The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
X v Listening?
with CHARLES MANN

George Jean Nathan has been of- fered 3,2OO a week to do broadcasts but he's between the devil and the deep blue Ezra Stone, the Henry Aldrich of radio, will not &C., company the This Is The Army show overseas. He'll be with CBS instead The rumors about Orson Welles' tests for the role of Hitler are false. The genius, who is 6 feet 3, is being considered for the title role in a movie about Marshal GOering.
 Katina Paxinou, whose interp of Pillar in For Whom The Bell Tolls has won much attention, has been borrowed from Paramount by RKO. She will play the role of a Greek housekeeper in the David Hamp- stead production of Tender Comrade which will also star Ginger Rogers ,. Geraldine Fitzgerald and Loret- ta Young will play the feminine leads in the film When Ladies Fly, the story of the women's air fer rying service which Walter Wanger will produce for Universal.
 VeIoz, who, with his partner, YO- landa, begins an engagement at ROxy's this week, is the only man in this country who refused the oppor- tunity to dance with Rita Hayworth. He was offered the chance by Col umbia Films to do Cover Girl, but he misunderstanding the team of Ve- loz & YOlanda is inseparable |. Gypsy MarkOff, who was hurt in the Lisbon Clipper crash, will undergo another operation on the tendons in her right hand-to restore it's use for accompanying herself on the guitar-upon which she depends for her bread and butter.
 Lewis Gannett of the Tribune has this to say about Larry Lesueur's new book Twelve Months That Changed The World: Although he calls his book by that title. 1t isn't really that pretentious It is the rather appealing, honestly superfi- cial diary-report of young Amer ican who didn't know much about Russia, didn't like Russia, didn't ex- pect Russia to hold out against the Germans, and learned better" Le- seueur is a staff member of the Col umbia Broadcasting System.
 q Have Had Ten Years Of Radio And Now I Want Ten More."
 This was Gabriel Heaters com ment as he prepared to mark his tenth anniversary in radio tOmOr- row, eve thought his six broadcasts weekly over Mutual-WATR leave him little time for personal life.
 q have had to give up theater, dinner parties, and many other pleasures. There's little time for my family. But love it because the whole world is my workshop"
 The dean of Radio Commentators relaxed for a moment in the special studio in his FreepOrt, l.. I. home from which he brOadcasts.
 After ten years," he continued, 'I guess man is entitled to stop for few minutes and reminisce." But even as he reviewed the past you could see that his ears were cooked toward the speaker picking up the latest news flashes. His eyes automatically looked toward the large globe of the world on his desk.
 Heater grew to prominence for his remarkable extemp0raneOus talk for fifty-twO minutes while waiting for the result of the Hauptmann execution, more than ten years ago. He has been g Mutual for seven of these.
 Heater, whose earnings for the past year totalled $200, 900 will make one of his rare guest appearances on his tenth anniversary night when he appears on Double or Nothing tomorrow night at 9:3O.
 Nothing gripes us more than to see huge hausfraus squating at a luncheon counter slipping away at their double-strength ice cream so- das while working girls have to waiste half of their lunch hour waiting for the obese creatures to waddle their aimless way so they may have Q seat.
 George Burns and Oracle Allen will pay . return visit 10 the Paul .WhitsuAn Presents ,s" program