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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER" 20, 1932 Views and News in the Broadcasting Studios What the Stars Are Doing 8 Out of a Blue Sky Metropolitan Opera Returns 1 i By JO RANSON- Airy Chats Wherein We Learn About Radio Stars Who Do Unusual Things To Radio Thanksgiving Day WOR Helps Revive Another Romance of Olden Days An Interesting NBC Broadcast Listeners and Commercial Announcements Lily Pons, celebrated young French coloratura soprano, and Giovanni Martlnelll will head the Metropolitan Opera Company cast of "Lakme," which will inaugurate the second season of broadcasts from the stage of the opera house over ANOTHER old and delightful romance was recently revived through the powerful medium of this thing called radio. WOR was again responsible for reviving a romance more than 50 years old. Several 'weeks ago this station broadcast a program commemorating the centenary of the conception of the telegraph by Samuel Morse. Two relatives of the inventor were present in the studio and participated In the ceremony. They were William Goodrich Morse, 80-year-old son, and Lela Livingstone Morse, his daughter.

Bdlh of them came frcm the West in order to appear on the air. When William was a youngster he lived with his parents on 22d just off 5th Ave. in Manhattan. 5 George Cehanovsky, baritone, as Frederick; Aida Doninelli, soprano, as Ellen: Philine Falco, soprano, as Rose; Minnie Egener, soprano, as Mistress Bentson; Giordano Pal-triniere, tenor, as Hadja; Marek Windheim, tenor, as a fortune teller; Angelo Bada, tenor, as a Chinese merchant, and Paolo Ananian, basso, as a thief. Louis Hasselmans will conduct the orchestra.

Mmherwell on WABC Hiram Motherwell, editor of Stage Magazine, will speak on "Covering the News of the Theater" when he VJ I -4 I 5 r-nmiinin- ufffflWditi in 1 mi mm1 iiiit i iltiiiil'ililiii WJZ on Thanksgiving after- noon. "Lakme," the entire second act of which will be heard at 3:15 p.m., was revived last year, after 15 years' absence from the Metropolitan's repertory, especially for Mme. Pons talents, and is the opera in which she made her European debut. The famous Bell Song, which Mme. Pons will sing during the portion of the opera to be broadcast, is the aria she selected for her first audition at the Metropolitan Opea Company.

She was engaged immediately, and her subsesuent debut was one of the sensations of the season. "Lakme" also will be the first production to go on the air from the Metropolitan Opera House since the installation of velocity or "Ribbon" type microphones, which greatly increase the tonal range of musical broadcasts. In addition to Mme. Pons, soprano, and Martinelli, tenor, as Lakme and Gerald, respectively, the cast will 'include Gladys Swart-hout, contralto, as Mallika; Leon Rothier, basso, as Nilakantha; Ahaie Frank Black, orchestra director and arranger for lite Revelers over WEAF. Right Tom Stix nhoien tcith teveral myitery lory trritert ho trill broadcast over ARC next Sunday.

From left to right: Stix, "Diplomat," Ellery Queens, Rarnaby Rost and Captain John Ayer of the Police Department. Below Vera Rradsky and Harold Triggt, ichote ttco-piano recitals are heard each Sunday over WOR at 1 p.m. "'Tirfrm n.i -m ni-a Ford Bond Would Like to Become Football Announcer 5 h' 1 I 1 It 1 liL Around the corner on 23d lived Frances Nathan, his favorite playmate. Both were always seen together and learned to know the neighborhood very well. After a few years both families moved from that neighborhood and the two playmates never saw each other.

The night of the Morse broadcast Frances, now Fiances Wolff, age 76, and a grandmother, was lisicning-in and heard the voice of her old playmate. She immediately wrote to him in care of the station, and after a lapse of 65 years their charming friendship was resumed. William prolonged his stay in Manhattan to talk over olden times with Frances, and left last week lor the Coast. Three Good Speakers Three interesting personalities will face a WEAF microphone Wednesday, Nov. 21, at 10:30 p.m.

