Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 242, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1925 — Page 17

CHAPLIN PREDICTS HIGH SALARIES FOR P RADIO ARTISTS Brother Charlie Sees Opportune yfor Air Entertainers. Bv EEA Service HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Feb. 19. Only a few years, and radio concert artists will be drawing- down $50,000 for a single broadcasting performance. Syd Chaplin, brother of Chu-lle, earned quite a reputation In 1916, when he negotiated the first big movie salary, that of $13,000 a week for his brother. Now he forecasts another highflyer in salaries, as' soon as a radio singer has the courage to ask for it. “Enormous strides are being made in perfecting radio whereby reception of radio numbers may be controlled to secure revenue from persons who listen In,’’ says Chaplin. Might Run Show “Radio could even step into practical control of the amusement business of the world If perfections are made in the apparatus wbireby photography is combined with sounds that thv> auditors may also Bee artists they are listening to. ' ‘Synch non'.led receiving sets may be Installed by the big national radio broadcasters on the order of a pay station telephone so that a million or so subscribers .*an, by dropping a quarter in the i.lot, hear the concerts of the great artists, “Thus, if a million auditors pay a quarter each, the gross revenue for one performance could be a quarter of a million dollars. Twenty per cent to the artist—or $50,000 —would not be an unrcac>.,,able amount to pay for the box-o'.flce talent thus broadcast. like Movies "The new developments which are reasonable to expect open up great possibilities for artists who have radio personalities. Only a few years ago people who predicted milllondollar salaries for picture stars were called crazy. Those big salaries were made possible because pictures could he shown In hundred! of cities at once. “With radio, the possibilities are enlarged to a still greater degree, with the places where the performance can be heard and seen simul--taneously increased thousands of times.” Dozen in New York New York City now leads the country with twelve broadcasting stations. Philadelphia is second with eleven broadcasters; Los Angeles has Ben; Chicago nine; Seattle. New Orand St. Louis each have eight stations. For Panel Bushings Panel bushings for variometer and other shafts can be made with valve stems from old inner tubes of an auto tire. TL’y are threaded and when cut the desired length lend themselves to this rew use.

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DEVELOPMENT OF RADIO HAS U. S. BUREAUHOPPING Last Year’s Reports Are Ancient History —Is Big Gamble, Time* Washington Bureau. JStg Seto York Avenue. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—1f you want to know how many people in the United States die every month from blood poisoning, or how many fountain pens are manufactured daily in America, the U. S. Census Bureau can give you the figures without a moment’s delay. Gut if. perchance, you want to km . w many radio sets are no’ being turned out every week, an d bother the Census takers. Radio development is progressing at such speed that last month's re ports are almost meaningless this month, and as for last year’s repoits—they are simply ancient his tory. “We haven’t even been able to keep up with the number of manufacturers now engaged in making radio sets and radio parts, let alone the figures on their combined output,” is the way the harassed census officials are now forced to answer queries Kor detailed radio information. . And little wonder. For radio has suddenly become the greatest gamble of the present age. Anxious

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to get aboard what they are certain is the through train to unlimited riches a large number of promoters and. manufacturers have seized the present year to tell stock which is put on sale with the stipulation that “this issue is offered as a speculation.” 80 successful have these offerings proved, at least from a stock-selling standpoint, that almost daily the country is flooded with glowing accounts of the prospects of this or that company which has been engaged in, or is about to begin, the manufacture of radio supplies. And for every company that floats a stock issue in Wall Street, it is estimated there are a dozen smaller establishments from Maine to California with only local t financial support. A grocer in El Paso has a sign displayed in his store as follows: “Don’t be impatient; you will soon receive the same careful attention that is being given to the one ahead of you.”

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Radio Broadcasting Bill ALBANY, Feb. 19.—Permission for radio broadcasting of all boxing bouts authorized by the State athletic commission would be required from licensees of such contests under the terms of a biU introduced in the Legislature. The athletic commission would be empowered to pre-

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