Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1935, Page 65

History’s Largest Hook-up Will Link 31 Countries “Youth Sings Across Borders” Program Being Presented Today Under Al}spices THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 27, 1935—PART FOUR. BIG BROADCASTS SPUR INGENUITY OF RADIO MANAGERS Versatile Radio Stars Return for Winter Series F—9 Engineering Aids Studios Drop “Hush” Watchword Tourists Now Are Welcomed to Broadecast Rooms—Effect on Programs Is Laudable. of Geneva Union. By the Radio Editor. NCREDIBLE sometimes are the extreme lengths to which the radio managers, both in America and a Witness, for example, the hook-up of radic stations in 31 countries— largest network in radio’s history—for the “Youth Sings Across Borders” program being staged today under the casting Union at Geneva in vursuit o better understanding among the na-g tions of the world via radio. This program, consisting of choral groups singing from 20 European countries, from four countries in South America and from the United States, Hawali, Australia, Japan, Siam and the Dutch East Indies, will be heard over the American network as well as over the radio systems of all the other countries. Each nation is to present a chorus singing typical native songs, with the cues and switchovers for the extensive system of relay broadcasts handled from Berlin. Quite aside from its idealistic mo- tive, which its sponsors hope one day will awaken a better appreciation and understanding among all nations of the world of their respective cultures, | such an encrmous hook-up represents | *“just another stunt” to the men whose | Job it is to keep the radio day apace | with the cultural, scientific and his- | toric progress of the world. This is not to depreciate the motives ©f Secretary General Arthur Burrows and his International Broadcasting Union. It is a simple statement of | fact based upon close observation of | how they do things behind the micro- phone not only in America but in the | other more progressive (in a radio | way) countries of the world. | | IONSIDER the fact that Both of the major American networks have men stationed at strategic points in Europe to arrange for important speeches and public events broadcasts as the news demands. Between them the networks here carry not less than | one such relay per day. England early | next year will send over a representa- | tive, too, who will be stationed in New York to arrange for similar broad- | easts to the British public. The man | already selected for this first assign- | ment of a foreign “radio ambassador” ] tc the United States is Felix Greene of the staff of the British Broadcast- | ing Corp. Consider also the offerings of talks by Emperor Haille Selassie and by | various American newspaper men <cur- rently from Addis Ababa, the nation- | wide hook-ups for prizefights, world series and foot ball games and the more or less regular pick-ups of various programs from almost any city inm America as well as almost any point in the civilized world with which wire or wireless communication can be es- tablished. g | These are everyday demonstrations of radio's amazing adaptability to world circumstances. They are taken | as a matter of course by most radio listeners, whose imaginations may be | temporarily fired, but who quickly &s- | sume as matter-of-fact an attitude | toward them as toward the magic of radio itself. Not quite so blase, how- ever, are the men behind the micro- phones—mostly youngsters, and a good half of them former newspaper report- ers. Their enthusiasm and their ideas are responsible for most of these “big | broadcasts.” FVEN more incredible than what is < actually being done are the bright {deas for “remote controls,” as these | non-studio shows are called in this country, or “outside broadcasts” as | they are called in England, which con- | stantly pour into the radio offices from persons not connected with radio. It should be said here that practlcall‘y all ideas for “remote controls” origi- nate in the departments specially set up to handle such broadcasts. Probably the most frequent sugges- tion from the outside is that there ought to be a broadcast of a parachute Jump, with the jumper describing his sensations as