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RADIO PROGRAMS AND FEATURES OF THE STUDIOS - . Experiments Prophesy Many Small Stations — # Ultra-High Frequency Discoveries M&y Make Village Studios Feasible and Aid Television Plans. By the Radio Editor. FROM the midnight tinkering of radio amateurs in dim i cellars and the calculated1 experiments of scientists operat ing in million-dollar labora tories with the finest equipment that modern industry oan provide there soon may come an entirely new method of broadcasting. A bit of clairvoyance and an ex haustive survey of scientific endeavor that seldom gets to the public ear serve as basis for the prediction that eventually every hundred-family vil lage and crossroad hamlet will be able to accommodate its own little broad casting station. Instead of the 600 stations that now supply the Nation with its radio programs, there may be thousands of small stations send- j ing out signals in what the technicians call the •ultra-high" frequencies. These signals may reach only a few miles but they will provide high-grade reception for those in their effective area. So high are the frequencies that the waves actually simulate light and even can be blocked, just as light is obstructed, by tangible objects such as buildings. Everv day tne experimenters me getting closer to the point where they will have the short waves under con trol. Funny thing about these ob streperous waves is that they refuse to hug the contour of the earth, as in the case of the waves in the band used for broadcasting. Instead they are effective about twice as far as a per son C8o see from the antenna because they persist in heading straight for the sky as soon as they leave the transmitter. Few realize that there are some 200 experimenters dabbling with the waves that lie above 30.000 kilocycles (mostly between 5 and 8 metersi. Records of the Federal Communications Commis sion show this unexpected interest in the problem of harnessing these waves Mid they are just beginning to yield to scientific persuasion. SOME 35 of the experimenters in Ultra-high frequencies are radio stations or radio companies. The rest are spread among various lines of scientific and industrial endeavor. Newest of the last-named are the sta tions now being constructed by West inghouse stations WBZ. Boston; KDKA. Pittsburgh, and KYW. Phila delphia, to operate on 5 meters with 60 watts power. An achievement that nas raisea ine eyebrows of the radio savants is the recent success of the Garden City Radio Club. New York, in transmit ting all the way to Philadelphia i al most 100 miles) on 5 meters with only 28 watts power. In the broad cast band this would be anything but unusual. On 5 meters, however, it is of outstanding importance be cause of the tendency of such trans missions to abandon the earth’s con tour so that they can be picked up only a few miles away. A number of advantages are to be found in these stubborn frequencies when they finally become amenable to scientific control. In the first place there appears to be a minimum of etatic at 5 meters. Also important Is the fact that there is found little of the fading that listeners encounter when they lie in the secondary area of broadcasting stations. On the other hand there are more ’’dead apots”—those blind places where a radio receiver is unable to pick up a particular station's programs. Off setting this "dead spot” disadvantage, however, is the strange habit of such apots to group themselves in a very •mall area. In visualizing a Nation dotted with thousands 6f small radio stations the scientist sees hope for hastening of the day when television can be oper rated on a practical basis. Facsimile, or broadcasting of still images, also Will be greatly aided. One of the faults of television as it exists in the laboratory today is that the images can be transmitted only a few miles. By using repeater stations the images could be transmitted at will by means