Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
Behind the MicrophOne
controversy, especially in view o
the trade angle involved.

controversy, especially III view VA
the trade angle involved.
THE theater has survived the
= movies and both the theater
and the movies have survived
radio. They will, in turn, survive
television when it comes, accord
ing to william S. Paley, president
of the Columbia Broadcasting
System, who has contributed a
chapter, radio and Entertain
ment," to Martin Codels new
book, radio and Its Future"
just published.
Scientific advancements, sud-
denly as they sometimes come,
seldom destroy the things they
presumably replace" said Mr..
Paley. Usually new inventions
simply make old ones more
useful.
"Only a few years ago it was
felt in many quarters that broad
casting had doomed the phono-
graph. Instead, radio provided
the monograph with electrical
recording and reproducing and
with new conceptions of tone
qualities and volume. A vast new
market was opened, a market
that expanded considerably when
the radio manufacturers began
combining monographs with ra-
dio receiving sets. At least one
great merger of radio and phono-
graph interests has occurred to
prove that, far from driving out
the monograph, radio has given
it new possibilities.
"Just so has radio stimulated
the legitimate theater and motion
pictures. It has brought on the
''talkies," instead of running the
Aim industry by keeping the pub
lie at home to listen in, as was
feared when broadcasting first
began. Through an exchange of
talent, the attention of a public
greater than the theater ever
knew before has been focused
upon the stage and screen.
Through the audible appeal to
the greatest artists the theatrical
world, especially the operate, the
potential theater audience has
been greatly augmented.
even when television Is per-
fected on a commercial scale and
televiSed subjects are broadcast
for reception directly in millions
of homes, the motion picture
theater will continue to thrive as
the gathering place of entertain
ment-seeking multitudes. The
history of the theater and the
radio would seem to bear me out
when television comes, wheth-
er it be in a few years or a score,
it will play a large part in the
operation of the very theaters
that some may feel 1t threatens.
Our imaginationS can run riot
when we speculate upon the IL
limitable possibilities of television
in relation to motion picture
theaterS."
A SERIES of original and novel
skits entitled Radio Movies, u
is being presented over Station
WGBS in New York, by Mrs
Lillian Nichol Claiborne, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. D. e
Nichol, 1924 Georgia avenue.
Mrs. Claiborne made her radio
debut in Washington Severa,
years ago over Station WNdAL,
She is a native of Washington
and was educated in the public
schools here and the Shenandoah
Institute.
The general structure Of Mrs
Clairborne'S Skit Is patterned
after a typical motion picture
program. Thus she injects dia-
logue, narration and music. The
skit usually begins with an over
ture. Then comes a news reel
This consists Of news items culled
from the most interesting that
crop up in the daily dispatches
There also is always a musical
number, and, of course, the "fea-
ture picture" This Is a little
story or playlet which Mrs. Clair
borne writes.
|HEYWOOD BROUN'S radio col
umn to be heard over the
Columbia network beginning to-
morrow will consist chiefly OF
short paragraphs like a news
column.
In preparing the program the
question arose how these para
graphs could be separated. In
a newspaper a three-em dash or
q row Of stars is used. Mr.. Broun
had several novel ideas, including
a mechanical he-haw bray of a
donkey or combination of dis
cordant musical notes. He will
not adopt either of them, how
ever, hoping that his radio audi
ence can suggest a better radio
equivalent Of the three-em dash