Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05

Douglas , I q n ~
bury, Julius Bledsoe, Beatrice Belkln,
Celia Branz, Maria Gamoareil1' JOSE,
Stopak, Godfrey O'Hara. Florence
Wulholland. Gladys Rice, Mickey NC
1<ee, Phil Gilman. Victor Arden,
Bobby Robinson, Arthur Lange, sam
Siegel. G.. Veida, Henry Nosco and
Daddy Jim Coombs. The four con
ductors of RoXy's 11o-piece orchestra
will also have individual parts In the
opening program. They are II. Maui
rice Jacquet, Charles Previn, Fred
erick Stahlberg and Emo Rapee.
The first performance by the new
Roxy Gang will be given from the
new broadcasting studio in the nearly
completed Roxy Theater on Seventh
avenue between Fiftieth and Fifty.
first streets, New York City. This is
the first studio in a theater especially
designed by acoustical engineers for
broadcastng purposes. 1t is com
pletely equipped in every detail to
give to the radio audience the most
perfect radio performance possible.
In view of the fact that the Roxy
Theater will not be completed and
opened to the public until four days
after the first broadcast therefrom, the
opening program will be entirely from
this studio.
The Modal, factory-tuned and
sealed set is the next thing that the
receiving manufacturers will turn out,
according to a prediction of Earle
Ennis, a San Francisco radio writer.
Such a set will remove all of the
fascination attached to the operation
of receiver, according to the writer.
who points out that just as fans be.
come reconciled to the one-dial and
AnA 49,
along and eliminates the two remain
ing joys of radio and leaves the oper-
ators with nothing to twirl or spin;
only a single on-and-off switch and
the empty mouth of a loud speaker.
What started this terrible trend,
Ennis says, is that the Berkeley,
Calf, chief Of police has decided to
equip each police patrol with dial.
less, three-tube sealed set, tuned to
single wave length, so that headQuar-
tiers can talk to the flying squad
rons" en- route. Something like this
already has been done in New York,
and Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superin-
tendent of the Washington Police De-
partment. is contemplating the same
thing for the District police.
Ennis thinks this is the last straw,
in that radio reception is being gradu-
ally robbed of the very features which
made it worth while--the dials, the
knobs and the gadgets which the
fans love to twirl and tinker with
He foresees a dumb-faced, frozen box
with nothing but a switch which,
when turned on, brings in but a sin
gle station or. worse yet. single
paid-for program, just what Repre-
sentative Bloom of New York got so
worked up about recently in Con-
gress.
Musical comedy. drama, dance mu-
F3c and lecture-recitaI by Walter
Damrosch on Wagner's famous opera,
''Tannhauser," form the variety of
features scheduled tonight by WRC.
The WEAF' 1Z,.sical Comedy Troupe
w. present what is described as hits
snd bits" from current Broadway
shows. The drama, a one-act vehicle
entitled 1.-THE Bishops Candlestick,"
also will come from New York, as will
the dance music.
p&wt1 Lawrence's giant class in
government will meet again tonight
at 10 o'clock, and there will be a
Bible talk by Prof. Louis D. Bliss as
one of the earlier attractions.
Phil Hayden and Les Colvin, the
popular radio entertainers, will return
TO WMAL's microphone tonight for
Commute performance.
The station will open it's program
with talk by Dorsey w. Hyde, jr.,
secretary of the Washington Cham
her of Commerce, which will be fol
lowed by a supper dance program by
Ted Newell's Band. win p. Kennedy,
political writer for The Star. will give
another of his series of weekly talks
at 500 o'clock, after which will come
a recital by Mrs. Paul Bleyden, CON
cert pianist. a joint recital by Mrs
Fannie Shreve Heartsill. soprano, and
Francis p. Heartstll, bass, and a
cabaret dance program.
Up and down the whole scale of
broadcast wavelengths Ok hunters
travelled last night without retardation
from static or other forms of interfer-
ence. There was volume galore and
clarity superb. Reception conditions
could hardly have been improved
upon.
Here's the result Of a quick tour of
inspection over the ether channels:
WLSI, Cranston, r. l.; WEAN, Provi-
dence: WSM. Nashville; WJR, Detroit;
WEBB, WBBR, WABC, VIGIL and
WMSG and WIN. New York; WIS,
webb and WBBM, Chicago; WBZ,
Springfield, and WPG, Atlantic City.