davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-09

Bob Simmons with McDaviti
Bros. driving up ana down the
main stem =. + nund Vilaurri. OF
the municipal a yort....al dressed
Up looking ~ a pace 20 60. md
I'd Mo1AJee ... lang about me
min trel the A -ri-al Legion Is
gong 10 give. maAiag plans.
and J.e CrIxell Ao Is training a
chorus OF Is g.ris for the same
show. Johnny Pucl-ett....- Rio
Grande Valley Irus- company wv.
ign.ng big ckec..s Gordon Street
....mogul y the me concern.
liking about Eas-cr eggs.
Mere 'istory
We weren't sued for giving the
his DRY lesson yesterday. SO we
attempt II again tocay, with slight
~mlsgivings.
What happened on April IN the
past?
Pronounce tn, magical words tina.
dissolve the clouds obscurIng the
past-and take 2 look.
Pope Constantine died on this
date in It's.
The Swiss defeated the Germans
at the Battle % Nafels. in 1888. We
wager that Il wasn't a naval battle.
King Edward Nv passed out In
1883 in England.
The world lost an EXCELLENT writer
and a clown when Radicals died
In 1853.
Lord I 7at lost his head-liter
ALLYN l747.
In 1854 the Treaty OF Vienna wa
signed. BIZ which the powers agree
to preserve ne integrity Of Turke'
Wed rather preserve the drum
stick.
In 1903. quite a jump. the Unit
States ccrr. or appeals declare
hat a mercer contemplated by thr
Nortrn-- Securities ccn~anv VIZ
ils1ai. y--lt w-u'S that reTa cur
Of arre-'s sav nov with the nod
ern motto "A merger a day keeps
me wolf away"
In 1914 American sailors we're
/ arrested IN Ihmplco. u were I'M
mediately released with apologies.
4 Rear-Afmiral Mayo demanded a
salute to the American flag. He
got 1t.
Cotton went to 81 IA cents q
pound In i917-the highest since
the Civil War.
House Of representatives declared
United States at peace with Ger
many in 1920. All war legislation
was repealed.
Names
w. II. Clay....of Clay and Nc
navitt. walking TO and from work
... keeping healthy !. Margaret
wainwright. OF the retail mer-
chants association. writing let
tiers. . and Casey Jones hanging
around the corner. looking UP
into the sky. Mayor r. 3. Rent
fro. ~ inspecting the barn just
completed. to house his new
Packard. . I. and Joe Vivier. 80. Tex
as Bank and Trust company.
carrying a bag heavy with money.
Gliding
A meeting will be held Thursday
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-09
By Williams

Valley will be 4 good place Il which
TO pluck Id.
The reward Is for $1,000. Which
is something 10 write home about.
An additional 500 is offered for
every hour .oyer the 10 required
Mr.. Hargrove said Wednesday
that he would like 20 hear from
some Of the younger generation.
Drop liz and See him In hls store
any time ami talk II over
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-09

who has tired OF the society life;
the taxi-driver is a grand opera
tyro making ! few dishonest dimes.
and the fellow who shines youI
shoes Is
Well you stop at Bryant Park.
this fellow Is very likely to be an
ace aviator Of no small reputation.
And his Mans will turn out TO be
Knud Won Slauson-KaaS, a ranking
lieutenant, II you please, who can
show you photos Of himself in the
uniform Of the Danish aviation
service.
CARRIED In n tough-looking sweat
er, with q baseball cap pulled over
0ne eye, you'd neve tell him from
all the other shine 'em-up-mister"
crew that vou meet in New York's
more public places. Yet he has won
high flying honorS came TO Amer
ICE and getting on his uppers"
nov blacks boots in the public
parks
One Of these days. he says. he's
going TO find someone who viii
stake him to a ship" and then
he's going 70 tr. a solo flight back
home
What with the modernistic dec
orative idea ~permeating the city
and new building fronts trying to
look ike something off the Rue
de Ia Paix. the newest restaurant
70 open announces that the hair
OF its mattresses will match its
color scheme.
And the color scheme, being
white. black. gold and red. the IS
mattresses are all TO be red heads.
They were selected after some 500
had been passed upon by very dis
eliminating ewes.
1t is not stipulated whether red
cabbage and peets will be featured
on the daily menus.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-09

