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Evening star., 1935-05-19
"Five-Rins Circus"

AS ringmaster of the greatest show
on earth," the Federal Communica-
tions Commission is the recipient Of
an open letter from radio listener
The complaint is about sameness of
programs in this three-ring circus
(the three rings being each of the
Nationwide networks), plus the fact
that the side-shows Qocal stations)
try to initiate the big timers, with the
result that there really is ''five-ring
circus"
While the letter was supposed to be
anonymous, it has been ascertained
that the writer was DR.. Levering Ty-
son, executive secretary of the Ma
tional Advisory Council on Radio in
Education, and himself radio per-
former of parts. He arrangeS the
Advisory Council programs regularly
presented over N. B. c., and has been
identified with radio for half-dozen
years.
Wrote DR.. Tyson to the F. c. c.:
one ring-back in the days when a
three-tube receiving set was lux
ury-I had fine time listening to
the show. But it kept on expanding
Nowadays, almost everybody can hear
all three of the network rings and
several small platform shows besides,
no matter where he's sitting in the
tent. Now, what happens? Why,
when one concessionaire stages an
acrobatic act in his own ring, the
people who are running the other two
rings and the smaller platforms seem
to think they have to give the Gus
toners the same thing at the same
time. Speaking for myself, I've got
the three rings and two local plat
forms to choose from-five stations
from which I get excellent reception,
u months a year. But with all five
stations insisting on putting on the
same acts at the same time ! get q
] trifie dizzy"
Evening star., 1935-05-19
Radio Features
and Notes

Richard Crooks, tenor, star of the
radio and concert stage, will be the
guest soloist with Victor Kolar's Sym
phony Orchestra on WJSV at 8. His
program includes "A Night in May,
"Panis Angelicvs," an aria from
"Manon," and Some One Will Make
You Smile
THE Lion and the Mouse" with
Ruth Chatterton in the leading role,
will be presented by the Radio The
ater on WMAL at 1:30.
WJSV will broadcast at 7:30 the
first of the new series of Headliners'
programs, featuring Lew Lehr. vaude-
vile star; Hattis Stiles, soprano, and
James Melton, tenor.
The Aleppo Shrine Band of 100
pieces and the Chanters will give a
special concert over WJSV at 2.
Senators Nye Of North Dakota, and
Costigan of Colorado, and Representa-
tive McSwain of South Carolina will
take part in the American Fireside"
program on WMAL at $50. Chances
for World Peace" will be the topic
Of discussion.
The Ithaca College A. Capella Choir
will be heard over WMAL at l0:30
The Lords Prayer" by Ralph Ewing
will be featured.
Excerpts from five of Wagner's best
loved operas are included in the
Music Hall of the Air" program on
WMAL at IL: 80 am.
WJSV has scheduled at 11:45 am
a special broadcast from Venice. The
broadcast will feature a description OF
the colorful city as seen by a honey
moon couple.
Evening star., 1935-05-19

Is an amazing thing. Technicany,I
suppose, one should call her sketches
monologues. Actually, her talent is
such magic that she creates all the
necessary characters. Listening you
see them-know them intimately.
Hers is an art that is perfect for
the microphone. 1t is truly sophisti-
Gated, truly intelligent and when you
hear 1t, you have no feeling that
something is missing.
May I recommend without any
reservation the radio programs fea-
turing Cornelia Otis Skinner!
THE editor Of the Daily Bruin, Los
i Angeles University paper, con-
Quoted a radio poll recently. The
results forwarded from the coast are
interesting Jack Benny was the
favorite comedian and his program
the favorite air show. Fred Warnings
program rated second. The coast stu
dents liked Annette Hanshaw better
than Kate Smith or Ruth Etting. Ted
Husing was the favorite announcer
with David Ross second Grace Moore
the tops as female vocalist. Rosaline
Greene was the only woman an
nouncer to get favorable mention.
pURNS and Allen will go on the
- air at 10 o'clock Wednesday
nights, starting May 29
Thanks to readers who wrote this
column about slumber music. Those
letters-and there were quite a few
Of them-may help to bring Slumber
music back TO the air When the
Voice of Experience gets that honor
ary college degree it will be conferred
on THE Voice of Experience" and
not on DR.. Sayle Taylor. First time
in history degree has been confer
red on an anonymity Phil Baker
| and his troupe have moved back to
Chicago Michael Tree has signed
Joan Mae Sawyer, socialite, to sing
with his orchestra Lennie Hay
ton, they said, had the toughest job
in radio when he was assigned to
make The Hit Parade" a hit
think he's done it. Good, fast en-
tertainment Edward Nell, the
baritone, has gone to Los Angeles to
sing in a musical show out there . .
Bernice Claire on four weeks leave
of absence to appear in a British
/ film Nick Dawson of Danger
GUS Paradise" has sold two Western
| yarns to the movies Fans are
writing to the sponsor asking for
more Jolson and less guest stars on
| that Saturday night show Check
Leon Belasco and orchestra go
| into Boston May Is for short stay
The music for the 'Folies
! Bergere"-the show at the French
Casino and not the picture-is lovely
and should be broadcast. But you'd
never guess it originated on Broad
way-too good! Carmen, who
sings with Xavier Cugat's orchestra,
| is really Mrs. Cugat WOR fea-
turing q For Women Only program.
Rosaline Greene as commentator, and
it's a new program for the ladies.
! DOTH Ted Husing and Al Goodman
- follow Ethel Norman to Holly
wood when the singer departs
these parts in July to take fling at
| the movies. Rhythm at g." the
weekly C. B. s. broadcast in which
all three figure, will originate there
after from the film capital They
do say that Beatrice Lille is the fast
est natural talker over the radio, even
outstripping Floyd Gibbons. Lady
Peers normal conversational speed is
200 words a minute, and production
men plead with her to keep it down
to 100 when she's on the air &.
Evening star., 1935-05-19

