The Washington times., 1927-11-22
Melon SHARED
BY LISTENERS

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Every type Of broadcast pro-
gram came to the tuner who
adjusted his receiver with care
last ning-ineluding the faders
that wove in and out Of loud
speakers in o sort Of hide and
seek fashion. There was q BIZ, Of
noise from the West occasionally
but not enough to be disturbing.
All Chicago stations were on the
air for the first time on Monday
evenings for four years, but they
did not seem to increase inter.
ference beyond normal.
Despite any effort that may have
been made to stop them, Mary
Garden, Cesare Sodero and Leo
Garlic cut a melon Of their own
out OF General Motors time on the
air last night and declared extra
dividends for the listening public
that put. the third of the big cor.
poration's attacks OF radio hysteria
almost in the class of real broad
cast programs.
Last night was supposed to be
Chevrolet night for the General
Motors family party-although all
of the members of the motor car
manufacturing group horned into
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS liter
ally! Sodero commenced the exer'
cises with his orchestra rushing
through very much curtailed YER
sion of 1.-THE Blue Danube" waltz,
Then Mary Garden came along and
sang the first verse of the lullaby
from "Jocelyn" in the same way.
But that was just starting the
game.
Finishing the first verse in rec
ord time, Miss Garden squared off
before the microphone, wiggled her
expressive nose at the time keeper,
and sang the second verse In the
dreamy, almost pleading tempo
GODDARD intended the piece should
be sung whenever great artist
like Garden should consent to sing
it. She followed this with the bal
lad, Somewhere a Voice Is Calling"
presented as only Garden can do
such things-making her auditors
feel every tone and all the subtle
meaning Of the piece.
SODERO ALSO
TAKES HIS TIME
This gave Sodero. courage to
do his turn and when he was
asked to play his own composition,
"Prometheus sat on the time
keeper and played it-played it just
as he wanted to play it,. When it
comes to condensation of the works
of other composers Sodero can cut
and fit the music to time better
than anyone we know. But his own
stuff goes 'as is"-and "Prometheus"
went Just that way last night. When
he hadAsfinished, % minutes of the
General Motors hour had passed.
Leo Garlic was then introduced
as a comedian and master of cere-
to take a joke at all and actually
worked as master of ceremonies and
as comedian, taking his time about
introductions and telling stories be-
tween turns in happy carefree way
as though he had all evening. The
three big stars made real program
of the General Motors affair, for
the first time since it burst upon
the public.
1t is true the time allotted to
Gladys Rice. Lewis James. the Piano
Twins and Patrick Conway and his
band was rather reduced - but lis
teners at least got a one and half
real songs from Mary Garden, one
good piece from Sodero and his or
chestra and some good laughs pro
vided by Carillo-and we can hear
Gladys and Lewis and Pats band
some other time. AS to the Piano
-What?-Well, il you feel
that way, too, it is unanimous!
Central High School had its hour
before the microphone last night
when the graduate and undergrad
through WMAL in the early eve
ming that was full Of pep, band
music, songs and the usual advice
from Principal Alvin Miller with
out which no school affair could
be complete. The Peoples Orcnes.
ira, transferred from Sunday to
Monday night on the WRC SEIZED
ule, made things interesting both
fundamentally and through the
medium of Fred Eden's baritone
voice. In the Roxy endeavor Leila
Mcintyre and Johnny Hyams sur
prised lot of us old timers with
a visit to the studio and awakened
happy memories of other musical
comedy days-after Adelaide de
Loca Ahad given about as fine bit
of vocalization as she's been heard
to do since becoming a musical
gangster. The cash and carry
Gypsies introduced Frank Mum,
tenor, as their soloist-after many
weeks of threatening to do so and
the results were highly satisfactory.