The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-09
Times CONCERT
RAISES FUNDS

Static noises and very thick
and impenetrable atmospheric con.
ditiOn made the week end only a
fair tuning period. There was
much noise Saturday evening and
the peak the thickness was
reached Sunday when stations
were found with difficulty II
found at all. As the best Of the
tuning was through home sta
tiOns most radiotics remained set
for both evenings however-and
mad 3 fairly comfortable and en-.
pertaining time Of it.
The plu-perfect American Singers
Quartet, the New World" SYM
phony. Mendelssohn's Elijah" and
flood relief activities were the chief
products of the loud speaker over
the week-end-a fairly prolific tun-
Ing period for radiotics in all Sec
tons of the country. One must
not forget the interesting informa-
ton regarding the eye teeth Of
elephants that came from the science
service talk at WMAL early Satur-
day evening, or the performance of
the "All-American Radio Team" from
WIZ, also Saturday product. The
fact that an elephant cuts his eye
teeth in such prodigious fashion
that they protrude as tusks some
few feet from the animals Jaws, is
real news to quite lot of people
who never knew the tusks were
teeth.
Most of this column could be de-
voted to the Times Herald cleanup
for the Red Cross flood relief fund
which WMAL sent out to the uni
verse for some four and half
hours Saturday evening and for
which so many people volunteered
their services-but that happened
Saturday evening and there's too
much news of today! Besides we
were rather close to the affair, in
q manner o. speaking. and so busy
with certain details of it that we're
not in position to describe it.
There were rs or 80 very willing
people engaged in that broadcast,
however, whose enthusiasm and help
were greatly appreciated and who
were willing to do anything for the
very great cause in which they were
engaged. Nothing could be finer
than the cooperation The Times
Herald received from Director Will
Pierson of WMAL and his staff
unless it could be the way in which
tho radio audience responded.
REQUESTS FOR SONGS
TOO NUMEROUS TO GRANT
So many requests for songs were
received that it would have been i'm
possible to comply with all of them
II the program had been extended
over "a hours. Contributions came
flowing in, headed by a generous
check from the staff of WMAL
itself. The exact amount the pro-
gram realized for the Red Cross
fund will not be known, of course,
because much of it went to the Red
Cross offices direct and without spe.
cific Identification. The idea behind
the affair was largely to stimulate
the listeners to make contributions
rather than to receive them.
We appreciate to the full the sup
port of the artists who participated,
the staff of WMAL and the listen
ers. They all did their utmost.
OF all the weekend traffic on the
wave length there was probably
nothing that gave such complete
satisfaction as the all too short pro-
gram of the American Singers
Quartet in the first of the Atwater
Kent summer concerts last evening.
When this group of singers first ap-
peared in radio concert two or three
weeks ago we hailed it as the best
we'd heard of its kind. And the per.
Torrance last night was even better
than the first program. The quar-
tet includes Charles Harrison, tenor;
Redfern Hollingshead, tenor; Vernon
Archibald, baritone, and Frank
Croxton, bass, with Mrs. Archibald
as accompanist.
The Capitol Theater Orchestra dis
tinguished itself and reached some
of its old-time form in the presenta-
ton Of the second, third and fourth
movements of the Dvorak New
World" symphony at beginning of
Its program last night. The three
movements were slightly abbreviated
because Of the time limits-but the
best parts Of them were played and
played very WELL
In the afternoon the Roxy organ.
ization presented a condensed yer.
sion Of elijah" in a very fine
manner-much better than is usu
ally heard in the average concer,
performance of this magnificent
work because of the instrumental
facilities of the Roxy Theater and
the chorus trained to register the
meaning and purpose of its music
rather than Just accomplish the
technical difficulties.