Evening star., 1924-04-07
RADIO NEWS

Vocal and lnStrum entail SelectionS,
originating in the studio Of WEAF'
in New York, will be WCAPs con-
tribution to the entertainment to-
night of Washington's audience of
broadcast listeners. A talk on Can
Ger Prevention" by DR.. J. A. Cannon,
staff surgeon at Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital, will be the only
number coming direct from the studio
of WCAP.
Lucille Wilson. dramatic reader. is
scheduled as one of the leading fea-
lures on the joint broadcast of WEAF
and WCAP. She is most versatile,
presenting negro dialects and south
ern songs in a delightful way.
Charles f. Wellner, tenor, accom-
panied by Charlotte Standt, will pre-
sent a brief recital. Charles Dett-
barn and Walter Howard, banjo
players, and Helen a. Morris. so
prano, and Robert Toldt- violinist,
are others on the program.
Mrs Isabel Reinhart of the Albe-
marie apartments, an invalid. heard
her first radio concert yesterday.
She listened in on WCAP. Mrs Rein
hart has been confined to her bed for
thirty years and indicated that she
enjoyed immensely the church serv-
ices, the first she has heard during
her period of confinement
Four talks on the Volstead act will
be broadcast this week by WRC.
Representative Hill of Maryland will
speak in favor of the modification of
the act Thursday night He will
be followed by Senator Capper of
Kansas, whose remarks will favor
the Vclstead act
Saturday night Daniel c. Roper,
former commissioner of internal rev.
enue, will uphold the Volstead act
Hudson Maxim will follow him with
d speech assailing the act in his Gus
tomary aggressive manner. These
hroadcaSting events are under the
auspices of the National American
League, which has adopted the radio
as medium for referendum
The first meeting of the Washing
ton section of the Institute of Radio
Engineers since the beginning of the
world war will be held in room 704
of the Department of Commerce build
ing. April Is at o'clock pm. Maj.
J. o. Mauborgne of the Signal Corps
of the Army will describe the use of
resonance wave coils in radio trans
mission and reception. The talk will
he illustrated by diagrams and charts
and by demonstration apparatus
Steps also will be taken at the
meeting to revive the Washington
section of the institute if there is
sufficient interest on the part of radio
engineers in Washington to warrant
it. All members of the Institute of
Radio Engineers living in Washing
ton or vicinity and their friends and
others who are interested are invited
to attend the meeting.
Commander A. H. Taylor Of the
Navy Department is acting chair
man of the acting executive COM
mittee of the Washington section of
the institute. Other members are DR..
L. N. Austin of the bureau of stand
ards and L. Z. Whittemore of the De-
partment of Commerce.
NJ. r A. asks: Can you tell me
where Wendall Hall was Friday
night about 8 o'clock? I listened to
him for about fifteen minutes when
the Marine Band cut in from: WRC."
T. B. D. asks the following:
Gould you please inform me as to
what station 1 heard last Friday
night at about 12:45? I heard them
for while, but then lost them. The
two pieces I heard were The Stars
and Stripes Forever and Yes, We
Have No Bananas These numbers
were played by an orchestra
Also, who was the person who
Kept saying 1-2-S-4-5, Hello! Hello!
earlier in the evening. ?'
This latter person was a Washing
ton amateur testing.
JOHN r. wOODWoRTH. Silver
Spring, Md. makes this inquiry:
What station was broadcasting
between 1880 and 11:45 pm. Friday
night? The speaker was talking about
California as if he was there, telling
ABOUT certain advantages, climate.
etc, and mentioned California very
often throughout his talk.
BOYD S. BROOKS, PoolesvfIle, Md,
asks this:
Thursday night I had a station in
Quebec, Canada. 1t was on about $40
or 315 meters. 1t sounded like a.
frenchman talking. Before I could
get the call letters, KDKA came on at
ll:So and drowned it out. What sta
tion was this?"
This was Station CKAC.
KENNETH HOOVER. Clarendon,
Va sends the following:
query in Fridays Star I would like
to say that WGY, Schenectady, N. Y,
and WY. New York, N. Y, were
broadcasting jointly an orchestra pro-
gram from New York. Tuesday
night, of which one number was The
Lost Chord
Il would also like some information
if possible. 1 would like to know If
Hastings, Nebr., was broadcasting
Monday night, March 81? 1 picked up
a station that I think was just start
ing their evening program between
10:30 p. M. and 11:0O p. M. The an
nounced said that they were about to
broadcast some event from some
place, that I did not catch. I think
ne said xxx, but I am not sure I
heard him say clearly. zone minute,
please Then I lost it and was not
able to pick 1t up again.
KFKX was broadcasting last Mon
day night.