Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 172, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1926 — Page 30

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ATWATER KENT HOUR WILL BE SHOW FEME Allen McQuhae, Metropolitan Opera Star, to Sing Over WFBM. One of the outstanding features of the Indianapolis Radio Show will be the Atwater Kent Hour of Music, which will be broadcast-from the big crystal studio Wednesday eve ning, Oct. 27, between 8:30 and tf?3o. The featured artist on this pro gram will be Allen McQuhae, Metro politan Opera star, who has been featured on the Atwater Kent programs each Sunday evening during the past summer from WEAF and a chain of fif'-een of the largest broadcasting stations in the country. This program is through the courtesy of Adolf Wagner of the H. T. Electric Company, local distributors of Atwater Kent radio sets, who is bringing McQuhae here direct from New York City. Several weeks ago McQuahae was the featured artist at tha Chicago Radio Show, where he was accorded one of the greatest receptions ever given an artist. During the past several years he has made a number of recordings for the Brunswick Company. This will be the first (time that a Metropolitan opera star ever has been heard over WFBM, the local station of the Merchants Heat and Light Company, Programs will be broadcast each evening from the show between 0 and midnight and will include some of the leading broadcasting talent of the country. Radio fans will have an opportunity of seeing and hearing such famous stars as Ray Miller rnd his Brunswick orchestra, the Ray-O-Vac Twins,*' Lee Simms, the Mona Motor Oil Twins, Jean Alexandra, known as the “Rose Girl of Radio”; Norman Brokenshire, far mous announcer frorrr station WJZ, New York City, and many others. Bailey Fesler and Carl Fohl will announce the program from th'e show with the exception of Wednesday evening, when Brokenshire will handle the microphone.

EXIT* STIFF COLLARS ——_ % Frenchmen Form League Adopting Soilcr Variety, Bil United p rexa PARIS. Oct. 23. —As one consequence of the long wave of tropical heat this summer in Paris, a league has been former whose members promise to abstain from wearing stiff Collars. The annual subscription is six francs, which will be utilized to spread the gospel of soft collar wearing. The founders of the league declare it will mean a saving of 300 francs a year. If all the 10,000,000 men in France-adopt the plan it will mean an annual saving of 3,000,000,00 p francs, or about $100,000,000. Starched collar manufacturers are of course up in arms against the program of the league. The police department of New York, city plans to adopt radio to supplement the telephone system for the apprehension of criminals.

The . Rainbow Hour WILL BE BROADCAST DIRECT FROM THE RADIO SHOW ON M O N D A Y EVENING, OCT. 25. #• YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITEIT_TO SEE AND HEAR THIS PROGRAM Broadcast from the big glass-enclosed studio. Under the personal direction of Mary Traub Busch, contralto. COURTESY OF RAINBOW ACADEMY OF BEAUTY CULTURE

Great Improvement in Sets Made During, Year

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Below, an eight-tube loop receiver, with not a wire to be seen—all shielded for efficiency and appearance. Above, boxes for A and B batteries witli their chargers and wires—compactly set ill for convenience and sightliness.

Radio has changed in the last year as much as the automobile did in ten. Building a receiver, like building your own car, is already almost passe. Only the amateur and real dyed-in-the-wool fans—those who like to tinker with wires and su"ch—still build their own sets. For it doesn’t pay. Nowadays the radio fan can buy a receiver of any kind for much less than it would cost to buy just the parts. The time and trouble in building the feet, and the question whether it will work when finished, are additioal. Yet set building isn’t all that’s relegated to the earlier days of radio —although we’re still in the early stage. The manufactured produeC' itself is quite a revelation. Even the receiver of last fall is ancient compared to that of today. No Wiring Shown Wires are being covered, up. Even the tubes, condensers and other apparatus in the receiver are being arranged knd boxed in shields of copper almost as much for appearance

