Anyone who has been in broadcasting any length of time will know one fact—if a new manager comes in and tells you there won’t be any changes, DON’T YOU BELIEVE IT!
It was no different in the early 1930s than it is today. Take the case of WGBS radio in New York, which supplied programming to the Jenkins TV station W2XCR. In October 1931, the radio station was bought by a company owned by William Randolph Hearst. Don’t worry, said the new owner, we’ll continue broadcasting on television.
Right.
First, programming sent to W2XCR was chopped to two hours a day. Then there was no programming. WGBS became WINS almost three months later on January 14th and, soon, got out of the television programme business.
In the meantime, other potential TV stations owners decided to abandon their plans. It’s easy to speculate the Depression was partly to blame, as well as a lack of transmission standards and changes in technology creating uncertainty. The same thing happened after the war as some broadcasters were not sure whether the future was VHF or UHF, making it a costly proportion if they got a license and picked the wrong frequency range.
A month after an uninterested NBC bought one Chicago TV station, the other was supposed to go off the air after the Federal Radio Commission pulled its radio station license. But it just kept broadcasting, albeit for limited hours. W2XBS continued to air a swirling Felix the Cat figurine and ho-hum the whole television situation as it stood.
Despite this, CBS’ W2XAB continued beaming live programming. Including college football. There was a problem. Broadcasting from a stadium was not possible, so Ted Husing did a re-create, with pieces on a board representing players.
Thursday, Oct. 1, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—Wright Sisters, harmony.
8:15—Experimental Television drama.
8:30—Alice White, talk.
8:35—Emery Deutsch, the Wandering Gypsy.
8:45—Lawrence Levin, readings.
9:00—Wayburn’s Miniature Musical Comedy Revue.
9:30—“The Television Ghost,” mystery sketch.
9:45—“Making Faces at the World,” Dave Franklin, songs.
10:00—Tighe’s Television experiments.
10:15—Julia Mahoney, soprano.
10:30—Ethelyn Holt, songs.
10:45—Television experiments.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Daisy and Bob, songs.
4:15—Beauty talk, with Elsie Pierce.
4:30—Mary Bongert, soprano.
4:45—Marguerite Austin, violin.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Sakele, Makeup Man.
6:15—Talk.
6:30—“Toyland,” sketch.
6:45—Sports Talk.
7:00—Sylvio Cassi, baritone.
7:15—Justice Brandeis Society Forum.
W2XBS (NBC), New York, 2100 kc.
2:00-5:00 and 7:00 to 10:30—Experimental program.
W2XR (John Hogan), Long Island City, 2950 kc.
4:00—Cartoons.
5:00—Films. (2150 kc. and 2920 kc.)
7:00—Films. (accompanied by coordinated sound through W2XAR, 1604 kc.)
W3XK (Jenkins Labs), 2035 kc.
7:00-9:00 and 10:30-11:30—Film.
W1XAV, Boston, 2870 kc. 7:00-10:30—Films.
Friday, Oct. 2, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—The Singing Vagabond, Artells Dickson.
8:15—W. Clark Harrington, Poet’s Favorites.
8:30—Ruth Kerner, soprano.
8:45—Vocal Art Trio.
9:15—Barbara Maurel, contralto.
9:30—Captain Jack, “The Old Skipper,” sketch.
9:45—Dorothy Rosenthal, violinist.
10:00—Helen Nugent, contralto.
10:15—“Hints for Swimmers,” talk by Charles Speer.
10:30—Harriet Lee, Miss Radio of 1931.
10:45—La Port Instrumental Trio.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Jacques Belser, songs.
4:15—Spanish Lessons, Dr. Thatcher Clark.
4:30—“Here and There,” Harrison Zeller.
4:45—Suzanne Kenyon, soprano.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Sakele, Makeup Man.
6:15—Talks, T. Harold Forbes, Guy Nordman and F.. Corson.
6:45— Jack Norman’s Sports Celebrities.
7:00—Chamberlain Brown’s Stars of Broadway.
Other stations as above.
Regardless of the status of television, a much debated topic these days, there is no denying the fact that it was the one attraction which drew visitors en masse at the Boston Radio show last night [1] in Horticultural Hall. The hall in which the television exhibition was held proved inadequate to admit at one time all who wished to witness the visual broadcast sent out from Station WIXAV of Boston at 7:30 o’clock.
For sometime before the demonstration was scheduled to take place interested spectators gathered outside the doors. When the time arrived for the program to start so many were on hand that it became imperative after admitting them to the capacity of the hall to close the doors to avoid overcrowding. Thus, in relays, did the Boston public witness its first demonstration of reception over a receiver constructed and proportioned along lines which reasonably forecasts the home visual receiving instrument of the future.
Dai Buell on Air
This first public demonstration of television in New England proved equally as magnetic in the talent it drew before the televisor, for it brought back to radio Dai Buell, a concert pianist of international fame, whose first radio appearance dates back to Nov 1, 1921: Dorothy George, mezzo soprano, and Frances Foskette, soprano—all of whom are members of the People’s Symphony Orchestra and have also sung in the leading light opera companies and symphony orchestras of the country.
It was Miss Buell’s keen interest in television as a new medium destined to bring the fine arts to the public, and the fact that television is still in its non-commercial stage, that prompted her to consent to play for the demonstration at the Radio Show. In an interview before the broadcast she expressed the opinion that there is a tremendous interest in watching a noted pianist play as well as listen to him.
Proof of this, she said, was to be found in the great demand for seats on the stage at Symphony Hall performances. The animation of moving fingers, their expectant poise for the beginning note of some intense passage—all add color to a piano recital. Television, he stated, will for the first time permit this part of a piano recita1 to come to the public as well as the music itself.
Miss Buell’s highly developed fingering technique was visible over the air to those who heard her play last night. The program, like that of her first radio recital, was in the nature of her “Causerie Concerts,” a type of program which is enhanced by the interspersing of interpretative comments on the composition played. (Boston Globe, Lloyd G. Greene)
Saturday, Oct. 3, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental programs.
8:00—Elliot Jaffee, songs.
8:15—Anna Demorales, songs.
8:30—Les Reis and Artie Dunn, songs.
8:45—Senorita Soledad Espinal, guitar.
9:00—“Scanning the Stars,” Florence Siebert, Charles Robinson and Carl Mathieu, songs.
9:30—Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd.
9:45—“The Singing Vagabond,” Artells Dickson.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Prosperity Girls, sketch.
4:15—Tap dancing lesson with William MacPherson.
4:30—Esther Peres, songs.
4:45—Gosselin Sisters, songs.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Dance Orchestra.
