The Eugene guard., March 21, 1925, Image 9

Saturday Evening, March 21, 1925
GUARD
Page Nine
BLUILPERIO OFFERINGS
Producers' Optimism Not Dampened by Fires, Inauguration, Income Tax Period
And Other Dissuaders
101, Henry HnltmJ"3 orches-1 3UGS
.-Jill -- ;"A
Shining on Broadway: "Patti Harold In "Big Boy," Vanesai in "Sky Hlfih" and Gloria Foy In "Betty Lee."
THE NEA PLAY JURY'S
TEN BEST PLAYS
Candida
Is Zat So?
Mrs. Partridge Presents
Old English
The Firebrand
The Guardsman
The Show-Off
The Wild Duck
They Knew What They Wanted
What Price Glory
By The NEA Play Jury
VEW YOKK, March 2J.. The blu
. est period of the theatrical sea
son fails to discourage the perennial
ly optimistic producers. New offer
ings continue, and show at least av
erage quality.
If anyone is curious to know what
makes this period blue, he may in
spect these items: Income tax came
due and startled many playgoers into
a decision to economize. The inau
guration interested millions and pro
Tided a conversation at home for a
couple of nights. Lent began. The
ivpather in New Tork added its bit,
being first unseasonably cold and then
unseasonably warm. One producer
figures the recent controversy over
stage morality cost the gcnernl run
of plays a 20 per cent loss. Other
discouragements could be, thought up
with slight effort.
s Iher procession of new jlays faces
(his 'storm 'cloud without apparent
. pessimism. However, the spring
time ebb tide ill rill hnfnro fncr Snnn
may be expected an increased num
ber of ventures by the smaller pro
ducers who have been waiting all
love with his cousin Bruno. There
is a flimsy undercurrent of villiany
about "white slavery.'' C. Henry
Gocdon provides moments of spa-'kle
winter to find a theater at rental
within reach. Opportunity is dawn
ing for the unknown and the novice.
Heretofore, Ernest Truex has uti
lized his sinallness almost entirely for
comic effect In ''The Fall Guy" he
not only makes you laugh but he
makes you cry, doing it naturally and
with immense skill. He has good
company, including Beatrice Noyes,
Hartley Power, Ralph Sipperly and
Joseph R. Garry, and they make the
play better than its text.
- The play is from the stage-wise
pens of James Gleason, co-author of
''Is at So?" and George Abbott.
The little fellow accepts a suit
case which he thinks contains nothing
but bootleg liquor, but when the de
tectives come it is full of "hop." He
works himself clear by a mighty ef
fort. It is a good shove.
"Puppets" makes you wish it had
been written with more power and
insight. The company seems good
enough, but they aren't quite able to
put it over convincingly, and the
fault is with the writing.
The setting is the room behind the
stage in Nicki Riccoboni's marionette
theater. Nicki marries a golden
haired little waif from Georgia just
before he leaves to fight for Italy.
He is reported dead, but three years
later he returns to find the girl in
as Nicki, and Miriam Hopkins is
pleasing as the girl.
Laurette Taylor returns to Broad
way for serai-weekly visits in a de-!
lightful pantomime, "Pierrot the 1
Prodigal," and proves again what a :
versatile actress she is. For three
acts, without speaking one syllable,
she brings to life the wistful, appeal
ing Pierrot who goes forth so gayly
to see life and comes back so sad and
disillusioned, and invests it with all
the pathos and sprightliness and
beauty the situations unfold.
The production also brings back to
New Yor$t another artist, George
Copeland, the pianist His musical
accompaniment forms the substan
tial framework upon' which the fan
tastic tale depends.
"The Handy Man" stars Tim Mur
phy in the part of a lovable ne'er-do-well.
His gentle conversation suc
ceeds in reforming a tough and pretty
pickpocket, well acted by Margaret
Cusack.
Other recent offerings are the
spring edition of the Zfegfeld Fol-
l lies, which borrows much material
from the defunct "Comic Supplement"
and Is radiant entertainment; "Mich
ael Auclair" at the Provincetown, In
which Walter Abel performs well in a
play much more drab than usually
appears under Provincetown auspices;
and "In the Near Future," a crude
and improbable affair which is sched
uled only for matinees.
lop;
tra.
