Evening star., 1948-07-04
For Radio Listeners
By Harry Macarthur

up to 100000 a year, though he
doesn't say why man would want
to pay that much in taxes. If he
does reach that figure, though, it is
safe to assume that Godfrey will be
the first 81 ,000, ,O00-a-year man whose
friends won't notice much change
in him, beyond mellowing with ma
turity and adding some poundage: A
couple of years ago a few newspaper
people were summoned to Godfrey's
local Office one afternoon for small
party Some important announce
ment, they thought, so after awhile
some one asked what was the reason
for all this.
"Oh, nothing" said Arthur. 81
just don't get down here very much
any more and thought I'd like to
see some of my old friends"
\ 4 Il X
A frivolous National magazine
reported the other day that ABC
had been forced to abandon its
proposed documentary, "Commu-
nism-U. S. Brand" because it
couldn't find writer's who were not
pro-Communist or anti-Communist.
1t isn't true, though. The network
did have some difficulty getting
writer's who could prepare an OBJ
jective report, but two are now at
work on the script and the pro-
gram will be broadcast sometime
after the Democratic convention is
out of radios way.
We had a solution all ready for
ABC. too, until it reported every
thing under control. It's a we'll
known tenet of the students of
coincidence that $4,000 monkeys
placed at $4,000 typewriters would
eventually produce all the world S
literature. All ABC needs is $4,000
monkeys, $4,000 typewriters and
plenty of time and it will get that
communism script.
X n
Sales of television sets in the
Washington Metropolitan Area con-
tinue with pace that has both
radio statesmen and television broad
casters beaming. AS of July /,
according to the Washington Tele-
vision Circulation Committee, there
are 1880 video sets installed and
operating here. The committee rep
resents WMAL-TV. WNBW and
WTTG and makes its estimates
from figures supplied by the Wash
ington Electric Institute and other
sources.
Mystery Melody" Department
(reopened by demand and don't sue
if we're wrong: The best bet so
far on the new stop the Music"
poser is World Events" That, at
any rate, is the title suggested by a
radio listener over the phone and
confirmed later by our Disc Shop
authorities. The Disc Shop
folks tell us we'd better hedge,
though, right now, since "World
Events" was copyrighted in 1885 and
the same collection of notes may
have preceded it under another
name.
Bert Parks seems to have been
incidentally. when he said
last week that his 1860 Get Out of
the Wilderness" was the daddy" of
all those wilderness" tunes using
those notes. The Disc Shop man
says he has photostat of the sheet
music of Down in Alabam'," sub
titled Amt I Glad I Got Out de
Wilderness" and that is dated 1858
Or two years before 1850.
X X X X
The Local Scene: Ray Henle,
editor in chief; Felix Morley, foreign
affairs editor, and Ned Brooks, ma
tional affairs editor, will have a
number of prominent authorities
and journalists as their summer
guests on Three Star Extra" (WRC
6:45 PM during vacation
periods. Sam Brown. the WINK
Music Hall" man, has been voted
the Most Popular Disc Jockey in
the Washington Area by readers OF
Radio Best magazine. Bill Brun-
dige of VOLS "At Union Station
DAILY, 12:45 p.m0 thinks Washing
ton may be taking the place of
Niagara Falls. Of the five people
he interviewed on one recent show,
three represented couples honey
incoming here. Labor Arbitra-
ton" (WWDC-Saturday, PM is
not off the air permanently, but
merely for tWo-month vacation.
1t will resume in September.