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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21
Radio Notes

Ralph Kirbery, NBC's Dream Singer, Is making a series of mo- ton picture shorts based On his Ship of Dreams" broadcast theme.
 Ray Knight is to make his debut in grand opera at the Metropolitan on Sunday, February 26, when he appears at the celebration of Gatti- Casazza's twenty-ffth anniversary as general manager of the Metro po1itan.
 Knight, the originator of Station KUKU and well known over NEG networks for his comedy writings. will serve on the committee for the celebration and prepare skit that will be assisted by Robert Arm bruster, musical director of his many NEG programs.
 Robert Simmons. the NEG ten- or, isn't particularly anxious for another snow storm this winter. In the recent heavy snowfall Simmons could not reach his mountainside home near Cornwall-on-the-H Hud- son. New York by automobile and had to go afoot through deep drifts
 
 dogs. The unusually mild winter has allowed the NEG singer to spend practically all of his nights at his isolated lodge.
 The diminutive Ireene Wicker, NEG singing and dramatic star, seldom eats regular meal, sub sisting entirely on apples, nuts, chocolate and milk.
 
 Alexander Mcqueen of NBC's Nothing But the Truth program reads books in 12 languages, but prefers English and French. His pet subjects are music, the stage, medicine, human longevity and anti-prohibition.
 
 Herman G. Ashbaucher was Q well known NEG concert tenor be- fore he was appointed chief sound technician at the Chicago NEG stu dios.
 Willard Robison. director of the Deep River orchestra: Born, Shell
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21
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5:00-Jack and Jill and orches-
 tra. 5:15-Joe Emerson, songs. 5:30-The Singing Lady. 5:45-Jack and Jill. 6:00-Dog Talk by Dr Glenn
 Adams. 6:15-Old Man Sunshine. 6:30-Bob Newhall-Mail Pouch
 Sportsman. 6:45-Lowell Thomas. 7:00-Amos 'n' Andy. 7:15-Gene and Glenn. 7:30-"Chandu." the Magician. 7:45-Music Makers. S:00-Crime Club. 8:30-Horlick's Matted Milk pro-
 gram. s:45-Smilin' Ed Mcconnell. 9:00-Puddle Family. 9:15-Sunshine Boys. 9:30-Ed Wynn. 10:00-Dance orchestra; Amigos. Humani. '. 12:00-Cotton Club orchestra. 12:30-Dancing in Milwaukee. 1:00-Moon River. 1:15-Simon's orchestra. 1:45-"And So to Bed" 2:00-Sign off.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21

pima, Missouri, September 19, 1899
 Played in dance orchestras at 16. First radio addition with Station WDAF, Kansas City, 1924. =. Heard by Paul White man in Omaha, Neb, and asked by Whiteman to come to New York
 ... Composer of dozens of songs and several suites, including "Troubled Waters" Harlem Lul- laby," "Peaceful Valley" "Tulsa Blues" "A Cottage for Sale, In- spiration Suite, Six Studies in Modern Syncopation and "Music of a Mountain Stream. ;. Height 5 feet, 10 inches. Weight, 175
 Light complexion, light brown hair. Married to Doris Robson. ..... .One child, Joline,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21
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6:00-Current Events-H. V.
 Kaltenborn. 6:15-Program Resume. 6:2O-Reis and Dunn, songs. 6:3O-Inaugural Committee Talk 6:45-Just Plain Bill-Skit. 7:0O-Myrt and Marge. 7:15-E.Ick Rogers, in the Year
 2433-Sketch. 7:30-Keller, Sargent and Ross
 songs. 7:45-NeWs.
 8:O0-Easy Aces-Sketch. 8:15-The Magic Voice-Sketch. S:30-Kate Smith, songs. 8:45-Lyman's orchestra. 9:O0-Hayton's orchestra. 9:15-Kostelanetz orchestra. 9:3O-California Melodies. 1O:00-Mario Chamlee, tenor. 10:30-Edwin c. Hill. Garlic, tenor. 11:0O-Symphony orchestra. orchestra. orchestra. 12:30-Stern's orchestra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21
Around the town.

