The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-29

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90 central standard time today. Be
ginning wednesday all programs
will be listed in The Times on the
daylight schedule.
A VARIETY of programs, includ-
4 a ing an address by President
Coolidge and the final laps of the
Indianapolis Speedway 550-mile
international motor race, will be
offered radio listeners Memorial
day, Wednesday, by the National
Broadcastirg Company through as
ISOLATED stations of the NBC Red,
Blue and Pacific Coast networks.
Before microphone in the Ma
tional Cemetery at Gettsyburgh,
Pa, where Abraham Lincoln dedi-
Gated "a portion of that field as a
final resting place for those who
here gave their lives that that ma
ton might live" President Coolidge
will deliver an address within the
hearing of millions of listeners who
tune in on associated stations of the
NBC Blue network. This memorial
service will go on the air at l. In
addition to the President, Governor
John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania, will
be heard in the role Of presiding
officer and the Rev A. E. Wagner,
D. D., Of the Christ Lutheran
Church, Gettysburg, will read
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Through the NBC Red network
beginning at 10 Wednesday morning
a half-hour program commemorate
ing Memorial day will be broadcast
from the Soldiers and Sailors Club
of New York. Miss Frances Rodgers,
president of the clubs board of
directors, will read several poems to
piano accompaniment, including
"Lest We Forget" THE Americans
Come" and Joyce Kilmer's "I Have
a Rendezvous with Death"
Beginning approximately at 2:1O
the Indianapolis Speedway will be-
come the center Of interest for
listeners of the NBC Red and
Pacific Coast networks. From here,
Graham McNamee will describe the
last hour Of the 500-mile motor race.
Tonight at Z, through twenty
stations of the NBC Red network,
the Everready hour will dramatic
the events in the life of General
Robert E. Lee, leader of the Con-
federate Army. Lees refusal to
accept the command of the Union
Army, preferring to remain loyal to
his native State, Virginia, and the
historical meeting between him and
General U. S. Grant, when Lee
surrendered at Appomattox Court
House, will be re-enacted with
musical background furnished by
the Eveready Orchestra, directed
by Nathaniel Shilkret, and the Hall
johnson Singers.
Melodies from the land of tllist1es
and heather will be offered by the
Sieberling Singers in their broad
cast tonight at $50 over the NBC
Red network.
Such numbers as Mary of
Argyle" Loeb Lomond," annie
Laurie" and Turn Ye to Me" need
little introduction, even to those of
the non-kilted races. AS usual, the
Seiberling Male Quartet, singing
orchestral arrangements rather than
regular vocal forms, will be heard
between choruses and numbers by
the orchestra.
Two Yiddish folk songs, a song
from the Hebrew text, a Schubert
"Serenade" (not the one so widely
known, but a song rarely heard
which this celebrated composer
wrote especially for contralto and
male chorus, five "love waltzes"
and other numbers will feature
choral program to be broadcast from
WBAL, Baltimore, at 7 tonight by
the Meyerbeer Singing Society of
the Maryland metropolis, male
chorus of thirty-five voices.
Vocal and piano soloists will assist
the chorus in rendering this concert.
An orchestra conducted by Cesare
Sodero will play the overture to
Mendelssohn's Midsummer Nights
Dream" as the opening number of
the program by the Continentals,
an NBC grand ensemble. This pro-
gram will be broadcast through sta
tions associated with the NBC
Blue network tonight at 8.
The complete program for this
broadcast follows:
Overture, to Midsummer Nights
Dis@m ORCHESTRA MendelSsohn
solo-"Die Ehre Got.es'' 49,. Beethoven
1rd,..b.F rsd liEdsl BF a0. baritone, 49,,
Sole ,.,lErnani Invoiamt'' from
N'"a Astrid Eiieidie soprano Veroi
SN s9t;t1I5 from King Christian .,,.,
S'ui's '''''''oi Orchestra ''''''' siOeliuS
Dq l1i Aide! idea di ouel MetalO" from
Julian Oliver and Frederick BEEF Sp''ini
eoile 95o ai,a NY Heart Is Weary" from
Na0eS'e Grace Leslie. contralto Thomas
soig 2e va d9en ma bein Aimee" from
" .'0- Julian oliver. tenor haiO
"Sigurd Jorsalfar Suite" .......... Grieg
orchestra
Best offerings for tonight accord
ang to the judgement. of Fishing the
Air are listed here:
5:oo-NBC Red Network Voters service.
5:30-WGBS. New York. Theater Maya
other stars.
e:oo-NBc Blue Network. stromberg
Carlson Sextette.
5:s5-WLs. Chicago. Music Personalities.
Maurice Ravel."
7:oo-WENR, Chicago. Operetta mons.
Beaucaire."
--WBAL, Baltimore. Meyerbeer Sing
81; --NBC RED Network Eveready hour.
t't' devoted TO Com. Robert E. Lee =.
--WOR, Newark. The Jazz Choir.
--NBC Red Network. Cliouot
Eskinaos.