Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1935 — Page 2

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CHRISTMAS RADIO PROGRAMS TO FEATURE WORLD-FAMED PERSONALITIES

Carols, Talks Headlined By Air Systems Jibbett to Be Heard at 7:30 Tonight; Roosevelt to Talk at 4. The radio facilities of almost every nation in the world arc to be utilized tonight and tomorrow in scores of Christmas programs. Both great American chains and the large stations of foreign countries will take part in presenting holiday feature programs. First of the Christmas Eve features will come at 4 this afternoon when President Roosevelt will light the candles on the Christmas tree on the White House lawn and then deliver a message of good-w'ill to the nation. The program will be broadcast by the Columbia system and over NBC’s Red network fWEAFi. Cleveland Symphony to Play Two of the outstanding musical events on tonight’s programs are the recital by Lawrence Tibbett, famed baritone, and the concert by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Tibbett will offer two wellknown carols and Schubert's “Omnipotence, ’’ in his recital at 7:30 over the Columbia system. The Cleveland Symphony will present a Christmas program from 9:30 to 10:30 under the baton of Arthur Rodzinski. It will be broadcast by NBC’s Red network. A Christmas message by Ray Murphy, national commander of the American Legion, will be broadcast hospitalized veterans over NBC’s WEAF hookup at 5:35 this evening. Frank Munn to Sing A Christmas novelty program is to be given from 7 to 7:30 on Columbia’s “Lavender and Old Lace” program. Gruber’s "Silent Night, Holy Night” will be sung by Frank Munn, tenor, and a “Jingle Bell Melody” will be given by an orchestra conducted by Victor Arden. Poems appropriate to Christmas will be read by David Ross from 9:45 to 10 tonight on his “Poet's Gold” program (Columbia). Holiday broadcasts from abroad are to start this afternoon at 2 with a program from Poland featuring the Orchestra Polskieradjo. At 2:30, the Orchestra National is to be heard from Paris and at 3:15, NBC has scheduled a program of carols from England. The carolers were to be heard from St. Mary’s Cathedral in Whitechapel, London. King George to Be Heard One of the most unique programs on this evening's list is to be an NBC broadcast from Grand Central Station, New York, at 6:30. Carolers in the station will serenade departing travelers leaving to spend the holidays at home. The carolers will be a trained group from Calvary Baptist Church. King George’s Christmas message to his half billion subjects will be broadcast over the Columbia and NBC networks from 8:20 to 9:05 tomorrow morning. The program is to open with the sound of Christmas bells in the holy city of Bethlehem. This is to fade into the singing by carolers in London and next will come a series of pickups from typical homes scattered over the Empire. The king is expected to take the air about 9 o’clock. The subject will be “His Great Family.” Christmas morning services over the NBC chain will start at 5:30 in a broadcast from the famous old Zion Church in Baltimore. “Messiah” to Be Given Both great chains will present some of the day’s outstanding musical programs between 2 and 4 tomorrow afternoon. From 2 to 3, Columbia will present “The Messiah,” as given from Cleveland by the Akron Civic Chorus. Canada’s celebration will be featured from 3 to 4 by NBC, and at the same time, the Columbia stations will give the program of the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, “Babes in Toyland,” Victor Herbert’s famous Christmas composition, will be presented by an orchestra under the direction of Harold Sanford from 3:30 to 4:30 over NBC’s WJZ system. Helen Hayes' New Play to Be Heard Helen Hayes is to be supported by two outstanding actors from her ! Broadway cast when she is heard 1 as Queen Victoria during the radio preview of her new stage play on the Christmas Eve broadcast of; “The New Penny” over the NBCWJZ network at 8:30 tonight, George Zucco, distinguished Eng- j lish actor, and James Woodburn, j Scotland’s favorite character actor, : are to make their American radio j and stage debuts with the tiny dramatic star. Romberg Operetta Scheduled by NBC Sigmund Romberg, one of the leading American composers of operetta music, is to present a tabloid radio version of his latest work, I “May Wine.” in his Swift Studio Party broadcast tonight. With Romberg conducting and Helen Marshall, George Britton, William Abbott and Morton Rowe as soloists, the operetta will be broadcast over an NBC-WEAF network at 9 p. m. Waring to Salute Fellow Conductors Fred Waring is to salute 10 of his fellow conductors by playing their favorite numbers during the Pennsylvanians’ weekly broadcast over the nationwide Columbia network at 8:30 tonight. Th# maestros to whom Waring is to pay tribute are Paul Whiteman, Rudy Vallee, Andre Kostelanetz, Duke Ellington, Red Nichols, ( Abe Lyman, Guy Lombardo, Wayne King, Ben Benue and Ray Noble. I