Father Bernard R. Hubbard, S.J., explorer and scientist, and known to many as the "Glacier Frazier Hunt, newspaper correspondent and biographer of the air, and Edward Tomlinson, and writer on South American topics. Tomlinson has just come back from a trip through Columbia and Venezuela. He maintains that the countries down South are logical fields for investments and trade of United States capital. Frazier.

who recently returned from a trip abroad, where he interviewed Stalin. Gandhi and other prominent people, will tell of his experiences. Father Hubbard will describe his experience in the frozen North, where he has been gathering scientific data. Commercial Announcement! At least one sponsor on the air is desirous of consulting listeners on the vital question of commercial announcements. It is the program featuring Heywood Broun that is In the spotlight now.

Beginning tomorrow the sponsor will give jrway a sum of money to radiolators submitting the best papers on "How to Improve Advertising Over the Air." Mr. Broun, who acts as master of ceremonies on these programs over WEAF. feels that the public is entitled to express its preference and offer any suggestions for the betterment of commercial announcements. No country." Mr. Broun remarked recently, "offers radio programs as entertaining as those presented to the American public, millions of dollars are spent in the preparation of the programs and the cost is borne by the sponsors.

If broadcasting is to continue at its present level, this advertising must be a part of the program. "There is much criticism of some of the commercial announcements now on the air. They are criticised as being too dry, too long, offensive ar nrr.ntin tho hnst nrm UP i can obtain and we are asking the public to suggest the commercials so that they may be interesting to them and helpful to the sponsor." Honoring Spinoza WEVD and WJZ will observe the 300th natal anniversary of Benedict Spinoza: born on Nov. 24. 1632.

WEVD will stage a symposium at 10 p.m. on "Spinoza and the Modern World." Dr. Frederick Keuner, director of the Spinoza Center of the Rorrich Society and amhor of "Spinoza the Biosopher," will speak on "Spinoza and Modern Culture." Dr. Abraham Wolf-son, author of "Spinoza: A Life of Reason," will discuss the Dutch-Jewish philosopher's life and influence, and Dr. Lewis Browne, author of "This Believing World," will dismiss "Spinoza the Man." The N.B.C.

broadcast over WJZ will be staged at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Dr. Kettner will at that time pay tribute to the philosopher. Roxy on the Air Roxy will continue to broadcast every Sunday from Radio City at Lt.m.

over WJZ and a coast ist network. Last Sunday marked his lust broadcast from the spacious faRe of the new K.O. Roxy in I'adio City. Of the old "gang." which assisted him in last week's program: Gladys Rice. Caroline Andrews.

Riulv trif.nf Tint ct, Irnrc TVvinUt To be successful is to be different. They say this is true. Likewise they say to be successful you must do out-of-the-ordinary things; you must be unconventional, as it were. Perhaps, then, that is the answer to why radio performers must act peculiarly and don unusual things in and about the studios. That, then, mayhap is why that funny fellow at C.

B. S. J. C. Flippen, I think they call him, wears his hat at such a cocky angle and never removes it when broadcasting even though he is the only hatted individual in the studio.

That is likewise the reason, we suppose, if you don't mind, he grows that huge crop of hair over his right ear and lets it continue to grow and grow and grow. He is a radio comedian. As such, people expect him to be this way, and because people expect him to be tHat way, he is. Others have superstitions. For example take Edward B.

(Ted to you listeners) Husing, undoubtedly the best sports announcer of all time. (And this is not because I work for C. B. S. either!) Ted had a brown cap which he wore during every sports broadcast.

You could pick Husing out of ten thousand people by the cap. It wasn't any warmer than any other cap he owned nor did it in any manner distinguish him. Sort of a superstition, Ted explained. Had it the first time he did a football game and managed to hang on to it since. Last month he lost the cap.

He spent hours after a game in Yankee Stadium searching over the parta of the stadium wherf he might have dropped it. Two hours and thirty-five minutes he walked and prowled about the stadium and finally found it. Said he couldn't possibly have done another football game without it. Morton Downey, you have most likely already heard, must have loose coins in his pocket to jingle between numbers. Sort of soothes his nerves or something.

