Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1931, Page 61

TWO OPERA STARS ON WNIAL PROGRAM Grace Moore and Richard | Tauber to Be Heard in Transocean Feature, Two famous opera stars, Grace Moore ©of the Metropolitan Opera Co. and Richard Tauber, German tenor, will be heard in a two-way trunsatlantic tele- phone feature of the “Music Along the Wires™ program tonight over WMAL and other | Columbia Broadeasting System stations. Miss Moore, who returned from Eu- rope Tuesday, is to talk to Tauber in Berlin. Columbia’s vast coast-to-coast audience will listen in. The telephone connection will be made by transat- Jantic radio telephone to London, by submarine cable under the North Sea to Germany, and by land line from the coast to Berlin Theodore August Metz, 84-year-old song writer, is scheduled as the guest star in the Masters program at 9 o'clock. Metz wrote here'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight” and hundreds of other ballads, and in his honor Eu. gene Ormandy's Orchestra will play several of his most popular composi- tions. Concert Program Planned. The last two movements of Mendels- gohn's first piano concerto will plaved by Ernest Hutcheson and the Columbia Symprony Orchestra in the concert program at 10 o'clock. Hutche- son alsn will be heard in Chopin's “A Flat Ballade.” Columbia’s Church of the Air services will be conducted by the Presbyterian and Jewish denominations. The morn- ing period will be led by Rev. A. Edwin Keigwin, pastor of the Western End Presbyvterian Church, in New York. Rabbi Israel Goldstein will be in charge of the afternoon period. A new series of variations on the theme of “Swanee River” will be pre- gented by the piano team of Fray and Braggiotti, Another selection will be “Dancing in the Dark,” from “The Band Wagon. WMAL will fill the gap in the Sunday afternoon schedule with eoncerts by the Wardman Park and Mayflower or- chestras. These two additional features will keep the station on the air con- tinuously from 9 o'clock in the ‘morn- ing until 12 midnight The “Moonshine and Honeysuckle” dramatic series returns to WRC and other National Broadcasting Co. sta- tions today after a week's interruption, due to a readjustment of the program nch;d;ole. WRC will carry this feature at . Popular Melodies Featured. A program of 16 popular melodies will be offered by Rubinof's Orchestra in its weekly broadcast at 8 o'clock. Eddie Cantor will continue as master | ©of ceremonies for this attraction. A series of new programs arranged by the Sentinels of the Republic open at 1:30 with an address by Senator Bingham of Connecticut. His topic is “Too Much Government.” “Theatrical Treats,” a new program, featuring talent from the Fox Theater, will be broadcast tonight by WJSV. The Silver String Revelers, the Tango Troubadours and Moffatt'’s Orchestra will provide the other features. The Washington Catholic Radio Hour, ©Off the air for the Summer, will be re- sumed over WOL at 5 o'clock. This program is picked up from the Church of the Immaculate Conception. WOL also has added several new musical features to the regular Sunday pro- gram “SPEAKERINES” KEEP JOBS Ttalian Woman Announcers Have Many Friends Among Fans. Italy's “speakerines” as the Itallan broadcasting system's lady radio an- nouncers are known, will nct lose their Jobs after all. A flood of protests that came from all over Zurope led the Italian authorities to reinstate them after a decision that they were to be retired in favor of male announcers for the reason that they provoked too much fan malil of the “burning love” order. They will, however, be employed only for short- period broadcasts, the bulk of the an- nouncering burden going to men. Word also comes from Denmark that the Copenhagen and Kalundborg stations have decided to employ a lady an- nouncer. Major Radio Features INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTS. %“The Indian Conference,” by 8. K. Rat- clf WMAL, 12:30 SPEECHES. *Too Much Government, Bingham of Connecticu 's Business, by Senator WRC, 1:30; by Dr. Julius ‘Devils, Drugs vard W. Hag- gard, WMAL, : “Our Govern- ment,” by David Lawrence, WRC, 9:00. CLASSICAL. Through the Opera Giass, WRC, 9:1 Ernest Hutcheson, pianist, WMA 10:00. VARIETY. Rubinoff’s Orchestra, with Eddie Cantor, WRC, 8:00; Music Along the Wires, WMAL, 8:15; The Masters, WMAL, 9:00; Jessie Crawford, organist, WRC, 11:30. DRAMA. Moonshine and Honeysuckle, WRC, 2:30; Club of the Air, WRC, 7:30. HIGH LIGHTS ELSEWHERE. 