Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1931, Page 53

f 3 WBZ. £0:00—Pre-Constitution week celebra- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D, C., SEPTEMBER 13, WMAL WILL OFFER ] @cmns!l Radio Extravaganza Tonight| Features Stage and Lit- erary Celebrities. The Gala Hour, a radio extravaganza, | featuring celebrities of the theatrical and literary worlds, will have its pre- miere at 9 o'clock tonight on WMAL | and a network of assoclated Columbia | Broadcasting System stations. Gus Van, copartner with Joe Schenck on the vaudeville stage, will be master of ceremonies. Contributors to the in- | tial program will be Harry Richman, Ruth Etting, De Wolf Hopper and Irvia S. Cobb. Orchestral selections will be furnished under the direction of Ben Selvin. WMAL also will broadcast two other new Columbia attractions—"Church of the Alr,” an innovation in religious broadcasting, and “Music Along the Wires,” to _be presented by Domenico Savino and his orchestra, and Barry De Vine, baritone. The Church of the Air broadcast is scheduled at 9 o'clock this morning with Right Rev. Irving Peake Johnson, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Colorado, conducting the | service. ©la Songs on Program. Nine almost forgotten songs make up the program of the Masters, to be broad- east from 8 to 8:30. Eugene Ormandy's Orchestra, assisted by Helen Oelheim and Jack Smart. will present this pro- gram Arias from the “Manzoni Requiem.” which Giuseppe Verdi wrote to honor the memory of Alexandro Manzoni, Ital- | ian poet. will be offered by a group of Stage Stars Again Hold Radio Spotlight THREE FAMOUS DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL COMEDY ARTISTS TO BROADCAST. EGGY WOOD, American actress (left), makes her radio debut Wednesday night in the Personalities program on Columbia. a program with the Choral Orchestra. Eddie Cantor (center) opens a seven-week series on N. B. C. tonight as master of ceremonies in Marion Weeks (right), since childhood a headliner in vaudeville and light opera, comes before a Columbia microphone tomwrrow to be interviewed by Nelson Hesse. hotir‘ events. Up to September 1 of this year, with four months to go, Ted had covered 26,448 miles in describing 56 sports events. These figures, of course, do not include Columbia’s schedule of | foot ball broadcasts, which will Columbia_artists during the Cathedral hour. The soloists will be Barbara Maurel, Adele Vasa, Theo Karle and Crane Calder, Columbia’s regular international re- broadcast, scheduled by WMAL, at 11:30 o'clock this morning, will bring a_talk from London by Eugene Goossens, Eng- lish composer, “What England Hears” is his topic. Cantor Opens Series." On the National Broadcasting Co. net- work Eddie Cantor, star of the stage and screen, opens a series of programs with the Choral Orchestra. WRC will broad- cast the Ypm(mm from 7 to 8 o'clock. Santor will sing a group of late song hits. Jesse Crawford, organist, also is to open a new series on WRC and other N. B. C. stations at 10:30 o'clock. His !oestured selection will be “Maria, My ‘;5“'3“ tht; Ltgml considerably. ADIO census reports for only | more than likely that their re-| ne of e most extensive Fall ! urns will double the present total | programs in the history of the R sevon lm;re §t'.at_es e “; o bring the total G the whole Columbia chain will take Husing several Territories remain | 0 BB 4 0F [orhape 12,000,000 to 13 major foot ball games be- to be compiled by the Cen- | This will represent the American tween September 26 and Decem- sus Bureau before the first com- | families replying in the affirma- Rt‘r 2(15. éwm travel West to Los plete and official American census | tive, as of April 1, 1930, to the cen-| i m:g es, éxi;&}go. Ev:;lx}ston, h(.o- of radios can be made available, |SUS enumerators” inquiry: A - o Um0 i dio?” Having issued individual reports|YOU & Ia! ; for 41 States and the District of |, 1t Will not, however, be the true| Columbls, each broken down by’staws for it omits additional R home, office, hotel, automobile and hope to have the remaining re- | ipor’ 1adios, Moreover, it does ‘g?'f;o"“‘ within the next month |, ;¢%n cjude the number of fami- Y i lies installing radios during the Around 6,000,000 radio-owning, 17 smomhs thgt have elapsed since el e Rl L, Sl el question was asked as SR G UL G0 e thc‘part of the decennial census of States so far reported, are listed population. * Between foot ball games he will describe other athletic events. * ok ok So intense are the researches being concentrated upon thc solution of the remaining prob- lems of television that sight by radio in the home, on a practical scale, will soon be an gccom- plished fact, according to Edgar T | H. Felix, the well known radio | consultant, in his new book ‘ele- reports for New York, New Jersey, 'ED HUSING will break all ex- vision, Its Methods and Uses.” Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illi-| isting records for sports an-! Mr. Felix makes no attempt, nois, Texas and California; also|nouncing if he carries out the Fall| however, to predict the exact time those for Alaska, Hawaii, Porto| schedule of broadcasts that has when we may expect such practi- addition to several musical features. | Rico and the Virgin Islands. | been arranged for him by the cal television. His book is intend- These include a symphony concert and | Since the States yet to be re-|Columbia Broadcasting System. |ed, as he writes in the preface, to a popular program by Bob Garber's Or- | ported are among the most popu-| During 1930 Husing traveled|develop “a clear understanding of €hestra, Ems in the Union, it i$ deemed | 31,650 miles and described 65 ath- how existing television systems The Club of the Air program at 6:30 will be dedicated to the American Legion. The Joy Spreaders’ Orchestra will play a medley of war tunes, and the regular dramatic sketch in this period will re- call the stirring war days. WOL will broadcast the morning serv- fce at the Church of the Epiphany in in the census of radios to date. Remaining to be compiled are the| Newspaper Station Due Soon. New York City is expected shortly to have its first newspaper-owned radio broadcasting station. Reports, which the parties concerned will neither con- firm nor deny, have it that Station ‘WGBS has been sold by Daily Paskman to Willlam Randolph Hearst, and will be taken over in October. The station operates limited time with 250 watts on 600 kilocycles. I Major Radio Features l INTERNATIONAL REBROADCASTS. “What England Hears,” by Eugene Gos- sens, WMAL, 11:30. SPORTS. Base ball scores, WRC, 6:00 SPEECHES. “Debunking Big Game in Africa,” by Carveth Wells, explorer, WRC, 12:00; | & “Your Chil by Angelo Patri, L 2 “Devils, Drugs and by Dr. Howard W. Hag- , 7:00; “Our Govern- 4 CLASSICAL. Howard Barlow's Symphony Orchestra with Theo Karle, tenor, WMAL, 6:00; Through the Opera Glass, WRC, 8:15. VARIETY. ©horal Orchestra with Eddie Cantor, WRC, 7:00; “Music Along the Arres,” WMAL, 7: Gala Hour, with Gus Van, WMAL, 9:00; Jesse Crawford, WRC, 10:30. DRAMA. Moonshine and Honeysuckle, WRC, 2:00; Daddy and Rollc. WMAL, 6:30; Big Brothers Club, WRC, 6:30. 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