Production men at C. B. S. objected because the jingle jingle often seeped through the microphones and more especially lately since the ultra sensitive ribbon and dynamic mikes are in use at WABC. A bright control engineer saved the situation by giving Morton a half-dozen rubber washers.

Didn't matter what he rattles in his pocket they found so long as they were round and shaped like coins. Downey always carries the washers with him and the production men on his shows manage to keep a few handy in case. David Ross, 1932 Diction Award winner, and one of the leading C. B. S.

announcers, says that times have most certainly changed. He can remember the day when the clock watcher got fired. Nowadays, he cautions, it is the fellow who doesn't watch the clock in the studio who gets fired. Interest in television is growing on the west coast. Word comes east that the Don Lee Chain, affiliated with the Columbia Broadcasting System, is now broadcasting images on three different wave lengths.

All of these channels are in the short wave band where Mar coni, some months ago, successfully "bent" these peculiar radio waves. This last week C. B. S. in New York began television transmission on 44 megacycles which is 6.3 meters and down in the same territory.

Three-quarters of an hour a day, from 4 to 4:45 p.m. is being devoted to vision tests down there by W2XAX. sister station to W2XAB, the full wave sight and sound C. B. S.

television station in Manhattan. These low waves, full of mystery and glamour may some day be the ultimate In all radio service. There is no static, no fading, no noise level, but so far they cannot be transmitted beyond the horizon, Marconi, in "bending" them, succeeded in sending them bevond this point. Perhaps in the future they will travel the same distances as higher waves. They they will be of tremendous value to television.

BILL SCHUDT JR. Munich, Paris, Vienna On Air in NBC Forum Germany, France and Austria will be represented in three Sunday programs presented from Europe over WEAF under the auspices of the International Radio Forum at 4:30 p.m. The speaker today will be Rich-ard von Kuehlmann, former Am. bassador and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the German Empire. An authority on economio questions, he will speak from Munich on "Mastering the Depression." During a long and distln-guished diplomatic career.

Dr. von Kuehlmann at one time served as first secretary of the German Em. bassy in Washngton. Next Sunday Dr. Pierre le Conte du Nouy, distinguished medical scientist of the Pasteur Iastlto in France, will speak from Pan c- "The Pasteur Institute and It-s Work." Dr.

du Nouy, known throughout Europe and the United States for his scientific achieve-ment. was for ten years In charge of the biophysfrs department of the Rockefeller Institute. The Austrian program on Sun. day, Dec. 4, will present two speak, ers.

President Wllhelm Miklas of Austria and Dr. Adolph Lorenz. fa. mous Viennese surgeon. Dr.

Miklas, second President of the Austrian Republic, has field that post since 1928. Before that, for five years, he was President of the Austrian Parliament. Dr. Lorenz gained world-wide fame through his so. called "bloodless surgery." Botri will be heard from Vienna.

Kadio ll'H for Mnsrrn! firnild tour MatrrUli uni (nntHrti Hln ilia 1 rartiMl Hall Phonp COIomtiu, John Held Jr. Spooks On 'Cm ft Street' Series There is a nostalpic fascination to the olden days of beer and bustles, and John Held who dreams of the mauve decade, will explain that strange allure when he chats with Tom Stix during tne "America's Grub Street Speaks" program from 6:00 to 6.15 p.m. tonight over WaBC. Stix, an old hand at getting authors and artists to "tel! all" over the air, win do his best to find out wny Mr. Held likes so much to draw those fine old wood cuts that appear regularly in the New Yorker.

The wood cuts, of course, redolent of the days of long skirts and sob ballads, represent the "new" John Held and Mr. Stix will, most likely, lead the conversation to the earlier period, when the old dreamer was more concerned with the fluffs and flounces of the modern flapper's nether apparel. Mr. Held, as one may remember, was an expert at depicting the young gentlemen and ladies who are "viewed with alarm" by the country's foremost "viewers with alarm." Air Sermons Presbyterian Service Over WABC Dr. Cadman Over WEAF Other Talks The morning period of the Columbia Church of the Air, to be broadcast over WABC today from 10 to 10:30 a.m., will be a Presbyterian service conducted by the Rev.

