Blue Network Engi- neers out in Chicago don't mind the early morning duties of the Breakfast Club - and vocalovely Mario n Mann is probably the biggest reason. Miss Mann hails from Columbus, Ohio - and used to be featured with Bob Crosby's band a way, way, way back when.

Marion Mann * * * Artie (Could be Kitzel) Auerbach, screwball dialectician on Al Pierce's Show, has a birthday in triplicate each May 17th. This year he celebrates: His own birthday; the sixth birthday of his character "Kitzel"; his third birthday with Al Pierce. And too, Auerbach will sit down and write a letter to his former boss, city editor of the New York Daily News, requesting another year's leave of absence-his eighth -for "further research in radio." For it was just eight years ago this spring that Auerbach left the city room of the News as an ace cameraman to write radio scripts-which led, in turn, to acting parts he had created in his scripts. * * * That roaring sound you've heard every now and then lately was caused by the brothers, Antonio and Geronimo Amati, spinning around in their seventeenth century crypts at what the lads in Roy Shield's orchestra call an Amati or any other kind of fiddle. In orchestrese, the finest product of the Cremonese fiddle builders is just a "scratch gut." And you have to be quick with your imagination, or you'll miss completely what instruments some of Shield's musikers mean when they cut loose with their patois. For instance, here's a sample of what they say and what they mean : What They Say: What They Mean: Banjo Viola Bazooka Bassoon Bubble pipe French Cheese box 'Cello Corkscrew Bass horn . . is vud1, because the base \\ Fiddle - Guitar and ii ... ii urbrs Fiddle Banjo finest equipment. American manufacturers are also Fiddle Ukulele aiming at a .oal ai d that goal is to produce more and

Mouth Organ Piccolo more equipment al record -breaking lime . . . and Ocarina Clarinet they are succeeding far beyond expectations! Rain Barrel Bass drum With our greatly increased facilities the production Scratch Gut Violin of HALLICRAFTERS communications equipment Skid Bugle goes forward steadily for both our armed forces and Whistle Flute Zither Harp civilian requirements ... we are achieving our t ! Shield's men and their assorted skid , scratch guts, rain barrels and bubble pipes are heard Tuesday nights on the NBC -Red network. * * * the tits_ Parting Thought: When telling a joke always make Iö"irraffers it as CHICAGO, U. S. A. short as possible. Because if you stretch it out, you give the listener time to think of one to tell you.

The Broadcast Engineers' 21 Journal for may, 1942

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