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10 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1930. WQBS Is Ordered to Return to Old Wave Assignment of 1180 K. C. on April 30 i i i 111 i ii -v John Powell, pianist-composer, who will be heard during the Atwater Kent Hour tonight on WEAF and N. B.

C. at 9:15 o'clock. Freddy Rich, who directs the large dance orchestra which precedes and follows Will Rogers broadcast on WABC and Columbia Sunday nights. Riding the Waves By JOHN SKINNER Fact That Is Including Radio Set Figures Gives Lewis James, tenor, who sings with the Revelers, and who Is heard in many N. B.

C. programs. Conn. Station Gets WGBS' Channel; N. Y.

Outlets Vindicated By BRADLEY BAKER (Special to The Eagle) Washington, D. April 26 In relegating Station WBGS, New York City, back to its old limited time assignment of 1180 kilocycles, the Federal Radio Commission this week reaffirmed the principle of a 50-kilocycle separation between Rise to Rumor That Government Will Tax Sett What of It? THE census taker asks each family If It has a radio set. Why? When the news that radio figures were to be Included in the census long Angers of accusation were pointed at radio manufacturers, accusing them of using Government money to get Information for their own use. In a body the manufacturers responded that they were as much entitled to such statistics as were the automobile manufacturers, who obtained statistics from license bureaus. More recently have come the protests of manufacturers of washing machines and other household electrical appliances.

One can hardly blame them. But those are be-as-it-may problems beside the more Interesting, if seemingly Im Barbara Newberry, musical comedy s.ar, who will talk during the fashion show of the Radio Homemakers on WABC and C. B. S. Friday morning.

Mme. Maria Kurenko, Russian soprano, on G. M. Hour over WEAF and N. B.

C. tomorrow night at 9:30 o'clock. Angelo Patri Talking On 'Boy and His Dad' Angelo Patri, wise and tolerant Brooklyn school principal, whose advice on the care of children is read daily by thousands in The Eagle, will soon be heard on the air. On one of the programs devoted to the activities, pastimes, education and upbringing of boys Mr. Patri will talk on WABC and the Columbia Broadcasting System next Thursday afternoon at 5:15 o'clock.

His subject will be, "The Boy and His Dad." Mr. Patri has been well known for many years as a lecturer and writer on the practical psychology of raising children. From a kindly and understanding angle he has attacked the problem of youth and so dealt with it. State, City Official Being Heard on Mayor James J. Walker, U.

S. Senators Royal S. Copeland and Robert F. Wagner, Lieut Gov Herbert H. Lehman and Maj.

Gen. Hanson E. Ely head the list of speakers at the testimonial dinner to be given for O. L. Bodenhamer, national governor of the American Legion, next Saturday night, which event will be broadcast over WNYC beginning at 9 o'clock.

The dinner, which is being held at the Hotel Astor, will number among its guests leading figures in military and Government circles from all over the country. XTLOPHONIST STARRING Joe Green, xylophone artist, will appear as guest artist with Maj. Edward Bowes' Capitol "Family" in the program to be broadcast tonight on WEAF and N. B. C.

Mr. Green has for the past few years, been touring the country at the head of his own Marimba Band and was, prior to that, feature artist for a considerable period with John Philip Sousa's band. if' M' probable, rumor current about Washington that the census Is being taken with a view to establishing a Government set-licensing bureau. With the influence of advertisers on the Government, this hardly seems a likely procedure. Government set licensing would, of course, mean but one thing, that the Government would take charge of all stations, and would supervise the broadcasting of programs, Just as is done in England, France, Germany in fact, all over the European continent.

It does not seem particularly likely to happen, though the Federal Radio Commission is increasing its power as rapidly as it can, but it is a nice idea to toy with. WOULDN'T PERMIT IT For example, do you suppose for one minute that the great listening public would allow their sets to be taxed without voicing some protest? Obviously not. And do you suppose that those manufacturers who find the air a profitable advertising medium would lie down without a fight? Certainly not. Seme will say that it would remove annoying advertising copy from the air. It would, yet that is a minor consideration, for air advertising copy has shown a remarkable improvement of late, simply because it is the sponsor's purpose to please the public.

