The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-07
By ED LEAMY


The 1914 March Of Dimes" APP
peal. will be ofIicially launched on
Thursday, January Is, by Basil
O'Connor, President Of The National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
over the Blue Network l0:20-l0:3
D. m. CEWT) George E. Allen,
Chairman of the National March
of Dimes" will introduce Mr., O'Con-
nor to the radio audience,
With father in the Army and
mother working 10 keep the family's
finances in some sort of order, life
becomes full of overwhelming I'M
certainties for the children. Some
of the children fall into the rapidly
growing group of juvenile delin-
quents, but the overwhelming maj
ority meet the new problems with
intelligence and courage.
This is the story Of youth in war
time as It will be told in the first
Of new l3-week series, Here's
to Youth" on Saturday, Jan. Is
(NBC, 100 p. m, EWTO. Title of
the opening program is Young
Americans in Crisis" and It will be
Introductory to the entire series,
with specific problems and solutions
left for later dramatizations.
On the first program, Helen
Hayes, noted actress currently APP
pearing in the Broadway play, "Har-
riet," and herself a mother, will
be heard in a brief address after
the close of the dramatic part Of
the program.
NBC is producing the series in
cooperation with ten major youth
organizations-the American Junior
Red Cross, Boys Clubs of America,
Boy Scouts of America, Camp Fire
Girls, Girl Scouts, Jewish Welfare
Board, National Catholic Welfare
Conference, National Council Of
Young Mems Christian Associations,
National Federation of Settlement
and Young Women's Christian Asso-
Citations. Charles Newton wrote the
script for the opening program.
Columbia networks "Vox Pop"
team, having reinstated the Lucky
Alarm Clock" gave employees OF
the Northern Pump Company at
Minneapolis a real assembly line
version of how to award prizes.
Ordinarily the interviewer at the
microphone, when the alarm goes
off, wins $40. Parks johnson and
Warren Hull were chatting with
war veteran John Archer, now en-
ployed at the plant. Then the bell
tolled
There was great clangor from
the rear of the huge shop a
crane ratified its chains, blocks and
gears and over the heads Of
5000 assembled employees, there
sailed a huge crate which was
placed at the microphone with all
the care of a father handling his
first offspring.
Only this time. instead Of win
ming $40, interviewer Archer re-
ceived the huge crate, gift Of the
boss Of the company, John B. Haw-
ley.
When the cheers and applause
had subsidized, out stepped with
snorting majesty 500-pound regis
tered Guernsey bull.
When william Bendix starts his
new series, THE Life of Riley over
the Blue network Sunday, January
Is, he knows he'll be working for
client who can take a gag about his
product. BendiX and his writer,
Irving Brecher, learned this via
their addition script for the Amer
lean Meat Institute which bought
the program. One bit called for
Bendix to express dislike for veal
loaf After the program the COM
edian and writer kept their respect
i've fingers crossed, wondering
whether the proposed sponsor would
balk. However, they received COM
pliments and, singled out for special
commentator was the gag sequence
about veal loaf You'll hear it soon
in one Of the early Life of Riley"
programs.
Chico Marx is convinced that
bread cast upon the waters returns
as cream puffs. Recently when
Groucho was injured in an auto ac-
cident, Chico subbed for him on
Blue Ribbon Town" Now Dick
Mack, director of Groucho's CHS
series, is auditioning Chico in
show of his own for submission to
prospective sponsors.
Aleen Leslie. who writes "A Date
With judy, the new series starting
on NBC Tuesday, Jan. 10, is still
finding time to put finishing
touches on new play which she
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