of wires to these sta tions and then broadcast much as network programs now are handled. Thus both broadcasting and visual radio can be made available to all who choose to turn a dial. And the pres ent crowding of the ether probably would be transformed into a more orderly line-up. {CHILDREN'S programs may be caus ing parents a lot of anguish be cause they stir juvenile imaginations to an excessive degree, but the broad caster* apparently are having a lot of trouble in spotting the cause. In ahy event, that is the view of M. H. Ayles worth. president of the National Broadcasting Co., who has concluded that you can't satisfy both the young sters and their parents. ‘‘The problem,” he told the N. B. C. Program Advisory Committee in his annual report, "apparently is to pro vide programs that are not only at tractive to the children but to their parents as well. Unfortunately, chil dren aren't always interested in the programs in which their parents think they should be interested. There is much criticism, but little in the way cf practical, constructive suggestions.” In its investigation. Aylesworth points out, N. B. C. ascertained that most boys prefer adventures, comedies and mysteries, with romance and tragedy lagging a bit. Most girls pre fer romance, but quickly succumb to comedy, adventure and tragedy, too, If they can hear it on the air. Mo6t of the N. B. C. children’s programs, he declares, have been designed simply to entertain. Columbia Broadcasting system, in its recent declaration of program poli cies, banned eight specific themes and dramatic treatments which it felt ex erted improper influence upon Juve niles. Among these were the exalting, as modern heroes, of gangsters, crim inals and racketeers; disrespect for either parental or other proper au thority must not be glorified or en couraged; cruelty, greed and selfish ness must not be presented as worthy motivations; programs that arouse harmful nervous reactions in the child must not be presented; conceit, smug ness or an unwarranted sense of su periority over others less fortunate must not be presented as laudable; recklessness and abandon must not be falsely identified with a healthy spirit Of adventure, and unfair exploitation of others for personal gain must not be made praiseworthy. To see that these restrictions are invoked, Columbia announced it would designate an eminent child psychologist for this purpose, who would have the benefit of an advisory board’s advice. , VlfEATHER is weather and there isn’t much that can be done about it except to close the windows, listen to the spattering on the tin roof, but there still Is room for Improvement in figuring out in advance what the weather is going to be and radio now is believed to offer a means of improv ing forecasts. The possibilities of radio in this direction lie in the results of recent experiments that show a direct rela tion between radio reception and the weather. Every listener, of course, knows that approach of thunderstorms brings vicious cackling from the loud speaker and is well aware that Winter reception is superior to the Summer variety. Going at it scientifically, however, researchers have discovered a still closer relation between ultra-high fre quencies and atmospheric conditions. By closely observing the behavior of such short-wave transmissions on a scientific basis, it is believed that they will offer an accurate Indication of what the weather is going to be like in the next day or two. Already Ross A. Hull of the Ameri can Radio Relay League has explained to radio engineers the results of studies he has been conducting in co-operation with scientists at the Harvard Observ atory. As this research is broadened more definite formulas are anticipated. Prall Reforms Programs. Perpetuation of the "New Deal" policy in radio seems assured with the reappointment by President Roosevelt for a seven-year term of Chairman Annrlng S. Prall of the Federal Communications