New Britain herald., 1926-12-18

mentS while committing TO Work D.
tuning In" to the Wednesday eve
ming talks Of Frederic William Will
broadcast through WEAF. WJAF
and WRC at 500 o'clock Mr.. Vile
who is a acknowledgement politica
correspondent and radio speaker
uses as his theme 1.-The Politica
Situation at Washington Tonight"
WEAF will be on the air from I;
o'clock, noon, to 10 o'clock. mid
night, OF. Christmas Day.
At ~ noon on Friday. December
"a. WEAF will broadcast the Annu'
al Carol Services by the employees
Of the American Telephone and Tele.
graph Company and associated com
panies from the lobby Of the Tele.
phone Building, New York City
These services in which thousands
of the employees Of the company
participate, has been an annual fea.
ture of WEAF'S Christmas program
for the last few years.
The broadcasting Of decided
novelty dI VI Sdl lOtitdi III CAii'
cinnati transmitted to New York
and broadcast through the chain
will be presented on Christmas Day
from 800 to 400 o'clock.
Notes From WIZ
WIZ, WGY, WBZ, KDKA and
KYW, will broadcast the Christmas
party of the Pennsylvania Railroad
to be held at the Metropolitan Opera
House at $3.50 o'clock, Thursday
night, December %. The features OF
this party will be the speech by
Gen. w. W. Atterbury, the President
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and
the singing Of Christmas carols by
the Pennsylvania Railroad employees
The carlton Of the Park Avenue
Baptist church will ring in Christ
mas Day from WIZ in recital OF
Christmas Carols to be broadcast by
that station starting at ten minutes
Of midnight Christmas Eve.
Frank Dole who for the past four
years has given ten minute talk
every Tuesday night on the subject
OF Dogs" will enter upon his fifth
year of consecutive broadcasting
from Station WIZ at 800 o'clock,
Tuesday night December 81. He is
the Kennel Editor of New York
newspaper and has been an exhibitor
breeder and Judge of dogs for the
past thirty years. In his next
broadcast he will discuss elbows"
Paul Robson. the negro singer
and actor, will be the featured SOLO
list to be heard with Henry Hadley's
Orchestra of Philharmonic players
from WIZ at $50 o'clock on Mon
day evening, next.
Lincoln's Friend to Speak
Isaac Markers, author of I'm
published Facts about Abraham Lin
coln," will be interviewed by Terese
Rose Nagel at WGBS, New York
at o'clock Tuesday afternoon, De-
cember 81. Mr.. Markers was long
a close friend Of the Civil War
President, and in her questions Miss
Nagel will ask him to relate side
lights and observations on Honest
Abe" which are generally unknown.
WSAI is the station which last
week offered its facilities to prom
inent Cincinnati business men who
are sponsoring the United States
Radio Society. The management of
WSAI disclaimed any interest in the
undertaking, save for the expression
that it approved the policies of the
new organization the chief Of which
is the elimination of interference.
VITO Mail Bag
The VITO Mail Bag has made its
temperance on the programs sent
out from The Travellers station at
Hartford. This unusual stunt OF
reading and answering interesting
mail sent to the station by fans
proved to be a unique feature last
winter. The next reading is sched-
uled for Z o'clock on Tuesday eve
ming. Dec. 2S.
Program by Schumann-H eink
Madame Ernestine Schumann-
Heink, world renowned contralto.
whose singing Of 1.-THE Star Spangled
Banner" as the closing selection in
the Atwater-Kent Radio Hour of
January 81 last, will never be for
gotten by those who heard 1t is an
nounced to again participate in an
Atwater-Kent Radio Hour. Tomor-
row evening at 9:15 o'clock
through WEAF, WEEP, WRC. WGR,
WWJ, WsAI, WCCO. WAR, WTAG,
KsD, WTAM, woo, WIFI, and
WGN, the voice OF Madame Schu-
mann Heink will be heard.
"Gentlemen Prefer Blends"
Kolin Hager, known as the voice
of WGY from which station he has
been heard since Feb. 81. 1922. will
make his debut as an author of a
radio musical burlesque Thursday
night, December 23, when the
Schenectady station will broadcast
Gentlemen Prefer Blinds"
The burlesque will be presented
by the Radio Four, WGY's leading
and comedy organization.
This grohp is made up of Mr.. Hager.
studio manager of WYG, Asa o.
Coggeshall, William Fay and Els
worth Page and it is best known for
it's offerings of minstrel shows and
on national events such as
the Democratic National Convention
and the Dempsey-Tunney fight.
Gentlemen Prefer Blinds" with
apologies to Anita Loos,
is chockfull of chuckles for the radio
listeners. 1t is written especially for
radio production and Mr.. Hager's
nearly five years experience catering
to the preferences of listeners Is
drawn on in the preparation Of the
lines and music of the burlesque
Fun is poked at the great and the
near-great and current events con-
tribute material for the fun
makers.