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Evening star., 1938-01-30
NBC Guides
Know Manv
Tongues
Linguist Array
Is Accidental,
Says Chain.

4 FEW weeks ago a tall. dark
" complexiSned, dignified- looking
~ gentleman approached the
4 a ticket booth of the N. B. c..
studio tours in Radio City. He pre-
sented a card explaining that he was
from the Solomon Islands, a group
in the South Seas. where he is a ma
tive king, and that he would like to
make the studio tour
obviously, the gentleman neither
spoke nor understood English and
N. B. c. likes to tell its visitors a little
about the wonders of broadcasting. The
tour officials refused to be stumped
They sent page boys and guides scour-
ing the building to see if there was
any one present. with even a smatter-
ing knowledge of South Seas dialect.
who could act as interpreter. They
found their mana visitor taking an
other tour-a missionary who had
oeen stationed for time in the very
same Solomon Islands.
Ihat was ce-in-several- Thousand
incident. Fate stepped in and saved
1
the situation. There are thousands
OF situations every week, however, that
N. B. c. is equipped to cope with,
escheWlng fate's assistance.
Ine guide staff, the young men who
spiel Off the explanations of RADIO
ehlno-the-scenes, includes persons
VINO are equipped to speak fluentlv a
round dozen different foreign Ian
guages. either through birth or inten.
sive education. French is the leader
WIN II speakers; Spanish next. with
o: German, 5: Italian. 8. and Swedish.
norwegian. Polish. Czechosloyakian
korean. Croatian, Dutch and Chinese
all claiming one speaker each. The
speaker OF Chinese is an American
ooy' reared in China, who handles
three three different dialects, classical
northern and southern.
This League of Nations of lanp,a 90
Is entirely accidental. N. B. C. does
not attempt to maintain a staff of in
terpreters. The guides are hired on
Ine basis OF general acceptability.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
Droll Jargon
Devised by
Crosby
Bing Enrichens
Language and
Adds Weekly.

TT WAS the Sage Of Van Buren,,
| Bob Burns. who gave it a name
| when he said: That amt Eng
L lish. that's language called
Crosby"
| The essence of it is hard to describe
eScep. in terms of itself. The language
called Crosby is lin the groove" 1t
is the full treatment" 1t is slightly
station house" 1t is not tall mil
linery' or "corny" For the benefit
OF any clients who still are beWildered
by the language called Crosby. a CLOS
sary of terms in more or less frequent
use. follows:
Crouch bag . Wallet (or, with a
femme. handbag.
Full treatment Doing good
job
Shooting gallery A picture
palace, cinema castle
Nix crackin' Jimmy Bracken
Stop riding me torigin unexplained)
Prayer bones Knees.
The weekly blue plate :. The guest
Of honor
Packs small beef Is a little
vexed
pass give up.
Let's have a recount You've
got me confused, let's begin all over
again
In the groove Borrowed from
the swing musicians. means exactly
right. on the nose, down the alley.
seem to be playing infeld here
=. don't know what it's all about.
Things are over my head and too
hot to handle.
Bunt him an easy grounder
Get down to his level and make it
simple
A snozzy little ketch . A Million
dollar yacht
Take it on the Arthur Duffy .
To get away fast. Arthur Duffy being
sprinter of renown in time past.
Station house Off the elbow,
zingy, icky, round haircut, or, we'll,
just station house.
A new backdrop and very sharp
:. A new suit in the latest extreme
mode.
Go in there and pitch >. Garry on
with the show. give the customers
thorough brushing off.
The language called Crosby is both
borrowed and original. It's adding
new words and meaning almost every
week.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
West Pointer Takes
To Screen Career.

