The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-08
'BORAH BUTLER
/ RADIO DEBATE /

There are three items on the loud
speaker program for, this evening
that will be Of particular interest
to Washington listeners. Not the
least important is the broadcast of
the debate between Senator William
E. Borah of Idaho and President
Nicholas Murray Butler. Of Colum.
bia University, on the Eighteenth
Amendment, which will come from
WNAC, Boston, at 8 o'clock. There
is quite a bit of crowding among
the wave lengths at the particular
point where WNAC is to be found,
$50 meters. and 1t may be. there
fore. that the affair will not be
tuneable In this section of the
country.
The debate, az the news columns
will show, Is the center of political
attention from every section of the
country and the question to be con.
sidered by the two distinguished
speakers is: SHOULD the Republican
National Platform of 1928 Advocate
Repeal Of the Eighteenth Amend.
ment?" Senator Borah will defend
the negative side of the question
and President Butler will take the
affirmative.
One of the chief features of the
afternoon program--and rather
important feature to many listen
ers-will be the return to micro.
phonic endeavor of Otto, F. Beck,
the popular organist, who has been
away from Washington for many
weeks and has been greatly missed
by his many friends. He will be
heard from the Kilt Studio at 2
O'Clock.
SHOPPING CHAT
BY POPULAR BAR
Bah" the popular shopping ad.
wiser of The Washington Times,
will inaugurate a new feature from
WRC at $50 this evening to be
called Shopping With Bah" Emma
Perley Lincoln, known and loved
by the womenfolk as Bah" will do
the broadcasting personally. Her
loud-speaker presence is due to the
enterprise of several of the speciality
shop proprietors in Washington,
particularly the Aircraft Shoe Shop,
the Willard Shops, Betty Hanna and
EllZabeth Arden. Bah" will get
milady ready for Easter and will
also carry her through the prapara-
lions for the spring sports and the
summer vacation with the talks
she will present each Friday after
noon.
There are two features on the
orchestral program of the United
States Marine Band, WRC and
WEAF will send over the wave
lengths at $3.50 o'clock which might
commend themselves to the par.
ticular attention If listeners. One
OF these is the Richmaninoff Pre-
Jude in G Minor" which comes as
the second of two Rachmanioff COM
positions toward the end of the
program. This prelude Is entirely
different from the more popular
composition of the same composer,
the "Perlude in C Sharp" It is
subtle IN its meaning and most
fascinating in Its bold rythm. The
second feature selection on the pro-
gram will be an orchestral suite
by Ntcode, which has to do with the
south of Europe. There are three
sections to the suite, each of which
tells distinct story and each in a
different musical mood.
ANOTHER TABLOID
PLAY FROM WEAF
There will be another tabloid YER
sion of a current Broadway play
from WEAF at GAS through WRC
to be followed by the usual Wednes-
day features. the Goldman Band.
Lord Calvert Ensemble and Whittall
Anglo Persians. The evening will be
closed for WRC with an hour of
dance music by the Rolfe Palais dor
Orchestra, from WEAF.
The prohibition debate in Boston
will, of course, be the most important
feature of the outer wave lengths.
From WIZ will come the Royal pro.
gram at $50, with Helen Clark, con.
tralto, and Charles Harrison, tenor.
as soloists. and the music of Italy as
the basis of the program. Another
Philco concert will be heard from
the same station at o'clock. From
WPG at SIS the music of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Seashore Band
can be tuned, and at 10 o'clock the
famous Meyerbeer Singing Society of
Baltimore will present concert
through WBAE.