he descends. Not only fans but many stunt flyers willing to try it themselves have forwarded this . idea. It was tried once, with poor results. The radio people have con- sistently ruled against it ever since, not only because of the hazards in- | volved, but because it is rather im- practical on account of the weight of the equipment that would have to be | carried. One network received a suggestion | that it put on a band of 20 pieces from | as many different cities, the trumpeter playing in Kansas City, the trombonist in New York, the drummer in San | Francisco, etc. This can be done, but | * the enormous cost of arranging it and | hooking up the various cities, and the fact that dance bands are common- place anyhow, led to its rejection. It has been done successfully, however, with singing and instrumental trios and quartets from three or four cities. TH! special events department of the \* Columbia Broadcasting System, headed by Paul W. White, former newspaper reporter, actually called the bluff once 6f several people who re- quested a broadcast from a haunted house. They put on a scientist who gave a talk debunking such things as mysterious rappings, footsteps, etc. They then invited any one to tell them of a ghost who had sufficiently regular habits of haunting to be scheduled on a network. A deluge of letters came in insisting ! there were ghosts here or there. But » when the writers were pinned down to ! the actual fact of having their pet ghost face a mike, they reneged. Imagination and zeal often outdo i common sense when it comes to sug- gestions from the outside. White re- calls that one man actually offered to arrange, 8 special battle between the forces of Paraguay and Bolivia in the 3 recent Chaco affray if he would broad- gast it. Another man not long ago visited Mr. White's office and offered i to commit suicide before the micro- . phone. He was in financial straits, he ; explained, and he insisted he would { go through with the “stunt” on sched- % ule if given payment in advance. - ANY of America's 47,000 amateur radio operators, better known as | “hams,” are to be busily engaged dur- ing the next year.in tuning in on | frequencies in all parts of the world and in all bands in the radio spec- trum as their part in a world-wide survey on the use of the ether. The “hams,” both in the United States and in other parts of the world, are fighting for more frequencies to ! be assigned to amateur radio. The ‘-worldwwide survey ia to be presente¢)| | clears its European traffic through | stations at Rocky Point, Long Island. broad, will go for a “big broadcast.” auspices of the International Broad- f{ its loug-sought ideal of promoting to the International Telecommunica- tions Conference to be held In Cairo commencing February 1, 1938, with the goal of securing a greater portion of the ether from the world nations for amateur operations. What the “hams” hope to discover are fre- quencies now assigned to communica- tion companies and other groups which are not being used to full capacity and are really “paper” regis- trations cn the list of the Interna- tional Telecommunications Bureau at Berne, Switzerland. A big “ham-fest” is to be staged in Washington November 2 at which the international and amateur situa- tions are to be discussed by a list of prominent speakers, including Chair- man Irvin Stewart of the F. C. C. telegraph division; Maj. Gen. Allison, Army chief signal officer; Capt. Row- cliff, naval communications director, and Kenneth B. Warner, executive segretary of the American Radio Re- lay League. THOSE who go down to the sea in ships are looking eagerly to an | ultra-short wave device perfected by | a young French engineer as the pos- sible answer to one of maritime nav gation’s constant dangers—collision | with vessels, derelicts, icebergs and | other obstacles in fogs and storms. The apparatus is now undergoing | tests on the French liner Normandie | and early reports state that it is working splendidly. The device employs well known radio principles, being actually an ultra-short wave radio transmitter located on the bridge of the Norman- die. It sends out radio “beams,” un- seen flashes of electrical impulses, on a wave length of 16 centimeters, or 0.16 of