The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-23
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with CHARLES MANN

With CHAIR
Most priced possession of John
Nesbitt, who resumes his Passing
Parade" series June 10Th is hu-
man skull used by Edwin Booth
when he played Hamlet" 1t was
presented Nesbitt by the Lambs
Club in New York several years ago.
Alec Templeton To AID Lib: Radio
is usually strict in insisting that all
music be Cleared" and Okayed be-
fore it goes on the air. But the Blue
Network will make an exception in
Alec TempIetOn'S case on Monday
night, June 28th. Alec, who has one
of the worlds best music memories,
will just sit at the piano and i'm
prOvise for two minutes. He says
he's written his best hits that way.
Headliners Make Smart Diners:
At the Grand Central Oyster Bar,
Max MARGIN. the Crime Doctor"
author, reading the Dempsey case
! just before hopping train for Hol-
lywood Remember when Max
wrote Jacks Broadway play, THE
Big FiGlt?" Metropolitan
Opera Star Igor CORN gloomily ex-
plains to Mary Martin at Leone's
that he just turned down radio
series at big money. "They said
they would build me into another
Frank Sinatra,' he says . . Betty
Cradle giving a quizical look to see
if she was being kidded at the May
an when a sailor said he knew her
brthers, CLARK. He wasn't kidding!
ZaSu Pitts, she of the fiuttery
hands, keeping them still long
enough to get her palms read by
Mary Talley at Cerutti'S
Paulette Goddard table-hopping at
the Cafe Louis XIV - trying to
borrow a nickel for a phone call
We told you a few days ago that
we had received a special announce
ment from the Firestone News Blu
reau to the effect that they had an
Interestingly arranged hour for us
on their Voice of Firestone program
which starred Richard Crooks,
tenor and Alfred Wallenstein
thrown in for few well-beaten
measures Well we. list
ened to the program like we did
last week . And as they got less
than half way through it, we
thought of the quotations: When
you turn on the radio these summer
evenings, you're usually turning on
more heat That's just what
it felt like during Monday nights
too sultry weather when Har-
vey S. Firestone, Jr, president of
the FirestOne Tire and Rubber
Company spoke for what seemed
like hours, he may have told some
of us WHY THERE ARE
BRIGHTER SKIES AHEAD in the
rubber situation, but he certainly
made the program dull by repeating
all that old stuff we had read in
headlines a couple of years or so
ago Then when Wallenstein
got down to business and conducted
those old shoes and firing hats -
ONE ALONE, IN THE BLUE OF
THE VENING, DONKEY SEREN-
AIDE. TWO HEARTS IN THREE
QUARTER TIME and TEA FOR
TWO, 1t was time to bring John L.
Lewis into the picture for strike
over the airWaveS! 80 and we
muttered-tea for two when there
amt enough tea for one now.
Judy !Canova, who launches her
own show July 9th as a permanent
replacement for Al Jolson, just re-
Gently returned from tour cover
ing seven Southern states entertain
ing servicemen, and plans similar
tours on the Pacific Coast between
her Tuesday radio assignments on
CHS.
Nets silver voiced Lily POns was
slightly furnished over NBC this
week when she displayed her limit
ed repertoire with renditions of I'll
Follow My Secret Heart and her
old standby Caro- Nome from RigO-
letto. She's sung them so many
times during her winter concerts,
we thought she's let her hair down
and give us something refreshing
something new! But she's on
vacation too. :. Conductor Donald
Voorhees, responsible for her selec-
tiOns, because, as in the past, he
always manages to supply a menu
that satisfies the most delectable
palates.
Victor Borge's description of Hol-
lyWood: "The place where man
doesn't carve a career-he chiselS
It'll"
Word of mouth advertising really
brings results sometimes. Witness
to this is Helen Menken. radio di-
rector of the American Theatre
Wing which guides "Stage Door
Canteen" on CHS Thursday nights
After the broadcast, she told Bert
Lytell, officer -the-day on the
program. that she had lost her dog.
Several hours later Bert mentioned
it to someone else. This person, in
turn, passed on the news, etc. The
next day Miss Menken was surpris-
ed to find representatives from six
teen pet shops bringing pOoches to
her home. But the well-wiShing
friends who had sent them were
too late. 1t seems there, is an
agency in New York which special
ICES In finding lost dogs and three
hours after Miss Menken had con-
tacted them they had her pet back
for her.
Members of the Bright Horizon"
cast got together and presented Dick
HOLMAN with an unusual gift the
night his new Broadway play, Early
to Bed" opened. The gift was an
old Bright Horizon" script done up
scroll form Kollmar, heard regu-
larly or the radio drama, Is the