Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-03
N early interchange of radio
programs between GER
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n States was forecast yester-
day in an announcement by Mer-
lin H. AyleSworth, president of the
National Broadcasting Co., that
final approval of the plan had
been given by the ReichSpoSv
Ministerium of Germany.
The radio alliance was first pro-
posed in the Summer by Ayles-
worth and c. w. Horn, general
engineer of the National Broad
casting Co., while on a visit III
Germany. Later delegation of
German radio officials came to the
United States to discuss the plans,
and departed apparently highly
impressed with the possibilities of
the program exchange and init
mating that it would be only a
question of receiving formal ap-
prevail of the German govern
mental organization before an
actual start could be made.
The German programs will be
sent through short-wave station
recently erected for that purpose
at Konigswusterhausen. Before
the programs are broadcast in the
United States, however, three eX-
perimental programs are to be di-
rected to the National Broadcast
ing Co. each day until the signal
quality is considered worthy of be-
ing placed on regular broadcast
ing basis.
Programs, when found available
will be of a special nature, bring
ing from Germany broadcaStS
typical of that nation, and send
ing to Germany programs typi-
cally American. Descriptions OF
important events, speeches by
prominent officials and others will
be included.
Breakfasts of current events by
televiSion when this new branch
of the radio art is perfected may
show pictures in colors, it is prom
Used by scientists of the Bell
Laboratories.
Laboratory experiments in COL
ored pictures have been success
full, it was said, and no great diff
ficulty is anticipated in making
the color feature a part of the
television set as finally perfected,
although it will be necessary to
have three channels for transmits
sion instead of one.
The apparatus fundamentally is
that used for black and white tele-
vision pictures, with color sensi-
tive photo-e electric cells added at
the transmitting end and new
types of tubes at the receiving end.
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Caleb O'Connor, who Is we'll
known to Washington radio lis
teners, having broadcast num-
Der of dramatic recitations over
WRC, WMAL and VOL, recently
joined the National Broadcasting
Co. production staff and achieved
fame almost Immediately by hav-
ing Rudy Vallee use composition
he wrote as a signature number.
O'Connor wrote the piece.
March on Down the Field" while
a student at Yale. Vallee, Incl
dentally, also is Yale graduate.
The radio audience will have a
chance for the first time to hear
the great symphony orchestra
conductors in a aBrieS of concerts
in the Atwater Kent hour, begin
ming next Sunday with the ap-
pearance of Arthur Bodansky, one
of the worlds greatest conductors
of Wagnerian music.
The list includes such musical
celebrities as Fritz Reiner of the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra;
Willem Mengelberg of the New
York Philharmonic Symphony
Orchestra; Willem van Hoogstra-
ten of the Portland (Oreg.) Sym
phony Orchestra and director for
five years of the LewiSSohn Sta
dunn concerts in New York; Eu-
gene GoosSenS, famous modern
English composer and director of
the Rochester Symphony Orches-
ira; Enrique Fernandez Arbos, for
IS years director of the Madrid
Symphony Orchestra and guest
conductor this year of the st. Louis
Symphony Orchestra; Art h u I
Rodzinski, director of the Los An
geles Symphony Orchestra and as
ISOLATED as guest conductor with
the Philharmonic of New York and
the Curtis Institute of Music, and
several others.
1t has long been appreciated by
! students of music that an orches-