Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-13
SOUSA IS FEATURE
ON RADIO TONIGHT
WRC to Broadcast Band
CONGRATULATIONS Of
fered by WMAL.

The second of the series of nine radio
concerts by Sousas famous band will
be broadcast tonight by WRC and its
| associates in the National Broadcasting
Co. Everett Marshall, the Metropolitan
Opera Co.'S youngest baritone, will be
the soloist with the band.
Sousa will open the program with the
| march he composed this year to cele-
brate his golden jubilee as a band lead
er and composer. 1t is 1.-THE Golden
Jubilee March" The program also con-
tains five other compositions of the IA
nous bandmaster and several works OF
Tchaikowsky, Verdi and Grossman. OF
particular interest to Washington will
be SouSa'S suite, TALES of a Traveller,
in which the scenes on Easter Monday
| on the White House lawn are depicted
unsteady.
The production of the National Grand
Opera Co, another outstanding WRC
attraction tonight, is announced as Don
izetti's La Favorita." 1t will be sung
in the usual tabloid version, under the
| direction of CeSare Sodero. The story
of the opera is laid in Spain and the
action takes place about 1910.
WRC's remaining features will be pro-
vided by the APP Gypsies, the Empire
Builders. the Firestone Entertainers and
Roxy and his gang" Sidney, Grea-
arctic Expedition, who has just returned,
will be the guest speaker on the pro-
gram of the Gypsies. He will describe
the thrilling battles with ice foes, hair
breadth escapes from death and all OF
the other adventures encountered by the
expedition.
FRANKLIN Baur, tenor, and Vaughn de
Leath, contralto, again are starred in
the Firestone broadcast. The orchestral
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from Verdi's III Trovatore" and Schu-
mann's "Traumerei" The Empire
Builders historical episode will depict
the first Independence day celebration
in the Northwest in 1841, when 400 In
dams joined the whites in observing
Americas freedom. The Roxy" pro-
gram will feature the Sunshine Quartet,
a mixed vocal group.
Ethel Waters, colored theatrical star
and "blues" singer" will make her radio
debut tonight in the Vitaphone jubilee
hour, coming into Washington over
WMAL. She has just completed her
first talkie, "On With the Show"
Among WMAL's other featured at
fractions are the Coco Couriers, In
which Henry Burbig and Merle john
sons Saxophone Quartet will be starred;
the Panatella Pageant, with Julia San
derson and Frank Crumit, and Musical
N1BIlctCco, WHICH, VIII NC uCNOIcO W LAAc
music of Russia.
In the Coco program. Burbig will bur-
lesque Kipling's Tommy Atkins Miss
Sanderson and Crumit will sing a new
duet, Garden in the RAIN while the
Vignettes will feature the compositions
of Rimsky- KorSakoff.
Judge Paul Linebarger will be the
speaker tonight in the Sons of the
American Revolution program to be
broadcast by WJSV. His topic is. mot
More, But Better American Citizens. y
The musical portion of the stations
program will be provided principally by
the Benning and Roosevelt Trios, the
Rhythm Boys, the Honolulans and Jack
Whitcomb. tromboIYast.
Anna Sloan, celltgt, and David Martin
baritone, are the soloiSts scheduled to-
night by VOL. There also will be pc
| period of dinner music and another
Amos N Andy" broadcast