Radio Round The World

Radio Record, 22 July 1938, Page 66

Radio Round The World

LTHOUGH the Italian Minister of Popular Culture is said to have come to a decision to suppress radio ‘advertising, it does mot necessarily mean the disappearance of the spoasored vrogramme. Provided that a complete programme of real artistic merit is prepared it will not be illegas for a firm to make it known that they are responsible for it. Apparently, however, advertising of the coarse and blatant type, likely to offend against refined taste, will no longer be tolerated. T used to be said of Caruso that his voice was so powerful and true that he could shatter a wine-glass with it by singing at exactly the natural frequency of the glass and thus setting up powerful vibrations in it. {t is not generally known that Richard Crooks, the famous tenor, is a former New York State handball champion. He won the championship some years ago on the morning of the day on which he made his New York orchestra debut under the baton of Walter Damrosch.