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I I I the a a a a a a a a a a BLUEFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH, Bluefield, W. Va. Attractions at Bluefield Theatres and Gossip of the Studios and Hollywood Movie Celebrities TED WEEMS WILL ENTERTAIN HERE Noted Victor Recording And Broadcasting Orchestra Has Been Engaged For Public Dance At City Auditorium Ted Weems and his orchestra, hailed as the biggest dance attraction ever brought to Bluefeld, be presented at municipal auditorium the evening of September 18, under sponsorship of the Pickwick club. Spokesmen for the organization, which successfully sponsored Art Kassell and his Kassels in the Air, expressed keen gratification yesterday at fortuitous circumstances which enabled them to secure such famous band. Further inducements of hearing the internationally renowned Victor recording and broadcasting tra the comfortable facilities that will be afforded dancers.

A complete ventilation system and adequate sound effects will be installed in the spacious auditorium. The amplification system will better enable dancers and spectators to enjoy the smooth, Weems rhythm, as well as novelties his orchestra carries. Thirteen reasons for the outstanding success of Ted Weems' celebrated orchestra, according the gracious conductor, are the thirteen members the unit who respont to the baton instructions of the fourteenth, The make-up of the orchestra follows: Jack O'Brien, pianist. Hails from Allentown, Penna, Attended Muehlenberg college and is a fraternity man. Played in Pittsburgh for some time and is quite popular because he is not the "Philadelphia Jack O'Brien." Thin, haired, dark eyes and a favorite with the ladies.

Wrote latest song, "Romember Me," with Gus Kahn and "Toyland Band" novelty with Ted Weems, In band for last five years. Art Weens, trumpet, and Teds little brother, who has been with him since the beginning. Co-organizer of band. Very quiet and much like Ted. Boasts typical Weemb nose and head for business.

Weston Vaughan, guitar, banjo and tenor soloist. Worked for radio played in Pittsburgh orchestra several years. Parker Gibbs, saxophone, clarinet and distinctive baritone vocallet. Home is Toledo. Attended Ohio State university.

Played in Colurabus for several years with biz band. With Weems' orchestra for five years. Red Ingle, saxophone and violin, as well as tenor vocalist. Home also is Toledo, Air enthusiast. licensed pilot, and auto speed demon Lives up to his name with moustache and hair, Is co-starred with-Elmo Tanner, whistling soloist, dialect specialist.

Brings: guitarist, sobbing tenor vocalist, and house with his: Negro Imitations. Memphis, where first went his home. Was grabbed by Chicago station and next Weems. Country Washburn, bass, arranger and vocalist. Houston, Texas, claims Weems wrote "Oh Monah," England's, novelty song hit.

Had own band in Columbus and Dayton. Ormond Downes, drums. Home at Haddonfield, N. J. Introduced South American guiro for rhythm effects.

Is world's greatest drummer, bar none. Don Watt, saxophone stylist, clarInet. Phrases sax unusually. Home is Grand Forks, N. D.

Fritz Hummell, trombonist. Another boy. Went to Ohio State university and started dance band work while there. Merrill Connor, trumpet. Springfeld, started him off, Outstanding musician.

With years. Dick Cunliffe, all wind instruments. In the "One Man Band" novelty. Dick plays nine different instruments. With Weems last 'six years.

Dudley Fosdick, mellophonium, the only instrument of its kind in the world. Fosdick invented it himself. With Weems produced the fosophone, which Weems inaisted upon naming for him. Plays own invention, the goofus horn. ST.

ALBAN'S MAN COMMITS SUICIDE Charleston, Sept. 7. (AP)State police said today a note written by Clifford H. Sutherland, 28, an hour before he was found dead in his automobile in front of the St. Albans post office, solved the shooting.

Sergeant Jay Rowe declared the note addressed to Maxine, the widow, told her to take care of the children and added: "I'm sorry we could not make A go of it." Relatives had advanced a theory of murder. FAMOUS THE WORLD 1 ORCHESTRA CITY AUDITORIUM BLUEFIELD, SEPT, 18. TICKETS Advance, Door Sponsored By PICKWICK CLUB Mall Orders R. T. Crockett Care Warlick Piano Rooms 'WILL ROGERS holiday, breaks his "Doubting own laugh records Will in plays his the latest Fox of Thomes." part a sausage manufacturer whose wife suddenly becomes a His efforts to cure her provide many rocking sequences.

