Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1935, Page 50

F—6 Communications Chiefs Win as. Radio Speakers erter Revea]s Secret AWE 0{ ub{l‘l(en Oiver- come by Uninitiated Men on Federal Commission. Gery’s first time on the air, and that veteran of the diplomatic ccrps and chairman of the broadcast divisigh was as excited over the prospect of broadcasting as a youngster playing with a new toy. Announcer Carleton Smith agrees, however, that as his actual broadcast got under way he exhibited few traces of his excite- ment. Since that broadcast, the first in the series, he has been on the air several times. Commissioner Paul A. Walker, chairman of the Telephone Division, wrote and rewrote his answers to questions many times before he was satisfled with their content. He measured his words carefully, eager not to be misunderstood. For him it was a first studio broadcast, his only other time on the air having been a pick-up of a speech he was de- livering to an assemblage while he was chairman of the Oklahoma Cor- porations Commission. Probably the most naturally con- versational of all the discussions was that with Dr. Irvin Stewart, chair- | man of the Telegraph Division and former State Department expert on communications. He, too, had spoken on the radio only once before—from Madrid, Spain, when he was attend- ing an international radio conference as an American delegate. The 35- year-old “baby” member of the F. C. C., chosen in recogntion of his ex- BY THE RADIO EDITOR. ASTERY of the microphone manner is not one of the required qualifications _for membership on’ the Fed- eral Communications Com- mission, which succeeded the Federal Radio Commission last Summer as the regulator of radio wave lengths. To say, however, that the seven men who comprise the commission lack certain accomplishments as ra- dio speakers would be misleading. Martin Codel, prominent radio writer, who recently completed a series of broadcast interviews with each of the seven commissioners, says he would rank them on a par with the average Government official who is heard more or less regularly over the networks—all but President Roose- velt, of course, for he is generally regarded in and out of radio circles 25 having the most sparkling “radio personality” of any man in public life. “Mike” Mystifies Speakers. Having been asked several times to describe studio impressions of the men in whose hands the United States has placed the guidance of American radio and wire communications, Codel sald the reply must be that the microphone seems to “get” them no less than it does almost any person, THE SUNDAY BSTAR, WASHINGTON, D. the world had heard of him, Leopold !tokowm in his native Poland, had gun to bolster his musical knowl- edge by studying electrical engineer- ing, and he holds a university degree in the subject. This scientific background has been & big help to him in preparing pro- grams for the radio audience. Still more, it is the basis for a number of new ideas which Stokowski has on the matter of music and broad- casting. Writing in the January issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Stokowski pre- dicts a new era in music as the broadcasting art develops. Regret- ting that “music comes from the radio in incomplete and changed form” because some of the harmonics, or overtones, are lost, he expresses the hope that high-fidelity radio re- ceivers and transmitters devices soon will accommodate the frequencies from 30" to 13,000 cycles, which cover all of the sounds, high and low, which the human ear can hear. Present equipment, he points out, is being improved and stations are installing high-fidelity transmitters which take care of a wider range of sounds. In addition, receiving sets are being improved, but in neither case do they have the 30-13,000 range which Stokowski says are necessary, as shown by scientific studies. He regrets that lying idle in laboratories of scientists are new devices which would greatly improve the quality of musical broadcasts. In foreseeing a new type of music altogether, he is referring to the de- velopment of electrical musical in- struments, now in their infancy. These instruments are operated by elec- tricity and produce sounds by means of electrical impulses. As they are perfected, Stokowski believes alto- gether new types of sounds will be heard. The possibilities are enor- mous, he brings out, and no one yet is in a position to predict with any accuracy just what the music of the future will be like, whether speaking before it the first or the twenty-first time. Radio, he pointed out, has an undeniable fas- cination for those speaking, and the realization that the message is going to countless persons in all walks of life, often accounts for the tension, nervousness and lack of naturalness sometimes perceived by listeners. The purpose of the interviews was to acquaint the public, 19,000,000 of vhose homes have radios and almost as many of whom have telephones, vith the purposes, activities and plans of President Roosevelt's new agency of control over the country’s wire and wireless systems. Three of the seven interviewed were | on the air for the first time from a network studio. One had never be- fore spoken on the radio at all. With a few exceptions, all at first were as nervous as their interviewer, who felt each time the same qualms before the microphone that he felt in ama- teaur theatrical appearance as a high &chool lad. Four Prove Veterans. Among the speakers, Chairman E. ©. Sykes and Commissioners Thad H. Brown, Norman S. Case and George Henry Payne revealed the fruits of long public speechmaking experience. | Judge Sy was as calm and unruf- fled as he is in his everyday admin- istrative routine, in which his quiet- spoken and mild-mannered demeanor cloaks a certain intensity and vigor which a situation can quickly arouse. | He was as conver as he is in ordinary office discussion. Commissioners Brown and Case, the latter one-time Governor of Rhode Island, layed the aplomb of ex- perienced speakers, following