Radio revue (Dec 1929-Mar 1930)

48 RADIO REVUE Do a Good Turn For a Friend If you know somebody who is an ardent radio fan and is interested in what is on the air, why not send him a year's subscription to Radio Revue with your compliments? Or, if there is some one "back home" who would like to know more about how broadcasting is done and who does it, just fill in the blank below and send it to us. We will do the rest. One Year, $2.00; Two Years, $3.00 RADIO REVUE. INC. Six Harrison Street New York, N. Y. Gentlemen : Please enter my subscription to RADIO REVUE for ......... years. I enclose Dollars in cash, check, currency to cover. Name Street Number P. O. State 1929 Greatest Year in the History of Radio {Continued from page 9) near Cincinnati were covered from an airplane, and a little later a demonstration of refueling in mid-air over New York was also covered from a plane. May 1 8 brought the famous Kentucky Derby. The Fort Worth endurance fliers made their record in the same month, which finished with the radio opera premiere and the Indianapolis Speedway 5 00-mile auto race. Early in June we broadcast a flying memorial service to aviators who had lost their lives in attempting to fly the Atlantic, and in the same month we presented from Old Orchard Beach the take-off of Roger Williams and Lewis Yancy, who made it. We also had the Harvard-Yale boat race, the Poughkeepsie regatta and the broadcast from under Niagara Falls. July was marked by three events in the world of aviation: Williams and Yancy were given New York City's official welcome on their return to the United States, and the stories of two more endurance flights, those of Mendell and Reinhart and Mitchell and Newcombe, were broadcast. The same month also brought the Thanksgiving service from London. A parachute jumper broadcast his sensations as he was falling through the air on August 12, and much of the rest of the month the world was watching the goings and comings of the Graf Zeppelin. The ship arrived in Lakehurst from Germany on August 4 and returned at the end of its around-the-world flight on August 29, and in the interim every movement was covered by press association bulletins and reporters stationed on both coasts. Gloria Swanson sang from London for an American audience on September 5, and two days later we rebroadcast the Schneider cup races. Sergeant Alvin C. York, the World War hero, returned to the public eye by way of the microphone and Sir Harry Lauder used the microphone for the first time to keep in the public eye. In October Jack Dempsey went on the air during the Fields-Dundee match in Chicago, the World's Series opened, and Premier J. Ramsey MacDonald arrived from England to talk peace with President Hoover. A Canadian station was added to the NBC network to present the Premier's addresses. Leopold Stokowski began his broadcasts, Walter Damrosch came back to the air with his programs for schools, the Light's Golden Jubilee program presented Albert Einstein from Germany and President Hocver, Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford from Dearborn, the football season opened and a Holland program was rebroadcast. October and November brought the New York City mayoralty campaign to the microphone, and early in the latter month Mayor Walker, who had spoken half a dozen times earlier in the year, welcomed the Russian fliers to the city. The Chicago Civic Opera programs opened with the dedication of a new opera house, President Hoover made his Armistice Day address from Arlington Cemetery; a Puccini opera was broadcast for the first time in the United States, and John McCormack came back to the air. Early December brought Secretary Mellon, an abstract of President Hoover's message to the new Congress, and President Hoover's address to the members of the permanent business conference. Leaders in the Governmental and financial worlds also came to the microphone in a series of talks on economic subjects.