Evening star., 1948-08-29
F or Radio Listeners
By Harry Macarthur

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the U. S. S. Leyte tWNBW-4 PM !.
The carrier will be cruising IS miles
at sea when the cameras and micro
phones send out description ofthe
launching of fighters from its deck,
simulated dive-bombing attacks and
other maneuverS. 1t will be the
first time that sort of thing has
been done by television.
Fans of the All-America Football
Conferences Baltimore Colts can
avoid that drive to the Maryland
city this year by a flick of the wrist
to WTTG's channel 5. Starting
September with the Colts-New
York match, the Dumont station
will carry seven home games and
two to be played in New York. Baily
Goss, Baltimore sports commentator,
will be on hand for the necessary
verbal explanations.
Bill tWRC) Hersons campaign
for television receivers for Washing
ton area hospitals is progressing.
Funds sufficient for the purchase of
four sets made available at cost by
Dealers already have been received
with receivers already having been
put in service at the Naval Hos
pital in Bethesda and at Glenn Dale
Sanitarium.
For what it is worth we pass along
the suggestion of the reader who
thinks we are dim -Witted for not
knowing that the mystery melody"
is 'Baa. Baa, Black Sheep" Other
suggestions range from NO, Child,
No C'Granny, will your dog bite?
No child, no., The Little Nut Tree"
and sundry assorted nursery rhymes
all the way to an alleged Mozart
song entitled "Ah! VQus Dirai-je
Maman.' Our suggestion is that
you buy television set and ignore
these ,get-rich-quick guessing games
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The weather of this past week
hasn't felt much like autumn's tangy
caress. but the time has rolled
around again for the return of the
regular radio shows to replace the
inoffensive summer replacements.
This week brings back three of the
leading CHS entertainments and one
of MICS. Tomorrow night will find
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. 4"
Radio Theater" and My Friend
Irma" back on WTOP and Friday
will bring Red Shelton to WRC
listeners.
Radio Theater," incidentally, will
be celebrating its fifteenth year on
the air when it starts this new
season with Irene Dunne's appear
ance in i Remember Mama" 1t
also can be expected to celebrate
another year of turning up regu-
larly at or near the top in the Hoop
Grating list. Radio Theater.' the
first full hour of drama on the air,
by the way, plays to an average
audience of 100000 listeners. a
considerably larger one than most
stage plays aggregate,
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The Local Scene:
The local Mutual outlet. VOL, un-
wells completely new daytime
program set-up starting tomorrow
The new schedule represents, the
VOL people say, new radio tech
nique, with continuous blocs of pro-
grams grouped together because of
their similar listener appeal. In
addition to Art Brown, Mike Hunni-
cutt, Meredith Young and Bob
Knight, VOL will feature John Ball,
the only record expert who writes
daily column about them.
WP1K starts new recorded musi-
cal series. "Masterworks of Music, y
today at pm >. Clarence Stroud,
who used to be one of the Stroud
Twins, has given that up to start a
television career on WNBW's ''Tele-
pun He's okay, too Les Sand
will serve as master of ceremonies
for new Sunday -at-10-a show
on WWDC, beginning September
5. Recent winners on Tommy
Bartlett's Welcome Travellers. -
broadcast from Chicago over ABC.
were group of Washingtonians
who took rain check They had
the party they won in Chicago on
the Roger Smith Hotels Starlight
Roof the other night after they'd
ret,1rped homo