Radio Digest (Apr 1925-Jan 1926)

June 13, 1925 RADIO DIGES T— Illustrated STATION GLEANINGS AND NEWSY BRIEFS KIWANIS NIGHT AT WCCO TO REACH 1,350 CLUBS Charles E. Hughes on WEAF Chain •July Fourth — WRC Arranges Luncheon Music Series The largest organized Radio audience in history, it is claimed, will be tuned to "WCCO, Gold Medal station at Minneapolis, when on the evening of June 22 the international convention of the Kiwanis clubs in St. Paul will be broadcast. Approximately 100.000 members of 1,350 Kiwanis clubs will listen in. • * Looking forward to the Fourth of July, when all stations no doubt will have patriotic programs, WEAF and its allied chain of listeners will be greeted on this date by an address from Hon. Charles Hughes, former secretary of state and president of the American Bar association. His will be the conclusion of a series of six Tuesday evening talks by outstanding citizens of the United States. • * Daily concerts of luncheon music for the summer months have been arranged by WRC, Washington, D. C, and will be broadcast alternately from the Hotel Mayflower, the Shoreham hotel, the New Willard hotel and the Hotel Washington. The concerts will be on the air from one to two o'clock, Eastern time. The Shoreham hotel orchestra will play on Monday and Saturday. The Hotel Mayflower orchestra on Tuesday and Friday; the Hotel Washington orchestra on Wednesday, and the New Willard orchestra on Thursday. • * Father Ricard's sun spot weather forecast has become a marker for KFI listeners. The "Beloved Padre of the Rains," as he is known, has made remarkable, precise predictions, and his fame has spread. His forecast is scheduled each Sunday night at 6:45, Pacific time. » • While the weekly half hour programs by the "Blue Ribbon Quartet" from WEAF, New York; WEEI, Boston, and WOO, Philadelphia, are practically new to the Radio audience, the period from S:00 to 9:.'!0, Eastern time, each Monday evening is awaited with Interest on the part of listeners. This male quartet arranges a most unique program including i day, standard ballads and one or two of the popular hits of the day. • • The concerts by the 1T. S. Marine band, which are broadcast every Thursday evening from the Sylvan theater, Washington, T>. C, I " of stations, Including WRC, Washington; W.JZ, New York; WGY, Schenectady and WI'.Z, Springfield, i the outstanding eastern features of summer broadcasting. Capt. William H. Sant.lmann is lead, c oi the famous band. The concerts are on the air from 7:30 to »:00, Eastern time, every Thursday night. • • Every evening at 6:15, Eastern time, throughout the summer season, M. J. v, sports authority of the New York Evening Telegram-Mail, is broadcasting results of Important athletic events throughout the Pnlted States through the of Wil:, Newark, N. J. On Friday evening Mr. Wathey broadcasts at '■• : l .'. i>. m. , , KI'OA employs a gong to precedo all 8 proIt Is tin only Seattle station that has sin h a means of attracting attention I ifylng itself. • • The Willard Sto Bat tery comr plant and Station wta.m. Cleveland, was subjected to b tout ol Inspection i>y the rlcal Malntenam I i rs at their June 1 meeting. A special program was given. . , Musical comedy was to be featured In a two-hour studio program, w..i: «-\ enlng, Jv r KOA, Rocky Moun tain siat Ion ol 1 1" I lem raJ I : pany at Denver. "The Captain of Plymouth," a three-act comic open was the 1 1 1 1 ■ i : u.i i offering, al which time i na Rs i ni i of the koa starr we rd as Prlscilla. • • km R, Norl ii\\ ■ .Seat tle, Wash., is now reports daily at l~:.'i" and I SO p. m., I '.i< i tic time. • • Edward ii. Smll b, t ormi r direct thi W< ,\ p] iade h i Brat ret m n to Radio recent ly al wi iaz. t :■ n Polytechnic Institute, Troy. Mr. Smith i d the Troy Proctor Players for the summer season. • * Shliners countrywide listened every night to seven hinds picked from fifty present at I cent a nnual concla i • ■ at I ' The brass und drum \ i. d for supremac] over Am in on,. KFI, nightly from 11 to 12, Pacific time. AMERICAN IN BRAZIL PLEASED WITH KDKA SAO PAULO, Brazil. — Using only two tubes with head phones and three for the loud speaker, an American exporter here reports that he is constantly in touch with Station KDKA at Pittsburg. He stated in a letter that the people of Soa Paulo were much pleased when announcements were made in Spanish for special programs. PORTUGESE REBELS RADIO PROPAGANDA EBONT, Portugal. — Radio played an important part in the recent short-lived Portuguese military revolution. Radio is not greatly developed in this country, but the rebel element made it a point to build stations for sending out seditious propaganda. Seven secret broadcasters were traced down and the operators taken as political prisoners. THEY SING SONGS CENTURIES CLD POPULAR ballads and "jazz" songs of 600 years ago are regularly sung over Superstation WHT, Chicago, by the Misses Julia (left) and Ruth Brock, former vaudeville and choir singers. The songs, themselves a repudiation of tin idea that jazz Is something new, will be taken from a collection in a rare old song book, "The Musirkal Companion," by John Playford and printed in England In 1678. Many of the songs were 250 to 's old when i be hook was printed. The tin. orms the reader that the book contains "Catches and Hounds for three voices, and dialogues, glees, ayres and songs for two, three and four voices." It is dedicated to "all ingenuous lovers of Music];." The Brock sisters, known as the "harmony twins," because of. the fact that they dress exactly alike, are from Marshalltown, Iowa. They sang 80 well In the Choir there that they landed an act OH the vaudeville stage, and now are WHT Staff artists. Tiny are shown above holding "The Muslckal Companion." FANS HEAR SPEED BOAT BEAT TRAIN Plane Relays Race to WGY and WJZ as Wood's Craft Down Century SCHENECTADY, N. Y. — As thi boats Baby H.ir I V and Baby <iar V and heat the Twentieth Conturj Limited train from Albany to New York, a by-mile di report was broad i a I on low power from a transport plant and rebro i I on high !"'