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Evening star., 1936-01-19
Four Artists Still Refuse
To Be Heard Over Radio
Kreisler Spurned $1,000,000 for 13 Weeks
on -Rachmaninoff, Paderewski and
Garbo Are Other Holdouts
Bv The Radio Editor.

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able to bring Fritz Ker Rach
~ maninof 1gnace Paderewsk Garbo
especially
Evening star., 1936-01-19

Of the contract for Mary Pickford's
show, to have been heard on the
blue net Wednesday nights, may turn
out to be the answer to the Hit
Parade's" search for coast forecast
Week-night spot in addition to the
Saturday show Jimmy Durante's
publlcized withdrawal from the air
version OF Jumbo turned out to be
just one of those rumors. AS a matter
Of fact, he hasn't missed Tuesday
night and has just signed another
l3-Week contract to broadcast
Eddie Duchins Orchestra also is back.
but just for three minute interlude.
THERE'S a Sophisticated show COM
ing up on c. B. S. Wednesday at
7:15 pm, a musicale titled Paris
Night Life but if you prefer
rustic entertainment, tune in WOR's
Opry House program Saturday nights
. even if il seems inconsistent
that it should be staged atop Man
hattan's New Amsterdam Theater
N. B. c. has commercial hopes for its
additions of Tom Sawyer and
"Huckleberry Finn" Graham
McNamee has thrown away the
crutches neceSsitated by his spill in
the snow and already plans
have been made TO retain Hal Kemps
Band and the Seven G's when Phil
Baker goes yacationing in the Spring.
Tony Wons, back on WIS. is heard
with ballad-singing Henry Burr.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
Radio Chains and Federal Regulators
Face Charges of Political Tinkering

, Roosevelt for his recent personal ad-
dress to Congress over the networks
which was refused, on such basis
on the grounds that President Roose-
welt as Chief Executive must be diff
ferentiated from Mr.. Roosevelt the
candidate-at least until after the
nominating conventions next Summer,
when the Presidents party must buy
time for him as candidate in the
same way that other political groups
must pay for time. Mr.. Fletcher dis
puted this point, asserting that Presi-
dent Roosevelt's speech to the opening
of Congress was an outright political
message.
The next Republican move there
upon was to ask both big networks
to sell the party time for series of
political skits titled America at the
Crossroads" President William s..
Paley of c. B. S. declined to sell such
time, and SO did President Lenox r..
Lohr of N. B. c. They stood on their
mutual policy that time for politics
will be sold only after the party con-
ventions and during the actual CAM
paigning, in the meantime reserving
the right to exercise their own "edi-
torial judgment" as to allocations of
time to the respective parties and
their spokesmen on a sustaining or
non commercial basis. On the other
hand, Station WGN, powerful outlet
OF the Chicago Tribune, accepted the
Liberty at the Crossroads" sketches
as it would any advertising account
1t is being sponsored by a local Re-
publican organization, however.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
In Local Music Circles

music hour today at 5 o'clock at the
Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth and X
streets. The singers are: First tenors,
Don Waite, Robert Giffen; second
tenors. Barrett Fuchs, w. Darlington
Denit; first bassos, Robert Fuchs,
Robert Hobbs; second bassos, Dale
Hamilton, William Penske. The pub-
lie is cordially invited.
'The Romance Of the Guitar and
Other Fretted instruments" will be
the subject of an illustrated lecture
by Sophocles Papas at the monthly
musical evening of the Business and
professional Women's Glee Club on
Tuesday at $50 pm. Mr.. Papas will
be assisted by the following from his
stucio: Lisa Wolter, lutist: Bettina
Ripley, soprano, and Betty Hite. gui-
tarst. Business women and their
friends are cordially invited.
The Choral Club of the Jewish Conn
munity Center, Sixteenth and q
streets northwest, holds rehearsals
every Thursday evening at $50 o'clock.
Membership is open to men and
women who enjoy ensemble singing
and can attend rehearsals regularly.
Several performances and radio. ap-
pearances are planned. Baritones,
tenors. altos and mezzos are especially
needed. Those interested may apply
at the information desk of the center.
Charles Trowbridge Tittman, basso,
with Lucy Brickenstein 1T the piano,
will give q song recital for the Tues.
day Evening Music Club at the Flor
Evening star., 1936-01-19
BY MARTIN CODEL.

