Radio Digest (May 1931-May 1932)

89 member of Rudy Vallee's band is ill. Wayne King plays at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, Claudine. No doubt you saw the feature article about him in December R. D. For picture of Wayne and Guy Lombardo, see R. D.'s special offer, pages 6 and 7. By this time Eleanor Anderson has read about Lew Conrad in the November issue. Rudy's saxaphone is an E. Flat Alto Buescher, Mr. Huggins. * * * M, .ARCELLA hears all, tells all. Write her a letter, ask her any of the burning questions that are bothering your mind. Van Camp's Nightcaps (Continued from page 17) "To think that we treat our animals and the very earth beneath our feet with greater intelligence than we treat ourselves ! No wonder we are living to learn about how to eat." While the foregoing may sound as though the Van Camp Nightcaps is largely talk, such is not the case. There are interspersions when Henry Thies' orchestra bubbles over with some brilliant selection. The outstanding feature identified with the Thies-Van Camp's orchestra is the crooning and poetry of Charlie Dameron. Dameron is an experienced actor. His specialty is reading poetry to music — all of which fits in and rounds out the Van Camp Nightcaps, making it one of the outstanding programs of all American broadcasting. There is only the briefest sort of advertising announcement at the very end of the program. The rest of the half hour period is pure entertainment. Etiquette and Moods (Continued from page 71) for everybody, English preachers railed against the shameful folly of setting a fork upon the table. The change from such old customs as I have described has been gradual and difficult — as all social change is. Common sense dictates every phase of modern home-making, and this is particularly true of dining services. Simplicity is the keynote of the stylish table today. No longer is the dining room a background for a lavish silver display. Only the silver necessary up to the salad course is placed on the table — and it is arranged in accordance with the courses. After the salad, the necessary silver is brought in with the course. No longer is it smart to wrap up rolls in the napkins, for too many absent-minded male guests throw them on the floor as they pick up their napkins. Similarly, the law banishing butter plates has been rescinded in the interest of common sense, and they are now quite proper at even the most formal of functions. This spirit of simplicity is characteristic of our modern attitude as compared to days gone by. We find it in our architecture, in our art, and in our whole social code. But, although modern society has discarded the ornate trappings of more formal ages, it has not lost sight of the fundamentals of good manners. The style alone has changed : instead of processional dinners bedecked with all the gorgeous raiment at a Queen's command, we substitute the beauty of a simply laid table. The underlying principles of etiquette are unchanging, but their outward manifestations undergo constant modification. The change in mode gives rise to countless complications, and it is these complications which I am going to try to straighten out for any of my readers who wish help. Television (Continued from page 64) silence, broken by the invisible announcer. Someone in the studio is holding before the spot a card on which is printed the call letters of the station. 'And tonight," says the announcer, "we have a surprise for you. Kid Bozo and Terror Tommy, the two contenders for the middle weight championship, have consented to put on an exhibition bout for you. Here they are." A grinning face appears and then another. The announcer is giving a blow by blow description of the sham battle. The images of the two fighters are somewhat faint but still one can see their flailing arms. The detail is not so good. You are a trifle disappointed. The fight comes to an end, the lights flash on. The show is over and station W2XAB is off the air for the night. There you have a picture of television of today. Some of it is excellent. Some of it is merely good and the rest is far from satisfactory. But there is this much about television — improvement in broadcasting technic, and that is just as important as development of better equipment, are constantly being made. Television today is better than it was a few months ago and no man can predict what the next six months may bring forth. It is reasonable to suppose that even if there are no startling new developments there will be a substantial improvement. Then, too, the sound part of the programs are interesting and entertaining. At Columbia most of the popular broadcast artists and announcers have appeared before the television spot. Their sound programs are just as good, it is needless to say, as if they were doing a straight broadcast from one of the other studios in the building. That Gibbons Kid (Continued from page ?P) for Chicago on the Century, met Floyd Gibbons' brother, Edward, on the same train. He showed him the telegram, and admitted that at the time he suggested Floyd's going to Timbuctoo, he did not even know that such a place was on the globe. It evidently sounded like a faraway place, and remote enough from the editorial offices to appease the editor's righteous wrath. These skeletons in the Gibbons' closet are authentic for they come from the lips of Floyd's brother, Edward. And Edward is no neglible narrator either. 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