4:00—Sermon by Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of the Church of the| Little Flower—WOR —Sabbath Reveriee—Dr. L. Goodell, organ quartet: ered music—WJZ, WBAL, WLW and WSM. 7:00—Ha Stokes and his Orches- tra—WJZ, WSM and WJR. 7:30—The Three Bakers, Ray Perkins and Billy Artzt's Orchestra— WJZ, WBAL and WJR 8:00—Melodies; Betsy Ayres, Mary Hopple and Ensemble—WJz, WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, WJR, KDKA and KYW. 8:15—Magazine hour; Wilhelm Nei- man, captain of the DO-X, and Ernest La Prade’s Orches- tra—WJZ, WBZ. WHAM, KDKA, WJR and WMC. 9:15The Stag Party; Male Quartet and Bruslloff’s WBAL, WJZ WBZ, WBZA WHAM, KDKA, WJR #nd WL Balkan Mountain Men—WJZ, WBAL, WHAM and WGR. 12:00—Henry Theis and his orchestra —WJjZ, WBZ. WJR, KDKA, WBAL and WREN. The Dial Log. Btations Heard in Washington Kcys. Charles 11:00 o, Flashes from The Evening Star, @ resume of world news, is broad- cast daily ercept Suday by WMAL L 8 5:45 o'clocks conversation as a spectacular | e Orchestra— | week over Columbia. up on Columbia Thursday. will be heard on regular programs. THE SUNDAY STAR, Three New Singers Attracted to Radio TWO ARE STAGE CELEBRITIES AND THE OTHER A NEWCOMER. RENE FRANKLIN (left), featured comedienne of & score of musical comedies, who will be heard three nights this A so-called “torch” singer is Winnie Bhaw (center), who is to be starred in the Radio Round- Catherine Fleld (right), & young soprano, who has just been signed by N. B. C. She - SYNCHRONIZATION IN'RADID UPHELD Plan, Not Yet Past Experi- ment Stage, Held Not Dan- gerous to Independents. Radio synchronization still is largely experimental and its further develop- ment is dependent upon trial operation under practical conditions with the pub- lic as the listening jury, according to Harry C. Butcher, director of the Wash- ington office of the Columbia Broad- casting System. However, he said, practical applica- tion of the synchronization principle does not mean the death of independent or network-affiliated stations so far as the Columbia System is concernsd. “The application of the Columbia System for permission from the Federal Radio Commission experimentally to operate a 250-watt booster station l_n Washington, bringing to the Nation's Capital the complete programs of WABC, Columbia's key station in New York City, has brought to light several objections which, while possibly plaus- ible to the uninformed. are not based on adequate knowledge of the facts and are therefore erroneous,” Mr. Butcher said. | Objections Held Fallacious. “The first of these objections, and | perhaps the most fallacious, is that| practical application of synchronization, | as proposed experimentally by the Co- lumbia System, sounds the death knell of the independent and chain-affiliated stations. nder present wave-length allocations, nothing could be further from the truth. “With the wave lengths of the Nation distributed as they are, the proper and non-interfering location of a ‘booster’ station is equally as difficult as the establishment of a new station. “Establishment of a new station is vir- tually impossible at present because of the congestion of stations now crowded into the definitely limited band of broadcasting frequencies. However, the “booster’ principle, if proven practical in actual test, would make considerably better use of the Nation's patrimony of wave lergths than is possible under present conditions. Held Greatly Exaggerated. “Becauss of the hope that synchroni- zation would wholly remedy the present congested allocation, the effect of syn. been widely discussed and greatly ex- aggerated. “Because of the existing stations, each of which has to be separated hundreds of miles from other stations on the same or adjacent channels, there gre but surprisingly few citles where a booster station can be established which will not interfere with reception of ex- isting stations. This is perhaps better explained by saying that when two sta- tions which operate on adjacent wave other, the listener in the home hears ‘cross talk,’ or both programs at once, or gets whistles and howls. In other words, a ‘booster’ of Station WABC cannot be located in a city which has a station operating on a wave length within 50 kilocycles—five notches on the dial—of the WABC channel. “This condition, coupled with the re- quired geographical separation of sta- tions, substantially limits the cities in which & WABC booster station can be located. The restriction is further in- creased by possible interference on the adjacert wave lengths of stations in cities other than that in which the booster station is desired. WABC Situation Cited. “For example, WENR and WLS oper- ate on a splifitime basis with 50 kilo- watts in Chicago on the 870 channel. adjacent to WABC on 860. The Federal Radio Commission’s new standard of mileage separation recommended be- tween a 50-kilowatt station and a 250- watt station operating on adjacent channels is 716 miles, which is slightly ater than the actual air line distance rom Chicago to Washington. There- fore, the commission’s engineering stand- on WABC's channel at any place that is closer to Chicago than is Washington. the wave length on the other side of WABC, 850 kilocycles, is used by two stations of 10 kilowatts power at Shreve- port and New Orleans, La., and no booster station could be operated on of either of these cities. WHB, a day- time station at Kansas City, Mo., and KMO, a limited-time station at Ta- coma, Wash., are now licensed to oper- ate on WABS's wave length. No boost- er station could be operated on this channel in the West or on the Pacific Coast without interfering with the op- eration of these establ! stations. “After considering the mileage sep- aration which must be maintained be- tween stations on the same and adja: cent wave lengths, it is at once appar- ent even to the uninitiated that should & booster station be constructed and | operated in Washis n on the same | wave length with WABC, it would elimi- nate the possibility of using WABC's channel, on which to operate a chain | of booster stations. “Therefore, it becomes obvicus to any ‘one who knows the facts. that estab- ltnahmunt of & chain of stations 2 g operat. on WABC's channel is im| ible and, furthermore, what mfi:“ to Today on 315.6 Meters. WR 950 Kilocyeles. 