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...Associated Press meeting, held before the Publishers' sessions, confined its discussion to the broadcasting of news. Publisher Jerome Dewitt Barnum of the Syracuse Post-Standard asked the A. P. to forbid the use of its bulletins both for direct broadcast and for such interpretive deliveries as that of Lowell Thomas for the Literary Digest. To make such a rule effective, it would be necessary to enlist both United Press and International News Service in a boycott. But some of the editors opined that such broadcasts, even by commercial advertisers, actually increase the circulation of their newspapers. Although...
...will be repeated April 21 and 22 at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the only difference being that Harvard youths will sing the choruses instead of the Prince ton Glee Club. A sound film was made of the Philadelphia dress rehearsal. The Manhattan performance of April 21 will be broadcast, the first performance ever to be radioed from the Metropolitan Opera...
...doing: the knights storming the castle of Queen Morgan Le Fay use submachine guns and ride in Austin cars; an autogiro arrives to rescue King Arthur; the tilt between Sir Boss (Will Rogers) and Sir Sagramor is an nounced in the manner of the modern prize-ring and broadcast by a whiskered radio man who begins McNamically: "Well, here we are at .Camelot. . . ." In this tilt Will Rogers, on a cow-pony, cuts figures around the knight on his lumbering charger and finally yanks him off with a rope and drags him round the field as western ranchers used...
...Meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce; at Washington. Radio broadcast address by President Hoover. Chief discussion topic: World Depression...
Educational institutions in the U. S. own and operate 51 of the 614 licensed broadcasting stations in the land. About the same number of institutions broadcast over commercial stations. Year ago an Advisory Committee on Education by Radio, appointed by Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, reported that 15.2% of all the Nation's broadcasting "appeared" to have an educational purpose. One of the earliest to broadcast was the University of Iowa, which began in 1914, long before radio telephony was perfected. Now many an institution, mostly in the Middle and Far West, gives courses ranging from...