The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-13
THE AIR WAVES

Vox popping amid glaciers, for ests of virgin spruce, and "quaking' aspens is the latest thing in educa- tional features to be presented in a regular series over a network of the National Broadcasting Company. Every Thursday, from 5:15 to 5:30 D. m., EDST, over the NBC-Red Network, Dr. H. R. Gregg, distin- guished naturalist, takes portable microphone and class of students for . nature study walk around the Moraine Park Museum at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The discussions with his class, broadcast to the nation, are actually field interpretations of the fauna, Aora and geological formations that are indigenous to the very spots where the programs are originating. Starting with the broadcast of July IA, the subjects to be discussed will be-: Study of Mountain Wildflow- ers," Study of Beaver Life" Study of Glaciers" Study of Trees, ''Continuation of Tree Study, with Emphasis upon the Aspen and its Interdependent Relationships with birds, Mammals, Insects and Fungi" "Study of Insects" Study of Rocks" and Study of the Park Region Aborigines Before the Advent of the White Man.
 Margaret Speaks is accom-
 panied by a 70-piece orchestra in
 NBC's Voice of Firestone concerts.
 but there was a time when she
 played her own accompaniment.
 That was on one of her first reg
 ular radio hours, when she sat at
 the piano and played and saEg
 Oley Speaks Sylvia to open and
 close her program.
 This is the story of postal card written five years ago by lady who wanted book. Back in February 1883 Guy Lombardo was playing his fourth anniversary program over the Columbia network Oracle Allen and George Burns, on the same pro- gram, wrote little booklet to com memorate the occasion and offered copies to listeners. Miss Isabel Hor- ton of Saginaw, Mich, was among those who asked for copy of Gracie's book, addressing her re- quest to Station CKOK, Detroit, Mich. Last month the card was de- Ivered. Unless Miss Horton took i've and half years to mail the postal, the card must have been lost A fhat fivSon E1aLy~,,ovx, 1000 to June 1888. Meanwhile the De- troit station didn't even have the same name - it is now CKLW. But the postal finally arrived and was later forwarded to WABC, Colum- bias key station in New York Frank Ryan, the managing editor, hoped something could be done about obtaining the book for Miss Morton. A corp of operators was put to work on the case. Letters, phone calls and telegramS were issued in search of the missing publication. J. Walter Thompson, advertising agency handling the Lombardo program in 1883, tracked down the printer who had printed the book let. At long last copy was found in travelling salesman's case of printing samples. And so, in July 1888, Oracle Aliens book about Guy Lornbardo's 1893 anniversary was sent to Miss Isabel Horton.
 Bing Crosby thought of a good
 jake for the Kraft Music Hall
 broadcast last week. Henry Fon-
 da, a guest star, was to ask him
 how many words il: Gone With
 The Wind". CrOsby's reply was
 "If there's less than half a mill
 lion words in Gone With The
 Wind, pick yourself out hat and
 send me the bill" Fonda's answer
 was There are four words in
 Gone With The Wind',-court
 'em: Gone-With-The-Wind."
 Two days later Bing got a bill
 from a haberdasher for one hat