Evening star., 1933-08-03
ROGERS AND STONE
TOBE HEARD ON AIR
Famous Comedians to Appear
Together Sunday Night
for First Time.

Will Rogers before the microphone
in the sultry days of Summer, but
he's coming back Sunday night for
a single broadcast in the oil program
in which he appeared for seven weeks
last Spring With him will be his
comedian friend, Fred Stone, who also
is making a temporary return to this
popular program.
The secret of Rogers decision to break
long-standing rule ies partly in a
telegram he received from more than
rs m mpers OF the Senate urging him to
come back to the microphone.
The oil program with Rogers and
Stone sill ccme into Washington via
the N. B. C. blue" network, in which
WMAL is linl: Incidentally, the
broadcast will mark the first appearance
together of these two famous comedians.
Stone and Rogers have substituted
many times Tor each other en- the stage
and screen. but they have never been
on the same program toge her. Stone
followed Rogers Oh the Oil program early
in the Summer in payment of Wills
act in stepping into the leading roe in
the, Stcne musical SHOW, "Criss-Cross. -
when Stone was injured in an airplane
accident.
Nov that the country is in the midst
l y of the Federal Governments cam
paign to put into effect the ma
tional recovery act. plans are unaer
way for a number Of special broadcasts
in that connection.
Already N. B. C. has arrnaged a Sc
ries of programs. The poss bility is
that the Minute Men of the Liberty
Loan campaign will be revived with the
microphone as the rostrum.
YX1ALTER HAMPDEN will do scene
w from Rostand's "Cyrano de Ber-
gerac" as feature OF the Rudy
Vale Variety Hour tonight over WRC.
The Giersdorf Sisters. the International
Quartet and Joe Penner. young comic
of vaudeville fame, also will contribute
to the program.
Another radio headliner on WRC to-
night will be the first of new musical
series by Al Jolson and Paul White
mans Orchestra. This broadcast will
mark Jolson's microphone comeback
Instead of gags and Wisecracks he will
offer sketches suggestive Of his musical
comedy days with the Shuberts.
THE new Jolson- -Whiteman program
i forced Violet Wachter and her
Doors" dramatic company off
WRC tonight. but the scheduled pro-
gram will be handled by WMAL tomor-
row night at 10 o'clock 1t will be one
Of Miss Wachter's original pieces. built
around the social life at fashionable
Westchester. N Y
Next Monday WMAL will introduce a
new musical organiZation-the Gypsy
Chorus of Silver Spring. Md The
chorus was recently organized and di-
rected by Robert Frederick Freund. It
will appear in full costume for the
initial broadcast
Palmer A. Brink publicity manager
for the Northern Dramatic Company.
announces that this weeks production
over VOL Friday night at 1880 will be
a condensed version of Rosa Mia"
Miss Meredith Smith, who scored in the
company's recent presentation of
"Freckles," will have the leading role.
NIERE you listening the night Phil
w Cook turned up at the N. B. C..
studios with cold? Phil. you
know. is the man who plays a dozen
different characters himself. When he
got hoarse. it naturally made all IL
characters hoarse N B. C. executives
were in a pother. Cook settled it all
by rewriting his show so that all his
characters were permitted to sneeze
and sniff1e as much as they pleased.