The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-04

y Wolf Hopper's Company
70 b Heard After Marine
Band Concert

An elaborate radio program, in
GLIDING b concert BY the United
States Marine Band and i broad
cast Of the entire second act Of
aIolanths" IS played by De Wolf
Hopper's opera company at Polls
Theater, is announced for tonight
~ Station WCAP.
The Marine Band concert, which
viii begin at 1850 o'clock. will be
rebr0adcast BY Stations WEAF,
New York, and WMAF, South
Dartmouth. Among the numbers
10 Be played by the Marine Band
are grand scenes from Samson
and Delilah' and Strauss ''Beauti-
f.aI Blue Danube" waltz. Musician
Robert E. Clark, trOmbonist. will
appear IS solOist.
'IOIanthe sc $50.
The broadcast Of 'tIolanthe'' Will
boEin at $40 o'clock. a prologue
announcement win be made giving
the radio audience q synopsis Of
the first act Of the opera that
they may follow the story in the
second act.
'Iclantle'' Is the most fanciful OF
the works Of Gilbert and Sullivan
and although not as often sung as
The MikAdo" or ''PinAfore." has eli
large following who prefer It to all
Of the other works Of the two comic
opera masters.
It ii . fairy story, centeringI
about "Iolanthe." q princess who
was banished for marrying q mortal
twenty-five years before the story
opens. The curtain rises on the
reconciliation scene, when the queen
0& fairies yields to the entreaties
Of her subjects and receives Iolanthe'
back into the fairy realm.
Son Wins Love.
It develops that Iolanthe has e.
son, Etrephon, an Arcadian shep-
herd, who Is half.fairy, half.mortal,
and that Strephon loves Phyllis, an
ArcadiAn ghephefdesS and ward in
ci1ancery to the Lord Chancellor Of
Great Britain. Phyllis IL also loved
and Wooed by numerous lords Of
the house OF peers, and, indeed, the
Lord Chancellor himself yields to-
1 the gentle passion and would take
phyllis for his own. but for the
fairies, through whose efforts the
ship OF love Is steered to q happy
harbor.
In the intermission between the
concert and the opera, WCAP will
present Frederick ]. Haskin, who
WIN discuss ''The Electoral College"
Other interIude numbers viii be
offered by Willard ". Quick, bari.
tone Of the Paul Bleyden studios,
and Mary Langley, soprano.
The afternoon program Of WRCI
win be featured by a song recital
BY Catherine Reams Roger, lyric
soprano. soloist Of the Trinity Meth.
odist Church, Richmond Hill, Long
Island, and the Monday book re-
views offered through the courtesy
Cf the League Of American Pen
Women.
Books for Discussion.
The books which win be discussed
today are "Sandoval," which will be
reviewed by Mrs. Edward Nelson
Dingley, and Damrosch's my Mu.
sical Life" to be discussed by Mrs.
Dorothy DeMuth Watson.
Other afternoon numbers win be
the weekly fashion talk, a piano
recital by Susan Smith and the
children's stories by Peggy Albion.
Only a limited number OF enter.
tainments are booked at distant sta
tons owing to the many silent
nights.
The best attractions outside the
Capital win be the Monday night
grand opera from the Cincinnati
geological Gardens to be broadcast
by WLW: the concert by the New
York Philharmonic Orchestra. to be
broadcast from WIZ. New York,
and q concert by the Kiwaris Quar-.
tet to be broadcast from WE1R,
Buffalo.
The weekly program from WFIAZ,
Troy, win include a program Of
dance music by the Imperial Or
chestra of Kingston, N. Y.