The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-23
WAVELETS
(NEA Radiophoto)
By ED LEAMY

be featured on the (Sherwin- Will
liams) metropolitan Opera Audi
tons of the Air" Sunday, February
81, over the Blue network. Although
strangers to U. S. audiences, both
singers are we'll known in Canada
for their work both in concert and
on C. B. c. David Rochelle is a
member of the famous Imperial
Grenadiers quartet, for ten years
has been heard over G. B. G. In
choir, quartet and sool work, cur
rently having four programs. Leo
pold Simoneau has appeared in con-
cert and oratorio in and around
Montreal. He has ben guest artist
with both the Concert Symphonique
of Montreal and the Quebec SYM
phony and last season sang first
and second leads with the Montreal
Opera Company. Both singers have
the Metropolitan Opera as their
goal.
Ted Osborne, the "Mr. District
Attorney actor, did some i'm
promptu doubling, in rehearsal this
week and the two roles he
played were those of a menacing
foreign agent, and little girl! Os-
borne, who played the agent on the
air, turned on a trick voice to take
over the girls lines, when Joy Ter
ry, who was cast as the youngSter,
was late because Of another re-
hearSal.
Seaman First Glass Charles Gim-
mona of the Coast Guard, who still
has 1000 pieces of shrapnel lodged
in his body, received the PIE
Heart Award on the Kate Smith
Hour recently. His on-y co.44enl
on, the songbird was She's like a
big sister,
Requests for autographs of "Lum
and Abner" are on the uptrend
this week. Reason: A new "Lum
and Abner" fan club has been form
ed in Postum Trot, Florida. Prime
requisite of membership is an auto
graph of the Pine Ridge philoso-
piers.
Although CHS new Sunday eve
ming series, 1.-THE Star and the
Story" marks the first time that
radio listeners have heard Alfred
Newman as a music director, the
noted conductor is no stranger to
American boys overseas. He has
been frequent guest conductor on
Command Performance" the star
studded show broadcast exclusively
to our fighting forces overseas.
Though the Durante-M Moore Fri
day fun-fest is strictly rib ticker,
Director Phil Cohen likes the show
to have an authentic ring. Last week
the script called for Garry Moore
and Jimmy Durante to take the
bottlenecks out of the railway bus
mess. So Phil got the show off on
the right track by using train whis-
ties, locomotive bells, the cliclety-
clack of tracks, and rafting time
tables. Its no wonder the railway
atmosphere came through so well.
The Sound-effects equipment was
the same as that which will blow
the train whistles for the Grand
Central Station program, the week.
ly drama of the World-famouS ter
minal to be heard Saturday after
moons, starting March /, over the
same CHS network.
Jean Browning, soprano of st.
Louis, Mo-, who was soloist on the
(Sherwin- Williams) metropolitan
Opera Additions of the Air. last
Sunday, (Feb) 10 will sing the title
role in the Julliard Foundation pro-
duction of Bizet's Carmen"
Virginia Bruce, lovely screen star
guest of CHS Suspense" last week
kept rubbing her chin as she re-
hearsed for 1.-THE Locked Door,"
William Spier, bewhiskered pro-
ducer of the thriller series, observed
her mannerism and said, Pardon
me, Miss Bruce, but leave the whis-
| ker-rubbing routine to me-youre
too young to make it look convinc-
ing!"
Dinah Shore, singing star on CHS
Thursdays, finally secured her hon.
eymoon house in Hollywood but
she'll have to move in alone. Her
husband, George Montgomery,
movie actor now in service, has been
sent to Texas.
Oracle Allen has worked out her
own glossary of terms to express her
state Of health and mind on any
given occasion. Her newest, which
Is being widely adopted in Holly
wood radio circles, Oracle pulled at
the Burns and Allen show the other
day, she said she felt simply blop,"
which was interpreted to mean that
she felt bit done In.
'New Adventures Of Perry Ma
| SOM flnd Barbara Conway under