Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1934, Page 52

St. Nicholas to Command | Stars in Major Christmas Week Broadeasts on Networks |RADI0 FANS CIVE Air Waves for Holidays Both Major Broadcasting Systems Will Ex- change Programs With Europe During Yule Season. BY THE RADIO EDITOR. APITULATING to perennial public whim, radio has sur- rendered its entire program schedule to Old St. Nick. In full possession of the ether waves, the rosy-cheekedy rolly-polly gentleman from the North is reflected in virtually every program scheduled by the networks and by independent stations for the Yuletide. From now until New Year the air will tingle with the holiday spirit. A program array unexcelled for comprehensiveness, diversity and interest has been arranged by the major networks. Music, drama and other entertainment purveying the Yule spirit are on the schedules to be climaxed on Christmas day with an ynprecedented series of programs relayed by international rebroadcasts from abroad. As was done last year, King George of England will send his felicitations to all English-speak- ing people via radio. Aside from local program features, listeners throughout the country will be accorded the best that radio has to offer from the Nation-wide net- works. And for the first time listen- ers within hearing of the newly formed American Broadcasting Sys- tem in the East and Middle West will be able to tune-in the Yuletide offerings of this newest star in the radio firmament. Both National Broadcasting Co. and Oolumbia Broadcasting System will exchange programs with Euro- pean nations, with the central fea- ture King George's Christmas mes- sage, to be broadcast in a program consuming more than an hour, be- ginning at 8:55 o’clock, Eastern stand- ard time, Christmas morning. To originate near London, and arranged in co-operation with the British Broadcasting Corp., the program will bring to the American audience, and to those in other English-speaking nations, some Yuletide festivity, sound or message, from nearly every corner of the far-flung British Em- pire. Participating in the “Empire Exchange” will be England, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Irish Free State, Southern Rhodesia, India and South Africa. As a prelude to this whirlwind tour of the empire, the bells of the Church of the Na- tivity in Bethlehem will be echoed by similar bells in Bombay, Welling- ton, Ottawa, Armagh and London. Columbia actually began its Christ- mas schedule December 16, when, for the third consecutive season, it broadcast a ‘“pre-view” of the latest in toys from Nuremberg, Germany, the world’s toy center. A number of other network holiday features followed, including several from abroad. One of the afternoon fea- tures on Christmas day over Colum- bia will be a three-hour program, including a condensed dramatization of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and featuring a cast including Lionel Barrymore. The two N. B. C. networks also have scheduled elaborate Christmas pro- gram features. During Christmas aft- ernoon the Christmas opera, “Hansel and Gretel,” will be broadcast from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera® House. American Broadcasting System, keyed from WMCA, New York, has ar- ranged & comprehensive Christmas schedule, including a score of special presentations of carols, extra musical productions and several dramatiza- tions. * k k x THAT the radio industry is prepar- ing seriously for the introduction of facsimile, or “still” picture transmission, as a practical medium of public entertainment, is seen in the action of the Radio Manufacturers’ Association ordering definite develop- ment of this visual radio art. The organization has named a special com- mittee on facsimile, headed by E. W. Engstrom of the R. C. A.