Radio Digest (Oct 1926-Jan 1928)

R\DIO DIGEST -Illustrated Radio Play Kiss Must Be Genuine KGO Drama Heroes and Heroines Will Metrt Lip to Lip— Convince Doubting Audiences r;h w it' ■in pa rat The I hat. ilj hear the heroine the ■a ould be But it v ,;"1 a n get up much enthusiasm fur his part :•< forward t * ttm.. ■ irch, who :• r in the d< ■ i of Radio d: 1 tint here r must lak. the girl in his arms and plant tin kiss on the maiden's li; nature ami within reasonab: ilty of the n r Kadi" s<>ul kiss with a 5 kil ehlnd it. In Radio plays the kiss often marks ( all that has I" trick kisses have been mistaken ythlng from a nail The first tests have wn that in the real kiss there is a luffled tones, rrupted syllables and then a honi the lij>s meet In gasping — and the Radio audience is satisa that a real honest-togood going on! The play is a KCO Artists Demonstrate 100 Per Cent Kiss BROADCAST THRILLS IN WPG ICEBERG "CRASH" PROGRAM BALLOT ntinued from page 3) Hawaiian Music Favored Froi and the space reserved for rka on the ballots Hawaiian e the g reatest num Perhaps if this Item had ballot it might have run for the ■i music and bande : as indispensable to .in. hes to thank all those time and trouble thai tiiis mid be obtained. Every • d with i he great • I n i i hal only i here. These ' .-. i <i ha •■ •■ no special fr«.m the hundreds of other Mr. ry Van Meter, I • port hard i hough We lik< the .Mom, JOOd , . I . "Bnnch of BlUters" '.. Smith. ' "It's Radio bunch of blisters ing soon, -■• 111 win i i I and all : i fleas! the «an '-.r when it i:' contli be full of static. i D of then and I the 1 ■ One In Too Many" John ' iole, Calif. "Herewith am sendin lot and al ■> ■ ,OII tO f.h.'J ill ■ ■•■ I koo differ, but. t is a plenty, and Italian wh«-n t jority do not nnder word of it? Hi • n Fran rful bro. lions br Why, when one station wouk' be too much? SITTING in arm chair set-side comfort Radio listeners of WPG, Atlantic City, recently experienced all the thrills and gained some notion of the horrors attending a collision of an ocean liner with a giant iceberg. It was all part of the Radio drama. "The Sea Cruiser," in which over i of Radio entertainers participated. The audience boards the "Westbrook and is in the middle of the Atlantic when the alarm of an impending crash against the Iceberg is sounded. Real veterans of the -. a supervised all the effects so that the listener finds himself in a confusion of sounds. He is aroused by the sudden roar of the fog horn, then the ship's whistle and reverberations as the whistle sound is whirled back in mocking echo from the towering mountain of ice. There are shouts in the engine room, a clang of suddenly shifted machinery and rattling of chains, shrieks of dismay and suspense waiting the inevitable crash. Doors bang, women cry, hysterical persons shout farewells and splash into the sea, the Radio code snaps and buzzes and suddenly goes dead. Soun,ds of desperate effort to repair iisssl the trouble, then the terrific impact, rending metal and wood, screams, children calling parents, mothers calling children, stern orders from ship's officers, pistol shots, moans aTid groans, doctors calling for bandages, prayers, death chants and all together the listener is glad he is quite safe in his arm chair with good old terra firma underneath. Harry Zoog, assistant operator at WPG, and former ship's operator is author of the book, "The Sea Cruiser," from which the play was written. Broadcasting Stations of Mid -West Continue Appeals for Flood Victims Chicago Raises $1,000,000 Largely Through Aid of Radio — Two Stations Near $100,000 Each— New Orleans and Memphis on "Front Flood Line" i-lirCAGO.— Station WMAQ of the Chicago Daily News has set its quota for $100,000 to be raised for the Red Cross for the relief of the Mississippi flood sufferers. At this time the fund has already reached $80,000 and the full amount of the self-assumed quota is expected to be in the hands of the Red Cross authorities by June 1. Broadcasting stations throughout the Middle West are still working hard to raise funds to help the Red Cross. This was particularly noticeable here last Monday night after local stations had closed for silent night. "What do I get for $5?" would read the announcer at WSMB, New Orleans, from a message enclosing that amount. An organ or orchestra responded with a melody. "(Jot to get $500 before we quit tonight. What do T hear?" he resumed. "Ah, here's a check for $25. Have to give him a regular tune for that." WLW Still Plugging' No doubt tin $500 was received before that broadcaster signed off for the night. W'.MC, at Memphis, has kept continuously at the job, raising money for relief and working directly in the zone of trouble. Congress should award some of these stai ions a gold medal. The Powel Crosley Station, WLW, Cincinnati, was one of the very first to send out appeals for the Red Cross. Special programs were broadcast. The Heerman Trio, Melville Ray, Marjory Garrigus Smith, Tommy Reynolds, Hershel Lukie and Rudy Germain took turns at the microphone encouraging contributions for the help of thousands of WLW listeners, victims of the flood. On the other side of the raging Mississippi one of the first big stations to take up the appeal for help was WOW at Omaha, representing the Woodmen of the World. Sovereign Commander W. A. Praser took personal charge. Within a very short time the first check, amounting to $22,500, had passed from WOW into the hands of the Red Cross. But the work did not stop there and the amount probably has been more than doubled since. WMAQ was not the only station in Chicago to approximate the $100,000 figure. As these lines are written WLS, the Sears Roebuck station, has raised $75,529.92, to quote exactly the figures of the moment. WLS has no definite goal. "We are just going to keep right on as long as there is need for us," said Edgar L. Bill, director. Chicago is close to the $1,000,000 level at this time, and mostly by aid of its broadcasting stations. NEW TYPE SPEAKER ALARMS MOTORISTS Twenty Volume Power Rolls Mile From Laboratory — Lone Wayfarers Jump PITTSIiiriJGII. — Heavy cars came to a : top and flivvers all but climbed trees on a lonely road near here a, few days ago -.lien the crash of a brass band burst uddenly from the air and reverberated through Die hills. An Investigation revealed that tests ■:■ being made of a in w type of loud peaker at the Westlnghouse research nearly a mile distant from where tin motorists were first startled by Lh< unseen musicians, The experiments ■!