The Washington times., 1925-01-13
BRUNSWICK HOUR AIR FEATURE
|RO1nping Around
the
Radio Dial
BY Listener.m

SWilliam Hard has become over
night the latest inducement to keep
Washington folk at home.
The veteran newspaper and maya
zine writer, closeted in the smaller
studio of WCAP last night, began
a series of intimate discussions OF
the Capitals statesmen that are sure
to find a popular reception in the
ears of the city.
Breasting the political tide of the
moment. Mr.. Hard dealt last night
with the newest recipients of Presl-
Dental promotion, Messrs Warren,
kellogg and Stone.
Next week, unless some additional
honors list is announced from the
White House, Mr.. Hard will attempt
to solve calvin Coolidge-the
Enigma"
Mr.. Hard's constant association
with the nations men of affairs,
duly recorded from day to day IN
The Washington Times as well as
large group of newspapers
throughout the country, have fitted
him admirably for these half hours
of confidence and opinions that he
began last night.
The musical program that led up
to the featured talk last night was
q brilliant one. Miss Gretchen
Hoods Euterpean. Quartet and the
A. and p. Gypsies ;wi1om, II we
remember correctly are the must
clans who last summer appeared
with Roxy at the Capitol TheatefD,
balanced off the program nicely
Having attracted the attention
Of many heretofore Indifferent ed1-
torial writer's to radio, 1t Is not
surprising to find the Mccormack
Bori broadcast arouSing Deems
Taylor, eminent music critic Of the
New York World to three column
exposition of his views on radio,
broadcasting and listeners-in.
After arguing for two of his
three columns that broadcasting
must eventually become a private
affair with the public buying the
entertainment service in the man
ner in which they purchase the
privileges of the telephone, Mr..
Taylor concludes with an arraign-
ment Of listeners-in which though
caustic is interesting.
"Of course, there are many
people," he says, Ito whom the
mechanical reproduction or trans
mission Of a voice or an instrument
is as good as the original; people
whose ears are insensitive to even
glazing discrepancies, and whose
musical taste is so primitive that
any music is as good as any other.
These people, am hoping, will be
eliminated from the concert hall by
the radio. The motion picture in
this country has been an in
calculably important factor in the
development Of the American thea
ter, for the simple reason that it
has lured the gallery gods away.
regaling them with the sort OF
fare they demand and leaving the
theater free to appeal to it's more
adult clients. The radio may yet
perform similar service for music,
keeping the musical Rabbits at
home of an evening and leaving
the first-rate artist free to make
his appeal to an audience that
wants only his best"
This listener as well as many
others must plead guilty to part Of
the Taylor indictment.
We have, however. never con-
WINGED ourself nor have we ever
Osot1
the opinion that the voice over the
radio is as good as the original.
But coming as it does to us, rather
than forcing us to go to it and
arriving as it does without an "F.
o. B. Concert Hail." tag, it pro-
vides an extremely pleasant substi-
tute.
There is also another view which
is not considered by Mr.. Taylor.
Although we have no statistics to
bear us out, the general informa-
ton has been provided US that in
the past year, music teachers have
enjoyed their most profitable season
in a decade.
In fact, we have gone along
peacefully on the assumption that
radio, if anything, was inspiring a
keener interest in music and a
deeper appreciation of the real
thing,