Otherwise, his money is wasted. BUT JUST SUPPOSE Suppose the protests of the listener and the air advertiser were Father Maxime, who will be heard In the broadcast of "La Poupee," French comic opera, on WJZ and N. B. C. tonight at 9:15 o'clock.

i Devora Nadworney, operatic prima donna, who sings leading roles in many of the N. B. C. opera programs. Walker Cup Team To Tell of Hopes Of Match on Air Bobby Jones and Other Members Being Inter viewed by Rice Wed.

Farewell messages from Capt. Bobby Jones and the members of the American Walker Cup golf team will be transmitted to sports fans by Grantland Rice during the Coca-Cola program to be broadcast through WEAF and N. B. C. next Wednesday evening at 10:30 o'clock.

The American amateur golfers will sail that afternoon for the annual conflict between players of this country and England for possession ol the coveted trophy. Rice will interview the members just before their departure. With the assistance of Graham McNamee he will present these interviews during the Coca-Cola program. The hopes and plans of the Walker Cup team will be told to Rice by Robert Tyre (Bobby) Jones, American and British open champion, captain of the team and representative of the South; Jimmy Johnston of St. Paul, American amateur champion, speaking for the Middle West; Doc Willing, runner-up to Johnston last year and representative of the Far West, and Francis Ouimet of Boston, for many years a leading amateur golfer.

Words from others also will be brought to SECRETARY WILBUR ON "Better i-Iomes Progress in 6,500 Communities" will be told over WABC and Columbia tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock by Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior and president of the board of directors of Better Homes in America. Vij m9m volved, namely, WHAS of Louisville and KYW of Chicago, have appealed to that court to enjoin the Commission from enforcing the order. Another dissentient, WHAM of Rochester, N. was reported to be making ready to enter a similar appeal.

Though the Commission avers the thanges are designed to improve broadcasting as a whole by widening the geographical seoaratlon between stations on adjacent wave lengths, and thus eliminating crosstalk interference, many of the stations in the shakeup are not agreed. Station WHAS objects to being shifted from 820 to 1020 kilocycles; KYW from 1020 to 1140 kilocycles, and WHAM from 1150 to 1160 kilocycles. Thus four of the 13 channels are drawn into the litigation. Since every assignment in radio is so Interrelated with every other, an enjoining order staying one of these changes mav have the effect of holding them all no. Station KYW is in the peculiar position of defending its present channel, which is designated as a "borrowed" cleared channel from the second zone, and of defending the one to which the Commission has.

assigned it, namely, 1140. No sooner was announcement of this latter proposed shift made than WWJ, Detroit, and WJAS, Pittsburgh, both in the second zone, altered their applications for the 1140 instead of the 1020 channel. It is a mess that seems hopelessly tangled. Station KYW's appeal for the stay order will probably be granted, for the Court of Appeals has usually granted temporary in junctions to aggrieved broadcasters. In addition, KYW is involved in two other suits now pending before the same court.

Michigan Changes Attitude In a rather conciliatory mood, the Attorney General of the State of Michigan carried to the Federal Radio Commission this week the State's plea for a short wave channel upon which to operate a 5,000 watt station for State police radio services. None of the bluster or fanfare that marked the recent exchange of opinions between Chairman Saltzman of the Commission and Governor Green of Michigan was evident at the hearing. Michigan simply wants a channel to send out signals to its state police in order to help them apprehend criminals more speedily. In view of the area of the state It needs high power to get its signals to its patrol cars wherever they may be in the fluids. This means it needs an exclusive channel.