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as for greater efficiency. The receiver within is a clean, finished product, as opposed to the jumbles of wire still in use through the country. Outside the set, leading to the batteries, the charger, the aerial and the ground, wires made a mess of a pretty living-room corner. They still do today in many homes. But that’s passing also. - Instead we’re coming to loop re ceivers, eliminating the unsightly outside aerial and ground connections. Many loop sets are coming out this fall, sets ranging from six to eight and nine tubes, much more powerful and effective than ever. One Une to Balteries The unsightly storage battery and dry batteries, too, are either being boxed nito compact and attractive form, or are being eliminated. Only one trunk line, now, is required to lead from the receiver to the box that holds charger, A battery and B battery all in one. And there’s another line from this box to the electric light plug. That’s all. Even here, elimination of oqe of

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these two lines Is being sought in the design of a receiver getting its A and B. battery power direct from the electric light line. This immense improvement has not been perfected. The set itself, when finished, is an attractive piece of furniture, far superior to the ngly-dialed apparatus that is now on the decline. Leading cabinet makers are making the boxes and consoles for the receivers, so- that they may be kept on a par with other furniture in a room. That is only for appearance’s sake. Besides, there are many innovations to make the set foolproof and easier to operate—one dial control, freedom 1 from spqeals and howls, greater selectivity even at the low wavelengths, elimination of tube and other noises, greater volume with less distortion of sound. Altogether, the modem receiver, although far from perfect, is a decided improvement over that produced only a year ago. SPECIAL COURSE BEIIMRANGED Will Be for Dealers, Jobbers, Salesmen. NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—A special course in radio, for the express benefit of dealers, jobbers, salesmen and service men has been established by the Radio Institute of America. In order that men actually engaged in the business of selling radio sets to the public might possess more than a mere veneer of radio knowledge, instruction in the simple mechanics of electricity and radio, with labora tory session in wiring, assembling and installing sets, is now being offered. In the opinion of R. L. Duncan, director of the institute, there are two fields open in radio, the traffic or communication field, and practical radio work in radio merchandizing and servicing. He claims that radio men are “trained, not born,” and that most of the large radio organizations possess “directorates of men whose names could b* found on the active list of Government licensed operators in days gone by.’’ It was to more fully cover all branches of the radio industry that the institute recently installed its classes for those engaged in the radio business. Not only are class sessions held, but correspondence courses are offered.

. The “Goodness Gracious Greggorizers” and the “Voice of Gold” Invite their many friends and admirers to see and hear them broadcast from the Indianapolis Radio Show Tuesday Evening, October 26 Between 9 and 10 o’Gock IN The Big Crystal Broadcasting Booth at the Exposition Building at the State Fairgrounds. See and hear the Mysterious “Voice of Gold” who has entertained thousands over WFBM on the Gregg programs during the past year. The “Goodness Gracious Greggorizers” and the “Voice of Gold” are a regular weekly feature over WFBM, Merchants Heat and Light Company, through the courtesy of Dry Cleaners and Dyers

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President of Zenith Dealers * Speaker

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Paul B. Klugli Paul B. Klugh is one of the best known men in the radio industry. He is general manager of the Zenith Radio Corporation. Chicago, president of National Association of Broadcasters and executive chairman of the National Association of Broadcast Listeners. Mr. Klugh will e the principal speaker at the morning session on Dealers Day, Oct. 27. He will talk on “The Radio Business as Affected by Legislation.’V AIR FORCE IS HARD HIT Royal Aviation Corps Has Big Casual! ty List. Bu .United Press LONDON, Oct. 25.—The Royal Air Force of the British Empire has been hard hit this year. In nine months, more men have lost their lives by accident than throughout the whole of last year. On September 23 of this year the sixty-first flying man lost his life in an airplane crash. Last year’s list of fatalities amounted fifty-six. In the seven weeks of August and September, seventeen members of the Royal Air Force perished in aerial accidents. An unusual number of machines have burst into flame after comparatively minor landing mishaps this year.