The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-21
7 D BROADCAST
EDISON TALK

With Thomas A. Edison celebrat.
! ing the 48th anniversary of the
invention of the incandescant light
by submitting to his first radio in
terview at 10 o'clock this evening
every minute of this Friday will
be crowded with interesting things
on the wave iengths-leading up to
the great climax and record-break.
ing event.
While he is perhaps the most
prolific inventor of the century and
boasts that he doesn't need more
than three or four hours sleep a
day. Thomas A. Edison is the most
economical man in the world with
his power of speech. The times he
has been heard to talk In public
are few and far between. and he
has spoken only half dozen words
into a microphone since radio broad.
casting became possible.
This evening, however. Mr.. Edi-
son will break his silence, and will
tell the people of the United States
and Canada quite a lot about the
invention of the incandescant light.
He will be interviewed for the
audiences of 40 radio stations by
+. w. Rice, jr., Of the General Elec-
trio Company.
The interview will be heard by
the listeners OF WRC at 10 O'Clock
and along with it will be a concert
by the Goldman Band and short
addresses by w. F. Ham, of the
Potomac Electric Power Company,
and Milton B. Medary, of the Ma
tionaI Park Planning Commission.
PERSIANS PAY
TRIBUTE TO INVENTOR
The program is being presented
under the auspices of the General
Electric Company and will displace,
for the evening, the usual Friday
evening program of the Whittail
Anglo-Persian Louis Kaufman and
his gang have voluntarily paid this
tribute of their silence to the great
inventor.
In the early evening Gretchen
Hood, soprano, is to be heard as
soloist with the Burlington Orches-
ira. The regular Burlington con.
cert broadcast begins from WRC
at z o'clock. At 7:45 the super oil,
heater organist, so the WRC SEIZED.
uIe tells us, will perform for the
customers and at Rosario Bour-
don and his orchestra provide an
hour of music.
This evenings musical miniature
will be midsummer Eve in Nor
way" with Margaret HamiltolI
Olsen, soprano This means much
Grieg music that should be enjoy
able. The Interurban Quartet comes
to the WRC microphone at 3. and
at $50 there will be the usual con-
cert by Henri Sokoloff's String
Quintet for Lord Calvert. The
Wardman Park dance orchestra will
conclude the WRC broadcast, after
the Edison hour, of course.
PIANIST TO PLAY
IN MUSIC FORUM
The second of the Arthur Jordan
musical forum programs from
WMAL will come to listeners at
9:10 o'clock with Stewart Dickson,
pianist, as principal artist. Mr..
Dickson made his first concert ap-
pearance in Washington this week
and was enthusiastically received.
Martin Mallory, baritone. and Elinor
Locke.
n the distant broadcasts one may
tune Eddie Dooley, the famous
Dartmouth All-American quarter
back. in a football talk from WEAF
at Z. AT 8 O'Clock the weekly
o. Henry story will be heard from
WIZ, this weeks presentation being
''The Third Ingredient" At 9
O'Clock John Wilburn. tenor, and the
studio ensamble can be tuned from
VIDAL with program of music re-
lating to love and Iove-making, and
at 10 o'clock VIDAL presents the
Baltimore Municipal Band for it's
first concert of the fall and winter
Soa SON