The Washington times., 1926-07-23
ANCIENT TUNES
RADIO FARE

uhAH bWtSACA WthO ANAANeNAACSe ~
dials for more than five con.
tinuous minutes last evening and
did not lose his religion or ear
drums! The noise was deafening
and continuous. The signals from
powerful stations were strong ana
clear. tOO-Whicll is what made
dialling so maddening-the stuft
was in the atmosphere i'm layers:
banging-and the sandwich was
entirely too riOtOusly spicy for the
ears to swallow!
Old-time tunes-ballads, comic
songs and just tunes-came to the
radio receivers last night during the
half hour OF the F'ireside Boys. the
new feature WIZ furnished WRc
to help tighten a hot summer eve
ming. The three earnest gentlemen
who delivered the program put
everything they had into the num-
.bers and made a very distinct sue.
cess of it. There was quite q bit
of pleasure given to quite mum.
ber of people by these ancient
melodies--ranging from 'tOh, Prom-
ise Me" to 'tSusana."
Between times the solemn Mr..
Daniel of WIZ informed whoever
it may concern that the Radio Cor
poration of America has no inten.
ton Of disseminating the service
Of either VIZ or sWEAF,. which
IT, has acquired, but that both
ssetw
each to strive to be the best pro-
gram-producing units In America in
accordance with their distinct and
welI-known policies. All of which
is duly recorded.
BRANSON PERFORMS
WITH THE MARINES
Some OF the most interesting
things he has ever done with the
Marine Band were included in the
hour and a half of music Taylor
Bransen directed to the microphone
Of WRC. WIZ and WGY from the
Sylvan Theater in Washington last
night.
The adaptation to the brass band
OF music written for orchestra pro-
tduction and thought ont in orches-
trail terms, which are most distinct
from the forms Of band music, was
perhaps more clearly and satisfac-
torily demonstrated than is usual
Branson went even further than
that. He transposed magnificent
choral piece of Richard Wagner'g
to the band medium-and did IL
without losing shade of the vivid
depths Of color its composer put
into it,
Beginning with Beetroven' 5
s'Leonore Overture No. 8" and end.
Ing with Wagner's great chorus
for male voices, "The Last Supper" "
the concert was full of surprises
and always rich in musical values.
The overture is one of the most
formal Of its kind. written along
the orthodox overture form. The
scenes from "Lahkme," by Delibes,
perhaps gave the director hfs
greatest opportunity and he made
the most of it. The work of the
sextette of brass instruments in the
big sextette from Lucia was
greatly appreciated by the audience.
MOTION PICTURE
OUGHT TO SUCCEED
If there is any reader of this de
partment Of perslflage and enllght-
eminent VINO wants to see novelty
among photoplays. attention is called
to 1T Must Be Love- which win
come to some local theater shortly
which is a distinct novelty in that
1t is a clean. human story told ir
a very delightful and unspcctacular
way. That is-jt will be all of these
things IL it is anything Ike the
dialogue 1'ade from it that came tc
the loud speakers last evening from
WRC at the opening Of its evening
program.
The Royal Salon Orchestra, with
Erva Giles as the soprano soloist,
did its very best for the tuners
last evening--and it was real
best that had variety. fun and mu-
sical sustenance. George Ross fig
ured in the program iceSduring
the evening to unusual advantage.
Once with a piano number Might
mare" which was all of that, and
again with an organ number when
it was thought the storm would
prevent Tommy Thompson and his
Chevy Chase Orchestra performing
for the evening home dancers.