Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1931, Page 66

TIVBALSTTOPLAY ON THLIGHTHOUR Audition Finals Also to Be! Heard on WRC This Evening. LIST, world fa- FREM ZIMBAL linist, will make one of mous violin ces before the | during the sgram on WRC and a netw r National Broad- easting Con Six numbers that have a univers appeal make up Zimbalist's program. He will open with the “Prize Song," from Wagner's “Die Meistersinger.” In- cluded among the other selections ‘are Kreisler's “Liebesfreud,” Beethoven's “Minuet in G,” and “Ave Maria.” Another outs feature will be the A in which 10 ing amateur medals, scholarst gregating $25,000 Miss Saida Knox i cash prizes ag- he contestants are of Kearny, N. J.; Jay Alden Edkins, of Somerville, Mass Miss Lillian Meyer of Jamestown, Dak.; Eugene B.Morgan of Painesville, Ohio; Miss Thelma Gaskin of Orjando, Fla.; Austin Summers Butner of Nash- ville, Tenn.; Mrs. Lavon G. Holden, of Pittsburg, Kans.: John B. Metcalf of Austin, Tex.; Miss Eleanor Coryell, of Banta Cruz, Calif, and Andrew White of Tucson, Ariz. Seth Parker in Miami The Seth Parker program at inate Miami, where neighbors are appearing ate 10:45 Seth in a it a varied program k. The orchestral specialties Faded Summer Love,” and “Nobody's Sweetheart.” Rubinoff will play “Liebestraum” as a violin solo, Cesare Sodero will _direct ~the “Through the Opera Glass” program at 6:30. The soloists will be Amy Gold- smith soprano, and: Theodore Webb, baritoae Jules Herbuveax and his orchestra and Fred Waldner, tenor, will present the Jolly Time Revue at 7:15. Popular melodies will be featured. Toscanini to Conduct. Arturo Toscanini will conduct the New York Philnarmonic Symphony Or- chestra in the concert to be broadcast at 3 o'clock this afternoon by WMAL and assoclated Columbia Broadcasting System stations. The first half of the program, the portion carried by WMAL, consist of two selections—the overture to “The Taming of the Shrew” and Brahms' “Fourth Symphony in E Minor Margaret Padula, stage and screen star, and Allen Wood, humorist, will contribute to the Edna Wallace Hopper Varieties program. Harriet Lee, “blues” singer, and Stan Davis, guitarist, also will take part. The Roxy Symphony Orchestra will give its concert at 8:15, the period for- merly occupied by the presentati known as “Music Along the Wires, Compositions by Lalo, Sibelius and Ei- gar will be featured Works of Mendelssohn and Bee- thoven are included in the program of Ernest Hutcheson, planist, scheduled from 10:30 to 11. Accompanied by a concert orchestra, he will open the re- cital with the second and third move- ments from Beethoven's “Cohcerto in C Minor.” As a solo offering he will play three of the better known melo- dies from Beethoven's collection of “Songs Without Words.” \ Tropic Sea Story. “Those Navy Ways” an original story of adventure in the tropic seas, 46 to be dramatized as the “Romance of | the Sea” presentation. The drama will be projected against a background of music played by a symphony orchestra directed by Charles Previn. Ben Alley, tenor, and a symphony orchestra conducted by Dr. Henry Had- ley will present a new program at 6 o'clock. Selection from “Faust” and Victor Herbert melodies dominate the program. e regular international rebroad- cast will bring & talk from London by Thomas Stearns Eliot, American-born poet who made his home in England. He will discuss the life of John Dryden, poet. WOL will broadcast the morning service of the Church of Epiphany and & number of musical features. Among them are concerts by the Stevens Sis- ters and the National Hawailans and a N.y B T | with Rubinoff and his SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 13, 1931—PART FOUR. Three Popular Singers Featured on Networks TWO STARRED ON N. B. C. SYSTEM AND OTHER ON COLUMBIA CHAIN. | ARRIET LEE (left), winner of the title of “Radio Beauty Queen” at the recent Radio World's Fair, who will con- tribute to the Personalities program on Columbia Wednesday night at 10 o'clock. In the center is Ruth Wenter, Northwestern University sophomore. who will take part in the Chicago Serenade presentation on N. B. C Tuesday afternoon at 2:45 o'clock. Ralph Kibery, baritone (right), who is booked for a series of late recitals on N. B. C. each night this week. T the height of the season for selecting “all-Ameri- cans” of one type or an- other, an “all-American radio team” has just been chosen in a compilation undertaken by Jack Foster, radio editor of the New York World-Telegram. Foster sent out a questionnaire