Now playing at the Granada theater, beginning Sunday, September 8. Today's Radio Program NOTE: All programs to key and basic chains or groups thereof less specified; coast to coast to c) WHIS WORLD 1410 Bluefield, W. Va. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 (Eastern Standard Time) Tower Music the Comics Mission Capers Scrapbook Romance "of Printing Tunes with Hugh Ike Shott Be Announced: Moods 2:45 Program of Memory Revue Melodies MONDAY Melodies Time Signal Haven of Rest Dance Music Scrapbook Varieties Melodies Cliff' Musical Moments House FurnishIng Company Rise Bottling Company Be Announced Hardware' and Furniture Company Dance Arrangements Time Eignal Revenue and Tones Maid Melodies Box of Song Dance Music I. Cheyney, talk Mint view" with Stubby Currence Time Signal the Song Market Facts Jigsaw Reporter Interlude Tunes Musical Moments" with Tommy McLaughlin TUESDAY MORNING Melodies Time Signal Dance Music Maid Melodies Mission.

Heart League, designation includes all available stations. Programs subject to change. P. M. (Daylight time one hour later.) NBC-WEAF NETWORK BASIC--East: weaf wlw weel wtic wir wtog wach kyw whio wibr wre wgr bep wcae wtam wwi.

weal: mid: NORTHWEST CANADIAN-wtmj ked wmaq well who wow wat wkbf wiba watp webo wday ktyr crot clot SOUTH--wrva wptt wwnc wig wlax wfla-wsun wiod wam wIc web wap: widx wamb kvoo why wfaa wbap kprc woal kbts ktha weoc wave wlar -koa kdyl kgir kghl PACIFIC kfi kgw komo khq kisd ktar kgu kpo kex kga kyr kya East: Dramas of Bible A Cappella Choir -Bernard Levitow Ensemble Penthouse Serenade Robison Orchestra Dreslein, song Rogers, songs Rhythm Symphony Fennelly, drama Heatherton, baritone Program- Varieties, torch. Service Story from the Fireside Dreams, 2 Trios Bowes Amateurs-0 Go 'Round--c to of Music--c to Charlie Tent Show Be Announced -east; Sunset Dreams--repeat for west Crawford, organist News Perlod Lee and Orchestra Fiddler Orchestra Kaye's orchestra CBS- WABC NETWORK wabc wade woko waco waab wnac wgr wkbw wkre whk cklw wdrc weau wias wean wilb wspd was wbas: Midwest: wbbin wibm kmbe knox wowo whas kfab -whp whec wibz wea. worc wicc cirb ckac wibx wmas DIXIE-wgst wala wbre wqam wdod kira wrec wlac wdsu wtoc krid wrr ktrh ktsa waco koma wdbo wbt wdae wbig wdbj wwva wnbg wsje wmb wala ktul kgko wcoa wdnc wnox kwkh wmbd wisp wibw wamk wkbn WCCO webt woc MOUNTAIN -kvor kiz kob COAST-kbj koin kfrc kol kfpy kvi kfbk kmj kwg kern kdo kzmb kgb East: Augustine's Music the Bookends Eton Boys, songs Symphonic Hour Louis Goes on Parade Lyman's Melodiana basic; Musical Moods--midwest Amateur Night 3 Dictators -Dixie of Experience- The Dictators Orchestra--chain Chiesa, soprano Serenade of Summer at 8, orchestra -basic; Manhattan Moods--Dixie Headliners-baslo; Horacio Zito's west Melodies -midwest 8:00 -America's Hour, drama King King Orch.to by Benay Venuta -Congressional Opinions Moderne, orchestra News Period Simon's Orch-east; Dell Coon's Masters' Orchestra Dailey Orchestra Music--west only NBC- NETWORK BASIC East: wiz wbz-wbza wbal wham kdka wgar wir wlw wayr wmal wfil: Mid: woky. wear, wis kwk kwer koll wren wmag k80 wkb! NORTHWEST CANADIAN-wtmJ wiba kstp webo way ktyr orct cfct SOUTH wptt wwn. wis wfla-waun wiod Wam wmo wab wapl widx wamb kvoo wky wlaa wbap kpre woal ktbs kths W80C wave -koa kdyl kgir kghl PACIFIC kfl kgw komo kba kted ktar kpo ker kga kgr kyr East: Linda, Pianist America, talk 30-Gilbert-Sullivan Operetta Vespers program Via, orchestra Crawfords, String organ, orchestra 4:00 -Roses and Drums, serial DANCE SPEED WEBB AND HIS ORCHESTRA AT HILLSIDE VIEW Wednesday, September 11th FROM ADMISSION Until Single, 750; Couple, $1.85 AT LAKE SHAWNEE SEPTEMBER 18th FOR WHITE PEOPLE ONLY STUNT flying is considered quite a feat.