Joseph H. Miers, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Washington. In addition to the sermon, the service, which will originate in the Columbia studios in Washington, will Include a Scripture Reading from the third chapter of Jonah, a prayer, Benediction, and the hymns. "All People That on Earth Do Dwell" and "Just As I am Without One Plea," offered by a mixed quartet At 11 a.m. Dr.

A. Edwin Keigwin, pastor of the West End Presbyterian Church of New York, will deliver a sermon on Thanksgiving Day over WOR. Special music has been arranged by the West End Choral Society for the occasion. "The Faith of Experience" is the of the address Dr. S.

Parkes Cadman will deliver during the Hour of Worship broadcast over WEAF at 3:30 m- mixed ChOrUS McLpd sent me musical program. The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin will deliver his weekly sermon from the Shrine of the Little Flower, Detroi' over WOR from 4 to 5 p.m. Life Is always a struggle, but It is in the light against the false whor ever found that we find our great est challenge.

Dr. Daniel A. Poling win ten National Youth Conference listeners. Dr. Poling's address on "Fight the False" and a musical program directed by George Shacklcy will be heard over WJZ at 4:30 p.m.

Whereas some people think of the Christian interpretation of life as poetry, it Is a terrific fact, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick will point out in his address during the National Vespers program over WJZ at 5 p.m Dr. Fosdicks talk will be supplemented by a musical program, featuring a male quartet directed bv Keith McLeod. The Nationwide Gospel Sermon by Donald Grey Barnhouse of Philadelphia ill be broadcast by WOR from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Edison Radio Tul to Be Used in Novel Broadcast Fifty years ago Thomas A.

Edison constructed a radio rintertnr tube so nerfect that it ran tflHllV lA i I will be used during a special pro-I gram over WJZ tomorrow at 10:30 i pm. By means of this tube music of the 1880's will be put on the air. The unusual broadcast will be conducted by Orestes H. Caldwell, president of the New York Electrical Society, and Dr. Clavton Sharp, internationally known scientist.

Edison, 40 years before broadcast ing was known, discovered the tronlc flow- in a vacuum tube, the principle which underlies all radio apparatus today, and actually con-! structed rectifier tubes which can! be used as detector tubes in mod- i i em radio sots. But then he applied himself to1 other Inventions, leaving the world to wait 20 years before anyonf uti discovery, i still another 20 years before first broadcasting station was to utilize his work on a grand scale, Edison's invention was accurate- ly described by him In his claims: under a patent issued to him In No-I vember. 1 883. which the coming Broadcast under tne auspices of tne New York ElTtrlcal Society, oleics electrical body, is designed to memorat. i I Is heard in Bill Schudt's "Going to Press" program over WABC and television station W2XAB Wednes day, Nov.

23, from 4:45 to 5 p.m. Motherwell, a recognized author ity on the theater, has been editor of Stage Magazine since its inception as the Theatre Guild Magazine, official organ of the New York Theatre Guild, in 1926. He has written many magazine articles on stagecraft and his book, "The Theatre Today," Is the official text book of many schools of the theater. Before joining the Theatre GuiM Magazine, Motherwell was engaged In newspaper work for some time. the Barton bathysphere to a depth of a half mile In the waters off Bermuda.

Bond described the descent for N. B. C. listeners. His fellow announcers have gleefully preserved for posterity a newspaper clipping of a photograph of the scene showing Beebe entering the metal cylinder and Bond, wearing voluminous linen shorts, bending over the side of the ship In a Rackety Rax pose.

has often been a source of great concern to Ford. On one occasion he Joined the Three Jesters, Wamp Carlson, Guy Bon-ham and Dwight Latham in a gym course Intended to remedy this problem. After four weeks Bond and Carlson, the heavyweights of the quartet, had gained 12 and 10 pounds respectively, so resigned in disgust. This is Bond's first season as a regular sports announcer. He is exceedingly conscientious about it and for the week preceding each gridiron broadcast he carefully1 clips newspaper stories concerning the respective teams.

