The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-09

Btng Crosby was . busy man this past week, The singer spent last weekend la San Francisco where he and Dinah Shore did Q 0erShwin memorial show, and appeared at the Oak Knoll hospital, Cal ShipyNrds and the Marine Shipyards, Arriving ln Hollywood Monday, Crosby start cd rehearSals for his ownl Thursday show the Kraft Music Hall, for a command performance show, Thurs. day evening, a Gershwin memorial concert iu Pasadena Thursday night, n trip Co Camp rendleton on FTi- day and Q 0crshwln memorial con cert in San Diego on Saturday, Sun day he plays ln . benefit golf match in Saticoy, He was also rehears- Ing for Mondays Lux Radio Theater adaptation of "Road to Morocco with Bob Hope and oinny SimmS,
 Ht was all lm fun when Red Bar. her flrNt Mtaretd singing on hls Wednesday night show with sammy Kaye. Now che program receives fan mall requesting "mOre sOngS from Red Barber"
 Directors and producers, plus n flock of top stars, have been part of the front.row studio audience of Phil Bakers "Take It Or Leave It" show in Hollywood these past few Sundays Not to win the $G4 question prizes but to watch Phil work, For in his forthcoming pie tnrc, '"rhe Girls I Left Behind Phil will play himself and the studio moguls want to get their action true to life,
 To get a llrSt hand impression OI Che Atlantic Seahoard view of world affairs, J0hn R, Hughes, WATR' MutuarS West Coast commentator ls touring the east, visiting pFin' cipal cities and varl0uS war plants Hughes ls heard locally over WATN at 10 D. nl. on Sunday, Tuesday Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
 "Whats the Good Word, Mir, BluC Blue Bird" win be the musical QueS' ton to be posed by DinNh Shore during her "ln Person., Dlnal Shore program, tonight Rt 9:i5, over the Blue Network,
 Taking hts place with other great actors who have given expression and life Co the words Of famous neFs0nages Of the past lS Edwin Jerome whose characterization Ot George Washington ls becoming leg. endary. Ile will achieve another milestone when he appears with Che east Oe "The Patriots" ln which he plays Washington at Command Per. fOrmance in Washington, D, C. be- fore President and Mrs. Roosevelt on Sunday, April n. The drama will be staged In the Library Of Con- gresS.
 Hank Ladd forwards the latest Ooldwynism: Make him net hap py even If you have to bawl him out ten times to do itl"
 Betty Garde, the star Of radios "CPlme Doctor" series, received Che critics applause fer her perform ance ln the new smash musical, "OklahOma", by Oscar Hammer stein and Richard Rodgers. This partlcular radio show has Ave of its cast now appearing in Broadway stage plays. including IIeqse Jamie- son and Ed Jerome who play Alex ander Hamilton and George Wash ington respectively in Sergeant Klngsley's '"The Patriots"
 Betty Lop's income will skyrocket temporarily when she and Wilbur convert Uncle Tommy's living room into a carnival show on the Tom my Riggs and Betty Lou" funfest tonight at l0:O0, over NEG.
 Kate smith en route to California tO appear in the movie versions of "This Is The Army" and appear at service camps on the Pacific Coast, will stop off t0 broadcast her Va rlety Hour from Ft. sheridan. near Chicago, Illinois, over the Columbia Network, tonight at 500.
 Morton Gould complains that critics arc always trying to put him on one side, of the musical fence by asking whether he likes classical music or popular swing. Morton, whose "Pavanne" was recorded by Glenn Miller and whose Lincoln Legend' was conducted by Toscar- min, insists both types of music are worth listening to. And to prove that they can be worked in together he will feature an Idea called Music In Contrasts" when he brings his Cresta Blanca Carnival show to the CBS network beginning April l4th. On the classical side he has lined up such weekly guestars as Mischa Elman, Lauritz Melchior and Rise Stevens. Tn the popular mood there will be such stars as Ethel Waters, Georgia Gibbs and Connee Boswell.
 The. ease of the Silk Stocking bandit who terrOrised the Pacific Northwest will be dramatlEed during the "Gang Busters" program toe night at 0:00, over the BLUE Net work.
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 It's crowded train that Nick and Nora Charles take on their way West in "rhe Case of the LOvelorn seal," the episode of "The Adyen- lures of the Thin Man" for tonight, at Friday, April 9, CBS.
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