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Evening star., 1936-08-30
F. c. c. Engineers Deeply Impressed
BY Aduance in TeIeuisiOn Methods

sions. He told the F. c. c. examiner
that the Farnsworth system promises
to add substantially to the progress of
the television art. 1t was testified by
Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the
system, that his hackers, chiefly a
group of San Francisco business men.
had thus far spent nearly 100000 on
his experiments. His counsel, Dom
aid K. Lippincott of San Francisco,
claimed that the Farnsworth process
has gone further in producing detail
and eliminating flicker than any of
the other system in this country or in
England and Germany.
That set of the wave lengths re-
served for television will be allotted
Farnsworth is regarded as certain, but
it remains for public demonstrations
Of the rival Farnsworth, Philco and
R. c. A. systems to decide which has
progressed furthest in the television
art. The F. c. c. engineers, declin-
ing to make comparisons, declared
they thought the basic systems were
being developed along much the same
lines and that each has shown ex-
ceptionally clear images in the labora-
tory demonstrations.
Evening star., 1936-08-30
Gibbons Repeats Talk.

SFERAL breaks in the transmits
- sions Of Floyd Gibbons talk on
the Spanish civil war, coming through
from EAQ in Madrid to the N. B. c.
Blue network last Sunday and sched-
uled to be repeated again today on
the Magic Key program, gave Amer
lean listeners only slight ideasof the
difficulties facing a war correspond
ent attempting to relay a verbal de-
scription via radio.
Even more significant were the care
fully guarded words of Gibbons, who
obviously could not tell all since the
censor was standing by to check every
word EAQ is the only short-wave
broadcast transmitter in Spain, and 1t
is in the hands of the government
forces. Presumably Gibbons will later
go to England sor France and broad
cast a prepared description Of what
he saw.
Evening star., 1936-08-30
Television Advances.
TELEvISION plans have advance

TELEVISION plans have advanced
far enough in England. where 1t
is due to be introduced momentarily
to the London public, for the British
Broadcasting Corp. to announce that
it has appointed a director Of make
up and wardrobe in its television de-
partment. She is Miss Mary Allen
who has specialized in makeup, dress
design and wardrobe with various
theatrical and film producers during
the last Is years.
Television makeup is still in an ex-
perimental stage, and it is up to Miss
Allen to determine what makeup
what color and what designs televise
most adequately.
Evening star., 1936-08-30

TINE spacious lounge Of the West
Side Tennis Club at Forest
Hills, Long Island, will be
- turned into a temporary radio
studio when Ted Husing interviews
the worlds best known tennis stars
from 7:3o to 8. WJSV Wall carry the
broadcast locally.
The Summer Show" featuring
Tim Ryan, Irene Nobelette and Don
Voorhees, Orchestra, will be broadcast
by WRC at 6, instead of WMAL, as
formerly.
Cornelia Otis Skinner will close her
Summer series on WMAL at 8, with
Union Station" an original playlet
"The Goose Creek Parson," a new
series featuring Josiah Hopkins, one
of the best-loved radio characters
on the West Coast, will be broadcast
by WJSV at 6:l5.
For the second successive Sunday,
Floyd Gibbons. famous Headline
Hunter" will broadcast direct from
revolution-torn Spain during the
Magic Key" program on WMAL at
/. His eyewitness report will be re-
layed to the United States by short
waves from station EAQ in Madrid.
Albert Spalding, internationally fam
Gus violinist; Helen Traubel, soprano,
and George Halls Orchestra also will
contribute to the Commute program.
Julia Hoyt, formerly associated
with the North American Newspaper
Alliance, will begin a series of weekly
broadcasts on WMAL at 2. She will
discuss widely diversified subjects.
A Back to Schooldays" program
featuring Gus Edwards, veteran vaude-
vile star, will be high light of the
Community Sing" on WJSV at $50.
Folk songs that remain perennially
popular dominate the Fireside Recital
on WRC at $50.
Evening star., 1936-08-30

