The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-26
WAVELETS
BY BILL HARRINGTON

AIlQ SCIGcu AChp 1b tkAG CklA1lCC JO share Q Blind Date" treat with Uncle Sam's finest, on the latest wit-and-woo show, tonight, at 8:30 p. m, over station WATR. Such show business starletS as Toni Clark, Alice Blue and Leila Ernst are on hand to accompany lucky service men to New York's famous Stork Club for a free evening of dining ano dancing. Vivacious Arlene Fran cis Is mistress-of ceremonies, and Ton. Wallace produces the series.
 On warfSide of an Army hospital vessel docked at the Charleston (S. O. Port of Embarkation, Parks Johnson and Warren Hull will con- duct CBS "Vox Pop" interviews with the complement of a mercy ship" just back from Europe with war wounded, tonight (WABC-CBS, 800 8:30 p. m.
 The "Vox Peppers will chat with Army doctors, nurses, enlisted corps men and merchant marine crewmen who bring casualties home from the battlefronts.
 If Bob Ripley needs another od- dity for his Believe It Or Not" od- ditorium, here's one about one of the worlds great characters of fic- tion-Detective Inspector Dick Tracy who is heard over WATR and the Blue Network Monday through Fri- day at 5:15 p. m.
 ConvaleScentS in two widely sep arated army hospitals get duffel bags filled with cigarettes and along with the smokes they get jobes when Bob Hawk broadcasts Thanks to the Tanks over CBS Monday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 D. m. The gifts go to the U. s. Army Medical Center, Washing ton, D. C., and the U. s. Army Ash burn General Hospital. Mckinney, Texas. The program also features singing by Lynn Gardner and music by Peter Van Steeden's orchestra.
 Greer Carson and Gary Grant are co-starred in Bedtime Story" on Tux Radio Theater' over the Co., lumbia network this evening (WABC CBS, 900 10:0O p. m.
 The two stars are heard as a fam ous actress and her playwright husband, who decide to give up the theater and settle down in Connec- ticut to raise family. At farewell party for the actress wife, however, the playwright husband bursts in with new idea for play, demand ing she start rehearsals immediately. This so angers the wife she starts off for Reno, only to be thwarted in her plans for divorce by the thea trical genius of her husband
 Erudition in the shape of two Rhodes Scholars will abound on Information Please" tonight. Lieu tenant-Colonel Edward (Eddie) Eagan, ex-Olympic light heavy weight, recently appointed chair man of the New York Athletic Com mission, and Christopher Morley, author and critic, are the scholars
 Jumping the gun on St. Patrick's s Day, Pat OBrien has named "Toura Loora Loora" (The Irish Lullaby) as his musical autograph to be played by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians over WATR and the Blue network tonight at 1000 D. m.
 Screen starlet Janet Blair. who is becoming more and more popular, has asked for More And More'' and Nelson Eddy's choice is "Em- braceable You" Rita Rayworth has requested Guy to play Meet Me In St. Louis" while Tommy Dorsey, a friendly competitor of the Royal Canadians maestro, chose T Should Care" as his current favorite.
 Cary Grants favorite tune Is My Heart Sings and Jean Tighe, featured songstress, will sing the tune for him. Sigmund Romberg has nominated five of his out standing melodies for the closing medley.
 Although he has no knowledge of the signs of the Zodiac, Tommy Dor sey has won himself the title of musical astrologer", for his ability to pick the stars
 Dorsey, whose band will be heard on "The Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands. Tonight, WATR-Blue, 9:3O D. m. hired such stellarites as Frank Sinatra, Dick Haylmes, the Pied Pipers, Connie Haines and Jack Leonard and forecast their present stardom before the rest of the world was even aware of their existence. Two perennial favorltes will be highlighted as vocal offerings on the "Carnation Contented" program, Monday, Feb. 26 (NBC, 10 p. m, EWT). Friml's "Giannina Mia" will be sung by Soprano Josephine An toine and "Green-Eyed Dragon" by