The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-03
RADIO HYMN IN
JAZZ rhythm

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Summer radio conditions
caught up with the weather
over the weekend and made
dialing a bit more of a chore
than IL was during the early
mart of the week. There were
crashes of static and consider.
able fading, The Middle West
appeared to suffer more than
other sections and at the same
time some OF the midwest sta
tions were clearer than those of
other sections. Volume was
good enough from most high
power stations to permit tuning
out much Of the noise.
Whether the. modern rhythmic YER
sion of Coward Christian Soldiers"
which launched the new season of
Young Peoples Conferences by the
New York Federation of Churches
in a nationwide radio broadcast
from WEAF yesterday afternoon,
was an accident or an indication OF
just how up-to-daJe the 1928 re-
ligious exercises for young people
will bet was startling enough as
to time and place and circumstance
to make it the most distinctive
thing on the wave lengths over the
week end. Jazzing of gospel hymns
has been done before-but not, so
far as we know, in a conservative
institution such as the New York
Federation is supposed to be.
George Shakley, responsible for the
musical program of the conference
delivered number of other things
with his orchestra and quartet dur
ing the course of the afternoon
that made the occasion distinctive
musically.
Otherwise we were so we'll served
with fine bits of entertainment dur
ing the Saturday-Sunday period that
1t would be difficult to select any
one thing as the most satisfactory.
In our own cat Home" hour from
WMAL, Pauline Healey and the
Ralon Trio rather overstepped their
usual stride in presenting the must.
cal numbers. Miss Healey demon
etrated a versatility and an ability
to get full value out of most
widely different quartet of songs
that was Startling-even to her
friends. In the inaugural concert
of the season for the United States
Marine Band Orchestra, which WRC
distributed Saturday evening there
was an excellent bit of cello play
ing by Musician John Auer, who
presented Fritz MuelleE's "Andante
Cantabile" as solo.
BIBLICAL DRAMA
ARTISTICALLY PRESENTED
The Roxy program in the after
noon was turned into a symphony
performance with the orchestra CIV
ing rather conventional interpreta-
tions of some of the great music,
while the Mediterraneans' aggrega'
ton which Hugo Mariani directed
from WJZ just before the Roxy
exercises provided a collection of
unusually good music, with original
interpretations. The Biblical drama
''The Road to Nineveh," gave many
listeners an entirely new idea Of
the great Jonah epic, in a most
telling way. William Ford Manley,
who arranged this particular drama
showed himself to be a finished
artist and the actors and actress
who were in the cast fully inter-
pretated Mr.. ManIey's fine text.
Mildred Seeba, soprano, who made
her debut as radio artist in the
first of the Atwater Kent fall and
winter season concerts, has brought
home from Europe a magnificent
voice and accomplished a varied
program with great skill. Miss
Seeba, however, simply exhibited
her voice and really sang none of
her songs-leaving her audience
cold-as did the Nahan Frankie
Orchestra with its very conven-
tional playing of the two numbers
allotted to it on the program.
One tuned abroad for fine sing
ing last evening and got it in
good measure from the WIZ pre-
gentation Of Sir Arthur Sullivan
musical setting for Longfellow'
poem 1.-THE Golden Legend. Cesare
Sodero directed the performance
which was guarantee of its
musical excellence and his assist.
ing artists were Astrid Fjelde and
Katherine Palmer, sopranos; Jeanne
Ieval and Gertrude Foster, con
traltos; Steele Jamison and adrian
pa Silva, tenors and Curt Peter
son and Carl Bethmann, baritones.
The entire performance was vel
worth hearing, being the third OF
series in which the WIZ, staff
artists are presenting what they
call Musical Literature"
The WIZ broadcast also contained
the big dramatic thrill of the week
end in the two stories that werv
s'personalized" during the Collier's