Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
HRISTMAS day has been
selected by the National
Broadcasting Co. for in

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series of long promised interna-
tional exchange of radio pro-
grams.
Barring adverse atmospheric
conditions the American radio
audience, according to an official
announcement by the National
BroadcaSting Co., will be given a
real Christmas present in the
form of programs from England,
Holland and Germany. Under
the reciprocal arrangement the
National Broadcasting Co. will
send a special program to Eng
land and Holland Christmas day
and on the following day to Ger
many.
The schedule worked out for
the epochal exchange of pro-
grams will bring the Holland
broadcast over the National
Broadcasting Co. network at IL
o'clock Christmas day. Forty-five
minutes later an attempt will be
made to pick up a half-hour pro-
gram from Germany, and at PAS
o'clock the same afternoon the
London studios of the British
Broadcasting Co. will flash a
Christmas program across the At
lantic for dissemination over the
National Broadcasting Co. net
work.
Americas first radio Christmas
greetings to Europe will go on the
air at II o'clock Christmas morn
ing. The program will be dedi-
Gated jointly to the British
BroadcaSting Co. and the N. v.
Philips Co. of Eindhoven, Holland.
It will be provided by an orches-
ira under the direction of
Nathaniel Shilkret, Gladys Rice
and a group of other prominent
American radio artists. Typically
American selections are included
in the programs.
The program Thursd day,
planned for Germany, will be
dedicated to the Reichs Rund-
funk Gesellschaft, the leading
broadcasting organization in that
country. 1t will be broadcast
from 11:45 to 1915 o'clock. Shil-
kret also will direct the orchestra
for this program and Jessica
Dragonette will be the featured
soloist.
With the coming of each New
Year it has become the custom to
ask radio manufacturers to fore
cast the development in radio for
the coming IL months. Powell
Crosley, president of the Crosley
Radio Corporation, is the first to
come forward with his prediction
1T is difficult to anticipate
radical changes or improvement, +"
he said. First we saw the crys-
tai detector sets; then came the
vacuum tube, with storage bat
teries or dry cells, which held the
center of the stage for several
years.
In 1927 came the completely
revolutionary change to the A. c.
tube sets, which would operate
direct off the electric light cur
rent: The past year has seen
what has been pronounced to
be the greatest development OF
all in radcliffe screen grid
tube and it's application to cir
cults in radio receiving sets. Per-
haps the development of the
moving coil type of speaker
should be mentioned, for it has
greatly improved radio reception
in the past two years.
There now seems to be moth
ing radically new and different
on the horizon. 1t now appears
that radio set manufacturers face
no radical changes for some time
to come. The development of the
modern screen grid tube receiver
with moving coil speaker, leaves
little to be desired in the way OF
further improvement. The radio
manufacturer can now concen-
trate his efforts on the perfection
of detail and reduction in manu-
featuring cost, while the radio
public can be assured that a mod
ern set purchased today should
give satisfactory performance for
years to come"
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WRC, the Washington outlet of
the National Broadcasting Co., is
on the lookout for young men
with good voices who desire to be-
come announcerS, according to a
statement issued last week by
Frank M. Russell, vice president
There are scores of young men
who, if given the opportunity
would soon develop into SatiSfac-
tory radio announcerS, but for
one reason or another this salts
factory type of young man does
not frequently apply for a posi-
| tlon," said Mr.. Russell. 81 pre-
sumo they are now satisfactorily
employed in good positions or il
is quite likely that they do not
realize they have the proper
qualifications to appear over the
radio.
THE Washington studios of the
National Broadcasting Co. are
fast becoming a training school
for network radio announcers
During the past few months
three men have been summoned
to the New York studio after a
short training in the Nations
Capital. The last man to go to
New York was George F. Hicks
who is familiarly known to the
Washington radio audience.
"a good voice is naturally OF
utmost Importance in an an
nouncer, but there are other
qualifications of equal impor-
lance, and among these we have
energy, enthusiasm and a pleas
ing personality. Our policy is to
secure men who not only have
the ability as competent an
nouncerS for Washington, but
who also have definite prospects
for qualifying for more RESPONSE