The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-10
By ED LEAMY

| ... that end being a desire to own radio station. And with his pro- fits from the lumber business he promoted his own radio station in Oakland, still retaining his lum- Der interests.
 But the dual job was too much and Rods doctor gave him 8 choice of the lumber business or radio. He chose the former. Not because he wanted to but because there were four children, and wood was sel- ling for more than dialogue those days.
 Then came the depression and with it went the lumber business. So back to radio he went this time as a performer. And he wrote and produced programs, of which he knew something about .. programs about children. They were 8 suc- cess and he was given an NEG net work spot co the Pacific Coast as Colonel Rod, story-teller. For eleven years he never missed 9 show and played more than 3,OOU character parts.
 Then came visit to New York to see one of his two sons. That was about year ago and he has been here ever since, playing roles in many NEG programs.
 Hendrickson has always enjoyed just talking to people. That's what he's doing now on his WEAF show. But he's talking language every one understands and seems to like. He talks to the woman in the kitch- en as she shoos the last child out to school. His words fall on waiting ears of men about to begin the tasks of the day. He speaks to the child whose life he knows so well. He speaks to all in This Business of Living"
 Singing star Joan Brooks will ap- pear in person to sing her theme and her musical autograph, If You Were The Only Boy In The World" during the WATR Blue Network broadcast of Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians In Musical Autographs tomorrow at 10:00 p. m., Miss Brooks, a reigning favorite fin- ished close to the top in the annual poll for 1914 of radio editors pre- ferenceS.
 There must be lot of rainy weather at sea because Kenny Baker, formerly Jack Benny's singer and now an Ensign in the U. s. Navy, wrote Guy that his favorite was Singing In The Rain" which will be played in his name. For the same broadcast Merle Oberon has requested My Heart Sings" Celeste Holm, featured in the newest mu- sical smash, "Bloomer Girl', has chosen as her musical autograph her own song hit of that show, ''Evalina." Richard Taylor, cartoon ist of '"The New Yorker" picked Beside the Sea" to be played in his honor.
 The hit of the week, selected from Lombardo's listeners letters, is ''The Trolley Song" In addition therell be Guys prediction of the tune of tomorrow and a closing medley chosen by vote among the student body of the Unicersity of Virginia.
 Michael Rosenker. assistant con- certmaster of the New York Phil- harmonic Symphony, is soloist with the orchestra in the Sibelius D min- or Violin Concerto, Pierre Monteux conducting. Sunday, Nov. 12) WABC- CBS, 3:00-4:30 p. n) The program also includes Berlioz's overture to Beatrice and Benedict" the Proko- fief- f-Byrnes Suite Diabolique and Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole. This is Monteux's final appearance with the orchestra this season.
 A chapter of the American Scriptures" is presented as the intermission feature.
 Sieve of Fulf1llment,' a Fannie Hurst story with a modern wartime setting, will be dramatized on WIZ and the Blue Network broadcast of Fannie Hurst Presents, Saturday, Nov. Il, at 10:00 a. m.
 The story deals with New York family, which includes a kindly, lovable mother, her husband, and their 19-year-old son. When the mother saves enough money from her husbands modest income to back a Broadway play, the change to sophisticated life, in the the atre cools her husbands live. With her son in the Marines, the mother is alone and Respondent, unti she discovers a new wartime duty.
 Frances Cassard, concert singer and USO entertainer, will be guest on Adelaide Hawley's program Mon- day. Nov. 13 (WEAF, 9:3O a. m.) Miss Cassard, soon to sing the Iead- ing role in "Tosca" at the New York City Center, studied law and languages at college. A voice teach CT. advised her to study for the operatic stage.
 She made her professional debut With Max Reinhardt and was well on her way to success when the war came. She enlisted as a USO entertainer and began a tour which covered 50,000 miles in seven months. Miss Cassard was the first Ameri- can USO singer to entertain in Rome, appearing there five days af- ter the city fell to Allied forces.
 Shorty Sherock, trumpeter, pic anist Mel Henke, and Abe Aaron, clarinet virtuoso, will knock out jump arrangement of that stand ard jazz classic "Stompin' at the Savoy as high point of the Heidt Time for Hires broadcast, Monday, November IS at 2 p. n., over WATR and the Blue Network. The broad cast. which originates from the stage of the Pantages Theater, Hollywood, will be Heidt's second air shot since arriving in California.
 Other musical features will in-