NEW YORK, April g. o. Henry.
that wizard Of Manhattan's high
ways and 5vEays, once tried to
explain the voice Of the great
city
Was It an Overwhelming roar or
a strangely quiet murmur. scarce
ly heard because OF the cacophony
al about?
The other cay. a gentleman from
one OF the "a kin picture concerns
approached ne with the question OF
what was G0tham's most typical
noise. y seemed that they were
making q sound picture and wanted
TO have a couple OF scenes, taken
In New YORK, which would send
to the average person 'out in the
open spaces" the particular sound
most typical Of this many-voiced
metropolis.
TIE wise guys had all gone into
conference; they had talked with
this person ard that.
And when they finally shot the
picture, the sound they recorded
was that OF a turnstile clicking in
the Times Square subway station.
To be sure millions hear this
click. And cay q nickel a piece for
the privilege.
The fact s. so far as I know.
there n no sound typical OF New
York. Most OF the New York noises
can be heard in almost any place:
they are merely amplified here O
hundred times.
You never can be sure whom
you're talking to in Manhattan.
The big Russian in front OF the
tea shop viii turn out to be the
car personal bandmaste~: the
chorus girl To whom you send back
9 note Is none other than Miss
Gertie Van Juysser. the sub-deb
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-09

OF course the Aerial Cop win nave to have SOM
sarcastic queries on tan for use when he ovs-t'kes
the careless flyer. II is understood th7t - a meet
ing Of the flying gendarmes Last ni~ht IL" fo'-~'N-
in'e--~~ntions were en'-ovei urn-'-~~7'v:
Say. who do you think you areP Colonel Lini-
herFh?
2-Lissen, what flying circus are you with anyway,
mister?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-09
JUST FOR VARIETY

II is now possible cn case you have a dull day and
want to do something unusuaD to telenh0na from
almost any city In the United States 70 Buzz IS Aires
and way stations. And from the time it takes to
get local calls" said Elmer Twitchell today, 1T might
be less exasperating to do It"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-09

With telephone service now 10 all parts Of tn.
world. the man who IS looking FOR a place v,ere ht
cannot be disturbed Is In q tight spot.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-09

Being towed IN an automobile r. enharrassinT
enough, but Just imagine how you'd feel being towsd
in an airplane way up where nobody could miss see
Ing YOU.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-09

An aviator IS being towed In a glider by airplane
from coast 70 coast. If he proves IT can be done Il
will make q lot OF people who are afraid Of engine
trouble feel a little more like buying a plane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02
McNAMEE'S QUESTION
BOX. #

@. What is meant by meters and
kilocycles in the radio logo. L. How
erton, Washington, D. G..
A. Meters represent the distance be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02
RADIO TALKS TO DEAL
WITH SCIENTIFIC FACTS
Leaders to Explain Tasks in Simple
Language in Series of
c. B. S. Programs.

No longer need distracted parents
plead. Johnny, run along now" when
their offspring inquiries what makes
oranges round or why every road runs
in two directions, for Science Service.
through the Columbia Broadcasting
System from Washington is going to
explain scientific facts in such easy
fashion that any father or mother will
be able to make the proper comeback.
This new series of programs, which
will be heard each Friday afternoon
from 3:45 to o'clock, contemplates
popularizing science to an extent never
BET attempted. Leading workers in
all ile of scientific study and re-
search have been engaged to explain
their tasks in language that the nom
scientific listeners can understand.
Local listeners viii be served from sta
ton WdAL
DR.. Warren s. Thompson, director Of
the Scripps Foundation for Research in
Population Problems at Miami Univer-
sity. Oxford. Ohio, will inaugurate the
series Friday, March %. DR.. Thompson
has spent many years studying popula-
ton and his topic, ''Our Future Popula
tion,'' is particularly appropriate this
year, during which the decennial census
will be taken. DR.. Paul r. Heyl, physl-
cist, famous as the man who weighed
the earth while he sat in an under
ground chamber at the Bureau OF
Standards at Washington. will tell how
he performed that feat in later pro-
gram.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02
"Graham
McNarnee
Speaking

