The Washington times., 1924-03-20
NAVY BAND
PLAYS VIA
WRC
This Station Also Will Broad
cast Address of Secretary
Roosevelt at Show.


Roxy and his gang, who have
proved so popular during theil
short visit in the Capital, have
been persuaded to stay another
day and their concert tonight from
the radio show will be broadcast
over WCAP at 1890 o'clock.
The United States Navy Band
Orchestra, under the leadership Of
Charles Benter, will headline the
bill from WRC this evening in an
other of the popular programs,
This feature will come on at Gals
o'clock for forty-five minutes Of
entertainment.
Roosevelt to Speak.
The radio show committee has
stepped out tonight and obtained
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy
Theodore Dooseveit, jr., to tell
about Radio in the Navy" This
address will be broadcast by WRC.
With this inspiration, the Navy
Bans is expected to put out an
extra good program.
La Sale Extension University is
presenting program of favorite
artists. Robert c. Fay, extension
secretary Of the university, will
talk on Some Big Business
Secrets" La Sale also will present
Ruth Better. soprano, in a song re-
cital. Miss Peter has won the
distinctive title: THE Voice of the
Capital" There also will be selec-
tons by the Metropolitan Male
Quartet, headed by Fred East.
Question Box to Feature.
other features on the local pro-
gram will be the Question Box"
and talk, Sixty Dollars a Word
for an Essay on Highways" by
Stephen James, extension secretary
of the highway educational board.
It is difficult to pick out any
one number or group Of selections
from distant stations tonight that
should be featured, but perhaps the
best program offered will come
from WEAF, New York, where the
headline will be the chamber music
recital rendered by Hunter College,
under the direction Of DR.. Henry T..
Fleck. The musical program, which
Is part of these educational recitals,
will be rendered by the famous
Kaltenborn String Quartet, which
will offer selections from Schubert,
Chopin and Greig.
Their recital will be preceded by
an educational address presented by
DIR. Fleck and illustrated by ex-
tracts from the compositions which
he discusses.
Another good one will come from
WGY, Schenectady, where a pro-
gram of vocal selections will be
given by the Baldock double quar-
tet, directed by Mrs. Frederick
Baldock, and assisted by a male
quartet. S. H. Libby will give an
address on the Electric Hoist"
Many fans will tune in on WLW,
Cincinnati where a fraternity at the
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music is
Offering a. varied musical program
at IL o'clock, followed at midnight
by Doherty's Melody Boys.
Newton d. Baker, former Secre-
enth annual student dinner of
young men who attend classes at
the Y. NJ. C. A. in Cleveland. His ad.
dress will be broadcast through
WAX, which also will feature a
recital by the Oberlin Conservatory
of Music.
Station WY, New York, will
broadcast the Non-Partisan League
dinner, direct from the Cascades
room Of the Biltmore Hotel.
Speakers will be Mrs. F. Wander
lip, Gen. George Wickersham. John
Emerson, and one of the editors of
the Century Magazine.
A concert by the Women's SYM
phony Orchestra, of Philadelphia
j. w. F. Leman, conductor, will be
broadcast through WIFI, Philadel-
phia at $3.50 o'clock. Explanatory
notes will be made by Mabel Swint
Ever, president of the orchestra,
and Harold Simonds. soloist.
Two features of interest will como
from western stations. woo has Is
minutes Of Wendell Hall harmony
scheduled. after their regular or
chestra program at 10 o'clock and
Pittsburgh. WCAE. is offering a
minstrel show at $3.50 o'clock
Other Musical Programs.
Three musical programs Of excep.
tional merit will be offered from
WNAC, Boston, with the Mendels.
sohn singers, at 8 o'clock; KYW,
Chicago, at and 9:2O o'clock, and
KDKA, Pittsburgh, at $50 O'Clock
with a program by the Manuscript
Society of Pittsburgh. Their program
will be:
Quartet selection: "Her Garden, ="
"A Song to Belinda" Success"
'The Vagabond." Soprano. solos
THE Night Has a Thousand Eyes y
THE Sandman" PUSSY Willow"
THE Snow Flake" Teddy Bear"
1.-THE Swing" "A Dutch Lullaby"
CHildr"n's Snngs) Soprano solos:
ITO YOU" Home From School,
"Song in the Spring." Violin selec.
tons: "Chanson D'Ete," Grade
Song" ''Festal Dance" Soprano
solos: THE Halfway House, Spring
in Flanders" "Old French Gavotte. .
1.-The immortal" odd Accidents
Piano selections: "Candlelight. -
Girl In An Easter Bennett" Mon
otone," "A Bubble"