Evening star., 1931-12-29
RADIO SWAN SONG
Of 1881 TO Be JAZZ.
Father Time to Hop, Skip
and Jump to Exit as
Year Fades.

In jazz age style Old Father Time
! will hop, skip and jump across the con-
| tinent to the tune of radio, shooting out
the old year and ringing in the new.
! A splt-seCond schedule supplantS the
| hOur-g glass for the rejuYenated old gen.
! tleman of the ages as he streaks through
! the ether from one city to another
ushering in the new year. An all-night
radio schedule of dance programs has
| been arranged by one network, while
| the other will operate into the small
| hours and will bring from abroad typi-
cal New Year programs.
The New Year radio extravaganza OF
| the networks will be topped off by radio
tours of famous dance bands playing in
large cities. National Broadcasting Co,
in its all-night program, will present
OrcheStraS from dozen cities stretching
across the land. Columbia Broadcast
ing System will offer % bands from l3
cities in 5l2-hour music festival.
Hindenburg to Speak.
President Won Hindenburg of Ger
many, in his first radio address, will
broadcast his New Year greetings to
Germany and America from $3.50 to 4
pm, Eastern standard time, December
81. At exactly midnight in Germany
the famous student chorus OF Heldel-
berg University will broadcast for the
benefit of ColumbiaS American audi
ence 1t will be only 6 pm, Eastern
STANDARD time, then, however.
Following the dance orchestra tour,
which starts at 1l:3O pm. New Year
eve and ends eight hours later, N. B. G.
on New Year day will broadcast an
other performance from the Metropoll-
tan Opera House in New York. The
first act of La Boheme" will be de-
picted, marking the third Metropolitan
broadcast in history, the first OF -Whlch
was offered Christmas day.
From New York to San Francisco,
the u dance orchestraS of N. B. &. Will
race against time. On New Year day
N B. C. engineers will coordinate Paul
Whiteman's orchestral music, originat-
ing in Chicago, with the voice OF Bebe
Daniels. screen star, singing in Los An
geleS 1t will be tWo-way remote con-
troll. with Whiteman's music carried
to Los Angeles over telephone wires,
where Miss Daniels will hear 1t through
earphoneS and begin to sing. The en-
tire program will be synchronized, so
to speak, by telephone.
n. B. C. Programs.
BY stages, N. B. C. programs, be-
ginning New Year eve, Will IllI from
New York to Germany, back to New
York and thence to Cleveland, Mon
treal, Chicago. ST. Louis, Kansas City,
Denver, Salt Lake City, Hollywood, Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and
back to New York. There also will be
broadcast of the Tulane-Southern
California foot ball game, on New Year
day. and a descriptive broadcast of the
Rose Bowl parade at Pasadena, Calf.
AS a novel feature, Columbia Will
bring to the American audience the
sound of the famous Big Ben, atop the
Parliament Buildings in London. While
it will be exactly midnight in London,
the chimes will be brought to the
American audience for three minutes
beginning 6:59 pm.
Columbia begins its dance program
an hour ahead of N. B. c., starting at
1920 pm. and continuing until am.
New Year day. In the course OF the
dancing party, listeners will hear the
advent of four New YearS as the radio
leaps against time, going westward
ahead of the midnight hours. Colum-
bia will thus broadcast six separate
comings of 1882; from Heidelberg, at 6; !;
from London, at 7; from New York at
midnight; from Chicago, at l; Denver,
at 2, and Los Angeles, at 3.