one meter. Like a searchlight, the beams describe an arc of 45 de- grees with the center of the arc on the ship’s course. If the beams are interrupted by any obstacle in the path of the vessel or within the 45- degree arc, the device records the fact through an amplifier which can be heard by the officers on the bridge. | Weather conditions have no effect | on the operation of the radio beam, | which is working constantly. The | tests on the Normandie have de- | tected objects as far away as four miles. The inventor is M. Ponte of Paris. Radio Link to Ethiopia. DETERMINE‘D to free America still further from “British bondage” with respect to wireless traffic which hitherto has cleared through London, the Federal Communications Commis- sion last week granted Press Wireless, Inc.. radio subsidiary of a group of leading - American newspapers, au- thority to communicate directly with Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, where a galaxy of star American war correspondents is now clustered. At the same time the F. C. C. re- ceived an application, which will un- doubtedly be granted, from R. C. A. Communications, Inc., which usually London, for similar authority to pick up Ethiopia direct on two of its radio Previously practically all war news from Addis Ababa has been routed from the Ethiopian radio Station ETA via British Marconi circuits to Lon- don and thence to the United States. The new direct circuits from the United States to Ethiopia will be 7,000 miles long, one of the longest ra- dio spans ever attempted on schedule. R. C. A. Communications, Inc., at present maintains direct communica- tions with Turkey, Persia and Syria, from which countries relays from ETA can be picked up in the event atmospheric conditions thwart direct reception from Ethiopia. Direct communications between Ethiopia and the United States will eliminate, it is believed by high au- | thorities and by newspaper and com- On the left is & young lady known to radio only as Ferne. She is the violin virtuoso featured by Fred Waring during his weekly broadcasts on Columbia. A native of California, she studied violin under the noted con- cert artist, Efrem Zimbalist. Rubinoff is the centerpiece. With a new violin, he Has returned to the microphone with his orchestra for a new series Sunday, October 27, (Copyright, 1935) AM.] WRC—950k "8:00 Melody Hour 8:15 G 8:30 8:45 | WMAL—630k ‘William Meeder, organist Tone Pictures WOL—1310k W ey s USH! ways than one. Hush! That used to be H And the interesting thing about hasn't injured that business one little bit. It has, in fact, helped it. ‘When Mr. and Mrs. Tourist go to New York for a visit they are cordially received at the studios these days. They can join the thousands who trek through the studios on organized tours, or when it comes time for their favorite crooner to go on the air they can go in and be a part of thd large audience looking on at his show. And so it just stands to reason that Mr. and Mrs. Tourist will go back to the old home town with a warm spot in their hearts and a hand in their purse for effervescent soda water or whatever the product of the sponsor who made it possible for them to see on N. B. C. Virginia Rea, soprano, and Jan Peerce, tenor, suppert him. Elizabeth Love is on the right. She is the stage and radio star whe is play- ing the leading feminine role opposite Leslie Howard in “Amateur Gentle- men” on Columbia, Major Features and Notes RICHARD CROOKS, Metropolitan i Opera tenor, will be the guest soloist with Victor Kolar's Symphcay | Orchestra during the Sunday evening | hour on WJSV at 9 o'clock. His pro- | gram includes the aria “In Fernem Land” from Wagner's “Lohengrin,” | “Then You'll Remember Me” from Elder Michaux - - 9:00 |Marimba 9:15 » 9:30 (Goldwaite Ensemble 9:45 [This 'n’ That Orchestra |On a Bus " “« . PR Dixie Harmonies News Bulletins Meditation in Psalms -00 | Balfe’s “Bohemian Girl,” “Nina” by | Pergolesi and “Tell Me Tonight” by Spoilansky. Two famous “Fifth” symphonies— |At Aunt Susan’s Songs of the Church 9:45 Gospel Singer 10:00 |Radio Pulpit “ “ Piano Moods 10:15 10: Southernaires Musical Moments American Youth " e String Quartet Mystery Girl Knights of Columbus one by Jan Sibelius and the other by Beethoyen—will