CAUGHT up once again in the po-
litical maelstrom, the radio net
works and the Federal regulators of
radio last week were facing serious
charges, counter charges and threats
which may be carried as issues into
this years national political cam
paign.
On one front Chairman Henry p
Fletcher of the Republican National
Committee was charging the two
Nationwide network organizations,
National Broadcasting Co. and Co.
lumbia Broadcasting System, with
Curbing freedom of expression on the
air because of their refusal to carry,
even at commercial sponsorship rates,
q series of dramatic programs pre-
pared for the Republicans radio di-
vision and frankly aimed at showing
up" the Roosevelt administration.
On the other front, which is di-
vided into two sectors, the Federal
Communications Commission was
paralleling the Department of JUS
tice's investigation into intimations of
bribery of one of its members with
a self-investigation into the same
charges. The fact that such inquiries
were under way led several members
of Congress to allege other irregulari-
ties in F. c. C. operations and de-
cisions and to demand congressional
investigation of the commission.
Chairman Fletcher had asked for
time for Republican spokesman
equivalent to that given President
Evening star., 1936-01-19
Major Features
and Notes.

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S tribute
to the memory OF the late Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt at ceremonies
in connection with the dedication OF
New York States Roosevelt Memorial
will be broadcast by WMAL and
WJSV at g. The services will be held
at the American Museum of Natural
History in New York City.
Gregory Piatigorsky, famous Rus
sian cellist. will be the guest soloist
with Victor Kolar's Symphony Orches-
ira during the Sunday Evening Hour
on WJSV at 9. The program follows:
Chorus OF the philistnes from Samson
and Delilah" Chorus and orchestra
BaSshqnsle 1sI,1dsd from Samson o,n6.s,-a and
Concerto in d Tor violoncello and
Orchestra 'ada.io movement
Pia;igorsky with orchestra
SYMPHONY No in F Minor = finale
alle2ro con fuoco Orchestra
''Marche Mili aire" Orchestra
The swan" Piatieorsky with harp
"Rondo" --Piatiaorsky with piano
"Traumerei" Piatieorskv with piano
"Maeic Fire music from Die val.
To be selected.
Gladys SWarthout. soprano of the
METROPOLITAN Opera Co, will be soloist
with Erno Rapees Symphony Orches-
ira on WRC at TO- The program fol-
lows
Overture to Die Fledermaus."
"a, card Song" from Carmen"
tbl "seeuidilIa' from ".Ca rmen.'
GLADYS Swarthout.
fal Ia CGpricieuse"
'b, The Cir! with the. Flaxen Hair"
'c' Dance Of olos.r,1n ths Tgmolers"
In the Garden" from Rustic We'd
n "voee q Donna" from La oio-
ID, MY Love and T. from "Give Us
Giadvs swsrthout.
Excerp.s from The Fire Bird"
'b) Coronation Scene and Finale"
Orchestra.
Sir Thomas Beecham will direct the
New York Philharmonic Symphony
Orchestra during its concert over
WJSV at 8 The program will open
with Walton's Facade" The other
selections include Cigars "Serenade
for Strings" Mozart's Jupiter SYM
phony." Paris" by Delius. and FL
gar's "Cockaigne Overture"
Jan Peerce, tenor. will be the star
of the Radio City Music Hall on the
Air" program on WMAL at 1890. He
will sing three songs by Joseph Marx.
Vox Pop. on WRC at 230. will go
ba ckstase in one of Americas largest
theaters for the program of Jerry
Belcher and Parks Johnson Chorus
girls. stage hands, musicians and
singers will be questioned.
Oley Speaks. famous composer, and
the Characters, Negro quartet. will be
the guests during the Melody Master
on WRC at II.
Evening star., 1936-01-19

