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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1932 Fall Activities in the Broadcasting, Studios Interviews With the Stars 6 Out of a 6lue Sky Philharmonic Symphony T-l 1 A 1 returns to ine ruruuieb Return of Metropolitan Opera to the Air Charleg Role Starting Tomorrow The Columbia Lineup Warburton in Another of Football Broadcasts 1 By JO ANSON Benson. latercoming to America to work with Walter Hampden. This was followed by a sojourn In Boston with Henry Jewett's company. When radio became a potent force in our social system, Warburton decided to make a name for himself in this newer art. It did not take him long" to reach the heights of success in radio acting and today his name Is Indeed a familiar one in thousands of homes where radio ranks supreme.

Warburton has just been angaged to play the part of Nailand Smith, leading role in the new Dr. Fu Manchu mystery dramas scheduled Oct. .12 (Columbus Day) Boston College-Centre College, at Boston Oct. 15 Army-Pittsburgh, at West Point. Oct.

22 Yale-Army, at New Haven. Oct. 29 (tentative) Notre Dame-Pitt, at Pittsburgh. Nov 5 St. Mary's-Fordham, at New York.

Nov. 8 (election day) C. C. N. Y.Manhattan, at New York Nov.

12 Notre Dame- Northwestern, at South Bend. Nov. 19 at New Haven. Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving) at Philadelphia Nov.

26 Army-Notre Dame, at New York. Dec. 3 Army-Navy, at Philadelphia. Dec. 10 Southern Callfornia-Notre Dame, at Los Angeles.

Dec 17 California-Georgia Tech, at San Francisco. Weber and Fields Tonight I earnestly recommend your presence at the loudspeaker tonight at 10:45 p.m. for over WJZ at that time you will hear the voices of, many celebrities present at the Weber and Fields golden Jubilee dinner In the Hotel Astor. The entire show will be under the direction of Gus Edwards. Toastmaster for the occasion will be William Collier who has just arrived from the Coast.

In addition you will hear William A. Brady, Frank Gilmore, Daniel Frohman, Grover Whalen, Sol Bloom and Harry Hershfield. Joe Weber and Lew Fields have certainly established a record in the theatrical world by sticking closely together for 50 years. I don't know of any other theatrical team In the world that can boast of such a consistent amiable partnership. May they be with us for a long, long time to come.

Tonight's broadcast will run from 10:45 p.m until midnight, Pfiiif Wing, 'The Story on ilium J' L'Wii'. I Vf'-f A I i i 1 Is i PTflHY Feart, former 'Follies' beauty, will be interviewed on Wedne- day, Sept. 28, at 10:15 AM. over WABC. In private life Mitt Feart V' Lr it the wife of A.

C. Rlumenthal. ductor of the San Francisco Symphony. Dobrowen is also distinguished as a piano virtuoso and composer, having written nurreroua piano. sonatas, songs and violin selections.

Soloists during the scries of broadcasts will include Egon Petri, distinguished Dutch pianist; Lotte Lehmann, internationally known dramatic soprano; and Osstp famous Russian pianist, composer and conductor. In addition to the Sunday afternoon broadcasts, the Columbia network will carry the 12 children'! and young people's concerts arranged by the Young People's Concerts Committee of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society. Under the direction of Ernest Schelling. the-programs and explanatory talks by Schelling will be transmitted direct from Carnegie Hall each Sunday morning at 11 a.m., beginning Nov. 12.

The detailed program schedul follows: Sunday Afternoons, to 5 P.M. From Carnegie Hall, Oct. 9 and 23; Nov. 6 and 13; Dec. 4.

11 and 25; Jan. 15; Feb. 5 and 12; March and 26; April 2. 9. 16 and 23.

From Metropolitan Opera House, Oct. 30, Nov. 27. Dec. 18, Jan.

8 and 22; Feb. 25, March 12. From Brooklyn Academy of Oct. 16, Nov. 20.

Jan. 1 and 29; Feb. 19 and MarcTi 19. Saturday Mornings, II A.M. to 12:30 P.M.

E. S. T. From Carnegie Hall, Nov. 12.

19 and 26; Dec. 3, 10 and 17; Jan. 7 and 21; Feb. 4 and 25 and March It and 18. Airy" Chats A Few More Happenings Mr.

Schudt Will Never Forget More Things I'll Never Forget: A tap dancing act which I worked over for weeks to obtain for Columbia's television station. Finally landed the program. The night of the broadcast the dancer hired a pianist who had never been on the air before, fie was very nervous. Both arrived two hours ahead of the scheduled time. Finally the) hour arrived.