be featured by the » New York Philharmonic Symphony 10:30 | 10:45 | Orchestra during its concert over | WJSV from 3 to 5. Church of the Alr 10:00 LR 10:15 Morning Melodies News—Listening Post Neighbor Nell Master Singers Samovar Serenade News—Vagaries Peerless Trio Maj. Bowes' Family Services w w Church Rudy Vallee's Music Wayne King's Music Reflections :}‘l’g Rosa Ponselle, Metropolitan prima 11-30 | donna soprano, will sing excerpts from 11:45 | the opera “Carmen” during the con- — | cert on WRC at 10. The Metropolitan ' Tabernacle Choir 112:15 112:30 P.M. AFTERNOON PROGRAMS P.M. Concert Gems News Bulletins Police Flashes—Music George Greer 12:00 Maj. Bowes' Family Pageant of Youth w ow w . | Youth Across Borders Music Hall | Tabernacle Choir | |Across the Border Lucille Pierce Ferguson | International Broadeast | Watch Tower Italian Trio Symphonic Works Round Table 200 Chicago 1:15 | g :30 |Moads and Modes Music Hall Bible Highlights | Church of the Air {Musical Footnotes | Sisters of the Skillet 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 1:00 | 1:15 | 1:30 | 1:45 | |Bible Dramas The Magic Key Church of the Air Your English Mountain Merrymakers Vox Pop Rld&) Klflud.lu Radio Kiddies Underworld Cathedral “ ow Band Goes to Town The Widow's Sons I e Sunday Serenade | Spires of Melody Columbia Orch. Mission Parade Blue Flames N. Y. Philharmonic - - 2:00 2:15 2:30 2:45 Jewish Dramatic Troup Dance Music Orchestral Musie Sundown Revue College Sweethearts Voice of Washington National Vespers Dr. Francis Townsend 0 Philharmonid 0 Penthouse Berenade |Roses and Drums Chats About Dogs |Gabriel Heatter EVENING Dream Drama |Al Goodman PROGRAMS Crumit and Sanderson | | News Bulletins Bob Carbauh Ave Maria |Evening Album Tony and Gus Grand Hotel Catholic Hour Aerial Columnist Sports Review—Music Amateur Night Smilin’ Ed McConnell {Arch McDonald Salon Orchestra Dance Music Famous Voices 'K-7 Drama Fireside Recitals Sunset Dreams Jack Benny Ozzie Nelson's Orch. | Alexander Woollcott Headliners Organ Recital The Lido Girls Harlem Family Casa Loma Orchestra Bowes’ Amateur Hour “« w - - Musical Comedy Revue Singing Boys (Hendrik Wiliem Van Loon Eddie Cantor “« u Leslie Howard Merry-Go-Round | Album of Familiar Music| Walter Winchell AN + |Niela Goodelle Life Is a Song Five-Star Final G el Fats Waller Good-Will Court Sunday Evening Hour 9:45 Erno Rapee’s Orch. Seth Parker Good Will Court Family Circle “ o w News Bulletins Velvetone Music munications executives, any possibility | of censorship of the Italo-Ethiopian war news at London. It is also ex- pected that the direct circuits will lower costs and considerably expedite the transmission of the war news—as- suming, of course, ETA'S capacity to handle the immense amount of word traffic coming out of Emperor Haile Selassie’s capital. The Ethiopian sta- tion, said to be under British and French domination, is reported to be overtaxed even now, and it has taken many hours and sometimes days for some dispatches to reach the United States, New Patents in Radio PATEN"IS covering radio devices have been granted by the Patent Office in the last few weeks to the following Washington inventors: Louis A. Gebhard and Corrie F. Randolph, electrical condenser, as- signed to Wired Radio, Inc, New York; Louis A. Gebhard, high-power demountable rim; Harvey C. Hayes, sound receiver and sound-detecting. device (two patents); Louis Cohen, Col. Joseph I. McMullen and Col. Joseph O. Mauborgne, landing field localizer; Jennings B. Dow, oscillator system, assigned to Radio Corporation of America; Vincent- J. Fabian, vacuum tube amplifier circuit; John P. Buckley, coil antenna; Edward G. Lunn, battery; Albert Hoyt Taylor, circuit for precision control of master oscillators; John A. Willoughby, radio navigating system. In addition, the Patent Office issued a patent on a pre-selector circuit for high-frequency radio receivers to Westley F. Curtis of Beaver Heights, Md. Cummings’ Aide to Talk. MISS STELLA AKIN, assistant to Attorney General Cummings, will talk on “Crime Prevention™ over WOL and associated $tations of the intercity group at 9:30 p.m. Thursday. Miss Akin is one of the speeakers in a series presented by Mrs. James H. Wolfe, director of the woman's