He studies these stories until he knows each player's family history and how he parts his hair. Ford promptly forgets most, of It In the excitement of the games, but that doesn't deter him. After returning from a particularly difficult game one Saturday evening. Bond encountered John Royal, N. B.

C. vice president In charge of programs. "By the way, Ford," Royal saluted him. "I thought you might like to know that I have found a real football announcer." Bond's heart sank and his dream castles crumbled silently to the studio floor. "Who is he?" the announcer asked weakly as Royal sauntered off indifferently.

"Oh, yes." the executive called back over his shoulder, "his name Is Ford Bond." W. J. THOMAS. played the selcctin as his next num ber. The composer was about to attac a steak.

In fact his hand was poised, as Madriguera relates, in midair with a morsel of filet mign-on when he became aware of his own tune. He turned excitedly to nis companion. "Do you hear what I hear?" he demanded, dropping his knife and fork. "It sounds like your piece, "Sounds like It? Why. it is Identical." By this time the composer seemed about to have hysterics and he was with difficulty restrained to await the conclusion of the selection.

Then making his way swiftly to the platform he seized Madriguera. "Say, where did you get that piece? It's mine. How long have you been playing it?" "How long have we been playing It, Joe?" Madriguera asked the pianist. The pianist who is a bit of a rib-ber himself and thought it safe to chance more fun said that they had been playing that piece for about six weeks and that they got it from a chap in Buenos Aires. Then Madriguera led the composer back to his table, explained what he had done and complimented on the com post ion which Is shortly to appear.

to Be Featured Program Today time of the program and messages from a number of them will be read during the program. The Catholic University of Amer ica, located at Washington, is an institution founded by the American Bishops as the pontifical school of studies for this nation. Originally founded exclusively as a graduate school, it still functions primarily as such. It is regarded as an ac credited spokesman for over 20,000, uuu amoncs in America, and a large percentage of the ecclesiastic leaders of the Catholic Church in America arc numbered among its aiumm. The broadcast will originate In Lord Lytton to Discuss Manchurian Problem The Earl of Lytton, chair man of the League of Nations commission which recently reported on the situation in Manchuria, will be heard In an international broadcast over WABC at 1:15 p.m.

today. Particular interest attaches to his review of the Far Eastern imbroglio in view of the fact that the League is scheduled to begin consideration of the commission's report tomorrow. From February, when the commission was appointed, to early October, when its report was completed, its members traveled all over Manchuria and visited Peiping and Toklo in their efforts to obtain all the facts underlying the China-Japanese clash. Upon Its publication, the report was hailed as a statesmanlike document of the greatest value, and the task before the League will be to determine whether its recommendations can be put Into effect. Lord Lytton was no stranger to the Orient or to Important governmental affairs when he accepted the chairmanship of the commission.

Born in India, the son of the then Viceroy, he saw service as Governor of Bengal and was himself Viceroy under an interim appointment in 1925. He also has been Under-Secretary of State for India in the British Government, and leader of the Indian delegation to the League of Nations. Washington, with the exception of the address bv Archbishop Glennon, who will speak from St, Paul. th, V' ''If. I 0 Ford Bond hates the thought of being called "just another radio an nouncer." He has ambitions that would overshadow Mount Everest and has Just realized the greatest of these to become recognized as a football announcer.

This chubby, enthusiastic Ken- tuckian has won a regular assign ment describing end runs, punts, line bucks, touchdowns and forward passes over National Broadcasting Company networks. That's in ad dition to writing short stories, com posing songs and trying to reduce. In his youth Ford Bond aspired first to be a jockey he was born in Louisville, home of the Kentucky Derby and then to be a policeman, trombone player, chef and doctor in the order named. After leaving college he became In turn a choir singer, comic opera star, a choral conductor, an oratorio soloist and then a radio singer with station WHAS, Louisivlle. In a few years he served as announcer, studio director, musical director and general program executive.

In 1928 he Joined N. B. C. Bond is an ardent author and writes short stories with the productivity of an O'Henry. Unlike O'Henry, who never received a rejection slip, Bond rarely receives a check for his writings.