their scripts fluently and with no trace of nervousness. Col. Brown, particular- ly, discoursed on a subject close to his thoughts, the distribution of broadcast wave lengths for widest pos- sible listenership, and he spoke as one who had a message he wanted put across. Commissioner was inclined than conversational. Payne, to be oratorical rather Hic flair for the etional on the air | an orator, | pert knowledge of communications, |= was at first pelpably awed by the microphone, but he quickly hit a flu- ent stride and spoke with the earnest- ness and conviction of one who really “knew his stuff” and was more in- | terested in what he was talking about than in how he was saying it. That accounted for the complete natural- | ness of his replies. | LRI 1 HETHER he stays or quits, Leopold Stokowski, outstanding sym- phonic director, will- not let his Philadelphia Symphony troubles inter- fere with his appearance on the air. That assurance can be offered mil- lions of 1adio listeners who have been | wondering if the letter-writing and tongue-wagging battle in Philadelphia musical circles would deprive them of Stokowski's contributions to their loudspeaker enjoyment. As a matter of fact, he has some | new broadcasting ideas up his sleeve which will be presented to the radio audience in due time. 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And now “they” are saying that this coming year is going to see a real campaign on the part of parents and teachers and parent-teacher groups to do something about the Kiddie Krime Klubs. The parents and the teachers, it seems, are very much op- posed to the general run of juvenile entertainment offered on the air at the present time. I have a wholesome respect for thzI influence of parents and of teachers | and when they are organized they are really effective. And I will be really interested in what the parents and teachers do about radio entertainment for children. Admittedly, many of the kid shows are terrible. Even the children say s0. But rather than condemn the present blood-curdling radio serial perhaps the parents and teachers C.,, JANUARY 6, should find out just what the young- sters want. The tots, being perfectly normal, do like excitement, shooting and deeds of daring-do. And, if the parents and the teachers—and I hap- pen to be a parent—can recall their own tastes dusing their grammar school days, they'll probably remem- ber that the Alger books, the Tom Swift series, the Rover Boys and the Boy Aviators were the imaginary heroes who were enshrined. And, with a few exceptions, the heroes of the air stories aren’t depicted in any more blood-curdling situations than the heroes of yesterday’s juvenile best sellers. * ¥ ¥ ¥ WOULD like to see the parents— and the teachers—conduct a na- tional survey to determine just what sort of entertainment juvenile listen- ers really enjoy. Certainly the find- ings of any such national survey would be taken seriously by the advertisers and by the persons responsible for RENOV]ZE e+ o your home| This Has Been Our Business 86 Years | EBERLY’S SONS 1108 K N.W. Dignify your home. ..phone "Eberly s 1935—PART FOUR. programs. I don’t think the adver- tisers and the program executives care an awful lot about what parents—and teachers—eapprove. But they will be more than happy to present entertain- ment that the youngsters like. And surely the rising generation is not so perverted in its taste that it will not give an indication of its likes in clean, wholesome entertainment. I rather think that the trouble lies in lack of appreciation of juvenile in- telligence. I also think radio programs | for children can be written up to the | intelligence—and above—of the aver- age adult. And when writers start treating the juvenile audience with| the same respect any honest writer would give what he believed to be an intelligent adult audience, then you'll have programs for children that wiil | Dix please them, and please the parents— and the teachers! $x % * 'OLKS in radio are chuckling about that superclever Broadway publi- cation that covers radio news like a blanket. Because the publication in- vested in a short wave radio set just to listen to Radio Luxemhourg—only to discover Radio Luxembourg operates on long waves . . . Kate Smith's come- back has more than lived up to ad- vance notices. It's swell, too, because COMPLETE QUAKER STATE LUBRICATION SERVICE MINUTE Service Station No. 1 17th & L Sts. N.W. Kate Smith is a very fine, sincere indi- | is doing his own program on C. B. S. vidual! . Don Bestor and his band | at 8 o'clock in the morning, five days playing m l Philadelphia night club— | a week. with broadcasts over N. B. C. contin- ing ... A B. S. has an intertsting idea in broadcasting a Harlem “rent” party | January 12 . . . Wonder how soon some ‘ of George Gershwin's music for the Theater Guild's musical version of | “Porgy” will be ready for listening. | . . “Honeyboy and Sassafras,” a day- time N. B. C. act, is getting a lot of enthusiastic applause from listeners. One listener wrote saying that they | were as good as the gone-but-not-for- lgouen Williams and Walker . . . The | Giersdort sisters will continue in Andre | Kostelanetz' cigarette program . , . | Shiriey Howard is back on N. B. C | after a Bermuda vacation Artells vho plays the part of Tom Mi WMAL==2:15 E-s.%. SENATOR VEST'S TRIBUTE TO A DOG —one of a series of Bob Beck~ er's *“Chats about Dogs’; spon- sored by RED HEART, thedog food with 3 flavors. A whole- some, nourishing, appetizing, prepared food that appeals to dogs of all breeds. A product of John Morrell & Co. Purveyors of famous “Morrell’s Pride’” Homs.ond Bacon RED HEART The Divewsified Dict Dog Food * % % % ICK HIMBER, the orchestra leader is having double trouble. The double is posing as Himber, and what makes it most embarrassing is that he has been signing Himber's name on restaurant checks . . . Jerry Ccoper is singing on New York vaude= ville stages . . . haw still refuses to take a music lesson. 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