' ©C1B648974 & Front Panel Assembly of Hetduogen; Super-Heterodyne Trouble ShooItl Presenting Experimenter Supreme; Antenna Coupling for Superdyne Set Radio Di EVERY = PROGRAMS TEN CENTS I U. PAT. REG. S. OFF. & DOM. OF CANADA \/_l VTT Copyright 1925 VOl. JS.ll By Radio Digest Publishing Co. SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1925 No. 3 RADIO HURTS THEATERS ? BROADCASTS TAKE PEOPLE FROM SHOWS Producers in Argument Some for, Some Against Radiocasts —McCormack-Bori Concert Starts Heated Discussion NEW YORK.—Theaters are on the high road to ruin as a result of Radio programs, according to the statements of many aroused theatrical producers and managers, following the first Victor program on the air, with John McCor- mack and Lucrezia Bori star features. On the other hand there are those producers such as John Golden, respon- sible for the greatly successful play, "Lightnin'," who rally to the support of Radio and claim it is the best possible advertisement for a really good play. Other authorities, speaking as the breach (Continued on page 2) WOULD BE GREATEST LINK EVER ARRANGED More Than 35 Stations Would Permit Public to Listen in Throughout Country WASHINGTON, D. C.—An expenditure of some $20,000 is being urged upon the congressional inauguration committee for broadcasting the inaugural address of President Coolidge on March 4. While this matter has not yet been formally placed before the committee, there has been considerable discussion regarding it here. The idea of those favoring the plan is to hook up thirty-five or more broadcasting stations, thereby having the biggest hook-up yet arranged so that every boy and girl in the country will have a chance to hear an inaugural address. There is some opposition among mem- bers of Congress to the expenditure of this sum of money, but it has been sug- gested that part of this at least could be saved in other directions. „ Cr RADIO DIGES T—Illustrated January 24, 1925 **\7ubt?f D0THE U THEATERS CLAIM RADIO HURTS FEEDBACK PATENTS ^JJMULO WORK OF O (Continued from page 1) S. L. "Roxy" Rothafel, who has been OWNER IS DEFOREST broadcasting for two years from the Capi- opens, insist that theaters are killing themselves by overtaxing the public for tol theater, and who claims Radio has in- creased his box office receipts, took a JUDGE BONDY THROWS OUT seats. more rosy view at the "crisis". In the meantime—the battle rages! WESTINGHOUSE SUIT "Radio is nothing can stop it," Brady Calls Radio Menace here— he said. it will harm- Although theaters invariably suffer a "I do not think be Application for Injunction Charging In- ful to the theater. Radio appeals to but falling off on the evenings following holi- fringement by Robert D. Montgomery one sense, hearing. The demand for days, many theatrical leaders looked at entertainment that satisfies the other Disallowed—Affects Many Cases In the their rows of empty seats on New Year's senses will always exist. night, heaved a composite sigh and blamed "Good plays draw as well as ever," he NEW YORK.—The Westinghouse Elec- all their troubles onto the appearance £R05t£¥ &//*/*» continued, "and Radio will not hurt them. tric and Manufacturing company cannot that night of the two important singers bring suit for infringement against Properly used, it will help them. The any at and linked stations. company or using Since the inception of radio, the WEAF public is growing wiser, more discrim- companies the regenera- William A. Brady, famous producer- tive circuit patents. circuits inating, in its tastes, thanks to Radio." These be- results obtained with Armstrong manager, was emphatic in his avowal long to Dr. Lee DeForest and not to the Irish Regenerative Receivers have been that Radio was at the bottom of it all. Radio Aid to "Abie's Rose" Westinghouse interests. witness for broadcasting He seemingly was the first and loudest to Another was Such was the decision handed down by the goal of comparison for all found in the person of Thomas P. Gozzola, sing the swan song. Federal District Judge Wm. Bondy re- of the Studebaker theater, Chi- others. Trick circuits have been "Radio constitutes the greatest menace manager cently in this city, when application for the theater has ever faced," he declared, cago, who some time back, consented, after injunctions charging infringement were designed to get around the Arm- much argument, to a broadcast of "Abie's "On New Year's night I was seated in a filed against Robert D. Montgomery, "act- strong Patent, hoping to obtain re- room with a group of people enjoying, Irish Rose". ing jointly as well as severally" with the free of charge, a musical program over "Never in my twenty years' experience Ambassador Sales company and the Lud- sults "just as good." This has re- theater the Radio that I can only describe as as a Chicago manager has any one wig Baumann company. sulted in the use of more tubes, feature helped patronage like the broad- gorgeous. Why in the world should we go Judge Offers casting from the stage of Abie's Irish Two Courses necessary without, but unnecessary to the theater and pay money? The fault In summing up his opinion, Judge Bondy Rose. By actual count at the box office, is entirely with the men who control the stated that he would force the with regeneration. 