Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1935, Page 57

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 10, 1935—PART FOUR. FROM THE AIR WAVES AND BROADCASTING STUDIOS New Survey Will Attack Mystery of Interference Amateur Shows Seen Passing as Radio Fad ~ Parade of Literary Personalities Before Mike Believed Next in Line to Attract Stars Given Prominent Roles in Radio Dramas Radio Manufacturers Join With Uncle Sam in Effort to End Man-Made Squeals in Ether. Fancy of Fans. ; |concerts again, in conjunction with By Peter Dixon. Green's engagement at the Hotel St. HAT phenomenon of the radio Regis. Vincent Lopez touring ganized, however, with Arde Bulova New York watch manufacturer and part owner of station WNEW, .n that By the Radio Editor. ADIO'S public enemy No. 1— R interference to good recep- to a co-ordinated attack hav- ing as its goal banishment from the ether waves of all man- Maintaining that millions of listen- ers fail to get full benefit of the high quality programs now broadcast, be- radio science have gotten together on a campaign which they believe will attain the desited result. Sponsored | tion, this committee, representing Uncle Sam along with private indus- try, met in New York last week to Committee on Radio Interference Abatement. At least one-half of the noises that tain, can be traced to electrical cir- cuits and appliances within a few hun- dred feet of the listener's set. Prime| burners, vacuum cleaners, dish-wash- ers, direct-current refrigeration, loose bulbs in floor lamps, defective sockets household appliances. The listener himself, therefore, ic responsible for | much of the annoyance, while proper | devices by the manufacturers would eliminate the balance. The popularity of all-wave recep- during the 1ast two years has made the man-made interference problem more acute. Moreover, with facsimile and tributions. curtailment of these spuri- ous electrical disturbances becomes in- creasingly necessary, for picture trans- | interferences than sound. Any undue interferences picked up by a picture reproducer, whether facsimile or tele- image received. The greater the in- terference, the more violent is the| distortion. plans were formulated for the cam- piagn. All known sources of radio interference were charted. ‘Then methods of measuring the suscepti- bility of radio receivers to interfer- ence of every character. How to ances, which actually function as| miniature radio transmitters in send- ing out their spurious emissions, is Detailed methods of eliminating or reducing interference will be assem- bled and tabulated and plans to util- operation of the electrical industry} in devising means for eliminating the | future manufacture and sale of de- ference will be sought. Certain phases of the extensive pro- gram were assigned to subcommit- study to the problems. The work of the committee of scientists is pri- marily along educational lines and is operative effort of all groups and in- dividuals involved. i * ok ok ok newest aspirant in the field of network broadcasting, has col- | lided with more difficulties in its quest this year after a shaky start the pre- ceding Fall, A. B. C. now has curtailed its operation to include only nine sta- stead of the two dozen it has served, stretching to the West and the South. Coupled with this was the disclos- troit broadcaster and industrialist, who founded American Broadcasting System, predecessor of A. B. C., had remain as president. He will return to Detroit, where he operates Sta- tion CKLW, as well as a steel-manu- | Last January, when American Broadcasting System became em- broiled in financial difficulties with erated under lease, there were indica- tions that the project might collapre, unable to stand the gaff of rigorous | charge of the | are heard each Saturday at 6:45 p.m. | city, joining the organization. WNEW became the key outlet. In tendering his resignation as gen- eral manager, Storer declared he would retain his