vided for them. Maria Kurenko. the
soprano. refused to pose alone on one
occasion, but in this case she insisted
that she was only a part of the pro-
gram that had been broadcast, and
there would be no pictures unless every
one else who had taken part was in
them, too.
Producing radio plays English fash
ion, with four studios and the actors
out of sight of the director, has lot
to be said for it, but none of the good
things were said by the engineers dur
ing the first rehearsal of recent show
done English style. For most of the
persons involved it meant starting all
over again with a new technique. Every
one concerned knew the theory of the
English style; actors in one studio;
orchestra in another, and the sound
effects in a third, with the director in
some central spot, keeping in communi-
cation with the various units by means
of microphones and loud speakers on
the studio walls.
The advantages of this system is that
the actors are not forced to read their
lines against background of noise from
the orchestra or the sound effects
Similarly. the musicians and the sound
crew are not distracted by activity with
which they are not concerned. The disad-
vantage, in America at least, is that
the procedure is unfamiliar and that
special technical arrangements have to
be made to handle sound originating
from more than one studio at once.
remember sticking my nose into the
main control room the night of that
first rehearsal The USUAL calm was
gone, seasoned engineers looked grim,
and the younger men seemed plainly
bewildered. To me it looked as if Spe-
cial patch cords ran everywhere about
the room. When 1 commented on these
the engineer on watch looked at me
bitterly
"Listen!' he said. 1--WE have got
pretty nearly every piece of apparatus
in the place tied together for this re-
hearsal The only things I haven't
hitched on so far are the elevators and
the ventilating fans"
1 ducked out and decided to look in
on the actors. There they were. ali
alone in studio, most of them looking
rather blank; for from the loud speaker
on the wall were coming these direc-
IONS: I say, run over that last pas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02

tween radio waves and kilocycles the
number of waves per second. They are
translatable one into the other. The
dial of the modern receiving set does
not ordinarily show meters or kilocy-
Giles, but is marked of in points from
| to 100. AT certain points you will
pick UP stations on certain wave lengths,
although these points vary for the same
station with different sets. BY compar-
ing the wave lengths of distant stations
with the wave lengths of stations whose
positions on the dial of your own set
you already know, you can tell where
on the dial you should expect to receive
the distant station If at all.
@. Will you please tell me how radio
programs that are not sponsored by
business firms are paid for?-L. A. McC,
Charley, Mass.
A. The cost of the so-called sustain
ing programs is borne by the broad
casting companies in the same manner
as newspapers pay for the gathering
and printing of straight news. The
profit derived from sponsored programs
makes it possible to present other fine
programs bearing no advertising, Just
as the newspapers advertising revenue
makes it possible for them to pay foi
handling the news.
@. I have heard Victor Arden is con-
Quoting the Armstrong Quakers. Have
he and Phil Gilman split up?--Tracy
Morrison, Windsor, Ontario.
A, No. You can hear these men at
their pianos every week in the Seiber-
ling and Chase and Sanborn programs
Gilman has been on Broadway in the
meantime doing a piano speciality in
Heads Up" For several seasons Oh
man and Arden appeared together IN
Broadway productions in addition &c
their radio and recording work There
is no split-up in prospect
(Copyright, 1930)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02

