The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-17
TAMPA RADIOS
STORM NEWS
WITH JAZZ

Fair to fine reception was had
over the week end from all sec
fions az the continent particular
II fhe Mid West and South West
Sunday evening. There was noise
a.nlenty. much code and fadlng-
h1It earnest tuners could locate
almost any high power staCloh
with only ordinary interference
awe have a special announcement
20 make:aA dispatch to the Tampa
Times from New York, filed at ~
o'clock. states: A hurricane OF in
tense force entered Florida at West
palm Beach and is headed north
west and due to pass over tampa.
The next two numbers will be by
Vincent Lopez Orchestra, the urst
being s"This is My Lucky Day.
This is station WDAE Of the Tampa
Times. Tampa, Fla, broadcastlng
its regular record dance program.
First pages off all newspapers
being what they were yesterday and
TO-DAY. that announcement provided
the biggest thrill loud speakers de-
livered over a week end OF rather
important radio happenings. Any
listener who heard and dld not leei
d bit OF stiffening of the spine sucn
as one gets from hearing Inc
Star-Spangled Banner in a foreign
land might just as well throw away
his loud speaker as the wave
lengths have nothing to give him!
1ncidentIy Tampa was the only
Florida station we could dig out OF
the atmosphere last evening and We
located that between 10 and IL
O'Clock, just before the cheerful an
nouncer was making the ANNOUNCE
ment we have quoted, and while a
dance orchestra was playing That's
My Weakness Now.
Reinald Werrenrath, concert bari
tone, and the Biblical drama, both
Sabbath products of the sound
waves, provided US with the most
outstanding features. And they had
considerable competition in that
Graham McNamee, during the At
water Kent hour, sang better than
he has ever sung before and estab.
1ished himself rather definitely as
q true singing artist. The Golfers
hour returned to WIZ for distribu-
ton with a hair-curling mystery
story and its usual melange. Rep.
resentative Fred S. PurneIl OF In
diana delivered a political talk IN
genuine radio technique to living
rooms of the nation under the
auspices of the Republican nationa.
committee and new program under
Harry Horlick's direction pleased
most Of us-among other things.
The Werrenrath endeavor is, we
believe, an epoch making event in
radio. And, perhaps, in concert
form also. The great baritone has
never sung finer than he did during
the first OF his new weekly pro-
grams, Famous Songs and Those
Who Wrote Them" as the first
feature of the Sunday evening pro-
gram. But he did something big
ger and more valuable to listeners
than sing the songs-he told what
they were all about-why they were
composed and how-and then Gang
them as the composer intended they
should be sung. That is, all save
one. ''The Kashmiri" song is a
heart stirring appeal Of a woman
TO her departed lover and even
Werrenrath cannot make it any
thing but the intensely feminine
plea it is.
The Biblical drama had to do
with Daniel and his fight, as an
alien statesman, against the 100
per cent Babylonians" of Darius
time-likewise with an unenforce-
able statute, such as sometimes
found their way even into the laws
OF the Modes and Persians. Any
attempt to tell the story as It was
dramatically unfolded would make
it sound like political speech in
the present Presidential campaign
which it wasn't. in any sense,
because it stuck ragidly to the Bibi-
cal text.
Bishop Freeman returned to the
Cross services yesterday afternoon
and distinguished his home coming
by a vigorous protest against the
pulpit being made the medium of
political propaganda in any way
at any time. The week end might
be considered the beginning of the
new radio season and was prolific
with good programs well presented
everywhere.
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