Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1936, Page 43

Broadcasters To Preserve @ Are United Air Freedom Factionalism Threate ns Intérnal Rifts in Association—Politicians Draw Compara- tively Small Percentage of Listeners. By the Radio Editor. casting as an industry is today L IKE an adolescent child just coming into manhood, American broad- suffering from “growing pains” that are being manifest in intra-family squabbles but just as one member of a family will permit no outsider to malign his relatives, the broadcasters are united on one fundamental point—and that is freedom of the radio. Assurances contained in the platforms of both the major parties that radio must remain free along withé¢ the press, taken together with a mes- sage from President Roosevelt reas- serting his “faith in American broad- casting and in American broadcasters,” considerably heartened the men who | operate this country’s $100,000,000 | broadcasting industry as they gathered here for the opening sessions of the annual convention of the National As- sociation of Broadcasters. The industry is split into factions— networks vs. independents, high-power stations vs. regionals and locals, and other groupings—such as to threaten to break up its hitherto common front. Copyright is the major issue, with some of the independents charging the big networks with getting the best of the deal whereby each station (but not the networks as such) must pay the| American Society of Composers, Au- | thors and Publishers 5 per cent of their gross revenues plus an arbitrary “sus- taining fee.” This and the other internal ques- | tions are to bebattled out on the floor of the convention. The hope of the industry’s leaders is to avoid a split of the association into smaller units each seeking its own ends. THE broadcasters President OLITICS, take notice! When the Louis-Schmeling fight was being broadcast the other night, 57 per cent of the owners of radio sets interviewed for the Crossley Reports, known in radio circles as the co-operative analy- sis of broadcasting, were tuned in for that event even though Father Cough- lin was on the opposing network ex- tolling the virtues of the new Union Party. When Senator Steiwer was deliver- ing the keynote address of the recent Republican national convention, the same report showed only 21 per cent of the set owners tuned in. And when Senator Barkley was keynoting the Democratic national convention, about 23 per cent reported they were listen- ing. All of which is regarded as indicativa of audience preferences in this coun- try; yet the listener this Summer and Fall will be regaled with more politi- cal blandishments on the air than ever before in radio history, both the Democratic and Republican radio divisions having given notice that they will spend much larger budgets on| radio than the mere $500,000 each spent in the 1932 campaign. 'HE listener and his dialing pref- e erences presumably rule Ameri- the trade journal Broadcasting, meant | ¢ Taio™ by sometimes he needs | that Uncle Sam has no intention of | an extra set of ears to hear all his tmposing restraints that might ham- | fsvz};ite programs on the rival net- | : s works and stations. Some idea of the | :::\nghplx':ce.mnflsk‘:?:m?re:ox: Iffi”“f{',fi; intensity of the competition between | radio does prevail in this country to- | the major networks for listener at- day—as in few other countries of the | tention is given in the current “spar- world — was pointedly demonstrated Ting’ fqr most favorable hours going only last week when the big networks | On between the networks as they pre- even carried the convention proceed- | PAre their Autumn schedules. ings and acceptance speeches of the | Mal. Bowes' defection from the Communist candidates for President and Vice President. Certainly, it is pointed out, none of the dictator countries of the world, where radio is retained as a govern- mental enterprise, would permit any such opposition to existing institu- tions to have a hearing on the air— especially not in Communist Russia or Fascist Germany and Italy. That recriminations would be heaped upon the networks for permitting the Com- munists to speak, was regarded as certain—but the networks are sticking to their policy of giving the politicos equal opportunity, within reasonable bounds of popular