Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-05
SHOW BOAT GROUP
TO RETURN ON AIR
WMAL Also Promises Stirring
Comedy of Tennessee
Back Country.

The popular Hank Simmons Show
Boat Co., producers of old-fashioned
melodrama, return to WMAL tonight
after a lamanted absence of several
months. Thus WMAL and the Column
bia Broadcasting System have kept
their promise to restore this feature as
soon as program revisionS permitted.
"A Tale of Two Hills" stirring
comedy drama of the Tennessee back
country from the pen of Aylbert Glass
mire, is the production scheduled to-
night. The play, in four acts, revolves
about moonshiners and revenue men in
the days before national prohibition
had been thought of.
Aside from the return of the Show
Boat productions, several new and
promising attractions are to make their
premiere tonight over both WRC and
WMAL. WRC will introduce Jack Frost
Melody Moments and the Fleischmann
Sunshine hour, while WMAL announces
as its new features the initial Tower
program and q slumber music period
to be known as I'm the Dream Makers
Studio
Sunshine Hour BrOadcasts.
Popular stars of %.ee entertainment
world are to provide the Sunshine hour
broadcasts. Participating tonight will
be Gene Austin, stage star and radio
tenor; George Gershwin composer
yfanist; Welcome Lewis, musical COM
edy star and one Of radios best known
crooners; the Cavaliers, a male quartet:
Ben Pollack's orchestra, and Alvin Sim
mons, the colored porter and hat check
of the National Broadcasting Co. stu
dos, who is now starring before the
microphone. The program will be pop
ular in character.
The Jack Frost Melody Moments will
be a concert program, with the Anerl-
can family at home furnishing the dra-
matte setting. Eugene Ormandy is to
direct the orchestra, and Oliver Smith,
tenor, is to be the guest soloiSt. In the
dramatic cast will be Howard Merrill
Jessie Graham, Alfred Swenson and
Elsie HitZ.
Victor Concert Shifted.
The revision in WRC's program has
shifted the weekly Victor concert to a
later position, and it will be heard here
after from $50 to 10 o'clock. Ted
Weems and his orchestra, which has
played on the Steel Pier at Atlantic
City throughout the Summer, will pro-
vide tonight's program.
A vocal and an instrumental trio will
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WMAL and other Columbia network
stations. There are fve numbers on
the initial program, including Ida"
ITO Be in Love" and This Is Heaven"
The Temple hour and the Gold Seal
program are two other outstanding
WMAL attractions. The former will
feature two medleys from current talk
ing motion picture successes by Joe
Green's orchestra, while the Gold Seal
presentation will be popular in char
acter, with selections by an orchestra,
baritone Soloist and vocal chorus.
The Nordica Mandolin and Guitar
Club will present program Of classical
and Semi-claSsical selections in its
weekly concert tonight over WJSV. The
stations other musical features include
concerts by the Army Band and the
Hawaiian Melody Boys and a recital
by Ray Harper, tenor.
Terry White, novelty whistler, will
be heard again at VOL tonight. There
also will be recital by Elsie Varle
Lang, soprano. and talk by Louis
Rothschild, director of WashingtonS
Better Business Bureau.