-Victor Co. of Camden, N. J, to evolve definite standards and its first work is that of developing nomenclature and stand- ardization. “The romantic appeal, as weil as the service aspects of facsimile, ave both being considered by the engineers in directing scientific progress toward eventual development of a practicable facsimile broadcasting system,” said the announcement of the associaticn. “The drum type of facsimile apparatus is now in use but eventual develop- ment of a continuous type of recorder, taking its paper from a feed roll, is regarded as the ultimate practical so- lution for broadcast facsimile record- ing. Higher speed also is an engineer- ing goal.” Engineering leaders in radio predict the day, not far distant, when a fac- simile receiver in the home will repro- e has passed, they take their time, interpolating a phrase here and there. They always come out exactly cn time and are out of the studio before the theme song is completed. - COX BUYS wioD Former Ohio Governor to Operate Two Stations. Close upon the announcement that former Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio, newspaper publisher and one time Democratic candidate for President, would place his new radio station in Dayton, Ohio, in operation January 15 under the call letters WHIO, it was learned that Gov. Cox has exercised his option for the purchase of WIOD, Miami. The price to be paid for the station is said to be $200,000. Gov. Cox will thus have radio adjuncts for both the newspapers he publishes, the Dayton Daily News and the Miami Daily News. He secured authorization for WHIO in Dayton by purchasing WLBW, Erie, Pa, and obtaining permission from the Federal Communications Commis- sion to move it into Dayton. His son, James, jr., will head both stations. SCIENCE TALKS SET N. B. C. to Broadcast Lectures for Young People. ‘The “frontiers of science” will be explored for young people in two broadcasts over N. B. C. network by leaders in various research flelds Wed- nesday and Thursday. These Christmas lectures for Junior Science Clubs will be broadcast from the auditorium of the American Mu- seum of Natural History under the auspices of the American Institute. MAJOR FEATURES AND PROGRAM NOTES. ‘Will Rogers will return to the Head- liners program on WJSV at 9:30 o'clock. The musical portion of the broadcast will feature Reed Kennedy, baritone. The opera “Hansel and Gretel” will be presented by the Opera Guild on WRC at 8 o'clock. Queena Mario and Editha Fleischer will sing the leading roles. The Radio Theater on WMAL at 2:30 o'clock will present “The Goose Hangs High.” Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink will sing “Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht” as the high light of her recital on the program with the Sentinels, a WRC attraction at 5 o'clock. sung and played by the Radio City Music Hall group on WMAL at 1 o’clock. Otis Skinner will be the guest artist on the “American Fireside” program on WMAL at 10:30 o'clock. “What of the Theater?” is his topic. Three Metropolitan opera artists— Dorothea Manski, Frederick Schoor and Emanuel List—will be guest solo- ists on the concert program of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra on ‘WJSV from 3 to 5 o'clock. Richard Bonell, Metropolitain Opera baritone, will be the soloist with Victor Kolar’s Symphony Orchestra during the Sunday Evening Hour on ‘WJSV from 8 to 9 o’clock. The symphony concert on WMAL at 8 o'clock will feature Lily Pons, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Co. FOREIGN SHORT-WAVE STATIONS CITY. Barranquilla ....HJ1ABB Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Brussels Buenos Caracas .. Caracas .. Eindhoven Geneva ....... Guayaquil ... Jeloy ..... L!sb%n . London ... London . London . London London London STATION. MEGACYCLES, omen oNAEUG w2z £ »a“wgg o=ds &5 sn g855888 AmEIMa L WEW 6 aoaao-ara @ 885888 vgiSus 188 ss:s;;.bfiif"gagr’;: B - OMVanag E] s& i Sunday, December 23. Bleanor Bowers, below, is the little soprano heard with the Swanee Singers, presented by Kate Smith on her Matinee Hour on Columbia. Above are George Olsen and his talented wife, Ethel Shutta, who will appear with Lionel Barrymore in a spe- cial Christmas day program on Columbia. * (Copyrisht, 1934) 00 |Bradley Kincaid ey Hour ‘Tone Pictures Moments of Melody ~llil:Elux * Ruth Robin, charming 19- year-old songstress, who will breadeast five days a week with Joe Haymes' Orchesira. She is the sister of Leo Robin, song writer, whose most recent hit Eastern Standard Time. AM.| WRC 950k l WMAL 630k | WISV 1460k WOL 1310k |AM. | 'The Funnies ‘The Balladeers On a Bus “This 'n That.” “ . Norwegian Christmas o s At Aunt Susan’s Southernaires Morning Musicale Radio Pulpit Air Sweethearts Mexican Orchestra Church of the Alr Labor News Review Between Bookends 2 ries g &8 (News-Vagaries Sons of Ploneers mj.