Hollywood has helped to crowd the box-office of many a movie house by going to the Police Department for its material, Radio followed suit when it launched that successful series “Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing” with Warden Lewis Lawes. In this series the armchairs were treated to exciting tales of the lives of criminals. A new program which tells the patrolman’s side of the story will be launched Friday, April 20, from 5 to 5:15 p. m., over the WJZ network. It is entitled “I Drive a Police Car.” What happens to the crew of a police radio car in pursuit of criminals will be told by Patrolman Edward P. Sweeney and Patrolman Francis V. Crane, police car dispatcher at Headquarters in New York City. How the radio patrol of the world’s largest police system works will also be explained to NBC listeners.
THE ROYAL FAMILY CARRIES ON
Word comes from the WMCA studios that a Barrymore has recently made his debut before the microphone. John Drew Colt, the 19-year old son of Ethel Barrymore, has turned to radio drama for the expression of his inherited talents. He is heard in “Five Star Final” daily at 6:45 p. m.
EAST DEBATES WEST ON CHILD LABOR QUESTION
The drive is on in the various states of the union to add the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the Federal Constitution. This timely question will be the basis of a debate between the students of three Eastern and three Western colleges over WJZ network, Saturday, April 21, from 4 to 5 p. m.
The subject of this debate is “Resolved–That the State Ratify the Pending Child Labor Amendment.” Representatives of Princeton, Columbia and Yale will support the affirmative, while members of the Jebating teams of Washington, Leland Stanford and the University of Southern California will argue the negative. These six students will present the ideas of the younger generation on a subject in which youth is vitally concerned.
FREE SYNAGOGUE SERVICES BROADCAST EVERY SUNDAY
Dr. Stephen S. Wise returned to the Free Synagogue yesterday after a week’s absence. The subject of his sermon was “What Has Judaism to Say on Poverty, Racial Hatred and International War?” It was broadcast from 11:45 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. over station WNEW. This is one of a regular series of broadcasts each Sunday direct from the Free Synagogue at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
‘CHAUVE-SOURIS’ REVUE IN PAUL WHITEMAN’S MUSIC HALL
Nikita Balieff, creator of “Chauve-Souris,” the Russian revue which made three highly successful American tours, will come to Paul Whiteman’s Music Hall to make his radio debut in a short series over a nationwide NBCWEAF network, beginning Thursday, April 26, at 10 p. m.
The droll Russian showman will assassinate the English language in a number of sketches from the “Chauve-Souris” series for the radio audience. Local talent will be used in the numbers, and Balieff personally will introduce and “explain” each one in his own unique brand of English.
REHEARSING 35 HOURS FOR ONE SHOW
Most radio performances suffer from a lack of sufficient rehearsal. It was therefore interesting to learn that the one-hour operettas presented over the WEAF network every Tuesday from 10 to 11 p. m. consume an average of thirty-five hours for rehearsals. This is the series which stars Gladys Swarthout and John Barclay with Nathaniel Shilkret’s Orchestra.
ON THE DIAL
The unusually length rehearsals are necessary because of the size and variety of the cast heard in each operetta. Soloists, chorus, orchestra and dramatic cast all must have thei. own separate rehearsals. They are pieced together part by part,–soloists with the chorus, and all three together. Then follow many hours work while the entire cast runs through the complete show, to get cohesion and proper timing before going into the final dress rehearsal.
A SENTIMENTAL PILGRIMAGE ON SHAKESPEARE’S ANNIVERSARY
A radio pilgrimage to the English town, Stratford-on-Avon, will be made on the eve of William Shakespeare’s 370th birthday anniversary, over the WABC network, Sunday, April 22, from 12:45 to 1 p. m. This program will originate from Anne Hathaway’s cottage, the scene of the poet’s courtship and early married life, one of the most famous of Shakespearean shrines. It is estimated that 90,000 persons make the pilgrimage to this cottage every year.
VERSATILE WEVD ARTISTS PLAY TO AID CRIPPLED CHILDREN
Lee Conrad and Marjorie Tremont, talented two-piano team, will be guest artists at a party tendered by The Junior League for the Aid of Crippled Children, Wednesday evening, April 18, at Steinway Hall. The misses Conrad and Tremont are regularly featured on Station WEVD Mondays at 5:30 and Saturdays at 8:30 p. m.
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