Commission —the man who tossed a charge of TNT into broadcasting ranks the moment he stepped into the radio realm early this year. Although a newcomer to radio. Prall. who had served a dozen years in Congress as a New York member, unburdened himself on programs when he assumed office last January. He struck out with both fists on the subjects of “blood and thunder” children's programs, medical pro grams that shocked listeners or of fended good taste, and other features he branded improper for the home. His homely philosophy was that nothing should be on the air that couldn't be discussed within the family circle. Tumult reigned within the broad casting industry and among program builders when the F. C. C. edict came forth. There were reshufflings of program schedules and a spontaneous toning down of advertising an nouncements. Juvenile programs be gan to lose their gangster and night mare tinges. Program policies and credos began to pour forth from sta tions and networks. An era of sell regulation got under way in record breaking time. Meantime, the F. C. C. cited stations for alleged improprieties in their pro grams. Today more than 100 cita tions are outstanding, which means that in these Instances the station owners must step on the carpet in official Washington and answer. Theoretically, under the law, the F. C. C. in extreme cases can order the deletion of the stations from the air because their programs did not serve public interest. Actually it is ex pected that there will be a general censure and a warning that any re currences will mean punitive action and even the supreme penalty of loss of station license. The F. C. C.—and its predecessor the Radio Commission— supervised radio before Prall's arrival on the regulatory scene. But it was inclined to ignore programs, because of a stipulation in the law that it cannot censor what a station offers in its program schedule. However it can ! consider programs broadcast in the past when considering applications for stations for renewal of their licenses, which is not construed legally as censorship. It was when the veteran New York legislator assumed the chairmanship of the broadcast division of the three- ! ring F. C. C. that the program fur | began to fly. Then three months later when he was elected chairman of the full commission he intensified his campaign' Observers believe that , the actions of the F. C. C. in the last four months under the Prall leader ship have wrought more wholesale changes in broadcasting than any other period In radio history. WNYC May Go Commercial New York City’s municipally-owned station, WNYC, which has been the cause of much woe in the past, may become commercial rather than purely a civic station, according to Mayor La Guardia. On a recent visit to Washington La Guardia said he had in mind a plan for commercial operation, so that the station would not be forced to sustain itself by a city appropriation. Should this plan be adopted, he added that the station would seek only such ad vertising sponsors as other New York stations do not seek, so there would be no competition. WNYC now operates daytime only on the 810-kilocycle channel. Mayor La Guardia declared that he might also petition the Federal Communica tions Commission for authority to op erate with full-time, as a part of the commercial plan. Latimer Pupils Play. UATHRYN LATIMER and her pupils xx will present a series of piano re citals at the Cavalier Hotel, 3500 Four teenth street northwest, starting Friday of this week and continuing through next Monday. Pupils taking part will Include Royal McCreery, Virginia Wilson, Mack Pusey, Betty Jean Shook and George Tolley who will be heard on the first program; Mae Biletsky, Roberts Lati mer, Eileen Lyons, Ida Latimer, Betty Anne Minard, William Lyons and Mitiz Sanders who will play on Satur day afternoon; Anne Harvey, Mary Latimer and Marion Harvey will give the program Saturday evening, and Cornelia Crossley, Katherine