The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-21

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back the stooges and give then
ridiculous names. Most recent add
ton is Tschaikowsky B. (for Bee.
thoven) johnson, foil on Chamber
Music Society Of Lower Basin
Street." Others are ToodleS Bong.
schnook on the Jimmy Durante-
Garry Moore funfests over CHS
Friday nights and Werrenrath D.
Werrenrath on "Stage Door Can
teen" over CHS also Friday nights
The formal seems to be making it.
self felt on the daytime variety
programs, too, Fun With Dunn
having featured Pandro j. Plotnik
until Plotnik went into the army
under his real name recently.
Georgia Carroll, pretty young
soloist of Kay Kyser's College Of
Musical knowledge" Is slated for
the most important Aim role Of her
career in the forthcoming Kay
Kyser flicker scheduled to begin
shooting at Columbia Pictures late
this month.
? Continuing his round OF naval
and military environments, Jack
Benny takes his troupe to the
Army Air Base, Muroc Dry Lake,
California, for his broadcast over
NBC Sunday, January %.
Santos Ortega will be Satan's
henchman in a new series sched-
uled for the Blue soon. Santos IS
accustomed to playing villains. For
the last year he's been everything
from a safecracker to q murderer
on mfr. District Attorney"
Producers beat a path to Cert
rude Niesen's Pullman car when
she arrived in New York. Emerg-
ing victorious in the race to sign
the exotic singer, were Producer T.
Wells, of 1.-THE Chamber Music So
ciety of Lower Basin Street." the
Blue network Sunday nighter, and
hackers Of "Follow the Girls" a
new Broadway musical show. You'll
hear Gertrude's Basin Street"
broadcast on February 10.
The off again-on again status OF
Walter Pidgeon's new series, THE
Star and the Story" has finally
been clarified and the program is
slated to start on CHS Sunday,
February 6, at 8 p. m, EWT.,
against Charlie Mccarthy. Idea of
the show Is to present the leading
lights Of Hollywood in the micro
phone version of the screen vehicle
which first started them on the
way to fame.
When Lucille Bail looked over
the script for Dime Dance, In
which she recently starred on
CBS's Suspense" program, Lu.
ellie thought Of several changes to
make the story more exciting. Bill
Spier, producer, agreed with her
suggestions and became so en-
crossed in rewriting the climax
that he failed to hear the first half
Of the broadcast when it was put
on the air. He rushed into the
studio and thrust the last three
pages Of the script into Lucilles
hands exactly q minute and a half
before she read them into the
mikei
Max Smith, Of the "Sportsmen
Quartet" Is back with fourSome
after winning a battle with the nu
microphoneS for more than . week.
Producer Don Bernard Of the
'BlondieN show this week set a
record for work believed to be UNI
equaled in the history of radio
production. From Monday through
the following Monday Don produced
20 broadcasts, 10, rehearsals and
previewl Beginning with the Mon
day airing Of Blonde" e rehear-
sails, ! broadcast to the east and /
rebroadcast) Bernard then switched
his attentino to 16 Treasury Dept.
shows featuring such stars as Dinala
Shore, Ginny Simms, Dorothy Lam
our, Lionel Barrymore, Oracle
Fields, and many other headliners.
In addition, he supervised one re-
hearSal and a preview Of the new
William 6enOlx program, Lie OF
Riley" The following Monday he
returned to the Blonde" show.
In spite of travel restrictions, cold
weather and Icy roads, and the
general shortage of time for relaxa-
ton, an estimated 5000 people still
gather in Nashville each Saturday
night for the Grand Ole Opry,"
which Is broadcast over NBC. They
come from all points of the COM
pass, many OF them on horseback
or on foot.
Right on cue! Eddie Cantor,
holding preliminary script read
ing session In a small script room