Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-24
FORUM AUDIENCE
i TO HEAR DEMPSEY
House Committee Head to
Discuss Waterway Improve
ment Plans Tonight.

Representative S. wallace Dempsey of
New York, chairman Of the House
rivers and harbors committee, viii be
the speaker tonight in the weekly
National Radio Forum arranged by The
Star and broadcast over coast-to-coast
network of Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
TEN stations. The forum Is scheduled
by WMAL from 1890 to IL O'Clock.
Mr.. Dempsey will discuss proposed
river and harbor improvements, which
will provide for still greater develop
ment of the inland waterways OF the
United States. His committee has just
completed the draft of new bill to
authorize the linking of Chicago and
the Mississippi Valley with the Atlantic
Coast and number of other important
waterways projects.
The midWeek Kodak Hour, to precede
the forum, will feature three prominent
radio singers-Helen Oelheim. contralto,
and Victor Edmunds and George Rasely,
tenorS. The trio will present a group
of memory songs, ranging from melodies
with nursery rhyme themes through
the romantic favorites of the past
decade.
Alice Donahue Guest Star.
Alice Donahue dancing star of "Criss
Cross" who made her radio debut sew
eral weeks ago, returns as the guest
star of the Douglas Shoemakers pro-
gram. 1.-THE Doctor, the Girl and the
Missing Wife," story of events lead
ing up to the capture Of the slayer IN
a notorious crime, will be dramatized in
the True Detective Mysteries period.
The program of the Vagabonds will be
made up entirely of gypsy tunes played
by Emery DeutSch and his ensemble.
The second of the series of Defiance
programs will be dramatiZation based
on the wooing of Guinevere by King
Arthur. Gertrude HitZ, Broadway star,
will play the leading role, supported by
Lawrence Grattan and Frank Rea-
dick. This program has been recorded
by the new electrical transcription
method.
Representative Ruth Hanna Nc
Corniick of Illinois and DR.. Leo S.
Rowe, director general of the Pan
American Union, will be heard in the
Half Hours in the National Capital
period over WRC and other National
Broadcasting Company stations. Mrs.
Mccormick will speak on What Wom-
en- Actually Are in Politics" DR.. Rowe's
topic is ''Pan-Americanism as Factor
in the Maintenance of World Peace"
Nine. Renee Chemet. celebrated
violinist, and Rudolph Ganz, pianist
and conductor of the st. Louis SYM
phony Orchestra, will be the principal
contributors to the r. G. A.-Victor
Hour. instrumental selections also will
be presented by symphony orchestra
directed by Nathaniel Shilkret.
Child Prodigy to Sing.
Singing "blues" in her best grown
up manner, Baby Rose Marie, child
prodigy of radio and vaudeville, pre-
sents "Aintcha?" why Do Love You
Like Do? and ''The One I Love Just
Can't Be Bothered With Me-" when
she appears as guest artist with Rudy
Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees in
the Fleischmann Hour.
Eugene Ormandy, conductor of Jack
Frost's Melody Moments, will introduce
a spirit of vaudeville in his program.
AS the featured number, Lucien
Shmitt will do a combination turn,
playing the cello, saxophone and piano.
all in the same selection
Willard Smith, president of the
Council Of Social Agencies, will speak
over VOL under the auspices of the
Early Diagnosis and Children's Sana-
torium Commission. A joint recital by
Vesta Pollock, contralto, and Katherine
Fowler. pianist will be- the stations
chief musical presentation.
A sacred musicale Will be broadcast
by WJSV from st. P&nls Methodist
Episcopal Church South. The stations
program also contains another radio
show under the direction of Chick Cod
frey, and readings by Ella Cornelia
Cole