Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1937 — Page 15
" THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES By Frank Owen
PAGE 15 | Radio Networks Vying for Exclusive Contacts in Sino-Japanese War Zone; Chiang Kai-shek's Wife to Broadcast BRING BATTLE TO RADIO FANS | Tokyo's Case in
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Tokyo's Case in Conflict To Be Presented at 4:45 P. M. Today.
The networks’ battle for exclusive | broadcasts, though fought in New TI ut if NN \ y ! A \ York offices, this week concerns the Wa va it i ; \ PULA (8 fic. | ; ; a 3 far-away Sino-Japanese conflict. ENGINES THA \ , > . \ I \ 3 : : ; Both chains have made overtures
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Opinions by boxing experts on the physical condition of Joe Louis, who defends his title against the British challenger, Tommy Farr, Thursday night, will be broadcast by Clem McCarthy on NBC-Red at 4:45 p. m. tomorrow. Broadcasting from Louis’ Pompton Lakes, N. J, training camp, McCarthy will interview fight followers. The boxers, who virtually have become NBC stars in the last month, are shown above at the microphones, Farr on the left and Louis right,
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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
DO NOT MANY Oro aT HEART?
I'D WAGER that probably half |° the men who marry have not
planned to change their lives very much. They still see themselves going on after marriage, infatuated
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perhaps with their wives, still
dwelling in a romantic dream, yet still doing about as they please, coming home when they wish, handling their money as independently as ever with occasional donations to their wives, still putting their feet on the best g¢hair, still calling their former w: friends, “dear,” etc., ete. Unless a man plans to put away these bachelor things, better take Josh Billings’ advice about marriage: “Don't.”
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POOR JUDGES OF THEMGELVES? VES OR NO
NOT IF you really think you see clearly how you can do it. If you merely desire or wish to do some big thing you are day-dreams= ing. Many boys wish to be doctors or lawyers or business executives,
not because they feel within them- |
selves they have the qualities to sueceed in these lines but because such persons go about well-dressed, have their names on their office doors and look important. But to feel you could learn medicine or law or plumbing or life insurance selling or speechmaking-— that is not egotism, it is sensible self-vonfidence.
HENRY FOSTER ADAMS, Ann Arbor psychologist, secured 50,000 judgments of people on | 63 qualities, Of these, 10.000 were | people's judgments of themselves (and 40,000 judgments of others. | Some people rated themselves about | as others rated them—that is, were | good self-judges. Others were poor self-judges. The poor self-judges were also poor mixers and the ones who had an accurate judgment of their own qualities were good mixers.
NEXT-—Does a business career spoil a woman for love and marriage?
COMMON ERROR
Never say, “I made a dessert with whip cream”; say, “whipped cream.”
Best Short Waves
MONDAY
ROME-5 p. m. News in English. Opera. Interview with Ttalo-Ameri-can Boys. 2RO, 11.81 meg LONDON-<5:30 p. m. Summer in Wales, GSP, 15.31 meg.; GSO, 15.18 mes: GSP, 15.14 meg. GSD, 11.75
HUIZEN, Netherlands —6 0p. Netherlands World Broadcast Central and South America, | 31.2 m., 959 me
PRAHA-6:05 np. m. Military Band, g.
m. for PCJ,
OLRA4A, 11.84 me BERLIN-6:30 p. m, Swabian People. DJD, 11.77 meg. | PARIS 7 p. m, Talk by Mme, Tol stoi. TPA4, 11.72 meg. CARACAS 17:30 B: m. Orquesta Capitolio. YVS5RC, 5.8 meg. BERLIN--7:45 p. m. German Pil grimage. DJD, 11.77 meg. BERLIN 1S p.m. Jolly Broad- — or Old and Young. DJD, 11.77
TOKYO-11:45 p.m. A Nagauta Baia Rocitaiion. JZK, 15.16 meg.
being interviewed by McCarthy.
McCarthy and Edwin C. Hill will be at the microphone for NBC's | exclusive fight broadcast from Yankee Stadium Thursday evening.
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(The Infianapolis Times is not responsible for inaccuracies in program ans nouncements caused by station changes aftér press time.)
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ous” variety on network schedules.
To be sure, there will be some Puccini and Saint-Saens to flavor the “Contented Hour” program at 8 o'clock tonight—NBC-WIRE. This program marks the return of Frank Black from his semivacation. During the past fortnight the busy NBC mastro has conducted only the “Magi Key” Sunday broadcast. The Puccini on tonight's program will be the familiar aria, “One Fine Day,” from “Madame Butterfly.” Vivian della Chiesa will be the soloist. Among the orchestral selections Dr. Black has included the “Entrance of the Clans” from SaintSaens’ “Henry VIII” ballet music.
This latter selection is just another proof of the versatile French composer's adaptability. Though never particularly original, SaintSaens seemed able to write in any style he chose. So the “Entrance of the Clans” is cast in a Scottish idiom as to the manner born. On other occasions, he could be as convineingly Spanish, or again show the influence of such disparate composers as Bach and Berlioz in his work.