interest, to have their say on the radio. Having broadcast fully the Republic- an and Democratic national conven- tions, having permitted Father Cough- lin to speak on behalf of the Unioa| hy Party ticket and having given the Socialists and Communists time on the air, all at no cost, the radio mana- gers are now imposing a check and balance on the political use of radio that may or may not conduce to full freedom. They are requiring regular N. B. C. Red network to Chrysler | sponsorship on the Columbia net- | !work is causing the biggest upheaval | | of proved popular successes. He will | relinquish his Sunday evening hour | | some time in September. No period | has been chosen for him as yet on | C. B. 8., but a Thursday evening hour | is being considered. Now Thursday, Rudy Vallee and the Showboat | hour, are generally conceded to cap- | | ture most of the audiences for N. B. popular Kate Smith to start October | 1 for a full hour opposite Rudy Vallee, 8-9 o'clock, and Maj. Bowes may go to the 9-10 o'clock period. There is some talk of moving | Rudy’s hour to Sunday night, taking | Maj. Bowes' place, but this is re- | garded as unlikely even thcugh the same company sponsors Rudy that | hgs been sponsoring Maj. Bowes. In | | the meantime, upon taking Maj. Bowes away from the N. B. C. Red retwork, C. B. S. signed Nelson Eddy | with Josef Pasternak’s orchestra for THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JULY 5, 1936—PART FOUR. . FALL SHOWS THREATEN REPETITION OF PROGRAM IDEAS Undersea Broadcast Planned by Radio Chain A broadcast from 60 feet beneath the surface of the Pacifie will be heard over the Columbia metwork next Saturday when Ted Bliss, announcer, dons a microphone-equipped diving suit and descends to the submarine gardens off Catalina Island. Bliss will be accompanied by Capt. Tinch, noted diver, who is shown above (in white suit) preparing Charles Bulotti, jr., for an exploratory- trip of the area. Sunday, July 5. (Copyright, 1936) | CAPITAL’S RADIO PROGRAMS | Eastern Standard Time. AM. [ WRC—950k WMAL—630k | WOL—1310k | WJSV—L460k _ [A.M. | 7:00 |Melody Hour e | C. Red. YetC. B.S. has scheduled the | 110 |Ant | {Concert Ensemble obal’s Cubans Coast to Coast |Salutations News Bulletins Pianologue |At Aunt Susan's Sabbath Reveries This 'n’ That Music of the Masters News—Talks Vogues and Vagaries Bowes' Capito] Family Bowes' Capitol Family Chicago Round Table " News—Alice Remsen |Southerna ires ’smng Quartet | Peerless Trio |“The World Is Yours” |Pageant of Youth | Music Hall on the Air Jungle Jim John Ford, lecturer Music and News Turning Around " | Turning Around Modern Melodies Concert Master Concert Master Jubilee Choir tChmch Services Church of the Air Poetic Strings Songs of the Church |Day Dreams ‘«Tubemucle Choir Tabernacle Choir |Purleigh Church. England News Excg.nnge | <00 | 11:30 11:45 AFTERNOON PROGRAMS PM 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 Harold Nagel's Orch. /Samovar Serenade [Music Hall on the Alr # ‘S\mdny Forum | Police Flashes—Music Matty Levine Cantor Shapiro Salon Music Church of the Air |Russell Dorr !Eddie Dunsteder 1:00 |Moods and Modes Magic Key 1:18 1:30 1:45 !Peter Absolute [ Watch Tower—Music Dance Music Petite Musicale the first half hour and Eddie Cantor | 200 Musical Revue for the second half hour of the | | Sunday 8-9 p.m. period. Eddie Cantor for a short time tried | commercial payment for all political | broadcasts, alloting each party its|out Sundays 8-8:30 pm. on C. B. S., “equal opportunity” to equivalent tims but he gave it up with the candid on the air according to its ability to pay. This may automatically exclude the Socialists and Communists from using any appreciable amount of time, for neither party is expected to have anywhere near the amount of money to spend for radio time that the Re- Ppublicans and Democrats will have. President Roosevelt’s message to the convention was being interpretec in many ways here, but chiefly it was regarded as an endorsement of com- petitive network and station operation. “Radio broadcasting,” he stated, “not only is the great fireside entertainer. but has come to be a great molder of public opinion. There should be no monopoly in the molding of public opinion, either Government or private.” Broadcasting Polit cost to the National \HE Broadcasting