8:00a—Melody hour. 9:00a—Children’s hour. 10:00a—Mexican Typica Orchestra. 10:30a—Lew White, organist. 11:00a—Neapolitan Days. 11:30a—Tales of the Emerald Isles. 12:00m—Sparklets. 12:15—Echoes of the Orient. 12:30—Biblical drama. 1:00—Artists Service program. | 1:30—"Tco Much Government,” by‘ | Senator Bingham of Connecti- cut. 1:45—American Singers, with Willlam Wirges' Orchestra. 2:15—Sunday Bright Spots. 2:30—Moonshine and Honeysuckle, 3:00—Wayne King's Orchestra. | 3:30—Ruth Lyon, soprano, Charles Sears, tenor, orchestra. 4:00—National Sunday Forum. | 5:00—Gilbert & Sulliven gems. | 5:89—Correct time. | 6:00—National Catholic hour. 7:00—Candle Light Musicale. 7:30—Club of the Alr. 8:00—Rubinoff’s Orchestra, with Ed- | die Cantor. | | 9:00—"Our Government,” Lawrence. 9:15—Through the Opera Glass, 10:15—Ted Weems' Orchestra. 10:45—Sunday at Seth Parker's. 11:15—Last Minute News 11:17—Ralph Kirbery, baritone. 11:30—Weather Forecast 11:31—Jesse Crawford. organist. 12:00 to 1:00a—Palais d'Or Orchestra. | Early Program Tomorrow. and with | by David the Radio (All Programs Scheduled for Eastern Standard Time.) 475.9 Meters. WMAL 630 Kilocycles. Land o' Make Believe. -Columbia Church of the Alr. —Quiet Harmonies. Duets by Julia Mahoney and Charles Carlisle. 15a—Watch Tower Service, 11:31 Voice of St. Louls. :30—Rebroadcast from London—*"The Indian Conference,” by 8. K. Ratcliffe. :45—The French Trio. 30—Rhythmic Melogies. 00—Sons of Eli. 30—Columbia Church of the Afr. 00—Symphonic_hour. :00—Service from the Washingtcn Cathedral. 00-—Pastorale. 30—Wardman Park Orchestra. 15—Mayflower Orchestra. 00—"The World's Business,” by Dr. Julius Klein. 15—Pray and Braggiotti, piano duo. :25—Success interview with Peter B. Kyne, :30—Theo Karle, tenor. 45—The Boswell Sisters. 00—"Devils, Drugs and Doctors,” by Dr. Howard W. Haggard. 15—Music Along the Wires. 45—"Your Child,” by Angelo Patri. 9:00—The Masters. 9:30—Around the Samovar, 10:00—Ernest Hutcheson, planist, and concert orchestra. 10:30—The Gauchos 11:00—Continental String Quartet. 11:30—Red Nichols' Orchestra. 12:00—Weather forecast. Early Program Tomorrow. 8:00a—Morning Devotions. WASHINGTON, D.,C., OCTOBER 4, 45a—Tower Health Exercises, 00a—Gene and Glenn. 15a—Morning Devotions. 8:15a—Something for Every One. 8:45a—The Dutch Girl. chronization on existing stations has lengths are located too close to each ' ards preclude operation of any booster | “Likewise, it must be remembered that | | WABC's channel closer than 541 miles | 00a—Le Trio Charmante. 15a—Tom Waring’s Troubadours. 45a—Food program. 00a—Mrs. Blake's Radio Column. | 15a—Talk by Senator Copeland of | New York. | 30a~—Fourth Pan-American Com- mercial Conference. 1:30a—Morning Serenaders. :45a—Jill and Judy. 00m—Breen and De Rose. 15—Black and Gold Orchestra. | 12:30—National Farm and Home hour. | | "1:15—Play by play description of the third world series gams 6 8 8: 8:30a—Cheerio. 9 9 9:: | 10: ‘10 10:; | WABC's wave length likewise applies to all other channels. “These and other definite engineering | obstacles, as well as legal requirements, effectively prescribe the 1mited area in | | which ‘boosters,’ even if proven prac- | | tical from every standpoint, ml{ be | | operated to re-energize the signal of any | station. Every informed station man- ager or engineer who has endeavored to get an increase in power or change of wave length knows the rigidity and in- flexibility of the present allocation of wave lengths. “Even if the proposed booster idea | proves practical in daily operation, and there were a realiccation to accommo- | date synchronization, individual sta- | tions now affiliated with networks have little, if anything, to fear because un- | doubtedly other network programs would | become available to them when required. | Network stations already are finding | considerable demand for their time from local interests, and their managers oft- | times are nonplussed in their efforts to | meet both local and network demands for time. As radio continues to develop, not only as a means of expression and of entertainment, but as an advertising medium there will be an Increasing de- mand for time on all stations. “Incidentally, s ‘booster’ station can- not broadcast local programs and there- fore cannot compete locally for adver- tising against existing staticns or news- | papers. Suggestion Held Impossible. | “Thers has been much discussion | about the pcssibility of eynchrenizing all stations on one channel o that listeners all over the country would receive that | network's program on one place on the | dial and on no other. Under the pres- ent allocation, this is uiterly impossible and would become possible only in the event that synchronization proved prac- tical to an extent to warrant the com- mission ordering a generai reallocation make such synchronized networks possible. In such a reallocation, however, opportunity would be afforded for sta- tions not now operating on the more fa- vored assignments to gain more advan- tageous positions in the radio spectrum. “It is the desire of the Columbia Sys- tem further to explore the synchroniza- tion field, with the public as a co- | operating partner to observe the results. Washington was selected because it is one of the very few cities in which the 660 channel fits without interfering with other staticns, because of the unique importance of the Nation's Capi- tal, because of the desire of Columbia to present to official Washington its com- plete netwcrk service, and because all members of Congress and officials and stafl of the Radlo Commission, the Bureau of Standards and the radio di- vision of the Department of Commerce may observe the results at first hand. “The Federal Radio ission is determined in its desire protect and benefit the listening public, to which all other interests are secondary, and it | may be relied upsn to give careful con- | sideration to all factors involved in | the question of g:rmittlnl experimental | operation of a booster station such as | has been prcposed by Columbia for ‘Washington.” Ld BN O Ninety-seven per cent of all tele- gfl&\ele communications from Sweden United States, says the Depart- ment of Commerce, come by radio. 9:00a—Opening the Morning Mail. 9:30a—Tony's Scrap Book. 9:45a—Melody Musketeers. 10:00a—Chatting with Ida Bailey Allen 10:15a—Harmonies and Contrasts. 10:45a—Advertising Feature. 11:00a—The Melody Parade. 11:15a—The Madison Singers 11:30a—"Front-Page Personalities,” Anne Lazar. 11:45a—"Character Education,” Harry P. McKenna. 12:00m—Don Bigelow’s Orchestra. 12:30—Aster Orchestra. 1:00—Taft Orchestra, 1:15—Play by play description of the third world series game, W'JSV 205.4 Meters. 1.460 Kilocycles. 10:30a—8alon music. 11:00a to 12:15—Services of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, :00—Church of the Atr. :00—Studio Feature. :45—Moffatt's Orchestrs. :30—Gospel Twilight H :00—Tango Troubadours 30—Silver String Revelers, :00—Gosepel Spreading Association. :00—Shoreham Concert Orchestra. :55—Service at First Church of Christ Scientist. :05—Roland Wheeler, tenor. 0—Baptist Chapel Echoes, :00—Theatrical Treats. 30—Evangelical Church of the Air. :00 to 11:30—Gospel Choir. Early Program Tomorrow, 00a—Treasure Chest. 00a—Hints to Housewlves. 30a—Health Talks. 45a—Program _ by ‘Women's Clubs, 15a—Sacred Hour. 11:35a—Gospel Choir. 11:59a—Correct time, 12:00m—"Personality Reconstruction,” by Anne Tillery Renshaw. 12:05—Luncheon music. 12:30—Dance music. :00—Concert Trio. :30—Sunshine Hour. 2:00—Luncheon Concert. 2:30—Ballad Hour 3:00—Organ Melodies. 7 228.9 Meters. WOL 1,310 Kilocycles. 10:00a—Organ melodies. 10:30a—Symphony orchestra. 11:00a—Services of the First Congre- gational Church, 12:28—Birthdays. 12:30—In Funnyland With Uncle Jerry. 4:30—Duke Van Dusen, pianist. 4:45—Light Opera Gems. 5:00 to 6:00—Washington Catholic Radio Hour. Early Program Tomorrow. 7:00a—Musical Clock. 8:00a—Birthdays. 8:95a—Musical Clock. 10:00a—Organ melodies. 10:15a—Novelettes. 10:45a—March of Music. 11:00a—With the Composers. 11:45a—Luncheon music, 12:15—The Hawailans. 12:30 to 1:00—Dance Music. by by 3 9: 10: 10: 10: Federation of 11: Radio Exports Gain. Canada, Mexico, Argentina and Aus- tralia continue to be the I markets for American exports of radio equipment, which this year are run- ning well ahead of those of last ye 0000000000 000000000000008 RADIO EDUCATION SERIES WILL OPEN Lecture on Psychology and Economics to Be on Air Saturday Nights.’ BY MARTIN CODEL. Organized education will take to the air somewhat along British lines when the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education this month begins a weekly series of lectures on present- day economics and psychology. In- tended largely for the adult ear, the lectures will be delivered by eminent authorities every Saturday evening, be- ginning October 17, over a wide network of National Broadcasting Co. stations. Aptly enough, the first 10 lectures of the series of 30 on economics will be devoted to causes of the economic de- pression and possible ways out. Com- ing at 830 to 9 p.m., ern standard time, the inaugural program will start with’ an introductory address by Presi- dent Nicholas Murray Butler of Co- lumbia University. He will introduce President James R. Angell of Yale, who will give the first address in the series of psychology programs, and Dr. Ernest L. Bogart, president of the American Economic ~Association, who will open the economic series. Programs in Two Parts, Each Saturday evening the program {will be divided into two g}')m'v.s. ?5 min- utes being devoted to economics and 15 minutes to psychology. The economics |series