Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08
SOPRANO TO GIVE
! CONCERT TONIGHT
Lucrezia Bori to. Sing on Air
for First Time This Season.
New Series on WJSV.

Y UCREZIA BORI, prima donna
soprano of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, will give her
H. first radio concert of the season
tonight as a feature of the Elec-
tr.e Circle concert over WRC and a
network of other N. B. c. stations.
A varied program has been arranged
BY Miss Bori. She will sing two Spanish
songs, La Paloma" and "Clavelitos'
one operate aria, 'Depuis lie Jour-" and
kiss Me-" from Bitter Sweet"
A new dramatic series will be intro
duced over WRC at 4:30 o'clock. The
sketches will depict the part the ply
sician has played in the development
of civilization. Frank Blacks Orchestra
and the Revelers Quartet will provide
the musical background.
Will Discuss Schools.
In the "Our American Schools"
period at $50 Howard Pillsbury, preSl-
dent of the New York State Teachers
Association. and Arvie Eldred. former
president of the Chamber of Commerce
OF Troy, N. Y, will discuss current
problems of education. Pillsbury's topic
is What Are the Fads and Frills in
Fducation?" why the Man Without
Children Should Support Schools is
Eldred's subject.
With a special all-request program,
RubinofT will celebrate his second ami
versary on the variety hour program
from 8 to g. Eddie Cantor will sing
"Try a Little Tenderness" and Sitting
on Top of the World"
A concert by RoXy's Gang at l2:15,
another episode in the "Moonshine and
HoneySuckle" dramatic series, and a
popular program by Wayne Kings
Orchestra are among WRCs other out
standing N B. c. attractions
Foreign Legion Series.
A dramatic series based on the tales
of the Foreign Legion will be intro
duced tonight over WJSV and affiliated
Columbia stations. The cast will in
clude Vinton Haworth, who plays the
role of Jack Arnold in the Myrt and
Marge sketches, and John c. Daily,
Jtar of the Flu Manchu' series.
Two other new attractions are on
the WJSV schedule. The first, at II
am, will be the Virginia Chapel Hour,
during which the Is churches in Alex
andria, Va, will go on the air in ro-
tation for one hour every Sunday. The
first service will be from the Methodlst
Episcopal Church South.
The other new feature will be
concert py WdlJGI Olll4tlA anu AAAo Ha.N~
at tbs. This concert will replace the
Melodies in Memory broadcast.
Bruno Walter, distinguished German
conductor, will present the air premiere
OF Richard Strauss "Schlagobers" bal
let music as a feature of the all
German program to be broadcast by
the New York Philharmonic Society
Orchestra from to s. The orchestra
also will play the overture to Wagners
'aTannhauser," and the "Rienzi" over
ture.
DIR. StOckdale to Speak.
Rev. Allen A. Stockdale, pastor Of
the First Congregational Church, will
conduct the morning period Of the Co
lunbia Church of the Air from 10 TO
1890. The afternoon period from
1870 to 2 will be conducted by Rabbi
Solomon Goldman of the Anshe Emeth
Congregation of Chicago.
WMAL's weekly choral hour program
will be presented today By the quartet
of the Francis Asbury M. E. Church
South. Other musical features on this
stations program include the Old Hymn
Book Hour, under the direction OF
Justin Lawrie, and a historic musical
recital by Norman Frauenheim, pianist.
VOL will broadcast the morning
service of the New York Avenue PrcSby-
terrain Church in addition to its other
regular religious programs. These in
clude the sermon by Rev Charles E.
Coughlin and the Washington Catholic
Radio Hour.