The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
WAVELETS
By ED LEAMY

LEAMY
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 Miss Minnie Pearl, the girl rec porter from Grinders Switch, Ten. nessee, who relates gossip and jokes on the Grand Ole Opry" over NEG each Saturday night, has man. aged to get out the second edition Of the Grinders Switch Gazette, the new monthly newspaper which she edits, on time. She can understand now why newspaper men are always worrying about beating the dead- line. She says it Is almost unbelieV- able how quick the time rolls around that you have to have your copy ready again to go to press When she picks up more speed, she may get out bulldog edition every two weeks. The only time she ever expects to got out an "extra" will Do on the day that she finally manages to get married.
 
 AlGn Young was sitting around the Biue network rehearsal studies the other day with c most dour ex- precision on his face, SurpriSing to his friends, since his recent rise to comedy ftardom reads like the great American success story. Inquiries discovered the fact that no matter how Alan sends his audiences, he has not been able to beat i:is mana. ger in dart game set ,.p in the managers ofIiee. His gags wing home, but not those darn daFtsI
 Television won't find Dr. Frank Black unpreparedI Although most Of the talk concerning the new medi- un Is devoted to variety and dra- fnatic show production, the General Music Director of the National Broadcasting Company has been quietly deVoting years of research and study to teievision and It's prob. lenS, a5 related to program music.
 Black became interested in tele. vision in 1925 when he read of the experiments of c. ?. Jenkins and J, L. Baird, pioneers in the science Of transmitting sound waves. Less than Q decade later, he had the Satisfac. ton Of seeing his research put into practice by NEG ard the British BroadcaSI!ng Company. Black Is now tackling the job of adapting music and It's attendant problems to post.war teievision, which will in. corporate many new technical dee vices now being used by the Army and Navy.
 Bob Hawk, the quick quir master of CBS' Thanks to the Yanks," is ag much hn expert seated ct c bridge table aS he iB standing before Q mike. Ho has studied the game of bridge thoroughly, and when he has ths time, which unfortunately Is not often enough to suit him, he enc gaGes in tournament play. So sound arc his theories on the game, that William McKenny, known as the outstanding card authority o3 AFaer- lea, has written Q column quoting Hawk's Fnasterful analysis of Q par. ticuiarly tricky bridge hand.
 Donald Buka, who had c job to do on Bright Horizon" the other day-had producer, Day Futile, tearing his hair. Handsome young Buka had to read Q part in the well. known Brooklyn Vernacular, and did Q beautiful but inconsistent job of 1t. Seems he had played for year and Q half the part of young Welshman opposite Ethel Barry. more in the Broadway hit, "The Corn IS Green" and Welsh inflec. tons would creep in to create inel- ifluouS sounds Brooklyn has never heard.
 Abbott and Costello, the NEG zanies, suggest that to avoid cole oriess existence keep in the pink Of condition, do things Up brown, treat people white, be well read, and get on the golf green under the blue occasionally.
 Don Bryan, the bandleader, finds that living costs no more than t used to, if you live as people used toi
 Milton Derle asserts that gas TO. tioning proves that you can't fuel all of the people ali of the time.
 Jay c. Flippen, ein cee Of Cor rection Please" says nothing has done more to put the home on Q sound basig than radicI
 Bob Burns, the baSooa.tootlng "ArkansaS Traveller" notes that some girls cen break 6 man just by twisting him around their little fingeri
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