Frank Parker suffering from Snock
because his 8-year-old niece has de-
clared Bing Crosby her favorite radio
singer Ray Heatherton lines up
for a new commercial designed for
the Summer Carl Hoff the band
leader and Carl HOff the Chicago
amateur golf champion are two diff
ferent people, but sometimes it's diff
cult for them to prove it. Hoff the
band leader makes point Of the fact
that he's no small potatoes with the
golf clubs himself; he breaks 80 nov
and then Countess Olga Albani
to continue her regular broadcasts
from XIII in California when she
goes TO work in the movies . Vim
cent Lopez goes back to Texas at the
conclusion of his current Buffalo
c. B. S. engagement jolly Coburn
rehearsing his boys on the Coburn
yacht Ham and Eggs these days.
cruising around Long Island Sound
Irene Noblette sings, too, and
may be heard on one of the Tim and
Irene programs some Of these days
Harry Horlick and the Horlick
household, including 5000 orchestra
tions, moved out to the Horlick place
at Woodmere, Long Island, last week.
Evening star., 1935-05-19
Auto Races to Be Broadcast

Again this year the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway races on Memorial
day are to be broadcast by N. B. c.
on an exclusive basis.
Graham McNamee, as usual. is ex-
pected to be on hand for the trans
missions,
Evening star., 1935-05-19

Eastern Standard Time.
Evening star., 1935-05-19

COrnelia Otis Skinner
Will Do Summer Series
Will Fill Spot Left Vacant by Winchell-Los
Angeles u. Students Vote Jack
Benny Best.
Bp Peter Dixon.

in while sponsor does something that restores
- faith In radio and its future The announcement that
| Corneia Otis Skinner will series filled
- me with great cheer.
Miss Skinner will fill the spot left by Walter Winche
who good N B. CWJZ network Sunday night
beginning June she will the May his
sales increase
heard Miss Skinner three four times various radio
programs think unner than other comedienne
the air. know too she does fine serious things and expect Miss
Skinner do such good job this Summer that Mr. Wnche will
glad indeed that his contract already signed for his Fall series
Evening star., 1935-05-19
World Race for Television
Supremacy Is Under Way
R. C. A. to Spend Million Dollars on First
Phase of Project-U. S. Sends
Expert Abroad.
By the Radio Editor.

RACE for eevision supremacy world wide in scope appears
" be Since the announcement week ago by Radio
~ Corporation of America that it is going to spend million
dollars in the first phase of project lift televson out
laboratory the developments which contributed to
this decision have come to light.
been learned that international conference e
vision held Nice France last month under the
Nations without fanfare and publicity that
ordinarily would accompany such event not long aer
regarding this this side OF the
Atlantic that A David Sarno announced
the plan build a teevision station in the East
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
JOB INSURANCE.
MEASUREFOR
DC. DELAYED
House Subcommittee Yields
To PaImisano's Request
For More Time