TONIGHT'S RADIO TOUR NETWORK OFFERING

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NBC-WEAF President Roosevelt* James Willinson* Clara, Lu ’n Em* Internatl. Broadcast Week-end Hymn Sing Press Radio news. Am. Legion talk* Billy and Betty Amos ’n’ Andy* Popeye the Sailor* Edwin C. Hlli Your Government Leo Reisman’s orch.* Wayne King's orch.* N. T. G. and his Girls* Jumbo Fire Chief* Sigmund Romberg* Cleveland Symphy. orch.* Cleveland Symphy. orch. Old Cradle Songs* Christmas Eve* Madriguera’s orch.*

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WIRE (1400) Indianapolis (Indianapolis Uruadcasting. Inc.l TODAY P M. 4.0u —Christmas Tree in Washington (NBC). 4 30—James Wilkinson (NBC). 4.4J —Clara, Lu ’n’ Em (NBC). 5:00 Flying Time (NBC). 5.15—T0 be announced. s:3U—Press Radio news (NBC). 5 35—American Legion program (.NBC). 5.45 Sons of the Pioneers. 6:oo—ine Schultz family. 6:ls—Popeye the Sailor (NBC). 6:3o—Sport Slants. 6:4s—Strange as it Seems. 7:oo—Leo Reisman’s orchestra (NBC). 7:3o—Wayne King's orchestra (NBC). 8:00 —N. T. O. and his Girls (NBC). B:3o—Jumbo t'ire Chief program (NBC). 9:oo—Wendell Hall (NBC). 9:ls—Basonology. 9:20 Christmas Carols. 9:3o—C.eveland Symphony orchestra 10:30—Cradle Songs (NBCI. 10:45—Christmas Eve (NBC). 11:00 —Christmas Eve Community Sing (NBC). 11:30—Enric Madriguera's orchestra (NBC (. 12:00—Midnight—Sign off. WEDNESDAY A. M. 6:30 —Morning devotions. 6:4s—Reveille. 7:oo—Musical Clock. B:4s—Mary Baker's reviews. 9:oo—The Brown Family. 9:ls—Edward McHugh tNBC). 9:3o—The Serenade!'. 9.45 Herman and Banta (NBC). 10:00—Gilbert Mershon. 10:15—Limousine Ladies. 10:30—Homespun (NBC). 10:45—L. S, Army band (NBC). 11:00—Pontifical High Mass. 12:00—Noon—Rhythm Parade (NBC). P. M. 12:30—Christmas Turkey Trot (NBC). 1:00 —To be announced. 2:oo—Home Folks. 2:ls—Kathryn Reiser’s Kaleidoscope. 2.45 Cub Reporter. 3:oo—Canada Celebrates Christmas (NBC). YVFBM (1230) Indianapolis (Indianapolis Power and Light Company) TODAY P. M. 4:uo—President Roosevelt’s Christmas message (CBS). 4:3o—Tea Time tunes. s:oo—Santa Claus. s:ls—Louie Lowe orchestra. s:4s—Understanding opera (CBS). 6:oo—Buck Rogers (CBS). 6:15—A1 Feeney's sports talk. 6:3o—Kate Smith (CBS). 6:4s—News. 7:oo—Lavender and Old Lace (CBS). 7:3o—Lawrence Tibbett CBS). B:oo—Caravan (CBS). B:3o—Waring s Pennsylvanians (CBS). 9 30—March of Time (CBS). 9.45 Musical Moments. 10:00—Myrt and Marge (CBS). 10:15—News. 10:30—Fable in Bethlehem (CBS). 11:00—C. M. B. Glee club. 11:15—Christmas Cards ,CES). 12:00 —Midnight—Sign off. WEDNESDAY A. M. 6:3o—Chuck Wagon. 7:oo—Ea'ly Haas. B:oo—Christmas Music box (CBS). B:ls—Press Radio news (CBS). B:2o—King George’s Christmas Message (CBS). 9:os—Hostess Counsel (CBS). 9:20—Bill and Ginger (CBS). 9:3o—News. 9:4s—Margaret McCrea (CBS). 10:00—Blueoirds (CBS'. 10:15 —Harmonies in Contrast (CBS). 10:30—Bohemians. 11:00—Voice of Experience (CBS). 11:15 —Merrymakers (CBS). 11-30—Life of Mary Marlin (CBS). 11:45—Five Star Jones (CBS). 12:00 —Noon—Frank Dailey orchestra (CBS). P. M. 12:30—News. 12:45—Midday Meditation. 1:00 —"Messiah” by Akron Civic chorus (CBS). 2:oo—Christmas concert (CBS). 3:oo—The First Christmas (CBS). 3:30—A1 Roth Presents (CBS). 3:4s—Borowskys Gypsies. WLW (700). Cincinnati TODAY P. M. 4:00 —Santa Claus. 4:ls—Jack Armstrong. 4:3o—Sing.ng Lady (NBC). 4:4s—Little Orphan Annie (NBC). 5:00—Old Fashioned Girl. s:ls—Evening concert. 5:30—80b Newhall. s:4s—Lowell Thomas (NBC). 6:oo—Amos TV Andy (NBC). 6:ls—Art Jarrett's orchestra. 6:3o—Lum and Abner (NBC). 6:4s—Washington Merry-Go-Round >Mutual). 7:oo—Crime Clues (NBC). 7:3o—Edgar A. Guest (NBC). 8:00—Ben Bvrnie and All the Lads (NBC). B:3o—The Jumbo-Fire Chief show (NBC). 9:oo—Sigmund Romberg <NBC). 9:3o—Crosley Follies vMutual). 10:00—News room. 10:15—Clyde Trask’s orchestra. 10:30—Anson Weeks’ orchestra (Mutual). 10:45—Midnight Mass from St. Peter Cathedral. A. M. 12:30 —Joe Sanders’ orchestra (Mutual). 12:45—Art Jarrett's orchestra. I:oo—Sign off.