Around the Thanks to the North End Hilies for an invitation to party Thursday night the North End Y. Ray Walkers dorm reading IS in being partially And the boys who drop in books and things thinking of having Rays picture tackled to the wall This young fee seems way about him. Fred Sedel makes ambitious salesman for the legion They do he sold Mark Chpman the idea And in depression period at that
 With the Council actually functioning beres are lifted in honor Walter Raecot who made grand dream come true Now the will only LePage themselves to the dea they get around the word with Ann Cassn one of gallant teachers who innes the youthful twig that may grow in educational stature and strength
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21
Harris Speaks on
 Radio Chain Tonight

station WAAB and the Yankee Net
 work 7:30 p. m.-The New England council presents William NJ. Har- ris chairman of relief commit tee, Waterbury Mutual Aid Un- employment Fund, whose sub- ject will be "The Waterbury Plan of Organizing Unemployment Re- lief"
 Stations carrying this broadcast will be WAAB of Boston, WPRO of Providence, WNBH, of New Bedford, WMAS of Springfield, WORC of Worcester, WIBZ of Bangor, Me. WFEA of Manches- |. ter, N. H., and WICC, of Bridge port, Conn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21
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5:00-Meet the Artist. 5:15-The Melodeers. 5:30-Skippy. 5:45-Mahdi's Magic Circle. 6:00-Current Events-H. V.
 Kaltenborn. 6:15-Reis and Dunn, comedy
 duo. 6:30-George Halls orchestra. 6:45-Chandu the Magician. 7:00-Myrt and Marge. 7:15-Pro-Ker Dance music. 7:30-Comedy team. 7:45-Brunswick orchestra. s- 8:00-Easy Aces. 8:15-Magic of 8 Voice. 8:30-Evening Moods. 8:45-Abe Lyman's orchestra. 9:00-Leonard Hayton's orches-
 tra. 9:15-"Threads of Happiness;
 orchestra. 9:30-California Melodies. 10:00-Five Star Theater. 10:30-Edwin c. Hill. Garlic, tenor. 11:00-Columbia Symphony or-
 chestra. 11:30-Isham Jones' orchestra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21
Microphonics

The farmer is in sore straits, says Al Jolson, NEG headliner. because everything these days goes against his grain.
 Lanny Ross, tenor heard on the Maxwell House Show Boat pro- gram, was telling in the NEG studios about a parachute-jumper who was killed when his chute failed to open. "He was the great est parachute artist of them all," declared Ross. "Yes," commented Charles Winninger, "he was good till the last lrop." -....
 Al Cameron: You don't know much about animals. Why, you can't tell me why a stork stands on one leg.
 Pete Bontsema: That's right, I dunno. Why does he?
 Cameron: Because, if he lifted 1t. he'd fall down.
 Sidelights on Lawrence Tibbett. Metropolitan Opera star and NEG artists: Welcomes autograph hum ters and will cheerfully sign any, thing submitted except a blank check When 22 he was am- bilious to become a Shakespearean actor .. Earned his first dollar as a singer rendering solos at fu- nerals in Los Angeles, Cal. .. Made his first great hit at the Metropolitan on Jan. 2, 1925, when he sang Ford to Antonio Scotti's Falstaff. He was a front page riot" in next days newspapers.
 Jimmy Wellington: Have, you a birthstone, Eddie?
 Eddie Cantor: Indeed. I have.
 Wa1lington: What is it?
 Cantor: The grindstone.
 Snapshots from NBC's family album: Lowell Thomas, news com- mentator, is the son of a surgeon and spent the first ten years of his life in Cripple Creek. Col. Vim cent Lopez was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., the son of a Portuguese father and a Spanish mother, both accomplished musicians. Rosa line Greene, dramatic actress, lis the daughter of Israel Greene, a retired merchant of Bayshore, l.. I. She was educated as a school teacher .. Jean Sargent, torch singer, really is Jean Scull, a Philadelphia society girl.
 NBCs Malossas: An always car- ries nah rabbits foot wid me.
 January: Tiddle-le sticks--a rab-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21
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5:00-Rhythm Boys, trio. 5:15-Melodic Thoughts. 5:45-Seckatary Hawkins. 6:O0-Frances Aida, soprano. 6:3O-Mid-Week Hymn Sing. 6:45-Back of the News in Wash
 ington-William Hard. 7:00-Weeks's orchestra. 7:15-DTamatic sketch, with Ray
 Knight. 7:30-James Melton, tenor. 7:45-The Goldbergs-Sketch. S:00-Julia Sanderson and Frank
 Crumit, songs. 8:30-King's orchestra. 9:00-Bernie's orchestra. 9:30-Ed Wynn, comedian. 1 1O:0O-Bestor orchestra. Dennis and Ted Reese,
 songs. .Weem's orchestra. 11:30-Nelson's orchestra. 2:00-Bestor's orchestra. 12:30-Robbins's orchestra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21