Action on the unemployment
insurance bill for the District was
held up for a week by the House
subcommittee which has been
considering the measure on the
request of Representative Vincent
L. Palmisano DO, of Maryland.
Representative Henry Ellenbogen
CD, of Pennsylvania. author of
the bill, asserted that practically
all opposition to the measure had
been met with amendments which
had been added to his bill.
Held Model Bill
AS it now stands, he said, the
measure is a model one, which
will bring distinction upon the
Congress and the District Of
Columbia"
The delay in action on the
measure was taken, however,
after Mr.. Palmisano declared
that his colleague from Maryland
assumed to be Representative
David LewiS-had asked that the
committee withhold action for a
week.
Comedies to Delay
Denying that he was interested
in objections to the bill made
by railroads, Mr.. Palmisano said
he felt constrained to urge the
committee not to act on the
measure for a week because OF
the request of his colleague.
In working out the details OF
the Ellenbogen bill, the House
subcommittee was advised by a
member of the Presidents COM
mittee appointed to study unem-
ployment insurance legislation
with view to perfecting the To-
cal measure as a standard one.
It also is the evident purpose
of the Administration to use the
District as a virtual laboratory
for experimenting with coordi-
mated Federal-State unemploy.
ment insurance plans.
Would Aid District
This would work to the benefit
of the District, the States and
the country at large, since with
the National Government desiring
to make the local act a perfect
one so that the States may copy
it, every precaution will be taken
to see that it works smoothly and
efficiently.
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
SUBWAYS URGED
BY ROBERTS

Money expended on the major
rerouting order approved by the
Public Utilities Commission could
be used to better advantage in
construction of subways in the
downtown area, Peoples Counsel
William A. Roberts declared to-
day.
Declaring the problem Of con-
gested traffic will still confront
both motorists and street car
travel in the downtown sector,
Mr.. Roberts asserted that the
order, involving an outlay of $780,
900 in street car track changes, is
merely a temporary expedient. He
said:
"There will be just as many
street cars using just as few
tracks under the order. 1t does
not distribute the cOncentra-
ton of street cars over a larger
area. The ultimate solution to
the congestion in the downtown
area will be the construction
of subways, and the money in
vOlved in carrying out the order
could be used to better ad-
vantage on the beginning of a
subway system"
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
BERT BROOKS
BERT BROOKS
1896 Air Show
Hope of College
Fiers Here

Before ending a two-day con-
vention, members of the Ma
tional intercollegiate Flying
Club Conference, here for their
first annual gathering, expects
today to formulate a definite
program for an aerial show to
be held next year.
A gliding exhibition at Boil
ing Field attended by members
of the organization marked
yesterdays program. The ex-
hibition was staged by Bert
Brooks, a pilot of the Washing
ton chapter of the American
Soaring Society. Brooks, who
is 81, and resides in the $500
block Thirty-third st. N. w.,
made five flights.
An inspection tour of Boiling
Field was arranged for the
group by c. H. Warrington,
president of the Aero Club of
Washington, in conjunction
with Harrison Sommerville,
president of the Washington
Air Derby Association. The
Flying Club Conference is rep.
resented by aviation enthusiasts
from 10 colleges and univer-
sites throughout the country.
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
SENATORS BACK
EXTENSION Of
CAPITOL
Reconstruction of East Front
Approved by Committee;
To Add 56 Rooms

Carrying with it the stamp Of
approval of President Roosevelt,
the proposal to extend the east
front of the Capitol today was
favorably reported by the Senate
Committee on Public Buildings
and Grounds, on recommendation
of Senator David I. Walsh Cd,
of Massachusetts,, chairman of
the subcommittee in charge of the
measure.
The bill provides for appoint
ment of a commission composed
of the President of the Senate.
Speaker of the House, chairman
and ranking minority member Of
the Senate Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds, chairman
and ranking minority member of
the House Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds, minority
leader of the Senate, minority
leader of the House, and Archi-
USCV VI GA4C NdP4UOAs
Cost Is $3,5OO,OOO
Cost of the extension is esti-
mated at $3,500,000 and this limi-
tation has been put on the prof.
ect.
In making the recommendation
for favorable action, Senator
Walsh declared that in view of
President Roosevelt's approval it
was indicated the money for the
project would be allocated from
public works funds.
At hearings on the bill, David
Lynn, architect of the Capitol,
testified that the project started
in 1868 under the direction of
Thomas U. Waters, who then
was convinced that the Capitol
would not be completed until the
center portion of the front was
brought out on a plane with the
House and Senate wings.
At today's meeting members OF
the committee discussed the ad-
visibility of completing the Sec
ton in marble and it was decided
to leave this matter up to the
commission.
Would Add Sc Rooms
Plans under discussion would
add Sc rooms to the Capitol. On
the west side they would provide
Is rooms on the ground floor and
18 on the second floor. OF these,
two large rooms and four smaller
ones would be adapted for filing
the storage space.
They would provide also for a
corridor from the Senate gallery
to the House gallery and an en-
trance lobby on the east side, OF
sufficient dimensions to conform
to it's Importance as principal en-
trance to the building.
It is estimated the construction
would take two years.
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
Wife, Baby Girl Hunt
Lost Husband Here

