The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14
WAVELETS
By ED LEAMY

ently insomniac instructor. Carl himself is member of Steel-work- ing family, his father having work ed for the sponsoring company for many years.
 Probably the most freckled face actor in radio is Dix Davis, young Ster who portrays the cussed kid brother, Randolph, in "A Date With Judy" on NEG Tuesday nights. How ever, despite his freckles, Dix is a handsome lad and his good looks and acting ability have won him important roles in motion pictures since 1884. His timing in reading laugh lines is the talk of more ma tured jesters who have watched him in action on the Jack Benny pro- gram and the Blonde" series. Soc1- ally he's known as Dixie the Pixie. Kate Smith has sung more than two thousand songs in her broad casting career, among them the now familiar and beloved God Bless America" Many of them were the sentimental tunes she has made fa- nous, but it wasn't until a recent performance that Rates emotions got .--> better of her.
 On a recent broaocast, she sang What Makes Marine. Seated in | the audience were three leather neck heroes of Guadalcanal, and Kate had to fight to keep the tears of pride from showing as the boys beamed up at her during the song.
 Audrey Marsh, soprano, steps from the Lyn Murray chorus into the solo spotlight on "The Lyn Mur- ray Show" tonight at 6:15 p. m., EWT, over CBS. She sings the Rodgers and Hart My Funny Val entine." The mae chorus sings "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" the mixed group offers "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart" and the or chestra plays Two Hearts in Three-Four Time"
 Comedienne Cass Daley's rendi- tion of the song, Willie the Wolf, on the Bob Hope show last week brought forth many requests from service men to repeat the tune on her army camp visits. The boys make the added request that Cass select the most typical wolf" from the Willies stationed at each camp
 Felix Mills, maestro of the Burns l 4rnhncfrn hoe nf fho finest groups of musical analysis and arrangers, in his own organiza- tion. The boys like to get together as they did recently and have real jam sessions" playing things like Chopin, whose compositions are toughies for orchestrators.
 Although Italy and some parts of France are officially credited with originating the opera form as we know it, the spectacle of singing the words to a written drama dates back to ancient Greece" reveals Don Bryan, maestro of Radio Readers Digest" "So, not only did the Greeks have a word for 1t Z. they set it to music, tool"
 CBS Commentator Harry w. Flan- nery's book, Assignment to Berlin, which was written on Flannery's ex- periences in Maitland, is a big seller in its Spanish edition south of the border, as Harry discovered on his recent trip to Mexico. Both the President of the southern republic and the Foreign Minister had copies
 The Sportsmen quartet have worked out 8 musical quiz witt, which to amuse themselves and band musicians during rehearsal in- termissions. It is a questionnaire dealing with matters musical and it bids fair to replace gin rummy as a rehearsal break pastime. Com posed of trick questions relating to instruments, composers, orchestra tions, etc., the participants win war stamps by giving the correct an- swers but forfeit cigarettes to the USO when they fail.