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Eva Gauthier, the mezzo-soprano whose originality in program building has been mentioned here before, is to return to the microphone for a second CBS broadcast at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow on WFBM.
I did not hear her first program, but it would seem that she is to repeat a group from that first occasion or, more likely, that there was a program change before. At any rate, a group called “Songs from Childhaod” again is scheduled
Good Radio Music
By JAMES THRASHER
Probably it's too hot to do much heavy and serious music listening | anyway. Which is just anothegy way of saying you won't have to in the next 24 hours, for there is a notable absence of anything of the “ponder-
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will be Stravinsky, Mompou, Bain- | bridge Crist and Reynaldo Hahn.
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For her second sheaf of selections, Mme. Gauthier has chosen “Animals in Song.” Of the six songs in the zoological category, two will be by Alfredo Casella, and one each by | Ernesto Halffter, Stravinsky, Pierne| and Deodat de Severac.
Assigned Lead in| ‘Silver Theater’
Times Special NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-~Rosalind Russell, screen actress, has been signed to headline the first four weeks of the new CBS Sunday afternoon “Silver Theater,” beginning Oct. 5. The new series is to utilize radio dramatizations of well-known plays and original manuscripts, Miss Russell’s agents say. The actress’ new picture, “Live, Love and Learn,” in which she ap-
pears with Robert Montgomery, is!
to be released at about the same time her radio series opens. Her last picture was “Night Must Fall,” also with Mr. Montgomery. Miss Russell recently was heard over CBS in the role of Beatrice in “Much Ado About wap on the
| limited Club,” | run by Don Hastings, now a radio | station manager in Santa Barbara,
| job. Kirby
Hitotsumatsu, member of the
| Japanese House of Representatives
and head of his country's delega=tion to the Inter-Parliamentary Congress. Mr. Hitotsumatsu, who is en route to Paris, landed in San Francisco last Monday, and is now in New York, where he will speak this afternoon. The Oriental conflict is something for radio program executives to get gray hair about. Most Far Eastern stations, it seems, are tied up with official communications, and distance and atmospheric conditions over the Pacific make voice transmission difficult. Either of the big networks would give a great deal of money, we are told, for a shortwave outlet in China. They may, though, have to be satisfied with broadcasts from Manila, where Americans are being taken from the
war zone.
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For radio's newest organization, this department suggests a WFBM “Barly Birds” Announcers’ Alumni Association. “Early Birds” conductors are graduated to other jobs with surprising regularity, and because the jobs are good ones, this mythical organization we're suggesting is quite a tribute to the local station, To begin with, the “Early Birds” feature was originated in Decem= ber, 1935, to replace the “Pep Uninaugurated and
on
Cal. The “Early Birds” first announcer was Don Hancock, now with CBS in Chicago. Don is heard nightly on the CBS “Poetic Melodies” program, and he announces other CBS Chicagooriginated broadcasts, Don's “Early Birds” successor was Ken Ellington, who later became WEFBM's newscaster and who now is a CBS night operations manager in Chicago. Next came Durward Kirby, who like his predecessors, stayed for a while and then went to a new recently went from WLW to Chicago to become staff announcer for NBC. John Holtman then drew the early morning assignment, and though he now is WFBM's chief announcer, he still schedules himself on “Early Birds” for sentimental reasons. 1 ” n
Under guidance of these announce ers, membership in the “Early Birds” club grew to 10,713 members in July, the latest membership checkup. Each of these members, who wrote to the program, received
| a membership card and a personal | letter from the club's secretary, Nore | man Travis, dentally,
Norman Travis, inci is better known as Bill Kiley, WFBM continuity writer, who has written the program's script since its inception. n ” ” If there is anyone around Indianapolis who hasn't heard an “Barly Birds” program, it's for his information that we report the hour-long broadcast includes about 45 minutes of recorded music, with some 90 records played each week. WEFBM has a record library of about 3000 tunes from which Mr, Holtman builds his programs, and new records are purchased weekly to keep the library up to date. Do people generally listen to radios from 7 to 8 o'clock in the morning? Certainly, A recent survey showed WFBM's “Early Birds” the most popular program, either network or independent, in this part of the country between 6 a. m. and noon, A contest not long ago brought 700 replies to one announcement, There's a story about that cone test, too. For three weeks about 20 correct answers were received daily to simple problems. Then the con= test was made more difficult. Seven hundred answers were mailed in, and-=-much to the consternation of WFBM staffers—there were 280 perfect answers. The program department quit ex= perimenting with contests! ” ” ” HE famous Shakespearean char= acter of Falstaff makes a double appearance on radio today. An NBC broadcast from Salzburg this afternoon brought to American listeners the third act of Verdi's “Falstaff,” in which Mariano Stabile, Italian tenor, portrayed the operatic version of the much-discussed character. Then this evening, over CBSWFBM at 7 o'clock, Walter Connolly will be heard as Falstaff in OBS’ transcription of “Henry IV.” Other leading roles will be played by Wal« ter Huston, who has the title role; Brian Aherne, as Prince Hal, and Humphrey Bogart, as Hotspurs
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