Walsh. Nancy Ryder, Betty Chamberlin and Mary Ellen Appleby who will close the series. Miss Harmes in Recital. V/TcCALL LANHAM wUl present Mar 1 x garet Harmes, soprano, in re cital on Friday evening at 8:30 o’clock in the auditorium of the Chevy Chase School. Miss Harmes, who lives in Binghamton, N. Y„ is graduating in June from the junior college division of the school. In addition to her awn recital, she is singing in several other concerts which are being given during the commencement Mason. j». •- -—— ■ ^ r Vocal Melodies Bring Fame to Three Radio Artists Willie Morris (left), soprano, who shares the microphone with John Charles Thomas on N. B. C. She plays the singing role of housekeeper in “Our Home on the Range" programs. In the center is Billie Bailey, another soprano, who deserted her post as school teacher for a radio career. She sings popular songs over the Columbia network. Patti Chapin (right), a Columbia singing star, who has just concluded a run ot broad casts with Jack Pearl. CAPITAL’S RADIO PROGRAMS Sunday, June 2. (Copyright, 1935) Eaotern Standard Time. A.M. WRC 950k | WMAL 630k | WJSV I,460k I WOL 1.310k_|A.M. 8:00 8:15 8 30 8:45 ‘9:00 9.15 9 30 9:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 Balladeers Florence Wlghtman Peerless Trio Palestine Day _ Sabbath Reveries «• •« This n' That Marimba Orchestra Vogues and Vagaries Gould and Shelter Maj Bowes' Family M •« Maj. Bowes' Family What Home Means University of Chicago M f On a Bus M m m Southernairea The Funnies South Sea Islander* _ Listening Post String Quartet Samovar Serenade Opportunity Matinee Music Hall of the Air •« «« Elder Michaux «• H M M M M Church of the Atr <• •• Patterns in Harmony Songs of the Church Reflections | | Tabernacle Choir Tabernacle Choir I Romany Trail Foreign Program_ Christian Endeavor News Flashes Organ Music Ladles of the Air Morning Concert Dixie Harmonies Salon Music Ridge Runners Marimba Orchestra Radio Guild Dick and George 8:00 8:15 8:30 8:45 ~ 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 ; 11:00 ! 11:15 ! 11:30 11:45 P.M. AFTERNOON PROGRAMS P.M. 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 1:00 1:15 1:30 1:45 2:00 2:15 2:30 2:45 3:00 3:15 3:30 3:45 4:00 4:15 4:30 4:45 5:00 5:15 5:30 5:45 John Shields, tenor Road to Romany Aerial Columnist Wooster Symphony Sally of the Talkies M M The Aristocrats Lovely Lady Levitow Ensemble M II Penthouse Serenade M II Confederate Exercises Harry Resers Orchestra Dream Drama Rhythm Symphony M II Tony Wons M M Catholic Hour •« «• Rhythm Makers Strauss Waltzes Music Hall of the Air i •« ii Dr Ralph W. Sockman Words to the Wise Musical Interlude Radio Theater I_•' _ Radio Theater Sunday Vespers Music Festival »• •• Life of Uncle Ned Command Performance Roses and Drums «« « Tea Time Fireside Chats Canadian Band <« •• Grand Hotel •« U Church or the Air I «« M Singing Violins Lucille Pierce Ferguson Lazy Dan The Old Timer Spires of Melody Wash.-Phila. Game « m 4* 44 Wash -PhllaT Game 44 44 m m •4 44 Hollywood Church Crumlt & Sanderson 44 44 Amateur Night Ed McConnell Interlude in Music_ Dance Rhythms News Flashes Irving Harriss' Orch. It M Ladies of the Air String Trio Church of the Air <• *l Joe Brow'n's Kiddies N •« II M WatehTTower •I M <« M H M Shepherd Boy News Flashes Symphony «• Dance Rhythms «« •* Alabama Three Sports Resume 12 00 12:15 12:30 _12:45 1:00 1:15 1:30 1:45 2:00 2:15 2:30 _ 2:45 3:00 3:15 3:30 3:45 ‘ 4:00 4:15 4:30 4:45 5.00 5:15 5:30 5:45 P.M. EVENING PROGRAMS. _P.M. 6:00 6:15 6:30 6:45 7:00 7:15 7:30 7:45 8:00 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 Scores—Musis Three Maids Fireside Recitals Wendell Hall _ Bowes' Amateur Hour N 44 « M m m Merry-Go-Round *4 *4 Musical Revue 44 44 “The Gibson Family” 44 44 44 44 44 44 George Duffy's Orch. Jesse Crawford Happiness Highways Eddie Duchin's Orch. Lillian Conn, pianist Romance and Melody Roy Maxon's Orch. 44 44 Sign Off Jack Benny «t Joe Penner •4 