The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
R U Listening?
BY CHARLES MANN

hnown author. This week a con- tributor to Three Ring Times" weekly limerick contest made most unusual confession. He had turned In c prize winning verse but when the time came to sign his permission for its use on the Monday night program, he hesitated.
 Wrote the listener: T regret that the poem is not my original work. I saw 1t written in lead pencil on a wall in the building in which I work. The author is not known to me and, 50 far as I know the poem has never appeared in print"
 The unknown author had scrubbed the following limerick:
 sfIe married a WAVE, and waved
 at a WAAC
 The WAAC was ahead. the WAVE
 was in back
 Instead of a WAVE from the WAAC,
 1t is said
 What he got was whack from the
 WAVE ne had we'd"
 If the unknown author will write Go '"Three-Ring Time, APO Lex ington Avenue, New York N. Y., and present proof of authorship, he will De awarded a $25 war bond.
 Mary Gordon, who does the part nf Mrs. Emmett in "Those We Love-, may be seen on the screen these days. Mary has a prominent role in the new Universal picture, Two Tickets To London"
 Two of Americas outstanding con- temporary musical talents will be united for a regular air series when Alec Templeton, pianist, composer and improviser, joins the Morton Gould Carnival of Music" on Sep tember 1, over CBS at 10:30 D. m, .. W. [. to be heard henceforth as . regular contributing artist on these popular programs. Templeton, not ed for his bizarre travesties on the great masters, including compost tions and transcriptions titled sHaydn Goes A-ridin'," MT. Bach Goes To Town" and "Eugene's On Again." will continue the offerings that made him SO great favorite. Gould and Templeton have already made plans for several musical sur- prises and innovations for the ini- tial broadcast.
 Clifford Goldsmith, author of ssThe Aldrich Family" which re- turns to the air Sept. ?. has been taking q busman's holiday. Cliff ai- ready has four scripts prepared for Che new series.
 It's a running gage on Jack Car sons CBS show each Wednesday night for the comedian to do a take-off on FDR Whether the im- personation is just the Roosevelt way of greeting My Friends or . lengthier copy of the presidents diction, Jack always includes the imitation of his idol. But the simi- larity between them goes further than a vocal impersonation. For Carson strikingly resembles Frank lin D. Roosevelt as a young man and Warner Brothers Is most anx- iovs to film the story of Roosevelt It Harvard-with Jack in the title role. But 50 far, however, the pres ident has refused permission, not only to this studio but to all con- panies desirous of filming his life
 Mir. Eleanor Roosevelt and Mayor r. H. LaGuardia will discuss Unity at Home, Victory Abroad" In spe- cial broadcast over Station WEAF Sunday. This is the first of a series of daily broadcasts for the next four weeks stressing how and why we should learn to live in unity onw and after the wa rand what 1t means to be good Americans.
 Plans are being completed for Bea Vain, radios newest singing star, to sponsor Victory Ship. during the month of September. The launching will be in tribute to Miss Vain be- eastern shipyard and to the fact ing one of the favorite stars of an that she's the wife of captain in the U. s. Army, who formerly was m ace radio announced. He's Andre Baruch. Bea is now featured on both the "Iit Parade" and the "All Time Hit Parade"
 Maestro Johnny Cart knows a girl who's always having her own way. "Why, she even writes her diary . week ahead of time," says Johnny.
 Norman Corwin's return to radio after quite an absence is with new . A nArt Adams, which starts on CBS Tues day, Aug. IT. Robert Young will have the lead and subsequent broad casts will be written by Ranald Mac Dougall. It's all about a foreign correspondent.
 INERT Says: Our little daughter wants to go barefooted. but we won't let her for fear the neighbors will think we're stealing her shoe ra. ton stamps.
 Cecil Underwood producer of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade, can't look his bank in the facade. When he received his bank statement last month he found that his check DOCK ana the DdldIlCe CIle DdHk udC him credited with, varied to quite some extent. Oddly, he thought he had less money than the bank did A visit to the bank for an account ing revealed that radio production was responsible. Timing shows al sixty seconds to the minute had be- come such habit that Underwood had been adding his check book on ly sixty cents to the dollar!
 Dinah Shore will settle perman ently in Hollywood. She spent thi week -end dickering for handsom' home In fashionable Toluca Lake 5ust outside Hollywood.
 Thanks to the Yanks," starring