to his confreres throughout the country and received 132 answers. Included in the questionnaire | were items relating not only to performers and programs, but to | news broadcasts of this and other years. The first 20 questions asked of | the radio reviewers gave the “all” team for entertainers, orches- tras and announcers. The win- ners in the various groupings fol- |low: Dance bardo’s. Symphony orchestra—Philadel- phia Symphony. Male singer of popular songs— Morton Downey. orchestra—Guy Lom- —Kate Smith. Male singer of classical or semi- classical songs—James Melton. Female singer of classical or semi - classical Dragonette. Feminine harmony team—Bos- well Sisters. Male harmony team—Revelers. Dialogue act—Amos 'n Andy. Master of ceremonies — Ben Bernie. Sports announcer—Ted Husing. Studio announcer — Milton Cross. 5 Commentator—Lowell Thomas. | Organist—Jesse Crawford. Instrumental soloist — Toscha Seidel. | All-dramatic program — Sher- lock Holmes. Musical program — Rapee Or- chestra with Virginia Rea and Frank Munn. Comedy act—Gloom Chasers, | the Colonel and Budd. | Children’s program—Lady Next | | Door. ! Advice to women in the home— | | songs — Jessica | | Behind ‘the Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. | them many “YL’s,” or young ladies, |and a few “OW'’s,” or older ladies, | represent perhaps the most pro- lific source from which radio broadcastin, and all other branches of the radio industry draw their technical talent. They're not “ham” actors, by any means, those amateurs, for many of them are highly profi- clent in the radio arts. K. B. Warner, secretary of the Amer- ican Radio Relay League, national | amateur organization, in an edi- {wria] in the current “QST,” the ! | amateur radio magazine, explains the deriviation of the term. The word “ham” as applied to |radio had its derivation in the | word “amateur” itkelf. Among | the wire telegraph fraternity a | beginning operator was called a | “ham.” William Henry Nugent, |in an article in the American Mercury some time ago, states that this country learned its first | lesson in sports journalism and | sports slang from the British, who | early invented special style and Female singer of popular songs | vocabulary that included the ab-| breviation of “amateur” to “am.” | Cockney foot racers and pugilists of the seventies pronounced it “h’am.” Webster says that an amateur | is “one who is attached to or | cultivates a particular pursuit, study or science from taste, with- GRID FANS OF RADIO ~ PROVE KNOWLEDGE !Husing Fmd-si.iThrough Poll, That Listeners Really Under- stand Game, | Ted Husing, Columbia's sport an- | nouncer and one of three experts who | conducted the first popular poll ever held to pick an all-America foot ball team, believes that radio fans through- out the country have an excellent un- derstanding and appreciation of the gridiron sport Husing arrived at that bellef after having examined the 18,000 ballots sub- mitted in the poll which was announced | during a broadcast of the Trumpeters’ | program over the Columbia network. “Those who sent in ballots gave a comple tisfactory set of reasons as to why they selected their teams,” Husing said. I should say that high powered ‘boning’ enabled the contest- ants to choose a team which compares favorably with the eleven which the consensus will disclose.” The poll brought out the fact that many foot ball enthusiasts have become familiar with the technicalities of foot- ball, although far removed from colle- giate centers. Radio broadcasting is seen by the sponsors of the “all” team ballot as having furthered this nation- | wide knowledge of the game. Folks Behind The Microphone | out pursuing it professionally.” That is what the amateurs do.| They take not a cent for the mes- | sages they will send for you or | your friends—if they are non-| | commercial messages — between T BY THE RADIO EDITOR. HE old songs are the best songs So declares Jesse Crawford. “Poet of the Organ” after studying public taste in music e | over a long period. 