The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-24
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audience participation show now on WHN moves to new spot when it is heard from 800 to 9:30 p. m., on Fridays, starting today. Contestants on the show test their ability to compose sentences. Participants stand in front of the microphone with host Loring Smith and watch a blackboard where Freddie Craig writes the words suggested by mem bers of the studio audience. Craig is the vaudeville star who writes and spells backwards. Contestants must complete the sentence within 2 seconds and must use the words correctly.
 The inauguration of Dr. DOug-
 las Hyde, new president, of Erie,
 and the official reception tend
 cred him by Prime Minister
 Ramon de Valera at St. Patrick's
 Hall, Dublin, will be described
 over the Blue Network of the
 National BrOadcasting Company
 on Saturday, from 4:1O to 4:3O
 p. m., EDST. Dr. Douglas Hyde,
 poet, politician and considered
 the greatest Gaelic scholar of his
 day, was called out of retirement
 on April 21, 1888, when he was
 elected first President of the
 new state of Erie. He was chosen
 unanimously by the two major
 political parties of Southern
 Ireland, the Fianna Fail and
 Fine Gael. Dr. Hyde is Pro-
 testant and son of Protestant
 clergyman.
 Jerry Belcher will poke into the recesses of the Old Corner Book Store in Boston on his Interesting Neighbors program of Sunday, draw ing from employees of the shop stories of great personages who have fingered there within the hun dred years of its life. The program will be broadcast over the NBC-Red Network from 7:30 to 800 p. m, EDST. Most people think" Belcher comments, that a book store is an unromantic place. AS matter of fact. it is quite possible that there
 
 est around hundred-year-o1d book store than almost any other place in the world. Into this particular one have come Nathaniel HaW- thorne, Robert Louis Stevenson and countless others over the years. So here is picture of great figures of literature thousands have known and loved and in a spot beloved by them"
 The President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
 will be heard Friday, from 10:30
 to approximately II p. m., EDST,
 when he delivers another of his famous "Fireside Chats" over
 the cOsat-to-coast network of the
 Mutual Broadcasting System.
 The Chief Executive will speak
 from the White House in Wash
 ington, D. C., and the broadcast
 will be heard over WOR and
 Mutual through the facilities of
 MutuaPs affiliate, VOL. It is eX-
 pected that President Roosevelt
 will review the state of affairs
 of the nation and the results of
 the last Congress, which ad-
 journed last week. This will be
 the twelfth "fireside chat" the | President has delivered since
 he assumed office. The first was
 heard on March 12, 1883. The
 last one was heard on April IA,
 1888.
 The life of St. Aloysius Gonzaga will be dramatized by the Ave Maria Players in their broadcast this Sun day, over station WMCA and the Intercity System, from 6:30 to 700 D. m., Aloysius Gonzaga, Patron Saint, was born March g, 1868, and from early childhood, showed love for Catholicism. Against parental objections, he became a member of the society of Jesus in Rome in the year 1885. He was prominent for his love of the Blessed Sacraments and for his obedience and extreme hu- mility. In 1891 he died of malignant fever, which he contracted while nursing patients in a hospital in Naples. His relics repose in mag nificent altar in church at Rome.