Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 97, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1929 — Page 24

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RADIO VOICE IS AUTHORITY ON ERISHBALLADS Colin O’More Is Recognized for Knowledge of Folk Songs. Colin O'More, one of the best known of radio’s singing voices and one of the largest recipients of letters from jjpung women who find his singing “romantic,” is by way of being foremost authority on French and Irish folk songs in radio. O'More, who has been a microphone performer for several years, and who is now leading man of Philco theater memories, broadcast weekly over the National Broadcasting Company system, and a member of the New Yorkers quartet, an NBC organization, knows the folk music of the two coun' -ics so thoroughly that there is hardly a song that he can not readily identify. O'More studied in Paris four years under the patronage of an American millionaire. During all of those years of work he haunted the national music libraries of France. Thus his studies included more than voice culture. Visits Ireland Later he visited the island of his ancestors, for O’More is thoroughly Irish despite the fact that his birthplace was Heber Springs, in the Arkansas Ozarks. There O’More completed an education in Irish folk music that he began as a child with his parents as teachers. He lived in Dublin and Cork for several years. But Paris and Ireland were not the lone theaters of O’More's successes before he returned to Jtiis native land. In London he gave a series of concerts under the patronage of the great Melba. These led to private recitals in the homes of England’s bluebloods. , O’More began his musical career in a tiny motion picture theater in the Arkansas Ozarks. Asa child he studied the piano and when he was sixteen years old he obtained a job hammering the ivories for the motion pictures. In those days the picture magnates flashed verses of popular songs on the screen and gave the audience the pleasure of singing with the songster. One week the song was: "Love Me and the World Is Mine.” The paid singer couldn’t hit the high C which was one of the prominent features of the song. O’More volunteered and performed with such success that he was promoted to singer and his pay raised to $3 a week. Joins Opera Company Later he joined an itinerant opera company which disbanded in Kentucky when the treasurer disappeww* with the funds. O’More fell in with a Kentuckian who had a daughter and son studying in the College of Music in Cincinnati. O’More went there and it was there that the millionaire heard his voice and put up the money for his extensive European training. O'More’s specialty is the singing of the ultra modern songs. Leopold Stokowski, one of the foremost exponents of the modern school, is one of his thief admirers. This fall at Carnegie hall, O’More is to have the leading role in three modern French operas. Stokowski w T ill wield the baton. O’More’s chief diversion away from the microphone is cooking, and he claims ability to prepare food ot the most tempting variety with no effort at all. He also plays golf.

CHANTIES AND SONGS OF SEA IN NEW HOUR Barytone Solos, Orchestra Music and Stories on Program. A program of sea songs and chanties by Earle Spicer, Canadian barytone, light classical music by an orchestra under the direction of Louis Katzman and anecdotes by an accomplished raconteur will be introduced to the radio audience when “The Puller Man” is heard in its premier broadcast through stations associated with the National Broadcasting Company Sunday evening at 8:15 o’clock. Although Spicer Is well known to radio fans of the continent, having broadcast through 2LO, London, and associated stations of the British Broadcasting Corporation, he has not previously appeared before the microphone in America. Spicer, of British birth and ancestry. served four years with the British forces during the Warld war. After his discharge he studied under Victor Beigal and Frederick King, and in 1922 made his first concert appearance in London. He has since sung with the leading orchestras and oratorio societies in the principal cities of Great Britain and in Paris. Brussels and Lisbon. In March. 1926. he made his American debut at Aeolian hall. New York, and has since appeared as soloist with the New York Symphony orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra, the Westchester Festival and the Toronto Mendelssohn choir.

CARLIN SAID TO BE NBC STRONG MAN Phillips Carlin. NBC announcer and assistant eastern program director, may not look like a circus strong man, but during a recent program he performed a feat of strength that had the other performers gaping. One of the singers, a woman, missed her cue to go to the “mike.” Carlin crossed the studio, picked up the chair with the woman in it, and carried both to the microphone. Friday Big Night If variety is the spice of life, station WLW. Cincinnati, takes the prise. Friday programs at that station run until 5 o'clock Saturday morning, the five hours from midnight being devoted to variety and miscellaneous entertainment.