Having assigned seven channels Please Turn to Page 11 3 50,000 to View Visual Radio at Evanston Soon Western Television Will Show Results of Work at University 'Circus' Chicago, April 26 With more than ten months actual experience in broadcasting television pictures to the accompaniment of sound, programs in which only living artists and not films were used. Western Television Corporation expects to entertain 50,000 persons with the new art on May 2 and 3. This number, it is predicted, will attend the "World's Greatest Collegiate Circus," on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University, at which television will be this year's feature attraction. The program as announced by the university committee calls for a total of seventeen hours of broad casting by television station W9XAO, in Chicago. Walter Dill Scott, pres.

ident; other national figures con nected with the university and campus luminaries will participate, though upon college theatrical stars will fall the responsibility of producing the major part of the program. Using Several Receivers A battery of Western televisors installed on the campus (In Evanston) will enable the visitors actually to partake in the showing of "foolproof" television for the home, since only compact televisors of the home type will be used. Television pictures of Northwest- em's "Television Girl," large enough for theatrical viewing, will also be demonstrated at the television dance on Saturday night (May 3). Her picture will be thrown on a screen, and with lights dimmed and the dance orchestra silent the "Tele vision Girl" will sing from the screen to the accompaniment of an orchestra with her in the Chicago television studio. Clem F.

Wade, president, stated, on March 8, that Western Television Corporation would be producing receivers for the home within sixty days. While no comments as to production have been made since that time, it is anticipated, in view of television's part in the college circus, that the announcement of fact will be made within the time specified. R. G. Swing Talking On Air From Lonon Speaking from the British Broadcasting Company's Studios in London, England, Raymond Gram Swing, head of the London Bureau of the New York Evening Post, will address radio listeners throughout the United States and Canada over WABC and the Columbia System at 12:30 o'clock today.

His topic is "The London Conference What Next?" As usual, the address will be routed by short-wave telephony to these shores, Intercepted by powerful receivers and sent by wire to the New York headquarters of the Columbia network. Mr. Swing will be on the air from London for approximately 15 minutes. of 'Sally9 Marilyn Miller Jeritza and Marlon Talley, will direct the chorus and orchestra heard during the production. "Sally" has been filmed twice, the first time as a silent picture with Colleen Moore and the second time with the original Sally.

Marilyn Miller. Miss Miller is reported to have received over $100,000 for her screen performance of "Sally." Her creation of the radio Sally is believed to mark her radio debut. Miss Miller is outstanding among child prodigies in that her talent has continued to shine. When she was five years old she was the principal attraction of a troupe touring America and Europe. At 14 she was the toast of the Embassy Club, London, where the Prince of Wales came every night to admire her.

stardom on Broadway brought her back to America, where a score of producers clamored for her services. Ziegfeld finally signed her to an exclusive contract and she became star of the "Follies" and Broadway's queen of musical comedy. Beggar's WOR Series, Will Portray Travels in India Breezy Chatter Will Mark Entry Of New Program Genial Talk of Town to Be Given Each Week by Ray Perkins Tuesday Nights Timely gossip and genial criticism of happenings about town will be sent to radio listeners by Ray Perkins, song writer and entertainer, against an orchestral pattern of Will C. Perry's dance music in a new program series to be introduced over a National Broadcasting Company network next Tuesday night. The Crush Dry Cronies and Old Topper will broadcast for half an hour each Tuesday night at 10:30 o'clock.

The Orange Crush Company of Chicago is sponsor. As Old Topper, Perkins will supply breezy interludes of chatter, sitting in Jovial Judgment on events in the metropolis new shows, new music, new books and current foibles In the world of smartness. He will also be heard in vocal solos, frequently accompanying himself on the piano. Will C. Perry, the orchestra leader, is well known as the veteran conductor of radio ensembles.

Perkins recently joined the National Broadcasting Company staff to study modern microphone technique. He is not a stranger to radio audiences, for, as Judge he played a successful 60-week engagement over WJZ nearly four years ago. Equipped with his song writing talent, he entered the motion picture field, which has occupied him for the past year and a half. Among his contributions to sound films have been hit songs for "Smiling Irish Eyes," "General Crack," "Texas Moon," "The Great Divide," "Fast Life," "The Show of Shows" and "Lady Luck." Perkins" background fits him for the genially sophisticated role of Old Topper. Although a native of Boston, he went to school in New York and was graduated from Columbia University.

His mother was a pianist and vocalist and under her guidance Ray made his first concert appearance as pianist at the age of six. During the war he saw service as a captain of infantry, doing military intelligence duty as well. He is now rated as a captain in the military intelligence reserve. In March of this year he was "one of the featured entertainers at the West Point Alumni Association banquet. One of the interludes in his career as song writer, pianist, vocalist and radio artist was a three-year term on the advertising staff of the New Yorker Magazine.

