The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

the sailors line of vision, announc- CT Jimmy Wellington saw another sailor in the front row wigwagging to his pal at the telephone Wal lington, who knows a bit about sig nals, deciphered, 'do your stuff she's terrific"
 But 1t is not only the accomplish ed service men who wins his date. Sometimes the girls prefer the less talneted lads in uniform. On being ing asked whether he was a good dancer, one soldier replied, No, but l can crack my knuckles." He won | the date.
 There1l be more top musicians than the average conductor ever gets to shake stick at, when the Esquire all-star jazz band appears on the Chamber Music society of Lower Basin Street" on Sunday, Jan. l6, over WATR and the Blue Network. In addition to the seven men chosen in the magazines poll, the show will present Paul Lavalle's orchestra, which includes such top swing instrumentalists as Carl Kress CPaul Whiteman's nomination as the greatest of rhythm guitarists), {, the trumpeters Billy Butterfield and Wylly Kelly, and the hot basson- ist Herman YorkS |. Phil Take It Or Leave It"Baker reports he took the subway to the "Oklaho- ma" box office and on the way to the end of the line, he passed his house! Noel Coward has waxed his controversial Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" for Amer ican audiences, via Treasury Star Parade" BEG banned the song, on the ground that the public might not understand Cowards heavy sar- casm and get the impression that gentle treatment of the Nazis ac- tually was advocated .Whitey Ford, who doubles as the comic Duke of Paducah on Grand Ole Opry," says that since the coal shortage, hts house is so cold that even the wind is howling about 1t! Alec Templeton. the pianist pixie on the Morton Gould "Carni- val" is working on a treatment of a Handel oratorio, which he calls Handel With Care" .. The maga- zine writers are finding lots of ma terial in the CBS Jimmy Durante- Garry Moore show Thrush Geor- gia Gibbs career is traced in @ forthcoming issue of True Confess sions, and the Schnozzola is bi-oed in the current Golfers MT. and Mrs. North" listeners will get just one mystery week from now on, instead of the usual two. The baffler, Who's the crooner who sings the opening and closing theme?" has been cleared up with the announcement that it's Dick Todd, the Basin Street. crooner -in-residence William BendiX, who starts his Life of Riley" se- ries on the Blue Jan. l6, describes himself as sort of a repulsive Si- natra. He splits his fees with three film studios and pair Of talent agents, plus a guy named Morgen- thau .. You won't be hearing Fatso. Richard Parker's slow-wit- ted boy friend, in Parker Family stories for a few weeks. Bill Quinn. who plays the role, is in the hos pital battling pneumonia.
 1914 looming as precedent-shat- tering year, the First Lady of the Land, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, will give impetus to that thought by in- terviewing Hollywood's First Lady, Miss Mary Pickiord, Chairman of the National Women's Foundation for Infantile Paralysis over the Blue Network, Saturday, January IS, l:45- 200 p. m. (EWT.) The broadcast will emanate from the White House.
 In the interview Miss Pickford will report to the nation, on the work to be performed during the campaign by the members of her group known as the Front Liners, in the war against infantile para lysis. The appeal will be conduct ed from January IF to 3l in 5000 counties in the United States and it's territories.
 The intricate functioning and be- hind -the-Scenes activity of the De- partment of State and it's foreign service will be explained to the peo- pie in the second of a four-week series, "The Department of State Speaks" on Saturday, Jan. 15 (NBC, TOO p. m., EWT0
 Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Under Secretary of state. who appears briefly on the first program (Sat- urday, Jan. 8 to introduce the se- rieS, is heard on the second program as one of the principal speakers. With him in Washington will be c. Rowland Shaw, Assistant Secretary of state.
 Representing the foreign service and speaking from London will be the United States Ambassador to Great Britain, James G. Winant.
 Acting as the Peoples represen- tative" is Richard Hardness, NEG Washington commentator. Hark- ness interviews the State Depart ment and foreign service officials and then, in a roundtable discus sion, sets forth questions the na- ton is asking.
 Through the use of two-way chan nels between Washington and Lon- don, Hardness will be able to in- terview Ambassador Winant and Winant also will be able to take part in the roundtable part of the broadcast.
 'The Department of State Speaks is a presentation of the NEG Inter- American University of the Air.
 Marian Anderson will he guest