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Radio receiving sets of the type it is proposed to install in police cars in Indianapolis are pictured here. Above is an installation in one of Detroit’s police cars, so located as to be “tuned” by officers in the rear seat. Batteries are beneath the floor boards. Below is pictured the interior of the set, identical with the type planned for Indianapolis. A “tone arm” giving loud speaker volume does away with the necessity of ear phones. A central broadcasting station flashes crime news to the squad cars. It is claimed that police radio is an effectual deterrent to crime as well as a great aid to the capture of criminals.

CROSLEY MAKES EXTENSIVE LINE Wood and Metal lnc!uded*in New Cabinets. Departing from their usual custom of manufacturing only radio receivers housed in metal cabinets and employing straight heater tube type neutradyne circuits, the Crosley Radio Corporation has announced a line for 1930 including models in wooden consoles, art metal cabinets, and employing both heater type and screen grid tube type radio frequency amplification. Heading the new Crosley list is the Crosley 82 receiver, a console model of walnut veneer designed by artists and powered by master engineers. This model comes with either one of two chassis, one designed as 82-S, being an eight-tube set employing eight tubes, three of which are 224 screen grid, and includes a 280-type rectifier tube. The 82-H receiver housed in the same attractive cabinet uses four heater tube types, amplifier tubes and a 280 rectifier, making eight in all. Both, of course, are for A. C. operation. For those homes and offices equipped with direct current, the same console housing chassis is shown as the .83. Features of 82-S The chassis, which is the heart of the 82-S model, is the Crosley Unitrad. the screen grid receiving unit which was the sensation of the Chicago R. M. A. trade show, an eighttube set that may be installed in any console. In addition to being used in the 82-S, this unit is also installed in the Crosley 41-S. the receiver of airplane delivery note, and the 42-S. The tubes required are three 224 type screen grid, two 227 type heaters and two 245 amplifying tubes used in a push-pull hookup. The rectifier is the 280 type tube. The cabinet housing the 40-S chassis and designated the 41-S is a metal case that combines the essentials of beauty and radio performance. It is finished in burled walnut and decorated in white metal. An added feature in the 1930 line is the adaptability of all metal cases to legs. These models may be used on tables or stands if desired or, in a few minutes with use of a screw driver, be converted into models standing on their own legs. Besides the 41-S with the screen grid circuit, this same metal case model is furnished equipped with four heater type tubes, amplifiers and 280 rectifier and. so set up. is known as the 41-H. The same cabinet housing an eight-tube and. c. 1 chassis is known as the 61.

Remarkable Value in 31 ! The junior metal case model, re- | placing the Gembox of 1929 fame, as the lowest price efficient A. C. receiver on the market, is the Croslev 31. Tt is panelled in bnr’ed walnut fnlshed ar.d decorated in whit? metal. C'onstructed with infinite care and painstaking attention to the minutest detail, the 31 is, according to Croslev engineers, the most remarkable value in radio hlstorv. , The mass production methods, long practiced in the Croslev factories and which have enabled rvoclev to lead in the low-nrioed Oeld have made possible the values found in the 31. It Is a seven-tub® A. C. receiver, including one 280 rectifier tube employing grid-to-grid neutralization according to genuine neutrodyne patents and using

Careful Men While all National Broadcasting Company announcers must be careful to speak the language precisely and clearly, the announcers who read the daily stock market report over the NBC system, must be more than careful. Clear, easily understood pronunciation is almost a mania with them. Before they go on the air with the report they often read it over several times to be familiar with the various terms. The fact that a mistake might cause some listener an actual loss, is the reason for the super-carefulness.

