The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-22
Fishing The Air
BY G. SHUBERT FRYE
All references are Central Standard Time

ID Ado coverage for the whole
IN world of the Republican and
Democratic national conventions
at Kansas City and Houston has
been arranged by the National
Broadcasting Company.
A trained staff of reporters and
broadcasters, headed by Graham
McNamee, famed NBC announcer
and large technical staff under
Eugene F. Grossman, NBC operat-
ing engineer, will go to the con-
ventions. The reporting staff will
include veteran political writer's
and analysts wl1oA have attended
other conventions in the past and
who will explain and interpret the
proceedings so that the radio audi
ence will be kept abreast of every
happening and will know the sig
nif1cance of every move. Marley
Sherris, NBC staff announcer will
assist McNamee.
An extensive network to include
more than seventy stations will
carry the convention broadcast to
every section of the United States
The arrangements make it posi-
bic for listeners to hear every phase
Of the convention. A special pick
up panel will be installed in the
convention halls. Microphones on
the convention platforms will catch
the speeches. Another group of
microphones will be used to broad
cast the band music. Still other |
mlcrophoneS will be placed at adj
vantageous positions to pick up the |
mass murmurS and roarS and the |
colorful sound picture of the as
senlblies
From a point where he can watch
the entire convention, Graham Nc
Nance will direct the broadcast
and give the running story of the
event to the huge unseen audience.
Professor Howard Lee Mccain of
Columbia University and Silas
Bent, author of "Bally-hoo," will
discuss the legal and political as
poets of prohibition" in this
weeks voters Service" program /
for NBC Red network listeners at 5
tonight.
The program will come from the
NBC studios WEAF in New York
City, and is under the joint aus
pices of the National League of
Women Voters and the National
8roadcasting Company.
The speakers, according to the
sponsors, will not attempt to cover
all sides of this complex subject, or
to present it pro and con, but will
endeavor to clarity the two aspects
which most directly concern the
voter this year, the legal and po-
1itical aspects.
Charles Evans Hughes will speak
on THE Nation and the State"
during the fundamentals of the
Law" period which will be broad
cast through stations associated
with the NBC Blue network at $50
tonight.
The Bamberger Little Symphony
will open the concert over WOR to-
night at with the ever refreshing
overture to Iphegenia in Aulis by
Gluck. One of the early classics,
this overture has retained by vir-
tue of its irresistible charm, the
unfagging loyalty of music lovers.
Following the overture, Director
Bernhard Levitow has scheduled
two modern numbers, Scotch
Poem" by Macdowell and Debussy's
"Girl With the Flaxen Hair" The
vocal portion of the program brings
to the WOR n1icrophone Margaret
Speaks, soprano, who sings in her
first group, the soprano aria from
Mozart's Marriage of Figaro" fol-
lowing this with short song "The
Clock" Later in the pre- gram Miss
Speaks sings the Morning Hymn"
by Henschel and Winter Watts
Wings of Night"
The other orchestral numbers
programmed are: 1.-THE Deluge,"
by Saint Saens, Gounod's Funeral
March of a Marionette" and selec-
lions from 1.-THE Serenade" by Vic
tor Herbert.
Excerpts from RosSini's great
opera, 1.-THE Barber of Seville will
be sung by the Continentals, and
NBC grand opera ensemble, during |
the program which will be braod-
cast through stations associated |
with the NBC Blue network, to-
night at 8.
The complete program for this
broadcast follows:
Overture-"The Barber of Seville" .Rossini
solo-"Ecco Ridente in Cielo"
solo-"u v Scti9io to Cerca Moglie"
Grace Leslie Contralto
Minuet DIES Toilets, from Damnation -,,o,
Oh FauS' Orchestra D'''''"
! solo--"n Balen," from III Trovatore"
Frederic Baer Baritone
1rio-"se Il ,Frated stringere'" from
MISS ssl Te5lis, Messrs oliver and BssF
00i0- Ast iriti Fjelde, Soprano
Ballet Music from "scheherazaden
............. Rimsky-KorsakoH
puet-"vento sc 1di,'S'f from "Elisir d.
MT AV oliver. Tenor: Mr., Baer, Baritone
Ballet Suite from THE Queen Of :,
1 96sGS Of the Bayadeers
Bee, Dance Of Thelmas"
professional March"
Orchestra
Ben Ali and his Bagdad Bedouins,
a new musical production presented
over WNIAQ each Tuesday night at
9 is emblematic of the world wide
activities of the foreign correspon-
dents of a great newspaper. These
intrepid Adventures are stationed
in every quarter of the globe, where
ever news is in the making. Peril
ious experiences of the Chinese
correspondents will be related, in
part in tonight's feature.