Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-16
OPERA FIRST NIGHT
IS CHAIN FEATURE
MADAME Butterfly" With
Nine. Aida, to Be Heard
Over WRC.

EESs Of radios greatest first nights"
10 scheduled tonight, when the first of
series of the operas of Giaccmo Puccini
will be broadcast by WRC and associ-
ated National Broadcasting Co. stations.
Madame Butterfly" the .-',tial pres
entation in the series, will go on the air
at z o'clock. In it will be heard the
voices of Nine. Frances Aida, Merle
Alcock, Pasquale Amato and Alfred
O'Shea. Gennaro Papi, formerly direc-
tor of Italian operas for the Metropoli-
tan, will direct the series.
Deems Taylor, an international figure
in the world of music, will be narrator
in the broadcast versions of the operas,
six of which are to go on the air during
the Fall and Winter under the sponsor
ship of the American Radiator & Stand
ard Sanitary Corporation. None OF the
Puccini operas has ever before been
broadcast, because the copyright owners
until now did not consider radio suf1-
GENTLY developed to do them artistic
Justice.
The five remaining operas will follow
at monthly intervals. The December
production will be La Tosca."
Other Program Numbers.
The General Electric hour, featuring
Walter DamroSch and his symphony
orchestra; sketch of an important in
cident in the life of Florence Nightin-
gale by the Lyric Challengers, and the
Launderland Lyrics musical presenta-
,tion are other outstanding WRC attrac-
tons. A special arrangement of Cant
You Hear Me Calling, Gardiner" and
do va Love Me?" from Sunny" by
Bernice Taylor, soprano and Fred
Waldner, tenor, will be the high spots
Of the Lyrics program.
Junius B. Wood, internationally known
newspaper correspondent, will take a
prominent part ! the program of
WMAII and other Columbia Broadcast
ing System stations tonight by deScrib-
ing how Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and
his bride blazed the trail over sea and
jungle to establish the first air mail
service between the United States and
South America. Wood has just returned
from a trip over the South American
nail route. His story will have an ap-
propriate musical background.
WMALS principal musical feature will
be the weekly concert by Henry Hadley
and his symphony orchestra IN the
Gulbransen hour. In response to many
requests, the orchestra has included in
its program symphonic paraphraSe of
popular number, "Ol' Man River"
The other numbers are the overture to
the Secret of Suzanne" the Quintet"
from Wagner's "Dia MeisterSinger."
Herbert's Land of My Own Romance"
and the Festival at Bagdad" from
Kimsky- Korsakoff's "Scheherazade."
"Mr. and Mrs" on Air.
The ,Paramount-Pub Radio hour
and the radio comedy sketch of Mfr.
and Mrs" are other Columbia attrac-
lions scheduled by WMAL. The station
also has several noteworthy features of
local origin, one of which will be a re-
cital by Gretchen Hood, soprano, and
one of Washington's pioneer radio
artists.
Pauline Loria Petit, "blues" singer,
will make her radio debut tonight at
VOL. Mandolin and guitar solos by
Walter T. Holt and a late dance pro-
gram are the stations other musical
presentations.
Mrs. Grace B. Linger, soprano, of
Clarendon. Va, will give a special re-
cital tonight over WJSV. A number of
other prominent artists also are to take
part in the stations program.