interests in A. B. C. He said the illness of one of his De- troit manufacturing executives made it imperative that he return to tha:l city and take active charge of tre business. While no announcement was imme- diately forthcoming, it was indicated | that Bulova would assume execulive network, prooably designating some prominent individ- ual in broadcasting to take over the post of general manager. As an added economy move A. B. C. will desert the quarters it recently | took over in the old National Broad- casting Co, Building at 711 Fifth ave- | nue and establish headquarters at| 501 Madison avenwe, where the| WNEW studios are housed. Stations which continue on the A B. C. network are WHDH and| WMEX, Boston, used alternately; | WPRO, Providence; W1XBS, Water- bury, Conn.; WTNJ, Trenton; WIP, | Philadelphia; WOL, ~Washington; | WCBM, Baltimore, and WDEL, Wil- mington. Those dropped under the reorganization are WEBR, Buffalo: KQV. Pittsburgh; WIL, St. Louis’ WJAY, Cleveland; WJW, Akron; WCOL. Columbus; WFBE, Cincin- nati; WJBK, Detroit; WIND, Gary, Ind.; WJJD, Chicago; WHBF, Rock Island, IIl.; WMBR, Memphis, and KARK, Little Rock. | EERSNES Choir to Sing in Néw York. THE A Capella Choir of First | Congregational Church conducted by Ruby Smith Stahl, which will be heard in its fifth annual Lenten con- cert Monday night, April 1, at the Hotel Mayflower, will go to New York on March 20, to make its debut in | that city in Town Hall A special program of choral music | is likewise to be given by this choir in Philadelphia at the National Fed- eration of Music Clubs convention toward the end of April. | Box reservations and tickets for the | | Washington Lenten concert may be had at First Congregational Church | and from Mrs. Stahl Mary picl(ford poses. Mary Pickford has taken time out | from her radio work to pose for a portrait. The picture, painted by Frances Greenman, New York artist, shows her in a black crepe gown with red velvet wrap and pink ostrich feather boa. Her only jewelry is a diamond coronet. e Waring Enlarges Staff. Fred Waring has been forced to| make a number of additions to his staff of artists as a result of the ex- tension of his weekly Columbia broad- casts from 30 to 60 minutes. Instead of 28 singers and instrumentalists, ‘Waring now has 58. One of the innovations is a girls’ choir of 14 voices under the leader- ship of Kay Thompson. Another is a quartet. Rehearsal time also has been more than doubled, so that six days a week are now given to the prepara- tion of a 60-minute show. . Fisher Signs Again. Famous figures in the sports world will continue to appear before the microphone during the Summer un- der the guidance of Thornton Fisher, | sports writer and cartoonist, under the terms of a new contract between | Fisher and the sponsor. | A former member of the staff of | The Evening Star, Fisher has been | presenting his sports review over N. B. C. since October. The broadcasts Minstrels on Year Run. ‘The Merry Minstrels, their first Winter on the air behind them, are off for a full-year run on N. B. C. net- works. ‘The minstrels are Al Bernard, | Emil Casper, Mario Cozzi and Wallace tion—is abcut to be subjected made howls and squeals. cause of these ‘mpediments, leaders in by the Radio Manufacturers’ Associa- launch the project It is the Joint mar home reception, engineers main- offenders are electric heating pads, oil and switches, and a variety of cther shielding of the electrical huuseholdi tion with highly sensitive receivers television looming as new radio con- mission 1s far more susceptible to such vision, results in distortion of the At the New York meeting definite these eminent scientists agreed upon harness and shield electrical appli- another problem that was tackled. ize them will be evolved. The co- vices which may cause radio inter- tees who will be able to give intensive based largely upon the theory of co- MERICAN BROADCASTING CO., for radio fame. Reorganized early tions along the Eastern seaboard, in- ure that George B. Storer, young De- resigned as general manager, but will facturing plant. its key station, WMCA, which it op- competition, It was promptly reor- FOREIGN SHORT-WAVE STATIONS CITY. Barranquilla . Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin . Berlin STATION. MEG. HJ1ABB ....DJA ..DJB Caracas .. Caracas .. Eindhoven Geneva ...... Guayaquil .. Havana . Huizen .. Jeloy Lisbon London London .............GSB London London London London Magdrid . Melbourne Moscow . Moscow Paris Paris Paris Rabat ... Riobamba . Rio de Janeiro. . Rome ......... +++e0.. . (Pointoise) . (Pointoise) 'NR .PRADO .PRF5 Rome Sydney ..........VK2ME Butterworth. ACYCLES. 6.45 2.57 15.20 6.02 11.76 9.54 10.33 1035 6.11 6.15 15.22 7.80 6.66 HOURS. 6 to 10 p.m. 8 to 11:30 am, 5:15 to 9:15 p.m. 3:45 to 7:15 am. Noon to 4:30 pm, 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Noon to 4:30 p.m. 8 to 11:30 a.m,, 5:15 to 9:30 p.m. 1:30 to 3 p.m. 9 to 11 p.m. irregu- larly. 5:15 to 10 p.m. 5 to 9:30 p.m. 8 to 10 a.m. Sunday. 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Sat. 5:45 to 8:00 pm. Sun.; 9:15 to 11:15 p.m. Tues. 5 to 9 pm. 8 to 10:19 a.m. Mon., Thurs., Fri; 8 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. Noon to 6 p.m. 4:30 to 7 p.m. Tues., Thurs. and Sat. 4:30 to 5:45 pm, 6 to 8 p.m. 9:15 am. to noon; 1 to 5:45 p.m. 6 to 8 p.m. Noon to 12:45 pm., 1 to 4:30 pm. 6 to 9 am; 9:15 to 10:45 am. 9 am. 6.01 11.73 8§88 Qq pm. :30 a.m. Wed. a.m. Sat. 11 a.m. Sunday. pm S sSg "’l)l [T TN f= = poowa 8255558 Wed. andpFrlday. 2:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Fri. 1to3 am, 5 to 11 am. Sunday. 4 . & Betty Worth (left), who takes a variety of parts in the “Court of Human Relations” presentations on Columbia. She came to radio from the Broadway stage. In the center is Marjorie Hannan, who plays the role of Sally Madison, a_smal girl, in Janie Jarrett (right), screen star of “Kid Millions” fame, who is now play- ing in Sugmund Romberg's hour on N. B. C. 1 : T fads. made despite the knowledge | that there are more amateur hours on | came And | collector's library of old-time music, the air today than ever before. more are being planned. Not only are there several network season, the amateur show, is Florida, playing one and two right about to go the way of all | engagements. And this prediction is ' compiled a series of musical scripts Frank Novak has for air presentation. All the music from his recently-purchased and he’s titled the script “Broadway of Bygone Days.” Joe Reiche | talent contests, but there are from man's new composition “Mood Fantase | one to five local amateur radio pro- | tique” to be published late in March. “Sally of the Talkies” on N. B. C. Sunday, March 10. I WRC 950k | WMAL 630k | (Copyright, 1935) WISV 1.460k WOL 1310k 100 Melody Hour | Tone Moments of Melody. The Funnies Pictures | Elder Michaux j} “ On a ‘15 |This 'n’ That - 9:30 |Italian Program & 9:45 | % o - | Bus |At Aunt Susan’s Old Church Songs |Kay Reed, organist |The Funnies 10:00 Radio Pulpit 10:15 = = 0 |Air Sweethearts 5 |Rhythm Makers |Southernaires . u i American _Youth ‘Church of the Alr |Labor News Review Between Bookends Pete and Louise |College Glee Club |Bob and Billy Vest |Dream Ship 0 News-Vagaries 5 |Jack and Loretta. Maj. Bowes' Family |The Listening Post |String Quartet. Musical Interlude |“Your English” |Jewish Program |Tabernacle Choir e e AFTERNOON PROGRAMS Church of Presidents | “ - | 12:00 Short Wave Club 12:15 “What Home Means” 12:30 Chicago Round Table Music Opportunity Matinee |Tabernacle Choir |Garden of Tomorro Hall of the Air [Midday Serenade |Columbia Orchestra _ Carolina Tenor Symphonic Gems Consolidated Program Apparel Program w Music Spires of Melody |\Dr. Daniel A. Poling Hall of the Air _ |Church of the Alr “Little” Jack Little Radio Guild |Terrence O’Shea |Console Moments Musical Sparklets | Immortal 5 2:30 Mario Chamlee 2:45 s | Anthony Frome Bob Becker |Radio Theater Lazy Dan Music Hall |Church of the Air . |Joe Brown’s Kiddies | 3:00 Sally of the Talkies |Radio st w = g 3:30 |Pent 3:45 - House Serenade. ‘Sundly Vespers Theater |N.Y. Philharmonic Joe Brown's Kiddies W Radio Voices |Melody Moments 4:00 Rhythm Symphony 4:15 R Harry Reser’s Crew 5 Dream Drama ” The Triolians |Morton Downey |N. Y. Philharmonic Father Coughlin |Sentinels” Serenade B Roses 5:15 o 5:30 Tony Wons 5:45 | = = | Travelogue Dog Drama and Drums Open House PM. EVENING PROGRAMS, |Crumit and Sanderson | | . - 1 Catholic Radio Hour P 6:00 6:15 | 6:30 6:45 National Catholic Hour Simons Concert Bana Evening Album Sports Parade “Grand Hotel” " [Amateur Show Arch McDonald |“Smilin’ Ed” McConnell| The Watch Tower “Old Tolerable” |Jane Reddington 7:00 Music—Sports Review Three Maids Fireside Recitals Wendall Hall | |Jack Benny 1 [ 1‘100 Penne_'r Alexander Woollcott ‘The Headliners |Jimmy Laurence The Jesters. A. B. C. Ensemble Sports Oddities Opera Guild iSmphony Concert ‘Club Romance Ferry Boat Duo John Paine. Alma Stanley. Dance Music | | Merry-Go-Round iMuflcfl Revue ‘su.keg Strings | Walter Winchell Sherlock Holmes “« . |Sunday Evening Hour |American Opry House "|Jane Froman “One Man’s Family” 10:45 | Sherlock Holmes Bar Association ‘Wsyne I%lng'u Orch. |Beauty That Endures Goodwell Choir Sleepy Hall's Orch. King's Orch. _ |News 11:00 |Henry 11:15 i 11:30 | Temple of Songs i | Jesse Crawford |Slumber Music Buiietins Serenade Herbe Kay's Orch. Keith Beecher's Orch. ‘The Family Circle Dance Parade 0 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 ‘Anronson‘s Orchestra 12:15 | % 5 12:30 |Don Pedro’s Orchestra S o | {Gus Arnheim’s Orch. disnr Frank Dailey’s Orch. Sign Off 12:00 12:15 0 5 EARLY PROGRA Sign Off | Elder Ml:ll.uux T Up and tt "Em The Grenadiers | Pollock and Lawnhurst |Barnyard Philosopher The Getter Upper A.Ir-(.)-Nut“a Sun Dial - MS TOMORROW. isical Clock = s |Phil Cook’s Note Book |Don Hall Trio |Cheerio Morning Devotlons |William Meeder Landt Trio and White Musical Clock “ o - |Morning Mail Bag News |Betty Lane Norman Neilson Bmuflut Plnb Sun Dial Jean Abbey. |Blues Cure. Bulletins 9:45 | Caroline B: |Johnny M |Clara, Lu ‘n’ Em |Alr Sweethearts Josephine Gibson Holman Sisters Today’s Children Charley King News—Serenade Bill and Ginger Larry Walker Radio Interview The Scintillators Family Almanac ’Pete and Louise Musical Program Police Flashes ‘Washboard Blues Varieties |Joe_White |U. 8. Navy Band [i¥ = | ‘Tony ‘The Honeymooners Melody Mixers Land o’ Dreams Wons Pattie Chapin Radio Oracle. Two-Piano Team Varieties String Ensemble Lonesome Pine 0 |Story of Mary Marlin 12:15 ‘Baneyboy and Sassafras | 0 |Merry-Go-Round Farm Farm - Jules 700 [Two Hearts in Song M. and M. Program. |Rex Battle's Ensemble Listening Post Bennett Sisters Voice of Experience The Gumps Afternoon Rhythms Concert Miniatures PROGRAMS Eton Boys ma_aome Hour AFTERNOON lnd“ Home Hour Lendes’ Ensemble. |Jan Savitt's Orch. Slaughter’s Ensemble. Mitchell Schuster’s Orch. ’Eddle Pryor’s Orchestra Gotham Dance Orchestra | 1R¢volvln3“8ui' 0 “ “Laughter, a Trait” Music Guild - - 'Words and Music Scho'?l of the Air The French Princess Helen Trent Romances |Vic and Sade |Ma Perkins ’Dremu Come True The Sizzlers H |Woman's Radio Review | | e IMartin’s Story Hour 'Radio Gu‘l‘lfl Irving Rennedy Betty and Bob Dog Stories Tea Time Prof. Robert Connor “Your Hostess” Concert Gems Gramercy Trio Rhythm Bandbox Chicago Varieties America’s Little House Today’s Winners “ P |Songtellows Sundown Revue Subsidiary Taken Over. Civic Concert Service, Inc., organ- ized in 1922 by Dema Harshbarger to promote concert courses throughout the country and which since 1931 has been partially ewned by the Na- h Evening Star Flashes Aunt Sue and Polly Singing Lady Evening Rhythms Skippy Jack Armstrong tional Broadcasting Co., has become a completely owned subsidiary of N.B. C. % This week the executive offices of Civic Concert Service will be moved