Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1936, Page 42

ARSIONTEST STENE SPREAS Cantor’s “Laugh Labora- tory” Try-out Plan Adopted by Others. AKING a leaf from the book of theatrical showmanship, sev- eral leading radio artists and % & program sponsors have intro- >duced the practice of trying out their “radio shows before submitting them sto the final acid test of the micro- sphone. %" Eddie Cantor started it all a few Syears ago when he established his “#7augh Laboratory,” testing-out his Zlines with a pre-broadcast show each 28unday afternoon as & preliminary B/~ o wTE AN, Friday, Séptember 11. WRC 950k | PM. 12:00 |Merry-Go-Round 13:15 |Red River Valley 12:30 i i 12:46 |Charles Stenross’ Orch. | ” Magic of Speech Mary Mason WMAL 630k | AFTERNOON PROGRAMS Curbstone Queries Listening Post THE EVENING STAR, (Copyright, 1936) News—Music Waltz Themes and Home Hour - Church of the Air Farm and Home Hour | Tennis Matches - e Gale Page et Bducation for Living WOL 1,310k Lou Harold's Orch. WASHINGTON Eastern Standard Time. WISV 1,460k ews Bulletins Savitt Serenade Jimmy Farrell Afternoon Rhythms Judy and Jesters Just for Ladies Day Dreams W o u Pepper Young's Family | Tennis Matches Ma Perkins N Vic and Sade ' ‘The O'Neill's (2 President Roosevelt Tennis Matches Sweet and Hot Mrs. Henry G. Doyle D. FE ALF TO LECTURE Authority on Dance Featured at Openihg of School. Fl ALF, concert artist and recog- niged authority on the modern dance, will lecture this afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Peggy Kelly School of the Dance, 1018 Eighteenth street northwest. The lecture marks the opening of the school, and interested persons are invited to 'nd. - Miss Alf came to this country five years ago from the Mary Wigman School in Germany. She was asso- clated with the Wigman School in New York, later opening her own studio. Miss Alf has concertized ex= tensively as an exponent of the mod- ern dance and will be seen in recital in Washington this Fall. Rewarded for Saving Diver. ‘Tabu, a native of Papua, has been given a medal by the Royal Humane Society for saving pearl divers from drowning in the Torres Strait. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 WCGDDWARD & 1. - DOWN STAIRS THROD TORE School Clothes Students’ Prep Suits $|0.95 Joseph Littau’s Orch. ‘Tennis Matches Marnel Skeels & » Jack and Loretta Terri La Franconl Bulletin Board Jack Armstrong Chasin’ the Blues =to the actual program. # = Cantor and his merrymakers cus- ~tomarily precede each radio program ‘with a compete show before & studio <sudience. Laugh reactions are care- “fully observed. After the test is fin- *ished the entire script is studied from “start to finish. Lines are often elimi- Four-piece suits in cassimeres, cheviots and tweeds in Fall shades are featured in this group. Two pairs of trousers, vest, and double-breasted coat with el 22 Rod and Stream Tea Time inated or added. The result 15 an im- . proved performance. =" The custom will be followed in the Znew “Fire Chief" series, which makes its debut on Columbia September 20. % Andre Kostelanetz and his orches- tra also have a “try out” method that is unusual. The numbers played 2by his 45-piece orchestra at the “dress rehearsal are all recorced be- “gfore the broadcast. A “playback” ~ghows the director and the musicians “what improvements can be made < before the music goes on the air. :IN A rebroadcast from the Vatican >4 Monday at 6 am. American net- “works are to carry a special radio “message from Pope Pius XI, directed “to sufferers and refugees from the | «§panish warfare. The Pope will speak in Latin, after which there is to be an English translation. I‘AGALAXY of stage and screen stars has been rounded up by Sears Roe- ‘buck & Co. for a special broadcast “over a coast to coast Columbia net- “work September 17, to mark the 50th * anniversary of the firm. It is planned to bring before the “microphone such outstanding artists “as Al Jolson, Irene Dunne, Freddy ~Bartholomew, George Gershwin, T Jeanette MacDonald, George M. “Cohan, Shirley Temple, Fred Stone, ~Elsie Janis. Irving Berlin, Constance “Bennett and Robert Montgomery. The program will be identified as *Sears—Then and Now.” The dra- “matic high light will be a production depicting episodic developments in the “B0 years of Sears and American his- tory. .'HUSBANDS AND WIVES" has made such 8 hit on N. B. C. that | When the present series is concluded | October 6, & new sponsor will take it over. The program is an informal forum for the discussion of domestic problems, conducted by Sedley Brown | -and Allie Lowe Miles. jPHOEBm GALE, dark-eyed public- B ity maestro at N. B. C.'s Wash- Angton headquarters, reveals that Jim Amos 'n’ Andy Uncle Ezra Dance Hour Heads Up EVENING Tennis Summary Digest Poll Bill Coyle Carol Deis, soprano PROGRAMS Tony Wakeman Music—News Editorial—Music Dinner Concert "| Jessica Dragonette W “ . ‘Waltzs Time Human Relations Court Irene Rich Singin’ SBam