3 o “The pendulum of popular taste is MEROUS international broad-| definitely swinging backward through cast features from England |the vears rather than forward,” says | and Germany, together with spe- | S{)fl“l;m: e:\ 10):’6;:::““1:53—-331 ;(‘)‘:2 e T S A e T ooNDLEY, AL : | novel forms of expression schedule of special Christmas| ram convinced that the trend is in the programs to be broadcast on a| other direction. The songs of next year Nation-wide hook-up by the Co- | are going to be built upon old patterns.” lumbia Broadcasting Systemldur-‘ It duca.s p\xbgc tnstle dm;u rem;nv}l\' i -holiday | caused Crawford to include fewer of the ‘vf,‘egek'_'she foliaayindxechollday | 38es Cremiaed o T nightly N. B. C the cities where they are located. They're in the game just for the| fun of it. But today | CLEAN-UP 15 DUE IN CHICAGO AREA Better Business Bureau Sponsors Voluntary Radio Corrective Move. | BY MARTIN CODEL. ADIO broadcasting in the Chi- | cago area is due for a thorough | voluntary housecleaning, with the Better Business Bureau sponsoring a movement, that may soon spread through the fntire | broadcasting fraternity. The movement | has as its aim self-regulation under | self-imposed standards, particularly in the matter of broadcast advertising. Holding their preliminary conferences the week before Congress convened, the Chicago broadcasters apparently antici- pated the outbursts against present ra- | dio methods that have already been | heard in the new Congress. One vigor- ous_criticism came from the man who is slated to head the House Committee | on Marine and Pisheries, which has charge of radio legislation-#Represen- tative Ewin L. Davis (Democrat) of Tennessee. Too Much Advertising. Representative Davis minced no words | in asserting that he believes raio ad- vertising is occupying altogether too | much time on the air. He is even more vigorous in condemning the Federal Radio Commission for failing to take some action to curb excessive sales. talks. He said his committee at thi session will consider action looking to- ward the curtailment of high-pressure salesmanship on the air, action which | the organized broadcasters probably will oppose as leading to censorship, but which some broadcasters are quite willing to impose upon themselves vol- | untarily. Oh the Radio Commission’s part it has studiously avoided going into the matter of radio advertising, although some of its members are eager to find some way to curb the effusive zeal of stations and advertisers without setting themselves up as a board of censors. No suggestion has been made that radio be supported other than by advertising, but it is the manner of advertising against which the criticism is directed Nine Chicago stations and both the N. B. C. and C. B. 8. networks were | represented at the Chicago meeting De- | cember 2 by Flint Grinnell, manager of the Better Business Bureau there, for the purpose of drawing up a plan to clean up commercial broadcasting Twenty stations were invited to send representatives. The meeting drew up a code of standards of practice practi- cally identical with the “code of ethics” adopted by the National Association of Broadcasters in 1929 In Form of Agreement. Written in the form of an agreement, to be signed by the broadcasters, with the understanding that violators are to be subjected to complaints to be filed with the Federal Radio Commission, the proposed code of ethics will either be adopted or rejected as drawn up or amended at another meeting to be held | again in Chicago December 29. The recommended standards of practice read as follows “1. Recognizing that the radio audi- ence includes persons of all ages and all types of political, social and religi- ous belief, every broadcaster will en- deavor to prevent the broadcasting of any matter that would commonly be regarded as offensive “2. When the facilities of a broad- caster are used by others than the owner, the broadcaster shall ascertain the financial responsibility and char- acter of such client, so that no dishon- est, fraudulent or dangerous person, firm or organization may gain access to the radio audience “3. Matter which is barred from the | mails as fraudulent, deceptive or ob- scene shall not be broadcast. “4. Every broadcaster shall exercise | great caution in accepting any adver- tising matter regarding products or services which may be injurious to health | “5. No broadcaster shall permit the | broadeasting of advertising statements | or claims which he knows or believes to i be false, deceptive or grossly exag- gerated “6. Every broadcaster shall strictly | follow the " provisions of the radio law | of 1927 regarding the clear identifica- | tion of sponsored or paid-for material “7. Care should be taken to prevent | the broadcasting of statements deroga- | is e it | tory to other stations, to individuals or ! OCEAN BROADCASTS Broadway Stars to Broadcast ASSIST RUDY VALLEE Thursday night. RED and ADELE ASTAIRE, singing and dancing stars of “The Band ‘Wagon,” who will contribute to the popular Vallee program