Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1935, Page 57

Silent Autos Streets Seen in Year 2035 Home Printing Attachments on Radios Will Bring Newspapers and Magazines, Says Prediction of F By the Radio Editor. HUNDRED years from now! What will life be like if radio and its many offshoots, called the electronics arts, continue their remarkable strides? From O. H. Caldwell, eminent scien- tific editor and formerly a member of | the Federal Radio Gommission, we get | a glimpse into what he believes will be the order of things in A.D. 2035. | First, however, it should be pointed out these visionary developments are based largely on the electronics art, which had its beginnings little more than a decade ago with the perfection of the radio vacuum tube. From it was developed the photoelectric cell, better known as the electric eye, and regarded as the closest approach to the human brain cell ever devised by man. The electric eye today is the utilitarian of many arts and indus- | tries. It is employed as the control | in hundreds of lines of activity, con- troling street traffic light systems, elevator levelers, counting and sort- ing, experimental television, surgery and other operations. With that in mind, let's peer into | the next century with Dr. Caldwell. | He says: “And on those rubber streets silent automobiles will move by electricity | derived from atomic energy. One or | two drops of fue] will operate a car for a year. ese autos will be roomy and comfortable inside, be- cause with the motor underneath the whole length of the car can be used for passenger space, making a com- fortable ‘living room’ on wheels. Even the horns will be silent, because the super-tonic tones will be inaudible except to the driver and pedestrians in the beam. Traffic signals will ap- pear as red and green lights on each driver's own dashboard. “The homes of 2035 will be lighted by new cathode-ray illuminants, making night asgbright and cheerful as day. And these houses will be heated by high frequency magnetic oscillations, keeping every one warm inside, even with the windows open and fresh Winter air blowing through. Photo-electric roofs on our houses will supply us with our energy, utiliz- ing the hundreds of thousands of kilowatt hours which the sun pours upon our roofs all day long. “On our radios home printing at- tachments will deliver us the day's newspapers and magazines. Tele- vision screens will picture the news as it happens, and tel-olfaction, the new process of transmitting odors, will produce appropriate scents to accom- pany sight and sound. An aid to ad- | vertisers of food products will be tele- | gustation, the transmission of tastes and realistic flavors. A maker of strawberry jam, for example, may send out the taste of his delicious preserves, along with his broadcast program, but it will be taste alone, without nutrition. “The longer journeys of A.D. 2035 will be accomplished by stratosphere flights, utilizing the high rarified air | for airplane speeds of 400 to 600 miles per hour, “Our clothing will be more sensible —simple garments for men. Women’s and children’s clothing may be printed and assembled on great perfecting presses such as the newspapers use factured on demand in our populated centers. Rain will be banished from damage to clothing and tempers—and will be made to fall instead as wel- when it is needed.” * ok ok ok IP’ of the same songs by different radio | performers over the air in the “song-pluggers” who use every con- ceivable sort of method to induce is because “song plugging” is barred in the code of fair competition for promulgated by N. R. A. after two years of negotiation. any coercive methods to induce singers, orchestra leaders and other performers numbers. It is called unfair competi- tion in the code. In the future: Bribery of performers to “puft” songs: furnishing of special | Summer already are beginning to in- | < on Rubber amous Editor. orchestrations to performers; pur- | chase of advertising space in benefit programs “if the purpose is in effect gift to or favor for any performer”; or purchase of advertising “intended to puff, flatter, compliment or exploit any performer, singer or orchestra leader”; payment by publisher to in- duce talking machine, broadcasting electrical transcription, motion picture or other entertainment companies or personnel to use a publisher’s musie and other forms of “bribery.” Song pluggers in the past have handed out money and favors to per- formers with abandon, according to information from the larger