Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-13

'I've Just been told seven times they'll
be back in minute. Now let me speak
to Mr.. Whoosis." And Mr.. Whoosis
happened to be very high official Of
the broadcasting company.
At the time of the last submarine
disaster, when the whole country was
waiting breathlessly for news of the res
cue attempts, hundreds of persons a day
telephoned the studios with suggestions
for raising the ship. Most Of them were
worthless, but to relieve the jam that
was making 1t impossible to handle any
other calls the operators began referring
every one with suggestion to the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. This went on
for almost day, when finally there
was call from the navy yard opera
tor. Say, let's get together on this, "
of these calls you've referred to us are
calls we referred to you, just because
we couldn't handle so many"
The operators agreed between them
to refer all future suggestions for rails
ing the submarine to New York news
paper which prides itself on giving
every telephone call thorough attention.
I've often wondered II the operators
over there ever knew the reason for
the sudden rush of calls hear they got
The tables are sometimes turned on
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In TO ask, do you ever play anything
by request?" Sometimes" admitted
the operator. "Well, go play post ONCE
while I get some Sleep" came the an
SWer, as the man at the other end
slammed the receiver on the hook.
A Way to Peeve Bass Singers.
If you want to get good bass ginger
thoroughly peeved, just let him know
you think the only bass solos are such
old-timers as Rocked in the Cradle OF
the Deep" when Basso Profundo Sang
Low C" and THE Big Bass Viol." Be-
ing baritone, know how it feels when
people seem to think you can't sing
anything but "On the Road to Man.
dalay."
But one night, when I happened to
be IN the studio when Wilfred Glenn
sang Asleep in the Deep" asked him,
not very seriously, how many times he
sung that particular number Could
MT count the number" he remarked,
land while 1 like that piece, don't
like to sing 1t before the microphone.
1t seems to me it's been done too much,
yet droves of the listeners keep askink
for 1t and some Of the others. What's
fellow to do?" Then he added that
while there isn't much Of anything in
the way of solos for the bass viol or
the tuba, the music for the bass voice
is just about as varied as that for any
| other voice. And to prove it he named
over the 40 bass numbers from operas
he can sing without music.
Bill Glenn, in case you don't re-
member, Is not only a soloist in his own
right, but bass of the Revelers, prob
ably the highest paid male quartet in
the world. He ran away from home to
be sailor. but gave it up after few
months, and later was persuaded to
take his voice seriously. For a time
he had aspirations to the stage of the
Metropolitan Opera House, but he says
that friend who heard his addition
would say, when it was over, only this
Bill that was the loudest voice evel
heard in theater in all my born days
Glenn is one of the few honest-to-
Moses microphone veterans. He has
| been on the air since october. 1924
And If you get to know him we'll
enough to call him by his first name,