Evening star., 1924-03-08
RADIO NEWS

! itS Slxtn appearance before WRC'S
/, microphone tonight with a program
of spirituals and jubilee songs. sup
plemented with several comedy num-
bers anc new songs. "You Got
Shoes. I Got Shoes" Golden Slip
pers." Swing Low, Chariot" and
Little David. Play on Your Harp"
will be some of the featured songs
The quartet will accommodate with
request numbers, in SO far as pos
sible.
| Leo Alvardo. violinist, accompanied
by Miss Ethel Bagnam. will give a re-
cital Of South American music
George Bruce, who has been heard on
WRC's programs frequently with
! snappy dance music, will return to-
night with his newly organized Par
agon entertainers. A merry song,
planned.
New and startling revelations in
the field of radio communication will
be made at a meeting of the Amer
lean Institute Of Radio Engineers
Tuesday night at s o'clock, when
Capt. R H. Ranger. a member of
the engineering staff of the Radio
Corporation of America, addresses
that body at their meeting at the
Rangers address will be Gearing
Radios Time Element to Mans
Needs"
Demonstrations and experiments.
before. will be performed by Capt.
Ranger. The most interesting of
Capt. Rangers spectacular demon
| sarations will be that of actually
radio impulse started in Washing
ton from the platform at the Cosmos
(Club, to make a complete circuit
around the powerful transoceanic sta
tions to Warsaw, Poland, and be re-
turned over the circuit on a different
wave length to the sender on the
platform. Special arrangements have
been made. to extend the New York
land Warsaw radio circuit from New
York city to the Cosmos Club.
Advertising and commercialism is
! creeping into the broadcasting indus
try slowly but certainly. 1t has been
! with US for some time, but recently 1t
has been more pronounced. Even our
| good friend ROXIE took occasion last
Sunday night to mention several
| times that 1.-The gang" would make
their trip to Washington this month
"ON A SPECIAL CAR" Just little
| advertising for which you can scarce
ly blame him.
| But here's another evidence of ad-
| vertising via the air. An enthusiastic
| listener-in, H. F. c.. has been in the
habit of acknowledging the hearing
acknowledgement H F. c. has received
| a variety of literature, but just yes
terday he received prize.
| A certain station sent him an al
| plantation" with the argument that
| "a man is as old as his glands This
| station operates a hospital such as
Ponce de Leon sought in quest OF
perpetual youth, only, Of course, he
| Just another bit of advertising and
commercialism which is being shot
| at non-suspecting listeners-in. Some
don't mind and some do.
| HAROLD LEWIS, Boyds Md, sends
the following letter:
| Kindly publish this Information
for r. A. BUCkLER and also for
C. E. c.: The basket ball game be-
was broadcast from station WCAD.
| Canton. n. Y. which is operated and
| controlled by the st. Lawrence Uni
versity."
! Is it "ROXY" or 'ROXEY." or
what is it?
! There appears to be considerable
difference of opinion as to the SPELL
ing Of this we'll known broadcasters S
| name. The radio editor himself has
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| variations used in correspondence to
| this column.
This morning the radio editor is
in receipt of a letter from ROXIE
! and he says: MY name is ROXIE."
BERNARD ]. KROGER, 1880 Sd
street northwest. operator of anna
teur station 3APV, has been award
ed fourth prize by the American
Radio Relay League for reception of
ofo ~
recent transatlantic sending tests.
w. NJ NJ, 1909 K street northwest,
asks what station was broadcasting
cast Wednesday between $3.50 and
S:45 o'clock.
The station which C. l. SMITH, 1905
18th street northwest, heard broad
casting Tuesday between 2 and 2:3O
a.m.; was KFKB. the Brinkley-Jones
| Hospital Association, Milford, Kan. A
man announced as the early bird"
sang 1T Amt Gonna Rain No Mo-"
and Land of Dreams"
GEORGE E. WILCOX makes this
inquiry:
Gould some readers of your ex-
cellent column tell me what station
was broadcasting = talk on canned
goods about 7:15 last Saturday eve
ming? The speaker said something
about If all the canned goods used in
the world war were placed on end.
side by side, they would form a road
wide enough for six men and stretch
ing from New York to Berlin"
JOHN c. CONLIFF, JR., 6s U street
northwest, sends this letter to the
radio editor:
Can you or any bugs through
your radio column inform me what
station in Montreal, Canada, was
transmitting Tuesday night about
1880 o'clock? The first number I
heard was Dreamy Melody played bv
Jazz orchestra. This was followed
by Roses of Picardy,' and then two
waltzes.
The announcer then stated that
the hnal number would beMarcheta.'
ABOUT haif way through this number