The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-12-15
By BILL HARRINGTON

WAIK and the AMERICAN Broad
casting Company viii broadcast ex-
clusively professional footballs
championship battle coming up next
Sunday 80 between the Washington
Redskins, tops Ia the Eastern Diyi-
Fion % the National Professional
Football League. and the Cleveland
Rams. champs IN the West.
Sundays game promises 10 1--we up
60. II not surpass. the high stand
ard Of thrills SCI IN previous play
ufi games. Two Of the best passers
IN the business. the famed Slingin'
Sammy Baugh Of Washington. and
che talented newcomer 10 pro ranks,
bob Waterfeld Of Cleveland, are
pglmed and ready 10 IRE what they
hope are touchdown passes all over
clevelands huge Municipal Stadium
where the game viii be under way
81 go p. m, EST.
ABCs ace sportscaster, Harry
Wlsmer, assisted by Johnnie Neblett.
will handle the play-by-play des-
cripiion Of this gridiron classic. In
PERMISSION interviews by WlsmeF
and Neblett viii include Bob FelleT
and other sports, screen. and stage
celebrities present at the game.
The one-eyed Jack. gamblers
symbol OF sure and violent death.
plays the leading role in tonight
Dick Tracy radio-drama. The trail
of murder takes our fayorite detee-
tive 10 the underworld Monte Carlo
OF that sinister master Of double
dealing, Deuces Wilde. and his
Queen Of Hearts, Sugar Caine,
where the stakes are high and fall
ure may mean the difference be-
tween life and death. Refusing 10
be discarded, Vitamin Flintheart is
on deck, vulnerable as usual, TO
demonstrate that the best of jokers
can be aced in the shuttle when a
shark deals them off the bottom.
The new Dick Tracy half hour orig
anates in New York over WATR-
WIZ at 7;30 p. m.
Sammy Kaye will read the new
poem. Il Still Love YOU by Sonny
6xylar and Richard Rodgers, as a
kighlight of his Sunday Serenade,"
in its broadcast over Station WATR,
Sunday, Dec. 16, at 1880 p. m. Sky
lars current songs include Put
That Ring on My Finger" Gotta
BE This or That" and Waiting for
the Train to Come in," and Rod
gers composed the scores for "Okla-
homa," "Carousel" and the film,
Estate Fair" In addition to Hayes
reading of the poem, the Sunday
Serenade" will present orchestral
music, with vocals by Betty Barclay,
Susan Allen, Arthur Wright, Billy
Williams and the Kaye Choir.
A revenge murder, the brutal
shooting of a popular police officer
occupies the attention of the Anna
rillo, Tex, police force in the Gang
busters episode to be heard over
WATR-ABC tonight at 9 p. m. Only
q battered match cover by the side
of the road and an almost incoher-
ent phrase mumbled by the dying
officer are needed for the alert chief
of Amarillo police to break the
crime. Former New York Police
Commissioner Lewis j. Valentine
will, as usual, be host to the radio
audience.
The third Metropolitan Opera
broadcast Of the season, today, over
WATR-ABC at 1870 p. m, will be
Wagner's die MeisterSinger," which
won first place in Musical Americas
poll of music and radio critics of
the United States and Canada as
last years outstanding opera broad
cast.
The 4O0th program of the Ford Sun
day Evening Hour will be broadcast
over WATR-ABC on Sunday, Dec.
16, from 8 to 9 p. m, EST, with
Rose hampton, Metropolitan Opera
soprano, as soloist and William
Steinberg, conductor of the Buffalo
Philharmonic, again on the podium.
William Nichols once more is the
intermission commentator. Works OF
Weber Puccini, MouSsorgsky, Ros-
SIM, La Forge and others will be
heard together with Sibelius' Fin
landia," repeated from the original
broadcast.
Red-haired Susan Hayward will
kindle a flame in Charlie McCar-
thy's heart next Sunday, December
16, at 300 p. m. (EST) over VITO
NBC. Edgar Bergen, Ray Noble, and
songstress Anita Gordon are with
Charlie on his comedy half-hour.
Fred Allen has asked friend OF
his from the Metropolitan Opera,
heroic tenor LauritZ Melchior, to
visit Aliens Alley next Sunday, De-
cember 16, at $3.50 p. m. (EST) over
NBC. Portland Hoffa, Minerva Mrs
Nussbaum" Pious, Kenny Delmar,
the DeMarco Sisters and Al Good
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