I introduced both. Turned around and discovered that the tap dancer was ready to perform but his pianist had been struck by microphone and television fright and hopped into an elevator and ran far away from the studio! The first radio show in New York because none of the heralded radio receivers would work at all. Too much steel around them. Danny, the elevator boy at the Manhattan headquarters of the Columbia Broadcasting System, because he effervesces like a bottle of soda pop shaken violently and because he kids all the celebrities and radio stars, without offending. Anna Case's real radio debut in 1919 over amateur telephone (wire less) station 2ABA right here in Brooklya It was owned by Dr.

Parker- and was located on State St. near Clinton. Her broadcast brought enthusiastic reports from radio operators aboard ships and amateurs, for, in those days, dear radio listeners, there were no BCL's (broadcast listeners). An amateur engineer who lately complained of having a fever every week or so. He traced his malady to experiments he was conducting on the ultra short waves.

Remember how a college produced artificial fever with them? Nothing dangerous though. The old WABC program, "Musie and Musings of Dr. Mu," because it required a Chinaman to read the continuity. We auditioned sixty Chinamen and none sounded like one. Finally we hired an expert character man an American who sounded most like a Chinese I The time Vincent Sorey, conductor of the C.

B. S. Gauchos Sunday night programs went to the wrong station for a commercial audition and fretted for an hour because his men hadn't arrived. When he discovered his error he rushed to the other station and found his men had successfully presented the program and clinched the hour for him. Bob Taplinger and his radio debut.

At the last minute he wm asked to read reports of the progress of the initial trip of the Graf Zeppelin. Nervous and shaky, Bob faced the WABC microphones back in Steinway Hall and read the first announcement. The hostess rushed into the studio and handed him another. Without stopping to read the second he put it on the air. It was an exact duplicate of the first! Was his face purple? i A television fan letter I just received from Shreveport, La.

The writer says he looks and listens to W2XAB, C. B. S. New York, every night and entiiir hundreds of guests each evening. Frederick Bate to Be N.B.C.

Representative in Europe Frederick Bate, formerly connected with the Reparations Commission, has been named European representative 0f the National Broadcasting' Company, according to an announcement by John W. Elwood, N. B. C. vice president.

Sate sailed last Tuesday night to establish headquarters in London. Dr. Max Jordan will continue Central European representative of the National Broadcasting Company with headquarters at Berne, Switzerland. The New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra will be heard In 42 concerts in its third consecutive season of broadcasts over WABC, beginning Sunday, Oct. 9, from 3 to 5 p.m.

The broadcasts will continue throughout the 1932-33 season, ending April 23. The programs will originate from Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Starting its 91st season, America's oldest symphonic organization will comprise the same personnel as the orchestra of last year. Conductors for 1932-1933 will be Arturo Tos-caninl, Bruno Walter and Issay Dobrowen. Returning to this country for his eighth consecutive year, Toscanini will direct during the first eight and last eight weeks of the season, from Oct.

3 to Nov. 27, and later from Feb. 27 to April 23. Walter will conduct from Dec. 26 to Feb.

26, a period of nine weeks; and Dobrowen will officiate for the four weeks from Nov. 28 to Dec. 25. Both Toscanini and Walter are well known to the American audience, but Dobrowen will be making his microphone debut )n this country. One of the outstanding younger conductors, he Is a native of Russia and a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory.

In 1917 he was made a professor at the Moscow Academy and at the same time was engaged as conductor of the Moscow Opera, where he remained until 1922. Meanwhile his reputation had spread throughout the Continent, and he was called to Dresden, Berlin, Sofia and Oslo, conducting for a season In each city. His first appearance was Jn 1930 as guest com- League of Nations Program Over WABC Sir Eric Drummond, secretary-general of the League of Natioas; Vernon Bartlett, London representative of the League, and President of the Irish Free State Eamon de Valera, will speak at the official opening of the League of Nations radio station In Geneva, Switzerland, from 6 to 6:15 p.m. today. The program will be received In the United States and broadcast over the WABC-Columbia network.

