The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-22
R0MPING AROUND THE RADIO DIALS|
VAL ENC|A' | s.
REVIVED

Static showed the first sign Of
spring to loud speaker addicts
last evening by crashes and bangs
that woke the echoes Of most liv-
ing rooms and made dial twisters
stick to the home wave lengths
rather closely. The noise WIS
worse than Il has been for
months. Some few high spOwer
brOadCasts were pushed through
the din, hut there was no salts
faction in listening to them.
Orators and orations OF dis
tinction competed with Valencia
to be first in the hearts Of listeners
to loud speaker deliveries last
evening-and Valencia" won out
by a fair margian. only once in g.
very long while does bit of
music with the life and joyousness
and telling rythm of this opus
appear among men-and when 1t
does it gets hold on them that
makes IL ever popular. When the
Seiberling group presented 1t last
evening they gave 1t everything
they had and put 1t over about
as well as we've heard 1t. If we
had q broadcasting station Of our
own we'd make it q rule to shave
Valencia" played or sung at least
once each month.
There was but one address on
the life and work of the Father
Of his Country available for tuners
last evening in the neighboring
wave lengths-that Of Martin Con-
boy from WEAF in the early
evening-and 1t was distinctive for
4 number OF things the distin.
guished New York lawyer put into
it. He pointed out the fact that
while most of our best people
are Washington idolators today
the best people were not among
those present in his following when
he was doing the things that
made him the idol of a nation.
DESCRIBES WORK
OF HOUSE AND SENATE
In the Voters Service activities
Of the evening William Tyler Page.
clerk Of the House Of Representa-
tives, presented Illuminating descrip-
ton of Congress as a business or.
ganizatton, as well as q political
body, and made 1t plain how the
two houses transact the mass Of
public business having to do with
legislation.
Secretary Herbert Hoover, In ac-
cepting the Saunders medal for
achievement in mining from the
American Institute OF Mining and
Metailurgical Engineers, was re-
ported by WIZ in a characteristic
eulogy of the engineer and his con-
tribution to progress. Late in the
evening Gov. Alfred e. Smith, Of
New York; Irving Cobb and Sophie
Irene Loeb spoke through WEAF
on the matter of child welfare and
mothers pensions before a group
of delegates from "a foreign coun-
tries and all the States of the Union
who are attending an international
conference on these subjects in New
York.
There was, OF course. all sorts Of
music on the wave lengths during
the afternoon and evening, begin
ming with the United States Navy
Band in stirring concert during
the closing hours OF the afternoon
and ending with fanfare of
dance tunes from everywhere. The
Eveready group introduced Emma
Hoyt, soprano, and Hubert Raidich,
basso, as guest artists with some
effect-but Nat Shilkret's orchestra
was in excellent form and made
the vocalists a rather unimportant
part of the program. The Air
Weavers were found to be walters
in a restaurant this week and pro.
vided comedy that was satisfactory
and the WMAL Movie Club enter
tanned late tuners.