6:30—Van Dycke’s Broadway Interlude.
6:45—Sports Talk
7:00—William Chosnyk, violin.
7:15—Yvonne LeClaire, songs.
Other stations as above.
Exhibition fencing matches, a one-man jazz band and modernistic television dances are the outstanding features to be broadcast over the Columbia Broadcasting System's experimental television station W2XAB for the week beginning Sunday, October 4.
Capt. Jean V. Grombach, who placed second in the national tournament for professional and amateur fencers in 1930, will direct the fencing feature. During this fifteen-minute visual program, which takes, place at 9:45 P. M. on Friday, October 9, the lookers-in will be entertained by George Breed, member of four Olympic and several international teams, in a foil match against Nicholas Murray, another international fencer and former national champion of the United States. This is to be followed by an epee (or duelling sword) match between George Santelli, professional of the New York Athletic Club, and Capt. Jean V. Grombach, who, besides being a former international fencer, was the heavyweight boater on the 1924 Olympic team and intercollegiate champion in 1923. He was also a member of the football team at West Point
Saber Champions in Bout.
The final match is a saber match. John R. Huffman, present national champion and also national champion of Denmark, will fence with Norman Cohn, international fencer and for five years prior to Huffman was United States national champion. This is the first experimental feature of its kind ever seen over television, and is one that should be filled with action from start to finish.
Vincent Mondi, the originator of the "one-man novelty band," is scheduled to appear on Tuesday, October 6, at 9 P. M. To say this feature is unique is putting it mildly and to those who like red-hot music should watch Mr. Mondi to action with this strange contraption.
His band consists of the following instruments: foot symbols, tenor guitar and a steal frame that fits around the neck. This frame holds in place two kazoos which have whisky bottle caps as mouthpiece. One of these kazoos has a long extension with a megaphone attachment, from which the most unusual sounds and are brought forth. It is really a are to watch this artist work, and I might add that Messrs. Whiteman, Lombardo and Vallee had better watch out for their laurels, as this young man has a certain way of crooning that makes the young ladies sit up and take notice.
Began in Night Club.
Mondi began his career as a night club entertainer in Tampa, Fla., and since that time has been in vaudeville. He invented his jam band arrangement about a year ago, and has been broadcasting over a number of local stations. (Sun)
Sunday, Oct. 4, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 Experimental sight programs.
8:00—Vincent Sorey, Louise Caselotti, operatic singer, the “Gauchos.”
8:30—Myndelle Louis, Australian concert soprano.
8:45—Pair of Jacks.
9:00—“Half an Hour on Broadway,” with Bobby Trent and Sue Read
9:30—Floyd Williams, songs.
9:45—Phil Maher, Irish comedy.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS.
6:00—“Musical Etchings.”
6:15—Daisy and Bob, songs.
6:30—Donald Pirnie, baritone; Daniel Wolf, piano.
7:00—“Snapshots,” sketch.
7:15—Katherine Bingham.
THE new television station atop the Empire State Building is expected to be on the air in about two months.
In connection with the inaugural program, in which images will leap into space from the aerial on the mooring mast 1,230 feet above the street, there is likely to be a demonstration at a number of receiving stations in the metropolitan area to reveal how far the science of seeing by radio has progressed.
It is hoped that Dr. Vladimir Zworykin will have his cathode ray receiver ready for a public performance. Today secrecy surrounds his work at the laboratory in Camden, N. J., and makes him a mystery man, but those who have seen the picture report it “uncanny in clarity and size.”
The Zworykin machine uses no whirling scanning disk, no moving parts. and no motor; A pencil-like beam of electrons paints the face or scene on the flat end of a cathode ray tube that resembles a funnel except that the wide opening at the end is covered by a screen made of glass with a fluorescent coating.
Tiny waves, called quasi-optical rays, because they travel only about as far as the human eye can see, will be used to carry the images from the lofty perch above the sidewalks of New York.
Seeing Things.
Television promises to treat kindly those whom broadcasting has more or less neglected. The dancers, cartoonists, magicians, hypnotists, piano teachers and acrobats see a new hope.Tashamira, Slavic danseuse, will be seen every Tuesday at 10 P M., as she illustrates modernistic dances over station W2XAB. Close-ups and long-shot pictures are to be televised on the 107-meter wave.
George Reith is broadcasting instructions on contract bridge. He explains the proper procedure to follow in bidding various hands on the 49.02 meter channel while illustrations designating the cards are televised on a wave 107 meters long.
Lou Hanlon, cartoonist, draws quick sketches to entertain the look-steners, as Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith would say. As he draws, he explains the sketches. Different size lenses are used in this experiment to determine the proper drawing instruments for the television screen.
Swimming and boxing instructors find that television gives them a chance to supplement their verbal instruction by action of the arms that helps the person at the receiving end to understand. The same is true of setting-up exercises.
The first of a series of piano lessons will be given over W2XAB tomorrow at 9 P. M. Each lesson will last a half hour and the tutor will be G. Aldo Randegger. The lessons will bring new problems of television display in presenting, proper technique in fingering and touch. Verbal instructions will be synchronized with the picture over the short-wave station W2XE. (Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr., N.Y. Times)
Monday, Oct. 5, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—“At Home Party,” Alvin E. Hauser.
8:30—Natalie Towers.
8:45—Doris Sharp, crooner.
9:00—Educational feature, piano lesson.
9:30—Charlotte Harriman, conralto.
9:45—“Television Mystics,” with Richard Kenny, magician.
10:00—Kay Fayre, vaudeville act.
10:15—Roger Kinne, baritone.
10:30—Kathryn Parsons.
10:45—“The Singing Vagabond,” Artells Dickson.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Elsie Duffield, songs.
4:15—Beauty, Elsie Pierce.
4:30—Charlotte Comer, songs.
4:45—Weight Reduction, Dr. Shirley Wynne.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Sakele, Makeup Man.
6:15—Dance Trio.
6:30—Louise Kelly, soprano; Annette Wagner, contralto.
6:45—Sports Talk.
7:00—The Radio Forum.
7:15—Theatre, with Harriet Menken.
W2XBS (NBC, New York), W2XR (Hogan, Long Island), W3XK (Jenkins Labs, Washington), W1XAV (Boston) as above.
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental program.
8:00—Marjorie Munroe, songs.
8:15—“The Wandering Gypsy,” EMery Deutsch.
8:30—CBS artists.
9:00—Vincent Mondi, one-man Jazz Band.
9:15—Four Pantomimes.
9:30—Three-round exhibition boxing bouts.
9:45—“Major Ivan Firth Presents” with Gladys Shaw Erskine.