WV hbSAA Va Suh tdhC
edge off the listeners appette-if, Of
course, there's an edge left since radio
showmanship gave the listener a
chance to develop highly epicurean
tastes.
A NYWAY, just look-or rather-lis-
ten to what's happened 10 Fields
and Hall, for instance. In quarter
hour OF antics as song and chatter
boys carrying whole show, they just
weren't what it takes to start the day
right But as joint masters Of cere
monies on their new "Streamliners"
series you hear them off and ON these
mornings in a 45minute show, doing
grand job. Actually. though, you hear
Fields and Hall just about 10 minutes
in between bits by good orchestrs
a couple of good vocalists and occa-
sional guest stars The pair even
went out and rounded up that old
Memphis Five the other morning to
give the "Bugle Call Rag such work
out as it hasn't had for years . Big
Freddie Miller, also back with a morn
ing show, is as contagiously optimistic
as ever via a Columbia hoOk-up, it
might be added in passing
GETTING back to the business OF
pairing down some of the shows :.
further testimony to the theory that
broadcast seldom suffers from too
much brevity could be read into the
split OF Fred Warnings show. And
you'll also note that The March Of
Time" is going back to one -night-a-
week stand after lengthy experiment
with this feature on five-times-a-
week basis. There is no doubt that
the difficulty of putting the days. news
into immediate dramatic production
handicapped daily airings of this
particular show, but it was also true
that few of us wanted to hear time
marching on practically every night in
the week.
Stoopnagle and Budd have many
followers who vow they'd be glad to
hear those masters of nonsense every
day, but there were many more who
found the funsters doubly entertaining
on guest spot the other Sunday after
having been off the air for spell :. \.
there's still no date set for their re-
turn as regular broadcasters the
return depends, so the story goes now,
upon the outcome of the Colonel's
impending Reno divorce.
WHICH reminds that divorce had a
hand in giving Agnes Moorehead
role in the projected Ernest Truck
radio sketches, The Jones Family"
Mrs. Truck deciding 10 Withdraw from
the show as well as marriage .sa
different story with Ceo-T= O.4-
and his wife :. Nine yea-x -a--a
to that band leader, Etl=. Sau:cz
can't find enough TO do around The
house even though she has two sons
... so Mr.. and Mrs Olsen will be back
on the air February "a with a Friday
10 pm show on N. B. Cs blue network.
The ice manufacturers cancellation
Evening star., 1936-01-19

have adapted themselves to the radio
art draws the answer that both
Kreisler and Rachmaninoff have been
leading performers for two or more
decades, and were ranking artists long
before broadcasting appeared, and
that what other artists do or think Is
no concern of theirs.
There is no accounting for artistic
temperaments, which sometimes must
at all costs be respected. Thus 1t was
that Paderewski, who never has been
heard on the American radio. de-
scribed his experience as gruesome In
a British radio studio about 10 years
ago. The confinement of the studio
and the lack of an audience oppressed
him, and he vowed never again to
broadcast. He was not dissuaded
from that determination until few
months ago. but shortly before he was
to broadcast a recital from his home
In Switzerland to America via the
short waves he took Ill and called 1t
off definitely.
As for Garbo, she shared her aver
sion for the microphon: with Marlene
Dietrich until few weeks ago. But
Dietrich was finally persuaded to ap-
pear as guest star on--of all things
soup program. Garbo's refusals to
broadcast are undoubtedly part of her
well-known purpose or pose-a curious
phenomenon in Hollywood-of shun-
ming personal publicity and avoiding
the limelight away from the studio
lots.
WIDESPREAD use OF the term
amateur" to denote performers
on the amateur hours" now vogue
on the radio is vigorously disputed by
the American Radio Relay League.
which embraces some 10000 licensed
amateur radio operators out of the
10000 in the world.
These original users of the term.
better known in the craft as hams"
ultra short wave radiotelegraph and
radiophone stations as hobby and
who have contributed much to the
progress of the technical radio art,
assert they are not going to relinquish
their prior right to the title. They
ask. in a statement issued this week.
that until the amateur night fad dies
out--if ever-the puzzled broadcast
listener do his best to Keep his deflni.
tions straight and try not to confuse
the gulping crooner with the amateur
expert next door,"
The A. r. r. L. points out that. ac-
cording to Federal Communications
Commission regulations an amateur
is "a person interested in radio TECH
nique solely with personal aim and
without pecuniary interest" and that
these persons are licensed by the COM
mission to operate amateur stations.
In other words, they insist, the term
radio amateurs" properly applies
only to- technical expe..menters and
operators like themselves.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
\HE washington Choral Society,
Louis Potter. conductor, vii
hold its regular Tuesday eve

