The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-16
THREE HOURS
OF ORCHESTRAS

OF ORCHESTRAS
The WRC program of the day
will open with the usual Saturday
afternoon three-hour orchestra. con-
cert, beginning at 1890 and includ-
ing an hour each of the Waldorf,
Rolfe and Jansen Orchestras which
| WEAF will send hither. The
weekly Bible talk will start things
from the studio at Z o'clock, fol-
lowed at 7:15 by the Burlington
concert which, this week, will pre-
sent the Bel Canto Quartet as guest
artists. The Bel Canto organize.
ton is made up of four school mis-.
tresses who seek relief from the
cares OF their daily grind in the
making of sweet music. And thew
really do 1t, as they've DEVELOPED
an unusual combination of good
harmonizing voices. The quartz;
includes Helen Harper, soprano.
Mary Elizabeth Baker, mezzo-so-
prano; Lucy Hopkins. alto, and
Hattie Hurfurth. contralto. Mar
garet Morgan Is accompanist.
Commander Davis talks at s
o'clock and when WRC listeners
tune back the home station at $40
they will find a new departure in
Washington entertainment in the
form Of an old-time orchestra which
"A. 8. Reese has organized. The
instruments consist of a guitar.
violin, piano. banjo. harmonica,
musical saw and a tin whistle!
From this combination win come
old-time dance tunes for twenty
minutes. Then David Lawrence
will talk about the Government
eight minutes and the evening will
be brought to a close with a dance
program from Wheeler wadsworth,s
Orchestra.
In the meantime-and elsewhere
-diallers may find the Wrestling.
house Band at KDKA at 6 o'clock
with a good program. Most of the
middle evening program has been
referred to and in the later hours
there will be a big birthday ceIebra.
ton at WIS beginning a 9 O'clock.
concert by the pupils OF the II.
8. Army Band School at WMAI, nj
the same hour and also. at 8 O'Clock
concert by the Minneapolis Syr1.
phony Orchestra from WCCO.
ARMY BAND AT
SUNRISE SERVICE
The most important feature of the
Sunday program will be the sunrise
Easter service to be heard at 1880
tomorrow morning from WRC as
broadcast from the Formal Garden
at Walter Reed Hospital Chaplin.
ln.Chief John T. Axiom, U. s. A..
VIII be In charge of the service and
viii make the chief address. Prior
to the religious exercises proper there
Will be concert by the u. s. ARMY
Band which will furnish all the IN.
strumental music. The choral mum.
bers VIII be sung by a choir made
up OF volunteers from several of
the washington churches.
The. morning church service broad
cast Of WRC comes from the Cal.
vary Baptist Church. At / o'clock
there win be a studio orchestra con.
cert from WIZ followed at o'clock
by the Roxy Sunday afternoon nro-
gram. At the Young Peonless
Conference will be broadcast hv
WEAF and at $50 the Moskow Art
orchestra Is t present another
Crosley program from the sanA So.
ton. The Peoples Vesper Hour ~
WRC begins at $50 and concIud 4
at the start of the Capitol Theater
program from New York. Jeanette
Nreeland, soprano. and Richard
Bonelli, baritone. are to be the At
water Kent stars. presenting their
program at 9I5, and at 1915 WRC
VIII provide a hymn program by
salvation Army singers.
The Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick
will preach an Easter sermon from
VIZ and the Park Avenue BAPTIST
Church at IL o'clock tomorrow morn.
Ing. There will be the usual tour.
list excursion at $3.50. but at 8 one
OF the special events of the evening
will be broadcast with WPG as the
originating station and WIZ as dis.
tributor, when Giovanni Martinelli,
tenor. gives recital at the Hotel
Traymore in Atlantic City.