10:00—Tashamira dances.
10:15—Bridge playing demonstration, George Reith.
10:30—Flying problems or Puppet Show.
10:45—Grace Yeager, songs.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Marie von Unschuld, piano technique.
4:15—Lavinia Darve, songs.
4:30—Ballroom Dancing, Thomas Parson.
4:45—Teresa McGinnty.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Sakele, Make-Up Man.
6:30—String quartet.
6:45—Sports Talk.
7:00—Inez Hudgins, piano; George Carson, tenor.
Other stations as above.
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—Harriet Lee, Miss Radio 1931.
8:15—Tony Wons’ Scrap Book.
8:30—“Musical Cameos,” Arthur Sorenson, pianist; Irene Beasley, contralto.
9:00—Costume recital by Helen Withers.
9:15—“Waltzing Through the Air,” with Natalie Towers.
9:30—The Ambassadors, quartet.
9:45—Fred Ehlert, talk.
10:00—“Mirrors of Song,” Ben Alley and Helen Nugent.
10:30—Lou Hanlon, noted artist, cartoons.
10:45—Joseph Martel, baritone.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Lyle Moore, baritone.
4:15—Your Voice, talk.
4:30—Billie Davis, songs.
4:45—“At the Movies,” sketch.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Sakele, Make-Up Man.
6:15—Meb and Mac, songs.
6:30—Gosselin Sisters, songs.
6:45—Sports Talk.
7:00—“Theatregoing,” Doug Brinkley.
7:15—Whispering Trio.
Other stations as above.
Thursday, Oct. 8, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—Wright Sisters, harmony.
8:15—Experimental Television drama.
8:30—White Mice Circus.
8:45—Lawrence Levin, readings.
9:00—Wayburn’s Miniature Musical Comedy Revue.
9:30—“The Television Ghost,” mystery sketch.
9:45—“Making Faces at the World,” Dave Franklin, songs.
10:00—Tighe’s Television experiments (News Tribune only).
10:15—Adele Vasa, soprano.
10:30—Artells Dickson, songs.
10:45—Television experiments.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Katherine Goss, violin.
4:15—Beauty talk, with Elsie Pierce.
4:30—Mary Bongert, soprano.
4:45—Marguerite Austin, violin.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Sakele, Make-Up Man.
6:15—Nathaniel Pousette D’Art, art talk.
6:30—“Toyland,” children’s program.
6:45—Sports Talk.
7:00—Marguerite Silva, songs.
7:15—Justice Brandeis Society Forum.
Other stations as above.
Friday, Oct. 9, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—“The Singing Vagabond,” Artells Dickson.
8:15—“Translated Verse,” W. Clark Harrington.
8:30—Ruth Kerner, soprano.
8:45—Vocal Art Trio.
9:00—Beatrix Sherman.
9:15—Barbara Maurel, contralto.
9:30—“Old Skipper,” Captain Jack.
9:45—Fencing demonstration.
10:00—Helen Nugent, contralto.
10:15—“Hints for Swimmers,” talk by Charles Speer.
10:30—Harriet Lee, contralto.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Jacques Belser, songs.
4:15—Spanish Lessons, Dr. Thatcher Clark.
4:30—Here and There,” Harrison Zeller.
4:45—Grace Perry, songs.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Sakele, Make-Up Man.
6:15—H.T. Rodman, talk.
6:45— Jack Norman’s Sports Celebrities.
7:00—Chamberlain Brown’s Stars of Broadway.
Other stations as above.
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—(Universal Service.)—Purchase of Station WGBS, New York, and the General Broadcasting system, Inc., by the American Radio News Corporation was announced today by Joseph V. Connolly, general manager of the latter. The station will be transferred formally to American Radio News Corporation tomorrow at midnight.
Dailey Paskman, J. W. Loeb and Fred Gimbel were the stockholders in the General Broadcasting System. WGBS was launched eight years ago by Gimbel Brothers. Approximately $100,000 will be spent immediately in improvements, Connolly said. The program of expansion will be under the direction of Clark Kinnaird, who will be in charge of the station activities.
Kinnaird said King Features Syndicate will be associated with American Radio News Corporation in the operation of the station.
WGBS has been operating on a part-time basis. Beginning Monday, October 12, Kinnaird said, it will be on the air from 7 a. m. to 7:30 p. m., with television programs synchronized with it from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p. m. (San Francisco Examiner)
Saturday, Oct. 10, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental programs.
8:00—to be announced.
8:15—Natalie Towers, dances.
8:30—Les Reis and Artie Dunn, songs.
8:45—Senorita Soledad Espinal and guitar.
9:00—“Scanning the Stars,” Florence Siebert, Taylor Buckley and Fred Roberts, songs.
9:30—Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd.
9:45—“The Singing Vagabond,” Artells Dickson.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—The Prosperity Girls, sketch.
4:15—Tap dancing lesson with William MacPherson.
4:30—Esther Peres, songs.
4:45—Gosselin Sisters, songs.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Dance Orchestra.
6:30—Van Dycke’s Broadway Interlude.
6:45—Sports Talk
7:00— William Chosnyk, violin.
7:15—Yvonne LeClaire, songs.
Other stations as above.
A miniature football gyrating about a representation of a gridiron will supply a pictorial description of twelve football games this fall to listeners fortunate enough to own television receivers. The vision station of WABC will offer this novelty, commencing today [10] with the Notre Dame-Northwestcrn University contest.An ingenious device has been constructed especially for television scanning, similar to football boards used on newspaper buildings for the benefit of crowds in the street. A board on which the field is laid out is completely black, with marking lines and numbers in heavy white.
Football of Tin.
A small football cut from sheet tin and painted white will be moved by invisible wires and magnets to various positions on the field. Downs, scores and other details will be flashed on the screen from other boards on which the scanner may be focused at will.
Letters indicating the name of the teams will be engraved on each side of the tin football with an arrow indicating the goal line toward which the team is fighting.
Although an image of the entire board will be broadcast most of the time, closeups of a particular part of the field will be shown at intervals.
"This is the nearest we can now come to projecting the actual game," said William A. Schudt, Jr.. Columbia's acting television director. "As soon as equipment is perfected by which we can show images right from the scene of the contest we will attempt it."
Games to Be Followed.
Games during which the football board will be in operation are as follows:
October 10, Northwestern University vs. Notre Dame, Chicago; 17. Army vs. Harvard, West Point; 24, Yale vs. Army, New Haven; 31. Illinois vs. Northwestern, Evanston, Ill.
