The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-08-09
ROMPlNG AROUND THE RADIO DIALS
BARITONE WINS
AIR PLAUD|TS !

The static crew DOTTED its
coat and rolled up its sleeves
and made Saturday night radio
reception so hideOus tuning was
imp0ssible-and Sunday night but
little better. Freaky is the only
word that can be used in describ-
ing Sunday afternoon and evening.
There was deafening noise in
| signals Of such intensity that the
noise could be tuned out. The
power behind the signals did not
seem to make any difference.
Montreal, with less than one-fifth
the power Of Atlantic City, could
be tuned clear as ben while
the resort town was noisy and
faded. Chicago, Davenport and
Fort Worth were all available
last night at times.
Music enthusiasts will wait a long
time before they will hear ''Ihe
Fugitive Vision" from "Herodiade"
better sung than 1t. was last even
ing by Eugene Martinez during the
vesper hour Of music from WRC.
One of the greatest Of ali baritone
gives singer to display not only
vocal ability but HIS intelligence as
singer Of songs, as Ointerpreter
Of musical poetry, Martinez gave It
everything he had last highland
he seemed to have everything.
Much more than he showed in
either OF his other selections.
The vesper hour was much
improved bit OF entertainment last
evening all the way through. The
orchestra seemed to have m ire
speed and get more out Of its
lmusic-eyen though 1t did abandon
necsr Of its scheduled program.
Albert Newcombe, the tenor. was
in good voice and scored especially
in his duet with Martinez, from
Martha" Martinez with his one
big song, was the ssar Of the
evening, however.
TRANSMISSION MARS
PROGRAM BROADCASTS
The Radio Corporation Of America
should cancel its engagement to
give Washington the Saturday
evening concerts Of the Philhar-
monic Orchestra from New YORK
and give New York the Marine
Band concerts from Washington on
Thursdays-or 1t should sst new
transmission lines between Wash
ington and New York and make
good on both promises.
The facts are that Washington
has had enc clear broadcast OF the
Philharmonic out Of five scheduled
and New York has had two OF the
Marine Band out of the same NUM-
Ter. There may be excuse for fail.
ure to deliver once or twice--but
there Is. very little excuse in the
present situation, in view OF the fact
that the american Telephone and
telegraph broadcasts from the same
station in Washington did not
seem to be In the least hinderec
nv storms or other phenomena. In
fact, the broadcast from WRC OF
these programs during the last week
was. IL anything, little better than
WCAP had given.
TMPROMPTU PROGRAMS
HAVE NO RADIO PLACE
The less said about the Saturday
evening rIlakeshift concern Of WRC
the better--eave only in the matter
Of Marguerite Clark Cromwell.
whose voice is worth hearing any
time--so much so that she should
not. in Justice to It, be called in.
on such short notice, to exhibit 1t.
The Bernstein Orchestra also did
well, under the circumstances.
But radio rroadast is too important
and vital thing to too many people
to be given unrehearsed and hastily
prepared programs.
Last evening the Atwater Kent
program presented a rare violinist
IN the person OF Nicolai BeresewslSi.
He is an expert with the bow and
most of his solo numbers were de-
voted to showing how expert he
was. At the Capitol Theater Maj.
Edward Bowes was back on the job
and the program was of the usual
entertaining sort