Show ESSSiiil -- :'‘V THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SURVEY SHOWS -- mmm — SUNDAY MORNING — '" ’ mm NOVEMBER 18 1934 I WAVE RADIOS TO BE MOST POPULAR m RECEIVERS NEW-MODEL SALES TOP SETS FINDING Foreign Broadcasts Prove p- Popular With Majority of American - 1 it H I I! Hi Listeners fl4fr h - a §13 Xus-- Average Price of Unit Also Shows Jump L for Period ft: t ' Total sales of radio receivers for bv licensed manufacturers the first half of 1934 are reported as slightly more than 1774700 reports Radio Retailing “This” the publication sayC “tops the record for 1933 Estiby 338700 sets mated retail dollar volume rise was even greater — from $42000- ooo to $70000000 “As could be expected sales for the second quarter 1934 fell below those of the January to March figure — 790000 as against 984700 sets Also a drop from the corresponding second quarter of 1933 — which was 848300 sets "The average unit price however shows an appreciable gain having risen from $3360 for the second quarter of 1633 to about $4050 for the second quarter of the current year These figures confirm other evidence that consoles are coming into the foreground again “Automobile radio seta hkve not come up to expectations for 1934 Sales of these units have run behind the budgets set up by the makers at tha beginning of the year based on 1933 sales It is this drop in automobile sets which ’mainly accounts for the 1634 second quarter falling behind 1933 for the same period r ratios "Averaging the shown here and applying them to the figures for the first half of 1934 indicates the total production for 1934 will be about 4400000 radio sets” I INDUSTRY PICKING UP Progress Reported In Television Work- LAST YEAR w ’wm DIG DEMAND RADIO SECTION ii fu iml) l&sr m jU Several Problems Must Be Solved Before Commercial Use Is Practicable Television experiments are reported to be steadily progressing in several laboratories some maintained by leading radio manufacturers Important advances have been made in mechanical and electrical designs There are however still a number of difficulties to be eliminated before commercial introduction becomes prac ticable Economic problems related to the art most troublesome of which are the financing of station construction and the underwriting of program costs also are far from solution that the radio industry is deter- It is held certain-though- mined to introduce television at the proper time Technical and financial barriers seem high enough to bgfflq any immediate solution Among the work being dqne Is that of the Peck Television corporation of New York which uses for recep--tio- n a modified form of Kerr-cel- l In past years the radio Industry and a system of mirrored lenses Si fnade the claim that improvements which project the light beam from and refinements Incorporated in the the cell to the viewing screen One lev models made all sets of previous automobile Salt Lake's Experience Vintage obsolete measure as serves the a in The claim was headlight lamp large Jight With Radio Patrol source produces sufficiently briltrue but unfortunately the public liant pictures due to the efficiency of did not respond by junking their old Cars Cited the optical system market aets and hastening to the new creations the to Movie Film Employed place purchase This year with the sales emphasis is accomplished frorrr Transmission inmethods crime Modern f’ghting ret being placed behind the standard size movi film a 1440 clude the operation of short-wavceiver with its thrill of foreign recepm motor i p moving the film for-Ttion the public is paying heed to one jy-f- r radio stations at the rate of 24 frames per police the claims of the radio makers and ated by the Salt Lake City policeisecond without the use of gears what is more is buying paying highln-‘ the department for more than two years by means of a disc containing 20 er prices and helping return has proved extremely valuable in cast glass lenses each mirrored on dustry to the dominant position it J&K ence occupied its rear surface the war against criminals Seta Favored The city Inaugurated the first The light source Is placed within a unique collecting lens which diRecently the Radio Merchant made radio patrol car service to be intro- rects into a beam 83 per cent survey of set sales asking distribon July 2 1932 under of the total light available from in duced Utah the utors in every section of the country Mr Commissioner of Police filament This direction beam V7Q the strikes the lens to break down set sales in the follow' disc a motor rotated Chief e dual by synchronous John M Knight and Police ing classifications: The station is KGPW and is reflected by the lenses through W L Payne wave standard broadcast the