division of the Democratic National Committee, News Bulletins Johnny Tucker Slumber Serenade . ‘The Melody Master Slumber Hour News—Night Owl —— Sign O —— ) |Willle Bryant's Orchestra) Sammy Kaye's Orchestra| EARLY PROGRAMS TOMORROW Gordon Hittenmark Gordon Hittenmark “ w ~—i— Sign OF —— | Wayne King's Orchestra The Old Timer Roosevelt Memorial Roosevelt Memorial Frankie Dailey’s Orch, Carl Hof's Orchestra News Bulletins Jack Little’s Orchestra Merle Carlson’s Orchestra “« “ |~ —— Sign off —— | Elder Michaux R.F.D. “ Musical CK Sun Dial 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 | 12:15 12:30 12:45 1:00 AM. 6:00 6:15 Gordon Hittenmark ! e Gordon Hittenmark Rosa Lee Helpful Harry Police Flashes—Music Varieties News Bulletins Juliet Romeo Dance Time Ladies of the Alr Wesley and Romey News Bulletins Breakfast Club Plelds and Hall R s Morning Melodles News—Fashions Home, Sweet Home Sun Dial Jean Abbey Sally at the Switchboard News—Music Josephine Gibson Agnes and Lou [Harmonies in Contrast Margaret McCras Lawrence Gould Varieties Views of the News Honeyboy and Sassafras |Curbstone Queries Farm and Home Hour Poetic String Blanche Sweet Morning Melodies Just Plain Bill 00 11:15 11:30 11:45 Opera Chorus will support her. The orchestra, directed by Erno Rapee. will play the “Scherzo” from Mendelssohn's music for “A Midsummer Night's Dream” and excerpts from the “Sche- herazade Suite” by Rimsky-Korsakow. ‘The Youth Sings Across Borders program on WRC at 12:15, will bring programs from 20 countries. Choral groups from the countries involved will sing typical songs of their native land. Viola Philo will have the title role in “Aida” which will bring to a close the cycle of Verdi operas in the Radio City Music Hall of the Air program on WMAL at 12:30. A symphony orchestra of 75 pieces will play the Verdi score. Eddie Cantor will celebrate his fifth radio anniversary during the broad- | cast on WJSV at 8. Jessica Dragonette, Beatrice Lillie and Jan Garber's Orchestra will join in a musical salute to the United | States Navy during the Magic Key | program on WMAL at 2. Dr. Francis E. Townsend, author of the Townsend plan for old age pen- sions will speak over WMAL at 4:30 His subject is “New Age Demands New Measures.” Frank Black Honored. AMER!CAN broadcasting was hon- ored by a foreign government last week when Dr. Frank Black, gen- eral music director of the National Broadcasting Co., was made an offi- cer with palms of the French Academy. On behalf of the French minister of public instruction, Dr. Isidor Philipp, who just arrived on the S. S. Normandie, himself an officer of the French Academy and an officer of the Legion of Honor, presented Dr. Black with this distinguished French decora- tion. The decoration which accom- panied Dr. Black’s commission by the French Academy consists of crossed silver palm leaves set in rubies. oIy, Barranquilla Berlin Eindhoven Geneva London Madrid Melbourne b7 TN —— ). ) (Pontoise) (Pontoise) b 7. T R——— . ] Sydney -----o--o--..VKIME Valencs eo-oeee-....YVERV the wheels of broadcasting go 'round. HELVING the mystery in radio has had a highly benign effect, so far as the listener is concerned. And mean- while it has had laudable influence on radio programs, too. Chiefly because of it, spontaneity has become the watchword of the networks. These days an artist can go ahead and be himself without fear of disrupting a whole program if he dares to take so much as a good, deep breath while he’s in front of the microphone. Why? | Because the engineering experts have | made scientifically designed studios | take care of the echoes and vibrations which it used to be up to the person- nel of a program to watch out for. Yet not so long ago it was up to the | radio artist to remember—first, last | and always—“I'm on the air.” If he was booked to sing. for instance, from the old WCGU station (remember it, at Broadway and Forty-eighth street?) he_ was hushed right at the studio door | by huge signs demanding “Stlence!” No viéitors were allowed, of course. A red light blinked the zero hour when dhe singer was due to go on the air. And if he stubbed his toe getting to the microphone it was up to the thick, red, velvet rugs and wall hang- ings to absorb the echoes