The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-01

who returned to WATR and Mutual
last Sunday, $50 p. m. as regu-
lar weekly feature has been chilling
listeners for seven solid years.
Moving well past the half-billlOn
mark, the experts Of MICS "In-
formation Please" have rolled up
the enormous total Of $3.50, S54, 616
In War Bond sales in eight appear
ances.
In their eighth War Bond appear.
ance, at the Mosque Theater, New
ark, N. j., last night, they played
to 3,277 persons who purchased g..
39e, 975 and an additional 1888 repre-
sentatives Of Newark business Arms
which had made purchases Of $685..
100000 In War Bonds.
The total Treasury Department
stake" Of S277, 39S,075 represented
the largest total ever subscribed In
In the cours Of single appear
ance Of any group.
For the occasion, Representative
James w. Fulbrlght, Of Arkansas,
was guest expert with the regulars,
John Herman, Franklin p. Adams
and Oscar Levant. Clifton Fadiman
Of course, acted as master Of cere-
monies.
Also present was Vice. President
Henry A. Wallace who appeared
briefly on the stage Of the Mosque
TO explain that he had promised 70
appear as . guest expert but was
forced to cancel the appointment
because Of an emergency. The
emergency having subsequently dis
appeared, Vice.Presldent Wallace
came down TO see the fun and
broadcast an appeal Ter War Bond
purchases.
Hit tunes from some Of the best
musical comedies in theater history
viii be the features Of the Sunday,
October 3rd, program Of the Gen.
eral Electric all-girl orchestra. Fol-
lowing the bands appearance last
Sunday at the Walter Reed hospital
In Washington, D. O., where Phil
Spitalny and the girls entertained
our wounded men, the band EN-
barks on another trip, which, this
time, will take them to Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, where the program
will be broadcast Sunday, october
10th.
Joe =. Lewis, famed stage, movie,
radio and nightclub comedian, Just
returned from Australia and the
South Pacific where he has been
providing laughs for servicemen,
faces an equally arduous task In
trying to outwit the gag writer's Of
Awake at the Switch" to be heard
Tuesday, October s at 700 p. m,
EWT., over the Blue Network.
Lewis will submit Jokes to the
programs Board Of Switchmen, Pat
G. Flick. Sid Fields, Dora Vaughan
and Dan Shapiro. They, in turn,
will attempt to give new plots or
switches to these old gags. Each
time they fail, SIS Is paid to war
charity. Lewis's problem Is further
complicated by the fact that Dan
Shapiro, his own gag writer, Is &C.
customed to switching gags for the
famous jokester.
Who will be the first to fall from
the undefeated ranks Of football,
Northwestern or Michigan That
question will be answered Saturday,
Octboer 2 (NBC, 2:45 p. m, EWT)
when Bill Stern. NBC Director of
Sports. gives q play by play descrip-
ton Of the game from Dyche Sta
dunn in Evanston.
The game should be one Of the
best on the football schedule for
Saturday. Both teams are loaded
with Naval trainees. Michigan,
which pulverized its two opponents,
Camp Grant and Western Michigan,
viii field one Of the strongest back
fields in the nation.
The First Sunday evening con.
cert Of the Cleveland Symphony or
chester, conducted by 81 year old
Eric LeinsdOrf, will feature the mu-
sic Of two nineteenth century mas
tiers, Beethoven and Brahms. when