Editor Tall Topics The Y Not club of the Central
 will sponsor their dance Saturday night the Red Triangle gym 830 o'clock We Tmme Groves piece furnish dancing Favos and refreshments will be distributed throughout and sincerely will be able urdaySncey Hans Winze and Les Andrew. [Thanks the invtation--The Ed)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21

TORTEz. with abou, 500 men. V conquered the entire AZ. TEC NATION by holding the emperor. Montezuma. as . hostage More RICE Is con- sumed than any other food The United States is represented in FIFTEEN foreign countries by ambassadors
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21
Good Evening.
THE TRAFFIC LIGHT

Cars stop before it's disc of flaming red
 Brakes moan and groan and sometimes shrek, Like great voice, its grim command is said,
 And yet it has voice with which speak
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21
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 Newark

5:00-Contest band. 5:05-Yellin's Ensemble. 5:30-Indian Pow Wow. 5:45-To be announced. 6:00-Uncle Don. 6:30-Berger's orchestra. 7:00-Sports-Ford Prick. 7:15-The Movie Parade. T30-Keller Sisters and Lynch,
 songs.
 7:45-Pauline Albert, piano. 8:00-Chandu the Magician. 8:15-Bronx Marriage Bureau
 Sketch. 8:30-Minstrel Show. 9:00-Frank and Flo. Songs. 9:15-Madriguera's orchestra. 9:30-Footlight Echoes. Jolly Russians. 10:45-Harry Brauer. xylophone. weather. 11:02-Moonbeams trio. 11:30-Madriguera's orchestra. 1 12:00-Martin's orchestra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21
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7:00-Music. 7:15-To be announced. 7:3O-"The Toad that Wears the
 Jewel in It's Head"-Ed-
 ward A. Taylor. 7:45-A Study.of the Ohio
 Mounds-Dr D. G. Steele. S:00-Silent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21

bits foot ain't lucky.
 Molasses:- Sez you.
 January: We'll, it wasn't 50 lucky fo' de DOT little rabbit, was 1t?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21
PLEASANT SURPRISE

Knoxville, Tenn.-Emory Gable, tall, well-dressed negro, did not create quite the expected sensation when he walked into the police sta- ton and said "I am the man who shot George Bryant" Gable was pleasantly surprised when Judge Williams explained that there was no warrant out for him. Gable had shot Bryant when the latter pulled a gun on him while Emory was with his sweetheart. He shot at Bryant six times, but the hospital reported Bryant only slightly in- jured.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21

The Chinese government is strengthening it's control over rail- roads.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21

The farmer is in sore straits. says Al Jolson, NEG headliner. because everything these days goes against his grain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-21
Jimmy Wellington: Have, you a birthstone, Eddie?
 Eddie Cantor: Indeed. I have. Wellington: What is it? Cantor: The grindstone.

NBCs MaIossas: An always car- ries nah rabbits foot wid me.
 January: TiddIe-1e sticks--a rab-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25

is SO. The very first one that we might mention is the change from daylight time to standard which occurs late in September. but which often does not become noticeable until the first few days of October are by and, gathering gloom in the late afternoon warns us that shorter days are at hand. This is an incentive to faster driving because there are any number of motorists who have no liking for night driving and hence hurry home from the shop or office at a rate faster than their normal operating speed.
 Mechanical defects are often increased af- ter summer operation. Autumn is often wet and cold. Pavements are slippery as result. Add to that falling leaves and treacherous conditions are produced in places that we never regarded as such before. Perhaps for these same reasons pedestrians likewise are not exercising usual precautions. All these factors contribute to the growing toll of mo- tor fatalities and accidents. They can be decreased by increased alertness in both driv- CTS and pedestrians. For the former we advise a careful cheekup of mechanical equipment, such as lights, brakes, and wind- shield wipers. For the latter we reeom- mend amending vigilance when on the high ways or crossing streets Such cooperation may end the reign of October and November as the danger months of the year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
Mad Farmers

