The Washington times., 1924-04-16
|ROmping Around
the
Radio Dial
BY Listner-In-

Had there been any sabers in the
WRC studio last night, Frederick
William Vile undoubtedly would
have ratified them before the mi
chrophone.
AS there was none Of that mill.
tary metal handy, Mr.. Vile was
forced to resort to the use of his
words to produce the effect he de.
sired.
To say the least, it was a stirring
fifteen minutes while he was on
the air.
Here was a man who, as he told
us, has seen wars in the making.
When he speaks of grave situa-
tions," the developments of the next
twenty-four hours" we should be
able to take it that Mr.. Vile has
visited the caverns of international
relations that lie beneath the sur.
face of open negotiations.
AS we listened, we recalled that 1t
was Vile who on midsummer
Sunday afternoon, boarded a launch
at Kiel and FASTENED to the yacht
of Prince Henry, of Prussia, on.
board which was Ambassador Ger.
ard, with the information that Arch
Duke Ferdinand and his wife had
been assassinated at SarajevO.
Then Things Happened.
The Kaiser who was at the time
watching the Kiel races was re.
called by a special messenger aud
from then on things happened.
1t was Vile also whose passport
a German official hesitated to sign
because he declared, ''he hated the
man" and believed he had been
largely responsible for the war.
Z Pursuing our recollections we
heard Vile step cut of his role of
recorder Of events, and as an in
terpreter of world conditions counsel
his hearers that no matter what the
developments of the next few days,
they must keep cool"
Frankly, we were aroused. J.
Later the Army Band played the
'Star Spangled Banner" and we
turned off the set to go to bed
and dream of bugles and cannon
and death.
But this morning everything is
changed.
1t is April and springtime. The
sun shines and the trees are green.
ing.
Golf and the Griffs interest us
more than Vile and war.
We greatly enjoyed the quartet
Of pickup numbers from the Tivoli
Theater, but, ~durn 1t, we had
wanted to hear Warnings Pennsyl.
vanians as well as the Tivoli or
chestra.
Ball Score Mixed In.
n, n. "a Il. q
numbers being broadcast yesterday
afternoon from Doubleday Hills
WMU came the announcements of
the scores of the baseball game.
Washington, 4; Philadelphia, o.
heard Saturday night from KDKA
that the Grifflnen would finish an
easy eighth in the American League
race.
Rurnor has 1t that Wendell Hall
may return to Washington for a
treturn engagement in the Near
future. Nothing definite yet. He
is picking his like this week in
Pittsburgh.
If you are lookini for xxx.
Hastings, around the $50 meter
mark, stop II. That station has
changed its wave length to approx.
mately 34B meters. At least, that's
where It came In for us tho last
time we heard 1t.
Roxy's press agent writes lis that
the broadcasting orchestra that has
worked out in the studio programs
the past two weeks Is now a perma
nent fixture Of the Sunday night
broadcasts. The orchestra is corn.
posed of twenty picked men under
the direction Of David Mendoza, and
comprises every type of instrument
used in the regulation symphony
orchestral
Now that they are putting micro.
phones in circus tents and broad.
casting the roars of the animals
and the cries of the pink lemonade
vendors. we wouldn't object to hear.
ing occasionally the street noises