Radio dial (May-Dec 1931)

JUN 27 193 Volume I, No. 6 FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1931 Price 5c Opera Stars Have Prominent Place This Week In Local Programs; Hew Features Are Booked On Each Station ADELE VASA r\dele Vasa, will sing "Norwegian Echo Song" in the first program of the Columbia Camp Concerts which WKRC will broadcast at 3 :30 Wednesday afternoon (July 1 ). The concerts are planned to supplement the American School of the Air broadcasts which are off the air for the summer. They are designed to reach the ( ( oniinued on page '■'• ) Six Red Games Are on WFBE Card This Week WFBE will broadcast playby-play accounts of the four games the Cincinnati Reds will play at Brooklyn this week. The games are scheduled for 2:15 p. m. on Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday, and Thursday. Harry Hartman will do the reporting. July 4, the Parkview station will celebrate with two ball games relayed from Chicago where the Reds play the Cubs. The morning game starts at 10:45, (he afternoon play at 3:15. Military Band Will Play From London Tuesday From London, England, the Wireless Military Band will broadcast through an NBC network including WSAI on Tuesday afternoon (June 30) at 3 :-40. Other international broadcasts will be relayed by WSAI in the near future. The dates will be announced in Radio Dial. Jewish Art Hour is Added to WKRG Sunday Schedule The Jewish Art program will be broadcast by WKRC on Sunday morning (June 28) from 11 o'clock until noon in connection with the Columbia Broadcasting System. One of the most popular programs on the air in other cities was aired by WKRC two weeks ago as an experiment. Last Sunday it was omitted from the schedule. Eighty-four telephone calls that came in as fast as the WKRC switch board could handle them convinced program directors there that the program must be made a permanent Sunday feature. Liberty Takes True Story Place Liberty Magazine will go on the air Friday ( July 3 ) at 8 p. in. on the Columbia network and WKRC with a program built around features found in the magazine, probably in the manner of Collier's Hour. The new Bernarr McFadden magazinechild will take the place of the True Story hour. Vox Pop, the weekly page of listener letters in the magazine, will be personified on the air with a radio actor playing the part. Adventures of Sandy and Lil will be dramatized each week from the cover of the magazine. Here's Helen Gilhgan who sings with Milton Watson on the Star Reveries the Columbia network sends WKRC every Sunday night at 9:45, She has appeared as prima donna in many Broadway musical comedy successes. She s a true Irish colleen, the daughter of a distinguished Irish family that has contributed many renowned scholars, scientists and authors to the list of Erin's famous sons. Thursday night (June 25) at 10:30 you can hear her on the Radio Roundup if you tune to WOWO (1160 kc-258.5) or WABC (860 kc.-346.6m.) Ryder Gup Match Results Will Be Told by Radio A resume of the team matches to be played between English and American professional golfers in competition for the Ryder Cup at at Scioto Country Club, Columbus, Ohio, will be broadcast over WSAI from an NBC, network by Alex Morrison of the American At Sea Ken Murray and Nick Lucas will appear in the RKO Theater of the Air Friday night i fune 36) at 9:30. The program will originate aboard the S. S. Conte Grande. WSAI broadcasts locally. Golfer magazine on Friday and Saturday (June 26 and 27) at 5:45 p.m. and C>:15 respectively. Geraldine Farrar Will Make Radio Debut Monday Packard Presents Arna Case, Cyrea Van Gordon, John McCormack, Marian TaUey Geraldine Farrar, who for 20 years and more was the sensation of opera, will make her radio debut Monday night (June 29) at 9:30 in the first of four programs to be broadcast for the Packard Motor Car Company by the National Broadcasting Company with VVLW as an outlet. Her voluntary retirement from the operatic stage after 20 years as a star has been brokm infrequently in recent years by brief concert appearances. Until now, she has refused to appear on the air. John McCormick, Irish tenor; Cyrena Van Gordon, formerly of the Chicago Civic Opera : Anna Cast of the Metropolitan, ami Marian Tallcy, tin Kansas Chy girl who at the age of 19 made the most sensational Metropolitan debut of the decade, will be heard on successive Packard broadcasts. Two Zoo Concerts Every Week Are Booked by WLW Concerts from the Cincinnati Zoo wilt he broadcast by WLW this summer at 2:30 every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon. Reuben Lawson, personnel manager of the Cincinnati Suuphony Orchestra, is conductor. The concerts will be broadcast from the regular matinee performances in the Zoo club house. Complete Radio Programs Begin on Page 4