lone half-hour available for Friday
night at N. B. c. and plans to put on
a musical drama, dividing the spot
light between Rosemarie Brancato and
Helen Claire, last heard in Roses and
Drums" Jerry Belcher, however, will
bask alone in the spotlight Of that
new N. B. c. series, Our Neighbors,"
taking the microphone, minus Parks
Johnson, into typical American homes
to get spontaneous answers to any
questions which may pop into the
"VoX Peppers" head.
FLOYD BUCKLEY and all the rest
of last seasons cast will do the
"Popeye" return engagement at C. B.
S., beginning this week. Jimmy Wal
lington will be Eddie Cantor's an
nouncer again when the new show
gets under way September 20 -.
Those sophisticated melodies for
which Frank Parker and Organist
Ann Leaf will be teamed at WEAF,
beginning Wednesday, will also get a
WMAkk p1Ch-up OO yOu 4CCOeAADC
your old friend, Phillips Lord, in those
new Timothy Makepeace sketches?
;. and WLW's new announcer, Don
Cordray, as one of the first who did
the commentary for the late Russ
Columbo :. Were you able 10 iden-
tify Ray Marlin of Tom, Dick and
Harry" fame, as the successor to Min
strel Man Cliff Soubier, who has just
gone Hollywood and dropped his net
work chores? :. Shifts in radio roles
now have March of Time" Orson
Wells in the Wonder Show broad
casting shoes of Falstafian Jack
Smart, who is heading West for
period under the Klieg lights -. and
Bill Farren as the newest recruit to
the Yankee Network staff, when he
bows in on WNAC next month, after
having held similar post at WASH
ington's WRC .. You'd probably
never guess that it's Bess johnson
of "Today's Children" who is behind
that new Hour Glass Show" which
hits the c. B. S. network Septem-
Der II.
Evening star., 1936-08-30

various partisans will want to an
swer one another and will demand
that other programs go off to clear
the way for their speeches. This has
been the case in the several previous
national elections since radio began,
and there is no reason to believe that
it will not be the case this year.
One of the most significant 'free-
time" political broadcasts has been
scheduled by NBC for September %
when the annual forum on current
problems is staged in New York under
the auspices of the New York Herald
Tribune. During the sessions all seven
of the presidential candidates will
present their views, President RooSe-
welt speaking from the White House,
Gov. Landon sending message from
Topeka and the nominees of the
five other minor parties being heard
either from the platform OF via pickupS
from other cities. In addition, Chair
man Farley of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee and Chairman Ham
ilton of the Republican National Com
mittee will speak-the only occasion
during the entire campaign when all
of the candidates will have their say
via the same microphones on the same
day.
CUDDEN boosts as high as rs per
cent in radio set sales are marked
whenever big prizefght is broadcast,
reports the trade journal Radio To-
day, with service and repair calls
showing volume increases up to 300
per cent and with tube sales practi-
cally doubled. Thus the recent Louis
Sharkey fight proved big stimulus
to radio trade, and the journal asserts
the forthcoming big bouts will do like
wise.
During the Louis-Schmeling fight,
one OF the radio census researchers
reported that the radio audience
reached ord-breaking proportions,
running 81 per cent of the set owners
interviewed. This research organiZa-
ton asserted that 88 per cent of all
the families who tuned in after pm.
stated they had listened to the fight
broadcast. Three weeks after the
event the sponsor had received more
than 10000 letters. cards and tele-
grams, more than 10 per cent coming
from business executives and pro-
fessional people.
THAT the rest of the world likes to
tune in its programs on American
made radios is evidenced by the
booming export market currently en-
joyed by American radio manufactur-
ers. Exports of radio sets to foreign
countries during the fiscal year ending
last June 80, reports the Radio Manu-
facturers' Association, numbered 607,-
460 valued at S15,430,776.
This represented something more
than half of the total American radio
exports during that period, which
were valued at s26,176,153 as COM
pared to $25,226,654 during the pre-
ceding fiscal year. In addition to re-
ceiving sets. American manufacturers
exported 7,334,234 radio tubes valued
at s3.173,759; 242,087 loud speakers
valued at $518,884; s4,975,993 worth
of component parts; S1,5e0.358 worth
of transmitting apparatus, and $780,
383 worth of accessories.
During the last fiscal year it is esti-
mated that approximately 5000 900
radios were produced in the United
States. which means that the export
VII l.,
takes up around 10 per cent of Amer
lean production. The best markets for
American equipment are Central and
South America. with England. Spain
and Italy leading European buyers.
Evening star., 1936-08-30
Program Tested.

WHEN the Sunday night commun-
w ity sing makes its sponsored de-
but on Columbia September 6, it will
be offered as tried and true enter
tainment. For the last month it has
been tested out in Boston with Wen
dell Hall leading the sings and Billy
Jones and Ernie Hare trying out the
type of show they will put on from
a different city each week.
Evening star., 1936-08-30
Critic to Broadcast.
CARLETON SMITH, mus.

