Radio Digest (Nov 1930-Apr 1931)

84 FIRST TRY— AND HE MAKES V. O. L! THIS is my first letter to your splendid magazine, although I have read almost every issue of it since I got my first Radio in March, 1926. Just as Radio is said to be essential in a home as a necessity, so is Radio Digest if the listener, wants to know what is going on in Radioland. He cannot learn all that is in Radio Digest even if he listens twenty-four hours a day to his Radio. Radio Digest gives you, as it were, the inside dope of all in Radioland. As a constant reader of Radio Digest for four years I like it better all the time because of the great improvement. You have a great magazine! I was very glad when you published the Official Log because it comes in handy when DX'ing. When I had my first Radio four years ago it was a two-tuber and I logged 241 stations in two months. Now I have a nine tuber. — George A. Phillips, Jr., Smith Falls, Ont. * * * REQUEST FOR BACK NUMBERS WITH reference to copies which you can not supply, we are venturing to make a suggestion. It is that a notice be placed in a forthcoming issue of Radio Digest that the numbers mentioned are needed in the Library's lile and that the courtesy will be appreciated if readers, who no longer need their copies will present them to us. Publishers frequent!} do this for us and almost invariably with successful results. We shall be grateful for any assistance you may render us in this connection. Copies wanted: — 1928 — June, September. 1929 — January, February, April, August, September, October. — F. H. Anderson, Director, New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and . 42nd St., New York, N. Y. We will appreciate any cooperation you can give the New York Public Library. Send requested issues to the address given. — Fditor. * * * YOU'LL FIND WTMJ WELL REPRESENTED IN THIS ISSUE JUST got the November issue of the Radio Digest, your splendid book. It's a book that's interesting to everyone with stories, household hints, and other short articles good to read as well as the wonderful Radio articles, but there is one thing I'd like to write about. One reads so much about Chicago Stations, WENR, WMAQ, and very distant stations in great number. But, why not more of WTMJ, Milwaukee Journal Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin — the best station in Wisconsin. One artist, particularly, I want to mention is their staff soprano, Myrtle Spangenberg. Hearing this soprano I'll say she possesses a very sweet and pleasing soprano voice, and her very wide selections of numbers — both popular tunes of to-day and classical numbers— is fine. Their organist, Terese Meyers, is also very fine, with her melodies, and WTMJ announcers are pleasing to hear too. Will look forward to be reading more of WTMJ — A Radio Digest and Radio Fan, Margaret R., Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. APPRECIATION OF "JERRY BUCKLEY" ARTICLE JWANT to voice my appreciation to the Radio Digest arid Mr. Robert L. Kent for devoting your magazine column in behalf of our dear friend "Jerry" Buckley who was so cruelly assassinated for lighting so bravely for the "common herd," which he so loved. The "common herd" of Detroit miss his voice each night. Such "friends of the poor" are few. — August Keranen, Detroit, Mich. WESTERN STATIONS, MEND YOUR WAYS! A FTFR reading my first copy of Radio i"\ Digest — the best on the market — T de■ided immediately to become a constant OlCe of the reader. I would like very much to become a member of the V. O. L. Club. I am an ardent Radio fan, but there is one thing I would like to know. Why do stations out here cut in on chain programs to advertise a special make of washing machine or candy or give the football scores? We do like the Eastern programs but don't like to have someone chop the beginning or end off them to give us the news items or the market reports. One San Francisco station in particular has this habit. — Dorothy Graham, Morgan Hill, Cal. WHAT DO OTHER READERS THINK OF THE RADIO LOG? I HAVE just received the November copy of the Radio Digest and after looking it over have decided to write you one more letter suggesting that in all issues you make your official list of wave lengths more complete. As I have written you previously, I have taken your magazine ever since the very first issue, when it was a weekly, and during all of these years I have taken it for one purpose only, and that is to get a complete and up-to-date Radio log. The thing that I miss most from your November issue is the list of stations