The Washington times., 1930-03-29

| BENWADE SAENEl
Will Hays, overload of the
movies, will be guest star for
Merle Thorpe's Saturday night
business talk over the N.B.C. net
work. Mr.. Hays, whose official
title is President of the Motion
Picture Producers and Distribu-
tors of America will discuss THE
Nickelodeon Grows Up" His adj
dress will come from the New
York studios of N.B.C.
All the good spoilers and those
who wonder whether there Is one
t or two "t's" in much will be
tuned in $3.50 tonight on the Ma
tional Press Club. Both chains
will carry the old.fashioned
spelling bee arranged between
members Of the United States
Senate and the Fourth Estate.
It's an old saying that there's
no question that the United States
Senate cannot solve but there
may be some words that the
SolonS cannot spell. At any rate
Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio
will pick out some jawbreakerS
from Holmes spelling book and
heaven help the poor fellow who
forgetS I before e except
after c."
twenty-five contestants, II on
a side, will take part in the
spelling bee. Congressional rep
resentation in the contest will
include Senators Shortridge Of
California; Robinson of Indiana: !:
Connay Of Texas; Barkley of
Kentucky; AshurSt of Arizona; !;
Alien Of Kansas, and Representa-
tives Luce of Massachusetts;
Howard of Nebraska; Free Of Cali
fornia; Cooper of Wisconsin; ;
Black of New York and Aber-
nathy Of North Carolina.
Newspaper spoilers include Ray
Tucker, of the Scripps- Howard
group; Floyd Roosa. Universal
Service: Byron Price, Associated
Press: John Monk, New York
Times; Wilbur Forrest, New York
Herald Tribune; Fred A. Emery,
United States Daily: Uric Bell,
Louisville Courier-Journal, and
Carlisle Bargeron, Washington
Post.
The last similar spelling bee"
was held in 1918, the late Sena-
tor Willis of Ohio and former Sen
ator Poindexter of Washington,
being adjudged winners.
Directly after the old.fashioned
spelling bee is concluded, the Nit
Wits will take the air via WMAL
and give the radio audience a first
class exhibition of misspelling.
And you're welcome, they say.
Highlights on today's programs
are:
ii A. M.
WMAL -- The United States
Army Band, Capt. William j..
Stannard. leader, direct from the
ARMY war LoLIeSe.
IL NOON
WOL-Lenten services, con-
Quoted by the Rev. Lawrence
Shehan of st. Patrick's, with Cece-
liza Storancanti, contralto, and
James Nolan. bass. Miss Jennie
Glennan, organist.
LAS r. M.
WRC-Max Eastman, defender
Of soviet Russia and its policies
will be one of three speakers to
outline Present Trends in Rus
sia" during the Foreign Policy AS
sociation luncheon discussion.
Vera Micheles Dean, author of
the Information Service report,
United States and Russia" and
Bruce c. Hopper, Russian OBJ
server, will also be heard in this
informal forum.
6P. M.
WRC-Keeping Up with the
Times" News flashes by William
Moore, feature editor of The Wash.
luSGOu 1lmeS.
SP. M.
WRC-Merle Thorpe, editor of
the Nations Business in a bust
ness talk introducing Will Hays,
head Of the Motion Picture In
dutry discussing, "Up From the
Nickelodean."
$3.50 p. M.
WRC.WMAL - OIL d-fashioned
spelling bee from the National
Press Club (See lead story above)
$3.50 p. M.
WMAL-The Nit wits in q
satire on the old-fashioned spellin'
bee.
WRC-Walter Damrosch in the
General Electric Hour.
1OP. M.
WMAL-Paramount-P Publix hour
direct from the Paramount The
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