THE AGE OF RADIO

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 553, 30 December 1925, Page 6

THE AGE OF RADIO

ALA lIM - A-MCNG NOVELISTS • New York, Dec, 13Radio has - come to stay in \ the United States,-, and its popularity vis viewed with grave apprehension bv many who see -their means of living threatened. Many,operatic ancl, concert singers have ret used tempting offers to sing for broadcasting 'companies, regarding as enemies of their success. , That the danger is real .is shown b v the poor attendance at Sunday afternopii concerts, which once were crowded. People prefer to- stay at home and hear the same music .through tlieir loud speakers. Other artists recpgnise that nothimr can stop the spread of wireless entertainments. Air Cosmo Hamilton, the well-known novelist, says that authors . must ..write' their stories toAbe heard —not to be reach lie himself is now engaged, in condensing an 80,000 a vent book so that it can be broadcasted in Id minutes.