The Washington times., 1927-12-07
RADIO DEBT To
ACTORS FUND

choose to make themselves always
manifest they insist that their
power be respected and every lit
tie while crash a few big bertlnas
along the broadcast front, as they
did last night. While high power
stations were only affected by
the noise In spots, most Of the
Midwest and far West broad.
casters were peppered with bangs
and crackles. Aside from the
noise there appeared tn be less
interference than usual-pOssibly
due to many low power stations
being entirely inaudlble.
While 1t is scarcely possible to
state the facts in a more convincing
way than Harold Phillips, dramatic
editor of The Washington Times,
presented them last evening from
WRHF, may we step away from
the loud speakers long enough to
add our urging to his, that radiotics
remember the Actors Fund matt
nee benefit at the National Theater
next Friday?
Radio listeners owe much of the
best they get from their receiving
sets to members of the guild of
actors and actresses The list of
favorite singers and dramatic stars
who have cast their talents on the
wave lengths is almost a directory
of the theater. There is a more
peculiar and pressing obligation on
radio listeners to help the Actors
Fund than on any other form of
audience uplifted and enlightened by
its potential beneficiaries.
RADIOTICS HAVE
CHANCE TO HELP
While theatergoers pay admission
to the theater and thus Indirectly
contribute to the payment of the
actor for his services, the listener
receives his entertainment in his
own home and without paying a
| penny for 1t. We hope the radio
audience will literally patronize the
Actors Fund show. II they cannoot
| attend the matinee. check or
| other form of contribution sent to
| the theater will find its way to the
| fund.
We rather thoroughly enjoyed the
way Phillips told about the theater
in his brief period at the WRHF
microphone last evening and we're
| hoping he will continue his twice-a.
week talks indefinitely. They fur
| nish us with a real guide for such
amusement as we can get away from
the loud speaker.
One OF the interesting things of
last evenings broadcast was the
debut of the Washington Phono
Sextet during the WMAL Movie
Club exercises. The sextet, we un.
| derstand. is made UP of young
| saxophone players of Washington
who are anxious to make their way.
They can best do this by more
careful rehearsals of their roper.
toire and confining 1t. until they be.
| come accustomed to themselves and
to playing for an audience to those
rhythmic compositions that are pop.
ularly called jazz
The concert numbers they at.
tempted last evening were a bit too
roughly presented 10 enable them
10 compete with the regular saxo.
phone exercises we hear nightly
here. there and everywhere along
the wave lengths. Another hig
feature of the Movie Club was the
singing OF THE Wanderer. whose
tenor tones were most welcome to
most living rooms.
The Eveready group provided
listeners with the finest music
they've heard for some time-par.
ticularly the Liszt numbers and es.
pecially Les Preludes." We cant
say that we enjoyed the Rubenstein
Romance" the way 1t was pre-
sented-the presenter seemed too
much interested in the drama he
was reciting to permit the orchestra
or the singers to play the beautiful
composition save in fragments so
that the audience never heard 1t in
its exquisite entirety. We believe
in dramatic presentations-but we