Death Valley Days e Clara, Lu and Em First Nighter “Red” Grange Man in the Street News—Music Henderson’s Orch. Jesse Crawford Air Breaks Paul Martel's Orch. Midnite Prolics Musical Cocktafl N. B. C. Program Campbell's Royalists Elza Schallert News Bulletins Leon Navarro's Orch Shandor Slumber Hour “ w George R. Holmes Five-Star Final [News Spotlight Eventide Echoes Detective Mysteries Warlng's Pennsylvanians | Rhythm Rhapsody W. P. A. Concert Hawailan Melodies Arch McDonald Popeye the Sailor Goose Creek Parson Boake Carter Red Horse Tavern - - Broadway Varieties - . Petite Musicale ‘Washington Amateurs WOL Conoert Starlight Moonglow [News Bulletins—Music | |Organ Music Frank Huele’s Orch. Russ Morgan's Orch. Oliver Naylor's Orch. Kostelanetz’s Orchestra March of Time Rubinoft William Hard Foot Ball Interview Dick Stabile's Orch, Sign Off Gordon Hittenmark |Gordon Hittenmark “ . Gordon Hittenmark Gordon Hittenmark . . Harold Nagel's Orch. [Night Watchman (2 hrs.) Deance Parade (1 hour) EARLY PROGRAMS TOMORROW Morning Devotions Dick Leibert Cheerio Wake Up Club Breakfast Clud “ w News Bulletins The Vass Family Joseph Higgins Originalities Musi Clock - Musical Clock - - - . 'Lonesome Pine Singer [Police Flashes—Music |News—Music Manhatters Home Tour Herman and Banta Cadets Quartet i1l Krenz ateur Reporters Balladeers Chasins' Music Series Harvard Tercentary Genia Fonariova Merry Madcaps Words and Music Tuning Around “« . 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White rubber coats, white fabric lined, made by U. S. Rubber Company, com- plete with matching wide-brimmed hats. DowN STAIRS STORE. »+McGrath is coming back to WMAL " September 28 with his popular *“To- AFTERNOON PROGRAMS Aay's Prelude” series. This is one of ethose early morning features devoted %o classical and semi-classical music— ~8 sharp contrast to the recorded pro- ,&rams put on by Arthur Godfrey, Gor- gdon Hittenmark and Art Brown. 'SAFETY MILEAGE *IN AIR INCREASED 7,269,600 Miles Per Fatal Acci- dent Reported on Domestic Lines. : With only four fatal accidents re- “eorded on the domestic scheduled air- Slines during the first six months of 1936, the mileage flown per fatal ac- Zeident increased to 7,269,600 accord- "ing to a semi-annual accident report made public today by the Bureau of sAir Commerce. * During the first half of last year ithere were five fatal accidents the ‘mileage per fatal accident being 4,928,427 on the domestic airlines, the ‘report showed. 2 Scheduled airlines of the United -Btates, both domestic and foreign, Mfew 798,168 miles per accident, 76,704,615 miles per fatal accident and 79,574,134 passenger miles per fatality “during the first half of this year, it »was reported. % There were 42 accidents on the “scheduled lines during the period. of ‘these five were fatal, one of the fatal ‘accidents being on a foreign line. 4In these five fatal accidents a total 12:00 |Merry Go Round 12:15 |Red River Valley 12:30 “ a 1 Concert Miniature | Charles Stenross’ Orch. Lee Gordon’s Orch. Varieties 2:15 = » 2:30 Week End Revue 2:45 2 il G1d Skibper “Bobby Warths Songs [Rews Bulletizs [ 130 300 3:00 3:15 3:30 3:45 |Week End Revue 4:00 4:15 4:30 [Ealtenmeyer’s Kinderg't'n| 4:45 = s Blue Room Echoes “ - Today’s Winners “« w - - P Chasin’ the Blues Bavarian Orchestra Sonia Essin 8:00 5:15 5:30 [Evening Star Flashes Folio of Facts Tennis Resume e Sunday School Lesson - o PM 1 12:18 Nationals vs. Indians Nationals vs. Indians “« - H. V. Kaltenborn | Melodies News—Rhythms MAJOR FEATURES AND PROGRAM NOTES. A preview of Maxwell Anderson’s stage triumph, “Winterset,” will be the dramatic piece de resistance of Dick Powell's “Hollywood Hotel” pro- gram on WJSV at 8. By way of con- trast, the musical portion of the broadcast will be gay and light. Jessica Dragonette, soprano, will inerpret the “Canzone” from Verdi's “Othello” as the high light of her recital on WRC at 7. She also will sing Jerome Kerns “Touch of Your Hand,” and with Ross Graham, bari- tone, will offer Strauss’ “Letter Song.” Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra will play the old-time ballad, ut on —_— Your Old Gray Bonnet” in modern rhythm as a feature of their pro- gram on WJSV at 9. Other selections include “Everybody Loves My Baby” and & rhumba “Pirulli.” “When Love is On Your Side” will be the Court of Human Relations’ dramatization on WRC at 8:30. “Trial Son” will be Irene Rich's starring vehicle on WMAL at 7. The story concerns a woman's love for & amall boy. RADIO TROUBLE? COLUMBIA FREE 4000 Service Calls CONSULT US FIRST KENNEDY Radio Speclalist 3319 14th St. N.W., Tivoli Bldg. SEPTEMBER oo the perfect month. .. Weekly rates as low as $20 including meals MRS. YON AND SONS ATLANTIC €ITY To be our guest is to join a dis- tinguished clientele enjo; Septemberdelightsat the ocean’s edge. WALTER J. BUZBY, INC. Virginia Ave., half block to beach and Bteel Pier. Runaing water. 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