of his mis- adventure. These days he probably wouldn't have to go to the microphone at all. It would be right there handy for him, | as one of three or four microphones ‘[Whith pick up various portions of | almost every major program nowa- | days. And if he were broadcasting | from WOR, for instance, he would | probably wind up behind the eight- | | ball whatever he did. That is the | name of the new globular type of | microphone which is “alive” on all | | sides. It takes its name from the | shape and it eliminates all the hazards of the chance of a performer getting on the wrong or “dead” side of the | old type of microphone. ‘VHILE radio mourns the passing | of that talented young singer of the Metropolitan and the networks, | | fellow artists of Kurt Brownell are remembering his three-fold ambitions: To sing at the Metropolitan, to drive & fast automobile and fly his own air- plane. The first he realized; the sec- ond resulted in his death in a motor | accident out West the other day; the | | third was unfulfilled. | Early this year, Brownell was sent | | for hurriedly when Richard Crooks who was to sing the tenor role in “Die Meistersinger” was unable to | appear. Brownell resporded end | learned the role in two days. His ap- pearance at the Metropolitan was a | triumph. | Crooks, by the way, comes back | November 4 to sing rnately with Nelson Eddy and Margaret Speaks | on those Monday night, 8:30 o'clock | concerts on N. B. C. Meanwhile, you have a chance to hear him tonight, too, when he is to be guest artist on the Sunday Evening hour. CAN there be more than meets the ear in George Jessel's signature for a return engagement on the Saturday Chateau broadcast November 232 You | remember the rivalry between Jessel | and the Chateau's former M. C., Al | Jolson—which means it would provide | a touch of irony for Jessel to get | & regular starring spot on that show. | Ruth Etting is asking the broad- | casters to help her make up her mind whether she has retired or not. She 3 =5 gSEs =2588 . SuoeuamIBOEag 5858858 5885888¢8 “pEEE .m. daily; 11:30 pm. aturday only. 6:30 pm., 8 to 10 pm. to 10:30 a.m. except esday & Wednesday. n to 6 pm. an $s v 558 s 8 p.m. pm, 10 to 11 p.m. e 4 pm, 2:30 to - e Bgw g noon. 5 am. = e Ggd & g2 =S @ Sy .m. :30 p.m. am. Wed.; 5 to Sat. pm, 6 to 7 am, 11 am. Sunday; a.m. Wednesday. 6 pm. pm, 11 pm. to a8 8 5878 e £y g s 2 258 55 153 4,888 88 y & Friday. g 10:15 am,; noon pm, 1:45 to 2:30 ® om0 o By Dorothy Mattison the watchword of tne studios in more But no more—thanks to the genius of the sound engineers and that rapidly growing tendency of the broadcasters to take the listener into their confidence. it all is the fact that rolling up the rsonalities curtain of mystery which used to surround the pecularities, pe: and program of the radio businessé said she would retire. She also said she would sail January 1 for a round- the-globe cruise. But the boat won't €ail, on account of disturbed condi- tions due to the Italo-Ethiopian cone flict. Meanwhile, Miss. Etting's radio contract has expired. Fanchon and Marco are auditioning geveral of their shows . . . Xavier Cugat went all the way to Mexico to gather talent for the Mexican band he will present for a one-night stand . . . Stoopnagle and Budd leave the Fred Waring program November 12 ., . . Jimmy Fidler will be back with his movie gossip Wednesday on N. B. C., 10:30 pm. Gogo DeLys has bookings on both N. B. C. and C. B. 8. networks, having signed for a new program | Saturdays at 6:45 pm. on C. B. S, | There's such a thing as being too good at a job. Clem Clements of the | new Melody Masters series is Bill | Adams, the man who imitated Roose- velt’s voice so well in the March of | Time broadcasts that the sponsor took him off for fear listeners might mis- | take his veice for the President him- self. . ( Connie Boswell Guest. | (CONNIE BOSWELL, one of radio’s foremost singing stars, will be | the featured guest soloist with Ray | Noble and his orchestra when the young maestro begins his new series of weekly programs over the Co- lumbia network Wednesday. The | novel singing trio of Babs and her Brothers also will be heard with Miss | Boswell and Noble. 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