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Tucked away in the sedate red-&-gold interior of the Metropolitan Opera House last week, hidden in wings and footlights, were half a dozen intruders in those almost sacred precincts?microphones. To the "Met" they represented a compromise and a new source of income?an arrangement with National Broadcasting Co. reported to bring $250,000 for 25 broadcast operas. To the U. S. radio audience, it was briefly exciting ? speeches by NBC's President Merlin Hall Aylesworth and Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath of the Metropolitan, sounds of the orchestra tuning up under Conductor Karl Riedel, echoes...
...were his introduction, name-spelling. Christmas greetings in French, German, Italian. But he talked during the music. Telegrams poured in: "Tell announcer to stop talking so opera can be enjoyed." "Is it possible to have Mr. Taylor punctuate his speech with brilliant flashes of silence?" Next day, during a broadcast of two acts of the 100th anniversary performance of Bellini's Norma, Narrator Taylor was less garrulous...
Both systems are still playthings. Yet some day, Dr. Alexanderson imagined last week, "we may see television broadcast from a powerful arc light, mounted atop a single tower high above the city. . . . These light waves can be received at relatively short distances only, perhaps ten miles; each community could then have its light broadcasting system. Light broadcasting may have the same relation to radio broadcasting as the local newspaper has to the national newspapers...
Less lyrical than General Motors' salute to Georgia is a book which, by rare coincidence, brought statements of indignation out of Georgia on the day of last week's broadcast. As almost every U. S. high-school student knows, Dr. David Saville Muzzey's History of the American People refers to Oglethorpe's colonists as "poor debtors and criminals," says that "the convicts were poor workers," and that therefore Oglethorpe abandoned his charter 21 years after it was issued. To President Charles Ellis of the Savannah Board of Education, these passages seemed little less than appalling...
Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett coined commercial reward for having turned cinemactor, signed a contract to broadcast 13 Monday evenings for Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. His fee: $4,000 a week, beginning...