Radio Digest (Mar 1928-Oct 1929)

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HAR 28 1929 C1B 29219 THE NATIONAL BROADCAST AUTHORITY E. C. RAYNER, Publisher Eastern Representatives: Ingraham & Walker 33 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. Telephone Penn. 2210 Illustrated Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Harold P. Brown, Editor Western Representatives: A. T. Sears & Son, 122 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, 111. 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. Newsstands Don't Always Have One Left BE SURE OF EACH ISSUE The Official I Publisher Radio Digest, 3-29 510 N. Dearborn St., I Chicago, Illinois. I Please find enclosed check M. O. for One Dollar | and Twenty-Five Cents (Two Twenty-Five Forj eign) for One Year's Subscription to Radio Digest, ■ Illustrated. | Name • Address Subscribe Today | city state