But tossing a plane about in the air with your of hands tied above head, using only the feet, is even more of a feat, That's what Johnny Crowell, Charlotte, N. Is going to do at the Bluefeld Air show to be held at municipal airport next Sunday. Many other sensational events will feature the show. Becker Chat on Dogs 4:45 -Oswaldo Mazzucchi, 'Cello Grenadier Band Hotel Dramatical Ross Voice of the People NBC String Symphony Van Loon's Talk Previn's Orchestra O. Skinner, Goodelle, songs with Seth Parker Haas orchestra Singers, quartet News Period and His Violin-east: Cornelia Skinner--west repeat Ross, orchestra -east; Lanny Ross--west repeat in the Twin.

Keller orchestra WEEKLY FOREIGN SHORT WAVE LENGTH (Listing Subject to Change Without Notice) Station Mega, Meters RV59, Moscow 6.00 60.00 DJC, Berlin 6.02 49.83 GSA, 6.05 49.58 GSB, London 9.51 31.55 DJA, Berlin 9.56 31.38 GSC, London 9.58 31.30 EAQ, Madrid 9.86 30.43 FYA, Paris ...11.70 25.63 GSD, London 11.75 25.53 DJD, Berlin 1.76 25.51 12RO, Rome 25.40 GSE, London 11.86 26.28 FYA, Paris 25.20 HVJ, Vatican 15.12 19.84 GSF, DJB, Berlin London 15.20 19.74 ..15.14 19.82 FYA, Paris. :19.68 GSL, London 17.70 Most U. S. short wave stations; may found on the 49, 25, 19 be meter bands, amateur phones on 20.75 and 160 meters, police transmitters on 120 175 meters and airplane dispatchers on 55 (day) bands and are 100 (night) meters, These interspersed with other stations of various classifications. Albert Of The BelgiansHarry Of The Police On February 17, 1934, Albert king of the Belgians, fell from a cliff and the world mourned.

On the very next day Harry Oonahue, the Philadelphia police, euccumbed to a gangster's bullet, and his friends wept. The sovereign of an entire nation and a guardian of a city's sectiou bad a one great thing in common -their way of knowing, loving and serving God, Each assisted at mass on Sundays. Each confessed his sins to priest. Each received into his breast his God in Communion. Each prayed to the Blessed Virglu Mother and to the saints.

King and policemen are now no more, but Albert' and Harry will live on forever. They have gone, wo believe, to Jolts to hobnob with -Peter, the fisherman who died on cross-Pansy, the colored woman who washed other folks clothesMichelangelo, the painter of cathedrals and chapels--Michael Donnelly, the painter of fences and barns -Louis, the scientist who gave us the walter who served smith with his beer. The church that showe the same way, the same truth, the same life to a Belgian monarch and an American cop-to a first century fisherman and twentieth century washwoman--is surely the one church NOW PLAYING NAUTICAL Columbia's hilarious hit with NANCY CARROLL MARRY LLOYD NOLAN many ARTHUR HOHL E. E. CLIVE Paramount Pictorial and Fox Morletone News S' Dick Marion Powell, Davis, her "big charming moment" Cosmopolitan in her Arst star, seems Warner to Bros, be saying to release, "Page Miss Glory," in which she will appear at the Colonial theater today with a 12-star supporting cast and a score of featured players.

BN FRED ALLEN'S TOWN HALL AMATEURS TO SHOW IN BLUEFIELD that can be rightfully called "Cathollide, and the just kind as surely, church to that our an all-knowing, all-just' God could and would establish. Doesn't that really sound logical? Catholic Literary League, P. 0. Box 685, Parkersburg, W. Va.

