The Washington times., 1927-06-22
TINES ARTISTS
SCORE HIT

II summer keeps the promise
Of the last tuning. evening OF
spring listeners viii have the
last night brought programs Of
ali sorts clear and with great
volume from all sections. There
was some noise and q bit Of
Whistling where stations seemed
TO be- too close together, but it
was possible to tune and hold in
steady VOlumn many programs
that have hitherto eyaded the dial
tWisters.
Although rather close to the
microphone-liter and figura-
tively-the best thing we heard
last night was the singing of
Emile Henning, contralto, and the
playing of Elizabeth Gardner
Coombs. pianiste, during our own
Eat Home" hour from WMAL.
1t Is said of Cesar Franck that
when he heard his great symphony
performed for the first time and
was asked what he thought of it,
he replied that it sounded exactly
as he intended it should. And
can say the same thing of the sing
Ing and playing of the two very
fine artists who helped me with
our homemade opera last night.
They did exactly what I hoped
they would and sounded exactly as
! wanted them to sound.
Some listeners will remember hav-
ing heard this bit of romance from
WRC last winter, with the same
artists. They were better last, night
than they were on the occasion of
the first performance. realizing ex-
actly the moods of the little piece
and expressing them with an INTEL
igence ] shan't forget. They were
the whole show, so far as / am
concerned and comment from
others indicates my opinion to be
the general conclusion Of all who
heard the piece.
SAT HOME"
NOW PERMANENT
We hope to do more things of the
same sort, because the AT Home"
hour is settling into regular in.
stitution and will continue through.
out the summer. at least, perhaps
permanently as a radio feature, al
though some changes as to the fire.
quency of the productions and the
evening produced may be made in
the near future.
The "At Home" program had some
real competition at WMAL, as well
as other stations, during the course
of the evening. Those listeners
fortunate enough to hear Dorothy
Wilson IIalbach, contralto and Lee
CrOnican, pianist, during the WMAL
Movie Club exercises, heard some
real music intelligently performed.
Mrs. Halbach's voice seemed richer
and finer than it ever has, and it
has always been fine voice to
hear. Cronican's piano playing and
accompaniments were the best
things of the sort the Movie Club
has provided. The Westbrook Trio
also registered nicely.
The radio cavalcade of WEAF
again proved itself one of the most
entertaining of the chain programs.
Peter the Great" Narrower and
Dorothy Hemingway were the stars
of the evening, from our point of
view, although we were very much
smitten with Gypsey and Martha.
the California nightingales who
made their first radio appearance in
the East during this program.
These two young thermometers do
their work in a quiet, unspectacular
way that registers deeply with listen.
ers.
The most important bit of news
the outside wave lengths brought
us was notice of the discontinuance
of the Don Amaizo feature of WIZ
after next weeks program. This
series of concerts set in stories of
adventure has been most ENJOYABLE.
We're glad to hear that they will
be resumed in the fall, although
we're bound to say that the adver-
Using value of them during the sum,
mer would be quite as great as at
any other time as they are peculiarly
adapted to vacation listening-like
the summer novels we find in such
abundance these days to provide for
summer reading.