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Radio Programs By The Quarter Hour, A Page To A Day Long Wave 5 Short Wave c)\R\AND11140 Cents News Spots the Copy dic Pictures ;43:6 S1.50 Year PlIONE :Volume V, No. 11 WEEK ENDING MARCH 20, 1936 Published Weekly JlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllL This and That E-Radio Reactions In Prison, einsimBy Morris HastingsIIIIIIIIIIIIIII THEREARE few operas indeed -As Described By An Inmate that hold so warm a place in theaffectionsofoperagoersas 1111.1111111111111111111111111111111 PUCCINI'S "La Boheme," which will be broadcast from the stage of the Broadcasts Metropolitan Opera House in New! Coaxial Cable Is Authorized; York City on theafternoon of March 14, over Merit Both both NBC net- Television Possibilities Great works. Reasonsfor&num Blessings the opera's ten- acious popular- ity come read-All May Use Morley Names and Curses 111111r11,1111111111/1111111,111111111 <t> ilytohand. ti11111111.1.111111111111111111111111i111 The workis Conduit ForSuggests Decibel [The MICROPHONE presents filled with it authentic and remarkable human melody,p e r - as Patroness document, the reactions of an in- suasive charm, Experiments telligent member of society to radio unashamed 111111111111111111111111111111111111111 of Radio when he is deprived of his liberty.] sentimentality Action oftheFederal Com- By NUMBER 999 and good hu-munications Commissioninau- By MORRIS HASTINGS MILTON CROSS mor. thorizing the American Telephone Who I. am is not important. There'ssomething about the lib-and Telegraph -Company to lay a CHATTING with CHRISTO- Where I vas imprisoned should retto, too, which MILTON J. CROSScoaxial cable from New York to PHER MORLEY is much make little difference to those who will describe during the broadcast,Philadelphiahaselectrifiedthe like reading one of his nov- read this. that manages -to be appealing de-radio world because of television els or essays. spite the tearfulness of the mainpossibilities in the new cable. Inhisconversationthis Suffice it to say that I was once plot.Witness the fact that MUR- well-known essayist, novelist, arespected member of society, Construction of the cable, be- until one evening I lost control of DER'S. novel from which the libretto columnist, former radio com- lieved capable of transmitting or theautomobileIwas driving, was adapted isstill" widely read,"piping" television for broadcast mentator and an editor of that it was a considerable success as The Saturday Review of Liter- which resulted in the death of a purposes, along with hundreds of pedeStrian. a movie -without music -not sotelephone conversations was or- aturedisplaysthedelightful long ago. dered begun by July 1. friendliness, the wide-ranging A year later I was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and The story, to jog your memory, At the oqlset, under the FCC intellectual curiosity, the con- is setinthestudent quarterof tagious enthusiasm and hu- receivedanindeterminatesen- order, the A. T. and T. must con- tence of one to 14 years in one of - Paris in the mid -Nineteenth Cen-fine its coaxial activities to experi- mor that he does in such tury. The principal characters are books of his as "Shandygaff," the largest and most -up-to-date ment, giving all producers of tele- penitentiaries in the country. a quartet of jolly and penniless ar-visionprojecting andreceiving "Where theBlue Begins," and "Human Being." This is not an autobiography,. tists, who burn their poems andsets an opportunity to test over CHRISTOPHER MORLEY says in the paintings to keep warm and iri,the revolutionary conduit. I encountered Mr. MORLEY but rather the reactions of Inmate accompanying -interview that he999 to the blessings, and. at times 'dulge in all sorts of pranks to stave Ifand whenthetelephone just as he was finishing his luncheon in the grill room probably knows less about radiothe curses, of the radio in a peni- off the landlord; MIMI, the patheticcompany decides to use the cable than almost anyone in America.tentiary. for commercial purposes, it must of a Boston hotel.The in- little seamstress who falls in love trodu-ctions over, Mr. MOR- Twelve years ago, when I left with RUDOLFO, the poet of theapply for a new permit from the rather than hear radio pro- FCC. LEY, his eyes twinkling pleas- college, the radio was still to -be quartet; and MUSETTA who loves grams." fully developed; .the home was In laboratories of RCA, Philco antly behind his tortoise shell MARcELLo, painter of the group, spectacles, remarked.: The next minute Mr. MOR- rare that owned one.Today it and other radio set manufactur- LEY was belying hisintro- has become a permanent fixture in and whose quarrels with him pro-ers, inventors and engineers are "Iprobablyknowless about radio than almost any- ductory disarming statement. almost every dwelling,. so much so, r(Continued on Page z5) (Continued on Page 15) one in America.I overhear (Continued on Page 7) '(Continued