Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-21
MELODRAMA HEADS
PROGRAM TONIGHT
"Under the GasIight," a Play
of 1867, to Be Rem
acted on Radio.

"Under the Gaslight," a melodrama
which harks back to the Civil War days
will. be revived for radio presentation
for the first time tonight as the fea-
ture of the Eveready hour, National
Broadcasting Co. transcontinental at
traction, coming into Washington over
WRC.
The play had its premiere in New
York In August, 1867. 1t Is described
drama so popular in the COS, when
actors wore boards as dense as duck
blinds. Frederic Forester, star Of
white Cargo" and COBRA" will be
the mustached villain in the radio YER
sion. A large company Of Eveready
Players will support him..
One of the great scenes of Under
the GaSlight" is where the delicate
heroine breaks out of a warehouse with
an axe just in time to drag her lover
from the laundering wheels of an ex-
press train. The musical numbers, in
Guiding such jewels as 1.-THE Man on
the Flying Trapeze" and THE Baggage
Coach Ahead" which also were in the
original play, will be played by Nathan
lei Shilkret and his orchestra.
Another Thrilling Drama.
Another thriller will be presented
during the "Harbor Lights" episode, in
which an adventure of the war days of
1917, when Capt. Jimmy Norton was
kept prisoner aboard German subma-
rine will be re-created. AS captain of
the schooner Edna, bound for Cuba
with load of lumber, Jimmy was taken
prisoner and his ship destroyed and all
hands taken aboard the underSea
terror.
WRC's principal musical features will
come during the Prophylactic program
and the Radio-Keith- Orpheum hour.
There also will be the weekly concert
Of the Clicquot ESkimos, in which pop
ular dance tunes predominant. A new
version of the old "St. Louis Blues"
which has probably undergone more
musical arranging than any other cur
rent composition, will be speciality In
the Prophylactic program. 1t will be
played by an orchestra under direction
of Gene Rodemich.
In the Voters Service" another
regular WRC attraction, there will be
two talks. one by Henry Goddard
Leach of New York on the much-dis-
cussed Jones law, and the other by
Charles G. Ross, Washington newspa-
per correspondent. who will present his
fortnightly review Of What Congress
Is Doing"
Gov. Trumbull to Talk.
The Socony program will introduce
Gov. John H. Trumbull Of Connecticut.
In addition there will be sketch de-
picting the dramatic story of the ia
nous Charter Oak.
A variety of musical features domi-
nate the program of WMAL tonight.
Outstanding among them will be the
tenth Curtis Institute broadcast. pre-
senting George Bolet, Cuban pianist;
Florence TaSSo, tenor, and LadiSlauS
Steinhardt, violinist, and the weekly
popular program by Paul Whiteman
and his orchestra. It will be the
Whiteman Orchestra's last broadcast
Universal City, Calf. The radio con-
certs will not be interrupted, however,
as arrangements have been completed
to continue the broadcasts from Cali
fornia as well as from various points on
the trip across the continent.
Frederic William Vile, famous radio
political analyst, will give his weekly
resume of the political situation in
Washington over WMAL and a Column
bia Broadcasting System network at z
o'clock. A concert by the United States
Navy Band will follow. The bands fea-
tured selection VIII be q tone journey.
describing life on the Mississippi River.
It is divided into four parts.
Girls GIee Club In Debut.
Collar Nights" Is Q new attraction
WAdAL viii broadcast at $50 o'clock.
The closing feature, from 10 to IL
O'Clock, viii be the weekly program by
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Cana
dams, in which Nine. Bell Forbes Cut
ter will appear as the guest artist.
The Girls Glee Club of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School will make its
radio debut from VOL tonight at
O'Clock. The club Is composed of 40
girls. The program will be under direc-
ton of Miss Geneye Bourdeaux, musical
director at the school,
The VOL program also includes re-
citals by Estelle Hunt Dean, soprano,
and Howard r. Green, pianist, and an
other Amos n Andy" episode.
WJSV is featuring tonight half
hour program by pupils of the Jefferson
Junior High School. Christine z.
Monogue will be In charge. The CO.
1umbia Trio, the Silver String Revelers,
the Melody Girls and the S. 8. Silver
State Orchestra are among the other
outstanding attractions.