film to the photocell disInto divided moving The city has been The results the magazine pointed cars pa- One hundred twenty line transmis- tricts with out showed a decided public prefersion is used but this rate may be in ence for the set one distrolling each district The dispatcher creased by speeding up the scans at police headquarters receives all tributor in Rhode Island stating 95 ning wheel outside calls and directs the cars per cent of sales were of this type ir g Uses Modified Cell f r receiver Another In Omaha Neb 3T1 Detectives Help to set The receiver also uses a modified gave the percentage of Where major crimes are involved Kerr-cel) ' t l and one in Chicago sales at 87 f ( t s 4‘ as a light wave Light from £ car the of work the squads patrol vMSxtfafrff'iii'ishiittrfirrtirswr iiwnrirlj said that 75 per cent of sales to the that of detec- an automobile headlamp is polarized is supplemented by variety public were of the tives At the completion of each call by passage through a Nicol prism s of the distributors and then passed to the cell The Popular in this day are radio parties with ihe stimulation of musio and other programs of entertainment Fully Such parties tllii fall and winter patrol car operators are required to amount or should prove even more interesting berauae of the general inclusion of of light passing to the cell World-widreporting stated that 50 per cent is to headquarters by telephone equipment by radio manufaelurers reception report 1s controlled more of their sales were of the new available with these new instruments In this radio party are left to right Miss Betty Ramsey Wallace Mace Richard Rampton and Mlsa Evelyn by the voltage applied The department operates a ' averMiller modern variety The short-wavstation with a across its plates Hence by applywas: ing the amplified television signal to age for all distributors replying daylight range of 100 miles and I the cell light varies with the signal 55 per cent dual wave 23 night range of 500 miles 22 broadcast The modulated beam from the cell cent per standard per Various improvements in the sercent ‘Walking My Baby Back vice have been put into effect by is directed to a disc containing 120 officials since the radio was started glass castings which is rotated synForeign Programs Popular ' Home’ Among Hits “These figures" the publication Recently it was pointed out that Salt chronously with the disc of the transLake City's geographic location is mitter These castings mirrored on avers “clearly prove the public has of Vocalist destined to play an important role the back reflect almost all the light been sold on foreign reception and in the proposed nationwide police to a viewing screen By means of 3 the thrill of listening to broadcasts cent angular displacements beRadio from lands across the sea NEW YORK— Harry Richman who radio network which will embrace per mirror lenses the 200 radio stations in the nation's tween adjacent manufacturers have done a splendid beam Is directed lo the screen in Broadcasts Guide Pilots Claude Sweeten Musical is back on the air singing and clowtv fight against crime job through their advertising message scanning sequence ing with Jack Denny’s orchestra over in magazines and newspapers telling Asked to Join Chain A neir loudspeaker ha been de shout a tumult of noise thus making and Provide Weather Director at BroadScanner Developed an NBC network is a composer a ( The' local stallion has been request- of the capabilities °f the present-daWeis jlW which that it to warn it possible give tniUwitoiys Jaiipcdj receiver and it is only natural that of Philadelwell as a vocalist and comedian of radio stations "Philo T to chain a ed join Repqrts Station cast can 1000000 human voice amplify the with the tense situations which are ings etc where the spoken word in 15 states comprising Alabama phia former Utahn has developed a “One Home” My “Walking Baby cathode-ratimes scanner of unusual de--’ nd over flat country in still even as amplified by previously exexisting in European countries today Indiana Kentucky Little Raindrop” and “There Ought Connecticut citizens the millions of foreign-borMassachusetts Michigan sign tentatively named ‘“image disRadio has proved highly successful air be fieard at a distance pf several isting speakers would be completely Maryland A former Utahn has risen to the in on tune to to Be a Moonlight Saving Time” are New of this country wish Its construction is based on as an air navigation safety measure miles Says Radio-CraJersey New York North Caro- sector” drowned out peaks of radio fame the happenings of their homelands Rhode the use of a flat metal plate having Ohio the United States the among his hits and the other morn- lina Pennsylvania