sage again; CIT down the tempo and
emphasize the beat"
harassed engineer in nl,,ooino in,
the connections had piped directions
meant Tor the orchestra leader tn the
actors instead. But 1 won't 90 into
details OF that night. 1t is enough to
say tnat the rehearsal lasted until 4 in
the morning, and before it was over
the English technique had been thor
ougnly learned, AS to it's merits as
compared with our own system that
viii have to be left until later In
spite of what the engineers saw. il has
its points.
rms oroadcasting is a strenuous life.
After more than one tough assignment
and l don't necessarily mean big
games, for studio programs can work
an announcer just as hart-I have felt
that wanted to go of to the woods
1or a pig rest, but was a little sur
prised the other day to hear Kathleen
Stewart say she felt like applying for a
pension. She won't of coIlrse. No one
who has spent five and half years in
the studios. as she has, can quit. But
kathleen. who appears as piano soloist
IN some OF the biggest programs on the
air, sometimes despairs over her lob
as studio accompanist.
Such things as singers arriving with
unfamiliar music and without a piano
copy, young announcers who try to
move the piano too close to the micro
phone, and young production men who
worry themselves into a headache if
she steps outside the studio for a mo-
ment, are likely to age one rapidly,
says Kathleen. The older announcers
and production men would never turn
hair If Kathleen were absent five
seconds before she was to 90 on the air
Tor she is probably one of the most
StudIo-wise persons in broadcasting.
she has never missed a scheduled
broadcast, and seconds mean more to
her than minutes to most persons in
the business.
incidentally, she is one of the best
judges of radio entertainment I know.
Hour after hour, when she is not on
the air, she sits in control booths watch
ing additions and programs. She can
tell good work from bad in much less
time than most persons holding audi
tons, and she can tell from a new
speakers first sentence whether his
series will be a success. She heard the
last half minute or so of Floyd Gibbons
first addition, and announced then and
there that he was a big program all by
himself She can pick out the voices
OF most of the famous singers after
hearing only phrase or two, even when
she hears them on monograph records
made by the old mechanical recording
process. And she knows the playing
time in seconds of scores of piano
numbers. Before an important pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02

gram she relaxes by writing letters.
Although I have always had the
greatest admiration for pianists, I once
almost choked a very fine one. 1t was
years ago, when I was a struggling
young concert singer. and broadcasting
hadn't even begun. My teacher at that
time, Nine. Esperanto Garrigue, felt
that my voice had reached such stage
that she wanted consultation as to the
direction in which should turn. She
arranged for me to sing before Gatti-
Casazza director of the Metropolitan
opera, and with Alberto Bimboni to
play for me.
Now at that time practically every
cent I could scrape together went for
the mere business of living. I could
afford TO spend very little on music
and what had was used SO much that
it barely held together. But it had to
serve. At the Metropolitan I placed
the tattered sheets of Fri Tu,' from
Verdi's THE Masked Bali" on the rack
for Bimboni, and began to sing I had
scarcely started, when, from the tail Of
my eye, saw one of the sheets col
lapse and half of it fall on the floor
Bimboni knew the music, of course,
and he followed me to the end.
When I had finished he scooped up
what was left of the music, and fol-
lOWeQ me OH II1e SJdBe, WHeH we
reached the wings he tore the music to
pieces in one gesture Of disgust.
"Therel You'll never insult another
accompanist by asking him to play
from such tatters," he exclaimed.
1t happened that I agreed with him
perfectly, in theory, but at that time
simply did not have the so cents
necessary to buy another COPY And
needed it badly. Hence the near
choking Incidentally, if my teacher
and I had followed the suggestion of
Gatti-Casazza, I might be singing in
opera today. His advice was Bring
him back in two years a tenor, and
Ill book him In German opera" How
ever, my teacher felt that my voice
would be less stable in the tenor range
than in its natural baritone, and
baritone I remained. And since was
to be baritone, I had no laundering
after opera. For who wants to spend
all his time singing the roles of gray
bearded fathers and other unhappy
wretches, while the tenors get all the
romance?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02

