Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1931, Page 30

B—I4 HOOVER 10 SPEAK OVER MAJOR CHAINS Address Before National Con- ference on Home Building Will Be Heard Here. President Hoover's address tonight at the opening session of the National CGonference on Home Building and Home Ownership in Constitution Hall will be broadcast by WRC, WMAL, WJSV and msive networks of the National and lumbia Broadcasting eystems. ‘The conference broadcast is scheduled from 9 to 9:30 o'clock. The President will be introduced by Secretary of Commerce Lamont. Aside from President Hoover’s speech, WRC will carry all of its regular N. B, C. attractions except the weekly invest- ment talk by the “Old Counselor,” can- | celed because it would conflict with the conference broadcast. The contert from 8:30 to 9 o'clock featuring Nathaniel Shilkret's Orches- tra, Doug Stanbury and Gladys Rice will draw on the Jerome Kern music from “The Cat and the Fiddle’ and Victor Herbert's works from “The Rose of Algeria.” Miss Rice's principal solo number will be “One Kiss, One Smile, One Tear.” “My Song,” from “Scandals of 1931,” will be Stanbury’s solo. Rice Will Interview Buck. In the weekly sports program at 10:30 o'clock Grantland Rice will interview PFrank Buck, famous wild animal col- lector, who has just returned from the Malay jungle with a shipment of wild animals, The musical portion of this program will be provided by Gustave Haenschen'’s Orchestra and James Mel- ton, tenor. Mme. Amelita Galli-Curcl is sched- uled to take part in the “Music Treas- ure Box” program at 6 a'clock. She will. not sing, but will a as the guest speaker with Pierre V. Key Marguerite Cromwel sing two numbers—“Martha’ “Japanese Sandman“—in her program with Harold Veo's Orchestra at 7:45 o'clock. The orchestral specialty will be “Time on My Hands” Tie Singing Violins, directed by Sid- ney Seidenman, ha'e arranged a varied rogram {or their broadcast at 8 o'clock he . numbers . include “When You're Away,” “Throw Me a Rose” and “Sere- nade d’Amour.” The Melodious Milkmen also will be heard over WRC at 6:30 o'clock in a (rouF of songs of the South. The prin- cip! numbers are “Moonlight Bay,” “De Gospel Train” and “'Neaf de Deah ©Ole Southern Pines.” Helen. Morgan, musical comedy star, will be the guest artist in the Person- alities program on WMAL at 10 o'clock She will sing “The Thrill Is Gone,” from the current edition of “Scandals,” and “Bfll" from “Show Boat.” . Opera Singer on Air, Columbia Concert program at 10:30 o'clock will preseht Elizabeth Schumann, world-famous leder and opera singer. She will Le accompanied by her husband, Prof. Carl Alwin, musi- el director of the Vienna Staatsoper. “The Grl'gevlne Murders” is an- nmmud# e Crime Club dramatiza- tion st 9:30 o'clock. It is a mystery by George F. Worts. ‘s musical éentuns tol}lghv. will provided e Bernhelm Trio, Schramm’s Dence Orchestra and the Shoreham Concert Orchestra. This station also has scheduled special | 11:45—Lew THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, program by the Washington Police Post the Jolley Sisters and the Maui Island- ers will contribute to the p‘rv\;frun of WOL. In addition there will be a dinner concert and & program by the Royal Hawaiians. Major Radio Features I SPECIAL EVENT. President Hoover’s address before the Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership, WRC, WMAL and WISV, 9:00. CLASSICAL. Columbia Concert, featuring Elizabeth Schumann, soprano, WMAL, 10:30. DRAMA. | Myrt and Marge, WMAL, 7:00; The Crime Club, 9:30 VARIETY. Shilkret’s Orchestra, WRC, 8: Fast Freight, WMAL, 9:0 Olive Palmer and Revelers' Quar- tet, WRC, 9:30; Persanalities, with Helen Morgan, WMAL, 10:00; Grantland Rice and Frank Buck, WRC, 10:30. DANCE MUSIC. Swanee Syncopators, WMAL, 11:00; Vincent Lopez and his orchestra, WRC, 11:30; Coon-Sanders Orches- tra, WRC, 12:05; Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, WRC, 12:30. HIGH LIGHTS ELSEWHERE. 