The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-07

out-of-ToWn Offers Better
Entertainment for
Listeners-in.


A program made up of indi-
Nidual artists recitals will be
broadcast through WCAP from
WEAF tonight. The only part Of
che program which will come. d.
rectly from WCAP is short talk
on "Cancer Prevention" by DR..
]. A. Cannon, staff surgeon at
Georgetown University hospital.
Charles Dettbarn and Walter
Howard, who open the entertain
ment with a joint banjo recital,
are on three times-at 1880, $3.50
and $3.50 o'clock.
Lucille Wilson Reading.
The headliner on the program
from New York will be a dramatic
reading by Lucille Wilson. one OF
the radio audiences favorites. She
has learned the art Of presenting
negro dialects and Southern songs
on the radio so that they are as en-
toyable as though presented in per-
son.
Others on the bill from WEAF
and WCAP win be Charles p. Well
ner, tenor, accompanied by Char
lotte Standt, Helen A. Morris, So
prano, and Robert Toldt, violinist.
in q joint recital, accompanied by
a ~ I'D nd al nNUyfVT q
pianist.
The out-ot.town program does not
look much better than the local,
with the headliner coming from
WGR, Buffalo. There a varied pro-
gram of music will be offered by
the Yankee Six Orchestra; Lucille
Doane Swift, reader Of original
1nonologues: Robert Mcmahon and
Al Mani, Hawaiian specialties, and
p. Arrow Mathews, baritone. DR..
A. p. Sy, professor Of chemistry at
the University of Buffalo. will give
. talk.
This program at viii be fol-
lowed by Washington's old friend,
wendall Hall, on the ukulele, and
the program will be concluded at
I1:20 by the Hotel Statler Orchestra.
Big Day at WOR.
The afternoon program from WOR
would appear to deliver a blow to
the rule that afternoon. programs
are not up to the standard of eve
ming entertainment offered by the
broadcasting stations. This pro-
gram, which begins at 2:30 and con-
tinues until o'clock, contains the
names Of such, celebrities as John
Steele, tenor and star Of the Music
int
nationally known actor, and Mrs
Thomas Preston, wife of former
President Grover Cleveland.
Alexander DeBruille, Paris Con-
servatoire violinist, viii broadcast
two groups Of solos from WOR as
n feature attraction of the evening
program. Mabelanna Corby, COM
poser-pianist, whose frequent radio
concerts have proven delfgAt, will
direct a musical tabloid from WOR,
as a feature attraction. Many dis
tinguished artists will assist Miss
Corhy. ...
Brian Brown, of the phychologi-
cal department of Brentano's, and
one of the best authorities on the
photography of psychology, will
talk on 'Psycho-Analysis' from
WOR. Popular musical numbers of
fifteen years ago Is the intriguing
title Of the closing feature from
WOR to be broadcast by a group of
eminent composers. This number
should cause many a heart throb
and bring back many beautiful
memories for the listeners.
The headliner from Schenectady
will be a three-part address by Will
liam Gorham Rice, on 1.-THE League
Of Nations in Action" Mr.. Rice, a
member of the New York State
Civil Service Commission, is author,
traveller and student of European
affairs. He will discuss the secre.
tAriRt, the general assembly and the
permanent court Of international
Justice. The music will be. fur.
nished by the WGY orchestra
Good Program At WHAZ.
The weekly program from WHAZ.
Troy, includes numbers by Juvenile
pupils Of the Troy Conservatory of
Music, an address Smiling Through
the Income Tax" a symphonic con-
cert by the Domino Novelty Orches.
ira and an educational talk on "Per.
petual Motion, Eternal Fallacy."
Cincinnati WLW, offers what
looks to be another good bet OPEN
ing at with the seventeenth annual
hlS0llAlB VI Tic IldIlOIlaI SUPERVISORS
Of music and with concert by the
Orpheus Club; the Crosley Theater
Revue; Woody Meyers Cincinnati
Orchestra and a choir concert .by
the st. Paul Evangelical Church Of
Newport KY, as additional features.
WHB. Kansas City, has scheduled
program for young folks which is
an example for other stations to fol-
low. 1t includes educational cues.
lions, ten.minute talk for mothers
with children, a story and a poem
for children.
Atlanta has a "wsB AI.Star
revue from to 10 and Chicago
Concert" in honor OF Chicago, fea,
turing Bonnie Barnhardt, and others
from 11:45 to 12:45 o'clock.
Other good music numbers will
come from KSD. st. Louis, at 9;
WBz, Springfield at TAO; WOO
Philadelphia at S45, and KD1SA:
Pittsburgh at $3.50 p. m. The Pitts.
burgh program will be by the Little
Symphony Orchestra with group
Of assisting artists.