Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 260, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1925 — Page 15

RADIO EVANGELIST HOPES TO PACIFY FACTION-;TORN HERRIN, ILL.

DIM LIGHTS PLAY IMPORTANT PART IN STUDIO DRAMA Players Conscious of Micro- . phone and Feel They Are Alone. Radio listeners may not be aware of It, but lighting effects now play an important part in the production of the studio drama of KGO. No longer is the dramatic studio brilliantly lighted. Just stand two lamps, casting a circle of light about ten feet in diameter, is all that is used. Within the circle sit the KGO players. In the center is the microphone, a mechanism no larger than a tomato can, suspended in a small metal loop atop of a pedestal. Back and slightly above the microphone is the signal box wit hone red and one green light. Seated within the circlo, bounded In by darkness, radio players have the feeling of being alone with the microphone. Every second of the time the play is bemg produced they are conscious of the microphone, but in a fully lighted room, players are conscious of each other, and incidentally aware of the microphone. For the best results it has been found that players should be strictly microphone conscious. When keeping constantly the thought in mind that the microphone is the thing, players use intervals of silence with better effects. That is, intervals between speeches, or between a speech and the sound of a door or some other object. As an example, assuming that the scene of the play is in a room, and that one of the characters of the story is required to leave the room, time enough must elapse to traverse the distance between his speech before the microphone and the sound of the door opening and closing. Judgment on the part of the player is here required constantly. He must always keep in mind the time requi.-ed to do certain things which radio listeners are imagining. One or two distractions during the course of a play is sufficient to cause many listeners to lose interest or fail to keep the thread of the story. While not always conscious of the trouble, listeners it has been found, are aware c* tfcs slightest error in judgment of radio players as to Intervals of time.

APPRECIATION IS SHOWN Night Traffic Handled By High Frequency. Its Timet Special WASHINGTON. March 12. Many letters of appreciation have been received by the Navy Department from broadcast listeners expressing appreciation because of action taken to reduce transmission on Annapolis arc during the “listening" hours. A great deal of former, Annapolis traffic at night is now handled by the high frequency set at the Naval Research Laboratory. Navy Press Is still dispatched by Annapolis, but the schedule has been advanced from 10 p. m. to after midnight. Concerning Condensers The fixed condensers in a receiving set should have mica dielectrics for best results, Do not use condeusors in which \he dielectric is paraffin paper. For the best operation of a set it is Important to make sure the cor ienser is of the proper capacity tor tie part of the circuit for which it is intended.

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It's His Daughter’s Voice

i Georgia's poei laureate, appointed to this honor by the (lovurnor, finds entertainment in listening to his daughter’s voice by ... Frank L Stanton. 68-. year old author m. of such popular pieces as “Mighty , v | Stanton MeG&hee, is a mezzo so- i ,-prano and sings from Station WSII [> BP*'* u • MBf) at Atlant >. Stanton is shown atmve

MUSIC WEEK TO BE BROADCAST Denver Prepares for Spring Event. Bu A’/'4 Service D"1 ENVER, 0010., March 12. Radio listeners of America ___ have two months to prepare for perhaps the biggest music and radio ptfrty ever planned for their ears. Denver's annual music week celebration and nanual spring festival is going to be this party. More than 500 events are planned, most of which will be flashed into the air through Station KOA. Musical organizations of 27 western cities will be represented. The opera, Erminie, will be played and broadcast. More than 40 bends and orchestras will be heard during the week, besides 50 choruses and 00 church choirs. Other features will include community singing, competitive singing, educational lectures on musical- topics and similar stunts. Cross-Word Puzzles on Radio The cross-word puzzle craze has started radio broadcasting stations on the announcement of anew word a day, its meaning and use. A prominent leyiographer takes the mike a minute a every evening and introduces his listeners to the new words.

Indiana Stations Licensed WASHINGTON, March 12.—Four new Class A stations were licensed by the Department of Commerce the past week, while :wo stations were transferred from Claes A to B. The new stations follow: Wavelength Power Call. Station. Meters Watts WHBJ—L&uter Auto Cos,, Ft, Wane, Tnd . 234 10 WHBK—Franklin St, Gar.tge, Ine., Ellsworth, Me.. 231 10 WHBI#—Js. H. Slusser, L.ogara'ort, Ind 220 60 VHEO--Hickson Electric Cos., Inc , Rochester, N. Y. 253 100 Transfer Class Ato Class B:~ ~ *>. KFN—Northwest Radio Service Cos., Seattle, Wash. 184.4 1,000 WO AN—Jaa. D. Vaughan, Lawxe iceburg, Tenn 282.8 600

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 12,1925

INTERFERENCE - IS ELIMINATED Fans Test Tubes at Meeting —Several Join Club. The Broadcast Listeners took in several hundred new members at a meeting Wednesday night at the Severin. About 300 qaembers were present. Several cases of bad Interference reptrted at the last meeting have been cleared up according to a report of the interference committee. A number of -members availed themselves of tire opportunity of testing radio tubes. The club will meet again next Wednesday. ONTARIO JOINS FANS Sets Being Operated Without Government license. Bv Timet Special WASHINGTON. March 12.—According to all reports radio enthusiasm in all sections of northern Ontaria is at Us highest at the present time and the demand for radio sets and accessories is increasing rapidly, says consular advices to the Department of Commerce. Although a Government license is necessary for every set in operation, it is understood that many have failed to comply with the required formality and are still operating their sets without a license.

