The Washington times., 1927-04-14
FATHER Of NIKE
| To TELL ALL!
MIC IS } years Old todavl

Nike is years old today!
In celebration thereof Mikes
father, Emile Berliner, is to tell the
laudienee OF WRC all about It at
i 1880 this evening. Just half a century
ago the distinguished inventor of the
telephone transmitter, the disk phono-
graph, and many other useful de-
vices that have lightened the labors
Of the world, completed experiments
with toy drum, a steel button and
a needle that formed the first micro.
phone the world had ever known
and applied for a patent on his de.
vice. That invention made possible
the rapid development of the tele-
phone that has brought the whole
world into one community. And the
same simple principle involved, with
very little refinement OF change, is
the principle Of the microphone the
inventor will talk into this evening.
The telephone transmitter that
grew out of the first microphone
has made the inventor materially
! rich-but the use of the microphone
homes Of countless millions Is what
gives him the greatest pride of
achievement-as he will tell listeners
this evening, as the chief feature of
the continental broadcasting pro-
gram of the evening.
Aside from the 10-minute talk Of
Berliner the most outstanding event
of the evening to Washington listen
ers will be the return of Otto F.
Beck to the organ. Beck is to be
the artist Of the Kit Hour Of Music
which begins at 6:45.
COMPOSER HELPS
CITY CLUB PROGRAM
The Raleigh Hotel Orchestra, the
Emerson Hour and the Clicquot Club
banjoists make up the bulk Of the
WRC program for the evening
with an hour of dance music to
finish it off from the LIE Paradis
Band. After the surprise stunt
sprung by the ESkimos in their pro-
gram Of last week this aggregation
will bear special watching.
The chances are that the really
big thing of the Washington broad
cast evening will be the City Club
musicale which WMAL viii put
through its mircophones at $50.
The chief attraction on this occasion
viii be John Prindle Scott, the COM
poser, who viii play accompani-
l IL
some Of the better known Scott
songs. The program will also in
clude numbers by Marian Luke
Flanders, mezzo-soprano, Of New
York, and the De Sayn String
Quartet, directed by Elena de Sayn,
and of which Sophocles Papas is a
member.
In the early program from WATAL
there viii be a science talk on the
April skies and the usual Thursday
parade Of the prancing Doughboys.
TO TELL ABOUT
NORTH POLES FUTURE
The future Of the North Pole. as
Hugh Duncan Grant, the distin-
guished British explorer, sees 1t,
win be one Of the big features of
the outside program, coming at 9:45
from WGBS. Another important
program will be presented by the
Arion Male Chorus of New York at
8 o'clock through WIZ. At 10 o'clock
Wendell Hall viii make his songs
manifest from the same station.
Kathleen Stewart, the hostess
pianist Of WEAF. is to be presented
in a recital at $50, and WEAF will
also have the Goodrich subsidy
at 10.
An interesting program to tune
will be that OF Celia Brace, violiniste.
who will play an entire hour of
Kreisler compositions from WBAL
starting at 10 o'clock. And yet an
other interesting thing will besa re-
cital by Charles K Harris of his own
songs from WRNY at 1910. Harris
Is the composer Of after the BALI
and many similar ballads of the last
tyaVopo fior