Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-16
RADIO NEWS

| An elaborate four-hour program,
| featuring the artists who will enter
tain at the Washington Board of
| Trade at it's midwinter dinner at the
| Willard Hotel tonight, will be broad
cast by station WCAP, starting at
| 7:15 o'clock. Special radio transmit
ting. equipment has been installed in
I the crystal room of the willard Hotel
| by the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company for the broadcasting
! of this event.
An array of local and national tai
| ent has been corraled by the Board of
Trade for it's entertainment at the
| banquet. These artists at the same
| time will entertain WCAPs vast au-
| dience of listeners-in.
Roxy" and some of "his gang"
| from the Capitol Theater, in New
York, have come to Washington to
| take part in the program. Bob
Lawrence will furnish some commu-
| nifty music, and Wendell Hall. the
| his "Bluebird Blues" and at Amt
| Coin to Rain No More"
| An Americanization program will
/ be broadcast Thursday by WGY from
the Schenectady High School, where
a large group of new citizens Will be
| welcomed.
Broadcasting directly from the Of
| flee of DIR. William l.. Ettinger, su-
| perintendent of schools of New York
| city, WIZ will open Monday the larg-
| est municipal educational series or
| broadcast programs ever scheduled.
The inaugural program of the series
will include addresses by Supt. TT
| finger, Acting Mayor Hubert of New
| York and George Ryan, president OF
the board of education. 1t is planned
| to broadcast an educational program
| the school board every school day
| from to 2:30 o'clock until the end OF
current scholastic year.
Dance music from the annual ball
to be given under the auspices of the
District OF Columbia department. OF
the American Legion at the Willard
Hotel Monday night will be broadcast
| by WCAP. The music Will be fur
| nished by the Army, Navy and Marine
bands. This will be the first time
| that these three famous bands have
appeared on program OF this sort
simultaneously.
WALTER f HALLECK, 1911 30th
street northwest. sends this commu-
nication to the radio editor:
THE rumor is current among Wash
! ington radiacs that the publishers
| of certain popular musical selections
have compiled a list of such music
which orchestras and Nbands are not
allowed to broadcast unless the pub
| fishers receive fee. If this is a
! fact it seems to me the publishers
are biting off their nose to spite
their face.
During the past ten days l have
bought several pieces of music which
| / heard over the radio. Otherwise l
may never have heard them and
hence wouldn't have made the pur-
chases.
The publishers should wake up
and realize that the radio is a fine
advertisement for their product. as
any family with a piano or talking
machine will certainly hear selections
over the radio that strike their fancy
and VIII wish to hear them oftener
than they are broadcast. This will
result in the sale of more records
or sheet music"
Who will volunteer to answer this
query of c. l.. ROUSE? 1t is beyond
the radio editor:
IF the party or person who took
my three-tube sfngle-circuit radi o
receiving set and batteries from my
car, standing on Sth street near Mar
ket space, Friday. February s, will
phone Franklin 8 and advise me
where l may leave the cabinet and
loud speaker they will be welcome
to same"
W. c. QUINN, cuIpeper. Va,
writes as follows:
Last Friday night, February S, or
| rather Saturday morning, at about .
O'Clock, picked up a station in Los
angeles, Calf, on a, wave length of
about go meters. The letters were
kFNG. or sounded very much like
this. No such letters are on my lists.
Johnny Walker and Frances Thomas
We're on the program. XIII was run
ming, but this station (KF&G)
came In better. though l have never
heard 1t before, and have picked up
XIII. XII, KGO and other distant
stations regularly. What was this
station I heard:"
KING, but KFSG, the Echo Park
Evangelistic Association, Los Ange-
les, sending on 27S meters.
DIR. ]. NJ. V. voices the following
opinion in a letter to the radio edi-
tor:
"The consensus OF opinion is that
radio is becoming as much q part of
our daily lives as the other arts and
professions. Then, let's keep on a
pure and wholesome basis with our
broadcasts.
"a week ago Illinois came in strong
at the expense of a 'chink and a rat
A night or two later, another station
came n with 'sheeny, dago and wop.'
The following night n Pennsylvania
station broadcast at the expense of
'darky' ball player.
eff any other profession or art in
which one stoops to low or question:
able things which do or can give Of
Tense, one is quite promptly branded
as unethical, or below the standard.
ut is gratifying that most of
the broadcast artists are above the
standard, but for that wee per cent
which is little off side let's call
a spade spade and deuce a deuce
The witticisms will go over just as
big.
Il wish to register my appreciation