HARRY CAMPBELL, West Point
graduate and "f1ve-letter man. 4"
has turned from career in the Armv
and will make his film debut in R-K-O
Radios "Vivecious Lady" in which
Ginger Rogers and James Stewart
are starred.
According to Campbell. he went to
West Point to please. his father, but
mad no liking for military life. Fol-
lowing graduation he took a fling
at commercial art and newspaper re-
porting, but eventually turned to the
screen at the invitation of a New York
agent who was q close, friend.
Campbell. who traces his ancestry
from the Duke of Argyle, is feet
TALL has brown eyes and black hair.
He won his letters in basket ball.
swimming, football, baseball and track
while at West Point.
Evening star., 1938-01-30


ganizations began to lombard net
works and stations with mass objec-
tions to the sort Of programs children
were hearing at the dinner and bed
time hours.
Besides objecting . to the type of
programs, they spoke harshly of the
super-salesmanship of sponsors, whose
premium offers had millions of young
sters nagging their parents to buy
products packed in boxes that would
bring them badges, gadgets and men,
berships. Always sensitive to public
reaction, networks, stations and spon-
sors alike began to doubt the wisdom Of
high-pressure drama and salesman
ship. AS protests increased, their
doubt likewise increased and the trend
toward present-day child programs be-
gan to get under way.
Now, the typical child program is
likely to feature genial "uncle" for the
singing Irene Wicker rather than the
terror-inducing sirens. machine guns,
pirates and solar explorers of few
seasons back But, while programs
have changed, the youngsters them
selves have not suddenly turned genteel
In their preferences. To told their
attention radio programmes have
made up for the loss in blood and
thunder by raising the standards of
their production technique. Soothing
harmonies replace Gatling guns and
gripping plots have taken the place of
swashbuckling adventures.
THIS new technique has been in
stalled without loss in juvenile
audience, according to those who spe-
clalize in the business of studying the
radio public. The tWo-fsted young
ster watches hundreds of redskins bite
the dust in his day dreams. listens as
eagerly to the sane escapades of
thoroughly noble hero as he did to the
blood-drenched melodrama of a few
years ago.
A study of modern child programs
shows that at least a third are of the
healthy adventure type and more often
than not good word is slipped in for
the sinew-stimulating qualities of
spinach or the bright future that lies
ahead for those who love. honor and
respect their parents. A type of child
program that has been gaining in
favor is that based on performances
by the youngsters themselves. Pos
sibly one out of every six programs
aimed at the youngster recruits its
performers from juvenile ranks. The
idea is not new. for Milton Cross
started a Sunday morning program of
this type. Now almost every city
Evening star., 1938-01-30
More Odd Jobs.

INTRODUCTION of the "odd occu-
patton" guest as a feature on the
For Men Only program has yielded
some OF radios most peculiar fan let
ters, In the last two weeks For Men
Only has received an application for
an interview from a professional
pigeon-pusher, who pushes pigeons off
their perches to make sure thew get
sufhclent flying exercise, a man who
tastes Soap for living to tell when it
is cooked enough to be shaped into
cakes, a professional "kibitzer," who
heckles card players in gambling club
to make sure that the clubs team wins.
and man who paints butterflies for
women's lavalieres,
Evening star., 1938-01-30
Studio "Fall Guy"

1"aW 1eO0ANS Job as Gang
busters" sound-effects man re-
qulres him to fall down on the studio
moor about Is times a week. Every
time a gangster is shot Jimmy has
to reproduce the thug OF a falling
body. once for broadcasts and several
times for rehearsals.
He has learned to fall with a mini
mum OF injury to himself, but he
still keeps a bottle of liniment on
hand for the sore spots. Once he put
himself out Of commission by repro
ducing the sound of gangster falling
to the floor from halfway up a
ladder.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
Likes to Talk.

BECAUSE of Fred Aliens penchant
for ad lbbing. the producers al
low seven full minutes for spread (al-
lowarce for ad libs,' laughter, etc. i,
whereas most hour programs allow
four minutes or less. Fred unquestion-
ably is the most chronic ad libber in
radio today.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
Great Big Baby.

