The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-02

variety the shOw-business
journal this week reports that the
future will "see name variety
shows as the top audience getters,
and classical and semi classical
musical programs on the progress
sive build-up." 1t was exactly with
this idea in mind that "Here's to
Romance" launched its all-musical
variety show in April and began
seeking a name to head it up. When
Dick Haynes made his sensational
nightclub debut in May as a ro-
mantle vocalist, the sponsor knew
they had found their man. Dick
was signed at what is reported to
be the highest salary ever paid
performer of his experience. That
they were right in picking Dick was
proved to the sponsors when two
records Haynes had cut meantime
began selling like wildfire. At this
writing his you'll Never Know"
and ut Can't Be Wrong" have re-
tailed over 100000 copies each.
Diminutive Lily Pons, star of
radio, opera and concert stage, re-
turns to the list of superlative per-
formers who appear on The Tele-
phone Hour when she Is heard to-
night at 900 p. m. on the entire
NBC network. This will be Miss
Pons' sixth appearance on the pro-
gram OF music you love to hear.
A new honor has come to Henry
J. Taylor, Blue Network. news
analyst, and author of Men in Mo-
ton, which is rapidly moving into
the best seller ranks after critics
everywhere acclaimed the book one
of the finest pieces of reporting to
come of the presses during the
conflict now raging. Taylor, whs
starts a new series via WATR and
the Blue tonight at Ills, has been
given a signal honor in a recent is
sue of Readers Digest.
The age old query-"who is the
better man :. a boxer or wrest-
ler"-will be settled once and for
all tonight when Jim Braddock and
Charlie Strack meet in combat at
Boston. Some of the biggest names
IN the sports and newspaper worlds
Will come to the Hub City for the
mammoth sports affair, featuring
the former heavyweight boxing
champ against the renowned wrest-
Ter. The feature which is similar
to the highlight of the new picture
BEND the Rising Sun" in which
Jap wrestler battles an American
boxer, will be described for WATR
listeners from $3.50 to 10. Some of
the top notch news personalities
who will be present are H. v. Kali
tenborn; Col. Carlos Romulo, aide
to General Macarthur and the last
man to leave Bataan; Gwen Dew,
woman news correspondent who was
: prisoner of the Japs; and foreign
correspondent James Young who
wrote the book ON which the movie
is based. Margo, Michele Morgan,
Anne Shirley and other screen lum-
inaries will attend the show. 1t
promises to be one of the years
most unusual radio broadcasts, so
we recommend that you hear 1t to-
night at $3.50 via WATR.
Many is the sad tale Of "A Victory
! Gardener and to the sum add the
story of Jean Tennyson. The So
prano star of Great Moments in
Music" has worked assidu0usly on
her victory garden and has wound
up with poison ivy. Is that what
was wrong with her voice all these
years?
! Producers and cast on 1.-The Pass
. ing Parade, over NBC wondered
bit last week when John Nesbitt
the programs mentor arrived in the
Hollywood NBC studios rugged out
in a sport shirt. Nesbitt who Is
ordinarily the personification Of
modest dress did his sartorial turn
about because he had sent his shirts
to the laundry and they had come
back trough dry" with a humble
note attached explaining that "Gue
to the shortage OF labor we are
unable to iron your shirts-we hope
voll have An iron"