Evening star., 1933-08-15
VALLEY
FORUM TALK TOPIC
Dr.. Morgan, Chairman, to
Give N. B. c. Audience De-
tails of Project.

R. ARTHUR E. MORGAN,
chairman of the Tennessee
Valley Authority. will face
IL microphone in the Washing
ton studios of the National
BroadcaSting Co. tonight at $50 O'Clock,
TO tell the Nation some of the details
Of the plan for development Of the
vast resources of the valley.
The speech will come during the Ma
tional Radio Forum. arranged by The
Washington Star and broadcast weekly
by a coast-to-coast N. B. c. network.
DR.. Morgan will explain why he
thinks development Of the Tennessee
Valley Is one Of the most significant
items in the Roosevelt administrations
new deal" The plan. he points out.
will affect not only 1000 600 inhabitants
Of Tennessee Virginia. North Carolina,
Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and
Kentucky but. in one way or another,
the people Of the entire Nation.
vYYORD has come to the Federal
w Radio Commission of the plans
of prohibition forces in Texas to
use a high-powered renegade" station
in Mexico. just across the border from
Eagle Pass Tex. to carry the anti
repeal fight not only to that State but
to the whole of the American continent.
the station Is XEPN. one Of the new
border units against which Norman T.
Baker, former broadcaster Of Muscatine.
Iowa. whose license was Cancelled by
the Radio Commission because OF OBJ
jectionable medical broadcasts and Use
OF the station as persona! mouth
piece"
Texas has It's repeal referendum Au-
= t,n Ioc
contracted for Is broadcasts Of 80 min
utes each at a cost Of $4,375.
nUDY VALLEE seems to be able to
II continue the pace he set for him.
self at the start of the Thursday
night variety shows on N. B. c. Each
week his show comes on the air with
. list Of entertainers that entertain.
For this week Vallee has mixed up
the movies, the vaudeville stage and
radio. He has drawn out Dorothy
Gish Of the films and stage. Smith and
Luther and his wife, Fora Layman.
singers, and the Koshetz Ukrainian
Choir. The Luthers and the choir are
from the air artist roster.
Miss Gish, incidentally. will be in a
scene from Autumn Crocus," in which
she starred on Broadway.
TARL M1LOCKERS comic opera,
~ The Beggar Student" will be pre-
sented over WMAL and other
n B. c. blue" network stations to-
night at 7 o'clock by the National Light
Opera.
This work. written about so years
ago. enjoyed wide popularity in Austria
and Germany. but In recent years
lapscd into comparative obscurity The
action is laid in the City of Cracow,
Poland, in 1904
Ss'THE MILKY WAY" will be charted
i and described in non-technical
terms by DR.. Robert H. Baker,
noted astronomer. in his regular weekly
broadcast over the N. B. C.. blue" net
work August "a. This will be the sixth
In his series on Stars Of the Summer
Night"
A NNE ELSTNER. who plays the her
"A oine in those "Hillybilly Heart
Throb" dramas over N. B. c.,
speaks the authentic dialect Of the
mountain country because she was born
in the South and has spent much time
with the folk Of the back country in
Tennessee, Kentucky and North Caro-
lima She even admits drinking potent
"moonshine" on hunting trips when
ever 1t was offered by natives. for fear
OF arousing suspicion that she might
be spy for the law"