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HAR 28 1929
C1B 29219
THE NATIONAL BROADCAST AUTHORITY
E. C. RAYNER, Publisher
Eastern Representatives:
Ingraham & Walker
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New York, N. Y.
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Illustrated
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Harold P. Brown, Editor
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A. T. Sears & Son,
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Telephone Harrison 8362
VOL. XXIII
March, 1929
No. 5
ONE of our readers writes to the Voice of the Listener that each new issue of Radio Digest seems just a little bit better than the last. This gives us untold satisfaction because that is just what we are striving for. We hope fervently that our friend will feel that we have kept the faith in the production of this issue. We have tried herein to make our longish articles of more general interest than heretofore. Mr. Archie Schonemann assisted us very ably with the short features and one special article on Jazz vs. Old-Time Melodies, which he signs. This article will interest both pro and con for modern style.
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STARTING at the very front we ask you to especially note our cover. It is a long step from the old news print tabloid to a cover like this. We would be interested to know how our readers feel about this four-color style cover. The subject is Miss Coe Glade, a new opera star who played for the first time this year with the Chicago Civic Opera, winning the particularly effective role of Carmen. Mr. Roy F. Best, whose covers have been seen on the Saturday Evening Post and other well-known magazines, is the artist who made the pastel of Miss Glade.
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NOT long ago we told you that television was here in fact. The article attracted some attention. Many insisted that it still was confined to the experimental laboratory. C. Francis Jenkins, inventor of the first motion picture projection machine, has applied his past experience along this line to the art of Radio-vision, or television, and is actually broadcasting moving scenes to thousands of "lookers" — a name that probably must come as the parallel of the "listener" — and in this issue of Radio Digest he tells you all about it. He gives you a glimpse of future developments also.
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AL JOLSON probably is the most talked-about actor in America today. And while he may not exactly be classified as a Radio star it is the microphone, the essential heart of Radio, and developed to its present efficiency by Radio, that has made it possible for Jolson to acquire his tremendous success. Gerald King, former staff representative of Radio Digest in California, now director of the Warner Brothers broadcast station. KFWB, has had opportunity to watch Jolson work, talk to him and observe the production of his famous audiofilm, The Singing Fool. Mr. King has written an intimate article about the whole story from begin(Contimicrl on page 124)
CONTENTS
With the Publisher 4
Guy Lombardo 6, 7
Microphone Brings Al Jolson Fame — By Gerald King 8, 9
An Open Letter From Jessica Dragonette 10, 1 1
Cugat Caricatures 12, 13
Hot Tunes From Mine Pit 14
Radio Players for "Talkies" — By Milton Samuel 15
Roxy Presents Beethoven 17
Album of Radio Beauties 18 to 25
Rural Characters Win Popularity 26
Zeppelin Brings Station Slogan 27
Pep Lacking in French Programs — By Special Correspondence 28, 29
Quartets Warble 30
Chicago Civic Opera 31
Picture Pages .32 to 35
Jazz vs. Old-Time Melodies — By Archie Schonemann 36, 37
ICLX Entertainers Charm Many 38
KMTR Features Music and Artists 39
Variety at KMBC 40
All U. S. Open to Listeners — By Raymond M. Bell 41
Stage Talent Won for Radio 42, 43
Voice of Oklahoma on KVOO 44
WAPI Speaks for Alabam 45
WJAX, Jacksonville 46
Short Waves — By Marcella 47, 48
Television — By C. Francis Jenkins 49
Beauty Knows No Border 52
"Deac" Aylesworth — By Gene Mulholland 53
Fan Mail Startles Coe Glade 55
"Girl Ideal" Wins Dickason 56
Unique Features Over WTMJ ; 57
What Innovations Portend ? — -By Maurice Wetzel 58, 59, 60
Boy's Dream Realized at KJR 61
All Flags at WGH 63
WIL, "The Friendly Station" 64
KOMO Beloved in Northwest 65
WHAS at Louisville 66
KMO of Tacoma 67
Goal of KPO is Diversity 69
Stars That Twinkle at KDKA 70
WFDF Sees Big Growth 71
Are You a Radio Letter Writer? 73
Patterson Pioneer in South 75
Voice of the Reader 77
Mme. Circe Writes of Beauty 80
Dressing to Your Personality — By Josephine Felts 81
Chain Station Features 84
Call Book and Log 88
Radio Digest, Illustrated. Volume XXIII. No. S, published Chicago. 111., March. 1929. Published four times a year, March 1 (Spring Number); June 1 (Summer Number); October 1 (Autumn Number), and December 1 (Winter Number) by Radio Digest Publishing Co. (Incorporated), 510 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois. Subscription rates yearly. One Dollar and Twenty-five cents; Foreign Postage, One Dollar additional; single copies. Thirty-five cents. Entered as second-class matter September 6. 1927, at the post office at Chicago. Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title Reg. U. S. Patent Office and Dominion of Canada. Copyright, 1929, by Radio Digest Publishing Co. All rights reserved.
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