The Washington times., 1925-08-15
STATION READY
To MAKE ITS
Dis DEBUT
/ ,ooo-Watt WJR Will Operate
on 517-Meter, Nave Lengths.
Program Details
BY LISTENERIN

Detroit and Pontiac, Mich, will
make its bow to the public tonight
with an inaugural program which
will run from o'clock until the
wee small hours of the morning.
The newcomer, WJR, will operate
on wave length of SIT meters. I.
Tonight's program will include
some exceedingly fine entertainment
the standard of which will be main.
tanned throughout all of WJR's
broadcasts according to advance
promises. Only four talks are listed
for the inaugural, one of them by
the governor OF Michigan, Alex j.
Groesbeck.
No station has ever come onto
the air in this country with so
much advance publicity and repu.
tation as WJR already has before Ii
has been on the air a single night.
1t is built on the latest principles
of radio construction with the
studios in Detroit and the station
proper thirty miles away in Ponti.
&C. IF the baby station maintains
half of its early promise it viii be
one OF the most popular on the
air.
And speaking of station popu.
larity, the Radio Digest has just
announced the results OF q contest
in which 100000 listeners through.
out the country have voted for the
most popular station. The result
showed. KDKA, Pittsburgh, the
winner by big margin. WEAF,
New York and WGY, Schenectady,
We're second and third, respectively.
The two locals, WRC and WCAP.
were way down the list. wRC was
fortieth with 316 votes and. WCAP
was forty-sixth with 191s ballots.
Norman Brokenshire. Radio Cor.
poration of America announces,
who has been with WRC, for the
past two months. will leave Wash:
ington tonight Immediately after
| WRC signs off for a two weeks
vacation with his parents in Apple
! HUI. Canada. Before coming to
Washington. Broke" was one OF
the best known announcers in New
York through his work with sta.
tons VIZ and WY
WEAF, New York. Is ,ceIebrafIns.
! its third anniversary toni ht WieiI
+ ~ special program beginning at
1915 o'clock. The entertainers will
! an, be artists who performed froln
the famous station in its early
/ days when wave length of 400
n1eters was being used.
A star program by Crandall's
Saturday Nighters and "a concert by
/ the New York Philharmonic.
orchestra under the leadership of
| symphony orchestra. top WRC"s
program for tonight ss
Many Of Washington's most
popular radio artists have been
gathered together for the Crandall
| Hour. They viii include Dorothy
Wilson Hafbach, contraIto: Kurt
i Hetzel, pianist; Earl CarbauL, bari.
tone; Harlan Randall baritone;
Kate Smith, syncopator, and others.
WRC's Complete Bill.
/ LOO p. m.-David, Boyd's New
Willard Hotel Orchestra, broadcast
from the New Willard Hotel.
$40 p. m.-Baseball scores.
6:45 p. m.-Bibie talk by Doctor
L. W. Glazebrook. president of the
Laymen's Association of the Episco-
pal Church. under the auspices of
the Mems Organized Bible Class
| Association.
/ TOO p. m.-Irving Boernstein's
Hotel Washington Orchestra broad.
cast from the Hotel Washington.
/ 1880 p. m.-Concert by the New
York Philharmonic Orchestra: Fritz
! Reiner. conductor. broadcast with
stations WIZ and wGY from the
Lewisohn stadium in New York.
Program: Overture to THE Secret
of Suzanne" Wolf Ferrari: concer-
to for wind instruments and or.
chestra, Rieti first time at stad.
ium: Invitation TO the Dance, web
r-Weingartner; miniature march
I(suite No. 81, Tschaikowsky; Els.
pana. Charbier; Symphony No.. S,
Beethoven.
$50 p. m.-"Defenseless America"
by Charles B. Farmer.
9:45 p. m.-Little Stories Of the
| Old South: "Why Esam Swan the
'Munkey'" by Margaret Buchanan
Yeates.
1000 p m.-Joseph Knecht's
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Orchestra
broadcast with station WIZ from
the roof Of the WaIdorf-Astoria
Hotel in New York
1890 p. m.-"Crandall's Saturday
Nighters.' including Harlan Ran.
dali. baritone; Dorothy Wilson Hal.
bach. contralto; Kurt HetzeI, plan.
ist; Earl Carbauh. baritone; Kate
Smith, queen of syncopation:"
a trio composed of Sigmund Ziebel,
violinist; Charles Williams, sax.
ophonist, and Emile Smith, pianist.
Otto F. Beck. organist, and the
Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
under the direction of Daniel Bree-
skin.
WCAP Tomorrow
| IL a. m.--Service at New York
! Avenue Presbyterian Church of
Washington. Doctor w. I. Cham.
berlain. secretary of board Of for.
eign missions of the Reformed
church. New York city, will preach
| the sermon.
p. m.-Service held at the
Peace Cross, Washington Cathedral:
| The Reverend William r. Pierce.
/ D. D.; president of Kenyon College,
Damvier, Ohio, will preach the ser.
mon. -
$40 to sI5.p. m.-MusIcal pro.
gram by Major Bowes and =. the
Capitol Gang from the Capitol
Theater, New York city
SIS to 9:15 p. m.-Goldman Land
concert, Edwin Frankie Goldman,
conductor, direct from hall Of fame,
New York University campus, New
York city. Russian program.
sololst, Viola Sherer. soprano.