Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1935, Page 59

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0, MARCH 17, 1935—PART FOUR. F—7 RECORDED ON THE AIR WAVES AND IN THE STUDIOS Pronunciation on Radio Problem for Britons, Too| Announcers Must Be on Constant Guard Not to Off or Classes. By The Radio Editor. lish are Britain's carefully se- lected radio announcers, yet the problem of the “right way” to pronounce words and accent syllables remains with them no less| than with our American broadcasters. Against the day when radio’s influence does away with regional dialects, if it | does not in a future age actually bring on a universal language, British and American announcers and speak- ers share one cause in common—they must be on constant guard lest their Ppronunciations offend both the masses | and classes of people. 1t is one of the commonest criticisms of American and British radio that | announcers and speakers are either too New Yorkese or Georgian or Western, too Oxford or Manchester or cockney. Solution Is Partial. What shall be done about it? The British have hit upon a solution, but they admit it only partially solves the | problem because of the multitudinous | vagaries of language. They have established a sort of supreme court | of the King's English. Just as Amer- ican jurisprudence drew heavily from British, radio on this side of the At-| lantic can draw ideas if not direct ap- | plications from this “court’s” answers to what is the proper broadcast (and | even everyday) pronunciation of doubtful words. The first “decision” of this supreme court has just been received here i the form of the 1935 edition of “Broad cast English,” a booklet published by the British Broadcasting Corporation, which is now being widely distributed | among the people of the British Isles, | who are recognized as the final “court | of public opinion™” on this as on other subjects. Two editions of a pamphlet on broadcast English were previously pub- lished by a British Broadcasting Corporation Advisory Committee on Spoken English consisting of a half dozen literary lights under the chair- manship first of Robert Bridges, the poet laureate, and then of George Bernard Shaw. Last year this com- | mittee was enlarged under Shaw to embrace 18 members and a representa- O murderers of the King's Eng- | end Masses fur; Seltic for Celtic, with Keltic for !Celuc when used in Wales; day-iss for dais; decorus for decorous, accent |on the second syllable; etsettra for etc., not and-settre, with accent on | second syllable; finiss for finis; flaksid for flaccid; foksle for forecastle; forred for forehead; greessy when meaning covered with grease; greezy when meaning slippery, literally or metaphorically; nolledge for knowl- edge; swayve for suave; vacayt for va- | cate, accent on second syllable. | Though urging uniformity in the | spoken language so far as possible, at | least with respect to doubtful words, the report carries an indirect plea for | tolerance toward radio announcers and \speakerp—a plea that might as well be applicable here in the United States. with its multiplicity of dialects |and vernacular—when it points out the many alternatives in pronuncia- and admits there is no single standard and no one right way of apuking| English. “We have a standard yard, a st,and- | ard pound, a standard sovereign and | | a standard pint,” it states. “The yard | | does not vary from Aberdeen to Ply- | mouth and the pound contains as in Mayfair as in Bethnal | Green. Unfortunately, speech is not | capable of r'gid measurement., and there is no absolute standard of pro- | nunciation. Pronunciation varies from | district to district, from class to class, | ‘Irrm character to character, in pro- | | portion to the local, soctal or personal | difference that separates them.” { much * % % % NJOYING the biggest year of radio sales since the pre-depres- | sion peak in 1929, American | radio