The Washington times., 1926-11-24
TINES PROGRAM
RADIO HIT

Although President Coolidge
didn't saw anything about it
specifically i'm his proclamation
regarding tomorrow radiOtics
might devote a little Of their
Misunderstanding to the conditions
that governed the wave lengths
last night and breathe a prayer
or two for more of the same.
There was rather pronounced
fading in most broadcast areas.
but reception was good, volume
very good and programs clear
and sharp in tone.
While it is a distinct prerogative
Of the political fraternity to point
with pride land the Fall-Doheny-
Walsh broadcasters at the court
house may need all of that sort
OF thing in circulation during the
next few weeks--at the same time
we're too strongly tempted not to
fall for the chance to commiserate
with that part of the radio public
who did not hear the Burleigh
Singers last night in the first radio
program OF the season sponsored
by The Washington Times. Sit
ting close to the cf1oristers as we
were and missing no single note
of their fine performance we're
willing to admit we've never heard
a better singing organization in
a long. long time.
The singing of this chorus was
a demonstration of what can be
done by people who are in love
with their work, who put all OF
themselves into it with complete
abandonment to the idea they are
striving to express and who have
clear conception Of that idea and
know how to express it. Il
The colored people seem to have
a capacity for putting themselves
into their expression Of music pos
sessed by few other races of men
and the Intelligent work of the
chorus last evening was most
striking example of this--as well
as an example Of the well nigh per-
singers by Virginia Il. williams, |
their organizer and preceptor. AS
the sponsor of the concert the radio |
department of The Washington |
Times is completely satisfied with |
radio listening public feels like
wise.
BELLE BAKER
TAKES THE AIR
As a sedative for the excitement |
Of stage managing a radio program |
presented by a chorus, can recon-
mend the singing announcer. Milton |
Cross, and his spark plug advertis-
ing program which came over the
wires from VIZ for the unwired |
listeners of WRC. The spark |
pluggers presented a good average
program that was more or less held
up by the novelty OF the Cross an
nouncenents. We're telling listeners
This because most OF them were tuned
in for tn purpose of making sure they |
would hear Belle Baker and Vernon |
Dalhart when they came to do their
stuff for the Eveready Hour.
Miss Baker was the same singer |
of all sorts of songs who has turned |
vaudeville upside down and put the |
same sort Of dynamic force Rto her
singing for George Furness knd his
National Carbon Company adver- |
tisement. There We're one or two |
little vaudeville mannerisms Miss |
Baker tried that don't quite fit into |
the microphone-but on the whole |
her program was just about as en-
tertaining as it is on the stage. Yer |
non Dalhart was distinct success |
because he is radio-wise and knows |
just what and how to do his stuff.
On the outside wave lengths there |
was quite a bit to be gathered--so |
much, indeed, that q recitation of 1t |
would be profitless in the reduced
space one has for such comment.
The Pennsylvania railroad subsidy |
from WIZ is keeping up a high
average of musical entertainment,
however, as last evenings sample
showed and the Edison hour from
WRNY was distinctly pleasing.