CARLETON SMITH, music critic,
~ will present two additional broad
casts from musical capitals Of Europe.
One, September 6, will come from
Moscow. The other is scheduled Sep
tember 16. 1t will originate in Hell
sinki, Finland. Both programs will
be carried by N. B. G. networks.
Smith has already broadcast from
the famed opera festival at Salzburg,
Austria, and is now touring the con-
tinent to cover further musical events
for American newspapers and publ.
cations.
Evening star., 1936-08-30

1>WO members of the Federal
Communications Commission
engineering staff, visiting the
- Farnsworth and Philco tele-
vision laboratories last week, expressed
themselves afterward as deeply i'm
pressed" by the demonstrations of
visual broadcasting staged for them.
Though their official position prevents
them from making any comparisons,
both asserted they saw exceptionally
clear images projected on cathode ray
vision cameras. In both the Farms
worth and Philco laboratory demon
strations, the ight-to-electricity-t
light pick-ups and transmissions were
via wide-range cables rather than via
radio, although both systems are
geared to utilize radio.
Andrew D. Ring, chief broadcast
engineer of the F. C. c., and James P.
Buchanan, one of his aides, visited the
two plants, having previously viewed
the r. c. A. television experiments at
Camden, N. j. These are the three
major systems being developed in
America.
Both Philco and Farnsworth, they
said, showed images that were amaz-
1ngly clear of flicker. The pictures
were small. being framed on the oval
end of cathode ray tubes in rectangles
not much over 9 by inches in pro-
portion. The images were in black
and white, Philcos being framed at
the rate of 80 lines interlaced to form
go images per second painted" by
commandments of electrons within the
tube at 343 lines per image, while
Farnsworth's are framed at the same
rate, but utilize BAL lines per image.
The r. C. A. pictures thus far shown
also have so Trainings, but are built
UP at 345 lines per image. All sys-
TENS expect to revamp their appara-
tus to produce images of 400 lines or
more, the Radio Manufacturers Asso-
ciation having recently proposed that
440 to $50 lines be made standard.
Farnsworth's demonstration was
marked by surprising advances in
studio technique, it was stated. Using
special make up, the studio artists
performed at tap-dancing, singing and
instrument playing, and the sound
was perfectly synchronized with the
sight. Several outdoor shots of people
playing badminton were shown at
long range and in closeup, and the
pictures were described as remark
ably clear.
Buchanan, shortly after his visit in
Philadelphia, appeared at an F. G. c.
hearing on an application by Farms
worth Television, Ltd, asking for a
set of ultra short wave lengths for
that companys first radio transmits.
Evening star., 1936-08-30
SHORT WAVE FEATURES
TODAY.

BUDAPEST-10 am. Gypsy
band; messages to Hungarians
abroad; musical program. HAS3,
1875 m, 1887 meg.
ROME-1:20 pm. - Varied
program from Italian stations.
2RO, 31.1 m, 9.63 meg.
MOSCOW p.m.-Soviet fac
tory workers as students Of Eng
lsh. Is m, IL meg.
PARIS-5:15 pm. - Concert
relayed from Radio-Paris. TPA4,
25.6 m, 11.72 meg.
LONDON-6:45 pm. - The
band of his majesty's Irish
Guards. GSP, 1876 m, 1881
meg; BSD, 25.5 m, Ills meg;
Csc, 31.3 m, 9.58 meg.
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands
p.m.-Special transmission for
Central and South America.
PCJ, 31.2 m.,, $50 meg.
BERLIN-7::30 pm. Some
thing for Everything" q variety
hour. DJD. 25.4 m, lit meg.
HALIFAX-10 pm. - Atlantic
nocturne. CJRO, Winnipeg, 48.7
M, Sis meg: CJRX, Winnipeg,
25.6 M, 11.72 meg.
LONDON-10:10 pm. "The
Nursery WALL" rhymes and lul-
labys Of all countries, arranged
by Chrystal Pudney. GSF, 1913
m, 1914 meg: Csc, 3l.3 m,
9.58 meg.
Evening star., 1936-08-30
u. S. Radio Taxes.

A MEXICAN radio listeners may not
1 have to pay annual radio license
fees such as most other countries i'm
pose for the privilege Of tuning in,
but they do pay radio taxes every
time they buy radio set.
According to the report on excise
tax collections on radio and phono-
graph apparatus, now usually sold q
combinations, the Internal Revenue
Bureau during the fiscal year ended
last June 80 collected t5,o75,27o from
Evening star., 1936-08-30
Sponsors Orchestra.

WHEN the Philadelphia Orchestra
w returns to radio early in Novem-
ber over Nation wide network of 100
or more Columbia stations it will be
sponsored by a combination Of leading
banks, including the Chase National
of New York, First National Of Chi
cago, Pennsylvania of Philadelphia
and Marine Midland group of banks.
The programs, directed by Eugene
Ormandy, will be heard for . full
hour, probably On Sundays.
Evening star., 1936-08-30
MARGARET Speaks Tours.