studios. * ok X % MUSIC festival of two concerts, featuring the music of Ameri- can composers, has been ar- ranged for the General Motors Sym- phony concerts on N. B. C. April 7 and 14. Music of 16 distinguished Ameri- can composers will be heard in per- formances by musicians who have closely identified themselves with the musical developments of this coun- try. Native composers whose works will be represented include George Antheil, Harold Arlen, Harry Bur- leigh, Charles Wakefield Cadman, John Alden Carpenter, George W. Chadwick, Stephen Foster, George Gershwin, Henry F. Gilbert, David Guion, Henry Hadley, Edward Mac- Dowell, Ethelbert Nevin, Charles S. Skilton, Dana Suesse and Deems Taylor. | The American music festival will | mark the world premieres of two com- positions by contemporary American composers, the internationally known George Anthefl and Harold Arlen. American musicians participating in | the two concerts are George Gersh- win, Deems Taylor, Eugene Ormandy, Henry Hadley, Frank Black, Sophie Braslau, contralto, and Nelson Eddy. e S Sl " Television “Out. The question of television's possible advent disposed of for another year, the networks aren’t making any pro- gram plans along that line either for the immediate or the distant future. For a while there was quite a flurry around that maybe America, was looking into the first beginnings of radio sight. All because of the Eng- lish plans of conducting broadcast experiments of television on a defi- nitely active basis. Any arrangements that have been made for future programming and the like concern themselves entirely with the regular broadcasts without sight. In fact, the preparations for the dicate there will be a greater number than ever of special event transmis- sions such as sporting events, overseas pickups and attempts at hitting new air “firsts” with the microphone. Small Sets Popular. Foreign purchasers of American radios are demanding the smaller models, although the current craze for all-wave sets has raised the aver- age price of their purchases $25, reports Andrew W. Cruse, chief of the Department of Commerce electrical equipment division. He reports an all-time record for radio exports from the United States during 1934, when sales abroad were valued at $24,856,898, as compared with $16,125,719 in 1933. The United Kingdom, Spain, Mexico and Brazil | are the chief importers of United States radio equipment. Club to Broadcast. Radio Joe is going to turn over half an hour on the air via WRC Tuesday to members of the Newspaper Wo- men’s Club, when they will tell about the many features of the gala ball they are giving at the Willard Hotel Satur- day night for the benefit of the heating plant fund of Children’s Hos- pital and the fellowship fund of the club. Ten members of the club will speak during the half-hour broadcast. Play Gets Sponsor. “One Man’'s Family,” popular radio dramatic classic of everyday life, will be sponsored with the broadcasting be- ginning April 3. The program is today. Our weather will be manu- the cities, where it does countless come moisture in the farming regions YOU happen to hear a repetition | future, you won't be able to blame the artists to “puff” their numbers. That the music publishing industry, just As written the code forbids use of of any character to perform their Here's what the publishers can't do | arrangements of professional copies or FOREIGN SHORT-WAVE STATIONS cIry. Barranquilla . Berlin HJ1ABB A Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin ... Brussels . Caracas . Caracas . Eindhoven Geneva ... Guayaquil ., . .DJB sesesaneieads.DIC Havana . Huizen .. Jeloy Lisbon London Rome ..ccvuis STATION. MEGACYCLES. 15.20 11.76 15.28 10.33 15.22 11.73 now on a sustaining basis. HOURS. 6 to 10 p.m. 8 to 11:30 am.; 5:15 to 9:15 p.m. 12:30 to, 2 am., 3:45 to 7:15 am. Noon to 0 pm., 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Noon to 4:30 p.m. 3:45 to 11:30 am.; 5:15 to 10:30 p.m. 0 to 2 am. 6.45 9.57 6.02 9.54 1 @ 6.11 6.15 7.80 6.66 e e 588858 8 p.m. Sun.; 11:15 pm. = d g5 =3 6.01 1 Hss urs., :30 a.m. Saturday d Sunday. n to 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tues., urs. and Sat. B3 &5 885858 _obb o9 ) g8 - 19 Sen g e = 55 o B! B s8T 58 = - Rad Mrs. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, IN THE BROADCASTING STUDIOS AND and Social Fields_ i kleanor Holm (left), swimming cnamplon and contralto, who sings with Art Jarrett’s College Inn Orchestra on N. B. C In the center is Irene Dunne, celebrated film star, who will Jarrett. In private life she is D. io Draws Talent From Stage day play the leading role in “Secrets,” to be produced by the Radio Theater to- C, MARCH 24, 1935—PART FOUR. on N. B. C. Sund ay, March 24, | WRC 950k (Copyright, 1935) [ WISV 1460k Eastern Standard WOL 1,310k Eve Symington (right), New York soclety girl and night club entertainer, who will be featured during the Variety Matinee on Co- lumbia Tuesday at 3 p.m. Time. [Melody Hour Moments of Melody The Funnies |Eider Michaux 8:00 8:15 8:30 8:45 |The Balladeers | Florence Wightman Peerless Trio !This '’ That |On a Bus - - At Aunt Susan’s - |Old Church Songs | Radio Pulpit Marimba Orchestra Southernaires |Music Federation |Church of the Alr l\l‘bor News Review |Between Bookends Kay Reed, organist |The Funnies Jane Reddington College Glee Club |Morning Concert Dream sh.:pr Vagaries ! Jack and Loretta. |Maj. Bowes' Family The Listening Post |College Glee Club Musical Interlude “Your English” Jewish Program j’rnbemaclc Chotr AFTERNOON PROGRAMS Church Service 9:00 =4 Freedom of Air Speech. BY MARTIN CODEL. HOUGH it has decided to tighten up its regulation of | radio broadcasting by reshap- ing the Federal Communica- tions Commission, the Rome-‘ velt administration is significantly | maintaining & hands-off policy witn | regard to what is said about it over the radio wave lengths. Even its| harshest critic—Senator Huey P. Long | | —has had no cause to complain 5o | far that the freedom or frequency of his broadcast utterances have in any 9:15 9:30 | 10:15 P.M. | 12:30 |Aerial Columnist 12:00 [Short Wave Club 12:15 |“What Home Means” 12:45 Rhythm Makers 'Opportunity Matinee Chicago Round Table | Tabernacle Choir |Garden of Tomorrow |Midday Serenade Hilo Melody Boys The Caroline Tenor American Ensemble T13: 12:15 12:30 12:45 E oo‘1fiu:céfix{wrlfide. 1:15 |Columbia Dance Orch. e 1:30 |Surprise Party 1:45 Music Hall of thi |Dr. Danjel A. Poling “Little” Jack Little Spires of Melody Terrence O'Shea Console Moments Musical Sparklets 2:00 (Immortal Dramas CELT N 2:30 ‘Mnrlo Chamlee 245 o e |Anthony Frome Bob Becker Radio Theater Lazy Dan . |Music Hall e ichurch of the Alr |J0e Brown's Kiddies . 1:00 3:00 |Sally 3:15 - 3:30 |Pent 3B e £ 4:00 [Rhythm Symphony 4:15 | = = 4:30 [Harry Reser's Crew of the Talkies House Serenade. Radio Theater Sunday Vespers IN."Y. Philharmonic - Joe Brown's Kiddies Radio Voices |Melody Moments 4:45 |Dream Drama Philharmonic Father Coughlin - = 5:00 5:15 5:30 5:45 AT | Sentinels’ Serenade Tony Wons Travelogue Dog Drama EVENING Open House Q’\IIE“ IE‘ Sanderson PROGRAMS. Catholic Radio Hour Simons Concert Band 5 “ w National Catholic Hour |Evening Album |Sports Parade—Music “Grand Hotel” “ w ‘Music—Sports Review Three Maids iFireside Recitals |Wendal Hall Jack Benny Joe Penner |Amateur Show “Smilin’ Ed” McConnell Sports Review | The Watch Tower The Waltzers |“Old Toterable” Jimmy Laurence |Alexander Woollcott The Headliners Jimmy Laurence Goodwell Choir |American Ensemble Sports Oddities {Amateur Hour Symphony Concert Eddie Cantor Club Romance Ferry Boat Duo John Paine. Alma Stanley. Dance Music |Merry-Go-Round |Musical Revue Silken Strings Walter Winchell Sherlock Holmes ‘Sunday Evening Hour American Opry House |Jane Froman “One Man's Family” Moments of Melody Henry Seidel Canby Wayne King's Orch. Beauty That Endures {Fray and Bragglom_ Parade Dance Washington Musicale Bl News—Temple of Song “« u 1 Dance Music Don Pedro's Orchestra News Buiietins Jesse Crawford Slumber Music “ - Sign Off |Rep. Mead of New York Vivian Chiesa Gus Arnheim's Orch. | |The Family Circle— Dance Parade Gus Arnheim’s Orch. /Gus Armheim’s Orch. Keith Beecher’s Orch. - S Sign Off MS TOMORROW. Elder llm:nux Your Timekeeper 'Morning Glories The Getter Upper 'The Grenadiers Sun Dial | Your Timekeeper Morning Devotlons [Don Hall Trio Cheerio ' Your Timekeeper Organ Recital Sick-a-bed children Caroline Baker (News Bulletins Breakfast Club Sun Dial Jean Abbey. Blues Cure, .- . Johnny Marvin. Clara. Lu ‘0’ Em The Oleanders Joe White Josephine Gibson Holman Sisters Today’s Children Charley King U. S. Navy Band “« . 