Co. of bringing to American radio listeners complete proceedings of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions is set at more than a quarter of a million dollars, according to figures released by N. B. C. at Ra- dio City, N. Y. ‘The exact total, as computed by the NBC statistical department, was $265,- 457. engineering and wire set-ups; commer- cial time which had to be cancelled; salaries to performers who were in the studios at the time of cancellations, and who were under contract to per- form; payment to special commenta- tors and political analysts, and general program and personnel expenses. The major expense items of both conventions were the cancellations of commercial programs already booked. For the four days of the Repub- lican convention in Cleveland—July 9 through 12—the cost of commercial | time cancellations totalled $94,614. Salaries to performers cost $36,000. Engineering expenses, payments to commentators and general porgram expenses totalled $13,500, thus bring- ing the entire total for the Republican .convention to $144,114. The Democratic national convention at Philadelphia, from June 23 through June 27, cost slightly less despite the fact that it lasted a day longer. This Cost Network More Than $265,000 This total includes the cost of | | admission that he could not compete | for listener attention against Maj. | 3:45 'World Power Conference Bowes, who has concededly been the | biggest audience getter of the last | year or more. | MERICA'S fraternity of 30.000 or more “hams,” | operators, is going to be harder to | break into henceforth. The Federal | Communications Commission has de- creed that henceforth, in order to | qualify for an amateur operator’s | license, an applicant must be able to send and receive 13 words in In- ternational Morse code per minute. | | Formerly the requirement was 10 | words. The “hams” are periodically | examined by their district F. C. C. | inspectors or amateur radio | ical Conventions | was attributed by N. B. C. officials to | | the fact that fewer commercial can- cellations were neessary. A tabulation of the Democratic | conclave expenses showed a total of $75,634 in commercial cancellations, $31,209 in salaries to performers, and $14,500 for commentators, general program and engineering expenses. | This makes a total of $121,343. with | the combined total for both conven- | tions reaching the figure of $265,457. National Broadcasting Co. officials | ‘poi.nted out that a later check-up | probably will cause the total to go |even higher. They stated that $1,000 | was conservatively estimated for en- | gineering costs at each convention, | because bills for necessary new equip- | ment and wire charges had not yet | been received. During the two conventions—pre- | sented as a National Broadcasting Co. | public service to listeners throughout | | the country—some of the country’s | leading political experts were heard over the Nation-wide N. B. C.-Red and N. B. C.-Blue networks, including 97 stations from coast to coast, with out- lets in Canada and Hawaii. Headlining these were Walter Lippmann, Dorothy | Thompson, William Hard and Frazier | Hunt. The regular N. B. C. convention Jsfxfls included a total of more than | 40 program officials, writers, announc- ers, engineers and special technicians, each an expert in broadcasting public events. One Man City Room. UPERT HUGHES, Hollywood's versatile author and playwright . who marshals the Caravan program each week, is renowned in various flelds of writing and uses a different desk for each task. He virtually is & ‘“one-man city room.” Hughes writes his novels on a huge teakwood desk in the middle of his duplex studio; his magazine articles and short pieces are composed on a ma- hogany desk; in a remote corner of his study is the rather unpretentious desk where he wrote his biography of George Washington, and in another part of his studio is the grand piano Musical Legion. INTERNATIONALLY-WDED Igor | Gorin, C. B. 8. “Hollywood Hotel” | baritone, is weighing the idea of forming a musical “Foreign Legion” among Columbia radio stars born outside the three-mile limit. Possible members include Lily Pons, born in Cannes, France; Jacques Renard, Kiev, Russia; Nino Martini, Verona, Italy; Anne Jamison, Belfast, Ireland; Ray Block, Alsace-Lorraine; Boake Carter, South Russia (of British parents); Armida, La Colorado, Mex- ico; Alexander Semmler, Dortmund, Germany; Viadimir Heifetz, Chash- niky, Russia; Andre Kostelanetz, St. Petersburg, and E. Robert Schmits, ‘where he composes music—when he bas time, Paris.” Igor hails from Odessa, Ukraine. A 2:15 2:30 2:45 3:00° 3:15 3:30 4:00 4:15 4:30 4:45 |Gilbert Seldes {Cloister Bells Benno Robinoff, violinist |Church of the Alr Joe Brown's Kiddies Kreiner String Quartet Theater of Romance St. Louis Blues bia Symphony OF. |“The Widow's Son” | A Cappella Choir Musical Bulletin Sunday Drivers Words and Music |Sunday Vespers Fishface and Figshottle Olympic Crew Finals Orchestra Concert |Joe Brown's Kiddies News Bulletins Speech Arts Tea Dance Time |Sunday Serenade |Ann Leaf's Music Theater of Romance Olympic Rowing Tea Time Tunes 1 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 1:00 | 1:15 1:30 1:45 2:00 2:15 2:30 2:45 3:00 3:15 | 3:30 3:45 | 4:00 4:15 | 4:30 | 4:45 | 5:15 5:30 | 5:00 |Catholic Hour Sundown Revue |Tea Time Canadian Guards Band A Tale of Today Tea Dance Time The Chicagoans. Poet’s Gold 5:00 | 5:15 5:30 5:45 EVE. NG PROGRAMS PM. | |Concert Hall of the Air |Fireside Recitals |Sunset Dreams Jack Benny Husbands and Wives ‘Walkathon Reporter News Bulletins Joan Grey Hollywood Brevities Clyde Lucas Orchestra Arch McDonald Crumit and Sanderson 3 6:00| 6:15 | 6:30 6:45 Bowes' Amateur Hour |Evening Album Goldman Band The Old Theater Watch Tower—Music Dance Music iflnbln Hood Dell |America Dances 7:00 | 7:15 7:30 7:45 | Merry Go Round Album of Familiar Music Continental Revue Cornelia Otis Skinner | Whiteman’s Varieties | “Five-Star Final” Treasure Chest Margot and Earl | Robin Hood Dell |Chopin Whiteman's Varieties |Women's Symphony Good Will Court Robin Hood Dell |Community Sing 8:00 ‘} 8:15 8:45 | F3 [Best Spots to Be Shifted In New Plans of Sponsors Kate Smith Will Put on Hour-Long Variety Show on Thursday Nights—Baker Keeps Place. By Dorothy Mattison. USPICION may well grow among o, Fall radlo shows is going to microphone without some Hollywood talent on the bill. is the eternal cry of the broadcasters. edge off of every new idea as rapidly<- as possible just by doing it to death? Nothing at all subtle about the answer to that one—it's perfectly obvious: | The broadcasters themselves are re- sponsible. Just as one dialer to another, aren’t you getting fed up with all these dramatic farewells for the season as exchanged by stars, orchestra leaders and stooges—particularly when you reflect they’ll probably be bumping into one another all over the studio corridors next day? And don't you hope that Clem McCarthy drops his breathlessness for the N. B. C.-WJZ Ar- lington race teries and be content to wax excited only when he's airing a the dialers that they were better off before radio and screen got the idea of acting like one big, happy family—if, as it appears, about one out of every four of the new feel it won't do to go before the “Give us new ideas” But who is responsible for taking the + . . the Pittsburgh Symphony Or- chestra and big-name soloists will be back on the air, but take a Sunday 2 p.m. period at C. B. 8. ., ., the same network on which Eddie Cantor's show opens on September 20. The Detroit Symphony may follow the Cantor show at Columbia Sunday nights . . In all likelihood Jack Benny and Bob Ripley will have their same Sunday hours when the new season opens . . . Frank Parker vows that his hook-up with the Paul White- man show will be only for Summer guest-shots, despite contrary reports - meanwhile Whiteman appears to be on the trail of Jimmy Brierly . . really breathlessly exciting event? | Singin' Sam gets an N. B. C. Blue While we're wishing for fulfillment of | network show Fridays 8:15 beginning the impossible, include & wish the | September 4 . .. Ernie Holst promise: broadcasters pull some of the dramatic | to sing on his new Fall commercial shows they're playing clear across the|. . . Marlyn Stuart also goes vocal board these Summer afternoons . . .