Evening star., 1932-11-24
'LAKME' BROADCAST
THIS AFTERNOON
Second Act Will Be Heard
From Metropolitan
Opera House

Direct from the stage Of the Metro
politan Opera House, wRC and other
N. B. G. stations will broadcast today
the second act Of Leo Delibes' opera
"Lakme"
Lily Pons, celebrated young French
coloratura soprano, and Giovanni Mar
tinelli will head the cast of "Lakme a"
Louis Hasselmans will conduct the Or
chestra
The opera is scheduled from 3:15 to
AIS o'clock, and will be followed I'M
mediately by a special Thanksgiving tea
dance program by Paul Whiteman and
his orchestra.
Regular Attractions.
The holiday day program of WRC
also contains the regular network at
fractions These include the Sunshine
Hour, with Rudy Vallee; Capt. Henry's
Show Boat and Cesare Sodero's Con-
cert Orchestra.
Guest stars on the program with
Rudy Vallee will be Queena Mario,
Metropolitan opera soprano: Sylvia
Field and Raymond Hackett, Broadway
celebrities, and Julius Tanne:a. comic
monologist. Queena Mario will sing
some of the operate arias which have
made her famous, while Miss Field and
Hackett will enact scene from Max
we'll Anderson'S noted play, Saturday S
Children
Thanksgiving Program.
A special Thanksgiving program has
been arranged as the Show Boat pres
entation. The features will be the
doxology, Praise God. From Whom All
Blessings Flow" by the Hall johnson
Singers, and Life Is Just a Bowl of
Cherries" by Lanny Ross, tenor.
The guest speaker on the program
with the Sodero Orchestra will be
Charles de Font Nouvelle, French con-
sui general in New York. who will de-
scribe what France is doing to further
the education of its youth. French
music will dominate the orchestra's S
program.
Irene Dunno, stage and screen star,
is scheduled to take part in the Holly
wood on the Air program. She will
sing several of her favorite selections.
Penn Cornell Game.
WJSV's holiday broadcasts include a
play-by-play description of the Penn
Cornell foot ball game in Philadelphia
starting at 2 o'clock. Ted Husing will
be at the microphone.
Regular Columbia attractions make
up the evening schedule Of WJSV.
These include concert by the Colum-
bia Symphony Orchestra, popular songs
by the Boswell Sisters. variety pro-
gram by Helen Board, soprano, and
Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra,
and another version of the story of
Omar Khayyam with its intrigue, COM
edv and original music
The Columbia Symphony Orchestra
will feature the first movement of Bee
thoven's Eighth Symphony" The other
numbers include the overture Nina
ture," from Tschaikowsky's "Nutcrack-
er Suite" and Burleigh's Village
Dance"
New Fantasy.
The Kostelanetz Orchestra will pre-
sent for the first time on the air new
fantasy entitled I'm an Old Japanese
Garden" The orchestra will open its
concert with a medley of popular favor
ties; including Who" MY Heart Stood
Still,' and Tea for Two"
The first of series of dance pro-
grams by McWilliams' Orchestra at
the Elks' Club viii be broadcast to-
night by WMAL. This stations holi-
day program also includes a concert by
the WMAL Salon Orchestra, under the
direction of Harold Veo: recital by
H. Phelps Clark, baritone, and a talk
on Christmas seals by Mrs Ernest r.
Grant, president of the Washington
tuberculosis Association.
"Humoresque, an original play by
Ronald Dawson and c. M. Roach, will
be presented over VOL tonight by the
Northern, Dramatic Co. The cast will
be headed by Donald Austin, Edward
James Irvine, B. Stanley Simmons,
Belle Shapiro and John Mulheron.
In the afternoon VOL will broadcast
a play-by-play description Of the
George Washington Oklahoma foot ball
game.