The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-02
WATERBURY EVENING pEHOcRAT WEDNESDAY. FEBRUAKY 2 lsl4

of the animals roaming around the study of his fabulous island at Mamaroneck, which he has named BION Believe It Or Not) Islandl
 All new ''boots" in submarine service first want to know how depth charges sound, a Navy pig-boat in- structor told Parks Johnson and Warren Hull on Vox Pop. T tell them it's like being married. You just have to. sit there and take it." he said.
 An alert Vox Pop listener won himself $5 by remembering a color ful phrase used by Warren Hull on the air. Multiplying rabbitly," was Hull's bright saying, which appeared
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 The feminine department will take over when Edith Head, top Hollywood designer for Paramount stars, and Audrey Christie, the third of the three players in the Broadway hit '"The Voice of the Turtle" help master-sleuth Ellery Queen solve "The Adventure of Murder on the Air, Saturday, February 5, at 7:30 D. m., EWT, over NEG.
 Miss Head who creates glamour frocks for Ginger Rogers and other cinema beauties is in New York for Paramount premiere and fashion shows. Audrey Christie, Chicago born, studied for the stage early in life. Among her favorite roles are Babe" in Good News" and "Stone- wall Jackson" in Sailor Beware"
 The two armchair detectives will try to discover how death came to a famous radio personality during broadcast. Ellery Queen and his guests will go into a broadcasting studio to investigate murder on the air and through the air.
 Every college worthy of the name in time acquires background of tradition and list of "firsts" for the alumnae to brag about at class reunions. That goes for Oxford. Yale, Princeton-and for Kay Ky ser's College of Musical Knowl- edge" as well.
 On Feb. 2, at the Army Infantry Base, San Luis Obispo, California, Professor" Kyser begins his 7th year as radios top purveyor of facts musical. And in the six years since Kay founded the College of Musical Knowledge" this unique radio program has attained instiu- ton status, with an honor roll of records won that would do credit to a real college.
 For instance, Rays College" has not been off the air a single week since its inception, yet the show has travelled 150,000 miles-a dis tance equal to six times around the worldly plane, train, bus and truck! In nearly every theater, ballroom or hotel where the Kyser show has played, it holds attend ance records as yet unbeaten. One case in point occurred when 10000 music lovers jammed the Naval Hospital in Oakland, California, to give Kay the largest single audience of it's kind in the history of indoor dance bands.
 Another fact that should be in- Scribed on monument for the Colleges" campus is the high en- tertainment standard the show has maintained for six full years: the Kyser program has been among the 10 most popular air shows for 312 consecutive weeks.
 Kay, himself, one of the hardest workers in any branch of show business, is before the mike full 54 minutes of every 69-minute broadcast.
 The College of Musical Knowl- edge" has introduced on the air a host of popular song hits, among them Three Little Fishes" Play mates," Jingle, Jangle, Jingle" |" He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings" Praise the Lord and Pass the Am- munition" and dozens of others. Like every college, the College of Musical Knowledge" has a enviable war record, too. Kay was one of the first air entertainers to give shows for service men, broadcasting from an army camp II months before Pearl Harbor.
 Speaking of service men, Kay Kysers ollege of Musical Knowledge" has the right to dis play an 8-star service flag over its venerable portals of learning-a full squad of the boys have exchanged cap-and-gown for garrison cap- and khaki tunic.
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