Radio: Ugly Duckling

Still calling attention to her brass-trumpet voice, her buck teeth and her knobby arms & legs, Cass Daley last week became radio's most popular comedienne.* The Fitch Co. is busy revising its Sunday night show (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m., E.S.T.) to play up Cass, play down the guest orchestras.

The daffy Daley was clowning on the four-a-day before anybody had heard very much of such loudmouths as Martha Raye and Betty Hutton. When the Fitch Bandwagon hired Cass as a summer replacement in 1945, the radio studio was filled with her admirers. To gain these...

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