The Washington times., 1926-03-04
GARDNER MACK

/ With speed made a factor in
musical performance by the tooth
paste orchestra, the faults and
failing of the Republican party In
maintaining its States rights
faith, as representative John Philip
Fill of Maryland sees It, and the
technique Of making Gloria Swan
son register all sorts of things on
the screen by just standing beside
q door, which Cecil DeMille used
and told about--the loud speaker
filled the happy home with a
| variety OF information and enter
| tainment last night. Running q
musical number In heats il new
idea, but the resourceful Phillip
Carlill. OF WEAF announcements
fame, didn't quite like the lay
way in which the Ipana Orchestra
| played one Of its feature pieces.
so he showed them how it should
be done in second trial, at the
piano, and promises to do even
better in the finals next week,
when he's had more practice.
This and that and the Alberto
Martins Portuguese Trio, which
made It's debut at WCAP Tor the
| old Roxy hour. would have kept Wy
extremely busy twirling the various
doodads on the receiver lie 1t hadn't
been for Uncle Sans efficient
postal department and the familiar
song contest answers. The Census
Bureau gives washington q bit
short OF half million population.
II would seem to take more people
than that to write all the letters
that have poured into this office
since midnight Tuesday. Which y
| land and Virginia were called on
| to supply such numbers Of the
answers.
Mebbe there were radio stations
working In the SOutl1in addition
| 10 Mianli--Or I'm the West, out
side Of Chicago, last night. But
e wasn't apparent TO the local
listeners.in. There WASH such >
lot Of noise in the atmosphere as
there has been for q week or 50.
But there was an inperviOus
something that didn't permit
many outside programs to get
into the receiver.
Portuguese Trio Score
The Alberto Martins Portuguese
Trio, new to radio, came through
WCAP with a program Of very mod
ern music-Debussy, Strauss, Ora.
nados- and then finished off with
Wagner, the granddaddy Of the
nnodernists, and d couple OF inter-
esting Cuban compositions. The De-
busy suite was played with excel
lent feeling and emphasis Tor 80
small q number Of Instruments.
The Granados "Goyesca" intermezzO
could have been made little more
dreamy and q bit lighter on the
piano part. The ''Meistersinger
prize song-while e. fine number for
violin or 'cello-is nevertheless de-
signed to be song and not = con
certo. as these artists appeared 70
class ii. AS a very well planned
and Theoretically executed effort to
give something new and different
the program was a distinct success
and we hope to hear some more
Chinese Music Tonight
Chinese music based on scale |
OF five tones instead OF seven
with what we might call their
''utlintaves'' instead Of the univer-
sal octayes-Will have place Ia
the atmosphere tonight The music
will come from WOY and will be
translated according to the uni
yarsal ecale, OF course, so the
WC4Y orchestra can play 1t. From
the Chinese point of view perhaps
quite a lot will be lost In the
translation.
There are several rather inter-
esting things about Chinese music,
in addition to the system OF nota-
1fnI@ h0An
made. The Chinese have been
writing music for some thousands
of years and much Of 1t Is In the
higher tones, some OF them so
very high that they are inaudible
to the Occidental ear. Piercing. in
quality and colorful thereby in the
boldest sort Of way, as are the
Chinese paintings. lisening to the
most classic OF the MongoI produc-
tions is very difficult for the people
whose ears are tuned to Western
musical forms. DIR. C. A. Chen, a
Chinese scholar, will deliver a short
talk on the music and civilization
of his people during the course
Of the concert.
Naval station NAA is not re-
SpOnsible for all of the radio
troubles I'm this vicinity for the
past season!
While it messes up the air
quite nsiderably-admiraI static
ranks it all the way around the
dials as a disturber. Static is
no particular thing-it is any
thing that happens to be in the
air that is not going directly
somewhere or definitely doing !
something. Static is q by-prO-
duct Of everything-eyery noise
that is made. 1t is q prOdigal
child Of nature. and it has been
the most prOdigal in these parts
for the past few months. Many |
correspondents have fallen into
the habit of blaming 1t all ON
NAA. While the Naval stations
sins are many, il is not the big
offender.
Radios Infinite Variety
II anyone yet questions the in
finite variety of radio he has but
to glance at the lecture prospects