuneiation, whenever they buy ti an Eastern network, or the better in- dependent stations, I am surprised they do not recommend a course in the language to the guest speake: Many of them badly Heed sueh insiruction. 612 RADIO STATIONS LEFT AFTER BIG CUT Number Reduced from 783 Peak in 1027—11 New Plants Authorized. - [ neared the Isle of Wight on his Behind the Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. REDIT for h‘lndn& about the first regulal of American radio usually has been attributed to Herbert Hoover, owing &oulhly to the fact that boardcasting sprang into be- ing during his tenure as Secretary of Commerce and it fell to his lot to nurse its early growing pains. ‘Though he has paid little or no attention to radio problems since his ascendancy to the presidency, Mr. Hoover is one of radio’s true ioneers. Not only did the Radio Blvlslon of his Department of Commerce regulate radio until the Federal Radio Commission was created by Congress in 1927 upon his recommendations, but he was chairman of the American delega~ tion to the International Radio- telegraph Conference of 1027, which wrote the first all-embrac- ing treaty covering the interna- tional uses of radio. Moreover, it was upder Secre- Hoover’s guidanfe that the early broadcasting conferences— voluntary efforts on the part of station operators to maintain or- der on the wave lengths —were held in Washington. But broadcasting is only rt of radio, whose earliest functions and whose very important func- tions today are also to provide maritime, aviation and world-wide communications. Theodore Roose- velt really was the first President of the United States to throw his support to efforts to brmf about the regulation of communications io. rsons concerned with relates William R. Val- lance, assistant solicitor of the State Department, who formerly ; “have probably forgot- the history ation, however, i ustrates the difficulties expe- rienced whenever efforts are made to restrict and limit the d ment of radio communication use of a particular type of appa- by patent monopolies or re- strictive agreements. “In 1902 ce Henry of Prussia visited the United States. As he ‘Lover Come Back Me,’ next Sunday at 8:30 pm.,” the letter continues, “I'll wire you when I can get up to New York.” L 'T. JOHN ERVINE, the dis- tinguished British playwright and critic, suggests in the London ress that penny-in-the-slot radio istening posts be established at street corners. There are occasions, he writes, when, being absent from home, one wishes to listen to a program. He can scarcely trespass on the good nature of a private householder, especially if he is a stranger. If peanut and chewing gum and weight machines can be | operated at street corners, why not radios? Commenting, a writer in Wire- less World of London remarks: “Why bother to install listening {xflh? Why couldn’t the man-in- he-street pop into a telephone box, insert his twopence, call ‘Wireless’ and be switched through to Savoy Hill control room for a few minutes?” John M. Bowman, the American hotel man, goes 8t. John Ervine i Z3CHANNEL RADIO HEARING OCT. 16 Biggest Application for Fa- cilities Being Closely Watched by Press. By the Associated Press. The biggest application. for broad= casting facilities ever made by a single :mmbnu:& is_scheduled for considera-. y Federal Radio Commis~ sion after its Summer Tecess. for Comm: Radio, jected corporation at Wi & :fl that. 25 channels be made available for use by stations to be established by the corporatior! in 267 cities, is set for hearing October 18. Newspapers Watching. ‘The projcct has created much interest, commission, officials say. It one better by suggesting that the Ly old peep-hole movie machines of penny-parlor fame will be revived when _ television comes. Hotel guests, he said, will simply drop a coin in & machine to watch great public events taking place away. Few persons would balk paying the piper for this privilege, thinks Mr. Bowman. HUGE RADIO SET JUMP INDICATED BY CENSUS Receivers May Double According to Figures From 38 States and District of Columbia. That the radio set census be very substantially haps more than doubled—by from highly lous States be compi by the United States Census Bureau, was indicated week the report for Ohlo. In e of homes equipped with radios, took the lead among the 38 States and District of Columbia thus far re- Of the 1,700,877 homes in that the German | radjos had received during his visit here. 3 ul a3 The radio equi nt of the ship el enough to com- 'mw:nh radio :utlm in m the United States, and so an Eng- lish station was reuqested to re-| celve the message and to trans- mit it to the United States by cable at the expense of the Ger- = population between 10,000 and 100,000. Hundred Watts Proposed Limit. No station would be granted than 100 watts power and no for each PASTOR T0 RETAIN HIS RADIO STATION toal! Yost Recommends Renewal of Rev. of ’s 51.1 cent, Connecticut’s -54.9 per cent, Island’s 57.1 per cent and the District of Columbia's 539 per -cent continue to lead in the percentage n. The Ohio report reveals that there were 39 persons per family, so that home radio audisnce “Fighting Bob” Shuler's License. is_the| Chief b shore station in England | Riew with Marconi appa- ok ek t&eflflpmfinn ratus A draf ed, but failed to ive, due principally opposition of the Marconi conferen¢e was held October 22 to No- A convention was e system they mi . - omptly submit- convention was ud‘g the Senate, but and consent.were not given until April 3, 1912 Division of the Department of| | Commerce was established to ad-| minister radio, then almost en- tirely devoted to maritime pur- act br (g . that car. 1 ongress that year. 'l‘hmdhed force until it was held not applicable to the newly developed broadcasting art by the Attorney Oenercl in 1926, lc:d{:g e next year to passage of the radio act oyt 1927, under which the Federal Radio Commission W regulates all forms of radio in this coun * ok % % the Gypsies, under the direc- tion of Harry Horlick, will undergo radical change the first week in September. The weekly hour of eight uninterrupted years on the air will be split into two periods. A new feature, the Atlantic & Pacific Dance Orchestra, also un- | der Horlick’s leadership, will be| inaugurated over a National | | Broadcasting Co. network Thurs- | | day, September 3, taking 30 min- | | utes of the long-established Mon- | day hour, which will be reduced | to half an hour. Frank Parker,| tenor, will %ontribute vocal inter- lddes to both programs. The Monday night program of light concert music, in its present !flmndtem&o.on ber 7 will begin minu , 'I'll.vaB‘.l ION fans whose re- ivers night ick up signals !mm.fl‘;laygolumghmh- vision station in New Y with on ve selected favorites. them is Wellesley sound One-of the Tt was in 1912 that the Radio |} RADIO‘S oldest program series, | of woman to have the Natalie Towers, Hile "of Riss " ntiss now | Towers, in fact, probably was the xtensive network. - Edward Hale Bierstadt, N. B. C. staff writer and a historian, developed the m&ua the series, heard on-the WEAF by C. L. Menser, ts advice | the with stage and radio experience. Bierstadt gathered the information upon which the dramas are based, and r's job has been to take the facts and weave them into suitable form for the microphone. “We have a long way the far. 't 81(' to go before saturation is of the ether waves, and are tempted to lieve that every single house has juota of one set, but also or litter or swarm or whatever it is that radio sets come in." ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'’S PUZZLE. - = 00 QRN WILKINS & H vl P Home Screens Objective of Labora- tory Experiments. PASSAIC, N. J. (#).—Television on screen in the home receiver is the nt goal of the laboratory workers Already they have developed appara- tus that will reproduee a tree:p‘pk- ture up to a foot e ‘with very little evidence of the always pres- ent in such pictures. A demonstration in the Jenkins lab- oratories here indica that the PRESENYS Another program of Music and Song WMAL