New Britain herald., 1928-11-05
Todays Features

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ends tonight with the republican
and democratic presidential candi-
Gates on the air over an NBC coast
forecast network in = final appeal
for votes. The Socialist candidate
will speak on an eastern NBC hook
up. Herbert Hoover, republican
candidate. viii speak from hts home
in Palo Alto. California, and Cover
nor Alfred E. Smith will make his
final address in a private room in
Carnegie Hall in New York city, his
home town. Mr.. Thomas will speak
from New York.
The candidates are using entirely
different tactics in what is the final
maneuver of the 1928 campaign.
Candidate Hoover will limit his
speech to is minutes, the first Is
miutes of the hour being devoted
to q radio musical entertainment
presented in the interests of his can
didacy. Governor Smith on the other
hand has planned a sixty-minute ad-
dress and is expected to use every
minute of the hour in speaking.
From $3.50 to $500 o'clock Monday
night Norman Thomas, socialist can
didate for president, will make his
closing address over a network OF
stations associated with the NBC.
The republican program will begin
at 800 p. m. eastern standard time.
The musical entertainment which
will be titled "America's Men of
Destiny" will be presented in the
New York studios of the National
Broadcasting Company.
More than 200 people will parti-
cipate in the musical entertainment
which has been arranged by the
Hoover Curtis Theatrical, League.
| Amelita Galli-Curci. famous prima
donna. will be on the program and
will speak in behalf of the republic
can candidacy. Frieda Hempel,
1 Marion Green and Marie Sundelius
will have singing roles while dramat-
lie speaking parts will be handled by
George Abbott, Walter Huston, Lee
Baker Gilbert Emery. Elsie Fergu-
son. Florence Reed, Francine Larri-
more. Olive Wyndham, Nellie Revell
and Neysa McMein.
The presentation will be in allie
gorical form and will be based on
the history of the United States from
colonial days to the present time.
Immediately after the presenta-
ton in New York. scheduled to end
at s:45 o'clock, the entire NBC net
work will be switched from New
York city to Palo Alto where Nj.
Hoover will 60 on the air.
! Promptly at 10 o'clock tonight
microphones will be switched on to
a coast-to-coast network of stations
associated with the NBC and Gov
ernor Smith will begin his hours
talk.
Election night, beginning at p.
m. eastern standard time. will be
devoted to broadcast of the results
of the national campaign. A net
work of more than Is radio stations
in every part of the country has
been arranged by the NBC and
elaborate plans have been made to
give radio listeners an accurate pic
ture Of what has happened at the
polls during the day.
The network follows:-
Norman Thomas speech from
New York:-WJZ, New York; WBZ,
Springfield.
Republican musical entertainment
and Hoover speech from Paio Alto:
WIZ. New York: WBZ, Springfield.
Governor Smiths speech from
New York:-WJZ New York; WBZ,
Springfield.
| The radio audience listening to
election returns, Tuesday night,
numbering perhaps fifty millions.
will be entertained between reports
on the Smith Hoover contest with a
series of sketches depicting the cleo
lions of Washington, Jefferson and
Lincoln.
The leisurely election Of George
Washington. in 1888, was in sharr
contrast with the twenty-hour hour
certainties of today. When it was
decided Washington alone could
make the new government work
Alexander Hamilton wrote Colonel
Henry Lee who mounted his horse
and rode from Arlington, Va, to Mt
Vernon, twelve miles away. where
Washington was finally won over
That was September %.
The old Continental Congress, un.
der which the government was still
operating, ordered that the state!