The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-10

Hollywood Mystery Time, starring Carlton Young and Gloria Rlondeli, popular young radio performers, will make its debut on WATR and the Blue Network Sunday, october lS from s;ls to s;AS p, m, This popular mystery series replaces the current Chamber Music Society ot Lower Basin Street, which was heard in Its last broadcast, Sunday, October 8,
 Hollywood Mystery Time will orig mate at the Blue Network studios in Hollywood, original music wil be furnished by Ernest Gill's or. eheStra with Jim Doyle handling the announcing duties,
 Travis Wells, producer of Basin Street Is leaving for the West Coast following the final broadcast O. that show Sunday to assume tho production reinS of the new myS- tery show, A large supporting cas- will assist Young and Miss Hlondell in the presentation of Hollywood Mystery Time,
 ''The Stradivari Orchestra under the Direction of Paul Lavalle" he. gins Its second year on the aie sunday oct, IS (NBC, la;S0 p, mJ, The half hour of the worlds best. loved melodies played on the world'S $ rarest vlollnS started as an e%pert- ment unique in radio and scared tn record tmes
 According to Conductor Lavalle i; "At first the problem of assembling Q great number of genuine Stradi- vari instruments seemed almost in- Surmountable, After all, the instru- mentS created more than 200 years ago (Stradivari was born in leAA) are considered the finest ever made, Of those still in existence, some were locked away in tho homes of private collectors :, others were in museums and still others were in the possession of Q few fine rare-violin dealers, who con. Sidered each Stradivari Q ooneerS piece and did not want to lower the prestige of the violins by having them played on masse,'
 Those owners changed their minds, however, when they saw the outline of the program and learned that the men selected to play their precious Stradivari were all the finest musicians, picked from New York's major symphonies"
 Within a week after "The Stradi- Vari Orchestra" program went on the air, fan mall from music lov- CTS the country over started to pour in. Within six weeks, the orchestra had ehalked up the highest Hooper rating ever earned for It's time and day on u c airlanes, and had earn. cd c coveted place among the ten top programs selected by leading radio editors and columnists throughout the United States,
 Most of the arrangements of class sical favorites for radios most un. usual orchestra are by the director. Jacques daSselin, coneert-master, and Gaston Dubois, eellist, are ire. quently heard in solos, ct least one on each program, Harrison Knox, tenor, Is vocal Soloist.
 Met soprano Frances Greer and Morton Bowe. . young tenor who will be making his Met Opera debut this season, will be soloists with Wilfred Pelletier and his orchestra on the World of Song program, Sunday, Oct. i6 at 4:30 p. ul., over WATR and the Blue Network.
 Morton Bowe will offer as one ot his solos the song Strange Music" which Is currently being featured in the Broadway production of Song of Norway, an operetta based on the music and life of the great Nor Wegian composer Edward Grieg, A faEnilier song of the last War, "Ros- es of Picardy", will be Bowe's other solo effort. Miss Greer will be heard in "The Jewel Song" from dounod's opera "Faust" and in Vic. tor Herberts 'unforgettable "xisS Me Again"
 The program will conclude with Miss Greer and Bowe singing the charming watch Duet" accompan- led by the orchestra, which earlier on the program will play RavelS famous "La Vida Breve.'
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