Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1936, Page 55

Fad-Loving Listeners Use Freak Expressions ‘Even Knock-Knocks “All Right, All Right” With Fans Not “Regusted” by “Heigh-Ho Everybody.” By the Radio Editor. parked his quaint craft on Western shores centuries ago can safely it comes to fads, especially those of the dizzy and streamlined type, the great American public that has evolved since Columbus be said to have no superiors. Naturally radio has found a fertile field in this strange people—a group of 125 millions that will sputter all night over political and economic differ- — .ences, yet rise as a unit and surge forward arm in arm to chant knock- knocks by the hour. Long before radio entered the house via the parlor and living room it had started to bring great groups together in common and curious causes. A decade and a half ago, when broad- casts sneaked into crystal sets kept in cobwebby attics and damp cellars, good old Jerry Sullivan, a pioneer Chicago manufacturer, had mullions -aping his strange way of signing off, which ran: “XXX, Shi-CAW-go,” rising brilliantly to a shrill “CAW” that no cornfield crow could hope to emulate. Incidentally, Jerry is now enjoying revived popularity in the city he once so ably publicized. THAT little frepk of pronunciation took hold despite the slight cir- culation radio then enjoyed just as did the veteran Lambdin Kay's “WSB, At-lan-tuh Jaw-Juh, covers Dixie like the dew.” They captured an American public that earlier had » stopped everything to chirp in unison the anomalous reply of the unfortu- nate fruit vendor: “Yes, we have no bananas.” Fortunately that plaint was at its height before radio had a chance to pick it up and nurture it into the devastating popularity of the fast- receding knock-knock. But it was soon afterward that a composer to- tally lacking in rural sympathies thrust upon a susceptible Nation that dirge of the elements: “It Aint Gonna Rain No More.” From birth to death, Americans are easily innoculated with fads. There 1s the local newspaper man Wwhose year-old heir burst out with a gleeful .‘Popeye,” selected from Waebster's 300,000 words for his initial ora- torical effort. And everywhere in- fants gather in sandpiles to drool the popular: “I fights to the finish, cause I eats my spinach.” At the same time their big brothers eand sisters are shouting Amos 'n’ Andy's “Aw wah, aw wah!” Not to be outdone, their parents are explain- ing that they're “regusted” witn the present state of affairs, or promising that “It's only the beginning, folks, “only the beginning.” IN PULLMAN smokers, where breth- ren of the padded expense account are wont to spin yarns about the in- nocent offspring of soil tillers, every other story approaches its climax with a “S0-0-0-0,” done in the best Ed Wynn manner. And when the late arrival bursts in upon the patiently waiting bridge fiends, she is likely to emit a handker- ,chief-waving “Hell-00-00” in the an- noying falsetto exploited by Fred Allen’s wife Portland. Only to be asked, “Wanna buy a duck?” as in- flicted by Joe Penner, who also snared & nation into calling each other “You nasty man,” with the emphasis scat- tered according to rhythm and the breath falling just back of the false teeth in the style affected by the cigar-smoking comedian. Of course, not all public fancies are stimulated by radio. Take the recent handies, for instance. Few handies were thrust into microphones earlier in the season, when vocal communication was almost dropped while Johnny Q. and all the little Publics knotted their hands in the digital depicting of questionable sit- uations. What might have happened to handies if television had arrived prematurely, is dangerous to cogitate. 3 F YOU can survive a day without encountering that sing-songy and nasal “All right, all right” of Maj. Bowes, why either a miracle has oc- curred or the day hours have been spent in solitary confinement. There is just as much danger of running into Walter Winchell's “Lotions of Love” at the end of a letter, or of be- ing greeted either by Kate Smith's ringing “Hello, everybody,” or Jack Benny's “Jello again.” Even grandma, presenting junior with & piece of pie, chortles “I hope you like it” better than the “Old Maestro” can say it, and follows up ‘with a crack about “six delicious fla- vors, “all “99 and 44 hundredths per cent pure.” And grandpa will chuckle like a kid as he sits down to’ breakfast with Rudy’s “Heigh-ho, everybody,” and perhaps remind Susie after the kitten disappears that “Time marches on,” or advise mother to forget the dishes and “Parkyacarcas” for & while. FIRST recriminations against radio ~ on the score of partisan political discrimination came from the Com- munist party last week. Through the American Civil Liberties Union it has ssked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate charges that its speakers have been excluded * from the use of