on N. B. C. IN SUNSHINE HOUR. USE 4 FREQUENCIES !Quadrupled Signals €o-ordi- nated to Bring Talks Across Sea. When a European statesman broad- casts from his capital to Americs i | the Sunday series of international pro= grams scheduled regularly on the Co- lumbia network two high-power trans- mitters, employing four different wave lengths, are used to span the Atlantic, and two receivers are used on this side of the ocean to pick up the signals be- fore they reach Columbia’s master con- trol room in New York. A speaker from England, such as Sir Jobn Simon or Viscount Cecil, ad- dresses & microphone in the London studios of the British Broadcasting Cor- poration. For the Sunday broadcasts at 12:30 pm, Eastern Standard time, there is no English audlence, as the events are specially arranged for the American network. In many cases, however, Columbia rebroadcasts ad- dresses which form part of the B. B. C’s program, and then there may be | s many as 16 stations linked in the | British network. Sent to Long-Distance. From the B. B. C. master control room the signals are passed to the long- distance department of the British post office telephene service, regardless of Whether the program is to be sent to British stations also, From the London telephone head- quarters they are relayed to Rughy, Wwhere the transmitters are located for transoceanic radio telephone. The im- pulses are passed to four transmitter |antennas, three operating on short | wave lengths, between 14 and 30 me- | ters, and the fourth on 5,000 meters, |and radiated simultaneously toward the | United States. All of the antennas are | directional, so as to obtain the maxi- { |mum possible efficiency with the power input used. | At Netcong, N. J, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has g number of receiving antennas, also di- rectional, and pointing toward Rugby, These are specially constructed for short wave work of this kind. The SIX STATIONS FIGHT | HIGH-POWER ORDER Ask District Court of Appeals to; Reverse Commission’s Limi- | tation Order. Challenging the validity of the radio regulation which rigidly limits the number of stations which may broad- cast with the maximum power of 50,000 watts, a half dozen of the Na- tion's leading broadcasting _stations converged on the District Court of Appeals last week with pleas that the Federal Radio Commission’s recent de- nial of their high-power request be reversed. | The broadcasters, numbered among | the two dozen applicants who partici- pated in the year-old high-power melee, did not contest the grants of the maximum power to the nine suc- cessful applicants. No effort was made to have the court restrain the commission from making the grant effective. As & unit the six aggrieved stations asked the court simply to find that the regulation, which permits only one-half of the 40 clear channels set | aside for high power to use the maxi- | mum power, be adjudged “discrimina- tory. arbitrary and capricious,” and in conflict with ‘the requirements that all radio facilities be put to maximum ad- | vantage in the interest of the public. The stations which went to the | court with their plaints were | WGN and WMAQ, Chicago; WHAM, Rochester; WTMJ. Milwaukee; KGO, | Oakland, and WJZ, New York City While the facts were different in the | various cases, the legal points raised were practically identical. The tourt is not called upon to take. injunctive action, and therefore the stations | which obtained the nine 50,000-watt | assignments, as well as the seven given | 25,000-watt construction permits, may g0 forward with their installations un- The signals which they pick up, great- 1y weakened in power after crossing the Atlantic, are amplified enormous- ly, and passed by land wire to the long-lines headou:réars of the A. T, & T. In New York, Four Signals Received. The long wave signal, on 5,000 me- ters, is not received at Neteong, but at Houlton, Me., where special equip- mept for work on this wave length is installed. Reception on this chan- |nel also is pipei down to the long- lines office, so that four different sig- nals are being received there simul- taneously. The best of these is se- lected and relayed to Columbia’s mas- jter control room on Madison avenue, From this point the American dis- tribution begins—to WABC's trans- mitter; to the short-wave station, W2XE, and to the line which joins the 87 stations on the netwark. 