The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-17

TODAY is UNDERSIGNED on the
4 caller ar day of Fred War
ing, leader of the Pennsylvanians.
one of the busiest and most widely
broadcast orchestras.
Heard each Tuesday on the
CHS Ford Motor hour, Waring is
to inaugurate an NBC program
tonight at $3.50 for the same spon-
sors. Thirty minutes later on the
same chain, Waring and Alfred P.
Sloan, General Motors Corp.
president, are to be awarded the
Poor Richard Achievement medals
for 1886 or the observance pro-
gram of Benjamin Franklin's
birthday.
MIR. Sloan Is to be rewarded as
an outstanding citizen and indus
tisalist, Mr.. Waring for his high
standard of entertainment dur
ing the last year.
Waring and his orchestra are to
leave next week on vaudeville
tour which will extend until Feb.
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DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Is to
Il inaugurate the national cam
paign against infantile paralysis
with a broadcast over the net
works of the Columbia, National
and Mutual systems tomorrow
night at $50. BY telephone, he is
to address the national committee
men of the Birthday Ball in New
York.
In what Is expected to be a
short, short broadcast, NBC will
clear its WIZ chain for the Joe
Louis Charley Retzlaff heavy
weight fight tonight at Chicago
Stdium. The blow by blow de-
acriptiOn is to start ut 10,
but with Retzlaff stalking all on
one mighty punch, and wake of
early-round victims in the path
of the Detroit bomber, the net
work is prepared to return early
to the studio program.
An explanation of the Ameri-
can Civil Service and of the
merit system is to be broadcast
at $3.50 today over a NBC-WEAF
network in observance of the Ma
tional Civil Service Act.
DOB NEWHALL, WLW sports
ID commentator, who for a
quarter of a century has shad-
owed the big league baseball teams,
has deserted his evening broad
cast for a southern trip. He is
to replenish his store of train
ing news and off-record stories
at the preseason camps.
A bottle tossed into the ocean,
a city laid out as trick and a
strange individual known as "the
human horse" are themes of
tales to be related on the Strange
AS 1t Seems program tonight at
6:45 over WIRE.
"a Shot in Room 312" is the
mystery drama selected for Irene
Rich's dramatization on the NBC-
WIZ network at I.
n r.
Musicians of many nations are
to be represented on the concert
music program at 7 on the NBC-
WEAF network. Jessica Drago-
nette, soprano, is to sing SOL
veig's Song" by Grieg of Norway
as one of the features.
ELEANOR POWELL, dancer
II and actress, and Osgood Per-
kins are to enact scenes from
celebrated motion picture tonight
on the Flying Red Horse Tav-
ern CHS broadcast at 7.
Tunes from musical comedy,
screen plays and Tin Pan Alley
have been woven into the Broad
way Varieties broadcast to be
heard at 1880 on CHS tonight.
A new phantom of the opera
has been harassing radio techni-
clans at the Metropolitan Opera
House, which recently was reno
waited for broadcasting purposes.
A cracking sound, much like
static, was heard over the loud
speakers during the broadcasts CT
"Minon' and "Gotterdacmme-
rung.". Engineers believed it was
caused by the stage setting or ap-
paratus.
BALLADS of this and past gene
ID rations are to be offered by
Frank Mum, tenor; Bernice Claire,
soprano; the Manhattan Chorus
and Abe Lyman's orchestra on the
Waltz Time program over NBC-
WEAF at tonight.
A case portraying the conflict
between a college-bred man and
city girl in a northern Canada
environment is to be related on
the True Story Court of Human
Relations program at $50 tonight
on the NBC-WEAF network.
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Richard Himber's Champions
are to feature "Over Night" hit
tune of a few years ago, on CHS
at 8.
THAT comedian, philosopher
j and sage, Bob Burns, who is
heard on Bing Crosby's Music Hall,
is to be seen on the screen soon.
known as the Arkansas Traveller,
Burns has received offers from
three movie producers.
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A dramatic struggle between
good and evil Is to be deyeloped