The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-19

k~A from vaudeville days, Don Barclay, will gang up on Eddie Cantor for a spirited joke, joust during Eddie's Time to Smile" broadcast, tonight, over NEG at 500 p. m.
 Recent Groucho Marx script which dealt humorously with the difficulty of getting ice cream (without Sher- bet these days made such hit) with ice cream manufacturers, who have been trying to bget over the same idea, that the National As sociation of Ice Cream Manufac- turers wrote to the Blue Ribbon Town" comedian asking permission to reprint the routine.
 Woody Herman and his orchestra who have just completed work on the 2Oth Century-Fox filmusical, ''Winter Time," open in person at the Hollywood Palladium, famed West Coast ballroom, this week for a six-weeks engagement. Woody and the Herd will be heard from that spot via CBS, three times weekly. Mary Martin replaces Paulette Goddard on Stage Door Canteen" over CBS Thursday at 9:30 D. m. Paulette had to forego the date be- cause War Bond rallies are keeping her in the midwest.
 Here's something we bet you did mt know. Danny Donovan, who does the late Bert Williams talking songs on "Gay Nineties Revue" over CBS Monday night, used to be the daddy of Baby Shocks when that program was broadcast from the east. His name is Jack Arthur.
 With the long awaited Allied in- vasion of the Continent looming closer, Inside Europe John Gum ther's factual review of political and economic conditions in the old world, is fast becoming text book on modern European history. First written and published in 1886 by the BLUE Network newscas- ter, it is now in it's seventh year of printing and fifth revision, the last being the War Edition of 194O. Revised and brought up to date five times by the commentator, it has grown from 180O0O to 265 ,OOO words. In addition, it has been reprinted in 13 foreign languages, including chinese. Significantly, it was banned in Germany.
 JOE E. HOWARD, fabulous 75- year-Old master of ceremonies on Gay Nineties Revue over CBS Monday nights, has written his 526th song, we Never, Never Lost a War;" and the I'm Pan AL leyites tab it as the top song so far of this conflict.
 Ellery Queen is reviving his policy of last year ard tS inviting 8 num- Der of mayors of municipalities to serve as guest armchair detectives on his Saturday night broadcasts. Each mayor will listen to the mur- der drama as broadcast over his local NEG station and submit his whodunnit guess over long distance telephone or teletype to the pro- gram in New York. A member of the U. s. armed forces, whose home is in the mayors city, will stand by in the studio to substitute for the mayor in the event the tele- phone call is delayed by heavy long distance traffic or interrupted by l 1.titooa YNyinritu ypoocconoc
 | Dinah Shores greatest ambition 1 this year is to go abroad and sing before the service men in England, Ireland and other European bases an ambition that is likely to be fulfilled and will probably cause Dinah to turn down all offers for summer radio programs.
 Columbia recordings to be released in June: Dimitri Mitropoulos con- ducting the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra in MendelSsohn's Sym- phony No. 3, in A minor (Scotch)-- Egon Petri, pianist, playing four Chorale -Preludes. by J. S. Bach, arr. by Busoni: 1, Call to Thee; 2, In Thee Is Joy; 3, Sleepers Awake; 4 Rejoice Christians-Busch Chamber Players, Adolph Busch, musical di- rector, playing Bach's Brandenburg ConcertoS, Nos. 1-6.
 Fred Astaire tOnight-with sOng- stress Constance MOOre-will be featured on "S0ldierS with WineS'' at 9'30 over WATR. Major Eddie Dundstedter leads 51-piece band made up of musical stars now in