1f the pick-up is to be made on the ccntinent of Europe, studios of the local broadcasting service generally are employed—those of the French gov- ernment system in Paris, and of the Geneva ‘broedcasting station for League of Nations events. From these | points the signals travel by land line |to London, before being passed on to | Rugby for transmission in the usual way. Band Leader BROADCASTS OVER WMAL. PHIL O’BRIEN, Director of the Swanee Syncopator: heard every Wednesday night ov WMAL. Novelty numbers are the or- chestra’s speciality SHORT-WAVE RADIO FANSr CAN GET PHONE TALKS | Heydey of DX Hunters Appears to Be Returning With Popularity of All-Wave Sets. Besides the score or more of relay INTERFERENCE PROBLEM IS GROWING IN EUROFE Separation of Only Nine Cyclss Causes New Troubles, With Union Unable to Solve Them. Interference already rampant on the broadcasting wave lengths in Europe, where the separation between channels in the 550 to 1,500 kilocycles band is cnly 9 cycles as compared to the 10~ kilocycle separation in North America, is leading to many serious complications. Even the recent conference of the Inter~ national Broadcasting Union in Rome, a meeting of European broadcasters called by the Italian radio administra- tion, failed to find a way out of the dilemma, although mutual arrangements | Ida Bailey Allen * ok ox X it YRT AND MARGE,” the new | five-a-week show over the | Two of these fall next Sunday The regular international period | on Columbia, at 12:30 p.m., will| be occupied by a presentation | from the capital of the German | have becn effected between some of the stations voluntarily to widen separations to 10 and 11 kilocycles. The latest source of Interference re- ported in Europe comes from RV39, otherwise known as Moscow-Stalin, in recital by Jimmie Harbison, pianist. In the Washington Catholic Radio Hour broadcast at 5 o'clock Rev. R. S. Lioyd, headmaster of the Georgetown Pre- paratory School, will preach. to competing products or services, ex- | cept where the law specifically provides that the station has no right of cen- sorship.” Fifteen Standards of Guidance. “Correspondents everywhere have been asking for the old-time songs in preference to the late Broadway hits,” says Crawford. “For this reason I have practically excluded the show songs | Rclested by the Higatin: broadcasting stations in the United | Stations now proceeding with the n- | States that are sending out programs { stallation of 50,000-watt transmitters [on short waves for reception in the far are WOR, Newark; WCAU, Philadel- |corners of the North American conti- phia; WSB, Atlanta; WSM, Nashville; | nent and abroad, there are now nearly Columbia nétwork, ‘The weekly Fox Theater program end dance music by Eubie Black and his orchestra are featured by WJSV. This station also will broadcast the Gospel Tabernacle service and & concert by the Shoreham Orchestra FINER COTTON STRAINS SOUGHT IN OKLAHOMA Croseing and Begregation Experi- ments to Improve Quality Carried On With U. §. Help. OKLAHOMA CITY (#) tsts mixing chemicals in a laboratory in search of a new formula, Y the Oklahoma experiment crossing and segregating stra ton in an attempt to find types with longer lint, higher yield, uniform fiber, Iarge bolls and resistance to drought In the gigantic cotton laboratory this year are 1,160 rows of pl s undergo- ing experiments. Fx n ains of Acala cotton, none of which has been placed with growers, are being de- veloped One of of the sta istence 20 year work by the U ~Like scien- e chief accomplishments which has been in ex- and is assisted in its ted States Department of Agriculture, is the development of t famous Oklahoma mph 44 strain by the individual plant selection method While the e s employed by Btate and Gov 1t cross the strai Dr. L. L. Ligon, head of the station urges farmers to keep the types pure after they have been developed LONGER HOURS RAISE PROFITS FROM HENS Sowan, Aided by Electric Lights, Xeeps Poultry on 12-Hour Day Through Winter Months. KELLOGG, Towa () —One secret of Success in raising poultry, B. E. Craven believes, is to put hens on a 12-hour day, and to allow no loa 8o at 5 am. he lights, to longer S I He r hens e enough, and in Win s his leghorns al- falfa besi nary grain ration, Hens laying fewer than 288 €ggs an- nually are sold. Craven says he doesn’t want s few exceptionally high produc- ers, but aims at a uniformly high pro- duction from every individual in his flock. “Proper the the ele days ctric with t housing, feed, sunshine, fresh air, and plenty of clean water all | help poultry—as in the case of human beings—develop to the best possible point,” Craven maintains. 