Evening star., 1933-12-31
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ION BYRD GREETINGS
ST Radio Stations, Including
Canadian, to Carry Stars
Program Tonight.

With a special radio program Wash
ington will send its New Year greeting
tonight to Rear Admiral Richard E.
Byrd and his second South Pole expe-
dition, now in the ice-packed waters
of the Antarctic, more than 10000
| miles away.
The program arranged by The
Washington Star, will be relayed to
the expedition over W2xAF, short-wave
station of the General Electric Co., in
! Schenectady, N. Y. from II to 11:30
pm. WRC and so associated National
Broadcasting Co. stations also will dis
tribute the program throughout the
United States and Canada.
A New Year greeting will be extended
to Admiral Byrd and his expedition
by Frank B. Noyes, president OF the
Associated Press and of The Evening
Star Newspaper Co. There also will
the Navy Roosevelt.
Music to Be Broadcast.
The musical portion of the program
will be provided by the George Wash
ington University Glee Club under the
joint direction of DR. and Mrs Robert
H. Harmon, and the Maxim Lowe
Shoreham Hotel Orchestra. Lively
dance tunes by the orchestra will be
picked up direct from the hotel during
the New Year eve revelry. The crowds
there also are expected to shout their
greeting to the expedition.
The special program will be picked
up by the Jacob Rupert. flagship OF
the expedition. After this broadcast,
messages from relatives and friends OF
Admiral Byrd and members OF the ex-
pedition will be read. The letters, how
ever, will not be part Of the broad
cast program, but will be sent out over
the short-wave station only.
SO in GIee Club.
The glee club which is to take part
in this unusual broadcast is in itself
an unusual institution, brought to its
present state of national recognition by
the Joint efforts Of its co-directors. DR..
and Mrs Harmon. They have held the
destinies of the club in their hands con-
tinuously since 1924, after directing it
for a season in 1920-2l, and have seen
it win and place third in the two ma
tional intercollegiate glee club contests
in which it has participated.
The club they took over in 1924 had
20 active members, all men. There was
one rehearsal a week. Now there are
48 male and 48 female voices. They
practice twice a week, and usually give
| at least one concert week: an unusu-
ally heavy burden for a college organl-
1,h
| theatrical engagements, on the concert
stage and in radio broadcasts over ma
tional hook-ups.
The first stage appearance was in
1925, when the club sang at the Rialto
and attracted much favorable COM
ment In 1926 II did a week at Kelth S
vaudeville house and in 1927 week at
the Earle. In 1928 there was a joint
concert with the Columbia University
| Glee Club at the Mayfower Hotel, an
affair which was repeated IN 1929.
Wins Against Seasoned Clubs.
All Of this time DR. Harmon, then Mr..
Harmon, was taking first the pre-
medical and then the medical course at
the university. He received his medical
degree in 1929. and then decided 1t was
time to club into big-time competition,
Winning the Middle Atlantic tryouts
against Johns Hopkins and Catholic
Universities, the glee club appeared for
the first time at the famous Carnegie
Hall in New York where II surprised
its most ardent supporters by carrying
ponents as Yale. Ohio State. Dart
mouth, Union, Wesleyan. Fordham,
New York University, Columbia, Okla
homa and North Carolina Universities
In 1881. again winning the Middle
Atlantic honors. it placed third in the
Carnegie Hall finals. The opposition in
the Middle Atlantic sector had collapsed
in 1892, and there was no contest here,
In 1893 no intercollegiate contest at all
was staged. because Of the national
financial stringency So now the club
is looking around for more worlds to
conquer The South Pole offered a
convenient spot.
The clubs most recent appearance on
the air was at the annual Christmas
tree exercises at the Community Tree
near the White House. 1t has attracted
much favorable comment by its singing
at the Christmas tree exercises for the
past three years as the singing, as well
as the Presidents speech of Christmas
greeting, is broadcast throughout the
land.
Besides DR.. and Mrs Harmon. the
clubs affairs are in the hands of Dean
John R. Lapham of the Engineering
School, and Miss Anne Pearl Cooper of
the department of English, as faculty
advisers.
DR.. Harmon also gave credit for much
of the clubs recent success to President
Cloyd Heck Marvin, who has supported
it on all occasions.
Stations to Garry Program.
Stations in the extensive N. B. C.
network, which will broadcast the pro-
gram in this country and Canada are .:
WEAF. New York; WEEI, Boston;
VITO, Nartford WAR, Providence
WTAG, Worchester. Mass: WCSH,
Portland. Me: WIFI. Philadelphia :;
WBAI,. Baltimore; WGY. Schenectady;
WBEN. Buffalo: WCAE. Pittsburgh;
WTAM. Cleveland; WWJ, Detroit;
WSAI, Cincinnati; KSD. st. Louis;
WHO and woo, Des Moines; WOW,
Omaha: WDAF. Kansas City; .CKGW,
Toronto: CFCF, Montreal; WTMJ,
MilTaukee: WdBA, Masison, Wis :
WBAY, Fargo; KFYR, Bismarck;
WRVA, Richmond, Va; WPTF, Raleigh;
WWNC, Asheville, N. c.; WIS, Colum-
bia, S. C.; WAX, Jacksonville; VILLA,
Clearwater; WHO'D. Miami; WSM, Nash
vile; VINO, Memphis; WSB, Atlanta
WAPI, Birmingham; WJDX, Jackson,
Miss; WSMB, New Orleans: KVOO,
Tulsa. Okla; WKY, Oklahoma City:
WFAA, Dallas; WBAP, Fort Worth !;
WPRC Houston. WOAI San Antonio