Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-16

~ over q cOunLry-WlQe net
~ work in which three great
n clasSif1cations of religious
belief in America - Protestant.
Catholic and Jewish-will each
find representation is embraced
in the religious program of the
Columbia BroadcaSting System
for the coming Fall, Winter and
TWO half-hour periods each
Sunday are contemplated in the
plan, which is not yet complete.
Each period will be a complete
service, so far as the customs of
the church in charge permit, with
scriptural reading, prayer, singing,
liturgy and sermon of about Is
minutes. The morning periods.
starting at 10 o'clock, will be for
the greater part in charge Of vari-
Gus Protestant denominations, and
have been set for an hour when
they will not conflict with the
regular church service hour of II
am. The Catholic periods will be
at 2.30 pm, the morning until
IL o'clock being devoted to mass
in Catholic churches. Most of the
2:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
The series Is to be started Sep
TENDER Is. Under the new plan
Columbia's network facilities will
be donated with no return what
soever, and, in addition, Columbia,
whenever appropriate, will supply,
at it's own expense, the musical
setting for o complete service.
In Announcing the abolition OF
religious broadcasting on a COM
mercial basis, william S. Paley,
president of the Columbia Broad
casting System, said:
I'm adopting the new plan Of
, religious broadcasting, we have
uppernnost in mind freeing our
selves from the responsibility
which we are not qualified to as
sumo of allotting time on COM
mercial basis to different religions
and different preachers. So long
as we view this question solely in
| the light of business practice, we
are likely to fail to give to the
radio audience balanced religious
broadcaSting. We feel that re-
ligious broadcasting is a public
service which should be admins
tered, as far as possible, under the
guidance of persons closely aSso-
ciated with religious endeavor and
definitely capable of handling
such broadcaSting in the public
interest. We expect this new plan
to be another step in Columbia's
earnest endeavor to serve the best
interests of its radio audience and
to discharge its public duties"
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lGOV. FRANKLIN D. ROOSE-
- WELT of New York, now re-
garded as the leading candidate
| for the Democratic party nomina-
: ton for the presidency, will be
| heard over an N. B. C.-WJZ net
work Thursday, when he speaks
| before the American Country Life
Conference at Cornell University,
Ithaca, N. Y. The address will be
carried during the National Farm
and Home hour, from 1880 to
1870 pm.
How a pot of tea saved the life
of Africa's noted hunter is
| told by Carveth Wells, N. B. c..
lecturer and "debunker" of big
game hunting.
F. @. Banks, Official elephant
hunter for the state of Uganda,
tells in letter Just received by
Wells from Busoga, Nyanza, that
he recently awoke in the night
while camping on the shore Of
Lake Victoria to find a large
leopard crouching within 6 inches
of his bed.
The animal was Snarling at
Banks fox terrier pet beneath the
bed. The hunter could not even
reach for his rife, which he or
dinarily has at his side. However,
like most Englishmen, Banks did
have a pot of tea nearby. With a
def and powerful movement he
| flung the tea, grounds and all, in
the leopard's face.
Terrified, the animal dashed
from the tent, and the last Banks
saw of it, the cat was making fast
time across the veldt.
Banks and Wells trailed lions
and other wild beasts together in
| Tanganyika, where Wells went to
shoot picture of African game two
years ago.
/ IKE a schoolmaSter and his
class, Leo Reisman puts his
orchestra through N. B. c. re-
hearSals. He conducts sitting
| down."
r BROADCAST of the seventh
orchestral concert by the
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
in the Mozart Festival at Salz-
burg. Austria, will be attempted
by the National Broadcasting Co.
Friday, from 2 to 4pm. The pro-
| gram will be relayed through
Berlin by the Reichs- Rundfunk-
Gesellschaft for rebroadcaSt in
the United States over an N. B. c.
WIZ network.
Bruno Walter of the London
Symphony Orchestra will direct
the Vienna orchestra in three
compositions by Mozart, the music
master OF Salzburg, who was born
IN 1855. A symphony IS yet I'M
selected will be the first Offering,
and as the second number Paul
Weingarten, soloSit, will play
| mozart S PIANO Concerto in E Flat
! Major" The orchestra is to con-
tinue with German Dances" and
SYMPHONY in E Flat Major"
The Mozart celebration at Salz-
burg rivals the Wagnerian Festi-
val at Bayreuth. Many leading
musicians and musical organiza-
lions participate and audiences of
music lovers attend from all parts