The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21

Loughrane, producer of that new morning variety show, Aunt Jem- ima'S Cabin At the Crossroads," is hearing the program from his bed . Basil slipped in the bath and broke five ribs.
 Fibber McGee and Molly will
 have to move fast next week
 end when they move to St.
 Louis for personal appearance
 at the National Radio Artists
 Association on Sunday, Sept. 26
 ... on the heels of their perfOr-
 nance they'll dash for g Chicago
 train so that all day Monday
 McGee rehearsals can continue
 as scheduled.
 Gabby Hartnett. popular Chicago Cubs catcher, will tell all about himself on Eddie Guests Tt Can Be Done" program Tuesday, Sept. 2l. After years of playing in Chicago bathrooms and on Chicago radio, Wayne King starts his first local hotel engagement Sept. 26 when he opens at the Palmer House on Mutual wire Though he is only 29 years old, Cal Tinney, Oklahoma homespun humorist en- cee'ing Campana's Vanity Fair which debutS on the NEG Blue Network Sept. 20, has been all over the world and has held every type of job pos sible . that of importer, exporter, potato peeler on an international line, newspaper reporter, Chamber of Commerce secretary, filling station attendent.
 Lulu Belle and Skyland ScOtty
 leave right after next Saturdays
 national Barn Dance show for
 personal appearances in Tren-
 ton, N. J., after which jaunt
 they'll run down to Arkansas for
 a brief visit Now that Chi cagO public schools are closed
 because of an infantile paralysis
 epidemic, Kaltenmeyer's NEG
 Kindergarten is being besieged
 by adolescent radio fans who
 want to see the program
 unfortunately NEG has made a
 ruling which prevents kids from
 coming to broadcasts during the
 paralysis scare Barbara
 Luddy almost missed a First Nighter broadcast last Friday
 when a Chicago cab driver, mis-
 taking CBS for NEG, deposited
 her on the doorstep of the pO-
 position net just six and half
 minutes before the First Nighter
 show was scheduled to hit NEG
 airlines Babs, seeing the
 mistake. hastily hailed second
 cab and tore over to the proper
 studios arriving only ten seconds
 ahead of broadcast time.
 Uncle ENa's watch was lifted by a pickpocket this week at thH farm week festival put on by the Chicago Charter Jubilee Association guess they was more city slickerS than farmers at the celebration Ezra said ruefully when he missed his gold ticker.
 Any "weather luck" Rudy
 Vallee might have, didn't hold
 good on his last trip to his
 Maine lodge. Determined to es-
 cape the, New York heat, Rudy
 rushed through the audience
 after his Gelatin broadcast and
 barely made 8 train to Maine.
 A few hours later, New York
 temperatures cooled and held
 down all week end.
 The two male stars of the new Bakers Broadcast distinguished themselves on the athletic field in the college days. Ozzie Nelson, ba- toneer of the program, was a Rut- gers quarterback. Feg Murray was a Stanford track star and later a member of the American Olympic team.
 / The shy speaker is often a
 problem on the Husbands and
 Wives" broadcast. Occasionally,
 a speaker stands at the micro
 phone, silent, while seconds tick
 away. The most effective way
 Sedley Brown and Allie Lowe
 Miles have developed for mak-
 ing hesitant guests go ahead
 with their speech is to stand be-
 NA ID Al LEX