The Washington times., 1925-04-06
ROnping Around
Radio Dial
BY Listener-M

The Brunswick Hour Of Music,
| which has been national radio
| feature each Tuesday evening for
several months, will be continued
| throughout this month, according
| to an announcement from the
| Brunswick Company, though the
veil of mystery surrounding the
names of the performers and their
selections, will be dropped.
We are glad the Brunswick conI-
pany has decided to give US straight
concerts instead of the contest con.
certs. Their artists are among the
best appearing" on the radio but
for those thousands who were not
| taking part in the contest, the
| concerts recently have been almost
ruined by the long drawn out
| announcements.
Roxy had a good program last
| night which was not marred by
poor announcing. Roxy's person.
atty before the microphone is about
| the best in the country; when he
| doesn't overdo it. We particularly
enjoyed the numbers by the studio
orchestra.
One of radios biggest problems is
| the crystal set. Right here and
now we are going to start a cam
paign for the elimination Of this
! nuisance.
Not being at home last night, we
/ listened to Roxy on q crystal set
which was the only one available.
Three erstwhile friends, Bob, Ham
and Eddie, were reading papers In
| the same room. Whenever Roxy
made an announcement, they insist
ed on rafting the papers, which al
ways drowned out his words.
We couldn't demonstrate because
they thought they were being quiet
when they didn't talk much, but
they didn't have the least idea how
much we felt like yelling every time
they turned those pages.
| Another difficulty we had to over
come in hearing the program was
the adjustment Of the crystal. Just
as one Of the artists was about to
start one Of our favorite pieces, the
| eats whisker" got out Of place,
and we sat with nothing but All ir-
regular metallic sound IN the
phones. while our charming hostess
re-adjusted the exasperating cyys-
/ tai attachment.
! Why does the telephone company
insist upon putting that organ re-
cital on the air every Sunday eve-
ming? Much as we appreciate good
organ music, and beautiful rs it is,
| it seems that they could find q
more attractive and more popular
feature for that time, when nearly
everybody is listening in.
1 e.
the air nowadays, that even when
1t is as good as that from the
Columbia University Chapel, it has
no real attraction for the average
listener, and we would bet that
nine out Of every ten persons who
are listening to Roxy every Sum-
| day, turn to out of town stuff
! during the organ.
| What happened to that expert
mental dramatic sketch which was
put on about three weeks ago? 1t
| proved much more popular with
listeners as whole than the organ
concerts, but has never been re-
| peated, and in fact there has never
been word about it from the
company.
| We have a letter here from q
| local ISleneFs concerning the week
~ plays from Schenectady by the
WGY Players.
| ''Listener-In,
1 ''Washington Times.
wont you try to get WRC to
broadcast the plays from WGY,
Schenectady? They take other pro-
grams from there. but overlook
the most popular feature at the
Schenectady station, the weekly
dramas.
"Of course, they can't do it every
week, because the plays sometimes
come on their off night, but there
are many weeks when it would be
quite possible. A radio play is the
most difficult thing to get satisfac-
torily from an out-of-town station,
because it must be so clear.
at think 1t would be one OF
WRC's most popular features II
they would put 1t on.
"a LISTENER"
WRC tried to re-broadcast a
Schenectady play about two months
ago, but it proved unsuccessful, be-
cause of a bad storm that night.
We would like to see them try 1t