Evening star., 1944-03-19

SOtuiCTS AISo HIN. ~ IledI lIle
Broadway talent agents tell it, all a
soldier cares about in off hours is an
acre of pinup girls. They forget
that there are thousands of serious
minded men in the services whose
wives and kiddieS are their favorite
pinups. All the more welcome, then,
is the new stunt WMAL starts at
Fort Meade tomorrow night. Four
WMAL commentators, B aukage
FIRST name a mystery, David Wills,
Martin Agronsky and Bill Hillman
will travel to the Maryland post to
hold a round-table forum with the
soldiers. The session is called The
War and You" 1t will cover every
thing that has to do with the war,
the home front or the postwar world.
FBI Takes the Air: The Federal
Bureau of Investigation. through its
Recrea ton Association, sets some
thing of precedent today when it
begins series of broadcasts on
WINK designed to curtail juvenile
delinquency. Featured are drama
tizations of actual cases from FBI
files which it is hoped will show
causes of why the youngsters go
wrong. 1t will be aired every Sunday
from $50 to pm. With an eye on
a touchy Congress the G-men let it
be known that the program will be
written and produced by them in
their spare time and not at Govern
mert expense.
Information Please Invades the
Senate: Senator Alben Barkley
storm center of the recent tax bill
veto, and Senator Theodore Green,
a leader of the group which strove to
uphold the veto, will join John
Kieran and Franklin p Adams on
Information Please over WRC to-
morrow night at 1890 pm.
Werrenrath Referees Battle of
Bureaus" Washington's big-time
quiz program which matches teams
from the various Government de-
partments every afternoon over|
WTOP at pm. now has big time
emcee at the controls. He, is Ward
Wilson, the Beetle of the Beetle and
Bottle team on Phil Bakers old
show, and currently known as Wer-
renrath A. Werrenrath on CBS'
Stage Door Canteen.
Wilson started in radio as an en-
gineer, then worked his way up, or
down, to a press agent. Seeking anI
escape from the latter chore he took
to the air and hit the gong,
He will commute to Washington
from New York each Sunday for the
Battle"
"Help Wanted Must Be a Bit
Crazy" That's the sign currently
hanging outside of the Truth or
Consequences studio. Ralph Ed
wards, the emcee of that funny NBC
show, has just passed his Army in
duction physical and is due for in
duction momentarily.
Edwards, 30, married and the
father of two, will put on extra
steam in the next three weeks to
find his successor More than 80
candidates have already been audi
toned.
No Men Allowed: For some time
women have been getting deeper and
deeper into the broadcasting side of
radio. Here and there one would
pop up as an announcer or news
commentator. Then they became
engineers, working in the little glass
cages. Now, finally, they crash
through with an all-woman show
called Now Is the Time, which is
a salute to their sisters in the serv-
ice. 1t will bow on WRC next Sat-
urday at $50 Am. Women from all
of the network, includ-
Ing script, production, program su-
pervision, music, engineering, re-
cording, special events, station re-
lations, traffic, public information
and public service. are participating.
A Washington girl Nancy Osgood, is
the producer.
It's the Dunninger in Us: Last
week in this space we wrote: You