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The Listeners' Point of View
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Are not the phonograph companies, as long as they broadcast programs made up from titles almost entirely taken from the titles of records made by each artist presented, in danger of a repetition that will be tiresome? Here is a tip for the Victor authorities. Have all your baritones avoid "La Paloma" for a time!
Great Artists Are Coming to Radio
UNDER no circumstances will I ever permit an artist under my management to be heard by radio. Were such a thing to happen without my consent, I would consider it ground for cancellation of contract and take immediate steps to bring that about."
Many managers of musical artists have said this to the present writer. And one and all are now permitting, evidently gladly, the most famous people under their management to be heard over the microphone. Nor are these hearings confined to the programs of the phonograph companies, but go so far as to include appearances at public concerts. We do not know that, to date, any complete public recital by any artist has been broadcast, but where the program is a mixed one, various artists appearing, a portion at least of each artist's contribution to the whole is given to the radio public. It all but goes to prove that we must either keep up with the procession or drop out of it altogether.
DOES hearing the phonograph programs stimulate your desire to take advantage of the opportunity when it
offers of hearing and seeing these same artists in concert? We are of the belief that, with the majority of people, hearing an artist in a few numbers would arouse the desire to hear him in an entire concert if possible.
What Happened at wtam
IN THE March number of this magazine, the statement was made in "The Listeners' Point of View" that on Christmas Eve, "Silent Night, Holy Night," was jazzed from station wtam, Cleveland. The statement carried the explanation that the present writer did not hear this sacrilege and hotly denied it when first given the information, but that this information came from a sufficient number of sources to seem to prove it true. It appeared at the time all the more inexcusable considering the standard maintained by wtam which is conducted by the Willard Storage Battery Company.
It is with pleasure, therefore, that we
ROSE LINE GREENE Leading woman of the wgy Players, who is but eighteen years old, and a junior in the New York State College for Teachers, where she is taking the classical course. Her entire professional dramatic experience has been gained under Edward H. Smith, the director of the wgy Players