Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-19
SPORTS NOTABLES
ON RADIO TONIGHT
Cobb, Rice and MCNamee to
Unite in Tribute to
Athletic Activities.

"Ty" Cobb. the grand old man" Of
sports: Grantland Rice, sports writer
and Graham McNamee, premier sports
announcer, will unite in a tribute tc
American athletic activities tonight in
dedicating new program series over
WRC and a network of other National
Rroadcasting Co. stations.
The new series is to be known as the
Coca Cola Topnotchers" The pro-
gram will take the form of an inter-
view with athletic celebrities by Rice
Cobb was selected as the first subject
Bobby" Jones. the golf champion, will
be interviewed next week. McNamee
win enter the discussions at various
times. A 31-piece orchestra, directed
by Leonard JOY, will provide the must
cal background.
Emilio de GorsoZa, world-famouS bari
tone, will be the guest Soloist in the
Mobiloil hour. His contributions will
be the "Toreador Song" from Carmen.
the melodious LA Paloma" and I'm
Old Madrid" Nathaniel Shilkret has
arranged an orchestral program OF
Spanish melodies to frame de Gorgoza's
recital.
Ola COunSehOr'S Subject.
"Can Diversification Ever Be q Sub
etitute for Conservat ism?" is the invest
nent subject which the "Old Counselor
viii discuss in the Halsey-Stuart hour
The musical portion of the program, to
be provided by the Chicago Little Sym
phony Orchestra, will be made up
chiefly of the compositions of Saint
Saens and Massenet.
In the Palmolive hour Paul Oliver
tenor, will sing "Oh, Promise Me- as
one of the high lights. Olive Palmer's
solos will be Springs Awakening" and
who'll Buy My Violets?" Gustave
Haenschen's Orchestra, the Revelers
Quartet and Elizabeth Lennox, soprano
also will take part in the program.
WRC'S program also contains another
sketch by the Wilbur Coon Players and
q talk by William Hard, the official OBJ
server of the National BroadcaSting Co.
at the Five-Power Naval Conference in
London, VINO has returned to New York.
The Frohne Sisters, a quartet Of har-
Hnony singers, will join with Wee Lawn
hurst. blues" singer; a quartet and
an orchestra in presenting the Van
Heusen program over WMAL and aSso-
ciated Columbia BroadcaSting System
stations. The orchestral presentations
will be Putin on the Ritz" "Raga-
muffin Romeo" and THE Boop-boop-
doopa -doo Trot." Like a Dream" and
where Are You?" will be sung by the
quartet. Miss L.awnhurst will contribute
"Keeping Myself for You" and Love
Amt Nothin' but the Blues" The
Prohne Sisters will sing What Do I
Care" and THE st. Louis Blues"
Sampson and DeliIah."
Fanny Brice and Henry Burbig will
appear in skit, Samson and Delilah, !"
In the Philco hour. William Hahn, tenor,
and Barbara Maurel, contralto, also will
be heard on this program.
Alan Ray. tenor, win sing the
choruses of several numbers to be played
by the orchestra in the La Palma pro-
gram. The Gold Medal Fast Freight
broadcast contains a mixture Of CLASH
cal and popular numbers. the featured
selections being the "Serenade" from
"The Student Prince" and I'm a Mon
astery Garden" The Show Boat COM
pany will present a teur-act pastoral
play, Zone Night in June" 1t is the
story of a beautiful country girl sent to
New York for an education.
Radio Joe and His Budget Boys"
viii dedicate their weekly offering to
'sVoteless Washington" Radio Joe"
viii read walt Mason's famous poem
on National Representation for the
District
The Kohala Melody Boys, Edith
Reeds Entertainers and the Swanee
Syncopators will take major part in
VOLS program. The station also has
scheduled a talk on Nutrition" by
Katherine Reynolds Mccormick of the
American Red Cross.
Representative David Hogg of Indiana
will speak on the chain store over
wJSv tonight in the period reserved
for the Retail Grocers' Protective Asso-
citation Of the District. The program
also contains another Organized Citi-
Henship Night" to be dedicated to
Randle Highlands, and several musical
features