will cover such subjects as un- employment insurance, national eco- nomic planning and the merger move- ment. ‘The_ psychology series, also numbering 30 talks, will cover such subjects as child development, adult learning, changes in personality, ani- mal behavior and the social and indus- trial implications of scientific psy- chology. The economists and psychologists on the programs are largely drawn from the colleges and research agencies of the country and are men and women of highest standing in their professions. Summaries of their addresses and sup- plementary data for study and discus- sion will be made available to the radio audience after each_ address, through the agency of the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education, organ- ized about a year ago to further radio in American education, under the di- rectorship of Levering Tyson, with Rob- ert A. Millikan as president and Nor- man H. Davis as chairman. In offering their facilities for this cultural series at one of the most fa- vorable hours for reception, the N. B.C. network and its associated’ stations are answering, in part at least, the demand of educational interests for more ‘“‘time on the air.” Full co-operation with any ibroadcasting plan offered by the or- |ganized educators has long been prom- \ised by the broadcasters in reply to the demand for more wave lengths for edu- cational broadcasting being made in Congress by certain educational inter- ests. Would Lend Facilities. Bince the available radio channels cannot be further crowded, and since the allocating of any proportion of the existing channels to diverse educational interests would inevitably mean that |just so many existing stations must go off the air to make way for the new ones, the broadcasters are seeking ways |and means of lending their facilities to |education as a whole and at the same |time balancing their programs to fre- tain the interest of listeners at large. | This new series is the first step to- ward a_co-operative scheme that will not sound the death knell of those who have invested ir. the business of broad- casting. Essentially, the lecture plan is almost precisely the one followed in England, where the English Broadcast- ing Corporation has just begun its Winter adult education broadeast schedule, under the general title “This Changing World.” Aiming, so far as possible. to main- tain _a continuity of subject-matter, {the British lectures go on the air at fixed half-hour schedules each day, with the outstanding British educators and publicists taking part. Its sched- ule, now at hand, includes such men as Prof. John Macmurray on problems of modern life, with supplementary talks by laymen, including at least one woman, and representatives of the younger generation, labor and church; Prof. Arnold Plant, on economics, in which the relations of the state and industry will be freely discussed; Mon- sieur E. M. Stephen. in French lan- guage talks: Hon. Harold Nicolson, on literature; Sir Barry Jackson. on the drama: Kingsley Martin, on the press: Prof. Julian Huxley, J. B. §. Haldane, Sir Oliver Lodge. Hilaire Belloc, Ber- trand Russell and others, on science. Noted Men to Speak. All the offerings are intimate talks, § as thote of the new American se- ries will be. In the economic series being offered here the speakers, in ad- dition to Dr. Bogart, will include Ed- win F. Gay, Harvard; H. G. Moulton, the Brookings Institution of Washing- ton (which helped prepare the course): Jane Addams of Hull House: Willlam Leiserson, Antioch College; William F. Gephart, St. Louls; Edwin G. Nourse, Brookings Institution: Leo Wolman, man, Columbia University; Jacob H. Hollander, Johns Hopking University, and Otto T. Mallery, Philkdelphia. The series on psychology includes, be- sides Dr. Angell, such figures as Walter R. Miles, president of the American Psychological Association; ward S. Robinson, Yale Prof. Gardner Murphy, Columbia Uni- versity; Roberl 5. Woodworth, presi- dent of the Social Science Research Council; Arnold Gesell, Yale Univer- sity; Harold E. Jones, University of California; Florence L. Goodenough, University of Minnesota: John E. An- derson, University of Minnesota, and Leta S.-Hollingsworth, Columbia Uni- versity. Committees of representative edu- cators in each instance framed the se ries and will issue the invitations for the later lectures. All of the speakers are contributing their time gratis, as are the network and its associated sta- tions. Ls BEWARE STOCK RACKET Radio Industry Warns Against Television Becurities. Beware the television stock-selling racket is the word the radio industry is now sending out to the public. Television “tipster” sheets are being eyed askance by the authorities, who have no desire to curb the activities of legitimate promoters of television, but who want to protect the public from various stock-selling schemes designed to inveigle sucker lists into television— a field still officially regarded by the Federal Radio Commission as entirely perimental. uw-nqun;r 1931—PART FOUR. Behind the Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. HAT