2,876 persons mentioned that they had Westing- I heater." house company to accept one of, al- heard the play over the Radio, and this two The Crosley Trirdyn, because it Prohman Says Good Play Needn't Worry ternatives either within the forty-eight hours immediately — dismissal of bill of As a rebuttal to the statement of Mr. complaint as to Mongomery, or confine employs Armstrong Regeneration Frohman, almost as after the actual broadcasting." Brady, Daniel now their petition to a charge that the several and thea- tuned radio frequency ampli- famous in producing and managing McCormack Proof of Pudding* defendants had conspired together. He illustrous father, ex- fication, needs only three tubes. tricals as was his Regardless of what fearsome managers warned counsel for the Westinghouse in- said: pressed his views. He have said about Radio and its influence terests that if they elected the latter The results obtained in selectivity, "A first rate play will always be sold toward keeping people at home, the ex- remedy, they would required The be to prove volume, ease of tuning and logging cut, just as it has been in the past. perience of John McCormack in a concert such conspiracy before he would consider the aver- hits have nothing to fear. But at Carnegie hall soon after his broadcast the merits of their case. cannot be excelled. because it age play, which exists only appearance, seems encouraging. Failure of the plaintiffs to prove such furnishes entertainment to people who His audience overflowed the hall. Every a conspiracy was followed by dismissal Before You Buy—Compare night, is happen to Uc in New York for a seat was sold and as many persons as the of the petition, when Samuel E. Darby, to survive." Your Choice Will Be a Crosley going to have a hard time fire laws would permit were crowded into Jr., attorney for Montgomery, said: "It plays which give value for First class the standing room. will be remembered that the patent in- For Sale by Good Dealers received will survive, according to Everywhere money It had been argued that the broadcasting volved in this litigation is for the so- It is merely case of Mr. Frohman. a of the tenor's voice on New Year's night called Armstrong regenerative circuit, Crosley Regenerative Receivers Are Licensed Under survival of the fittest. would reduce the paid audience at his priority for the invention of which was Armstrong U. S. Patent 1,113,149. Hammerstein on Worried Xiist concerts. Proof contrariwise, however, awarded to Lee DeForest on September 2, Write for Complete Catalog- Arthur Hammerstein, president of the was that the audience was increased, if 1924, in the tribunal of last resort on Managers' Protective association, fears anything. patent office litigation—the court of ap- The CROSLEY RADIO CORPORATION the effect of Radio broadcasting of current But still the battle rages! peals, District of Columbia." Powel Crosley, Jr., President shows' music, and falls in line with Mr. 1494 Sassafras St. Cincinnati, Ohio Brady. Crosley Owns and Operates Broadcasting Station WLW "This practice must be reformed at once," said Mr. Hammerstein, "and our association will take the necessary steps to see that it is done. The music pub- CONTENTS lishers now turn the music over to the big stations who broadcast the scores of Better-Costs Less shows at the same time they are being Radio Digest, Illustrated, Volume XII, Number 3, published Chicago, Illinois, January 24, 1925. Published our weekly by Radio Digest Publishing Company, 510 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois. Subscription rates, yearly, produced throughout the country." Five Dollars; Foreign Postage One Dollar additional; single copies Ten Cents. Entered as second class matter Mr Hammerstein has evidently had a at the postofBce at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. .Radio sudden change of mind, or else he does not let his right hand his left hand know what All the live News of Radio 1 to 8 does, for this last year he was quite will- WOC—First Super Power Station on the Air 4 and 5 ing that the music from his own shows, An Evening at Home with the listener In, a Popular Chart Showing When to "Wildflower" and "Mary Jane McKane," listen for Your Favorite Station 8 were broadcast by Radio.