Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-20
BROADCAST CAREER
Of OLD |RONS|DES
Secretary of Navy Adams
WIN Be Principal Speaker
in WIZ Program.

The career of the historic frigate Ole
sronsides will be depicted in music
addresses and drama tonight in spe-
cial radio program to be broadcast by
WIZ and associated National Broad
casting Co. stations.
The program will be picked up from
the gun deck of the frigate Constitu-
ton, in dry dock in the navy yard at
Charlestown, Mass. 1t includes ads
dresses by Gov. Frank c. Allen Of
Massachusetts and Melcolm L. Bichois,
mayor of Boston. The musical setting
will be provided by the Aleppo Band of
$50 pieces, a 50-piece Navy band, the
Boston Salon Orchestra, composed OF
members Of the Boston Symphony, and
the Meister Singers.
Dramatic Sketch Feature.
One of the principal features will be
q dramatic sketch of the activities OF
Old Ironsides during its Tripoli cam
paign against the Barbary coast pirates.
WRCs outstanding musical attraction
will be a two-hour broadcast of the
Northeastern finals of the 1929 radio
audit on of the Atwater Kent Fcunda-
ton. in hich Miss Florence Yocum ana
Gilbert Fraser. Washington's represen-
tative5. will compete against the 23
OTHER finali3ts OF Is New England and
Middle Atlantic States. The program
will come from New York. The vote of
the radio listeners will count so per
cent in the final award.
The Happy Wonder Bakers the Mo-
biloil concert and the lie Paradis Band
also are among WRC'S major presenta-
tons. The Mobiloil program is made up
entirely of the compositions of Franz
Schubert. Lois Bennett, soprano, will
be the guest soloist. The Bakers have
arranged variety program, which in
cludeS an unpublished number, Lore
lei" from This Year of Grace" and
1.-THE Dance of the Sugar Plum Fai-
ries" from Tschaikowskys "Nutcracker
Suite" Novelty musical numbers dom
mate the dance program OF the lie
Psradis Band. "A Sailors Sweetheart"
will be one of the specialties. Vocal
numbers will be interpolated by Phil
Diamond and Marty Reubens.
Dramas Over WSfAL.
"King OF the Cattle Ring" Hal Reds
nelodrana Of frontier days, will be
presented by Hank Simmons and his
show-boat company tonight over WN1AL
and other Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn stations.
The WMAL program also contains
another drama, Temples Of Desire" to
be presented during the MacFadden
Real Seal hour. The story is based on
q Rurl1aflian farngirl who became a
world-famous prima donna.
In the holster hour, scheduled by
WMAL at 10 O'Clock, Ben Selvin and
his orchestra will introduce RUDE Bloom,
composer, playing one Of his own num-
bers, THE Song of the Bayou" This
is the. composition which won second
prize in a recent Nationwide contest
for original works. The speciality of
Selvinis Orchestra will be q medley of
the song hits from the "Show of
Shows" opening tonight ct the New
York Winter Garden.
Another WMAIl, musical feature will
come during the La Palma smoker. An
orchestra and Nine. Nicolina and Adye
Koutznesoff will provide the program.
Program for Red .CrOas.
Prominent among WMAL's attrac-
tons of local origin will be the weekly
program by Radio Joe and his Budget
Boys, to be dedicated tonight to the
American Red Cross.
Ed Callow, who is better known per-
haps as Tony the Barber" will intro
duce q new feature tonight at WJSV.
This famous imitator Of an Italian
tonsorial artist will be assisted by a
quartet, to be known as the "Mussolinis
of Melody" and Angela Piccolini, q
vocalist. novel program is promised.
Sue Kennedy, contralto, and Carl
Conrad, baritone, also will take a prom
tnent part In the WJSV program. as
VIII the shenandoah Ramblers and Ray
Actions Modernistics, a dance orchestra.
DR.. Thomas z. Green, chairman of
the speakers bureau Of the American
Red Cross, will speak from VOL tonight
on the organizations 1880 roll call. A
dinner concert and a late dance pro-
gram also are scheduled.