November 7, Navy vs. Ohio State. Columbus, Ohio; 14, University of Pittsburgh vs. Army, Pittsburgh; 21, Southern California vs. Notre Dame, Chicago; 26, University of Pennsylvania vs. Cornell, Philadelphia; 28, not yet scheduled.
December 5, Penn vs. Navy, Philadelphia; 12, Southern California vs. Georgia, Los Angeles; 26, Georgia Tech vs. California, Atlanta. (Sun)
Lou Calbi, instrumentalist, appears before the television camera of W2XCR-WGBS next Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. (Sun)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10—In the wake of the dismissal of the application of KMOX, St. Louis, for a visual broadcasting permit at its own request, the Federal Radio Commission has also dismissed the application of WIL, St. Louis, also seeking television wave lengths. Station WIL was to have been heard this week on its application, but requested the dismissal. The only television application from St. Louis still pending is that of KWK.
Station WCAO, Baltimore, and WXYZ, Detroit, have also dropped their television applications, almost coincident with the commission’s decisions ordering public hearings on the visual wave length applications of WMCA, New York; the Sanabria Television Corporation, Chicago; the University of Iowa, Iowa City; Arthur Liebacher, Philadelphia, and the United Radio Utilities Company, Ltd., Los Angeles.
Hearings have also been ordered on the applications of W9XD, the ultra short wave television station of the Milwaukee Journal and of W2XDF of the Faske Engineering Company, Brooklyn, for additional television frequencies. (Sun)
Sunday, Oct. 11, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 Experimental sight programs.
8:00—Vincent Sorey, Louise Caselotti, operatic singer, the “Gauchos.”
8:30—Myndelle Louis, Australian concert soprano.
8:45—Phil Maher, comedian.
9:00—“Half an Hour on Broadway,” with Sue Read and Bobby Trent.
9:30—Savitzkaya’s French Trio.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS.
6:00—“Musical Etchings.”
6:15—Daisy and Bob, songs.
6:30—John Murphy, tenor.
7:00—“Snapshots,” sketch.
7:15—Slumber Boat.
Monday, Oct. 12, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—Fall Fashion Show.
9:00—Grace Voss, Pantomimes.
9:30—Special television test.
9:45—Dancing exhibition.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Elsie Duffield, songs.
4:15—Beauty, Elsie Pierce.
4:30—Charlotte Comer, songs.
4:45—Weight Reduction, Dr. Shirley Wynne.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—to be announced.
6:15—Dance Trio.
6:30—Louise Kelly, soprano; Annette Wagner, contralto.
6:45—Sports Talk.
7:00—The Radio Forum.
7:15—Theatre Talk with Harriet Menken.
W2XBS (NBC, New York), W2XR (Hogan, Long Island), W3XK (Jenkins Labs, Washington), W1XAV (Boston) as above.
The Frances Negligee Co. will participate in the Columbia Broadcasting Co.’s television program at 8 o’clock tonight [12], when pajamas, negligees, tea gowns, etc. from leading French creators will be shown by the new sound-sight transmission process, Jacques Abrahams of the Frances company, made known this morning. (Women’s Wear Daily)
Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental program.
8:00—Marjorie Munroe, songs.
8:15—Kathryn Parsons, song.
8:30—Ernest Naftzger hour.
9:00—Vincent Mondi, one-man Jazz Band.
9:15—Hazel Dudley, soprano. 9:30—Three-round exhibition boxing bout.
9:45—Major Ivan Firth and Gladys Shaw Erskine.
10:00—“Tashamira” dances for television.
10:15—Bridge playing demonstration, George Reith.
10:30—Flying lesson.
10:45—Grace Yeager, songs.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Marie von Unschuld, piano technique.
4:15—Lavinia Darve, songs.
4:30—Ballroom Dancing, Thomas Parson.
4:45—Bessie Wynn, songs.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—to be announced.
6:30—String quartet.
6:45—Sports Talk.
7:00—Lou Calbi, songs.
7:15—Salzer and Tilly, duets.
Other stations as above.
La Presse, Montreal, has been granted a television permit, the first in Canada. Engineers are now installing the equipment to be used in conjunction with its sound station. (C.E. Butterfield, AP radio columnist)
NEW YORK, Oct. 13. (AP)—The membership roll of the Top Nut club, New York’s highest honor is now closed forever. The club comprises a group of lofty young engineers in the employ of the National Broadcasting company. They have been installing NBC’s experimental television studio in the Empire State building. To gain membership in the club they had to climb to the roof of the mooring mast atop Al Smith’s skyscraper, then shinny up a pole and touch the top nut on the weather vane. That meant they had touched the highest man-made pinnacle on earth—1,262 feet above Fifth avenue’s pavement. Now, however, the young men have rigged up an antenna mast which towers 14 feet above the weather vane, pushing the so-called “vanishing point” of the skyscraper to a height of 1,276 feet. The antenna pole is so thin that no one can climb it to touch what is now the highest point on the building. So the Top Nut club has closed its membership.
Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—Harriet Lee, Miss Radio 1931.
8:15—Emery Deutsch, “The Wandering Gypsy.”
8:30—James Amster, Interior decorating talk.
8:45—Sharon Wayne.
9:00—Costume recital by Helen Withers.
9:15—Piano lessons.
9:45—The Ambassadors, quartet.
10:00—“Mirrors of Song,” Columbia’s Ben Alley and Helen Nugent.
10:30—Lou Hanlon, noted artist, cartoons.
10:45—Girls’ Trio.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Burnett Sisters, songs.
4:15—Your Voice, talk.
4:30—Billie Davis, songs.
4:45—“At the Movies,” sketch.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—to be announced.
6:15—Meb and Mac, songs.
6:30—Gosselin Sisters, songs.
6:45—Sports Talk.
7:00—“Theatregoing,” Doug Brinkley.
7:15—Whispering Trio.
Other stations as above.
Thursday, Oct. 15, 1931W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental sight programs.
8:15—Experimental Television drama.
8:30—Doris Sharp, songs.
8:45—Lawrence Levin, songs.
9:00—Wayburn’s Miniature Musical Comedy Revue.
9:30—“The Television Ghost,” mystery sketch.
9:45—“Making Faces at the World,” Dave Franklin, songs.
10:00—Tighe’s Television experiments.
10:15—Adele Vasa, soprano.
10:30—“The Singing Vagabond,” Artells Dickson.
10:45—Television experiments.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Burt Scott, tenor.
4:15—Beauty talk, with Elsie Pierce.
4:30—Mary Bongert, soprano.
4:45—Marguerite Austin, violin.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—to be announced.
6:15—Nathaniel Pousette D’Art, art talk.
6:30—“Toyland,” children’s program.
6:45—Sports Talk.