Throughout to the obtained results address a a dramatic Compared nature sounds Few “Hitler makes uniform photosensitive surface the He is Claude Sweeten violinist produced by West Virginia federal bureau of air commerce air ing in a New York restaurant as the Island Tennessee and t his followers Mussolini sets forth navigation division maintains a se- with loudspeakers now in general use and classically associated with loudplate being placed at one end of an Twelve police cars are Mr Sweeten was born in Mendon set his Mr Richman the and evacuated Pope aims purposes Italy's glass bulb At the other ries of radio stations for the benefit this one is a giant among pygmies ness can match the volume of the Utah but attended Salt Lake City watch ahead for daylight saving time Through a cooperative extends his blessings to the cele- of aviators One is located in Salt It is 500 times more powerful than new agreement between the city and Salt end of the tube is a metallic surface speaker It can makethe v6icepubiic schools When 8 years of age he was reminded of the circumstances Lake county radio service acts which as an anode brants at the Eucharistic congress in Lake City The scene has been the average and is intended primarily Jourir surrounding the writing of “There made available for a rlan of tthnnder Meas k took up-- ths— viol Smith America— and by the turn of (wewa h$ m Jhn JJhL cruis- b) Kg tslsvisfid is foC'Jutd by uouu uivoi cuiiiiuvi aii auuitiuiii tiu a to Be Moonlight 'Saving Ought the dial the Amercian owner of an ing cars It is reported the station of a camera lens on the photosensimusital direclor f companies maintain private sta- for outdoor use as such sound power ured at the mnouth of its horn the important Time” set can listen in and par- port Under the influence of tions to keep in constant communi- is usually too great for an enclosed sound it produces is about 1000 times San Francisco radio station ” the transmits about 7500 calls a year tive plate was three “It ago years just these in louder than the roar at the foot of esti- the light each point on the plate E H Morgan chief engineer ticipate cations with their fliers of the the to spae'e I vibration went “and Through recalled push mated the radio has decreased crime emits electrons the number emitted events Little wonder therefore Encouraged by his family and singer A federal radio range Is located Niagara Falls the hands of a grandfather in Salt Lake that with such sales features the two miles north of the municipal air- diaphragm words spoken in a conLarge crowds which stretch be- friends Mr Sweeten made unusual forward City nearly 50 per cent being proportional to the intensity of wintwo clock standi between that in is each light spot Thus the optical picreceiver steadily growing soon became known as dows orl the front room of my home port and sends out periodical direc- versational tone are hurled into the yond the range of existing loudspeakand progress ture is transformed into a picture of tional signals to fliers between popularity” air with a total force equal to tha ers or are in the presence of enough a child prodigy in his home town at Bayside Long Island electrons din to drown them out could be han- In 1911 he won first vioa Pocateljo and Rock Springs of a in hammer blow' ‘I looked out the window and there prize These are attracted to the positive'’ dled by means of the new speaker Therh is a similar range at Milford The speaker follows the general as could mass movements of people lin contest and was sent to the New was a beautiful moon Immediately anode focussed by external magnetic so that all air routes from Salt Lake England Conservatory of- Music in the idea for the song came to me Un551 fields By means of two additional principles of those used in talking or soldiers Fire fighters within burn- Boston where he spent three years til I went to City are adequately protected sleep I mused over the or deafened by the magnetic fields the entire electron the direction of not- notion and the next morning Irving pictures and public address systems ing buildings under Reports Broadcast studying image is moved bodily past a small crackle of flames could be directed ed masters of the violin In addition the government station However in addition it embodies making his Kahal who was spending the weekThis aperature square aperture the giant voice debut in Boston I professional house wrote end the and broadcasts weather reports to avia other unique features aimed to in- byIn rescues at my leading to another section of the tube at sea instructions could Awards" wUh“ Vstriienaemble! tors five times an hour so that at no crease its penetration and intelligi- be bellowed frdm the receives