The Washington times., 1927-12-06
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dOws hold no more tempting invi-
tation to Iight-fingercd gentry
than the sound wave lengths dis
played invitingly last night for
deft tuning fingers of radio ad.
diets. Everything in the way Of
brOadcasting was available for
whoever would take the very little
trouble necessary to tune It.
Noise was ut q minimum and
while there was interference and
fading, neither hindered recep.
tiOn Of good brOadcasts from all
sections.
That for which the world of
listeners to song have been await
ing through at least two genera
tions happened last evening during
the General Motors weekly assault
on the loud speakers of the nation.
The dullest mind must have known
this great corporation would not
long remain inactive under the bar
rage Of Ford advertising and inter-
est that swept the country last
week. And we all felt the various
spectacular trials the automotiye i'll
dustrialists have made in presenting
programs could be nothing but
trials-laboratory experiments in a
manner Of speaking, leading up to
some epoch-making achievement. 1t
came last night without warning,
and overwhelmed the audience!
Perhaps it would be better to
lead up to the climax gently
through the evening broadcast-for
all of it seemed, after the great
event, to have set the stage for
what happened. We did not hear
Crane Wilbur's talk from WRC in
the early evening because we were
too busy watching our own fair
Pauline Healey assume the name
of Shook and bear up bravely under
binding barrages of rice. But we
did catch the excellent Peoples
Home Orchestra concert and listened
with care to the usual Roxy Mon
day exercise, in which we enjoyed
most the singing of Nanny King
the boy soprano who used to be one
of Washington's attractions.
GYPSIES THANK
MICHIGAN CUSTOMERS
Likewise we heard the cash and
carry Gypsies serenade various parts
or Michigan-little recking, as the
poet says, how significant the Sc
lection of that State was for the
evenings big show.
Then we heard Philips Carlin's
voice announce the General Motors
affair-announce it like he was de-
same hoarse tones and becoming
mixed on the various units of the
program once in a while just as he
does In football story.
Then came Robert c. Benchley,
dramatic editor of Life, with his
old story above losing his hat and
his new story about the Three Bit
College and his selections for the
AH-American football team. 1t was
great fun and served to amuse and
iull us to the point where the big
BLOW could be delivered. We an
ticirated the end of the concert
with the succession of college
hymns played by Conway's band in
honor of the institutions furnishing
the real All-American players.
1t was in the third quarter of the
ward the end. We'd heard Joe
Green's band and Jessica Drago-
nette give us all the music they
had prepared but had been forced
to leave out Of the previous Gen.
eral Motors programs-au leading
up to just one thing. CARING an
nounced the fair Jessica would sing
Kentucky Babe" She did. The
old song came over beautifully, the
quartet Of Three Bit College pro-
vided all the old harmonies and
some new twists and then
They did the banjo part with
q real banjo and not a group Of
clucking ten0rs and baTitones!
Nothing of the kind has ever
happened in concert. loud speakers,
souse clubs or bar rooms before.
General Motors has achieved its
aim. Last nights program marked
great epoch in music history!