Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-19
HOOVER TO HOLD
RADIO SPOTLIGHT
His Speech at Dearborn Monday
Heads List of Big
Program.
by MARTIN CoDEL

Next week on the radio will b marked
by the appearance of many notable fig-
Mres before the microphone. Beginning
with the Edison jubilee program from
Dearborn, Mich, Monday night, the Ma
tion-wide radio audience VIII be able to
hear the voices Of President Hoover and
various other celebrities whose radio
remarks always command national at
tention.
President Hoovers address Monday |
night at the dedication of the Edison |
School of Technology, founded by Henry |
Ford as tribute to Thomas A. Edison,
will be the first of three speeches the
Chief Executive will make III as many |
days of his westward tour, all OF which |
will be broadcast over the coaSt-to-coaSt |
networks of the two chains. The sec
ond will be heard from Cincinnati
Tuesday morning, and the third from
Louisville Wednesday evening.
The Edison program will attract ex-
ceptional interest, not only because OF
the presence of President Hoover but
because it will include the ceremonies
attending the climax of the golden jubi
lee Of the invention of the electric light.
The star announcers of the radio chains,
Graham McNamee of the National
BroadcaSting Co. and Ted HuSing of
the Columbia BroadcaSting System, will
be on hand to describe the event.
The radio audience will hear from
them descriptions of the ceremonies
taking place in the original laboratory
used by Mr.. Edison, which has been re-
constructed at Dearborn by Henry Ford.
President HooYer's voice and the voices
OF Mr.. Ford and Mr.. Edison will be
broadcast from this scene. owen D.
Young will also be heard from the scene
of the dinner Mr.. Ford is giving in
honor of Mr.. Edison.
At one juncture of the program there
will be a switchover to the transatlantic
radio telephone. The radio audience
will join with those at the Edison cere-
monies in listening to the voice of Al
bert Einstein, the eminent German
scientist, as it is being brought over
from Berlin and rebroadcast by stations
of the National Broadcasting Co.'S net
work.
Ted Husing and Frederic William Vile
will accompany President Hoover on
his trip, discussing and describing the
scenes at Eden Park, Cincinnati, where
the President will dedicate monument
marking the completion of the Ohio
River lock system, and at Louisville,
where the President will talk on inland
waterways in connection with the open
ing of the Ohio River to navigation.
These two radio announcers will be
heard on the Columbia System. Sena-
yOT hdIley, NDlEdBO dllllOuliCCis WAl az
company President Hoover for the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co.
Jane Adams, head OF Hull House,
the Chicago social service center which
she helped found, comes to the micro
phone of the National Broadcasting Co.
Tuesday evening to discuss home
safety" and to make plea to American
mothers to preserve it. The same eve
ming on the same netwc.N j. T. Trippe
presjdert of the American Always
Who yust completed a long flight over
Central and South America with Col
Charles A. Lindbergh, will be heard.
Monday morning will mark the re-
turn from his vacation of 'Cheerio,
the unidentified broadcaster of "Menta
Daily Dozens" whose morning talks
over the National Broadcasting Co. have
proved so popular that his program ha:
been extended to half-hour duration
and will be heard from 80 stations Sat.
urday night, october 26, the same net
work introduces weekly business talk
by Merle Thorpe of the United State
Chamber of Commerce, and other nota
bles in the world of business.
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