Although the League of Nations station has been operating experimentally for many months, today's program. will mark the first of a series of programs about the League, and by League officials and proponents, to be broadcast to this country regularly, Effie Shannon in 'Roses and Drums' Effie Shannon, who has played more than 100 important stage roles since her debut in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at the age of 7, will make her first appearance before a radio audience today in "Roses and Drums," over WABC from 5 to 5:30 p.m. In today's episode of the radio saga of the American home Miss Shannon will piay the role of Martha Wright, in whose Baltimore home Francis Scott Key first exhibited the copy of the poem that was to become the words of "The Star Spangled Banner." Miss Shannon's first stage part, that of Little Eva! was played in 1874. From that day on the stage has been her home. She played with Robert Mantell, and under such directors as Augustin Daly, the Frohmans, Belasco, Winthrop Ames and Al Woods.

"The Fatal Alibi" and the revival of "The Truth About Blayds" were among her best known She has also appeared in motion pictures. Rabbi Levinson Over WMCA Rabbi Samuel J. Levinson of the Temple Beth Emeth of Flatbush will speak on "Let the Righteous Enter," a Jewish New Year's message, at noon today during the regular weekly broadcasts of the American Hebrew Forum over WMCA. Iliggins thm Brooklyn Pnr amount thlt MB. MERLIN H.

AYLES-WORTH'S statement last week that Metropolitan Opera will again be carried to millions of listeners in the United States and Canada over N. B. C. networks was greeted, no doubt, with sighs of relief from conscientious music listeners. It would have been a blow had the Metropolitan Opera Company decided to stay oft t'ne air this Winter.

I shall never forget the many grateful letters which the National Broadcasting Company, the Metropolitan Opera House, as well as the wore oi communications wis ur- broadcast lowed stage of the Met. Portions, or at least one regular performance, will be aired each week this Winter, according to Mr. Ayles-worth. No mention is made of who will be the narrator, but I hope it will again be Deems Taylor who did a splendid Job of It last year. The broadcasting of the Metropolitan Opera is a privilege that the National Broadcasting Company has no intention of foregoing," said Mr.

A5'lesworth. "The enthusiastic reception accorded last year's programs leaves no doubt that opera has a place on the air. Increased attendance at the opera house as a result of the broadcasts has proven also that radio equipment has a place in the opera house. "During the coming season we confidently expect even greater evidence of this. Thousands of persons to whom grand opera previously was a closed book have discovered in these broadcasts a new source of delight.

To further stimulate their Interest in the best in music and to provide for their continued enjoyment of it. is a service that the N. B. C. is proud to perform At a later date the N.

B. C. will release a definite schedule of operas to broadcast from the stage of the Metropolitan. Warburton on Radio Many readers will recall the stage appearances of Charles Warburton, the English actor For a time he was associated with Sir Francis From London Shaw, Beerbohm Among Celebrities to Be Heard From London J. B.

Priestley, Harold Nicolson, A. P. Herbert, George Bernard Shaw, Lord Byng, Evelyn Waugh, Gerald Heard, Desmond Mac-Carthy, Stella Benson and Max Beerbohm those British celebrities will be the speakers on a series of ten broadcasts, "To an Unnamed Listener," to be heard over WABC every Monday beginning Oct. 10, from 4:20 to 4:40 p.m. The authors will speak in the above order, from the London studios of the British Broadcasting which will relay their talks to the United States.

Ordinarily, the speaker at a microphone sees no audience, hears no applause; his phrases fall upon empty air and echo away into silence. Why not, for a change, give him- a listener of his own choice one to whom he can address himself directly? One of Britain's best-selling authors, J. B. Priestley, has been accused of catering to popular taste; what he has to say will be addressed "To a Highbrow." On the other hand, Harold Nicolson. super-highbrow aristocrat, complete with Oxford accept, frequently criticized for a patronizing manner, will have much to say "To a Lowbrow." A.

P. Herbert, star satirist of Punch and author of books and musical comedies lampooning British morale and respectability, will have good advice to give "To a Home Secretary." George Bernard dear old boobs in Shaw rill speak directly, and probably not very gently. "To a Politician." Viscount Byng, septuagenarian regenerator of London's police force, ought to give valuable advice To a Young Man," while youthful Evelyn Waugh, who wrote "Decline and Fall" and "Vile Bodies" while in his twenties, will be equally interesting in a talk "To an Old Man." Gerald Heard, youni; scientist who broadcasts weekly from the B. B. C.

studios to a British radio audience, will have something to say "To a Doctor," and literary critic Desmond MacCarthy will answer the people who criticize critics when he speaks "To a Daydreamer." Stella Benson, novelist and commentator on life in three continents, should know whereof she speaks in her address "To a Budding Novelist." What should prove a smashing wind-up to the series will be provided by Max Beerbohm. veteran satirist, "caricaturist of Victorian wit. friend of kings and dukes, and watcher of the passing show since the Naughly Nineties. His unnamed listener remains a secret. Methodist and Catholic Periods 011 Air Todavi Colnmbia's Church of the Air for today will include a Methodist Episcopal service conducted by the Rev.