KHJ Lot Augeles, CaL, 404.1 me-)
ter-Hl-6:8U p. in., Art Hickman's
B it t mure hotel concert orchestra, ;
Edward Fiupatrick, director; U:3i-i
7:30, little stories American history, j
Profeaior Walter Hexuog; , Dolly
Wright (7) and EUi Jeanette (ti,
readers. Uncle, John; 8-10, feature!
program, Los Angeles Soap company, i
arranged by J. Howard Johnson; 11-2
a. lu., the Lost Angeles of KHJ frolic!
hJR Seattle, Wash., 3S1.4 meters I
1:830-3 p. m.. sports talk. Royal1
Br?ughititt.
KN X Hollywood, Cal,, 336.9 me
ters 0:15-7 p. m., dinner tour musics
7 8, program, West Coast theaters.
Inc., by remote control; 8-10, feature
program; 10-11, Abe Lyman's Cocoa
nut Grove dance orchestra from Am
bassador hotel; 11-2 . in., Hollywood
night, compliment to Ruth Roland.
KPO Sau Francisco, Qil., 420.3
meter b 8-12 midnight, Art Wehiner'e
dance orcheatra.
SUNDAY'S PROGRAM
Pacltlo Coast
KGWT Portland, 401.5 meters
11:30 a. in.. Services from First Pres
byterian church; 3 p. m., Municipal
concert from public auditorium by
Beaux Arts society; 5 p. to., MenVs
and Ladies' Glee clubs of the Willam
ette university; 6 p. m., Studio church
service; 7 p. m., Dinner concert by
Coluburn'a concert orchestra; inter
mission solos by Louise Jacobsen,
pianist.
KFI Los Angelei, Cal., 407 me
ter 10-10:45 a. nv, L. A. Church
Federation service, Dr. J. Whitcomb 5
Brougber, "The Game of Life;" 4-5,
vesper service, Virginia Arlison, so-;
prnno, Marguerite MncKay, violinist !
and Marjorio Masllonala, pianiste;!
6:45-7, musical appreciation talk; 7-8,
utage acts, specialties and orchestra :
from Metropolitan theater; 8-0, Alice
Barnett playing her own compoai- j
tions; 0-10, Examiner, Cinderella ball-j
room orcheatra from Long Beach; I
10-11, Packard Eight orchestra Bill;
Hennessey, leader. j
KGO Oakland, Cal., 861.2 meters'
11 a. m., Tenth Avenue Baptist j
church, Rev. George W. Phillips, pas-
tor; 8:80 p. m., KGO Little Bymphonyl
orchestra; Arthur S. Garbett, musical
interpretative writer; 7:45, service,
Tenth Avenue Baptist church, Rev.
George W. Phillips, pastor.
KHJ Los Angeles, Cal., 404.1 me
ters 6:30-7 p. m., Art Hickman's
iBltmore hotel concert orchestra, Ed
ward Fitspatrick. director; 7-7.80, or
gan recital, Arthur Blakely, organist;
8-10, classical program. Martin Music
company, arranged by J. Howard
Johnson, featuring Claire Forbes
Crane, concert pianiste.
KNX Hollywood, Cal., 836:0 me
ters 10-12 a. m., complete morning
services of First Presbyterian church
of .Hollywood; 5-6:15 p. m., Radio
sunset. eervice from Ambassador hotel
theater condncted by Rev. Chaa. B
Aked and Rev. Frank Dyer; 6:15-7,
International Bible Students associa
tion hour of music; 7-8, Ambassador
hotel concert orchestra, Josef Roaen
feld, director; 0-11. feature program.
Globe Ice Cream company. ;
KPO San Francisco, Cal., 420.3
meters 8 30-10 p. m., Rudy Seiner's
Fairmont orchestra.
By Roy Grove
HOPE, t CAW
-4U. eaaDCM6TED ,
California by a large niajortjr in Un
vote of th radio tana. Thia year
the radio audience will be called on
once mora to expreaa .themsetvea on
the issue. AU listener, are requested
, to vote.