song” the electrons in the correct vessel The federal communications comThis led to a series of important time is the flier left in doubt of the bility- in the presence of other sound to the distressed crewrescuing “There Ought to Be a Moonlight scanning succession at 240 lines per or t or those he may expect on his Speech projected over the speaker in life boats and if substituted for engagements in eastern and Pacific Saving Time” didn't look very good mission which recently took over the picture scanned line after line until NfcW YORK — Queena Mario lyric conditions coast musical centers When he visit- to the music publishers at first how- reins of the radio telephone and tele- the scene is station operates is altered in such a way as to pene- the flight The completely covered At horn the giant voice ed Salt Lake Soprano of the Metropolitan Opera 24 hours daily In the event the prin- trate other noise more easily It can couldusual fogdetailed advice City to slop with friends ever and it was six months later be- graph industries has one accomplish- the other side of the aperture is an who is heard weekly ovqr- NBC rather give to is so ment credit its far a and he was invited whih relatives day fore it was published Richman was which multiplies her talents ex- cipal transmitter gets out of opera- actually cut through a din which it- than a Simple warning ' does not confine to become concert master Salt there are several auxiliary trans- self borders on the deafening and electron stream about 100 times The loud speaking system consists Lake Philharmonic orchestra Then playing on the road with George When this commission was originated clusively to opera and radio She tion time and mitters White's Scandals by that The output is fed to the modulator reach the ear is an author of merit and while still without add- of three parts: An amplifier a mi- he landed a The weather reports sent out over ing appreciablyintelligibly job as musical director when a friend wrote him that his by an act of congress earlier in the circuit of a high frequency transmitto the ear's burden In her ’teens successfully conducted concrophone and the loudspeaker itself in a theater here was it that it would stated year a are radio received come out was the had and by government ter song making The speaker accomplishes this by which is of the "moving coil” type three syndicated newspaper columns The World war took Mr Sweeten big hit the composer had forgotten sist of seven commissioners The ‘receiver makes use of a catsacrificing naturalness to reproduc- A coil of wire attached to the dia- to the San Francisco Recently she completed a detective operated teletype systems acdid not However this take into to hode-ray bay region in how it went He had to listen-ition and throwing its maximum entube novel Compares Favorably is suspended in a powerful 1917 when he was stationed count necesphragm amount of work the large at Mare his song on the radio the next night The lure of the footlights made itThe local station is larger than ergy into that part of the voice fre- steady magnetic field Electric cur- island as a — to such a maintain control and sary’ sergeant in the marine before he could sing it self felt early in her life and she left some in the country and compares quency range which is most essential rent whose variations duplicate the when the divisions of the commisIn 1922 he was invited to becorpsher home town of Akron Ohio to favorably with most of the others in to intelligibility Speakers designed voice waves flows through the coil come musical director of the sion were organized last month it New in York for music sound frequena itudy fidelity reproduce the country corresponding magnetic setting up was found that a total of 551 men theater a position he Singer Will Discuss i A single audition with Mme MarThe government radio service is cies ranging from 40 to 10000 cycles field around it which interacts with held 10 Gate would be needed not counting the He made his debut years cella Sembrich former head of the augmented This concennew however broadcast stations fixed of speaker the the field by magnet forcing department or the examiner's Anything but Herself legal Curtis Institute a post which Miss operated by the transport companies trates its power in the band of from the diaphragm to move back and before the “mike” in 1927 joining unit which sections have not yet been the Columbia Don Lee Mario now holds induced the teach- Both pilots and copilots in the planes 400 to 4000 cycles forth in synchronism with the varia- system in 1933 as musical-Broadcasting organized directof of er to accept the youthful girl as one are equipped with receiving and The amplifier and microphone are tions in