The Washington times., 1924-09-04
ROmping Around
Radio Dial
BY Listener-In-

The sudden rise Of the string trio
to immense popularity is one of the
most interesting results of broad
casting.
Witness Moe Baer, the Eveready
Trio, the WBZ Trio, The Marguiles
Trio, of Newark, Cincinnati's Minor
Trio and the Jones-J Jordan Or
ganiZation of Medford Hills.
There are few local features that
receive the written applause and
the requests for numbers as find
their way in the mails to Moe Baer.
The Eveready Trio, OBJ the word
of the National Carbon Company.
is second in popularity only to
Wendell Hall among their features.
The WBZ Trio is the pride Of
England and usually headlines any
program on which it appears.
David Margulies often steals the
air from brilliant New York fea-
lures.
The Minor Trio holds a similar
position in the Ohio Valley and the
Medford Hills trio music has been
! one of the brightest spots On the
$50 meter wave length.
Trios also find favor on the
Edgewater Beach studio programs
of the KDKA Serenaders.
Back in the old, silent-air days
string trio was something that
was known to exist but was seldom
heard except in restaurants and
dining halls. 1t was almost never
sought out for it's merits by the
q, 900 900.
Then along came radio and sing
Ing sweetly in between the exasper-
ating flow of jazz, the notes of
sour sopranos and chesty contral-
tos, and the idle words of publicists,
was the voice of this trio of
strings. This combination of vi.
brations moved soothing and ad-
mirably suited to the idiosyncrasies
of the microphone. !.
Three instruments found an easy
exit onto the air where a larger
number created repeated blurs.
Wise broadcasters noted the
phenomenon and rounded up the
violins and ceIlos.
And now Moe Baer and his fell
low leaders of trios are bowling to
their audiences.
The Eveready Hawaiians did all
that Graham McNamee said they
would-you know, carried US to the
dangerous islands of the South Seas
and the rest of it. But we believe
the same result would have been
achieved just as well without the
suggestions of the said Mr.. Nc
Nance.
There seems to be no doubt that
| the 400-meter wave length is to
usurp the congestion honors that
were held last winter by the $780,
meter mark. The traffic jam was
terrible at that point last night.
The favorable reception that
marked Tuesday night was again
in evidence last night. We bagged
long log of stations in endeavoring
to find something out-of-town that
was really a Grade A number.
A newcomer was WFBQ, at AL
toona, Pa, which was unusually
clear and distinct at times but
which faded miserably. The pro-
gram was below mediocre.
THE following log for Tuesday
night, obtained by F. S. Howell,
1924 Kilbourn place, is the best
that we have received. It follows:
WEAF, WGY, WOO, KDKA,
wDAR, wTAM, WAR, WCAE'
WY, webb, WBZ, WMAF' South
Dartmouth, WNAC, WTAR Nor.
folk. WKBF Providence), WHAI
tRochester), CKAC, WEAN Provi-
dencel. WIN, WSAI, WHAS, WICK,
WQJ and WGN..
Mr.. Howell's set is a homemade
detector-two-step. The less said
about the aerial, the BETTER" How.
ell writes.
WGN, Chicago. was brave enough
last night to offer "What'll Do
and "Duna" as successive num-
bers. Where are the authors of
the blacklist" movement?
WTAM's presentation Of excerpts
from popular operas and WINS
music scholarship contest numbers
were the best of the musical pro.
| grams we heard.
Everything Electrical
Il THOS. j. WILLIAMS
Electrical Construction
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