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Radio Broadcast
those who have been reveling in " Dirty Face" over the radio lack acquaintance with this ballet music which is probably as well known as any music of its kind ever written.
The much-discussed question of having a few very high-powered stations in this country that would ultimately control all the broadcasting has met with violent opposition from the hundreds of stations conducted for the purpose of advertising the products of the business firms operatingthem. The m a j o r i t y of these stations are far below any commendable standard so far as their programs and the manner in which they are presented are concerned. Will this new dev elopment inradio,which is bringing the best in radio music to far distantpoints, in time put these stations out of business? There would be nothing lost and a good deal gained for the public were this to come to pass.
Does it not look as if this linking of stations is but another way of having the broadcasting within the power of the few? Be this as it may, developments along the right line are coming so rapidly that all who have deplored the quality of radio programs in this country are beginning to grow optimistic. Whether the methods used to bring about this change will be permanent, no one can say. But of one thing we may be absolutely assured. Radio music having had this upward trend, can never again sink to the low level that has so widely obtained.
PROFESSOR MARSHALL S. BROWN Dean of the faculties of New York University, who has delivered interesting weekly lectures on American history from station wjz, New York
Of great interest are the statistics given by John A. Holman, broadcasting manager of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company relative to his opinions of the change in the musical taste of radio listeners during the past two years. In January, 1923, approximately seventy-five per cent, of radio fans favored jazz. In the same month of 1924 this percentage fell to thirty five and in
January of this year to five per cent. These figures tell their own story.
Among the fine programs regularly featured through w e a f are those given by the Atwater Kent Company. Have you noticed that the singers of the quartet heard in these programs are never announced by name? That should be qualified b y saying that we have never heard them so announced. "The tenor of the Atwater Kent Quartet will now be heard in the solo, "On
away, Awake, Beloved!" And when you hear him sing you know that he is not an amateur looking for publicity through the microphone; indeed if he were, he would insist on having his name announced, "before and after." We are quite willing to hazard the guess that this quartet is made up of paid professionals — and admirable ones at that — who do not want their names sent out as "radio artists," a position that can be understood considering the present chaotic conditions prevailing in broadcasting. If this guess is a wrong one, we stand ready to be corrected.