The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-27

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Fred Allen 20 be their guest Judge
when they make their second APP
pcarance in the big city before
heading home.
The party for Allen win be held
On che BLUE Network studios In
Radio City on sunday with the
festivities { obc heard over che
coast-to-coast BLUE chalns from
1850 20 3 D. m.
The Hobo News will do a series Of
profiles on current celebrities who
come up the hard way.
The stage and screen star, Paul
Lukas, plays q performance orig
lnally scheduled for several weeks
agO, when he enacts the leading
rOle On Stefan Heym's Hostages"
ON the "RadlO Readers Digest, on
ON Sunday, Ut Q q. M, over CHS.
Lukas was 10 have done this drama
some time ago, but had TO postpone
his broadcast appearance until after
he had finished work on the motion
picture, Hostages" In his radio
Readers Digest" performance, he
win play the same role that ne
mlays I'm the Aim. The broadcast
will present other articles Of interest
from the pages Of the Readers
Digest" including "The Inside Story
Of o KIeptomaniac's Mind" Conrad
Nagel is the programs master Of
ceremonies, Don Bryan the music
director.
Metropolitan Opera, today, BLUE,
1850 D m. Bizet's Carmen" TO-DAY 5
presentation, will be broadcast from
the Chicago Civic Opera with Sir
Thomas Beecham conducting. Cast
will be Lilly Djanel, Licia AloaneSe'
Thelma Votipka, Helen Olheim'
Raoul John and Leonard Warren.
Fred Allen was q contestant on
''Thunks 70 the Yanks" the ether
Saturday over CHS, but II wasn't
the comedian. II was a young TEL
low from Brooklyn who happens 70
have the same name. "Havc you
ever met The Fred Allen?" Inc was
asked. "NO," was the quick reply
"COt any tickets 70 his brOadcast"'
Nadine Conner, Star Of the
Metropolitan Opera Company is
writing q series Of articles OF inn
pressions and anecdoted OF her
famed sister divas called: Fellow
VOyager'S on the High C'S,"
Gertrude Berg whose radio whOw
the "GOldberg's" Is still carrying
the weight OF Its original popular
ity when II started fourteen years
ago continues the realism which
gave the serial It's sustained pop
uIarity by personally visiting the
colorfuI districts Of New York BY
Meeting the "llttle man" and talking
% him personally she has kept her
story alive and rs Is generally the
case she has encountered many
humorous incidents. Recently she
ed talking to the proprietor about
went int o grocery stOrc and start
currents events. when she asked
him how business was, he answered
'Tt's ell right, but there's no more
interest. Al one time you'd tell q
customer your price and he'd tell
you his. Then you'd talk u over
until you got . third. Now the OPA
tells you its price and who can argue
with the government"
When Duke Ellington opens at the
Hurricane Restaurant on BROADWAY
April /, the entire show will be built
around one Of the Dukes classics
and named-"Mood Indigo" The
Hurricane engagement marks the
return Of Ellington TO the Broad.
way scene where he won his first
musical triumphs.
The humanitarian work Of the
Bishops Relief committee, national
Catholic relief organization, will BE-
told IN dramatic form In special
broadcast over the Blue Network
Sunday, from 1880 10 $500 p. m.
An array Of scren celebrities, in
Guiding william Gargan. Jant
wyatt, Una O'ConnOr and Pedro de
Cordoba, will participate in an
original play by COuFtenay Savage
1.-THE Greatest Of These.
"A blazing ship, wife left to per-
ish in the flames by her blackheart-
ed husband and a miraculous but
tortured escape highlight the blood.
curdling events that will unfold