The Washington times., 1925-06-06
SATURDAY NIGHTERS TOP WRC BILL.
ROmping Around
the
Radio Dial
BY Listener-In

!. During this past week super
power has won its spurs. and the
static bugaboo, which has been
worrying radio enthusiasts ever
since Marconl did his stuff IL on
the road to complete oblivion.
With the temperature lowering
between 90 and 100 degrees
throughout the Eastern half OF the
country during the past few days,
q condition which would have made
distance reception an impossibility
a year ago. powerful stations have
been overriding the static and get.
ting listeners hundreds Of miles
away.
we thought It was some at
inospherfc freak during the early
part Of the week, when, In spite Of
the heat, distant stations came In
almost as good az In the winter
time, but 5as the week rolled on
and the reception continued good, It
was apparent that super power was
doing the work.
During the week We have. had
nearly all Of the stations that are
using so-caIled super power And
most of them have come in about
as good as In the winter time.
All Of which is an argument for
granting the Radio Corporation the
right TO try out the use Of about
twenty-five kilowatts as they have
asked. For several months David
EarnOfk, general manager OF the
Radio Corporation, has been ready
to, give real super power q trial
any time the Department Of Com.
merce would give him permission.
So far the department has re.
fused to grant his request because
they feared too much power would
blanket other stations. But the
same thing was argued about 1000
watts until It was tried. and We
are 0f the mind that radio fans
are willing TO try anything once.
The proposed meeting OF the In
ternationaI Radio Conference here
in the fall Is expected to be post.
poned until 1927 by request OF
Probably the action Of the Tdrop-
can News Agencies recently In
Recommending TO their govern
nnents several proposals to be
brought before the next Inter-
national Radio Conference, tnclud.
Ing In these regulations the In.
creaeingly troublesome problems Of
inviolibility Of radio messages with
special emphasis on copyrighted
press matter, has been one OF the
nnsettling factors which have tend
ed to make the present date in
opportune.
Because Of the number Of manu-
scripts that have ben received in
the contest WGBS Ii holding for
the best original radio drama writ.
ten expressly for the radio It
has been decided to postpone the
closing date three weeks. until
July 2.
The prizes offered are production
Of the play over the air for which
royalty OF S76 will be paid, and
royalties from the sale OF the
play which will be published in
book form.
The oratorio form Of operate se-
lections which Roxy introduced at
the Capital Theater last week
proved to be so popular that he il
presenting . similar arrangement
OF selections from ''Rigoletto" this
week. The principals are Doug
Stanbury. Caroline Andrews, Nell
La Nance and Giuseppe Reschi-
glian. A male ensemble OF thirty
viii be arranged on the stage in
oratoria formation.
WRC was planning to broadcast
a couple Of operas by the Man
haitian Opera Company tonight, tut
In some way their plans got mixed
up and listeners viii have to wait
for a few days. They were plan.
ming to broadcast "Cavalleria Rusti.
cana" and I'll Pagliacci."