The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-06
Fishing The Air

BY G. SHUBERT FRYE
All references are Central Standard Time

a COMPOSER once wrote a song
IA which gave pleasure to millions.
In Europe and America it has been
sung and played for years. The
composers name was known every
where in the music world. Most
people think Franz Drdla rich
perhaps retired on a competence.
A short time ago comment in a
radio program brought to pI'hiic at
tention the fact that Drdla, whose
Souvenir is one of the most pop
ular pieces in the library of music,
is living in poverty in Vienna, max
ing precarious living writing hack
pieces for an immediate market. He
continually plans bigger things, but
his publishers assure him the pop
ular pieces are the only things that
will assure him a day-to-day in
come.
The words Of the National Broad
casting Company announcer. which
brought Drdla'S plight to notice, are
bearing fruit in a program, Sou
venir," named after the composers
best known piece, which will be
broadcast through stations associ-
ated with the NBC Blue network at
$3.50 tonight.
Souvenir" the theme number,
will be played as violin solo by
Bert Eirsch, supported by concert
orchestra, after Fred F. Ferguson,
president of the Newspaper Enter
prise Association, has told the story
of Drdla'S life and the writing of
Souvenir"
Others Of Drdla's compositions
which will be played by the orches-
ira in this program will be Chan
son Joyeuse," "Serenade in A." "J'y
Pense," "Vision," "Concertante" and
Chant glamour"
This program will be heard
through WIZ, New York; VIDAL,
Baltimore; KDKA, Pittsburgh;
WJR, Detroit; KYW, Chicago;
KWK, st. Louis; WREN, Lawrence,
and KVOO, Tulsa.
Governor Albert G. Richie of
Maryland, who has served several
terms as chief executive of his
State, will deliver an address, TOO
Much Government" at a dinner of
the Employees Association of the
Philadelphia Electric Company,
which will be broadcast through
the NBC Blue network at tonight.
Tune in station from the list I'M
der WIZ, New York, at 8 in Dial
Twisters.
A Home Beautiful" program will
be sent over the air from WLW,
Cincinnati, at 1880 tonight rendered
by an orchestra under the direction
Of Emil Herman. The following
numbers will be played:
International Suite ...... Tschaikowskyy
''Extase" ......''''''.'''''''.' 1 JsnIne
"bissfuI pfes Meyer-Heim1ad
"FaanIStsasie-'rIhis; Bat' ::::::::. strauss
The spirit of aboriginal America
the plaintive love call of the
North American Indian, the soft
gliding Of canoes in the moonlight,
his cries of defiance to his enemies,
and the frenzied war dance of the
tribe-will be reflected in the radio
program Of the Seiberling Singers
tonight.
The epic story OF the North Amer
lean Indian, as told in the music
of famous composers, will be broad
cast at through the Red network
Of the National Broadcasting Com
pany.
The program, which will be heard
through stations listed in Dial Trist-
ers, will be as follows:
Dagger Dance ................. Herbert
Si' 6 5a4GF exclusive iair;r;ainigement
"Kashmiri Song" Amy Woodiorde- Finden
..ru Tenor solo from indian Love Ly gt;stor
war Dance" '.io5-;::bi::::tr:::''''''.'''skn'on
.7.a,IS;su ssTtst: exclusive arranGsmepHs 49,,
A"o'aN summer Orchestra f'''''''
Land Of the Sky Blue Water. .cadman
Savage Carnival Tsnor SOLO Rapee
A'"S' orchestra '''''''' ~
A $4,000 Stradivarius violin,
loaned to him for the occasion by
Rembert Wurlitzer, will be used by
Michel Sciapiro, violinist and COM
poser, when he plays his own COM
position, Fantasia Slav," in pro-
gram which will be sent over the
air from WIZ, New York, at 6:15
tonight.
Fantasia Slav" was written while
the composer was in Prague,
Czecho- Slovakia, after a series of
concert engagements in Germany,
France, Holland and Russia. There
he was the associate teacher of