The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-23

Edkar OC0okte) Eatrchtld u now
one Of radios busiest bandleaders
with three network shows for IS
many different sponsors. He's heard
each week on Johnny Presents
0inny Slmms", Phil Bakers TAKE
II Or Leave u" and the Eddie
Cantor show. IN addition, he's been
signed BY Universal Pictures to do
all music arrangements for Dcanna
Durbln's films,
shortage Note; Empty chewing
gum vending machine at lux Ra-
do Theater. Apple machine Still
working. Seven Actors sighted dur
ing reseahsal eating apples.
Pretty Julie stevens, star Of CHS
"Kitty Foyle" series, came TO radio
from the broadway stage where she
was playing the love interest In
BROOKLYN, U, s. A." Iser\ hair was
blonde for he stage .ole and when
she began her radio series, she let
10 back 10 Its natural brunette
shade. Christopher Morley, creator
Of Kitty, attended the broadcast
Julie, compllmenting her on her
performance, He said; "You are
Kitty Foyle," He met Julie
again this week at the Plaza and,
noting her hair, said: well, I see
that Kitty Is no longer q buttcrflyl"
"DuRRy's" tonight at $3.50, Blue
Network. Susan Hayward, screen
actress, and Frank ''Isrlng 'em Back
Alive" Buck, visit "Duffy's" tonight
as guests Of Ed "Archle" Gardner.
Regulars on the show include Shlr-
ley Booth, Charlie Cantor, Eddie
Green and Peter Van Steeden's or.
chestFa,
Mary Margaret Mcbride passed
around cookies to her NBC studio
audience this week, but several peo-
pie complained that they were too
hard to bite into. Mary Margaret
explained why 1t was: Mary Bourke
White, the famous woman photog-
rapher, had flown them back by
troop transport plane from Algters,
where bakers are allowed TO bake
only on Saturdays by military order,
Everybody stopped eating and tucked
the cookies In their pockets to take
home as souvenirs.
'NEen, Machines and Victory"
vital accident prevention series pre-
scented BY the Blue Network In CO.
operation with the War Production
Fund % Conserve Manpower, will
be heard at n new day and hour be-
ginning tonight, 7:lS, Blue Net
work.
Everett sloane thought he had 1t
tough when he had to commute
from Boston to New York for his
"Chime Doctor" broadcasts during
the out-o-town tryout Of the stage
play, "Men In Shadow, In which
he Is also appearing. But now that
the show has conc to Broadway,
his routine Is even more difficult
on Sundays. Because In addition TO
rehearsalS and two broadcastS OF
Crime Doctor, his Sunday Sched.
Ole also calls for q matinee ana
evening performance Of Men In
Shadow" as we'll!
PhIA Baker, che "Take II Or Leave
II" aaixmaster, will play himself In
the 10th Century-TOx film, 1.-THE
Girls He Left Behind" and Benny
Goodman and his band plus Car.
men Miranda, Betty Cradle and
Alice Faye will round out the head
line cast. when quizmaSter Baker
heard he was 70 portray Phil Baker,
he said: $50 I'm going TO be guess
conductor again!"
The seasons first Carnegie hall
concert by the NBC Symphony or
chestra will be presented Wednes-
day evening, March "a (Not a
broadcast) under the baton OF Ar
turo Toscanini. It will be a benefit
for the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis, the organiza-
ton founded by President Roose-
welt.
Coming exactly one week after
the orchestra's concert at the Ma
val Air Training Base at Lakehurst.
n. j., the event will be the second
non-broadcast concert OF the noted
symphonic group under Maestro
Toscanini's direction this season.
Ken Delmar. who Is heard as
Texas Pete, the Oklahoma cowboy
from Arizona, on Colonel Lemuel q.
StoopnagIe's "StOOparOOs" series,
has added q new. entirely different