6:45—Topics in Brief, by Lowell Thomas—WJZ, WBAL, WBZ, WLW, WRVA and KDKA. 7:45—"Believe It or Not,” by Robert y—WJZ, WBZ, WBAL, KA, WLW and WRVA. 8:00—College Memories: male quar- tet—WJIZ WBAL, WHAM, KYW, WSM and WJR. 8:15—Guy Robertson, baritone, and Leonard Joy's Orchestra—WJZ, WBAL, WBZ and WJR. 8:30—Melody Moments; Michael Ro- senker, violinist, Josef Paster- nack’s Orchestra and Oliver Smith, tenor—WJZ, WBAL, WBZ, KDKA, WLW, WLS, WHAM and WGAR. 9:00—Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; third episode of “The Study in Scarlet”—WJZ, WBZ, WBAL, WHAM, KDKA and WLW, 9°30—Tne Masters; comedy trio—WJZ, WBZ, WBAL, WHAM, KDKA, WLW and WGR. 10:00—Rochester Civic Orchestra— WJZ, WBAL, WBZ, WLW and WHAM 10:30—Clara, Lu and Em; humorous ckit—WJZ, WBZ, WBAL, KDKA and WHAM 11:00—Slumber music; Ludwig Laurier’s Ensemble — WJZ, WBAL and ‘WIOD. 11:30—Russ Columbo, crooner — WJZ, WBAL, WGAR and WJR. White, organist — WJZ, WBAL, KDKA and WHAM. 12:30a—Ernie Holst's Orchestra; dance music—WJZ, WBAL, WSB and KTHS MASDA lectric Light | DECEMBER 2, 1931. ETHER POLICEMEN PATROL TELEVISION Necessity for Supervision of New Form of Radio Re- ported to Lamont. Television's invasion of the ether waves has given the “traffic policemen of the ether” a new and important beat to patrol in their campaign against in- terference to reception. ‘With more than a score of visual radio stations romping up and down the | spectrum, radio inspectors of the Com- merce Department have been at wits’ end as to how to check their oper: tions, according to William D. Terrell, the department's director of radio and figurative “chief radio traffic cop.” As television grows, the task of patrolling the ether becomes more complex. Elaborating on a recommendation in his annual report, Mr. Terrell pointed out that, even though all television operations are experimental, the necessity for checking stations as to frequency deviation and intensity of signals is es- sential to safeguard other modes of unication carried on in the wave lengths. Moreover, the Government wants to keep abreast of developments in television, and it can only do so by observing the experimental operations. Reporting to Secretary of Commerce La- mont, Mr. Terrell said an experimental recelving apparatus for interception of television and devices for the measure- ment of the frequencies of television | stations should be obtained “as soon as possible.” Inspectors who scour those roadways of the sky daily have ingeni- ously contrived means of measuring the frequencies of the stations, but they have no method of identifying them, since they have no visual radio appa- ratus. In its operations the Radio Divi- sion is devoting more and more atten- tion to visual radio, said Mr. Terrell. Appropriations for the coming year will enable the purchase of additional appa- artus and will improve somewhat the checks on those stations. In sdddition to operations in what is called the continental short wave band, located just above the broadcast range Free—Radio We are overstocked. Limited number, we will actually give free of any expense, a standard make Superheterodyne Radio, latest model, with every pur- chase of the famous Graybar Wringless Washing Machine, reg- ular price ($99.50). Both un- conditionally guaranteed. There are no strings to this offer. Terms of course. Carroll Supply Co. 717 12th Street N.W. Phone NA. 7320 of frequencies, a number of stations are mainf visual communications by the so-called “line of sight” process in the ultra-high frequencies, which up to this time have been called by radio sci- entists the “no man’s land” of the It seems these frequencies may be har- nessed for visual radio, despite the ex- tremely limited range of coverage, which evidently follows the centours of the earth and simulates light in transmis- sion characteristics. In other words, signals of stations operating on these waves ¢an be received only at locations where the light beam is not obstructed. 