Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-14
Radio News and Gossip
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

decision will determine the course
that broadcaSting and the Federal
control of broadcasting will take
in the future.
More than 200 concerts by
Americas three leading service
bands-the Marine, Navy and
Army-will be heard by radio
throughout the United States
under arrangements completed
recently by the National Broad
casting Co. The series, inaugu-
rated this month, continues to
September, 1881.
Seven concerts a week, every
day but Saturday and Sunday,
with two concerts. on Tuesdays
and Fridays, will be broadcast.
More than $50 musicians make up
the membership of the three
bands.
The Army Band will be heard
three times a week, the Marine
Band twice, and the Navy Band
twice. In all, the concerts will
consume four and three-quarter
hours of time each week over Ma
tional BroadcaSting Co. networks.
Although the bands have been
heard frequently over the air, the
broadcaSting schedule is the most
extensive in the history of the
three bands. The schedule over
N. B. G. networks follows:
Mondays, 4 to 5 pm, Marine
Band.
Tuesdays, 10 to II am, Ma
rine Band; 3 to $50 pm, Navy
Band.
Wednesdays, to $50 am,
Army Band.
Thursdays, 4:3O to 5 pm,
Army Band.
Fridays, 9 to $50 am, Army
Band; 3:15 to 4 pm, Navy
Band.
Under the plans the bands will
play from their respective head
quarterS-the Marine Band from
Marine Barracks, the Navy Band
from the Navy Yard, and the
Army Band from the Washington
Barracks.
Negotiations for the concerts
were made through Capt. Taylor
BranSon, leader of the Marine
Band; Capt. William J. Stannard,
leader of the Army Band, and
Lieut.. Charles Benter, leader of
the Navy Band.
THE legendary master mind who
threaded the labyrinth didn't
know soft job when he saw one,
according to the men who last
Sunday staged radios first broad
cast from a submerged submarine
off New London, Conn.
This decision of the National
nouncers and Navy officers and
men with whom they worked is
the outcome of the full week of
intensive planning and rehearsal
which preceded their Commute
show.
For the description of the
underwater maneuver as it
finally took the air represented a
degree of eXactitude in timing,
cue handling and manipulation of
pickupS from moving points which
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special events broadcaSting.
Only one of the unusual and
fascinating upshotS of the affair,
according to William Burke Mil
Ter, who supervised the program,
was the fact that the broadcast
was opened by two male quartetS
which sang in perfect unison,
although they were on the decks
of two different submarines $50
yards apart.
The artists" were the officers
of the O-8 and GA, the two par
ticipating submarines, and their
song was a favorite ditty Of their
branch of the service, ANY
Greasy Submarine Is Home Sweet
Home to Me" EarphoneS and
interShip communication made
possible their long distance thar
mony." Spectators on the for
ward deck of the GA, listening to
the strains from the O-8 across
the water, thought the two groups
were out Of time until they noticed
that a waving arm on the distant
vessel was in perfect time with
the singing on the bridge of the
GA behind them.
The $50 yards which the sound
had to travel explains the seeming
discrepancy.