Radio dial (May-Dec 1931)

RADIO DIAL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1931. Weekly RADIO DIAL Published every Thur.day by the Radio Dial Publishing Co., 22 E»«t 12th St., Cincinnati, Ohio. Contents copyrighted. Application (or Second Class Pnlry Pending. NATALIE GIDDINGS, Editor VOL. I AUGUST 28, 1931 No. 15 <€<€ PROGRAM JOTTINGS It's a Good Way to Hold Back Radio The Federal Radio Commission is doing a first-class job of holding back radio. Admittedly, that is a serious charge. Nevertheless it stands when one considers how the Commission has been stalling off high P0WAs' far back as the summer of 1930 more than a score of clearedchannel stations, including WHAS and WSM, applied for permission to increase their cower to 50,000 watts. If these increases had been eranted promptly "the new transmitters would be in operation now living listeners all over the country the benefits of greatly improved service. But the Commission has chosen simply to stall. Action on the applications is still as far away as it was when they were filed. The reasons for such a policy are impossible to fathom. There is no longer a ghost of an argument against high power. The fine performance of WLW, WENR and WTAM alone has taken the whole matter out of the debatable class. , Indeed there is ample argument for increasing cleared-channei power considerably above 50,000 watts. Poland already has a 120 000watt station, and several 75,000-watt stations are operating successfully in Europe. Yet the United States, which is supposed to lead the world in broadcasting cannot have all the 50,000-watt stations it needs, because the Commission still thinks in terms of 1926-7 receivers. It is as futile as any other attempt to halt the irresistible march of progress. Sooner or later, every cleared-channei station will use a minimum of 50,000 watts, through recourse to the courts if nothing else. But meantime, listeners are the real victims of the Commission s stalling, by being denied the service which broadcasters are eager to give them. Here in the Ohio Valley, for example, WHAS and WSM even now could be providing the same sort of high-grade coverage which WLW is furnishing. Multiply this by a dozen similar instances the country over, and one begins to get an idea of the heavy price the radio audience is paying for the Commission's benighted notions. It is not a flattering commentary on the body which is charged with administering radio in the public interest. But it is at least consistent, if that is a virtue. Paul Robeson to Sing from London Paul Robeson, famous in two continents as an exponent of the drama and of Negro music, will be heard in a song recital in Loudon at -1 :15 p.m. Tuesday (September 1) if the proposed rebroadcast by the Columbia network and WKRC is successful. For years, Robeson has been the most prominent negro actor in the world, playing opposite Margaret Wycherly in New York, and Mrs. Patrick Campbell in London in "Taboo," and later appearing in both cities in the title role of "The Emperor Jones." Last year he broadcast from London through the Columbia network a talk on "How it Feels for an American Negro to Play Othello," following his London performance of the piay Catherine Field is Staff Artist on CBS Network American in Paris Is Part of Final Lewisohn Concert Concluding its two months summer season, the New York Philharmonic symphony orchestra broadcasting from the Lewisohn stadium on Sunday (August 30) at 8:30 p.m. on CBS and WKRC will include the following numbers : Overture: The Flying Dutchman.. Wagi *"■ mA Spirits 1 of the of the Furiis (Orphd An American in Paris. . Polvetzian Dances (Print .Gcrihw Igor) . . Borodin Concerts by the United States Army band, and brief messages by some of the country's foremost agricultural leaders can be heard the fourth Saturday every mouth through WLW 18:30 p. m. in the new series of Land Grant College programs NBC is broadcasting. The next program will be August 29. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 Channon Collinge, director of the presentation, has chosen an aria from one of his own operettas. "A Pirate Am I" from "Blackboard," as a vehicle for Crane Calder, bass, and quartet during the Light Opera Gems program to be heard Friday at 3 p. m. Helen Nugent, contralto, will also be featured on this program of selected airs from popular operettas. * * * The Romany String Quartet (WLW at 8 p. m.) will play "Canzonetta" from Mendelssohn's "Quartet in Flat Major." Mozart's "Menuetto" from his Quartet in G Major," and "The Mill," by Raff. * * * Exciting adventures which befell a flyer will be heard when the Llewellyn Hughes' story "CoPilot," is dramatized in the Liberty Magazine hour on WKRC at 8 p. m. * * * Tunes from the current edition of Earl Carroll's "Vanities" and a foretaste of the hit song, "Bend Down, Sister," from Eddie Cantor's new picture "Palmy Days" will be played at 8:30 p. m. in the Pond's broadcast over WSAI. * * * Abe Lyman's Band, returned to the East from Hollywood, will be heard with his Glee Club on WKRC at 11:08 p.m. Friday (August 28). at 9 Simmons' Showboat play p. m. through WKRC. * * * Those masters of slapstick, Weber and Fields, have been added to Saturday night Lucky Strike broadcasts over an NBC network and WSAI at 9 p. m. The veteran comedians will augment the regular Saturday night presentation of B. A. Rolfe and his orchestra with a continued sketch depicting organization of a hank. Except for eight years, the NBC comedians