Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-12
VETERANS TO HAVE
AIR PARTY TONIGHT
Elaborate Radio Program Ar
ranged for Wounded at
Walter Reed Hospital.

An elaborate radio party, arranged
especially for the wounded World War
veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, will
be broadcast tonight by WRC and "a
other National Broadcasting Co. sta
tions, joined from coast-to-coast in
huge network.
Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, popular
radio entertainers, will be the principal
contributors to the special program,
which is scheduled from 10 $3.50
o'clock. Graham McNamee will act as
master of ceremonies and engage in
lively repartee with Jones and Hare
during comic interludes between vocal
and orchestral numbers.
Jones and Hare will open the pro-
gram with a comedy selection, Il Love
to Dunk Hunk of Sponge Cake" and
Arndt's "Nola." The duo also will
sing She'll Never Find Another Fellow
Like Me" and Give the Poor Girl a
Chance" Jones and Hare also will
sing several solo numbers. The "Prune
Song" will be Jones selection. and Hare
announces his solo number will be Get
Up
Marjorie Horton to Star.
WRC also has scheduled another
added attraction. to be known as Star
of Melody" It will feature noted radio
singers from week to week. The artist
tonight will be Marjorie Horton, So
prano.
THE Gossipers." comic sketch of
metropolitan life: 1.-The Family Goes
Abroad" a comedy travelogue: the
Cities Service Hour and the Schra-
dertown Band. with Gus and Louie. are
among WRC's remaining outstanding
presentations. There also will be an
other program by The Dark Town
Wanderers" the theme OF which Will
be rehearsal for a minstrel show.
Frank Banta, pianist, will be the SOLO
! list in the Cities Service hour. He will
play Rettenbergs Sweet Nothings"
| and one of his own compositions. Just
Me" The orchestra will play Tschai-
kowSky's "Polonaise" and Frimls Suite
! Melodiuue" The featured selection of
the Cavaliers will be Russell's Where
| the River Shannon Flows" The
Schradertown Band will stage benefit
concert tonight to raise funds to buy
one of the three diamond engagement
rings Louis finds it necessary to give
| to the temperamental Widow Biddle in
order to cement their engagement to
OF The third episode OF the comedy
series The Family Goes Abroad"
! Columbia Offerings.
The Rollickers, popular Columbia
BroadcaSting System quartet, will pre-
sent a half-hour entertainment tonight,
which WMAL has listed among It's out
| standing features. The quartet is COM
posed of Victor Hall, Leonard Stokes
| Lon McAdams and Randolph Weyant
| Popular selections dominate the pro-
gram. These include With a Song in
My Heart" Come West, Little Girl"
and My Dear"
Other Columbia attractions scheduled
by WNfAL are the weekly Story hour. in
which Mary and Bob. the characters
will be found. in st. Louis; half-hour
of light opera gems. and the Doc"
| West broadcast, with its musical in
| terpolations by quartet, orchestra
and Dorsey Byron. soloist.
Janet Coon, Washington's novelty
whistler. will be heard from WMAL
Immediately after the daily news re-
view, Flashes From The Evening Star"
| The stations other features of local
origin include Cloyd ellis Thirty Club
and talk by George E. Keneipp, District
manager of the American Automobile
Association, on motor trips around
| Washington.
Pauline Healy Shook and Ivy Stevens
will sing group of ballads for VOL
listeners this evening. The station also
has scheduled a dinner concert and
another Amos n Andy" episode.
Musical features predominant on the
WJSV program tonight. Prominent
among them are concerts by the Har-
melody Boys and Bran Hughes Orches-
! ira and recital by Howard Jones, bari
tone.