| on the Murray show . .. Ray Sinatra and perhaps be willing to concede that | has a serles coming up soon, with the little lady of the house may have | Larry Stewart and Ada Carrol croon- enough sense of humor to make it pay | ing for him . .. N. T. G. is due back to dole out some comedy and perhaps |in radio with commercial backing in a few sprightly tunes for her enter- | a couple of months . . . if you regard tainment. Even a wish that the “Hit | that as news to cherish. Parade” sponsor would let us know | World peace is the motive . . . and what that show is trying to do mishfi}m even the two big rival networks not be out of order—not that it mat- | team up to air this first in a series of ters, but are the tunes really the hit| semi-annual international broadcasts tunes of the week or are they just the | september 20 . . . N. B. C.—WEAF Major Features || i(lvome requests polled by the listen- ers? And wouldn't you, too, like to and NOtes | know if all the listeners manage to |leap out of the nice languor inspired Victor Herbert's colorful operetta, | by Russ Morgan's melodies promptly | “Red Mill,” will be revived on “The|enough to be alert to catch the gag- American Album of Familiar Music”|ging of comic Ken Murray on the program over WRC at 8:30 p.m. on ! same show? Taken in separate doses, the thirtieth anniversary of its New |both orchestra and comedy of this York premiere. The operetta served | bill rate tops—but it’s another story as the starring vehicle for Montgomery |and spells hard work for the listener a;;d Stone, leading comedy team of | when it comes to mixing them. that era. 5 * x % % “Should a husband take his wife with him on vacation?” *“What should a husband do if his wife is an in- veterate back-seat driver?” “How can a wife make her husband shave on | Sunday?" ! These are some of the questions | which will be answered by married | men and women over WMAL at 6:30 p.m.. with the inaugural of a new series, Husbands and Wives. The series | replaces the regular Bakers' broadcast while Bob (Believe it or Not) Ripley. Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard are on vacation. ‘ *® k % *x | Columbia network microphones fig- | uratively will escort listeners across| the sea for an interesting program originating in the historic Purleigh | | VER in Radio Row the new Fall| shows are in the making. Rumors fly about the choice the sponsors will request in lining up network time . .. one story says that Maj. Bowes' coffee sponsor won't get to first base on his attempt to corner Publisher MacFad- den’s “Good Will Court” as a replace- | ment for the amateur parade. It seems that the coffee merchant would like to give the “Court” an N. B. C. wire to repiace its present M. B. S.-intercity link from WMAC. Meanwhile the “Court” is right up there at the top in adult radio fare. But wonder if that wouldn't be just the trouble with it as a successor to Maj. Bowes— unless the major's present sponsor plans to get away from his purely “family” typz of show. Kate Smith's plans to put on an Sunday motors concerts get back Se tember 13.. . . meanwhile leaving Erno Rapee free to conduct a series at Great Lakes Exposition . . . Septembor 13, by the way, is the date Maj. Bowes is due to wind up his current series before transferring his com- mercial affections . . . unless his pres- ent sponsor should decide to go ints a deep silence before that date and thus allow him a bit of vacation before the new motors series opens. SPONSOR has signed for Jimmy Fidler's movie gossip to rasume in October . . . If Jack Oakie appears cn a radio bill next Fall, it won't be for that razor outfit you've been hearing about . . . A shoe manufacturer will underwrite the Block and Sully sho which opens in September . . . Looks s if it would cost about $100,000 when that auto manufactuver puts on the world series broadcasts again Summer. Apparently “Show Boat” will alter- nate with Ruby Mercer, Walter Cassel and Ross Graham all Summer . . . Ann Jamison is due to remain in that “Hellywood Hotel" spot vacated by Jean Dickenson . . . Marion Talley's this Church at Chelmsford, Essex, England, | hour-long variety show via C. B. S.