Perkins and Perry have written a signature song for the new series. Old Topper will sing two of his own compositions during the Initial presentation. TITO SCHIPA SINGING Tito Schipa, tenor of the Chicago Opera Company and concert favorite, combines operatic arias in which he has made strongest stage impressions and compositions of his own, when he is presented in the R. C. A.

Hour through WEAF and N. B. C. next Thursday night at 10 o'clock. Supporting the tenor will be an orchestra under the baton of Nathaniel Shilkret.

Radio Version Will Star Marilyn Miller, after starring on stage and screen in "Sally," brings that musical comedy to the microphone in the Del Monte program to be broadcast over a coast to coast network from the N. B. C. San Francisco Studios next Saturday night at 8:30 o'clock, the program comicg locally over WEAF. Adapted from both the stage and movie productions of this Marilyn Miller box office record breaker, the radio version of "Sally" seeks a combination of the finest features of both productions.

Great care has been shown in retaining its bright est dialogue, the charming love story and the best of its five song hits. These include "If I'm Dreaming, Sally." "Look for the Silver Lining," "A Wild, Wild Rose" and "All I Want to Do Is Dance." In support of the star for the radio condensation of "Sally" there will be a big company of radio actors, singers and musicians. Emit Polak, voice coach for Mary Garden, Maria broadcasting stations operat ing in immediate proximity of one another. Although the balance of the technical testimony at the recent hearings on the WGBS case seemed to indicate that relatively little Interference has resulted from its experimental operation on 600 kilocycles, only 30 kilocvcles away irom WNYC and WMCA, on 570, the Commission went back to the old rule. As of April 30, WGBS must return to Its old assignment upon which it had permission to operate only during daylight hours and the early hours of the evening before sunset reaches the Far West, where two other stations then get the exclusive use of the wave.

Out of the fight over the fiOO-kilocycle channel, Station WICC, Bridgeport, emerged victorious, for it gets that channel with a license to operate with 250 watts during the day anrl 250 at night. Court action, of course, may stay the shift, which is a serious blow to WGBS. The Commission appears to have the upper hand, however, for when it granted the 600-kilocycle channel to WGBS it made clear that the grant was for "experimental purposes." Then came WNYC and WMCA, claiming that priority was given WGBS in the channel change, it having been done without notice to them; moreover, the two other New York stations said that if any shift of that nature were made, one of them should have been the beneficiary. During all the hearings, little WICC sat back quietly with the 'ace in the hole." Let the New Yorkers bicker and squabble; it not only had the principle of the 50-kilocycle separation behind it, but it had a claim to the channel on the basis of the Commission's own State quota figures under the equalization scheme of allocation. Will Probably Fight No one expects that WGBS will take the decision in meekness and humility, for it has a big stake in broadcasting, especially since it began expanding its efforts upon obtaining the 600-kilocycle assignment.

That assignment, incidentally, was a dubious one from the start. It was made by the Commission, as aforementioned, without notice to the other New York stations, both of which were and still are eager to get full time instead of their present split-time arrangement. Moreover, no small amount of resentment was aroused when it was learned that the assignment was pushed through the Commission by Commissioner Starbuck after repeated representations to and personal visits from a well-known New York Congressman. It was said at the time that this Congressman had a financial Interest in the station, but this was later denied. May Stay Channel Shift The 26-station cleared channel shifts, ordered effective May 1, may be stayed by the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

At this writing, two of the stations in- Hoorer Going on Air Three. Times in May Nationwide radio audiences will hear the voice of President Hoover over their loudspeakers three times during the month of May. On Mond. morning, May 1, both the WEAF r.nd WJZ networks of the National Broadcasting Comoanv will put on the air the speech wnich the President will give when he addresses the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at the opening session of its 18th annual convention. The broadcast will begin at 10:30 o'clock.