HE biggest baby in RADIO is
Madeline Pierce OF Pepper
Young's Family. Madeline portrays
Butch in the scripts, a 2-year-old
baby boy. Being, In real life, the
mother of a 13-year-old boy makes
Miss Pierce unique in the broadcast
ing business.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
New Variety Show.

A NEW sponsored series scheduled
for the beginning of February
will embrace the talents Of Connie
Boswell, Richard Himber and his Or
chestra and Lou Holtz, dialectician.
Evening star., 1938-01-30


carefully selected company from the
student bodies of Harvard and Rad
cliffe Universities, up Massachusetts,
way, proceedings to be broadcast To-
cally by WMAL at noon. A special
short-wave hook-up will make it DOS
sible for the spoilers on each side of
the Atlantic to hear the tries of their
competitors.
Those to be heard upholding the
Oxford standards are the Right Hon,
the Earl of Oxford and Asouith.
Prince Obelenski. a member of the
English international rugby team;
Conrad Cherry, crew captain at the
university; Peter Wood, son of Lord
Halifax; John Witty, president of
the Oxford Dramatic Society; Pencil
ope Knox. daughter of the editor of
the British humor magazine, Punch:
Miranda Talents of Lady Margaret
Hall. and John IrWins. an American
Rhodes scholar from Princeton. On
the Harvard team will be an ENGLISH
man to compensate-Arnol w G..
kean. British commonwealth fellow
ship fund student in the Harvard Law
School.
Evening star., 1938-01-30

VAR1ETY-The Magic Key (WMAL,
" . features 6,OoO-mile interview
OF a newspaper correspondent by Lin
ton Wells. He is John W. White of
the New York Times, located in
Buenos Aires. Guest artists are Jose
1turbi. conductor-pianist, and Nola
Day, N. B. c. contralto.
Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist,
Is to be heard playing Allegro" by
Nicolo Pacaeagnini, and "Gavotte,"
by J. S. Bach, during the Magazine
Of the Air program (WJSV, 81. Chan
ming Pollock contributes an editorial
on THE Happiness of Work"
Jack Benny essays burlesque on
the motion picture, The Hurricane"
(WRC, y.
Boris Karloff tangles with Charlie
Mccarthy, and Nelson Eddy, leaving
on a concert tour, introduces his sue
cessor on the program, John Carter
tenor CWRC, 81.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Arnold and
Jack Mulhall, two screen players and
the wife OF one of them. are the guests
Of Feg Murray (WMAL, 7:3O).
Lois Wilson, actress appearing in
the West Coast production of THE
Women" and Clarence Muse, Negro
actor and writer, join George Jessel
(WOL, s..
DRAMATIC period of reconstruc-
ton after the Civil War is the
subject of the Epic of America
dramatization (WOL, a,
The story of young Englishman's
fight against family tradition supplies
the theme of the Hollywood Play
house production, with Tyrone Power
and Ida Lupino (WMAL, 81.
Irene Rich doesn't like being So
ciety editor. so she sets out to inter-
view gangster (WMAL, 9:45).
The life of st. Stanislaus Kostka
Is dramatized during the Ave Maria
Hour (WOL, 6:30).
The story of dog which twice saved
the life of a drowning child Is told
on the Dog Heroes program (WMAL,
4:45).
D1scUss1oNs-"The Tax Bill is
the subject to be discussed by
Representative Fred M. Vinson Of
Kentucky and Representative Allen
Evening star., 1938-01-30
Battle of Syllables Set
AS WMAL Program
Representatives of Harvard and
Oxford to Be Contestants
In Clash of Spoilers.
By Chris Mafhisen.

