Evening star., 1934-08-05

the subject OF his address 70 De de-
lfvered over wRC at am. Carol
Deis. soprano: Gertrude Forster. con-
tralto; Emerson Carroll, tenor. and
Harry Donaghy, bass, are the men,
bers Of the quartet under Keith Nc
Leod's direction, who VIII sing The
Lord Is My Shepherd. The Kings
Business" and Let the Lower Lights
Be Burning"
A specially arranged overture on a
number OF favorfte ballads by Ernest
Ball viii be played by Rubinoff and
his orchestra over WRC from the
Hollywood studios at 7 pm. Selec-
tions comprising the medley include
Turn Back the Universe" Mother
Machree," !" Dear Little Boy of Mine, ''
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" and
Love Me and the World Is Mine. "
Jimmy Durante, comedy star OF the
hour. viii have his clowning singing
part in the show. Rubinoh viii offer
as a violin solo With My Eyes Wide
Open I'm Dreaming" and the or
chestra will complete the program
with Why Don't You Practice What
You Preach7" and a medley from
She Loves Me Not"
In her commentaries on news Of
the day during her memoir concerts,
Nine. Ernestine Schumann-H Heink, in
her program tonight. will note that
1t is Just 20 years since The outbreak
Of the World War.
She touches upon the fact that
many little babies on both sides never
knew their fathers who fell at the
front, and how many youngsters. al
most babies themselves, were march,
ed away to feed the cannon. In this
connection she will speak Of the
present war clouds hovering over
Europe and voice a prayer that an
other conflict such as that of 1914
1918 may be averted.
She will sing this evening the lesser
known contralto aria from Saint
Springtime Begins"
The orchestral numbers Of her
string ensemble will be Scarf Dance. I"
by Cecile Chaminade, and Funeral
March Of a Marionette." by Gounod.
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Four Viennese. orchestras of differ
ent types and three celebrated Aus
trian singers will participate in the
variety program, the fourth In the
series of Headliners international
broadcast from Europe, to be heard
from Vienna. Josef Schmidt. often
called 'the Caruso of Austria" will
head the list of singers. The other
soloists are Rita Georg, soprano. and
Ernst Arnold, tenor. The musical
groups include Joseph Holzer's con-
cert orchestra, the Tautenhayn Quar-
tet, dance band featuring string and
an accordion: Viennese Waltz Girls, q
16-piece string ensemble, and Karl
Krall's Orchestra. The program viii
be rebroadcast In America over an
". B. c. network at Q pm. It will be
carried here by WMAL.
In Radio City there will be 35
studios, each as big" as Madison
Square Garden!
The smallest of them, 1t is true,
measures only some l5x20 feet, but II
the program calls for the effect of
voices in a huge auditorium, any one
of the N. B. c. studios can be so trans
formed by the twist of dial that its
acoustic properties are those of the
largest convention hall
Three small rooms hidden away be-
Nd 4ek, kH.s~
transformation. They are the echo
chambers, result of years Of research
by N. B. c. engineers. These little
rooms are the most brilliant" in the
world-that is, their tile and concrete
walls, ceilings and floors make sound
waves bounce back" over and over
again, creating q reverberating echo
such as is made by the human voice
speaking in an immense auditorium.
Sound from the studio is 'piped"
through long duct which opens into
the echo chamber. 1t takes a fraction
of second for the sound to pass
through this tube, and another frac-
ton for it to reverberate from the
chambers walls. II Is then picked UP
again by microphones In the echo
chamber. Thus treated, the voice
gains an entirely different quality from
its original character in the studio,
and variable as desired.
Radio has eliminated space by max
ing it possible for the speaker to be
heard in every part of the world at
the same irstant. Now it has re-
versed the process by expanding q
small studio TO the size of all outdoors.
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