The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-01

Four noted authorities Will discuss the topic: should We Have Armed Forces of Eleven Milllonp", during the "America's Town Meeting of the Air" broadcast tonight at 8:S0 over the Hue Network,
 Take "IHcllo, nah fat m sugah man,p add . Hitting voice, . couple Oe diSnples, . handful 0f curlS, two big brown eyes, and . curves0mc figure; put proper ingredients in proper plRces--and you have Con- nle Slaines, lovely nightingale of the Abbott and Costello program NBCs Thursdays, lO;00 ?. m,
 Stald commuters who patroiiZe Penn Station In New York were amaued the other day to see on att tractave red-head leading @ white duck on Q leash along Q station ramp. One man caught on, how ever, after giving the sight e double- take, and exclaimed:
 "Oh, I get 1t now; it's Oracle AL len"
 Instantly, thS Eany star of the Burns and Allen program, and her duck, known to radio listeners as Herman" were surrounded by people, convulsed by the antics of Herman as he strutted and posed for newspaper photographers,
 Ed "Archle" Gardner is being be, sleged by three leading movie studios Co plcturixe "DEffy's." Two years ago Ed tried, unsuccessfully, to gel Job as . writer with all of them {, Ten Doyle, "Mr. District Attorneys" Harrington, Is waiting lmpatlently Fer the return of warm weather, So that he can resume his 24 hours . week patrOl duty for the Coast Guard Auxiliary. DOyle's 42-foot cruiser has been muse by the Coast Guard since last summer.
 Twelve.year-old Rosemary Gar bell, who plays "Tootie" Mitchell in "The Story of Mary Marlin" made up this one about her colleaguge, the announcer at NEG.
 "Why do all announcers have small hands2"
 Don't Know"
 "fts because they're always say- Ing Wee Paws for station Identification
 Past experiences should have told them otherwise, but when Henry and Homer, of "The Aldrlch Fam fly" receive a telephone call tel. ling them to forget homework be- cause of their excellence in school, they fall for the gag.
 But on their show, tonight, NEG, s:SO, Henry and Homer learn that the call was not from their prin- Clpal, but from Agnes Lawson. . sohooI mate, playing an April Fool joke.
 Within the space of few months Billy Burton, Jimmy sDorsey's man. ager, has spent almost S8,000 build ing up Kitty Kallen, Jimmy's new vocalist, who replaced Helen O'Con- nell with the Dorsey crew.
 Shirley C0nklin, e pretty young lass, is one Of the new singers at Gee EutEi's and was thrilled on opening night to bow to the applause of Al- fred Lnnt and lynn FOntanne who were in the audience. A particular thrill Co Shirley as this marks her first night club engagement-priOr to thls she was the assistant man. ager oe the NormanGle theater and had only sung ''paFlour fashion" for friends.
 It never rains--it pour on Thanks to the Tanks" And quizzer Bob Hawks head was literally swimming on last Saturday nights program. When contestant Mason L. Penfield, Of Camden, N. J., told the quizzer that he had five sons in the Armed Forces, Hawk thought that was somethingl But, 1t turned out, Hawk hadn't heard anything yet. A few minutes later. Miss Helen Van Coutren of the Bronx, N. F.. stepped up to the mike and said she had -
 FIT TAKES BOTH