Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
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Y hope my friends among the loud
speaker addicts won't think have
run out on them. The fact is
L that the last year has been for me
a sort of combination of trap
drummer's sketch and a marathon
race, and I'm leaving the mike fiat
until MIR. Hoover's Inauguration March
A. In the meantime have been RAM
bling eastward, after that exciting tun-
mel job in Washington, making few
concert appearances on the way. To
me these little intervals of song are
restful and with visible audience one
has a chance to get acquainted and
| feel more at home. A number of let
tiers asking me why am not riding
the air waves had led me to make the
above explanation.
Last year set the fastest pace in radio
since the first hay-wire set was made.
I'm thinking that if the going is any
| faster this next year there will be lot
of radio announcers in the old soldiers
| home by 1880. AS look back over the
year it seems like, a jumbled movie
film, made up by piecing together I'M
dramas.
There was rush out to Pasadena
for the East-WeSt foot ball game in the
to New York for the Sharkey -Risko
fight, with q few minor events in be-
| tween. Then the roar of the crowd
was suddenly supplanted by the sub
dued murmuring of Suave diplomacy In
President Coolidge's diplomatic foray
into Cuba.
Hitch in Teamwork.
This last event involved some of the
closest teamwork ever attempted in
radio, and incidentally one tense situ-
alton. Phil Carlin was down in Havana
announcing President Machado's speech
and other big news events: The presi--
dents speech. in Spanish, went out
to Latin America on a short wave
| length My job was to keep pace with
President Machado, and I was enabled
| to do this by Sr. Al Monte, who stood
| beside me and set the tempo, as he
understood the incoming Spanish
| speech. The danger was that there
would be hitch in the Havana broad
casting and that I would outrun the
| President.
| We had scarcely started when this
hitch occurred. Something went wrong
with the hook-up. This was an ideal
set-up for some kind of a bad tangle.
Senior AL Monte slowed me down to the
| SlOWeSt possible pace ana we spared
| for time by some little Interpolation,
which seemed plausible and appropriate.
| After few minutes of this shadow
boxing we were about sunk, and, then,
suddenly, the circuit clicked again and
here came the President. Alone, would
have been lost in picking up the Span
| ish address, but Senior AL Monte Speared
| my Manuscript with a sharp pencil,
| showing that we we're just about even
with the speech and things moved along
smoothly to the end. That remained in
my mind as one successful forward pass
from Havana to New York.
Soon afterWard, there was that
breath taking horse race in England,
when Billy Barton ran valiant race
and almost won. Then, there was a
hurry-up jump to indianapolis, to cover
the national automobile sweepstakes.
Here was the roar of the crowd again.
You never quite get it out of your ears.
If you drive up a mountain canyon for
day. along roaring stream, you'll
have the sound of that stream in your
ears for days afterward. It's like that
in this business. You may be in a
sound-proof studio. announcing cham
Der music, but you never quite get rid
of that roar
Five Big Fights.
Including the -Sharkey fight.
there were five big fights during the