■ being conducted by the Inventors, Clinton R, iiaima and Dr. Joseph Slepian. di ice i'' ea Med a n "exponent ia I which employs a new reproducing coupling between the diaphragm and tin surrounding atmosphere. Newspaper men and music critics who ted to attend t he final tests de thi results "phenomenal." The new horn is said to be intended especially lor the use of publie and 'uinmuiiity gath tinusual volume is required. A band concert, it Is claimed, may be fully d ., mile away from the source of 'i Imes the origina i -. 'ol ume ,. , (J be reproduced, it is :. without distortion. QUEBECOIS FESTIVAL (Continued from page 7) Verendrye Descendant Sings Mademoiselle Juliette Gaultier de la Verendrye studied at Florence under Vincenzo Lombardi, the teacher of Caruso, and sang in the Boston Opera before devoting herself to the study of folk-song. She has learned the Eskimo language to sing Eskimo songs and several Indian dialects of the Pacific Coast, to sing the songs of the Nootka, Carrier and Kootenay Indians. Herself a direct descendant of the explorer, Pierre Gaultier de la Verendrye, She is doing pioneer work in the domain of folk-song. Madame Jeanne Dusseau, a soprano of the Chicago Opera. Association, created the role of Minolta in the world premiere of Prokofleff'S opera, "The l.ove for the Three Oranges." She is an ardent lover and brilliant Interpreter of folk-song in many languages. No folklore festival' would be complete if the "violoneux," or fiddler, be not there. Here Is when "Johnny" Boivin bowed to a vast audience. Mr. Boivin was crowned the "Champion Fiddler" in 1926, at the Lewlston, Me., fiddler's tournament. His repertoire is one of the most interesting of Its kind and "Johnny" is not at all stingy with his encores. This festival was broadcast by CKAC, Montreal, the only bilingual station on the continent, who is also making arrangements lor its rebroadcasting in other ' la nadia n cI1 ies. The Reader's View Give Them the Ax I SAY knock off the wave pirates forever, also the small watt stations, as they create too much disturbance with good stations. The commission might as well wield the ax now as later. — Mrs. Ed Meyer, Erie, 111. Limit Chicago Stations There should be a time limit on Chicago stations. Every station should have one or two nights off per week. — J. Craig, Grand Rapids, Mich. Look at the A. T. & T. I AM unable to see what we have to fear from Westinghouse, General Electric, A. T. & T. and the R. C. A. They have done more for Radio than all the other broadcasters together. Nothing would be better for the Radio public than to have a real hard boiled cut in the number of stations and keep every one of the stations operated by this group. You seem to fear a monopoly) in broadcasting. We are going to have what you will evidently call a monopoly, or we will have nothing. If the A. T. & T. can do for Radio what they have done for the public in the telephone field, what more do we want? — D. C. Meier, secretary Eden Valley Telephone Exchange, Eden Valley, Minn. Questions Iowa League Membership I note in your last issue that you say that Francis St. Austell, of L)es Moines, Iowa, representing the Iowa Radio Listeners' league, was the only representative at the recent hearings before the new Radio commission at Washington. I believe in justice to the United States Radio society, the only national organization of listeners, to my knowledge, in existence, you should carry something about Paul A. Greene, who, according to Associated I 'ress dispatches to Dayton newspapers, appeared at the hearings and gave an able talk in behalf of the listening public. You also state that the Iowa Listeners' league has 458,000 members. This is lather a broad statement for a magazine to publish without investigation, and I have read myself that the league in reality has under 2,000 members. Why not investigate and print the true figures? I have also learned from a Dayton man who attended the hearings that St. Austell made some rather extravagant statements before the commission which are open to criticism and that he was rebuked several times for cursing in the presence of a lady attending the hearings. Why not print this? If you are as fair in the presentation of Radio news as your editorial columns profess to let your readers believe please tell the fans something about the II. S. Radio society, and give them equal space to the amount you devoted to the Lackawanna club, a local organization, and the Iowa league, ostensibly a state organization.— L. M. Austin, Dayton, Ohio. Just a rad "There seems to be a great deal of kicking about sopranos. It must be a fad, because I think them fine, every day. For a while it seemed as though the saxophone was the pet peeve and butt of the jokes for editors and others. Another fad. I submit that a good saxophone solo over the Radio is exquisitely beautiful. Soon the rage will be over for complaining about the sopranos. And then what will it be?" — T. E. Brandon, Nashville, Tenn. (Continued on page 20)