The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-20
WAVELETS
BY ED LEAMY

Rear Admirals Thomas Leigh Catch and Dewitt Clinton Ramsey, and Lieutenant Commander Robert Montgomery, former screen star, are the headline guests on Columbia's We, the People" for an all-Navy broadcast Sunday, october 24 (WABC- -CBS, 7:3o to 800 P. M, EWT). The program originates from Admiral David Farragut's flagship, the frigate Hartford" near Wash ington, D. o.
 Rear Admiral Catch commanded the U. s. s. South Dakota, the famed "Battleship x" which shot down 32 Japanese planes in a single South Pacific engagement. He is now Judge Advocate of the United States Navy. Rear Admiral Ramsey is chief of the Bureal of Aeronau- tics.
 It. Comm. Montgomery talks about small boat operations in the Navy. He commanded a squadron of PIT boats in the Solomons.
 The blue skirts of the Navy will be honored by the Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands" on Saturday, October 23.
 The program will be heard coast to coast over the BLUE Network at 8:30 p. m, EWT, and the WAVES will hear the music of Boyd Raeburn and his band.
 The program will come from the WAVES training center at Cedar Falls, Iowa, where thousands of white-capped women are hard at work learning to do mems jobs as well, if not better, than the men.
 In a recent broadcast, the girls of Phil Spitalny's Hour of Charm" orchestra performed for the patients at the Walter Reed hospital in Washington, D. c. In the program, and in the after show that followed they discovered that five has de- finite tonic effect on the mems out look. Ballads, especially those re- calling familiar, beloved places and people, were applauded strongly, and hymns proved popular. Airing from Pittsburgh, on October 10, the girls sent delegation consisting of the soprano Vivien, the accordionist pianist Ruth, and June Lorraine, impersonator featured in the units theater apparances, to the nearby Deshon General Hospital. to go from ward to ward entertaining the men with music and comedy. Spit alny and the girls plan to continue these visits to the service hospitals, and whenever possible, to put on their radio shows in h.spita1 recre- ation halls, for the enjoyment of u. convalescents.
 Producer director William N. Robson. of Columbia networks Sat- urday evening "The Man Behind The Gun" program is beginning to get volunteer contributions to the glossary of service -men's talk which he began collecting when he first started production of the popular "G. T." radio dramas two years ago.
 "Service msn," says Robson, 1earn an entirely new idiom in the Army, Navy and Marines. They seem to like The Man Behind The Gun because it speaks their own (if new) language"
 Here are a few more specimens Robson has collected:
 Bubble Dancing"-also known as Pearl Diving" and describing that phase of K. P. known as dishwash- ing. A soldier who washes dishes is China Clipper"
 Dog Show"-foot inspection.
 Kennel Rations"-meat loaf or hash.
 "Fo'cSle Lawyer"-Navy version oi "Guardhouse Lawyer" and deScrip- tive of a soldier whose advice. if needed, lands you in either the Brig or Barracks 13".
 "Pills"-Navy term for hospital steward.
 "wailing wall"-the chaplain's office.
 Honey Wagon"-barbage truck
 "Fudge"-Army soap.
 Plying The Wet Beam" air corps pilot following a river course
 Plying the Iron Bears"-pilot using railroad tracks as course.
 "Gentleman by Act of Congress -an offlcer.
 Rose Hampton, distinguished Metropolitan Opera soprano, and q chorus of WAVES and of sailors are guests of conductor Andre Kostel- anetz Sunday, October 24, on "ThC Pause That Refreshes On the Air. (WABC-CBS. 4:30 to 6:00 P. M. EWT.)
 Miss Bampton, a graduate of ths Curtiss Institute in Philadelphia made her first professional appear ances as a mezzo-sopran makini her Metropolitan debut as such IT 1882. Later she retrained her voics as soprano and ln 1886 appeared ai the Metropolitan as Leonore fl Verdi's ''Trovatore".
 How the flesh. blood and sinewl of her crew are co much q part ol Q warship that they seem flises into the steel itself, will he tolt