Radio mirror (Jan-Oct 1923)

1 MAR 28 73; Ultra Reinartz, Reflex and Flewelling Circuit Radio Digest EVERY REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. Vol. IV Copyright, 1923 R. D. P. Co. Inc. CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1923 No. 11 RADIO BRINGS HEALTH WHAS PLANT BUILDS BODY VIA A1RPH0NE Health Broadcasting from Louisville Station Becomes Popular Feature Aids Physical Culture Charts Help to Secure Results from Body-Building Program (By Special Correspondent) LOUISVILLE, KY.— Physical culture enthusiasts and other persons seeking to regain their health are now enabled to do their "daily dozen" to the commands that come over the ether from WHAS, the Courier-Journal station of this city. This was an innovation and novel form of entertainment that proved quite satisfactory to physical directors when first instituted on the phonograph records. But now science has given the people who would be healthy one step farther to go. The lessons in physical culture along with setting-up exercises are broadcast by the Courier-Journal station each eve JANESVILLE FAN GETS 2LO-LONDON STATION JANESVILLE, WIS.— Dr. Stewart F. Richards, of Janesville, is the first Radiophan in this section of the country to tune in 2LO, London, England, successfully. Dr. Richards had the British station on two successive days. The feat was accomplished on a regenerative tuner using two stages of Audio frequency and a loud speaker. Reception was said to be very clear. ning. excepting Sundays, at nine o'clock and last for the best part of an hour. The exercises are directed by Charles L. It is hardly necessary to tell you the charming lady at the right is Anna Q. Nilsson, for surely by this time you have seen her in "The Isle of Lost Ships," her latest movie. It was while working in this production that Anna turned Radiophan and now she can tell you the call of any station on the Pacific coast. Below is Mrs. Pearl Calhoon, a popular star at WBAP TRADE COMMISSION WILL INVESTIGATE Formal Order Is Issued to Make Inquiry of Alleged Monopoly (Special to RADIO DIGEST) WASHINGTON, D. C— The Federal Trade Commission has formally ordered an investigation of Radio patents and an alleged monopoly, as called for by the White resolution which passed the House during the last days of Congress. An official copy of the resolution was submitted to the commission on Friday, when the commission formally ordered an Shontz, physical director of the Louisville Y. M. C. A. Allow Use of Eeadset Mr. , Shontz has selected and put in use a series of movements that are welladapted to one wearing headphones. This in itself was one of the largest features to be worked out of the project. The movements to be used had to be selected to give the average person the greatest benefit in the least time or it was feared that the public would soon tire of the lessons. Also the question of the connecting cord of the headset figured in. The exercises had to be selected so that one would not become humorously entangled in the receiver connection. Publish Charts for Listeners' To allow listeners the maximum advantage of the broadcast health, the Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times have published charts showing eighteen positions to be used in following the Radio exercises. With the illustrations of the various movements are directions and explanations for taking the exercises. (Continued on page 2) investigation. The rest of the matter is merely routine and it is not probable that a report will be made public until the next session of Congress convenes. EGYPTIAN CONCERT IS GIVEN TO HONOR TUT WJAX Zips Up Ether With Nile Flavored Jazz CLEVELAND, O. — Songs of a distinctly Egyptian flavor, jazz with a regular Nile zip to it and to top it all off a travelog by Archie Bell, dramatic and music critic of the Cleveland News and News-Leader, world traveler and author, in which he told of his visit to the Valley of the Kings, marked the Cleveland News Radio concert in honor of King Tut broadcast recently from Station WJAX of the Union Trust company. As an added attraction in the "Radio night in Egypt," selections in the State Music Memory Contest were presented. BUFFALO TO HAVE 1,250-WATT STATION NEW PLANT SHOULD BE HEARD IN EUROPE Will Have 1,000 Square Feet Space on Eighteenth Floor of New Hotel Statler By Warner Bates BUFFALO, N. Y, — The Federal Telephone & Telegraph Company of this city, will establish one of the most modern broadcasting stations in the United States atop the eighteen-story Hotel Statler that is just being finished here. The installation will be made in the eariy spring and il is anticipated that the sending apparatus to be constructed will be powerful enough to broadcast to Europe. The Hotels Statler Company has allotted 1,000 feet of floor space on the eighteenth floor for the studio and reception room of the Federal Company and the Wah-Wah Taysee, full blooded Princess of the Sioux Dakota i\ Tribe, who entertained from Station WOR of L. Bamberg & Company, Newark, N. J., Thursday afternoon, March I power room broadcasting house will be above this, on the roof. The antenna will be hung between two large steel towers capable of withstanding a 90-mile gale, and will be visible for many miles around. To Use 1,250 Watts Power The new set, now being designed by the engineering department of the Federal Telephone & Telegraph Company, will use (Continued on page 2) BOY DECIDES TO SKIP; FOUND BY BROADCAST COLUMBUS, O.— Radio pulled a regular Sherlock Holmes trick, and as a result Charles Martin, aged eleven, son of Detective Clarence Martin, missing for the past week, is back home. A message sent out from a Columbus broadcasting station, giving a description of the missing youth, was picked up at a garage at South Bloomfield, where Charles was located.