The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31


 A surprise birthday party for Ed die Cantor turns into a picnic when Guest Stars George Burns and Oracle Allen hire Bert Boris Tsoris" Gordon as caterer during NBC's Eddie Cantor Show" tonight 800 D. m.
 Billy Grey, as Eddie Cantor Von zell, Jr, adds his version of birth day greeting along with Em"ee Harry Won Zell, and Nora Martin sings the sentiments of tke entire cast to the music of Leonard Sues and his orchestra
 When is a crime not crime? That's the puzzle which perplexes MT. and Mrs. North when "Tne North5 Solve q Crime That Didn' t Happen" tonight at D. m, over NEG Stations. The chiller- -diller duo are called upon to solve a jewel robbery, but when they arrive at tho scene of the crime they find ttG "loot" has been put back in the safe. As if that isn't Wacky enough murder occurs and the body dis appears before the No"thS can in- vestigate. After a series of equally w.rrd happenings, the Norths take the killer and a box of aSpirins Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin star in the title roles.
 When MT. District Attorney" finds that racketeers have gone the limit by trafficking in human life involving helpless infants and fos- ter parents he really T eS his Do~'- CTS. Tonight (BC, 9;30 p. m.,) he solves The Case of the Black Mar ket Babies
 Assisting him with all their might are Miss Miller ,Vickl VolaJ ana Harrington Len Doyle), Jer- " Devine directs and writes the scripts.
 The Naval Air Station, at Paris Island, South Carolina, will be the scene Of Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge quiz. on We'd nesday. Feb. 27 at 10 D. m, over NEG Stations. The faculty includes Kay. Georgia Carroll, Baritone Don Leslie, Ish Kabibble, Dolly Mitchell ana the Town Criers
 Victor Moore, the immortal Vice President Throttlebottom of George CershWin'S "Of Thee I Sing" will be a candidate for laugh honofs when he appears on Milton Berle's Let Yourself Go,' Wednesday, Jan 3l, at 10:30 D. m. over CBS Sta tions. Berle insists there is a con- nection between Moore'3 visit and the popular definition of the mo- ment: "A presidential Inauguration is an excuse to go to Washington every four years to get look at a new president" Ray Bloch and his orchestra are heard in the musical moments.
 Selections from Samson and Delilah, Biblical opera by Camille Saint-Saens, will be sung by Jan Peerce, tenor, Robert Weede, bari tone, and guest mezzo- soprano SuSanne Ster, as the Great Monu- ments in Music" offering for We'd nesday, January 31, at 10:00 D. m., over CBS.
 The opera. first presented in 1877 under the diretcion of Franz Liszt concerns the plight of the Israelites in bondage 10 the Philistines in Gaza
 Fred Allen, Henry BuSse, Carmen Miranda Akim Tamiroff, and Rudy Vallee-or their reasonable fac similes-will be guests Of Ken Mur- ray on his Which Is Which va riety-quiz program over CBS. We'd nesday. January 3l at 9:3O D. m, EWT.
 George Givot screen and stage comedian who SpecializeS in murder ing the English language, is Ellery Queens guest armchair detective on '"The Adventure of 1000 Victims, !" tonight at 7:30 D. m, over CBS.
 Givot will try to guess the answer to one of the most brutal crimes Ellery Queen has ever encountered.
 An American army transport car rying 1000 wounded GIs back home. runs into dirty sea and bad night. Sudednly the beam of an iso- lated lighthouse off the Long Island shore blinks off the stays off.
 The courageous natives of the Philippines now battling with Mac Arthur's forces to rid the islands of the Japs, will be entertained soon by the music of Kay Kyser and his College of Musical Knowl- edge" They have indicated that