Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-20

IN OWN in Philadelphia, after the
third world series game, me-
my friend, Jerry Burt, who ha.
~ lot to do with New Yori
night clubs. Mr. Burt Is q
| sort OF night-club broker, bank-rolling
some of them and bobbing up here and
there in intricate subterranean financial
deals by which these shifting hot spots
are kept hot. Although he had had q
tidy wager on the winning ball team
Mr.. Burt seemed down-hearted.
with all the bad breaks we have
been getting" said Mr.. Burt, "alone
comes Ramsay Macdonald and lays
down q Scotch burr all over America
Imagine man listening to this thrifty
Scotch accent on the radio! Would he
snap the rubber band of a big wad
and step out for a good time? He
would not! After hearing Macdonald
he would no more think Of buying q
drink than he would battleship-and
this Macdonald is of both of them
Somebody turned on Macdonald in an
uptown club In which I have an inter-
est. turned him OF quick We
wouldn't have taken q nickel out OF
that crowd If Mac had finished his
speech. You ought to put on the radio
and Harry Lehr, If they're still alive
They would keep money In circulation
I wiped away tear and told Jerry ]
would ask the boss to think it over.
Series Broadcast AmpIified.
In broadcasting the world series this
year the announcers were in sound
proof glass booths, but additional
microphones were scattered through the
crowd to give the listeners as nearly as
possible complete illusion of actual
presence at the game. A few years ago
we couldn't have done this. There
would have been too much profanity
leaking into the air. have checked on
this last broadcast, and the report is
that there were just about the best be-
haved base ball crowds in the history
of the game. No one caught any off,
side yells or conversation. BY the time
broadcasting started, about eight years
ago, base ball crowds were tanning down
considerably, but even then few care
lesSly placed microphoneS would have
dynamited q broadcast
The interest Of women in sports and
their attendance at sporting events has,
Of course, much to do with this change.
At all big sports doings there are more
and more women present every year.
Up until five or six years ago, when
women went to prize fights they went
in disguise. Now a big fight draws not
only general Oh Respectable
women but the haut monde. The fans
have piped down, as they did in base
ball, and have an idea 1t would be
perfectly safe to plant microphones in
fight crowd.
The high price of tickets also has
worked toward better behavior. Nat
urally when q man pays $50 for ring
side seat or q place In q box he has
something like awe-stricken reverence
for the event which imposes q certain
restraint.
ReproOf Not Always Deserved.
Every once In a while some newspaper
writer swings on an announcer for bad
pronunciation or bad dictton. Most Of
these rebukes are deserved, but 1t Is
human to take little ghoulish pleas
ure when you get something on your
well meaning critics. Now-take q good
look at this-here are the newspaper
boys using this word "announcerial" In
speaking of the "announcerial staff" Of
this or that broadcasting company.
Most good newspapers, / am informed,
bar the word "reportorial." and yet they
let in "announcerial" I have flushed
1t in half dozen newspapers, not back
In the typographical underbrush, but
right out In the open in big stories. To
my way Of thinking. 1t Is q word which
ought to be shot on sight. Anyway,
every time see 1t am going to come
back with "reportorial." They ought
TO put these two words In q cage to-
gether and let them fight 1t out.