have teamed through fifty-three years. * * * Audition Nite on the Air at WCKY is at 9:30 p.m. Aspirradio entertainers are put on the air without previous hearing. Listener opinions determine their reappearance. Young Violinist Will Be Soloist in Concert Hour SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 Mine. Alys Michot, French opera singer, will sing "Mon Joli Roi," bv Ernest Moret in the Matinee' Jewels at WLW at 2:00 p. m. Fred Roehr, pianist, will play Rachmaninoff's "Polichi nelle." * * * Through the Opera Glass at WSAI at 8:15 p.m. will include the world's first example of jazz, a burlesque number by Rossini, Catherine Field is one of C> mbia's staff artists and is heard i frequent programs through WKRC. She sang in opera be oil.' signing up on the radio not work. This picture shows her ir the role of Gretel which sh< played when the opera "Hanse d Gretel" was broadcast foi the American School of the Air She hrst played the role at the Heekscher Theatre in New York City. SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 Little Red Riding Hood's Kiddie Club at WCKY at 9 :45 a. m. presents children who have successfully "tried out" on Friday afternoons. The youngest performer so far heard was two and a half years old. * * * WKRC broadcasts the Grand Union Hotel Stakes and the Merchants' and Citizens' Handicap from Saratoga at 3 p. m. In spite of the accompanying music to be played by Nat Busiloff's orchestra, Henry Burbig, comedy dialectician, has announced that just to relieve any doubt he will tell the story of "Jemmy Valentine" during his program at 7:15 p. m. through WKRC. MONDAY, AUGUST 31 Angelo Patri at 7 :30 p. m. on WKRC begins a new bi-weekly series of talks on "Your Child." The other talk is Wednesday at the same time. Marking the completion of his first year as assistant concertmeister of the Crosley Concert orchestra, Truman Boardman will be presented as soloist with the orchestra at WLW at 10 o'clock Sunday night (August 30). A pupil of Jean Ten Have, he will play Ten Have's composition "Aubade," and a number dedicated to him, "Andantino and Scherzetto," by Francois Rasse, another of his pupils. Compositions of Saint Saens, Godard, Kreisler. and Weiniawski will be played by the orhestra directed by William C. Stoess. The Harlan Duo at WCKY are Bower High and Howard Warren who take their name from their home town in Kentucky. Respectively they play steel and Suanish guitar. Daily except Sunday, at 12:35 p. m. they broadcast. At other times they are strolling musicians at the Barge dance hall and enter tainers at Bryant's Showboat. The Showboat Boys will sing close harmony at WCKY at 7 :30 p. m. They came to the studio one night for an audition. The entertainers for a program had not appeared, so Maurice Thompson put the boys on the air at their face value and they've been entertaining at the station ever since. * * * Based on the Arabian Nights. three movements from RimskyKorsakov's suite "Scheherazade" will be played by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Albert Coates, during the Lewisohn Stadium Concert broadcast at 8:30 p. m through WKRC. * * * "Red Rube's Last Raid," an old-style melodrama is the Hank WLW Fanfares will salute Detroit at 7 :30 p. m. with music by Elliott Brock's military band, including Sousa's "Wolverine March," inspired by a tour through Michigan. * * * The Strangler Fig" will be dramatized in the Eno Crime Club at 8 p.m. and on Wednesday (September 2) at 8:30 p.m. The story deals with a jungle plant, common on the Florida coast, that snared both men and animals. * * * Choosing Siginund Romberg's "The Desert Song" for his debut number as General Motors Quartet soloist, Phil Dewey will be heard as a regular member on this program during the broadcast at 8 :30 p. m. through WSAI. Co-starred with Dewey in the program will be Elizabeth Lennox, contralto. * * * Chopin's "Polonaise in A Flat," in a brilliant arrangement for full orchestra, a fantasie including several Tschaikowsky numbers, the "Peer Gynt Suite" by Greig, and Bizet's "Agnus Dei" are to be included in the Chime Reveries orchestra concert at WLW at 11 p. m. through WKRC and the Columbia network. * * * Melville Ray. tenor, will sing "I Only Love One" from the recently produced German movie, "Die Lustigen Weiben von Wein" (Happy Women of Wein), with the Werk Bubble Blowers at 8:30 p. m. at WLW. Star Brand Review has its premiers on WKRC at 9:15 .p.m. with orchestra and Round Towners quartet. * * * Classics from the rich store of Italian music literature will be played by Eugene Perazzo in the Vox Celeste organ recital at WLW at 11 p. m. Included will be music from Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana," Verdi's "La Traviata," and Wolf-Ferrari's Jewels of the Madonna-" TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 McCormick's Fiddlers at WLW play an Old Hymn Revival in their program at 6 :30 Friday mornings. * * * Paul Robeson is scheduled to sing from London at 4:15 p. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2 Two 11 -year-old girls are the Ukelele Queens who sing harmony and play ukeleles with Lawson's Hawaiians at WCKY at 7:30 p.m. They also broadcast at 7 :15 p. m. Sunday. * * * Rita Burgess Gould, dramatic and singing star of vaudeville and musical comedy, will be the featured artist of the Vitality Personalities at 9 p. m. through WKRC. THURSDAY, SEPT. 3 Louise Ryder, contralto, will sing at WCKY at 8 :45 p. m., accompanied by Mrs. James PTarvin.