|recital’s have been moved up half an whose first rector was George Wash- | Thursdays at 8, lend further credence | hour . . . C. B. S’ “Community Sin| ington’s great-great-grandfather, in a|to the report that Rudy Vallee's bill | Went over big enough to rate a com- featured broadcast at 11:30 a.m. | This day's programs will also pre- sent Frank Crumit and Julia Sande: son in a condensed version of "T'he‘ Arcadial one of the noted team's first musical comedies. United By Accident. RANK CRUMIT and Julia San- derson might not be Mr. and Mrs. today if it had not been for a Central Park riding horse which threw a leading musical comedy star to the cinders and broke his arm just as he was dickering with the producer of “Tangerine.” Frank filled his place and was co-starred with Julia, after which they took their romantic songs | seriously and were married. o Ross’ Son Poetic, DAVID ROSS, Jr, is following the path his father has trod to the abode of the The 14-year-old { son of Columbia’s poet-announcer has already written quite a bit cf poetry. Much of it, David says, is more than passing fair. The elder Ross, how- | ever, has to look not only to his| 8:30 | poetic laurels, but to those of the ibezins courts. | even though adhering to the well- may shift to the Major's present | | Sunday hour . . . unless, of course, | both Scngstress Smith and her| sponsor. are really looking for the spot | that offers stiffest competition . such a shift might result in Frank | Fay being brought to the N. B. C. Thursday spot now held by Vallee. Listeners who protest about the | Summer’s absence of their favorite comecians shouldnt forget that more than one of the present comic stars of today emerged from radio's Sum- mer doldrums in other seasons. Re- | member that Phil Baker and Bob Burns were pinch-hitters themselves not so long ago. Take Tim Ryan and | Irene Noblette—doesn't it seem likely | that boarding N. B. C.'s Sunday night band wagon will set them on the road to regular stardom—if their lines manage to go on packing a punch, | worn formula of question-and-answer gagging LREADY this much is certain about the coming shows. Phil Baker hangs on to the Sunday 7:30 | spot at C. B. S. . Nelson Eddy’s | series for Grace Moore’s ex-sponsor September 27 with Josef Pasternack providing the orchestra 9:00 | 9:15 9:30 9:45 | 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 |Musical Cocktall Ben Pollock’s Orch. | News Bulletin_ Shandor Jolly Coburn’s Orch. Child Training |Gaieties 'Walkathon Reporter News Bulletins Dick Stabile Bob Crosby's Orch. 00 |Jimmie Lunceford’s Orch. Slumber Hour “ EARLY PROGRA Lou Harold’s Orch. ;Lamplit Hour Sign O | Sign Off MS TOMORROW [.vohnny Johnson's Orch. Frank Dailey Orch. 30 145 Gordon Hittenmark 7:00 Gordon Hittenmark | | 1:15 i 7:30 7:45 | Morning Devotions Melodies Cheerio (e |Musical Clack Art Brown 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 Gordon Hittenmark Morning Glories Wake Up Club Breakfast Club |Art Brown “« . Sun Dial Gordon Hittenmark Don Jose Today’s Children | News Bulletins | Aristocratic Rhythms Josh Higgins Dan and Sylvia |Art Brown Jack Barry Police Flashes—Music News—Music |Betty and Bob {Modern Cinderella | Who's Who 'Hymns of All Churches 9:45 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 P.M. 12:00 {Metropolitan Echoes Voice of Experience ‘| Wendall Hall Home, Sweet Home Jack and Loreta \Joseph Sevjer Hawailan Echoes 'Tom Turner, songs Frances Northcross Balladeers The Goldbergs Montana Slim Poetic Strings 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 Happy Jack Honeyboy and Sassafras Girl Alone Merry Madcaps 'Merry-Go-Round 12:15 12:30 12:45 Clint Noble's Orch. Dress Parade {U.' S. Navy Band [Joan and the Escorts Curbstone Queries Farm and Home Hour |Morning Dance Dance Rhythms *|Bud Gilvert 'W. P. A. Program AFTERNOON PROGRAMS Margie Nicholson News Bulletins {Walkathon Reporter Luncheon Concern Fubert Rendrie’s Orch. Musical Reveries Merry Makers Matinee Memories Rhythmaires’ Between the Bookends Sally at the Switchboard| 11:45 11:00 | 11:15 ! 11:30 P.M. 12:00 12:15 1:00 Character Forum Mary Mason “ e Farm and Home Hour IMusic Guild Pepper Young's Family Ma Perkins Vic and Sade The O'Neills Manhatters Beatrice Mack }Kln('s Jesters Zeke’s Gang Dance Themes Afternoon Rhythms Happy Hollow Manhattan Matinee Hollywood Brevities Musical Potpourri News Bulletins Milton Charles Hoosier Hop ‘Woman’s Radio Review Gene Arnold The Buccaneers Sweet and Lovely Robert Keller, organist Piano Solos Dance Time ~ | Safety Musketeers 'W. H. Drane Lester Chicago Varieties 4:00 4:15 4:30 445 | Let’s Talk 1t Over i To be announced - L} |Today's Winners P - - Larry vincent Dorothy Gordon Vocals, by Kerrill Road | City than it was in its laboratory | Radio City