125-Year-01d Ferry Stops. MADISON, Ind. (®).—After 125 years the chugging ferryboat linking Indiana end Kentucky across the Ohio River n _discontinued foigswing of & modern bridge, , has one of the | largest casts in radio. Thirty actors and musicians take part in most of the presentations. Myrtle Vail, authoress of the script, plays the part of Myrt; Donna Damerel is Marge; Ray Hunt, the stage manager, is played by Otis Gordinier; Vinton Haworth takes the role of Jack Arnold, the leading juvenile; Eleanor Rella, Patricia Manners, Helen Ray and Dorothy Day take chorus girl parts in the script— Miss Rella is the hard-boiled one, Miss Manners takes the dumb “Patsy” role. The part of Clar- ence Tiffingtuffer, designer, is| played by Ray Hedge. Ray Appleby is Jimmie, Marge’s brother. Carl Way is Bill Houston, the gangster. Aside from this array of talent there is a 14-piece orchestra, two sound-effect men, an extra pianist and Bobby Brown, director, on whose shoul- ders falls the task of handling a | cast of this magnitude in two| | productions daily, except Sdat- (urday and Sunday. | FERSE ;A TIDE of fan mail increasing in | volume daily has forced the Columbia Broadcasting System to !move its mail receiving room to new quarters in its New York g ;nffice building, with four times the |space previously allotted to it. A | new high record for audience mail | received in one day by any net- work was set recently when a little more than 50,000 letters and tele- grams were delivered. More than 44,500 of the com- munications were received in the New York office. The Audience Mail Division has been moved from its old quarters to its present quadrupled space, and in the past few weeks the staff of fan mail sorters has been increased from three to eight. The 50,000 count represented an expenditure of approximately $2,000 on the part of the senders, for paper, envelopes and stamps. According to the statistical de- partment of the network, the count was of mail received at the Columbia offices in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, and did not include any of the almost equally large mail addressed directly to program SPONSOrS. { ok ok % HY call them “hams”? Far from being a term of oppro- prium, that term applied to the army of 22,000 or more amateurs ' who pursue radio-telegraphy and radio-telephony as a sport and hobby is one of deep-dyed affec- tion and approbation. = Amateur | and radio fans, young, among toy-making industry—“Christmas Made in Germany.” Mayor Luppe of Nuremberg will be the speaker. Earlier the same morning, from 10:30 to 10:45, the choir of St. | Margaret’s Church, Westminste: | England, will be heard in part of |a Bach cantata, which wil be sung in the ancient church standing in | the shadow of hallowed Westmin | ster Abbey. On the day before Christmas, there will be two international tance. At 10:30 a.m,, the choir of King's College Chapel, University of Cambridge, England, will be heard on a 15-minute program of Christmas carols. At 6 to 6:15 | p-m. another program will be radioed across the ocean from the | Choir of " St. Thomas’ Church, Leipzig, Germany. At 1:30 pm. the same day the National Press Club Christmas |carol program will be broadcast from Washington. Uses Small Size “Mike.” A special undersize microphone has been constructed for the use of Wee Willie Robyn during his Columbia broadcasts. Wee Willie also buys his clothes in the boys' department of a store and rides in a miniature auto- mobile, SRiALe Will Discuss States’ Rights. Representative James M. Beck of Pennsylvania will discuss “The Dimin- ishing Rights of the States” in a broad- cast at 6:15 p.m. tomorrow over WJZ and other allied N. B. O. stations. He will speak under auspices of the Amer- Jcan Taxpayers' League. - Beef Kidney. Wash, trim and cut one beef kidney |into slices and put them in a bottom | |layer in a dish, then put a layer of | sliced onions, then a layer of diced car- | | Tots, ten a layer of potatoes in larger pleces. Over this cut up some celery. Season each layer with pepper and salt Put two strips of bacon on top and cover | with water. “Bake for an hour, or until | the kidney is done. of head lettuce and French dressing. Baked Eggs. Break the desired number of eggs in a shallow, greased baking dish, add a few tablespoons of cream and salt enough to season, and sprinkle with & mixture of grated cheese and fine dry bread crumbs. Place this dish in | & pan containing hot water and bake | in a moderate oven until the eggs are set and the crumbs are brown. Just before