Evening star., 1929-12-15
FOREIGN PROGRAMS
WILL Be PRESENTED
Rebroadcasts Will Feature
Christmas Day Program
Offered by N. B. C.

The Christmas stockings of radio
listeners this year will be filled to over
flowing according to plans announced
by the National Broadcasting Co. In
addition to the pretentious holiday pro-
grams which will originate in America,
arrangements are being made to pick
up programs originating in England,
Germany and Holland and rebroadcast
them through the N. B. c. system on
Christmas day.
High spots in the Christmas programs
will be the broadcast of the Interna-
tional Christmas Carol Sing in which
$4,000 voices will be heard; the broad
cast of a Christmas eve midnight mass
from the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in
Washington, the chimes from Old
Trinity Church in New York, the spe-
cial children's services from Trinity
on Christmas eve, a special santa Claus
program from the N. B. c. studios and
the oratorio, THE Messiah" which will
be heard the Sunday preceding Christ
mas day.
Christmas Carol Sing.
The International Christmas Carol
Sing, which has been arranged under
the general direction of the New York
Advertising Club. will be heard through
out the world as Short-wave transmit
ters associated with the N. B. G, will
send it to foreign listeners. The carol
sing will be broadcast from to $50
pm. Christmas eve. SoloiSts and choirS
from / 100 churches in New York, vocal
groups from 400 civic clubs. the Police
Department Glee Club, the Police Band,
the Edna White Brass Quartet and other
widely known musical groups will take
part.
The Christmas eve chime service and
the childrenS festival service, both
from Trinity Church, will be broad
cast from 2 to o'clock the afternoon
of the day before Christmas. Trinity's
famous chimes will be heard again at
midnight and will ring for 10 minutes.
The midnight mass from Washington
will go on the air at IL o'clock Christ
mas eve and is expected to last two
hours. It will be full choral mass and
will be sung by some of the best known
vocalists in the capital. Microphones
will pick up the service from the church,
Shrine of the Sacred Heart.
Salon Singers offered.
A program of Christmas carols. sung
by the Salon Singers and with an or
chestral background will be heard
through the N. B. c. system from IL
O'Clock until midnight Christmas eve.
A f1reside concert, featuring orchestral
arrangements of old, homelike melodies,
has been planned for Christmas eve
from 11:30 to midnight. Earlier in the
evening there will be a special pro-
grom of Christmas melodies from 6
to $50 pm. by the Black and Gold
Room Orchestra under Ludwig Laurler;
the Santa Claus program for children
from 6:30 to pm, and specia9 pro-
gram of spirituals by the Utica Jubilee
Singers from z to 7:30 pm.
Sunday afternoon, December %, the
oratorio, "The Messiah will be sung.
The singers include Genia Zielinska,
Elizabeth LennoX, Lewis James, Theo-
dore Webb and the Salon Singers. The
program will be heard through N. B.
G. network.
''The Christmas Carol" will come to
life Christmas eve when 1t is presented
dramatically in the Soconyland
Sketches. The radio version will be
heard Tuesday, December "a through
an ". B. c. network.
Variety for Christmas Day.
A variety of radio fare has been ar
ranged for Christmas day. jolly Bill
and Jane will be heard as usual though
in a specially arranged program. At 8
O'Clock in the morning the Kris kringle
Band will go on the air for an hour.
WEAF will be the New York outlet.
Among other N. B. G. Christmas day
features to be heard through WEAF
during daylight hours include the evo-
luton of Christmas at pm; Russian
Christmas at pm. and Christmas
symphony program by 45-piece or
chestra at pm.
Polish carols, a program featuring
Genis. Zielinska, will be heard through
an N. B. G. network including WIZ at
10 o'clock Christmas morning. Mistle-
toe Memories, which has as its theme
melody kiss Me Again." will precede
this program. At o'clock Christmas
afternoon the radio guild will present
"Prunella," a fantasy by Laurance
Housman and Granville Barker.