from Chicago to N. B. C. headquar- ters in the R. O. A. Bullding, New - John Eh&lhur‘s Orch. Musical Program York, where it will function as a division of N. B. C. Artists Service, under George Engles, vice president of the N. B. C. O. O. Bottorf, for- merly assistant manager of Civic Concerts, has been appointed gen- eral manager of the reorganized cor- 0| for the Gunston Hall presentation | Do Binaris 2o el UNDER the auspices of the Music division of the recreation division of the Council of Social Agencies, Augustus Zanzig, who conducted a successful music institute in Washing- ton last year, will hold a second insti- | tute from April 8 to 19. Mrs. Edwin | B. Parker is chairman and Mrs. James H. Tawney vice chairman of the com- mittee which planned the program. Churches, clubs and other orgnnl‘! zations are participating in the plans | for the institute which, although | specially for actual or prospective leaders in some musical activity, is | designed also for directors of recrea- | tion centers or other social agencies, | parents, church or school officials and for any other person whose pri- | | mary interest in music is to help to | organize or support musical activity. Lack of musical skill is no obstacle to interest in the course or benefit from it. The sessions will, as far as | possible, be so conducted as to pro- | vide opportunity for each individual | | to contribute to them and gain from | them. | Mr. Zanzig has had wide experience | in conducting these institutes and is | a teacher, musician, musical leader | and author on musical topics of note. | He is honorary chairman of the Com- | mittee on Orchestras of the National | Federation of Music Clubs. Pianist at Howard U. 'HE Concert Series Committee of Howard University announces the | fifth recital in its series on Tuesday at 8:15 o'clock pm. in the Rankin Memorial Chapel, unfyersity campus, when the artist will be James Friskin, pianist, of New York City. Mr.| Friskin is widely known as a concert | pianist and as a teacher of piano at lthe Juilliard School of Music. For his program at Howard on Tuesday, | | Mr. Friskin will play, “English Suite in P Majol Bach: “Sonata in C Major. Opus. 53,” Beethoven; “Im- | promptu in G Flat Major, Opus 90, Schubert; “Song Without | . No. 10, in B Minor,” Men- delssohn: “Study for Pedal-piano in A Flat Major, Opus 56" “In der Nacht. Opus 12, No. 5,” Schumann; “La Cathedrale Engloutie,” “Les Col- lines d'Anacapri, “La PFille Aux | Cheveux de Lin,” “La Serenade Inter- | rompue.” Debussy; “Ondine,” Ravel; | | “Etude d’Execution Transcendante, in F Minor,” Liszt. | Cello Recital at Gunston. STUART MOORE, violoncellist, will | be presented in recital at Gunston | Hall, next Sunday at 8:45 pm. The | recital has been arranged by Marjorie | Lowe, member of the music faculty of the school. Mr. Moore was formerly staff artist to the Columbia Broadcasting Co. in | New York City. His compositions have | been featured on the National and Columbia Broadcasting Companies’ programs. | Mr. Moore appeared as soloist in | 11932 with the Columbia University | Men's Glee Club at its annual concert | in Town Hall. | | Included in Mr. Moore's program will be the Grieg “A Minor Cello Sonata,” with Malton Boyce at the piano, and compositions by Kreisler, Mendelssohn, Rameau, York Bowen and Bargiel. wat g . Aida” to Be on Air. Verdi's colorful opera “Aida” will be broadcast by N. B. C. Saturday from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Elisa- | beth Rethberg, Giovanni Martinelli and Carmela Ponselle will have the leading roles. e McCormack Returns. John McCormack, world-famous Irish tenor, will return to the micro- phone for his fourth radio series Wednesday at 9:30 pm. on N. B. C. Since November McCormack has been ’gx a combined vacation and concert ur. MAJOR FEATURES AND PROGRAM NOTES. With Claudette Colbert in the lead- ing role, the Radio Theater, on WMAL at 2:30 o'clock, will present Philip Barry's success, “Holiday.” The “German Requiem,” by Brahms, will be featured by the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra on WJSV at 3 o'clock. Elisabeth Reth- berg, soprano, and Friedrich Schorr, baritone, will sing the soio parts. Nathan Milstein, Russian violinist, and Reginald Stewart, Canadian con- ductor, will appear with the Symphony Orchestra on WMAL at 8 o'clock. Edward Johnson, Metropolitan Opera tenor, will assist Victor Kolar and his Symphony Orchestra in pre- senting the Sunday Evening Hour over WJSV from 9 to 10 o'clock. The Opera Guild on WRC at 8 o'clock, will present “The Bartered Bride” with Editha Fleischer of the Metropolitan Opera company in the leading role. Jack Dempsey will take part in the Merry-Go-Round program on WRC at 9 o'clock. WRC will broadcast at 9:30 am. a grams in every city of any size in America. And the listening public is Tuesday night jamboree is still the major radio attraction in Manhattan but I believe it is the personality of | the major that keeps it so alive and fresh. And so, what next? My guess is that there will be a' parade of literary personalities to the microphone. Alexander Woollcott has proved there is an audience for an intelligent program and that a certain amount of sophistication is appreci- | ated. Now Don Marquis is on the air three times a week for a large cloth- | 1ng concern and one hears the names. of Robert Benchley, Franklin P.| Adams, Dorothy Parker, Faith Bald- win and other ladies and gentlemen of letters discussed as potential radio stars. I also know there is a growing inter- est in “name” writers as writers and that among the programs planned for the next six months are several in which the services of nationally fa- mous authors will be used. We'll see what will happen! | * k% % HE following correspondence fis offered without comment. The first is an excerpt from a letter received by this column. The letter was signed, but I am withholding the name: “I wish to tell you of my ex- perience in writing to WABC ex- | pressing my disapproval of Alex- | ander Woollcott’s broadcast of | February 10, in which he de- | scribed in great detail and much gusto the finding of the different parts of a body in a murder mys- tery of long ago. I thought it was in extremely bad taste and said | 80 in my letter. I am inclosing a | reply from one of Mr. Woollcott’s | ‘capable’ secretaries.” | The reply read: “Dear Miss W—: “Mr. Woollcott employs three capable secretaries, who look after | his fan mail and pass on to him any letters that merit attention. His Is one of the few radio pro- | grams which is not censored by the broadcasting officials, so you may rest at ease in the knowledge that he will never be ‘cut short'— as you put it. If you never listen to him again, he will just have to try to bear up as best he can, made comfortable by the thought that in less than a year’s time he has become one of the seven most popular radio broadcasters in the minds of those who listen to aduit programs. “Yours sincerely, | “LEGGETT BROWN, Secretary.” | s x | IOME of those tunes in the Gibson Family are out of the trunk. “Floating Through the Air,” writ- ten by Arthur Schwartz, was used in 1928 in a show called “The New York- | ers” .. . WINS is conducting an in- | teresting experiment in broadcasting | a horse-racing game. If it works it | may open the way to a number of | games to be played by radio . .. Tom | Howard, back on the Vallee program, ‘ seems to have better material than usual . . . Ricardo Cortez reported to be receiving more requests for pic- | tures as a result of his radio series with the Lombardos than he received from film appearances. * *x x x DD Russian invitation list—Leon Belasco, who originally came from there. The Soviets have asked him to come over and help organize dance orchestras . . . Al Shayne col- lects stamps . . . Arthur Boran works | out his impersonations by watching news reels of famous figures. Has his own private film collection to study as