ton, she did not think it would
be so soon.
She explained that she moved
from 1885 L st. N. w. to her
present address and failed to
leave her new residence number.
When she went back there to
do so, she learned that in the
meantime her husband had re-
turned only to discover her gone.
That was a week ago, said
Mrs. Littlefield today, and he has
not gone back to her old address
since. In her appeal to The
Times, Mrs. Littlefield said:
"He is in the city and look
ing for us, I know. If this
will find him for us, shall
be ever grateful"
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
100000 Damages
Asked of ReatOr

Suit for 100000 damages was
filed in District Supreme Court
yesterday against R. E. Milor and
the realty company headed by
him, by Frank R. Abbo, who
claims he was forcibly evicted
from the Dixie Tavern in Rock
vile before his lease had expired.
Mr.. Abbo, who was represented
by Attorneys George P. Lemm
and Harold Brody, claims he was
beaten severely when he resisted
the eviction,
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
School to Show
Industrial Art

Armstrong High School will
conduct its sixth annual indus
trial art exhibit Friday night.
It will open in the school
auditorium at 8 o'clock with a
fashion show and music by the
glee club and orchestra. Follow
ing the program, parents and
friends will be invited to visit the
claSsrooms to see demonstra-
tons in art, applied science,
home economics and business
practice. A full-size bungalow in
process of construction will be a
display feature,
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
Ken Murray
Says:

Seems like Uncle Sam no
sooner refuses to sign up for
the World Court than Europe
is right back again for his
signature on a security pact for
Asia. Guess they caught the
autograph craze" over there,
too.
What good are all those
treaties, anyway. From the
way they're diSregarded, most
of them must be written with
invisible ink. or Sump'n.
OF course, it's all well and
good for those diplomats to
say, "The pen is mightier than
the swOrd". but how come
that most of the worlds history
is written in blood.
so REMEMBER
From the condition Of the
world today, it looks as though
"OnIy God can make a
treaty"
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
Conoics,Sports
Senate Adds $685.. 2l5 to I'D. e. Budget
Bethesda Youth,
Missing Week,
Dies in South

Death has ended a nation.
wide search for a 17-year-old
boy who ran away from his
Bethesda (Md.) home last week.
Taking only a small bag of
medicine for a serious ailment
from which he was suffering,
the youth, Roy Mattingly, jr.,
left the home of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Mattingly,-
without explanation.
They notified authorities.
A search for the missing youth
ended last night when a tele-
gram from Pensacola, Fla, an.
nounced his death in a hos
pital there.
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
G. i. Debate Team
Beats Princeton

Georgetown University's de-
batting trio defeated a Princeton
University team by a vote of 8
to 2 last night. The G. U.
team argued against an interna-
tional agreement to prevent ship
ment of arms and ammunition.
The Georgetown team was com.
posed Of Leo F.. Curley, John S..
McKenney and George H. Gull
foyle. On the Princeton team
we're Gordon A. Craig, James l..
Hughsaw, jr., and John S. Har.
low,
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
ROPER IS TAKEN
INTO SHRINE

Secretary of Commerce Daniel
C. Roper was one of a class Of
81 members initiated into Almas
Temple of the Shrine last night
at The MayfloWer.
A highlight of the ceremony
was the presentation of a check
for $13,001.71 by Robert P.
Smith, potentate of Almas Tenn
pie, to the imperial potentate,
Dana S. Williams, of Lewistown,
Me. The money is the gift of the
late John Benjamin Flick to the
SINNERS Hospital for Crippled
Children in Philadelphia.
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
DC. Students Seek
ValedictOry Honor

Nine candidates for valedictory
honors at Catholic University in
clude three Washington residents,
all honor students. They are
Richard w. Galiher, of 1870
Twelfth st. S. E.; William R.
Plant, Of Lanham, Md, and Sid
ney w. Russell, of 1915 Thirteenth
st, N, w.
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
BOOSTS POLICE,
FIRE FUNDS
FOR YEAR
Bill Also Raises Lump Sum
and Allows Money to
Purchase School Site

