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Sunday, those able to devote thal
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WMAL at 11 a.m. and the afternoon
brings a sizable portion of sym
phonic works, with the New Ybrk
Philharmonic on WTOP at 3 for an
hour and a half and the N. B. C.
Symphony on WRC at 5 for an hour.
The ninth hour of the total is pro
vided by the Boston Symphony, on
WMAL at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. In
addition there is only the new series
of National Symphony concerts in
the schools, which WMAL carries on
Monday nights when they are avail
able.
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Radio does bring us the best of
“serious” music, to be sure, when it
puts us in time with these orches
tras, but it not only brings what
seems to many like precious little
of it, it brings it all in a week end
lump. It is a little like eating three
sirloin steaks this afternoon, then
getting along on K rations until
next Sunday. The other programs
devoted to “good” music, with their
always familiar operatic, operetta
and other vocal and orchestral se
lections, bear about the same rela
tion to truly good music as K rations
to a sirloin steak.
There seem to be plenty of these
“tid-bit” shows, incidentally, de
voted to the semi-classics and
broadcast at times convenient for
almost any listener. They are spon
sored, of course, and thus are more
likely to be treated with loving care
by the networks than the symphony
programs, which, with few excep
tions, are “public service” broad
casts.
In the field of recorded symphonic
music, broadcast locally and not
coming in over the network wires,
the listener fares a litle better. A
little but not too much. WINX prob
ably does the best job along these
lines around here, if you are not
already aware of it. WINX not only
has daily “serious" quisle programs,
but it has them on at fairly com
fortable hours, late in the morning
and early enough in the evening.
Elsewhere, the recorded music of
the masters seems to be set aside
for those who can get up with the
dawn to join their radios or stay
by them late into the night.
It is not to be expected, of course,
that any radio station would turn i
I down a profitably sponsored half-:
t hour devoted to jokes about pens
t that write under water just to get
, some worthwhile music on the air
, when it is convenient for a lot of
. people to listen to it. But there
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s The sponsor of “The Family Hour”
> is reported dissatisfied with the re
sponse the program has been get
j ting and js changing cast and for
| mat. The opposition to “The Fam
ily Hour” at 5 p.m. on Sundays is
the N. B. C. Symphony. The radio
people may discover yet that Beeth
oven has his admirers, too, even as
Victor Herbert.
* * * * ,
It remained for Bing Crosby to
provide the major laugh of the
radio week. You may not have
heard it, since Mr. Crosby's problem
right now is the small size to which
his audience has shrunk from the
large one he had for his first tran
scribed show. His Hooper rating
has sagged sadly. Those who were
still with him, however, heard this
top-form flash of the Crosby wit,
probably ad-libbed, on Wednesday
night.
Scene: A forest, where Judy Gar
land and a friend were engaged in
a turkey shoot.
Judy: Come on, Homer, we’ve got
to get a turkey.
Bing: We’ve got a turkey. What
we need is a Hooper.
* * *
Radio, already its own beat friend,
may yet become its own severest
critic. Breaking an old custom, by
which broadcasters have not used
their own facilities to discuss their
own problems, CBS today (WTOP,
1:30 p.m.) launches a new series
called “Time for Reason—About Ra
dio." The program, to be conducted
weekly by Lyman Bryson, is de
scribed as "a sincere and significant
effort to probe the complex system
of broadcasting objectively, to point
out its faults as well as its virtues."
There probably is nothing at all co
incidental in the fact that William
S. Paley, the man who recently told
the National Association of Broad
casters what was wrong with radio,
is chairman of the board of CBS.
* * * *
The Local Scene: “Memo to the
People,” radio drama by Sol Panitz
which was WINX’s V-J day special
broadcast last August, has been .
chosen for the World Security
Workshop next Thursday (WMAL,
10 pm.). . . . WPIK has established
a Washington news bureau in the
National Press Building to supple
ment its wire coverage of Govern
ment and local news. . . . WWDC’s
new “What’s Cooking” show inter
views housewives, via wire recorder,
in the midst of their labors over a
hot stove. . . . Two service bands
have new radio programs. The
United States Army Band begins a
weekly series on WOL Tuesday at
10:30 am. and the Navy Band
started a like series last Wednesday
at 11:30 am. on WPIK.... The John
L. Lfewis trial has kept the radio
news gatherers busy, too. WTOP has
been using its remote transmitter
to report the trial. WOL’s Macon
Reed, jr., after trying to get a wire
recorded quote from the leading
Sgure involved, was able to tell his
listeners only, “We now bring you
two seconds of genuine recorded si
lence by John L. Lewis, a silence he
till maintains.”
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Tuesday.^ "Meet the Press," 10:30
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