nOlo It's regular tuesday eve
ming rehearsal hereafter at the
Central Community Center, Central
High School, Thirteenth and Clifton
streets northwest, in the choral room.
Additions for new members are held
ct 1880 and the rehearsals begin at
3 O'Clock. The society is at work on a
program of choruses to be sung a ca
pella at the Spring concert, to be given
March 81. All singers are invited to
Join, as the society does not limit the
number of members.
Lewis Atwater, organist, will play a
program of Bach music this afternoon
at 5 o'clock in All Souls Church
(Unitartan). |
Warren F. johnson. organist, will
play "Finale" from organ Sonata"
by Herbert Howells before the eve
ming service at the Church Of the Pill
grirns today.
G. Wilfrid Smith, tenor soloist of
the Church of the Covenant, will be
the guest soloist at the Takoma Park
Presbyterian Church at the 8 o'clock
service this evening. assisting the
choir, under the direction of Mrs. AL
bert W. Volkmer. Mrs. Dudley c.
jackson is organist.
The Octavians, directed by Paul De
Long Gable and assisted by Dorothy
Wilson Halbach. contralto. and w.
Darlington Denit, tenor, will present
Ae program for the regular Sunday
Evening star., 1936-01-19
Braille on Radio.

r ECOGNIzING that blind people
might have peculiarly inherent
talents toward radio. the National
Institute for the Blind of England has
issued a Braille edition OF Val Giel-
gud's book How to Write Broad
cast Plays" The demand was so great
that the supply was soon exhausted.
many orders coming from the British
dominions and America. and the in
stitute is now issuing a cheaper edi-
tion in paper covers
Those close to blind welfare work
assert that because the blind are
forced by circumstances to extract
the maximum amount of "awareness"
from sounds, they are exceptionally
able to place themselves in the shoes
of the listener to radio play and
thus, assuming they have writing tai
ent to begin with, ought to be capable
of producing good radio plays.
Evening star., 1936-01-19

day, Friday and Saturday. On
Thursday, Mrs. Smith is teaching at
the home Of DR.. and Mrs. Addams s.
McAllister, and on Wednesdays at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. r. o. EliaSon.
Dorothy 10art Laktn has bean -.
Evening star., 1936-01-19

