The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-19
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IN AIR WAYS
Electric storms seem 70 cast
their shadows behind as well Is
before, so far as radio reception
Is concerned, n last nights pro.
gram deliveries is to be con.
eidered as q sample. The con.
dItiOn Of Thursday night was
almost duplicated again last night.
The air seemed to be thick and
lmpenetrabIe with fading notice.
able where tuning could be done,
and sudden starting up and stop.
ping Of signals in all sections. A
very freakish evening for dial
Mary Garden and some millions
of radio listeners received the thrill
Of a lifetime last night during the
Victor hour Of music from WIZ
and its antenna Of associated broad
casting stations last night Miss
Garden because she was making
her formal debut as q regular
union radio northumberland the
listeners because they heard one or
two very familiar and much mutt.
lated songs sung for the first time
IN their lives for the reason that
Mary Garden was singing them!
We're admitting strong prejudice
regarding Miss Garden. She is one
of the very few opera stars who
deserve to be called such. There
are hundreds of corking singers
one hears singing operatic music
both in and out Of costume. But
Mary Garden is one OF the iivinely
annointed few who are interpreters
of music drama-who put all the
poetry and romance of drama into
their singing and create with voices
the characters their music Is in
tended to convey.
Miss Garden doesn't need q stage
and costumes to do it. She drama
ttzes every song she sings.
She would sing MARY Had a.
Little Lamb" in such a manner
that her audience would be keenly
conscious of a sweet golden-haired
cherub and fluffy lamb who fol-
lowed her about because Of mutual
affection-the mutual affection being
just as vivid to listeners as Mary
or the lamb. And Miss Garden did
Just that during the Victor hour
Of music last evening with the five
songs she sang. She made listen.
ers understand the meaning of Sat
Dawning" as no one has done for
radio and she snatched the char
acter of Louise" from Charpen-
tiers opera and sent 1t sailing over
the wave lengths to every living
room tuned in on the concert.
After that, as an encore, she made
everybody understand exactly why
one would Lay me doom and dee"
for Annie Laurie
In the same way Emilio de
Gogorza. baritone, the Garden pro-
gram mate, registered his golden
voice with listeners and made them
understand why he has been one
Of the great concert baritones Of
the world.
EVENING PROVIDES
GOOD PROGRAMS
Last evening was a large and i'm
portant period on the wave lengths
any way one wants to consider it.
The Burlington concert from WRC
provided excellent music, well played
by the orchestra and very we'll sung
by Earl Carbaugn. The new fea-
ture bringing the Goldman Band
to the WEAF constituency also reg
istered well sand tbs Lord Calvert
contingent played better than 1t has
since WRC inaugurated that feature.
The playing Of the last number Of
its program was especially fine.
Louis Katzman's Anglo Persians
made the final concert feature Of
the evening one to be remembered
with the playing OF q condensed
version of the second movement of
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as
part Of one Of the most varied and
musically elaborate programs It
has ever presented.
The most distinctive impression
gained from the outer wavelengths,
aside from the Victor hour, was the
rather interesting program of
Hawaiian music that came during
the Maxwell concert from WIZ.
Attempts to tune WMSG, New York,
Tor the prize fight were not very
satisfactory, and KYW was about
the only midwest station that
could be heard with any satisfac-