Radio: Programs Previewed: Dec. 26, 1938

Monday, Dec. 26, 1938

For seven days beginning Friday, December 23. All times are EST. All programs subject to change without notice.

A Christmas Carol. (Fri. 9 p. m. CBS). Orson Welles plays Scrooge in a dramatization of Charles Dickens' fantasy.

Lucia di Lammermoor (Sat. 1:55 p. m. NBC-Red). Lily Pons heads the Metropolitan cast in Donizetti's opera.

President Roosevelt (Sat. 5 p. m. NBC-Blue, CBS, MBS) lights the National Community Christmas Tree.

Kirsten Flagstad (Sat. 11:57 p. m. NBC-Red, Blue) sings Silent Night to carry on the annual tradition set by the late, great Ernestine Schumann-Heink.

Art of Musical Russia Choir (Sun. 3 p. m. CBS) sings Vaughan Williams' Fantasy on Christmas Carols, Fuerst's transcription of Tchaikovsky's Legend, three carols by Peter Warlock, three chorals from Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. John Barbirolli conducts the orchestra in the overture to Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Fourth Symphony.

Hansel and Gretel (Man. 1:55 p. m. NBC-Blue). Metropolitan's annual Christmas performance of Humperdinck's opera.

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