The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-09
ROAMING THE AIR WAVES


 Rudolph Serkin, concert pianist anC Arthur T. Vanderbilt, president 0, the American Bar Association, vii be among those met by the Gang plank" interviewers of the Inter, City Network Waterbury, WATR, when the Queen Mary sails for Eur ope, tonight. The interviewers vii be made by transcription at the piel and re-broadcast over WMCA anc the network tonight from 9:45 tt 10:00 D. m. A regular feature oi Inter City these "Gangplank" in. reviewers are conducted by Frankie BaSch and Martin Starr, Rowing Re- porters, under the direction of Dick Fishell, of the Special Events De- partment of station WMCA, .WATR'' associated New York station.
 Mary T. Norton, democratic
 representative in COngfess from
 New Jersey, will share the spot
 light with Ralph Bellamy, screen
 star, on Kate Smiths variety
 hour program broadcast over the
 WABC- Columbia network on
 Thursday, at 500 p. m., EST.
 Mrs. Norton, a native of Jersey
 City, was the first woman to
 be elected to Congress by the
 democratic party. She took up
 her duties in Washington in
 1927 and is currently heading the
 House of Representatives Labor
 committee. Her appearance on
 Kate Smiths program will mark
 the first interview with a mem
 Der of the lower house of Con-
 gross on this series.
 From WATR Jacob s. List, con- sulting psychologist heard from New York through WATR. is now airing at a new time. Formerly heard at 8:45 a. nn., Dr. List is now presented daily at 1:45. WATR'S Church of The Air. Morning De- votions", now in it's fourth year marking it as one of the nation: oldest studio Church of The Ali programs. Services are presented from WATR studios daily witf clergymen of different denomina tions conducting. "A Way of Living" Wednesday 10:45 a. m., WATR, is program formerly heard in Hart ford on WHIT and over the net work of the Connecticut's Broad casting System which includes be- sides four Connecticut stations WSPR, Springfield.
 Fashion voices - specifically,
 those of Carmel Snow, editor,
 and Lucien LeLong, French
 dressmaker will speak from Paris
 to the women of America during
 an international broadcast on
 Thursday, from 4:45 to 5:OO
 D. m. over the NBC-Blue net
 work. Mrs. Snow will report on
 the Spring and Summer style
 trends as evidenced at the open
 ing of such famous houses as
 Chanel, Schiaparelli, MOlyneux
 and Mainbocher and will inter
 view M. LeLong on Color
 Schemes for Spring." An einin-
 ent styliSt and experienced
 broadcaster, she will give an
 authoritative answer to the
 questions women are asking:
 "Are skirts really getting short
 CT? Must I wear my hair in curls
 on the top of my head? Should
 my Easter bonnet rise like
 pyramid or spread like a pam
 cake?"
 Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the Quin- tupletS' physician, who is heard three times a week, is the subject of a biography being written by Frazier Hunt. It's to be called "The Little Doctor" Major Bowes' Hour sounded like an international pot-pourri last week. The amateur originally came from Sweden, England, Liberia and Ar gentina. There were even some from the United States. . Ben Bernie the Old Maestro, has postponed the weekly previews of his Wednesday show until Tuesday so that he can spend one day more in Florida each weekend. ;. You wouldn't want to get Mary Margaret McBride's tele- phone bill for last week. On an 1n- spiration she called the 'Normandle in mid-ocean, talked to Juliette Nicole, the noted milliner who was abroad and signed her up for 3 program as soon as the boat docked Although Oliver Wakefield, the Eng fish comedian of Paul Whiteman's Friday night show, hasn't been home for more than five years - he comes from South Africa-he hasn't missed writing to his mother at least once a week in all that time When Emily Post, Columbia's etl- quette expert, spilled her berrie; on the tablecloth at the Gourmets Dinner few days ago and got all that front page publicity, she short ly afterwards received telegram from w. c. Fields, saying Courage The ill-mannered guests are the ones who spilled the beans, not the berries"
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