The Washington times., 1928-01-21
RAIN CHECK FOR
NJ C0RMACK

1 of broadcast programs TO fade IN
and out of receivers impeded
] good reception last night. There
/ was some nOise-just crash of
static here and there. But this
| was easily tuned out OF the more
| important programs. The South
and Middle West were especially
| clear and q bit steadier than for
the past few evenings.
If John Mccormack had been
| scheduled to sing on the program
| from the WEAF chain Thursday
night, understand, when the we'll
known Smith Brothers were on the
| job-the- account of his annual eX-
cursion on the wave lengths might
have been different. But McCor-
mack wasn't on the Thursday night
program-hence his bad throat re-
| cefved no proper treatment and
/ hence, again, he did not sing in
| the Victor exercises last night. But
| he appeared on the program with
an apology for not singing, which
| he made with ring of sincerity
and regret. He promised to come
back to mike in May.
| However, Giuseppe de Luca, of
the Metropolitan Opera Company
/ substituted for the tenor and did a
| great job of it. De Luca is, to our
way of thinking, one of the most
versatile and dependable artists now
singing before the public. Equipped
with voice that would make him
| star performer anywhere, he like
wise has a musical intelligence pos
| sessed by few and a happy way of
singing almost any kind of song
the way it ought to be sung. He
did just that last evening.
JERITZA HAS
AN OFF NIGHT
His program mate. Maria Jeritza
| soprano, another real artist among
singers, had an off night and for
some reason could do little more
| than sing the notes of her music.
! We hope Jeritza will be heard again
on the wave lengths before the sea
| son closes to show what a great
artist she is. Nat Shilkret's Or.
chestra covered itself with glory in
it's several contributions-as it
usually does whether it appears as
Eveready. Maxwell, General Motors
or Victor subsidy.
incidentally we hope John B.
Kennedy will ~be confined to the
| radio jobs of being Emperor of
America in the Golfers Sunday
night program and to do his snappy
| editorial comment. Kennedy speaks
the most distinct and correct Eng.
fish heard in radio and uses sharp,
snappy headline sentences-but his
voice is hard and unsympathetic al
| most to cruelty and he seems to be
| daring both listeners 1and artists
| to do other than he says when he
announces musical numbers.
The big thing the wave lengths
| brought musically last evening
| seemed to us to be the I'm Gar
! den" section of Goldmark's Rustic
| Wedding" suite which Rosario Bour.
don and his public utility orchestra
interpreted exquisitely.
| The perfume of a garden, bathed
| in dew and drenched in moonlight
| seems to emanate from every tone
of this lovely music and Bourbon
provided listeners with all of it in
| his presentation last evening.
Otherwise the weekly Friday ad-
Vertising efforts were just about
average. The chewing gum phalanx
from WIZ conducted itself with it's
| IouStA eADCAAANOAA NJdEIlH
was back on the job with the soap
bubbles, which helped that program
maintain dead level. The new
White Rock subsidy conducted it.
self with pep under the baton of
| Clyde Doerr and with very short
and snappy announcements.
Perhaps the most interesting
event OF the evening to MANY
| listeners was the introduction of
Stefan KozakeVich, the Russian
baritone, during the Jordan pro-
gram from WMAT.. The singer dis
played a rich, sympathetic voice
and very keen sense of the poetic
values of his songs. Our time
limitations prevented us hearing him
sing anything, but two groups of
| Russian songs, most OF which were
unfamiliar, but all of which were
much enjoyed and ably presented.