The Washington times., 1930-08-11

Floyd Gibbons will appear IN
vaudeville the week. of August
23 at Keith's Palace in New York
at a salary said to be $4,000 fol
the week. Here is name act
made exclusively by radio.
incidentally while Gibbons Is
the faster talker oyer the air
and I refuse to concede this repu
tation as one of his assets
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh Ii
among the slowest and\ moSt
deliberate.
I had a copy Of the Lindbergr
speech in front of me while he
was talking Friday night ano
found that his only deviation was
to insert a twas" which destroyed
the meaning of one paragraph.
Incidentally if the fastest talk
er is worth $500 a week to the
theaters, the Slowest, (Col. Lind
bergD could easily grab $4,000
Which proves, of course, nothing
at all.
Inere never was a more 1Ool
tsh SuppoSition than to blame the
operation of radio transmitter.
for the long drought. The Fed
eral Radio Commission has digni
fled the complaint with attention
when called upon for an answer
by sthe newspapers.
"There is no disturbance in
the air as the result of the
passage of radio waves from
the transmitting station to the
receiver" said v. Ford Greaves,
o Federal Radio Commission
engineer and a leading author
ity on radio science.
"Of course, the radio waves
pass everywhere, air, clouds,
buildings and ether, but it may
be said that if the energy gen.
Grated by all of the radio sta
tions in the world were con-
centrated it would not equal
the force of a rainstOrm."
Greaves pointed out that from
time to time throughout history
there have been blightine
droughts, many Of which ex
ceeded in destruction that which
now has assumed the proportion;
Of a national calamity. In the
earlier drought there were M
radio stations to transmit i'm
pulses through the ether.
Yolande Langworthy, author o!
the "Arabesque" sketches which
are. familiar to Columbia Broad
casting listeners, claims that they
are not doing right by her brair
child. At any rate she sends the
following communication givins
her side of the raging controversy
"The feature 'Arabesque,
which has been broadcast for
over AZ year and a half over the
Columbia network, changing to
various evenings, has at this
tim, become a controversy.
"ArabeSque is my brain-child,
originated and broadcast over
other stations before / went to
Columbia. I created all the
: characters and plOt-in con-
junction with the play-within-a-
play idea, and the poetry. 1t
has now become necessary for a
permanent stand to be taken on
behalf of the listening public.
"TO me, and on my behalf,
there have been several OppOr-
tunities to dispose of this fea-
ture to a sponsor at consider
able advantage to myself finan-
CialIy. Due to stress of worry
over finances, / feel compelled
to seek greater compensation
for my efforts. Allowing Co.
lumbia the privilege Of using
Arabesque as a sustaining pro-
gram up to the present time,
thereby increasing COlumbia'S.
popularity by having no COM
merciaI announcements, has in
all probability been misunder-
stood.
columbia having refused to
make satisfactory arrangements
with me-they are now threat
.ening to take Arabesque from
me and are arranging to Substi-
tute with other writer's the es-
sence of Arabesque, which,
when fully understood, is really
the outlook on life which have,
gained through many years Of
striving and suffering. A
mother loves her child-AIa-
besque is my brain-child--and
i love it. would hate to have
substitution for my original
creation passed on over the
radio as my ArabeSQue-OyeF
which 1 have spent so many
long hOurS-writing all nighs
and putting the plays on in the
face of Death, Sorrow and I'll
Health.
Thousands Of letters have
poured into my desk from all
over the country, telling me
that Arabesque gave the listeners
something tangible psycOE
Ogy; a hold on life; a new TN
derstanding. Well, have
Striven to help in just this way.
"Shut ins, soldiers, ministers,
tired mothers and yes, grow
ing girls and boys have told me
they feel better after listening
to ArabeSque. 1t reaches their
hearts. Surely that means a
great deal to a writer? / have
given my message from a heart
that knows sorrow, and under.
stands, and my desire to take
my listeners into another world
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