Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-20
WILBUR AND NYE
ON RADIO TONIGHT
Secretary of interior. and
Senator to Speak in The
Stars Forum.

The National Radio Forum, arranged
by The Star and broadcast weekly by
WNAL and a coast-to-coast network
of Columbia Broadcasting System sta
tons, viii introduce to the country to-
night Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman
Wilbur and Senator Gerald p. Nye of
North Dakota. Both will discuss the
problems of the West. which in recent
years have been increasing and de-
manding the attention Of Government
officials.
Secretary Wilbur is one of President
Hoover's most intimate friends and
trusted advisers. Senator Nye Is chair
man of the Senate committee on public
lands, which has conducted the impor-
tant hearings on oil leases. He also Is a
member of the committees on APP
preparations, claims, territories and In
sular possessions.
Another outstanding broadcast to-
night will be the second Of the series
of programs under auspices of the Cit
liens Joint Committee for National
Representation, which will be heard
from WRC between $50 and 8 O'Clock.
The speakers will be Mrs. Henry Graft
tan Doyle, president of the Voteless D.
G. League of Women Voters, and Henry
H. Classic, special assistant to the At
soT11ey General.
First Of Unique Series.
WMAL also will introduce tonight the
first of a new series Of unique radio
presentations to be known as the Tenn
pie Radio Hour The program, it is an
nounced, will be a departure from the
orthodox routine of radio broadcasts,
in that it will present new conception
of radio continuity. The musical efea-
lures will be presented by an orchestra.
The general musical thought, however,
Is to observe the popular demand for
dance numbers in special arrangements
with concert selections Of the novelty
type Of the musical intermissions."
The Temple Hour and the Radio
Forum are the only network attractions
scheduled by WAIAL. The remainder
of the program will originate in its
own studio. 1t includes concert by
, the United States Navy Band, and a
special broadcast in the interest of the
campaign for an armory for the Dis
trict National Guard. The National
Guard Band will give a concert and
talks will be made by Mai. Gen. Anton
Stephan, commcndant OF the organlZa-
ton, and Col. John w. Oehmann, Dis
trict building inspector.
WRC's musical features tonight In
clude the weekly concert of the General
Electric Symphony Orchestra under the
baton of Walter Damrosch, and the
dance program Of the Lucky Strike
Orchestra. A Dvorak trio for violins
and viola will be heard in the SYM
phony program in addition to a num-
Der of orchestral selections. These in
clude Rossini's overture to William
Tell" the second movement from Saint
Saens' symphony No. g." Schumann's
Even Song" the Spinning Song" of
MendelSsohn, Sibelius' "Finlandia." and
1.-THE Skaters Waltz of Waldteufel
Old favorites and current Broadway
tunes will comprise the program Of the
Lucky Strike Orchestra.
Open Safety Campaign.
Aside from the musical features,
WRC will join with an extensive net
work of National Broadcasting System
stations in opening the campaign Of
the National Safety Council to lower
the 100000 annual death toll by acci-
dent. The speakers in the first of this
series of talks will be Charles M.
Schwab Of the Bethlehem Steel Cor
poration and Henry A. Reninger, pres
ident Of the council.
An organ reclLal Dy Lew WnlCe ana
another Of the series of talks on What
the Department of Commerce Is Doing, "
to be given by Scott Turner, director of
the Bureau of Mines. are among WRC's
other attractions. Mr.. Turner's topic is
Making Minerals Serve Humanity"
WJSV will resume the barn dance
and radio revue tonight, in which a
large group of its regular staff artists
and ensembles will take part. In ad-
dition to its regular features, VOL
win broadcast a special program by the
Silver String Jewellers.