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Show By LTN CONNNELLY HELEN TRAUBEL, famous opera op-era star, has two consuming interests . . . One is music, the other baseball . . . But her two interests, unfortunately, conflict . . . Although she is an honorary mascot for the St. rjw -" "f" Louis Cardinals, j, she is allowed" to f attend only a few I $t games during the 4 - JV season . . . Rea- son? She is such tV an avid and excit- W S, yells herself S otLaa4tl hoarse at a game and her man- TRAUBEL i agers feel that the Traubel voice is too precious a gift to be used so, even for her beloved Cards! The old story of the man who gave his wife i a mink outfit for Christmas a trap and a shotgun loses it punch when applied to the Lauritz Melchiors . . . When Mrs. Melchior showed up with her illustrious huband at a rehearsal for his "Carnegie Hall" broadcast recently, she wore a beautiful leopard leo-pard fur coat . . . And she didn't have to shop for it at some swank Fifth avenue furrier ... It was just part of the big game her singing husband bagged on a recent re-cent safari to South Africa . . . Not for Melchior are the mounted heads on the wall to show his prowess as a hunter . . . He'd rather display his trophies on his pretty wife. RADIO CHATTER ABC reported mullinff a TV series based on the Dick Tracy comic strip ... Jack Holt scheduled sched-uled to debut on radio in a quarter-hour quarter-hour chatter series . . . "The Goldbergs" show, which had been airing the same scripts over video and radio, is using separate scripts in an effort to hypo the radio stanza . . . The air show has been way behind the TV audience ratings . . . Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Roose-velt scheduled for a new radio and TV show over NBC after the first of the year . . . Show, which v.iv be a once-weckly affair, will be broadcast over radio and tel'.' simultaneously. Ilililcgardc will make a forma1 concert tour next October . . Martin and Lewis are dickering with NBC on a new contract |