Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
PARAMOUNT STARS
ON RADIO TONIGHT
Second Of PubIix Film Co.'s
Programs to Be Given
Over WMAL Net.

Another group of famous motion pic
ture and stage stars, together with pop
ular radio entertainers, will present the
second Of the series of Paramount
Publix radio hours tonight over WMAL
and a coast-to-coast network of Co
lunbia Broadcasting System stations.
Gary Cooper, Lillian Roth, Hal Sicily,
Victor Schertzinger, David Mendoza,
Jeanette Macdonald, Ed and Morton
Beck and two orchestras are to take
part in the program, which will be
drawn from four different pointS-NeW
York, Hollywood, Denver and Chicago.
Five> other Columbia attractions and
several of local origin make up the re-
mainder of WMAL's program. The 10
cal attractions include the thirty-sixth
anniversary celebration of S. Kann
Sons Co., featuring a concert by the
Swanee Syncopators and talk by DR..
C. Willard Camalier on the District
dental profession and the forthcoming
convention in Washington Of the Ma
tional Dental Association.
Babs0n Finance Period.
The Babson finance period and the
Gypsy program, known as THE Romany
Patteran," are among the Columbia
features. There also will be two dance
programs, one by Paul Specht's Orches-
ira and the other by Ingraham's Para
mount Orchestra.
The outstanding attraction of WRC
and other National Broadcasting Co.
stations will be stupendous program
for Comdr. Byrd and his Antarctic ex-
petition. Seventy-five of the worlds
best known radio artists will take the
principal part In this program.
Selections from the seasons outstand-
ing musical stage hits, including George
Whites Scandals THE Little Show"
''The Sketch Book" "Hot Chocolates"
and SHOW Girl" will be heard during
the Byrd program. BY special arrange
ment with Jerome Kern, two members
| from the new Hammerstein show,
Sweet Adaline," will be presented for
| the first time over the air.
Famous radio stars to match their
radiance against the Southern Cross
include Jessica Dragonette, Ellzaoeth
| Lennox, Morton Downey. Gladys Rice,
| Douglas Stanbury, Muriel Pollock, Gu
seppe di Benedetto, Theodore Webb,
Colin O'More and Walter Preston. The
augmented symphony and jazz orches-
| tras will be led by Cesare Sodero, macs
| tro of the National Broadcasting Co.'S
grand opera company: Nathaniel Shil-
kret, GuStave Haenschen, Hugo Mari
ami, Harold Sanford, Frank Black and
George Dilworth.
General Electric Hour.
"Viennese Rhapsody" sophisticated
work by the ultra-modern Florent
Schmitt, and capricious sketch. en-
| titled THE Irish Washerwoman," are
featured among a wealth of orchestra
numbers which the General Electric
Orchestra will broadcast through WRC
at s o'clock. The orchestra under the
direction of Nathaniel Shilkret opens
with the overture to 1.-THE Secret of
Suzanne" by Wolf Ferrari, followed
with two Hungarian dances. Nos. II and
81, by Brahms, and the Dream Panto-
mine from "Hansel and Gretel," by
Humperdinck.
The Lyric Challenger presentation,
which WRC will broadcast at o'clock,
will be a dramatization Of an unusual
, incident in the life of Mark Twain.
/ LiZette Follmer, contralto. and Walter
T. Holt, mandolin and guitar artist, will
be heard from VOL. In addition there
will be a concert by the Silver String
Revelers and a half-hour dance pro-
gram.