Radio Digest (Oct 1923-July 1924)

RADIO DIGEST — Illustrated May 10, 19H WGY AWARDS PRIZE IN DRAMA CONTEST "MILLION CASKS OF PRONTO" WINS $500 Agnes Miller Submits Winning PlayDate of Presentation to Be Announced Later SCHENECTADY. — First prize in the competition conducted by WGY, station of the General Electric com here, lias been awarded to Miss -Her. 150 East 72nd Street, New York, for her comedy drama of business iit'e. "A Million Casks of Pronto." The object of the competition was to develop a type of play especially adapted to Radio presentation, a type of play that will tell its story through an appeal to the ear and imagination, just as the screen play is directed exclusively to the eye. Miss Miller's play was selected from nearly 300 manuscripts as the best original drama submitted. She will receive a cash prize of $500. Writers "Write for Blind Man Miss Miller is a writer of juvenile fiction and has published three books in a series known as "The Linger-Nots." The books are "Golden Quest," "Valley Feud" and "Mystery House." She has also contributed" many stories to young people's magazines. The successful play will be presented by the WGY players at a date to be announced later. The WGY players have offered one prwiuction weekly since October 1922. The competition was for the purpose of stimulating writers' interest in what is destined to become a new branch of dramatic art. Writers were advised to bear in mind that the Radio audience "gets" a play exactly as a blind man would in a theater and they were urged to take full advantage of "noise effects" as a means of creating atmosphere. Broadcasts were utilized during National Forest Protection Week as a means of stimulating interest in the conservation of forests and the reduction of the forest fire hazard. 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Photo WEAO Giving Garden Tips COLUMBUS, O. — Various members of Ohio State university's agricultural faculty have begun a series of garden lectures daily from Station WEAO for the benefit of farm gardeners as well as backyard gardeners in the cities and villages. An effort is being made to answer all the problems encountered by truck growers, with timely sugestions. 'HUSHPUCKINY' SA YS 'HOWDY' IN CHICAGO "Solemn Judge" and His Riverboat Whistle of Memphis Visit Sears-Roebuck Plant CHICAGO. — George D. Hay, the "Solemn Judge," directing announcer of Station WMC of the Commercial Appeal, Memphis, and the famous "Hushpuckiny" travelled the air last week from the Sears-Roebuck station here, WLS. The young-old judge, with the Hushpuckiny tucked under his arm, arrived in Chicago by the way of the Mississippi river and the canal just in time for the whistle of the river boat to blow one long mellow note, followed by two shorts, to open the evening program of WLS. "We are visiting Chicago for a week, the Hushpuckiny and me," Mr. Hay said, and then he broadcast the life history of Hushpuckiny, which is now almost a year old. Hushpuckiny is a river boat whistle about one foot long and finished in red cherry. It is the co-partner of George Hay in announcing that WMC is on the air. One long toot and two shorts, then Hay does the rest. But the whistle always has the last word. Hushpuckiny means sunflower in the language of the Chickasaw Indians that once built their camp fires along the Chickasaw bluffs of the Mississippi river. Ten cents is the cost of a college course in the new Station KDKA University of Pittsburgh broadcast curriculum. Did You Read It? The Chicago Daily News Laboratory's Report of Tests on the New AllAmerican Long Wave Radio Frequency Transformers? Three Ail-Americans were tested "with instruments and in practical service," reads the report headed "SUPER-HETERODYNE DATA," published April 5 in the Chicago Daily News. 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