7:00—Marguerite Silva, songs.
7:15—Justice Brandeis Society Forum, speaker Borough President of Manhattan, Samuel Levy.
Other stations as above.
Friday, Oct. 16, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—“The Singing Vagabond,” Artells Dickson
8:15—“Stephen Vincent Benet,” W. Clark Harrington.
8:30—Ruth Kerner, soprano.
8:45—Vocal Art Trio.
9:00—Exhibition of rare pets.
9:15—Barbara Maurel, contralto.
9:30—“Old Skipper,” Captain Jack.
9:45—Fencing demonstration.
10:00—Helen Nugent, contralto.
10:15—“Hints for Swimmers,” talk by Charles Speer.
10:30—Harriet Lee, songs.
10:45—Travelogue Tales.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Jacques Belser, songs.
4:15—Spanish Lessons, Dr. Thatcher Clark.
4:30—Here and There,” Harrison Zeller.
4:45—Grace Perry, songs.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—to be announced.
6:15—Managing and Financing the Y., talk; Jean Henderson, soprano; Louis Schoenborn, tenor.
6:45— Jack Norman’s Sports Talks.
7:00—Chamberlain Brown’s Stars of Broadway.
Other stations as above.
Saturday, Oct. 17, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:30—Army-Harvard football game.
8:00—Elliot Jaffee, songs.
8:15—Lilyan Crossman, actress.
8:30—“A Pair of Jacks” or Phil Maher, comedian.
8:45—Senorita Soledad Espinal and guitar or Stanley Davis.
9:00—“Scanning the Stars” or vocal trio.
9:30—Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd.
9:45—“The Singing Vagabond,” Artells Dickson.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—The Prosperity Girls, sketch.
4:15—Tap dancing lesson with William MacPherson.
4:30—Pauline Bugg, contralto.
4:45—Gosselin Sisters, songs.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Irish Dance Orchestra, Seamus O’Dougherty, tenor.
6:30—Van Dycke’s Broadway Interlude.
6:45—Sports Talk
7:00—Alfred Wertheim, violin.
7:15—Yvonne LeClaire, songs.
Other stations as above.
Sunday, Oct. 18, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 Experimental sight programs.
8:00—Vincent Sorey, Louise Caselotti, operatic singer, the “Gauchos.”
8:30—Myndelle Louis, Australian concert soprano.
8:45—Marga Larubia, characterizations.
9:00—“Panorama,” with Sue Read and Bobby Trent.
9:30—Out of the Song Shops, popular melodies.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on WGBS 1180 kcs)
6:00—“Musical Etchings.”
6:15—Daisy and Bob, songs.
6:30—John Murphy, tenor; Mauricette Ducret, songs.
7:00—“Snapshots,” sketch.
7:15—Slumber Boat.
Work on the erection of the National Broadcasting Company’s new television station atop the Empire State Building was going forward last week, although it was definitely learned that the station will not be completed until late December.Construction permit has been granted by the Federal Radio Commission and some work has been already completed. However, it was stated requests have been received from radio receiving set manufacturers urging delaying opening of the transmitter until after Christmas. It is believed the set makers are not anxious to have too much interest simulated in television, fearing that erection and opening of a new station would tend to retard the usual increase in sales around Christmas.
N. B. C.’s Television Attitude
Erection of the new transmitter is under the direction of C. W. Horn, general engineer of the National Broadcasting Company. Horn recently stated that the broadcasting company is not interested in developing television, but seeks to keep in touch with television development. When visual transmitting equipment is developed to the stage where it is practical for home use, he recently stated, the broadcasting company will enter the field on more than an experimental basis.
The new transmitter atop the Empire State building is to have a power of 5,000 watts, and will incorporate all of the latest innovations in television equipment. Tests conducted atop a number of tall buildings in New York City revealed the Empire tower as an ideal location for a radio station operating on short wave lengths.
In the mean time the broadcasting company will maintain its present television station W2XBS on top of the New Amsterdam Theater. Programs of an experimental nature will be broadcast.
The new television station will be located on the eighty-sixth floor of the building. Equipment will consist of a 5,000-watt transmitter, scanning apparatus and studio.
Antenna Erected
An antenna has already been erected and extends from the eighty-sixth floor to the top of the tower. Special lightning arrester equipment was installed last week to protect the apparatus from electrical storms. It is expected that during the course of construction experimental transmissions will be made, but regular broadcasts will not be inaugurated until after Christmas.
The Nationa1 Broadcasting Company’s attitude during the last year has been that visual transmission is still in the experimental stage, and it will not inaugurate a regular service until further developments are made.
On the other hand, it is learned that the Radio Corporation of America has developed in its laboratory at Camden, N. J., a system of television which will be highly practical. N. B. C, as a subsidiary to the radio corporation, will logically have access to the many developments made in the Camden laboratory. The system devised by R. C. A. engineers is believed to make use of the cathode ray tube, although the corporation has guarded its television work with utmost secrecy. (Herald Tribune)
Monday, Oct. 19, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—“At Home Party,” Alvin Hauser.
8:30—Richard Kenny, the Magician.
8:45—Television Crooner, Doris Sharp.
9:00—Piano lessons.
9:30—Charlotte Harriman, contralto.
9:45—"Art of Bookbinding," Whitman Bennett.
10:00—Kay Fayre, vaudeville act.
10:15—Roger Kinne, baritone.
10:30—Kathryn Parsons, songs.
10:45—“The Singing Vagabond,” Artells Dickson.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Dunya, soprano; Carl Schaivotz, violin; Mae Morrison, piano.
4:30—Charlotte Comer, songs.
4:45—Weight Reduction, Dr. Shirley Wynne.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—“Uneasy Money,” sketch.
6:15—Jack Healy’s Dance Trio.
6:30—Radio Talk.
6:45—Lily Armstrong, whistling.
7:00—The Radio Forum.
7:15—Theatre Talk with Harriet Menken.
W2XBS (NBC, New York), W2XR (Hogan, Long Island), W3XK (Jenkins Labs, Washington), W1XAV (Boston) as above.
Chicago, Oct. 19.—Counsel for the owners of WIBO here, whose wave length has just been assigned to WJKS, Gary, Md., is slated to get today (19) a temporary injunction from the District of Columbia court of appeals restraining the Federal Radio Commission from putting the transfer order into effect. Commission is not expected to contest the court order, but leave it to the two stations to fight it out between themselves. Legal issues involved will likely keep the case dragging through the courts for the next 12 months.