ME two
afternoon but there will
British Army and SIX
the Stars Stripes 1t Is
vowe and the
5000 miles apart the contest a
c. has team from Englands
Evening star., 1938-01-30
Net Airings for Children
Show Improvement
Provoking Nightmares No Longer
Favored by the Majority
OF Studio Directors.

grams have improved rapidly
datrlbes hurled
traced with
frequently
Ieo younger 1ooder
Evening star., 1938-01-30
Lads Are Old Pals.
ToDAY'S PROGRAM

WHEN Ben Bernie speaks affection
w ately Of the lads" in his or.
chestra. the term expresses real feel.
ing for their long years Of association
Evening star., 1938-01-30
OTHER PROGRAMS.

MUS1C-Elisabeth Rethberg. Wae-
merriam soprano of the Metropoli-
tan Opera Co., is to be the guest soloist
on the Sunday Evening Hour (WJsv
-. The program:
Overture from The Marriage of
AtS!sheu!sasf t2sm Eaeio x0 Eis' du HInsr
",nv',a,'onR Mmf nRs5hSss,r = "a and orchesraao
HqRgarian Hga dance from "Ruralia
Orchestra.
Errors by copyists have made il i'm
possible for Georges Enesco to pro-
gram the world premiere of his Third
orchestral Suite" for the final concert
OF the New York Philharmonic to he
conducted by him (WJSV. 81
Dvorak's New World Symptom" has
been substituted. and the other selec-
tions are Mendelssohn's Symphony
NO. 4 and the tone poem, The Swan
OF Tuonela," by Sibelius.
The spelling bee mentioned above
forces the looping of Is minutes from
the Readio City Music Hall concert,
which moves to l2:45 on WMAL. The
program, as originally announced,
probably will be abridged.
Air for G. String" ---Bach- -Wilhelmj
Orchestra. h'sar
Jan Peerce
AT an Old Irysting Place" Cradle
song and From Uncle RemuS'
MacDowell
~c.r,.v.w Orchestra. r.-,
Trois Guirlandes Sonores" - Migot
The program for the recital by
the Tuskegee Institute Choir (WRC,
1:3O:
Let the Heaven Light Shine on Me-,
"Pss :Rs,eny Suits TTs@ditlonsl Fl
N0Se"' Male Chorus. Me''a''e
''Gently. Lord, o Gently Lead U.s."
Dett
"Hssiealujah' ale Been Down Into Int, the. the =,
Lord, Until Reach Ny , Ho@s." :'DAA,
Three of Conductor Frank Simon's
boy students of the cornet are to be
heard during his program this after
noon (WRC. $500. They range in
age from IL to IA years. The program:
The Skyliner" Harry Afford
"Polonaise Militaire, Chopin
..r(' G(oudonow' MoussoEssky
"Flirtations" ---.---. Clarke
..,.,, cornet Trio.
'Mardi Gras" from mississippi
Suite" ---------- Grote
The Metropolitan Opera Additions
Of the Air present Christine Johnson,
contralto; Robert Stanley, baritone;
Elda Ercole, dramatic soprano
(WMAL. s.. Program is unavailable.
DR.. Charles Courboin has chosen
Widor's "Andante," Praetorious' 10,
How Rose ere Blooming and j. S.
Bach's "Fantasy and Figure in G
Minor" for his organ recital (WOL,
noon.
jeanette Macdonald sings a native
serenade during Hawaiian interlude
In her program (WJSV. ..
Hannah Klein and Paula Gilbert,
duo pianists. are tonight's Rising Mu-
sical Stars (WRC, 100. The program:
'Siegfried Idyll" -- Wagner
"scherzo" Arensky
Sanctus.' from st. Cecilia
Mass (;ounod
VAR1ETY-The Magic Key (WMAL,
Evening star., 1938-01-30
JANUARY 30, 1888

with him. Most of the boys have been
with Ben more than 1ive years; Harry
Bailey, arranger, has been with him
10 years, while Pianists AL Goering
and Bernard Martin Joined his band
Is years ego.
Evening star., 1938-01-30

TT WAS the Sage Of Van Buren,
Bob Burns. who gave it a name
/ when he said: That amt Eng
1jch that's 1oro,,oro oo11oJ
Evening star., 1938-01-30

