Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-18
ALL-DANCE SERIES
! STARTS TONIGHT.
Nat ShiIkret to Begin First
of IL Entertainments
Over WRC.

Nat Shilkret and his famous record
ing orchestra will introduce tonight the
first of the new series of Victor all
dance programs over a coast-to-coast
network of National Broadcasting Co..
stations, in which WRC is to be the
Washington link. This broadcast will
mark the debut of a series of IL va
ried dance entertainments. Each pro-
gram will feature different orchestra
and a recording artist.
Shilkret will open the program with
"Hittin' the Ceilin'." The other num-
bers are Broadway Baby Doll" Lone
some Road" Singin' in the Rain"
Am 1 Blue?" "Feathering Nest for
a Blue Bird" Pagan Love Song" La
Paloma" and Wake Up, Chillun."
The weekly ConSert Bureau hour and
the Seiberling Singers will provide
WRC's other major musical features.
1t also has scheduled the comic sketch,
Buck and Wing" and the second OF
the series of episodes backgrounded
against historic trials, which tonight
will be a reproduction of the famous
trial of Joan of Arc.
Male Artists on Program. A..
Male artists will present the Concert
Bureau hour program. These include
Bob Pierce, Frank CroXton, Bill Shell
drick. Bviano and Pecorara, Milt Cole
man and the Choristers. The Seiber-
ling Singers will repeat Frank Black S
arrangement of Rachmaninoff's Pre-
lude in C-sharp Minor" The soloist on
this program will be Wlltred Glenn
who sings bass with the male quartet.
His contribution will be When the Big
Profundo Sings Low c."
Marthin Proyensen of WRC'S an
nouncing staff also will be heard to-
night in a special recital. He is bari
tone. His program includes 20 Thou
Sublime. Sweet Evening STAR" from
Wagners "TannhauSer" Invocation, :"
by Mozart; Long, Long Ago in Alcala"
and Sylvia" by Obey Speaks.
WMALs outstanding musical presen-
tation tonight will be the first of Sc
ries of six concerts by the Buffalo Civic
Symphony Orchestra, under the direc-
ton of Herbert Straub. The orchestra
consists of rs pieces, and its Summer
concerts are given on a floating shell
on a lake in Delaware Park, Buffalo.
An imposing array of prominent artists,
including the leading lights of the Met
ropolitan Opera Co., have been lined up
as guest soloists. Among them are Rel
nald Werrenrath, tenor; Merle Alcock,
contralto: Olive Kline, soprano: Della
Baker. soprano; Helen Oelheim, con-
tralto, and Alois Havrilla, baritone.
Canadian Stations in Link.
Six Canadian stations will link up
with the Columbia BroadcaSting System
for the concerts, constituting the larg-
est group of such stations yet to afflli-
ate with an American network. In the
initial concert Director Straub has ar
ranged varied program of classical
and Semi-classical compositions. The
high spots, however, will be the andante
movement from Tschaikowsky's Fifth
Symphony" and his March Slav," Mac
Dowells ITO a Wild Rose" and SYM
phonic Jazz arrangement of Louise"
In addition to the symphony concert,
WMAL will broadcast number of other
Columbia attractions. These include
Daguerreotypes and Silhouettes, a de-
tective mastery. the United States Ma
rine Bands concert at the Sylvan The
presentation.
Get San Franciscos Million-Dollar
Stick-up Man" is the title of the detec-
tive story. The Voice of Columbia"
will present a light program by an or
chestra, mixed quartet and soloists.
Louis Rothschild, director of the
Washington Better Business Bureau,
will give the second of his series of
talks over VOL at $40 o'clock this eve
ming. An Amos m Andy" sketch and
a concert by the Carlton Orchestra are
the other features.
WJSV's principal musical offerings
will be concerts by the Hawaiian Melody
Boys and the Nogdica Mandolin and
Guitar Club. There also will be several
vocal recitals.