The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-21

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 The method by which the gag writers perform the incredible task of turning out fresh fun each week for such folk as Fred Allen, Milton Berle and others is explained when the Board of Switchmen on Awake at the Switch" listen to a standard joke and spontaneously give from two to four new switches. or varia- tions, on the spot. If they fail to come up with the requested number of switches $l5 is paid to a national war fund such as the Red Cross, Navy Reliew, etc.
 Marie Greene of the mirth and mischief show Everything Goes" has been swamped with letters ask ing where she got her lyrics for the popular Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey" They're not in any song book. Marle's special arrange ment of the ditty also has additional words through in for good measure. She made them up herself.
 Because of the thorough War Bond promotion job they've done on their BLUE Network broadcasts, Lum and Abner have won the dis tniction of being asked by the U. s. Treasury Department for copies of all their scripts for publication.
 The two beloved Ozark characters, played by Chester Lauck and Morris Golf, made their radio town, Pine Ridge, a TT" town. This means that every citizen of imaginary Pine Ridge bought bond.
 Henry J. Kaiser, miracleman of the shipyard industry, will under take to answer questions relating to his methods of tacknng the medical problems of his workers when he discusses Postwar Health Plan ming" with four doctors and a rep resentative of labor on Theodore Granik's American Forum of the Air" to be heard over Yankee Net work stations Tuesday, September 2l, from 8 to g p. m.
 Dr. Ernest P. Boas, chairman of New York Physicians Forum for the Study of Medical Care, and assist ant clinical professor of medicine, Columbia University; pr. Morris Fishbein, Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association; {; Dr. Kingsley Roberts, director of the Medical Administration Service Inc, and Dr. Louis Bauer, Speaker of the House of Delegates of the New York State Medical Society, will represent the medical profess sion.
 Robert J. Watt, international rep resentative of the American Fedora ton of Labor, will serve as spokes- man for the workers.
 Any man and his wife who have had quarrels and how many are there who can claim that they haven't? .. will want to caves drop on the civilian and Mary sketches which will be . part of Dinah Shores new starring series starting on CBS Thursday, Sep tember 30 at 9:3O p. m, e.w.t. The sketches will spotlight COrnella Otis skinner and Roland Young in con. tinuous quarrels colOred with much humor. Their contributions will be plped in from New York because of the pairs legitimate theater cOm- mitmentS but Dinah and the rest of the show will be heard from Hol- lyw0od.
 Boston, September l7-The pro- posal of union between the Church of England and the Roman Catholic church, considered from time to time for more than 50 years, again is being discussed in high British court circles.
 Details of the plan, and the iden- tity of the men behind 1t, will be fldentially Yours" to be heard over WNAC and Yankee Network sta- tons, tonight from 7:3o to 7:45.
 Alan Lipscott, writer on the Jim my Durante-Garry Moore NEG show, has written a book, Fun File for Children. in collaboration with Scott Corbett, now in the army and it's to be published by Simon and Schuster.
 Bob Hope, who for the past three months has been entertaining sol diers of the U. s. Army in England, Ireland, Iceland and Africa, returns to the air tonight l0:00 to 10:30 His program as in other years, will be broadcast by Station WTTC.
 The Fred Brady Show maid "Beulah," played by Marlin Hurt, g big hulk of a man, was surprised tG get fan mail request the other day from q soldier who wanted Beulah': picture to pin up over his cot!