studios from the Camden, | N. J,, laboratories. Television May NEW YORK, July 4—High defini- tion televisions may be out in the field | testing, but that doesn’t mean it is| any more public around New York status. This despite the clamor that has welled itself before the doors of R. C. A. since that June 29 date when re- search engineers moved their latest developments in television activities to the Empire State Building and the All sorts of requests have come on the plea, “Let's see.”” Others have as their objective the obtaining in one way or another of a receiver, only a comparatively few of which exist at present, and all of which are to be retained in the hands of the technicians for some time to come. ‘The response is: “We are still on a work-a-day rou- tine basis the same as in the labora- tory. We have no plans for an early change in this arrangement. No date has been fixed for the conclusion of the tests; that will depend entirely upon how well we get along with our field headquarters.” Although the type of television has been considerably improved, it is no different than that tried in tests which R. C. A. put under way more than four years ago from the same Empire City site of the present trans- mitter. One important change has had to do with an increase in detail, which has been jumped from 120 to 343 lines per picture. Also a fully electrically-operated camera has been developed to replace the motor= driven 120-hole scanning disk used before. There have been refinements in the receiver, too, but it still has the same general appearance as the earlier models, with the image reflected from the receiving tube by a mirror placed in the lid. Like in those earlier tests, the engi- neers say it is just possible they again will have to return to the laboratory before they can consider public trials. Also, as was the case before, radio set t Get Public Tests Though Refinements Are Meager | By the Assoctated Press. SHORT-WAVE FEATURES TODAY. MOSCOW—1:30 p.m.—Review of the week; listeners’ questions answered; news bulletins. RNE, 19.7 m,, 15.2 meg. CARACAS—5:30 p.m.—Light classical music. YV2RC, 51.7 m,, 5.80 meg. EINDHOVEN, Netherlands—7 p.m.—Special transmission for Central and South America. PCJ, 31.2 m., 9.59 meg. MADRID—7 p.m.—Special pro- gram for English speaking listen- ers. - EAQ, 30.5 m., 9.87 meg. LONDON—T7:15 p.m.—A recital of compositions by Kreisler, played by Adila Fachiri (violin). | | GSP, 19.6 m.. 1531 meg.. GSF, 198 m, 15.14,; GSC, 313 m, 9.58 meg. BERLIN—7:30 p.m.—Music DJD, 254 m, 1177 meg. LONDON—:52 p.m.—The New Georgian Trio. GSD, 255 m, 11.75 meg.; GSC, 313 m., 9.58 meg. PARIS—10 p.m.—News in Eng- lish. TPA4, 256 m., 11.72 meg. HALIFAX—10 p.m.—Atlantic Nocturne. CJRO, Winnipeg, 48.7 m., 6.15 meg.; CJRX, Winnipeg, 256 m., 1172 meg.; CRCX ‘Toronto, 49.3 m., 6.09 meg. manufacturers who are patent licensees of R. C. A. are to be shown the latest developments next week, the date being July 7. The last time they as a group looked at the picture was in June, 1932, part of the “show” then was a televised talk by David Sarnoff, president. The type of television now under test is identical with that shown news- paper men in the laboratories a couple of months ago. At that time the gen- eral opinion of the viewers was that it seemed to have numerous entertain- ment qualifications despite the fact that a 33-tube, 14-knob receiver was needed to reproduce the images and mercial sponsor . . . even had two of them arguing for a chance to pay its bills . . . which probably means that e’re in for an epidemic of song fes- tivals with an unseen leader ... The story goes that the sponsor is trying to choose between Irving Kaufman, | Elsie Janis and George M. Cohan to lead the caroling on this show. RENOVIZE . .. your home Satisfied Thousands 87 Years. EBERLY’S SONS DISTRICT 6557 ome. ___Phone “Eberiv's Service L.S.JULLIEN. Iz 1443 P St.N.W. N0.8076 JOAN BLAINE - HARVEY HAYS Don't miss this popular dramatic serial. By PRINCESS PAT—the Rouge of today. WMAL 5:30 p.m. "< % TONIGHT! % First time this season * CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER First Lady of Monologue in original character sketches presented by JERGENS LOTION 8:30 P.M. . MAL FRANK CRUMIT JULIA SANDERSON HAL KEMP’'S . ORCHESTRA ED SMOALLE'S SEVEN G’s their accompanying sound. [y