The Washington times., 1924-05-09
BAND
FEATURE
LISTED
Wardman Park Orchestra
Will Put on Jazz During
Latter Part Of Evening

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A long and varied program
starting at 6:55 p. m. and contin-
uing until midnight, headlined by
a concert by the United States
Navy Band Orchestra, will be the
offering of WCAP tonight.
The program is WCAP's typical
Friday night bill, with a non-jazz
program until 10 o'clock, and then
plenty of it from Boernstein's
Wardman Park Orchestra from 10
to IL o'clock.
Navy Band Orchestra to Play.
Violet Warren Pierson opens the
program with Child Rhymes from
Riley" and is Immediately followed
by the Navy Band Orchestra under
the able leadership of Charles Ben
ter. The Navy boys are offering
a concert in two parts, with two
song recitals between. The first
half will be composed chiefly of 3
descriptive Hunting Scene" by Blu
calossi, with interpretive music, and
scenes from the grand opera, La
Tosca" by Puccini.
Sandwiched between the two con-
certS by the orchestra will be song
recitals by Mary Langley, accom-
panied by Marville Jester and Hattie
Hersurth, contralto, accompanied
by Margaret Bowie Grant. The Sec
ond part of the Navy Bands con-
cert is chiefly given over to
marches.
Two more song recitals are listed
for the evening. Robert Frederick
Freund, baritone. will offer n group
Of songs at 9:1S o'clock, and
Everett S. Hardell. tenor, win come
on at 9:45 p. m. The remainder Of
the music will come from Wardman
Park Hotel.
Two Talks Planned.
Only two talks are scheduled
on the long program. C. c. Ben.
nett, of the Bureau Of Identified
ton of the United States War
Department, will give a short talk
at 9 o'clock on 'The Science Of
Fingerprints as a Means of Per.
sonal Identification" and George
Rothwell Brown, of the Washing
ton Post, will give q Digest Of
Current Events" at $50 a. m.
WRC has planned an especially
amusing and excellent program for
this. afternoon, which should please
theSmost exacting. Gertrude kreiSel.
-man, a newcomer to Washington,
will make her initial appearance as
the "jazz specialist" on the after
noon program when she plays a
generous group Of lively jazz num-
bers. Miss Kreiselman, an accom-
plished young musician, formerly
headed a celebrated group of dance
players in Akron, Ohio, whence she
comes to Washington.
Janet Winters to Sing.
Janet Winters, who has been APP
pearing at the Shriners' Fashion
Show in Convention Hall and who
has entertained on several occa-
sions at the cabarets, will entertain
at. A o'clock with a group of songs.
Mrs. Samuel Norman, wife Of
Samuel Norman, who directs the
Willard Hotel Orchestra. will be
her accompanist.
Arthur Mccormick WRC's my
sterious baritone" for whom forty
or fifty phone calls are received
each afternoon, will sing group
of songs for This many listeners
and admirers at Forest Glen Semi.
nary"
Dangerous People"
BY special arrangement with the
producer and author, the WGY
players will present Dangerous
People," a three-act crook comedy
which is now playing in New York,
as the headliner from out.of.town
tonight. The play calls for IL cast
OF only five people, and is especially
adapted to radio production.
The comedy, written by oliver
White, has the following characters
Ethel Dudworth (played by Rosaline
Greene), Nanine Bertram, David
Bertram, Jim Teasdale and Paul
Dulworth. The program is:
Act 1. Bertram's apartment, New
York. a November afternoon.
Act IL. A bungalow In the Cats.
kills, same evening.
Act III. Same as act II. A few
minutes later.
A musical program will be broad.
cast by the WGY Stringed Quin.
tette at 1890.
Jack Hills "Black Diamonds"
will give their famous minstrel
show through CFCF, Montreal, at
1880, followed at $40 by a speech to
be delivered to the Montreal Radio
Club by Sir Henry Thornton, with
dance music from the studio.
The concert by the Columbian
University Instrumental Club, as.
sisted by the Columbia Male Quar-.
tet, will be broadcast from WY,
New York, at 7:20. At the same
time the twin station, WIZ, will
broadcast a concert by. Fordham
University's Glee Club. This will
be followed by American Legion
Night at WIZ.
WLAG, Minneapolis. will broad.
cast the opera, Faust from the
May Festival at Manka, Mimi. At
9:15. Buffalo is offering a musical
diversion at o'clock, followed by a
program featuring Knelps Tokyo
Orchestra at $3.50.
Other good programs will come
from WNAC, Boston, at 7I5: with
the New England Conservatory.
WBZ, Springfield, at Z, with a iazz
symposium, by Leo Reisman and hia
orchestra, and KDKA, Pittsburgh.
at 8 o'clock, with a concert by the
Ladies' Chorus Of the Pittsburgh
Musical Institute.