arranged by states, which I have found by experience to be almost as useful as the list arranged by wave lengths. I think a list of Canadian, Cuban and Mexican stations arranged by wave lengths would be a very valuable addition to your magazine. I. am sure that the "fan" matter contained in your magazine is very interesting to most of your subscribers and am finding no fault with it although it does not interest me. — C. L. Farnsworth, Omaha, Nebraska. Radio Digest is interested in readers' opinions on this subject. Please write us — Editor. FROM A GRANDMOTHER — 74 YEARS YOUNG! I BOUGHT my first copy of Radio Digest to get Harlow Wilcox's (WGES) picture. You say, "he has made good" — I'll say he has — and How! He has the best voice and is the most natural reader we hear. We are worried all the time, fearing he may quit for some cause. He is too good to be true! — A Sincere and devoted fan.— (Mrs.) G. A. Li jean, Oak Park, 111. A LITTLE ANTIDOTE FOR "THE HAMMER WIELDERS" WHAT does it matter if we aren't "crazy about" Amos and And}' or that we can't "rave" over Rudy Vallee an}' more? Did you ever stop to think that if we heard our best friend, or even one of our beloved parents, sing or speak along the same lines every day, perhaps two or three times a day at the same hour, we would perhaps grow a trifle bored. And how trying the daily grind must be to the entertainers themselves! If we are a little weary, turn them off for a while, but don't "knock" them. They are untiring in their efforts to please and I, for one, consider myself fortunate to be able to hear this supertalent free of charge. T have Radio-ed for at least ten years. My first lasting Radio thrill was when I heard John Drew give a sketch of "The Taming of the Shrew." And the singing of John McCormack on one New Year's night. Living in a small town then, I knew I was tasting something real and hearing famous artists whom I knew I would probably never see. May I say a word for the endless "pep" and enthusiasm of Phil Cook? I hear him twice a day and never seem to tire of him. And those two lovable characters, Abe and David. Don't they take you back to the days our parent* used to tell of — husking bees and spelling matches — and can't you just smell gingerbread and wood fires and hickory smoked meat? And how I enjoy Mike and "Hoiman," and that adorable couple Cecil and Sally, whom I hear from my home station WMBD. I bought my first copy of Radio Digest and was shocked to read the knocks in V. O. L. In this old world of hard knocks why pass them on? A word of praise does so much more good. — Mrs. E. R. Harris, Peoria, 111. PAGING OTTO HOEG, RADIO ARTIST CAN any one give me some information as to the whereabouts of Otto Hoeg — former program director, announcer, pianist and composer of KGB, San Diego, California. I always enjoyed his playing and would like to know if he is still broadcasting. — Clara Bailey, 1616 Bancroft St., San Diego, Calif. SOME DX RECORD! WITH my set, on October 13th, 1930, from 6:30 p.m. to 3 a.m. I "tuned-in" 64 stations, 55 of which were DX, reaching from coast to coast and from WPG of Atlantic City, N. J. to KFI, Los Angeles, California. I believe that this will amount to a possible record of stations received for this time of year, if not, for all time. — H. Meta Tafel, 509 So. 45th St., Philadelphia, Pa. STATION POPULARITY CONTEST WINS FAVOR HURRAH! This is the contest for which I have waited. May I nominate my favorite station, WSYR, Syracuse, N. Y., for first place. I could enumerate man}' reasons for my choice but it would take too long. However, I am sure there are man}' in Central New York, besides myself, who consider that "The Voice of Central New York," although just a baby in size, has the best programs, for a small 250 watt station, that can be heard anywhere. — (Mrs.) R. E. Lauber, Fulton, N. Y. * * * PICTURE OF BILL DALY COMING SOON THIS is my first letter to the Voice of the Listener, though I am a regular reader of your pages. I always read your magazine from cover to cover, and then wait eager!}' for the next issue. Why don't you tell us something about Bill Daly and his orchestra? I have heard him on the "Revelers" programs and think he deserves some mention in your pages. — Louise Stockton, Cambridge, Md. YOU'RE FUNNY— THANKS FOR MONEY ENCLOSED you will find check to cover a year's subscription to your magazine. Until I received your letter I didn't know that my subscription had run out. But anyway — here's your dough for another year — so let's go — send along the old reliable Radio magazine