The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-21
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Station WRC at Washington this
fall and winter, will be presented
Oct. 1, under auspices of the Pan
American Union.
The speakers for the first of these
performances will be General James
G.. Hartford, President of the Radio
Corporation Of America, and DR..
Leo S. Rowe, rector-General of
the Pan-American Union. An
elaborate musical program has been
arranged to inaugurate the new
series of atin-American nights,
which will be featured by music by
the United States Army Band, di-
rected by Capt. William J. Stannard;
double saxophone sextette of the
Army Band, and group of Wash
ingtons most prominent vocal and
instrumental soloiSts. The soloists
include Grace Washburn, coloratura
soprano; Helen Corbin Heinl, pianist;
Fred East, baritone. and Henri
Sokoloff and Jose de Huarte, VIC
iinists. All of the music to be played
in connection with the program will
be by Latin-American composers,
provided for this event by Franklin
Adams, Counselor Of the Pan-Ameri-
can Union. The entertainment will
be broadcast Jointly with WRC by
Station WIZ, New York. direct from
the court yard Of the Pan-American
building in Washington.
After proving of value to Pacific
Coast radio listeners in entertain
ment and education, KGO is now
rapidly taking its place as conserver
and creator of good health. Every
morning of the week, excepting
Sunday. Hugh Barrett Dobbs, an ex-
pert in training for health, broad
casts three classes of fifteen minutes
each. First, at 7:15, the "early
risers" receive instruction; second
follows the pep class" for advanced
students in physical culture; and
third. the lazy bones" class con-
sisting of all those who can afford to
get up so late. Sixty thousand peo-
pie are known to be taking exercises
broadcast by Dobbs, over ten per
cent of them following printed
charts.
Immediately after the physical ex-
ercises each morning, "Cheerio," a
prominent San Francisco business
man. appearing before the KGO
microphone anonymously, delivers
mesa ge of good cheer to the sick,
the invilids and the shut-ins.
The final series of baseball games.
to be played by the Washington
world champions away from home,
will be broadcast play by play by
WRC Sept. 80 and Oct. 1, and 8.
These games will be played with
the Boston Red Sox at Fenway
Park, Boston, and the play by play
descriptions will be announced from
the studio Of the Washington Times
by William M. Sweets. Since the
opening of the baseball season in the
spring, WRC has broadcast similar
accounts of all of the games of the
Washington team on it's road trips.
Eight singers and Vinton La Fer
rera and his concert orchestra will
present 1.-THE Chimes OF Normandy"
the comic opera by Robert Plan
quette, over KGO, Saturday night.
Oct. 3. from the San Francisco stu
do.
Among the organists who will ap-
pear on WRCs noon programs dur.
ing the week beginning Sept. 81 are
Gertrude Smallwood. Char iotte
Klein. Malton Boyce, George F. Ross
and Adolf Trovsky. These recitals
are regular daily features Of the
radio entertainment provided by
WRC and are played on the organ
at the First Congregational Church,
Washington.
Elaborate plans for a special pro-
gram In celebration Of wTAM's sec
ond anniversary are now being made,
according to L. W. Zimmerman, pro
gram director of the Willard station.
"details have not yet been COM
p4eted, but we are endeavoring to
make the second anniversary pro-
gram, which falls on Saturday, Sept.
IS, representative Of the best pro-
grams WTAM has put on In the
past as well as promise for the fu-
ture," says Zimmerman.
The program will start at p. m.
and continue until in the morning.
eight hours Of continuous broadcast
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