The singers, most OF WnOm Jump at Ct
will not broadcast either on programs
Of their own or as guest performers.
You may have heard recordings of
Kreisler. Rachmaninoff and Paderew-
ski on the air, but you have never
heard them broadcast in person and
It is possible that you never will.
Why this curious aversion, when
men like Toscanini, Stokowski, Walter,
Heifetz, Seidel, Iturbi and Spalding-
to name only a few of the great who
have been heard quite often on the
radio-have readily adapted them
selves to the brosdcasting art and
have sometimes gone into rhapsodic
comment on its far-reaching scope
and effect?
VX7E UNDERTOOK to find out at
w least about Kreisler and Rach-
maninoff while they were in WASH
ington recently on concert tour.
Reporters are not allowed to see
such veritable deities of their realm
before their concerts when they are
resting for their work. or after their
concerts (when they are resting from
their work., but their mutual mana
gerial representative was quite willing
to talk. This is the sum and SUBJ
stance of what he said:
Fritz Kreisler is the No. l musical
attraction of the world. He was once
offered and spurned million dollars
for l3 weeks on the air and has had
many other lesser but large offers.
6ergei Rachmaninof is No. musical
attraction of the world. He has had
dozens of offers, one approaching a
million. Both aren't even interested
in radio Cd because they feel it can't
do justice to their art. t2) because
they refuse to commercialize their art
under sponsors and (3) because they
are wealthy, anyway, and money isn't
important.
We gathered further that more
potent consideration in the case of
both is the fact that they feel that
on the radio they have lost control
of their performances to the men at
the transmitter controls. They feel
that they and they alone, certainly
rot mere radio operator, can prop
erly interpret their playing. Having
heard others on the radio. they think
the loud speaker does not reproduce
. rendition sufficiently faithful to the
original. Inferior artists, they be-
lieve, can thus be made to sound
as we'll as they, the greatest of in
strumentalists.
ID Ado, of course, can answer all
these arguments. and We are told
has attempted to do so. only to be
epurned at every turn. The fact that
both have made photograph records,
which answers the argument Of me
chanical interference" draws the re-
sponse that they can repeat their
performances for recordings until sat-
isfied that the rendition is perfect.
The fact that Stokowski and others
Evening star., 1936-01-19
SHORT-WAVE FEATURES
TODAY.

New York: p.m.-New York
Philharmonic Orchestra. W3XAU.
Philadelphia, 31.2 m. (9,500 kc.).
CJRO, 48.7 m. (6,150 kc.) and
CJRx, 25.6 m. Q1.720 kc.).
Paris: 6:15 p.m.-Concert re-
layed from Radio-Paris. FYA,
25.6 m. U1,720 kc.).
London: 6:55 p.m.-James
Watt bicentenary. Service in
memory of the inventor Of the
steam engine. Csc. 31.3 m.
(9,580 kc), GSB, 31.5 m. OSLO
kc.), GSL, 49.1 m. (6,l10 kc).
or GSA, 49.5 m. (6.050 kc).
Berlin: 1880 p.m.-"I Dreamt
of Blossoms Bright and Gay"
Thoughts of Spring in Winter.
DUO, 49.8 m. (6,020 kc.).
Berlin: $3.50 p.m.-"America
and l." Songs and q chat by
Traute Rose. DUG, 49.8 m.
(6.O20 kc.).
London: 1918 p.m.-A recital
by Meriel st. Clair (mezzo-
soprano) and Hilda Dederich
(pianoforte>. GSD, 25.5 m.
u1,75o kc), Csc. 31.3 m. (9.5So
kc.), or GSL. 49.1 m. (6,ll0 kco.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
CAPITALS RADIO PROGRAMS

Eastern Standard Time.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
Engineer to Speak.

IN A series, "Backstage in Schenec-
tady," over W2XAF at 6:45 pm.
Tuesday, c. w. Stone, consulting engi-
neer, will speak on Early Talking
Motion Picture Experiments. Mr..
Stone will be introduced by E. S.
Darlington.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
ALLURING OFFERS SPURNED BY FAMOUS QUARTET
How to Sustain Interest
In Radio Talent Studied
Restraint Get Good Results by
Pairing Down Appearances
BY Dorothy MaffisOn.

THE airas little
Appetizers-Cornia
the notable
Usually however, the
fellows
Evening star., 1936-01-19

shire avenue, on Tuesday evening at
Sis O'Clock.
Following the fire which demolished
the Frances Gutelius Studios, Mrs.
Smith has accepted Florence Howard
offer Of her studios ct 140e New
HampGhire aveuue feg ciassGs On Tuos.
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CALL FOR NEW
EFFORT MADE
BY ROOSEVELT
Points Out Greater Nations
Have Fallen For Lack
Of Such a Plan
RELIEF MEN UPHOLD
EMPLOYMENT SCHEME