radio has done in the past decade is now one of the marvels of our present industrial age. What it will be 10 years hence is an interesting speculation and one which tests the imagination of even the most daring. However, certain trends are in the offing, and Frank A. Arnold, N. B. C. di- rector of development, in his book, “Broadcast Advertising,” just pub- lished, gives a vivid picture of what the citizen of 1941 may ex- pect from radio and its legitimate offspring, television, as the result of scientific research now going on in our great laboratories. “By the year 1940, sald Mr. Arnold, “we will have learned how to overcome static and magnetic barriers, and by our additional discoveries in the short-wave field render international broadcasting as possible and as practical as the best we are now doing locally. Ten years from now to broadcast around the world will be just one item in the day’s work. The great broadcasting organizations in the United States will be operating their studios and plants on a 24- hour basis. Differences in time will be utilized so that while the rest of us sleep the night shift will be sending programs abroad, reaching countries during their daylight periods. “We shall be exchanging pro-| grams with every civilized nation of the world. The Oxford lecturer will no Jonger be obliged to leave England in order to give his mes- sage to the colleges of America, for it will be easily possible, even | though at some inconvenience to him, due to the difference in time, to speak to audiences gathered in the assembly rooms of our Ameri- can colleges for that purpose. “Speaking of colleges, the time will come when our major institu- tions of learning will have en- dowed chairs of broadcasting—not that there will be professors of radio broadcasting, but the money thus provided will render possible the wire charges and other inci- dentals whereby such a college may be in a position to obtain either an international broadcast or a broadcast distributed from some central point in this country. “Ten years from now—and quite ossibly In less time—we shall be andling advertising on an inter- national basis. The advertiser who is now employing a national network for the exploitation of his goods and at the same time has foreign contracts can place a contract with the American broad- caster with the assurance that his foreign message will be conveyed to its destination in the estab- lished form and delivered in the language of that country. 1In other words, we shall be following the same procedure that now ex- ists in the field of visible adver- tising, and to that extent the en- tire world will be drawn so closely together as to be operated as a single unit. “Television, which for the last year or two has been peeking round the corner, will be walking up and down the street long be- fore the next decade is finished. It is already a laboratory success. It simply awaits its development along practical and husiness lines, acceptable to and in accord with the desire of the radio audience.” * % ¥ % 'OOT BALL and the world series have already taken the center of the Autumnal radio stage, | bringing their seasonal vicarious thrills to the American fireside. | National and regional networks | and the local stations have em- barked on their sports broadcast- ing schedules. Within the limita- tions of radio’s hours the radio| audience will get most of the | big games, national and local. The major national networks have cleared their lines to carry descriptions of the world series | in all their details, deploying their crack announcers for the task.| Columbia embarked early upon | the foot ball season, opening Sat- | urday with the Army-Ohio North- ern game. Though they have practically filled their schedules, the N. B. C. and C. B. 8. networks are arrang- ing so that they can change the later games if others of greater importance crop up. Both also have a few dates as yet unfilled, awaiting the developments of the season. For a large part the net- works show a predilection for in- tersectional games, and both have indicated that they intend cover- ing the big post-season events. Columbia’s foot ball reporter will | be Ted Husing, as usual. N.B.C.| will assign Granam McNamee and | Bill Munday to all games, with a | special staff of experts covering the series of games of the Pacific Coast Conference, which have also been scheduled. One of the fea- tures of the Fall broadcasts will be the appearance before the microphone on the nights before the big games of leading coaches, sport writers and other authori- ties, who will discuss and forecast | he season’s progress. 