Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-31
THOMAS TO STAR
IN NEW PROGRAM
Noted Baritone to Open
New Musical Series on
N. B. c. Network.

sc YOHN CHARLES THOMAS
AND HIS NEIGHBORS" is
the title Of a new musical
~ series, featuring the noted
operate star to be broadcast over an
N.B.C. network each Wednesday at 8
O'Clock, beginning tonight. WMAL
will carry the program here.
Replacing "Our Home on the Range"
program, in which the baritone was
depicted as q singing ranch owner,
the new show will create an atmos-
phere of song among the pleasant as
poets of Thomas rural neighbors
along the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
1t was in this historical section that
the famed singer spent his boyhood
and his Summer home is located here.
Thomas ranks as the first operate
star to be featured as the central fig
ure Of a musical dramatic serial TAX
ing both the acting and singing parts.
Frank Tours, eminent conductor,
and his orchestra will provide the
music on the new Thomas program,
while in the cast supporting Thomas
will be Willie Morris, soprano; a quar-
Cet ana DOC brOWn.
Tours, who will conduct the Or
chestra, has been musical director OF
all Irving Berlin shows for 81 years
end is one of the best known leaders
on Broadway. He directs the orchestra
in the musical extravaganza, The
Great Waltz" soon to reopen at the
Center Theater in Rockefeller Center.
THE deep-throated woman singer
- evidently has cornered the radio
market If the additions held thus far
in seven cities by the national radio
open contest is any criterion. And the
lyric romantic tenors are falling by
the wayside in favor Of bass and BARI
tone singers, it is indicated.
With the winning of the Los An
eeles, Calf, addition by Yvonne Do
ray, contralto, the Firechief additions
set a record for a complete sweep by
the contralto singers, as Washington,
Detroit, Buffalo, Atlantic City-Phll-
adelphia, Chicago and Denver audi
tons each were won by this type OF
female voice. And, with the exception
of Buffalo and Los Angeles, which
produced tenors, the other five cities
nave succumbed to the tones of bari
tone and bass-baritone voices. The
national judges are beginning to feel
that there is a change in radio favor
toward the deeper type Of voices, or
else the high soprano and lyric tenors
are things of the past and simply are
not being developed.
The search for professional and
amateur singing talent proceeds
through the Northwest, with winners
TO be selected in Portland, Seattle,
Tacoma, Spokane and nearby terri
tory. These winners will be trans
ported to Los Angeles, where Eddy
Duchin and his orchestra continue
their Cocoanut Grove engagement.
NCIX-GUN JUSTICE" in a new
series and at a new time, will
inaugurate a second group Of Western
thrillers with a broadcast over WJSV
tonight at 8 o'clock. This feature,
written by Wilbur Hall and portraying
in vivid authentic Demonstrations
the picturesque life of the upland cat
tie country Of California. will be heard
weekly thereafter at the same time.
1t was formerly broadcast on Mon
days.
So popular has "Six-Gun Justice"
become that the new series will
broaden its interests and contents
considerably. There will be more
music from Carson Robison's Buck
ARGOS and little lighter treatment
of the exciting adventures among the
cowboys and cattle rustlers of the
ranch country.
Prominent in the cast will be Ray
Collins as jeff Ownesly, the heavy
villain; william tombstone as Jim
Dance, the hero, and Barbara Weeks
as Maureen Cathoart, the pretty visi-
tor from the East. Others will in
clude Tex Ritter. The Buckaroos,
Carson Robson, the Mitchell Brothers
snd Pearl Pickens, and Anne Elsnor
as "Mrs. Pete" one of the most pop
ular and picturesque characters in
the series.