The farmers are in revolt again, with Me- braska leading the procession. They roast the NRA and AAA for not giving them enough relief. Montana farmers plan wheat shipment embargo. A national farm organization meeting in St Paul calls for farm strike, to starve the cities into paying the farmers better prices. Everywhere are complaint and hostility. Apparently gov ernment farm benefits for wheat, corn, hogs, cotton and other crops are not enough.
 This, to city people, is puzzling spec tacle. They have thought the farmers were getting more help than they were, though few have come right out and said so. They have also thought the farmers on the whole were better off than themselves, whether con- sidered as business men or workmen. It should be well known that city home owners have had more mortgage trouble than farmers, and they probably suffer from more grievous taxes. City business and profes- sonal men have been losing money. Large numbers of them have lost everything.
 Nearly all the unemployed are city people. The hunger is nearly all in the cities The farmer at least has food and shelter, and work to keep body and mind busy. The tragic suicide wave of these depression years has not rolled through the country. You seldom hear of farmers shooting themselves or jumping off barn roofs.
 We used to think of farmers as lacking in cooperation. That opinion was at least half wrong.
 When they have public grievances they cooperate better than city folk. If the urban population were as vocal as the rural, in demanding political action there would be a roar from the cities that would drown out the emhattled farmers:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
A Book Q Day by BRUCE CATION
A Very Long Novel, But a Strong One

''Three Cities" by sholom Asch, wins one record at least. It is the longest novel you are apt to try to read in Q good many years. It runs 350,000 words, and a lot of those words are four-bit ones.
 For all It's bulk, however. "Threc Cities" is worth reading. It pre- sents Q panorama of Russian lire at the time when Cznrism was about to dic and Communism to be born. Here, in all their aspects, are pre.war St Petersburg and Warsaw and the Moscow of the revolutions; moving through them is an inuumerable host of people in all ranks of society, brilliantly and sympatheticaily described.
 We mingie, first, with the wealthy Jewish colony in old St Petersburg. and we follow the fortunes of young Zachary. Mirlsjn, the dreamy and idealistic son of millionaire. Midkin seeks Q goal for his life, be- iicves that he will find 1t by re. gaining his lost. sense of racial solidarity, and goes to Warsaw, there to mix with the poverty stricken Jews of the Ghetto.
 Then comes the revolution, and we find him in Moscow. still hunt ing q peg on which to hang his idcaiism, ho becomes a Bolshevik. [ And all the turmoil and madness of those days stand out unforget- tably in this part of the book--the slow and painful birth of the new society. the impotent fury of the dying Orlstocracy,
 All In all, 1t is Q remarkable book. If its vast lenght causes 1t to drag, here and there, 1t is fre- quently tremendously powerful.
 The publisher is Putnam, and the price b 43. y.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
Here There And Evey.ysghere
FROM A LADDER
(New York sun)

The irony of fate Is notorious, yet 1t sometimes seems reserved in the highest degree for these who have most or oftenest tempted fate. John Ripley was the first member of Kitchener's New Army" fo win the Victoria cross, most highly cherished of British military deco. rations. A corporal in the Black Watch at Rue de Bois on May Q. 1915, the official citation said of him:
 "Whcn leading his section on the right of tho platoon in the as- Sault. he was the first man of tho battalion to ascend the enemy's parapet. and from there he al. rected those following him to tho gaps in the German wire eIitangle. ments. Hc then led his section through c breach in the parapet to~a second line of trench which had previously been decided upon as the final objective in this part of the line. In that position Corpor- al Ripley, with seven or eight mon, established himself, blocking both Hanks and arranging c flo position, which he continued to defend un. til his men had fallen and he himself had been badly wounder in the head" tSaf E
 Yet the man who escaped with his life from such q forlorn hope the London Times is compelled to report that he died from . fall from e ladder. Heroic deaths do not always come to heroes. i9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25