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RADIO MAKERS OFFER SUPPORT TO GOVERNMENT Co-Operation to Be Given in Educational Campaign. In the government’s effort to stimulate the use of radio more widely in schools and other educational institutions, the special advisory committee on education by radio, organized by the interior department, is to have the active cooperation of the Radio Manufacturers’ Association, the national organization of prominent radio producers. The manufacturers’ board of directors, at a recent meeting at Niagara Falls, Ontario, voted unanimously to cordially accept a general invitation to the radio industry to assist in a national campaign making radio of wider utility in education. President H. B. Richmond of the Radio Manufacturers’ Association wiLl appoint a committee to confer with Secretary Wilbur of the United States department of interior regarding measures of cooperation between the radio manufacturers and the federal advisory committee. The entire resources of the Radio Manufacturers’ Association will be placed at the disposition of Secretary Wilbur and the department’s advisory committee to assist the latter in any way to make radio a greater educational factor. The chairman of the federal advisory committee is William John Cooper, United States commissioner of education of the department of the interior, and the committee includes Judge Ira E. Robinson, chairman of the federal radio commission; President M. H. Aylesworth of the National Broadcasting Company; President William S. Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting system, and many prominent national educators. The Radio Manufacturers’ Associations’ board of directors also voted to give the radio public another series of special Radio Manufacturers’ Association programs, beginning next fall. Many of the large manufacturers will arrange a special R. M. A. program, to be contributed and broadcast weekly, similar to the successful series of nearly a score of R M. A. programs which were broadcast last spring. PIANO DUETS HAVE BEEN WORKED OVER Art Is Injected Into Old Time Musical Custom* Piano duets—which once formed such a fine opportunity for two people to sit close together on the same piano bench—have been revolutionized in these later days of entertainment by the provision of a personal piano for each haif of the duet. Phil Ohman and Victor Arden, the pianomaniacs of the old Roxy radio gang, who are to be guest artists of the General Motors Family Party, with Buick host, over the NBC at 7:30 p. m. Monday are largely responsible for the change. Providing two pianos is reported to have made dueting more of an art than it ever was before. Also it is said to give each of the artists an opportunity to do his stuff without the danger of getting his hands mixed up with those of his companion—as was the case in the old days. It gives each artist a chance at the whole piano—and a chance to demonstrate how careful timing and expert manipulation of the ke”s may be made to do quite a number of things the front parlor duets on the old square piano never intended should be done. Radio’s Lon Chaney G. Underhill Macy, CBS artist of “Show Boat” fame, is known as the Lon Chaney of radio, because of his ability to change his voice from one character to another.

Stars of the Radio Firmament

[urphy's Boarding House” program eard over the Columbia broadcasteaoty than Dolores Cassinelli. ra- | Franklyn Baur is the exclusive p j|||f| irestone artist, who will bj heard iJjH _ might on the “Voice of Firestone” rogram over the National broad- M. isting system at 6 o'clock. Baur is Jgp Ppp|||| ae of the best known of America s collection of glistening names J B? rs * . . that add to the glamour attached WM There is no more popular name radjo )day on the concert stage and ra- —Helen Mayfair, elli, lower, Franklyn Baur, and. io than that of Remald Werren- D Oro thy Mayfair, Dolores Cassin- Reinald Werrenrath. GVi Daccocci rr o trAino " "

The Mayfair sisters, Helen and Dorothy, in their short time on the air have established themselves in the hearts of listeners with their harmony duets. They are the talented roomers in the “Mrs. Murphy’s Boarding House” program heard over the Columbia broadcasting system each Sunday evenirife at 6 o'clock in the La Palina hour. A more perfect example of Latin beauty than Dolores Cassinelli, radio and move star, is hard to imagine. She was featured in the first of a series of programs of the Marvih musicians which started Saturday night over the National broadcasting system. This hour will be a regular feature at 6 30 on this night. Franklyn Baur is the exclusive Firestone artist, who will bj heard tonight on the “Voice of Firestone” program over the National broadcasting system at 6 o’clock. Baur is one of the best known of America’s tenors. There is no more popular name today on the concert stage and radio than that of Reinald Werrenrath, baritone. Possessing a voice that is marvelous in its quality and power he is unstinting in his answers to the public demand for more of his time. LARGE BUSINESS DUE TOSERVICE R. G. Chrisney Is One of the Oldest Radio Men. Ray G. Chrisney, who operates the radio department at the FullerRyde Music Company, is one of the oldest radio men in point of service in the city. Chrisney has been connected with radio both in the army and private life for the past twelve years. His first experience dates back to the old days of the crystal set, when with a small crystal and a few hairpins one was able to get the time signals from as great a distance as twenty-five miles. For the past year he has operated the radio department at the FullerRyde company, where a complete line of Majestic, Atwater Kent, Philco and R. C. A. may be found at all times. Chrisney employs an experienced corps of trained radio salesmen and service men and has built up a large business through the service he has given his customers. Chrisney will have a display at the fair grounds during the radio show this week in connection with several other dealers and is looking forward to a large fall and winter business due to a very popular payment plan recently inaugurated in the merchandising of the various sets carried in stock.

