Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-20
BALLET AND BALLAD
MUSIC RADIO FARE
"FamiIy Party" Program
Over WRC One of To-
nights Features.

! Ballads and ballet music predominant
! in the General Motors family party
! program TO be broadcast tonight by
| WRC and a coast-to-coast network OF
J National Broadcasting Co. stations. The
| guest soloist will be Allen McQuhae
! popular tenor, who will sing four songs
accompanied by Don Voorhees, Orches-
| ira.
McQuhae's contributions will be ex-
cerptS from the operetta New Moon,
Helbert's Thine Alone" from the oper-
eta Eileen: Brown Bird Singing
by the English composer, Wood, and
AT the End of Cobblestone Road" a
new composition by Thorn Burke. In
the orchestral group are Strauss Tales
From the Vienna Woods, THE March
of the Bells" from Delibes' "Coppelia,"
and the "Navarraise," from Massenets
lie Cid"
The Regular Features.
Two new programs make their ap-
pearance on WRC's schedule tonight in
addition to the other regular N. B. c.
attractions. These are the American
Home hour and Strings and Bows,
which will be presented by an orchestra
under the direction of Godfrey Ludlow,
famous violiniSt-composer.
The American Home hour is an
nounced as something new" in radio
programs. 1t is designed as a banquet,
and the continuity and music are de-
signed to create the illusion that the
listener is at banquet Radio REIN
carnation of famous personages, brought
to the banquet tables on their birthdays,
will be feature. Vocal and instru-
mental offerings by prominent radio
artists will be woven into the program
pattern.
A mood of unrestrained joyousness
pervades the program of the A. 81 P.
Gypsies to be broadcast by WRC at $50
o'clock. The selections include Spanish
Gypsy Dance" Dream Melody" HUI
moresque," Hymn to the Sun" and
THE Swan"
AS an echo to the recent celebration
in New York in honor of Edward Mac
Dowell, American composer, Franklin
Baur, tenor, will sing one of Meadow
ellis tender melodies, ITO Wild Rose, Z"
as feature of the Voice of Firestone
broadcast. The concert orchestra, di-
rected by Hugo Mariani, will pay trib-
ute to another American composer,
Percy Granger, by playing his "Coun-
try Gardens"
Pageant Again Featured.
The four Frohne Sisters and Guy
Lombardo'S Orchestra are again fea-
tured in the Burns Panatela Pageant
program tonight over WMAL and asso-
ciated Columbia Broadcasting System
stations. Their program consists en-
tireiy of popular numbers
Gay and lively is the musical to be
presented in the Voice of Columbia
broadcast scheduled by WMAL at 1920
O'Clock. The Columbia Male Quartet,
the symphony and dance bands and
the Columbia Choir will take part in
this program.
Albert Payson Terhune,s story, "Ad-
ventures in Habit Smashing" will be
dramatized as the Physical Culture
Hour feature at o'clock. The Eve
ming in Paris episode to follow is de-
signed as mood picture suggested by
THE Flowers of Grasse," which is be-
ing visited by the characters In this
period in their tour of the Riviera.
Wesley Eddy. popular theatrical mas
ter OF ceremonies, who has returned to
the Palace Theater this week, will give
a special program tonight over VOL.
The station also has scheduled a tab
loid version of the operetta, Jerry of
Jericho Road" to be presented by the
Washington Comic Opera Club.