The Washington times., 1924-04-11
ORCHESTRA
FEATURE
LISTED
Woman's Committee on Law
Enforcement Mass Meeting
to Be on Local Program.

ing at the President Theater; a
mass meeting under the auspices
Of the Woman's National Commit
tee for Law Enforcement, and
dance music by Boernstein's Ward
man Park Orchestra are the held
line attractions to be broadcast
by WCAP tonight.
A long program is scheduled,
opening at z o'clock with dramatic
readings by Violet Warren Pier
son and concluding with q pro-
gram by Boerstein's Orchestra
from 10 to- IL o'clock.
Prominent Speakers Listed.
The first act of the Passion Play
will be presented direct from the
President Theater, where it is being
given under the auspices of the
knights of Columbus.
Kathleen Norris, novelist; Carrie
Chapman Gait, president of the Ma
tional League of Women Voters,
and other prominent speakers are
on the bill from the mass meeting
of the Woman's National Committee
OF Law Enforcement, which is a
part of the convention now being
held by the committee at the Wash
ington Hotel. Features, orchestra
selections and singing will make up
the balance of the program from
the meeting.
Two other talks and two recitals
are listed for the evening program.
II. T. Townsend, lyric tenor, will
render, group of songs, accom-
panied by C. S. Willard, and Louis
A. Potter, a concert pianist, will
give a group of selected numbers.
Frank r. Kent, political analyst,
will offer his weekly feature,
Sparks from the Political. Wheel"
and DIR. F. r. Sanderson, staff
surgeon of Providence Hospital, will
give a short talk on Cancer Pre-
vention." .....
WGY To Have Play.
Once more the headliner on the
out-of town programs will come
from WGY, Schenectady, where
pierre of the Palms. drama Of
the Canadian Northwest, win be
produced by the WGY Players, with
Edward H. Smith in the. part Of
Pierre.
The four-act drama written by
Edgar Selwyn is offered through
special arrangement with the Sell
wyns, Inc. The director of the
radio drama at WGY has been
careful in the production to put
over" atmosphere with the play.
transmission. The musical num-
heoV.e INV WCV
particularly appropriate and be-
tween the acts the Choro-Franco-
Canadien, male group, will sing
''Soirees Quebec" Chants Can
adien' and 20 Canada
Cast of Drama.
The action of the play transpires
on the Canadian plains within forty
miles Of, the Montana border line.
The characters in the order of
their appearance are: Matt Brady,
Galbraith's man of all work; Cow
ankatchie, an Indian; Jap Durkin,
a guide; Val Balbraith, Galbraith's
son; Jen Galbraith, Galbraith's
of the Plains; Segt. Tom Redding,
Inspector Whitby, r. N. w. M. p,
and Corporal Tim Kearney.
The locale follows:
Act 1. Peter Galbraith's Road
House. evening.
Act 2. The same, NEXT morning.
Act 8. Little Elk Cache, the fol-
lowing night.
Act 4. The Sanctuary of the
Plains, next day.
Billy Jones and Ernest Hare will
be heard from WEAF as usual
this evening at 8 o'clock. They are
one of WEAFs biggest drawing
cards, if correct judgment may be
Jforrned from the mail they receive.
An instrumental trio, dance
orchestra and a recital by Carl H.
#. Won Lautz, pianist, are other
features on the program.
WCAE, Pittsburgh, is offering a
one-act comedy, Aunt Dinnah's
Quilting Party" which should in
terest those who can get through
the local wave length which is very
close. 1t will be presented at $50
O'Clock by the Queen Esther circle
or Calvary M. E. Church, North
side, Pittsburgh.
The afternoon program from
WOR, Newark, offers Bartlett Sim
mons, well-known tenor of ARTISTS
and Models" and Joan Ruth, color,
atura soprano, formerly Of the
Wagnerian Opera Company and at
present with the Dream Girl"
company. She is an accomplished
artist who, but nineteen years of
age, is rated among the most prom
Using material by critics of music
Varied Features From WGR.
A long and varied program will
come from WGR. Buffalo, starting
at $3.50 o'clock with Wendall Hail.
the music maker from the West,
and including a concert by the
Grade School Girl Reserves; Muriel
Frankenstein, in piano solos: pro
gram by vocal artists supper music
by the Hotel Statler orchestra and
baritone solos by George Porter.
William G. Redfield. president Of
the Netherlands Chamber of Com
merce in New York, will talk
through WY on "Selective Immi-
grafton" Song recitals by John
Doherty, baritone, and Olive Hop
kins. soprano, will conclude the
program.
President A. l.. Lowell, Of Haf-
ward, will address the radio audiences
through WNAC at 1880 o'clock
speaking at a class dinner of the
class OF 1902. He vail be followed
by the Simmons college Musical
Club at o'clock and the program
Incidental to the Harvard Class din.