The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-20
ROAMING THE AIR WAVES

D First Lady" last season, and Prof William Lyon Phelps of Yale Uni will be featured guests orl Dave Elman's Hobby Lobby" pro- gram broadcast over the wABC- Columbia network tonight 7:15 to 7:45 p. m., EST (rebroadcast to WOR and the West at 10:3O D. m., EST. Professor Phelps will empha size the importance of hobbies in modern times as a relief from the strain of living in a complex civil ization. One of the most unusual to appear will be Mrs Hilda M. Lenhart of Baltimore, who will bring Brownie" her talking dog, to the microphone. Brownie is combination of German Shep- hedr, Irish setter and bulldog, who has mastered a vocabulary of 20 words, including Hello" "How are you" and T want my mamma ' Doctors from Johns Hopkins Uni- versity have pronounced the dogs talent among the most remarkable demonstrations they have ever seen. Other guests of the program who will describe their leisure time ac- tivities are Fred Hall and Jeffrey H. Jennings who were unable to ap- pear as scheduled last week. Hall has highly amusing collection of newspaper misprints. Young Jen- nings, an 18-year-old Brooklyn school boy, will tell how he col- lects, writes and prints news, as head of the United Amateur Press Association. In addition to the hob byists, the progra mwill offer mu- sic by Harry Salter's Orchestra.
 The sea, calm and stormy, as
 a place of adventure, as the
 background for a love episode,
 the sea in history, the sea in
 many moods is subject to be
 discussed" in terms of music as
 the second program of Victor
 Bays new Essays in Music"
 series It will be given OCT the
 WABC Columbia network
 Thursday, OctObed 21, from
 1O:30 to 11:0O p. m., EST. The
 solOistS are to be Ruth Carhart,
 CBS contralto, and Darrel
 Woodward, staff baritone. Bay
 will start on a placid theme by
 directing the orchestra in Men
 delssOhn'S Overture Calm Sea
 and Prosperous Voyage" Then
 Miss Carhart is to sing "Sea
 Rapture" piece by Eris Coates
 whose accompaniment suggests
 the languid movement of waves.
 Bay will next conduct the "Sin-
 bad and the Sea" movement
 from Rimsky- Korsakoff's suite
 "Scheherezade," suggesting ad-
 venture, after which Woodward
 is to be introduced singing the
 anonymous chantey, "The Mer-
 maid" describing a sailors im-
 aginative encounter and infatu-
 atiOn with the fabulous daugh-
 ter of Neptune. A note of his-
 tory will be sounded with the
 orchestra's performance of
 ocean, Thou Mighty Monster"
 from the "Sea Pieces" which
 Mcdowell wrote about the piI-
 grimage of 1920 to Plymouth.
 Then Woodward will return to
 give the English composer, John
 Ireland's song setting of the
 famous MaSefield poem, "Sea
 Fever" The turbulent overture
 to Wagner's opera, 'The Flying
 Dutchman," is to conclude the
 concert. The introduction to the
 Rimsky Korsakoff opera, Sad
 ko," based on . quaint water
 episode, will be used as a tram
 sitiOnal theme throughout.
 Music is fun to listen to-other- wise there's no reason for playing It." The words are those of Deems Taylor, Columbia's musical consult ant and commentator on the much- discussed new series of pocket edl- ton" concerts of classical and light operatic music presented by Andre Kostelanetz's orchestra and famous guest soloists every We'd nesday night over the WABC-Col- umbia network. The note dcompos- CT, whose informal and humorous remarks on his numerous, important programs have brought him to preeminence in the field, gives his ideas on what a commentator should be-and do. "The most inl- portant job of the commentator, says Taylor, Ifs to get rid of the grim ceremoniousness which characterizes the usua! American audience listening to concert music. They seem to feel that they should be awesomely serious about 1t all, that such music when they listen to it is to be endured only because 1t is a cultural influence. And as a result" he says, their approach is exactly the opposite of what 1t should be. Psychologically, because