The Washington times., 1927-11-01
MERRY GHOSTS
HAUNT Mr.

Papa and Mama Static and all
the little StaticiaI1S celebrated All
Halloween ON tho wave engths
last night with whOOps and bangs
and boiler shop noises Of all sorts
just to show the spirit Of the
times. High power stations pro-
Vided programs Of all kinds that
could be tuned from all directions
North. South and West being
available though some Of them
were a bit shy and faded out Of
the picture occasionally. The
noise was greater in the late
than in the early evening.
The carnival spirit seemed to he
afloat on the sound waves gener-
ally last evening and every broad
casting centers appeared to he full
OF merry making crowds save in
the studios themselves-and from
these came an unusually fine flow
Of music. Music appeared to be
the sole product of the Halloween
programs. Rather curiously the
most impressive programs had moth
Ing at all to do with Halloween.
Among the hest the evening of
fered was the program from Sidney
and his Mayflower group during the
late dinner hour. There was but
half an hour OF this program, but
1t was a program that was we'll
worth hearing and unusually we'll
p eyed. @Once or twice recently
we've advised listeners who wanted
good music to listen in on the
MaYfiower evening concerts that
come at z or thereabouts MONDAYS
and Saturdays. We repeat the sug.
gestion.
by far the most distinctive thing
the loud speakers offered during
the evening was an unusually fine
performances of Carmen" by Cesare
Sooero and his company through
WRC. In the composition of this
opera, Bizet provided his audiences
with an almost Wagnerian music
drama that alternated and CO.
ordinated orchestra with human
character and vocal equipment. In.
like the older forms of italian and
French opera this product of Bizet
requiresSa as much Of it's orchestra
In the development of the plot and
story as it does of it's human char
acters. In other words the Bizet
music orchestral score Is as es
sential in the story as the songs
the singers sing or the acting they
are called upon to do.
DIRECTOR AND
SINGER STARS
That Sodero realized this In it's
finest sense and gave listeners last
night all there was of tense dram
in his orchestration was one of
the distinctive features of the per
fOrmance. However, Sodero was
not the only artist for, as we have
noted, the opera is. very nearly a
perfect coordination of orchestra
and singer and in DevOra Mad.
worney's vocal interpretation OF the
title role listeners were given a
Carmen" that will last long in
their memory. So too was the inn
preston from Benedetto's close"
and Frances Sebel's "MicaeIa."
In the Roxy program which
started the WRC evening the mo-
ments that linger most in the mem.
cry are those associated with the
plugging of Emo Rappe's songs
Diane" "Charmaine," Ripping
Waters" etc. Rappes music is
most intriguing and as presented
last evening was quite the best fea.
ture of the Roxy efforts. The A.
and P. Gypsies, with Lewis James
instead of Frank Mum. who had
been announced as tenor soloist. pro,
vided their usual all around good
music.
The Halloween celebration from
WMAL was all Director Will Pier,
son promised for it. and the Breyer
1our of WIZ provided listeners with
a variety nf all sorts of music