The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07

ton also earns his honest dollar, There the audience is An erinne. draped, evenlng-gowned gathering Of ultra sophlStlcatlon,
 And for that gathering of glamour Morton sings
 Precisely the same tried and true songs he brings tpto the American home each afternoon,
 It's going Co take Andre KoStelan- eta quite Q little while Go get used to the comfort of broadcast In an air-condltloned, modern studio The noted orchestra batoneer, who just arrived from the European and Af- rlcan theaters of war, where he has been conducting CT orcheStras for the boys in uniform, used as his poe alum, parts of destroyed tanks, tree trunk Stumps, and various other make shift platforms to conduct the men near the battle fronts, Mir, Kos- telanet1 win be heard regularly now every Sunday afternoon at A;S0 (ewO over the Columbia network,
 Since it's Q new season and new program, Fred Waring hos commiS~ stoned Roy Ringwald to compose Q new theme which will open his WATR, Blue Network broadcaStS, tonight at ., sleep" Warnings sig. nature which has closed his broad- casts for many years will continue to mark the finale each Thursday of his half hour Blue program,
 AmerieaS Great Lady of the thea- ter, Miss Ethel Barrymore, is one of the busiest women in Manhattan these days, She's readying her new Blue network radio series In which shell star as Miss Hattie" each Sunday afternoon starting Sept l7 and she Is also preparing for her starring role In new Broadway play, Nevertheless, Miss Barrymore still finds time each day for two other thingS-to continue her war activitieS( she's done a great deal for our service mem and to go over the days baseball scores and stand ings, Miss Barrymore almost floor ed" Q prominent Syndioated sports writer recently by quoting batting and fielding averages of players who retired from the big leagues as many as thirty years agol
 John Conte, handsome master of ceremonies on MdM's Screen Test" Is busy with that program on Thurs day nights when his fianeee, Mari- lyn Maxwell, is singing on another show over another network at the same time, but Conte manages to hear her, anyway, When he knows she's going to sing 0 number he es- peeially wants to hear, Conte has Mutual engineers make recording of Marilyn's part Of the program as 1t comes over the air,
 Three places Nt one time -, that's the acting achievement of Robert Sloane on recent MT, and Mrs, North" thriller, While playing a movie idol in Q screen scene, he also took the part of member Of the Scriptural audience trying to hush the whispers of MT, and Mrs, North" aS they hunted In the the- ater for . murder suspect, The name of the murdere's victim was Robert Sloanel
 Dunninger and Q reporter were having c mild argument In e reS- taurant the other night about no deeper Q subject than whether men or women carried more articles on their person, After counting the items in his own pockets, the Mas ter Mentalist pointed to Q woman sitting at Q nearby table and enum- erated fifty-eight items she had In her pocketbook, The Brains" friend went over to check, and the women, at first reluctant, finally opened up her purse, Dunninser had gotten fifty-siX intems right and missed but two-a three cent stamp and ration tokenl
 Girls everywhere will get chance to sing on the air when Steel Hor- icons" comes to radio over MES Sunday. Oct, l, at 9 p, m, ewt, The series, starring John Baker, Met ropolitan Opera baritone with e new concert orchestra batoned by Fred eriek Dvonch, will use different female guest vocalist each week, These girls will be selected via local additions held by Mutual stations from coast to coast So, If you think you can sing get in touch with your MES station now,
 It was a family affair for Oz2ie Nell son when he appeared with his wife, Harriet Hilliard, on Milton Berle's Let Yourself Co., fun ses- sion last Tuesday. In addition to his mother, Ozzie's two brothers, Don and Alfred were in the studio audience,
 Ever heard about the Felix Mills system of shorthand? Well, there is one. The conductor of the Burns and Allen show has devised set of markings for his script which Is as essential to his broadcasts as the actual musical score. It is his way of blending words and muSic-and it's a code he won't decipher for anyone else-not even the men in his or cheStra.
 WATR PROGRAMS