The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-23
ROAMING THE AIR WAVES

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 Twelve thousand miles oe Merry Ohrlstmaa Q National BroAdcastlne Company holiday program linking Americans m Paris. Honolulu and Alaska in Yulotide oeleorAe eions. VIII ba broadcast over the Nbo-Red Network on Saturday from ( to AsS0 D. m. From the United states House In the University City section of Paris win come Q description ot an American Christmas party and dance. Donald A. Lorrie, director of the United states House, will serve As master of ceremonies. After the Paris party, the program will swing Co sunny Hawaii, where santa arrives on Q hydroplAne. The an- nual ChrlstmaS gathering of chll- dreu In Aonlulu and music by the Police 0lOe Club wlll be broadcast and the NDO audience will learn how Santa Claus operates in Q land where there never is snow. A visit to Alaska 6 next on the program. The radio audience will hear from Fred Ordway of Juneau, who VIII toll how Christmas is celebrated la the MatanuskA Colony, and from Charlie Qoldstein, AlaSkaS great tur trapper, on how the men who spend thelr lives gathering flrs observe the holiday. Christmas carols and music by Q large Alaskan chorus and orchestra also will he heard.
 The first oa An annual series of
 Christmaa carol festivals, planned
 Co revive the good old.fashloned
 Christmas spirit of American cit.
 les and towns, wlll Do breAdoass
 from Cleveland today, over Che
 ooast-to.oOAst NDC.Biue Net.
 work, originating through Che ta. ollities Oe WMK, pioneer Cleveland statlen and outlet oe NEG. Mere than 10000 persons will partioi-
 nate in Che festival, which is bee
 inR held under the joint sponsor. ahin of tho Come to. Cleveland Committee and station WHK. This mammoth singing group wiil he made up oe All organised sing
 ing groups in Cleveland, inolud- inR school groups, special ohoE. uSes, nationality singing societies, and church oholrs. The bess. d known and best-loved Christmas carols win hO heard on Che pros gram, with accompaniment pro. vided by the mammoth Public He'll organ. Russell Morgan, mu. sle supervisor os the Cleveland Public Schools, will supervise enc loS7 festival.
 The ton biggest news stories of ieS7, as selected by c board os AS Aooiatod Press Editors, will DO dramatised by the National Bread. casting Company in Q special broadcast over the NBC.Red Net work from Q to 10 p. In,, EST, on saturday, The list will be tho same as that provided annually to AP membar newspapers for thelF use, The full hour dramatlSation ot the yeAr'a most important news stories will be enacted by 0 cast of NBC ae:: tors and actresses with musical background by on NDO oreheetFa. Byron Price, executive news edltor of the Associated Press, heads the board of AP editors who will select the best stories.
 A speOlal church service pro. gram from Lambeth Palace, Lon
 don, England, featuring on ad.
 dress by Ills Grace, the Lore
 Arohblshop oe Canterbury, will DO
 heard over W0R and Che ooast..
 Ao.ooaat network of Che Mutual
 NroaAeasting system Sunday from
 8 Co S,AB ?. m., EST. The program
 will ha heard over Mutual through
 the facilities oe tho Canadian
 Dreadeasting Corporation, which
 will receive the program rom
 I.ondon by short wave. The Brit'
 lsh BroAdeasting Corporation
 Oh0lr, under thO direction Of bR
 WAlsord Davies, will sing the sols
 lowing saleOtlonsi Tt Came Upon
 The Midnight Clear" |" In Dulol
 JubiIo," and Eternal Ruler Of the
 Ceaseless Round"
 Kate smith will present as Spe. elal features of her ChristinaS pFo- gram, the far-famed Father Finn paulist Choir of % voices end Betty daFde and Ray Collins in Blessed Are They", tonight ct Q ?. m. est, Via WAnC.CD@. Father Films Paullat singers were first organized ln Chicago !n 1904. tt was the irst boys ehoir formed in the United states. In 1918, Father ' Inn was transferred to his present parish, the church of the paulist Fathers iaaataA on AAth atPaAt and Coluff1