The Washington times., 1924-01-17
PROGRAMS
OFFERING
VARIETY
Missouri Station Will Attempt
to Establish Relay Cotnmuni-
cation With Japan.

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The exercises at Central HigE
School tonight at which hero
medals, provided by The Wash
ington Times, will be presented
to forty-one District police and
4iremen will form the feature
broadcast from the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Com
pany's WCAP station.
The entire program, which will
begin at 8 o'clock, will be broad
cast direct from the Central High
School stage. Full details Of the
exercises will be found in the
news column of today's Times.
Long Distance Sought.
Sharing honors with the Benja-
min Franklin birthday exercises
elsewhere in the country will be
the attempt to establish radio COM
munication between Jefferson City,
Mo-, and Japan through the Radio
Corporation Of America stations.
The first of the Benjamin Frank
lin programs was scheduled for
this morning at WIZ, New York.
Philadelphia will hold it's exercises
tonight.
The first of the Philadelphia pro.
grams will be the annual banquet
of the Poor Richard Club at the
Bellevue -Stratford Hotel which will
begin at 7 o'clock and be broadcast
through Strawbridge and ClOthier's
WIFI station.
Addresses will be delivered by Sir
Charles Higham, of London: Senator
Woodbridge N. Ferris Of Michigan
III. III. Charles, president of the
New York Advertising Club; Mayor
W. Freeland Kendrick, and Brig.
Gen. Smedley d. Butler. Music and
entertainment will be furnished bv
theatrical stars now appearing in
Philadelphia.
University Club t6 Sing.
Beginning at 8 o'clock, WIP will
broadcast a special program direct
from Houston Hall, University of
Pennsylvania, in honor of Benjamin
Franklin, founder of the university.
The principal address will be de-
1ivered by Provost Josiah H. Oenni-
man on the Career of Benjamin
Franklin The entire University
Glee Club will offer q musical pro.
gram.
Hours for the Wagnerian opera
from WIZ have been changed for
today to 8 o'clock at which time
the Wagnerian Opera Company will
sing 'Dei Gotterdaemmerung, '
which will be broadcast direct from
the Manhattan Opera House.
At $3.50 o'clock, WEAF will offer
another of the lectures in the
Adolph lewiston Free Public
Course in Chamber Music under
the direction of DIR. Henry 7. Fleck
One OF Ernest Thompson Seton's
animal stories will feature the later
program of WEAF. WEAF also
viii broadcast the after-dinner
speeches Of Irving T. Bush and
Gen. Henry T. Allen at the ban
uuet Of the American committee for
the relief Of German children.
A banjo and mandolin concert by
a club sfrom the Blessed Sacrament
Church, Cambridge, will headline
Hhe program to be broadcast from
WNAC, Boston. .....
To Broadcast Drama.
Another of the wGY radio-dramas
will be presented by the WGY
players at Schenectady tonight. L.
CIvde Fitch's 1.-THE Truth" has
been altered to fit the peculiar form
of drama by radio. -,
In the Middle-West listeners-in VIII
hear a symphony concert by the St
Louis Symphony Orchestra under the
direction of Frederick Fischer. The
concert will be broadcast through
KSD and will begin at 9 O'Clock
eastern time.
The wRM station, at the Univer-
sity of ILL.,, schedules a recital by q
member Of the faculty Of the School
Of Music and broadcast of univer-
alty news.
late programs are scheduled at
Atlanta, Detroit and other cities.