serving add a few dashes of | peprika. The Prench government the construction of 800 be rented at low rates, in aiding in ments, to broadcasts of outstanding impor- | Serve with a salad | from my radio repertoire. The public wants ‘Old Kentucky Home,' ‘Some- where a Voice Is Calling,’ ‘Dear Old Girl’ ‘Song of Songs' and other old favorites. ‘I can't trend | all. the public, because of adversity, has een drawn back to old stancards and | old philosophies. In troublesome times | I believe people always look to their | folk music for solace and inspiration. | What could be more consoling than the yarm | st{nmSw of ‘Old _Kentucky ome,’ ‘Just a Song at Twilight' and - the Gloaming'2" stianagin | * % x entirely explain this new Or perhaps it isn't a trend at * AT BRUSILOFF, the fiddling or- 1 chestra leader, can't be inter- | viewed: that is, he won't respond to serious questioning, such as “Where | were you born?” 'But if the query in- cludes “And why?" he perks up. Brusi- loff admits, however, that he started as a violinist at the age of 5, * ok A ELCOME LEWIS, the “blues” crooner, was visiting her father in Hollywood when she got a hurry- up call to return to New York for a program, and left without making a screen test which had been arranged. ... All the members of Guy Lombardo’s Band are tennis enthusiasts, even play- ing the game indoors in the Winter. . . Connie Boswell and her sister, Vet, do a mind-reading trick that has bamed the executives of both broadcasting chains. . . James Melton recently made a tour with the Revelers to Flint, Mich.: Buflalo and Ann Arbor. So his wife, visiting in Cleveland, boarded the train and rode to Toledo with him ,ufi:"ufi have a chat...The Boswell sisters have adopted & taxi driver in New York who takes them everywhere they go. He iy +Shorty” Maxwell, and nobody else can hire his cab for love nor money, String Instrument Expert. Harry Reser, conductor of th Club Orchestra, plays the gun:r::xla!;‘; mandolin, vialin, it mdallal her and harp with | McIntosh Youngest Announcer. Ezra McIntosh, is the youngest N. C._ announcer on the air He is only 23 years old and has been an- nouncing four years, avage. rd Savage of the Carnegie Foundations for the Advancement '0( Learning will be interviewed by Grant- ‘rlmd Rice in the weekly sports period on N, ? C. Wednesday night at 10:30 pm. “Is College Foot ball Overem- Phasized?” will - "Cusslan. be the topic of dis Rice to Interview Dr. Howa | Authorized Service A. C. & Northeast Speedometer Repairs MILLER-DUDLEY CO. 1716 14th St. N.W. North 1583-4 | I have a feeling, however, that | Appended to this code are 15 stand- ards for the guidance of station per- sonnel in determining the acceptability of broadcast advertising accounts. These are somewhat in the nature of | definitions. For example, superlative | and unproven statements are prescribed, | as are ambiguous statements capable of | misuncerstanding. . So are disparaging | statements disparaging or reflecting on competitors or their products The stations are put on their guard against plagiarism and statements. that may be “slanderous, obscene, profane, | vulgar, repulsive or offensive in either theme or treatment.” “Bait” broad- casts, wherein low-priced merchandise is offered without intention of sale but with the idea of using it as a “come- on” to sell higher-priced goods, is eyed askance. Guarantees shall be strictly qualified and without subterfuge. Though standards like these were pro- mulgated nearly three years ago by the N. A. B, and have been made available to the membership of the broadcasters’ assoclation and others, it is generally agreed that they have been ignored by a large portion of the broadcasters. The Better Business Bureau campaign is regarded by some broadcasters as an unwonted interference with their own field of activity; by the better class of station owners 'and managers and by many persons in official and private life it is seen as the only way the radio industry—some of its elements running riot in the eager grasping after busi- | ness—can avoid a form of governmental censorship that will be much more re- strictive than self-regulation. STATIONS SHOW GAIN Broadcasters Unchanged, but Other Classes Are Expanded. While broadcasting stations in the United States number about 610, show- ing no substantial increase in the last year or two, the number of American radio stations of nearly all other classes has increased very largely. This is shown in the new lists of “Commercial and Government Radio Stations” and “Amateur Radio