Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
WRC WILL OFFER
NEW ATTRACTIONS
Sf'The Maestro'S Hour" and
sin the Time of Roses" Re-
place Others Dropped.

WAc's regular program undergoes a
nEzserial change today as a result of
The dropping of several longtime fea-
and entirely different presentations.
The BagHy- Romilli Moments, the Old
Company soagalogue and the Cont
rentals have given way to two strange
musical offerings, The Maestro's Hour
and I'm the Time of Roses" and the
first of a unique series of combination
lecture and musical offerings. to be
known as Face to Face With Our
Presidents
concert orchestra, under direction
of Cesare Sodero, and group of popu-
lar radio soloists, including Erva Giles,
soprano; Adelaide de Loca, contralto,
and Lewis James, tenor, will take a
prominent part in the "Maestro's Hour, 4"
while the program described as I'm the
Time of Roses" will feature Robert Sim
mons, tenor; an octet of feminine voices
and a string quintet of harp, flute, vi
braphone. piano and celeste. AS the
name indicates, I'm the Time of Roses"
includes compositions about June and
roses.
Joe Mitchell Chapple, famous lee
turer. journalist md author, will open
the Face to Face With Our Presidents"
subject. Incidental music will be pro-
vided by large orchestra, with vocal
soloists and quartets.
Male Quartet to Sing.
The Atwater Kent hour, one of WRC's
regular attractions, will present a vocal
quartet, composed of Victor Edmonds
and George Rarely, tenors; Erwyn
Mulch, baritone, and James Davies,
bass. Other regular features retained
by this station include the Studebaker
Champions, the Capitol Theater fam
lily" and the Russian Cathedral Choir.
The Champions will play special or
chestrations of recent Broadway dance
hits. while the Capitol family will pre-
sent as its speciality selections by the
famous harmony team of Fain and
Dunn. Vocal compositions of Tschai-
kowsky and other Russian masters. to-
gether with selections from the liturgi-
cal music from Holy Russia, will be
broadcast by the Cathedral Choir.
Dimitri Tiomkin, famous pianist and
composer, will be the guest artist in the
De Forest radio hour, one of the Column
bia Broadcasting Systems major at
fractions, coming into Washington to-
night over WMAL. His concert will be
made up modern works, some of the
compositions of his contemporaries and
some Of his own.
Messiah" on WMAL.
IN the afternoon WMAL will Join
with other Columbia stations in broad
casting the regular Cathedral hour,
which will present the third part of
Handel's Messiah" probably the most
famous oratorio in the world. The eve
ming program will start with the La
Palma hour at O'Clock, which an
nounces a program dedicated to June
brides. A male quartet and orchestra
Will present this program. The Majestic
hour, scheduled an hour later will be
provided by Wendell Hall, Redferne
Hollinshead, tenor; Reinger and Carroll,
the two-piano team with the Little
Show" and Arnold Johnson's Orches-
ira. The program is made up of selec-
tons requested by the radio audience.
Peter Biljo and his Balalaika Orches-
ira will again take part in the Around
the Samovar broadcast, feature of
which will be special arrangement of
famous Russian march, written in the
time of Peter the Great.
The centennial celebration Of Con-
gresS Street M. P. Church will be
broadcast tonight by WJSV. WRC will
broadcast the morning services Of the
same church.
WJSv also has scheduled a concert
by the Ladies' Choir of Fairfax, Va.
and recitals by Kathryn Crowley, plan
list; Ronald Wheeler, tenor, and David
Martin. baritone
The VOL program contains its usual
Sunday features, opening with the
services OF the International Bible Stu
dents Association and closing with an
other Amos n Andy" episode.