dealers during 1934 sold 3,304,- 000 console, midget and “cigar box” | models of radio sets and 780.000 au- tomobile radios, according to a sur-| vey by States compiled by the bro-d-‘ casting networks, in collaboration with | the McGraw-Hill Pub'ishing Co. of | New York. The amount syent by buy- ers of radio equipment, including pur- chases of tubes and other accessories, $391.000.000 during 1934. In addition, the American radio in- dustry had a record export year dur- ing 1934, selling 612,000 receiving sets and countless other accessories in for- | eign markets for a gross of about $25,- POpular Radlo Artlsts Featured on Big Networks Radlo Program Standard Joan Kay (left), blond microphone actress, who has been added to Tony Wons’ show “The House by the Side of the Road,” on N. B.C. In the each night is featured at the fashionable Rainbow Room, atop the R. C. A. Building. Lysbeth Hughes (right) is the singing harpist with Horace Heidt's center is Vivian Segal. musical comedy star, who has just started two long Californians on the “Ship of Joy” program, on Columbia. engagements at Radio City. She sings on the Sunday “Musical Revue” and Sunday, March 17. (Copyright, 1935) | WRC 950k | WMAL 630k WISV 1,460k Commission May Go. Renewed proposals in Ottawa for a string of high power stations in Canada that would rival those in the United States appear to set at rest, for the time being at least, reports Eastern Standard Time. | that the Canadian Radio Commission WOL 1,310k may be discarded in favor of return- ing the control of Dominion broad- casting to a government department, 8:00 Melody Hour Tone Pictures g1sf & = I e 8:30 8:45 9:00 The Balladeers 9:15 Florence Wightman l Elder Michaux King's Men The Funnies OnnB\m At A\mt sunnl 0ld Church Songs Church of the 7T 9:30 Peerless Trio 9:45 This 'n’ That 10:00 Radm Pulpit 10:15 10:30 |Alr Sweelhear!.s | American-Irish Program |Labor News Review Music Federation i e |Between Bookends Kay Reed organist The Punnlel Pete and Louise College Glee Club |Morning Concert |Dream 1 Ship 8:00 possibly a new agency to be known 8: | as the department of communications. : It is proposed that $1,000.000 be 8:45| allocated for erection by the commis- T79:00 sion of some 50.000 watters that will 9:15 carry their programs into the far 9:30 reaches of the Dominion, now served 9:45 most consistently either by high power "10:00 American stations or by short-wave 10:15 | stations. Such a group of stations 10:30 | was originally contemplated when the 10-45 ' commission was established at Ottawa about two years ago. Upheld Ag Each Evening Has at - Worth-While By Peter Dixon. MUST confess to a growing impa- tience with some of the most | caustic critics of radio—especi- ally those critics who are loud in ‘ their declarations that there is nothing really worth serious consider- ation on the air today. I think those critics are either completely ignorant of what is on the air—or they belong to that class of smart-alecks who think it is a sign of superintelligence to be scornful of radio. Scorn for radio to- day can be taken as a definite sign of a narrow and uninformed mind. ‘Without going to the trouble of pre-\ paring charts and statistics, it is con- | servative to state that there is at least | two hours of good entertainment on the air every night—entertainment of sufficient merit to deserve the atten- | tion of any intelligent adult. You may Lefle Tache not like the programs I like—and I| may not be at all interested in what you want to hear, but if both of us| take the trouble to read the daily pro- gram listings and to make a few notes | on stations and time of broadcasts.| both of us will find two hours spent | beside the radio set decidedly worth | while. You may question the apparent en- | thusiasm about only two hours of en- | tertainment. Well, that's enough. No one reads all the books that are pub- | lished. Few people see all the plays or movies that are produced—so why should any one give a hoot about hearing all the radio programs? Or care if many of the programs are bad? 