00 (Story of Mary Marlin Honeyboy and Sassafras Merry-Go-Round Merry Madcaps Two Hearts in Song M. and M. Program. Rex Battle’s Ensemb! Allstair Cooke ) (Revolving Stage |Sanford Bates Marjo Cozzi Dreams Come True The Sizzlers ‘Tony Wons Augustana Choir Listening Post Bennett Sisters Farm and Home Hour Farm and Home Hour Al and Lee Reiser 'Words and Music Music Guild Trving Kennedy Radio Guild “ w “ The Honeymooners News—Music Radio Interview Land o' Dreams . a Patti Chapin Radio Oracle. Sign Off Sign Off 00 EARLY PROGRA Voice of Experience ‘The Gumps Afternoon Rhythms Dick Messner’s Orch. AFTERNOON PROGRAMS Dick Messner’s Orch. Woman's Radio Review “ Martin’s Story Hour Songfellows Sundown Revue Tom Mix /Chasin’ the Blues Betty and Bob _?;.Bwfl- Evening Star Flashes Aunt Sue and Polly Singing Lady A new “Amateur Hour,” directed by | by the New York a Time Jules Landes’ Ensemble America’s Little House Rhythm Bandbox Chicago Varieties laklnw | Jack Armstrong ~110:30 to 11 p.m, way been restrained. | Since Congress convened no Sena- | as Senator Long. Indeed, President | |in his famous “fireside chats” since | | last September, and the few talks he | Scout greetings. | | At present Senator Long is prepar- | | gress first met in early January. He' will be heard Sunday night, March 31, from 11 to 11:30 o'clock over the | Columbia Broadcasting System. | Even before the Kingfish’s next | | speech the wave lengths will also be | cleared for Gen. Hugh S. Johfson for his reply to the Long-Coughlin ad- | dresses. This speech will be heard jover a National Broadcasting Co. blue network Saturday, March 30, at | and the former | N. R. A. chieftain says he hopes “will | definitely conclude this controversy.” | As for Father Coughlin, he of course | | commands an independent network | | of his own for one hour every Sunday | | afternoon, for which his organization | pays and during which he can say | | anything he pleases. tion of former Representative Anning S. Prall of New York to head the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates broadcasting along with the interstate telephone and telegraphs, has nothing whatever to do with the Johnson-Long-Coughlin debate or with anything else that might be uttered over the radio. This can be stated with absolute certainty. Rather it was a move to enforce the technical rules and regulations of the F. C. C. more stringently than the old Federal Radio Commission, always beset with political pressure, ever dared to enforce them. Such enforcement does not mean curbs upon freedom of expression over the radio, for the commission is for- bidden by law to impose any sort of censorship. The broadcasters them- they seldom look at political manu- scripts beforehand—or else suffer the penalties of joint liability for libel and slander under the court precedents thus far laid down. ‘The case of Senator Long is seen as a pointed example of freedom of radio in the United States. Some believe it is an example of too much freedom, yet the lack of restraints upon him appears to prove that the fundamental concept of freedom of speech is to be maintained. In per- haps no other country in the world could such a free exchange of broad- cast bombast occur as in the triangular * | debate whose end is apparently not yet in view. e Boys' Choir on Air. A broadcast of a concert by the Holy Cross Boys’ Choir of Dresden, Ger- many, from the deck of the North German Lloyd liner Stuttgart is sched- uled by N. B. C. tomorrow at 9:45 am. The choristers are coming to the United States for a concert tour which opens Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera House. Sponsored by President Roosevelt’s recent selec- | selves must do the censoring—though | ON F-7 THE AIR Radio to Invade Society For New Entertainers Park Avenue Will Have Opportunity to Demon- strate How Good a Show It Can Give. Blue BOO By Peter Dixon. SHORT time ago, I made some predictions about new trends in radio. Said predic- tions had to do with the pos- sibility of a parade of literary names before the microphone. That is still a good possibility. However, there seems to be a great likelihood that radio is going to become just fearfully society conscious. While today it's necessary to be an amateur to get on the air, tomorrow it's pos- sible you'll only be welcomed by sponsors if your name is in the Blue Book. Newspapers years ago realized the value of America’s aristocracy as a circulation builder. And society news isn't written for society folks. No indeedy. polloi, the masses with a small m and all of us who can’t help but be curious about the goings on of the elite (pronounced e-light by those of us who really care). Now the radio program builders, who haven't realized that they could learn a thing or two g | bess N from the newspapers, have become quite conscious of Park Avenue's glitter. So you're going to get debu- tantes and men-about-town, dowagers and Junior Leaguers and such titled personages who are not