The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-10
WAVELETS
By ED LEAMY

studio audiences and Don voorhees,
and his orchestra. But they get an
added thrill of not only hearing
Lily Pons, but seeing her, the wo-
men in particular because the great
singing stars clothes are always the
last word in chic, from her dark
red hair to the tips of her little
feet.
Tonight Miss Pons will sing three
numbers: Delibe's familiar and al
ways popular, lies Files de Cadiz":
the what a Pons' press agent calls
difficult and vocal pyrotechnic dis
play,D "Vocalise" by Rachmaninoff,
and Dell'Acqua's willamette"
One of the first persons on hand
to see New York's current revival
of Snow White" was Stuart Bucha-
non, head of the Blue Network s
script department. Being first,
however, is no novelty to Buchanan.
Rather, it seems to be habit.
An expert in dialects, he was the
first person to take an American
motion picture to Europe, dub in
the sound in ten different Ian
guages, and tour the film through
Europe. Chat picture was Snow
Whitley. Stuart had directed the
dialogue on the original Snow
White" in Hollywood for Walt Dis
ney and has since seen the picture
at least 1900 times.
AYnnpn Afhnr e&c was %hA
first courtroom trial to be broad
cast, The Murder Trial of David
Clark, who was at that time Assist
ant District Attorney for Los An
geleS County. Buchanan was also
director and announcer on the first
CHS coast to coast broadcast, "Cal-
ifornia Melodies" and played the
lead in the first CHS commercial,
Omar Khayyam," sponsored by the
Walnut Growers of California. He
was also the first radio executive
regularly to broadcast news, using
U. P. leased wire service.
After service in the first World
War. he taught English and poetry
for seven years at the University
of West Virginia and the University
of Florida. 1t was during those
seven years that he became aware
of the nuances of dialect.
Buchanan quit academic life when
he decided that he was not in SYM
pathy with the methods of teaching
in American universities. He de-
clares teaching methods in most
colleges are not practical as the
majority of students are no better
equipped to make a living when
they leave college than when they
enter.
Editors of TUNE In, radio ma
gazine, will award special plaque
to Don McNeill, emcee of the
Breakfast Club program, at 8 a.
M, tomorrow April II, over WATR
and the Blue. The plaque Is in
scribed
ITO Don McNeill and the Break
fast Club on the Blue Network
For Frightening the early hours OF
millions of Americans with the out
standing morning variety show;
for creating and maintaining a dis
tinctively spontaneously and con-
tagious type of entertainment fol-
eleven years; for stressing in the
consciousness of its audiences the
responsibilities of the home front
in the war effort"
And THAT ought to make Don
Mcneil happy. But while you're
sending mental congratulations tc
Don, consider the plight of Ton
Breneman, Host" of Breakfast al
Sardis another WATR, Blue Net
work offering. He recently had 9
letter from an 18-year old Mich.
igan girl in which she told him she's
working in Kansas until she can gel
enough money for bus fare to Hol.
lywood. Which is all very nice. But
she complained, she doesn't know
anyone in Hollywood, and 1t woulc
! be terrible to arrive and have no one
] to meet her, so wouldn't he please
be there at the bus terminal when
her bus came in-she'd let him know
| the time
Then there was the woman from 6
little Texas town, who asked Tom tt
procure for her soldier son in the
South Pacific, an item for which h
had written, as he couldn't get i
there. The item-mustache wax.
To the roster of radio stations whC
have broadcast various appeals with.
out compensation, WATR agar
adds its name; this time a request
for a blood-donation. due to al
emergency" WATR airwaved, typ
o blood is needed Immediately. An,
person whose blood is classified a
tSpe o, please telephone WATR q
once" The appeal was broadcas
last Wednesday night. Within fiv
minutes, nine calls had been re