Residents of Waterbury need to be warned about ordinances prohibiting the burning of leaves and rubbish in gutters and streets. This is the time of the year when the scent of burning leaves informs one that winter is not far distant. It also is the sea- son when many bit of pavement is ruined by just such fire. Since the advent of the hard road city authorities have been forced to many devices to prevent their quick de- terioration. Traffic today is hard on city streets. Fires can ruin gutters just as quick ly as the passage of many wheels. If you have rubbish to burn why not do it in your backyard some day when the smoke and soot won't endanger the family wash. Also in- einerators are obtainable for such purposes and are recommended when there is no other place available to dispose of the rubbish.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25

If the police authorities of Bronxvlle. N. r., wanted to patch up family differ ences and heal current quarrels between Iov- ing couples they could not have chosen a better means than their edet on extended farewells at the railroad station. In an ef- fort to relieve the traffic situation at this point the police recently declared war on those commuters who prolonged their de- parture for just one more kiss or fond em- brace. As result of the manifesto the last few mornings have witnessed more separa- tons of husbands and wives featured by lengthy oseulatory efforts. While patrolmen stood at the station platform prepared to speed the commuters on their way as their cars drew up and wives moved over into the ehauffeurs place, grim defiance was ap- parent in the department of the yexed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
War Credit Prospects

When the chances for new war in Europe are discussed, the American is apt to have in the back of his head notion not unlike that which possesses the mind of the village undertaken who watches by the door of mortally sick friend. He hopes nothing tragic happens but he can't help knowing that if it does it at least will put some extra cash in his own pocket.
 If Europe, that is to say. goes to war again. Europe will need an infinite variety of the commodities America produces - everything from wheat to poison gas, from auto trucks to shells An America which has sold steadily diminishing amounts of these and other commodities for years hardly can be, blamed for thinking about this.
 But it might just as we'll be pointed out that this time those expectations might be- disappointed very sharply. Europe would want to buy those things just as much as in the last war; but Europe might have very hard time figuring out what to use for money. In 1914. Europe held vast quantl- ties of American securities. American rail- roads had used enormous amounts of foreign capital in their construction: so had Ameri- can mines, American factories American street railway systems. and so on. When the war broke out, Europe hurried to turn these securities into cash; with the cash huge purchases of munitions and other com modities were financed. And when that money was used up. the Allied nations bor- rowed heavily in the American market to buy more.
 Things are different today. The amount of sound American securities held today by Europe could almost, as they say, be put in your eye. The shells that could be bought with the money these securities would bring would last week. After that. Europe would have to borrow. And anyone who looks at the present state of foreign loans in this country knows without being told that there would be different story this time.
 European bonds would go like hot cakes now; as a matter of fact, they probably wouldn't go at all. There are various ways in which American prosperity might be re- stored. A new European war. however. is not one of them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
Daily Washington Letter Public Works Program Rated As Sad Flop-But
 Backers Still Are Hopeful.

elevators in government build- ings may become a large problem before the federal construction program Is completed.
 The ono built for the secretary of commerce in the big Commerce building was used by Secretary Lamont, despite vehement official denials. Then 1t was closed.
 Secretary Perkins, discovering all elevator for her exclusive use in the nearly completed Labor build. ing, promptly ordered 1t removed, only to- learn that the operation would cost $10,000. So the lift merely will be barred up. It's too small for practical use as . public elevator. re ni
 (Adhering to an old Washington custom, a girl elevator operator in the present Labor building once closed the door of others about to enter, 50 that she could take Miss Perkins to her seventh floor office immediately. Miss Perkins said there'd be no moro of that--thnt she "liked to rub shoulders with people") tl Baltimore to Bc Oasis
 Baltimore, less than 70 miles away, expects to do neighboriy double duty after repeal, while Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas. sponsor of the 18th amendment and the Sheppard bone dry act for the District of Columbia, enjoys his last gloats. The Sheppard act is expected to remain in effect until congress repeals 1t, which. 1t will at an early date # congrcss finally has decided to vote as 1t drinks. q. Those who lived here under the Sheppard act before national prohibition remember that Baiti- more proved no end handy
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