Evening star., 1947-12-21

During the next few days the
spirit of Christmas will descend or
the networks and stations, and the
air will be filled completely with
programs having to do with the
holiday. Almost every program viii
have some touch of Christmas, bul
there are also great number OF
broadcasts that have been planned
especially for this period.
All stations will carry the Presi-
dents broadcast during which hi
lights the community Christmas tree
on the White House lawn and de-
livers his holiday message to the
people. This broadcast will be hearc
$3.50 pm. on Christmas eve. The
teleeast of this event will begin or
local stations at 4:45 pm.
WRC-NBC Today the inter-
national children's Christmas party
will be broadcast 1905 pm. On
this program children of the foreign
missions to this country broadcast
holiday messages to their home
lands as we'll as to the United States
. This network and station will
concentrate on the Christmas theme
carried inside the formal of then
regularly scheduled programs.
WTOP-CBS :. The climax pro-
gram on this station will be the
Christmas Day 1.-TWO Hours of Stars
broadcast. This extravaganza will
follow closely the formal of the
Thanksgiving. program, with diff
ferent set of stars. Don Ameche will
emcee, with the cast including Bot
Hope, Charlie Mccarthy and Edgar
Bergen, Amos m Andy, Cass Daley
and Harry James and his orchestra
At midnight on Christmas eve there
will begin one-hour program o1
Christmas carols with the Columbis
Chorus and orchestra directed BY
Robert Shaw. Eileen Farrell will be
the soloist. On December Is al
11:30 WTOP will present broad.
cast of Handels THE Messiah
from the Stone Church at Inde.
pendence, Mo, with a 25O-voice
choir and the Kansas City Philhar.
UOnlC OrCneSLrd.
.WMAL-ABC This station
Christmas programing is concen
trated into one evening, December
a. At $3.50 Lionel Barrymore
will play Scrooge in the famou!
Charles Dickens story. At 10 pm
Bing Crosby will sing Christina:
carols. Midnight will bring tht
service from the Cathedral of st
John the Divine in New York. Al
1890 the overseas circuits will oper
for the service at St. Peters in Rome
and message from Pope Plus XII
WOL-MBS Tomorrow morn.
Ing at GAS Gen. Carl A. Spaatz viii
extend his personal greetings tt
the air force personnel, at 1:30 Gen
Malcolm Gates will do the same fol
the Marine Corps and on Wednes-
day at 80 Admiral Louis E. Den.
field will speak to the Navy.
WWDC The complete Christ
mas eve mass from the Church o1
the Immaculate Conception will be
broadcast starting at 1870 pm
The Rev. John A. Lubey will serve
as narrator on this broadcast.
WINK : On Christmas eve
1.-THE Story of the Nativity" featur-
ing Walter Hampden as narrator
will be heard. At 1870 the com.
munion services from the Washing
ton Cathedral will be broadcast
On Christmas Day at 10:30 am
the affiliated i. Westminster Choir!
will be heard in a Commute pro
gram. At pm. "Hansel ane
Gretel," the Humperdinck opera
will be broadcast.
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Another station will take to the
air soon in Washington, its cal
letters WCFM. This will be ar
FIN station owned by eight con-
sumer co-operatives in this area
The ground for the transmitter
which will be located in West Falls
Church, was broken last week and
the station expects to be on the
air by May.
C. Edward Behre, president Of
the Cooperative Broadcasting AS
sociation, the licensee of the station