'EW people buy books without read- ing reviews of them or making inquiries about them. The same thing applies to plays and pictures. Yet there seems to be a class of people who think radio a cultural blasphemy | “Peggy’s Doctor” ainst Critics Least Two Hours of Entertainment, Defencler Contends. mur “Glory be!” I don't think you'd mean it! It’s a grand thing, is radiol And it will pay you real dividends if you'll invest just a little biv of time in finding out what actually is on the air waiting for you! And you! And you, too, Mister Super Mind! Y HAT is off again to Irving Reis, the C. B. S. engineer, for his very fine adaptation and di- rection of Dubose Heyward's “The Half-Pint Flask.” Presented on C. B. 8. last Saturday night, it was one of those things that made you believe there is a real future for radio drama. It stirred this listener as much as anything he has heard or seen in a | long, long time. T'S good news that the symphony series sponsored by Henry Ford will be continued on into the Summer. Incidentally, Rosa Pon- | selle sings on that program March 24 . . . It's noticeable that Ray Noble is offering honest-to-goodness dance music on his programs . . The Eddie Guest program will be on the air at 8:30 Tuesday nights over N. B. C,, beginning March 26 . leaves the air soon. Sponsored by a coal company, its job is finished for this season . . . The Sigmund Romberg program is get- ting more popular every week, ac- cording to things I hear. AMES HILTON'S dramatization of his own novel, “Good-by, Mr. Chips,” will go on the air Wed- nesday, at 10:30 p.m. over an N. B. C. network. It's the first presentation of the dramatized novel in this coun- try and N. B. C. assures us that Hil- ton has lost nothing of the charm of the novel in his radio adaptation . . . Any one convinced of the power of suggestion had best shut off the radio when N. B. C. presents a musical skit on the first day of Spring—March 21 It’s title is “Spig Has Cub” and the lides, we're told, are to soud in keep- ing with the spirit of the thing .. . I'm waiting to hear Milton J. Cross announce “Looky, Looky, Here Comes Cooky.” 11:00| 11:15 11:30 tive each of the British Academy, the d | because of a percentage of very bad Royal Society of Literature, the Eng- | lish Association and the Royal Acad- emy of Dramatic Art. Among the | committee members are Lady Cynthia Asquith, Lord David Cecil, Sir John- ston Forbes-Robertson and A. Lloyd James, professor of phonetics at Uni- ' versity College, London. 779 Doubtful Words Listed. 000.000. Receiving set sales during 1934 by States were reported as follows, ex- | Maj. Bowes' Family cluding auto radios: Alabama, 25450; | 11:45 | Arizona, 6.600: Arkansas, 18,500; Cali- | | fornia, 186,350; Colorado, 34,030: Con- | P.M necticut, 57,560; Delaware, 6,950; Dnsn 12:00 Short Wave Club trict of Columbia, 20.500; Florida, 40,- ‘12 15 '“What Home Means” 650; Georgia, 43900: Idaho, 11,890; 0 Chicago Round Table Tilinois, 210,100; Indiana, 88,200; Iowa, | 5 54,200; Kansas, 30,400; Kentucky, 40.- 3 1 0 |News-' Vnganes 5 | Jack and Loretta. The Listening Post Jewish Program K. of C. 5 = |Tabernacle Chotr i |Church of Presidents o o ‘The commission’s tenure is suppose | programs. to expire April 30, but there appears 11i3a| to be litte Pioubt that it will be ex-| May I suggest that you obtain the | 43 | tended once again as it was last year.| program listings of N. B. C. and C. B. | P.M.|On the g!h;l; !;EH: th?xl;j‘ ?