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Radio Broadcast
DURING TERM TIME Such groups as this are not uncommon in the high schools of Chicago
and "Ave Maria," Schubert; "On the Road to Mandalay," Speaks, and " Rose of My Heart," Moret; "Polonaise Militaire," Chopin, and "Moths," by Phillipp, "Prelude in A Major," Chopin.
Every Sunday afternoon chapel services are held by radio, with some distinguished Chicago preacher speaking at the KYW studio. And on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays KYW gives an hour in the afternoon and an hour in the evening to WBU, the Chicago city hall station, which offers special features.
No one has been brash enough to attempt a reckoning of KYW's daily audience, but it is tremendous. New towers just installed, 495 feet above the street, give the station a normal range of 2,000 miles and an occasional range of 3,500 miles. Letters of praise or censure have come to the musicians of the station from auditors as far away as Catalina Island, Cal., Medbury, Mass., and San Francisco. Indeed, Miss Evelyn Goshnell, who came to Chicago early in the spring with a play, brought commendation for a KYW concert she heard in mid-Atlantic.
The letters which come daily to the station reflect the genuine interest of the farflung radio ajudience. A Nebraska farmer asks for "less of that highbrow piano playing." A critic in Montana notes that "Miss So-and-so's songs were just fine, but don't ever let that Mr.
Whosis play again." The applause and the booing are as frank and emphatic as the demonstrations of a gallery crowd in a theater. They keep the performers on their toes.
Naturally the pleased interest of all these radio users has been contagious. I n spite of the shortage of supplies, the number of sets in operation has increased steadily from month to month. No searching census has been made, but the broadcasters know of 30,000 radio sets in the metropolitan district to-day.
The summer has brought a lull in the radio demand. Talk of "summer static" has spread as talk of German spies and enemy airplanes spread during the war, so that the hundreds of shops which flaunt hastily painted " Radio Supplies" signs over their doors are less busy than they were four months ago. Prospective radio fans are awaiting the coming of more favorable weather. The midsummer apathy distresses no one, except perhaps the apathetic themselves. Manufacturers are from three to four months behind their orders now, and the dealers simply can't see daylight. An idle summer will restore something like a balance between supply and demand, and all signs point toward a vigorous revival of radio interest in the fall.
In the middle of June the public schools turned loose several thousand young manufacturers of radio sets. These boys (and girls,