I Voting will be done by mail in the
same manner ea last year. Those
i north of the California border should
. send their Totes to radio KGW of
the Morning Oregonian at Portland,
Oregon; or to the extension divisiou
of the University or Oregon, Kugene.
; Those south of the California border
should send their votes to radio KLX
of the Oakland Tribune. Those in
; eastern states may send their votes
to either place. v
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WIDE WATERS -A SEA TALE
By Captain A. E. Dingle
(Continued)
fTrIE marriage service as performed
by a ship master is a brief passage
of words. "With the least possible
delay Captain Alden Talbot Drake
pronounced Jake and Mary man and
wife. He kissed the bride warmly,
and laughed at her blushes. He sat
her ,at the right hand of the tnble
' head chair, then stood aside with
that sunny, youthful whimsical smile
that naturally belonged to him. Jake
. Stevens stood by smiling, but as if
not sure that he was invited. Drake
lid a hand on the bnck of the head
chair. "
"Captain Stevens, won't you be
teated?" he said.
"Oh, do you menn is Jnke to
ft'hat do you mean?" stammered
Mary, her face alight with something
which convinced Alden Drake forever
of the unfathomable happiness to be
tot out of a decent deed well done.
"If Captain Rtevcns will take his
'at, and let us begin on the wed
ding supper, perhaps you will not
embarrass me with so many ques
tions. Sit down, Twining. I want
fou to relieve Adams before all the
gloriously. Stevens and Mary came
up slowly. In the dim companionway
Juke tenderly wrapped a shawl around
Mary'B shoulders. She gazed up at
him, shyly. The sweet fragrance of
her enveloped him. There was no
reason for restraint. He gathered her
to him, and crushed her hungrily in
his arms.
Drake moved a bit further for
j ward. For a moment the smoke
I puffed from his pipe jerkily. Some
where in the cmrKness lorwuru u
sailor began to sing ''Miamuna."
Stevens came out of the compnn
iomvay, and .placed Mary near Drake
at the rail. She held his arm. Jake
gently removed her hand.
"I must look after my ship, lass."
he said, and walked away aft. Drake
chuckled. She turned quickly. Then
she, too, laughed, a silvery, happy
laugh.
"A ship master's loss is a passen
ger's gain, Mrs. Stevens," Drake
said, drawing her nearer to him.
"You're not to call me that!" she
said.
"Very well, Mary. ' Drake was
still enjoying some tremendous piece
will be a one-quarter share for little
Jake, and little Mary, and maybe for
little Alden."
But Mary had left him. She cared
nothing for Captain's orders. Captain
Jake Stevens was overwhelmed by a
blushing, moist-eyed bride who
simply must blab out her secret
though all the shipping in the Straits
come crashing aboard.
THE END.
Radio
Programs
Cantaln Drake pronounced Jake and Mary man and wife,
yr Ins gone out of Mrs. Stevens'
lae."
And Twining relieved young Adams,
, fo wan not in the secret.
"Mistfr Adams. Captain and Mrs.
Jvfns desire your company for the
"hWiC of tl.A .imnn" Kftirf DrflkP
T-'1" a Iwinkle. Many meals had '
""'a faten in that saloon. Drake had;
rPn rmmg Mr. Adams eat a few.
"it he never saw him eat so little, or
about his so rudely as now.
seeinrd to be still a little uncer-!j!n-
l 'rake went off on deck, kav
the bridal pair to recover their
"iarifrp.
Bke Stevens had always been a
fl:lormsn. lie stayed but brifr j
" . Uie (able ftr Drake left. His:
'!P wm i Sumla Strait, near her;
JJ'rt- It was isiacht. A ship maker's ;
!u w8 on lM'k- ,,rflke "towi '
r8if- moking bis comfortable old;
Tlit ting-tons was prog-reding j
of humor yet to be g.ven oia. Il
nresed her arm, and put bi head
,Wn to her esr. He knew the new
bridegroom would be looking; he could
not resist placing one little tax upon
Jake's enmpoaure.
"I havp a ferret for you. Mary.
. J .)Ant ittmn !ik that'
It looks guilty. I really ought to hart
, . l-.l .k taM! hilt VOU
toil you ociii '
know 1 never do the expected tbing.