The same evening, when President addresses the dinner of this convention, WABC and the Columbia network, will pick up his voice. Richard F. Grant, president of the Lehigh Valley Coal Corporation, will introduce the President at 9:30 o'clock. At the annual convention of the American Red Cross on May 5, all three stations and their networks will broadcast the address of Mr. Hoover that gathering.

Columbia's (WABC) broadcast will begin at 10:30 o'clock, with music bv the U. S. Navy Band and other preliminaries. The other two networks will go on the air at 11:3,0 o'clock until about noon. overcome, that the Government were to put on its own programs, the cost iu uc uL-irayea oy tax on tne receiving sets.

According to the best available fig. ures, there are 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 radio sets in use in this country at the present time. Th Government would hardly dare put a tax of mora than $3 a year on each set. That would make a fund of $9,000,000 to pay for putting programs on the air. Plenty, say you? Weil hardly.

The National Broadcasting Company, which controls two of the country's three great networks, in 1929, boasted receipt of $5,000,000. That sum, plus what the Columbia network, plus what all the hundreds of other stations throughout the country brought in, would make the Government's Income lnnlr rather ill- Yes, the rumor is a nice one to play with, but playing with it is about as material a shape as the plan will ever assume. OH DOCTORS If you think this isn't a great day for doctors. Just run your eye dowa the feature box in The Eagle's programs for today. If that isn't enough, keep right on going alons the details.

But, just the same, nearly everyone in the United States is interested to see actually how many sets are in use, including those temporarily laid up, due to Willie's or Papa's misguided opinion that they can make it work just a leetle Better. i or winas nis way along the banks of the Ganges and through the Jungles, he will tell of the many different customs among the Hindu castes, Pharsees and Mohammedans. Roaming in the north the beggar will speak about the fanatic and fierce Sikh tribes who dwell In the Punjab and of other tribes who people the vast Deccan which extends the apex of its triangle into thegreat Indian Ocean in the south. These stories about India will be presented over WOR with interludes of aopropriate music, and the new feature gives promise of much interesting and cultural ent-rtain-ment about a country peopled with, 330,000,000 souls. TEXAS REPRESENTATIVE OS Representative John C.

Box of Texas, ranking Democrat on the House Immigration Committee, will speak on "The Mexican Phase of the Immigration Situation" over WABO and Columbia next Tuesday afternoon at 5:45 o'clock. The Texas Congressman's address will be for 15 minutes during the period set aside for the National Security League. Drama of Walter Scolt In Next 'Life Story' Two intimate incidents in the life of Sir Walter Scott, great Scottish bard, will be the subject for the fourth "Life-Stories" presentation, to be broadcast from WOR tonight at 10 o'clock. Adelina Thoma-son, actress and author of the series, has chosen the advent of Scott's receiving a baronetcy in the court of King George IV lor the first scene and for the second a sequence with Gaetano Donizetti, the Italian musician and fast friend of Scott, provides a beautiful opportunity for the weaving of excerpts from "Lu-. cia di Lammermoor" into the Interesting broadcast.

Other players besides Miss Thomason in the presentation will be Lawrence Brattan, playing the role of Sir Walter Scott, and Walter Soderling, who will portray Donizetti. Basil Ruysdael. WOR announcer. is the originator of a new feature to be known as "The Beggar's Bowl," which will be broadcast from this station beginning next Friday evening at 10 o'clock. The new presentations will take radio listeners to India, where they will become acquainted with the temples and shrines of that fascinating country rich in cultural achievement of millenniums.

Through the eyes of a fakir, a British Secret Service agent in the guise of a wandering beggar, intimate sketches of East India life will be disclosed. As the fakir travels on foot the dangerous caravan routes across the mighty Himalayas STARRING IN NEW PROGRAMS ISEW RADIO 'PHILOSOPHER' Sj. Vt. I 'I -1. Willi! II fl If I Ray Perkins, entertainer, best known to Americans as "Judge who will be master of ceremonies In the new series, "Crush Dry Cronies and Old Topper," which will be heard every Tuesday night at 10:30 o'clock over WJZ and N.

B. C. Will Rogers, the cowboy humorist, who Is heard from the Los Angeles studios of the Columbia Broadcasting System every Sunday night at 10 o'clock, the program coming locally over WABC..