above making an honest dollar now and then. * * X ¥ ERSONALLY, I'm in favor of it. If news about society folk is en- tertaining, then the folks them- selves ought to be entertaining. As a 9:45| tor, Representative or cabinet officer | matter of fact, a lot of them are 0:00 | has been heard as often on the radio | charming. I'd rather hear Lefty Flynn and the charming Mrs. Flynn, who was 10:30 | Roosevelt himself has not been heard | Ncora Langhorne, than many of the more professional entertainers. Both of them sing and sing well, in case 11:15 | has made on the radio since then have |you didn’t know it. And there are | 11:30| been on such subjects as his message plenty of other people who find a 11:45 | to Congress and his birthday and Boy | silver spoon is no impediment to pleasing vocal efforts. The British aristocracy fills an im- — | ing to go on the air once again for portant place in the British scheme 00| his sixth network speech since Con- |of things by keeping the populace entertained. Our American aristoc- racy should realize it has its obli- gations to the common peep-ul. And what greater medium than radio? Let's have more Cole Porter ditties, more blue-blooded two-piano teams and more smart commentators from Mayfair! When Park Avenue can | put on a better entertainment than | the Union Square Communists, all danger of revolution is past. * % * % OST noticeable improvement in | programs is in Hollywood Hotel. The sponsor sent Bill Bachen late | of Showboat, and Irving Reis, the talented C. B. S. engineer who also writes, to California to do something about the program. And it's quite worth hearing. Hats off to the spon- sor who refused to cancel his program | even though almost every critic said | it was terrible. He did something | about it, instead. N. B. C. has plans | | to feature Pinky Lee, a comedian who | lipth. That would have to happen | just when three-year-old sons have | quit having “you n-a-a-sty man!” . .. I'll stay home Tuesday night to hear Walter Winchell and Ben Bernie to- | gether on Bernie's beer program. | Their last joust was most marvelously | entertaining . . . Jack Dempsey. in- , cidentally, will be Bernie's guest the following week. | * ¥ x % Radio Guild is giving N. B. C. listeners John Galsworthy's “The | Silver Box™” on Monday, March 25, at 4 o'clock. It's an hour-long pres- | enetation . . . Irene Dunne doing “Secrets’ for the Radio Theater to-| day at 2:30 o'clock . . . Four 1934 | Nobel prize winners to talk Tuesday, | April 9, over N. B. C. The occasion | |is a world peaceways dinner; the | | speakers, Dr. George R. Minot, Dr. | | William P. Murphy, Dr. G. H. Whipple | and Dr. Harold C. Urey . . . Dorothy | | E. Schreier, first blind actress to be | heard over the air with a seeing cast, | to talk over WOR Friday . . . Maj. | Bowes launching his Amateur Hour | over N. B. C. at 8 o'clock tonight |... N. B. C. inaugurating the sports season, via airwave, Friday, with re- | porting of the Golden Gloves finals | | from the Chicago auditorium and the | running of the Grand National at Aintree, England. | * X X X : L JOLSON coming back to the ether Saturday, April 6, in the first of a series of weekly broadcasts. | Will he play Hamlet? . . . Peggy Flynn | signed for another year on the Pent | House Party program . . . Verna | Burke signed to a year's contract by | N. B. C. and will shortly be given three | evening spots weekly . . . Dance in- | structions offered in & light comedy | MAJOR BOWES famous and original 'AMATEUR OUR CHASE & SANBORN'S DATED COFFEE Station WRC 8 P. M. and Every Sunday Night thereafter It's written for the hoi| k Raided. vein are promised by Lydia and Jores- co when they inaugurate their N. B. C. series late next month . . . Thursday | period added to Smiling Ed McCon- | nell’s regular Sunday broadcasts . . . Sigmund Romberg to publish a group | of the original musical sketches he has featured on radio during the last four years . . . Jack Fulton slated for tw additional spots on C. B. 8. ... Gus | Haenschen back on his regular pro- | grams after a Florida vacation . . . | Roxy signs Zora Layman for C. B. S. programs and stage appearances . . . | Louise Bernhardt, American contralto, to make her debut on C. B. 8. auto | show with Isham Jones’ Orchestra | Tuesday night . . . Frank Black to be heard on a new commercial, starting next month . . . Gogo DeLys, on Phil Baker's Friday night program, has made 12 guest star appearances since she came east last month . . . 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