The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15

works both ways. Our fighting men overseas prefer voice that reminds them of the folks back on Main street. Witness the big hit with the boys of such Songstresses as Dinah Shore, Frances Langford and Georgia Gibbs.
 However, with more and more women going into uniform, the song scales may become more evenly bal anced between thrushes and croon- CTS. The boys and girls in Italy and the folks in Illinois will begin to see eye to eye on singing.
 The first girl semi-finalist in the Hour of Charms" nation tionwide search for the Undis- covered Voice of America will be heard on the program Sunday, March 19 (NBC, 10:00 p. m., EWT), with Maestro Phil Spitalny and his all-girl orchestra.
 For the succeeding nine or ten Sundays, other winning girls from that many of the competitions 97 addition centers will appear with the celebrated orchestra until the win- ming Singing Cinderella has been selected. Transcriptions of the best voices are now being judged in New York.
 The most popular addition songs among the 10000 vocal aspirants, ranging from operatic sopranos to female Sinatras. were My Hero" "Zigeuner," "Besame Mucho" and ''The Italian Street Song"
 The name of the first semi-final- ist is to be announced on the Hour of Charm" Sunday, March 12.
 Courageous Pr boat crews, of the U. s. Navy's deadly htt-and-run Mosquito Fleet will be heard on Vox Pop when Parks Johnson and Warren Hull visit the Motor Tor pedo Boat Squadron Training Gen. ter, Melville, R. l., Monday, March 20, at 8 p. n., EWT, over CBS.
 This show, with men who fight the swiftest craft afloat, will be linked in continuity to the preced- ing Vox Pop program. of Monday, March 13, on which Johnson and Hull interviewed war workers in the Pr bodybuilding yards, in Bay onne, N. J.
 The adventure and excitement of PIT warfare will be told by officers and enlisted personnel. who have no hesitation in attacking enemy battle ships a hundred times the size of their high-Speed mighty PIT midgetS; who can even knock submarine plans and bombers out of the sky.
 Royalty of modern music, Connee Boswell, queen of the "Blues," and Xavier Cugat, rhumba king, guests on the Ellery Queen show. Satur. day, March 18, will try their mus ical charms on the s"Adventure of the Circular Clues" at 7:30 p. m., EWT. over NEG.
 The ace radio sleuth and his ama- teur detectives will seek the iden- tity of blonde woman whose mur- dered body was found in an old trunk lodged in an apartment house basement. Ellery's main clue to the baffler are three circles painted in blood on the bare back of the corpse.
 Connee Boswell; outstanding bal- lad singer of the nation. Is starred in her own show. each Wednesday evening over the Blue network. A musician all her life. Connee could play the piano by ear when she was two, and has been in radio, movies. or on the stage almost since she can remember.
 Xavier Cugat, orchestra leader. cartoonist. and violinist, is heard weekly in ilis new program on the Mutual network. Now playing 2 ten-weeks stand at the Paramount theater in New York he has at- tracted record crowds.
 George M. Williams, senior vice. president and director of tine Cur. 'iss- Wright Corporation. which pros duces the huge sky freighters check. mating the Jap snatch of China's overland Burma Road. will be guest speaker on Eddie Dowllng's Wide Horizons program. Sunday. March ie. at { ?. En., EWT, over the Mutual network.