Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-21

Let solemn warning be issued
against overindulgence in radio.
| No one would think of sitting at the
i movies for six hours every evening
| every night in the week.
Yet thousands of radio enthusiasts
/ think nothing at all of miSusing their
radio receiving sets in that fashion.
Even the greatest booklover would not
! care to read. read. read for half a dozen
solid hours for 364 nights.
Yet scores of thousands of radio
| fans" still find such an intoxicated
''listening-in" necessary for their COM
plete enjoyment of radio.
They seem to proceed on the fixed
! belief that If their ears are withdrawn
the broadcastinQ station will fall down.
Now, no such thing is going to happen
at all. because there are so MANY
I millions listening to radio that 1t is not
the least bit important whether any
particular one turns on his set or not.
| Intemperance in the use of the radio
not only tends to disgust the nearer
with music. as whole. and with par
ticular compositions. specifically. but
also 1t runs the risk OF annoying others.
Up-to-date radio sets have plenty of
power. The latest ircuits. and the new
A. c. tubes. together with the dynamic
! speakers will permit the set owner to
| junction as regular orchestra. almost.
Thus when ones neighbor wishes to
sleep. it is very. possible to force him
to listen to fine jazz band. a thousand
miles away, it is true. but pulled in
with so much pep" that it might as
wen be there in the living room
This column has been spaakino
against the annoyance of the mis-
handled radio set for four years. and
is delghted to find that the press at
large Is now INDUCING in semi
campaign against the nuisance.
1t is true, as one writer to The sta,
SAID not long ago. that there is a poin,
IN the volume Of every set AZ which II
sounds best. This particular "point'
may be annoying to Others or ii ma,
not depending upon the construction oi
inc mouse walls. open windows one,
ears and other factors.
rms phase Of the subject. however
must depend for its remedying unor
human nature. In the last ANALYSIS. II
is easy enough Tor any person to de-
terfnine when ne Is annoying others
II ne wants to. The trouble seems tc
- -'' Ai'"AiJ Wv lloC SCtI1 10 want J0i
This purely personal phase of tn,
matter is moro interesting. in soma re-
spects, since 1t gets back to the real
root of all musical enjoymen;--the
listener.
While mostly we listen TO music ir
groups, as IN the h6atcr. or in thr
home. it is fact that every listener
listens for himself. before all.
This may seem Ike tr,lism. but Il
is an important one, for no man car
listen to music with some one else:
ears
Musical Impressions are heard through
the ears. and depend for their pleasure
upon so many factors, in any given
case. that it would be futile to attempt
to consider them.
What may be said is that in no art
is the homely saying more true, that
too much of anything is bad
1t must be remembered that ths
average home listener of music and OF
rcdio music in particular. is not pro-
fcssional musician. Earning ones liv-
ing at music naturally makes one more
receptive.
The great ma iority of music listeners.
and especially Of radio liStcncrs-in. fake
to music as an amusement as some
thing to while away the hours The
time has long gone by in this country