Stations,” compiled by the radio division of the Department of Commerce and just off the presses of the Government Printing Office in Washington. The amateur increase alone was 4,000 | in the last two years, 22730 being| listed. The commercial and Govern- ment station list is available at 20 cents a copy and the amateur list at WCCO, Minneapolis; WHO-WOC, Des | Moines-Davenport, Iowa; KSL, Salt Lake | City; KOA, Denver, and KPO, San| Francisco. ‘Those granted increases to 25,000 watts are WHAM, Rochester: | WBZ-WBZA, Boston-Springfield. WHAS, Louisville; WBT, Charlotte: WAPI, Birmingham; KVOO, Tulsa, and KFAB, Lincoln, Nebr. CALDWELL TO SPEAK Will Address Radio Engineers' | Meeting Here Thursday. | Orestes H. Caldwell, former member of the Federal Radio Commission and | now editor of several radio publications, | Will speak at a meeting of the Wash- | ington section of the Institute of Ra- dio Engineers at the Continental Hotel Thursday night at 8 o'clock. “New Jobs | for Radio Engineers” s his topic | Mr. Caldwell is chairman of the New | York section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He also i first vice president of the New York Elec- trical Society. | Set Tax Evad; Canada’s 1930 production of radio | Teceiving sets totaled 223,228, valued | at $22776,000, while imports of radio equipment, from the United States con tinue high. This would indicate that the Dominion government figures show- ing around 500,000 Canadian set own- ers paying the $1 per year license fee do not provide a true index to the siz: of the Canadian radio audience. Many Canadian set owners do mot pay the | tax and the government is not very strict about enforcing collections. Minister, 107, to Broadcast. Rev. Moses Allen, who will be 107 vears old Christmas day, is to be a guest on the Southernaires program on N. B. C. next Sunday. The Southern- | Tune in on WISV at 10 P.M. FOR THE FOXETTES Program, Presented by the FOX THEATER 35_cents. | be the 175 “radiotelephone” stations of varying powers in all parts of the world whose transmissions can often be picked up by short-wave fans in this country, With all-wave radios coming into greater vogue, enabling owners of short- wave receivers and broadcast receivers equipped with proper coils to tune in below 200 meters, the heyday of DX appears to be returning for those who like to hunt for distant stations. For- eign short-wave broadcasters are on the air through all the hours of the Ameri- can day due to time variations, and there’s many a thrill today on the short waves similar to those of the early days of American broadcasting. OFFERS BED FOR AMOS ississippi Russia. It is a 100,000-watt station, which recently went on Radio Madrid’s wave length of 707 kilocycles (about 425 meters). The report is current in Europe that the Russian station is about, to go—if it has not already gone—to 300,000 watts, which would make it by far the most powerful regularly operated broadeasting station in the world. Moscow-Stalin is on the air continu~ ously from 1 to 11 pm., Greenwich mean time, which is 8 am. to 6 pm. Eastern standard time. It does not transmit music, being devoted almost entirely to speech programs of an edu- cational character, For those American listeners whose sets may be sensitive enough and locations favorable enough to tune in the Russian station, it can be identified by its call: *“Allo! Allo} quorvet *Moska Stanziji imenij Sta- Prison Head Anxious | N2 e e In New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is a re-erected Egyptian tomb 4,500 years old. About Fate if Convicted. J. R. Willlamson, superintendent of | the Mississippi State Penitentiary, is concerned about the fate of Amos, who is suspected of the murder of Jack Dixon in the N, B. C. “Amos 'n’ Andy” sketches. Immediately following the arrest of Amos, Williamson telegraphed Andy as follows: “If the worst should happen and Amos is convicted, have him sent to the Mississippi Penitentiary and I will see that his bed is a soft one. ' TONIGHT AT 6 P.M. ovir WMAL Tune in and learn how you can add to your bank account while making your everyday purchases. Florida grapefruit w: about two weeks late sf ting to market this year. TONIGHT DR. HENRY HADLEY conducting with Quartette and Ben Alley, The Golden Voice Tenor GOLDEN MELODIES! GOLDEN MEMORIES! GOLDEN VOICES| GOLD SEAL ASSOCIATES, inc. NEW YORK CHICAGO, ILL. 527 5th Ave. Board of Trada Bidg. S e A R SAD JEAN HARLOW The Castelbery Transcription | Review comes on tonight at 6:45. Harlow, a Columbia Star, will guest artist.