}:—S been ' §. for a week and examine them more "' | growing dissatisfaction wi e COm" ] 12:00 | mission’s efforts to provide Canadian I L R RSl 12:15 | listeners with national programs via | Amazed at the great variety of enter- 12:30 | the half-dozen stations it owns and | talnment offered—and you'll realize | 12:45 operates itself and the all-Canadian | too, that at almost any hour of the 1-00 network it links up for several houts w day or night, you can find something NTERNATIONAL note—Eddie Can- tor to pay honor to Ireland's pae- tron saint during C. B. 8. St. | Patrick’s day broadcasts . . Baker planning to bring in an off- stage woman heckler to haunt Beetle “Your English” AFTERNOON PROGRAMS ‘Opponunlty Matinee ‘Tabernacle Choir o e Garden of Tomorrow Midday Serenade Lucille P. Ferguson Church or’ the Afr Hilo Melody Boys Carolina Tenor Music Hall of the Air Amerlcln !n.umble 0 Dlle Cnmezie Terrence rence O'Shea The Advisory Committee makes its | recommendations primarily for the benefit of radio announcers, on the basis of the experts’ suggestions. The purpose of listing how 779 doubtful words shall be pronounced, it is sta‘ed, is “to secure some measure of uni- formity in the pronunciation of broad- cast English and provide announcers with some degree of protection against the criticism to which they are, from hheb lnuure of their work, peculiarly lable. “It is not suggested,” the report goes on, “that these pronunciations are the only ‘right’ ones, and it is not suggested that any special degree of authority attaches to these recom- mendations.” Yet presumally the B. B. C. radio announcers must learn all of these pronunciations and use them unless and until a verbal revolution arises among the masses against any of them. The committee is far from being rigid in its findings. It admits that no one can say with assuredness that there is only one “right way” and all others are wrong. For example. even in England they pronounce “dance” both with the short vowel of “dan” and the long vowel of “darn.” Speakers who use the first variety often accuse the others of | being cockney; those who use the sec- ond accuse the others of being pro- vincial. It is decided that both pro- nunciations must stand, because both | are common among educated speak-] ers, yet it is felt that the Southern Eng- | land variety, using the long vowel, will prabably prevail, because it is most common in London, and “the educated speech of the capital starts with a | heavy handicap in its favor.” A few of the other recommended pronunciations are ammater for ama- teur, the last syllable rhyming with FOREIGN SHORT-WAVE STATIONS CITY. Barranquilla Berlin ....HJIABB .DJA ..DJB ...DJC DJD Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Brussels ..... Buenos Aires Caracas .... Caracas . Eindhoven Geneva ... Guayaquil . .HC2RL Havana Huizen .. Ccoc ..PHIL Jeloy ....LCL Lisbon .CT1AA London .............GSA London .............GSB London .. ...GSC London ..GSD London ......evs....GSE London ves..GSF Madrid . .EA Melbourne Moscow Moscow Paris Paris Paris Rabat . Riobamba Rio de Janeiro.. Rome (Pointoise) «++ss0.. (Pointoise) . (Polntoise) CNR 4 12RO Rome ..............I2RO Sydney ..esees...VK2ZME STATION. MEGACYCLES. 650; Louisiana. 37.350; Maine, 25450; | | Mary'and, 50,800; Messachusetts, 162.- | 500; Michiga! 118,600. Minnesota, | | 64.400; Mississippi, 13.550; Missouri, 118.600; Montana, 10,250; Nebraska, 33.700; Nevada, 3300; New Hamp- | | shire, 16,850; New Jersey, 152.300; | New Mexico, 4,630: New York, 508,- 500; Nerth Carolina, 37.300; North | Dakota, 11,900; Ohio, 220,000; Okla- | homa, 37,350; Oregon, 34.000; Penn- | sylvania, 305,000; Rhode Island, 30,- 400; South Carolina, 15,200; South Dakota, 10,900; Tennessee, 54,200; Texas, 108,400; Utah, 15200; Ver- mont, 10,250; Virginia, 43,900; Wash- ington, 57,500; West Virginia, 34,000; Wisconsin, 77,900; Wyoming, 3,850. — Radio Advisors Named. | Thirty eminent Britons, with the Archbishop of York as chairman, have been named as the General Ad- | visory Council of the British Broad- | casting Corp., formed .ast month to guide the policies and practices of | Great Britain’s government-owned broadcasting system. The council also includes such other notables as David Lloyd