Bill Coyle Colleen More Evening Album Hendrik Van Loon {Silken Strings . Cornelia Otis Skinner Ghost Stories_ Dramatic Sketches <4 44 Isador Philipp, pianist |_ “ _ News Bulletins Shandor Stan Myers' Orch. | 4« 44 Charles Stenroes' Orch. Slumber Hour 44 44 Sign Off jArch McDonald Roadway* of Romance I « M 44 44 Rhythms at Eight «< u Headliners 44 Sunday Evening Hour 44 44 44 44 44 m Wayne King’s Orchestra Pray and Braggiottl Senator Borah 44 44 Vivian Della Chilsa Beauty That Endures I Three Little Words _ Joe Haymes' Orch. | 44 44 | Frank Dai ley a Orch. 44 44 ,Slgn Off News—Music Ruth Overton Dinner Music “Old Tolerable" __ "On Broadway” «« •« Douglas Stanbury_ Modes hi Rhythm • 4 44 Olga Laroussinie Good Will Court_ Good Wilf Court 44 44 Revival Meeting News Plashes_ Lotus Land Family Circle MelodyMoment* _ Rev Charles Coughlin i ~ •• Charles Bend's Orch. 44 44 ;s(gnOff 6:00 6:15 6:30 6:45 7:00 7:15 7:30 _7:45 8:00 8:15 8:30 _8:45 9.00 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 11:15 11:30 _n*5 12:00 a.m. early programs TOMORROW. _A.M. 7:00 7:15 7:30 7:45 8:00 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:C0 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 11:15 11:30 Uj45 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 Your Timekeeper 44 44 m m m m Your Timekeeper M 44 M — m m Your Timekeeper Clara. Lu and Em Doctor of the Bluea Joe White __ Morning Parade * M m « m — Masquerade Honey Boy and Sassafras Merry Madcaps •4 44 Merry ^go^Round M. and M. Program Character Building «« 4« IMorning Devotions Don Hall Trio Cheerio Breakfast Club m «« M M M M Smackout A1 and Lee Reiser Today's Children News Bulletins_ (Honeymooners [Tony Wons !U. S. Navy Band 44 44 ,U. S. Navy Band II «< ! Listening Post 's. S. Normandie _ sTs. Normandie Virginia Lee Farm and Home Hour • • « Sun Dial M M N Sun Dial •< « Sun Dial Jean Abbey Radio Oracle Serenade_ "Famous Babies" Blance Sweet Land o’ Dreams Serenade__ Voice of Experience The Gumps Mary Marlin Better Housing_ Woman's Hour II <1 Afternoon Rhythms Woman’s Hour Musical Clock •• «« M M M M Musical Clock « « M M W <« Radio Canaries Old King Tut Words and Music_ Better Homes Variety and Value Top o’ the Mornin* Variety and Value_ Old Favorites Radio Personalities Morning Moods .. Dance Music N «* M M Luncheon Concert 7:oo 7:15 7:30 _7:45 8:00 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 11:15 11:30 _n^45 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 p.M. AFTERNOON PROGRAMS P.M. 1:00 1:15 1:30 1*5 2:00 2:15 2:30 3:45 8:00 3:15 3:30 3 45 4:00 4:15 4:30 4 45 5:00 5:15 5:30 Revolving Stage A1 Pearce’s Gang « « Home, Sweet Home Vic and Sade Ma Perkins Sizzlers _ Woman's Radio Review *4 44 Arthur Lang, baritone Dr. John L. Rice _ British”Orchestra 44 *4 Alice Hutchins Drake Sam and Dick_; _ Sundown Revue William Walsh’s Orch. Chasin’ the Blues Farm and Home Hour Music Guild <1 ti Mme. Albert Le Brun Vaughn de Leath Morin Sisters_ Betty and Bob Dog Stories Radio Guild M «4 Radio Guild M M Singing Lady Little Orphan Annie Evening Star Flashes Aunt Sue and Polly Tea Time Little French Princess Romance of Helen Trent Between Bookends Happy Hollow_ Your Hostess se •« M M M M America’s Uttle House Chicago Varieties «« ss Orientals_ Patti Chapin Serenade •a Dick Tracy_ Buck Rogers Evening Rhythms [Jack Armstrong Slaughter's Ensemble Ladies of the Air Orchestral Gems II II Popular Hit! Waltz Time Radio Romeos_ Dansant 9 Symphonic Gems M M Today's Winner! •I M M M * «• One-Time Opportunities II is Radio Voices 1:00 1:15 1:30 _1:45 2:00 2:15 2:30 _2:45 3:00 3:15 3:30 3:45 4 00 4:15 4:30 _4j45 5:00 5:15 i 5:30 Geese Lured by Radio. Goose-hunting is duck soup for one Ingenious Nimrod, who has contrived a way of using electrical transcriptions and loud speakers, both radio innova tions. as mechanical decoys. Tobe Deutschmann. radio manufac i turn of Canton, Mail, has mads himself the envy of most goose hunt* ers by recording the conversation