Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
SENATORS TO TALK
ON D. c. VOTE PLEA
Speeches on National Repre-
sentation to BE Broadcast
Over WRC Tonight.

A plea for national representation for
the District will be carried to the Ma
ton tonight through WRC and coast
forecast network of National Broad
casting System stations.
The speakers will be two prominent
members of the United States Senate
Wesley L. Jones OF Washington and
Arthur l.. Capper of Kansas. Senator
Jones is co-author of the joint resolu-
ton to empower Congress To grant to
the people of the District national rep
resentation in Congress and the RICH.
to vote for President and Vice PreSi-
dent. Senator Capper is chairman OF
the District committee OF the Senate.
Senators to Speak.
Senators Jones and Capper will ap-
pear before the microphone in the
Half Hours With the Senate period,
National Broadcasting Co. weekly fea-
ture scheduled from $50 to 10 o'clock.
The presiding officer for this and sub
seouent Half Hour With the Senate"
broadcasts will be Senator Metcalf OF
Rhode Island, chairman OF the Senate
committee on broadcasting.
Another outstanding broadcast to-
night will be the ceremonies in Connec-
ton with the dedication Of Atlantic
City's new municipal auditorium and
convention hall Vice President Curtis
will make the dedicatory address.
Other speakers include Sir ESme How
ard. British Ambassador to the United
States: Alexandra Padilla Y Bell, Span
ish Ambassador to the United States,
and Senator Edge of New Jersey. Gre
atore and his band will provide the mu-
steal background. The exercises will
be distributed to two extensive net
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casting Co. networks, in which potn
WRC and WMAL are included.
WRC's outstanding musical features
will be furnished by the Cities Service
Orchestra and Cavaliers, the Schrader-
town Band and the Evening in Paris"
entertainers. The Cities Service program
is more elaborate than usual, as 1t is
designed to mark the beginning of this
features third consecutive year on the
air. Lee O'Rourke, tenor soloiSt of the
Cavaliers Quartet, will sing version
of MY Buddy" and the quartet will
flarmonizes on perennial favorites such
as "Old Mill Stream and Just Song
at Twilight" The symphony orchestra,
conducted by Rosario Bourbon, will
contribute special arrangement of
Saint-Saens' The Swan, Rimsky ::
Korsakoff's Flight of the Bumblebee"
and selections from TSchaikowsky'S
1.-THE Nutcracker" suite.
WRCs program also contains the
"Players' Club Get-Together," featuring
Walter Hampden, Daniel Frohman, VIII
Irwin. Donald Brian, Dudley Digges
and Frances Wilson. The TheSpian
rally is in conjunction with the clubs
annual revival, for which it has chosen
this year Becky Sharpe the play
based on Thackeray's Vanity Fair"
Bill Air Mail Discussion.
Aside from several Columbia attrac-
tions, WMAL's program also schedules
a variety of features Of local origin,
chief among them being discussion by
Representative Kelly of Pennsylvania
and Second Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Glover of the importance of the
air mail service to washington and the
Nation. 1t will be the first of a series
of radio talks arranged by the Washing
ton Chamber of Commercc to promote
the use of the air mail service.
The story hour and doc" West, the
philosopher, are two Of the prominent
Columbia attractions. Mary and Bob,
the characters in the story hour, will
attend a Chinese festival in San Fran
cisco, while the DOC" West program
features a variety of musical entertain
ment The specialties will be orchestral
selections of hits from the musical re-
vue THE Little Show" and vocal solos
by Lois Bennett,