WASHINGTON, April 16 (UP)
President Roosevelt today called
on the nation to carry on with
renewed vigor the government
policy of conserving natural re-
sources.
He spoke at the cornerstone
laying Of the new $12,000,000
department Of interior building,
now under construction. 49,
Secretary. of Interior Harold F.
Ickes Joined the president in urg-
ing the conservation of resources
and called on congress to change
the departments name to "the de-
partment Of conservation" INA
tions less beautifully endowed
than ours and without national
police Of conservation ceased to
exist long ago." the president said.
He traced the pioneering efforts
of Theodore Roosevelt along the
lines Of natural resources preser-
walton and gave a brief history of
the development of the interior
department from q one-clerk or
ganization in 1849.@ 81
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paul wendell
IS ABSOLVED
Will Investigate Charges
Confession" Resulted
From Torture

TRENTON, N. j., April 10
(UP).-Absolution Of Paul Wen
del of the murder of the Lind
bergh baby today had cleared the
way for an investigation in New
York and New Jersey of charges
that four men, inspired by state
official, kidnapped Wendell and tor
.tured him into teonfessipg" tbs
crime.
Prosecutor Erwin E. Marshall
last night announced that the
Mercer county grand jury had
voted no indictment against Paul
H. Wendell, disbarred Tretnon at
torney charged with the murder
of the Lindbergh baby.
The grand jury began investi-
cation of the case the day. Bruno
Richard Hauptmann was to have
died for the same crime. Its de-
alterations delayed his execution
for three days. 1t finally reported
it had discontinued" the case and
Hauptmann was executed.
Marshall said Wendell would be
held in Mercer county Jail pend
ing decision on prosecution of en-
bezzlement charges against him.
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Retiring Officer
Makes Home Here

Col. and Mrs. Calhoun Ancrum,
formerly of South Carolina, have
selected Hendersonville as a place
of residence and are stopping for
the present at Mrs. Waldrop's be-
fore taking an apartment.
Col. Ancrum has served more
than 80 years in the United States
Marine corps and has lived "all
over the world" he said today,
but saw no other place preferable
to. Hendersonyille for residence
after retirement.
Col. Ancrum will be formally
discharged on pension July 1, and
in the meantime he and Mrs. An
crum are definitely planning to
make this their permanent home.
Col. Ancrum said he expected to
spend much of his time on the
golf course. ae--zi,!z -
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senior CLASS
PLAY TONIGHT
Booth Tarkingtcn's Story,
Seventeen. : Dramatic
Vehicle

Seventeen" Booth Tarkington's
famous story about young people
will be presented at the high
school auditorium tonight at 8
o'clock by the senior class of the
Hendersonville high school.
Harrington, famous for his
books about young people has
written delightful story in
Seventeen" in which he potrays
youth in all its joy and sorrow,
humor and pathos. The stage
adoption of this story follows the
book closely and loses none of the
charm of the original story.
The play is directed by Miss
Garnet Shipman and the cast is as
follows:
Willie Baxter, Lewis Smyth;
Mrs. Baxter, Maude Station; Mr..
Baxter, Bob Forsythe; Jane Bax-
ter, Bessie Bremen; Mr.. Pareher,
Bob Childs; Genesis, Nick Giana.
kos; Lola Pratt, Elsie Flanagan
May Parcher, Kittie Brownlee
Johnny Watson, Bob Brown; Joe
Bullitt, Bob Writ; George Croop.
er, Billy Rusher; Wallie Banks
Jack Johnson; Mary Brooks, Ella
Payne; Miss Boke, Madge Glaze
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Frontier Patrols
Renew Fighting

MOSCOW, April 16. (UP)-
Fighting between Japanese and
Soviet frontier patrols was re-
newed yesterday on the Manchu-
kuo-Siberia border, official dis
patches from Khabarovsk report
ed.
The latest friction occurred on
Mossinsky island in the Ussuri riv-
err, which has been Russian terri
tory since the Peking treaty of
1851.
Seven Manchukuo wood cutters,
protected by five armed soldiers,
were telling trees on the island
when a Soviet patrol approached
and fired warning shots. Suisse
ouently a detachment of 35 Jap
anese-Manchu troops arrived from
a nearby village. They fired on
the Soviet patrols and retreated
only after the Reds had returned
the fire.