I think a bride ought to have some
stctetji. don't you? Of course you
do. Listen: I'm k to give you a
little wedding present as soon as we
get ashore. I shall make Over, to
you a one-quarter share in the r
ontes, and " ..... ...
"Uh"' aspl Mary. Alden!
She pulled hi head drwn further,
.-.i t. fcirrt nn (he lint, right ui
full view of puKled and started
bUndl.rt Irake Iaugbed,-'the
Whenever you feel a lHtle blue
from whatever cauae domestic, at
mospheric, etc. take a awing around
to WCX and introduce yourself to the
Ked Apple club. No more melan
cholia for you for a wbilt. The other
night Robert Hmce tang tha "Big
ttaas Viol," with- a roica suited to the
Bong. It wai great.
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And speaking of your good enter
tainments, when KGW putt on any
better than Fergus Kcddit of Eugene,
who brought us back to the never
grow-old opems of Jama Whitcomb
Hiley last night from the Oregonian
tower It will be a long, long time
from now.
A vacuum tube regenerative itt,
using only one tube, will bring Jo
signals from nearly the same dis
tance as a set having an audiofre
quency amplifier. The amplifier terves
to increase the strength of signals
brought in by the detector tube, for!
the purpose of operating a loud j
speaker or making the signals louder!
in the phones. j
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TONIGHT'S PROGRAMS j
Pactflo Coast j
KOW Portland, 4111.5 meters10j
p. m., concert by Colburn's Melody j
.Men; intermission solos by Gladys :
Johnson, violinist.
K FT Los Angeles, Cel., 4fl7 m-
ten 7-7.46 p. rn,, Lakt Arrowhead ;
donee orcheatra, Mel Lemon, leadrr;!
7:45-8, the Iiookhe!f, Nancy; 8-0,1
Examiner, Downey, Cal., chamber of
com toe res program; 9-10, Olive Sher
lock, violinist; Gertrude Child Hunt-;
ington, noprano, and Iavid L. Rice
in classical program; 10-11, Packard
Rndfo club, liiil and I'oily Hall, Way
Watts. Barney Weber.
KFOA Seattle. Wash-, 384.4 mt-i
ttrs6 .45-8:16 p. m., Rhodes- Dept.
store program; 8.30-10, Seattle Times
dance mosic.
KGO Oakland, Cal, 861.2 meter
1-5:0 p. m concert crcoestrB.
t.l Hl Francis; 8, Amplilon club; J.
i WintK'O I'euy. 'celMtj Dean Dooald
'sod, violinist; Austin Arratr, flutist;
Evelyn riann, xtami; owinrv vuhm,
pianist; French tonga, JIen Haci
gaJopi; Margaret Fit, pianin; Mary
Acelia .otennrloin, vioihiwc '.r,-it
Eider, viulin.st; Beatrice Colton, pian
let' ( haries S. iJougl-, teuor; 1 rank
Kenk pini!". Caiitorai string tpwr.
ut- Ti.t l'WlipP'O." John W. Dmi-
Radio Gossip,
That KPO, Hale brothers, broad
casts to a daily audience of well
over two million, and that this jvnst
nudieno Is located throughout the
length and breadth of the larnVwas
the disclosure of a novel experiment
conducted by the station. Following
their second birthday program, they
received 1551 prepaid telegrams, and
following these 68.937 letters and
postcards were received.
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Dr. William B. Neal, 851 Tenth
avenue west: "I have a new set,
and am beginning to believe there
are fl lot of first class radio sets.
My former set I boxed up and sent
as a present to my father In Irfs
Angeles, who had only a small crystal
outfit Although I have had my new
receiver a very short time I find It
is wonderfully selective. Have had
New York city very plain and dis
tinct It it very powerful so pow
erful. In fact, thnt If I tnrn It on
full force you could hear It a long
distance away."
Reveral Eugene fans were talking
about distance and selectivity In a
local shop the other night One of
them said: "Why, one night I got
Rome, Italy. An orchestra was play
fng, and I kept tuning down and
down until I succeeded In tuning out
everything but the cornet."
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At a birthday partv at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Edblom,
Eighteenth avennt and Jefferson
street one night this week, an Im
promptu radio concert was given. A
(By NEA Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 21.