;: e e: !; 81 :' E:
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
COUGHLIN GIVES
VIEWS ON ORDER

DETROIT. Feb. 81 G.N.sJ.
"Order alone does not certify the
peaceful, prosperous existence Of
a nation" the Rev. Charles z.
Coughlin held today.
ITO my mind order itself is
not the proper object of good
government, nor is it the chief
characteristic of prosperity"
Father Coughlin said in his Sun
day broadcast. There is order
steel class within the
walls of Alcatraz prison and
within the cell blocks Of your
Sing Sing. But there is neither
contentment nor prosperity"
The radio priest answered a
New York attorneys letter, from
which Father Coughlin drew these
questions:
why is there so much need
less poverty and unreasonable
want in the midst of plenty?
Why are populations torn by
class conflict? Why are ma
tionS planning the hideous war
Of deStruction?"
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
COlOred MasOns'
Rites Tomorrow

In honor of George Washington,
Corinthian Lodge Of the colored
Masonic body Of the District Of
Columbia will meet in q special
communication tomorrow at IL
IA. m. at the Scottish Rite Temple,
Eleventh and r Streets Northwest.
Patriotic addresses will be given
by prominent leaders Of the craft.
o. W. Scruggs, worthy master, will
preside. After the service in honor
of George Washington, Masonic
degrees will be conferred upon
Percy Stewart and Wellington
Abraham. Alexander Hammond,
junior warden, will have charge Of
the degree team.
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
M'FADDEN WINS
ALIENATION SUIT

NEW YORK, Feb. 81 G.N.SJD
Bernarr MacFadden, publisher
and physical culture advocate, to.
day won a 100000 alienation
suit against him by a Supreme
Court jury's verdict Of 10 to 2.
MacFadden was sued by Sotir
C. Adams, a Greek waiter, who
charged he stole the affections
of his wife, Mrs. Abbie Rheinharr
Adams, formerly a masseuse in
one of MacFadden's health re-
sorts.
The jury Of sever men and five
women received the case Friday
afternoon and handed their sealed
verdict to Justice Cotillo today.
The Washington times., 1938-02-21

WOW WIN MS congressional lead
ers and Treasury-State officials
Will remain a p r m a n en- tly
guarded secret, but this much is
clear:
The London city crowd Cbusi-
ness and banking) has been
demanding that debts be scaled
down before the coming Anglo
American trade agreement be
concluded.
The answer they are getting
Is the American Congress would
not approve such a politically
hazardous agreement-at least
not before the election this fall.
Consequently there is no possible
chance of undertaking it.
THE agriculture crowd is not
i as confident about how
the new farm bill will work out,
as the high praise heaped upon
the measure by MesSrs. Roose-
velt and Wallace might indi-
cate.
OF chief official concern are
wheat and corn. Under the ever
normal granary idea, it is pro-
posed to double the normal
carry-over in these crops. If crop
control does not work thereafter
to hold production down, MesSrs.
Roosevelt and Wallace will be
right in the middle of another
Hoover Farm Board situation
with an oVerstuffed granary
and nothing to do with it.
The technical trouble is the
farm mechanicians have never
had a good test crop curtail-
1nent in corn and wheat. The old
AAA worked in drought years.
Also this time, a different sort
Of a quota system is to be In
voked, If three-fourthS Of the
farmers vote to invoke it.
Under the new system, quotas
will not be imposed until the
crops are well along. Then the
farmer will be ordered to sell g.
certain amount ana store the
rest. This will certainly lead to
complications. particularly as to
corn, where the market is not
In the elevator but in the hog.
Thus the future success of the
program from the government
tai angle is likely to be whether
all the various penalties and
regulations can really be made
effective.
NKR. ROOSEVELT told every
W1 thing about balancing
prices, except how he is going
to do it.
The reason for the omission
seems to be the best in the
world, namely, that it cannot be
done. This skepticism, at any
rate, represents the studied
personal opinion of more than
one of those very economists
who helped to draw up the new
] Administration price formula.
, Strictly non-political opinion
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
Play Will Benefit
Fund for Chinese

