Evening star., 1938-03-15
BIRTHDAY
PROGRAM ON AIR
Stars of Radio and Films
to Be Heard Tonight
From Hollywood.

M stations in Hollywood. New
York City, Chicago and WASH
ington will be linked together
tonight during the full hour of enter
tainment and speeches to be pre-
sented in celebration of the 18th
birthday of the American Legion
(WRC, midnight). Stars OF radio
and the screen are to be heard from
Hollywood as the program opens.
among them Dick Foran, Priscilla and
Rosemary Lane, Dick Powell. Jack
Benny, Marion Talley and Johnny
Davis, swing trumpeter. Daniel j.
Doherty, national commander Of the
Legion. is to speak from Chicago, and
the others scheduled to make short
addresses are Mrs. Malcolm Douglas.
president of the auxiliary. and Fred
G. Fraser, Chef de Chemin de Fer,
Forty and Eight.
VOL is to inaugurate a new series
of transcribed dramatizations at 8
o'clock under the title, Federal
Agent" These stories of adventure,
involving the law-enforcement agen-
cies of every major country. will be
presented in complete 15-minute epl-
sodes each week. It is not serial
feature. A group of players heard
regularly over network "live" shows
will enact the roles.
OTHER FEATURES - Edna May
" Oliver, caustic comedienne of the
films, is to be the guest of Al Jolson
(WJSV, $500 30. Jane Froman makes
her first appearance before a micro
phone since early in January when she
visits AL Pearce (WJSV, 81
Dale Carnegie tells people who have
jobs how to stay out of the class Of
people who do not have jobs (WRC.
1O:45) >. Marie Sarkipato, 19-year-
old Ely, Mimi. girl who has been a
woods guide since she was 13 years
of age, will be interviewed by Edgar
A. Guest (WMAL. $500 Senator
Johnson of Colorado will be the
speaker on the Between War and
Peace program (WOL, 9:45. His
topic: The Big Navy Policy"
TOMORROW - Carmela Lazzeri.
of Lee Everett C7:30 pnD =. Off
cials of Clemson College will take
part in the National Farm and Home
Hour (WMAL, 12:30 when the pro.
gram turns to the South Carolina
school in its series of land grant
coIlepo orourop,c a II Dorrnu,
radio chairman of the National Con-
gress Of Parents and Teachers. dis
cusses radio as "A Servant in the
House" (WMAL. 4:30) A glimpse
of life around the oil fields of Vene-
zuela will be presented during the
American School of the Air program
CWJSV, 2:30).
NOTES AND THINGS-Lest it be
forgotten. Margo of Castlewood
and Cabin at the Crossroads have ex-
changed their morning periods
Tommy Dorsey would like to hear from
more amateur local swingsters inter-
ested in competing when the band
comes to the Earle Theater Friday Mr..
Dorsey says please write MIN now at the
theater. This department is working
on special arrangement of Beetho-
ven's Fourth on a kazoo
Nick Kenny, one of the more talented
radio colunnists, will celebrate his
10th anniversary as song writer next
week, which means that he will be
saluted by most of the network bands
through playing of his Gold Mine in
the Sky" =. It would seem that many
homes are destined to have two loud
speakers in their living rooms before
long. A radio manufacturer has an
nounced an arrangement whereby you
can play bridge downstairs and hear
baby crying in the nursery THAT is.
when and if baby decides to cry or
make any other disturbance
&C M