The Washington times., 1927-08-25
SCORE
RADIO HITS

One more night Of freak re-
ceptiOn for loud speakers Is reg
istered In log books. jacksonville
and Shreveport delivered clearly
and in good volume. The WGY
tests were hardly understood By
some receivers and clear IN others.
Interference and fading seemed
to reach its peak and high power
stations came in clearly or were
not tunable, without reference to
distance or location.
A pair of eontraltos and John B.
Kennedy's safe, sane and short dis
sertation on alcohol provided many
of US with the memory material Of
last nights loud speaker deliveries
land most of what each Of these
did made indelible record.
The singing of Hazel Arth In the
spot before closing in the WRCl
was, as her singing invariably is,
the big thing Of the evening pro-
gram. There are few singers in the
country equipped with the rich,
round, mellow tones Miss Arth pos
sesses and of those few there are
none whose musical intelligence and
fine sense Of the poetry OF song Is
iHOI9 uCNEADDEu Vi AAlO1S
truly translated into music.
Miss Arth not only gives all the
composer and poet intended should
be given to the music and the
words. but she gives all OF herself
to making plain the meaning Of
them both and this artistic triangle
registers completely with the I'm.
dersanding of the listener.
I .f-.As
contralto, deepened and increased
fyorable impression she has made in
previous recitals by her concert
from WMAL during the course of
the evening. Miss Hartman has q
deep, rich voice Of great power and
well controlled. Her program was
we'll selected to exhibit these quail
ties and enable her to interpret the
poetry OF her songs.
EDITORS TALKS
STAR FEATURES
In his brief fiye-minute talk on
the effects Of alcohol on the human
Icing John b. Kennedy. associate
editor OF Golfers, delivered one of
the soundest temperance lectures
we've heard in years one that
neither wet or dry could enthuse
over or yet find fault with. The
burden of his talk was true tenn
perance-the ability to use the great
blessings of nature rather than
abuse them. The weekly Kennedy
talks are becoming real high lights
OF the radio program as they come
each Wednesday evening during the
dinner hour from the WIZ chain.
Rather undistinguished was the
general loud speaker program, we'd
say after going over the usual group.
of notes. The Arion Male Chorus
of VIZ, a rather fine impression
with a well trained group of voices
singing conventional choral numbers
mostly German--in a rather con-
ventional way.
The organ recital Of Stanley Far.
rar, with Justin Lawrie, tenor. as
soloist, was well presented with
what seemed to US a badly chosen
program, albeit all the music was
good. Just why soloists, and
uses-instrumenta as well as
yocal-should run TO music associa-
ted with funerals lately we can't
quite fathom. And yet Tennyson's
Crossing the Bar" was the best
effort OF both the organist and the
tenor last evening, as Lead Kindly
Light" has been of several groups
in several musical settings on other
evenings.
Oscar Levine, the youthful VIC.
linist, presented by Jose Duarte
from WRC. exhibited a fine skill
with the bow in most of his per-
Torrance. For a 14-year-old per.
former making his debut as radio
soloist he gave an excellent account
OF himself. DIR. Frank Thornc, of
science service, gave motorists some
valuable information in his talk from
WMAL, explaining what mas been
done in Standardization of road signs
and why it has been done.