Long Wa,'e 5 ShortWave (:ents N en's Spots the (:oPY A .-jdllres SJ•.iO Year iVolume III, No. 24 WEEK ENDING JUNE 22, 1934 * Published Weekly This and That "Senate Inquiry Into Fitness of U. S. .- I. ByMorrisBa.tings AT LONG LAST FRANK Radio Commissioners Is Demanded BLACK has given the much publicized premiere of GUERE'S 1------------------------------------------,;, '" "The Red Poppy," music for a • ballet that is now all thc rage in Soviet Russia. 180,000,000 Sets In World Use Dickinson Those who did not expect too much of the Of Iowa Is 'I music probably AIEu·riEl-ges eEln Be Hapl'Y 1 were not dis­ u. S. Leading a p poi n ted, In Brigl"t World 01' HaElio Accusing Those who had All Countries (~~--- hoped for By The MICROPHONE'S Jf'ashinglon S 0 met h i ng · A Few of the Slars ,- Special CorreJpondenJ original a n J In a u atIon . T b I Charges in the United States arresting were ,," DIsplay Famed Senate by Senator 1. J. DICKlN­ let down. A report made by the Interna· Emolion It isn't bad SON (R) of Iowa, that the Fed. tionale de Radiodiffusion of era! Radio Commission is infJu-' music - not at Geneva estimates that 20,000,000 all bad. It Dy JOHN McART enced in its decisions by politics radio sets were sold throughout came as a bombshell. ; simply i s n • t the world during the year 1933, Come, come, my good director, good enough. The Iowan has introduced a bringing the total of sets in world let's have a little more soulful resolution for a senatorial investi.. Mr. HASTINGS "The Red use to 180,000,000. music for this scene. Something Poppy," in oth· gation of the fitness of radio The number of sets in North like "Htarts and Flowers" or commissioners. It was not ex· er words, is graceful, not exciting; America, according to the report, .Moonlight and Roses," with vigorous. not vital; and pretty with­ pected to be passcd. approximatcs 20,500,000. T his plenty of heart-throb in it, will out being moving. Creation of a special sena.. equals the total of sets in use in be excellent. torial committee of five members The love theme, so help me, is Europe, excluding Russia. For when you come to think to i n v est i gate DICKINSON'S reminiscent of nothing so much There are over a million auto- of it, radioland certainly does of­ charges, was called for in a reso- as the Kashmiri Love Song. The mobiles equipped with radio sets fer some outstanding examples of , lution filcd by Senator Hury P. music for the dances in the Chi­ in the United States, the report wedded bliss. LONG, I-ouisiana. Senator Coux· nese tavern stem from the DE­ d.eclares. Not like Hollywood. wher,c ens (R) of Michigan. objected to LIBES tradition of winning pretti· Japan leads other Asiatic coun· they grind out hooey pictures and its immediate con~i£le .Ilion. ness. tries in the tabulation of radio' di"orces ,.... irh ama7.ing regularity consideration. The plot, as described by An­ sets in use, radio sets being pur· and where, snmingly en:ry year, DICKINSON'S fIareup, however, nouncer h.f1LTON J. CROSS, has chased there at the rate of 7200 a star equips herself with a ne,~' pointed to a fight in the Senate the propaganda requiret.l of all q week in 1933 in contrast to mate, to match her new hat or over confirmation of the persons art created in modern Rus:;ia, 6150 a week the previous year. her new automobile. nominated by President Roose­ The huo, for example, is a Ru'i­ While figures on South and Radio stars get marrie.J and VFJ.T to serve as members of the sian Clptain in China who comes Central America are not com· stay married and happy so far BING CROSBY, Cfooner, 1t'ho plap new communications commission to rhc aid of a poor pestered plc:te, it is stated that there arc as can be discecntd with the Ibe gal/anI cat'alier /0 hiJ wile, authorizcd in the DILL bill, coolie. 