George, George Bernard | Shaw, Col. John Buchan, Sybil Thorndyke and sir J. Arthur Salter. | Mary Pickford Studies. Mary Pickford, who has added to her prestige as “America’s Sweet- heart” by her successful presentation of tabloid dramar on N. B. C., still goes to school. She takes weekly | lessons in diction fromi Oliver Hins- dell, Hollywood dramatic coach, and | music lessons twice a week. For years ’she has studied French, with the re- sult that today she speaks it like a native Parisian. novuA 10 p. 11: 30 am.; 5:15 6.45 9.57 @ oo = 3033 15.20 6.02 11.76 9.54 10.33 10.35 6.11 6.15 15.22 7.80 6.66 §og -] @S gooan®s © et WS uoogmHQOS 8?;.. 6.01 1173 oo 10:30 a.m. Saturdny 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 pm. 9:15 am. to noon; 1 to 5:45 p.m. 9.55 9.60 6.05 951 9.58 1175 11.86 15.13 9.87 9.51 12,00 6.00 11.90 ugs s .m. Thursday. to 6:15 pm a.m. Sunday. |Moments of Melody Spires of Melody 0 (Surprise Party 2 O Immorul Dnmu 2: 30 Vlnrlo Chnmlee |Dr. Dantel A Poling Anthony Frome Bob Becker Radio Theater "Litlle" Jack Little 'Radio Guild |Console Moments Musu:al spnrklev.s }any mn Music Hall | IChurch ol_ the Air 1Joe Brown's Kiddies | 3: 0 suly of lha Talkies 0 Pem Bcuse Serenade. ISundny Vespen Radio Thenur IN.¥. Philharmonic Joe Brown's Kiddies Radio Voices Melody Moments 0 Rhythm Symphony 4:15 - * l'I'he Triolians | 1Morwn Downey « - N. g Y. “« - Philharmonic Father Co_uxhun 5:00 |Sentinels’ Serenade | “ 0 (Tony Wons ii%ose: and Drums [ Travelogue 'Dog_Drama |Openbious P.M. EVENING PROGRAMS. lcrumlt and Sanderson Catholic Radio Hour “ M. 76:00 6:15 6:30 Simons Concert Band 6:45 o = ‘Wauonnl Clthouc Hour Evening Album Sports Parade—Music “Crand Hotel” “Amateur Show “Smilin' Ed” Arch McDonald Music—Sports Review Three Maids 7:30 Fireside Recitals 7:45 |Wendall Hall 8:00 Opera Guild 8:15 8:30 8:45 | 7:00 7:15 |Jack Benny |Joe Penner Symphony Concert Alexander Woollcott irhe Headliners McConnell “Old Tolerable” The Watch Tower The Waltzers |Jimmy Laurence |Jimmy Laurence |Goodwell Choir |A. B. C. Ensemble |Sports Oddities Eddle Cantor Club Romance |Ferry Boat Duo 8:00 John Paine. Alma Stanley. Dance Music |_8:45 9: 00 | Merry-Go] -Round 0 1Mu.slcll Revue lgsikm Strings Walter Winchell |Sherlock Holmes Sunday Evening Hour T9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 lmer'lcm Opry House “- w Jane Froman 5 | 0 i”One Man's Family” 5 @ |Sherlock Holmes Moments of Melody William Green James E. Van Zand! |Fray and Braggiotti Wayne King's Orch. Beauty That Endures Washington Musicale 10:00 Dance Parade 0 |Henry King's Orch. 5 o 0 jNews—-Temple of Song 45 | |News Builetins Jesse Crawford Slumber Music Rzp Maverick Vivian Chiesa Gus Arnheim's Orch. (The Family Circle Dmce Parade 0 Asronson s Orchestra o Don Pedml Orchestra 1 ] bt ] s i | Sign Off | Gus Arnheim’s Orch. Keith Belasco's Orch. Frank Dalley’s Orch. |Sign off EARLY PROGRA Sign off MS TOMORROW. Elder w::’!‘uux "rhe Timekeeper Government_Standards |Barnyard Philosopher | \The Getter Upper Sun Phl o llllllstl Clock Don Hall Trlo Phil Cook’s Note Book Morning Devotions |William Meeder |Cheerio Slck l-bed children |Caroline Baker News Bulletins Breakfast Club Sun Dial Jean Abbey. Blues Cure. w HSudHSH The Scintillators Family Almanac Pete and Louise Johnny Marvin. Clara. Lu 'n’ Em Air Sweethearts lJoe White Josephine Gibson Holman Sisters Today’s Children Charley King News—Music Bill and Ginger Larry Walker Radio Interview Musical Program Police Flashes ‘Washboard Blues Varieties ) (0. 