Evening star., 1924-03-13
RADIO NEWS

| The program incidental to the ban
quot at the University Club tonight OF
the 343d Engineers. organized re-
serves stationed in Washington, and
the American military engineers will
he broadcast direct from the club
ihouse by wCAP. The purpose of the
banquet is to stimulate public inter
! est in the organized reserves, in mill
tary preparedness and promoting CO.
.operation among engineers. Music
will be furnished by the United States
Army Band Orchestra Prominent
| men will speak on "Organized Re-
serves and Military Preparedness"
| WCAP will close its broadcast with
two hours of dance music from the
Cafe LIE Paradis.
| Features OF the "Greenwich Village
Follies," now playing in Boston, will
ibe broadcast at midnight tonight by
lwNAC.
| George Clark, special exhibit man
ager OF the Radio Corporation OF
iAmerica, arrived in Washington yes
terday with the corporations $4,000
| educational exposition, which Will be
first annual radio show in the Nation's
!Capital, which opens Wednesday a.
Convention Hall. He viii have super
vision over the exhibits of the various
government departments at the radio
show.
, Radio editors of the Washington
and Baltimore newspapers were en-
tertained at dinner by Mr.. Clark last
night at the Raleigh Hotel. after
which he described the exhibits to !? be
corporation and the government de-
partments.
| Paul whiteman and his worid-fa-
| lmous orchestra will broadcast a spe-
;cial concert from WEAF early Sat
urday morning, beginning at 12:sC
O'Clock and continuing until 80
The program has been arranged as
! an experiment in popular American
music. Heads Of the departments oil
the country have been requested Il
/ listen to the program. The first mum
Der will be an example bf jazz of ter
years ago, followed by a number
.rangements which contrasts signih'
csntly with the music OF the previous
decade Whiteman will then show
+: that much of the prejudice agains
the musical quality of properly playet
! jazz music is without foundation. HI
i will show, for instance. the similarity IL
the harmonic and melodic value be.
Tween Yes, We Have No Bananas
land certain passages from Handel
i"Messiah.'
| NJ r. THOMPSON, 20 Williams lane
Chevy Chase, Md. writes as follows:
| Can anybody help me irf identify
! ing a station heard between 1920 ant
/ 10:45 o'clock Monday evening? Th'
| wave length was short, possibl.
shorter than that of kDkA. The an
nouncer at the latter station GU
I across the features to be described
so that / do not think any of then
came from there.
Between 1920 and 1880 pm. I
| woman recited a poem about Ire
lands flag, then followed with an
| other poem. At 1880 to 1926 pm
| there was a song, by more than on
person and to the tune, / believe. o
| Fair Harvard At 10:45 pm. mai
| told funny story about q little boy
some sparrows and some worms; thel
another story about seasick mai
| named 'McIntyre.' At about 1874
pm. 1 thought that l heard WBZ
Springfield, Mass.
Were any or all of these feature
| from thereT'
In reply to the query of FRANK c
! COOK in this column WCAD. ST
lawrence University, Canton, N. Y.
| announces it's station as "The Voic,
| of the North Country"
c. p. LARRABEE, 100 West Thsrn
| apple street, Chevy Chase, Nd, make
! the following inquiry:
Can you tell me what station wa: