The Washington times., 1925-05-07
|ROrnping Around
the
Radio Dial
BY Listener-M

WCAP's entertainment program
last night, largely made up from
local talent, stepped right out to
contest with WRC's predominantly
imported bill OF Tuesday night for
the honors Of the week.
! Beginning about a half minute
after wRc concluded its afternoon
billJ with, one of the best band con.
!certs ever broadcast, WCAP gave
us delightful twenty minutes by
the Imperial Male Quartet; re.
turn performance by Bob" Law
renee; a rebroadcast of the popu.
larity gaining Royal Little Sym
phony from New York, and finally
special music week program by
the Delta Sigma sorority, Beta Beta
Chapter.
Although 1t was a jazzless bill,
the program was unusually well
balanced and had enough versatility
IN its makeup to avoid being mo.
notonous.
OF the entire program, we liked
the two early features. the Navy
Band and the Imperial Male Quar-.
tet, best. Charles Benter, the direc.
tor of the Navy Band, managed to
keep his program away from the
stereotyped schedule usually fol.
lowed so religiously by the service
bands. OF an overture, march, in.
Ornamental solo and march and in
doing 80 added to the attractive
ness OF his offering.
/ We thoroughly enjoyed the spiri.
tuals and southern melodies of the
Imperial Quartet's presentation. w.
Arthur Mccoy, George r. Ander.
son. ]. Benton Webb and Francis
p. Heartsill have four good voices.
! Both the locals seem to be getting
careless with their switching. Tues.
day night WRC let US in on a few
iasides we were not supposed to hear
and last night WCAP jumped from
Bob Lawrence's recital into \
hook-up with WEAF several min
utes before they should have.
The WCAP announcer said "the
next voice you will hear will be
| the announcer at WEAF and a
second later we heard the popular
old strains OF Smiles" by the At
water Kent Artists who had not
yet finished. After making the
/
tinue to listen. WCAP broke off
abruptly and left the loud speaker
silent. 1t was a little tantalizinG.
The radio audience will undoubt
edly regret to hear that after next
Tuesday night there will be no
more Brunswick Hours of Music
until next season. Following the
lead of the Victor presentations,
the Brunswick officials have de-
cided to adjourn" for the sum-
mer.
Even the blacklist clouds have q
silver lining. however. With the
departure of the Brunswick Hour.
we may perhaps be enabled to hear
some of the Schenectady operas
and dramas which have gained
such a hold on the northeastern
radio audience. AS long as the
Brunswick Hour was coming every
| Tuesday night at or 9 o'clock.
il was impossible for WRC to take
any other lead" programs on those
nights.
From the wording of the Bruins
wick announcement, 1t appears that
they are planning to make their
last concert Of the season a pArtic'
ularIy gala occasion, with many OF
their best artists on the bill.
Summer time may be a dull
season for radio and radio mer"
chants, but one big New York de.
partment store has proven that II
prices are lowered during the off
season as they are in other com
modities, the public displays plenty
of interest.
The store in question. which
maintains a large radio department.
advertised a radio sale for Tues
day. An entire floor Of the store
was devoted TO the sale OF one
kind of receiver and other types
were on other floors. Before clos.
ing for the day. the store had
reached the amazing total OF
81 900 900 for it's sales.
| Nearly 10000 radio sets were sold
during the bargain day, at an
average price of about 800. The
owner of the store remarked that
the sale showed that 1.-The surface
OF radio marketing has scarcely
been scratched"