the current and therefore g Thus the formation of this Unlike many public personalities the San Francisco station of her students A contract with the sending sets so they can be in con- also designed to emphasize only the on a gigantic scale the flawRea the with reproduces: the girl group has created employVirginia San Carlo Opera company was forth- stant communication with transport more essential and desired frequen- vibsations of the voice The coil is Alexander Woollcott speaks his less voice hates to talk about herself ment for more than 500 people many coming and the embryo star made company and government land sta- cies of sound The microphone of the eight inches in diameter and is made Miss Rea will discuss any subject — of whom are technically trained radio mind to a nationwide audience tw’ice her operatic debut in “Traviata” is virtually a of fine metal ribbon tightly coilgd lo tions Transport companies require 'moving coil” type la week For 20 years his chief busi- personal or otherwise— so long as it men Violetta Subsequently "she Sang their fliers to give position reports miniature of the loudspeaker operat-I- t a height of about an inch and a quarThe first task of the broadcast di- - ness ancj pleasure has been to tell does not touch on her own career with the Antonio Scottt Opera com- every 30 minutes Pilots ire required jing in reverse does not respond ef- - ter tiopes ambitions and secret longings vision has been the investigation of t()e world quite candidly what he pany and at the Metropolitan where to tell the altitude at which they areificiently to low frequencies and con The famous soprano gladly report requested by congress “to thinks of people plavs books places her first role was as Michaela in flying and weather conditions Theyjsequentiy transmits into the system cusses cooking sewing horseback study the proposal that congress by events— almost anything he finds in“Carmen" T are able to tell their position in bad!onlv those frequencies most vital toT riding the theater books or her ownstatute allocate fixed percentages of Cresting Miss Mario was the first singer weather because the governmentinteliigible speech new house now under construction radio broadcasting facilities to par-- j On January 19 1934 Woollcott cele--” ever to broadcast from the stage of range helps them in' their flying! The purpose of the speaker is both in the Pocono mountains 200 miles ticular types or kinds of nonprofit brated his d the Metropolitan Opera House She course Short-Wav- e ito shout long distances and to outManhattan but constantly radio programs or to persons identi-- i nversarv He was bom birthday radio as Bums and Allen Georgelfrom at Phalanx had Ihe role of Gretel in Humper- fied with herfrom conversation kinds or away and N particular types Grade respectively— but in dinck's “Hansel and Gretel” arid that j After he got his Ph B from 'of nonprofit activities” vatc life they are husband and Hamilton college at Clinton N Y was the first opera to go on thf air 20000-tonew The man LONDON)— he woman gag traveled and then decided to take and gag when NBC began broadcasting from steamship "0rion” launched at Bar-- j they were born on opposite sides post graduate work at Columbia unithe Metropolitan in 1931 row England started on its career' the continent-Gra- cie in San versity Finishing this in 1913 he went to work for the New York: by the throwing of a switch in Bris- - Francisco and George in New York Guy Lombardo Fought bane Australia Gracie was sent to a convent after Times as dramatic critic holding the The Duke of Gloucester pushed a which training the post for eight years Then he served irrepressible Against Music Lesson a in Brisbane button as dramatic critic for the New Yorlc sending signal young studied dancing with her Pioneer foresight and industry for the later organization of the by short wave to England causing sisters lady Herald and later for the New York The first time she appeared When Guy Lombardo was a boy in transformed a was And laid tabernacle choir to This is launched the being be the World before the footlights was in the Hipship century in London Ontario and his father sent 1870 was a from choir a has British first that been time alAs a personality Woollcott makes organized Lake radio retail dealers ship San Salt Francisco and podrome City grams him trudging trucculently to his first sagebrush waste into a cultural out- the launched from the other side of the though she had a perfectly coordi- are cooperating wholeheartedly with singers of the church Not only are the mechanical fea-- ! a colorful complex study Some who violin lesson the outcome of course post of the west a monument to which Long before the advent of radio world