The Washington times., 1926-03-03
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/ II Usually when someone unieashes
the uncomfortable emotions Of =
4 xylophone, vibrophone or similar in.
strument in q micropho sensitive
souls tune out and get another sta
ton. But when Bandsman Keifer--
1.-THE artist, who handles the ham,
liners for the Marine Band Orches-
| tra--is on the job everybody can
lin very loud His work with
/ the orchestra last evening, by way
Iof WRC-particul with the old,
! old ballad. Believe Me, If AL Those
Endearing Young Charms, was
just charming! There isn't any
other word to use! It was just that
and all OF that. Which is exactly
what the ballad should be and what
the other numbers he played should
he--and' were.
| Eiegfried Scharbau, another MEM
ber Of the band, also was star
performer In last nights broadcast
of the orchestra only Bandsman
Scl1arbau was featured as com.
poser with two numbers. His Jap
anese Patrol was dainty BIT and
the encore as easy to listen to as
anything we've had for long time
the name OF ii became scrambled
with something else In the receiy-
ing set. The orchestra concert was
q little bit OF everything In music
- kind of program making that
is q good thing once in q. while.
but only once In q while.
As 30 reception last niglt-
there wasn't any!
Even the ubiquitous Miami fail.
ed to get through the rafting
atmosphere at least on my sell
Late I'm the evening several
western stations gave = fair ac-
count Of themselves accompanies
by much noise. The south and
east generally were not obtain
able save by the most careful
tuning and then 10 an accom-
paniment Of bangs on, and j0ltS
20, tire ear drums that made them
impossible.
Anyone who heard the Moscow
Art Theater's broadcast from WGBS
is entitled to q bigger prize than
will 20 to til person who identifies
the first group OF The Washington
Tfmes--WRC prize songs with the
cleverest sentence. The first song
group was launched last night and
the response this morning was good
showing the listeners-in to be- In
terested IN the old familiar things.
Listen again tomorrow Tor the
second group.
The grand tour OF the chateau
country of France, WRC relayed
from WIZ. was one OF the most
Interesting Of the series and what
we could get of the Eveready Hour
showed an excellent linking up OF
the spirit Of the great poems and
music.
There has been one big question
in the minds of iisteners-in Tor the
past week
who will fill in the Roxy hour?
During four long years Roxy has
been an institution in radio. That
he was the first to see the human
values of the micrOphOne and capi-
talize them In hts Capitol Theater
broadcasts and that he made him
self so very important to radio that
he continued his ''hour" long after
his connection with the Capitol
Theater ceased, made him staple
commodity of the air-a feature
that was looked forward :othat
was a part Of the week.
Roxy had become q habit. Reg
ular fOIIks-hOne folks like Us
steners-in-gO about getting our
entertainment in much the same
way We do our breakfast food
by the label we know covers 3
satisfactory product. The Roxy
hour Of entertainment was sure
to have something that pleased.
and the listener-in didn't care 20
take chance ON something he
didn't know about.