Frederick Brown Harris, D.D.. pastor of the Foundry M. E. Church of Washington, and Catholic period conducted by the Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, prominent religious editor.

r-, unn- tiMii riovnip his sermon to "Mistaken Magnitudes" during 1 the morning period to be broadcast over WABC from 10 to 10:30 a.m. The Roman Catholic nail-nour will be broadcast p.m., originating studios. from 1:30 to Zj in the wauui I i to start over WABC tomorrow night interesting to note at this time the abundance of mystery dramas on the alrlanes these days. Sherlock Holmes, the Octopus, Crime Club and a raft of others have hit the air apparently to remain with us for long while. They are a welcome relief to feeble singers.

Football on the Air The Columbia Broadcasting System, in arranging its schedule of football games, has gone from Mid-dlebury College In Vermont to the University of California In order to bring you the cream of the season's gridiron clashes. Altogether, Columbia will air 19 games, the first of which was broadcast yesterday afternoon when Middlebury College met Columbia University at Baker Field. Four of Army's games will be aired over WABC the games against Pittsburgh, Yale, Notre Dame and Navy, in that order. The last game scheduled for an airing is the University of California-Georgia Tech clash in San Francisco on Dec. 17.

For local fans Columbia has arranged to broadcast the C. C. N. Y.Manhattan College contest on election day, Nov. 8.

Of course Ted Husing- will do most of the announcing for Columbia and as usual, Les Quailey, former Alfred University quarterback, will act as Ted's observer. The complete schedule follows: Oct. 8 Nortwestern-Michigan, at Ann Arbor. Sax Rohmer to Talk On Present-Day Crime Sax Rohmer, international known English criminologist and author of mystery stories, will be heard over WABC In a discussion or contemporary crime from 12:30 to 12:45 p.m., today. He will be interviewed by Steve Trumbull, Columbia writer, in the Chicago studios.

The author is expected to give his views on improving the efficiency of police; methods. Rohmer recently 'arrived in the United State for the purpVse of supervising the production of his series of "Fu Manchu" radio dramas to be broadcast over WABC, beginning tomorrow at 8:45 p.m. World Premiere of Cadman's Opera Charles Wakefield Cadman's new opera, "The Willow Tree," written expressly for radio, will have Its world premiere over WEAF on Monday, Oct. 3, at 10:30 p.m. Grand opera soloists of the N.

B. C. staff wilf sing the only four roles. Cadman is expected to speak from Chicago during the broadcast. The story, which takes place in the present, has its locale near an American seaport.

Gordon Stanton, son of a cosmetic manufacturer, falls in love with an Italian girl, Donella, a worker in his father's factory. She responds, but Stanton soon tires of the girl. He then falls in love with Alison Travers, a blonde beauty, who lives next door to Stanton's father's estate. They make an inspection tour of the cosmetic, factory together and Donella overhears the lovers plan a meeting that evening. She infuriated and tells her father, Pietro.

As the opera opens Pietro and Donella arrive at the scene of the meeting. The libretto is the work of Nelle Richmond Eberhart and is designed for a 30-minute performance. Fred Hufsmith. tenor, will sing the role of Gordon Stanton: Theodore Webb, baritone, will be Pietro: Gladys Rice, soprano, will sing the role of Alison and Veronica Wiggins, contralto, will be Donella. The one-act tragedy Is the first opera of its kind ever written expressly for radio presentation.

Cadman's previous operatic works include "The Garden of Mystery," a one-act composition, produced in New York in 1925; "Shanewis" (the Robin Woman), a grand opera written on an American theme and produced in two at the Met- ropolitan Opera House in 1918 and 1919. and "A Witch of Salem." an opera in two acts produced by the Chiw.go Civic Opera Company in 1926. Cadman makes his home in La Mesa, Cal. The N. B.

C. Symphony Orchestra will present the musical score. Musical ReMie In Return The Musical Revue, a popular feature of last year, will return to the air Sunday, Oct. 2, over an eastern WABC-Columbia network from 5:30 to 6 p.m. As in previous series, George tanp win aircc a large orchestra ms special arrangements or vary-j ir types oi music aesignra to sp-1 peal to a wide range of tastes.

