The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-29
K u Listening?
with CHARLES MANN,


on V0x Pop last week from the Wal
ter Reed Armp hospital, in WASH
ingtOn. Parks johnson and Warren
Hull interviewed Corporal Murray
SallIin, one Of the few U. s. Rangers
in the Oieppe raid, who was blinded
by an explosion. Prior to the broad
east he refused the gift Of Seeing
Eye dog from VOX Pop. "Give IL to
someone who needs It more than T.,
he told Parks and Warren. On the
air over CHS, he said that being
blind was no handicap. II have new
fields to conquer" Before joining
the Army, Corp. Salkin was a Bal
timOre salesman. The company Is
holding his job and will give him a
car and driver. After the broadcast
an Army officer in the War Depart.
Inent telephOned. Several high
banking officers listened with me,
and there isn't a dry eye In the
r0Om," he reported.
Hank Laid says he remembers
only too well his first masquerade
party. Said he went as Harlequin
and will never do 1t again as he
learned that after three drinks he
harlequin stand up! (O-o-o-hD
When Ogden Nash, rhymeSter
with Guy LOmbardO on "Three- Ring
Time" heard Mondays at 1880 p.
m. over the Columbia network, was
! working for $18 per week, he spent
SIG Of 1t seeing "CharlOtte'S Revue"
Nash who is currently collaborating
ON q new musical, says he's never
been able to figure out how he met
the problem of eating. Couldn't do
1t now.
Gorge Lowther, now director of
MICS radio recording division once
worked for the NBC at $35 per week
while earning over $400 weekly for
four hours work done at home In
the evening.
Mrs. Marie A. Peary Stafford, the
famous "SnOw Baby" Of another
decade, and daughter of the famous
explorer, Admiral Robert Peary, will
be among the six members Of the
Society of Woman GeOgraphers, to
oppose six men of the Explorers
club, on "True or False, tonight at
$3.50, over the Blue network.
Columbia Records released today:
Benny Goodman and orchestra play
ing "Takin1 a Chance On Love"
and "Cabin in the Sky" with vocals
by Helen Forrest. The reissue has
good deal Of Goodman's plaintive
clarinet.
The itinerary of the Kate Smith
Hour calls for visits on subsequent
weeks to New London, Conn.,, Tor
into and Chicago. Kate then will
head for California to appear in the
motion picture version Of This Is
the Army.
Victor Borge, the unmelancholy
in show business. Metro-G oldwyn.
Mayer has booked him for a per-
sonal appearance into the Capitol
theater on April LIST, his first the
alter engagement in this country
Borge will then go to the coat to do
Broadway Melody of 1913" and will
follow this by appearing in picture
as the leading man to Hedy La
Marvellous.
Mercedes McCambridge. the Rose
mary Murphy Of "Abie's Irish Rose"
leaves the cast this week for the
coast where she will star In CBS's
II Love a Mystery" and several
Arch ObOler plays.
Lana Turner and the French star,
Pierre Aumont, who Is new to Holly
wood. will be the principals in the
Lux Radio theater's presentation OF
thee xicting melodrama, Gross
roads," tonight. With Cecil DeMille
as producer, the full-hour dramatic
program will be carried by the CO.
Columbia network starting at 300.
ALEC TEMPLETON TIME, Blue
network. tonight at 1850, the noted
news commentator, B0ake Carter,
will be taken for q ride across the
keyboard when Alec TempletOn plays
a new composition entitled: "BOake
Carter Makes With the Jingle
gle-Jingle."
With Jack Benny still under a
doctors care, members Of his sup
porting cast and guest star Orson
Welles have been holding rehearsals
In orsOn's cottage On the 20th Gen.