Plans to Pack Up His Portable Broadcasting Set and March on Troubled Sector —Now Putting His Message on Air at Cairo, 111. Bi/ XKA Service CAIRO, 111., March 12.—Herrin, seething pot of trouble, & going to be “converted” by a radio evangelist. Howard S. Williams, former newspaper man, now a radio Billy Sunday, is going to take his portable broadcasting station to Herrin in April and start a series of evangelistic meetings that it is hoped will bring peace to this coal belt.

Williams has a 10-watt broadcasting station which he sets up at one end of the tent where he conducts his revival meetings. He talks to the audience in the well-known Billy Sunday style, while before him is a large horn with a microphone, through which his voice is carried io thousands of other listeners within reach of his transmitter. Symbolical Call Letters Each evening at 7:15, Williams starts his services here and broadcasts them on a wavelength of 268 meters. Sundays he starts at 7 and on Mondays the station is silent. The call letters are WCBG, for which Williams has concocted the formula “Will Christ Be Glorified.“ With this portable broadcaster, Williams will pack his tent here and on April 26 start a series of revival services at Herrin. He accepted the call fropi Rev. John Meeker, pastor of the Presbyterian Church there, on the plea that “Herrin and this coal belt region greatly needs a religious awakening.” Former News Writer Until two years ago, Williams had been writing and editing newspapers in various parts of the South. Gypsy Smith. Jr , he says, converted him at Hattiesburg, Miss., where lie edited a newspaper. Since then Williams has devoted all his time to evangelism. In seventeen months, Williams figures, he hns had 6.000 conversions, all of which he declares are permanent. Now he talks to overflow crowds almost nigmiy at his tent in this city.

NINE CLASS A STATIONSUOSED’ All Were Affected in Month of February. WASHINGTON, March 12.—Nine Class A Stations were “closed out” during the month of February. They follow: KFDL—Knight Compbell Music Cos., Denver, Colo. KFQD —Chovin Supply Cos., Anchorage, Alaska. KFQE—Dickenson - Henry. Radio Lab., Colorado Spring Colo. WBBD—Barbey Battery Service, Reading, Pa. WEBP—E. Budd Peddicord, New Orleans, La. ’ WJAB—American Electric Cos., Lincoln, Neb. WO^R —Henry P. Lunskow, Kenosha, Wis. WOAV—Pennsylvania National Guard, Erie. Pa. WRAO—St. Louis Radio Service Cos., St. Louis, Mo. Let Tubes Burn Dim To prolong the life of vacuum tubes they should be burned as dimly as possible at all times. Excessive fiiarneni ourrent and plate voltage haa the property of destroying the coating of thorium on the. filament.

1924H00VERCUP i GIVEN AMATEUR AT SANFRANCISCO Station Reached Points Ranging From Africa ot Far Arctic. HARTFORD, Conn., March 12 The highest-honor in amateur radio, the 1924 Hoover cup, has been awarded to a California radio man, B. Molinari, of 653 Union St., San Francisco, It was announced today by the American Radio Relay League special committee. The cup is given annually by Secretary Hcover to the operator of the best amateur radio station in the United States in which the bulk of the apparatus is the handiwork of the operator himself. The 1924 cup is the last of the Department of Commerce trophies now authorized. The station for which the award is made, 6AWT, has been unusually efficient in communication with foreign countries, its signals having been reported by amateurs in Asia, Australasia, South Sea Islands, Europe, Africa, South America, Central America and Danish America. 6AWT was one of seven stations selected by the A. R. R. L. to transmit press reports to Capt. Donald B. MacMillan In the Arctic. In addition to this country and Canada, the station has been in two-way communication with New Zealand, Australia, Asia and other countires. A log of the station’s operation from /an, 1 to Dec. 31, 1924, showed that'lhe station had been used consistently during the entire period and that an average of about forty messages per month had ben handled, all of these having been delivered to destination. EXPOSITION IS PLANNED Department of Commerce Plans Display at Geneva. Bn Times Special WASHINGTON, March 12.—An in. ternational exposition ot wireless telegraphy, which will include the exhibition of moving picture apparatus, talking machines and scientific toys will be held at Geneva from Sept. 23 to Oct. 4, according to consular advices to the Department of Commerce. The exposition will be held in the rooms of the Electoral Palace at Geneva during the session of tho assembly of the League of Nations, when great numbers o' foreigners come to Switzerland. All firms, foreign or Swiss, wao are manufacturers of wireless apparatus, moving picture machines, talking machines, and scientific toys or products are eligible to take part in the exposition.