Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28

LQaC hlQS COle ftOOIu Oar n IL"
years ago and landed in the middle
Of radio and record fame and for
tune, came home for Christmas, as
is her custom. Not being young
woman to let all that loot lie around
idle, one of her first moves In Wash
ington was the purchase of yule
gift for her mother. It was one of
those combination Professionalism
photograph affairs that provide
every form of home entertainment
short Of sitting in as fourth at
bridge. While Miss Knight was ad-
miring it, the salesman brough up
stock of records to show off the
photograph section of the device
Il happen to have some Evelyn
Knight records here" he said
Are there any particular ones
you'd like to hear? Miss Knight,
who often makes records that get
played over and over and over again,
ll6o OIuy Olle request.
Just play the other side of any
Of them" she said.
BY the time you read this, Incl
dentally, Miss Knight will either be
preparing tor, performing, or re-
covering from her second appear
ance on Milton Berle's television
program. Star Theater," on WNBW
at 8 o'clock tonight. Her first ap-
pearance on the show a few weeks
ago so impressed National Broad
casting Co. officials that she has a
video show of her own coming up in
q short time. She'll be seen as well
as heard five nights a week, which
should be one of the prettiest things
to happen to television in the new
year.
y 81
Tubby Rives is a large, Falstaff-
type master of ceremonies, with a
booming laugh. Even when he
pauses to tell an elderly joke, that
infectious laugh and his general
air Of good cheer make him an
entertainer to be welcomed. Right
now he is Frightening things up at
the Club Cairo nightly and proving
successful at it in his happily ribald
and boisterous way.
Mr.. Rives might have been
Frightening up a hunk of the air
waves and his bank account, too,
II he hadn't turned out to be too
eager during one of his recent radio
opportunities. He was hired once
as q sort of junior partner in a
group Of comics participating in
one Of the better-known radio pro-
grams. Thinking to better both the
program and his lot in the world,
he hired writer, paying him 500
week to doctor the final script
and slip a few extra laughs into
the Rives part. Shortly he was
called in by the head comic.
II am the star of this show" said
the comic to Mr.. Rives, land you
are an ex-rnember Of its cast, as of
now"
Cant we talk this over?" said
Mr.. Rives.
NO" said the comic. 81 am the
star. get the laughs. If were
in your place I would try the same
thing, but you are not getting away
with 1t while am in my place"
Gave Tubby his salary in full for
the next seven weeks and sent him
packing.
The man on the other side Of
the partition thinks this is a sad
story, but he doesn't think it is
complete He wants to know If
Mr.. Rives was an honorable man.
Did Mr.. Rives, he asks, pay his
writer in full for the next seven
weeks of doctoring scripts so that
Mr.. Rives could get more laughs
on q program he wasn't on?
It is a question he will have to
put directly to Mr. Rives at the
Club Cairo, where he will be for
the rest of this year. The man
next door won't get us to act as an
Intermediary In anything involving
Mr.. Rives. He is man who plies
the press with pecans. At our first
meeting with him we casually ad-
n1ired the pecans Of which he had
a drawerful in his hotel room land
with him this seemed perfectly
logicaD and he promptly pressed a
bushel or so on us. A man carry
ing around a sack of pecans at 3
o'clock in the morning feels sillier
than a man likes to feel. We're
staying away from Mr. Rives.
n Il II
Melbourne Christopher, the tai
ented magician, is another enter
tainer who would like to get home