The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-17
ROAMING THE AIR WAVES

The annual St. Patrick's Day banquet will be broadcast by WHN exclusively this evening directly from the Hotel Commodore from HOO to 11:30 p. n., under the auspices of the Shamrock Club. Charles T. Rich, president of the Club for the past ten years, and Paul Vincent Carroll, author of "Shadow and Substance" will speak. The Shamrock Club was organized fin New York City in 1883 for the purpose of securing the establish ment of an Irish Republic. For fif- ty-five years, members of the club have been active and prominent in the movement for Irish Freedom.
 WMCA will carry a special
 broadcast on Friday from the
 International Flower Show
 being held at Grand Central
 Palace. Scheduled from 1:15 to
 I:3O D. m., the program will
 feature William A. ROdman,
 chairman of the Flower Show
 Judges Committee and F. F.
 Rockwell, horticultural editor
 of the New York Times.
 Robert Taylor Is preparing a special St. Patrick's Day program in which Meredith Wilson will in- troduce Rhapsody in Green" a musical composition that he has written especially for the occasion, for Good News of 1888" which will oe broadcast over WHN tonight from goo to 1000 p. m. Baby Snooks," portrayed by Fanny Brice, will banter a bit of blarney with aer daddy (Hanley StafforO and Frank Morgan will leave his orange lecktie at home for a change and Irish humor with Miss Brice. Col cen" Connie Boswell with Carol songs with a Killarney flavor, Doug MacPhail is scheduled to sing an appropriate song or two and Mere dith Wilson will play George M Cohans "Harrigan."
 Fay Bainter has been added
 to the lineup for Rudy Valle's
 Royal Variety Hour tonight.
 She will be heard with Judith
 Anderson in the dramatic fea-
 ture of the hour-a one act
 play by Milton Geiger called
 Twilight ShOre." Geiger's work
 has been increasingly promi-
 nent on the Vallee Hour recently
 and this is another play writ
 ten specially for the program.
 Robert Armbruster has written
 musical score to accompany
 the play. John Mccormack will
 sing two numbers as a St. Pat
 rick's Day feature. They are "In
 the Garden Where the Praties
 Grow" and Hymn to St. Pat
 rick" Teddy Snyder will ac-
 company him.
 < radio symposium on 'Lunacy, Crime and the Law" which will be heard weekly, will start over WEN this evening from 10:30 to 10:45 D. m. The discussions will be con- ducted under the auspices of the Rand School of Social Science. Prominent psychologists, psychia- t1TstS, attorneys and professors will take part in the symposium broad casts. Among those who will be heard are Dr. Walter Bromberg, of the Psychiatric Clinic of the Court Of General Sessions; George H. Dsssion, professor of Criminal Law at Yale University; Dr. A. A. Brill, Isychiatrist and psychologist: liar old w. Hastings, former Assistant District Attorney; and Dr. Israel Strauss, attending neurologist at Mt. Siani Hospital; and others.
 CarOle Lombard, the first of
 i:he screen stars to meet Charlie
 Mccarthy. returns for another
 bout with the dummy on Sum-
 day. Donald Dixon, baritone,
 will also be special guest on
 this program. The regular com
 pany present at the broadcast
 over the NEG red network at
 500 p. m. (EST) will include
 Edgar Bergen, Don Ameche,
 Dorothy Lamour, the Stroud
 Twins and Robert Armbruster's
 orchestra.