Commission’s ruling not only eliminates WIBO from the air but...also affected by the commission’s decision is Western Television Corporation’s station W9XAO, operating a daily schedule out of the WIBO studios and in conjunction with the WIBO sound broadcasts. Latter station only last week fitted up a studio in the Chicago Theatre building to provide for a downtown pick-up of some of its sustaining programs. (Variety, Oct. 20)
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1931W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental program.
8:00— Vincent Mondi, one-man Jazz Band.
8:15—“The Wandering Gypsy.”
8:30—Ernest Naftzger’s artists.
9:00—“The Television Ghost.”
9:15—Four Pantomimes.
9:30—Three-round exhibition boxing bout.
9:45—Major Ivan Firth and Gladys Shaw Erskine.
10:00—“Tashamira” dances for television.
10:15—Dorothy Gordon, songs.
10:30—Flying lessons, Colonel Clarence Chamberlain and Tom Truesdale.
10:45—Grace Yeager, songs.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Marie von Unschuld, piano technique.
4:15—Lavinia Darve, songs.
4:30—Ballroom Dancing, Thomas Parson.
4:45—Beauty, Elsie Pierce.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Aircraft –Radio Talk, Capt. Kiel, Radio Officer, Do-X.
6:45—Sports Talk.
7:00—Doris Blaul, piano.
7:15—Helen Denton, soprano; Ralph Allen, tenor.
Other stations as above.
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—Harriet Lee, Miss Radio 1931.
8:15—“Tony Wons’ Scrapbook”
8:30—“Television Cameos,” Stanley Davis, Irene Beasley and Joan Lloyd.
9:00—Margie Munroe, singing.
9:15—Dorothy Rosenthal, violin.
9:45—The Ambassadors, quartet.
10:00—“Mirrors of Song,” Columbia’s Ben Alley and Helen Nugent.
10:30—Lou Hanlon, noted artist, cartoons.
10:45—Girls’ Trio.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Burnett Sisters, songs.
4:15—Your Voice, talk.
4:30—Billie Davis, songs.
4:45—“At the Movies,” sketch.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Meb and Mac.
6:15—Verdi’s Tots.
6:30—Gosselin Sisters, songs.
6:45—Sports Talk.
7:00—“Theatregoing,” Doug Brinkley.
7:15—Norma Altwater.
Other stations as above.
Thursday, Oct. 22, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—“Mask Making,” Henry Chaffard.
8:30—“Patteron,” Sharon Wayne.
8:45—Musical Saw.
9:00—Wayburn’s Miniature Musical Comedy Revue.
9:30—Anita Demorales, Trini Verela, sopranos.
9:45—“Making Faces at the World,” Dave Franklin, songs.
10:00—Dorothy Reed, impersonations.
10:15—Adele Vasa, soprano.
10:30—Puppet Follies.
10:45—Ethelyn Holt, soprano.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Marion French, contralto.
4:15—Fritzi Frank, songs.
4:30—Beauty, Elsie Pierce.
4:45—Marguerite Austin, violin.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Doris Gublman, soprano.
6:15—Nathaniel Pousette D’Art, art talk.
6:30—“Toyland,” children’s program.
6:45—Sports Talk.
7:00—Marguerite Silva, songs.
7:15—Justice Brandeis Society Forum.
Other stations as above.
Another of those modern miracles of science came out of its laboratories today [22] and gave its first big time public performance before a crowded house at the Broadway Theater, Broadway at Fifty-third street.
It was television, producing for the first time a ten foot image on a ground glass curtain, and it brought applause, even from the skeptics.
Much like the early demonstrations of Edison's "movies," the new apparatus sputtered at times and faded and blurred. And at the crucial moment, when a scene from “The House of Connelly” was to be televised, a tube acted up and halted the proceedings for fifteen minutes. But it was a satisfactory performance withal.
The sending apparatus for the demonstration was installed in the Theater Guild theater around the corner in Fifty-second street. The performers appeared before a mirror—no larger than the mirror on a dresser—and faced eight aluminium discs like frying pans—each of which contained a photo electric cell.
Figures Broken Up.
The sound device is the regulation radio broadcasting sound, but the figure, in order to be broadcast along with the sound has to be broken up into 25,000 tiny pieces—only optically, of course. The breaking is done by a revolving disc with forty-five perforations through which the optical pieces pass.
Emily Day, Mexican Grand Opera Company contralto, was broken up into small pieces and reassembled for the Broadway Theater screen in fractions of a second. She sang several selections and her image appeared on the ground glass screen The “pieces” of the image and the sound, too, travel by electricity, then are picked up at the receiving end with much the same apparatus—the whirring disc with the forty-five perforations and the 900 revolutions a minute keyed to the same speed as the sending apparatus.
Carveth Wells of WEAF fame announced the program from the stage of the Broadway, then skipped over to the Guild Theater and appeared over the screen.
Carl Paul Ican, an Indian chief and a barytone with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, sang in full regalia. The song came through perfectly, but the regalia was necessarily missing in the small vision field. Ruth Burns, the television girl, televised nicely in several popular selections, and a Central African parrot recorded, giving a Bronx cheer when asked his opinion of prohibition.
Addresses Made.
More serious were addresses by Waldemar Kaempffert and Therese Helburn of the Theater Guild. Miss Helburn was televised and Mr. Kaempffert appeared on the stage. Franchot Tone and Margaret Barker of the "House of Connelly" company produced a short scene from that play after an overheated tube had been allowed to cool out. It is understood that some of the television features are to be incorporated in the regular shows at the Broadway Theater.
The devise used in the experiment is the product of the Sanabria Television Corporation of Chicago and the invention of Ulysses A. Sanabria, twcety-six-year-old scientist. (Sun)
Friday, Oct. 23, 1931W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—“The Singing Vagabond,” Artells Dickson
8:15—“Words and Music,” W. Clark Harrington.
8:30—Ruth Kerner, soprano.
8:45—Vocal Art Trio.
9:00—Dancing lesson.
9:15—Julia Mahoney, soprano.
9:30—“Old Skipper,” Captain Jack.
9:45—Elisha Tuttle, violin.
10:00—Helen Nugent, contralto.
10:15—Red Cagle, football star.
10:30—Harriet Lee, Miss Radio of 1931.
10:45—Stephanie Wall.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Jacques Belser, songs.
4:15—“A Spanish Lesson,” Dr. Thatcher Clark.
4:30—“Here and There,” Harrison Zeller.
4:45—Helen Hoss, contralto.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Whispering Trio.
6:15—Triangle Hour.
6:45— Jack Norman’s Sports Talks.
7:00—Chamberlain Brown’s Artists.
Other stations as above.
Saturday, Oct. 24, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental programs.
8:00—Elliott Jaffee, songs.
