The Washington times., 1926-09-21
RADIO SNE[LS'
) RELIEF FUND !.

: Maybe it was the effects of the
!. Southern hurricane-Or IL might
f; have been some local disturb.
ance-but radio reception was a
: BIT shaly and wavy last evening
from all sections. outside of local
broadcast. Fort Worth and At
lanta came through with fair
steadiness and Cincinnati was
: strong. Chicago was afflicted
: with nervousness, however, and
nt times faded out altogether
after the stations there came on
( the air late in the evening.
A genuine hurricane struck the
) loud speakers of the continent last
evening" hurricane of sympathy
and help for the victims of the
tempest in Florida-and with its
certers forming about Hearst's s
Chicago Herald Examiner radio sta
. tion webb and the Sears -Roebuck
f, station WIS, brought in large sums
for the relief funds.
The use of broadcast stations for
! the collection of relief funds is no
new thing in the middle west and
although Chicago respected its
weekly silent night between z p. m.
and midnight last evening. yet as
soon as the self-imposed ban Was
off. the two stations mentioned
ss.took the air. and continued until
an. early hour to provide special
: program numbers by its most inn
.poFtant stars in return for contrii'u,
,kions.
This is a new idea of collecting
5s- ~ 11ls fax "a 1eyf-
cal numbers or special bits to any
and everybody who will send in q
contribution. AT the time of the
disastrous tornado in Illinois year
or so ago and again during the
Christmas holidays Of 1924 ard
1926. Ford and Glenn and Isham
Jones at WIS collected thousands
Of dollars in the course of few
hours in this manner. The same
system was followed last evening
by the Herald Examiner and by
Wis. At ] o'clock this morning
the stations had both been swamped
with requests. each accompanied
by subscription to the fund. Thus
does radio do its bit in the great
work of relief of human suffering.
CONTRALTO SCORES
HIT IN GRAND OPERA
Record has been made in these
columns so many times of the
brilliance Of Cesare Sodero out
shining any Of his eonfreres of the
WEAF Grand Opera Company that
mention of it again becomes mere
without much point to it.
And so we're just assuming that
the listeners agree that the di-
rector is the greatest among the
music makers, operatically inclined
in loud speaker performance-and
go on to mention the next best.
In the case of Samson and
Delilah'' last evening Devora Mad
worney who sang "Delilah" seemed
to occupy that position, although
Nino. Ruisi. the basso. made a
strong bid for first llonors. Miss
Nadworney sang each of the three
big arias for the contraito in very
good style and with much intel
ligence- two of them much
better than the popular My Heart
at Thy Sweet Voice" of which she
seemed just a bit afraid.
YOUNG SINGER
CHARMS LISTENERS
Despite the fact that she was
placed on the program immediate
" after the grand opera perform
Ance by the WRC program build
ers, Dorothy Wilson Halbach, the
young Washington contralto, charm
I'd her listeners with her rich con-
traIto voice. She used it a bit too
nauch on a dead level, and would
probably get much better results bv
studying the meaning of the words
of her songs and trying TO ge2