The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-05
MIKE GOSSIP

and producer OF "Mr. OlSCr1Ct AZ
torney," is coming back to radio
but for the War Department.
The Major will produce a new show
called "Visiting Hour" over Obs
on Saturday afternoons, with
broadcasts coming from Army hos
pitfalls throughout the country. lied
Husing will be narrator. 1t was
Byron who brought. 'Mr. D1str1ct
Attorney" into the charmed circle
of the ten top shows in radio. Jerry
Devine is carrying on ably as ms
successor, mfr. D. A." having stu
maintained It's position IN the latest
listening audience survey.
Even more than coast to coast Is
the representation in the Hour OF
Charms" current contest to find a
"Sinping Cinderella" Scheduled to
be heard on the Sunday night NBC
program with Phil SpitalnyS all
girl orchestra are contestants rang
inc all the way from Portland, Ore,
to Jamaica, British West Indies.
| Arturo Toscanini ends his season
with the NBC Symphony April 9.
DR.. Frank Black succeeds him with
a summer series.
Milton J. Cross, heckler deluxe on
Chamber Music Society Of Lower
Basin Street" is going to turn de-
tective. He III be an armchair guest
on "Ellery Queen" over NBC SAT-
urday, April 8, and together with
Marjorie Lawrence, opera singer,
he'll try to unravel who wone what
Maestro Frank Novak is reaching
way back into his bag Of music
tricks for the songs he will offer as
c.l Easter special on Hook n Lad
der FollieS'' over NBC Saturday,
April 8. Among the Novak selections
are such favoriteS as Where Did
You Get That HAITI" and Easter
Parade" For his community sing
he'll give dialers Put On Your Old
Gray Bonnet" and 1.-THE Band
Played On"
When Jimmy Durante and Garry
Moore, in their latest CHS mirth
skit, invaded the music school bus
mess, it was no wonder they drum
red up so many laughs. Scripter
for the sketch was Jay Sommers
who writes the tuneful lampoon
THE Chamber Music Society OF
Lower Basin Street."
Dinah Shore, married to an army
man herself, feels that she just
HAS to go oversease to entertain
at the fighting fronts: Dinah, star
red on CHS Thursday nights, has
made more appearances on Com
mand Performance" the service
mems own series, than any other
personality. This record has estab-
lished her as the top feminine ar
fist with our boys across the water.
Dinah is grateful and, when her
radio program vacations for the
summer, she'll be on her way over
the Big Pond to sing in foxholes,
trenches or wherever her voice will
help to tighten the grimness Of war.
lobe Reed, announcer for 1.-THE
Star and the Story has at last
realized long standing ambition:
he has bought a house in Hollywood
and settled down permanently. Be-
fore joining Walter Pidgeon's CHS
Sunday series, Reed announced a
travelling program that covered
nearly $4,000 miles in two years.
Two towns in Massachusetts, one
in New Jersey and two in Pennsyl-
vania have written to Parker Fen
nelly, the dad" of Mother and
Dad" broadcasts heard each Satur-
day at $50 p. m, e. W. t., over CHS,
asking him to be q special guest
for forthcoming Father and Son"
gatherings in their respective COM
munities. He is termed by each a
'typical" father.
When Conductor-Arranger Don
Bryan shows up for a Radio Read
er's Digest rehearsal, he's likely to
be called on to provide the proper
atmospheric music for an Indian
cobra sequence. an Antarctic storm
or suitable accompaniment to the
tOm-tom rhythms Of Africa. When
time permits, the busy Bryan in
tends to fashion an orchestral suite
from his unique musical odds and
ends.
Sousa's band at Its lustiest was
considerably quieter than the sound
4 effects man during the last March
20) Mr.. and Mrs. North" spine
tingler, THE Norths Find a Pair