Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-20
Behind the Microphone
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

| but the volume Of trade in these is
relatively small at all times.
On the whole the industry is
more stabilized than ever before
in its history. Distress mer-
chandise that featured last years
market is gone.
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THE average radio set is turned
4 on 4.04 hours daily; people in
Toledo, Ohio, listen to their sets
each day longer than people in
nine other cities; about 1875 per
cent of the country's radio sets
are operated more than six hours
a day.
These are some of the conclu-
sionS drawn by statisticians of the
Columbia BroadcaSting System
from a 'fact-finding survey in 10
American cities just completed by
Prof. Robert F. Elder of the Mas
sachusettS Institute Of Technology,
Cambridge, Mass.
Toledo, Syracuse, Baltimore,
Boston, Buffalo, Providence, Phila-
delphia, Chicago, Minneapolis and
Los Angeles were the 10 cities sur
veyed through the medium Of l21, :
888 missionaries mailed by Prof.
Elder.
The returned missionaries in
dictated that the average length UT
listening time in Toledo was 4.26
hours per day, and S.T0 In Los
Angeles, with the eight other cities
ranging between those two figures.
OF the total replies for all 10
cities, 400 per cent of the lister
erS stated that they operated their
receiving sets for less than three
hours day, 49, per cent from
three to six hours a day, and 1875
per cent more than six hours a
day.
TOING abroad shortly in the
" interests Of New York'S great
Radio City project, S. L. roxy
Rothafel and his party will not
only confer with various artists,
but will make a special study of
the new broadcaSting home re-
Gently completed in Berlin by the
German BroadcaSting Corporation
and the one about to be occupied
in London by the British Broad
casting Corporation.
Roxy sails on the Bremen Sep
tember %, accompanied by o. b.
Hanson, engineering manager of
the National BroadcaSting Co., and
a group of engineers, architects
and technical experts. Their trip
abroad is for the purpose OF
gathering ideas that may be
adaptable to Radio City, the giant
radio, opera and theatrical center
now In course OF construction in
New York City.
Going directly to Berlin, Roxy
will confer with Max Reinhardt,
producer, and Mary Wigman, bal
let director. He will seek to in
duce Miss Wigman to come to this
country to stage dance programs.
The architects will meanwhile
study building construction in
central Europe. Then they will
go to Russia to study opera and
ballet.
Returning via France, Roxy will
first broadcast his impressions to
0144O COu11OIy 1IO11 del ILL Al Z al Ii
he hopes to sign Feodor Chaliapin,
the opera singer, to come to this
country to assist in founding a
School of the Arts for the de-
velopment of young singers and
dancers. In, London a special
study will be made of the Radio
Tower" which will house Eng
lands radio headquarters. The
party viii be gone about o month.
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pROADCASTING, the news mag
- azine of "the Fifth Estate" q
semi-monthly periodical devoted
to the professional interests OF
radio broadcasting and its allied
services, will make its first appear
ance October Is, according to an
llouncement by Broadcasting Pub
LEGATIONS, Inc. The magazine, the
first in its field, will have its edi-
torial and business Offices in the
National Press Building.
The president of the corporation