Evening star., 1948-06-20
For Radio Listeners
By Harry Macarthur

vision network at this point is that
something important will happen at
the convention on Wednesday night
at 10 o'clock. ABC video will be
aiming its cameras at the Joe
Louis-Joe Wolcott fight at that
hour.
Having become involved in some
thing, there's nothing to do but
finish it. Here then is the final re-
port on the Mystery Melody"
affair. Last week Stop the Music"
passed out a set of clues. The tune
was published in 1860. has a five
word title and means return to
civilization. That obviously is not
Down in Alabam' or Amt I Glad
I Got Out de Wilderness" and call
to New York drew the promise that
that title would not pay of. Asked
if the correct title is Get Out of
the Wilderness" the ABC man
hemmed and hawed and refused to
talk.
Well, by this time our Disc Shop
investigator was off to the musical
files for some more research. He
found dozens of "Wilderness" tunes,
all involving the same theme. One
of them was published in 1860 and
is titled Get Out of the Wilder
ness" The difference between this
and 1885 Down in Alabam'," he
reports, is so Slight he almost
couldn't detect it. In Down in
Alabam'," the first interval is a
second and the second interval a
third and in Get Out of the Wilder
ness" it's just the reverse.
Don't ask us what kind of copy
right laws they had in those days.
The stop the Music" Department
is closed. Disbanded, in fact.
It never occurred to us and it
may never have occurred to you
that Lassie did anything but bark
like a dog on his radio program
This is not the true state Of affairs,
however. Lassie Is an actor land
not an actress, though his publicity
department refers to him as "she'O.
We have this only on the authority
of that publicity department, of
course, but Lassie, yesterday after
noon, is supposed to have assumed
"the role of Chummy, a 5-year -old
cocker spaniel which saved her
vounr master from freezing to
death"
The Local Scene: WTOP Person.
mel Director Harry R. Crow re-
Gently hired a secretary, girl named
Marion Grove. No relation. A week
later he learned that her father
was a man named Harry r. Crow
without the "e," which she added
herself a few years ago.. Still no
relation, both aVoW. WMAL
plans a salute to the local banking
industry this afternoon on Edward
Arnold's Mr.. President" show (2:30
p.mD. -. Willis Conover is master
of ceremonies on WWDC's new
"145c Bandstand," a platter show
on Saturdays at noon. :. Being a
woman of charm, WRC's Nancy Os-
good is going to be one of the best
dressed women at the Republican
convention. She so charmed Fashion
Designer Charles Latashaw with
talk OF his hand-painted scarves the
other day that he dropped every
thing to whip up a special hand
painted convention dress for her s.. =.
Names of the guest stars to be heard
on WTOPs broadcasts of Water Gate
concerts this summer have been an
nounced. Singer Dorothy Maynor
will be heard on the opening con-
cert on July 4, Pianist Agi Jambor
will appear on July II and the
Revelers' Quartet will be featured on
July 10. The final concert of the
four to be broadcast will be an all
Tschaikowsky program on July Is.
Arthur Godfrey doesn't have to
run for President, even if the Ad-
vertising Club straw vote indicated
he had a chance. Slim chance, that
is. He now is honorary mayor of
the Thousand Islands. On account
of that record