The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03

The Grand Ole Opry' program oi American folk songs. heart ballads and pioneer music, which is heard each Saturday night over NEG, Is recogniZed as the most authentic show of it's kind on the air The performers are not actors built up and coached to portray rural roles. bu. were actually born and raised out on the hills and plains where their songs originated or were kept alive from generation to generation since their forebears brought the words and music here from the old countries. Grand Ole Opry' floks do not have to act-they just get up before the microrhone and sing and play their native songs as they and their neighbors still play them a. home by their own flreSideS.
 Gaetano Merola, general director of the San Francisco Opera, will apuear as guest conductor on the Great Moments in Music pro- gram. to direct performance O. highiightS from Verdi's La Forza del Destino' tonight at 10 o'clock to be broadcast over the Columbia network.
 Jean Tennyson, soprano; Robert Weede. baritone; guest tenor Kurs Baum, and the chorus will be heard in the vocal selections.
 Phil Bakers S64 question. feature Of his "Take It or Leave IL dul2' turned up on "Ama.icas IoWA Meeting" in Thursdays broadcast over Station WATR when Moder- ator George V. Denny, Jr" com nented on a well-chosen, difficult question from the audience. Nov. that's what I call a $64 question! The phrase which originated on the quiz show, has turned up in con aressional discus ion, in Presidential press conferences and in other slm- liar places.
 Wednesday's 'Gag-of -the-Day '
 Prem Dick Haynes of NEG $ "Eyerythin!: for the Boys comes this Hollywood story. A certain rrodlcers dignity was upset re- gently when minor actor greeted him with slap on the back "Why' Brown, old pal! It's been ten years since I saw you but l still remem- her the old days. Only, my friend you've changed. Pou used to weigh 200 pounds. Now you're just sklh and bonse. You used ot be siX feet tau. Now you're a shrimp, Once you wore glasses. But no more. on Brown, how you've changed! '!
 The producers reply was ley' My name is not Brown US White"
 go" exclaimed the actor, you ve changed your name, tool!
 "Pam Has Insomnia and her hubby doesn't get any sleep elther' then she senses murder m the ar .,n the latest MT and Mrs. North ' thriller. Wednesday, Jan, 3 at 8 D. m. over NEG stations,
 Before long, the Nolths ind a eorpse outside their door, and they sDend an exciting, sleeplesS night trying to catch the killer Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin are fea- tured in the title roles.
 Rill Goodwin, the ace announcer until recently on George Burns and Oracle Allen Program, joins Coiumbia's Prank Sinatra Show '- not as announcer-bu as a featured comedian on The Voices musical and variety show. beginning tonight (WABC-CBS, 0:00-a:3O D. m. Rudy vallee will be guest Of the eve' ming.
 For many years one of the top announceFs on the air, Goodwin also Is becoming known as an ac- tor, both on radio and in the movies. With George and Oracle. he was. in addition to announcer, an actor playing the role of a friend to the Burns family In pictures. he plays q leading role in the forth coming "Ineendiary Blonde" and has just been signed by Alfred Hitchcock for the directors next film, "NOtorious".
 Goodwin started in radio in 1882 He was born In San Francisco. in 1910. He first thought he would become q lawyer. but . role In an nlnateur high school play entlced him into acting.