The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-27

the report OF radio reception for
last evening. The South and
most Of the other parts of the
continent were good during the
early evening. A storm Of static
noises brewed in the middle eve
ming, however, and made listening
q considerable chOre from then
on, particularly In the Middle
West. The South was least al
fected.
Shooting his words over the wave
lengths with as telling effect AS
ne ever tossed a baseball from the
pitchers box to the home plate
Walter Johnson became a radio
star last night. from WRC, with
one of the most effective pleas for
support of the Boys Club of Wash
ington that could have been made,
johnson was the same simple
straight shooting, incompatible Wal
ter with mike as his receiver as
he has been for Fl years on the
major league ball fields. No ora
torical frills bedecked his speech.
He made it plain and emphatic that
craftsmanship is character asset
that dominates every human ac-
tivity and that the Boys Club of
Washington is a place where this
asset is developed.
The Is minutes he spent at the
microphone provided one of the
most convincing sales talks we've
ever heard.
The big spot of the radio evening,
was the Aeolian program to which
the very fine Philadelphia String
Simfonietta returned with its skill
full and intelligent Interpretation Of
great music. to add to the amazing
coordination of the duo-art piano
with the human artists. In last
nights performance Harold Bauer
and Percy Granger provided the
duo-art interpretations for combina-
ton with the Simfonietta. In a ra-
dio concert where we miss the APP
pealing per sonality anyhow, we
frankly confess we'd just as soon
hear Grainger's or Bauer's records
as the artists themselves - and
Granger Is probably our favorite
of all the great piano virtuosos.
The same thing may be said of
the Brunswick hour from WMAL
in the early evening. To be able
to hear Richard Strauss conduct a
Berlin orchestra in the playing of
one of his own compositions, while
sitting in our own living room in the
United States, is an amazing thing
and yet we listeners heard it last
night through a combination of ra-
do and phonograph-just as we
heard Mario Chamlee. Metropolitan
opera tenor and others.
FINE ARTISTS
IN HURRIED CONCERT
The program presented by Genia
Zielinska, soprano; Juan. Pulido,
baritone; Godfrey Ludlow. violinist;
Hugo Variants Orchestra and the
Granados String Quartet before the
American Association of Advertis-
Ing Agencies at the Mayflower
Hotel. did not assay quite the fine
entertainment of which these ar
lists are capable, largely because
of the hurried way it was given. The
program was too full for half an
hour and only Pulido and his fine
baritone voice were heard to their
best advantage.
The big feature of local broad
casts last highland a feature that
would have been big in any broad
cast-was the season debut Of the
United States Army Band Sym
phoneta from WMAL under the di-
rection of Second Leader Thomas
F. Darcy. The chief feature in the
program to most listeners. we be-
lieve, was the five numbers of the
Woodland Sketches of Alexander
Mcdowell. We believe Director
Darcy gave the most of himself and
got most from the orchestra in the
Autumn" and Indian Lodge" sec.
tions of the suite. We look for.
ward with keen anticipation to fu-
ture concerts of the organization.
Lambert Murphy and Nat Schil-
kret's excellent orchestra both made
the Maxwell concert from WIZ not
able and the quartet arrangement
of Rossbach's musical accompani-
ment to Joyce Kilmer's '"Trees" IN
the Upper performance was another
big moment in very full evening.