COLUMBIA HEAD IS ADVERTISING MAN

William S. Paley One of Country’s Youngest Executives. One of the oustanding events of the radio world has been the rise of William S. Paley, president of the Columbia broadcasting system. At the age of 27 he heads one of the largest broadcasting companies in the world. There is no accident or trick oi fortune connected with Paley’s sudden appearance in_a position of tremendous importance and responsibility. In spite of his youth, his training for years has all tended in this direction, and his interests have led him to devote much time and thought to the subject of radio. Paley was born in Chicago and received his grammar school education in the public schools of that city. His college preparatory work took him to the Western MilitaryAcademy at Alton, 111. He returned to Chicago for his freshman year at college, where he studied at the Univrsity of Chicago. In 1919 Paley continued his college studies at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from that institution in 1922 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Economics. Before long he had earned the position of vice-president and secretary, and was put in complete charge of the national advertising and production. Devoting much time to the subject of tobacco, he became an expert in that field.

It seems a far cry from tobacco to radio, but it will not be difficult to trace back the working of Paley’s mind on this subject. As advertising head of the Congress Cigar Company he had interested himself in every angle of this field, and had decided that radio broadcasting as an advertising medium held untold possibilties. Among its sponsored hours are some of the best known features of the air, such as the Old GoldPaul Whiteman hour; Majestic Theater of the Air, De Forest, Kolsier Radio, True Story, La Palina; Sonatron, Ceco Couriers, True Detective Mysteries, Doc West, Nickle Cinco-Patters, Temple hour. And on its sustaining programs some of the best known features of the air are: Hank Simmons Show Boat, United States Navy b&nd, Voice of Columbia, United States Marine band; National Radio Forum, symphonic hour, Around the Samovar, , Arabesque, In a Russian Village.

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SEPT. 2, 1929

POOR RECEPTION SOMETIMES HAD IN APARTMENTS Building Itself Is Found to Be Chief Cause of Trouble. Apartment house radio listeners during the past few months have sent in complaints that theeir radio receeivers were slowly going bad, or that they were only getting one or two stations with enough volume to be satisfactory. Most of the complaints have laid the blame to interference and a suggestion that perhaps the receiver itself w r as to blame. Most of the trouble in apartment house installations originates in the building itself has been the finding of the Times Radio Interference department. In most of the buildings a considerable amount of stel has been used in the construction. This forms a shield around the radio set, keeping it from picking up the broadcast programs it would get ii it were on the outside. Carries Interference Another feature of this steel construction is that it carries to all parts of the building any interference that originates there, from motors, electric applances, etc. The other feature is that everyone in an apartment building uses the same ground, the cold water pipe, and in this way interference is transmitted from one apartment to another. Another cause is the common 110 volt supply line used by all residents in the same building. The meters and individual apartment supply lines center at a common junction point and whatever interference comes in from the outside, or from one of the individual line, is immediately passed on to all the others. Filter Is Remedy One remedy for such a situation as this is to install a line filter, a device contructed to take out unwanted noises from the power line, at the radio set. Individual installations are recommended. Two such devices recently tested out by the Times radio department are Filtervolt, and Tobe Filterette. NEW PROGRAM WILL OPEN NEXT SATURDAY Manhattan Symphony Orchestra to Be Weekly Feature. Beginning Saturday evening, Oct. 5, the Gulbransen company of Chicago will sponsor what promises to be one of the most noteworthy series of radio broadcasts on the air at the present time. A. G. Gulbransen, president of the Gulbransen company, has signed a contract with the Columbia broadcasting system for a half hour on the air, with Henry Hadley, conductor of the Manhattan symphony Orchestra in New York City, engaged to present the programs with a group of musicians known as the Gulbransen symphony orchestra. This fact in itself assures the radio audience and music lovers throughout the country programs of the highest quality, and musical treats such as are seldom heard on the air.