Evening star., 1934-03-21

y EAIL hDMluAb t1CT1AttD 4.
- BYRD, whose second expedi-
ton to the Antarctic has re-
l. y vealed new page in the
history of communications,
has been selected to receive the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System medal
for distinguished contribution to radio.
Presentation will be made during the
expeditions broadcast to the United
States over the Columbia network
March 81.
Only five other persons have pre-
viously been awarded the medal. They
are Col Charles Lindbergh, Sir John
A. Reith, director general of the Brit
ish Broadcasting Corporation Leopold
Stokowski, conductor of the Philadel-
phia Orchestra; Amelia Earhart, and
Nno Martini, Metropolitan Opera
tenor.
Presentation of the medal will be
made by Henry Adams Bellows. Co
lumbia vice president, before an in
vited audience, in the Radio Play
house, New York. Both Bellows ad
dress and Admiral Byrds acceptance
speech, coming from Station KFZ,
LlIIIe AIHtIlCd, Will Dt CdlIuu ONCl
the network between 10 and 1920 pm.
Since the Byrd expedition left the
United States last Fall the radio staff,
both voice and telegraphic code ex-
pertS, have accomplished several featS
of outstanding Importance. Working
with an ordinary ships antenna on
board the Jacob Rupert, pitching and
tossing in the storm-swept Pacific, the
staff succeeded in transmitting the
voices of Byrd and members of his
party for rebroadcaSting in the United
States under unusually difficult condi-
tions. Upon their arrival in Little
America they proved that, with
transmitter of only 1000 watts power,
it wGs quite possible, through the use
Of a directional antenna, to send the
sound of human voices 5000 miles to
New York with full clarity. On one
of the regular Saturday night pro-
grams reception of the voices was reg
istered at 50 per cent perfect intelligi-
bility. Outstanding in the expedi-
tons contribution to radio is the
fact that men exploring barren ter
ritory. far from civilization, are for
the first time enabled to be in con-
slant communication by voice with
their homeland.
COLUMBIA has added to its Easter
~ Sunday program a broadcast Of
the sunrise service at the Holly
wood Bowl. A trumpet call from the
mountains back Of the bowl Just at
sunrise will open the broadcast, which
will be heard in the East between $50
and $50 am
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GID GARY, radio star, now appear
- ing in person at the Fox Theater,
will present a special program to-
night at 1920 over WJSV. He will
sing several solos and subject himself
to an interview by Bob Trout, COlum-
bias star announcer.
THE grst "all-feminine' radio show
l. will reach the air waves on or
about April IS, when Phil Spitalny
and an aggregation of 80 girl instru-
mentalists and vocalists broadcast
over a coast to-coast N. B. c. network
under the auspices of a nationally
known sponsor.
Spitalny, who was one Of radios pio-
neer orchestra leaders, and who has
confined his musical proclivities solely
to male units in the past Is years,
searched the country for a period of
five months in order to secure the
best feminine instrumentalists avail
able More than 2,l00 women with
musical aspirations were interviewed
before the present aggregation Of 80
was selected
More than II States are musically
represented in the unit.