Evening star., 1948-10-31

ually the excitement in such places
as New York's sure-to-be crowded
Times Square. The television sta
tions also have planned some pro-
grams designed to clarity cold fig
ures of vote tallies with charts and
graphs.
Television, like the earlier forms
of radio, promises to stay around
Tuesday night until the possibility
of a moving day next January Is
settled for candidates wives.
The stop the Music" fans, Incl
dentally, have not been deserted by
this department. If you get one'of
those phone calls tonight you might
try 1.-THE Minstrels Returned From
the War" as a label on the current
mystery melody" That's the guess
that is liked by most of the expert
guessers, including our own research
department. at the Disc Shop. 1t
was written, says our Disc Shop
man, by a man named James l..
Hewitt early in the 1800s and never
copyrighted. He's seen sheet music,
though, and the notes match the
ones played on stop the Music"
u II y X
The Local Scene: Starting tomor-
row night, WWDC can lay claim to
the prettiest disc jockey in Wash
ington and even can take in con-
siderable more territory with COM
plete safety. Starting tomorrow, at
10 o'clock each night, Monday
through Friday, WWDC will be pre-
senting Romance With Jody,"
which Jody Miller will sandwich in
between her two nightly appear
ances at the Sazerac room of the
Old New Orleans. Since she was a
singer before she became Miss
Washington of 1948, Jody will in
clude songs of her own as well as
records on her new radio show.
Tomorrow also is the day when
WTOP can boast of one of the
busiest disc jockeys in the business,
tomorrow being the day when Eddie
Gallaher takes over where Arthur
Godfrey has just eft off. This
means Mr.. Gallaher will be Sum-
dialing daily with the aid of
Pianist Johnny salb) from 7:45 tc
9:25 am. and Moondialing nightly
with the aid of transcriptions and
a man to play records) from 1870
to 1890. Fifteen hospitals in
the washington area now have tele-
vision sets for patients as a result
of WRC's Bill Herson's successfully
concluded hospital teleyision cam
paign. :. Gene Archer's video
Music Shoppe' (WNBW) now is a
sponsored show. heard and seen
Tuesdays at 7:30 pm, with Come
dian AL Kelly and Pianist Ed Nc
Intyre lending the singer support.
Dean Hugh G. Price of Mont
gomery Junior College will appear
next Friday at noon on WGAY.
discussing the place of the college
In the community life of the
county. Harry Rich, originator
Of the Rich Barber POLL" conduct
ed exclusively In barber shops
throughout the land, will present
the latest results of his sampling
OF opinion on WWDC at S pm. to-
day. He's been right, the station
says, about all national elections
since 1928. >. The WINK daytime
program schedule undergoes some
alterations starting tomorrow, with
a 1905 a.m.-to-12 show from Sam
Brown and an additional half hour
of Luncheon With Jerry Strong
among the changes. WASH-FM
came handily to the rescue of the
Wheaton Chamber of Commerce the
other night. When the orchestra
failed to show up to play for the
scheduled c. of c. dance at the
Argyle Country Club, three FIN re-
ceivers were rushed out and the sta
ton took over the music chore, re-
naming on the air until 1890 in
stead of signing of at its usual
II pm.
Add Honors: Arnold Stang, who
appears on the Milton Berle Show
(WMAL-Wednesday, 9 PM has
been named the top stooge In
radio by the editors of a journal
named Comedy World.