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COLUMBIA President Roosevelt** Jack Armstrong* Tito Guizar± Joseph Plotke's orch.t Benay Venutai Press Radio newst Understanding Opera* Understanding Opera** Buck Rogers** Rube Goldbergs Kate Smith** Hoiiy Smith? Lavender A Old Lace** Lawrence Tibbett** The Caravan series** Wiring’s Pennsyl.** Waring's Pennsyl.** March of Time** Myrt and Marge** Dramatic Guild** Christmas Carols** Christmas Carols**

NBC-WJZ Chamber Music series Singing Ladyt Little Orphan Anniet The Southernaires London Broadcast Press Radio news Beneficial program Lowell Thomast Easy Aces England broadcast Lum and Abner* Lowell Thomas* Crimes Clues* Edgar A. Guest* Ben Bernie's orch.* Helen Hayes Wend all Hall* Headliners of 1935 Concert orch. Concert orch. Shandor Eddy Duchin’s orch.

Best Short Waves WASHINGTON—4 p. m.—President Roose,velt’s party. W2XAD, Schenectady, 19.6 m. (15,340 kc.). PARIS—4 p. m.—French Christmas Carols. FYA, 25.6 m. (11,710 kc.). COLOGNE—4:OS p. m.—Das Soester Gloria. DJC, 49.8 m. (6020 kc.). AIX-LA-CHAPELLE Cnastmas Carols. DJC, Berlin, 49.8 m. (6020 kc.). PARIS—S p m.—Christmas midnight mass. 'FYA, 25.6 m. (11,710 kc.). BERLIN—6:3O p. m.—The Children’s Christmas Eve. DJC, 49.8 m. (6020 kc.). BOSTON—6:4S p. m.—Christmas Eve on Beacon Hill. WIXAL, 49.6 m. (6040 kc.). KONIGSBERG—7:3O p. m.—Christmas folk music. DJC. 49.8 m. (6020 kc.). LONDON Christmasses. GSD. 23.5 lu. (11,750 kc.).

