Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 113, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1928 — Page 9

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L Radio (noted artists TO APPEAR ON AIR PROGRAMS Complete List of Stars for Winter Announced by Concert Bureau. Announcement of the complete list of artists and musical groups assembled by the National Broadcasting and concert bureau, both for microphone performances and personal appearances in concert this season, has been made by George Engles, managing director. Contracts have been concluded whereby the concert bureau will represent Edwin Franko Goldman and his band. The Goldman organization, whose summer concerts on the Central Park mall and at New York University have become an annual institution, will broadcast frequently from the studios of the National Broadcasting Company. The Lenox String Quartet has also cast its entire artistic destinies with the concert bureau. Seven instrumentalists and about forty vocalists appear on the list. Among the instrumentalists are Arcadie Birkenholz, violinist; Mathilde Harding, pianist: Godfrey Ludlow, violinist; Lolita Gainsborg, pianist; Keith McLeod, pianist; Georgia Price, harpist, and Kathleen Stewart, pianist. Noted Vocalists on List The vocalists are Genia Zielinska, Devora Narwoorney, Jessica Dragonette, Giuseppe di Benedetto, Julian Oliver, Theodore Webb, Frances Paperte, Judson House, James Haupt, Walter Preston, Maurice Tyler, Suzanne Keener, Erva Giles, Gladys Rice, Gitla Erstinn, Leslie Frick, Leon Salathiel, Dolores Cassinelli, Caroline Andrews, Graham, McNamee, Vaughn de Leath, Astrid Fjelde, Paula Hemminghaus, Marjorie Horton, Mildred Hunt, Alma Peterson and Rosalie Wolf. Besides these, there are twelve of the National Broadcasting Company announcers, including Alwyn Bach, Phillips Carliri, Milton Cross, John B. Daniel, Paul Dumont, Alois Havrilla, Curt Peterson, Edmund Ruffner, Marley Sherris, Norman Sweetsor_ Edward Thorgersen, Ralph Wentworth. Popular Dance Orchestras Popular dance orchestras under the management of the concert bureau, are the Lucky Strike Orchestra, the Mediterraneans, B. A. Rolfe and his orchestra. Frank Winegar’s Pennsylvanians, Hal Kemp and his Hotel Manger Orchestra, William Scotti and his Venetian Gondoliers, Johnny Johnson and his Statler Pennsylvanians, Peter Van Steeden and his orchestra, Charley Fry and his Million Dollar Pier orchestra. The concert bureau’s popular groups are the National Cavaliers, the American Singers, the New Yorkers, Goodrich Silvertown quartet, Armchair quartet, Happy Wonder Bakers, Ballad Singers quartet, South Sea Islanders, Happy-Go-Lucky Boys, Parnassus trio and the Bonnie Laddies.

City Stations

WFBM (275.1) INDIANAPOLIS (Indianapolis Power and Light Company) MONDAY Noon—Correct time, courtesy Julius C. Walk & Son; Lester HufTff on studio organ. T. M. 12:30—Livestock market .Indianapolis and Kansas City. 12:35 —Weather report: farm flashes. United States Department of Agriculture. 4:oo—Baldwin Piano Company program of classic recordings. 4:3o—Aunt Sammy's housekeepers’ chat and radio recipes: U. S. Department of Agriculture. 4:so—ltems of interest from Indianapolis Times Want Ads. s:oo—Cofrect time, Julius C. Walk & Sou. 6:ls—‘‘What’s Happening,” Indianapolis Times. S:3O—A chapter a day from the New Testament. 5:15-4-11 Club Crier. U. S . Department of Agriculture. 6:oo—Correct time; Columbia Club Orchestra, directed by Hoagy Carmichael. 6:4s—Play and photoplay review. 6:ss—Newscasting, World news from Times. 7:os—Music of the hour. 7:4s—The Crooning minstrel. . 8:00—A musical scrapbook. 9:oo—“Know Your Indianapolis,” Western Oil Refining Company. 9:os—Edison male quartet. 9:3o—Telechron tickers. 10:15—“The Columnist.” 10:30—Mae Engle, staff pianist. 10:45—Skouras-Publix Monday Night Club. WKBF (252) INDIANAPOLIS (Hoosier Athletic Club) MONDAY A. M. 10:00 —Recnue exchange. 10:15—Studio program. 10:25 —Interesting bits of history, courtesy Indianapolis library. 10:30 —Livestock and grain market! weather and shippers’ forecast. 10:40 —“Seed corn for 1929 Planting,” talk by Clarence Henry. 10:50 —WKBF shopping service. P. M. 5:00—I.. ,e news bulletins and sports. 6:oo—Dinner concert. 6:3o—Bair’s Uptown theater. 7:oo—Studio program. 7:3o—lnternational B:ble Students Association. B:ls—Rochford and Peggs. 9:3o—Beard’s Happy Brake Liners. 9:oo—Pearson Piano Company hour. 10:00—Rochy Holland’s Golden Orioles.

