The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-03

Bob Burns approached Comedian Leo Gorcey at conference and said: Tn this years show we're gon- ma give you more actin to do, Leo Think you can do some dramatic parts?"
 Sure" replied Leo. Why, I'm a man of many facets
 q had an uncle once who claimed he was man of mfny faucets, said Bob, which was probably the reason he was such drip!
 When MT. and Mrs. Charles Bush, of the Bronx, reach their 75th we'd ding anniversary, they have date with Phil Baker, to appear as ms guests on Take It Or Leave It" where they are to receive a diamond apiece. Bush, appearing as contes- tant Sunday night. told Baker he and his wife have been together 53 years, and jokingly asked, If we come back on the show on our Dia- mond Anniversary. will you give us a diamond?" Baker went him one better, promising each a diamond.
 Charles Laughton, master Of oD- noxiousness on the screen, as per- haps best exemplified by his work as Captain Blight in ''Mutiny on the Bounty. hits a new high even for himself, when he plays the title role in "A Passenger to Bali" on This Is My Best" Tuesday, Nov. 6, over CBS. In Ellis St. Joseph's Story, Laughton will be heard as a man of mystery who boards a tramp steamer for Bali. He manages to make himself so thoroughly desplc- able that the crew would almost welcome a changeover to the Cap tain Blight character!
 Red Nichols, famed hot trumpeter veteran batoneer of radio and the ater orchestras, is a new addition to Will Osborne's orchestra, heard Thursday on the NEG Abbott and Costello program.
 One of the most vesatile actors in radio is Bartlett Robinson, who plays the leading male role in 'Por- tia Faces Life" NEG weekday ser- ial. A popular Broadway actor as well - he's currently making a hit in Dear Ruth" Bart speaks fluent French, Italian and German has played roles ranging from TO- mantle to stiff-upper-lip mans man types, is 8 singer and dancer as well.
 It pays to advertise. Knowledge Of that fact brought Ken Roberts, an- nouncer on the American network $ Blind Date" show, something for which he has been hunting tor months. During the warm-up prior to the Friday night broadcast, Ken usually asks the studio audience a host of questions, including such teasers as How many people here have been on blind date?' and Who ever married anyone they met on a blind date?" Recently, he fol- lowed these questions with a new poser, "Who has six-room apart ment for rent in New York;" Des- bite the alleged housing shortage, Ken received half dozen offers!
 Broadcasting again from Holly wood, where he's at work on a new movie, Roy Acuff offers two song fayorites. "Glory Bound Train" and T Wonder Where You Are Tonight, on the Grand Ole Opry' show, to- night at 1O:30 p. m, over Station WTIC. With him are the Smoky Mountain Boys who play the square dance. Arkansas Traveller" and Patty on the Turnpike" Tommy Magness fiddle solo. Other musical highspots, heard from the home oi "Grand Ole Opry'' in Nashville. Tenn, include Sweet Adeline" and Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane, harmonized by the Old HlcKory Singers; Mack McGarr, the manoo- lin and Dill Pickle Rag" and Take Me Back to Tennessee" banJc novelty played by Little Rachel The Duke of Paducah (Whitey Ford) harvests a bumper crop oi laughs on the subject of farming and Minnie Pearl drops by with the latest tidings from Grinders Switch.
 One of the top spots on "The DICK Haymes Show, Saturday, Novem- ber 3rd, over CBS is Boy Of Mine another of the memory awakening tunes of the past that the Baritone s,~otIiolots as his memory song, Out of the roster of newer nlts Haymes and Helen Forerst of1el "Baia,", Fishing for the Moon "pve Got That Old Feeling ana bit of lyrical give-and-take as duo with Singing in the Rain, Those Four Hits and Miss tn Rhythm Swingtette - join in "IG Do It All Over Again" Gordoi Jenkins and the 3l-piece orchestra provide the musical background. p. m. EST.
 Helen Hayes will be heard In radio adaptation of Carl Ewald' moving and charming short story My Little Boy" to be heard mex Saturday, November 3, at TOO p. m EST. over the Columbia network The story was first brought to MS Hayes attention when the lat Alexander Woollcott sent her a cop deau, property on South Main street $2, 400.
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