The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-02
ROmping Around
the
Radio Dial
BY Listener-In

With dramatic gesture OF trI'
umphant tones. William Mengei
berg brought the tenth and last Of
the Philharmonic Soclety's air con.
certs to a close last night.
1t was q tough moment for the
radio fans to whom the Phllhar-
monte concerts have meant 30 much
Radio has lost one OF It's greatest
features for another half year.
The close of this, the. second an
nual series of radio concerts by the
Philharmonic, had a cert4in, grand.
could not miss. 1t was one of the
best the society has ever put on to
the air.
The first part Of the program WAS
devoted to Franck's symphony IN
g Minor" It was q beautiful mum.
Der in which the orchestra lived up
to the leadership OF Mengeiberg.
The famous Dutch leader has q
reputation for getting the most out
OF every instrument and nc ot1tdid
himself In the presentation Of the O
minor symphony.
with the passing of the Philhar-
monte Society, goes one Of WCAP's
old standbys.
Among the regular features still
left for the local stations are the
Gypkies, the Atwater-Kent program,
the Eveready hour, and the Capital
Theafer progralns. all Of which are
weekly events. But az at least one
Of these comes on WCAP's off
night every week, the station only
has three regular weekly features
from out Of town.
The local telephone station has al.
ways been our favorite. For the first
year and half Of local broadcasting.
1t led the field In presenting the best
programs. But we feel that the
station IL slipping. It needs a
severe shalEing.up.
within the past year, while WRC
has been expanding its service to
pick.up major local events. and
bringing down lines from New York,
schenectady. Springfield and Boston,
the downtown broadcaster has
stood still, In fact. It has almost
moved backwards.
A year ago WCAP was broad.
casting the best orchegeras In the
city, and was picking up all the
interesting out of studio events.
Meanwhile WRC had to rely entire
" upon its studio presentations; and
was giving some mediocre stuff.
with it's programs filled by com.
paratively unknown artists and or
chestras.
Today the Park road station has
the class of the orchestraG, and Is
even expanding its hours into the
day time to get them all in. 1t also
is displaying some versatility In the
making up it's programs, and in
addition to getting the best OF the
local entertainment Is piping some
exceptional programs from other
cities.
WCAP, we are afraid, IL paying
to much attention to the features
from which they can derive revenue.
Two nights this week they have
signed off at 10. o'clock, which is
not q sign Of too much talent on
hand. How about it WCAP?
Tuesday nights program from
WRC was an example Of what We
may expect during the summer. 1t
was a good program with features
picked up from New York City and
Schenectady. Tonight they are TAX
ing q program of dance music from
Philadelphia, Springfield, Massa-
chusetts and Boston are also linked
up with them and we may expect
some interesting programs from
these two cities during the warm
months.
There will be no Music Memory
Contest this month, according 70
an announcement from WIZ to-day.
The Brunswick Company, however.
will continue with the Brunswick
Hour of music every Tuesday eve
ming between and 10 O'Clock.
Leading recording artists will be on
the programs.