Proceeds Of the first two per.
formances Of Uncle Vanya,
which opens at the King-Smith
Playhouse Wednesday evening,
will be contributed to a fund for
the benefit of Chinese war refu.
gees, it was announced today.
Sponsors of the benefit per
formances include the Rev. Ralph
Ackerly, John F. Anderson, Miss
Ethel watson Asher, the Rev. Ed
ward Hughes Pruden and Dr.
Charles Edward Russell.
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
W. G.. T. u. HOnOrs
Frances Willard

Members of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union paid trib-
ute yesterday to the memory OF
Frances willard, in exercises held
at the willard statue in the Capt.
tol. Miss Willard was president
of the organization for more than
half a century.
The Washington times., 1938-02-21

none now. If
they had any
hope tina t
this would be
a pro m p t
answer to the
triple alliance
Of dictators
after the ap-
parent sc IL
ure Of Austria
by the NaZiS,
that hope is
lost.
What went
on in Mr..
r o o S evelt'S
private DOW.
The Washington times., 1938-02-21

among economists is that the
President cannot put UP one
group of prices and put down
another. He has no means.
He can use Administration in
fluence to hold back steel,
cement, building prices by anti
trust threats and press confer
ence talk.
He can use mild measures
(gold desterilization, relief ex-
penditures, Navy building, open
market operations) to expand
credit facilities and to cause Gov
ernment purchases in certain
lines which tend to stimulate
the general price level in Sensi-
tive situations like this one.
He can do both things at the
same time and thereby exert
Government pressure toward
what he believes to be a better
balancing. But this is all the in
fluence he can use short Of out
right initiation by q spending
spree. Apparently this is all he
intends to do.
WHAT the change of official
w talk and policy really
amounts to therefore is a switch
from the deflationary psychol-
ogy (goid sterilization, press
conference complaints against
high prices, etc. to initiation
ary psychology (press confer
ence talk for better commodity
prices, desterilization, open
market activity, etc..
It will succeed to q degree,
and possibly to a substantial
degree at this moment (particu-
larly in the stock market) be-
cause the business situation may
be released at least temporarily
Of depressing ycho l o gical
Washington influences.
TWO reasons are authorita-
l. lively given for the change
Of Administration heart on
prices. The controlling factor is
said to have been that the COM
modify price level was getting
too low in comparison with the
existing debt structure. That is,
neither farmer, investor nor in
veStment corporation could pay
off on obligations contracted at
high price levels, if the current
price level continued to sink.
Another official reason unofn-
cially offered is that the wage
level could not possibly be main
tanned on a continuously falling
price level.
However, the first reason is
enough.
nIGNIFIED Speaker Bank
~ head stirred a tempest in a
cocktail shaker when he walked
into the House restaurant, said
he was not feeling chipper and
asked that an eggnog th-h-hat
high be sent up to his office.
RumorS that he had taken
to eggnog spread through the
lower legislature (sometimes
called the loweSt) and caused
SO many personal inquiries at
the. Speakers office that the
genial Speaker became some
what nettled.
To each and every inquirer he
patiently Cat first) explained
(a) that he frequently INDUCED
in nonalcoholic eggnoggs as he
found them healthful, (b) that
if he wanted anything strong
he could not get it in the dry
House restaurant and Co whot-
hell is asking.
AmRAamm wnu
The Washington times., 1938-02-21

If Mr.. Roosevelt or State Sec
fetary Hull had any idea of such
a settlement last week they have
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
BALANCING PRICES
"CAN'T BE DONE"
NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
Ry PAUL MALLoN

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INHERE will be AngloAmercan debt settlement until
- after the 1888 elections at least That is certain.