Adding to the District appro-
priation bill items totaling 3d.
452,215 more than the House al.
lowed, the Senate Appropriations
Committee today voted to report
the measure with a total of $42,.
760,619 for WaShington's ex.
penSeS.
AS it stands now, the bill ex-
ceeds the budget estimates by
$2,385,797 and tops the appropria-
tions for 1885 by $6,175,941.
After a short discussion OF the
bill as recommended by Senator
Elmer Thomas CD, Oklahoma,
chairman of the District subcom.
mittee, the full committee added
$4,000 to the printed bill for
the purchase of site for JEFF.
ferson Junior High School.
Foremost among changes in the
bill is recommendation by the COM
mittee that the Federal appropri-
alton toward support of the Dis.
trict be increased from $5,700,000
allowed by the House to $8,317,500,
the average of lump-sum contribu-
tons for the past 10 years.
Police Item Raised
The Senator'S also raised the
items for the police department
by $274,45O for al additional
policemen for the city, bringing
the total for the Metropolitan
Police to $3O9,387.
The fire department received
$14,500 for hose; $4,000 for two
combination hose wagons and ST.
241 for construction of a truck
house at Fourth Street and Rhode
Island Avenue Northeast, making
the total $107,741.
Other School Items
Besides the purchase of land
for the jefferson Junior High
School, the following items for
school repair and construction
are included in the bill: $4,000
for re-equipment of Shaw Junior
High School; $4,000 for repairs
and improvements to school
buildings and grounds; $115,0OO,
Bunker Hill School: $4,000,
Old Dennison; $155, 900, Ketcham;
$4,000 New Senior School in
Manor Park: Paul Junior High
School, $4,000; Truesdale, $685.
900; Roosevelt Senior High
School, $4,000; Woodrow Wilson
High, $4,000; Armstrong High,
$115,00O; Shaw Junior High, $780,
600; Margaret Murray Washing
ton Vocational School for Girls,
$500; Giddings, $4,000; Grimke,
$4,000; Monroe, $4,000; Phelps
Vocational, $55,000, bringing the
total for buildings and grounds
to $1,615,500.
Appropriations for the Health
Department were boosted to $780,.
1863, including $61 ,24O for personal
services; $500 for prevention of
contagious diseases: $23,643 for
maintenance of a dispensary and
$780, for hygiene and sanitation
in public schools.
Welfare Funds
Total for public welfare was
set at $380,042, including $4,000
for Children's Hospital; $4,000
for personal services at the
tuberculosis Hospital; $67,490 for
the Children's tuberculosis Sana.
forum and $245,542 for Gallinger.
The Water Department received
a total Of $238,250 and the budget
for the Office of Weights, Meas
ureS and Markets received $1,000
for four additional inspectors to
continue this departments war
CONTINUED on Page IS, Col. y
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
UN|0N|STS Plan
RENT PROTEST

Members Of Washington labor
unions will hold a mass meeting
within the next three weeks to
protest against high rents in the
District, it was announced today.
A committee has been named
by the Central Labor Union to
study the problem, send out rent
missionaries to all union mem
bers and draw up recommends
tons to be sent to the House
Rent Investigation Committee.
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
Sibley Hospital
Guild Tea Friday

The Women's Guild of Sibley
Memorial Hospital will hold an
annual tea and linen shower at
Rust Hall, 1850 North Capitol ST.,
on Friday, from to 10 p. m.
Mrs. Harold Ickes will be geuSt
speaker.
Supper will be served from $50
to 1870 p. m.
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
District Residents
Buying Baby Bonds

Residents of the District Of Co.
lumbia have purchased a total OF
$376,425 of the new United States
saving bonds, according to a
statement issued yesterday by the
Treasury Department.
TIE total amount spent by the
nation during the month Of March
for the bonds was $38,012,982, the
ren0rt stated.
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
AID FOR SWINGS

ALEXANDRIA, April ga ben
eft performance for the purchase
of swings for the washington
School playground will be given
Thursday and Friday in the
Ingomar Theater.
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
BINGO PARTY

A bingo party will be held in
the Sons of Jonadab Hall, 600
block Indiana Ave. N. w., tomor-
row at 8 p. m. George Neumann
is chairman of the committee on
ARRANGEMENTS.
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
PEPCO SCORES

Pepco five had a 81 to 10 bas'
ketball victory under it's belt to,
day. The victim was the South
east Flash team. Tomorrow the
two fives play again at MacFar-
land Junior High to decide the
"underdog" championship Of the
Community Center League.
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
LENTEN RITES

ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 8.
Special Lenten services will be
held in St. Paul's Episcopa |
Church tonight with the Rev.
Hubert A. Woolfall, of st. Louis,
as the guest speaker.
The Washington times., 1935-04-03
ENTOMOLOGISTS MEET

A meeting of the ENTOMOLOGY
cal Society will be held tomorrow
at 8 p. m. in the National
Museum, Tenth st. and Consti-
tuition Ave.