WEDNESDAY A. M. s:3o—Top o’ the Morning. 6:oo—Family Prayer period (Mutual). 6:ls—Rise and Shine. 6:30 —Morning Devotions. 6:4s—News flashes. 7:oo—Chandler Chats. 7:ls—Divano Trio. 7:3o—Cheerio. 8:00—Joe Emerson, baritone. B:ls—Garden Club. B:3o—Way Down East. B:4s—Back Stage Wife. 9:oo—How to Be Charming. 9:ls—Home Sweet Home iNBC). 9:3o—The Morning Housewarmers. 9:4s—Livestock reports. 9:ss—News flashes. 10:00—The Honeymooners (NBC). 10:15—Jacob Tarshish (Mutual). 10:30—Chauncev Parsons, tenor-baritone. 10:45—Minstrels iMutual). 11:00 —Pat Barnes and Larry Larson (NBC). 11:15—True to Life. 11:30—Livestock reports. 11:35—River, weather and market reports. 11:45 —National Farm and Home hour (NBC). P. M. 12:30—Painted Dreams (Mutual). 12:45—Art Jarrett's orchestra (Mutual). I:oo—When Thev Were Young. I.ls—Story Drama. I:3o—Music of the Masters. 1:45 —Art Appreciation. 2:00—Mollv of the Movies (Mutual). 2:ls—Ma Perkins (NBC). 2:3o—Vic and Sade (NBC). 2:45 —The O’Neils, drama (NBC). 3:oo—Betty and Bob. 3:ls—The Life of Marv Sothern (Mutual). 3:30 —Rundown Varieties. 3:4s—News"'dnd financial notes. 'Musical Mistletoe' to Be Presented The mistletoe, once an object of veneration by the druids but now best known as an excuse for yuletide osculation, is to be saluted, with all its modern implications, during a “Musical Mistletoe” program over an NBC-WJZ network at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow. An orchestra conducted by Roy Shield, NEC Central Division music director? Cyril Fitts, tenor, and Helen Bartush, soprano, is to play and sing selections in waltz time. Annual Beacon Hill Broadcast Tonight The annual Christmas Eve celebration from Louisburg Square on top of Beacon Hill in Boston is to be broadcast at 9:15 tonight over a WJZ network. Traditional Christmas carols are to be sung by the Sturgess Carolers and Dr. Richard C. Cabot’s Carolers during the program and music by the Shurtleff Bell-Ringers also is to be heard. Walter O’Keefe to Broadcast Walter O'Keefe is to reveal some pleasant pictures of family life in his amusing sketch of “Christmas Eve at the O'Heels” to be broadcast with his hill-billy cast and Glen Gray’s Casa Loma orchestra over the Columbia network tonight from 8 to 8:30.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Yuletide Tale to Be Put on Air Tomorrow Many Cities to Take Part in NBC Broadcast at 11:30 A. M. The “Story of Christmas,” set to words and music, will be broadcast from historic spots all over the world on combined NBC-WJZ-WEAF networks tomorrow from 11:30 a. m., to 12:30 p. m. The program will open with music by the Franciscan Choir at the Church of the Nativity, located on the site of the manger at Bethlehem. Continuing, it will switch to Cairo, Egypt, beneath the Virgin's Tree at Mataria, where the holy family rested. From that point will be broadcast a reading by Matthew 11, 13, 14, 15, by Dr. R. S. McClenahan, dean of the School of Oriental Studies of the University of Cairo. Portions of a Christmas pastorale by Francesco Manfredini will be sung by a choir in Rome, Italy, and broadcast as part of the “Story of Christmas.” The pastorale was recently unearthed from some old archives and has never been heard publicly in America. A Norwegian choir of mixed voices will sing from Oslo. The locale, this time, will be the oldest wooden church in the world. A solo by one of the greatest church organists in the world, Marcel Dupre, will form the next part of the program. He will play the organ in St. Sulpice Church in Paris. From England will come a program of English Christmas music by the choir of the village church of Cransley. Northampton. The music will be followed by a brief talk by the vicar, the Rev. Greville Cooke. From England the program switches to Danzig, Germany, where the Marien Kirche Choir will sing Max Reger’s “Our Lady’s Dream.” This will be the last foreign portion of the broadcast. Coming back to the United States, the next portion will originate in

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TIBBETT TO BE HEARD TONIGHT

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Two Christmas carols, “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” and “Hail Ye Tyme of Holiedayes,” by Gena Branscombe, distinguished American composer, are to be sung by Lawrence Tibbett (above), famous baritone, over WFBM and the Columbia network from 7:30 to 8 tonight. Don Voorhees’ orcnestra will provide the music.

the Mission Dolores in San Francisco, founded in 1776 by Fra Junipero Serra. The original building still stands and from there will come the ringing of bells and Christmas music by the boys’ choir. The First Baptist Church, colored, of Nashville, Tenn., will be the next church to participate in the broadcast. Christmas music of the American Negro will be sung by the

church choir, and the Rev. W. S. Ellington, who has been pastor of the church for 40 years, will speak briefly. The “Story of Christmas” will conclude with the impressive music of the organ at Washington Cathedral in the American national capital. The cathedral choir will join the organist in Christmas hymns.

Bori to Sing on Christmas Day Program Famous Soprano Will Give Recital on Magic Key Broadcast. Lucrezia Bori, world-famous soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Cos., who has announced she will retire at the end of the present sea- ! son, will sing with Frank Black and the NBC Symphony Orchestra on the Christmas broadcast of the Magic Key of RCA at 1 o'clock tomorrow. Miss Bori, a leading member of the Metropolitan for almost a quarter of a century, announced her decision to retire only a few days S

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ago, saying that she would be 48 today, three years past the retirement age she had set for herself years ago. She has continued past that limit, she said, in a fight to help keep opera alive, but now feels its situation is such that she can retire from work on the stage, although she plans to continue on the board of directors and the management committee of the Metropolitan. Miss Bori’s appearance on the Magic Key broadcast will therefore be one of the few remaining occasions on which she will sing on the air in solo performances, although she will be heard in operas broadcast from the Metropolitan during the current season on Saturday afternoons. COD COLDS UUO FEVER L, sAi!vI; A N B osK TS HEADACHES DROPS In 30 minutes