30 Cents Required To End Quarrel as Radio Chimes Fail NEW YORK, December 2.— Robert Stuart of Great Neck, Long Island, waits for N. B. C.’s morning chimes at 9 o'clock be- fore dashing off for the train, while Mrs. Stuart sets the clocks. Recently the chime was omitted. Calmly, then aggressively, the Stuarts argued the matter. Finally Mrs. Stuart drove her husband—by automobile—to the depot, only to find the train gone. More words. ‘Then neither spoke for two days. Later Mrs. Stuart asked N. B. C. to verify the absence of chimes, won her point, spent 15 cents telephcne toll in teling her husband. Stuart called her back, spent 15 cents saylng how sorry he was. | Phone Dist. 4700 STAR RADIO CO. SERVICE DEPT. 409 11th St. N.W. Here’s the Startling New Around the World Complete ., . . equipped for regular broadcasts and foreign or domestic Folks Behind The Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. ALPH CHRISTMAN, Columbia artist, started playing the piano at the age of 4 and hasn't stopped yet. A child prodigy, he was only 7 when he began composing waltz tunes, and at the age of 11 he played Beethoven’s difficult “C Minor Concerto.” Despite these achlevements, Christ- man wanted to be a doctor, and went 80 far as to finish the Ohio State Uui- versity pre-medical course before the discovered he could be happy solely in musical work. Then he began to study, spending five years with the late Her- man Eberling and later with Constan- tine Sternberg and Josef Hofmann. Christman done concert work as accompanist and assisting artist to Edward Johnson, Gustavson, Tokayton and Keener of the Metropolitan Opera Co. He also has toured with Francis MacMillan, violinist; Margaret Matze- nauer, contralto, and others of interna- tional prominence. Once a year he comes to Washington to give a concert for the Congressional Club. Radio attracted Christman in 1925, and he has been on the air regularly ever since. At present he is musical director for the Ida Bailey Allen studios and featured soloist on the Musical F advance program schecules are cor- rect, another old-timer is to leave the air. Listings for the week of December 11 do not include Olive Pal- mer, Paul Oliver and other artists who have presented a musical variety hour over N. B. C. since November, 1928. 'é;k;exr final broadcast is set for Decem- 9. Other advance information places the Nathaniel Shilkret Orchestra in the first half hour of the period. Frank Munn, tenor, who as Paul Oli- ver has been on the Concert hour ex- clusively, is to start a new series on the program known as “The American Album of Famillar Music.” Miss Pal- mer, who is Virginia Rae Murphy,: has not yet been placed in a new program. * K Kk K BRAD BROWNE, late chief of the Nit Wits, on Columbia, has moved to N. B. C, and, starting Sunday, is to be the master of ceremonies with the Three Bakers, replacing Ray Perkins. .. In place of the Sherlock Hglmu drama on Christmas Eve, N. B. C. will rebroad- cast from Rome a concert by the Sistine Chofr. . .George Jessel has turned down an offer to appear with Eddie Cantor on the Sunday night N. B. C. broad- casts...Maj. Bowes and his Capitol Theater “Family” are to broadcast here- ATRIAL \L!ltl,w@%g)ll NCE Yol (9VERNOR (LINTON one of New z:rlw Finest Hotelp glver more ang other er ur Money than flo#e,l/ a 1200 ROOMS, EACH WITH RADIO, BATH, SERVIDOR, ARCULATING ICEWATER 3 OPPOSITE PENNA RR: STATION - - - B- & O- BUSES $TOP AT DOOR WEAR EVERYTHING after on Sunday at 11:30... Kate Smith has mued her Sat- urday night programs on Columbia and Will be heard on Tuesday nights instead. PR R Olmsted Grill's MUSICAL MENU 23-Piece Dance Orchestra 5:45 P.M. Tonight and Every Wednesday and Friday, WOL ) RADIO § SALES—SERVICE Ademe 3803 Drops Television Requests. 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