'EE MILADY may enjoy the com- forts and pleasures of the| radio every time she stops to pow- | der her nose if she cares to use an invention upon which letters patent have just been issued by the Patent Office. The inventor is Harry Preston Pratt of Chicago, and he calls it the radio vanity case. Combined with a diminu- tive radio receiver, it contains the usual feminine accoutrements— 5 Hill PRESENTS Another | Sunday Afternoon Program Featuring the Cedar Hill Sextet and the Cedar Hill Ensemble WMAL 1:30 Today | watts were filled by the commission |TO WHICH TO CROON SONGS powder and rufl, lipstick, mirror, comb and all. Pratt in his patent application does not designate the precise di- mensions of his radio vanity case beyond stating that it is exceed- ingly light and compact. It is divided into two similar compart- ments, separated by a false bot- tom, one of which is adapted to carry the usual equipment of a vanity case and the other to carry the tiny radio set. A crystal set can be used, but the inventor opposes alternatively to insert tubes powered by a 48- cell battery of the silver chloride variety, providing 48 to 50 volts. There is a variable condenser, and the antenna is located in the cover to act also as a tuning device. Everything is positioned compact- ly, even the loops holding lipstick and comb being utilized in the circuit. The ground wire is pro- vided with rewind springs and automatic catch and release de- vices such as are used on shade rollers. All milady has to do is tune in— and the inventor says his set will tune any program at almost any time and any place—is attach the ground wire to an iron pipe some- where and turn the switch. There are sockets provided so that the circuit may be attached to ear- Fhonea or to a loud speaker; or, | f desired, the circuit may be of the socket power variety. If the | earphones are preferred, the back | of one of them is formed of such | highly polished metal that it can be used as a small hand mirror. | * ok % ok <4 | YOU'VE heard much about | bridge games and chess and | checker tournaments by radio, but here’s a story of a game of golf played via the radio by contest- ants 7,800 miles apart. Carson C. | Taylor, who operates amateur Sta- | tlon W6ESA, at 310 South Irving boulevard, Los Angeles, and who is the son of the publisher of the Manila ‘Daily Bulletin, was brag- | ging to KAISL, operated by I. | Stewart Linor in Manila, about | having shot an eagle on the eighth hole at the California Country Club. They were chatting over the | amateur wave lengths, and Linor |was asked to pass on the good | news to Taylor's “OM” (which is | amateur parlance for “dad”). The news was duly forwarded, but “OM,” out in the Philippine Islands, failed to be impressed. | Radioing back, he offered to play his son a match lasting one week, the best cards of the week to be compared. Results were matched | when the two amateur stations | worked their next schedule. The | publisher of the Manila Daily Bul- etin lost to his son by the bare margin of one hole. '$5,000,000 OUTLAY 1 RADIO’S JOB AID High Power Granted 15 Stations| ! Requiring Installing New Equipment. At Jeast a $5.000,000 contribution to- industrial Radio Commission as a direct result of its grants of high power to 15 broadcasting stations throughout the country. That is the minimum figure, accord- ing to engineers, that must be expended by these stations in the installation of new physical equipment alone, while maintenance costs, new studio equip- ment and other items of overhead likely to accompany the enlargement of these gtations "will swell that total several old. The commission Thursday decided the' high-power issue in broadcasting which has dangled before it for more than a year. As was expected, it did not lift the restriction whereby all sta- tions operating on the 40 exclusive channels are permitted to use the max- imum power of 50,000 watts, but left the clear indication that it might eventually follow that eourse. Nine vacant assignment. for 50.000 from two dozen applicants. In addition, six stations were authorized to increase power from 5,000 to 25,000 watts, while the remainder were deniea outright. In only two instances did the commission reverse the recommendations of its chief examiner, Ellis A. Yost, as to the 50,000 watt grants, and it failed to sccord 25,000 watts power to two other stations recommended by Mr. Yost. RUDY VALLEE FINDS EYES NEW YORK (&) —Peggy Moseley is no opera star when she sings, but her eloquent, lyrical eyes won her fame when her voice failed her. For five years her auburn bair and large, lovely eyes made her an outstand- ing member of the chorus. Too, she was anexcellent dancer and more than one producer predicted that here was material from which stars are made. Peggy's aspirations were to become a prima donna, and she had all the requi- sltes except a singing voice. It was then that her luminous eyes lifted her out of the chorus up to the footlights as a cipal. Rudy Vallee was seeking a girl to whom he could sing “This is Missus” in the “Scandals.” 