~ Ado artists, have discovered
- do not like to be photographed.
Apparently, long period in the
4 comparative seclusion of the
broadcasting studios breeds q
retiring disposition. This has nothing
whatever to do with the physical
charms, or lack of them, of the persons
concerned.
Jessica Dragonette, one of the most
attractive young women of my ac-
quaintance, who has successful career
III musical comedy behind her three
years at the microphone, almost has to
be dragged before a camera Walter
DamroSch, whose strong, rugged fea-
lures photograph exceptionally we'll,
stalls off appointments to be photo
graphed until there isn't an excuse left
to be offered. Freeman Gosden and
Charles Correll will not pose willingly
except when they are wearing their
Amos n Andy burnt cork. Mary
Hopple, Lois Bennett, Olive Palmer,
Virginia Gardiner, Florence Malone
and Gladys Rice, always prompt for
rehearsals and programs, can be counted
upon TO be as late as they dare for
Photographic appointments.
The men don't seem to be so bad
about it. They are likely to rag the
photographer, and whomever else may
be interested in seeing the picture
properly taken, but only the orchestra
musicians, who have faced the lens in
innumerable groups make any real
fuss about it, and that out of boredom.
You can always count on the musicians
to start playing some singularly in
appropriate tune just as the photogra-
pher is about to snap the shutter.
Men who are much in the news and
who have faced the corps OF news
cameramen often enough 10 become
used to it, are easy. Jimmy Walker.
AL Smith and Charles Evans Hughes
are singularly patient.
Newspaper men themselves are just
about as baShful before the lens as
broadcasting artists. remember one
night when three famous cartoonists
were at the studios a photographer
tried to get separate poses of each
before a microphone. He finally got
one to pose alone. but it was such an
ordeal for the cartoonist that his fore
head was beaded with sweat when it
was over. The two others wouldn't pose
at all until plenty of company was pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02
THEATER IS TURNED
into RADIO STUDIO
Audience, Shut Off From
Stage, Able to See Through
Glass Curtain"

NEW YORK, C9.-Radio has gone
on the stage
In fact. it has advanced few steps
further and has turned an entire
theater into a broadcast studio.
To do that it had to overcome many
obstacles. including the installation
of siX-ton glass curtain" which can
'be lowered and raised by one man, to
make the stage soundproof.
Listeners long have wanted to see as
we'll as hear their favorites in action.
Broadcast studios are not large enough
to accommodate all of them. The re-
suit was the decision to change a
theater into studio where fans could
sit comfortably watching broadcast
program go on the air from the stage
just like 1t does from station studio
Many Alterations Required.
The stage studio is a realization of an
ambition of officials of the. National
Broadcasting Co. They have taken over
the theater. with accommodations for
an audience of 600, on the roof of the
New Amsterdam Theater building in the
heart of New York's Times Square dis
trict.
To make the stage into a studio. in
Vulnerable alterations we're necessary
L lie Seating SeCbIon was uIlcnaIgeu,
except for the installation of loud
speakers at various points of vantage.
The audience had to be shut off from
the stage, yet be able to see. To do that
it was decided to use a glass curtain"
This curtain is really an overgrOwn
window. with steel framework to hold
the glass. Soundproof floor covering
was put on the stage. Heavy Grapes
like those in the regular studio take the
place of scenery.
MicrOphone Outlets Installed.
Numerous microphone outlets were
installed about the stage, each one lead
ing through a separate conduit to the
control room in the rear of the bal
cony There the operator can watch
and hear the entertainers and gauge
the output accordingly. From the
theater the programs are fed to the
local N. B. c. stations and chains by
special wires.
The audience at these broadcast
shows" really watches with the cur
tain down. 1t does not actually hear the
voices of the performers, as they adj
dress only the nicrophone. The music
and other entertainment are conveyed TO
the immediate listeners by loudspeakers
Just like it is to those using radio re-
ceivers far away.
Admission to Be Free.
Another thing. Tickets for the shows
will not cost a cent. Listeners will be
admitted UP to the limit of the. seat
ing capacity upon the presentation of
''pasteboards" which are to be distrib-
uted free ON request.
Aside from the present apparent fea-
lures of having such studio, there is
the future possibility that it might
come in handy in the production OF
television breakfasts.