The Washington times., 1926-09-09
BEAUTY BESTED'
BY OPERA

4Ho kOOW- SEtAD N&AEtAA S1E JUN -
bad place In its progress through ,
SPACE last evening and the crashes
and grindings OF the atmosphere
against the whiriing sphere did
al sorts Of things to radio re-
eeivers--Or at least that Is what
Fecepfi0n Of broadcast programs
aeenled To indicate. Whatever Il
was. there were crashes and bangs
20 snare as the loud speakers
caught them. High power sta
tions, as usual, came through
fairly well. Boston, Hartford, At
lanta and Des MOines were .au
tunable and the middle distances
responded as they had power AND
che tuner had patience.
Miss America. ''the Lille Of
Killarney, and the primaries in
Georgia ran race for popularity
through the wave lengths of the
radio channel last evening and the
irish opera won by a tenor solo
and couple Of soprano topnotes..
The opera, telling in musical
terms the story of Colleen Dawn,
csnae to WRC from WEAF as
one of the most entertaining ana
tuneful performances the Cesare
Sodero outfit has confided to the
wave lengths since its Gilbert and
Sullivan activities. Again the star
Of the performance was the d.
rector--for seldom has a smoother
running bit of concertiZing been
heard than this performance. Nor
has there been more spontaneous
and enthusiastic singing beet
heard. Altogether the performance
was most enjoyable with no partic-
rIar high spots Of achievement
for any Of the cast. all of whom
sang their parts in keeping with
the general scheme.
BEAUTY CONTESTANTS
PARADE BEFORE MIKE
The beauties Of Is American
cities paraded before the mike Of
WPG Atlantic City. and permit.
ted Norman Brokenshire. Of WIZ.
to introduce them to the radio
world. In the first parade Miss
washington appeared to get more
applause than any Of those intro
duced, with the possible exception
Of Miss Winnipeg" whose greet
ing was uproarous. Later in the
evening some OF the contestants
spoke q few words of greetings to
The radio audience.
The Boernstein Ensemble Of the
washington Hotel opened the eve
nfng's exercises for WRC at Z
o'clock. with the playing Of a
group Of Jewish musical numbers
in honor Of the Jewish holiday.
There were three selections in the
group that were Of entirely diff
ferent character and gave a fine
idea Of what the ancient music Is
like.
The yeast powder inspired saxo-
plhonists from WEAF were rather
lahorious In the presentation OF
their program and gave 1t very lit
Tie save a straight reading Of the
notes. There was no lack OF pep
in the .tooth-paste aggregation which
came next on WEAF"s musical
menu and their saxophonist. whose
name seems to be Andy Finelli
gave a better account Of his instru
ment's versatility than the exper1s
had been able to do during the
previous haff-hour.
PITTSBURGH COMEDIANS
CRACK NEW JOKES
Pittsburgh. through KDKA, con-
tributed the comedy to the air again
last evening-this time with group
OF comedians that had some brand
new. stuff, including a song about
a rather large lady from Nashville
that provoked all sorts OF merri-
ment in front OF my loud speaker
At the same time this was going
On in Pittsburgh the Hawaiian
Melody Boys were making their de-
but at WRC with well selected
program that came Jumping through
the receiver with all sorts Of vim
and vigor. The boys are likely to
be a regular feature Of the WRC
programs this fan and winter, for
which many listeners viii say
s.praise be-
There was an aecordionist at
WIZ during the course OF the even
ing who seemed to be able to do
almost anything he wanted with the
instrument with which he is afflict-
ed. From WSB there seemed TO be
such great interest in the Georgia
primaries and every time a vote
was counted the announcer would
announce it. Chicago, through
WIS and KYW provided its share
of the evenings entertainment with
Ford and Glenn at the former sta
ton, and the poppy Congress Hotel
dance orchestra at the latter.