The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
WAVELETS
By ED LEAMY

Tn preparation for their engage ment at the Trianon Ballroom, Hor- ace Heidt's Treasure Chest troupe, heard over NEG Tuesday nights, will play three successive Saturday nights at Long Beach's Civic Audi torium on the California coast. It will be the bands second engage ment since Heidt purchased the popular Southgate dance hall.
 Poor muslclanshlp keeps many good singers out of the Metropolitan Opera, according to Wilfred Pelle- tier, conductor of the Metropolitan Additions of the Air" which is pres ently holding preliminary additions to pick the vocalist who will be heard when the program goes on the Blue network each Sunday beginning Nov. 2S. "If it takes singer . week to learn an aria, with only ten days to two weeks to learn the whole role, she had better stick to her home and friends. She will never get anywhere In opera"
 Ezio Pinza, basso of the Metro politan Opera Company, and Dinah Shore, No. 1 blues singer, will be Don Ameches guest on RCA's What's New?" show, Saturday, Oc- tober 30, at TOO D. m. (EWT) over the Blue network.
 When the Metropolitan Opera As- sociation opens their Diamond Jubi- lee Season Monday, November 22, Ezio Pinza will sing the title role of "Moussorgsky's great opera, Boris Godunoff." The famed basso, who claims he is "King of the Under- world in Opera" because he very often portrays the role of villainous kings, will play one Of his favorite operatic roles this season when he enacts King Boris"
 Parks Johnson and Warren Hull cross the border into Canada where they will interview on VOx Pop, pi- lots and crew members of the RAF' Transport Command, who deliver American b0mbers and flying boats to Britain, Africa and the Far East. The broadcast will be heard Monday, November 1, at 8 P. M., EWT, over CBS. (9:SO F. M., PWTl
 Just whom the VOx Peppers will interview, Johnson and Hull them- selves probably will not know until shortly before time to go on the air. RAF overseas ferry crews are con- stantly on the move, rarely remain ing long in any one place.
 It was a quest for good spaghetti like he used to get in Brooklyn that led Quentin Reynolds into an ex- citing tank action in Salerno. The front line reporter on NBC's Salute to Youth" will tell the story with the aid of a cast of actors Tuesday, Nov. 2 (NBC, 7:30 p. m., EWT).
 Reynolds had hankering for some good Italian spaghetti after leaving Sicily, where they had only inferior flour to make the national dish. So he started of with a fellow named Tony, also from Brooklyn, who had an uncle and an aunt in the neighborhood. They were happily eating the food when the rumble of a tank battle nearby upset the dinner. Reynolds started after the trouble and saw a tank shot up and the Americans climb out. Just at that moment tank destroyer landed on the beach. the men climbed in and gave those Nazis the works.
 Big business comes to Ellery Queen, when, in Q relaxing mood, Howard s. Palmer, president of the New York, New Haven and Hart ford Railroad, and Charles E. FOs- ter, vice-presldent of Cities Service Oil Company, appear as armchair detectives on the "Adventures of the stolen Rembrandt" Saturday, October 90, at 7;S0 ?. m, EWT, over NEG.
 Tn Q haIf-hour respite from the serious problems oe vital industries sealed tO wartime needs, the two executives will struggle with the baffiing affair Of . kidnapped paint Ing which was held for ransom. Although the ease seems simple valuable old Master stolen from milIionalre's home with She pO- l0ce knowing Che culpTit -- the my-