The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06

 clflC an American submarine and her crew fought vallantly to out. wit pursuing Jap destroyers, and to save the life of . young v '. man stricken with appendicitis. This is the story to be drama tlxed on "The Man Behind the Gun," In its first sponsored broad. cast, Sunday, March 2, at 10:3O D. m. over the Columbia network.
 Mary Margaret Mcbride brought Ruth Bryan Owen, our famous woman diplomat. to her NEG inic- rophone to t':ll this story. The first thing in her life she can remem' Der Is sitting with her father, Wil- liam Jennings Bryan. in Congress when she was five years old. Con. gressman H. c. Tucker of Virginia had the chair next to them. Years later she was elected to Congress herself and she took the same chair that her dad had occupied. She looked to see who her leighbor was --and 1t was still Congressman Tuckerl That day you were here as @ youngster somebody had just whispered q fantastic suggestion that women should be allowed to Vete," he reminisccd.
 Dlnah Shore, top ranking
 blues singer of the nation, will
 make . bid for recognition nc .
 dramatic actress of major lm-
 pOrtance, when she plays the
 star role in the Free World
 Theater" presentation to Dc
 heard over the Blue Network on
 Sunday, at 8:OS D. m.
 The biggest surprise Ellery Queen ever encountered occurs in his broadcast of "The Adventure of No l3 Dream Street" at 7:30 tonight over the NBC network.
 John Charles Thomas, beloved
 baritone, will sing MOllOy's RG-
 nous LOve's old Sweet SOng,"
 on the Westinghouse program
 Sunday, March ,, at 2'OS ?. ln.,
 over NEG. The program, orig
 finally heard from New York,
 will be the first In . new series
 of brOadcasts from California.
 Peter Lorre, stage and screen ac- tor, will portray the Devil, attor- ney for the defense in the case against Benito Mussolini, second in the series of programs titled "The Day of Reckoning" today. NEG, 700 D. rn., Edmund Gwenn, British ac- tor, appears as Benjamin Franklin, prosecutor.
 Ray Block, musical director for CBS' "Crime Doctor" series. was ap' parentIy quite depressed during last supnday's rehearsal. Max Mar. cln finally approached him and asked what was troubling him. Ray confessed that he felt low because someone had taken . solid gold pen- ell from his coat. q left my coat on the rack over there. And ! won't say It's sentiment, either. That was darned expensive pencil!" Mar. cIn, naturally, wouldn't ask any of the cast about it-t0uchy bunch, these actors! We'll, sorry we can't report . happy ending to this yarn that the pencil was found tn some bizarre manner or something like that. However, the incident did mean something to Marcin for It rave him an idea for sn episode which he will use the first week In March!
 Lois Collier, who played the girl in the Stage Door Canteen scene during the Lux Radio Theater broadcast of This Is The Army. may get an important motion pic- ture part out of 1t. Several inquiries about her were erceived by the Lux Radio Theater from Hollywood stu dios after the broadcast. The part was the plum of the year as far as Hollywood radio actresses were con- cerned. When word got around that there would be a girls part in the show the line began to form on the left.
 Last three of the six flnaIists competing for an award of Sl,O0O and Q contract to sing with the Metropolitan Opera Company, on the 'MetropOlltan Opera Additions of the Alr". will be heard on Sum- day March ,. at 0:30 ?. In., over the Blue Network.
 They are Mary Henderson, lyric soprano of Montreal, Canada; John Baker, baritone, of New York. and Christine Johnson, contFaIt0. of HopIlnsvilIe, Ky. WiIfFed PeIletier veteran conductor of the Mctrop0li. tan Opera Company. will conduct.
 Sydney Qreenstreet. who played the Villainous fiat man" In the movie version of The Maltese Fal con-" will haunt Bergen's side- kick, Charlie Mccarthy Sunday, March 2. Dale Evans and Ray No- ble's orchestra complete the bill for the broadcast over NEG at 6 ?. m.
 Nelson OImsted. NEG stogy-tellcT, has rescheduIed his adaptatl0n Oi Michael Fensier's short story, "Me Looked at Me out 0f hls Eyes" soE hls ''WOrld's OreateSt Stories" pro. gram tonight NEG, Hiss ?. m. The narrative. originally scheduled foI January %, describes how Q nOn believer ln hymOtlgm is forced C chemee his way 0f thinking.
 Sammy Kaye carries . pretty