Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-22
KE|TH-ORPHEUM
ON WRC TONIGHT
Eight Artists Will Appear in
Premiere Hour of Vaude-
vile Chain.

Eight of the outstanding vaudeville
artists of America will take part tonight
in the premiere radio presentation of
the Keith rpheum Hour over WRC
and associated stations.
The program will be picked up from
five different points-Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Chicago.
The participating artists will be Belle
Baker, soloist and comedian; Adeia
Verne, noted pianist Glenn and
jenkins, blackface comedians; Mae
Murray, motion picture star and her
Marimba Orchestra: Nick Lucas, the
grooming troubadour, and Henry San
trey and his International Orchestra.
There also will be brief address by
Hiram S. Brown, president Of the Radio
Keith-O rpheum Corporation.
The first act OIL the big radio vaude-
vile bill will be Santrey's Orchestra,
from Boston, where they are appearing
at Keith's Memorial Theater. The cur
tain on the second act will go up at the
Palace Theater in New York, the goal
of all vaudeville artists, where Will
Fyffe will sing several Scotch songs and
give some of his dialect sketches. From
Broadway the network will be shifted to
a microphone in Chicago, where Adela
Verne will play several piano selections.
From Chicago the network will shift 20
Philadelphia for a riotous comedy act
featuring Glenn and jenkins. The Hip
podrome Theater in New York City will
be the next pickup point, when Mae
Murray and her marimba orchestra Will
60 on the air. From the Hippodrome
the network will jump West to Mil
waukee. where Nick Lucas, whose Groom
ing voice has made him famous, will
entertain.
The NBC studios, on New York's Fifth
avenue, will be the next setting for the
rapidly moving radio stage. Here Mr..
Brown will make a brief address to the
radio audience, following which Belle
Baker will sing several of her inimitable
blue" songs. The program will close
at its initial point in Boston and San
trey's Orchestra will play the exit
march.
In addition to the vaudeville presen-
tation, WRC has scheduled several other
outstanding features. These include
the Voters Service, which will bring
Senator Edre of New Jersey before the
microphone for q discussion of his bill
to provide a survey of the interoceanic
canal route through Nicaragua, and the
Eveready Hour, which will present
dramatized version of Longfellow's ro-
mantle poem "Evangeline." Rosaline
Green, will play the title role in this
production, assisted by Frederick For
roster. Ed Thompson, Richard Abbott,
Jack McBryde and Marcella Shields.
WMAL's outstanding attractions to-
night will be three Columbia programs
the Voice of Columbia, Wrigley's
Royal Canadians and the melodrama.
waiting at the Church." by Hank
Simmons Show Boat. Classical music
of all nations will form the Voice of
Columbia program, while the Canadians
will feature Lee Sims, pianist, who will
give speciality interpretations of three
current jazz hits, THE Song Love-"
Anything Your Heart Desires" and I'm
q Mist"
The other Columbia attractions on
WNdAL's schedules include another
episode of School Daze," and Sweet
hearts, a vocal and instrumental pro-
gram. A question box for motorists,
conducted by George A. Keneipp, of the
American Automobile Association, will
be introduced as one of the distinctive
features of local origin.
VOL will broadcast the second cpl
sode of the activities of Amos and
Andy at I'll o'clock WJSV is featur-
ing concerts by the S. e. and Siegel
Trios and the Silver String Revelers.