8:15—Lilyan Crossman, pantomimes.
8:30—Phil Maher, comedian
8:45—Senorita Soledad Espinal and guitar.
9:00—Vocal trio.
9:15—“Long Island Ten-Year Play,” Cleveland Rodgers.
9:30—Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd.
9:45—“The Singing Vagabond,” Artells Dickson.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—The Prosperity Girls, sketch.
4:15—Tap dancing lesson with William MacPherson.
4:30—Lewis and Osborg, songs.
4:45—Gosselin Sisters, songs.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Irish Dance Orchestra, Seamus O’Dougherty, tenor.
6:30—Van Dycke’s Broadway Interlude.
6:45—Sports Talk
7:00—William Chosnyk, violin.
7:15—Yvonne LeClaire, songs.
Other stations as above.
"A Premier Display of New Parisian Fashion Modes," conducted by Mlle. Paulette Madoc, directress of the House of Ardanse; "Flying Aces," an educational aviation feature arranged by Tom Truesdale, flying musical aviator; "An Informal Television at Home Party," under the supervision of Alvin E. Hauser, are the outstanding features to be broadcast for the lookers-in over the Columbia Broadcasting System's experimental television station. W2XAB, for the week beginning Sunday, October 25.Mlle. Paulette Madoc, who arrives in this country Thursday, on the Ile de France for a two week’s visit under the auspice of Pictorial Review, is directrice of the Maison Ardanse, Paris, one of the outstanding fashion shops of Europe and an authority on the latest styles. She will present a number of new models for the visual audience on Wednesday, October 28, at 8:30 P. M.
Lessons on Flying.
Tom Truesdale, flying leader of the Musical Aviators' Orchestra, will present some well-known aviator who will lecture on the importance of aviation today and its future development. During this feature a miniature plane is to be used to demonstrate how stunt flying is accomplished. This feature is scheduled for Tuesday, October 27, at 10:30 P. M.
On Monday, October 26, at 8 P. M., Alvin E. Hauser, one of the pioneers of radio broadcasting, will present an informal "At Home Party." in which new radio artists will be heard in song recitals and instrumental programs.
That Ghost Again.
'"The Television Ghost" will be seen and heard at 9 P. M. Tuesday, October 27. This mysterious character tells you the latest murder mysteries in weird costume, and his shrill voice and facial expressions are well worth while watching.
The usual exhibition boxing match takes place at 9:30 P. M. Tuesday, October 27, featuring A. A. U. fighters. A blow by blow description will be given by Bill Schudt, Jr., over the sound channel, W2XE.
Tashimara, famous modernistic dancer, will again appear on the same night at 10 P. M. in several new demonstrations before the television scanner.
Song recitals and interesting instrumental features will also be broadcast during the week. On Saturday, October 31, the Illinois vs. Northwestern football game will be followed on the special designed television board showing play by play as described by Ted Husing, WABC sports announcer. (Sun)
A joint recital composed mostly of modern Russian music will be given over W2XCR, the Jenkins television station, at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon by Dunya, lyric soprano, and Carl Schaivotz, violinist. Assisting at the piano will be Mae Morrison. (Sun)
NEW YORK.—“Ladies and gentlemen, tonight radio makes another big step In the progress and advancement of television, when, for the first time in our history, Columbia places a regular scheduled program on the air with television synchronization!
“In other words, the Bon Bons have been selected to share in this miraculous achievement, and may be seen as well as heard tonight, as they make radio history in their all-request program. Introducing Ravella Hughes, Lois Parker, Musa Williams, and Georgette Harvey, as they appear singing ‘St. James Infirmary’.”
That’s what the announcer over the Columbia Broadcasting chain said one night last August. He was speaking from the New York studio of the company on Madison Avenue. It was an international hook-up. The Bon Bons had made their bow as the first colored entertainers to broadcast over television.
Between hurried efforts to get out her music in preparation for her next rehearsal at the studio and futile reprimands to her small Chow dog, who was dividing his time between chew ing at her stockings and the apartment draperies, told Miss Hughes of her first experience with television.
“Last fall I had a trio called the Ravella Hughes Trio. We were playing in ‘Hot Rhythm’ at the Times Square Theatre. When that was over, Georgette Harvey came into the line-up and then we called ourselves the ‘Bon-Bons.’ We were on the air before we knew it.
Describes Studio
“The television room at the studio is just an ordinary small room; the walls are hung with a sort of linen crash to deaden sound. You really get the impression that your picture is going to be taken.“The apparatus looks like an oblong picture frame. There are three-inch reflectors on either side. They carry the reflected light to the television control room. The light that hits us comes through a three and one-half-inch lens. It flickers all the time. A hanging ‘mike’ is placed over the center of the machine directly above the frame.
“So far as I understand, television travels only two or three hundred miles.
“The room is perfectly dark except for the reflectors and a silver wall drop which hangs at the back to give brightness and heighten the color of the performers. The entertainers wear a costume approaching white.
“The piano is placed on a raised platform and I sit on a six-foot stool. The group forms just like we are going to have our pictures taken.
“In an adjoining room one can see what the picture looks like. It is a moving photograph, almost na[t]ural size. One may put on ear phones and hear and see through a small aperture.
Must Be Timed
“On the day of the performance we go down to the studio in the afternoon for a forty-five-minute rehearsal. Each member is timed to the minute. You can easily see why this is necessary, when there are so many programs all over the country that have to come on at specific hours. If you run over your time in a number you are automatically cut off by the company.
“Tone balance is watched—all this from the television control room, where the director sits, listens and watches.
“When the actual program begins at night, there is perfect quiet in the studio; the ‘mike’ in this room is super-sensitive. All signals are made by a raise of the hand or a crook of the finger. The clock is watched; the number gets along; everybody is tense, and then gradually you thaw out as it were, and enjoy it. I found my first experience great fun.” (Afro-American)
Sunday, Oct. 25, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 Experimental sight programs.
8:00—Savitzkaya’s French Trio.
8:30—Myndelle Louis, Australian concert soprano.
8:45—Marga la Rubia, costume characterizations.
9:00—“Broadway Panorama,” with Sue Read and Bobby Trent.
9:30—Out of the Song Shops, popular melodies.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on WGBS 1180 kcs)
6:00—“Musical Etchings.”
6:15—Daisy and Bob, songs.
6:30—Sunday Musicale.
7:00—“Snapshots,” sketch.
7:15—Musical Slumber Boat.
Television showmen at W2XAB, New York, have a new idea that provides for the separate scanning of background and scenery, some on glass slides and others on motion picture film. Images of the performers will be superimposed on the scenery.
