Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
MACK AND HOPPER
ARE WRC FEATURES
Base Ball Atmosphere to Pre-
vail as Athletics Manager
BroadcaStS.

| Connie Mack, manager of the Phila-
delphia Athletics. and De Wolf Hopper,
! veteran stage star, are co-starred in the
! General Motors Family Party" to-
night over WRC and network of other
| National BroadcaSting Co. stations.
| The program will have a distinct
/ base ball atmosphere. Connie Mack
will talk about the game and his 1929
pennant-winning Athletics. 1t will be
his first experience before a micro
| phone, which he will face in Fort
Myers, Fla. where the Athletics are
training. Graham McNamee will make
the introduction from New York AS
his contribution Hopper will recite the
famous base ball classic, Casey at the
Bat" Aside from acting as master of
ceremonies. McNamee will recount nine
famous plays and incidents of the last
so years of organized base ball.
Broadway Stroller" Featured.
Times Square, in New York, will pro-
vide the background for the Voice Of
Firestone broadcast, featuring the
Broadway Stroller" Hugo Variants
Orchestra. and two soloists, FRANKLIN
Baur, tenor, and Vaughn De Leath, con-
tralto. The Stroller will peep in on
current shows and gaze in retrospect at
the theater Of past days. The old
Southern ballad, "Oh, Dem Golden
Slippers" and THE Man 1 Love" will
be sung by Miss De Leath. Baur's solos
will be With Song in My Heart and
Here in My Arms" A medley from
C"Fifty Million Frenchmen" and THE
March of the Grenadiers," from THE
Love Parade" will be the orchestral
Specialties
The breath of early Spring blows
through the program of the A. g. p.
Gypsies. Floods of Spring and Men
delsSohn's famous Spring Song" will
be the featured selections. Louis Katz-
man and his Whittall Anglo-Persians in
their weekly musical tour will sweep
across China from Hongkong to the
great wall of the north.
William Hard, who recently returned
from London, where he served as the
official observer for the N. B. C. at the
Five-Power Naval Conference. will re-
sumo his weekly talks on Back of the
News in Washington" at 7:45 O'Clock.
WRC's other major attractions include
the Strings and Bows concert, featuring
Godfrey Ludlow. violinist, and a late
dance program by Dan Russo and his
Edgewater Beach Hotel Orchestra.
Walter Donaldson's latest song hit
Lazy Louisiana Moon" will be played
by Guy Lombardos Royal Canadians in
the Robert Burns Panatella program
over WMAL and associated Columbia
BrOadcasting System stations. The or
chestra also will play Telling 1t to the
Daisies" watching My Dreams Go
BY" and Cottage for Sale"
The Chicago Inn in Paris will be the
scene of the Evening in Paris episode.
The musical portion of the program,
however, contains number of popular
American melodies, such as "Am
BluS?" My Curley-H Headed Baby" and
Amt MiSbehaving
In the Coco Couriers' program Merle
JohnSton's Orchestra will play a group
of popular selections The feature will
be the stirring Rogue Song March"
from the talking picture THE Rogue
Song" Henry Burbig, humorist. and
Harriet Lee, contralto, also will be heard
in this broadcast.
Helen Kane to Broadcast.
Helen Kane of "boop- boopa -doop"
fame, who is appearing in person at a
Washington theater this week, will pro-
vide one of WMAL's outstanding fea-
lures of local origin. She viii broad
cast from Gas to z o'clock.
The Washington Comic Opera Club
and Helen Webb Zeller, impersonator.
will contribute to the program of VOL.
The station also has scheduled a din
ner concert and studio program ar