of two live geese, each record playing IS minutes of that kind of chatter. Around the gunning stand of his Cape Cod retreat he has mounted tour loud speakers, with control dials running to the turntables. As a flock of geese approaches, the speakers are given (be juice, and tbe babble of a thousand geese Is simu lated. When the flying birds start downward, the speakers are reduced to low volume. Closer and closer come the visiting geese, and off go the guns. Until the geese get acquainted with the ramifications of the radio, accord ing to Deutschmann. his electrical de coy system should be the real "Mc |C*/’ ' 4 Radio Features and Notes “The Vinegar Tree," co-starring Billie Burke and Conrad Nagle, out standing screen personalities, will be the Radio Theater presentation on WMAL at 1:30. Grete Stueckgold, Metropolitan j Opera soprano, will be the guest soloist with Victor Kolar's Symphony Orchestra during the Sunday Evening Hour on WJSV at 8. Her selections include “Elsa's Dream.” from “Lohen grin"; “With All My Heart,” from "The Great Waltz,” and Ardktk's “II Bacio.” The orchestra will feature the third movement of Brahms' "Sec ond Symphony.” Cornelia Otis Skinner will begin a new series of radio sketches on WMAL at 8:30. Her chief contribu tion will be “Being Presented," a humorous portrayal of the trials and doubts of an American woman about 1 to be presented at the Court of St. James. Ethel Merman, Broadway singing star, will dramatize another of her song successes during the "Rhythm at Eight” program on WJSV at 7. This time it will be “Blow, Gabriel, Blow.” •The Eye of Allah.” will be the Dream Drama on WRC at 3:45. A special broadcast in observance of Palestine flower day will be broad cast by WRC at 8:45 a m. Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the Jewish National Fund of America, will speak on “Palestine as It Is Today.” The Jewish Choral Society of 70 mixed voices will provide the musical setting. Ware Pupils in Recital. I I ELEN WARE will present And* * 1 Ware Cappel. Betty Sahm. Helen Harp and Elizabeth Bernheimer in re cital on Wednesday evening at 8:16 o'clock at the King-Smith Studios. The lour students will be assisted by Clara Moran Bernheimer and Wini fred Lakeman at the piano. Mr. Cap pel will play the Handel “Sonata in E Major” and the Vieuxtemps “Ballad and Polonaise,” Miss Sahm the prelude' to ' Le Deluge.” Saint-Saens. and the Bach “Concerto in E Major,” Miss Harp the second movement of the Mendelssohn concerto, the Brahms-Joachim “Hungarian Dance, No. 5,” and Wieniawski's “Russian Airs.” Miss Bernheimer will be heard in Wieniawski's “Concerto in D Minor” and Hauser's ‘‘Hungarian Rhapsody.’* I ■■■ i ■———— ■' FOREIGN SHORT-WAVE STATIONS CITT. STATION. Barranquilla ... .HJ1 ABB Berlin .DJA Berlin .DJB Berlin .DJC Berlin .DJD Berlin .DJN Berlin.DJQ Brussels .ORK Caracas .YV2RC Caracas .YV3RC Eindhoven .PCJ Geneva .HBP Geneva .HBL Guayaquil.HC2RL Havana.COC Huizen .PHI Jeloy .LCL Lisbon .CT1AA London .GSB London .GSC London .OSD London .GSE London .GSF London ..GSL Madrid .EAQ Melbourne .VK3ME Kloscow .RNE Moscow .RV59 Paris.(Pontoise) Paris.(Pontoise) Paris.(Pontoise) Riobamba .PRADO Rio de Janeiro.FRF5 Rome ..2RO Rome .2RO Sydney ..VK2ME Valencia .YV6RV MEGACYCLES. 6.45 9.57 15.20 6.02 11.76 9.54 15.28 10.33 6.11 6.15 15.22 7.80 9.59 6.67 6.01 17.7 9.55 9.60 9.51 9.58 11.75 11.86 15.13 6.11 9.87 9.51 12.00 6.00 11.90 11.71 15.25 6.62 9.50 9.60 6.09 9.59 6.52 HOIKS. 6 to 10 p.m. 5:05 to 9:15 p.m. 12:30 to 2 a.m.. 3:45 to 7:15 a.m., 8 to 11:30 a.m. Noon to 4:30 p.m., 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. Noon to 4:30 p.m., 5:05 to 10:30 p.m. 3:45 to 7:15 a.m.. 8 to 11:30 a.m., 5:05 to 10:30 p.m. 12:30 to 2 a.m. 1:30 to 3 p.m. 5:15 to 10 p.m. 5 to 9:30 p.m. 8 to 11:30 a.m. Sun. 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Sat. 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Sat. 5:45 to 8 p.m. Sun.; 9:15 to 11:15 p.m. Tues. 