The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-02
K U Listening?
with CHARLES MANN.

-, with CHART GAS D .m.--Lowell Thomas - Blue
 Network, Author and commen-
 tAtOr ln fifteen minutes of the
 latest news events,
 0;lS ?. m.-"ln Person." Dlnah
 shore. Songs and music by Che
 popular blues singer. accom-
 panied by Gordon Jenkins and
 hts orchestra,
 0;3O D. m. - Meet Your Navy,
 Weekly variety show by blue
 jacket talent from the Great
 Lakes Naval Training Station,
 Durward Kirby emcee's the pro.
 gram, featuring the eOO-vOacc
 Choir direction Chaplain Hjal-
 mar Hanson and rhythm Or-
 chestra and band with Com
 mander Eddie Peabody, banjO-
 lst.
 9:S0 ?. m.-VlctOry Parade of Spot
 light Bands. Features the rhy-
 thms of Richard Timber and his
 orchestra playing at the Bausch
 and Lomb optical Company,
 Rochester, N. Y.
 lO;0O D. m.--JOhn Gunthcr. The
 noted author and news analyst
 In . review of the weeks out.
 standing news highlights.
 The "Aldrlch Family" celebrates | fifHh anniversary in April. On Aprl {, 1888, Clifford Goltlsmlth's stage comedy, What A Life" open- cd In Baltimore. Radios "Alirich Family" grew out of that stage play.
 Martin Block urged hts listeners Co got behind the War Fund Drive of Che American Red Cross during his WNEW Make Believe Ball. room" program one morning recent ly. One Oe the first contributions In the next days mall was check for S2S, the contribution of Alison HNr- grove, wife of Marion HargrOve, army author Of the best-sellcr "Sec Here, Private HargrOvc,"
 Nick Charles, seventh son of seventh son, proves good actor, but Q hard one to kill, in Double Trouble, the riotous chapter of The Adventures Of The Thin Man, tonight, CBS 8:S0,
 Rochester, Jack Benny's radio maanservant, has just started work in . new picture for Columbia Stu dl0s. It marks ono of the few times he has appeared before the camera without "thc boss"
 The dean of modern American music, Paul Whiteman. recently named director of music for the Blue Network, will be accorded tribute unprecedented in broadcast ing history on Saturday, April TO- when the Blue will present Salute to Paul Whiteman" from li:l5 D. m., to i2:4S a. m,, EWT, over the entire network
 Originating in New York and Hollywood, the Salute to Paul Whiteman" will bring to Blue micro- phones a gala array of talent such as has seldom been assembled,
 There will be "the dean" himself, with his orchestra; there will be proteges of his who have achieved stardom in the entertainment world in their own right; and there will be colleagues of Whiteman in the music and radio fields who are eager to salute him, opening of new phase in Whiteman's musical career. Among those who have been inc vlted to participate in the program are Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey and their orchestras; Henry Busse, Matty Malnlck, Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Morton Downey, George Burns and Oracle Allen, Lum and Abner, Tom Breneman, Ferde Grofe, Mildred Bailey and Oracle Fields, many of whom got their start with Whiteman and who now have their own programs on the Blue network.
 Ed Gardner, the famous "Archie" of Duffy's has been requested to emcee the portion of the broadcast originating in New York. Tn addi- ton, Walter Winchell. Walter Dam- rosch, and Jesus Maria San Roma. pianist with the Boston Symphony, are slated to participate. San Roma, in fact, will remain in Hollywood for an additional week to participate in the broadcast, which will mark Whiteman's first microphone appearance as director of music for the Blue. San Roma will present his own piano interpre- tation of Whiteman's famed theme melody, George Gershwin's "Rhap- Sody in Blue" Clarence Nash, the voice of Her. man, the duck, on the Burns and Allen" show, has signed for . Iec- ture teur, which he will start in the fall. The Quack- -Quack man promises not to use hls sound ef- fects on the tour. Highlighting the "Vlsion for Vic- 'ry" three day celebration being staged in this city in tribute to thousands of men and women work | ing and fighting for victory, will be a musical salute to be played l by the victory Parade of Spotlight l