“BowEl' Family 'The Listening Post “The Alling House™ Musical Interlude Samover Serenade AFTERNOON By vt Tabernacle Choir PROGRAMS.* MA!O: Bowes’ Family “Gigantic Pictures” “ “ . B\m{?.ty Serenade (Chicago Round Table ‘Tabernacle Choir Happiness Boys [Lucille Pierce Ferguson Surprise Party Music Hall of the Alr Dr. Daniel A. Poling I 1 Church of the Air “ w “Little” Jack Little Pat Kennedy Melody Musketeers Church of the Air Anthony Frome Bob Becker Rldlg Theater Fran Trappe Spires of Melody 'The Commodores Lazy Dan Ctar’ mm‘gmx.l_ (Church of the Air Old Favorites Joe Brown's Kiddies Bdl{ott.::em [Musical Romance Radio Theater Sunday Vespers N. Y. Philharmonic Joe Brown's Kiddies Radio Voices Melody Moments Ryt Spmaptony Harry Reser’s Crew Dream Drama Sherlock Holmes (Morton Downey A Father C?‘uuhl.ln ] g 5 O O8 En o i o 180,00 0565 1) 00 00 0 5858 5858(5858/8858 Sentinels Serenade 'Tony Wons & g Roses and Drums Open House Oruml- It u.:'d Sanderson EVENING PROGRAMS. 'William Hassel, pianist 'llualf by_O!flh"h “Smilin’ Ed” Voice of Experience McConnell; The Watchtower Jerry Blaine's Orchestra Joe Buck’s Orchestra il Bdebod &858 (5858 The Old Timer. Among the Nations Solree Musicale Jan, Jude and Jerry ®laagaia |8t 2lassslgsngsat gl and Home Hour I"‘“E ~ = - |Voice Gum] |Afternoon Dick of Experience s Rhythms Messner’s Orch. AFTERNOON PROGRAMS. 'Luncheon Music “Love in Bloom.” * CELLER ENDS FIGHT ON PRESS STATIONS |New York Representative With- draws Attack on Newspaper- Controlled Units. Newspaper ownership of radio | broadcasting stations was attacked by Representative Celler, Democrat, of New York, at hearings before the Fed- eral Communications Commission last week, but within a few days Celler withdrew his opposition which he had threatened to express further in the form of support of legislation to pre- vent such joint ownership. More than 100 of the 600 stations in the United States are owned by or corporately affiliated with newspapers. wave length on which four New York stations, WLTH, WVFW, WARD and WBBC, now operate, sharing time. An examiner of the commission had recommended that all of these stations be eliminated for alleged failure to live up to their technical and public service obligations. Thereupon various ap- plicants, chief among them the Brook- lyn Eagle, sought the wave length for proposed new stations while the four stations appeared to defend themselves against the examiner’s charges. Celler appeared at the hearing in behalf of the first three stations named, which proposed a merger un- der the auspices of a corporation to be headed by Celler as chairman of the RENOVIZE . .. your home Good renoviring—in good taste. AD TROUBLE 7171 on THE FORGOTTEN DOG Bob Becker, naturalist and au- thor, tells about his visit to a ity dog pound. Be sure to hear him. Hear, too, about Red Heart, a better food for your dog. Three flavors—Beef, Fish, Cheese. Product of John Morrell & Co. RED HEART Diowsifad Diet DogTood SUNDAY Company presenss SIGURD NILSSEN Operatic & concert Basso AND HARDESTY JOHNSON Tenor in another RESIDE RECITAL i Representative Celler appeared as a witness in the case in which various applicants sought the 1,400-kilocycle | NEW FIELD IN 134 Short-Wave Development Affords Listener a World Range. EW YORK, (#).—The year just ended was one of definite dis- Europe, Asia and any place else with this hasn’t been altogether due of the man at the dials, an important fac- . He has improved equipment, its circuits, like. All O a8 broadcast outfit passed Into the single control stage, so has the short-wave set, except that there is a wave-changing device to switch from one channel to another. Then, to make it still easier for the listener, the engineer has turned out sets that actually tune all over the dial, in that they incorporate broad- cast and short-wave equipment back of the single control. In general, radio continued to show steady improvement, with most of the concentration placed on what the research man calls “high fidelity”; that is, a truer copy of the original entertainment signal. This all works toward better tone quality. Television Still Tested. At the same time the engineers have been delving further into other flelds, such as the ultra-short waves. One of these activities has had to do with facsimile, the transmission of the written, printed