Evening star., 1924-04-04
RADIO NEWS

An operalogue, Carmen" by the
quartet of the Washington Opera
Company and an elaborate program
by the United States Army Band
Concert Orchestra are the leading
features on the five-hour broadcast
tonight of station WCAP. Scott
Blakeley will open the program at z
o'clock with his repertoire of Scotch
songs, and it will close with a two
hour broadcast of dance music by
Irving Boernstein's Orchestra, from
the, Wardman Park Hotel. Although
the radio audience will not see
| Rlakely when he appears before the
microphone in wCAP's studio, he has
promised to wear his kits in order
TO create the proper atmosphere for
his songs.
The quartet of the Washington
Opera Company that will present the
! Carmen" operalogue is composed or
Juliette Desfarges. soprano: Rose
| Polio. contralto: Louis Annis. tenor
! Peggy Albion, the children's bedtime
story teller at WRC, will tell the
| story of the opera, the princlpal
| arias being sung by members or the
quartet as story progresses
| One of the numbers on the pro-
| gram of the Army Band concert or.
/ Chestra is THE Evening Star March,
| written by w. j. Stannard. leader OF
the band, and dedicated to this paper
! An evenings concert by the Union
| College Musical Clubs will be broad
| cast from the Ten Eyck Hotel IN Al
! bany, N Y, by WGY tonight. Sew
| eral bright novelty numbers, includ-
/ ing musical saws. will be lntrooucedI,
! The program will begin at CLOCK
| and at its conclusion the Union Col
| lege Dance Orchestra will play, pc
| ginning about 1880. DR.. Charles
| Alexander Richmond. president OF the
union, will speak on Music IN COZ
! lege Life"
| AS the third musical comedy Whlch
! Broadcast-Central has presented 10
! the radio listeners within the pas
| four weeks, station WY VIII VI toau
cast the entire performance ~ .llS :
musical comedy success, Lolilpop'
directly from the stage of the hnlck-
| erbocker Theater, this evening, COM
| mencing at S:25 O'Clock. Ada Mae
| Weeks, whose name has been Short-
! ened to Ada May in order to fit the
{ electric sign. is the youthful star of
! the Henry w. Savage productloh' SO
youthful that she but recently cele
! brated her twenty-first birthday. But
| in her brief career she has mace
name for herself as a dancer as d
| singer. and now in 'Lollipop" as an
actress She plays the part or an
orphan, and she plays it so well that
| not for a minute will the radio audi
ence believe that she is anything put
| an orphan.
The music of the play is of the best,
Iand guarantees the invisible and
blind" audience a maximum OF en-
| joyment from the moment or cur
| tain up" to the last recesslonal by
! TG
aplenty. but to the radio listeners
j that means only that good. fast
music there is a plenty" and that Is
what the radio fans want. Humor
| and cIeverness of dialogue abound
! for Zelda Sears wrote the play and
: appears in it herself in COMEDY
role.
| The direct-from -the-stage broad
| casting of musical comedies has made
! one of the greatest hits with the
| listeners-in that radio has known
! and the continuance of the recently
iinaugurated Broadcast-Central policy
to give the fans the best on Broad
way as often as possible is based
solely upon the tremendous number
of requests to do just that which
poured in after the broadcastlng of
each of the preceding shows.
FREDERICK DENECKE. 229 1st
street northeast, sends the following let
ter to the radio editor:
Some time ago you published in your
radio column the dial settings of an At
water-Kent No. 10. Having recently
purchased a set of this make, would be
pleased if you would publish this appeal
so the fan who had these settings would
see this and assist me in trying to get
different stations"
WILTON J. BOSWELL, Brookeville.
Md, asks the following:
.'yyi1I pon nlease inform me where
station 2XY is located? 1 have heard it
signing off two or three times, but never
have heard program from there to my
knowledge. Is there a broadcasting sta
ton with the call letters WBAB? l
heard what l thought was that station
Monday night"
2NY is the special land station of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company in New York city.
There is no station with call letters
WBAB. There was such call OF a
station in Syracuse, n. Y, about year
ago. but the station was discontinued
and the letters were never reassigned.
Because of the similarity in pronuncia-
ton you likely heard either WBAP, Fort
Worth, Tex, or WBAD, Minneapolis.
BESSIE MERRICK, 304 East Capitol
street writes:
I'm answer to JOHN NJ FITZGERALD
would say he might have heard kDKA
instead of WSB. as your paper states.
/ heard it very plain, and the announcer
at KDKA said the boxing bout was