8, Navy Band The Honeymooners ‘Tony Wons Melody Mixers Land o’ Dreams an: Chl.pln Radio Oracle. ' Two-Piano Team | Varieties String Ensemble Lonesome Pine 0 |Story of Mary Marlin ‘Honeyboy and Sassafras Merry-Go-Round 12:45 (Merry Madcaps P.M. | Listening Post |Bennett Sisters |Farm and Home Hour 'The Gumps Afternoon Rhythms AFTERNOON PROGRAMS Voice of Experience Dick Messner's Orch. Eddie Pryor's Orchestra Gotham Dance Orchestra 1:00 |[Two Hearts in Song 5 |M. and M. Program. Rex Battle’s Ensemble rs l.uttu King Reyburn| Farm and Home Hour Jules Landes’ Ensemble. Words and Music Dick Messner’s Orch. Allan Leafer’s Orch. Slaughter’s Ensemble. Mitchell Schuster’s Orch. 3 |Ray -O'Hl:"l Orchestra Beauty Forum ‘Music Guild Cleveland Bacon Scho?l of the Air 'nmg'nnsm String Quartet Radio lVlc and Sade Ma Perkins 0 Dreams Come True 3:45 (The Sizzlers Guild "Yo\!{ Eou.taa" - Concert Gems Gramercy Trio [W \Martin’s Story Hour |sa:delw'| Betty and Bob Dog Stories Tea Time Jules Landes’ Ensemble | Rhythm Bandbox Chlc:(o V_lrleu. 5:00 (Sundown Revue 5:15 |Tom Mix 5:30 |Alice in Orchestralia Rosa Ponselle, Metropolitan Opera soprano, will be the guest soloist with Victor Kolar’s Symphony Orchestra on WJSV at 9. She will feature two operatic ariad Evening Star Flashes Aunt Sue and Polly |Singing Lady |Evening Rhythms Skippy Jack Armstrong A condensed version of “Il Trova- tore” will be the final Opera Guild presentation on WRC at 8. Giovanni Martinelli, leading tenor of the Metro= politan Opera Co., will sing the prin- cipal role, 4 America’s Little House Toflt"l v_l.mnm John Slaughter's Orch. [Musical Program Prances Alda, famous prima donns, will be the soloist with the symphony 8:15 | 8:30 a day. In Canada the several govern- ment-owned radio stations operate alongside more than 60 privately- operated stations, the original pian having been for the commission to absorb the latter stations as quickly as possible. Finding it would cost many millions | privately-owned stations as wanted to take them. Since the erection of! 50,000-watt stations cost from $1% 000 to $250,000 each, the commission | has been able to build none of these and private capital has hesitated to | venture such investments. There are | several dozen 50,000 watters in the United States and one of 500.000 watts, but Canada's highest powered are one of 15,000 watts. two of 10,000 watts and four of 5,000 watts. Tokio News in Engllsh. The Japanese station at Tokio will | begin a series of daily broadcasts of | Japanese news in English beginning April 1. 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C. hook-up 3:30 | tent to permit the commission to take | well, 3:45| over or erect a handful of stations, | other network. Tired of the “Show- certs . Lily Pons is singing on an- done dramatic show, or Walter | O'Keefe, supported by the Casa Loma Orchestra. Uninterested in Rudy Vallee's varieties the mme‘ night? Then there's a grand little symphony on WOR and the Mutual‘ network. Perhaps radio has been made Loo easy for us. Perhaps the fact that| it is apparently free makes us accept it as a matter of course. Perhaps | what is needed is & national no radio week. Seven days without a radio program! And even if you did mur- WITH ... Maj. Herbert O. Yardley's “Bh’c‘ series to have eight new Virginia Rea rehearsing for con- . . Sponsors of the Radio The- 4 ootuperate them as units of a network | boat” on Thursday night>” Then you | ater have submitted offers to five 5 { and feed its network programs to such | can hear “Death Valley Days,” a well | well-known film stars to appear in one production during the month of April . . . Louise Bernhardt, American contralto, signed for guest star ap- pearances on the Bamberger Little Symphony, with Phillip James, con- ductor, for special programs over OR . Whispering Jack Smith to spunsur a base ball team in the Bronx Juvenile League next Summer . Emil Coleman is never late for an appointment . . . Jack and Loretta Clemens, juveniles of the Gibson . have just completed & Nick arner Bros. short. Forget Your Aerial! RADIO CONTROL Most amazing little 3-purpose gadget that plugs 1 2 3. made static trap built into it into your light socket and Does away with yards and yards of aerial wire, guy wires and poles Eliminates most noises caused by man. 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