Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-21
PARAMOUNT STARS
co ON AIR TONIGHT
Stage and Screen Celebrities
to Broadcast Over WMAL
and Chain.

The widely heralded Paramount
Publix Radio Hour, featuring proni-
rent stars of the stage and screen,
makes its debut tonight over WMAL
and an extensive network Of so other
Columbia Broadcasting System sta
tons, reaching from coast to coast and
extending across the international
boundary into Montreal. Canada.
Seventeen artists and two orchestras
under the direction of nationally known
leaders will take part in the gala
premiere program, which will run the
entire gamut of music, drama and COM
edy. The radio audience will be taken
from New York to Hollywood and back
again and given an intimate picture Of
happenings in the two Paramount
motion picture studios, East and West,
and of acts in Publix Theaters' stage
units playing indianapolis and Omaha.
Jeanne Eagles to Be Heard.
The artists who will be heard in the
initial program include Jeanne Eagles,
Give Brook, Victor Schertzinger, Nancy
Carroll Jack Oakie, Helen Kane, Fred
eric March, Paul Ash. Joe Penner and
the -Four Merrymakers.
Following the opening, which will
reveal Broadway in all its Saturday
night glory as picked up from the
marquee of the Paramount Theater at
Forty-third street and Broadway, the
radio audience will hear an opening
overture by the combined Paramount
Symphony and Jazz Orchestra.
Miss Eagles and MI. Brook then will
enact the closing dramatic scene from
Alfred Sutro's play. THE Laughing
Lady," under the direction of Victor
SchertZinger,' who is now making the
talking picture version Of the play at
the Paramount studio in Long Island.
Charles Ruggles, comedian Of the mu-
steal comedy stage, who recently scored
q distinct success in talking pictures,
will be heard in a characteristic song
and patter.
At this point Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
Crawford, featured organists of the
Paramount Theater in New York, will
play selections on the twin consoles
Following their numbers, the radio
audience will be transported to Indian
apolis, where they will hear Joe Penner
featured in the Honeymoon Cruise"
stage show. playing at the Indiana The
alter, and then back to New York stu
dios of the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn, where the Paramount Orchestra
again will play.
Four Merrymakers to Be On.
The next unit of the program will be
furnished by the Four Merrymakers
from the stage show, Partisan Life, "
playing at theater in Omaha. Then
The broadcast will be switched to Hol-
1ywood, where Frederic March, acting
as master of ceremonies for the Para
mount West Coast studios, will intro
duce Buddy" Rogers and Nancy Car
roll two picture stars, who will present
novelty instrumental and song number;
Jack Oakie, who will sing his famous
Alma Nanny" song from the talking
picture, "SWeetie," and Helen Kane, the
baby-voiced singer, who will sing one
of her characteristic songs. Nathaniel
Finston will conduct the West Coast
studio orchestra during this part of the
program.
For the final part of the hour, radio
listeners will be brought back to the
Columbia BroadcaSting studios in New
York City, where Paul Ash, master of
ceremonies of the Paramount Thea
tiers, will conduct combined orchestra
Of SO pieces, made up of musicians from
the picture studios and Publix the
aters.
Nit Wit Hour Over WMAL.
The satirical Nit Wit Hour, the
Romancers, and Glare Briggs, comic
strip cartoonist, are other outstanding
Columbia attractions scheduled by
WMAL. A popular program by vocal
lists and an orchestra will constitute
lIlc pEcScIlLdIlOIl VI Tile ftOIIldIlCeTS.
Briggs will present his characters, Joe
and W." in another sketch.
An orchestral arrangement of Cham
inade's brilliant piano number, The
Flatterer," is featured selection of the
General Electric Hour, which will be
broadcast over WRC and the National
Broadcasting System at o'clock
Elizabeth Lennox, contralto. will sing
Brahms Lullaby" She also will be
heard with the orchestra in Leo Ed
wards New Southern Suite" nov
city which pictures four plantation cpl
sodes that range from morning through
midnight.
Robert Simmons, tenor, will be heard
during the program, When Summer Is
Cone which will be broadcast by
WRC at 7:30 o'clock. He will present
James H. Rogers Autumn" suggesting
the advent of another season, which IS
dawning. Another highlight of the
hour will be cello and violin duet,
Simple Aveu," by Thome.
William Knowles Cooper, general Sec
rotary Of the Young Mems Christian
Association, will give the Bible talk at
$50 o'clock. He has chosen as his sub
ject, "Foretelling a New Day"
The Lyric Challenger, another WRC
attraction, will present a dramatiza-
Zion Of an outstanding incident in the
life Of P. T. Barnum, Snowman ex-