LOCAL PUBLISHER TO GIVE RADIO ADDRESS ON CONSTITUTION- TODAY Hugh Ike Shott will make the tenth of a series of talks on the constitution this afternoon at 1:45 o'clock, over WHIS. The subject will be the third object expressed in the preamble, "To Insure Domestic Tranquility." MULLENS HAS ITS OWN BELIEVE IT OR NOTS A Mullens friend writes the Dally Telegraph as follows: "Man bites dog--not exactly that, but here is something just about as unusual: "This year Miss Ruth Mullens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. WV. F.

Mullens, of Mullens, W. was 15 yeara old on the fifteenth day of the month, Thelma, another daughter, was 23 years old on twenty-third day of the month, Ted, son, was 25 years old on the twenty-fifth day, and Arnold Cook, a first cousin to the parties above, was 26 years old on the twenty-sixth day. "And here is something else: Mr. Basil Cook, of Nuriva, another couein, has a cow that' a few days ago gave birth to a fine set of twin calves. "Oh well! Maybe the Democrats had nothing to do with it, but nothing like this has over happaned in our community under any other administration." LUMBER OF WPA PROJECTS FILED Sum Sought For Improvements To Carolina Community Home; City Seeks Funds For Swimming Pool A large number of proposed WPA projects for Bluefeld and Mercer were fled yesterday at the district office at Lewisburg.

Included in the lists were several school projects. City Manager Kyle Bruce on behalf of the Carolina Community home filed an application for 800 which is the estimated cost of some improvements dosired at the home. He also Aled another application for $12,000 to be used in paying white and colored women engaged in handicraft work in Bluefield. Dehmong, the the a applications municipality fled WaS on a request for $50,000 tor public swimming pool, $2,500 to be used in finishing the painting of the municipal building: approximately $24,000 to rock surface a number of dirt streets connecting with pavements; $23,000 for sewer extension and 000 for completion of the municipal stadium. These projects are seperate from the PWA projects filed several days ago, providing for an extensive sewer program and the construction fa community center building, A Florida law makes barbers professional meu and places them on level with doctors and lawyers.

FOLLOW CROWD TO SUNDAY THE TUESDAY GRANADA MONDAY HIS NAME MEANS ENTERTAINMENT Here he is again to hand you a hundred howls a minute! dill I ROGERS DOUBTING THOMAS With Billie Burke Alison Skipworth Sterling Holloway and Gail Patrick A FOX PICTURE da Betty Boop and Grampy Paramount News The vaudeville show which comes Wednesday at the Colonial Theatre will introduce one of the greatest attractions In the history of Bluefield. The featured attraction will be Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight Twenty-five young. talented, first prize winners of Allen's nationally famed contest have been combined in to ono glamoroue, musical and laughter revue which has been produced by Fanchon and Marco. There is not one professional in the cast. One might say that here will presented the cream of the amateur talent of America as Judged on the leading program of the alr.

Only a master showman like Allen could scan the country and select in cooperation with the listening public a troupe of show stopping specialty artists. THE COLONIAL'S NEW SEASON RACES ON! AGAIN WE BRING TO YOU EASILY THE BEST COMEDY DRAMA OF THE SEASON COLONIAL NOW PLAYING MARION CONQUERS THE TOWN IN A BLAZE OF And every one of her 12-Star supporting cast shares the acclaim! Make this grand and glorious romantic laugh hit "must-see" for today 1 your MARION DAVIES In her first Cosmopolitan. Production for Warner Bros. PAGE MISS With the greatest cast of comedy stars you'll see this season including PAT O'BRIEN DICK POWELL MARY ASTOR, FRANK McHUGH, ALLEN JENKINS, PATSY KELLY. LYLE AL SHEAN, JOE CAWTHORN Directed by MERVYN LEROY ADDED: MUSICAL, CARTOON AND NEWS COLONIAL Coming WEDNESDAY On Our Stage FRED ALLEN'S "TOWN HALL TONIGHT" 25 Of National Radio Winners In Person On Our Stage You will rave about the music You will thrill to the glorious voices You will laugh till you cry You will shout that this is Real Entertainment PLAN NOW TO ATTEND Rated by Crosley, 88 the Nations must popular Program.

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