The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-24
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} TX Keefe will make his debut
to the radio world as announcer Of
Station WSM, the 1,OOO-watt (Iash-
vile, Tenn station, when it is for
many dedicated Monday night. Oct
5. Mr.. Keefe is POPULAR in Nash.
Vile and is a clever entertainer.
Keefe is q graduate of Harvard,
played on that university.s varsity
baseball team in 1908; was a feac
tured entertainer Of the Glee Club
has held the position Of professor
of science and coach Of the ath-
1etic teams Of the Eastern Oregon
State Normal School; has directed
Elk minstrel shows over the coun-
try; was chief chemist of q large
alcohol plant in Tennessee during
the war, and graduated in law at
Vanderbilt University in 1925.
The new 5,000-watt radio station
of the Paulist League. New York.
will open Thursday evening at Z
O'Clock. The opening number will
be an address by Patrick Cardinal
Hayes. Several Metropolitan Opera
stars have offered their services for
the opening. The wavelength is 2SS
meters. The sta ton will broadcast
every Sunday, Tuesday and Friday
evening.
Under the direction of Ten Eyck
Clay, the WGY Players will present
a three-act comedy, Alice" Friday
night. The WGY Orchestra will be
heard between the acts. AT the con-
clusion Of the play, Theresa Berbe-
rich, contralto, will give a program.
Theatrical reviews Of current at
fractions in Cincinnati will be re-
sumed byk WLW. Whenever it is
possible to prevail upon to appear,
stars OF The stage and screen will
be heard in brief recitals from the
studio in the Hotel Gibson Monday
evenings at 1880 o'clock.
A rare treat 1Or the radio audience
of WEAF is III store for them on sat
urday at 9:20 p. m, when Edward
Avis, known in the field of nature
study as the Bird Mimic" will give
one of his celebrated whistling and
violin programs, in which he ini-
tates the calls of nunberless mem
bers of the feather tribe. Mr.. Avis,
who has passed his life studying the
habits and calls of the birds, is allie
to mimic them with almost incred-
1ble accuracy.
WKItC announces the appointment
of Eugene Huber and Frank Bier
Hnger, operators, to take the places
of Eugene Wesselman and Vic Cham
bers, resigned. Huber comes from
Station WICK, Detroit. Previous 20
this he had been engaged in radio
work at the United States Govern
ment flying field at Dayton. Bier
1inger is a Cincinnatian with consid-
cradle experience in radio work. I'm
der an amateur license he operates
his own station Wesselman and
Chambers have been with WKRC
since it's opening and aided John
Church, WKRC radio engineer, in
designing the present transmitter.
With Major L. d. Gardner. avia-
ton expert and fiier, at the micro,
phone, WPZ will broadcast a mum.
Der of events at the national air
races Saturday afternoon, Oct. 10
at 1 o'clock, directly from Mitchell
field, Long Island Special structures
will be erected from which jor
Gardner will have an unobstructed
view of the planes as they fly the
course. Another observation station,
in addition to the principal micro
phone site, has been selected and
suitable wiring arrangements have
been carried out to enable q second
announcer to trace the planes in
their flight over the field in the event
that the planes fly beyond the vision
of Major Gardner,
Complete returns of the world Sc.
ries will be flashed, play by play
commencing this week by KOA,
Rocky Mountain broadcasting sta
ton OF the General Electric Com
pany. Regular noon schedules at
the Denver station will be set aside
to accommodate this feature, which
will be provided through the cour-
tesy Of the United Press in coopera.
ton with the Denver Express.
Wednesday. Oct, 7, has been de-
cided upon az the opening date. The
first two games are to be played at