THREE sopranos will substitute for
L Margaret Speaks on that Monday
night tire program while she Is tour
inc Europe. They are Lucille Man
ners Florence Vickland and Rosemarie
Rrancato. Once during her travels
she viii be heard from London or
Rome.
Evening star., 1936-08-30
Notre Dame Head to Speak.

PEV. JOHN F. OHARA, president
of Notre Dame University, will de-
liver a series Of five addresses during
the Catholic hour on N. B. c. He
will open the series September 6. The
general topic of the series is "The
Catholic Church and Youth"
Evening star., 1936-08-30
"Neighbors" Hour Set.

Jerry BELCHER'S new program
Our Neighbors," in which typical
American homes will become broad
casting studios, will start early in Oc-
tober instead Of September 6, as pre-
viously announced by N. B. c.
Evening star., 1936-08-30
Leaders of All Parties
Map Plans for Fall Drive
September and October to See Wind-Up
of Campaign in Blasts of Aerial
Oratory.
Bv the Radio Editor.

forensic fireworks expected the national radio waves from the
political headquarters sizzling only mildly these days mucn
during weeks
Evening star., 1936-08-30
Presidents Program

IRENE WICKER is in Washington
gathering material for series in
which she will depict for children the
| youthful days of the Nations Presi-
dents.
Evening star., 1936-08-30
POLITICAL FIREWORKS PRESAGES STORM LATER
High Summer Standards
Set Precedent for Radio
Prove Best Talent Is Not Matter of Seasons.
Three-Year Contract Rumored
for StokOWski.
By Dorothy MattiSon.


brought ne-
planning varied the ordinary
didn't topnoch
air during the lackadaisical listening period
general
Evening star., 1936-08-30

its S per cent radio excises as COM
pared to So, ,624, ,so4 during the previous
fiscal year.
Evening star., 1936-08-30
Major Features
and Notes

HHE spacious lounge Of the West
Side Tennis Club at Forest
Hills, Long Island, will be
turned into a temporary radio
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other million citizens
whose dollars and wishes are entitled
TO some consideration dwell within the
metropolitan area, Of this third larg-
est city in the United States.
Since il is possible that many of
them were brought up under the fond
impression that one of the most val
ued national possessions was game
called baseball, could understand it
If the mist that now shrouds the
SchuylkiII was brought about by their
plight.
Indeed. when a great city has been
forced 10 give up at the end of a
fountain pen such ornaments as a
FOxI. a Marcum, a McNair and a
Cramer, no reasonable visitor could
complain if the traffic cops replaced
their whistles with muted violins and
the beer spigOts sobbed like saxo-
phones in sympathy.
Yet is that actually what is happen
ing! BY no means. Having long ago
been sand-bagged out of their birth
right of basbeII consciousness, eiti-
zens walk the streets sereneIy una
ware that they are supposed to be
throbbing with new pains. Instead the
air is filled with printed lamentations
concerning the sad, but easily under
standabIe fact that a gentleman who
managed his team into eighth place
this year cannot very we'll hope to win
q pennant next season.
That the gentleman, who now Is
seyenty-three years old. has lived very
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Simon-Pure Magnates
Should Quit Spoofng

Highly moral big time baseball peo-
pie, who refused 20 permit the Boston
Braves to lease their park for dog
races at night, should quit trying to
kid the public. | mean that, instead
of straining every nerve to put
through dummy sale to a race-track
operator while still insisting that such
alliances are abhorrent to them, the
masnates also should quit soft pedal
ling the truth about their pet night
baseball scheme. AS the lads, who
gleefuiIy fiocked into the Cincinnati
park each evening after their days la
bors at Latonia and coney Island
were ended, will tell you night base
ball is the one sure means of in
trenching the gamblers strongly in the
sport.
NaZi news Annie Ondra, Herr
Something's screen idol frau, has given
him a list of fourteen plays and
twelve talkies which he must witness
during his ten-day stay in New York
so that he may report upon them
when he returns to Germany.
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or INTEREST 10
THE HOUSEWIFE

