The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-23
WAVELETS
BY ED LEAMY

and Cullen will be asked to solve q
provocative case in which a hard
ened gangster steals toy train.
Betty Daugherty, young lyric So
prano, won so much fan mail dur
ing her last appearance with the
Musical Steelmakers", that she Is
being brought back for a series Of
appearances on the popular series
starting November % over the Blue
network at $50 p. m, EWT. That
program also marks the debut Of
Carlo Ross, 2a-year-old war worker.
who will be heard weekly singing
the programs theme, Back to
Wheeling, West Va" and other
tunes.
Garry Moore, who is partnered
with Jimmy Durante on CHS Fri
day nights, will make theater ap-
pearanceS in the east after January
l. Moore and Durante return to
New York this week with their first
broadcast from Gotham on Friday.
November 26.
Conrad Nagel in "Pledge for
Victory" is the Treasury Star Par
AIDES" third offering to be heard the
week of November %, on more than
$50 stations throughout the nation.
Mr.. Nagel narrates the dramatized
report of the nation at war, and
warns OF the danger Of over-con-
fldence.
Milton Cross jibes at dignified
artists via his Chamber Music So
clety OF Lower Basin Street" over
the Blue network Sunday nights
evidently haven't hurt his reputa-
ton any. Milton was included in
the list of the ten most popular
network personalities in the poll
just concluded by the Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Paul Stewart, actor in "Mr. Dis
trict Attorney" will soon double as
a Broadway play director. Stewart
Will handle the reins of the forth
coming stage vehicles lover Here"
"The Iron Major, the life story
OF the late great football coach Of
Dartmouth, Frank Cavanaugh, will
be the dramatic offering from the
Lux Radio theater, Monday, Novem.
Der 70, at 900 p. m. (EWT) over
the Columbia network. Producer
Cecil B. DeMille has cast Pat
OBrien and Ruth Warrick in their
original screen roles.
AS Frank Cavanaugh, Pat O'Brien
will portray the dynam', coach who
began his gridiron career at the
University of Cincinnati, but upon
marking pretty Florence Aver de-
clded to give it up and seek his fame
ard fotune as a lawyer. Florence,
played by Ruth Warrick, is Quick
to realize Franks ambitions are in
the sports world. Encouraged by
his sympathetic wife, Cavanaugh
leaves his legal profession and &C
cepts an offer to coach at Dart
mouth.
Martin Block, who serves as
WNEW's conductor of tn MAKE
Believe Ballroom, received hurry
up call from Mrs. Herbert L. Carle-
bach of the Officers Service Com
mittee, Inc, that many officers and
their families were in town without
housing ABILITIES.
Mr.. Block, who has always rem
dered many public services through
the medium of his Make Believe
Ballroom, put the appeal up to his
listeners, and in approximately
FIVE MINUTES after he started hiA
appeal, the Commodore Hotel, head.
quarters OF the o. S. c., was swamp.
ed with calls, and the housing
shortage eliminated.
He had to give up career of loaf
ing to do it, but Jay Sommers now
has one of the Softest snaps in the
world. He gets paid handsomely
to insult people. And they love it.
Sommers, known to his more init
mate acquaintance as the poor
mans Saroyan,' is the pudgy, bow
tied perpetrator of the quips and
jibes tossed at the greats" by NIL.
ton j. Cross on the hilarious Cham
Der Music Society of Lower Basin
Street sessions. Sundays at 9:1S p.
m, over WATR and the BLUE Net
work.
Twenty-six, married and a native
New Yorker, Sommers originally
planned to become a chemist. To-
ward that end he majored in chem
istry at the City College Of New
York. But the test-tube dream ex-
ploded after a short spell as a lab-
oratory assistant with beer firm.
Seems like I did more tasting
than testing" he shrugs.
Came four-week period as an
insurance salesman, then two years
of "socialized beachcombing." In
1886 he landed job assisting Irv-
ing Brecher, one of Milton Berle's
gag writer's. He liked it, eli 'ked, and
has been doing 1t ever since. Since
that debut as radio laugh special
ist he has written for such come
dams as Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Dur
ante, and Ed "Archie" Gardner.
The years of 'beachcombine' have
left their mark, however. His big
ambition now is to write less for
more"