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\N OTHER diversified program of Broadway talent, combined with the best Indianapolis entertainers, has been assembled for the SkourasPublix Monday night club program at 10:45 tonight over WFBM. Charlie Davis, master of ceremonies at the Indiana, where the Joe Santley Publix show, “Babes on Broadway,” together with Fritz Morris, violinist; Frank Papila, accordionist; uouis Lowe, tenor; Harry Wiliiord, wa-wa blues singer; Frank Owens, soloist, and several others, will be important features of the program. Du Callion, famous English comedian; Helen Honan, impersonator and singer; Freddy Bernard, the joy boy of blackface; Sally Starr, dim-ple-kneed lass of jazzland; Electa Havel, light opera favorite, and a number of others will represent “Babes on Broadway.” tt u tt tt tt tt A series of lecture recitals, in which explanations of everything related to the symphony orchestra, will be given both by talks and musical illustrations, banning tonight at 7:30 through the Gimbel station, WGBS. The second program will be presented Wednesday, Oct. 10, and other recitals will be given on following Wednesday evenings. a a a tt tt a Secretary Mellon will deliver tw r o speeches in behalf of Herbert Hoover. Both will be over nation-wide radio hookups. Mellon has completed his first speech, which will be Oct. 11. It will deal with Federal finances and will emphasize prosperity, it is understood. The second speech will be Oct. 29. tt tt tt tt it tt To bring women out of the kitchen will be the aim of anew series of programs. “The Forecast School of Cookery,” which will be broadcast through the NBC system three mornings a week, starting Tuesday. “Cooks are made, not born,” according to Mrs. C. Houston Goudiss, for fifteen years director of the school from which the program takes its name, who will bring the experience she has gained in making cooks by teaching 150 women a week in classes to the larger field of the radio audience. Graham McNamee, NBC announcer, will introduce Mrs. Goudiss.

Popular Broadway hits will be featured in the General Motors family party tonight, when the songs that, made Jerome Kern’s many musical comedy successes will be broadcast. Chevrolet, celebrating its millionth 1928 car, is host. Victor Baravalle, musical director of “The Showboat,” and associated with Kern in his Broadway productions, will direct the orchestra. Vocal soloists and a quartet will give song hits.

Rally around, radio ringsiders! Beginning Tuesday night, when the winter boxing season swings into action, the Ringsiders Club of the Gus Habich Company, will once more be on the air. The indoor boxing shows of the American Legion will be broadcast every week, direct from the ringside in the National Guard Armory WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company station, will put the fistic feast on the air, and the broadcasting again will be sponsored by the Gus Habich Company local sporting goods store, just as was done last season. According to present plans, the indoor fight season will last for thirtytw r o weeks, and the boxing broadcast will go on the air from WFBM at 9 p. m. each Tuesday. Ralph Elvin will be at the “Mike.” tt tt tt an tt Acceding to the popular will, which demands politics in as big bunches as possible during October, the management of Philco hour today announced that its regular Saturday night broadcast from Oct. 6 to Nov. 3, inclusive, would be from 7 to 8 o’clock. Philco hour returns to its full hour program of entire operettas Oct. 6, which marks the first birthday anniversary of this nationally popular radio feature.

