In less than four months' time the rejuvenated and redecorated Auditorium theater, which opened Nov. 29 after several years' enforced Idleness, has held an array of attractions that has catered to all types of theater goers and to natives of a half dozen foreign countries now residents of Chicago.
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Deutschland continues to broadcast to OUR TOWN about German radio programs. Marilyn L. Friedel of Germania Broadcast writes, "The Germania Broadcast has returned to the air waves via WCLM-FM [101.9 on your dial] every Sunday from 11am to 1pm. It is one of the oldest foreign language programs in the United States, and has been a favorite of young and old alike."
The eighth anniversary of the Germania Broadcast, celebrated yesterday afternoon with a concert and followed by a ball at the Marigold Garden, was an event of musical and social significance. Noted men and women artists who have been heard on the program since the Germania radio concerts were begun, participated in the anniversary program. Three conductors took turns at directing, which showed the adaptability of the audience and the capability of the maestros, for the value of the orchestral renditions were unimpaired.
Twenty thousand persons are expected to attend the annual German summer festival today in the picnic grove at Riverview park, sponsored by the "Germania Broadcast," under the direction of William L. Klein. Children will be admitted free. A special children's program will be presented by Bruce Kamman, "Prof. Kaltenmeyer" of "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten."
Twenty thousand persons attended a picnic sponsored by the Germania Broadcast yesterday in the picnic grove at Riverview park and heard Werner Schroeder, national Republican committeeman for Illinois, and William Klein, Broadcast chairman, praise America as the land of freedom.
Chicago Tribune: "Just back from a two months' trip through Europe, William L. Klein, director of the "Germania Broadcast", popular foreign language program, has brought back to Chicago several large cases filled with new and interesting material of which he will make use during a new series of programs to be launched at noon over WIND.
TV Commercials Fail to Unseat This Chicagoan: DOESN'T DUCK INTO KITCHEN WHEN SHOWN He's the One Who Makes Them MONITORS TV COMMERCIAL, EVEN AT HOME
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The Silver Jubilee festival of the Germania Broadcast of Chicago, one of the city's oldest foreign language programs, will be held in Orchestra Hall Friday. The program is heard on WGES at 8:30pm weekdays and at 10:30am Sundays.
The Germania broadcast, which for six years has presented the concert hour over WIBO at 1 o’clock Sundays, has engaged Siegfried Vollstedt as its new music maestro. Mr. Vollstedt, a newcomer to Chicago, is the son of the late Hamburg composer Robert Vollstedt, whose waltz, “The Jolly Fellow” was chosen by John Philip Sousa to pen the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. Mr. Vollstedt conducted the Hamburg opera for many years.
