The Washington times., 1926-12-30
ID NALDSON I D
/ SAY FAREWELL

'Old Man donaldson whose
Gems Of Romance" were real
geams of radio entertainment that
will be long remembered by listen
ers. Is to return to the microphone
this evening at 10 O'Clock from
WIZ through WRC, with tale Of
New Year adventure in Scotland
in the Eighteenth century. This Is
an extra feature of what will be
the farewell program of old favor.
ties from WIZ, for the listeners OF
WRC. AS has been stated hereto
fore, WRC will become part OF the
regular WEAF network Saturday.
as it has already been for the Mon.
day, Wednesday, Friday and Sun.
day programs since August.
The return OF Donaldson for this
one program will give his friends.
the opportunity to hear him again
which they have longed for since
his famous gem series was com.
pleted last summer. The character
of Donaldson was created by Coi.
C. T. Davis, who collaboratsd with
Malcolm LaPrade in the preparation
OF the stories.
GALA PROGRAM
FOR NEW YEAR
Final announcement was made
today of the big program from
WEAF and VIZ that will inaugu-
rate the New Year and annihtldtS
space on the continent Of North
America. Twenty-six radio stations
In the United States and Canada
viii broadcast. the new Victor hour
which begins at o'clock Friday
night and presents five great stars.
Five stations will also broadcast
the football game to be played In
Pasadena, CAL. between the teams
of the University of Alabama ana
Leland Stanford during the after
noon. Twenty-Five stations Will
Orchestra concert. Which will be
about ali of that for today
This evening the usual Thursday
program opens in the usual way,
with the Kit hour OF music, intro.
iucing Helen G.. Irwin, pianist, and
Zoe watson, violinist, to the radio
audience. At o'clock the Carlton
Hotel Orchestra vii begin an hour
OF dance music to be followed by @
newly worked out motion picture
feature called 1.-THE NewlyWeds,"
which purports to tell what the
newlyWeds see at motion picture
show. There will be just Is minutes
Of this and then the Music Makers
Quartet" win be heard 4 another
Is minutes.
The weekly auction bridge game
will be played at $50 and at Erva
Giles, Frank1yn Bauer and the Royal
Orchestra win play WRC's final
Royal ho@r of music. Then comes
the Donaldson farewell appearance
and an hour of dance music from
LIE Paradis,
WMAL PRESENTS
CLEVER FEATURE
From WsTAL there will be heard
at Z o'clock a review of the sci
entific achievemI 1ts OF 1925 and at
$40 Alfred Falconer will be intro
duced for one of his inimitable half
hours of dialect readings. This is
one of the cleverest bits of enter
tainment in the WMAL repertoire
and is wen worth tuning. Walter
Holt's Nordica Club Orchestra viii
conclude the evening for Director
Pi sons station.
On the outer wavelengths Anthony
Fiala, the Arctic explorer, will be
heard from WEAF at 7:45 in
short talk about his experiences.
Fiala used to be very well known in
washington where he spent con-
siderable time several years ago.
The williams College Glee Club will
sing its annual New York concert at
$50. which wGBS will broadcast
and at 10 o'clock WPG, Atlantic
city. will endeavor to begin a sum-
mary of the great events of 1925 for
the customers who tune the station.
The WEAE network will carry
the performances of the ginger ale
banjoists and the overshoe har-
monizers to the four corners of the
continent at the usual hours for
s1Ioh things< .-,s%.