The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10

| Theater. Cugie has been beSieged with offers from more than five theaters in Connecticut and New Jersey to fill in' during that period. At present he's considering playing that weekend in Hartford, Conn.,, but so far nothing is de- finite. Cugie and his band are heard over MES Wednesday nights.
 Comedienne Cass Daley, one of Bing Crosby's more frequent guests, drops in for another radio visit to The Groaner on Feb. 17.
 Kate Smith and her Friday night CBS cast head for Hollywood in couple of weeks.
 Hide your radio tubes and lock your windows. A horrible thing is about to happen. The country's craziest band will play the coun- try'S crazieSt song when Spike Jones and his City SlickerS apply their instrumental junk pile to "MairZy Doats" on the Bob Burns Arkansas Traveller" program over NEG tonight.
 In '"The Case of the Worried Mother" current Perry Mason thriller, Mondays through Fridays over CBS, the part of Ned Conway husband of the missing girl, has been won by Staats Cotsworth.
 Perhaps Walter Pidgeon's first hit on the London stage, "At Home" was indicative of his real life. The renowned actor, who is starring on the new CBS radio show, The Star and the Story" is happiest when he is at home with his wife, daughter, dogs and sail boats.
 Tenor Bill Days, of the Groucho Marx Blue Ribbon Town" show, has such an excllent lair person. ality,' that listeners are deluging the studio this week with letters asking that he be given larger speaking part in addition to his singing spot.
 Bernardine Flynn observes: Op- timiSm is a frame af mind that enables tea kettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose! 1 Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge" is the ''travelingest" radio program on the air. Kay and his band have covered 150,00O distance equal to six times around the world - by plane, train, bus and truck! In the three years the College has played service camps the show has appeared before three quarters of all the men in our armed forces! At last reports. Kay Kyser and his troupe had sold $300,000 worth of war bonds - all of which adds up to lot of miles, lot of soldiers, and lot of money!
 The armed forces will soon be hearing the nations greatest trio of | popular voices. Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra have just completed a Command Perform ance" platter for short-waving to our fighters all over the globe. Ginny SimmS will be a guest on Eddie Cantor's Time to Smile" over NEG Wednesday, Feb. 9.
 That dynamic five foot mite, Teri Keane, who frightened ''The Vaga- bond King" last summer and is cur rently appearing in number of radio serials, will be some lucky service mans dancing partner at the Stork Club on Feb. IA when he wins 8 Blind Date" with her via the Blue network program.
 The Treasury Star Parade" pre- sentS comedy drama, Happy New Year, Joey!' to be heard the week of Feb. 19 on more than $50 stations throughout the nation. It is one of three weekly broadcasts, brought to you by your Government.
 Constance Moore, singer actress co-starred with Joe Gotten on the "America-Ceiling Unlimited" air. show. will be heard mornings Mon day through Friday over NEG sta tionS the week of Jan. 31 and Feb. when she stars in the NEG Star Playhouse" adaptation of the hit film, '"The Doctor Takes Wife," Bob Ripley, whose Believe It Or Not" program is heard from Mon- days to Fridays over WATR and Mutual, reports on the first gossip column. On Navona St., Rome, there is a tall granite pillar with the carved head of a man atop. The identity of the man is forgotten, but 300 years ago the natives tagged it ''The Statue of Pasquino," after a tailor, Pasquino, whose face resem. bled the sculptured one. In the sil- ence of the night, wags would come n d write remarks on t granite column, first about the tailor and then about others on the street. The writings were witty, caustic, bombastic and sometimes darned libelous. In the morning, townsfolk would gather before. the column. reading the latest gossip. And that was the beginning of the gossip col I 1Yr,T1