Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-01-28
Third" National Radio
Network Is Predicted
Backers Of Three New Projects Seek to Profit by
Mistakes of Ed Wynn, Whose Chain
Lasted Only Month.

ing . substantial portion Of the Ma
tons populace the choice Of q third"
national program.
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DROADCASTING, while providing q
- new field Of entertainment for
the average person, has opened q
veritable new world and made life
much more pleasant for the deaf. &C
cording to c. M r. Balbi, consultant
to the National Institute for the Deaf,
Of Great Britain.
Before the advent of wireless the
scope of a deaf persons recreations
were very limited" he said, but as
soon as broadcasting was introduced
an evergroWjng field of interest was
made available through the wireless
receiver in the home as the years
passed by.
For the entertainer, whoever he be,
does not have to shout or to excuse
himself from continuing his talk on
the ground of fatigue; slight adjust
ment Of the volume control on the
part Of the patient will bring up an
amplification sufficiently for the deaf
person to get an adequate sound vol
lme level below his particular thresh-
hold of audibility."
IL WIS OcCduSe Oh IIlc QeVelOpIueIlC
Of the radio receiver, Mr.. Balbi pointed
out, that head phone were subsequently
installed in theaters, SO that deaf per-
sons could hear as well as see enter
tainments In this connection the
British authority recalled that Alex
ander Graham Bell invented the tele-
phone as an aid for his deaf wife and
not as an instrument for communica-
ton over long distances, as is gen.
orally supposed"
Chiefly because of the demand Of
deaf persons for better hearing aids
because of the superiority of radio re-
ception over electrical devices, the max
ing of such instruments assumed a
more scientific aspect in recent years,
according to Mr.. Balbi. The last step
through which hearing aids are pre-
scr1bed for each individual with the
same accuracy as pair of spectacles
and the elimination of the risk of ear
strain ARE directly traceable to the
influence Of broadcasting" according
to the British expert on deaf aids. He
concluded that still more important
advances toward the solution of the
problems of the deaf will come about
through radios influence"
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D ADIO'S closer alliance with theater
N and opera were manifested once
more last week when it became
known that the Columbia Broadcasting
System has engaged its own theater
on Broadway for radio presentations
and that David Sarnoff, president of
the Radio Corporation Of America
parent company Of the National
Broadcasting Co.. has been elected a
director of the Metropolitan Opera.
Columbia's new theater, which will
be used to accommodate the growing
number of persons desiring to see radio
shows as they are being performed
will open February 3 It is the old
Hudson Theater, which has been re-
named the Radio Playhouse. Admis-
sionS will be by tickets obtained with
out charge from the network or its
sponsors.
The probability that the Metropoli-
tan Opera will eventually move into
Radio City, which now houses the
N. B. c. studios, was seen in the cleo
ton Of Mr.. Sarnoff to the Metropolitan
board. Efforts to persuade the opera
company to move into New York's big
new amusement center hitherto have
failed. although Metropolitan is now
deriving some Of it's support from its
broe beasts over the network