Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
RADIO TO PRESENT
COMING OF YEAR
Greeting by MussoIini viii Be
Broadcast to Capital
Through WRC.

A potpourri of special programs, both
noisy and musical, gay and religious,
matchmaking character, will mark to-
nights radio offerings which will pre-
coed and follow the moment when
Father Time closes the books of the
old year and starts on the pages of the
new.
Both local chain stations, WRC and
WMAL, will carry q wealth of the cele-
bration programs originating In various
points Of this country, Europe and
South America. and the two local sta
tons, WJSV and VOL, also will sig
nalize the arrival Of the new year with
special offerings. The last of the New
Year eve programs will end at $3.50
am, and tomorrow special events will
be renewed.
Early tomorrow afternoon wRC will
rebroadcaSt a New Year greeting from
Premier Mussolini, spoken in English,
from his headquarters in Rome, and
an hour later, at o'clock tomorrow,
there Is to be musical broadcast from
Holland. Greetings in more than SO
foreign languages also will be broadcast
from 3:45 to 445 tomorrow afternoon
by the N. B. G. network stations in New
York.
Foreign Programs.
The Columbia System and WMAL,
will offer from 10 pm. to 2 am. por-
tons Of the New Year dance music and
celebrations staged in Buenos Aires,
Montreal and Toronto Canada, and
from Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago To-
ledo and New York The coming of
the new year will be heralded at 6:58
o'clock this evening, two minutes before
the arrival of the new year in London,
with the opening notes Of Big Ben,
atop the House of Parliament in Lon
don The New Year blessings by the
Archbishop Of Canterbury will be heard
here during this international broad
cast.
National BroadcaSting Co. will pursue"
night. catching up with him on i've
occasions to catch New Year celebra-
tons and dance music, all to be heard
here through WRC. During the four
hour period from 1850 pm. to $3.50
am. IL dance orcheStras will be heard
from New York, Chicago, Denver, Los
Angeles and San Francisco. Vincent
Lopez, Horace Heidi, Johnnie Hamp,
Paul Whiseman, Phil Spitalny, Jimmy
Joy and Jess Stafford will appear in
the programs.
Gladys Rice. soprano, and Douglas
Stanbury, baritone. will be heard over
WRC at 800 O'Clock during the pro-
gram of Shilkret'S 55-piece concert Or
chestra.
The special seasonal programs, how
ever, will not eliminate from the days
broadcast the regular offerings by Amos
n Andy, Uncle Abe and David or Phil
Cook. Also on the regular WRC pro-
gram viii be Ted Pearson and his or
chestra, Grantland Rice and q sports
review for 1890, and the Revelers, with
Olive Palmer, Elizabeth Lennox, Paul
Oliver, Lewis James and James Melton.
Station WJSV this evening offers q
musical and dance program, beginning
at 10 pm. with the Alexandria Ha-
waiians, followed by the Brass Quartet
and Slaughter's Orchestra, the program
lasting until 1915. At pm. this
station will present Foolish Moments
and at $3.50 o'clock Ethel Berko viii
give piano selections.
Station VOL presents a dance pro-
gram from 10 pm. to midnight. At 8
pm. the Kohola Melody Boys will be
heard, and following them will be How
ard Moore, baritone, and Esther Marks,
soprano; the Dickinson Ensemble and
Lovette Studio program.