HIGH SPOTS OF TONIGHT’S OFFERINGS 9:3O—WEAF National Grand 9:oo—YVJZ—Address of Governor Smith from Rochester. Opera Company. B:oo—WEAF—Address of Scna--9:oo—WOß—United Opera Com- tor William E. Borah. pany. 6:3o—WJZ—Roxy and His Gang.

WKBF, Hoosier Athletic Club station, announces anew feature on the air every evening except Saturday and Sunday, between 6:30 and 7 o’clock. This program will be sponsored by Bair’s Theater and will consist of organ selections, popular and classical, played by Miss Margaret Stillwell. The first program will be presented this evening at 6:30. a a a a a Like an avalanche gatherin momentum and increasing in size as it rolls along has become the mass of protests from the radio audience at the idea of losing any part of the program of stations WLW and WSAI as the result of the recent reallocation of radio stations. No formal protest has been lodged by the Crosley Radio Corporation against the commission’s order for WLW and WSAI to divide time on WLW’s 700 kilocycle band when WSAI’s wavelength was given to station KOA, Denver. “The listeners will do the protesting,” Crosley said when the new radio station arrangement was made known. a a tt o a If the comments of the radio audience are any criterion, the reading of “A Chapter a Day From the New Testament” is attracting an ever-increasing audience for WFBM. This Bible reading each afternoon at 5:30 by Parker Wheatley of the WFBM announcing staff has won a large volume of praise. a a a a a The Crosley Showbox orchestra, one of WLW’s favorite concert groups, will not appear until 11:30 P. M. on Thursdays, in an effort to present something new in tentertainment to those who are able to use their radios only at a late hour. WLW’s variety hour with xylophone, piano, harmony and comedy entertainment, has been moved to 11 p. m. on Wednesday to occupy the time when WSAI is broadcasting from Castle Farm. a tt tt o a a A gala five-hour program presently the Little Symphony Orchestra of Chicago of thirty pieces and every member of the WLS program staff and large family of entertainers—more than 150 singers and musicians in all—will mark the inauguration of broadcasting by the Prairie Farmer over WLS. This novel and varied broadcast will be on the air tonight between 7 and 12 o’clock and will serve officially to celebrate the transfer of ownership of WLS from Sears, Roebuck & Cos., to the Prairie Farmer, America’s oldest farm paper.

Courthouse Dedicated SULLIVAN, Ind., Oct. I.—Sullivan County’s new courthouse was open today following dedication ceremonies Sunday at which Walter Myers, Indianapolis attorney, was the principal speaker.

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—Radio — ELKHART GIRL FIRST IN STATE RADIO CONTEST Four Winners, Who Will Compete Here Oct. 18-19, Are Selected. Indiana’s first quartet of winners in the 1928 National Radio Audition have been selected. They are: Lucille Ludington, Cressler, Elkhart; Claude C. Smith, South Bend; Helen Martha Piersol, Rushville, and Clyde M. Pierce, Rushville. Miss Cressler, contraltoo sololist of the South Bend Women’s Glee Club, was adjudged the sweetestvoiced of all girls who competed in the singing contest of South Bend and vicinity, while young Smith, baritone of the St. Paul M. E. Church quartet, South Bend, won in the men’s division. This victory makes them South Bend’s representatives in the allIndiana State Audition at WKBF, Indianapolis, Oct. 18 and 19, and advances them nearer to the $17,500 cash awards, vocal scholarships and musical careers offered by the Atwater Kent Foundation to amateur singers. “Sylvia," Oley Speaks’ beloved song, was the number which Miss Helen Piersol, Methodist Church chorister, a soprano, and Clyde Pierce, former Butler College Glee Club baritone, sang to win first places in the Rushville local audition, and the right to represent their city in the State competition. Eleven more Hoosier cities plan to send their best boy and girl singers into the State audition, Mrs. Frank B. Hunter of Indianapolis, Indiana State audition committee chairman, announced today. These cities, and audition chairmen : jr each, are: Indianapolis, Mrs. Frank B. Hunter; Ft. Wayne, Oswald Jones; Bloomington. Dean Winfred Merrill; Petersburg, Mrs. Owen Harris; Connersville, Prof. Albert A. Glockzin; Columbus, Mrs. H. Lee Basso t; Marion, Miss Alma Patton; Shelby - ville, Mrs. Ruby Bassett; Kokomo, Mrs. George Thatcher; Loganspcrt Mrs. Myra Stewart Gordon, and Lebanon. Mrs Jack Edwards. Winners of the Indiana State audition will go to Chicago, as guests of the Atwater Kent Foundation, to compete with other Midwest State winners in the semifinals. The national finals will be in New York, broadcast by radio station WEAF and a nation-wide network of stations. ORDAIN 7 CANDIDATES Seven candidates for ministry in the Church of Divine Metaphysics received ordination at a special service Sunday. The Rev. Fred A. Line, pastor of the Central Universalist Church, delivered the address. V Opposes Whipping Post Btt f7nit+d f> > st BEDFORD. Ind., Oct. I.—The Hoosier State Automobile Association will not favor the return of the whipping post as punishment for reckless auto drivers and auto thieves, it was decided at the close of the meeting here.