Studiology im; Tamara, ttar of 'The Jolly heard over WOR earh Tuetday at 10: P.M. WEAF each Monday at 5:15 P.M. training of choir directors and conductors, Williamson has this Fall transferred the school's personnel to New Jersey, where it will have close association with Princeton University and musical organizations there. At the suggestion of Walter Dam-rosch, long a friend of the organization, the Westminster Choir an outgrowth of the school made a ten weeks' tour of European cities, where the Americans sang to distinguished audiences. In London, the choir sang twice at Albert Hall.

It was the only foreign organization that ever appeared in concert in the Vienna Opera House. It also sang at the Opera in Paris and was acclaimed everywhere. Mrs. Tnlbott personally supervised the choir's European tour, and spent the previous year abroad preparing Its itinerary and arrangements. Williamson is a native of Canton, Ohio.

His father, the Rev. William Williamson, was a minister of the United Brethren Church. John Finley Williamson was born June 23. 1887. and was educated in the public schools and at Otter-bein College, Westcrville.

Ohio. The son early decided that he wanted to become a singer. He studied with Herbert Witherspoon. David Bispham. Herbert Wilbur Green and with voice teachers abroad.

After several years of preparation he accepted the directorship of the choir at the First United Brethren Church In Dayton. For nine years he served in this capacity, and then resigned to become the director of the Westminster Presbyterian Church Choir. u-hpre he staveri for nnofher nine years, and organized his choir and th school. i I Westminster Choir Makes Debut Over N. B.

Networks From behind a grand pi'ano and stacks of assorted music emerged the living exemplification of every fiction reader's conception of a Spanish duenna. Short, chubby and cordially smiling, the little woman lacked only a mantilla to complete the picture. Her greeting was as cordial as ever one anticipated from a granddaughter of Spain. All this Is to introduce Madame Lolita Cabrera Gainsborg (the name is larger than its owner), for 20 years a noted concert pianist and currently a featured National Broadcasting Company artist. The stack of music sheets represents the written record of centuries of Spanish music, most of it obscure except in the remote mountain regions of Spain.

She is an authority on the subject. Slowly but surely the rare music of her ancestors is being collected, written and classified by a group of musicians. Mme. Gainsborg Is one of the most dilligent workers at this task. Mme.

Gainsborg is peculiarly qualified for this labor, which is something of a music hobby, rather than her chief work. Born in White Plains, N. the ninth child of Bolivian parents, two generations removed from old Castile, she has inherited the characteristics of the three countries forming her background. She has the instinctive Spanish love for music, the South American zest for adventure and romance, and the modern American woman's wilt to achieve her own niche in the world. Recognized as a musical prodigy in a musically-inclined family, the dark-haired young girl early discarded the traditional belief of her race that woman's place is in the home.

She ardently believes in family and home, but as complementary to, not in place of a career. One day, while sitting at the niano with her youngest baby hrr arms. Mme. Gainsborg had the -in spiration lor a lullaby. She worked it out with one hand, holding the child with the other.

The work is her noted "Lullaby," for right hand only. "Tommy," she explained, "cried a great deal when he was a baby. I had to hold him much of the time, and it was practically impossible for me to use both hands at the piano. I'd just sit there and play simple tunes to quiet him." Peter Popular slag and air iinger mi K- I JSi.A'.-fV 'it i' i i i ir i B'HIMl-r 4 The Westminster Choir of Princeton, N. internationally' known choral group, will make Its debut to WEAF listeners on Wednesday, Oct.

12, at 2:30 p.m., in the first of a series of 30 weekly broadcasts from New York. Known throughout Europe and the United States for its unusual choral technique, the choir, led by Dr. John Finley Williamson, its founder and director, will be heard in a half-hour concert, with vocal soloists and instrumental background. Williamson will present a varied program in each succeeding broadcast. Liturgical music from the churches of the world, irrespective of creed or nationality, the folk music of Europe and America, familiar American songs of the past, dance songs of many nations and little known compositions will have their place in the new radio series.

The choir, made up of men's and women's choruses, represents the work of the Westminster Choir School now located at Princeton, N. J. The Westminster Choir was established ten years ago in Dayton, Ohio, where Williamson was director of the Westminster Presbyterian Church choir. The director's work so interested Mis. H.

E. Talbott. champion of numerous musical efforts in Dayton, that she sponsored the choir's development and assisted Williamson in the organization of a choir school which today stands as one of the leading schools of its kind in the United States. Three years aco the school moved to Ithaca. N.

Y. 10 tane aavantate oi trie oppor- tunitics offered at Princeton for the vi -'-J! -Tf 1.