The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-09-28
FRANCIS wilson
IN AIR DEBUT

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Francis Wilson has turned radio
crat and will be heard in living
room loud speakers by WEAF and
| WRC this evening along about y
| o'clock, when the initial program OF
| the Eveready dry battery subsidy
sails the wave lengths.
| What" says Kirk Miller, with
an adjective he probably learned
in Philadelphia during the Dempsey
Tunney discussion last week
what" sezzee, sis this here radio
| crat?" ~,
That is easy. A 'radiocrat" is
a high-brow radio enterta1ner--Just
| like a "radiotic" is dial twister
who has become chronic, plainly
shown by the corns on his tnumo
and forefinger.
| Francis Wilson is true radio
crat-although he performs FOR the
first time before a microphone TINS
| evening.
WILSON TO SING
"COMMIC" SONGS I
Wilson will do-and this Is guess
work on our past as to the spectre
songs, save that we know wilson
fairly well-he will do the "Dickey
Bird song from Erminie ana
"Cadeaux," Introductory song at the
beginning of the same opera ne
| will also do several things from
| erin Van Wrinkle" and will have
the help of the Eveready ensemble
and mixed quartet.
Likewise he will probably speak
a few well chosen syllables into
| the ears OF the listeners, being IN
| PRODUCED as an eminent comic
opera star and one of the founders,
and first president, of the Actors
EQUITY Association. He could be
introduced as one Of the few actors
who has made a million or two
and kept it intact. ALSO he might
he referred to as having one Of
the worlds greatest collections OF
| first editions and the owner OF
some of the rarest specimens OF
bookbinding and printing in the
world. Wilson is, therefore, quite
qualified to be called radiocrat!
NEW SEASON
FOR EVEREADY
This evening is the beginning OF
the new season Of the dry battery
subsidy-and the first time it has
been heard from a Washington
station. It was one of the first OF
the advertising programs to be put
on the air by WEAF and has
maintained such a high quality OF
entertainment and of music that
it is almost in class by itself.
Paul Stacey, whose name never
appears in it's programs and sell
dom in it's publicity, is the master
OF the whole works, author of most
of it's continuity and the conceiver
of $500 per cent Of the clever
ideas it presents.
The other performers are old
friends, most OF them, and will be
introduced this evening.
ENSEMBLE TAKES
AIR AGAIN TONIGHT
The WRC program will get under
way with Things Talked About"
by Nina Reed this evening at GAO.
Then will come the sporting resume
| from The Times-Herald sports de-
partments and Nathan Brusiloff's
New Willard Orchestra of the Meyer
Davis syndicate.
Inc Emerson ensemble taxes the
air at o'clock with the usual
orchestral numbers under the d.
rection of Arsenic Ralon and vocal
exercises with Eugene Martinez,
| baritone, and Albert Newcombe
tenor, as the regular features.
There will be a guest artist
maybe two-whose identity will be
made known when they are in.
troduced. The tour of the southern
hemisphere follows the headache
subsidy and then Games the Meyer
Davis LIE Paradis Dance Orchestra
for an hour of rhythmic endeavor.
| Uncle Bob returns to the kiddies
at KYW at this evening with his
ready laugh and his "Curb-is-the'
limit" Club. In Baltimore the
Beethoven String Quartet will have
an hour at VIDAL from 1880 on.
"Rigoletto" will be condensed and
sung by the WGN grand opera
outfit in Chicago and there will bt
plenty of dance music from all
points of the compass throughout
| fhn AxyaniOD