The Washington times., 1930-06-10
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SITUATED with Stien songs just
naturally let's itself in for. q
bit Of ridicule. Leave it to
Frank Crumit to snatch the
first opportunity to do just
that. This evening", when he
appears on the Blackstone hour
with Julia Sanderson, at Z
O'clock over CHS. stations in.
cluding WMAL, he win present
as one Of his ever ENJOYABLE
solos THE Mug Song. by Gas
kill. " y
Aside from this bit of byplay
however. the program will be
more or less serious. Miss San
dersof1 has selected a group Of
especially pretty love songs and
her partner will join with her
in the duets.
QueStionaires, still the most
reliable means for radio authori.
ties to unearth. the opinions Of
listeners, have again established
the public's viewpoint on the
crying need of the broadcast
tngS Industry.
when 10000 radio owners
were consulted, three.fourthsl of
them had found there were
usually two or three different
stations & broadcaSting < stimuli
taneously and the following hour
no program of this type was
available. Some method of even
ing up is the only alternative
since science has not yet been
able to create additional ears
for radiotics.
Two other major complaints
were too much repetition of
well-known musical selections
and too lengthy advertising an
nouncementS. This last seems
TO be annoying. almost IS per
cent offsthe public. ", 4
OF course there are, some,
who are less hard to please.
They. are willing to do>a bit of
dial twisting to get what they
want and simply try another if
they are not interested in the
advertising blurb.
But it is not exactly a healthy
situation, when three-fom'thS Of
any group of people chosen at
random have difficulties in gain
ing anything like a continually
pleasing progrsm for two or
three hours =
Endeavofs toward an amelier.
alton Of this condition of hav-
ing q certain type of program
grouped about one particular
time of the day could not help
resulting in a boon for the
whole radio industry.
Representative Thomas A.
Jenkins Of Ohio, a foe of un-
restricted Mexican immigration.
viii discuss this phase of the
immigration situation this eve
ming at 5:45 o'clock in a talk
over WMAL and other c. B. s.
stations.
The Congressman is the
author Of immigration legisla-
ton affecting the reuniting of
families and last year made a
survey Of the Mexican border
country as a member of the
House immigration Committee
studying the problem.
6:15 p. M.
WRC - Dean Gleason L.
Archer, Of the Suffolk Law
School, will relate the story of
John Oldham and his adven-
turous career both in the Ply
mouth Colony and in the set
tlement of the Massachusetts,
Bay Colony in the talk entitled.
"A Banished Man Who Caused
On Indian War"
7P.M.
WRC-Genia Fonariova, so.
prano, offers two American COM
positions of M. B. Meier as con-
trast to the typical Slavic mu-
sic In the Troika Bells program
which Alexander Kirilloff di-
rectS.
1880 p. M. ,.-..-.-.'.-> -
WRC-GhostS of the Golden
West, when a mans gun was
his only life insurance, stalk
the air in the dramatic serial
entitled Frontier Days which,
after an extended run on the
N.B.C.-WJZ network, will be
presented weekly over an N.B.C.-
WEAF network beginning to-
night. ..-a'
S:3O p. M.
WRC-Five of the most ia
nous waltzes written by Victor
Herbert will be played by Frank
Blacks Orchestra with vocal iIls
terludes during the Happy Won
der Bakers broadcast.
The selections have been espe-
cially orchestrated and arranged
by Black. Vocal interludeS will
be sung by the male trio.
WMAL-An elaborate music
festival bringing to the =, air
Freddie Rich's Apiece orches.
ira. the Grenadiers, a male
quartet, the Columbia Girls
Trio. Chick Endor, character
singer. and a host of SoloiStS.