The Washington times., 1925-03-18
LA lava MUSIC IS WCAP EVENT
ROInping Around
the
Radio Dial

| for q minute last night that ~ WAS
st. Patrick'R Day. Every Wavs
length had It's Irish melodies. and
even the dance orehestras bowed ~
Old Erin by including Irish tunes
in their programs. II 81. Patrick
could have Eeard II he would have
| marveled.
Even the artists names fitted well
with the spirit OF the night. Gala
hans. O'Oradys and O'C0nnoFs pre-
dominated. When Margaret Gala.
han failed to appear at WRC he
cause of Illneas. the management
succeeded In getting another name
which was Just as good. II WAS
Kitty OToole. and she gave Il
pleasing recital.
Ireland's invasion into the Musi:
Memory Contest made the third con.
cert Of March much easier than Its
predecessors. Nearly every number
played during the concert was an
old familiar one.
Throughout the local program
last night the announcing seemed
to US to be unusually bad. Not
only the local announcers but
those from WIZ were at fault.
They all taxed too much. We had
to listen to the call letters for the
entire chain Of stations hooked up
for the Music Memory contest four
different times before any music
finally got through.
And during the concert. inter.
ruptions were frequently made to
give the list all over again. Why
doesn't the Radio Corporation fol.
low the excellent lead Of the tele-
phone company in this instance,
and save time by having each
local announcer cut in and. give
his own call letters.
But although lengthy announce
ments are bearable during a pro-
gram such as the Brunswick hour,
when certain explanations are
| necessary, they are absolutely out
OF place during a dance program.
Last night Ellsworth Tompkins,
WRC announcer for the LIE Paradis
concert, fell into the same fault.
Tompkins during his short term
as q local announcer has done some
good work however, particularly
during the last Pan American pro-
gram when he got away admirably
with a difficult job.
Spencer Tupman, LIE ParadiS band
leader, made his first talk over
radio during the program last night,
although he has played for months.
His voice came through even clearer
than the announcer's, and we sug-
gest that he ought to change his
profession.
Frederick William Vile took a
philosophical view of the Warren
controversy between President Cool
idge and the Senate He assured
us that the Constitutional question
involved in the squabble is of much
more import and will live much
longer than the name OF Charles
Beecher Warren.
Vile paid a pretty tribute to Sen
ator Bill Borah of Idaho when he
called him the "Demosthenes from
Iowa." The insurgent Senator's
ears must have burned last night.
Our mail today brought a letter
from "A Fan. (radio and basebalD''
wondering why the local stations
don't make some arrangement for
broadcasting the games in the
"spring world series" between the
Nationals and the Giants. The fan
writes:
why doesn't one of the local
stations get out Of the monotonous
sameness of its programs and make
arrangements to give us the re-
turns from the series between the
Giants and the Mats, which will he
resumed soon.
Even though only exhibitions;
the games have more interest t1an
the average American League
games. Both managers may claim
that the series doesn't mean any
thing, but it's easy to tell from
the scores and the accounts Of the
first two games that they were
for blood
Both local stations have been
sadly neglecting the opportunities
presented to broadcast sports and
talks on sports. Why don't they
wake up?"
And we add, that in this day Of
long-distance pick-ups it doesn't
seem that it would be an impossible
task to wire up returns on the
games, play by play. Why not let
Walter Johnson give US his de-
scription Of them. II he isn't going
to take part in them himself?