Evening star., 1948-08-01
For Radio Listeners
BY Harry Macarthur

Macarthur
/ too many of them there are attempts
at comic patter that seldom comes
off, but the musical shows still are
welcome.
| Replacement of the phonograph,
at least for lazy listeners, may again
become the major function of AM
radio, and ultimately FIN radio, as
a matter of fact. Video, with its
vastly expanded facilities for that
sort of thing, probably will become
in time the only radio medium for
drama and variety shows. Music is
something you don't have to watch
to enjoy.
Who says radios critics are voices
crying in the wilderness? The spon-
sor of Professor Quiz, recently signed
off for the summer, has decided to
replace him come autumn with a
Sunday concert on ABC. 1t will be
titled Carnegie Hall" and will be
conducted by Arthur Fielder of the
Boston Pops Orchestra.
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Televiews:
| Turning the video camera on a
commentator reading news bulletins
is not taking full advantage OF
the medium, television broadcasters
know as well as their audiences. The
search for something better has
brought American University and
WMAL-TV to the conception OF
Mapping the News" which will
take to the air through their CO.
operation Thursday at 8:45 pm. 1t
couldn't come at better time than
this when so much news is happen
ing in Middle Europe, which has
improbable geography at best. Map
ping the News" will feature DR..
Peveril Meigs, geographer and lee
turer, and John Edwards, WASH
ington correspondent for ABC. Mr..
Edwards will discuss important
events of the week and DR.. Meigs
will sketch and discuss maps of the
regions concerned. Between them,
they may even be able to straighten
out the Balkans for you.
The Paramount Theater in New
York is the first in the world to
incorporate full-screen television
into it's regular programs. News
events are picked up by a mobile
unit, broadcast by micro-wave to
the theater, f1lm-recorded and
flashed on the screen within 60
seconds. So far. the system has been
used principally for sports events,
and lot of people in the audience
think it's better than ringside
seat.
Americas Town Meeting" will be
offered as a simultaneous AM-TV
broadcast in its regular Tuesday at
$3.50 spot, come the fall.
WRC is celebrating a birthday to-
day. It's Is years old. During the
quarter century since 1928 it has
been a part of almost all of AM ra-
dos development, since it was one
Of the first commercial radio sta
tions on the air. In its first month
it broadcast the memorial rites for
President Harding. In December
1923, WRC carried one of the first
political broadcasts, a speech by
Senator Magnus johnson which the
stations log book describes as "en-
tirely harmless and inoffensive.
The station also participated in the
beginnings of network broadcasting
when 1t was linked with WIZ in New
York for the first time for the Wills
Firpo fight in 1924.
The elderly local station has been
able to face almost any of the trials
that beset a radio broadcaster, hav-
ing been conditioned early in life
A recent survey, incidentally
showed that the average Washing
tonian listens to the radio "a hours
q day. A statistician at the local
NBC outlet has been prompted by
this to note that If you have been
regular WRC listener since it
started, you have racked up 1880
hours, or 996 days and nights, of
listening. How are your eardrums?
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You may have heard the one
about the three men who went tiger
hunting up in the wilds of Burma.
They reached their camp in the eve
ming and one was eager to get on
with the chase. The other two tried
to talk him into eating, getting to
bed and starting early the next
morning, but he'd have none of it.
You can eat and go to bed if you
want to-" he said. I'm going after
a tiger" He stalked through the
jungle and finally came upon huge
50O-pounder. He took aim, Hired and
nicked the tigers ear. The beast
leaped at him and he fired again,
and missed. He set out for the
cabin with the tiger nipping at his
heels. just as he was about to reach
safety, he tripped, and at the same
time the tiger leaped. 1t went right
through the open door into the
cabin. Our hero rushed to slam the
door closed and yelled, Skin that
one, fellows; I'm going back after
another one"
If there only were a door we
could slam on the Mystery Mel
ody."
There doesn't seem to be, though
so here's todays best guess, as
turned up by our Disc Shop re-
search expert. The Disc Shop man
thinks 1t is The Sun Dance" writ
ten by Leo Friedman and copy
righted in 1909 by Representative Sol
| Bloom. who was in the music pllb-