The Washington times., 1926-05-21
R|NGS|DE SEATS
FOR AIR FANS

Good hunting lay before the
careful tuner during most OF laSs
evening-gOOd because there were
nlenty OF stations TO tune ana
plenty of noise to tune out. Pow
erfuI stations came into receiving
sets easily and readily but all the
tricks of dial settings were need
ed to get rid of the crashes.
| North and West gave the best
results though the South was not
very far behind.
Italian grand opera Monday. bl.
of astronomy Tuesday, the electric
light industry and chamber music
Wednesday and a prize fight Tor the
welterweight championship OF tbs
world sandwiched in between q hymn
sing and a piano recital THURSDAY,
so goes the week for radio listeners
the living room coy corner magl
clans who have the doings OF the
world at their finger tips!
Several millions of radio listeners
heard a very much enthused an
nouncer at WIP, Philadelphia, give
q long-distance decision awarding
the battle between Mickey Walker
and Pete Latzo, at Scranton. to
Walker only to have the Judges
at the ringside reverse their dect
sion and declare Latxo the new
weller weight champion.
-The announcer was 1t least con.
sistent in his decision in that he
had awarded the l1onors u Walker
affer each round, although his
description of the fighting as Il
occurred led listeners to believe
that Mickey was getting q fairly
enthusiastic walloping all the way
through the 10 rounds.
ERVA GILES
AGAIN SCORES
Some Of these days an opera Inn.
presariO will steal Erva Giles from
station WIZ and tie her up as g
sort OF pinch singer and Utility
member Of q big opera troupe. Miss
Giles gave another exhibition Of
her well trained voice last evening
during the hour subsidized ty the
typewriter manufacturers when she
sang songs that expressed a dozen
different moods of q dozen different
kinds OF people IN the course II the
hour.
Lyric, coloratura, dramatic-it
makes no difference what might
be the intent Of the music Miss
Giles interprets each, individuality
to the finest shading Of character.
She could sing an entire opera--all
the solo pares-and get over the
meaning of each character pre-
scented by her intonation and vocal
expression in much better shape
than four-fifths OF the people max
ing a living doing 1t.
The singers versatility and gen.
eraI excellence in all her endeavofs
were only approached on the maV
steal end OF the radio program IAss
evening by the dexterity or Ger.
trude Srnallwood's left hand a.
proven in the left-handed piano
recital she gave from WRC.
WRC PLAYERS
IN MERRY FARCE
Madge Tucker and her WfG
PLAYERS in .'Dickey Biri. presented
q real comedy, with something mora
than comedy underlying It. with the
most even and finished acting thai
has yet been observed in radio ara
MATES.
The little play came as the final
studio feature Of the WRC program
and introduced Kate Tomnnson as
q new member OF the company
This week eli Of the PLAYERS kept
the pace set by Miss Tucker, with
the result that the audience was
given a finished performances.
The opening of the Sylvan
Theater season by the Marine Band
was broadcast through WRC. VIZ
and WGY-with considerable eclat,
which is another way Of saying the
band put 1t over! An hour and =
half OF band music is getting to DO
rather a lot for radio listeners 10
keep their diaIs set however and
the suggestion is made that a. least
half an hour be clipped from future
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