However ships of other na- nated dance routine it appeared that the other merchants of the city in tures of the w ide variety sets greatly know him only through his writings could not be foreseen In the ensuing achievement stands the L D S tab- broadcasting the choir had achieved tionalities have been controlled from the fates destined her as a’ comedi- Christmas displays improved but the new cabinets markjin which there is often a strong ele-- a years Lombardo enrolled three young- ernacle and its matchless organ both an international reputation With the a distance caustic wit think of him as During the month of enne for in the midst of a kick The 1925 lines of radios are attraclong step forward in beauty Splen- - ment-oer brothers and several school friends of which have received the generous cooperation and consent of the pre- June the prime minister of the Gracie lost her balance and fell pull- tively displayed by all local dealers did materials have gone into the cab-- lying in wait to pounce on human as his musical disciples of from of officials travelers the tabernacle in! a of siding appreciative Union South Africa launched praise weakness and hold it up to ridicules The and other dealers throughout Utah inels to make them far superior ing her sisters down with her The Lombardo boys — Guy Carmen all parts of the world choir arrangements were made foriship at Amsterdam Holland bv audience roared even casual a o and the intermountain region ail respects to the cabinets of the But his friends Liebert and Victor — gave the home t NBC network Into the tabernacle went native ma- a a button at Pretoria South a different story can a As for George Burns his first peri tell select All radio fall One this and easily companies past town a new kind of music terials painstaking toil and not a lit- cast the first being given in July1 Africa formance was at a political dinner winter are featuring equip-- j inet to fit into the home furnishing! At an early age Guy rebelled tle of constructive genius Into it also 1929 Broadcasts were given weekly! POINT WITH PRIDE with the Pee Wee quartet which ment which enables the radio perfectly of JOB ! ATPLIES FOR against the "hot" type jazz and went an organ built by pioneer changing September 4 1932 to CBS! three youngsters and himself had or- - ihusiast ta hear programs from all! All retail radio dealers invite vis- - For Jinqual versatility Jimmie Du--j a !bnr for around and under piPneer supervision whirhThere has not been a single interrupt Amos 'n' Andy have talked so much ganized flropod tempo style its from the public and are prepared rante and Dave Rubinoff point with parts of tne world which pleased him He stumbledlwith IU modernized features ranks tion of the broadcast since that t me about Weber City the is the latest proved devel- - at ail times to demonstrate all in- - pride to Ann Stone their charming George and Grade combined their across the soft legato tempo which today m one of the worlds largest and the popularity of the programs milnily they are p’anning to build 'talents at Union Hill N 1 several opment in radio and indications struments The early display of the feminine helper For Miss Stone in is attested to by scoes of communi that a Philadelphia and most complete instrument plasterer and years later They slarted together point to vally increased interest in 1935 models it is pointed out gives past month has done Spanish Mexi Even before the building of the cations received weekly from all partvbrieklayer has written them to apply in Boonton N and played De- - radio because of the possibility now the pubTfc ample opportunity to make can French Italian and Russian dia tabernacle and organ the groundworkjof the world peak in popular music ifor a job I troit’ on of hearing other than domestic pro- - the best selection before Christmas jlects to mention a their honeymoon Improvements Add Much to Enjoyment of Programs Here and Abroad Ml A I 'I e JrX sSjh s AU-Wa- tj V SCIENCE HELPS WAR ON CRIME six-vo- e oper-jWar- half-yea- radio-equippe- A e J n r‘ tinrtrm jfc- e Harry Richman Composes Songs two-third- e e In Spare Time e e e FORMER UTAHN Giant Loudspeaker Will GREATLY AIDED Find Scores of Practical NOTED ON ‘MIKE Uses in Times of Stress PLANE SAFETY y w y n radio-equippe- d stay-up-lat- e T— id e epoch-makin- g e Wen-dove- Lyric Soprano Proves Merits By New Novel Federal Board Needs Men To Rule Radio - 2000-wa- tt - - electron-multiplie- £j?Lai?'"!Te"‘:!the of-th- e 1 - - wide-reachin- Woollcott Not As Caustic As Writings Hint Burns and Allen Recall Beginning LlIICI dis-jth- e Of Stage Career ni lnpllPrl an-an- forty-sevent- L D S Tabernacle Organ And Choir Popular on Air ' f broad--pressin- e la-- e iw "V |