two radio stations and the uncensored use of a third— the Hearst-owned WCAE, Pittsburgh; the independently owned WIRE, In- dianapolis, and the newspaper-owned ‘WTCN, Minneapolis. Already buying time on N. B. C. netwroks and on special hookups of New York State radio stations, the Communists this year are spending much of their reported $250,000 cam- »paign budget on radio, taking advan- tage of the “equal opportunity” clause of the radio law which requires that all candidates be accorded the same rights on the radio. TB! - Communist radio campaign +** strategy, in addition to its hookup periods, has been to buy time on local stations during the speaking tours of 1its presidential candidate, Earl Brow- der. WCAE declined to clear time for Mr. Browder on N. B. C, it is charged, Liberties Union denies has outlawed the Communists. WTCN is charged with having altered a speech delivered “a recurrence of such incidents.” For the most part, the radio campaign thus far has been without recrimina- tions, especially since both Republican and Democratic parties have engaged radio experts to direct their broad- casts. Few stations in the cities vis- ited by Mr. Browder and no others on the networks have declined to carry the dozen or 3o speeches he has scheduled since the law provides that duly registered candidates shall get equal opportunity to use radio facili- ties though the radio station manage- ments are left the discretionary right under the same law to refuse to rent theh;l facilities for political speeches at all. Major Features and Notes HE “Good Will Court,” a unique radio program for the litiga- tion of real legal cases, will make its debut on WRC at 7 in place of Maj. Bowes’ amateurs. The program has been coming into Washington formerly over WOL. Eddie Cantor will begin his new radio series on WJSV at 7:30. Cantor will have the role of a mayor of a small town. The cast also includes Bobby Breen, Parkyakarkus, Jimmy Wallington, Deanne Durbin and Jacques Renard's Orchestra. WJSV also will broadcast at 8 the first of the new Sunday evening hours featuring a 70-piece symphony or- chestra under the direction of Fritz Reiner. John Charles Thomas, Met- ropolitan Opera baritone, will be the guest soloist. He will sing “Song to the Evening Star,” from Wagner's “Tannhauser”; “Long Ago in Alcala,” by Messager; “Drinking Song,” from “Hamlet,” and “Danny Deever.” The Weber's “Euryanthe,” “Dance” and the march from “Karelia Suite,” by Sibelius. The Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus will be featured during the concert of Erno Rapee’s Symphony Orchestra on WRC at 9. The con- tribution of the Don Cossacks will be entirely Russian. The orchestra will feature the overture to Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” the prelude to “Tristan and Isolde,” by Wagner, and excerpts from “The Damnation of Faust,” by Berlioz. Events which led to the American Revolution will be dramatized as the second episode in the factual radio narrative “Romance of '76” on WMAL at 7:30. Kirsten Flagstad, former Metropol- itan Opera star, now in Stuttgart, Germany, will contribute to the Magic Key program on WMAL at 1. Her program will be relayed to the United States via short waves. “Doc} Rockwell, comedian, and the Dixie- land Jazz Band also will take part in the program. Patriotic services in honor of the | Grand Army of the Republic, which will hold its Seventieth National En- campment in Washington this week will be broadcast from the Washing- ton Cathedral by WMAL at 4. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Washington, will be the principal speaker. The United States Marine Band will pro- vide the music, Carole Lombard, screen star, will take part in the Radio City Music Hall on the Air program on WMAL at 11:30 am. She will discuss her latest picture, “My Man Godfrey.” An actual delegation of hitch- hikers will appear as guests on the American Pageant of Youth program on WMAL at 11 am. The first of a series of outstanding international broadcasts in which ra- dio organizations throughout the world will pay tribute to tie tenth anniversary of N. B. C. will 2e broad- cast by WRC at 11 am. It will fea- ture a concert of Lehar works by the Vienna Radio Orchestra. High lights of a mass meeting of the Holy Name Society in New York will be broadcast by WMAL at 3. Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York, will be the principal speaker. Will Broadcast Series. ENRY FORD, it is now announced, will again sponsor the radio broadcasts of the world series, pay- ing $100,000 to the base ball interests Debussy’s the time.” Because of the intense na- tional interest in the series, all other afternoon programs on the combined Nation-wide networks of N. B. C. and C. B. 8. will be cleared to give the base ball broadcasts the right-of-way. In the meantime, with foot ball getting under way this month, an increasing number of colleges and universities are letting down the bars this season and permitting the broad- casting of their games. Yale's recent decision to accept $20,000 for the radio rights to its games, which will be sponsored by a big oil company, simply follows the example of about half of the colleges of the country which now permit broad ost of them for 15 minutes five nights the Columbia network, will & half-hour weekly period PROMOTE American - tourist travel, Cuba’s government is plan- ning of & high-power broadeasting station for United States acoording to unoficial re- orchestra will play the overture to | plus many thousands more for “radio | THE 8 —.—————————————————— — —— = e .. CATCH PHRASES OF RADIO POPULAR WITH PUBLIC and Singing Stars Return for Fall Season C. ter, She Dramatic AY STAR, WASHINGTO: D. C, SEPTEMBER 20, 1936—PART FOUR. Muriel Harbater (left), young radio ingenue, who has established a record by appearing on every Show Boat program on N. B. gmduated to adult parts from the role of Jane in the “Jolly Bill and Jane” sketches for children. Vivian Fridell, in the cen- is the Mary Noble of the popular “Backstage Wife” serial, has returned to N.”B. C. The program is broadcast daily except Saturday. Edith Dick (right), who has been selected to sing the vocal interludes to the music of Harry Salter’s Orchestra dur= ing the “Your Hit Parade and Sweepstakes” programs on Columbia. Sunday, September 20. AM. WRC—950k Antobal's Cubans “ - On a Concert Ensemble ® Sabbath Reveries Southernaires 'This 'n’ That String Quartet Joseph Honti's Orchestra o = Lucille Manners, songs . w ) |News—Vogues .{Carleton Smith ) | Salon Orchestra | Peerless Trio |American Homes Organ Reveries Vienna Orches! .- Neighbor Nell Chicago Round Table Samovar Serenade Magic Key Peter Absolute b o Stockholm Symphony Legion Convention |News—Alice Remsen “The World 1Is Yours” “« - Salutations News and Music Jungle Jim Organ Music John Ford, lecturer News—Music Dixie Harmonies Church of the Alr | Beethoven Sonatas Songs of the Church Pianologues Dance Favorites “w a Watch Tower—Music Kiddies' Review Bowes' Capitol Family “« - Pageant of Youth Music Hall on the Alr AFTERNOON Music Hall on the Air Bible Highlights “ Ca Concert Master |Chureh Services PROGRAMS Police Flashes—Music Levine's Varieties Cantor Shapiro Salon Music Bowis' Capitol Family Last of Mohicans Salt Lake Choir Nationals vs. Yankees “« e Watchtower—Music Art Brown, organist Walts Themes Nationals vs. Yankees Holy Name Convention Helen Traubel, songs Church of the Alr e s Joe Brown's Kiddies Nationals vs. Yankees Intercontinental Concert Sunday Vespers “ “ “ “ w Bulletin Board Joe Brown's Kiddies “ w Fishface and Figsbottle |Hoxter's Singers Nationals vs. Yankees 9:30 9:45 10:00 10:18 10:30 10:45 11:00 11:16 11:30 11:48 7:18 7:30 12 Merry Madcaps Piano Recital Morning Concert '!dly fi the Switchboard PM. P.M. A Tale of Today Summer Show Fireside Recitals e Good Will Court “- - “« o« Merry-Go-Round Album of Familiar Music w e {Erno Rapee’s Orch. Sports—Music Keith Beecher’s Orch. Jan Garber’s Orch. Voice of Experience Dick Lefbert Mary Marlin Gene Amold G. A R. Program @ et Benno Rabinoff Terri La Franconi Armchair Quartet EVENING PROGRAMS Pittaburgh Symphony Bun:lnds:.nd Wives Qymnhonl—gwdemn— "M;.I:Ilm‘,i of 76" News Bulletins Afternoon Concert “ - Hit Tunes Cocktail Capers G. A“ R. Pm‘“ ram Guy_!oml‘»'lrda'u Orch. Ma :nd E‘ Three Aces Grace Vitality 'Tony Wakeman Salon Music Jane Grey, songs Eventide Echoes The Old Theater Watch Tower—Music Rhythm Rhapsody “ w Arch McDonald |American Dances Eddie Cantor - - SHORT WAVE FEATURES TODAY. BUDAPEST—10 a.m.— Con- cert, “News from Hungary.” HAS-3, 19.5 m., 15.37 meg. ROME—1:20 p.m.—Varied pro- gram from Italian stations. 2RO, 311 m., 9.63 meg. PARAIS—2:30 p.m.—“Madame Boniface,” opera in three acts. TPA-3, 25.2 m., 11.88 meg. MOSCOW—4 p.m.—First re- sults of this year's harvest. RNE, 25 m., 12 meg. BERLIN—5 p.m.— Children’s hour, children’s songs. DJD, 254 m., 11.77 meg. EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — 7 pm.—Special program for Central America. PCJ, 312 m, 9.59 meg. LONDON—T7:20 p.m.—Recital of popular songs. GSP, 19.6 m., 15.31 meg.; GSD, 255 m. 11.75 meg.; GSC, 31.3 m., 9.58 meg. BERLIN—8:30 p.m.—Music by & Reichswehr band. DJD, 254 m., 11.77 meg. HALIFAX—10 p.m.— Atlantic nocturne. CJRO, Winnipeg, 48.7 m., 615 meg.; CJRX, 256 m., 11.72 meg. New Stations Built. ABOUT 200 new broadcasting sta- tions are being buill in Europe | at the present time, the International Broadcasting Union estimates. Of these 36 are due to go into operation this year, 3 of 150,000 watts power, 1 of 120,000 watts and 1 of 100,000 watts. Hear“The MusicYouLove™ a 45 MINUTE concert by PITSBURGH SYAPHONY Ps-BITTSBURGH, PLATE GLASS COMPANY TONIGHT General Motors Concert. NATALIE HALL “Five-star Fiaar Sunday Evening Hour H. V. 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