80,000 sets in Argentine, Chile naked c}'e, DIXIE LEE. which has just been passed by The ,·illJ.ins are some wicked and Brazil, with Chile responsible True, there are a few sour ------------­ Congress. Chinese and an English mer­ for about 46 per cent of that total. notes in this symphony of the Pennsyh'ania's Gretna Grecn and The new commission is to chant. take over all the duties of the But whether or not the music microphonic matrimonial heaven. betook unto himself a stcond Glenn Frank Speaks Only a short time ago, FAY spouse, amidst some public present radio commission and in itself was disappointing, FRANK addition powers of the lnterstate The baccalaureate sermon to the \X!n18 skipped home to Mama clamor. BLACK did a notable thing in pre· Commerce Commissiol) over the dass of '934 by GLENN FRANK: and ReDY, the great Vagabond senting it. ..... Silent Ted Husing telephnne, cable and telegraph president of the University of Wis-l Lovtr, scampered for cover be­ The fact that a work by one The late-st rumble came when companies. consin, wiII be broadcast over the hind a protecting fringe of high- of Russia's outstanding contem- TED HL'SING, queried concerning Should Congress adjourn short- BC.WJZ network Sunday, June Ipowered lawyers. Then GRAHAM (Contin1led all Page 15) '7, from 6 to 6,30 P. M. McNAMI E dashed down to (Col//illllcJ all Page 13) (Continlled on Page '5) -----------(l) Johnson To 20 ¥eE,rs To Contents News '''Iashes PidllIoes = Ta'" on Air A.M. Be Beviewed 7.15 WNAC Gencral HUGH S. JOHNSON, 8.00 WAAft WF..A,N WORC ""'...lAS On June 28, 1914, the bullet News Flashes Box Page 1 WICC WLBZ ""NBH GRACE and EDDIE ALDERT NRA administrator, will be the JO.45 WBZ of an assassin ended the life of 'ft!arriage ill Radioland principal speaker in a program 10.~ WABC oetwork:. WF.AF Net­ Front Cover work (Tues.• lows. 10AS) Archduke fRANC<S FI'RDINAND of 1 Page.r and 13 over the WADC.Columbia net· 10.1' W JZ Network. I Austria and plunged the great BING CROSn y Page :I Federal R a d i 0 CommiJIioll work on Saturday, June 16, at 3 P.M. nations of the world into war. FRANCESCA LENNI, aclrtJI charged wilh polilical favoril· ., P. M. ._- 1 Exactly 20 years arler [nat date, Page 2 iJm Page 1 12.01 WBZ I The program is in commemora­ 12.10 WNAC. Monday, June 28, a program CHARLES O'CONNOR, annolJncer This ,md Thai tion of the first anniversary of J.~ WEAN U JCe WFl:.A ","ORC Wl.DZ WNBH WMAS titled "Twenty Crowded Years' Page 3 b] MORRIS HASTINGS Page' Ithe National Recovery Act. 3.00 WAAD will review the tvents from that 'Embarrasritlg J\fomenlJ 01 6.00 WNAC wlce WFEA \"t"ORC DOUCLAS HOPE} baritone Page 4 Other speakers on the program WMAS WLDZ momentous day to the present Radio'J YOJIIJgeJt AmJot/nur PARKER FFN!'\ELLY, characler will include Governor H. G. 6.30 W hAN WNBH time. The broadcast will be b] CHARLES O'CONNOR Page 3 7.00 WAAB WLDZ aclor Page 6 Kump of West Virginia and oth· 9,45 WAAB heard at 8 P. M. over the W ABC­ 3 11.00 WNAC WEAN WICC WFEA GEORGIE JESSEL, GERTRllDB Ruuia's Radio Jazz Page er state and federal officials. The Columbia network. FREDDIE RICH'S SIalion D/reclory Page 4- WORC WMAS WLBZ WNBH NIESEN, JOHNNY GREEN, program will be heard . from 11.00 WDZ OC(hestra will supply musical JO­ Educalional Box Page 4- IUS WEAF Ncn>.'ork; WADC Net­ EDITH ML"'RRAY, SYLVIA Charleston, West Virginia, where work ter/udes. Radio Lme W]Z Network (Wed. 11.45, Sat. FRODS Page 7 a state holiday has been declared 11.30) The radio review, written by by JIMMIE J. LEONARD Page 5 in observance of the anniversary. CIJ.ARLES TAZ£\\'ELL and pro­ VERA VAN, 'f"ocaliJt Page 8 SttldioJity, by LES TROY Page 5 SUl\'DAYS The broad.cast will originate at duced by COL!'RTNFY SAVAGE, will COLLETTE CARLAY, French Edi/OJ"ials Page 5 A.M. Laidley Field Stadium at Charles· dramatize the main currents of characler Jinger Page 10 The 'Voice of Columbia" Page 7 -8,45 WNAC WEAN WlCC WHA ton where thousands of citizens arc WJ\1AS WLBZ WNBH history from 1914 unlil today. lRENE RICH, moz;ie Jlar Page 12 11.00 WBZ WEAF.WJZ N~'Ofk WEEl Page Page 11 expected to join in the (eJebration Among the highspots of the FRANK CRUMIT, JULIA SANDER­ Short IVat'e Direc/ory Page r 3 Other speakers in addition to P.M. program's re·enactments are: the SON, ETHEL SHUTT...... PORT~ Ref/ecliouI, General JOHNSON an-d Gm'ernor Russian revolution, post~.....ar de­ 6.00 WNAC WEAN 'WlCC WFL\ LAND HOI'FA Page '3 by DIANA HERBERT KUMP will be EnwARD McGRADY, pression, prosperity, LINDBERGH'S Page 15 WLBZ WMAS Wone WNBH JOE COTTON Page 14 Nimbletl'ilJ, assistant secretary of Labor and 6.45 \'('MB flight, gang warfare, the rise of 9,45 WAAB LEAH RAY, JongJ/reJJ Page 15 bJ EVERETT SMITH Page 15 DONALD RICHBrRG, general coun­ 10.45 WBZ MUSSOUNI and HITLER, America's 11.15 WNAC WEAN WlCC W'FIA iA BaJI Crooner sel of the NRA, ~:ORC WMAS WLBZ WNDH depression and the repeal of the PIllL HARRIS, band leader by PIIIL HARRIS Back COL'er The program will lasl one hour.