•.■■ er by W< ; f, of Schenectad; and h iz ol Mow York. By i phone a nd (• l< ■ i a fii 1 1 an la! led on the Slkowsky B20A, a giant tv port pla i" . call K ft "/,. tuned to ell her of i ha i ■■■ given a thrilling plctun morning race over the waterv by the historic Halfn n and the Clermont, The Baby Oai red the distant e In 1 than three hours, while Robert i-'ui i thirty-two hours for the Journi Photogi the New York World wi rd the plane and w record in news B Ing and dissemination w old. d feat to i boats over the king of trail Metropolitan Chimes Miniatures Do Work Mystery Is Explained — Was Intentional Hoax Not NEW 1 I IRK. Man] Inquiries hav« bi i n received fr Ilstenors with a scientific turn oi i, iii.i, who want to know how the chimes In thi tower of thi Metropolitan ' compa nj in res, Istered on the WEAF microphone with such an even tone, it thi a Inquirers could have been present w hi n the Hi nts to "oa i eh" thoi • chimes wei t mad. i hi ) would wonder still < The . hi. f difficulty His in tin fact thai the bells sound on different sides <>f the tower, requiring tour microphones, which ui.i not h m Ithln flftj feel or the bells ■ und would register too loudly. Pour microphones In the air fifty feet out from tin tower and subject to weather i Ii n ould ha> i beei al. lion was hit upon hy John C. Knight, fifth vli com pany, « ho of small . which exactly reproduced the tones ol thi hig t.,w r chimes, but with lass volume. This smalli plai ed In I hi am cted ■ 1th i : elect rlcal mi t hanlsm or • WLW CHIEF IS FIRST RADIO AMBASSADOR JOURNEYS TO EUROPE IN INTEREST OF ART Will Tell Europeans of American Broadcasting Stations — Foreign Directors Welcome Him Pred Smith CINCINNATI.— Fred Smith, studio director of Crosley WLW here, with his wife, has left for Europe as America's first Radio ambassador. Every detail of his voyage and European tour was completed before his departure. Even such details as typewriter and camera were not neglected. In preparing for this journey, the first of its kind in history, and which has won for him the title, "The First Radio Ambassador," Mr. Smith wrote to twenty-five of the leading broadesting stations in America, asking the m for photographs and publicity matter which he might be permitted to use in foreign publications. Practically every one of his fellow studio directors responded with letters of encouragement and good wishes, as well as copious information and numbers of photographs. With this material, Mr. Smith hopes to spread the fame of American stations in many foreign countries. Will Be Greeted Royally At the same time he wrote to representative foreign stations in the countries he expects to visit, telling them of his plans and asking for their cooperation upon his arrival. Within three weeks after these communications were sent out he received bis first reply — an enthusiastic letter from the director of one of the Paris stations, that of I'Ecole Superieure. Later came letters from LaTour Kiffel in Paris, as well as from Brussels, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Rome and many other capitals. All of these assure Mr. Smith, of a sympathetic welcome on the other side. While abroad. Mr. Smith will prepare a series of exclusive articles on European Radio conditions which will be published weekly in Radio Digest. Tiles,, will he the first stories of European broadcasting stations as seen through the eyes of an American school program director. CUT POWER OVER DISAGREEMENTS Program Discussion Ends in Temporary Closing of WFBH by Majestic Hotel Men Ni:w York. — When the Concourst I dio corporation, owners of Station WFBH, on the Hotel Majestic here, refused to change their programs to meet with the contract formed with the hotel, Copeland Townsend, director of the hotel, cut off Mi. power during a program. Mr. Townsend, through his atto s< ii. d Holier <in the corporation to change their style of programs somi I but they refused to comply with bis wishes, he says. Complaints Wi re reci Ivi from fans by the hotel managi i the programs being broadcast w ho bi in \ ed that \\ FBI i wi by the i I. "The Hotel Ma/estlc had nothing to <io wtiii the operation or managi mi til ol Station WFBH," said Mr. ToWDSend, and had no Interest In II « ha ti ther I nan 1st Ing bet wei n landlord and tenant it on t he power whi n we got no ii I t'oiu I he tl Hants." Thi hotel's objection related to the i low ■ oi Health" talk . to w hich the New York i lountj Mi dli latlon had Objl Cted, H la said. i Ing v. as n i unit d follow Ing a conference In which i he Radio • i art' ed to allow tin hot, I to pa upon ,,i| Use First Remote Control in Northwest at Seattle SKATTI i ,., Ml, B< attle Tin,, a, the 111 mote control broadi . i to bi in the northwi : t. we reci nl Ij an by the engineers ol KFOA, tin t m< ni store stat Ion. Thi •» . of UiIh special program w a thi Mi • hotel In B\ i n it, > Ingtoti, 32 it.tlo.