Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-26
CHURCH SERVICES
TO Be BROADCAST
Universalist National Memo.
rial Dedication to Be
Heard Over WMAL.

The opening program of the dedi-
catory services of the new UniversaliSt
National Memorial Church, at Six
teenth and S strests, will be broadcast
tonight by WMAL and a network of
associated Columbia BroadcaSting Co.
stations.
The church choir, under the direc-
ton OF DR.. Albert w. Harmed, and
Rev. Frederick w. Perkins, pastor, will
provide the radio program which Is
designed as a prelude to the formal
dedication of the church tomorrow.
The choir will sing five selections, in
Guiding an air from the opera "Caval-
leria RuSticana"; Blind and Alone in
the Darkness" and From Thy Love as
Father from the oratorio Tho Re
6emption," by Gounod. Irene Noehl,
Alicegene Graves and Jessie Masters
will contribute the incidental roles.
Film Stars to Participate.
A galaxy of motion picture stars will
take part in the weekly Paramount
Publix Hour. which will take the form
of a gala party, with Clara Bow OFF,
ciating as hostess. The guests will be
Charles Buddy Rogers, Mary Brian,
Jack Dixie, Mitzi Green, Richard Gal
lagher, Lillian Roth, Leon Enrol. Zelma
O'Neal, Gary Cooper, Eugene Palette,
Give Brook Stuart Erwin. William Aus
tin, Mini Martini, Harry Green and
others Each will be called upon for
a speciality.
Harry JackSon's four-act comedy
drama, "A Captain in PetticoatS," will be
produced by the Hank Simmons Show
boat Co. 1t has been adapted to radio
by Phil Maher, playwright, and Harry
C. Browne, originator of the Showboat
series.
The Babson finance period and
joint recital by Mary Templin, con-
tralto: Jack Irving, baritone, and Elsie
Cranmer, pianist. are among WMAL'S
other major features. There also will
be late dance program by the Swanee
Syncopators and another 15-minute
period of Sense and Nonsense" by
Strickland Gilliland, humorist.
WRC and other National Broadcast
ing Co. stations will broadcast a por-
ton of the Thomas Jefferson day din
ner of the National Democratic Club in
New York. Although Gov. Roosevelt
of New York and Representative Nellie
Ross of wyoming and Senator Burton
K. Wheeler are scheduled as the speak
ers, WRC will "cut in" on the dinner
only during Senator Wheeler's talk.
Six financial leaders from different
sections OF the country will be inter
World" period, conducted by Merle
Thorpe, editor of Nations Business.
Thorpe will interview these men: Wal
ton L. Croker of Boston, A. w. Rob-
ertSon, chaiS:nan of the board of the
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing
Co.; Harry A. Black of Galveston Tex;
Henry D. Sharpe of Providence, p w.
Litchfield of Akron and Fred Sargent
of Chicago.
John BoIes to Broadcast.
John Boles, motion picture star, will
present a condensed version of his re-
cent talking picture Captain of the
Guard" as a feature of the Del Monte
program. The six songs of the picture
are included in the broadcast. These
are: For You Alone" THE Song of the
Sword" Every Girl in France" Garry
On and La Marseillaise."
Walter Damrosch's Symphony Orches-
ira will play as the speciality in the
from Beethoven's Third Symphony"
The other selections will be the over
ture to Roman Carnival" "Serenade
for Strings" by Tschaikowsky, and the
prelude and finale from Wagner'S Iris
tan and Isolde"
VOLS series of fight revivals will
bring tonight recorded version of the
Jehries- Corbett bout in San Francisco,
August IA. 1908. The Crescendo Male
will provide the stations musical fea-
ures.
The West Virginia "Knockouts" and
the Waikiki Harmony Boys are on the
program tonight of WJSV. There also
will be the regular Sunday school les
son by Rev. Donald McDouglasS and
another Song Story" broadcast.