on Page 7) .0g1111111111:111111111/8111J1J11111111/1111/111i111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111M111111111111111.1. r111111111111111111I11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111ME11111INIP2c) m De Valera Is News Flashes ,o1111111111111111111111111111E1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111MMEN1112: Contents A.M. WEEKDAYS Recital by E-- - Pictures B11111111111111111111111iiiIiii11111111111111111111111111111H11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111E On The NBC 12.55 WCAU 7.15 WNBX 7.25 WGY Sevitzky 7.30 WAAT 7.45 WLW 7.55 WJZ 511111111111111111111111111111i1111111111111iildli111111111111111111111111111:i1111111111111111111i11111111111ffi News Flashes Box Page A number of special features 8.00 KYW WFBL WOR 8.15 WEAF KDKA WIP A portion of the Jordan HallVIRGINIA CLARK, radio actress will be broadcast over the NBC 8.30 WCAU 9.40 WFBL (Sat.) concert in Boston by the Young The part radio plays in prirfon networks on Tuesday, March 17, 9.55 WABC Network Front Cover life, by NUMBER 999 10.00 WEAF WJZ Networks Musicians Orchestra and the Vo- St. PATRICK'S Day. 10.55 WI.W. 11.30 WNBX CHRISTOPHER MORLEY,,fssayist Pages z and 7 11.45 WPG, Wed. cal Ensemble, under the direction Among the outstanding of the and novelist PageI. Noon KDKA WSYR WIP ofFABIEN SEVITZKY,willbe CHRISTOPHER MORLEY names specialbroadcastswillbethe 11111111111111111111 broadcast over station WAAB onARLENE FRANCIS, actressPage 2 the Muse of Radio Page speech from Dublin, Ireland, by P.M - 111111111111111 Saturday, March 14, from 8.10 to EAMON DEVALERA, president of ROY HARLOW, assistant to the ROY HARLOW and the Metro- 12.10 WGY 12.25 WJZ .1 9 P.M. the Irish Free State, over the com- 12.15 KYW WLW, Sat.; WHAM E president of the Yankee Net- politan Singers Page 3 12.30 KYW, Ex., Sat.; WOR WNBX E a MARGARET HALSTEAD, Metro- bined NBC-WJZ-WEAF networks 12.45 WCAU WAAT 12.25 WBBM ., work Page3 Station Directory _ Page 4 1.00 WEAF 1.15 WFBL (Sat.), !politan Opera soprano, will be at 6 A.M. 1.25 WBBM HELEN-HAYES, actress Page :4 soloist with the orchestra. 5 Editorial Page 5 On the evening of the same 1.45 WFBL, Mon. -Fri.;1.55.WJSV E 2.10 WFIL, Mon. -Fri. 4 The Young Musicians Orches-ROBERT L. RIPLEY Page5 !About Mr. PALEY Page 5day speeches by former Governor 3.00 WIP3.15 WCAU, Fri. 4: etra and Vocal Ensemble were or- ALFRED E. SMITH and Senator Jo- 3.30 WCAU, Wed. BETTY GARDE, actress Page Radio Lane 3.45 WCAU, Mon., Tues., Thurs.- ganized by Mr. SEVITZKY in 1932 SEPH C. O'MAHONEY, of Wyom- 3.55 WJSV, Mon., Wed. -Fri. by JIMMY j -,--LEONARDPage 5 4.15 WSYR, Mon., Wed. andFri. as the result of contests conductedCartoon by DAVID ROSE Page7 ing, will be broadcast by the WJZ 4.45 WLW, Ex. Sat. at a Boston theatre. Educational Box Page 6network from the 152nd annual 5.00 WOR WNBX -4 LAWRENCE TIEIBETT, baritone 5.15 WPG 5.30 WSM. Ex.Sat. 4 Theensemblesalreadyhave Page 8 Police Radio Box Page 8dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. 6.00 WGY KYW WJZ KDKA 4 6.15 WEAF, Tues., 6.10 given two Jordan Hall concerts, :.Children's Page Page 9PATRICK at the Hotel Astor. 6.30 WEAF WIZ WABC Networks; JOYCE WALSH and LESTER JAY, Tues., Thurs. and Sat.4'appeared at the Fens Stadium in child actors Page Weather Reports Box Page zo This program willbe heard WORWvSYR , 9 6.35 WCAU. Sat. .4 1933, have made three appear- from 10 to 11 P.M. 6.45 WHAM 7.00 WBBMI ROSA PONSELLE, dronatic so- WHAM Page Page Is 7.30 WNBX 8.00 WGN ances with, the People's Symphony 9.00 WNBX, Ex. Tues. prano ,Page zo. Short Wave News Box Page 12 From 4.45 to 5 P.M. on March 1 Orchestra, have presented for two 10.45 WPG, F.x. Tues.; WIP; WFBL, a 17, MARTIN BEIRN'S Irish Black- LANNY Ross, tenor Page 13 About some of the Major Mon. -Wed. E consecutive seasons outdoor op- birds will broadcast a special pro- 11.00 WGY KYW WIZ KDKA i BOWES Amateurs PageI3 WLW, Ex. Tues., Sat.; WFIL, 4 eraticperformances-"CavalleriaEVA ORTEGA, Major BOWES, gram of Irish jigs and reels over Sat. ; WCAU, Sat.; WPG, Tues. --7 Short Wave Directory Page13the WJZ network. 11.01 WOE. Ex. Tues.11.I5 WFBL, Rusticana" and two acts of "AIDA" MARY MACPHEE Page 13 Sat. 11.30 WEAF; WLW, Tues. F Q. and also A. zj Page The broadcastfromIreland 1 wjsv -on the estate of Mr. and Mrs.ROSEMARY LANE, vocalist 111111111111111111111111111/1 Midnight11 f.- Reflections sE L. HOBSONinLittle Page14 speech will be preceded by the Sunday News Flashes, Page 4 ARTHUR by DIANA HERBERT Page .1,5tolling of St. PATRICK'S bell. Boar's Head, New Hampshire. ETHEL SHUTTA, singer Page 15 ........11111111111111{11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111114 Page Two THE MICROPHONE Saturday, March 14, 1936 Saturday, March 14 LionelBarrymore OnNBC -WEAF, 9.30. P.M. -211111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Let's Pretend, WABC WCAU WESG, 30 m. :4 P.M. EST; 3 CT 7.45 P.M. EST; 6.45 CT Highlights Uncle, WIP's Playground, WIP, 3o m.