The drive to establish radio in
servicemen's hospitals throughout
the country has been taken up by
private Institutions.
For radio is now being used In a
new field to cure the sick.
Medical authorities explain how it
worke:
A radio net keeps the patient en
tertained and occupied. It cheers him
up and keeps his mind off his
troubles. This has a definite physi
cal reaction and does much toward
helping him to recover.
The government is bnck of the
hospital-radio drive, and the bureau
of standards Is aiding in the techni
cal end of the work. Several of the
country's largest broadcasting sta
tions are campaigning to mIrc funds.
Already most of the beds in Wal
ter Reed Army hospital, Naval hos
pital and Mount Alto veterans bu
reau hospital, all In Washington,
have been equipped with individual
radio seta.
Material for equipping all the ser
vice honpltnls In New Tork city has
been ordered, and the movement alms
to furnish individual rndio apparatus
to every patient In every tervict hos
pital In the United States.
The usual system it 4o Install one
receiving set and a powerful ampli
fier to supply the entire hospital.
Then each patient hi supplied with
head telephone receivers which may
be used at will.
The amplifiers are designed to
supply 800 head seta in parallel.
At Walter Reed hospital there are
1500 individual head sets and six
lond speakers, these being nsed In
the assembly rooms. The Installa
tion also includes a microphone, used
for distribution of programs given in
the hospital and making It possible
for anyone to address all the patients
In the hospital simultaneously.
The equipment requires the con
stant services of one man to control
the volume of souud.
ZIMBALIST ON AIR
Efram Ztmballst, the famous vio
linist made his ether debut over
WGRS recently when that metropol
itan station broadcast the music in
cidental to "Quo Vadia," motion pic
ture now being shown at the Apollo
theater, New York.
"One of the most difficult prob
lems with which the department of
commerce has had to contend," say a
"Rob" Callahan, secretary-treasurer
of the Eugene Radio club, "has to
do with wave length distribution.
"The difficulty is how to prevent
interference between stations. There
are in all 80 different wave lengths
available o long as stations are
kept 10 kilocycles apart and so long
as the assignment of wave lengths
is staggered geographically thus pre
venting overlap in the area of affec
tive reception.
"The recent experiment of the de
partment in attempting to increase
the number of ivave lengths by de
creasing the difference to seven kilo
cycles proved unsuccessful.
"Class A stations of 500 watts or
less power were assigned the wave
length of 28 meters and below by
recommendation of the radio confer
ence and there are in this area 39
possible wave lengths. Owing to
their limited radius and the irregular
character of their programs largely
churches, educational institutions and
the like -Class A stations havo not
presented so many difficulties in Wave
length assignment and interference at
Class U stations, although there art
455 of them.
"Class R stations present a far
more serious situation, according to
the department This la because of
their wider radius and their regular
performance. There are 47 wavt
lengths to be divided over a total
of 108 stations now operating or un
der construction, giving an averagt
of less than one wave length for each
tvo stations.
THE BUTTON SHOP
Pleating, Buttons and Hemstitching.
86 7th Ave. Baat. Phone 1715-J.
Arrangements art all complete for
the radio debate to be held between
the Unverslty or Oregon and Stan
ford university next Wednesday even
ing, it is announced by Alfred Powers,
in charge of the radio activities on
the campus. This is the second ra
dio event in history where one team
assembles at a broadcasting station
800 miles awny from the other team
at a different elate.
Tho Universty of Oregon team will
Assemble in broadcasting station
KGW of the Morning Oregonian at
Portland. The Stanford team will
talk from broadcasting stntion KLX
of the Onkland Tribune. Tho same
general plnn will bo followed as was
used last -year In the debate with the
University of California. The first
speaker of the affirmative will give
lits speech, and then the station will
shut down. Eight hundred miles
awny, the first negative speaker will
men broadcast his speech. By al
ternating bnck and forth tho re-!
inaincler of the speeches will be broad
casted. The subject for this year's dphnfn
will be tho Japanese exclusion act. i
ijaet year the Hok peaco plan was the
Issue, the Oregon team, winning from
Ask fon
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persons enjoyed tha entertainment.
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