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

The metropolitan Opera Audi
tons of the Air" returns to the air
for the ninth consecutive year,
over the Blue Network on Sunday,
Nov. %, at $50 p. m.
Soprano Elizabeth Carron, 90
year-old daughter of Newark, N.
j., tailor, and John Brooks McCor-
mick, 30-year-old tenor of Ashe-
vile, N. c., are the first two au-
ditionists competing. Mccormick is
a former wild animal trainer who
at one time operated public zoo
in Asheville where he trained Loop
ards, monkeys, elephants and lions.
Both singers will be heard in solo
and duet with the symphony Or
chestra under the baton of Wilfred
! Pelletier, who for the past eight
years has directed the Additions
orchestra. The operate section of
the program features Puccini's LA
Boheme," with Miss Carron'S solo
mi Chiamano Himi" (My Name Is
J Mind and McCormick's solo "Che
Gelida Mamma" (Thy Little Hand
is F'rozen. Together, they sing the
first act duet, 20 Soave Fanciul-
la 90 Lovely Maiden. In addddi-
ton, Miss Carron will sing "One
Kiss" from Romberg's desert
Song" and Mccormick will sing
'Mattinata" Otis the Day. by
Leoncavallo.
Elizabeth Carron has been sing
| ing since the age of five. When
she was nine, Elizabeth won first
prize in an amateur contest. and
filled a weeks engagement singing
at the Branford Theater in New
ark. Ever since the age of ten she
has been studying voice seriously.
She was the first girl soloist to ap-
pear at the Atlantic City conven-
ton hall as a guest artist with the
Army Air Forces band, and is now
singing musical roles at the Paper
Mill Playhouse at Milburn, N. j.
Her operate repertoire includes
Mimi in LA Boheme,' the title
roles in Martha" "Hansel and
Gretel," Norena in don Pasqua-
le'' and the role of Micaela and
Frisquite in Carmen"
John B. Mccormick, the tenor
contestant, was born in Columbia,
S. c., the son of a wholesale food
dealer who was in business for
years in Asheville, N. G. McCor-
mick's father played the clarinet
and his mother was a pianist. He
studied eight years with the late
Nine. Gaudenzi in both New York
and Milan, Italy, and at present is
a pupil of Estlle Lebling. He has
seven operate roles in his roper
toire. Aside from being a wild ami
NAL trainer, he has devoted him.
self exclusively to studying voice
since leaving school.
Mas, N. Y, busiest operational
Naval airport on the Eastern sea-
board, will be the location for dra-
matte Vox Pop interviews, Monday
November %, 8 p. m. CHS.
The identifying initials mean
Naval Air Station. New York, to the
Navy. Civilians know the airbase
better as Floyd Bennett Field, scene
of daring take-offs in the pioneer
days of trans-ocean flying.
Vox Peppers Parks johnson ano
Warren Hull will have vast diverse
peronnel from which to select Their
interv!ewees to describe the activi-
ties and clossal growth of Floyd
! Bennett Field since 1941, when il
was transferred from commercial.
operation by the City Of New York
to Naval Aviation.
Navy warriors of the sky, heroe;
of air battles on global fronts, are
pilots in the anti-submarine, trans
port and ferry Squadrons. Many avi-
alton mechanics in the maintenance
groups are back from the fighting
against the Jap and Nazi. WAVES
Marines, Coast Guard Aviation, an
ti-aircraft and other Navy units are
on active duty also at Floyd Ben
nett Field, helping guard New York's
vital harbor and the Atlantic Coast
The star of last weeks Vox Por
show, the 5-week-old lion cub mas.
cot presented to Penn State College
by Parks Johnon and Warren Hull
became homesick and has been re.
turned to its mother until it grows
a little older.
Two NOTABLE members of the u
S. Coast Guard, Lieut.. Commander
Jack Dempsey and Boatswain Matt
1c John c. Cullen, the Nazi spy
trapper, will be Ellery Queen arm
chair detectives for the Adventure
of the Train That Vanished" Sat
urday, November ~, at 1880 p. m.
EWT, over NBC.
The Manassa Mauler and Sailol
Cullen are making this appearance,
to salute the first anniversary o
the SPARS.
The former heavyweight it'll
holder is in charge of physica
training at the Manhattan Beacl
Training Station, Brooklyn, N Y.
One of the outstanding sleuthini
jobs of the war is credited to tn,
alert Cullen. On beach patrol, h
led FBI men to the capture of eigh
German saboteurs who landed b,
submarine on Long Islands desolat
shores. Last week he was awardet
the Legion of Merit Medal
! AS amateur detective, Dempse,