Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1931, Page 46

Folks Behind The Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. HE grest majority of radio lis- teners, miles away from the scene of the sporting events, Jook to their radios to convey | them there. to bring them the | | color, the feel of the crowd, the inten- | sity of the atmosphere, the gayety, the | drama_of it all | minutely detailed description of They want nnly the J L! they will rem in | their newspapers. ‘These are the precepts of Gra- ham McNamee, vho won his great- est fame from ra- { cio reporting sport- ing contests, polit- ical conventions and great public gatherings “When I take my seat at the ringside at a prize | fight I think to| myself mn every | person m; to listen’ wishes he could be there with me in the flesh. said Mr. McNamee. ‘“Then, obviousl my first duty to the listeners is to the next best thing—take the thing him, take it in all its color, its gayety its intensity. 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PR, 48.50 69.50 . 49.50° . 59.50 ... 59.50 39.50 They dont want a | the | | contest, be it prize fight, foot ball or | who is go- | THE EVENING Today on STAR. WASHINGTON, the Radio (All programs scheduled for Eastern Standard Time.) 315.8 Meters. WRC 554 iiocyeies 3:00—Woman's Radio Review " " by Betty " by Racio Guild 5:30—Novelty Orchestra, with Dolly Connelly 5:45—N. B. C feature. 5:58—Correct time. 6°00—The Serenaders. 6:15—Al Kamon's Dance Orchestra. G 45—The Smlnl Boys. 7:00—Amos ‘n’ Andy. | 7:15—Southern Orchestra. 7:30—Alice Joy and Paul Van Loan's estra. 7:45—Radiotone Quartet 8:00—Service hour, with Bourdon Or- chestra and Cavaliers' Quartet 9:00—Eskimo Club. 9:30—Leo Reisman's Orchestra. 10:00—The Frolic, witn Jane Proman and Ferdi Grofe's Orchestra. 10:30—Theater of the Air. 11:00—Last. 11:02—Otto Beck's Organ Recital. 12:00—Weather forecast. 12:01a—Cotton Club Orchestra. 12:30 to 1:00a—Ted Black’s Orchun quantities. lery staging a fight all of their own. | must report all important details of the actual contest | essential details I must eliminate.” * x % % OU'VE no doubt Hicks, N. B. C. announcer, in ac- tion. Sounds something like Mc- Namee. Well, Hicks might be described | | as_Graham's “unofficial understudy.” | _ Every chance Hicks gets he watches | McNamee before the microphone, at- tempting to assimilate his mannerisms and moods, both in extemporaneous foot ball broadcasts and regular pro- grams where the continuity is all writ- ten out. Hicks also has a dummy microphone at home, where in his idle | moments he practices Graham. * X X x JACK O'LANTERN. made from & hup pumpkln has been presented Godfrey, B. C. an- nouncer whn is convlleuclnz in th Washington Sanitarfum from a recent automobile accident. the gift of Irving Lang. and was taken to Godfrey by Mrs. Willlam C. Rice. | Lang made the jack o'lantern for a window display, but decided to send it to Godfrt{ to cheer him on Halloween. Godfrey, incidentally, progress on the road to recovery. * % YYTOL'S recurd.inls by the Boswell S ters now have a commercial s} | sor for 13 weeks. ..Stars of the air | will get the radio footlight in the third of the five features being presented to ald President Hoover's unemployment relief program. N. B. C. and Columbia networks will combine to put on the program Sunday night from 10:45 to | 12 o'clock...The Gloom Chasers (Col. Stoopnagle and Budd) have had their contract at Columbia renewed for an indefinite period...Frank Black and his 34-piece orchestra start new spol sored program on N. B. C. November 8. ...Marion Harris, “blue singer, is to do a turn with Nat Brusiloff’s Orches- tra on N. B. C. November 6. But the trivial, non- heatd George | is making rapid | Early Program Tomerrow. 6:45a—Tower Heal! 8:00a—Gene and G 8:15a—Morning De' 8:30a— Le Tric Charmante —Tom Waring's Troubadours, 9 43a Feod program 11:00a—Two Seats in the Balcony. 11:30a—Keys of Happiness 2:00m—Black and Gold Orchest 12:30—National Farm and Home h 1:30—Ted Black's Orchestra. Dame-Carnegie foot WMAL 3:00—C 630 Kl!o"\rlu nbia Salon Orchestra. Dolly Cameron. 5:00—Jewish Art program. I must say when one of the | I fighters gets a black eye, but I must | ‘The pumpkin is | i ball | 11:15—Cuban Biltmore Orchestra. | 9:00a—The Commuters. D. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1931. | sm—nmw;“mmmm‘n 5:45—Correct ti 5:46—Flashes from The Ambassadors. 10: BOO—NQ' ‘World Salon Orchestra 11:00a—Adventures of Helen and Mary 11:30a—Columbia vue. 12:00m—Don_ Bigelow's Orchestra, | 12:45—S8chool athletic program. l D0-—+Taft Orchestra. 1:30—Saturday Syncopators 2:15—Foot ball souvenir program 2:30—TIllinois-Northwestern foot game. WOL 2289 Meters. 1,310 Kilgeycles. 3:00—Variety hour. 4:00—Beverly O'Brien, contralto, and Josephine Noel, pianist. by Casey | 4:15—Tea Time Tunes. 4:30—Nonsensicalities. Pageant, with Toscha | 4 " Theo ‘Karle and Sam | Lanin's Orchestra. 10:30—Talk by Bob Zuppke, coach of the Illinois foot ball team. 10:45—Fray and Braggiotti, piano mm 11:00—The Street Singer. —Abrams’ Barn Qrchestra. 6:30—Earl Burtnett's Orchestra terview with Walter Berndt e Puture of the Motion Pic- " by Colby Harriman Bing Crosby. baritone 7:15—Lillian Roth and Mnximdunl Pilzer's Orchestra. 7:30—Jimmy and Jane 7-45—Morton Downey. tenor. 8:00—Arthur Pryor's Band. 8:15—"Singin' Sam.” 8:30—Mareh of Time 9:00—Radio Reproductions. 9:15—Liberty hour. 9:45—“Aviation News,” ball sxS—Pm(nm by Rea Chlpwr D. s 1o—Pnu1 Gable, organist. rtorial, by Bryan Morse. xE—Howud M. 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