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Daylight Hits Central Standard Time

MONDAY A. M —NBC System (WJZ)— 9:oo—Dr. Copeland hour. —NBC System—--9:3o—Democratic National committee. —NBC System (WEAF)— 10:15—Household institute. —NBC Network—11:00—Republican campaign speech. —WTMJ. Milwaukee—11:30—Picture transmission. —WJR. Detroit—11:45—Musical matinee (dally). P. M —WOW. Omaha—12:30—Riviera theater. —WSB. Atlanta—--I:oo—University of Georgia program. —WMAQ, Chicago—--I:3o—Musical Potpourri. —WLS, Chicago—--2:3o—Homemakers’ hour. TUESDAY A. M. .. —WLW. Cincinnati—--B:3o—Women’s0 —Women’s hour. —NBC System (WJZ)— 9:oo—Dr. Copeland hour. —WMAQ, Chicago10:00—Overture hour. —NBC System (WEAF) — 10:15—Household institute. P M. —WSB, Atlanta—--I.oo—University of Georgia program. —WLS, Chicago—--2 30—Homemakers’ hour. —WBAL. Baltimore—--3:oo—Salon music. —NBC System—--3:OO—U. S. Navy band to WJZ. WHO. WBZ. MUMBLES FOB SI,OOO Bandit Disguises Voice at Losantville Bank. Pit Time* Special LOSANTVILLE, Ind., Oct. I. Authorities today are without a clew to a mumbling bandit v’ho robbed the Farmers Bank here Saturday morning and escaped with SI,OOO. Pointing a gun at the cashier, Frank Thompson, the bandit mumbled a command to hand over the money, apparently seeking to make it difficult if not impossible for Thompson to recognize his voice should he ever hear it again. It is believed the barfdit concealed himself in the bank at night, awaiting its opening the next day. Thompson was taking money for the day’s business from the vault when the robber appeared. No one saw him escape.

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Night Features Central Standard Time

MONDAY —NBC System (WJZ)— 6:3o—Roxv and Gang. —WGBS. New York—--6:3o—Theater hour. Irene Franklin. Georgia Price and Sigmund Romberg. —NBC STstem (WEAF)— 7:oo—Reuubllcan campaign speech. B.3o—Motors party, popular Broadway hits. - WADC. Akron—--7:3o—Yowlingo—Yowling Yodlers. —Columbia Network—--B:oo—Lownev hour. 8:00 —Riverside hour. —Columbia Network — 8 30—vitaohone Jubilee hour. —NBC System (WEAF)— 9:3o—Grand opera. ’Pagllaccl.’ —KOA. Denver — 10:00—Opera. ’’lolanthe.” TEST WAVE LENGTHS Several Order Permits Station to Make Experiments. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. I.—A general order permitting radio stations to test new wave lengths recently assigned them was issued today by the Federal Radio Commission. For stations east of the Mississippi the tests will be between 2 and 7 a. m., Eastern Standard time, while stations west of the Mississippi may make tests between 1 and 7 a. m., Central Standard. If any interference develops from these tests, they will be scheduled at different hours.

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