Three television scanners will be required. One will scan the artist, another will scan the scenic effect, and a third the artist’s shadow.
For example, if a soprano is to be televised singing program of Dutch songs, she will be shown against a typical Holland background. (New York Times)
Monday, Oct. 26, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—“At Home Party,” Alvin Hauser.
8:30—Kenny, the Magician.
8:45—Television Crooner, Doris Sharp.
9:00—Piano lessons.
9:30—Helen Board, soprano.
9:45—“The Art of Bookbinding,” Whitman Bennett.
10:00—Kay Fayre, vaudeville act.
10:15—Roger Kinne, baritone.
10:30—Kathryn Parsons, songs.
10:45—“The Singing Vagabond,” Artells Dickson.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Dunya, soprano; Carl Schaivotz, violin; Mae Morrison, piano.
4:30—Charlotte Comer, songs.
4:45—Weight Reduction, Dr. Shirley Wynne.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Henderson Players.
6:15—Jack Healy’s Dance Trio.
6:30—Radio Revue.
6:45—Louise Kelly, soprano; Annette Wagner, contralto.
7:00—The Radio Forum: Speaker, Morris L. Strauss.
7:15—Theatre Talk with Harriet Menken.
W2XBS (NBC, New York), W2XR (Hogan, Long Island), W3XK (Jenkins Labs, Washington), W1XAV (Boston) as above.
Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental program.
8:00— Vincent Mondi, one-man Jazz Band.
8:15—Emery Deutsch, “The Wandering Gypsy.”
8:30—Ernest Naftzger’s artists.
9:00—“The Television Ghost.”
9:15—Four Pantomimes.
9:30—Three-round exhibition boxing bout.
9:45—Major Ivan Firth and Gladys Shaw Erskine, novelties.
10:00—“Tashamira” dances for television.
10:15—Hazel Dudley, soprano.
10:30—“Flying Aces,” talk by Lieut. Al Williams.
10:45—Grace Yeager, songs.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Teresa McGinn ty, songs.
4:15—Lavinia Darve, soprano.
4:30—Ballroom Dancing, Thomas E. Parson.
4:45—Beauty, Elsie Pierce.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Sylvio Cassi, baritone.
6:15—String Quartet.
6:45—James Aswell, talk.
7:00—Doris Blaul, piano.
7:15—Song Pictures, Helen Denton, soprano; Ralph Allen, tenor.
Other stations as above.
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—Harriet Lee, Miss Radio 1931.
8:15—“Tony Wons’ Scrapbook”
8:30—Display of new Parisian fashion modes.
9:00—Margrie Munroe, in costume.
9:15—Address by Jo Ranson.
9:30—Stanley Davis, guitar.
9:45—Vocal trio.
10:00—“Mirrors of Song,” Ben Alley and Helen Nugent.
10:30—Lou Hanlon, songs or Cartoons
10:45—Doraljan, Girls’ Trio.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Burnett Sisters, songs.
4:15—Your Voice, talk.
4:30—Billie Davis, songs.
4:45—“At the Movies,” sketch.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Meb and Mac.
6:15—Verdi’s Tiny Tots.
6:30—Gosselin Sisters, songs.
6:45—James Aswell, talk.
7:00—“Theatregoing,” Doug Brinkley.
7:15—Norma Altwater, songs.
Other stations as above.
Thursday, Oct. 29, 1931W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—Joseph Lenzer’s Musical Saw.
8:30—“Patteran,” Sharon Wayne.
8:45—Jessica Worth, songs.
9:00—Wayburn’s Miniature Musical Comedy Revue.
9:30—Operatic Joint Recital, Anita de Morales and Trini Varela.
9:45—“Making Faces at the World,” Dave Franklin, songs.
10:00—Dorothy Reed, impersonations.
10:15—Adele Vasa, soprano.
10:30—Sigmund Rothschild, stamps.
10:45—Ethelyn Holt, soprano.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Marion French, contralto.
4:15—Studio program.
4:30—Mary Bongert, soprano.
4:45—Lillian Okum, impersonations.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Frances Marion, songs.
6:15—“Is Painting Doomed?” talk by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart.
6:30—“Toyland,” children’s program.
6:45—James Aswell, talk.
7:00—Edyth Burley, songs.
7:15—Justice Brandeis Society Forum. Speaker, Judge Frank Wasserman.
Other stations as above.
Friday, Oct. 30, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.
(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-6:00 p. m.—Experimental sight programs.
8:00—“The Singing Vagabond,” Artells Dickson
8:15—“English Pastoral Poetry,” W. Clark Harrington.
8:30—Ruth Kerner, soprano.
8:45—Vocal Art Trio.
9:00—Dancing lesson.
9:15—Julia Mahoney, soprano.
9:30—“Old Skipper,” Captain Jack or Charlie Lawman, baritone.
9:45—Television demonstration.
10:00—Helen Nugent, contralto.
10:15—Red Cagle, football star, interviewed by Charles Speer.
10:30—Harriet Lee, Miss Radio of 1931.
10:45—Stephanie Wall, songs
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Jacques Belser, songs.
4:15—“A Spanish Lesson,” Dr. Thatcher Clark.
4:30—“Here and There,” Harrison Zeller.
4:45—Helen Hoss, contralto.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—The Whispering Trio.
6:15—Triangle Hour.
6:45— Jack Norman’s Sports Talks.
7:00—Chamberlain Brown’s Artists.
Other stations as above.
Saturday, Oct. 31, 1931
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 2750 kc.(Sound on W2XE, 6120 kc.)
2:00-5:30—Illinois vs. Northwestern football game, followed by board from radio description.
8:00—Elliott Jaffee, songs.
8:15—Lilyan Crossman, pantomimes.
8:30—Phil Maher, comedian
8:45—Senorita Soledad Espinal and guitar.
9:00—“Scanning the Stars” or Florence Siebert, pianist.
9:15—Halloween program. (NY Sun listing)
9:30—Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd.
9:45—“The Singing Vagabond,” Artells Dickson.
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), New York, 2035 kc.
(Sound on 1180 kcs)
3:00-4:00—Films.
4:00-5:00—Same as WGBS.
4:00—Lewis and Osborg, songs.
4:15—Tap dancing lesson with William MacPherson.
4:30—John Dundon, tenor.
4:45—Gosselin Sisters, songs.
6:00-7:30—Same as WGBS
6:00—Irish Dance Orchestra, Seamus O’Dougherty, tenor.
6:30—Van Dycke’s Broadway Interlude.
6:45—Sports Talk
7:00—William Snitow, violin.
7:15—Yvonne LeClaire, songs.
Other stations as above.
