Evening star., 1932-03-27
Behind the Microphone
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

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r ANKS of the Federal Radio
Commission, four times de-
pleted by designations and twice
by deaths since its organization
Just five years ago this month, are
again filled. The Senate, March
18, confirmed President Hoover's
choice of Col. Thad H. Brown, for
mer general counsel, as commits
sioner representing the second
zone, embracing Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia
and Kentucky.
With Col. Brown taking his
place as the fifth commissioner
succeeding Judge Ira E. Robinson,
resigned to resume private prac-
tice of law in Washington, it was
expected that Duke M. Patrick of
Indiana, assistant general counsel,
would be elevated to the general
counsel'S post by vote of the COM
mission. The general counselship,
like the commissionerships, pays
$4,000 year.
Col. Brown came to the commits
sion from Ohio to become its legal
, chief on December IA, 1929. A
native Of Ohio, he is a 1918 law
graduate of Ohio State University
and was secretary of State there
for two years. He was a candidate
for Governor in the primaries in
1925, but was defeated. His ap-
pointment to the Radio Commits
sion was opposed by Senator
CouZenS of Michigan, but he was
confirmed without a record vote
after the committee had reported
favorably on his nomination by
a 10-to-1 vote.
OUT of the recent German pres
idential campaign comes a
story that indicates the lengths to
which statesmen will 60 to get
their speeches on the radio.
The German Reichstag, like the
American Congress and the British
Parliament, bars the microphone
from its halls. Though the Ger
man government controls the
radio, Chancellor Bruening, open
ing the campaign for President
Won Hindenburg with a speech in
the Reichstag, could not get it on
| the air.
The members, however, paid
Scant heed while Chancellor
Bruening spoke of the fact that
a tiny disk, one of the recently
developed diminutive microphoneS
was linked by wire to a recording
apparatus in the cellar. That eve
ming the recorded speech was
heard by the German populace
on the radio exactly as the speaker
had delivered it to the Reichstag
a few hours earlier.
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| STANLEY BELL, ace of the
- WMAL announcing staff, in
advertently worked himself into
the position of Soloist with the
United States Army Band. Sew
eral weeks ago he sang 'The
Rambling Wreck From Georgia
Tech" during the bands radio
concert, and made such a hit that
Capt. William J. Stannard urged
him to continue as the SoloiSt.
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; SOFT VOICED singers, some
- times called crooners, require
special microphones. Over them
whisper sounds like a full toned
voice, and a pin drop almost
thunderous.
One type, called the gooseneck
because it has a long arm extend
ing from the microphone stand,
was designed for singers who play
their own accompaniment. The
stand is placed at the side of a
piano and the arm extends over to
a point in front of the entertain
er'S face.
IT DANIEL FRAWLEY, N. B. C.
dramatic actor, is the same
Daniel F'rawley who used to play
with Nat Goodwin, William H
Crane and Mary Mannering. He
was manager and producer of a
stock company in California which
turned out such stars as Maxine
Elliott, her sister, Gertrude Blanche