well . . . Gus Haenschen va- | cationing in Florida . . . Jean King, one of the announcing voices on the “Let’s Dance” program, comes from | San Antonio . . . Bob Grant caught a tarpon weighing close to 300 pounds | since he and his C. B. S. bandsmen | opened at a Florida night spot . . . Juliet Lowell opening new offices in | Radio City . . . Tim Ryan writing all the material to be used by “Tim and Irene” on the N. B. C. commercial that opened last night . . . Jack Colt, Lennie Hayton's manager, directing the new night spot, the Famous Door, on West Fifty-second street in Man- hattan. It's owned co-operatively by about 50 radio musicians. * K K X 'ARRY HORLICK'S violin solos Gypsies Monday programs. Here- tofore they've been offered every three or four broadcasts. . . . Guy Kent the new vocalist heard with Carl Hoff and his orchestra over WOR and WJZ. Hoff chose him from among 36 singers he heard in one weeks. . . . Ed Lowry resumes vaude- ville appearances April 5 when he begins a two-week engagement at Loew’s Paradise. . . . Leon Navara hunting & new girl singer for his C. B. 8. orchestra—blond contralto preferred. . . . Kel Murray, once concert meister for the Philadelphia Symphony, has three former sym- phony concert meisters in his orches- tra now—Mischa Gusikoff, Lou Rad- erman and Ed Bachman. . . . An- swering the question “what happens to radio amateur contest winners,” there's Pearl Garon, now singing with Don Costello and his orchestra over| C. B. 8. from Mori’s restaurant. . | Incidentally, Don Costello, the leader, is not Don Costello, the very good air | actor. ’ * % kX | ENE LOCKHART, now on the coast writing and acting for the movies, still writes the “Lazy Dan” scripts every week and posts it to Irving Kaufman. . Borrah Minevitch planning a second Car-| special program originating in Milan, Italy. It will include a concert by the leading mandolin club of Italy. Iy negie Hall concert at the head of | his Harmonica Rascals. . . . C. B. 8./ planning to brosdcast Johnny Green's! 4 | “The Bartered Bride” ‘Listen In The Three X Sisters to copyright their own vocal arrangement of “Rhap= | getting slightly fed up. Maj. Bowes' sody in Blue,” made by permission of George Gershwin. Pat Barnes in Miami, readying his new one-man news dramatist show reported set for an N. B. C. series Les Reis and Artie Dunn will sing their 5000th song on the air March 16. Sige mund Spaeth, the tune detective. fol= lows the trend of the times and be= comes Sidmund Spaeth, the talent detective. He'll air his selections on P (2 Ju-enf '\L%} e weekly half-hour programs WEVD, starting at 8:30 pm. . Abe Lyman still staying on in town, although he’s due in Hollywood to work with Warner Brothers. The Easy Aces compiling their 1934 scripts into book form Al Good- man preparing a stage version of his recent air production “Lady in Er- mine,” an operetta. Beatrice Lillie'’s option for renewal taken up six weeks in advance. Wallace Beery scheduled for a return engage- ment on the Radio Theater. £ Rosaline Greene to make her Broad- way stage debut some time next month. Robert Simmons still limping—result of a fall on the ice. . Claudette Colbert, in town for a vacation, will be the star of Radio Theater’s “Holiday” this afternoon. IGMUND ROMBERG'S original ra- dio operetta, scheduled for Its debut tonight, to be presented at a later date. The two Bobs—Colwell and Simon—collaborating on the book and lyrics Editha Fleischer to be heard Sunday night in the Opera Guild's condensed version of And Ed- ward Johnson to be guest artist with the Ford Symphony Orchestra . - The Philharmonic Symphony Or- chestra broadcast this afternoon from Carnegie Hall designed as a special concert for childrer and young_people. " Get 50 Cents Each on Old Pots and Pans See page 109, Woman’s Home Com- panion, March, and page 91 Feb. 16 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. STATION WISV 10:05 A.M. 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