or pictured word in a form identical with ‘the original copy. ‘Television, still in the future stage, didn’t give much more of an indica- tion of slipping out of the laboratory than it has in recent years, although there have been definite advance- ments in the development work, such wnw and more detailed pic- Good Year Financially. also kept up its for- ward move, with the tion of & new chain of about 20 stations by ADVERTISEMENT. CANADA MAY CALL NEW WAVE BAND INTO USE ‘Windsor Station May Be Assigned Frequency Below Spectrum Now Used. Catlada's radio suthorities, first to open up the 540-kilocycle channel just below the lower limit of the broadcast- ing band in the United States, now are considering adding the 530-kilocycle wave length to the spectrum its sta- tions utilize. The station which may be assigned to the wave is a new 1,000- watter now being built at Windsor, just across the border from Detroit. 1t will be operated as a Canadian net- work outlet by the group owning CKLW, Windsor, on the American C. B. 8. network. At first CKLW was assigned to 540 kilocycles, but it was later shifted to give that frequency to the 1,000-watt CJRM at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Various efforts have been made in the United States to widen the band down- ward (it already has been widened at the shorter wave end up to 1,600 kilo- cycles), but these always have met objections on the part of the Ameri- can military authorities who utilize the waves below 550 kilocycles for avia- tion and other services. Whether the military people will object to Canada’s possible move to the 530 channel is conjectural. Belgrade to Be Heard Here. American radio listeners will have an opportunity to hear a musical broadcast from Yugoslavia for the first time Saturday, January 5, when the Columbia network will present a special program from Belgrade. Origi- nating in the studios of the Yugo- slavian Academy of Science, the pro- gram will consist chiefly of Serbian and Croatian folk songs and dances. Police Radios Gain. Police radio communication systems, & novelty only three years ago, are be- coming an accepted part of the equip- ment of city and State police forces. The Federal Communications Com- mission reported in April of this year that there were 135 licensed police radio systems. During the past six months at least 40 more stations have been established. WMCA-A. B. 8. From the program standpoint there was a greater ten- dency toward hour-long programs. Financially on the networks the year looked better than any since thi type of broadcasting began back in 1926. There were fairly accurate esti- mates that the 1934 income of the major chains would be $45,000,000— divided N. B. C. $30,000,000 and C.B. S $15,000,000—compared with the best previous year, 1932, when the figures were N. B. C,, $29,000,000,and C. B. S, $13,000,000. ADVERTISEMENT. AR RN KK A A KK AR A A AR KT AR Rk k h ok xRk NETWORK HEADLINERS s SUNDAY Another Sunday in the bringing the Big BAB-O Con “MISS! of radio editors. With PARKER. DON ARDEN, BERTRAND in which the network advertisers try to outdo themselves finest of music and entertainment to your loudspeaker. Linle MISS BAB-O'S SURPRISE PARTY $1.500 CASH and other Valuable test. LITTLE PRIZES FREE. in MARY SMALL as BAB-O". Guest star, GRISCH GOLUBOFF. sen- sational 11-year old violin virtuoso. BAB-O Orchestra. JACK BENNY JACK BENNY, voted favorite comedian in 1934 poll MARY LIVINGSTONE, FRANK. WILSON and DON BESTOR'S Or- chestra. Bparkiing blend of fun. melody. syncopation. AMERICAN ALBUM of FAMILIAR MUSIC Music you love, beautifully done. FRANK MUNN (tenor). VIRGINIA REA soprano), OHMAN & (violinist) with GUS 'S Concert Orchestra. PRO ‘This is & week of celebration in the Davis household, Just as everywhere else. and unisss we are very much mistaken the Davis’ are going to have just the finest kind of Christmas. You will exjoy listening. ' GENERAL MOTORS SYMPHONY CONCERT with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus LILY PONS Guest Soloist Louis HASSELMANS Guest Conduetor A FULL HOUR oOF Tsen |8 To 9 P WMAL 630 kLocvare SYMPHONIC MUSIC AN IDEAL GIFT! A Five-Quart Refinery Sealed Can of Ameriea’s Finest Motor Oil in a special Christmas wrapper. AT . Independent Dealers Everywhere Look for the familiar green and white Quaker State sign 0