The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-28
WAVELETS
By ED LEAMY

Radios newest tribute to the American people is Green Valley, U. s. A." which will debut on the Mutual network Sunday, February 27, 500 p. m. EWT, under the sponsorship of the Emerson Radio and Monograph company.
 Primary object of this program is to give the radio listener the max imum in fine dramatic entertain ment, punctuated with comedy. The secondary object Is to interpret in the most sympathetic manner pos- sible, this country and its country men. Each week, prominent guest stars from stage, screen and radio will be featured in complete story with a supporting cast made up of some of radios finest actors.
 There are couple of reasons, be- sides the manpower shortage, why there are now so many women of note in the world of musical notes.
 In the first place, lady instru- mentalists have proved they can hold their own with men when 1t comes to drumming on beat or toot- ing in tune. At the turn of the cen- tury, the dozen American sym- phonic organizations had only half a dozen women in their orchestraS. Today, the 19 major symphonies employ some 190 lady players.
 The girls have shown they have the stuff, but they needed the breaks, too. That's where you've got to hand it to Phil Spitalny, whose all-girl orchestra is heard each Sun- day evening on the Hour of Charm" broadcast on NEG.
 Phil had always been interested in the talents of women musicians, which he felt had never been suffi- ciently appreciated. In fact, long before he pioneered more than seven years ago with his all-girl group, he had been one of the first to use a feminine violinist and vocalist with his band.
 So great was Spitalny's suc- cess with girl instrumentalists that the leaders of the nations sym- phonieS dropped their former preju- dices and opened the musical gates to women. Leopold Stokowski add ed impetus to the nationwide trend when his All-Youth orchestra in 194O employed some 20-odd girls. The number has reached total of 26 lady players with the Houston Symphony. Women musicians in other mapor orchestras include q for the Seattle, IT the New Orleans and 16 with the National Sym- phony orchestra at Washington, D. c.
 The only major symphonies which don't have women in their person. nel are the Minneapolis Symphony, the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony. To find out what the long haired maestros are missing in the way of velvet-toned, musical talent, just tune in to the Hour of Charm" show, Sunday nights, on NEG.
 If any of you listeners to the Morton Gould Alec Templeton CBS Carnival" Wednesday at 10:30 D. m., E.W.T, want to hear your pet tunes incorporated into a Swing phony," Alec's full dress version of a popular song. the pianist sug- gestS that you send him letter re. queSting your favorite.
 It's Templeton'S theory that few suggestions will be alike: that all of us have particular tune based on our individual memories. To make his idea more sporting, Alec has bet Conductor Morton Gould a silver handled baton that the let ters will back him up. Gould doesn't think so he's afraid some ten thousand listeners will cry out for Pistol Packin' Mama" When is that gal going to run out of ammunition, anyhow2
 The Biltmore Hotel lobby in New York is usually crowded = yes! But recently, when J. L. Grimes, originator and radio producer of the Musical Steelmakers," stayed there for few days while on vacation. the walls were literally pushed back by song pluggers = all trying to get their tunes played or sung by rnem- bers of this popular enploye-family program, which is heard on the Blue network each Sunday at 5:30 p. rn., E.W.T. Grimes used the main en- trance of the hotel the first two times. Then, for the rest of his stay, he utilized a little known back entrance usually reserved for motion picture celebrities.
 Felix Mills. Burns and Allen" show and "Silver Theater" maestro. has extraordinary ideas about his arrangements, according to Paul Whiteman, and that Is why the King of Jazz thinks Mills is one of the