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. daily; 11:30 p.m. Saturday only. 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. except Tuesday and Wednesday. Noon to 6 p.m. 3:30 to 6 p.m. Tues., Thurs. and Sat. 10:45 a.m. to noon, 12:15 to 4 p.m., 4:15 ^ to 5:45 p.m.. 6 to 8 p.m., 11:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. 6 to 8 p.m. 12:15 to 4 p.m., 4:15 to 5:45 p.m., 11:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m, 9 a.m. to noon. 6 to 8:45 a.m. 10 to 11 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. 5:15 to 7:30 p.m. 5 to 6:30 a.m. Wed.; 5 to 7 am. Sat. 10 to 11 a.m. Sunday 4 to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., 2 to 5 p.m. 6 to 9 p.m., 10 p.m. to midnight. 6 to 10 a.m. 9 to 11 p.m. Thursday. 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. 7:45 to 9:15 p.m. Mon., Wed. and Friday. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Mon., Wed. and Friday 5 to 9 a.m., 9:30 to 11:30 am. Sunday. 6 to 10 p.m. Town Meeting Programs Made for Serious Minds All Sides of Government, Economic and Social Questions to Be Explored by Speakers. By Peter Dixon. THAT new program series on N. B. C. Thursday nights prom ises to be Important. It’s called America's Town meeting and is offered by the League for Political Education. Briefly, the program will present nationally recognized authorities on Government problems, economics and social questions. All sides of every paramount issue will be represented by leaders from the various camps. The programs will be in the nature of open forums. Some idea of the importance of the program may be gathered from the time devoted to it by N. B. C. It will be heard from lb until 11 o'clock Thursday night. The program will be serious, but I fee! sure that they will be interesting It is possible, too. that these programs will end forever the common belief that the average radio listener is 12 years old—or 8 years old—or whatever the popular age average is at the present time. The mail response and other audience check-ups should re veal some interesting facts about the potential audience for a serious, intel ligent program. T TNA MERKLE. the movie come dienne. who has been heard in the Benny programs from the coast will also be seen in his new picture... June 13 is Jack Pultons birthday... Peter Van Steeden takes his orchestra to Atlantic City. July 1...Black Bar ney is back in the Buck F.ogers series. It's Joe Granby who plays the part— and well...Eric Madriguera’s Orches tra, the Morin Sisters and the Ranch Bovs now heard on the Phil Baker program . The Lady Next Door's kids will do the King Arthur legends this Summer. That* a program you can depend upon! . Johnny Hauser em phatically denies he wants to leave the Whiteman troupe—and that his loy alty all belongs to Paul. T'M ALWAYS glad when I listen in on Julia Sanderson and Frank Crumit Sunday afternoons. But particularly glad last Sunday when they did a silly symphony medley with Crumit singing "Nuthin’ But a Nuthin’ ” . . . The State of Vermont is on the air via N. B. C. to advertise its vacation ad vantages . . . The Ibsen Theater Play ers, on WOR at 10:30 o'clock. Thurs day nights, are doing a commendable job in their radio adaptations of really good plays . . . Grete Stueckgold sings with the symphony from Detroit on C. B. S. tonight . . . The Pickens Sis ters are incorporating. Vivienne Segal calls five people in different parts of Manhattan after each broadcast to find out how she did . . . Ted Pearson, the announcer, will have a book pub lished on the fine points of mikeman ship. rPHE top in song titles on a recent Ben Bernie broadcast—Fu Man chu. "Why Can't You Behave?” . . . And Joe Penner has written a song called “Doin’ the Ducky W'uck." Though very reminiscent of Liszt's -Second Hungarian Rhapsody.” it's a tuneful thing and worth hearing . . . When Walter O'Keefe returns in the Fall with that cigarette program. An nette Hanshaw won t be the