Radio broadcast .. (1922-30)

Radio Broadcast numbers, instrumental numbers, jazz, opera, talks, recitations, symphonies, time signals, bedtime stories, plays — anything that the program manager has reason to believe will please some considerable fraction of the audience. As closing time approaches Jim has listened to a hundred thousand words about the income tax, international rtiations, the boll weevil, love and marriage, the preparation of prunes, how to keep one's good looks if one never had any, why the army should be enlarged, and measures to stop the next war. He has heard arias from every opera from Orpheus to The Girl of the Goldes West. He has had six fights with announcers bigger than he is, been challenged to duels by four outside pick-up men, received twelve very insulting telephone caills from listeners who were wrong and three moderately insulting ones from listeners who were right, and ogled twenty pretty girls, all escorted and inaccessible. Promptly at 1 1 130, with the last syllable of the sign-oft, Jim collapses and is dumped into his limousine to be carried home. Let the invisible audience drop a tear for him next time they slip on the "cans." THE MASS OF STEEL AND MASONRY EAST OF AEOLIAN HALL The aerial towers rise 1 15 feet above the roof from which this picture was taken, thus clearing all these buildings. The Biltmore Hotel (with flag flying) is seen at the left, the Commodore pushes up against the sky-line in the centre, and the banks and business buildings which cluster around Madison Avenue and 42nd Street form the walls of a "Grand Canyon." The dark patch at the bottom of the "canyon " is the motor-traffic bridge leading around Grand Central Terminal joining the up and down-town sides of Park Avenue. A bit of the East River and some power houses on the Brooklyn shore may be seen in the background. This is the kind of territory over which the radio waves must travel and into which they must penetrate