Variety (Mar 1927)

46 VARIETY RADIO-MUSIC Wednesday. March 1«, 1927 New Fight For Garden's Etherizing So many yelps were made to Tex Rickard personally by radio fans tuning In on Madison Square Garden fights about the broadcast- ing of the "blow by blow" doings that hereafter Jack Fllman, expert broadcaster of the professional hockey games, wiU be assigned to the work. For some unknown reason the State Boxing Commission has as- signed a man, a fight referee, to describe the fights, and none threw any raves by the fans who had to listen in. Jim Lundy, the regular WMSG announcer, has done his beat in the past to enlighten the fans In a resume of the bouts broadcast but even this has apparently not satis- fied the fans accustomed to expert "receptions." Jack Filman has amazed the radio fans by the way he has clear- ly and concisely broadcast hockey games and he is now expected to serve as well with the fights. Dinner for Mrs. Crawford At the Hotel Astor Thursday evening, Publlx tendered a testi- moi.ial dinner to Mrs. Jesse Craw- ford, the new organist at the Para- mount, New York, Mrs. Crawford with her husband are now alter- nating at the consoles. Upon opening last week she greatly Impressed. Publlx wailed until after the opening to gather the newspaper bunch, musical writers, et at to meet Mrs. Craw- ford. 'SILENT NIGHT" ON TRIAL Milwaukee Will Experiment First Then Legislate on Subject Milwaukee. Wis., March 15. No action has been taken by the Milwaukee city council to provide for a compulsory silent night here. The aldermen, who were to vote on the measure Friday, decided to side- track It until May 1. Until that time, however, they will try out silent nights once a week for a seven weeks' period. If the experiment works successfully then they will vote a silent night. 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Name • ■ • KM • • • r •:*••] Address » (May be care of any agency, firm, paper, or club) City State Occupation • INSIDE STUFF On Music The Union Steps In Just how strong Is the Chicago Federation of Musicians Is evinced In some recent friction between the union and the manager of a Chi- cago picture house. The manager had been a means of aggravation to musicians at the theatre in his efforts to knock down salaries of those paid in excess of the minimum scale to flat scale and in his persistent requests to reduce the size of the orchestra, Musicians complained to the union of the treatment and the manager was placed on the organization's "unfair list." the owners of the theatre being notified to replace the man- ager or do without an orchestra entirely. The local s request was granted and the manager given air. Following his dismissal, the manager wrote a letter of apology to the orchestra, saying he had repented and hoped that they (the orchestra) would "forget the results of a hasty mistake." The orchestra members took him seriously and wrote to the union president that they had ac- cepted his apology, requesting that he be allowed to go back on the Job. The manager did get his Job back and conditions at the theatre are now known to be extremely peaceful on both ends. Temperamental Stokowski Philadelphia is buzzing at the way Leopold Stokowski, the conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony, Is ritzlng his audiences these days. Stokowski. always a temperamental leader, has been letting out his temperament on the stage this season, his latest being directed at a latecomer to one of his concerts in the Academy of Music here. The latecomer, a woman, entered as he was about to begin a number. He saw her walking down the aisle, so he waited. She had a seat up front, and as she we Iked down the aisle, Stokowski walked to the front of the stage, kept his eyes on her as she was seated—a process which was delayed through a mlxup in tickets—and when she was Anally settled, he walked back to his platform and began the symphony. Audience Indignation at this reached the point of seml-audible pro- test, it is said. Philadelphia, while peeved at the maestro for his platform manners, is also worried because of the Insistence of rumors that he will leave their organization to take over one of the major New York orchestras. Just now, the Philadelphia Symphony is the ace organization of its kind in the country. Gershwin in Cincinnati George Gershwin scored a notable victory for syncopation In Cin- cinnati last week as soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, conductor. Gershwin attracted capacity audiences and acknowledged encores until he grew tired. The audiences were the largest that the Symphony played to there this season. The symphony musicians were somewhat awkward in ringing in the desired Jazz effects at times. Gershwin fortltled Reiner's regular or- chestra with a half dozen or sd leading local Jazzopators. Ballroom Behind Publisher Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, in which T.arry Spier, songwriter, interest, Is backing Spier's music publishing venture. Try Buried "Aerials" For N. Y. Broadcasting Washington, March IS. WRNY, New York City, Is to be the first station to broadcast pro- grams by the use of an underground aerial designed by Dr. J. J. Harls Rogers, of Hyattsville, Md., a suburb of Washington. The Rogers Invention was demon- strated here several months ago. WRNY will utilise a large terra- cotta pipe through which the trans- mitting aerial will be drawn. This will be burled about six feet below the ground at Coytesvllle, N. J. (op- posite 135th street. New York City), and connected by wire with the sta- tion's studio ft Madison avenue and 45th street in Manhattan. Dr. Rogers believes that ulti- mately a large portion of the pro- gram broadcasting wilt be via the underground aerial. Walter Melrose of Melrose Bros., Chicago music publishers, is In New York at the Hotel Clarldge until Saturday on business, ac- companied by Marty Bloom, or- Prefer Jazz Sunday Milton M. Roemer of Roomer's Homers, commercial Sunday night feature from WMCA, Hotel McAI- pin. New York, station, sounded out public reaction to Sunday Jazz. Roemer broadcast a complaint from John Henry Maynor, secretary of the Keep-the-Alr-Clean-on-Sunday Society, 164 Nassau street, who pro- tested against the Sabbath synco- pation. Within un hour of Roemer 1 ! broadcast explanation 75 llsteners- ln phoned their Indorsement of the Sunday jazz regardless, It occurring In the evening after the usual serv- ices have been broadcast. VAN WITH KAHN Peter Van Steeden Is now book- ing manager for Roger Wolfe Kahn Orchestras, Inc.. succeeding Nat Chatken. Van, as he is known profession- ally, will personally supervise all club bookings by Kahn and will be the alternate maestro when Kahn relays between the Le Perroquet and the Hotel Pennsylvania. Kahn opened at the Penn Monday. ATTENTION MANAGERS, BOOKERS AND AGENTS CAESAR La MONACA AND HIS CONCERT ORCHESTRA-FEATURED ATTRACTION NOW Completing two solid years at Hollywood-by-the-Sea, Fla. Previously in California 16 years, Newport, R. I., four FU., two OPEN FOR ENGAGEMENTS AFTER APRIL IS Address communication* to CAESAR LA MONACA, P. O. BOX 70, HOLLYWOOD, FLA.