When sheets wear In the middle,
rip hens and make sheets into pillow
cases out Of each sheet.
Wrinkles may be easily removed
from a chiffon dress If it is hung in
a bathroom filed with steam. When
thoroughly steamed hang in the air
to dry.
Raisins and figs will not stick to
the food chopper If little -four
mixed with a few drops Of lemon
juice is put through chopper With
the fruits.
One quart Of boiling water, three
tablespoons of linseed oil and one ia
blespoon of turpentine mixed to-
gether and applied to hardwood
floors with a wooden cloth viii re-
move all the dust and dirt that has
accumulated on them.
If windows are rubbed with tissue
paper after they have been washed
with chamois wrung out of a quart
of warm water to which a tablespoon
full of ammonia has been added, they
will have brilliant polish.
French chalk rubbed over a grease
spot on wallpaper and allowed TO re-
main overnight viii remove spot.
Put a teaspoonfuI Of borax into
starch water. 1t viii give gloss to
the starched things.
II a beef loaf is scared in hot ba-
con drippings befoF~ baking in the
oven it will not beetme dry.
If ink is spilled on a hardwood
floor wipe it up Immediately with
wire wool moistened with warm wa
ter, then wax spot when dry.
After oiling sewing machine, sew
through a piece of blotting paper
This will prevent any surplus oil
from soiling material.
e Associated Newspapers.-wNU Service.
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Festive Trappings Bring
Joy to Brides of Moscow

Weddings in Soviet Russia are be-
ginning to take on the romantic
trimmings of the bourgeois West.
In the October quarter of Moscow
a special room has been provided
in the registration bureau where
couples may sign the marriage con-
tract. 1t is furnished with oriental
rugs, elaborate hangings. overstufed
furniture, and flowers. The young
woman registrar is smartly gowned
and wishes the couples happiness
with all the grace of French and
Italian municipal marriage officials.
Formerly weddings, deaths, and
births were all recorded in one room.
But brides protested vehemently
against being married In the same
room where weeping widows were
recording the deaths of their hus-
bands.
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Philadelphians Must
Make Bitter Choice

In recent years Philadelphians have
been strained between two alternatives.
BY visiting one dingy, rather dirty,
bandbox park largely oVerrun by gam
bIers, they could watch a very poor
team kick away its usual ninety games
season. BY visiting another some
what better appointed park they could
watch another much better team play
that listless brand of baseball which
Is the mark Of good athletes highly
dissatisfied with their salaries and
their surroundings.
Being more sensible folks than the
lad who got himself a reputation by
committing between the frying pan and
the fire, the citizens OF PHILADELPHIA
did not hesitate long. As the finan-
cial statements Of the two leagues so
plainly indicate. they began staying
away from both parks in increasing
numbers.
Obviously they did not do this mere
ly because they were sPitefully deter
mined to break Up that beautiful IA
ther and son relationship which is
reported to exist between Connie Mack
and, let US say, the woefuIly under
paid Jimmy Foxx-
What then did they do II for?
1t is difficult to recall when baseball
was anything save business but for
long years the owners held a monop-
oily. The buyers, by this I mean the
fans Of the nation. could either take
what was offered or devote the sum-
mer hours to twiddling their thumbs.
Now baseball has become business
subjected to fierce competition from
outside entertainment enterprises. The
fans, grown tired Of taking il, have
zvaiIed themselves of the same weap-
ons used by buyers everywhere.
But I make no effort TO predict here
what effect this friction from the op-
Grafton Of natural forces eventually
viii have upon a business which has
made millions for a favored few.
merely say that. for the life of me,
cannot understand why SO many
tears are Ierked from the bosoms of
my brethren each time the grand old
man Of Philadelphia banks another
few hundred grand in the right pocket.
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THINGS the box score never told

THINGS the box score never told
L me:
A prominent city official is studying
plan whereby bookmakers can be
persuaded to pay the sales tax on their
transactions. Art Liesieur, Les
cansdiens hockey star, did not learn
to skate until he was eighteen years
old. Al Schact, the baseball CO.
median, was honor guest at big do
ings at the Friars club. =. Tom
ton U. star who now rates as one of
the best football officials, has new
angle on the excellence of New York
basketball players. He believes that
constant off season practice in hand
ball is responsible for fair measure
of their success
The writing gentlemen, who have
been so interested in building up Joe
Louis, are now beset by new and I'M
usual woes. They have done their
job so well that the public has become
convinced that anything less than
machine gun nest Is Setup Tor the
cream colored youth. So . But OF
course, you read the papers.
Although he is not one of the pres
ent bidders for the franchise, Colonel
Jacob Rupert almost bought the New
York hockey Americans four years
ago. He planned to call them the
Yankees. Steve Hamas, rated
as the leading heavyweight contender
a year ago, now owns Newark res
taurant Lester Stoefen will tell
you that the nations most promising
tennis juniors are Bobby Hartman, Joe
Hunt and Bobby Riggs of California.
Pop Warmers far famed double
wingback illustrates the vast differ
ho