'y course, was to do the crooning. but he needed a pair of beautiful eyes to which |he could sing the song. This wa necessary, because the lyric we own those lips, I own those eyes. He saw Peggy dancing iIn the chorus, and there found the necessary eyes. Now Rudy does the singing, and Peggy furnishes the eyes, eyes which ‘were 80 on the opening night that they drew strong praises from all e i i | Note—This is & new model Fhilco Console, , and never before sold at || | such a low price. i OKAY RADIO CO. | 417 11th St. N.W. I 1760 Pa. Ave. N.W. 7 HOOVERTO ADDRESS RADID" CONVENTION Will Break Long Silence on Industry His Policies Helped Nurture. BY ROBERT MACK. President Hoover's long sllence on the subject of radio, which he nurtured during its pioneering days while hs was Secretary of Commerce, will be broken when the Chief Executive ad- dresses the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, to be held late next month at Detroit. Since he entered the White House nearly 3 years ago, the President has had no occasion to mention radio, al- though it is well known that he is vitally interested in this gigantic young art and industry. As early at 1921, when he was appointed Secretary of Commerce by President Harding, ~Mr. Hoover has been identified with' radio and until the so-called breakdown of the then radio law in 1926, he exercised what amounted to one-man control over all commercial radio, including broadcasting. Policles Still in Force. Many of the policies inaugurated by the Chief Executive as Secretary of Commerce still are in force today. His testimony before the commitiees of Congress charged with radio legisla- tion had much to do with the drafting of the radio act of 1927, which consti- tutes the main body of radio law. It will be an all-radio event when President Hoover addresses the N. A. B. convention at its opening session Oc- tober 26. Although the convention will be in Detroit, the President will address it from Washington by “remote con- trol.” His voice will be carried to the convention hall from the White House by special land wire and simultaneous- ly will be broadcast over Nation-wide networks of the National Broadcasting Co. and Columbia Broadcasting system. The invitation to address the con- vention was extended by Walter J. Damm _of Milwaukee, president of ths N. A. B.; Frank M. Russell of Washing- ton, vice president of the N. B. C., and member of the N. A. B. Executive Com- mittee, and Philip G Loucks of Wash ington, managing director of the N. B. It will mark the first time the President will have addressed a radio group since he ascended to the White House. Convention to Last 3 Days. ‘The opening ceremonies attending the three-day convention will be & half- hour broadcast, ning at noon. President Damm will call the meeting to order and introduce Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit. Mayor Murphy's address of welcome will be followed by a brief response from Willlam B, Hedges of Chicago, former president of the association. Mr. Hedges will intro- duce President Hoover and the Chief Executive will be followed by Mr. Damm and Maj. Gen. Charles McK. Saltzman, chairman of the Federal Radio C ntion, the annual - together of the men behind the mfin radio, will be the ninth event of the association. In addition to the opening day’s schedule, the sessions will be ad- dressed by John Benson, president of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, while included among others invited to make addresses are Senator Dill (Dem.) of Washington, congres- sional radio leader: Henry A. Bellows, ilr::lrrg:n o{‘!he association's Legisla- Vi mmittee, and oth b ther committee (Copyrient. 1931.) Folks Behind The Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. ECAUSE radio programs reached such far-away places Jane Fro- man felt she should sing as loudly as possible the first time she faced a microphone. Of course, she knows better now, but at the time she admits she did feel just & little bit silly—and frightened. Her first radio opportunity came in Cincinnati, following a party in the home of Powell Crosley, jr., who heard her sing and suggested she join the WLW staff. It was there that Paul Whiteman heard her and induced her to go to the N. B. C. Chicago studios, where she made an instant hit on net- work programs. Miss Froman is Ellen Jane to her family. Movies provide her with an enjoyable relaxation, and she doesn't mind sitting well into the second show Swimming, horseback riding and driv- ing are other diversions that rank equally in favor Dogs and cats she likes and stoops to pet anv that cross her path. But she doesn't like to walk under laddere, and never fails to toss a good sized handful of salt over the left shoulder if she should knock over a salt shaker She was born in St. Louls is 1907, attended the grade and high schools there, and graduated from the Uni- versity of Missouri in 1928 with two degrees—an A. B. in music and & B. § in journalism. She wanted to be a newspaper woman. While in college she was active in musical shows, sang in the glee club. university sextet and journalism school shows. Her first professional job was singing with an orchestra in the Grand Central Theater in St. Louis. That was when her desire to be a journalist wavered. Hugh Evans of Santa Monica, Calif., has an orchid which bore flowers each day for 500 days, although it is grow- ing_in_the open. Complete Radio Service Anywhere—Any Time ets rebuilt for D. C. operation ets rebuilt for A. C. operation Radio Service Shop 132 Bryant St. NW. Pot. 2290-W Authorized Service A. 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