The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-28
 THE AIR WAVES

The March or Time, radloS celes brated news dramatization program, will move to the National Broad casting Company's Blue Network on Thursday, October IA, 1t was ar- nounced today. The program, now in its seventh consecutive year, will be heard each Thursday from 800 to >9:30 p. m., EST.
 The sponsors, Time, Inc, publish CTS of Time" the Weekly News magazine, and Life" expect the earlier hour on the NBC-Blue Net work will result in larger audience in the east than that of the present 10:30 to 11:00 p. m., EDST, time.
 The March of Time made its de- but in March, 1881, as 8 new idea nj radio programs. The show brings to radio listeners six to eight vivid sequences in each half-hour period of the most dramatic stories of the week. Each program requires the services of more than thirty actors and actresses, nineteen musicians, eight production, service and sound- effects experts, and eleven editorial and research workers. -
 The March of Time is edited by William Geer of the "Time" staff. Homer Pickett and William Spier are the production directors and Howard Barlow the musical director.
 Milton J. Cross, NEG an-
 nOuncer, recently bought himself
 a farm of 100 acres more or
 less," according to the deed.
 Located at Woodstock, Vt., 1t
 will be used principally for rais-
 ing poultry and goats. Farmer
 Cross also announces the evis-
 tence of many fine specimens of
 maple trees whose sap he will
 convert into sugar and syrup. WANTED: A one-word description of Tommy Riggs, weekly feature of the Valle program on NEG. Tommy does an act, as you probably know by now, in which he stimulates the voice of a five-year-old young lady. He's not a ventriloquist, though, and odesn't know quite what he is. He's asked the listeners to tell him what they think he is.
 Betty Caine, petite NEG lead
 ing woman who was recently
 cast in the leading feminine role
 in a Tale of Today, has an-
 nounced her engagement to
 Raymond Johnson, her leading
 man in that show. The real life
 romance of Miss Caine and
 Johnson parallels that in A Tale
 of Today. In hte play and in
 real life they have known each
 other approximately 8 year; are
 engaged and hace no definite
 wedding plans.
 George Burns has given up try ing to explain boxing to Oracle Allen. The other night when the NEG stars went to the fights at the Hollywood Legion auditorium, Gra- cie kept asking George every time the bell rang If the battlers had stopped to answer the phone.
 Daniel Boone may have looked the part of a hero as he padded down the Licking river aboard his raft, but the Drifting Pioneers of radio fame prefer the old-time Ken lucky hat.
 It all came about when Morris (Sleepy) Marlin and two brothers, Walter and Bill Brown, in White County, H., organized a singing trio two years ago. They called them selves the Drifting Pioneers and specialized in hill billy and western songs.
 Six months ago they added Merle Travis, late of Clayton McMichen's Geargia Wildcats, They were given spot on WGBF, Evansville, Ind, where they also appeared on the stage. Their popularity mounted overnight and the boys say the ne- cessity of real pioneer costumes if the stage appearances were to con- tinue.
 Accordingly they outhtted them selves in buckskin jackets and trous- CTS and coonskin caps. They resemb- led Daniel Boone's jersonal army and their audiences liked their work.
 Came hot weather and the boys sweltered in their coonskin caps. Then they had a natter make up some old-time Kentucky-West Vir- ginia mountaineer hats. Now they wear their coonskin caps in winter and their hats in summer.
 The Drifting Pioneers, who re- gently joined the Nations Station, are featured in their own program of frontier music from 6 to 6:30 a. rn., EST, over WLW