One night while driving home alone after work, a melody began to run through his mind. As soon as possible he put the notes on paper, wrote lyrics and sold the song to a publisher. It did not create a great stir along Tin Pan Alley, but Bond bought a new car with the royalties. His greatest thrill, next to football announcing, came on the occasion of his association with William Beebe a few weeks ago when that Intrepid explorer descended In Enric Madrigucra Spoofs a Composer The Spanish impresario Enric Madriguera has a prodigious memory for music. He startles his friends at WOR and even the members of his own versatile orchestra from time to time with some fresh exhibition of harmony legerdemain, as happened the other day.

A composer friend dropped in for lunch at the hotel where Madri-Ruera is directing the ensemble. In his pocKet he carried the pencilled score of a new song about which he sought expert opinion. The opportunity for a practical joke suggested itself to Don Eric as he looked over the latest effusion from Tin Pan Alley. Handing back the manuscript, Madriguera remarked to the composer that at first glance the piece seemed to have merit and that he hoped to have a copy of It soon for orchestration. Then he asked the composer to give him an opinion on a new piece that the orchestra was about to offer for the first time.

Returning to his baton he gathered his group around, softlv the tune he had Just read I from the pencilled score, gave verbal lltutructlooj for orchestration and PERSOX Pope's Message On Catholic A message from His Pope Pius XI, and addresses by five Archbishops will be heard during special Catholic University of America program to be broadcast over WABC from 6:15 to 7:00 p.m. tonight. The most Rev. Michael J. Curlcy, Archbishop of Baltimore and Chancellor of the university, will read the message dispatched from Vatican City by the Holy Father.

Other Catholic ecclesiastic leaders who will speak on the program, their addresses constituting a symposium on present-day problems of religion and education, especially as they are related to eacn other, will include His Eminence William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston; the Most Rev. John J. Glennon, Archbishop of St. Louis; the Most Rev. Edward J.

Hanna, Archbishop of San Francisco; the Most Rev. John Gregory Murrav, Archbishop of St. Paul, and the Right Rev. Monsijnor James H. Ryan, rector, the Catholic Unlver- tmiviiv under the direction of Prof.

Leo Behrcndt. with Mr. Frank Brennan at the piano. Their selections will include the ancient Netherlands folk-song. "The Prayer of the Halleluiah Chorus from Beethoven's.

"The Mount of Olives." and "Nature's Praise of by the same composer. Alumni groups in 20 or more cities will hold special gatherings at the 'Knute Rocknc' Tone Poem In Wliiteman's Concert "Knute Rockne." the tone poem Ferde Grofe wrote In honor of the v. will be featured by Paul Whitomiin an(1 nis orchestra during his Rhythmic Concert over WJZ at 6 m. todav. The concert also will mark the first presentation bv Whiten.

an on the air of Cleonie Clerihw.n's "See. onn lcnnpsofly." Hoy lvrrtv. Ah Whivnvn will be the p.auo solo-j ist on this number. I wWi the symphony AS ehestra Roxy will, of course, continue to ct as master of ceremonies, introducing new novelties each week. The Capitol Family Still another famous theatrical group commends your best hsten-lng-in ear today.

It is the cele-bratrd Capitol "familv." with the gracious Major Edward Bowes at the helm Today this sturdy group of per- formers celebrate their tenth year on the air. Is it really ton years since the Capitol started broadcasting direct from the theater? Why, It seems like only yesterday; but figures don't lie and davs have a way of slipping into months and then into years. Tpn vpnri nil the nir' lations Major Boats. A grand T.rnrri Th. mla nro-rnm m-rr WEAF at 11:30 am.

will feature Yusha Bunchuk. conductor and cellist; Maria Sllveira, soprano; Westell Gordon, tenor; Waldo Mayo, solo violmiM; Tommy McLaughlin. Nicholas CosenHno, op'T- Ic n'i'l H.tiinah Klein, who has fjtn'. f.vc years with Major Bokca' "Jamil)'' St humann-lleinli, iliftiiigiiishrd operatic and radio star af Brooklyn Paramount this neck.