Evening star., 1924-05-22
RADIO NEWS

An elaborate program, short on vo-
cal solos and speeches, but promising,
on paper, to be among the best broad
cast from a local station in recent
months, will be presented tonight By
WRC. 1t is the type of program tha t
the fans have been requesting since
radio became a medium of home en-
tertainment
The program will commence with
three excellent features in the studio.
Seegar and White, Ruth G1anville, the
National Male Quartet. all featuring
at the Tivoli Theater this week, will
be heard in program especially ar
ranged for WRC. Dorothy Seegar
and Henry White, playing in AN
Etching From Old Japan" will pre-
sent a joint song recital. Both artists
are famous musical comedy stars, ca
pable and entertaining. Their turn
will be presented at 1:45.
They Will be followed at o'clock
by the premiere saxophone virtuoso.
Ruth Glanville. who is internationally
known as one of the worlds best
formance will be over a period of fif-
teen minutes.
The next event will be of the same
high caIiber. Itw i'll be the National
Male Quartet of New York City. This
organization was heard for thirteen
consecutive weeks from a. large New
York broadcasting station, where it
was necessary to provide an unusual :
ly attractive program to offset the
lack of personal contact with their
audience. These features are neck
and neck with three or four others On
the same program.
Pete Machias' LAiglon Orchestra
will be on at S:45 for three-quarters RS
of an hour with their usual fine brand
of dance music Immediately follow
ing them, the University of Mary
land Glee Club will present a con-
cert of vocal and orchestral numbers
under the direction of Homer c.
House.
The next musical features will be
by artists from the Lovette School oE
Music, a piano recital by Gladys Hill
yer and a song recital by T. Edmund
Bower, tenor The concluding event
will be a concert of mandolin; ban1o
and guitar music by the Walter T.
Holt studios. -,
The three talks on the program will
be the Question Box. weekly feature
at 1880: Frederic William Vile at
5 80, and "The Covered Wagon Trails
Of 1924" by Dan Nee, the official
scout of the American Automooile
Association, at 1915.
Vincent Lopez and his Hotel Penn
sylvania Orchestra, who have recently
returned from a successful tour, will
resume their semi-weekly broadcast
ing from the Hotel Pennsylvania
Grill tonight through WEAF. Dur
ing its weeks absence from New
York the orchestra appeared with
great success at theaters in Pitts
burgh, Cleveland aRd Buffalo.
"The Mikado," the third Gilbert
and Sullivan comic opera to De nroaav o.,
the WGY Light Opera Company to-
night, beginning at 8 o'clock. the
W-GY Orchestra will furnish the in
Strumental music
The concert by the West End
Choral Club in the Hotel Astor to-
night will be broadcast by WY. The
club is composed of fifty mixed voices,
and will be assisted by Esther WI
son, noted soprano Sololst, ana VIII
fred Glenn, baritone.
NJ. O. O. writes the Radio Editor
About 11:1o O'Clock last night,
Wednesday, I heard a first-class
dance orchestra playing popular fox
trots. one of which was Never
Again shortly afterward | heard
male vocal duo sing Whisper to
81, ST. ted to give the call letters of
re station it seemed that half a
dozen hams laid down a barrage of
code, and 1 was unable to ascertain
it's location; Can you or any reader
The station heard was WBZ at
Springfield, Mass, broadcasting a
concert by Leo Reisman and his or
chestra from the Hotel kimball
studio in Boston. The vocal duet
was rendered by Jack Armstrong and
Bill Cody. WEI signed of at 11:40
pm, eastern standard time.