vocalist ... Shades of Don Juan, a WOR pro gram that was just out and out sexy, is back on the air from WOR Tuesday nights at 30:30 o’clock. Phil Thorn writes the script . . . Broadway pro ducers, seeking a cute-looking com edienne. might consider Nancy Noland, the pert N. B. C. singer, who has the gift of true comedy. TIER name is Dolly Dawn. You can hear her singing with George Hall’s Orchestra in his Columbia broadcasts. Hall selected her to take the place of Loretta Lee. who has left the Taft Orchestra. I’ve heard her sing and I think she is a real dis covery. She doesn’t croon and she isn’t a lady baritone—she’s a mighty good mezzo-soprano ana one who should go a long, long way . . . I'm very keen about that new commer cial featuring Stoopnagle and Buhd. The sponsor, a paint firm, rates ap plause for letting the boys have fun. It is fun, too . . . B. A. Rolfe and his orchestra will continue on the Joe Cook show, which will continue through the Summer , . . Johnny Green's Dance Band, at the St. Regis, is very swell to dance to. indeed. And Marge Logan is a better singer than ever. 'THE Revelers arp going to publish a 1 book of arrangements made for them by Frank Black . . . Tito Coral has been signed by Alfredo Salmaggi for opera next Pall . . , Vincent Lopez is looking over prop erty he owns near Dallas, Tex., while he and his orchestra are filling a six-week engagement in Dallas. He's never seen his land before . . Harry Horlick may broadcast from Caraline Island during July—if the sponsor agrees . Beginning Mon day, "Pick and Pat,” the N. B. C. comedy duo, move from N. B. C. to C. B. S. . . . Glenn Hunter going on the air in his first regular pro gram featured in N. B. C.'s "The Way to a Man s Heart” . . Beatrice Lillie celebrated her birthday last Wednes day by giving gifts to all her friends. Flight to Go on Air. Radio listeners will be able to share the thrills of two Army flyers in June when they start heavenward in the Army-National Geographic Society stratosphere balloon. In a space hard ; lv offering even elbow room for the two aeronauts, a short-wave broad i casting station will be operated. Capts. Albert W. Stevens and Or' il A Anderson, of the Army Air Corps, will make frequent radio reports which will be carried over N. B C. networks | and relayed by short wave to foreign countries. The balloon's gondola is only 9 feet in diameter, but it will house dozens of delicate scientific in struments as well as the broadcasting station. In addition, experimental short waves will be transmitted from two tiny ultra-high-frequencv sets suspended 100 feet below the gondola. The tiny transmitter inside the gon dola will operate with only 8 watts power, but because of the great height expected, will reach ground stations over a wide area. China to Reform Radio. Far behind in the development of ' commercial radio. China now is trying standardization and regulation of tech nical operation of broadcasting sta i tions. According to the United States j Department of Commerce there are 59 stations in Shanghai and only two are equipped with the crystal control that keeps American stations right on the waves to which they are assigned, i Licensed stations probably will be re quired to adopt crystal control within the next few months. Some semblance of price control and program supervision for the bene fit of advertisers may be achieved within the next year if present plans materialize. As it is now, the ad vertiser wishing to sponsor a radio pro gram has no assurance his program ever will get on the air as he wishes, and nothing can be done about it if ! the continuity is not followed. — King on Air. 16 Times. King George's radio jubilee speech was his sixteenth broadcast. AUTO RADIO OFFICIAL PHILCO SERVICE L.SJULLIEN.I/tt’. 1443 PSt.N.W. NO.6076 REN0V1ZE . .. your home Flumbfrs that are riumbfri EBERLY’S SONS nos K VW DISTRICT «JW7 Dronily your home. 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